00:00:00
[Music]
00:00:04
next on Unsolved
00:00:07
Mysteries authorities rule that a young
00:00:09
woman has drowned accidentally but
00:00:12
eyewitness accounts missing evidence and
00:00:15
a cryptic phone call suggests it was
00:00:19
murder a Gravely wounded Vietnam vet who
00:00:22
was close to dying searches for the Army
00:00:25
Nurse who gave him a reason to
00:00:28
live two hitchhikers unknowingly catch a
00:00:32
ride with a murder suspect but when they
00:00:34
try to report him nobody
00:00:38
listens and our viewers help capture a
00:00:41
Tennessee man accused of murdering two
00:00:44
teenage
00:00:47
girls some hot cases some cold cases and
00:00:51
some cases that will even shock you I'm
00:00:54
Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
00:00:57
Mysteries
00:01:12
[Music]
00:01:18
[Music]
00:01:28
he
00:01:34
fville North
00:01:37
Carolina the day after
00:01:39
Christmas after completing her shift at
00:01:42
the hospital Debbie Wolf left work
00:01:44
presumably heading
00:01:47
home the next morning Debbie should have
00:01:50
been at work uh she had to be at work at
00:01:52
8 Debbie did not go to work Debbie did
00:01:54
not answer her telephone uh it wasn't
00:01:57
like Debbie at all she never missed work
00:01:59
she would call in if she was even going
00:02:01
to be a few minutes
00:02:04
late Debbie's parents and a family
00:02:06
friend named Kevin Gorton hurried over
00:02:09
to her house an isolated cabin 4 miles
00:02:12
outside of fville wonder why Deb's car
00:02:15
is not Debbie's car was not parked where
00:02:17
she always parked it but look at the
00:02:20
seat that seat's pushed way back we
00:02:23
looked around and we saw beer cans
00:02:25
laying in the yard she never drank that
00:02:27
kind anyway dogs were running loose but
00:02:30
they had not been
00:02:32
fed it's been a while since
00:02:35
Debbie there were small things that were
00:02:37
out of place that Debbie would not have
00:02:39
put where they were
00:02:41
placed there was a uniform laying on the
00:02:43
floor in the kitchen uh things thrown in
00:02:47
in the kitchen on the floor like maybe
00:02:48
she took them off Debbie's purse was not
00:02:51
in its usual place Kevin found it shoved
00:02:54
under the
00:02:56
bed first it is hey Dad miss you here at
00:02:59
work
00:03:00
there was also an odd message on
00:03:02
Debbie's answering machine recorded
00:03:04
earlier that
00:03:06
day you been out a lot of days you make
00:03:09
me worry when you miss another
00:03:11
one just want to what concerned me about
00:03:13
his message was that he said that she
00:03:16
had missed a lot of days at work and she
00:03:19
hadn't in fact she had only missed a few
00:03:21
hours at work at the time that he put
00:03:23
the message on the answering
00:03:27
machine the search continued out inside
00:03:30
the cabin and around a nearby Pond but
00:03:32
there was no sign of Debbie
00:03:35
Wolf Debbie's mother called the
00:03:37
Sheriff's Office and was told they would
00:03:39
investigate only after Debbie had been
00:03:41
missing for 3
00:03:44
days but 5 days would pass before
00:03:46
authorities began a fullscale
00:03:49
search they searched the cabin later
00:03:52
that afternoon they brought the blood
00:03:54
hounds out which they could find nothing
00:03:56
at all they then walked around the edge
00:03:59
of the pond I was there for that Friends
00:04:03
of the family had been there a couple of
00:04:04
days prior had done some searching on
00:04:06
their own they had already looked in the
00:04:09
pond there was no use for us to look in
00:04:10
the pond so I don't think we did a dive
00:04:13
of the pond or a complete search of the
00:04:15
pond on that day no we did not at that
00:04:17
time I asked him if it would be all
00:04:20
right then if I got my own divers to go
00:04:23
into the pond and he said
00:04:28
certainly Kevin Gordon and another
00:04:31
friend Gordon chis returned to the pond
00:04:34
both men were familiar with rescue
00:04:38
work childrenis dragged the pond looking
00:04:40
for evidence Kevin I found what looks
00:04:42
like a set of tracks he was in the water
00:04:45
approximately 2 minutes when he called
00:04:47
out to me and told me that he had found
00:04:49
what looked like a set of footprints and
00:04:50
a drag
00:04:52
Mark in fact Gordon childr says that he
00:04:55
found two sets of footprints pressed
00:04:57
into the thick mud along with drag
00:05:03
marks I went out and went under and
00:05:06
following the trail I was maybe 6 in
00:05:08
from the
00:05:10
bottom I hit something my mask
00:05:15
[Applause]
00:05:17
