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DENNIS FARINA: Next
on Unsolved Mysteries.
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First they were pen
pals, then secret lovers,
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but that was just the beginning
for a young school teacher
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and a convicted bank robber.
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He's called the Ice Man.
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A mysterious creature,
half man and half ape.
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Is he a prehistoric
human or a carnival hoax?
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An exclusive interview
with G. Daniel Walker
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paints a chilling portrait
of a convicted murderer
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with a 30 page rap sheet.
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And in Florida, a
murder investigation
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has stalled because
no one can identify
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the young female victim.
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Five stories.
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They're all strange, but
guess what, they're all true.
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I'm Dennis Farina and this
is Unsolved Mysteries.
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[theme music]
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DENNIS FARINA: Walpole,
a maximum security
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prison in Massachusetts.
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I Karen, take Richard
to be my husband.
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For better or
worse, for richer--
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DENNIS FARINA: After an
intense eight year courtship,
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Karen Walters and
Richard Cepulonis
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become husband and wife.
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This was the happiest day of
Karen Walters' young life.
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Karen was a shy, unassuming
teacher who still lived at home
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with her mother and her sister.
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But for inmate
Richard Cepulonis,
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the wedding may have
been something different.
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Perhaps nothing more
than a means to an end.
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Richard Cepulonis was serving
58 to 82 years for bank robbery
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and armed assault with
the intent to murder.
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All right, this is a hold up!
[gunshots]
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DENNIS FARINA: Cepulonis
had hit the bank
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in Woburn, Massachusetts
with two accomplices.
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JACK BEAUCHAMP: One robber
jumped over the counter.
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Two others had their
automatic weapons on me,
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one in front of
me, one behind me.
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Open the door!
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I can't, it's on a timer.
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[inaudible]
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JACK BEAUCHAMP: A
man in front of me
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put the weapon under my
chin, and waited what
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seemed like a long time, what
was probably just a second
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or so, and I say come on,
let's get out of here.
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He says if we see a cop
outside, I'm gonna kill the cop,
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and I'm gonna come
back in and kill you.
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DENNIS FARINA: The armed robbers
made off with more than $17,000
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in cash.
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A silent alarm brought
an unmarked police unit
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within seconds.
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Is anyone hurt?
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Everyone's fine,
they've got guns.
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The red Mustang!
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JOHN P. GIBBONS,
JR.: The bank manager
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pointed at the direction
of which the getaway car
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had left the bank.
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I followed behind
the car, what was
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probably three to four
car lengths behind him
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going down the street.
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I'm in pursuit
of a red Mustang,
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heading east on Cambridge.
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JOHN P. GIBBONS, JR.:
And that's when they
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started firing machine guns.
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I put my gun out
the window and fired
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two warning shots in the air.
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At that point, the person
that was hanging out
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the window shooting
on the passenger side
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went back into the car, and they
pulled in front of a car that
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was going in the same
direction, and opened
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fire on the driver of the car.
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DENNIS FARINA: To create a
diversion, the robbers shot and
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wounded a 16-year-old woman.
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It gave him just
enough time to escape.
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Two months later,
Richard Cepulonis was
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tracked down in New York City.
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He was convicted and sent
to Walpole state prison,
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a maximum security facility.
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Over the next five
years, Cepulonis
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was the perfect inmate.
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Then he met Karen Walters.
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At the time, Karen
was attending William
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Patterson College in her
home state of New Jersey.
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TOM CASSANO: Walters was doing a
project while she was attending
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college, and this project
involved writing to a prisoner
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in the correctional system.
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And by chance she
selected Cepulonis.
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This campaign, this
letter writing campaign,
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grew and grew, and shortly after
that, she began visiting him.
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Karen.
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Richard.
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MIKE CORSINI: A typical
inmate takes advantage
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of people out in the community.
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Oftentimes, they'll latch
on to women who are lonely
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and want some attention, and
they take advantage of them.
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And I think the women are
beguiled by all that attention.
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Karen, why don't you ever
ask me about the shooting?
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You know why I'm here.
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I just thought you didn't
want to talk about it.
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I got nothing to hide.
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Karen, I did not see
that innocent woman.
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SHEILA ISENBERG: The man on
the outside has a job to go to,
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he's got friends, he's
got other commitments.
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But a man on the inside is
so focused on that woman,
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she feels so special and
so desired and so wanted.
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It elevates the whole
romance to a very high level.
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DENNIS FARINA: Karen started
leading a double life.
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She taught learning
disabled children
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and was highly regarded by
her fellow faculty members,
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but none of them knew that she
was in love with a convict.
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Let's do one of the Dean
handing me the diploma.
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DENNIS FARINA:
Meanwhile, Cepulonis
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became the first inmate
at Walpole State Prison
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to earn a college degree.
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I can honestly say
that being in prison
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has been more of an
asset than a liability.
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CHAPLAIN: Dearly
beloved, we have
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come together in the
presence of God to witness--
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DENNIS FARINA: Eight
years after they met,
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Karen married Cepulonis.
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Two years later,
he was transferred
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to a minimum security facility.
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MIKE CORSINI: He was very
bright and very personable,
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so I think once staff
find that in an inmate,
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I think it's easy for staff
to let their guard down.
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I think you always have to
be careful with an individual
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like that.
