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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode

May 23, 2019 / 45:05

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers the cases of Noreen Renier, a psychic who assists police in solving crimes, the mysterious disappearance of Cecilia Newball and her son, and the story of a woman suffering from amnesia known as Gigi.

Noreen Renier, a psychic from Orlando, Florida, worked with police to solve the murder of Jake and Dora Cole in Albany, New York. After two years of investigation, Noreen provided crucial details about the crime scene and the suspects, leading to the conviction of the grandson and his accomplices.

The episode also highlights the case of Cecilia Newball, who vanished along with her son Rene while she was eight months pregnant. Her husband Alfredo became a suspect after strange circumstances surrounding her disappearance and a suspicious letter surfaced, raising questions about his involvement.

Additionally, the episode features Gigi, a woman found in Audubon Park, New Orleans, suffering from amnesia. Despite efforts by police and hospital officials, her identity remains a mystery, and she seeks help from the public to uncover her past.

Finally, the episode includes the story of Bob Coleman, who investigates his father's hidden past after discovering military memorabilia that suggests his father may have had a secret life.

TL;DR

Noreen Renier helps solve murders, while Gigi and Cecilia's disappearances raise questions about identity and secrets.

Episode

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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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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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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
00:26:05
had not been made by Alfredo's coworker
00:26:07
and that no shower had been play but by
00:26:10
then it was too late she disappeared on
00:26:16
Tuesday the day she was supposed to get
00:26:19
together with this lady to pick out a
00:26:21
piece of furniture for the baby shower
00:26:24
it's too much of a coincidence for her
00:26:29
to disappear on the same day it appears
00:26:33
that someone is trying to lure her away
00:26:36
from safety away from her family away
00:26:39
from her friends trying to get her alone
00:26:41
if she's somewhere she doesn't want to
00:26:45
come back to me but I just want to know
00:26:48
what happened to them and that's what I
00:26:51
I really need the public's help finding
00:26:55
something about this case it's my
00:26:58
opinion that mr. new ball is not telling
00:27:02
me everything that he knows
00:27:04
as far as Cecilia's disappearance he may
00:27:09
not have been there when she disappeared
00:27:13
but it's my opinion that he knows
00:27:17
something now
00:27:19
what happened as a celia new ball and
00:27:22
her son Rene Perez were they abducted
00:27:24
and perhaps murdered or did Cecilia run
00:27:28
away to be with another man
00:27:29
if Cecilia's alive as Alfredo believes
00:27:32
she is now the mother of their seven
00:27:34
month old child and Alfredo was
00:27:37
concerned
00:27:37
both for her and the baby I want to tell
00:27:42
or Cecilia if she happens to view this
00:27:44
please get in touch if she doesn't want
00:27:49
to ride me or talk to me on the phone to
00:27:52
at least call her dad you know he's like
00:27:56
he's not well and I just want to tell
00:28:00
you that there's a lot of people
00:28:01
suffering right now and still because
00:28:04
what is
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[Music]
00:28:22
[Music]
00:28:25
in a moment the strange case of a young
00:28:29
woman suffering from amnesia perhaps
00:28:31
someone watching knows her true identity
00:28:34
[Music]
00:28:45
imagine suddenly finding yourself in a
00:28:47
strange and alien place you scan your
00:28:51
surroundings for clues even your own
00:28:55
possessions are unrecognizable finally
00:28:59
the terrifying realization you don't
00:29:02
know where you are they don't know who
00:29:04
you are
00:29:05
you're suffering from amnesia that's
00:29:10
horrible and as it's so subtle like
00:29:13
you're not prepared for it you don't
00:29:14
expect things like that happen to you I
00:29:17
didn't like I didn't know what to do
00:29:19
I know I didn't go get help somewhere
00:29:23
[Music]
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the mystery woman of Audubon Park had
00:29:28
the vague notion that her name might be
00:29:30
Gigi other than that she knew nothing of
00:29:33
her past tonight she is still asking
00:29:36
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
00:29:44
reporter Susan rozgin of NBC affiliate
00:29:47
WDSU TV New Orleans
00:29:50
I met with Gigi in Audubon Park where
00:29:55
her peculiar Odyssey begins six months
00:29:57
ago
00:29:58
Gigi struck me as articulate and
00:30:01
well-educated
00:30:03
what's it like to not have any past what
00:30:06
is it like to be a person living without
00:30:08
a past and not knowing how you got here
00:30:10
it's strange I feel like I'm a blank um
00:30:17
I had a nothing to base anything on so I
00:30:20
could just go by they day by day what I
00:30:24
realized day by day GG these are the
00:30:28
things that you had when you woke up
00:30:31
here at Audubon Park did you recognize
00:30:32
them right away as your things no I just
00:30:35
assumed they were mine because they were
00:30:37
with him with me there wasn't anyone
00:30:40
else close to me so I just assumed they
00:30:42
were mine I couldn't help puzzling over
00:30:44
the odd assortment of belongings that
00:30:46
sum up Gigi's life laid out for display
00:30:51
they painted a disjointed picture four
00:30:54
pairs of scissors a gold-plated table
00:30:56
setting ups notices that only company
00:30:59
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
00:31:10
no less than 26
00:31:12
- blip stick 24 lip liner pencils and
00:31:15
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
00:32:34
nothing personal with him
00:32:36
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
00:34:07
[Music]
00:34:20
next a man needs your help to find the
00:34:24
truth about his father's mysterious past
00:34:30
[Music]
00:34:38
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
00:34:55
[Music]
00:34:56
by all accounts richard Coleman was an
00:34:59
ordinary man who lived a fairly
00:35:01
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
00:36:47
[Music]
00:36:50
14 years past
00:36:53
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
00:37:02
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
00:37:19
which would indicate that the person who
00:37:22
wore that uniform was a medical doctor
00:37:25
in the army
00:37:27
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
00:37:36
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
00:43:23
[Music]
00:43:52
confess and in hand with modern medicine
00:43:55
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
00:44:19
[Music]
00:44:42
[Applause]
00:44:45
[Music]
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Episode Highlights

  • The Psychic Detective
    Noreen Renier claims to experience crimes from the victim's point of view.
    “She feels their pain, speaks their words, and sees the faces of their killers.”
    @ 03m 02s
    May 23, 2019
  • A Grieving Husband's Confusion
    Alfredo Newball's wife and stepson mysteriously vanish, leaving him under suspicion.
    “Why would she do something like this?”
    @ 20m 27s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Mystery of Amnesia
    A woman wakes up in a park with no memory of who she is.
    “You don't expect things like that to happen to you.”
    @ 29m 14s
    May 23, 2019
  • Gigi's Identity Crisis
    Gigi struggles with amnesia and the question of her identity.
    “Who am I?”
    @ 29m 36s
    May 23, 2019
  • Bob's Discovery of Secrets
    Bob uncovers his father's hidden past and military secrets.
    “I’m not trying to judge my father, I’m trying to learn about him.”
    @ 42m 53s
    May 23, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • Imagine suddenly finding yourself in a strange and alien place.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode
  • That's horrible.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode
  • Who am I?
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode
  • It's strange, I feel like I'm a blank.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode
  • I just want to know.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode
  • I’m not trying to judge my father, I’m trying to learn about him.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 17 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:03
  • Psychic Investigation03:02
  • Vanished Without a Trace17:12
  • Amnesia Strikes28:31
  • Gigi's Amnesia33:46
  • Bob's Childhood Memories35:17
  • Uncovering Secrets36:50
  • Father's Hidden Past42:21

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