[Music]
00:05:23
[Applause]
00:05:24
flooded looks like a body down here are
00:05:27
you sure let me double check
00:05:31
so I went back down confirmed the hole
00:05:34
spent more time looking didn't touch or
00:05:37
disturb anything I couldn't see above
00:05:39
mid drift cuz it was inside of a looked
00:05:42
like a burn
00:05:44
barrel there's a rusty 55g oil drum type
00:05:48
thing with holes in police were called
00:05:51
to the scene the dead woman was
00:05:53
identified as Debbie
00:05:58
Wolf the corner concluded that Debbie
00:06:00
Wolf had drowned an autopsy revealed no
00:06:03
trace of drugs no alcohol in her system
00:06:07
no obvious signs of Foul Play but
00:06:10
evidence at the scene and a mysterious
00:06:12
phone call LED Debbie's family and
00:06:14
friends to believe that she was
00:06:25
murdered Kevin want you to come over
00:06:27
here and identify the body hey typical
00:06:30
cold water drowning will be eyes open
00:06:32
mouth open hands and arms in a very
00:06:35
clawed State you know just a fight for
00:06:37
life which was quite on contrary to the
00:06:40
way that the Debbie was the eyes were
00:06:43
closed the mouth was closed arms were in
00:06:45
a relaxed State just her whole body was
00:06:47
relaxed she looked like she was
00:06:51
asleep we theorized that um if it was an
00:06:55
accidental drowning she may have been
00:06:58
out around the pond possibly she was
00:07:00
playing with the dogs and fell
00:07:02
in as the investigation continued police
00:07:06
began to deny that Debbie's body had
00:07:08
been found inside of a
00:07:11
barrel I asked do they have the barrel
00:07:14
and they said no they decided to leave
00:07:16
it there they'll get it in the morning
00:07:19
the next day they went back to get the
00:07:21
barrel it seems that the barrel was gone
00:07:24
all of a sudden it didn't exist the same
00:07:27
Barrel that had been there the night
00:07:28
before
00:07:31
in my opinion and opinions of some of
00:07:33
the investigators um what appeared to be
00:07:36
a barrel to some of the
00:07:39
divers could have been the field jacket
00:07:42
which may have ballooned out as she was
00:07:45
laying at that angle at the bottom of
00:07:46
the
00:07:48
pond there was no doubt my mind 100%
00:07:52
positive that it was an old burn barrel
00:07:54
or something of that nature you know
00:07:56
metal rusted 55 gallon type drum
00:08:00
now that the body was
00:08:03
in there was an oil barrel it was
00:08:05
sitting by de's
00:08:07
cabin we used it for target practice
00:08:11
after I had called law enforcement that
00:08:13
we had located a body I went over to the
00:08:16
spot where the barrel
00:08:18
was the barrel was no longer
00:08:22
there a few months later Jenny
00:08:25
discovered another
00:08:27
inconsistency when I got a chance to
00:08:29
examine the clothes that were on
00:08:31
Debbie's body I realized that those were
00:08:34
not Debbie's clothes the bra was uh cup
00:08:37
size three sizes too large for her the
00:08:40
pants were very very much too long the
00:08:43
shoes Debbie were a lady's size seven
00:08:47
and these were a men's size
00:08:50
six the tennis shoes she had on were her
00:08:53
tennis shoes we have photographs of her
00:08:55
with those tennis shoes on prior to her
00:08:57
death that's as much as I want to
00:08:59
comment on
00:09:01
col Debbie's family remained convinced
00:09:04
that she had been
00:09:08
murdered among Debbie's responsibilities
00:09:10
at work was coordinating the hospital's
00:09:14
volunteers come on I want to go out with
00:09:16
you I don't want to go out with you I
00:09:17
told you one volunteer in particular
00:09:20
seemed to bother her quite a bit because
00:09:22
he had a history of psychiatric
00:09:23
illnesses you wait here wait here wait a
00:09:27
minute according to Debbie's mother one
00:09:30
volunteer had obtained Debbie's Home
00:09:32
phone number hello he was investigated
00:09:36
by the sheriff's department uh the night
00:09:39
that the body was brought to the surface
00:09:42
however he provided an alibi and refused
00:09:45
to take a
00:09:46
polygraph so he wasn't questioned any
00:09:49
longer he left several days after that
00:09:51
to go out of
00:09:53
[Music]
00:09:56
state he did there was another volunteer
00:09:59
at the hospital at the same time that
00:10:01
wanted to become romantically involved
00:10:03
with Debbie Debbie discussed this with
00:10:05
everyone including him and told him that
00:10:07
she would be his friend but nothing else
00:10:09
she was interested in someone else
00:10:10
totally away from the hospital you know
