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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 10 - Full Episode

May 23, 2019 / 45:16

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers psychic abilities, the murder of Jacqueline de Wallaby, and a family reunion. George Anderson, a psychic from Long Island, New York, demonstrates his abilities to communicate with the deceased, including readings for families who lost children. The episode features the tragic case of David and Cynthia de Wallaby, who were accused of murdering their seven-year-old daughter Jacqueline in 1988. Despite their claims of innocence, circumstantial evidence led to their conviction, which was later overturned due to lack of evidence.

George Anderson conducts a session with the Licata family, who lost their son David in a hit-and-run accident. The session provides them with comfort and closure, as George relays messages from their son. Another reading involves the Silverman family, who lost their son Barry to cancer. George reassures them that Barry is at peace and encourages them to let go of their guilt.

The episode also revisits the de Wallaby case, detailing the investigation and trial that led to their wrongful conviction. The couple's nightmare deepens as they face accusations while mourning their daughter. The episode concludes with an update on the case, revealing that new information has emerged, prompting the reopening of the investigation.

TL;DR

George Anderson demonstrates psychic abilities while revisiting the wrongful conviction of David and Cynthia de Wallaby for their daughter's murder.

Episode

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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast it sounds unbelievable but
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many people say that this man has
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uncanny psychic abilities which enable
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him to communicate with those who have
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passed away and comfort those who mourn
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them
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his name is George Anderson and tonight
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we will examine his claims and witness
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an actual psychic session which has
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surprising results in September of 1988
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David and Cynthia de wallaby were
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shocked by the brutal murder of their
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seven-year-old daughter Jacqueline two
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months later their nightmare became a
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descent into hell when authorities
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charged them with a crime also tonight a
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heartwarming update thanks to our
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viewers woman has finally found her
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long-lost brother
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join me for their joyous reunion on
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another edition unsolved mysteries
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during the past five years unsolved
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mysteries has broadcast several stories
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about people who seem to have uncanny
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psychic abilities one of them was
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Dorothy Allison a New Jersey housewife
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would envision several clues which
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helped police locate the body of a young
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boy drowned when he fell into a
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rain-swollen Creek later we're the
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haunting tale of Teresita basa
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a murdered woman who purportedly spoke
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through a friend to name her own killer
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and police arrested the man he confessed
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and finally there was a story of Carl
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pols a British woman who draws eerie
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portraits her clients say the Carl's
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drawings uncannily resemble their
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deceased loved ones people whom Carl
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could never have met but these stories
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have in common is that no one not even
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the most hardened skeptic has come up
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with a rational explanation for it
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appear to be genuine psychic episodes
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that is also true the man you're about
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to meet George Anderson Long Island New
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York he seems to have an uncanny ability
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to communicate with the spirits of those
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who have passed on at times it does seem
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even for me that I am literally
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listening to them or listening to a
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conversation or feeling I'm listening I
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don't want people to get the impression
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it's all that I'm hearing clearly as I'm
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hearing you right now it's a feeling
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that you're seeing a feeling that you're
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hearing a sensation more it's like
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getting an electrical charge all through
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yourself I was hosting a popular late
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night radio talk show on a rock station
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on Long Island where I had been for Joel
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Martin's first heard of George Anderson
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in 1980 a station and the format we
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dealt heavily with unexplained phenomena
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just answer me with yes or no don't add
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any more information than that just will
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let the spirits do the work
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Martin called George in for a reading
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according to both men they had never met
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before
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then George says he knew nothing about
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Martin's background when George conducts
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readings he sometimes makes random marks
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on a pad to enhance his concentration
