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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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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
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of our broadcast Jimmy was not watching
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unsolved mysteries but his adopted
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sister was she immediately called her
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mother who then contacted Jimmy his name
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is now Donald Barrow
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and he was just as anxious to meet his
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sisters as they were to meet him
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two weeks after our broadcast Donald and
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his family drove from their home in
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Fresno California to Mary's home in
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Placerville
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Donald Mary and glioma had not seen each
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other in 45 years the one thing that I
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was concerned about is was it going to
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be okay and I knew when I met him Allen
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Carr that it is okay and I am so happy I
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just think that seeing him and knowing
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that he's had a good life that was
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something that Mary and I both were
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concerned with that we wanted to make
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sure that he had had a good life and
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knowing that he did makes us very happy
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I'm not very good at emotion so I don't
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know how to explain all of it we're
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going through my mind but there were
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there were a lot of them and there still
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are
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now I'm gonna find out what it's like to
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be a baby brother nice to get to be the
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oldest is we all know I'm the middle
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child
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[Laughter]
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September 10th 1988 began as an ordinary
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Saturday morning in Midlothian Illinois
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David a wallaby and his son Davey were
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up early they were careful not to wake
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the rest of the family including David's
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mother who lived in a basement apartment
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at around 7:15 David de wallaby noticed
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that the front door was partially open
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my first reaction was that my mother it
00:25:29
must have come home and left it open I
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went into the kitchen I looked in the
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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
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home in the middle of night went back
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out and left it open
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two hours later David's wife Cynthia got
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up and went in to wake their
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seven-year-old daughter Jacqueline
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Jacqueline no I was Cheryl no is she
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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
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playing with friends in the neighborhood
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Jaclyn was Cynthia's daughter from a
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previous marriage after Cynthia and
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David married he felt so close to
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Jacqueline that he legally adopted her
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after thoroughly searching the house
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David took his son with him to look
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around the neighborhood I had checked
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two or three homes and then we went out
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in my truck and we drove around the
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neighborhood going to friends who lived
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a little further down and just you know
00:26:41
driving around the blacks and getting
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out of the truck looking in backyards
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what our swing sets I started to get
00:26:51
more nervous started to walk quicker and
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car louder when I went back into
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Jacqueline's room and I noticed that her
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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
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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
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her and her clothes gone you know where
00:27:16
that is oh all right well I'm gonna go
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check the Morgan I was cutting through
00:27:20
my yard to look into my neighbor's
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backyard and that's where I noticed the
00:27:24
window the window to the basement
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apartment had been broken into
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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investigators naturally directed their
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attention to the basement window
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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
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broken it to gain entry do people call
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you David yes are you over 21 years old
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yes on Sunday September 11th a day after
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Jacquelyn disappeared David agreed to
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take a polygraph test at FBI
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headquarters in Chicago did you help her
00:30:51
plan with anyone - cause Jacqueline's
00:30:53
disappearance No please remain facing
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the front did you help her plan with
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anyone - cause Jacqueline's
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disappearance no are you withholding
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Annie
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I asked the agent asked me if I passed
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and he said I pass with flying colors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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00:45:06
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