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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast the tiny village of major
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gorya
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yugoslavia is a mecca for countless
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thousands a search of physical and
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spiritual healing in 1986
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jill jensen seemed hopelessly addicted
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to cocaine rita Klaus was suffering from
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debilitating effects of multiple
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sclerosis today both of them believe
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that they were cured by the miracle of
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Medjugorje 1974 Bullhead City Arizona
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volunteer firefighters respond to a
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report of the small blaze at an
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abandoned land ownership inside they are
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stunned to find the badly burned bodies
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of two young boys the deaths are real
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accidental but since then at least three
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eyewitnesses obtained the fire was
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deliberately set the boys were murdered
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in Missouri a quiet tranquility of a
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small town is shattered by dramatic car
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chase and the shocking abduction of a
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popular young woman for every mystery
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there's someone somewhere who knows the
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truth perhaps it's you
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1986 Chicago Illinois former model Jill
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Jensen is so strung out on cocaine
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she has God's open sores over her entire
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body 500 miles away read a close the
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mother of three attempts to overcome the
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painful debilitating effects of multiple
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sclerosis
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Rita Klaus and Jill Jensen two women who
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have nothing in common except a small
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village in Yugoslavia known as Medea
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goryeo before civil war began to tear
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Yugoslavia apart the Church Atlanta
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gorya had drawn more than 15 million
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pilgrims many of them American they came
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to meet six young people who call
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themselves visionaries the six claimed
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that in 1981 they spoke to the Virgin
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Mary on this hill outside the village
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the following description by one of the
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visionaries has been translated for
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Batum first the light appears then after
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the light our lady comes she's dressed
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in grey with the veil she has black hair
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and is supported on a cloud four of the
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young visionary still claim to
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communicate with a virgin at exactly
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6:40 p.m. each day
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megaria has become a virtual mecca for
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catholic pilgrims
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to accommodate the crowds makeshift
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confessionals have been set up both
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inside and outside the church 10 years
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after the original Epiphany hundreds
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claimed they had been healed
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spontaneously at mezzago yet this man
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Joe Romano swears that he was cured of
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abdominal cancer after he and his wife
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made three visits to megaria Kevin G PO
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was seven years old when his parents
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took him on a pilgrimage to Yugoslavia
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since birth Kevin had been plagued with
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digestive abnormalities profoundly weak
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muscles and an inadequate immune system
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today at age nine his symptoms have
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virtually disappeared Shara Vance's
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right leg was shattered in a farm
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accident
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she says her doctors told her it was a
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worse break they had ever seen but she
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claims her leg healed miraculously
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atmega gorya to most of us it seems
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far-fetched to think that physical
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healing can occur simply because one
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travels to the scene of a religious
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vision yet for those who've watched a
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loved one suffer pain which modern
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medicine cannot alleviate the hope of a
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miracle flickers persistently if dimly
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at the back of the logical mind
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Jill Jenson grew up in an
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upper-middle-class neighborhood outside
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Chicago as a teenager she began to
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experiment with drugs before long she
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was addicted to cocaine
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I don't think that many days ever went
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by without me using cocaine I carried my
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person concealed it in my jackets I'd
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hide it in my car I would never go
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anywhere without it and I was unable to
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do anything without using the drug I had
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to have it eventually it got to the
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point where I had to have it to wake up
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I had to have it to go to sleep I had to
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have it just to function on a daily
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basis just to get going I had a smoke so
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by the time Jill was 26
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she had a $500 a day Hannity she had
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tried one drug rehab center after
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another to no avail Jill now smoke
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cocaine and freebase form because
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constant use had burned a hole through
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the lining of her nose it got to the
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point where I began to hallucinate I
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would start to see bugs all over me or
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what I believed to be bugs I would feel
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things all over me and think that I that
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I had to get him off of me
