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next on unsolved mysteries in 1947 a
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strange object crashed in Roswell New
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Mexico did the government cover-up an
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alien landing a Marine is found shot to
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death in his own bed
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police say suicide his parents say
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murdered
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she was close to getting the divorce and
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then she went missing what really
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happened to Donna Taylor and NFL legend
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Reggie White was the minister of a
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Tennessee church when someone burned it
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down
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can the arsonist still be caught
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five cases with strange clues bizarre
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twists and with secrets you would never
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expect
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I'm Dennis Farina and this is unsolved
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mysteries
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in 1947 a mysterious craft was found on
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a ranch outside of Roswell New Mexico
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the government said that it was a
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weather balloon
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but eyewitnesses say that it was a UFO
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Roswell New Mexico vocation of the most
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famous UFO setting of all time in July
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1947 a violent electrical storm swept
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over the desolate plains of
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south-central New Mexico
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at his remote ranch house Mac Brazel
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patiently wait about the lightning and
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thunder Mac was a old-time cowboy I
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guess you'd say he was pretty pretty
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serious if he told you something you
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could pretty well depend on it the story
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is that Mac Brazel supposedly heard a
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loud crash at some point during the
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storm and didn't know how it related to
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the storm or not according to his son
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Mac was on the range the next day
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looking to see which fields may have
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gotten precipitation the night before so
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they could move the livestock to those
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fields because the grass would be better
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there and in his process of looking to
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see where the rain had come down he
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found the debris field spread out near
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his ranch house
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something had crashed in one of his
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fields the night before but it was
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fragmented beyond identification the
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debris field was approximately
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three-quarters of a mile long maybe as
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much as two or 300 feet in width
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scattered along there were bits and
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pieces of material we refused to call it
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metal because from the descriptions we
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have it was more of a plastic-like
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material very strong very lightweight
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the pieces of it were described as being
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three or four feet long but as light as
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a feather in his newsprint there were
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metal beams that were slightly flexible
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but very strong some of the metal pieces
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appeared to have strange qualities and
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unusual tensile properties
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they couldn't be cut and they couldn't
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be burned
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the following Monday Brazel reported his
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discovery to the sheriff who informed
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the nearby Roswell army base
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that afternoon Mac Brazel led two army
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intelligence officers to the crash site
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one of the officers was major Jesse
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Marcel senior whose primary duty was to
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investigate air accidents
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stay there mr. Redl even with his
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experience Marcel was unable to identify
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the craft he died in 1982 but before his
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death he gave the following interview
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for a documentary film about UFOs they
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were just frankly strewn all over the
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area
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Mariel but three-quarters of a mile long
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and several hundred feet wide so we
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proceeded to pick up the parts said I
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tried to bend this stuff says it will
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not Bend I even tried to burn that would
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not burn see stuff weighs nothing it's
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not in there thicker than tin fall says
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we even tried making a dent in it with a
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16 pound sledge hammer one thing I was
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certain of being familiar with all our
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dividends that it was not a weather
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balloon nor an aircraft nor amiss
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it was something else which we didn't
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know what it was
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major Marcel loaded his car with the
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unusual debris and drove back to Roswell
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on his way he stopped at home to show
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his family what he had found
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when he came back to the house he had
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had a bunch of wreckage with him and he
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brought the wreckage end of the house
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actually awaking my mother and myself
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out so we could view this because it's
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so unusual it's about two o'clock in the
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morning and spread it out so he could
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get some basic idea of what it looked
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like what it was Jesse Marcel was 11 at
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the time he is one of the few people
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known to have actually handled pieces of
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the debris plane crashed we're all were
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amazed by this debris that was there
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probably because we didn't know what it
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was you know just the unknown the most
