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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a drug Runner dies in a fiery
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plane crash some say he faked his own
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death the squirrel is still on the
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run two Prospectors in Wyoming stumble
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upon the mummified remains of a tiny
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human
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being he was a Las Vegas Kingpin and an
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assassin for the M Bugsy seagull had it
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off until one
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night a pretty teenage girl is murdered
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in Connecticut a key suspect is linked
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to the Kennedy family what happened to
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Martha
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Moxley these stories plus an update on
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the capture of a violent fugitive I'm
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Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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we're in Western Virginia's remote
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Mountain Wilderness
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state troopers arrive on the scene of a
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small airplane crash still strapped in
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the cockpit is a body charred beyond
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recognition but it's the plane's cargo
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that catches the attention of
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police 1,200 lb of high-grade marijuana
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worth more than $1
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million for authorities the crash was
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something of a godsend eventually they
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would connect both the plane and the
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dead pilot to Wallace Thrasher of Bland
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County Virginia back in high school he
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was your allaround kid a member of the
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Key Club and Latin club Thrashers seemed
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to be going somewhere he played on the
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football team and earned the nickname
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squirrel for his ability to outrun
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trouble Thrasher didn't seem the type to
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end up pedling drugs but somewhere along
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the way his life took a wrong turn and
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while his buddies claim that Thrasher
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died in Central America authorities
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suspect the squirrel is very much alive
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and once again on the
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Run Thrasher built an organization that
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flew tons of marijuana and cocaine into
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the western region of
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Virginia Distributors then smuggled the
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drugs north to Chicago Detroit and other
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big cities
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Thrasher often piloted the plane himself
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and to many of his neighbors he was kind
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of a local hero here in Western Virginia
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dope Pilots are the modern day
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Moonshiners takes the same kind of
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talents to uh to smuggle dope in by air
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as it does to run a load of moonshine he
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was tight person he wasn't afraid to let
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everybody know what he was doing
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basically everybody had contact with him
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at the airport and the areas where he
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was doing his drug business knew he was
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trying transporting
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drugs Thrasher used the drug money to
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live the good life he and his wife owned
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a 10 acre country estate and bassed in
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opulence and luxury w-e uh Thrasher was
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uh a very Charming fellow uh very
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generous to his associates and the
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people who lived around him he spent
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money very freely so they're a great
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many people will tell you kind things
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about him
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for 10 years the squirrel stayed two
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steps ahead of the
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law until the night one of his Pilots
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slammed an airplane full of marijuana
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into a mountain
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side after two painstaking weeks
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investigators could finally prove that
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Thrasher owned the plane detectives were
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planning to move in but then this
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article appeared in the local newspaper
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it said that Wallace had died in another
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plane crash this one in Jamaica
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Virginia authorities tried to interview
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Thrasher's grieving Widow now I'm afraid
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now is not a good
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time Mrs Thrasher remained in seclusion
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but produced a death certificate
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documenting her husband's fatal crash in
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Jamaica the investigation revealed that
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uh the death certificate was
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fraudulent there was no evidence from
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any Witnesses or
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anyone in Jamaica that knew of any such
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crash
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the police were sure that Thrasher was
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still alive they filed charges against
