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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode

May 22, 2019 / 46:53

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers miraculous healings at Medjugorje, the tragic deaths of two boys in Bullhead City, and the abduction of Angela Hammond.

Jill Jensen and Rita Klaus share their experiences of healing after visiting Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. Jill, a former cocaine addict, describes her miraculous recovery from addiction after a pilgrimage, while Rita believes she was cured of multiple sclerosis through prayer.

The episode also recounts the tragic story of Scott Johnson and his friend, who died in a fire at an abandoned shack in Bullhead City, Arizona. Despite the official ruling of accidental death, their mothers suspect foul play and seek justice.

Angela Hammond's abduction in Clinton, Missouri, is detailed, highlighting her last phone call to her fiancé Rob Schaefer, during which she described a suspicious truck and a man who later abducted her. The investigation reveals connections to other unsolved cases in the area.

Finally, the mysterious disappearance of bank fraud investigator Lee Young in Arizona raises questions about his involvement in a money-laundering investigation and the circumstances surrounding his last known whereabouts.

TL;DR

Miraculous healings, tragic deaths, and an abduction case highlight this episode's mysteries.

Episode

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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast 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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[Music]
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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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[Applause]
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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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[Music]
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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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[Music]
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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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[Music]
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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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[Music]
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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
00:23:56
himself a deal the man just did not seem
00:23:59
like he was you know really telling us
00:24:01
all the truth there was you know there's
00:24:04
knowledge there you saw two men holding
00:24:17
these two young kids
00:24:19
pushing them in the magazine one of the
00:24:31
kids look like he was heavily drugged
00:24:32
and the other one was fighting well then
00:24:38
he saw one of the men was a gas can
00:24:42
[Music]
00:24:55
[Music]
00:25:06
what do you want they said that it's
00:25:09
straight the kids gonna tell on him for
00:25:11
smoking pot then I saw flames and smoke
00:25:14
coming out at magazine I said hey man I
00:25:17
just want to know what's going out one
00:25:22
of them told him and Street terms to get
00:25:26
lost and we just burned up two kids
00:25:30
[Music]
00:25:36
meter told investigators that he
00:25:38
encountered one of the men while serving
00:25:40
time out of prison and Nevada's two
00:25:42
years after the fire
00:25:44
sheriff's deputies questioned the man
00:25:46
meter identified as the killer of Scott
00:25:48
Johnson and his friend but no charges
00:25:51
rubber finally something it was just an
00:25:54
opening closed case and that's not
00:25:56
really what happened
00:25:57
Tina Remo kaitlin's reported the fire
00:26:01
and the day Scott Johnson in his friend
00:26:03
I wish that I could do any more
00:26:04
convinced that boys were murdered I
00:26:07
can't
00:26:08
[Music]
00:26:10
at the time Tina and John were Tina is
00:26:13
their eyewitness account seemed a
00:26:16
corroboree Dale meters chilling version
00:26:18
of events there was two men one was
00:26:26
standing on the side of the hill facing
00:26:28
the door of the shack and the other one
00:26:32
well he didn't like this the idea that
00:26:34
we were there and he took off and went
00:26:37
running the other man was standing there
00:26:41
and he looked over at John and I he just
00:26:46
stayed there that was what was so eerie
00:26:48
he just stared at us like well what are
00:26:51
you gonna do you know on that's when I
00:26:53
said you know the Tina says I think we
00:26:55
should go call the fire department on
00:26:57
this you know as I think him guys said
00:26:59
this place all fire you know that's why
00:27:02
we left
00:27:05
John and Tina told investigators about
00:27:08
the two men they had seen
00:27:10
however they believed their statements
00:27:12
were ignored due to their own previous
00:27:14
scrapes with the law didn't seem like
00:27:18
too took you seriously at all
00:27:19
you know it seemed like they didn't
00:27:22
believe my story and you know from my
00:27:24
past reputation you know they seemed to
00:27:28
me like to just disregarded it and I
00:27:31
never heard nothing no more about it
00:27:34
with a passage of time the tragedy
00:27:37
slowly faded from public memory a number
00:27:40
of the original investigators retired or
00:27:43
moved away but Sue Johnson continued a
00:27:46
relentless quest for the truth you
00:27:49
wonder was there someone who wanted this
00:27:51
just tucked away quickly and for good or
00:27:56
was it just sloppy investigation or just
00:28:00
circumstances I honestly feel that it
00:28:03
was a combination of a lot of things
00:28:05
I've talked with Sue on the phone and in
00:28:08
person many times in 19 an newly
00:28:11
appointed chief of detectives he
00:28:13
understands how I feel did the case real
00:28:15
that I had torture Nana I understand how
00:28:18
she feels and I've I told her in the
00:28:21
beginning when I started out that there
00:28:23
may not be an answer to this but we're
00:28:25
gonna keep looking
00:28:30
were Scott Johnson and his friends
00:28:33
savagely murdered if so why would
00:28:36
someone kill two young boys who were not
00:28:38
yet ten years old the answers to these
00:28:43
haunting questions may lie in a
00:28:45
surprising discovery Scott made near the
00:28:47
shack three weeks before he died
00:28:54
[Music]
00:29:00
I think that's possible if it could have
00:29:02
been someone that used that area
00:29:06
possibly for a drug transaction or
00:29:08
something and maybe the people that they
00:29:11
saw doing this thought that the kids
00:29:14
would run a block away to the sheriff's
00:29:16
substation and report them and therefore
00:29:19
they felt like they had to do something
00:29:20
to stop it if we could establish a
00:29:24
motive the reason that these boys were