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no matter what I did I just had to get
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these bugs off me so I would rip my skin
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open and rip out my head and for years I
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had these sores all over me
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she was scrawny she was anorexic
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she had circles under her eyes she
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looked far beyond her years you know one
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time Jill was beautiful and all heads
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would turn when they saw her and she did
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modeling for a while but all that left
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her
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in 1988 Jill's aunt didi made a
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pilgrimage to magic Oriya when she
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returned to the states she tried to
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convince Jill to make another pilgrimage
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with her a year later Jill agreed even
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though she dreaded a 14-hour plane trip
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without access to her precious cocaine
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I didn't know how I was gonna handle the
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withdraws I've been through them before
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a horrible headaches sleeplessness
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sometimes terrible nightmares when I am
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able to sleep the cold sweats hot
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flashes horrible things especially being
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sick I didn't know how I was gonna make
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it but I was I was willing to try
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something came over me
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that gave me the willingness to try when
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Jill arrived in major gorya she met with
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an American priest and one of the
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makeshift confessionals you say forgive
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me Father for I have sinned my last
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confession
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nominally raised a Catholic Jill never
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had more than a passing interest in
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religion my last confession was when I
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was eight years old for nearly an hour
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liens backed up while Jill made her
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confession no I couldn't go anywhere
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without the drugs I couldn't do anything
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without the drugs right around then
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that's when the bug started I'm really
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afraid of bugs and I'll do anything to
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get him off me it was evident to him
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that I was all torn up and I had told
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him what had happened and how I had
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arrived at having all these things these
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sores he's open wounds and and when I
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was through with my confession he
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blessed my sores with with holy water he
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nominated countries and cities spiritus
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sancti amen
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by that evening all my soros work were
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completely closing and and healing it
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was amazing I've never I didn't feel it
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happening but every time I looked down I
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would notice that they were less and
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less open the source and for years
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they'd never ever gone away
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feeling today within a few days
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Jill's sores had almost disappeared
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energy she had yet to experience any of
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the symptoms of withdrawal I ranted
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managed to arrange a meeting with one of
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the major gorya visionaries who Jill
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says blessed her with a prayer to the
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virgin mary se Utley Michael Borgia per
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se Utley goes for poker she says Susan
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he must avoid him quit them Molly she
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put her hands on both of our heads and I
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felt this tremendous like almost like
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electricity going through me and this
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warmth I had such a tremendous sense of
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well-being it was unreal
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for the first time in my life I felt
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like I had been freed that I really was
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gonna be able to have a life that it was
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given back to me it was a gift
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three years after her trip to Mecca
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gorya Jill is still drug-free she speaks
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in school drug prevention programs and
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works as a cosmetologist but at this day
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Jo claims that she has never suffered a
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single symptom of withdrawal
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I think it's very rare for someone who
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is as severe and as late stages Joe to
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just be able to quit certainly very
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unlikely that she could quit without
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experiencing some pretty severe
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withdrawal both physical and
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psychological I can't tell you exactly
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what it was that changed me completely
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but I know that each and every bit of
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what I went through had part to do with
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it
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because I just don't have an explanation
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for why I was able to get a second
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chance at life
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it must be pointed out that thousands of
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people none of whom have ever heard a
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major gorya kick drug habits each year
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yet Jill Jenson is convinced that her
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pilgrimage was pivotal to her recovery
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Rita Klaus suffering from an incurable
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disease also believes that the version
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of magic or Ian etter ceded to heal her
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even though Rita never left her own home
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Rita Klaus had always devoted herself to
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God at the age of 15 she had entered a
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convent in Omaha Nebraska five years
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later she was diagnosed with multiple
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sclerosis a degenerative incurable