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him eventually his wife agreed to tell
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investigators all she
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knew talking about the crash in Virginia
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she told them there had been a second
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pilot on board the
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aircraft the pilot was injured badly
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even so he dragged himself to a pay
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phone Thrasher picked him up at the very
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every moment police were racing to the
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crash
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scene Thrasher knew that the plane would
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be traced back to him what happen we
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were trying to come in low under the
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cloud cover it was just a matter of time
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before the authorities would be knocking
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at his door I think we got real problems
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threr took the injured pilot to an out
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ofate hospital then dropped from
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sight but his wife continued to talk she
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said her husband then stuffed a quarter
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of a million dollars in cash into a
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travel bag and left Virginia for B in
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Central
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America she thought her husband would
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buy a load of marijuana and returned to
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the United States but some think that
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the squirrel never intended to come home
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and that the
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$250,000 was a down payment on a new
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life hello about a week later uh Mrs
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Thrasher received a call from two of
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their Confederates down in bise at
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advising her that Mr Thrasher had been
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killed on takeoff in a in a massive
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crash my
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God the fire had been so intense that
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literally the plane was burned down to
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the outline of a plane on the ground and
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that there would be very little for for
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them to send back and no reason for her
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to come down Thrasher's wife finally
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owned up that she bought a fake death
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certificate and she concocted the tale
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of a Jamaican plane crash she was
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worried that her property would be
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confiscated if authorities found out her
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husband was on a drug run when he
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died I did get some proof though and
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then one of thrash's former Associates
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showed up he had something he claimed
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was recovered in the crash Wallace
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Thrashers wedding ring I got that from
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one of the guys that was there when he
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crashed the ring was in perfect
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condition the inscription as sharp as
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the day it had been
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engraved Mrs Thrasher did advise me it
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was definitely Wally Thrasher's wedding
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ring we find it kind of tough to believe
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that an air craft could cause that
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amount of Destruction to the point where
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literally the the uh substructure of the
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plane was melted and the p and the uh
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ring itself would still uh be in that
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kind of
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condition did Thrasher really die in a
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fiery crash in the jungles of Central
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America or did the squirrel once again
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bash to freedom I think that uh at the
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time that Mr Thrasher disappeared he was
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facing a lot of different problems and
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it may have been an opportune for him to
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as they say exit stage
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left this is what Wallace Thrasher look
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like when he was 36 he has blue eyes and
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athletic build and stands 5' 10 in tall
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if you have any information log on to
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unsolved.com or contact the US
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Marshall's
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office coming up is a small mummy found
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in a Wyoming cave proof of an extinct
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human species and now next after
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escaping from a prison a violent
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criminal is brought to
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Justice we recently told you the story
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of Clayton Wagner on the back roads of
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Kentucky Wagner LED police on a
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highspeed chase after he and a buddy
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robbed the gas station the chase ended
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when the two suspects took off on foot
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police captured one of the men but
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Clayton Wagner Got Away authorities were
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shocked by what they found in Wagner's
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truck in the vehicle was gas cans half
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filled with gasoline a dummy hand
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grenade and
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firearms and a list of uh abortion