00:29:25
killed certainly would help the case but
00:29:28
the motive is strictly a matter of
00:29:30
speculation on anybody's part as far as
00:29:32
far as I know it's very hard to live
00:29:36
every day of your life and wonder why
00:29:39
your son was murdered and why no one's
00:29:41
ever done anything about it in all these
00:29:44
many years I hope that whoever did it
00:29:50
gets to pay for what they did some day I
00:29:53
don't care how long it takes
00:29:55
I've been patient this long I can wait
00:29:58
longer that's what it takes even in her
00:30:03
victory to have the investigation
00:30:04
reopened sue Johnson has met with defeat
00:30:07
many of the case files and much of the
00:30:10
physical evidence has been misplaced a
00:30:12
long since discarded detectives have
00:30:14
little to go on say the faint hope that
00:30:16
a new eyewitness will come forward next
00:30:21
a young woman is apparently abducted and
00:30:23
her family fears for her life
00:30:25
[Music]
00:30:37
Clinton Missouri population 9000 is an
00:30:40
idyllic farming community in the heart
00:30:42
of small-town America the type of place
00:30:45
where everyone knows each other and
00:30:46
feels insulated from big-city crime but
00:30:50
today a cloud of uncertainty hovers over
00:30:52
Clinton a popular young woman has been
00:30:55
abducted and quite possibly murdered
00:30:59
Angela Hammond was an active outgoing 20
00:31:02
year old known to everyone as Angie her
00:31:05
family had lived in Clinton for three
00:31:07
generations
00:31:08
her fiance Rob Schaeffer was a star
00:31:11
athlete in high school who looked
00:31:12
forward to a career in the military in
00:31:15
January of 1991 Rob gave Angie a diamond
00:31:19
ring and promised that he would always
00:31:21
take care of her
00:31:28
I'm gonna go see April 4th 1991 at
00:31:34
around 10 p.m.
00:31:35
hanji dropped Rob off at his house after
00:31:37
a barbeque she promised that she would
00:31:39
phone him a few hours later that was
00:31:43
about 10 o'clock I was gonna meet her
00:31:46
back uptown as soon as my mom got home I
00:31:48
was watching my little brother at the
00:31:49
time and she called later on that night
00:31:58
hello hi at 11:15 Angie called Rob from
00:32:04
a payphone in the center of town
00:32:06
approximately seven blocks from his
00:32:08
house are we talking on the phone she
00:32:11
mentioned to me about a truck circling
00:32:13
around the block an older model green
00:32:20
no he's probably not from around here
00:32:22
maybe he's just lost
00:32:25
anyway these devices Angie remain done
00:32:28
concerned until the truck parked next to
00:32:31
the phone booth grab he's pulling up
00:32:35
next to phones
00:32:36
what's the driver he's kind of dirty
00:32:40
lucky he's got mustache beard and
00:32:43
glasses and he's wearing overalls he's
00:32:45
coming to the polls
00:32:46
the truck is a late model green pickup
00:32:50
truck with one of those decals that
00:32:53
cover the whole back window it looks
00:32:55
like a leg seen with a fish jumping
00:32:58
what's he doing now Angie he used the
00:33:02
phone next to her got back in his truck
00:33:05
and looked at something with a
00:33:06
flashlight she described the flashlight
00:33:08
to me when he was looking for something
00:33:09
like I had her turn around and ask him
00:33:11
if he needed his phone maybe the other
00:33:13
phone was broke and he said no you're
00:33:15
just gonna try again in a minute no
00:33:17
maybe I should come down there oh no I'm
00:33:21
sure it's okay you just talk about other
00:33:25
things we weren't you were that and
00:33:29
that's what I heard her scream I thought
00:33:30
I heard scream the only thing went to
00:33:38
outline is getting up there and find out
00:33:39
what the hell
00:33:40
[Music]
00:33:42
I ran out of the house just drop the
00:33:45
phone on your hand coming back up
00:33:48
you just headed up there I saw a pickup
00:33:55
truck going past me and then you
00:33:57
somebody yelled out the window Robbie
00:33:59
that's how I knew it was this
00:34:02
[Applause]
00:34:12
[Music]
00:34:23
Rob pursued the pickup straight through
00:34:26
the downtown business district he had no
00:34:28
idea that when he threw his car into
00:34:30
reverse it severely damaged the
00:34:32
transmission when the pickup made a
00:34:37
sharp right turn Rob's car finally gave
00:34:39
on
00:34:45
I chased him about two miles the
00:34:51
transmission failed hit uh it started
00:34:53
dying as I was making my turn to the
00:34:55
right this guy turned off the ride hold
00:34:58
us all was his brake lights and us
00:35:00
[Music]
00:35:10
robbed blaming himself for it because he
00:35:13
he always told her he'd be there to take
00:35:14
care of her and he tried he did
00:35:17
everything that could be done you know
00:35:18
nobody blames him but I think he thinks
00:35:21
that people blame him the beginning is
00:35:24
the hardest because you know you were
00:35:28
close enough to get him but she just
00:35:31
didn't get the job done
00:35:34
and you still wake up at nice Warner and
00:35:36
where she's at wondering what happened
00:35:39
wondering if anybody's still looking
00:35:42
[Applause]
00:35:50
you just wonder all the time
00:35:53
[Music]
00:35:56
elusive Angie's disappear sent
00:35:58
shockwaves through Clinton the police
00:36:00
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
00:36:52
type thing but my feeling I've known the
00:36:55
kid all his life and I never doubted for
00:36:59
a minute that he had anything to do with
00:37:01
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
00:37:17
max Creek Missouri on January 19th 1991
00:37:21
but there's a man that's been hanging
00:37:23
around outside for a while now and I'm
00:37:25
really starting to get 42 year old Trudi
00:37:28
Darby was working alone in a convenience
00:37:30
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
00:37:39
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
00:37:47
on a riverbank ten miles from the store
00:37:50
she had been shot twice in the head
00:37:53
then on February 28th 30 year-old Cheryl
00:37:57
and Kenny was reported missing in Nevada
00:37:59
Missouri 70 miles from Max Creek she
00:38:05
vanished shortly after closing up the
00:38:07
convenience store where she worked that
00:38:09
night
00:38:10
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
00:38:21
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
00:38:59
[Music]
00:39:03
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
00:40:02
this
00:40:02
[Music]
00:40:14
when we return a bank fraud investigator
00:40:17
disappears in the Arizona desert may 5th
00:40:31
1997 a.m. in the middle of the desert
00:40:34
Arizona desert 100 miles southeast of
00:40:37
Phoenix a crime is committed far from
00:40:40
the eyes of potential witnesses
00:40:42
[Music]
00:41:04
[Music]
00:41:10
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
00:45:14
[Music]
00:45:27
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]
00:46:41
you