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George himself does not appear in our
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recreations of his readings which are
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based on eyewitness accounts and
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transcripts and he started to talk about
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Shirley's my late wife who had been
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killed the year before in 1979 she was
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hit and killed by a car crossing a
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street in New York do you take the name
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of Shirley Shirley does that name mean
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something to you yes she says you know
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her she recently passed on suddenly she
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points to her face and into her head
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pain maybe something happened that I'm
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feeling the pain is coming through me
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I'm feeling pain in the head in the face
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you know maybe a car accident honey how
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do you know that
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well she's standing right behind you no
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no you can't see her yeah only I can see
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her she's a spirit she's right there
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yes stricter then he did something that
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made me realize something legitimate was
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going on that could not be explained by
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any any way that I could reason she's
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pointing her finger she's she's waving
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it back and forth very quickly very
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quickly like that stop it stop it
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whenever she was annoyed at me she would
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say you're like a little boy you're just
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like a little but that was only a
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private thing that she and I knew nobody
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would have known that so now I'm
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figuring out how the heck I could not
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have told that to anybody there's no way
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he could have known this or should have
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known it that's a very private thing
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Joel Martin persuaded George Anderson to
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undergo tests with the acting chief of
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neurology at a New York City Hospital
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according to Martin George's EEG was
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extremely unusual
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while George conducted a session with an
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off-screen subject half of his brain
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registered sleep while half showed
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normal waking patterns the neurologist
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who conducted those tests he said he had
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never seen anything like it before and
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is it what we expect to see no is it
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what's supposed to happen no is
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something unusual going on yes Joel
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Martin had always considered himself a
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skeptic in matters of the paranormal
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after meeting George Anderson he became
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a believer Martin began to give George a
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significant block of time on his radio
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call-in show and George Anderson became
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something of a celebrity in his home
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town George was born in Lindenhurst Long
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Island New York in 1952 when he was 6
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George was stricken with a severe case
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of chicken pox he almost died and
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immediately afterwards he says he began
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to hear voices and see visions of people
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who had recently passed away
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something about eventually George's
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parents strict Roman Catholics resigned
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themselves to their sons apparent
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abilities George began to earn his
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living by conducting psychic readings to
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date he has held such readings for
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thousands of people Barbara and John
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Licata contacted George Anderson in 1982
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four months after the death of the 16
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year old son David David had gone out to
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a party if I'm quiet I can still hear
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his footsteps going out and the door
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slamming shut he had to be in by 12:30 I
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went to bed but I laid there awake
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because I don't sleep until my kids are
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in and at 1:30
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I got up because it was unlike David not
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to call
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mr. licata yes this is Licata I need to
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talk to you about your son and then I
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knew it was a night of hell you know if
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anybody wants to know what hell is like
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that's what it's like
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David Licata had been killed by a
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hit-and-run driver John was troubled by
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Barbara's deep depression over David's
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death and by their oldest son's
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overriding bitterness toward the driver