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clinics Clayton Wagner is a very complex
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and intelligent individual he's an car
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thief he's an armed robber and at some
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point in his life uh uh Clayton Wagner
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became involved in the anti-abortion
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movement the papers that were found in
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Wagner's truck read like a hit list of
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abortion clinics and their employees
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police feared that if he wasn't caught
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he would start on a killing
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spre Wagner lived life on the run in a
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motor home with his wife and eight
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children but his luck ran out when the
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motor home broke down in Illinois when a
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licensed plate check was done it
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revealed that the motor home was stolen
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this thing was stolen no I Wagner
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immediately volunteered that the vehicle
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was stolen that he was wanted and he did
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not want his family to get involved
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Wagner was arrested and convicted of
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federal weapons charges and auto theft
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and sentenced to 27 years and 3 months
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in
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prison Wagner had no intention of
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remaining Behind Bars
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lucky for him he was put in a cell that
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had an access door for plumbing police
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say that he picked the lock on the door
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squeezed through the small opening into
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a crawl space got on the roof and was
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gone 2 months after his Escape Wagner
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robbed a bank in Pennsylvania and stayed
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one step ahead of the
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police
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update Clayton Wagner has been captured
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by the US Marshals in Cincinnati early
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on US Marshals had made a decision to
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post a Wagner wanted poster in every
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kingko store in the United States we
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knew that he was frequenting the kingko
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stores and uh he walked into a Kinko
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store on December 5th and began to work
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on a computer there an alert employee
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spotted Wagner and made the call to the
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marshals Wagner was arrested without
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incident he later pled guilty to
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possession of a firearm by a felon and
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Interstate trans transportation of a
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stolen vehicle he is currently serving a
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27-year prison
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sentence on the Indonesian island of
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Flores archaeologists recently uncovered
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parts of several small skeletons
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scientists are still debating whether
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the bones are proof that a new species
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of miniature human beings once lived on
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the
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island 70 years early in Central Wyoming
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two Prospectors made a similar Discovery
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in a remote cave they were looking for
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gold but found the relic of a small
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mummy whose Origins are still a
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mystery for Generations several Native
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American tribes have told stories of a
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race of supernatural beings able to
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perform feets of amazing physical
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strength according to Legend these
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people stood less than 2T high for
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centuries few believe that these little
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people actually
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existed but all of that changed in
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1932 when two Prospectors Cecil M and
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Frank Carr explored a cave in wyomings
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Pedro mountains what's that what right
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here on a rocky ledge they found a small
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figure just 6 in high mummified in a
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sitting position they' never seen
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anything like that before and would have
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no idea what it was except that they
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knew it was probably worth taking
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out several days later Cecil M returned
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to the cave alone and snatched the
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mysterious
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money the discovery made headlines it
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prompted people to speculate that it had
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been placed in the cave by one of the na
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Native American tribes many believe the
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mummy was cursed that whoever possessed
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it would die a mysterious death but such
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rumors didn't really concern Cecil
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M he wanted to sell
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it in 1934 an insurance salesman named
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Homer Cheryl bought the mummy for a
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grand total of
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$25 and took it on the roof whyoming two
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bits one of the first people who paid to