00:10:13
I've got a
00:10:14
boyfriend Jenny is convinced that this
00:10:17
was the man who called Debbie the day
00:10:19
after she disappeared expressing concern
00:10:22
that she had been missing from work for
00:10:24
days Days make me worry when you miss
00:10:27
another one there was nothing there that
00:10:29
we could uh uh use in any criminal
00:10:34
prosecution or there was nothing there
00:10:37
that to indicate to us that this was a
00:10:42
homicide what really happened to Debbie
00:10:44
Wolf her mother believes that she was
00:10:47
taken
00:10:48
hostage and then
00:10:50
murdered she believes that later someone
00:10:53
returned to the pond to remove the
00:10:55
barrel so that the death would seem
00:10:58
accidentally
00:11:00
and there are people out there who know
00:11:02
what happened to
00:11:04
Debbie and I'm hoping that they will
00:11:06
come forward and finally say
00:11:10
something she was loved by very very
00:11:14
many people and I think that she has a
00:11:19
right to be put to rest finally and I'd
00:11:23
like to do
00:11:26
that if you have any information about
00:11:29
the death of Debbie Wolf please log on
00:11:32
to our website at unsolved.com
00:11:37
coming up a Vietnam vet tries to find
00:11:41
the Army Nurse who healed him both
00:11:44
physically and
00:11:54
emotionally only one week after Jim
00:11:57
Bowski got married to his high school
00:11:58
sweet sweetheart he was shipped off to
00:12:03
Vietnam we landed and we're all
00:12:08
scared it's the unknown didn't know what
00:12:11
I was getting into had no
00:12:19
idea in 1968 Jim was seriously injured
00:12:23
by enemy
00:12:26
fire Jim Bowski had a experiences most
00:12:30
of us can hardly imagine Jim did his
00:12:33
best to forget them but he did preserve
00:12:36
one memory a nurse named Linda sharp who
00:12:40
gave him the will to
00:12:42
live Captain sharp was the only good
00:12:45
memory I
00:12:46
had she had something about
00:12:50
her that made you feel comfortable
00:12:54
warm want to
00:12:57
live and go back home
00:13:00
when you were
00:13:04
dying just two days before he was to be
00:13:07
reunited with his new bride in Hawaii
00:13:10
Jim platoon was attacked by a group of
00:13:13
North
00:13:16
Vietnamese they blew us to
00:13:19
Smither we didn't even have a
00:13:22
chance there were 60 of us somewhere
00:13:25
between 250 and 300
00:13:29
and it wiped out my whole company at the
00:13:32
time I was operating the radio for
00:13:34
lieutenant because we were two people
00:13:36
side by
00:13:38
side he was
00:13:43
[Applause]
00:13:52
dead and then the next thing I knew I
00:13:56
went flying through the air I landed 30
00:13:59
ft down the
00:14:00
hill I picked up my leg that was blown
00:14:03
off and I crawled back up the
00:14:08
hill coming through we got a patience
00:14:10
coming through I don't know he he's
00:14:13
coming in and out I don't
00:14:15
know looks bad my first conscious memory
00:14:19
was looking up and
00:14:22
seeing this blonde lady in
00:14:26
fatigues helping me you'll be fine
00:14:28
Soldier
00:14:30
you'll be fine Captain Linda
00:14:34
sharp I just woke up and M my eyes and
00:14:37
she was looking over me we need a doctor
00:14:39
back over here I heard people talking
00:14:43
and he ain't going to make
00:14:45
it and all I saw was her looking down at
00:14:49
me Tak care
00:14:51
of she gave me the encouragement to live
00:14:59
because of extreme infection what was
00:15:02
left of Jim's leg was amputated at the
00:15:04
hip this was followed by frigid baths to
00:15:08
lower his body
00:15:10
temperature hi Jim how you
00:15:14
doing going for a little swim the lady
00:15:17
was phenomenal hey you know we need a
00:15:19
hurry up but every time I open my eyes
00:15:21
that lady's blue eyes would be looking
00:15:24
down at me looks like you're feeling
00:15:27
better hey I promise if you get your
00:15:29
down I can take you out and go get a
00:15:31
couple
00:15:33
beers sounds
00:15:35
good I promise that's what I'm going to
00:15:37
do if you weren't cold
00:15:40
before with her help Jim regained his
00:15:42
former spirit and his will to
00:15:46
live want to go dancing when we get back
00:15:49
home oh you know it I'm dancing night
00:15:53
away what are you doing you'll see be
00:15:56
quiet late one night just two days
00:15:59
before Jim was scheduled to leave
00:16:01
Captain sharp kept her
00:16:03
word do I keep my promises
00:16:06
wow stars were out beautiful night my
00:16:11
own and she brought two cans of beer
00:16:14
popped them both sat on the edge of the
00:16:17
bed and
00:16:19
smiled so you going to write your wife