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disease as her symptoms worsened
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Rita felt she had no choice but to
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withdraw from the order
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I was just heartbroken this was my life
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I had spent about 13 years of my 28
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years there I loved it dearly and I knew
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I wouldn't see it again
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Rita moved to Pennsylvania where she
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taught special education she soon met
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Ron Klaus an elementary school teacher
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three years later they were married
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Rita's MS symptoms had disappeared and
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she came to believe she had been
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misdiagnosed within five years Ron and
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Rita had three daughters after the birth
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of the youngest Heidi
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Rita began to experience symptoms of
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multiple sclerosis once again she tried
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to ignore them until one day the muscles
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in her right arm weakened uncontrollably
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thankfully Heidi was alright she had a
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bruise I think she had a bruise on her
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shoulder and one on her her back
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backside a little bit but other than
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that outside of being shaken up she was
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alright but I was not alright I was so
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shaken inside and so afraid just
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terribly afraid this time Rita's
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symptoms did not subside by the end of
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1984 her vision was chronically blurred
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her bladder did not function properly
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and she had lost virtually all feeling
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in her feet and lower legs Rita was
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restricted to a wheelchair and sometimes
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on good days crutches life was a
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challenge at this point it was
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impossible to get upstairs do the things
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that people take for granted and I was a
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strong independent person I didn't want
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to admit that I needed help I didn't
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want anyone helping me I wanted to be
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the one who helped
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it was hard to see her going downhill
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slowly at first and then at times it
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seemed as though it was quicker and then
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there were times when it seemed to even
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off and some of the things that some of
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the functions of her body that she had
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lost would would come back again and it
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was always false hope because within
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time that was gone again in 1986 Rita
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heard about magic aura and began to
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study the phenomenon
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Rita started praying to the Virgin Mary
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and fasted two days every week as a
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young visionary said they had been told
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to do often I would look at the books
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about magic Ori and I would think I
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would love to be there and then I would
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look at myself and say but physically
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there's no way I could go financially
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there's no way I could go and so I
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didn't go Rita's prayers were always on
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behalf of others then one night she
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claims she heard a voice
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why don't he
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dear Mary my mother Queen of Peace my
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Noah's appearing to the children at
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magic Oriya please ask your son to heal
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me in any way I need to be healed as
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soon as I finished the prayer and I felt
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this feeling through my body like
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electricity but it was especially
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intense on the right side of my body
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where I had deformities in the right leg
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and I dropped ankles and so on and I
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thought this isn't happening to me and I
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fell asleep
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the next morning Rita had no memory of
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the voice or the prayer at the time she
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was taking a class at the local college
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and Ron helped her into her specially
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rigged automobile as he always did
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midway through the class I felt this
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rush of heat through my body and by the
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end of class I could feel I could feel
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there were wrinkles inside my shoes I
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could move my toes I had not be able to
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move my toes for years I was dumbfounded
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I remembered nothing from the night
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before but I knew something it was
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happening I could feel that my legs were
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seem to be strong I couldn't lift them
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by myself I got myself out of the car
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with no problem Rita rushed home to tell
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her family she had not walked on her own
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without help for more than four years as
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I stood there looking at the steps I had
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a flashback and in that flashback I
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heard the voice from the night before
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the prayer that was given me to say and
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I knew I was completely healed
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I ran all the way up the steps I
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remember I was screaming at the top of
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the steps on you and then I ran down the
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steps of the front door I was screaming
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at the sky oh thank you God oh thank you
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Blessed Mother you're really thinking
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that you're not seeing what you're
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actually seeing you want to be happy but
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you're almost afraid to be happy because