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see it was a curious 10-year-old boy
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named Eugene bash mummies of course
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you'll see it you will have a great mmy
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what I remember most about that was what
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a hard time I had talking my dad didn't
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giving me 25 cents so I could see the
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mummy there was a guard there and then
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out another door and they moved you
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right by you didn't get to look at it
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very
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well it was about uh 6 and 1/2 in high
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seated and standing it would have been
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about 17 in high
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The Mummy had brown skin and a flat
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skull whsp of gray hair protruded from
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the back of its head hundreds of people
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saw the mummy over the next 10 years but
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no serious scientific analysis was done
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until 1950 Mr Goodman Ivan Goodman by
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then the mummy had fallen into the hands
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of a used car dealer named Ivan Goodman
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what do you have to show me well Goodman
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took the Relic to Dr Paul Martin at the
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Chicago mum Museum of Natural
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History some serious efforts were made
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in the early 1950s to get this uh uh
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little mummy documented and it was done
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rather well I think for the Times there
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were x-rays
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taken uh really a surprising amount of
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very uh effective documentation was
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made x-rays reveal that the mummy had a
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complete skeleton and a full set of
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teeth at first it appeared to be the
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mummify remains of a fully developed
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human being one that was only 17 in
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tall but after reviewing all of the
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material Dr Martin believes that the
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mummy was not a mature adult but an
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infant who had suffered from a birth
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effect known as an
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inphy anilic infants are born without a
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brain and lack a complete skull they are
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either delivered stillborn or die soon
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after birth
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however Eugene Basher says that a severe
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Blow To The Head could have caused a
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malform skull there are pieces of skull
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in the scalp that's hanging down like it
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was beat down and it's result of
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trauma Basher also contends that the
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initial x-ray showed that the mummy had
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the characteristics of an adult not an
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infant it also has a full set of teeth
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infants would show two sets of
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undeveloped teeth still up in the Jaws
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these have descended and there's no
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other teeth above them like a baby or a
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young person would have all the
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Physicians and physical anthropologists
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that I know of who have ever looked at
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that I've been able to verify to
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actually talk to them um have said that
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it's some type of infant and and it
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looks to them to be an anencephalic
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human
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infant in October of 1950 Ivan Goodman
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loaned The Mummy to Dr Leonard Walder
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curator of a New York museum take good
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care of him oh don't worry he's in good
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hands Goodman felt he could have made a
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fortune if wadler could prove that the
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mummy was a North American relative of a
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rare population of African
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pygmies but fate
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intervened Ivan Goodman died of a sudden
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stroke before the theory was proven and
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Dr wadler kept the
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mummy both have disappeared
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what was the mysterious artifact and
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where is it now was it one of those
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legendary little people or an anapol
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infant born in primitive
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times so much more could be done today
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in the way of analysis on this small
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Mumy um DNA analysis could be done we
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have methods now that uh could allow
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dating to be done without being that
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destructive so it's really important
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that the scientific Community take
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another look at
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it Dr Leonard wadler was last known to
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be living in Florida however no one has
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seen him or the mummy since
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1975 The Lost World Museum in Phoenix
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New York is currently offering a $10,000
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reward for the rediscovery and purchase