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remarkable fragment was a short piece of
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I beam which was covered with strange
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symbols and marquees it's like some kind
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of hieroglyphics this writing could be
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described as Egyptian type of hard looks
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but not really the symbols that were in
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the eye beams were more of a geometric
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type configuration in various designs
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it had a violet purple type of color and
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it was actually an embossed part of the
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metal itself years after this instant
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happened we would talk privately among
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ourselves about what the possibilities
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of this what this thing was and I feel
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that we well I know that we came to the
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conclusion it was not of earthly origin
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if I had not actually held pieces of it
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in my hand I would not think that it
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would be possible but because I happen
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to see this that's the only reason I
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believe it
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major Marcel took the wreckage to the
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Roswell base where he was stationed it's
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believed that the next morning some of
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the pieces were flown to Wright Field
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near they go back on the way the plane
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stopped at an air base in Fort Worth
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Texas that same morning Colonel William
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Blanchard the commanding officer in
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Roswell went public with the story of
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Mac Brazel discovery Colonel Blanchard
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ordered lieutenant Walter Haught to
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issue a press release telling the
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country
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that the army had found the wreckage of
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a flying saucer I never questioned it in
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1947 when a colonel told the first
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lieutenant to do something the first
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lieutenant did that there's a little bit
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of difference who he didn't have any
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democracy from back in 1947 in the
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military establishment there the press
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release read in part the many rumors
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regarding the flying disc became a
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reality yesterday when the intelligence
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office of the five-o ninth Bomb Squadron
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was fortunate enough to gain possession
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of a disc through the cooperation of a
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local rancher the press release was
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immediately picked up by newspapers
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across the country the story created an
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uproar
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that same day an engineer for the Soil
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Conservation Service made another
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discovery
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Barney Barnett of Socorro New Mexico
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died in 1969 he may have come across the
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first positive proof that there is other
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life in our universe
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Barney but just a real straightforward
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just what you would call a real straight
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guy he would wouldn't tell you one story
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out of color or nothing that's why I was
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really surprised when he related this
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information to me about the crash
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assessment he told me that he come under
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this spaceship it was during the daytime
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was an oval shape and it had crashed and
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it had broken open
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there was beings laying about four
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beings laying on the ground not in the
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not in the spaceship they were scattered
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not too far from the object he did
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describe that the heads were larger than
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the bodies by proportioned and they had
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some type of clothing on that looked a
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little bit different not exactly like
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our spacesuits or that sort of thing
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Barney told Verne that he reached the
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crash site at about the same time as
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some archaeology students who had seen
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the wreckage from their nearby dick
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the military also discovered the second
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crash site after an aerial search but
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they arrived too late to secure the area
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Barney Barnett and the students had a
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clear and detailed look at the craft and
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its occupants when the army showed up
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they immediately escorted these people
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from the scene and then at that time
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they give them a warning not to relate
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any information on it from that time on
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Barney never mentioned it to anybody
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until the time that he told me about the
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thing the Barnett story has only been
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sold secondhand but many believe there
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is too much supporting evidence to
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completely dismiss it he first told me I
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was sort of flabbergasted I didn't know
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what to say but I believed it because of
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his integrity
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he would never concoct any story that's
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why I believed it to be true
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next we'll examine the possibility that
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the military not only removed the
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spacecraft but that they purposely kept
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the news of this astounding discovery
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from the American people
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on July 8th 1947 newspapers across
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America reported that a UFO crashed in
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New Mexico that same day debris and
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perhaps alien bodies were flown to an
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Air Force Base in Fort Worth Texas and
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that my friends is when the official