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who had killed his brother at Barbara's
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request John reluctantly agreed to a
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session with George Anderson George
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Anderson claims that with Allah Cara's
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as with all his clients he had no prior
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information about them he only knew that
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the family was in mourning our recently
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lost his son yes some sort of accident
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passed suddenly I'm seeing I keep seeing
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a vehicle of some kind he's saying he
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was at the wrong place at the wrong time
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he's 16 was he about 16 yeah he was 16
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he's telling me it's very confusing and
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he's very restless was he very emotional
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emotional she's talking a mile a minute
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I can recall their son David coming
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through very strongly very high spirited
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personality no pun intended and also
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very anxious to reach out to his parents
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to give them and his family the
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assurance that he was alright there were
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a lot of things very specific pieces of
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information that came forth in this
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reading that there was no way that
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George could have known because he
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didn't even know who I was
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much less link me to this information a
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lot of house story he's saying hostility
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about this you his brother yeah he says
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very hostile still holding bad feelings
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yes she saying forgive got to forgive if
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he can forgive everybody else should be
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able to forgive because he's the one
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over there I felt this enormous relief
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when we made contact with David to
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George it was a total relief because I
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felt like
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you arrived you're in the other world
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you're still alive and I will see you
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again and there's a reason for all of
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this I don't know what the reason is but
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I will see you again six years almost to
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the day after David Licata died another
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boy David Elliot of Rochester New York
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was killed in a snow skiing accident at
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the age of 17 several weeks later the
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deaths of the two boys would become
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oddly intertwined when John Elliott
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bought a book about George Anderson
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called we don't die the book dealt with
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a case of David Licata while John Eliot
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was reading it he dreamed he had a
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session with George Anderson in the
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dream George said he saw John's son
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David standing with David Licata you
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take their name David because I'm seeing
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David Licata with a soccer ball and he's
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telling me that your son's name is also
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David the dream seemed so real that I
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decided I ought to pursue they reading
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with George my background is in science
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and engineering circumstantial evidence
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doesn't prove anything
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to myself I need the hard facts and so I
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wanted a number of things out of any
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vision any trip to George to convince
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myself that he was doing something like
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what's claimed in his book a month and a
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half after John Elliot had his dream he
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and two of his other sons Mark and Jack
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attended a reading with George Anderson
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John Elliott sat at the back of the room
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and his son sat at the front John claims
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that George Anderson had no idea who
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they were that they were related and I
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decided I would sit back and be the
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skeptic and give him no information you
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prove it to me
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the man in the back had a son pass
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recently oh yes
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same
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I'm sorry I've lost the signal
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I wanted to see that there was a signal
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involved I wanted to know that he wasn't
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reading my mind and he goes I have to
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stop now I lose the signal quote signal
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when lightning storms arrive and i sat
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there like with my pen checking off
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number one there's a signal involved
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it's not real clear but something about
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1717 does that mean anything yeah is age
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yes there's seventeen when you pan