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of the Mummy but Native Americans would
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like to see the artifact returned to a
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more appropriate Resting
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Place coming up a teenager is murdered
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in her own backyard perhaps the Killer
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is one of her friends it's the law it
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says it in the Bible and a man who calls
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himself a servant of God is wanted for
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attempted
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murder in Anderson Missouri
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a lone Hunter cautiously makes his way
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through the woods stalking waiting for
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just the right moment to strike the
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hunter is not your everyday Outdoorsman
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his Target is not an elk or a deer but a
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Missouri state highway patrolman
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according to the police his name is
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Timothy Colmes and he's a member of a
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religious group known as the
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Freeman the the freemen exist on the
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farthest right Fringe of the political
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spectrum they believe they are the true
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Americans but others including the
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police call them domestic
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terrorists Mr Thomas in late November of
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last year did a couple from Kansas City
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call on you at your home or place of
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business yes they did what was the
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purpose the Freeman believe that the
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constitution is a divinely inspired
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document along with the Bill of
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Rights that gives them preeminent rights
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in American
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society that they do not have to do
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things like pay income taxes or have
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driers licenses and so forth because
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that's all part of the laws that were
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passed after the Constitution and the
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Bill of Rights they see these is
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man-made laws that don't apply to
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them what was it the sheriff wanted to
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talk to you
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about in the case of Robert Joe a self
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style Freeman Minister that philosophy
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apparently led him to issue fake legal
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documents Jose was convicted of drafting
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a fake court order for a parishioner who
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had been arrested for a minor traffic
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offense for 9 years Joe's remained free
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while he contested the conviction until
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a new prosecuting attorney ordered the
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highway patrol to bring him
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in Mr joose has a history of resisting
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arrest and to avoid an armed
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confrontation on his property where he's
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believed to have a large number of
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weapons decision was made to arrest him
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on a county road where he's by
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himself Sergeant Steve dorsy and
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Corporal Bob Harper made the arrest
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Robert get out of the
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van I walked up the van him screaming
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all you think you're dealing with
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someone that had a mental
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problem he's screaming hollering and
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just throwing his hands up and saying
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who are you who are you Robert if you
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don't calm down I'll make you Robert I'm
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going to make you
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I knew if they were going to kill me
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they were going to kill me there wasn't
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anything I can do except pray to
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God and that's what I was doing Robert
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Joe's asked to be filmed in silhouette
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due to his religious convictions and I
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knew they had no rightful cause of
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arrest and they and as it turns out they
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didn't have any that's why they had to
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make up the story so they had some
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reason to hold me
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see Robert Jose was arrested on charges
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of carrying a concealed weapon and
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resisting arrest
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then 3 months later one of the arresting
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officers Corporal Bob Harper became the
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target of a
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sniper I heard this loud shot and I ran
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up the hallway and Bob was laying next
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to the cabinets and he was trying to
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tell me that the can had exploded and I
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explained to him that he had been
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shot it was a miracle that Bob Harper
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survived get a helicopter the bullet
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missed his heart by just 116th of an
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inch the next day investigators
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recovered a vital piece of
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evidence uh looks like 716 maybe Bob
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Harper was not known to have any enemies