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story began to change
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Brigadier General Roger Ramey was a
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high-ranking Army Air Force official at
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Fort Worth within hours Rama's Office
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issued a new press release stating that
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the material recovered in New Mexico was
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not a UFO but in reality the wreckage of
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a US Army weather balloon
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my dad said obviously it was a cover-up
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story it was not a weather poem he was a
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little disturbed about that but he had
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his own security classification to
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protect he could not really go public
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with hey this is not a weather balloon
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so he had to keep that to himself the
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UFO incident was still very much live
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for Mac Brazel at the time a rumors
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surfaced that Mac was briefly detained
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at the Roswell base
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later a man named Floyd Proctor saw
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Brazel but Mack seems scared to talk
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with its friend Floyd and a neighbor was
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in Roseville and saw macron surrounded
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by some of the airforce people and they
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walked right by them and Mike wouldn't
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speak to them and my he wouldn't talk
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about it after he'd come back home he
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did say that he ever found something
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else he wouldn't report by the time Mack
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was released all traces of the roswell
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crash had been removed from his ranch
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that debris had been taken to Wright
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Field in Dayton Ohio everything went to
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right field that's where the air
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technical Intelligence Center was that
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was where they could make the studies
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subsequent to that we think that the
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material has been sent elsewhere we
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think one of the bodies has gone to
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Langley CIA headquarters we think
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another has gone to MacDill which is an
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Air Force Base in Florida where they
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have an aerospace medicine facility we
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don't know where other stuff is gone we
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think some of it is still left at Wright
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Field there was no real proof to dispute
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the Army's statement that the wreckage
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was a weather balloon and then more than
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30 years later UFO researchers obtained
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a document containing what they believed
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was new evidence
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the mj-12 memo had been mailed
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anonymously to a UFO researcher
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operational majestic 12 for mj-12 as
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it's called was a group of 12 people
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apparently established by the President
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to deal with the wreckage from Roswell
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and the whole problem that that created
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how do these things work where did they
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come from how can we get more
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information the contents of the report
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stunned researchers in part it read on 7
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july 1947 a secret operation was begun
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to assure the recovery of the wreckage
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for small human-like beings had
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apparently ejected from the craft all
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four were dead effective cover story
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that the object had been a misguided
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weather balloon the government has
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refused to comment on the mj-12 memo or
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its origin but if this document and
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other accounts from 1947 are true then
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our government has evidence of alien
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life
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other than Barney Barnett only one other
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man has ever admitted to having seen the
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aliens my husband
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Oliver Henderson otherwise known as
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Pappy in the Air Force he was entrusted
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with many of this country's top secrets
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and they were safe with him he never
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told anything that he wasn't supposed to
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Captain Pappy Henderson piloted the
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plane that took the first pieces of the
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wreckage out of Roswell in 1981 two
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years before he died he told his wife
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that the Roswell incident really
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happened my husband told me the bodies
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were small smaller than human bodies the
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heads were larger and the eyes were
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rather sunken and a little slanted
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clothing was of material unlike anything
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he'd seen before they were estranged
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they were not not of this earth for more
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than a half a century the military has
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stuck by its story of a Down weather
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balloon but the people who actually saw
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and touched wreckage don't buy it they
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believe that the mysterious craft and
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creatures found nearby were nothing less
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than a visitation from another world
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next a timid woman who is afraid to
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leave her house finally steps out and
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then vanishes
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it was a warm summer day in Pleasant
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Hill California jewel Kaler drives his
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wife Dottie to their local BART station
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she purchases a ticket a simple task
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performed each day by millions of
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commuters but for daddy Kaler it's a
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test of courage
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Dottie suffers from agoraphobia and
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irrational and overwhelming fear of
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being in public places no one knows for