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passed suddenly yeah George Anderson's
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attention then shifted to one of
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johnelliott sons then do you take the
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name Madeline Madeline
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yes my mother vibration maybe
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grandmother mmhmm yeah grandfather dad
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Donald married to Donna yeah they're
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around you now the now your grandparents
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are moving over behind this young man
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here they're saying protecting are you
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two brothers yes they're saying yes
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sport very getting a lot of sports here
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do you play
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I'm seeing some sort of Bassett who for
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Anna ball is maybe basketball then mark
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spoke up it's soccer I play soccer and
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George says oh this is really strange
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and I'm listening to all this and saying
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now what could be strange to a psychic
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at what was really strange in my mind is
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if he's got this vision of a Lakota boy
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with a soccer ball that would even be
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strange to a psychic oh okay now I'm a
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Sikh as I'm seeing all the sudden I'm
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seeing David Licata is there dressed in
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his soccer uniform I'm seeing David
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Licata
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he's wearing his Sakharov he's the heat
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he's here as a clue the name the name
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David and and soccer did you take the
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name of David yes yes your your David
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your father of these two boys yes I own
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and you you've lost us now it's now he's
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coming okay you've lost a son named
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David you've lost a brother named David
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finally he's coming through I did boy
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that was freaky I didn't know why David
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Licata
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is there he's saying yes now your son is
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coming through
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they're talking and almost laughing
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about he used him as a very clever but
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very freaky I'm sitting there having
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George relive my dream and my parents
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identified and I would call myself numb
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i sat there and was amazed by just about
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everything I'd asked for happened and I
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came away without being able to doubt
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him I had definitely have changed my
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attitude towards a life after this over
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the years I've learned to accept and
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believe that David as well as all the
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rest of my relatives are with us all the
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time
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I constantly question it I constantly
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say to myself gee if this is real why
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doesn't it work like this it should work
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like this I should be able to do this
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but I can't doubt it just because it
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doesn't work the way I feel it should
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work or the way you feel it should work
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it's working the way it's supposed to
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work and I guess it's easy just to
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accept it as it is to satisfy our own
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curiosity about George Anderson's
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apparent ability to communicate with a
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dead unsolved mysteries asked a bereaved
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family from Queens that Kenneth
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Silberman's to meet with George as far
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as we were able to ascertain George
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Anderson and the Silvermans had never
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met nor did he know anything about them
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or their son who had recently passed
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away 33 year old Barry Silverman died
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last February the victim of a variant
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form of cancer which spread to his lungs
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something is changing with Barry's
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parents and his sister joy agreed to a
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session with George what you were seeing
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is an actual reading he conducted by
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George Anderson shot with multiple
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cameras health well there's definitely
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two male presences around you and I'm
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sure there's two males close to you
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passed on someplace so don't say
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anything let me just go with it someone
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also claims to be your dad your dad
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passed also yes because somebody's on
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your behind you the chef your father
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have a good sense of humor because he
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joked he said he doesn't want you to
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feel left out he claims your boy is with
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him so you obviously must have lost the