00:16:21
about your leg I don't know
00:16:25
how you started with one word at a time
00:16:30
I just don't know what to say to her you
00:16:34
were not allowed to leave the mash unit
00:16:38
until you wrote a letter to your wife I
00:16:41
didn't have the courage to write it she
00:16:46
forced me to do
00:16:47
it and then I didn't know she had sent a
00:16:52
letter and a picture to my wife with it
00:16:56
telling my wife what to expect Dear Mrs
00:17:00
Bowski it truly is not possible for me a
00:17:03
poor letter writer to tell you how very
00:17:06
much Jim loves you there will be days
00:17:09
when Jim will be discouraged but don't
00:17:11
you or any of your families ever feel
00:17:13
sorry for him he needs understanding
00:17:16
love and help not pity a missing limb
00:17:19
doesn't make Jim less of a person and it
00:17:22
certainly doesn't lessen his love for
00:17:23
you take care Jim God bless you both
00:17:27
sincerely Captain Linda
00:17:31
[Music]
00:17:36
sharp I just think about
00:17:39
her I've thought about her since the day
00:17:42
I left Vietnam I don't think that I
00:17:45
would have came back to my wife without
00:17:47
Captain
00:17:49
[Music]
00:17:51
sharp she just gave me all the
00:17:56
encouragement and the strength
00:17:59
and the motivation to
00:18:02
Live Jim was awarded two purple hearts
00:18:04
for wounds sustained in combat and a
00:18:07
silver star for his bravery Under
00:18:10
Fire but Jim's War raged on
00:18:14
silently he didn't want people to know
00:18:17
he was a Vietnam
00:18:18
veteran he would just assume people
00:18:20
thought his leg was lost in a car
00:18:22
accident or something for 20 years Jim
00:18:25
suffered from post-traumatic stress
00:18:27
disorder but the memory of Captain Linda
00:18:30
Sharp's kindness helped him to
00:18:33
heal he's ready to look for her now
00:18:36
because now he's well enough mentally to
00:18:39
look for and I think if he could meet
00:18:41
her it might help him to
00:18:43
heal I would very much like to get in
00:18:46
touch with Captain Linda sharp if it's
00:18:48
at all possible and thank
00:18:52
her for what she did for me
00:19:00
and all the other
00:19:06
guys
00:19:08
update Linda sharp saw Jim's story on
00:19:11
Unsolved Mysteries and she immediately
00:19:14
called us two weeks later she and Jim
00:19:17
were
00:19:22
reunited Hi how are you are you come
00:19:27
here
00:19:30
I believe it you look so good you really
00:19:34
do when I opened the door I was elated
00:19:38
all I wanted to do is give her a great
00:19:39
big hug and just hug her and thank her
00:19:43
and kiss her on the cheek and
00:19:45
just uh just try to show my appreciation
00:19:48
I feel very blessed to be here and to
00:19:51
actually see him and talk with him
00:19:54
because sometimes nurses don't we don't
00:19:56
realize that we have an impact on
00:19:57
patients lives and uh I certainly didn't
00:20:00
realize the impact I had on his life at
00:20:02
all Jim Bowski remained in contact with
00:20:06
Linda sharp Caldwell until his death 9
00:20:10
years after the
00:20:13
[Music]
00:20:18
reunion coming up police hunt for a
00:20:21
coldblooded killer of a frail elderly
00:20:23
man
00:20:35
in wasburn Texas Bill Henderson says
00:20:38
goodbye to his wife granddaughter and
00:20:41
great granddaughter take care of you
00:20:42
until Saturday when I see you again okay
00:20:45
I'll be fine I love you they were
00:20:47
heading off to visit relatives several
00:20:49
hundred miles
00:20:51
away over the next 3 days Bill stayed in
00:20:54
touch and then a day went by with no
00:20:57
word from Bill
00:21:01
every time I called it was just a busy
00:21:03
signal so I didn't really know if the
00:21:05
phones were just off the hook or what
00:21:09
happened we afraid that maybe it may
00:21:12
have had a heart attack or some health
00:21:15
problem and was sick in the house and
00:21:16
couldn't get to the telephone or maybe
00:21:19
had been trying to call for help and dro
00:21:21
the telephone or something like that
00:21:23
that's what we was afraid of Bill's son
00:21:25
Gary and two other family members were
00:21:28
worried about Bill they immediately
00:21:31
drove to his house his truck's not out
00:21:32
front I don't know where he
00:21:36
is Dad when we arrived at my dad's house
00:21:40
the phone in the kitchen was off the
00:21:42
hook my brother-in-law Frank went over
00:21:45
and hung that phone
00:21:48
up I was walking down the hall saw my
00:21:51
dad's glasses broken glasses laying in
00:21:54
the
00:21:56
floor there was a picture laying in the
00:21:58
floor