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sure if she actually boarded the train
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because since that day there has been no
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trace of body came after the first few
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days I thought that she had left
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temporarily to well simply make things
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inconvenient for me I think that Dottie
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could have disappeared to get even with
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her husband who had disappeared on her
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for half of their married life
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at first friends thought daddy left to
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escape an unhappy marriage and start a
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new life in another city but months and
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now years have gone by with no word for
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today
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people who knew daddy wonder if she's
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even alive dotty had what doctors have
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called agoraphobia he would stay inside
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most of the time she couldn't even apply
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for a job much less hold on down it was
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a real problem
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daddy's condition strained her marriage
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to jewel to the point of violence she
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told me that they got in an argument it
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escalated to the point where he finally
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hit her with a board or something and
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she received a wound in her head and
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that she did grab some scissors and said
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you keep away from me and protected
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herself and she was standing over top of
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me with those scissors Jewell says that
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daddy started the fight swearing at me
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and saying I'll kill you you son of AB
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County you and I grabbed her little
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typing stand and hit her with him
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without ever telling jewel daddy joined
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a support group called women in
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transition as time went on I would
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notice she's adding a little more color
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to her outfits she cut her hair in a new
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style which was very scary thing for her
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It was as if a new Dottie were emerging
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in addition daddy secretly rented a
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post-office box to receive her mail
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without Jewel knowing about it she had a
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secret existence that I knew nothing
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about and she wanted it that way I only
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began to become aware of it no near the
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time that she disappeared I wasn't even
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aware of it I was just suspicious
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eventually Dottie and jewel Kaler agreed
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to divorced one month before daddy
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disappeared
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jewel accepted a job transfer to Salt
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Lake City
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dottie had said in the event that i got
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transferred that she was not interested
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in going with me so I wasn't expecting
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her to go with me and wouldn't even have
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wanted her to I guess according to jewel
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just a few days before he was to leave
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for Salt Lake City
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he drove daddy to the BART station
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I took her down to the BART station she
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had with her a little overnight bag and
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I dropped her off
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and she walked around the corner of the
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station and disappeared jewel is also
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sure that Daddy had her purse as well as
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her overnight bag when she walked into
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the station but no one knows if she ever
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boarded the train the next day jewel
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came home early from work
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in the park parking lot he was surprised
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to find Donnie's Volkswagen park next to
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his car so I walked over and looked
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inside and then I noticed her purse and
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that was very very strange she told me
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how important it was to her to have her
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purse with her all the time
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that's one of the things that made me
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feel so terribly upset when I realized
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that she had not taken her purse with
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her over the next four days jewel left
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notes and daddy's car asking her to
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contact him he wrote of his love and
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pleaded with her to come home I spoke to
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jewel and jewel told me that he hadn't
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seen her for three or four days and that
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her car was was there her purse was
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there and he didn't know where she was
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jool waited five days to file a
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missing-persons report with a BART
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police they in turn notified the Concord
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Police Department
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two weeks later jewel moved to Salt Lake
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City where he still lives and works it
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was hell living with Dottie
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it was hell having her disappear the way
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that you did and yet since I've gotten
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in and gotten settled and into a new job
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that whole problem is behind me
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things are really pretty good the
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Concord Police Department is still
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investigating daddy's disappearance
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treating the case as a homicide police
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do not consider Jewell Taylor a suspect
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but a person of interest if you have any
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information about Dottie Kaler please
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log on to our website at unsolved our
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next a young Marines that has ruled a
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suicide
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his parents are convinced that he was
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murdered
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San Diego California Jeffery dikmen's
