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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
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liesl a popular Los Angeles disc jockey
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had a fondness for motorcycles late one
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night an argument led to a high speed
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duel Lisa one was run down and killed
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his murderer is still at large
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8 years ago 25 year old Michael Rosalind
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banished from the site of a Pennsylvania
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Highway
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his father believes Michael may have
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been the victim of powered fire in
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Florida a 77 year old Don Juan first
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steals our hearts of his victims then
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their cash and jewelry also tonight
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we'll update the poignant story of Raja
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skåne Los Angeles man apparently
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suffering from amnesia who left his home
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for a simple trip to the hardware store
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and vanished shortly after our broadcast
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if you were called claiming that Raja
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stirs now living in Topeka Kansas when
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the police investigated this lead a man
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who disappeared again perhaps you can
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help find him join me you may be able to
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help solve a mystery
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[Music]
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46 year-old Lisa - familiar face the
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trendy rock-and-roll nightclubs that
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populate Los Angeles
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here's a close friend the many popular
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rock stars and musicians he was also a
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member of the late-night motorcycle
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riding crowd in Holland
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October 8 1988 Lisa will would fight for
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his life the victim of a bizarre
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encounter the crazed killer on the
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streets of Los Angeles
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it was a fight for survival that Lee
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would not win lee seunghwan was a man
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who loved the nightlife of Los Angeles
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was an important part of it but simply
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because he looked different Lee and his
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friends were arbitrarily targeted for
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murder the sad irony of his death is
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that he was only an innocent bystander
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the search for his killer has been taken
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to the streets of Los Angeles by his
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family and the rockers and bikers who
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loved him when he first got his
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motorcycle I guess I was probably a
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little bit nervous about it but I knew
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that he was careful and I knew that he
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wouldn't take chances unnecessary
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chances
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wouldn't ride on the freeways he he
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wasn't a crazy kind of person and so I
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really didn't worry about him a 2ao
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October the enemy MC friend left a
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Hollywood nightclub unaware of the
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danger that awaited in the street
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they wrote to buy to Lee and a friend
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Maine beachy trading Mike Auerbach and
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Rob Caliphate wrote in front drive along
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and all of a sudden out of nowhere this
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truck comes flying by me as he comes by
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he dives in on the rap
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you screaming haha you screaming
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something I don't gonna hear just
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laughing dives it on me
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I look over mic and in LA this happens
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every day every day but not so clean
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infuriated because he's trying to kill
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me and I'm really close to the guy yo
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and I what the hell you trying to do
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trying to kill me
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and he starts screaming at me and looked
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like like the net I'm drugged spear
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would ever cycle then he rolls his
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window down and spits in my face right
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in my face and just anybody get
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significant in their face cuz irate so I
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punched out his mirror and he's still
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alone his window down up and down
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spitting at me ground screaming and then
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he starts reaching down like he's bad
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again I put my fist through his driver's
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window as soon as I broke his window he
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triggered shot out of the intersection
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and he's doing a Brody u-turn and Mike
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and I love each other's got some killers
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it's coming after us Nimoy's down
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does you turn comes after us we're
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flying down the street and I'm just
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going and I see his headlights bearing
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down on us I'm just gonna sit back
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together so we we choose to go right and
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as I look back T's comes flying through
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the intersection screeching bouncing and
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comes to a sly stop when we got to the
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intersection he turned left the man in
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the truck followed me
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he's like create a for what I've seen
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he's a crazed maniac cuz he he just
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wanted to kill me he wanted to kill me
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instead of Rob calafate lease owned
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became the target of the drivers rage
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according to the witnesses they were
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both going anywhere from 60 to 90 miles
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an hour and here you have a young man
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who is known by his friends known by his
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family as a very peaceable man who
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purposely avoids fights even when
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confronted even though if he is