00:22:00
floor and that's when I saw my father
00:22:04
laying in the floor and the room all
00:22:07
tore
00:22:09
up
00:22:12
Frank he was cold he'd been there for a
00:22:15
while and Frank told me that he didn't
00:22:17
think my dad died of a heart attack that
00:22:20
it looked like he was
00:22:22
murdered Bill Henderson had been
00:22:25
strangled and beaten to death with an
00:22:27
electric iron 8 to 10 hours before he
00:22:30
was
00:22:31
found this was a extremely violent
00:22:34
murder the man was beaten time and time
00:22:39
again and it was extremely obvious to us
00:22:44
also that uh Mr Henderson had put up a
00:22:47
fight for his
00:22:49
life Bill's Truck and wallet were
00:22:52
missing and yet police weren't convinced
00:22:54
that robbery could be the motivation for
00:22:56
such a brutal crime
00:23:01
5 days after the murder a man walking
00:23:03
along an interstate highway some 50 mil
00:23:06
from wasburn came across Henderson's
00:23:09
wallet and then more evidence turned
00:23:13
up the next day Bill Henderson's pickup
00:23:16
truck was discovered just outside of
00:23:18
Chicago more than a th000 miles from
00:23:21
wasburn Texas police found no clues in
00:23:24
the pickup but they did learn about two
00:23:26
important eyewitnesses who not only met
00:23:29
the killer but actually spent the day
00:23:32
riding with him in Henderson's
00:23:36
truck on the day of the murder 265 Mi
00:23:40
east of wasburn three young men arrived
00:23:43
at a truck
00:23:44
stop to the attendant it was soon
00:23:48
obvious that something was wrong excuse
00:23:51
me you going to do something that guy
00:23:53
stole a pickup truck what that guy they
00:23:56
uh started telling him that the truck
00:23:58
they were brand that the man had sto
00:24:00
truck out there the brown one you got to
00:24:02
do something so
00:24:04
Zu
00:24:05
8861
00:24:10
Texas it's not reported
00:24:12
stolen okay
00:24:15
thanks sorry guys I said it's not stolen
00:24:19
it's got to be stolen I said no the
00:24:22
problem we had was that uh when they ran
00:24:27
the uh license plate number on the truck
00:24:30
we had yet to find Mr Henderson's body
00:24:34
15 minutes later the driver of the
00:24:36
pickup truck left the hitch hackers
00:24:39
refused to go with
00:24:40
them after the suspect drove off they
00:24:44
were still so insistent on trying to get
00:24:46
this man picked up so scared of him that
00:24:49
they went and dial 911 themselves trying
00:24:53
to get someone to stop the suspect in
00:24:55
the truck yeah I'd like to report a
00:24:57
stolen vehicle again sheriff's deputies
00:24:59
said that no such vehicle had been
00:25:01
reported
00:25:03
missing according to the attendant the
00:25:05
two hitchhikers then headed towards the
00:25:07
highway they never gave authorities
00:25:09
their names or their
00:25:14
addresses the suspect continued North he
00:25:17
abandoned the pickup truck 24 hours
00:25:19
later in Hazel Crest Illinois just south
00:25:23
of Chicago I think it's extremely
00:25:26
important that we catch this man anybody
00:25:30
that will attack an elderly man that is
00:25:33
nerly defenseless because of natural
00:25:36
disease and
00:25:38
illnesses will attack and kill
00:25:40
[Music]
00:25:44
anybody it hurts to know what Bill had
00:25:47
to go through the pain and suffering he
00:25:49
had to go through out there
00:25:51
before he took his last breath and
00:25:55
uh I would just like to see this person
00:25:59
caught and tried
00:26:02
convicted and
00:26:04
sentenced I don't feel like my Dad
00:26:07
should have had
00:26:08
to see something like that leaning over
00:26:12
him you know as the last thing he ever
00:26:18
saw just one
00:26:22
fire who murdered Bill Henderson Police
00:26:26
had only one clue that could provide an
00:26:29
answer there was a palm print in blood
00:26:34
inside the room it was on a uh art type
00:26:37
tablet if we can find the person that
00:26:41
matches up to that Bloody palm print
00:26:44
then we have our murder
00:26:48
suspect
00:26:49
update as a result of our broadcast the
00:26:53
two hitchhikers came
00:26:55
forward under hypnosis they recall
00:26:58
details about the suspect including his
00:27:01
hometown and his first
00:27:03
name that information LED police to
00:27:06
Lawrence Tut who by that time was
00:27:08
serving time in Ohio for an unrelated
00:27:12
crime DNA evidence linked Tut to the
00:27:15
murder of Bill Henderson and Tut pleaded
00:27:18
guilty he was sentenced to 45 years in a
00:27:22
Texas
00:27:26
prison next te AG girls who spent time
00:27:29
with Joe Shepard kept turning up dead