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Episode Highlights

  • Jill Jensen's Transformation
    Jill Jensen, once addicted to cocaine, claims a pilgrimage to Medjugorje cured her. 'I felt freed.'
    “I felt this tremendous sense of well-being. It was unreal.”
    @ 09m 45s
    May 22, 2019
  • Rita Klaus's Miracle
    Rita Klaus, suffering from multiple sclerosis, believes she was healed after praying to the Virgin Mary. 'I knew I was completely healed.'
    “I knew I was completely healed.”
    @ 16m 24s
    May 22, 2019
  • The Tragic Fire in Bullhead City
    The mysterious deaths of two boys in a fire lead to suspicions of foul play. 'I always knew it was murder.'
    “I always knew it was murder.”
    @ 21m 34s
    May 22, 2019
  • The Disappearance of Angela Hammond
    Angela Hammond, a popular young woman, was abducted in Clinton, Missouri, leaving her family devastated. Her fiancé, Rob, recalls the chilling moments leading up to her disappearance.
    “I heard her scream...”
    @ 33m 38s
    May 22, 2019
  • The Mysterious Case of Lee Young
    Lee Young, a bank fraud investigator, vanished after a suspicious call and a burning car was found. His family fears he was kidnapped to silence his investigation.
    “Everything points to the fact that Lee's not alive.”
    @ 44m 30s
    May 22, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • For every mystery, there's someone somewhere who knows the truth.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • I felt this tremendous sense of well-being. It was unreal.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • Oh thank you God, oh thank you Blessed Mother!
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • I hope that whoever did it gets to pay for what they did someday.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • You just wonder all the time.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode
  • My heart still says he’s out there somewhere but logic tells me he’s not.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 16 - Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:03
  • Miraculous Healing00:38
  • Tragic Fire Incident20:11
  • Suspicion of Foul Play21:34
  • Relentless Quest27:46
  • Haunting Questions28:36
  • Abduction Shockwaves35:56
  • Hope and Despair44:30

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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 10 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 8, Episode 17 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 8, Episode 17 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 20 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 20 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 18 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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48:17
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 18 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 18 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 18 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 9, Episode 4 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 9, Episode 4 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 1 - Full Episode
May 23, 2019
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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 1 - Full Episode