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DENNIS FARINA: Cepulonis's new
home was literally a prison
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without bars.
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Karen could visit unsupervised
almost any time she wanted.
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I want that dream.
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Well, be patient,
and it'll happen.
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Not unless we make it happen.
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I don't know if
you're ready for that.
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What do you mean?
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DENNIS FARINA: 10 months
later, Karen was forced to act.
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She and Cepulonis
were caught having
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sex on the prison grounds.
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Karen was barred from
visiting her husband.
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Three weeks later, she drove to
an isolated spot about a mile
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from the prison.
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Her entire life savings, $20,000
in cash, was in her pocket.
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At around noon,
Cepulonis appeared.
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He had simply walked away
from the prison grounds.
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I was so worried.
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I didn't know what had happened.
- Yeah.
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OK.
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Come on.
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DENNIS FARINA: Karen left
behind her career and her family
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for a life on the run.
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Do you want me to drive?
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Karen, get in.
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DENNIS FARINA: Update.
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After a recent broadcast,
a viewer in Minnesota
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recognized Karen's photograph.
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A task force, which
included FBI and police,
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staked out this
house where Cepulonis
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and Walters were living.
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STEPHEN GILKERSON: As soon as
he pulled into the parking lot
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and got out of the vehicle,
one of the task force members
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was right there with him.
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So he jumped out,
drew his weapon,
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ordered Cepulonis not to move.
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And at that point,
other task force members
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got there, jumped out, and
assisted in the arrest.
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DENNIS FARINA: Karen Walters
was picked up 20 minutes later.
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For eight years, she and
Cepulonis had completely
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fooled all of their neighbors.
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When I found out that
they were who they were,
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I was shocked.
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I couldn't believe it.
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My mouth fell to the floor.
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I never would imagine
in a million years
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that these two people
would do anything wrong.
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DENNIS FARINA: When the
task force search the house,
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they found a bag
of robbery tools.
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VERN LEE: The discovery of the
face mask, the gun, the rubber
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gloves, the large amount
of cash in small bills;
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we think that perhaps he's
back in the bank robbery
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or robbery business again.
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DENNIS FARINA:
After their capture,
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Karen Walters and
Richard Cepulonis
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were extradited
to Massachusetts.
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Cepulonis was returned
to prison to finish
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out his original sentence.
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Karen Walters spent
several months
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in a woman's correctional
facility for her role
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in the breakout.
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She has since been released.
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Next, he's called the Ice
Man because he has found
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frozen solid in a block of ice.
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Is he a prehistoric
being, or just a hoax?
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Altura, Minnesota.
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Well as you can
see, gentlemen,
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these are not
ideal circumstances
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in which to view the exhibit.
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DENNIS FARINA: On a
chilly December evening,
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a promoter named Frank
Hansen led two scientists
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into a dimly lit barn.
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Mr. Hansen, is the exhibit
ever shown outside the trailer?
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No, it has always shown
only in the trailer.
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DENNIS FARINA: Ivan Sanderson
and Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans,
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experts in the study of
undiscovered species,
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were not prepared for what
they were about to see.
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Gentlemen, here
is the exhibit.
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DENNIS FARINA: Frozen
inside a block of solid ice
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was a creature that appeared
to be half man, half ape.
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These are actual
photographs of the Ice Man.
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After Sanderson and
Heuvelmans saw the creature,
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they were convinced that it
had genuine scientific value.
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But weeks later,
it had vanished,
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and with it any chance
of further examination.
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Who or what was the Ice Man?
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Many people assume
that it was just
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the carnival's side show
created by a master entertainer.
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But others are
convinced that it was
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a prehistoric ancestor
of man that somehow
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survived into modern times.
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This machine
predates the Model-T.
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DENNIS FARINA: It all began
when a promoter, Frank Hansen,
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was traveling the
state fair circuit.
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He was allegedly approached
by a mysterious stranger.
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The following recreations are
based upon published accounts.
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I find what you're doing
here, sir, is fascinating.
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I have an exhibit
that I think would
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benefit from your expertise.
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Please give me a call.
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It might be worth your while.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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DENNIS FARINA: Later,
Hansen met this stranger
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at a refrigerated warehouse
in a little known location.
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What you are going
to see belongs to me.
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How I came by it is my
business, and we need
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not discuss that at the moment.
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FRANK HANSEN: Is it real?
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Where did you get this from?
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DENNIS FARINA: Frank
Hansen agreed to take
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the creature on the road.
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Over the next two
years, the Ice Man
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became a star attraction at
carnivals and state fairs
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throughout the Midwest.
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Zookeeper Bob Czaplewski
saw the Ice Man
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when he was 18 years old.
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What I was looking at
was not made out of latex,
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it was not made out of rubber.
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It did not appear to
be a man made thing.
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But as far as my
opinion, I don't
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know what I was looking at.
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But I'm sure I was
looking at something dead.
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DENNIS FARINA:
Environmentalist David
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Rivard also saw the exhibit.
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The first thing that went
through the average person's
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mind was that this was not a
wax animal that he had there.
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This was some kind of
a formerly live animal
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that was in the block of ice.
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DENNIS FARINA: Dr.
Terry Cullen is
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a zoological and
veterinary researcher.