00:27:32
but before police could get a straight
00:27:34
answer from him Joe Shepard was on the
00:27:47
Run Telo planes
00:27:51
Tennessee in a park car 16-year-old
00:27:54
roxand Woodson fights off the advances
00:27:57
of a man named Joe Shephard two friends
00:28:00
watch from the back seat roxan escapes
00:28:04
and runs off into the darkness Shepherd
00:28:07
chases after her roxan Woodson doesn't
00:28:10
return that night or during the ensuing
00:28:13
days we just fell on our knees and said
00:28:16
oh God no oh God no not
00:28:21
her Roxanne's disappearance was
00:28:24
traumatic not only for her family but
00:28:26
also for investigators on on the case
00:28:29
they suspected that Joe Shepard the last
00:28:31
person seen with roxan might be able to
00:28:34
explain how she
00:28:38
vanished shortly after roxan was
00:28:41
reported missing police went to the
00:28:43
house where Joe Shephard lived with his
00:28:46
parents the officers waited while
00:28:48
Shephard went into his bedroom to put on
00:28:51
his
00:28:52
boots suddenly Shephard reached for a
00:28:55
shotgun
00:28:58
the officers wrestled the gun away from
00:29:00
Shephard and took him in for
00:29:03
questioning when was the last time you
00:29:05
saw roxan Woodson Joe's initial story
00:29:09
was that he had attempted to seduce
00:29:11
roxan and she had gotten mad at him at
00:29:15
his persistent efforts and had jumped
00:29:18
from the car and run into the woods that
00:29:19
he went running after her and finally
00:29:23
Joe came back telling the two boys that
00:29:26
he'd tried to get her back and that he
00:29:28
didn't know where she'd
00:29:29
gone Joe Shepard was booked for
00:29:32
assaulting a police officer but he made
00:29:34
bond and was
00:29:36
released for several days following Rox
00:29:39
San's disappearance over 60 people
00:29:41
searched the woods looking for her
00:29:43
Shephard voluntarily joined them the
00:29:46
police brought in dogs to follow roxan
00:29:49
scent into the woods they tracked her
00:29:51
only a few yards and then the trail
00:29:54
abruptly stopped Roan's family feared
00:29:58
the
00:29:59
worst there's no
00:30:01
relief because you haven't got her she's
00:30:03
gone you don't know what's happened to
00:30:05
her and she's out there and you can't
00:30:07
reach her and you can't help
00:30:10
her after a few frustrating days the
00:30:14
search was called
00:30:16
off but an unexpected Discovery would
00:30:19
soon bring authorities back to Joe
00:30:22
Shepard's
00:30:23
house Joe's mother was standing at the
00:30:25
window in the kitchen looking out and
00:30:27
she noticed the dogs were digging and
00:30:30
going on at one specific location
00:30:33
there and she walked up on what proved
00:30:37
to be two hands sticking out of the
00:30:41
ground she notified the authorities at
00:30:43
that time and uh they came to the
00:30:46
shepher home and did remove the body of
00:30:49
roxan Woodson from Joe Shephard's mother
00:30:51
and father's
00:30:53
yard roxan had been buried in a shallow
00:30:56
grave some of her clothes were missing
00:30:59
and her pants had been wrapped around
00:31:02
her
00:31:03
head at that point the monal county
00:31:06
sheriff's deputy took out a warrant
00:31:08
charging the suspect Joe shepherd with
00:31:12
first deegree murder look here Joe found
00:31:16
her barri in your front yard look at him
00:31:17
Joe we found her barri in your yard
00:31:19
during Shephard's second interrogation
00:31:22
his story began to change tell us the
00:31:24
truth what happened to her
00:31:27
[Music]
00:31:28
I come up on her and she'd hit her head
00:31:31
or something I tried to revive her I
00:31:32
thought maybe she was just knocked out
00:31:34
you know something could happen to her
00:31:35
have there animal or something so I
00:31:37
thought I'll bury her that's what I'll
00:31:38
do so I did I took her uh I took her
00:31:42
back the house
00:31:43
bu according to Joe Shepard not knowing
00:31:46
what to do with in his previous
00:31:47
encounters with the law he was afraid to
00:31:49
contact any law enforcements so then he
00:31:52
decided to bury
00:31:55
her he never did actually admit to being
00:31:59
responsible for her
00:32:01
death I find prob Shephard's explanation
00:32:05
was not convincing he was arraigned on a
00:32:07
charge of murder authorities believed
00:32:10
that they were on track to close the
00:32:12
Woodson
00:32:13
murder then they received an anonymous
00:32:16
phone call blinking shepher to yet
00:32:19
another
00:32:20
disappearance Kathy Clowers a local
00:32:23
14-year-old girl had vanished 2 years