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son because he keeps saying your boy is
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with me and I'm sure he passed on as a
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young adult but he's still your son he's
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still your boy I hear the name Barry
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does name Barry mean anything to you
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that's our son Barry says the message
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that I just gave you come this is how
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you'll know it's for real that it comes
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from Barry why do I feel as if I lose my
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heir does that make sense yes the injury
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I find was in here and he said you lose
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you I'm losing my air so there's like
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pressure in my chest as if I'm injured
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in the chest but I'm obviously feeling
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whatever the circumstance
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were you concerned you let him down yes
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just keep saying you didn't let me down
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you didn't let me down you didn't let me
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down but he directs it at you more
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specifically because he pointed at you
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he keeps saying you didn't let me down
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very sensitive warm guy he sends his
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love to the three of you as he says to
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you specifically now when you lis it's
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like he's giving orders this is when you
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leave here you leave here with peace he
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said you didn't fail me and he says now
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you stop feeling guilty and he says
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you'd let that go and put your heart at
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rest he says because he's alright he's
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at peace until we meet again go on with
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your lives try to be as happy as you can
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be until we meet again know that you'll
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be with me again when the about him he's
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honest you hear from him you'll know
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it's for real
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and with that he withdraws what the
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others pray for us until we meet again
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and there they go
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okay you can relax the way they went I
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feel a lot better I really do I feel
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that fairies really with us and and you
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know we'll be together someday and you
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know note that doubt is you know human
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beings are funny I guess you never get
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rid of it completely but I feel much
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more convinced I am just so relieved to
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hear that he's not suffering and that
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he's happy and I do believe he spoke
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with Georgie Anderson and there's so
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many things that he has told us that was
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so true that I I feel so much better I
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feel very relieved I'm still skeptical
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I'm still have my days where I'll walk
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upstairs and I'll call my best friend in
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New York City and I'll say to him a this
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stuff's all a bunch of bull I don't know
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why I keep doing this but then that's
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few and far between then they're all the
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times where you know something is
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happening that you cannot explain plus
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when you see the effect it has on the
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people in a positive way where it helps
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them
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I guess it's my job to mind my own
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business and stay out of it and just
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continue to be the instrument and let
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the person receive what comfort comes
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from it and that's what I try to do as
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much as you might want to believe in
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George Anderson's abilities are rational
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logical minds tend to discount them
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still after seeing George Anderson in
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action one might speculate to paraphrase
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Shakespeare but there are more things in
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heaven and earth than are dreamt of in
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our philosophies next the tragic story
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of a couple charged with a murder of
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their own daughter plus an update in
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which our viewers help close a case
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19:47 a small California town near the
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Oregon border a woman walking home from
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the grocery store found an abandoned
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two-year-old girl who had been severely
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beaten
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through newspaper articles the little
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girl was identified as mary-jane Medlin
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of selma oregon police arrested mary's
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mother and her boyfriend on charges of
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child abandonment an assault with
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attempt to commit murder both were
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sentenced to 20 years in prison