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I had long been an
aficionado of side shows
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and going to see them.
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Always had a great
time trying to find
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out what they were
doing, and what
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they did to fool the public.
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DENNIS FARINA: Cullen first
saw the Ice Man when he was 17.
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He says the creature
appeared to be a six
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foot tall adolescent male.
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It was covered with
medium length hair
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and had highly
visible follicles.
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Cullen also noticed a traumatic
injury to the left side
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of the Ice Man's face.
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DR. TERRY CULLEN: There
was a noticeable odor
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coming out of this casket.
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The one thing that there is
no doubt in my mind about
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is that the thing
that I observed,
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the carcass that I
observed, was in fact
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made out of some sort of flesh.
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Well, young man, you've
been here before, haven't you?
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Yes, I have,
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DENNIS FARINA: Terry was hooked.
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He returned to the
exhibit a number of times.
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Once he even snuck in
a magnifying glass.
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DR. TERRY CULLEN:
There was something
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of a death grimace on the face.
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The upper lip was
pulled back a bit.
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I was able to observe
all four incisors, which
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were very large,
very squarish, very
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much like an orang's incisors.
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Whatever this was, it
was important enough
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to get the necessary scientific
personnel in there to view it.
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Kid, I've been to
a lot of sides shows,
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these things are always fake.
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No, this one's amazing.
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I think this one's real.
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DENNIS FARINA: Eventually, Terry
convinced an anthropologist
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from the University of Minnesota
to take a look at the creature.
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DR. TERRY CULLEN: He was in
there perhaps 10 to 15 minutes,
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came back out again,
and he started walking
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past where I was standing.
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And he had sort of a
dreamy look on his face,
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and I came zipping up to him.
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- Well, what'd you think?
- It's amazing.
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Yeah, I mean.
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Well, tell me!
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It's really amazing.
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What'd you see out of it?
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I mean, what did you--
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Thank you.
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DR. TERRY CULLEN: I
remember being practically
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close to tears from frustration,
that I had finally gotten
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someone who at least
had some credibility
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in the field of anthropology
to look at this thing.
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And I couldn't even get six
words out of the gentleman.
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Now, the reasons for that
I can't even speculate on.
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At that point, I decided I would
have to pursue other avenues.
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DENNIS FARINA: Terry
finally convinced
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Sanderson and Heuvelmans
to examine the Ice Man.
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DR. TERRY CULLEN: Sanderson
and humans were both convinced
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that, in fact, this carcass
was the genuine carcass
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of some unknown form
of animal or hominid.
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DENNIS FARINA:
When the scientists
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published their
findings, Frank Hansen
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became the center of attention.
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Before long, the local sheriff
stopped by his farmhouse.
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Look, Frank, taking a cadaver
over state lines is illegal.
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And, if it's the real
McCoy, how did it get dead?
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Listen, you can come with me
and we'll look at it together.
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DENNIS FARINA: That
same night, Frank Hansen
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left town, taking his
controversial exhibit with him.
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A few months later, Hansen
was back on the circuit
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with a replica of the
mysterious creature.
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The whereabouts of the real
Ice Man are still unknown.
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This thing may one day be
understood by us as a genuine
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object, as a true
representative of something
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primitive and man-like
that is still living today.
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If under other circumstances
this kind of thing
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is found and
described and matches
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those extensive descriptions
by Sanderson and Heuvelmans,
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then we would know that this was
the real thing that they saw.
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DENNIS FARINA: What
was the Ice Man?
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A primitive humanlike
species, preserved
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until the present day,
or an elaborate hoax?
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And what happened
to the original?
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Frank Hansen may
have the answers,
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but he declined
to be interviewed.
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At one point, Hansen said the
Ice Man was a manmade illusion,
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but he has changed his
story many, many times.
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For now, it seems that
the legend of the Ice Man
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must remain a mystery.
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Next, a young man becomes
the innocent victim
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of a killer in a neighborhood
where gangs rule.
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Freeport, New York.
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A tetanus shot.
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Those are what hurt.
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DENNIS FARINA: For Pam
Corrente, it was just
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another day of running errands.
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Then, as she was driving her
teenage son to the doctor,
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she passed what appeared to
be a terrible car accident.
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I can't see anything, can you?
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PAMELA CORRENTE: I said
to me son, look over there
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and see what's going on.
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So he just looked over and
said I don't see anything,
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you can't see anything.
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It's just ambulances all over.
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So I passed it.
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I took him to the
doctor's office.
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We came back home.
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[phone ringing]
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DENNIS FARINA: It
was then that Pam
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received a phone call about her
oldest son, 21-year-old Damien.
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No he's not, may
I take a message?
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PAMELA CORRENTE:
And I got a phone
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call from one of his friends
asking me, is Damien there?
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I said no he's not, he was going
to go out to see his friends.
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Aren't you with him?
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No.
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OK, never mind.
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And they hung up.
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Hello?
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PAMELA CORRENTE: And that was
just-- the whole thing was off.
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DENNIS FARINA: When Damien
didn't answer her calls,
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Pam remembered the
ambulances and decided
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to check local hospitals.
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I called South Nassau Hospital--
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Hi, my name's Pam Corrente--
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PAMELA CORRENTE: --and said
do have Damien Corrente there?