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it looks like miles and because of his
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recent involvement and the arrest of
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Robert Joe's we felt that it was
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probably
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connected when officers went to the
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Joe's Farm to speak with his girlfriend
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they were confronted by an armed
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stranger Ro gun what do you boys want
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this is private land the after a brief
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standoff the man agreed to speak to
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police right here with the citizen he
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identified himself as James Wilson a
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resident of Arkansas according to police
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Wilson said that church Elders were
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training snipers to avenge violations
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against their religion St it's the law
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it says it in the Bible it's God's law
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right there in Colossians 1:13 you can
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read about it for yourself we didn't
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feel comfortable with what we had heard
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from him so the following morning calls
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were made to Arkansas and we received a
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large amount of information about James
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Wilson found out at that time that his
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real name was Timothy
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comes by the time police got us search
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warnant for the Joe's Farm Timothy comes
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was gone but investigators did find a
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huge Arsenal pistols rifles and more
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than 40 sticks of
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dynamite police also learned that Colmes
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had previously served time on weapons
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charges that same day investigators went
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to Timothy colm's own Farm in wit
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Springs
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Arkansas they talked to col's nextdoor
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neighbor he told him that his horse had
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been shot and gave them the bullet he
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recovered can you show me the location
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of the shooter sure is my neighbor he's
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up this
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direction the neighbors suspected that
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coms fired it during target practice you
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see the Machine Shed there and the tree
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to the right he's about Midway in
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between back in that brush
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line according to authorities a search
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of comes' property turned up shell
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casings that reportedly match the
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casings found outside Bob Harper's
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kitchen
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window we believe that the weapon used
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to shoot Bob Harper was actually an SKS
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rifle that had been purchased by Robert
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Joe about 3 weeks prior to his arrest
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for resisting arrest you will now not
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talk about that
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weapon Joe said he had nothing to do
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with the attack on Bob
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Harper didn't know anything about it
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till after it happened still don't know
00:25:23
that he's actually shot I've never seen
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any medical evidence never heard a
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doctor testify a man was shot as far as
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I know he had another heart attack and I
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had to crack his chest to emergency open
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heart on him they'll lie about anything
00:25:32
and everything to try to frame somebody
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and and the people that are helping
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him so far only Timothy Colmes has been
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charged in the shooting of Corporal Bob
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Harper authorities believe he has gone
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underground and is probably harbored by
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members of a right-wing militia
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group if you have any information about
00:25:51
Timothy Colmes please log on to our
00:25:53
website at unsolved.com or contact the
00:25:57
FBI
00:25:59
a $100,000 reward is being offered for
00:26:02
information in this
00:26:05
case coming up police suspect the killer
00:26:08
of a teenage girl might be her friend
00:26:11
and neighbor and next the still unsolved
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murder of legendary mob boss Bugsy seag
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life was brutal for Mobsters in the
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1940s Mafia bosses took pride in killing
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and getting away with
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it but there was one famous hit for
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which no one has ever taken credit the
00:26:42
murder of Bugsy
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seagull late one evening seagull rested
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in his girlfriend's Beverly Hills Home
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the mob's top assassin was completely
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unaware that he himself was a Target
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nine shots were fired four found their
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Mark Bugsy died
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instantly a list of suspects in Bugsy's
00:27:16
murder reads like a classic who done it
00:27:18
business associates a girlfriend even a
00:27:21
bodyguard but police investigating
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seagull's murder came up against the
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mafia's Code of Silence a w that still
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exists
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today the main frustration I have in the
00:27:35