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life seemed to be on track
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he had become a marine captain and was
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stationed near his hometown he even
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bought a house with a fellow officer but
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only four months after his promotion
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Jeffery was transferred to Puerto Rico
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according to his friends Jeffrey was
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unhappy about the transfer but by
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Christmas he was finally settling in and
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dating lucy garcia an accountant at the
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local pace was a very quiet person
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we were so serious and I like that of
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him he said he was gonna take two weeks
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off to go back home and fix some things
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after Christmas Jeffery flew home he was
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scheduled to return back to Puerto Rico
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on Super Bowl Sunday
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that day a neighbor saw Jeffery at his
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house several hours later neighbors
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heard what they thought was a car
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backfiring
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later that night when Geoffrey's
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roommate arrived home with his
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girlfriend they were surprised to see
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that Geoffrey's car was still there he
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should have left for Puerto Rico hours
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before when the roommate returned home
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with his girlfriend the lights were on
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the garage door was open apparently so
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this caused some concerns some suspicion
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as mr. Digman was not supposed to be
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there the roommate and the girlfriend
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went across the street to get some
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neighbors they found Geoffrey Digman
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dead with a single bullet wound to his
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right temple an autopsy revealed that
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Geoffrey's blood-alcohol level was three
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times the legal limit traces of
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gunpowder were found on his right hand
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evidence that he had fired a pistol
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Jeffrey's death was ruled a suicide
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I had no time ever believed that he
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committed suicide I never believed that
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from when I first got the phone call -
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when I went down that night I've always
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believed that he was murdered and that's
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what the evidence shows
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the Naval Investigative Service backup
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the coroner's ruling of suicide bill and
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Donna
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Dignan were unconvinced they began their
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own investigation and they would soon
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find compelling evidence that their son
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might have been murdered in Jeffrey's
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childhood bedroom the dig man's
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carefully duplicated the scene of his
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death in this room we've recreated a
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mock-up of the crime scene with a help
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of private investigator bill Digman
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demonstrated why he believes that his
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son could not have possibly killed
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himself but the first thing I had to do
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was determine the trajectory of the
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bullet which I did and this is the
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trajectory of the bullet on that
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occasion this was the position that my
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son was found in and for him to have
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been able to have shot through the hand
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he had to be shot somewhere along the
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bullet path here which means that I have
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to get lined up with it and to do that I
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have to get in this contorted position
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the other thing was that he was all
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left-handed if he'd held the gun in his
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hand and in this contorted position over
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on the side of the bed as soon as he was
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shot he would have fallen to the floor
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Jeffrey's parents were puzzled by a
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trail of blood that ran down Jeffrey's
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left cheek from his ear this indicated
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that he was in an upright position for
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at least seven seconds from after the
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gunshot
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above Jeffrey's head and the turn back
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sheet was an unexplained smear of blood
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his parents hired Steve Levy an
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independent forensic expert to review
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the case I don't feel that Jeffrey
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killed himself I think there was some
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kind of a struggle that took place and
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he was shot during that struggle almost
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a year after Jeffrey's death his parents
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requested a second autopsy two
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contusions were found that had not
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previously been reported this discovery
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may support the theory that Jeffrey had
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been involved in a struggle before his
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death but the medical examiner concluded
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these injuries were insignificant there
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was no medical evidence to support a
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conclusion of homicide the dig men's
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remained convinced that their son was
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murdered they felt his death was somehow
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related to his work with the San Diego
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marine drug testing unit before he'd
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been transferred to Puerto Rico
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Jeffrey served as the drug Youmans
00:31:03
commanding officer people were dealing
00:31:06
drugs people were testing positive he
00:31:09
would write his reports documenting what
00:31:12
the results of his investigation were
00:31:14
those people weren't being disciplined
00:31:16
they were not being discharged
00:31:18
even very upset over that during the
00:31:22
time Jeffrey ran the drug unit
00:31:24
his mother discovered a safe hidden in
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his room
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I found some military documents in his
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safe and I asked him what were those