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[Music]
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Mary her older sister glioma and her
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baby brother Jimmy eventually became
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Ward's of the state and were placed with
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different families in 1991 Mary finally
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found her sister glioma they immediately
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joined forces to find the younger
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brother Jimmy who Mary had only seen
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once when he was just an infant I feel
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that the missing link is Jimmy to make
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our family complete and I would like to
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know where he is
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what happened to him what kind of a life
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he has and like him to know that we're
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here and and we're his sisters the night
00:22:59
of our broadcast Jimmy was not watching
00:23:01
unsolved mysteries but his adopted
00:23:04
sister was she immediately called her
00:23:06
mother who then contacted Jimmy his name
00:23:09
is now Donald Barrow
00:23:11
and he was just as anxious to meet his
00:23:13
sisters as they were to meet him
00:23:18
two weeks after our broadcast Donald and
00:23:21
his family drove from their home in
00:23:22
Fresno California to Mary's home in
00:23:25
Placerville
00:23:25
Donald Mary and glioma had not seen each
00:23:28
other in 45 years the one thing that I
00:23:40
was concerned about is was it going to
00:23:43
be okay and I knew when I met him Allen
00:23:49
Carr that it is okay and I am so happy I
00:24:06
just think that seeing him and knowing
00:24:10
that he's had a good life that was
00:24:11
something that Mary and I both were
00:24:13
concerned with that we wanted to make
00:24:15
sure that he had had a good life and
00:24:17
knowing that he did makes us very happy
00:24:20
I'm not very good at emotion so I don't
00:24:23
know how to explain all of it we're
00:24:24
going through my mind but there were
00:24:26
there were a lot of them and there still
00:24:32
are
00:24:40
now I'm gonna find out what it's like to
00:24:42
be a baby brother nice to get to be the
00:24:45
oldest is we all know I'm the middle
00:24:48
child
00:24:48
[Laughter]
00:24:55
[Music]
00:25:03
September 10th 1988 began as an ordinary
00:25:06
Saturday morning in Midlothian Illinois
00:25:10
David a wallaby and his son Davey were
00:25:12
up early they were careful not to wake
00:25:15
the rest of the family including David's
00:25:17
mother who lived in a basement apartment
00:25:20
at around 7:15 David de wallaby noticed
00:25:24
that the front door was partially open
00:25:26
my first reaction was that my mother it
00:25:29
must have come home and left it open I
00:25:31
went into the kitchen I looked in the
00:25:33
driveway for her Karen her car wasn't
00:25:35
there and you know again the first
00:25:37
reaction was that she must have came
00:25:39
home in the middle of night went back
00:25:41
out and left it open
00:25:44
two hours later David's wife Cynthia got
00:25:47
up and went in to wake their
00:25:48
seven-year-old daughter Jacqueline
00:25:57
Jacqueline no I was Cheryl no is she
00:26:01
with your mom no I don't think mom came
00:26:03
home last night David and Cynthia
00:26:07
initially a son that Jacqueline was out
00:26:09
playing with friends in the neighborhood
00:26:12
Jaclyn was Cynthia's daughter from a
00:26:14
previous marriage after Cynthia and
00:26:16
David married he felt so close to
00:26:18
Jacqueline that he legally adopted her
00:26:20
[Music]
00:26:23
after thoroughly searching the house
00:26:25
David took his son with him to look
00:26:28
around the neighborhood I had checked
00:26:34
two or three homes and then we went out
00:26:35
in my truck and we drove around the
00:26:37
neighborhood going to friends who lived
00:26:39
a little further down and just you know
00:26:41
driving around the blacks and getting
00:26:42
out of the truck looking in backyards
00:26:44
what our swing sets I started to get
00:26:51
more nervous started to walk quicker and
00:26:55
car louder when I went back into
00:26:58
Jacqueline's room and I noticed that her
00:27:00
comforter was missing and that it was
00:27:02
very unusual for her comforter to be
00:27:04
missing because she doesn't play with it
00:27:10
did you find her well we've been every
00:27:12
house in the neighborhood no one's seen
00:27:13
I've been through the whole house she's
00:27:14
not there
00:27:15
her and her clothes gone you know where
00:27:16
that is oh all right well I'm gonna go
00:27:18
check the Morgan I was cutting through
00:27:20
my yard to look into my neighbor's
00:27:22
backyard and that's where I noticed the
00:27:24
window the window to the basement
00:27:28
apartment had been broken into
00:27:29
it appeared that an intruder had used it
00:27:32
to gain access to the house within hours
00:27:43
the de Wallaby household was swarming
00:27:45
with police and FBI agents who assumed
00:27:47
that Jacqueline had been kidnapped they
00:27:51
set up wiretapping equipment to record
00:27:52
any calls which might come in with
00:27:54
ransom demands but a kidnapper never
00:27:58
called four days later
00:28:06
Jacqueline's body was discovered in a
00:28:08
vacant field in the adjacent community
00:28:10
of Blue Island Illinois found at the
00:28:14
scene where the comforter from her bed
00:28:15
her nightgown and a 26 foot length of
00:28:18
rope which had been wrapped around her
00:28:20
throat it is difficult to imagine a
00:28:25
Paris agony upon losing a child but
00:28:28
imagine the additional horror being
00:28:30
accused of killing your own daughter
00:28:33
that is exactly what happened to David
00:28:35
and Cynthia de Wallaby indeed to this
00:28:38
day some investigators are still
00:28:40
convinced that David and Cynthia
00:28:42
murdered Jacqueline
00:28:43
despite their long-standing claims of
00:28:45
innocence four years later the
00:28:47
authorities continue to ask the same
00:28:49
question if the des Wallabies did not
00:28:52
kill their daughter then who did what
00:28:59
time did you get up this morning
00:29:01
from the moment they were notified the
00:29:03
police investigation into Jackson's
00:29:05
disappearance was two-pronged while he
00:29:09
pursued the possibility of a kidnapping
00:29:11
they began a detailed questioning of
00:29:13
both Cynthia and David your wife was
00:29:16
still asleep she was still sleeping
00:29:17
that kind of strange I mean I know in my
00:29:20
house with my kids one of the kids get
00:29:21
up it's like the whole family's up
00:29:23
they like the sleep so we let him sleep
00:29:25
and they yet it was Howard answering
00:29:27
their questions because telling the
00:29:28
police that you woke up around 8 isn't
00:29:31
good enough they wanted us to get it as
00:29:32
close as possible and so we were forced
00:29:35
to try to get it really close to times
00:29:37
when really what all that was on her
00:29:39
mind was Jacquelyn I didn't want the
00:29:41
Miskin me questions although you answer
00:29:43
them as you walking past him and pacing
00:29:46
but it was just totally chaotic and the
00:29:49
repeated questions of what did you do in
00:29:51
the morning that seemed so senseless
00:29:53
because I said you know where's my
00:29:55
daughter just fine Jacquelyn that's all
00:29:57
I wanted them to do I know they'll tell
00:30:03
you that they felt as though they were
00:30:05
being harassed and being accused I think
00:30:08
any reasonable individuals got to got to
00:30:11
understand that you're in the house your
00:30:13
daughter's missing your suspect
00:30:18
investigators naturally directed their
00:30:20
attention to the basement window
00:30:23
[Music]
00:30:25
initially they believed that the window
00:30:27