00:32:26
earlier
00:32:28
I need you to take us and show us where
00:32:29
she is now can you do
00:32:35
that yeah I can take you
00:32:37
there Shephard LED investigators to the
00:32:40
body of Kathy Clowers just as he had
00:32:45
promised we went into the woods uh
00:32:48
probably a couple hundred yards off the
00:32:50
highway Joe had designate a spot where
00:32:53
we ought to
00:32:56
dig I'll never forget Joe Shephard was
00:32:59
hunkered down beside the hole we were
00:33:01
digging and he looked up with this cold
00:33:04
smile on his face and said see I told
00:33:06
you so he was proud I think of of the
00:33:10
fact that he had produced a body for us
00:33:12
and and showed no emotion at
00:33:15
all a pants leg had been wrapped around
00:33:18
her head very similar to the manner in
00:33:22
which the Woodson child had been buried
00:33:26
there had been pants leg wrapped around
00:33:27
on her head Joe Shepard was formerly
00:33:31
indicted for the murder of Kathy
00:33:34
Clowers while he awaited trial one of
00:33:37
the jailers was summoned to a cell near
00:33:39
Shepherds what's matter with you boy the
00:33:41
Jailer was lured into the cell by a
00:33:44
prisoner pretending to be sick what's
00:33:47
your problem I don't know I'm
00:33:50
sick after locking up the Jailer the two
00:33:53
men went to Shepherd's cell they
00:33:55
released him and the three fled the
00:33:57
prison go let go come
00:34:01
on the other two escapes were recaptured
00:34:04
the following week but Shephard remained
00:34:07
at
00:34:08
[Music]
00:34:10
large
00:34:13
update London Ontario Canada thanks to a
00:34:17
viewer tip a 10year search for Joe
00:34:20
Shepard has ended after the Unsolved
00:34:23
Mystery Show October the 5th we received
00:34:25
a phone call from a local resid
00:34:27
president saying that he believed the
00:34:30
guy called Shephard was in fact living
00:34:32
in London under the name Joseph trip we
00:34:35
began an
00:34:36
investigation and when we had identified
00:34:39
him to our satisfaction as shepher he
00:34:42
was
00:34:43
arrested Shephard was later extradited
00:34:46
and convicted of involuntary
00:34:47
manslaughter in the death of Kathy
00:34:49
Clowers and felony murder and the death
00:34:52
of roxan Woodson Joe Shepard was
00:34:55
sentenced to life in prison for the
00:35:02
murders next can a deceased love one
00:35:06
communicate from Beyond the
00:35:19
Grave Portsmith
00:35:22
Virginia it was 3 months after the birth
00:35:25
of Michelle om Al's son Benjamin
00:35:28
that evening Michelle had a haunting
00:35:30
dream about a conversation with her
00:35:33
deceased
00:35:34
[Music]
00:35:36
grandfather he appeared with a message
00:35:38
for his son Greg Michelle's
00:35:42
father
00:35:44
Michelle tell Greg to get a pil of water
00:35:46
and meet me at the railroad
00:35:49
track at first I thought it was just one
00:35:51
of those things where I must have had
00:35:53
him on my mind and you know thinking it
00:35:57
was just a a dream and I asked my dad I
00:35:59
said what did he mean by this and I was
00:36:01
just stunned I didn't say anything she
00:36:04
says does that make any
00:36:05
sense I says it makes perfect sense now
00:36:09
Greg one of the one things we got to
00:36:10
watch out for and I remembered back when
00:36:13
I was a child he had asked me on Labor
00:36:16
Day to go fishing with him let's take a
00:36:19
look at this and I remember taking the
00:36:21
pale and caught an eel yes we got
00:36:25
another one great fantastic and my job
00:36:27
was to carry it back in the pale and it
00:36:29
was kind of a scary scary thought I mean
00:36:31
this thing squirming around in this pale
00:36:33
walking back with
00:36:35
it Michelle had no way of knowing that I
00:36:39
became a Believer at that point one of
00:36:42
the most fascinating evidences of life
00:36:45
after death contained in direct contacts
00:36:49
is the fact that the loved ones who have
00:36:51
passed on will often through
00:36:54
particularly vivid dreams tell us little
00:36:57
bits of information tell us things that
00:36:59
we could not possibly know oh Michelle
00:37:02
I'm so happy you named him Benjamin over
00:37:05
time Michelle's dreams began to feel
00:37:07
more and more real Michelle actually
00:37:11
appeared in some dreams herself talking
00:37:13
with her
00:37:15
grandfather Michelle ask Greg if he
00:37:18
knows where your uncle's purple heart is
00:37:21
what Purple Heart Grandpa when I asked
00:37:24
my father about the Purple Heart my dad
00:37:27
was like
00:37:28
no Michelle you know none of my uncles
00:37:29