00:31:35
documents and that was when he told me
00:31:38
that he was saving those tests from drug
00:31:41
abuse test when we came back to move
00:31:46
Jeffrey's things we wanted to empty the
00:31:48
desk to make it lighter and we opened
00:31:51
the hinged door that the safe was
00:31:54
usually behind and the hinged door came
00:31:57
off in our hands and the hinges were not
00:31:59
connected and the safe was not there
00:32:05
there is another puzzling aspect to this
00:32:09
case when Lucy helped the Marines pack
00:32:11
Jeffrey's belongings in Puerto Rico
00:32:13
she found a small green diary of
00:32:16
Jeffrey's when she gave it to the
00:32:18
Marines all its pages were intact but
00:32:24
when they returned it some pages were
00:32:26
missing
00:32:27
eventually we unpack things and looking
00:32:30
with a little green book that Lucy was
00:32:32
telling us about and when we found it
00:32:37
what we found was that the pages were
00:32:40
cut out of it
00:32:44
we want to know why our son is dead we
00:32:48
want to know why we're not gonna give up
00:32:50
until we find out why the Armed Forces
00:32:54
Institute of Pathology reviewed both
00:32:57
autopsy reports they change the cause of
00:33:00
death to undetermined but both the Naval
00:33:06
Investigative Service and the Riverside
00:33:07
County Sheriff's Department stand by the
00:33:10
ruling of suicide if you have any
00:33:15
information regarding this case please
00:33:17
contact us at unsolved comm next alert
00:33:25
viewers put this con man out of business
00:33:27
and later we ask for your help to find
00:33:31
the arsonist who burn down the Church of
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NFL superstar Reggie White
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Medford Oregon in an earlier program we
00:33:51
told you about a fugitive by the name of
00:33:54
Stephen Cox Cox formed an investment
00:33:59
company that offered clients a 25%
00:34:02
return on their money many people in
00:34:06
Medford invested their life savings
00:34:09
totaling three point five million
00:34:12
dollars when the business began to fail
00:34:15
Stephen Cox vanished and so did over
00:34:19
$200,000 in valuables update minutes
00:34:29
after the story aired six viewers called
00:34:31
to report that Cox was living in Boise
00:34:34
Idaho under the assumed name Robert
00:34:37
Bradley Davis it turned out that just
00:34:40
hours before the broadcast Cox
00:34:42
disappeared again telling his wife he
00:34:45
was going to Hawaii but Cox was actually
00:34:50
hiding out in a motel 25 miles southeast
00:34:53
of Las Vegas Nevada he was using the
00:34:57
name John Strauss he was not the normal
00:35:01
guest he stayed in his room all day long
00:35:04
he would only leave at night very seldom
00:35:08
did he leave in the daytime and we
00:35:10
noticed that the license plates were not
00:35:12
the same as he had put down on his
00:35:14
registration card and that made us a
00:35:17
little suspicious but yet nothing we
00:35:19
could put a finger on two weeks later
00:35:22
Edna Reed found the key clue while
00:35:24
collecting trash from Cox's room
00:35:28
and when I went to empty the trash out
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of that bend
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I found the crumpled up letter and like
00:35:35
any curious female I read the letter I
00:35:37
saw the part that said something about
00:35:40
the unsolved mystery show being a
00:35:42
bombshell I showed the letter to my
00:35:45
husband and between the two of us we
00:35:47
decided it was time definitely to call
00:35:48
the Rangers and tell them about the
00:35:50
guest
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Blake meet Park Rangers immediately ran
00:35:54
a computer check the car belonged to
00:35:57
someone other than John Strauss
00:36:02
the next morning Park Rangers spotted
00:36:04
Cox's car and they pulled him over in
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the parking lot of the Gold Strike
00:36:08
casino after we made the traffic stop he
00:36:13
produced identification a driver's
00:36:15
license issued to a Robert Davis and we
00:36:18
checked that name and date of birth
00:36:20
through the NCIC computer we found that
00:36:22
it was an alias used by one Steven Cox
00:36:24
and that there was a warrant for mr. Cox
00:36:27
at that point we placed him under arrest
00:36:31
when they searched his car the rangers
00:36:34
uncovered a small fortune when we looked
00:36:37
in the passenger compartment of the
00:36:39
vehicle and in a trunk we found
00:36:40
suitcases and other luggage tech bags
00:36:44
filled with jewelry rings necklaces
00:36:47
collector type baseball cards some gold
00:36:50
coins silver coins
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Stephen Cox was sentenced to 20 years in
00:36:56
prison for racketeering and fraud
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he was paroled after serving two years
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when a church in Knoxville Tennessee was
00:37:10
destroyed by arson it became a major
00:37:13
story it was linked to a series of eight
00:37:16
crimes its pastor was none other than
00:37:19
football of legend Reggie White
00:37:23
an NFL Hall of Fame defensive end Reggie
00:37:28
White was credited with sacking more
00:37:31
quarterbacks than any other player in
00:37:33
history but this ferocious hitter had a
00:37:40
gentle side about 40 years to get him
00:37:45
ready to face fair Reggie White was an
00:37:48
ordained minister in football's
00:37:51
offseason he could be found saving souls
00:37:53
in his hometown
00:37:58
Knoxville Tennessee Reggie White and two
00:38:02
longtime friends found that the inner
00:38:04
city church by merging two congregations
00:38:07
into one their goal was to create a
00:38:11
church that would serve poor people of
00:38:13
all races their motto
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together we can make a change is very
00:38:20
important in this very vital I believe
00:38:22
that our church is doing things in our
00:38:25
communities that no other churches are
00:38:27
doing like school the black churches
00:38:29
white goes to white churches we wanted
00:38:31
to try to have a church to everybody
00:38:33
would feel weapon no matter what the
00:38:34
color was it was a noble undertaking
00:38:39
that unexpectedly became the target of
00:38:42
arsonists
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I believe in my heart that it was an
00:38:49
attack from the devil himself devil
00:38:52
inspired people that he used to fireball
00:38:56
my church agents from the FBI and the
00:39:00
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
00:39:02
began to investigate an immediate visit
00:39:08
to this location indicated to us that it
00:39:10
was a very deliberate criminal act the
00:39:12
sanctuary portion of the building had
00:39:14
been totally destroyed they found
00:39:16
multiple Molotov cocktails
00:39:20
they found that both floors of this
00:39:22
structure had been saturated with
00:39:24
gasoline and kerosene and they found
00:39:29
gasoline cans and kerosene cans
00:39:31
scattered throughout this portion of the
00:39:33
building
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agents also found racial epithets
00:39:41
scrawled on the walls leaving little
00:39:43
doubt that the arson was a hate crime
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Reggie White was appalled and then
00:39:53
outraged when he learned that his church
00:39:55
had not been the first to be torched the
00:39:58
only reason that you hear about my
00:40:00
church is because of me but there have
00:40:02
been 22 other churches there's been fire
00:40:05
bar that's a problem and this problem
00:40:08
needs to be rectified at final count at
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least 24 black churches were hit by
00:40:16
arsonist the attacks occurred throughout
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the south I don't believe it was anyone
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that would be a what you would call a
00:40:25
professional based on the way the field
00:40:29
was in the building the way to set up
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for in the building I think the thing is
00:40:32
without if a little is good a whole lots
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better and that's what they tried today
00:40:37
he's put enough fuel in there to do the
00:40:39
job the inner city church in Knoxville
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did not have enough fire insurance to
00:40:45
cover all the damages but with hard work
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from the parishioners and donations from
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the community both black and white
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they hope to rebuild
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but the problem is because racism has
00:41:06
alienated itself so that you can't touch
00:41:09
it
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what if Reggie White and his fellow
00:41:11
pastors kept the spirit of their
00:41:13
congregations strong with the church
00:41:15
services held at a local school
00:41:18
auditorium that's why we shootin each
00:41:20
other today this just makes me more
00:41:24
determined and I know that all the ways
00:41:26
you defeat the devil is that you have to
00:41:28
do it as a group and that's why I will
00:41:31
call whites and blacks to come again and
00:41:33
find how to work together because what
00:41:35
kills the enemies tactics is if a bunch
00:41:39
of people of all ethnic backgrounds 2:11
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each other
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sadly Reggie white died of sudden heart
00:41:47
failure eight years after the fire this
00:41:51
church has yet to be rebuilt the arson
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