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every doctor that you've ever seen has
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said it's it would never happen see how
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that six months went by
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Rita symptoms did not return after
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fifteen agonizingly and she was at last
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able to function normally Rita and Ron
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believed that she was healed by a
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miracle of faith for this to clear
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instantly dr. Richard kastorf is an
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expert in so-called spontaneous healing
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realm of medical practice this certainly
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could be called a miraculous event if
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you want to use that term because we
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just don't see 20 years of disability
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clear instantly
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it has now been six years as Rita threw
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away her crutches she has never felt
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another symptom of multiple sclerosis
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is Rita Klaus is cure a miracle that can
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be ascribed with a virgin at magic gorya
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the Catholic Church is publicly
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skeptical but continues to investigate
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on the other hand Webster's dictionary
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defines a miracle not only in standard
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religious terms but also simply as a
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wonderful thing by this definition Jill
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Jensen drug free and Rita Klaus ice
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skating our miracles even non-believers
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can celebrate Bullhead City Arizona is a
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small quiet community nestled along the
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banks of the Colorado River sue Johnson
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moved there from California in 1973 she
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and her husband felt it was an ideal
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place to raise their children
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eight-year-old angel and seven-year-old
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Scott Scott was a natural born fisherman
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he loved to fish and go out in the
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desert catch lizards catch a snake
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whatever he was just he was a desert rat
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and he just fell in love it
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50 yards Lou Johnson's new home stood in
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abandoned Shack a powder magazine once
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used by copper miners to store supplies
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Scott and his friends soon adopted the
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rundown shed as their headquarters oh
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they just played there and play cops and
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robbers and Indians and cowboys and
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whatever else for the boys too
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I never felt any apprehension towards
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that building at all and it was within
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sight of the house it wasn't anything to
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worry about it was a typical thing that
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children would pick to use for a fort or
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a clubhouse a 3:45 p.m. on April 3rd
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1974 the Bullhead City Volunteer Fire
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Department responded to a call The Shack
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was on fire
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18 years later former fire chief Larry
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Adams vividly remembers the details what
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I could see through the smoke and the
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stain is what appeared to be upholstery
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on the floor when I got the pike pole I
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stooped down to look under the smoke to
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hook this material and drag it out to
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extinguish it inside the shack lay the
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badly burned bodies of Scott Johnson and
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one of his friends seven weeks later the
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official coroner's report was released
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it stated the Scott Johnson and his
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friend had died accidentally
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investigators concluded that the boys
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had probably been playing with matches
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and gasoline I was shocked I was very
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shocked my child was certainly smarter
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than to just lay in the back of a
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building and wait to be asphyxiated by
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smoke or burned by fire it's kind of an
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obvious thing I always know it was a
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murder
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always
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sue Johnson was not alone in her
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opinions from the onset Larry Adams also
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believed the Scott and his friend were
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victims of foul play in particular he
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noticed that the door of the shack had
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not been locked or obstructed in any way
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all anybody had to do to escape that
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building was push on the door in this
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case in building six by six in that
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panic situation they would hit that door
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and escape the building have they been
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able to a few feet from the door Adams
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found a two by twelve inch wooden plank
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curiously the board had a circle burned
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into one side it indicated to me that
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somebody had prevented their escape
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through that door they may have
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initially tried to hold the door
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but it's mental it got hot they can't
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hold the door any longer they need
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something to insulate them from the heat
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he picked up the tuba twelve one on each
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end or more and held the tuba 12 against
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the door would with one person on each
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end of it
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despite Larry Adams findings the police
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closed the criminal investigation as a
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week's went by sue Johnson was haunted
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by the burned-out shack where her son
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died where she believed her son had been
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murdered for four long years she
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struggled in vain to have the case