not that I know of had a purple heart
00:37:32
and one day I happened to be speaking to
00:37:34
my mother and I asked her about it and
00:37:36
she says oh yeah she says your uncle had
00:37:39
gotten a purple heart and she had
00:37:42
it come on the dreams began to take
00:37:44
Michelle to places she had never been
00:37:47
before places where her grandfather had
00:37:50
spent some of the happiest days of his
00:37:52
life
00:37:55
Grandpa Grandpa
00:37:58
we're late for the track would you would
00:38:00
you go through I'm sorry honey you have
00:38:02
to go back now go on home but tell Greg
00:38:05
I got his lucky pencil I thought now I'm
00:38:08
really losing it this did not make sense
00:38:10
whatsoever so I called Dad when I told
00:38:14
him about the lucky pencil dad just sat
00:38:16
there again on the phone and he was real
00:38:19
quiet and he told me that um when he was
00:38:22
a little boy they used to all go the
00:38:25
racetrack lucky pads get your lucky
00:38:28
pencils my mom had a box of pencils
00:38:31
little stubs and full length ones and I
00:38:34
took that down off the shelf and I stood
00:38:36
at the Gate of the racetrack and sold
00:38:38
lucky pencils lucky pencils get your
00:38:40
lucky pencils I can buy lucky pencil I
00:38:42
couldn't imagine how she was picking
00:38:44
these things up uh cuz we had never
00:38:46
talked about it and there would be no
00:38:48
way for her to know these
00:38:49
things Michelle had named her baby
00:38:52
Benjamin after her
00:38:53
grandfather I believe that's the reason
00:38:55
Grandpa came back to her it was a way of
00:38:57
of affirming that he's there it was a
00:38:59
way also of saying thank you hey that's
00:39:01
nice just the way if somebody here on
00:39:03
Earth named a child after you'd say well
00:39:05
thank you how flattering he's such a
00:39:07
good
00:39:08
baby he said he will always watch over
00:39:11
me and Benjamin so in a way I look at as
00:39:14
a guardian
00:39:17
angel more than 100 dreams later
00:39:21
michalow mie still looks forward to each
00:39:24
encounter with her
00:39:26
grandfather I just kind of look at it as
00:39:28
a blessing a
00:39:30
gift one thing he did tell me was that I
00:39:34
was going to help a lot of people with
00:39:36
my story and I don't know how I'll know
00:39:39
that but I believe him because when
00:39:42
Grandpa speaks I
00:39:46
listen Michelle is not alone many people
00:39:49
say they've had some form of
00:39:51
communication with a dead often through
00:39:53
dreams it's the kind of experience that
00:39:56
is unbelievable
00:39:58
until it happens to
00:40:02
you previously on our show we profiled
00:40:06
the case of Elmer dor an oil company
00:40:08
Courier who was
00:40:11
murdered execution
00:40:15
style the two key suspects were Jerry
00:40:18
Strickland and his 16-year-old
00:40:20
girlfriend Missy
00:40:23
Monday police believ the couple
00:40:25
kidnapped Elmer robbed him of 10,000
00:40:27
,000 and then took him to a deserted
00:40:29
area and murdered
00:40:32
him Jerry and Missy disappeared after
00:40:35
the
00:40:37
murder
00:40:39
update within minutes of our broadcast
00:40:42
20 viewers in the small community of
00:40:45
Moses Lake Washington called police to
00:40:48
say that they recognized Jerry
00:40:50
Strickland and Missy Monday police later
00:40:53
arrested The Fugitive couple at a
00:40:55
friend's house they had watched the
00:40:57
broadcast and were waiting for the
00:41:00
police all all he say is I'm the guy
00:41:03
you're looking for uh and he
00:41:07
was just real calm and collect uh no
00:41:11
violence at all I figured the time was
00:41:13
about 7 hours and 15 minutes from the
00:41:16
time the Unsolved Mysteries aired and he
00:41:19
was in
00:41:20
custody I this felt super about
00:41:23
it Strickland insisted that he and Missy
00:41:26
Monday we're innocent they got Circle
00:41:30
Stan of evidence all
00:41:32
hearsay it's people talking but no
00:41:36
Witnesses I mean okay that's why you
00:41:40
know I say they're going to learn that
00:41:42
we didn't do this we have enough
00:41:45
evidence circumstantial evidence and
00:41:47
physical
00:41:48
evidence uh that we feel he's guilty all
00:41:51
they want is a conviction and they don't
00:41:53
care if they burn me or not Jerry
00:41:56
Strickland was convicted of kidnapping
00:41:58
and murder his sentence was two life
00:42:01
terms without the possibility of parole
00:42:04
Strickland's girlfriend Missy Mundy
00:42:06
testified against Strickland and was
00:42:09
released after 7 months in juvenile
00:42:11
detention
00:42:29
[Music]
00:42:45
[Music]