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physically harmed by somebody he'll turn
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a walk away you have a man like that
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who's out riding his motorcycle having
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fun and also he's in a situation where
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he's terrorized by someone in a car
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she had to be in complete terror and
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this terror lasted approximately about a
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five mile chase with this man right on
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his rear end according to the witnesses
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he was right on and he chased him until
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the time they actually hit him and drove
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him into a telephone pole Lee when he
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flew through the air
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he flew close to 180 feet before I came
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to arrest this is a murder
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that's a homicide someone intentionally
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took the life of another person it's a
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homicide
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the massive skull fracture Lee received
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in the collision was a cause of his
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death
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I received a call from Cedars they said
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that he was in the intensive care and I
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knew I just knew but I don't believe
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it's real but it isn't real he was such
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a big part of my life he was my buddy
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it wasn't just my son he was my buddy
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at least funeral hundreds of his friends
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paid tribute to this music video with
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footage shot at the funeral was set to
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an original song dedicated to Lee's
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memory by the rock group Little Caesar
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it was amazing to see all these people
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who really cared there's no way that
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that that can be consolation enough
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there's a real tribute to whom Lee was
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by how many people were there and how
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many people really have shown how much
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they cared
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these friends organized a rock concert
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in his honor the special guest
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performances by Billy Idol Julian
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Leonard among others proceeds from the
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concert went to a fund offering a reward
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to anyone who could bring Lee's murder
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to justice
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a lot of people take the opinion that
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these guys are motorcycle gang members
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when in fact there was four guys out
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having a good time they happen to like
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to ride harley-davidson motorcycles what
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really counts is who they are and what
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they're doing these people weren't doing
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anything wrong that night and they had a
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right to be out there riding their
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motorcycles and dressed the way they
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were at least someone wasn't even the
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man who gave him the problem it was
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another one of the motorcyclists but
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this man was so bent on catching the bad
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person it didn't matter to him who was
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on the motorcycle he had to catch that
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motorcycle and he had to run him over
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it's incomprehensible to me to think
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that we could never find this man it's I
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can't even imagine that I could live the
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rest of my life not knowing who did this
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these killer drove a late-model two-tone
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vehicle with a chrome luggage rack and
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tinted windows most eyewitnesses agree
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that it was a Bronco - or a Chevy Blazer
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and that his colors were red on white
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damage to the vehicle included a smashed
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outside rear view mirror a broken window
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and a dented door all in the driver's
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side the vehicle would probably have
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come into an auto body shop for repair
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sometime after October 8th the driver of
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the vehicle is described as Caucasian
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aged 28 to 32 with green eyes and
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reddish brown hair and beard incredibly
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four years went by before police finally
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got the tip they'd been waiting for
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after a recent rebroadcast of the story
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a viewer called our phone center and
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told one of the operators that there was
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a man in prison in Georgia would often
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bragged about running down a biker in
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Los Angeles the Los Angeles police
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obtained a mug shot of the suspect Lee's
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friends picked the man out of a photo
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lineup his name is Franklin Legrand
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Perkins on July 30th 1993 just five days
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before Perkins was scheduled for parole
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he was arrested one week later he was
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brought back to Los Angeles by Detective
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Dan Andrews most murder victims know
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their attackers know their killers but
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this is a case that that just wasn't
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that way this was a random event a
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person was basically minding his own
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business and and unfortunate was in the
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wrong place at the wrong time and I
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think it's very unusual to identify
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somebody and be able to solve a case
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after five years it's a very good
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feeling except for the most important
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fact which is nothing can ever bring Lee
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back I hope this will bring some closure
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to this five years of uncertainty and
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the pain that goes along with it
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finally justice can be served and and