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reopened then in 1978 a convicted felon
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came forward with shocking new
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information Dale Gordon Meter was
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incarcerated at a County Jail in New
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Mexico at the time of the fire he lived
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in Bullhead City time you talked to a
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prisoner who wants to give you
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information you know he's trying to cut
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himself a deal the man just did not seem
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like he was you know really telling us
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all the truth there was you know there's
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knowledge there you saw two men holding
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these two young kids
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pushing them in the magazine one of the
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kids look like he was heavily drugged
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and the other one was fighting well then
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he saw one of the men was a gas can
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[Music]
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[Music]
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what do you want they said that it's
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straight the kids gonna tell on him for
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smoking pot then I saw flames and smoke
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coming out at magazine I said hey man I
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just want to know what's going out one
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of them told him and Street terms to get
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lost and we just burned up two kids
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meter told investigators that he
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encountered one of the men while serving
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time out of prison and Nevada's two
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years after the fire
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sheriff's deputies questioned the man
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meter identified as the killer of Scott
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Johnson and his friend but no charges
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rubber finally something it was just an
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opening closed case and that's not
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really what happened
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Tina Remo kaitlin's reported the fire
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and the day Scott Johnson in his friend
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I wish that I could do any more
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convinced that boys were murdered I
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can't
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at the time Tina and John were Tina is
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their eyewitness account seemed a
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corroboree Dale meters chilling version
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of events there was two men one was
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standing on the side of the hill facing
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the door of the shack and the other one
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well he didn't like this the idea that
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we were there and he took off and went
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running the other man was standing there
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and he looked over at John and I he just
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stayed there that was what was so eerie
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he just stared at us like well what are
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you gonna do you know on that's when I
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said you know the Tina says I think we
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should go call the fire department on
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this you know as I think him guys said
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this place all fire you know that's why
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we left
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John and Tina told investigators about
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the two men they had seen
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however they believed their statements
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were ignored due to their own previous
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scrapes with the law didn't seem like
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too took you seriously at all
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you know it seemed like they didn't
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believe my story and you know from my
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past reputation you know they seemed to
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me like to just disregarded it and I
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never heard nothing no more about it
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with a passage of time the tragedy
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slowly faded from public memory a number
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of the original investigators retired or
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moved away but Sue Johnson continued a
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relentless quest for the truth you
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wonder was there someone who wanted this
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just tucked away quickly and for good or
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was it just sloppy investigation or just
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circumstances I honestly feel that it
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was a combination of a lot of things
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I've talked with Sue on the phone and in
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person many times in 19 an newly
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appointed chief of detectives he
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understands how I feel did the case real
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that I had torture Nana I understand how
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she feels and I've I told her in the
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beginning when I started out that there
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may not be an answer to this but we're
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gonna keep looking
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were Scott Johnson and his friends
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savagely murdered if so why would
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someone kill two young boys who were not
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yet ten years old the answers to these
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haunting questions may lie in a
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surprising discovery Scott made near the
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shack three weeks before he died
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I think that's possible if it could have
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been someone that used that area
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possibly for a drug transaction or
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something and maybe the people that they
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saw doing this thought that the kids
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would run a block away to the sheriff's
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substation and report them and therefore
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they felt like they had to do something
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to stop it if we could establish a
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motive the reason that these boys were
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killed certainly would help the case but
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the motive is strictly a matter of
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speculation on anybody's part as far as
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far as I know it's very hard to live
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every day of your life and wonder why
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your son was murdered and why no one's