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Yes, who is this?
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I said, this is his mom.
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I said is there?
Is he OK?
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Why didn't anybody call me?
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Why aren't you-- why
haven't I been informed?
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I mean, what's going on?
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Just tell me what's going on.
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And she said didn't the
detective come to your house
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yet?
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DENNIS FARINA: Within minutes,
Pam was at the hospital.
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Her son Damien had been
involved in the incident
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she saw earlier, but it
was no traffic accident.
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PAMELA CORRENTE: My son
was there on the bed.
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And he was in a
hospital gown, and he
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looked like a complete angel.
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And I went to hug him, and
there was blood on my hand.
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Oh god.
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PAMELA CORRENTE: When they
told me he shot five times
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in the head, I
couldn't comprehend it.
00:19:37
Everything went
crazy at that point.
00:19:40
DAMIANO CORRENTE: I
saw my wife crying
00:19:42
on the other side of the door
with-- there was a nurse.
00:19:44
I said to her,
what's the matter?
00:19:46
She said, he's dead.
00:19:49
Just like that.
00:19:53
Something died in
me that day, too.
00:19:59
DENNIS FARINA: Pam
Corrente and her husband
00:20:01
Damiano soon learned
that their son
00:20:03
had died in a gang shooting.
00:20:06
As if that wasn't enough, there
were allegations that Damien
00:20:09
himself was a gang member.
00:20:11
To Damien's grieving parents,
it just did not make sense.
00:20:17
PAMELA CORRENTE: Damien was a
pre-med student at Stony Brook
00:20:19
University, and he
had an ambition,
00:20:22
and that was to go to
college and get his degree
00:20:24
and become an anesthesiologist.
00:20:26
My son had absolutely
no gang affiliation.
00:20:30
That was proven over and over.
00:20:33
It was written in
every newspaper.
00:20:35
He was absolutely
not a part of a gang,
00:20:38
and had no gang affiliation.
00:20:39
What time are you
going to be back?
00:20:41
- Before dinner.
- Dinner's at 6:30.
00:20:42
- All right.
- OK, thanks, honey.
00:20:44
I appreciate it.
- OK.
00:20:45
DENNIS FARINA: In the weeks
leading up to his death,
00:20:47
Damien had returned home from
college for winter break,
00:20:51
and started hanging around
with friends from high school.
00:20:55
BRIAN PARPAN: One
of those friends
00:20:57
was a man by the name
of Harold Zambrano.
00:21:00
[speaking spanish]
00:21:04
Harold was a
19-year-old member
00:21:07
of a local gang called Nientes.
00:21:09
I was just looking
for these punks.
00:21:11
These punks?
00:21:12
Why, what's up?
00:21:14
DENNIS FARINA: Harold told
Damien that two days earlier,
00:21:17
he was jumped by
members of MS13,
00:21:20
a violent El Salvadorean
street gang originally
00:21:24
from Los Angeles.
00:21:25
They hit me over
head with a bottle.
00:21:26
That looks horrible!
00:21:27
Yeah, I know, son.
00:21:29
DENNIS FARINA: Harold
asked Damien for help.
00:21:33
PAMELA CORRENTE: Damien had
the biggest heart in the world,
00:21:35
that was part of his problem.
00:21:37
Anybody asked him for
anything, he would do it
00:21:40
and he would be there.
00:21:41
Even if he had his own plans.
00:21:43
That's not right
00:21:44
I know, yo, that's why
you got my back, son?
00:21:47
We're gonna go look
for these cats.
00:21:48
Yeah, I got your back.
00:21:50
MICHAEL WOODWARD:
Damien Corrente,
00:21:51
on the day that he died, I'm
sure had no idea as to what
00:21:54
he was getting involved in.
00:21:55
Howard Zambrano,
being a gang member,
00:21:58
probably never publicized
that fact to Damien.
00:22:02
DENNIS FARINA: At
a local strip mall,
00:22:03
Harold found what
he was looking for.
00:22:05
HAROLD ZAMBRANO: Yo,
that's one of them.
00:22:07
That's one of them right there.
00:22:08
Stop the car, stop the car.
00:22:09
DENNIS FARINA:
19-year-old German DeLeon.
00:22:12
BRIAN PARPAN: German DeLeon
was known MS13 member
00:22:15
and was wearing the
colors, so there
00:22:16
was no question in their mind
that they had found somebody.
00:22:20
Yo, we [inaudible] now, son.
00:22:22
BRIAN PARPAN: They
approached German DeLeon.
00:22:23
Who are you?
00:22:24
What you look like,
stupid, did you do this?
00:22:26
BRIAN PARPAN: They confronted
him with the injury
00:22:28
to Harold Zambrano.
00:22:29
I didn't do that, yo.
00:22:30
I was over here
waiting for my girl,
00:22:31
what are you talking about?
00:22:33
BRIAN PARPAN: He was
there at the laundromat
00:22:34
with his girlfriend.
00:22:36
DeLeon admitted that
he was an MS13 member
00:22:39
and told him that
he had nothing to do
00:22:40
with that particular incident.
00:22:42
[indistinct shouting]
00:22:45
Zambrano and those guys
indicated that they respected
00:22:48
the fact that he was
with his girlfriend,
00:22:50
and they wouldn't
cause him any trouble
00:22:51
while he was with
his girlfriend.