had been smashed by someone on the
00:30:29
inside to suggest that an intruder had
00:30:31
broken it to gain entry do people call
00:30:36
you David yes are you over 21 years old
00:30:40
yes on Sunday September 11th a day after
00:30:44
Jacquelyn disappeared David agreed to
00:30:46
take a polygraph test at FBI
00:30:48
headquarters in Chicago did you help her
00:30:51
plan with anyone - cause Jacqueline's
00:30:53
disappearance No please remain facing
00:30:55
the front did you help her plan with
00:30:58
anyone - cause Jacqueline's
00:30:59
disappearance no are you withholding
00:31:04
Annie
00:31:05
I asked the agent asked me if I passed
00:31:07
and he said I pass with flying colors
00:31:10
three days went by the police still had
00:31:14
no leads - Jackman's whereabouts they
00:31:16
requested that David and Cynthia sit and
00:31:18
wait
00:31:20
yeah I remember the days were very long
00:31:23
you know the days seem like weeks and
00:31:25
then the night we would Rita Cindy and I
00:31:28
would be in the room trying to imagine
00:31:30
where she might be
00:31:32
you know I just remember that's all that
00:31:34
was on our minds is trying to figure out
00:31:36
where she could be
00:31:42
on the very day Jacqueline's body would
00:31:45
be found
00:31:46
Davida wallaby was asked to take a
00:31:48
second lie-detector test of course I
00:31:51
wanted to know why and what was not the
00:31:53
first one and their answer was something
00:31:56
to the fact that the state likes to use
00:31:58
their own the results from the second
00:32:02
Test were inconclusive the report cited
00:32:05
David is an uncooperative subject
00:32:06
however he believes the results stem
00:32:09
from a disagreement he had with a state
00:32:11
agent administering the test at one
00:32:15
point he asked me to answer yes to all
00:32:17
of his questions in other words he
00:32:19
wanted me to lie so he could see how his
00:32:21
tests would result in me lying and I
00:32:24
said okay in the end like the second
00:32:26
question he asked me was did you kill
00:32:27
your daughter and he wanted me an answer
00:32:29
yes to that and I I told him I can't do
00:32:31
it and he got into a little argument he
00:32:33
was turning red in the face and he said
00:32:35
we have to do it this way you have to
00:32:36
you know lie I don't mind telling my
00:32:38
name is not Dave Dave to wallaby and I
00:32:40
don't mind some things but I told my I
00:32:42
can't say yes to a question like that
00:32:43
and he upset him after the second test
00:32:51
David was interrogated for another five
00:32:53
hours finally an officer interrupted we
00:33:00
think we found Jacqueline she okay I'm
00:33:05
sorry she's dead
00:33:08
I was convinced that these police were
00:33:12
lying to me about my daughter's death as
00:33:14
a last-ditch effort to try to get me to
00:33:16
confess to something you liars because
00:33:21
the way the interrogation was going they
00:33:22
were getting frustrated
00:33:23
David Jacqueline is dead well I didn't
00:33:27
believe it I probably didn't want to
00:33:28
believe it
00:33:39
when David returned home and saw his
00:33:42
wife and mother he knew the police had
00:33:44
told him the truth
00:33:53
Cindy was on the couch crying and I ran
00:33:56
up to an a sir if it was true and she
00:33:58
said yes you know we lost our daughter
00:34:01
the feeling was well it can't be like
00:34:05
it's impossible it's just too much of a
00:34:07
bizarre nightmare you know to be real
00:34:10
and you feel like it must be a dream it
00:34:14
was hard to accept very hard first thing
00:34:18
I said was who did it I would do this
00:34:24
I can't explain how I felt because I I
00:34:29
think I went into shock because I just
00:34:32
laid on the couch crying an autopsy was
00:34:39
unable to determine when Jacqueline had
00:34:41
been murdered on September 17 1988 she
00:34:45
was laid to rest
00:34:48
the joint investigation now included the
00:34:51
Illinois State Police the Midlothian
00:34:52
police and the police and Blue Island
00:34:55
where Jaclyn's body had been found for
00:34:59
two months they collected evidence and
00:35:01
built a case against the de wallabies
00:35:05
finally in November of 1988 David and
00:35:08
Cynthia Duvall api-- were charged with
00:35:10
Jacqueline's murder Cynthia was two
00:35:13
months pregnant in April of 1990 David
00:35:18
and Cynthia de Wallaby went on trial for
00:35:20
the murder of their daughter Jaclyn the
00:35:24
prosecution built its case largely on
00:35:26
circumstantial evidence could you tell
00:35:30
us what the car looked like sir one
00:35:34
prosecution witness a transit worker
00:35:36
named Everett man picked David de
00:35:38
Wallaby out of a photo lineup
00:35:40
he claimed that on the night of the
00:35:42
murder he saw a man with a prominent
00:35:44
nose like David's in a parked car near
00:35:47
the site where Jaclyn's body was
00:35:48
discovered did you make out any features
00:35:51
of that person yes it was the Noah
00:35:53
structure could you tell whether it was
00:35:55
a manner
00:35:56
Everitt man's claim was that from 75
00:35:59
yards away three-quarters of the length
00:36:01
of a football field on a moonless night
00:36:04
in a dark parking lot he saw a profile
00:36:09
of a nose structure that resembled David
00:36:12
the Wallabies no structure I've been
00:36:15
there the police have been there every
00:36:18
rational person knows that that's a
00:36:20
physical impossibility the photos spread
00:36:23
that Everett men was shown was of five
00:36:26
photographs all of white males all
00:36:29
frontal he saw the man in the parking
00:36:32
lot from a side view also David the
00:36:35
Wallabies photograph was 30 percent
00:36:37
larger than the other four photographs
00:36:39
in the spread so therefore by definition
00:36:41
David the lobby's nose was the largest
00:36:44
if he saw a very large nose he picked
00:36:47
out David the Wallabies photograph
00:36:48
because that was the largest nose in the
00:36:50
photo spread didn't mean that he saw a
00:36:52
David the lobby remember what
00:36:55
time of day was before the trial two
00:36:59
other eyewitnesses had claimed they saw
00:37:01
cynthia de wallabies car in the same
00:37:03
area shortly after the murder
00:37:05
however those sightings were later
00:37:07
discredited at the exact times a car was
00:37:10
allegedly seen it was actually parked in
00:37:12
front of the de wallabies house another
00:37:17
central issue in the prosecution's case
00:37:19
was a broken window which led into the
00:37:21
basement apartment the entire law
00:37:25
enforcement investigation in this case
00:37:26
was based on a faulty assumption namely
00:37:29
that the basement window had been broken
00:37:31
from inside as part of an effort by the
00:37:33
de wallabies to cover up a crime that
00:37:35
they had committed well it turned out
00:37:37
that they had already arrested and
00:37:39
indicted that the wallabies before the
00:37:41
official forensic report came back on
00:37:43
the window which conclusively showed
00:37:45
that they had been wrong and that the
00:37:46
basement window had indeed been broken
00:37:48
from the outside but by that point there
00:37:51
was no turning back the prosecution also
00:37:54
questioned whether it was possible for
00:37:56
someone to enter the house without
00:37:58
disturbing the items which were perched
00:38:00
beneath the window I found it very
00:38:03
difficult to believe the theory that
00:38:05
someone would break in a window in the
00:38:07
middle of the night and traverse over a
00:38:10
nightstand a tall rack TV tray makeup
00:38:14
and a nail polish and not disturb
00:38:16
anything
00:38:17
it's incredible to imagine someone even
00:38:20
kicking in a window and making that kind
00:38:22
of racket in the middle of the night
00:38:23
knowing there's a people in the home
00:38:27
to prove the such an entry was possible
00:38:30
David de Wallaby shot this videotape of
00:38:33
a neighbor crawling through the window
00:38:35
the prosecution was telling the judge in
00:38:38
the media that if someone were to come
00:38:40
in they would have to step on this towel
00:38:41
rack and bend it so we put the towel
00:38:44