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ever done anything about it in all these
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many years I hope that whoever did it
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gets to pay for what they did some day I
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don't care how long it takes
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I've been patient this long I can wait
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longer that's what it takes even in her
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victory to have the investigation
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reopened sue Johnson has met with defeat
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many of the case files and much of the
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physical evidence has been misplaced a
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long since discarded detectives have
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little to go on say the faint hope that
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a new eyewitness will come forward next
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a young woman is apparently abducted and
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her family fears for her life
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Clinton Missouri population 9000 is an
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idyllic farming community in the heart
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of small-town America the type of place
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where everyone knows each other and
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feels insulated from big-city crime but
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today a cloud of uncertainty hovers over
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Clinton a popular young woman has been
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abducted and quite possibly murdered
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Angela Hammond was an active outgoing 20
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year old known to everyone as Angie her
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family had lived in Clinton for three
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generations
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her fiance Rob Schaeffer was a star
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athlete in high school who looked
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forward to a career in the military in
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January of 1991 Rob gave Angie a diamond
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ring and promised that he would always
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take care of her
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I'm gonna go see April 4th 1991 at
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around 10 p.m.
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hanji dropped Rob off at his house after
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a barbeque she promised that she would
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phone him a few hours later that was
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about 10 o'clock I was gonna meet her
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back uptown as soon as my mom got home I
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was watching my little brother at the
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time and she called later on that night
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hello hi at 11:15 Angie called Rob from
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a payphone in the center of town
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approximately seven blocks from his
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house are we talking on the phone she
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mentioned to me about a truck circling
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around the block an older model green
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no he's probably not from around here
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maybe he's just lost
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anyway these devices Angie remain done
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concerned until the truck parked next to
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the phone booth grab he's pulling up
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next to phones
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what's the driver he's kind of dirty
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lucky he's got mustache beard and
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glasses and he's wearing overalls he's
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coming to the polls
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the truck is a late model green pickup
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truck with one of those decals that
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cover the whole back window it looks
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like a leg seen with a fish jumping
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what's he doing now Angie he used the
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phone next to her got back in his truck
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and looked at something with a
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flashlight she described the flashlight
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to me when he was looking for something
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like I had her turn around and ask him
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if he needed his phone maybe the other
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phone was broke and he said no you're
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just gonna try again in a minute no
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maybe I should come down there oh no I'm
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sure it's okay you just talk about other
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things we weren't you were that and
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that's what I heard her scream I thought
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I heard scream the only thing went to
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outline is getting up there and find out
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what the hell
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I ran out of the house just drop the
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phone on your hand coming back up
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you just headed up there I saw a pickup
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truck going past me and then you
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somebody yelled out the window Robbie
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that's how I knew it was this
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[Music]
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Rob pursued the pickup straight through
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the downtown business district he had no
00:34:28
idea that when he threw his car into
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reverse it severely damaged the
00:34:32
transmission when the pickup made a
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sharp right turn Rob's car finally gave
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on
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I chased him about two miles the
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transmission failed hit uh it started
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dying as I was making my turn to the
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right this guy turned off the ride hold
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us all was his brake lights and us
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robbed blaming himself for it because he
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he always told her he'd be there to take
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care of her and he tried he did
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everything that could be done you know
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nobody blames him but I think he thinks
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that people blame him the beginning is
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the hardest because you know you were
00:35:28
close enough to get him but she just
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didn't get the job done
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and you still wake up at nice Warner and
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where she's at wondering what happened
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wondering if anybody's still looking
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[Applause]
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you just wonder all the time
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[Music]
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elusive Angie's disappear sent
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shockwaves through Clinton the police