00:22:54
DENNIS FARINA: Damien,
Harold, and the others
00:22:55
returned to their car.
00:22:59
Then two more members
of MS13 showed up.
00:23:10
[gunshot]
00:23:13
DENNIS FARINA: Zambrano
was shot in the neck.
00:23:17
[gunshots]
00:23:19
DENNIS FARINA: Damien was
shot five times in the head.
00:23:23
A police investigation
quickly revealed the identity
00:23:27
of the alleged shooters.
00:23:29
German DeLeon, Mario Portillo,
and Juan Gil Ferrufino.
00:23:35
But the suspects
could not be found.
00:23:38
To deal with her grief,
Pam started a gang
00:23:41
awareness program in Freeport.
00:23:43
PAMELA CORRENTE:
I had no choice.
00:23:45
I had to fight.
00:23:46
It was either that
or go with the rage
00:23:48
and the anger and the hate.
00:23:50
So I can't do that,
but I can fight back
00:23:52
by trying to
educate our children
00:23:53
and trying to find
a way for them,
00:23:55
and to educate the parents
to educate the children.
00:23:59
DENNIS FARINA: Pam finds
her new work rewarding,
00:24:01
though it will never take away
the pain of losing her son.
00:24:05
There is only one thing
that would help, catching
00:24:08
the killers of Damien Corrente.
00:24:14
Although the families
of all three suspects
00:24:16
still live in
Freeport, police have
00:24:18
traced German DeLeon,
Mario Portillo, and Juan
00:24:22
Gil Ferrufino to El Salvador.
00:24:26
If their specific whereabouts
can be determined,
00:24:29
the suspects could be extradited
to the United States for trial.
00:24:36
If you have any information
about these individuals,
00:24:39
please contact us
at unsolved.com.
00:24:45
Next, a disturbing face
to face confrontation
00:24:48
with a diabolical
mind, convicted
00:24:51
killer G. Daniel Walker.
00:25:03
For years, scientists
and philosophers
00:25:06
have struggled to
answer this question,
00:25:10
are people born as psychopaths,
or do they become psychopaths
00:25:15
because of their environment?
00:25:18
ROBERT HARE: If I were to
cast my vote in one direction
00:25:20
or the other, I'd probably
say that it's more likely
00:25:22
that they're born, not made.
00:25:24
I think that there are a fairly
strong genetic contributions
00:25:26
to all personality
traits, including
00:25:27
the personality traits
that make up psychopathy.
00:25:30
ELLIOT LEYTON: I think it's
pretty clear that while people
00:25:32
may have a inherited
susceptibility to certain kinds
00:25:36
of violent crimes,
that individuals
00:25:38
who go on to produce these
kinds of abominable crimes
00:25:43
are created.
00:25:44
They're shaped by
their families.
00:25:46
They're shaped by
their societies.
00:25:48
They model the culture
heroes in their civilization,
00:25:51
and they go on and commit
these abominable acts.
00:25:55
Big deal, death always
went with the territory.
00:25:58
See you in Disneyland.
00:26:01
The best way to understand the
mind of the criminal psychopath
00:26:04
is to talk to the experts,
the killers themselves.
00:26:08
You're about to meet
G. Daniel Walker.
00:26:11
Walker is a dangerous
and diabolical murderer.
00:26:17
G. Daniel Walker
was serving time
00:26:19
for armed robbery
and attempted murder
00:26:21
when he escaped from prison.
00:26:23
While on the run, Walker
killed advertising
00:26:26
executive William Ashlock.
00:26:29
He then raped Ashlock's
fiancee, all the while
00:26:32
proclaiming his love for her.
00:26:35
Soon after, Walker was
arrested and tried for murder.
00:26:39
Walker defended
himself in court,
00:26:42
claiming that Ashlock was the
victim of a mafia hit squad.
00:26:46
He insisted that he had only
helped to cover up the murder
00:26:50
to protect Ashlock's fiancee.
00:26:53
He lost his case and received
the sentence of 17 years
00:26:56
to life in prison.
00:26:59
While Walker insists he is
innocent of the murder charge,
00:27:02
he brags about
committing more than 300
00:27:05
other crimes for which he has
not been charged or tried.
00:27:10
You feel like you are
pretty much, by the system,
00:27:13
where you belong, from
the standpoint of--
00:27:14
Yes, yes.
00:27:16
I'm convicted of murder.
00:27:17
I've always denied
that I was the one that
00:27:19
did the actual shooting
in that particular case,
00:27:21
but I've taken the
witness stand--
00:27:22
DENNIS FARINA: We
asked former FBI
00:27:24
criminal profiler Robert Ressler
to interview G. Daniel Walker.
00:27:28
Given the same set of
facts, I would do it again.
00:27:31
How long is your rap sheet?
00:27:34
I would think the
current one would probably
00:27:35
be about 29 to 30 pages.
00:27:39
ROBERT RESSLER: Charles
Manson's is only five.
00:27:41
Well he was just a killer.
00:27:44
But at the same
time, I've heard
00:27:45
you say that your criminal
record, your rap sheet,
00:27:49
your FBI record, whatever,
does not certainly
00:27:52
hold all that you have done.
00:27:54
Definitely not, no.