case is all my Witnesses are either gone
00:27:38
or still won't
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talk so the frustration is is that I'm
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running out of time if I haven't lost
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that time already and I'm just still not
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getting any
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information his real name was Benjamin
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seagull and he was the mob's most feared
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Hitman but the smile the handsome New
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Yorker was a coldblooded killer seagull
00:28:03
began a partnership with Meer Lansky in
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New York they formed an organized crime
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syndicate with its hands in gambling
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prostitution and murder for hir Ben
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seagull and Maya Lansky were a great
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combination they complimented each other
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Lansky did the
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dinking it was Bugsy who did the
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whacking in the early 40s seagull and
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Lansky teamed up with another East Coast
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mafia boss lucky
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luchiano when the team of seagull Lansky
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and luchiano decided to expand their
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territory it was the beginning of the
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end for
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Bugsy Bugsy was sent to take control of
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gambling in California and there he
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faced a major problem suspect number one
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Jack
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dragman and there ain't no one going to
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stand in my way right Jay
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dragna controlled a lucrative wire
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service used by bookies across the
00:29:02
country and Bugsy wanted it he met him
00:29:05
an offer he couldn't refuse either give
00:29:08
up the wire or give up your
00:29:11
life dragna chose to live which gave him
00:29:14
two reasons to kill Bugsy jealousy and
00:29:19
revenge after Bugsy died Jack dragna got
00:29:23
his wire service back
00:29:31
Bugsy ran the mob's Los Angeles business
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with the Showmanship of the Hollywood
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Superstar he began an affair with
00:29:38
suspect number two Virginia Hill an
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alleged cash Courier for the
00:29:43
M but Hill may have had her own reasons
00:29:46
for wanting Bugsy Deb she was leading a
00:29:49
double
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life Virginia Hill was definitely
00:29:55
connected some way with Chicago mob she
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was out there keeping an eye on Bugsy
00:30:02
and feeding the Chicago mob information
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on Bugsy's
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activities Bugsy was killed in
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Virginia's home while she was out of
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town coincidence or not suspect number
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three Mickey Cohen Mickey was a
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Cleveland gangster newly transplanted to
00:30:21
La seagull could have had him killed but
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instead he put him on his payroll then
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like that that this guy stood up to he
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liked it so much that he made him his
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personal bodyguard
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really after Bugsy's death Cohen was
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given control of West Coast gambling
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which would never have occurred unless
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Bugsy was
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dead when gambling became legal in
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Nevada seagull laid out plans for a
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luxurious Casino called The Flamingo
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Lansky and luchano put up the $1 million
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he needed to build it
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but 1 million became two two became four
00:31:01
and four became
00:31:04
six Bugsy was financially out of control
00:31:07
giving Lansky and
00:31:08
luchano a motive for his murder it has
00:31:12
to stop Lans did go out and visit
00:31:16
seagull in Nevada and I think he
00:31:18
cautioned him and he warned him pay
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attention the business don't let the
00:31:23
cost get too high your investors are not
00:31:26
happy the there were also rumors that
00:31:28
seagull was pocketing some of his
00:31:30
investors money to support Virginia
00:31:34
Hill she was a very very expensive
00:31:37
Playmate they probably had a feeling
00:31:39
that he was spending some of their money
00:31:41
on
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Virginia 20 minutes after seagull's
00:31:45
death two members of the Lansky luchano
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mob took control of the Flamingo
00:31:51
Hotel new boss Mr seagull's no longer in
00:31:54
the picture nobody believed that the
00:31:56
timing of the Takeover was
00:31:59
coincidental there are five suspects
00:32:02
that could have been involved in Bugsy's
00:32:03
death some feel the most likely scenario
00:32:06
involves them
00:32:08
all Virginia Hill she provided the
00:32:12
location for the murder and possibly was
00:32:14
given a reward she had $23 million in a
00:32:18
in a Swiss bank account seagull's
00:32:21
bodyguard Mickey Cohen knew his boss's
00:32:23
schedule for the evening but at the time
00:32:25
of the killing he was not doing his job
00:32:29
Micky Cohen even came into the station
00:32:31
and said uh what happened what happened
00:32:34
I was supposed to be watching him and
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Jack
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dragna but he may have ordered the hit
00:32:40
with the approval of Lansky and luchano
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he would not have dared to do it on his
00:32:46
own he would have asked permission from
00:32:49
people he regarded in in the New York
00:32:51
area uh it's a possibility because they
00:32:53
were thinking of killing seagull anyway
00:32:55
so all right let Jack dragna handle it
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today none of the key suspects in the
00:33:01
SEAL murder are alive but Beverly Hills
00:33:04
police still hope that someday the mafia
00:33:07
Code of Silence will be broken murder
00:33:10
has no statute of limitations so until
00:33:13
the case is solved the case remains
00:33:21
open when we return clues in the murder
00:33:24
of a teenage girl lead police to the
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home of a very Prime minent
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family on October 31st in Greenwich
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Connecticut a teenager discovers the
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body of her missing friend Martha