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also I'm grateful that this man is not
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out there committing other crimes and
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hurting other people who killing other
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people's loved ones one portion of the
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grief will be closed we're dealt with
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and I know that when I'm driving on the
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streets I won't be looking in other cars
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wondering if that might be the guy in an
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earlier broadcast we presented the story
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of Stephen Cox accused of defrauding his
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friends and neighbors in Medford Oregon
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and three and a half million dollars
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thanks to our viewers the four year
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search for Cox has ended in 1982 Stephen
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Cox formed an investment company
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offering his clients at 25 percent
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return on their money
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Cox was able to convince many people in
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Medford to invest their life savings
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totaling three and a half million
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dollars at first his business prospered
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then in 1984 it began to sour on
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September 22nd 1984 Stephen Cox vanished
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allegedly took with him over $200,000 in
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gold silver jewelry and cash within
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minutes of our broadcast in November six
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viewers called our 800 number to report
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that Cox was living in Boise Idaho under
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the assumed name Robert Bradley Davis
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however just hours before the broadcast
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Cox disappeared again telling his wife
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he was going to Hawaii
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update Stephen Cox has been arrested in
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Lake Mead Nevada's 25 miles southeast of
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Las Vegas five days after he fled from
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Boise Cox checked into the Lake Mead
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Lodge Motel he registered under the name
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John strums listed Mara zona address he
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was not the normal guest he stayed in
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his room
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all day long he would only leave at
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night very seldom did he leave in the
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daytime and we noticed that the license
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plates were not the same as he had put
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down on his registration card and that
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made us a little suspicious but yet
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nothing we could put a finger on two
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weeks later
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Edna Reed made a startling discovery
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one day and when I was out on the ground
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I saw the guest come out of his room
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instead of putting his trash and Ben in
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front of his room he took it up to
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number 35 which was several doors away
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and when I went to empty the trash out
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of that bin I found the crumpled up
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letter and like any curious female I
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read the letter when I read the letter I
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saw the part that said something about
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the unsolved mystery show being a
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bombshell I showed the letter to my
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husband Harold and between the two of us
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we decided it was time definitely to
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call the Rangers and tell them about the
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guest lake me Park Rangers immediately
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ran a computer check and discovered that
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the car belong to someone other than
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John Strauss on the morning of the 14th
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we began to look for the person by going
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to the Lake Mead Lodge to see if we
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could identify in fact who he really was
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when we got there the vehicle was gone
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and the person was gone and had been
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gone for 15 or 20 minutes the next
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morning Park Rangers spotted Cox's car
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pulled him over in the parking lot of
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the Gold Strike casino after we made the
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traffic stop he produced identification
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the driver's license issued to a Robert
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Davis and we checked that name and date
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of birth through the NCIC computer he
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found that it was an alias used by one
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Stephen Cox and that there was a warrant
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for mr. Cox at that point we placed him
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under arrest during a search of Cox's
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cars Park Rangers uncovered a small
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fortune
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when we looked in the passenger
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compartment of the vehicle and in the
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trunk we found suitcases and other
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luggage tech bags filled with jewelry
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rings necklaces collectors type baseball
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cards some gold coins silver coins and I
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was really very curious to know why he
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had it in the vehicle and if in fact
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this was the stuff that he was wanted
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for taking in the first place
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April 2nd 1988 Baldwin borough
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Pennsylvania a suburb of Greater
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Pittsburgh 30 volunteer firemen gather
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on a steep bluff overlooking the
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Monongahela River at the suggestion of a
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psyche they are here to search for the
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remains of Michael rosenbloom a young
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Pittsburgh man who has been missing for
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over eight years or Maurice Rosenbloom
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this search is his latest desperate
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attempt to determine the fate of his son
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Michael who disappeared on Valentine's
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Day in 1980 from a road that runs along
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the foot of the cliff there is not the