00:27:55
The body of work of
the criminal enterprise
00:27:57
has been much greater,
and let's hope that I've
00:28:00
been successful in something.
00:28:01
See, you're meeting a
failed criminal right now,
00:28:04
and you're very
happy to be meeting
00:28:06
me as a failed criminal.
00:28:07
Because if you were meeting
me as a successful criminal,
00:28:09
that means that I'd have
the gun pointed at you.
00:28:11
And you'd suddenly have this--
00:28:12
ROBERT RESSLER: A person like
him can be extremely dangerous.
00:28:15
He doesn't buy our system.
00:28:17
He does not buy our society's
rules as we established them,
00:28:22
and again, that's a mark of
a psychopath or a sociopath,
00:28:24
is that they make their
own rules in life.
00:28:28
You've had so many opportunities
to stay out of jail,
00:28:32
and yet you keep coming back in.
00:28:35
Well, then again, you see
prisons not being successful.
00:28:37
And just because
you're in prison
00:28:38
doesn't mean you
can't be successful.
00:28:40
I think Solzhenitsyn said the
greatest freedom that a man
00:28:42
enjoys is being in prison,
because he feeds you breakfast
00:28:45
in the morning, you can go
out and kill one of your cell
00:28:47
mates, and they'll
still feed you lunch
00:28:48
and give you sheets for
your bed in the evening.
00:28:51
The psychopathic
individual will
00:28:52
use several different defenses.
00:28:54
One of those is rationalization.
00:28:56
He will come up with very
elaborate explanations,
00:29:00
that when thought about very
carefully, make no sense.
00:29:03
Institutions are
not that unsatisfying.
00:29:06
You've got to
remember, I don't have
00:29:07
to go out and kill any cows.
00:29:08
They're going to
do all that for me.
00:29:09
I don't have to go out
and cook any meals.
00:29:11
I don't have to wash any
dishes, they're going
00:29:12
to do all those things for me.
00:29:13
So the institution
becomes a wife by nature.
00:29:18
They're going to wash
my dirty socks for me,
00:29:20
they're going to do
all of the things
00:29:21
that I don't
necessarily like to do.
00:29:23
So if that's becoming
institutionalized,
00:29:26
I'm happily married.
00:29:28
ROBERT RESSLER: If you had
the option, would you leave/
00:29:30
I've had the option to escape.
00:29:31
I have escaped, as you know.
00:29:33
Juries have tried me and never
found me guilty of escape.
00:29:36
I've always represented
myself in those cases.
00:29:38
There is a certain excitement
when you have escaped
00:29:42
from a major penitentiary, and
you know that the red lights
00:29:44
are right behind you.
00:29:45
You know the sirens are going.
00:29:47
There's a certain
excitement that you
00:29:48
just-- it's better than sex.
00:29:50
So yes, there is that
possibility that there
00:29:53
may be the 14th escape.
00:29:54
ROBERT RESSLER: You know,
I've heard that before.
00:29:56
Oh, it's exciting.
00:29:57
ROBERT RESSLER:
The excitement this
00:29:58
is a high factor in maintaining
life the way you have.
00:30:03
And oftentimes, you'll
find that the people that
00:30:04
are pursuing you
will lose the scent,
00:30:06
so you have to go
back and show them,
00:30:08
no, no, you've got to
turn this way, fellas,
00:30:09
you know, to keep
the chase going.
00:30:11
And I've done it.
00:30:13
They will draw the
interview into what
00:30:15
we call a narcissistic
twinship, where they will try
00:30:18
to do things to
show in what ways
00:30:21
they are similar
to the interviewer.
00:30:23
And oftentimes, the
interviewer is both
00:30:25
flattered and caught off guard.
00:30:28
You know the minute you
have taken down a perpetrator,
00:30:30
and you've taken him
down, that you guys
00:30:31
get together and get the high
fives, and say, good god,
00:30:33
we did it!
00:30:34
That was a great job!
00:30:35
You know, the criminals
do the same thing.
00:30:37
The minute that you've outwitted
them, you get together,
00:30:40
give the high fives.
00:30:40
Oh, we got over on him!
00:30:42
ROBERT RESSLER: Are you saying
there's just a fine line
00:30:44
between you and I, then?
00:30:45
Very fine line
and you know it.
00:30:47
ROBERT RESSLER: Do you have
any true feelings of remorse?
00:30:51
Well, I would
have to say, take
00:30:53
a different tangent on that.
00:30:54
Do I have remorse for the
things that put me there?
00:30:55
We have to remember that the
crime that I'm in prison for I
00:30:59
defended myself.
00:31:00
So I'm the one that
lost that case.
00:31:03
So I have remorse that I
didn't handle that case
00:31:05
in a little different way.
As far as--
00:31:07
REID MELOY: The psychopathic
individual will engage
00:31:10
in a psychology of reversals.
00:31:12
Pain originates and
other people, problems
00:31:15
originate in other people, and
responsibility for our behavior
00:31:19
is really other
people's responsibility.
00:31:22
ROBERT RESSLER: Do
you feel that you
00:31:23
are truly dangerous
person from the standpoint
00:31:26
of committing violent acts?
00:31:28
Only if you've done
something wrong to me.