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Moxley I found Martha it appeared she
00:33:51
had been blooding to death her jeans and
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her Underpants were pulled down around
00:33:55
her knees but there was no evidence of
00:33:58
sexual assault the night before Martha
00:34:02
had vanished while out with her friends
00:34:05
Martha was struck with a uh golf club
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she received uh several blows to the
00:34:10
Head uh the head of the club was found
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50 ft from the portion of her driveway
00:34:16
where she we believe she was accosted
00:34:18
it's believed that the a portion of the
00:34:21
shaft of the golf club that was used was
00:34:24
later used as a as a weapon to stab her
00:34:27
with
00:34:29
everyone just assumed that Martha's
00:34:31
killer had to be an outsider until Clues
00:34:35
found that the scene LED investigators
00:34:37
to a prominent local
00:34:39
family here are the clubs you requested
00:34:42
from that set the broken Golf Club found
00:34:45
by the police turned out to be part of a
00:34:47
set belonging to the skel family they
00:34:49
lived across the street from the Moxley
00:34:52
Ron's Cel is the brother of Ethel
00:34:54
Kennedy Robert Kennedy's Widow the that
00:34:58
the club now was determined to have come
00:35:00
from that from the sko resin I think it
00:35:02
was a significant piece of evidence and
00:35:04
and made us obviously focus our
00:35:06
investigation in that household and uh
00:35:09
within that
00:35:10
family the police estimated that Martha
00:35:13
had been murdered between
00:35:14
9:45 and 10
00:35:17
p.m. 15-year-old Michael skel told
00:35:20
police that he had been hanging out with
00:35:22
Martha that night and that he said he
00:35:24
last saw her a little after 900 p.m.
00:35:28
17-year-old Thomas skel said that he was
00:35:30
with her as well Brian Wilson and uh
00:35:34
Alexander Nelson Thomas in fact was the
00:35:37
last person known to have seen Martha
00:35:40
alive I had a paper duw on Abraham
00:35:43
Lincoln so I went back inside the house
00:35:45
and up into my room and what time was
00:35:49
it say about
00:35:52
9:30 when police checked with Thomas's
00:35:54
school they found no such report had
00:35:57
been assigned
00:35:59
investigators found another potential
00:36:01
suspect also in the skel
00:36:04
household till about 12
00:36:08
12:30 24-year-old Kenneth Littleton had
00:36:11
just been hired as a Livin tutor for the
00:36:13
skle children he told police that he
00:36:16
heard noises outside the house sometime
00:36:18
between 9:30 and 10 p.m. could you go
00:36:22
and take a look please sure Mrs Watson
00:36:25
before he went outside Littleton said he
00:36:27
checked and the seven skle
00:36:29
children the four oldest boys including
00:36:31
Michael and Thomas were not at
00:36:34
home Littleton also said he didn't see
00:36:37
Thomas until 10:25 when Thomas joined
00:36:41
him in front of the TV the other skagle
00:36:44
boys came home within a half an
00:36:47
hour over the next several months
00:36:50
detectives interviewed more than 200
00:36:52
people and gave several polygraph exams
00:36:55
according to police Thomas skel was
00:36:58
given two polygraph tests the first was
00:37:01
inconclusive but Thomas passed the
00:37:03
second and then after months of
00:37:06
cooperating with authorities the skakel
00:37:09
on the advice of their attorney refus to
00:37:11
answer any more
00:37:13
questions no one has to an obligation to
00:37:16
cooperate with police but most instances
00:37:19
individuals who may have some knowledge
00:37:22
that may lead to the identification of a
00:37:24
individual who has committed a violent
00:37:25
crime are more than pleased to to
00:37:27
contribute that information to the
00:37:29
police so it's most unusual when an
00:37:31
individual possessing information
00:37:33
decides that he does not want to give
00:37:35
that information to in investigators do
00:37:38
you know who killed Martha Moxley no
00:37:41
attention then shifted to Kenneth
00:37:43
Littleton who had been Let Go by the
00:37:44
skakel after 6 months according to
00:37:48
police he was given a polygraph
00:37:50
regarding the Moxley murder and failed
00:37:52
still authorities felt there wasn't
00:37:54
enough evidence to make an arrest the
00:37:56
case became
00:37:58
inactive do you have any information
00:38:01
about who killed Martha
00:38:02
Moxley no if you're implying that my
00:38:05
family is lying to protect me you're
00:38:07
dead wrong 16 years later the rape trial
00:38:11
of William Kennedy Smith brought the
00:38:13
Moxley case back to
00:38:15
life the connection between the skagle
00:38:18
and Kennedy families was the
00:38:22
Catalyst within weeks the Greenwich
00:38:24
Police had reopened their investigation
00:38:29
they brought in noted forensic
00:38:30
pathologist Henry
00:38:32
Lee Dr Lee was able to use technology
00:38:35
unavailable at the time the crime was
00:38:38
committed we was able to re-exam certain
00:38:42
evidence we was able on some newer
00:38:46
evidence among the items examined by Dr
00:38:49
Lee were clothes found discarded in the
00:38:51
skakel's garbage shortly after the
00:38:53
murder this included a pair of pants and
00:38:55
sneakers which reportedly belong to
00:38:58
Michael
00:38:59
sker yeah we found some hairs and
00:39:03
fibers some of the hair michos
00:39:05
scopically similar to
00:39:08
hers other hair dissimilar to
00:39:12
her doct Le determined that the hair
00:39:14
belonged to a male caucasian the problem
00:39:17
was that he didn't have a hair sample
00:39:19
from any of the possible suspects and
00:39:21
was unable to make a match however after
00:39:24
studying the crime scene photographs Dr
00:39:27
was able to provide a possible motive
00:39:30
for Martha's
00:39:31
murder the blood smar on her body
00:39:34
indicates somebody tried to use
00:39:38
force it suggest could be a sexual
00:39:41
motivated
00:39:44
homicide there were no defense wounds
00:39:47
which indicates that she knew her
00:39:50
attacker merely the fact that she was
00:39:53
hit repeatedly with a golf club
00:39:54
indicates some kind of Rage which
00:39:56
personalized is this thing which
00:39:58
indicates that there was anger that the
00:40:02
two had to have known each other that it
00:40:04
was a crime of
00:40:08
passion time and again the trail LED
00:40:11
right back to the skel family it's
00:40:14
frustrating to know that for 20 years um
00:40:18
they've known that they lied and they
00:40:19
know something that's going on um and
00:40:21
I'm not saying that they did it but they
00:40:24
know something uh that could help us and
00:40:27
that we've actually had some little
00:40:29
breaking down in their story and one
00:40:34
thing breaks down maybe other things
00:40:36
will break down and it's bound to happen
00:40:39
anytime I can do anything to help it I'm
00:40:41
going to do it and I won't give up and I
00:40:44
have to do that for
00:40:48
Martha
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update tips from Unsolved Mysteries
00:40:53
viewers provided new information
00:40:55
implicating Michael skel in the murder
00:40:58
of Martha
00:40:59
Moxley 4 years after Martha was killed
00:41:02
Michael skel was sent to a school in
00:41:04
Maine for trouble teens the Elon
00:41:09
school after the showing of Unsolved
00:41:13
Mysteries several of the young people
00:41:16
who had attended Elan and were there
00:41:19
with Michael
00:41:20
skel called to say that they
00:41:24
had they had known Michael that there
00:41:28
and that they had heard Michael confess
00:41:30
to killing Martha based on this new
00:41:33
information 42-year-old Michael skakel
00:41:35
was charged with
00:41:37
murder prosecutors argued that the
00:41:40
motive was sibling rivalry over Martha's
00:41:43
affections 27 years after the crime was
00:41:46
committed Michael skakel was convicted
00:41:49
and sentenced to 20 years to life there
00:41:53
are new developments in this case here's
00:41:55
one of our staff with details details as
00:41:58
a result of the skakel family appeal the
00:42:01
verdict was overturned and Michael skel
00:42:03
will be retried after posting bail he
00:42:05
was released from
00:42:07
prison if you have any information on
00:42:09
the cases presented tonight log on to
00:42:12
unsolved.com
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