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slightest possibility in my mind that he
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could be out there alive I pray that
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that one in ten million chance what
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happened but I just can't believe it I
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just can't believe it I guess you always
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have some hope as long as I don't have a
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body there's always hope over the last
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eight years Maurice Rosenberg has spent
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almost a quarter of a million dollars
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doggedly pursuing every lead to find his
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missing son
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strangely many of those leads suggested
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that the authorities interfered in the
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investigation maurices loan request has
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uncovered disturbing indications an
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important document may have been forged
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a questionable arrest warrant for his
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son was issued and crucial evidence was
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ignored the search for Michael has led
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to a scandal in which a police chief was
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fired and then reinstated after a
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hearing maurice rosenbloom is not
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satisfied the investigation into his
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son's disappearance
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Michael Rosenbloom began experimenting
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with drugs during high school and soon
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became a heavy user of a prescription
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painkiller that altered his moods and
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made him erratic and irritable Michael's
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life spun wildly out of control but
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throughout he retained the strong
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support and love of his family he was
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into drugs at the time that was a bad
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time for all the kids that were ever
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into drugs there was a thing that just
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came out now called tough love and it
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was supposed to be the thing to do was
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tell him you're through here you can't
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live here you're out if you won't live
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according to my rules you're out I had
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never done that and the one time that I
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listened that I did that I never saw him
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again the night of February 13th 1980 a
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month after he was released from a drug
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rehab program Michael began acting
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abnormally Barbara Rosenbloom found a
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bottle of painkillers in his bedroom she
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banished Michael and his girlfriend Lisa
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from their home they left and Lisa's car
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I said to Michael don't come back until
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you're completely off drugs until you
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want to live your life the way should
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and that's that's the way it is I've
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always folded myself for that and I
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probably will till I die that I didn't
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say okay well we'll try again maybe
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tomorrow will be different Michael
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the next morning Michael awoke with a
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severe drug hangover Lisa drove him to a
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local hospital but he refused to be
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treated according to Lisa Michael became
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increasingly agitated 15 minutes later
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he left her stranded at a local gas
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station and drove off erratically
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Michael Rosen blooms last words were go
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to my parents house I'll see you there
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in two hours
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he has not been seen since
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I figure well he took her car and he
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took off for a day or two he'll be back
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or he'll call we waited that night there
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were no calls I became seriously worried
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my wife felt immediately that it was a
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terminal situation that he was dead I
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didn't he would never have just left
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when he left there was money in his bank
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account it was closed when his closet
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and if he were going to have gone
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anywhere he would have said to us I plan
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to do such-and-such and I'm going to
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take my money and go but all of that his
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money is still in this bank account his
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clothes were in his closet where since
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cotton they're gone and that wasn't his
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style it wasn't his way
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the following day rose and blooms filed
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a missing-persons report with local
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authorities the Pittsburgh Police
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Department who began an immediate search
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for the car private investigator Steve
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intersect was a detective for the
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Pittsburgh Police when Michael Rosen
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will vanished
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you need a starting point any homicide
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case your dead bodies you starting with
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in this case the car would have been a
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started so important we find a car as
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quickly as possible and then think the
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steps to notify the media for their help
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and asking the general public if anybody
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saw the boy who was in the car they know
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what happened to him after the
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Pittsburgh police had searched for two
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weeks they found no car and no body so
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Michaels father began his own search he
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offered a reward for information posted
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flyers and traveled as far away as
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California visiting with friends Michael
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may have contacted I launched the
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investigation myself because I was
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concerned about finding him and seeing