00:31:30
I think what you're
referring to is the fact--
00:31:32
DENNIS FARINA:
From prison, Walker
00:31:33
somehow managed to have
highly toxic poison imported
00:31:37
into the United States.
00:31:39
A deputy district attorney
who had once prosecuted Walker
00:31:43
became terrified that he
might be Walker's target.
00:31:46
So when suddenly
the system discovered
00:31:48
that I had 2.2 pounds of
poison in the United States,
00:31:52
they went crazy.
00:31:53
Like, what does G. Daniel
Walker want with this poison?
00:31:56
Well, the little lady that
lives in Dubuque, Iowa that
00:31:58
has an antique collection that's
never heard of the name G.
00:32:01
Daniel Walker knew that I
didn't have that poison for her,
00:32:03
so she had no concern.
00:32:05
There were a lot of Deputy
Attorney Generals, a lot
00:32:07
of Assistant United States
Attorneys that suddenly
00:32:10
became very uncomfortable.
00:32:12
There were a lot of judges
that became uncomfortable.
00:32:14
And they started a
major investigation.
00:32:16
They indicted me, a
two count indictment
00:32:19
for importing this poison.
00:32:20
They spent about a $1,300,000
working up a prosecution,
00:32:24
and then they folded their
tent because they found out
00:32:26
that I hadn't broken the law.
00:32:28
Did you use the poison?
00:32:30
They've never found any
sufficient evidence to charge
00:32:32
me with having used it.
00:32:34
But it certainly caused
one Deputy Attorney General
00:32:35
in the state of California
to go through his cabinets
00:32:39
and take all ingestible items
out, toothpaste, and liquor,
00:32:44
and finally his wife
said, well, gee,
00:32:46
it could be in the carpets.
00:32:47
So they re-carpeted their home,
and finally they sold the home
00:32:49
and moved.
00:32:51
ROBERT RESSLER:
So in other words,
00:32:52
creating paranoia
in a person can
00:32:55
be oftentimes even more
insidious than just
00:32:58
making verbal threats.
00:32:59
It's a better gamesmanship
than doing physical violence,
00:33:01
because fear lives with
you 24 hours a day.
00:33:03
Fear never goes away.
00:33:05
If you kill somebody,
that's over.
00:33:06
ROBERT RESSLER: Or
attempt to kill somebody.
00:33:08
Yes.
00:33:09
If you hurt them, as long as
the pain is there, but fear
00:33:13
is a pain that lives
with you forever.
00:33:17
DENNIS FARINA: G. Daniel
Walker has been denied
00:33:19
parole at least seven times.
00:33:21
If the state does grant him
parole on the murder charge,
00:33:24
Walker still faces a 50
year term on federal charges
00:33:28
that stem from credit card scams
he operated from inside prison.
00:33:35
G. Daniel Walker will almost
certainly die in prison.
00:33:44
Next, the reunion of a
young man and the woman
00:33:48
who saved his life.
00:33:50
And coming up, a
sheriff in Florida
00:33:53
searches for the identity
of a murder victim.
00:34:05
Naples, Florida.
00:34:11
After Steve Newton's first
child, Virginia, was born,
00:34:14
he headed home on his motorcycle
to pick up the family car.
00:34:19
He had no way of knowing
that he was on a collision
00:34:22
course with disaster.
00:34:34
STEVEN M. NEWTON: I
just remember coming
00:34:35
straight down on my head.
00:34:37
As I hit, I saw poof,
this big, bright light.
00:34:41
And that was it.
00:34:42
Then I was just completely out.
00:34:45
DENNIS FARINA: For
Steve Newton, death
00:34:47
was just a heartbeat away.
00:34:51
Are you OK?
00:34:52
Can you hear me?
00:34:55
Help me.
00:34:56
DENNIS FARINA: A
passing motorist
00:34:58
turned Steve over in the
water and saved his life.
00:35:03
She remained at the scene
until Steven was transported
00:35:06
to a hospital, and then she
disappeared without Steve ever
00:35:10
learning her name.
00:35:12
STEVEN M. NEWTON: If she
could just see my daughter,
00:35:14
she'll know that she did me
the greatest favor or gift
00:35:18
that anybody can
give, and that's the
00:35:19
give me back my life.
00:35:20
And I like to say
thank you for that.
00:35:25
DENNIS FARINA: Update.
00:35:27
On the night of our
broadcast, a viewer in Florida
00:35:30
recognized Steve's story as one
she had heard from a coworker
00:35:33
named Tammy Dotson.
00:35:36
As it turns out,
Tammy was Steve's
00:35:38
mysterious good Samaritan.
00:35:44
Steve and Tammy met face
to face for the first time
00:35:46
since the near fatal accident.
00:35:49
As a special treat, Steve
brought along Virginia,
00:35:52
then 1 and 1/2 years old.
00:35:55
TAMMY DOTSON: Nobody's ever gone
that far to come to thank me.
00:35:59
And he kept saying
that I was his angel.
00:36:01
I've never been called an
angel before, far from it.
00:36:05
But it made me feel
good inside to know
00:36:08
that I've done something
that's helped somebody so much.
00:36:13
DENNIS FARINA: That
day, Tammy and Steve
00:36:14
returned to the scene of
the accident, all too aware
00:36:17
that Tammy's simple
act of kindness
00:36:20
had changed both
of them forever.