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and hundreds of citizens lost an
00:36:02
extensive air and land search but there
00:36:05
was no sign of Angela Hammond her
00:36:07
abductor or the pickup truck we had some
00:36:11
assistance from the Missouri State
00:36:12
Highway Patrol that did a computer
00:36:15
search on all registered vehicles with
00:36:17
Macon in the approximate year so they're
00:36:20
helping we had like 16 possibilities
00:36:23
that we had look after checking wherever
00:36:28
these trucks are out on as far as color
00:36:30
and if they had any mural in the back
00:36:34
window I would know success
00:36:36
the police based their investigation on
00:36:39
Rob Schafer's testimony but when no
00:36:41
witnesses could be found to corroborate
00:36:43
his statement Rob became a suspect
00:36:46
himself I think you know it was natural
00:36:49
that people wondered you know did the
00:36:51
boyfriend to it
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type thing but my feeling I've known the
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kid all his life and I never doubted for
00:36:59
a minute that he had anything to do with
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it within a week Rob Shafer was cleared
00:37:06
of any involvement in Angie's
00:37:07
disappearance two days later the police
00:37:10
connected the abduction and Clinton to
00:37:12
two other unsolved cases within a
00:37:14
100-mile radius the first occurred here
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max Creek Missouri on January 19th 1991
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but there's a man that's been hanging
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around outside for a while now and I'm
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really starting to get 42 year old Trudi
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Darby was working alone in a convenience
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store around 10:00 p.m. she called her
00:37:33
son to report a suspicious man lurking
00:37:36
outside less than 10 minutes later
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Trudy's son arrived at the store and
00:37:41
found it completely deserted two days
00:37:45
later the body of Trudi Darby was found
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on a riverbank ten miles from the store
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she had been shot twice in the head
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then on February 28th 30 year-old Cheryl
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and Kenny was reported missing in Nevada
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Missouri 70 miles from Max Creek she
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vanished shortly after closing up the
00:38:07
convenience store where she worked that
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night
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Cheryl's car was found in the store
00:38:12
parking lot she has not been seen since
00:38:14
less than one month later Angela Hammond
00:38:18
would be abducted
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if Angela's found it might provide that
00:38:26
link they are related when to for
00:38:28
example Trudy Darby or if Cheryl's found
00:38:32
it may be a connection to Trudi Darby
00:38:36
how she was murdered
00:38:38
authorities now fear that a serial
00:38:40
killer may be on the loose in West
00:38:42
Central Missouri even though they hold
00:38:45
out little hope that either Sheryl and
00:38:47
Kenny or Angela Hammond are still alive
00:38:49
there have been unconfirmed sightings of
00:38:52
Angela in several states and most
00:38:54
recently Canada
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if anybody out there sees anything you
00:39:05
know if they could put their selves in
00:39:08
our place and know how we feel you know
00:39:12
how heart-wrenching it is that she was
00:39:14
taken even if the guy that took her sees
00:39:18
this if he would just call and let him
00:39:20
know what he did with her there's one
00:39:23
final chilling detail the abduction of
00:39:25
Angela Hammond after she screamed into
00:39:28
the phone Rob Shafer heard another
00:39:30
person speak most likely her abductor
00:39:33
all he said was I didn't need to use the
00:39:36
phone anyway before she disappeared
00:39:39
Angie described the suspect as a filthy
00:39:41
bearded man who wore glasses and was
00:39:44
dressed in overalls
00:39:49
the suspect was driving a late 1960s
00:39:51
early 1970s two-tone green Ford pickup
00:39:55
truck the back window was completely
00:39:57
covered by an opaque decal of a fish
00:39:59
jumping out of water which may look like
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this
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when we return a bank fraud investigator
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disappears in the Arizona desert may 5th
00:40:31
1997 a.m. in the middle of the desert
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Arizona desert 100 miles southeast of
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Phoenix a crime is committed far from
00:40:40
the eyes of potential witnesses
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[Music]
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less than half an hour later a deputy
00:41:12
sheriff finds the burning car
00:41:14
authorities believe the arsonist was
00:41:16
covering up a bigger crime murder the
00:41:20
car was burned to the ground and the
00:41:22
fact is that had there been any evidence
00:41:25
in the car such as blood we weren't able
00:41:27
to tell because of the burning the car's
00:41:32
owner was 56 year old Lee young a bank
00:41:35
fraud investigator from Scottsdale
00:41:37
Arizona he was nowhere to be found when
00:41:42
they gave me the information the car was
00:41:44
burned and Lee wasn't there then my
00:41:48
wildest fears just became a reality that
00:41:52
because you live with that every day
00:41:54
that something could happen but you just
00:41:57
don't really believe it ever will police
00:42:00
feared the worst that Lee Young had been
00:42:03
murdered
00:42:03
the most obvious motive robbery young
00:42:07
always wore a distinctive $25,000 Rolex
00:42:10
watch and carried large amounts of cash
00:42:12
so we could buy jewelry which he sold in
00:42:14
his spare time when police searched the
00:42:18
car they were surprised to find
00:42:20
thousands of dollars worth of jewelry
00:42:22
still in the truck Young's family
00:42:24
suspected a scenario far more sinister
00:42:27
than the simple robbery
00:42:29
the only thing missing out of the trunk
00:42:31
of the car that I am aware of is the
00:42:34
briefcase that carried his files so that
00:42:38
makes me believe that it wasn't robbery
00:42:40
motive it was job related case related
00:42:45
of some sort
00:42:48
several months before he disappeared the
00:42:51
young and contacted federal agents who
00:42:53
dealt with drug smuggling young
00:42:55
suspected that his bank was being used
00:42:57
by a money-laundering ring during the
00:43:00
week before he disappeared
00:43:01
young tried to reach the ages a number
00:43:03
of times without success from South
00:43:05
America through New York was involved in
00:43:08
one particular case investigating a
00:43:11
major drug cartel in Colombia and he had
00:43:16
been involved in this investigation
00:43:17
within six months prior to his
00:43:20
disappearance and the case was still
00:43:22
ongoing as a matter of fact at the time
00:43:24
of his disappearance
00:43:27
on May 4th 1990 Leon left a restaurant
00:43:31
in Scottsdale around 12:30 p.m. he was
00:43:34
never seen again
00:43:38
that afternoon a single call came in
00:43:41
over his car phone and three calls went
00:43:43
out one to a phone booth and the others
00:43:45
to a woman who denied ever having talked
00:43:48
to Lee Young on the telephone I don't
00:43:51
know for a fact that Lee made these
00:43:53
calls in fact it's possible that Lee was
00:43:57
taken down prior to 2 o'clock Friday
00:44:00
afternoon and that the three calls made
00:44:02
after 2 o'clock were made by somebody
00:44:06
else
00:44:08
Lee Young's family believes that he was
00:44:11
kidnapped by someone who wanted to
00:44:12
destroy his bank fraud investigation
00:44:14
records they think that person not Lee
00:44:17
Jung made the phone calls everything
00:44:28
points to the fact that least not alive
00:44:30
my heart still says he's out there
00:44:33
somewhere but logic tells me he's not
00:44:40
what happened to Lee Jung was he killed
00:44:43
in a robbery attempt or did he
00:44:45
inadvertently become the victim of one
00:44:47
of his own bank fraud investigations
00:44:50
Connie Jung clings to the slim hope that
00:44:53
someone saw her husband's plum colored
00:44:55
1985 Lincoln Towncar
00:44:57
between the time he left the restaurant
00:44:59
on May 4th 1990 and the time the car was
00:45:02
found in flames and next day she also
00:45:05
hopes someone might had information
00:45:07
about his copper faced Rolex watch which
00:45:10
has diamonds and circling the face and
00:45:12
studying the band
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on our next unsolved mysteries for years
00:45:31
legendary tales have circulated about
00:45:33
the abominable snowman a frightening
00:45:36
human-like creature said to roam the
00:45:38
high plateaus of the Himalayas but for
00:45:41
the natives of this isolated land the
00:45:43
Snowman is all too real
00:45:45
a half-man half-ape known as Yeti is he
00:45:48
a mythological monster or a distant
00:45:51
relative of man join us next time for
00:45:56
another edition of unsolved mysteries
00:45:59
[Music]
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