rack onto the window and we had my
00:38:46
neighbor crawling while we were shooting
00:38:47
it with a camera and what happened is he
00:38:50
slid in on his belly and right before he
00:38:52
got to the towel rack he he wedged his
00:38:54
foot on the wall and held himself out
00:38:56
hanging hanging off the window ledge so
00:39:00
we proved it to ourselves and we tape it
00:39:02
recorded it so that there was if there
00:39:04
was a chance we could prove it to others
00:39:06
I ask that the indictments against David
00:39:09
and Cynthia de wallaby be set aside from
00:39:11
the Wallabies never testified on their
00:39:14
own behalf before closing arguments the
00:39:17
judge addressed attorneys from both
00:39:18
sides without the jury present it's my
00:39:21
position that there is sufficient
00:39:23
evidence for David to wallabies case to
00:39:25
go to the jury as to Cynthia to wallaby
00:39:28
and as a legal matter I'm ruling that
00:39:31
there is insufficient evidence for her
00:39:33
case to go to the jury the court was
00:39:42
adjourned for a while
00:39:43
and we just kept telling David in the
00:39:46
hall that he was next and he was next
00:39:49
that this is obviously where the jurors
00:39:52
heading also have you reached a verdict
00:39:54
in this case yes
00:39:56
the jury deliberated for three days on
00:39:59
the fate of David de wallaby I was
00:40:03
really up I felt for sure we were gonna
00:40:05
get a not guilty verdict well the
00:40:07
defendant please rise you know of course
00:40:11
I'm so anxious I was trying to read into
00:40:13
the judges eyes into his reaction of
00:40:16
what it could be but I was getting
00:40:17
nothing
00:40:21
we the jury find the defendant David de
00:40:24
Wallaby guilty of murder in the first
00:40:26
degree we've a jury find the defendant
00:40:29
David de Wallaby guilty of concealment
00:40:32
of a homicidal death I think I wanted to
00:40:37
shock
00:40:38
I wasn't even conscious of anything
00:40:40
around me it was unbelievable it didn't
00:40:44
matter what happened to me at that point
00:40:45
because I really wasn't there even
00:40:47
though I was david dhawan abhi was
00:40:53
sentenced to 45 years in the state ville
00:40:55
maximum-security prison in Joliet
00:40:58
Illinois but even as he began serving
00:41:04
his sentence a grassroots movement was
00:41:06
being organized by Cynthia and friends
00:41:08
of the family to reverse the decision
00:41:11
their efforts caught the attention of
00:41:13
Chicago journalist David protests in a
00:41:16
series of newspaper articles he
00:41:18
criticized the official investigation
00:41:21
well Carol the de Huelva trial ended in
00:41:24
a split decision because it was a
00:41:26
circumstantial case there was no
00:41:28
physical evidence later television
00:41:30
reporter Paul Hogan Lee collaborated
00:41:32
with protests and a series of
00:41:33
investigative reports that way our
00:41:37
expert says state police evidence
00:41:38
technician whose primary job was to seek
00:41:41
out and collect all physical evidence
00:41:42
should have immediately collected and
00:41:44
inventoried the glass instead he waited
00:41:46
three days and then had to retrieve it
00:41:48
from a trash basket he should have the
00:41:50
news reports and shifting public
00:41:52
sentiment brought about a stunning turn
00:41:54
of events
00:42:00
in October of 1991 the Illinois Court of
00:42:04
Appeals unanimously overturned the
00:42:06
verdict and dismissed david de wallabies
00:42:08
case he was released from prison after
00:42:11
serving 18 months today is not a day to
00:42:14
be bitter or to look back I'm just
00:42:16
looking forward to seeing my family so
00:42:17
maybe in a few weeks or so on something
00:42:19
I might look back and decide what to do
00:42:21
next with you what are you in the
00:42:23
appellate court in my mind did not find
00:42:27
David wallaby innocence they released
00:42:29
him for lack of evidence
00:42:31
someone in that home was responsible for
00:42:34
Jacqueline's death and I still believe
00:42:36
that I haven't discovered any evidence
00:42:41
have been told any other given any other
00:42:44
facts that would lead me to believe any
00:42:46
differently we're left with the mystery
00:42:52
of what happened to Jacqueline and we
00:42:54
wonder all the time what could have
00:42:57
happened to her who could have hurt her
00:43:01
you know we just want the ability to to
00:43:07
try to go on but we want to find out
00:43:10
what happened to Jacqueline yeah we want
00:43:13
justice
00:43:17
what it all boils down to is we lost a
00:43:19
precious little girl nothing beyond that
00:43:24
is as bad as losing Jacqueline going to
00:43:26
prison being accused of this crime it's
00:43:29
all bad but it doesn't compare to losing
00:43:31
Jacqueline so you know that that was the
00:43:34
hardest part of every of it all and we
00:43:36
keep falling back on the same on
00:43:38
Jacqueline
00:43:39
[Music]
00:43:42
update after we aired this story to
00:43:45
viewers called art Ellison the crucial
00:43:47
information which refuted the alibi of
00:43:50
one of the original suspects in the case
00:43:52
as a result of the new revelations the
00:43:55
State Attorney's Office reopened the
00:43:57
investigation of Jacqueline to wallabies
00:43:59
murder however at this time there are no
00:44:02
plans to file new charges in the case
00:44:21
join me next time perhaps you may be
00:44:25
able to help solve a mystery
00:44:29
[Music]
00:45:06
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Episode Highlights

  • George Anderson's Psychic Abilities
    George Anderson claims to communicate with the spirits of the deceased, providing comfort to the bereaved.
    “Many people say that this man has uncanny psychic abilities.”
    @ 00m 21s
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  • The Licata Family's Tragedy
    The Licata family seeks closure after the tragic death of their son, David, through a psychic reading.
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  • A Joyous Reunion
    Thanks to our viewers, a woman finds her long-lost brother after decades apart.
    “I just think that seeing him and knowing that he’s had a good life makes us very happy.”
    @ 24m 13s
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  • The Disappearance of Jacqueline
    Jacqueline's disappearance leads to a frantic search and police investigation.
    “I had checked two or three homes and then we went out in my truck.”
    @ 26m 25s
    May 23, 2019
  • The Discovery of Jacqueline's Body
    Four days later, Jacqueline's body is discovered in a vacant field.
    “It is difficult to imagine the agony upon losing a child.”
    @ 28m 25s
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  • Trial and Conviction
    David and Cynthia de Wallaby are charged with their daughter's murder based on circumstantial evidence.
    “The prosecution built its case largely on circumstantial evidence.”
    @ 35m 24s
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  • Overturned Verdict
    In 1991, the Illinois Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the verdict against David de Wallaby.
    “He was released from prison after serving 18 months.”
    @ 42m 06s
    May 23, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • It sounds unbelievable but...
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 10 - Full Episode
  • You’re still alive and I will see you again.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 10 - Full Episode
  • I feel much more convinced I am just so relieved.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 10 - Full Episode
  • It’s impossible, it’s just too much of a bizarre nightmare.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 10 - Full Episode
  • What it all boils down to is we lost a precious little girl.
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Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:03
  • Psychic Claims00:37
  • Tragic Loss00:41
  • Family Reunion23:25
  • Frantic Search26:25
  • Tragic Discovery28:06
  • Trial Begins35:18
  • Verdict Overturned42:06

Words per Minute Over Time

Vibes Breakdown

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