00:36:23
STEVEN M. NEWTON:
It makes me want
00:36:24
to do more for other people.
00:36:26
Is someone's in trouble, I
would go that extra mile.
00:36:29
That extra, just to
help that person.
00:36:33
TAMMY DOTSON: I just
wanted to hug him.
00:36:35
I was so glad to see that
he was OK, and the baby,
00:36:38
and everything.
00:36:39
I was just thrilled
that he was fine.
00:36:46
DENNIS FARINA:
Steve and his wife,
00:36:47
Sharon, now have a second child.
00:36:50
Something that never
could have happened
00:36:52
if Tammy hadn't acted so
quickly to save Steve's life.
00:37:02
Lake Panasoffkee
lies in the heart
00:37:04
of the vast Florida wetlands.
00:37:07
Crossing the lake's
eastern shore
00:37:09
is Interstate 75,
which connects Florida
00:37:12
with the rest of the southeast.
00:37:16
Two teenagers are hiking
along the interstate,
00:37:18
heading north from
Tampa, when they
00:37:21
notice the outline of a human
form in the shallow water.
00:37:25
Hey, look at that.
00:37:27
What is that?
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DENNIS FARINA: Authorities
retrieve the badly decomposed
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body of a young woman.
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She appears to have
been strangled.
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A man's size 36 belt is still
wrapped around her throat.
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Investigators determine
that the woman may have been
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in her late teens or early 20s.
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She has no identification
and has been dead
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for approximately three weeks.
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They are unable to
find the killer,
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nor determine the
woman's identity.
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No one comes forward
to claim the body.
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Six months pass.
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The young woman is laid to rest
beneath the small, metal marker
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that simply reads Jane Doe.
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10 Years later,
Jamie Adams becomes
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the Sheriff of Sumter County.
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He begins to review the
department's unsolved cases,
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and is particularly disturbed by
the murder of this young woman.
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JAMIE ADAMS: It bothered
me that this young girl
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had never been identified.
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And being a daddy and
granddaddy, i just
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couldn't accept the
fact that somebody
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out there couldn't
come forward and let us
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know who this young girl was.
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It's something that
had to do, and I
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just feel deeply
that it's a mission
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that I've got to accomplish.
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DENNIS FARINA: A year after
he took office, Sheriff Adams
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officially reopened the case.
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He obtained a court order
to have the body exhumed.
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Dr. William Maples,
one of the nation's
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foremost forensic
anthropologists,
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was brought in to assist
with the new investigation.
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WILLIAM MAPLES: The
re-examination of the remains
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ordered by Sheriff Adams gave
us a piece of information
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that is crucial, something that
wouldn't have been known had
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it not been for Sheriff Adams.
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And that was that she
had orthopedic surgery
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to her right ankle.
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This was done by an
orthopedic surgeon
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who wound a tendon
through holes drilled
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in the bones of the ankle.
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It is a Watson
Jones, or modified
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Watson Jones, technique.
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The family or the physician
may remember this.
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DENNIS FARINA: Sheriff Adams'
next contacted Linda Galeener,
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a forensic artist
renowned for her ability
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to create accurate
composite drawings
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based on skeletal remains.
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LINDA GALEENER: One of
the first things we do
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are get photos of the skulls,
and it's important for those
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to be to scale, the
same size as the skull.
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We use a crime lab
to do that, and they
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bring forth the profiles
and facial front
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of the skulls themselves.
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Then an artist will sit down and
we'll put either tissue paper
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or some type of
matte acetate over,
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so we can still see the
photograph, but draw.
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And we actually plot tissue
depth using these charts,
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and just mold that face until
it comes to life on paper.
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DENNIS FARINA: Little
Miss Panasoffkee
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was beginning to come
alive for Sheriff Adams.
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Next, he asked Linda to create
age regression drawings,
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approximating how the
victim might have appeared,
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first at age 12,
and then at age 6.
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This technique had never been
used before in law enforcement.
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JAMIE ADAMS: I needed something
that I could put her back
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in time, with the hopes that
maybe a school teacher, Sunday
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school teacher, or even
a classmate that had went
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to school with her
say while she's
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in the fifth grade or the first
grade that would remember.
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DENNIS FARINA: Sheriff
Adams has mailed flyers
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to more than 3,000 law
enforcement agencies
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throughout the United
States and Canada.
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He has contacted
hundreds of hospitals
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and followed up
hundreds of leads.
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Still, the identity of
Little Miss Panasoffkee
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remains a mystery.
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JAMIE ADAMS: I know
that there's a loved
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one, a mother, a
father, or aunt, that
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know and loves this young girl.
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And I think I owe it to them to
try to identify this young girl
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and get her buried in a rightful
place and take her home.
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DENNIS FARINA: The young woman
was 5 feet, two inches tall,
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weighed about 100 pounds, and
was approximately 20 years old.
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In addition to the Watson
Jones surgical technique
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that had been
performed on her ankle,
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the young woman had extensive
dental work, including
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crowns, caps, and fillings.
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The examination also
revealed that she had given
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birth to at least one child.
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These clues suggest that a
victim was well cared for
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and may have left
the family behind.
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If you have any information
that can help identify
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this young woman, please log on
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