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if I couldn't put him back on the right
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track again so I was after him for
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myself that kind of suit things over put
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it back together again if I could it was
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too late it was too late it's just -
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right
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three months later from May 21st 1980
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the police department and Baldwin
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borough a Pittsburgh suburb notified
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Lisa that her car had been found
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according to official records the car
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had been impounded on the day that
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Michael vanished
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Maurice rosenbloom wanted to know what
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happened during those three months we
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couldn't believe that they had that car
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for 91 days absolutely couldn't believe
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it
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the Pittsburgh police had contacted
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every Police Department in this area
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looking for that specific car and here
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that car was discovered in the police
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bonded tow yard less than three miles
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from where we're sitting right now I
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think everybody was quite upset to say
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the least
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and there was a lot of discussion about
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and the old terms of policemen can you
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believe this can you believe what
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Baldwin done River Road where Lisa's car
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was found connects Baldwin borough with
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Pittsburgh's Southside a Baldwin police
00:25:18
dispatcher was definitely contacted by
00:25:21
the Pittsburgh Police when they searched
00:25:23
for the car but no one can say whether
00:25:25
the information was ever officially
00:25:27
circulated
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00:25:43
just two hours after Michael left Lisa a
00:25:46
Bolden police unit found her car on
00:25:48
River Road two of the tires were flat
00:25:51
the keys were gone and the engine was
00:25:54
cool
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Michael had vanished into thin air
00:26:04
fifteen minutes later the car was towed
00:26:06
to the Baldwin borough car pound or it
00:26:09
would remain resting on a spent tire
00:26:11
rims in the next three months well no
00:26:16
question throws your whole investigation
00:26:17
off if we start in the beginning that we
00:26:20
knew that car was on River Road the
00:26:22
whole picture would have changed
00:26:23
drastically my personal feeling is on
00:26:27
being a police officer 28 years if we
00:26:29
had known if that car was found in
00:26:31
Baldwin that morning within hours I
00:26:33
strongly believe we would have known by
00:26:35
now what had happened to Michael when
00:26:37
they found the car after 91 days my
00:26:43
immediate reaction was that he was gone
00:26:46
dead Maurice Rosenblum wanted an
00:26:56
explanation and the Pittsburgh Police
00:26:58
Department went to Baldwin Borough to
00:26:59
investigate the delay the Baldwin police
00:27:03
claimed that they had mail Lisa a letter
00:27:05
the day after the car was found saying
00:27:08
they had impounded it lisa says she
00:27:11
never got the letter
00:27:12
the police eventually produced a copy of
00:27:15
the letter but Lisa still insisted she
00:27:18
never received it in my opinion they
00:27:21
deliberately misled the Pittsburgh
00:27:22
police in the search assuming that my
00:27:26
son was never even involved why didn't
00:27:29
they search for the young lady that
00:27:30
owned the car because all this was done
00:27:34
to cover a more sinister fact that's why
00:27:40
around the same time horace claims he
00:27:43
received two anonymous phone calls their
00:27:49
first one came in during the time that
00:27:51
the car was gone they said that he was
00:27:57
arrested and i wrote it off as a
00:27:59
crackpot Oh after the car was found
00:28:05
I received a second telephone call just
00:28:08
simply said but your son was arrested by
00:28:12
the Baldwin Police click they were gone
00:28:18
for six months Maurice Rosenblum
00:28:21
searched for his missing son Michael his
00:28:24
offer of a big reward had borne no fruit
00:28:26
the only concrete clues with the
00:28:29
discovery of the car that Michael had
00:28:30
been driving and the two mysterious
00:28:33
phone calls alleging that Michael had
00:28:35
been arrested then on July 15th 1980 the
00:28:40
Bolden police issued a warrant for
00:28:41
Michael Rosen Bloom's arrest he was
00:28:44
wanted in connection with a robbery that
00:28:46
had taken place in April two and a half
00:28:49
months after he had vanished now the big
00:28:52
twist in this whole thing was that
00:28:54
everybody's talked to the people who
00:28:55
were the victims of the robbery they
00:28:57
both told everybody from day one that
00:28:59
the person who come in or was a white
00:29:01
man and he had a viateur
00:29:02
mirrored sunglasses on that covered eye
00:29:04
above his eyebrows and Donn almost at a
00:29:08
bridge of his nose so the only part they
00:29:10
actually could see would be the forehead
00:29:12
and the chin line but yet the composite
00:29:15
was made without sunglasses and I have
00:29:18
been at police work for thirty years
00:29:19
when I looked at the composite there's
00:29:22
no doubt in my mind that this composite
00:29:23
was made from that first flyer put out
00:29:26
on Michael rosenbloom back in February
00:29:28
it's just too perfect a week later the
00:29:34
warrant was dismissed maurice rosenbloom
00:29:37
was left with three disturbing questions
00:29:41
why are the Baldwin Police Department
00:29:43
failed to respond to the Pittsburgh
00:29:45
Police Department's request for
00:29:46
information when they had Lisa's car in
00:29:48
their possession for three month
00:29:50
why are they issued award for Michael
00:29:52
Rosen blooms arrest and the mysterious
00:29:55
phone calls was there any truth to the
00:29:57
accusation of the Baldwin Police
00:29:59
Department arrested Michael the day he
00:30:01
disappeared
00:30:02
Maurice took his suspicions to the
00:30:04
office of the Pennsylvania Attorney
00:30:05
General the Baldwin Police Department
00:30:08
was investigated and cleared of any
00:30:10
wrongdoing but the case would not die
00:30:17
six and a half years after his son
00:30:20
disappeared
00:30:21
Maurice received an anonymous letter
00:30:23
urging him to talk to a woman named Jean
00:30:25
Haslett who had worked as a dispatcher
00:30:27
with the baldwin Police the letter led
00:30:31
to accusations of the department headed
00:30:34
by police chief a Yoga body had
00:30:36
mishandle Michael's case mr. Rosenblum
00:30:39
showed me an anonymous letter that he
00:30:41
had received indicating that if he
00:30:43
contacted me I had information regarding
00:30:45
the vehicle that the Baldwin police
00:30:48
towed I then told him that approximately
00:30:54
two or three months after the vehicle
00:30:55
had been towed
00:30:57
the Chief of Police ordered his clerk
00:30:59
Fred Capelli
00:31:00
to type a letter notifying the owner of
00:31:03
the vehicle that it had been towed and
00:31:07
the letter was back dated to February
00:31:09
15th the day after the vehicle was towed
00:31:11
I didn't take this upon myself I was
00:31:18
instructed to do all this
00:31:21
Fred Capelli was chief galleries clerk
00:31:24
he corroborated hazlit's story
00:31:28
approximately May 20th the chief told me
00:31:32
to type a letter in reference to the car
00:31:35
that was towed from River Road I never
00:31:39
thought anything about I did what I was
00:31:41
told to do you know he's my boss
00:31:45
so I did what he told me to do and I
00:31:47
didn't question it Fred Capelli claims
00:31:52
that after he typed the letter the chief
00:31:54
ordered him to sign the name of Chester
00:31:57
Lombardi the senior officer at the River
00:31:59
Road scene that
00:32:01
Lombardi has since died he had asked
00:32:06
Chester Lombardi and sign letter and
00:32:08
Chester refused to sign it because it
00:32:11
was back then so the chief told me to go
00:32:15
ahead and sign Chester Limbaugh his name
00:32:17
to it the go mail it should put in a
00:32:23
file and that's what I did to back Tate
00:32:30
letter and place it into the police
00:32:33
files as is an unusual thing and in the
00:32:38
nine years that I was involved in in
00:32:39
police departments it was not something
00:32:41
that I had ever witnessed before based
00:32:50
on these new revelations horace wrote an
00:32:53
angry letter to the baldwin borough
00:32:54
council demanding an investigation into
00:32:57
what he thought was a cover-up in
00:33:01
october 1987 the baldon Borough Council
00:33:04
held a hearing on the matter they
00:33:07
dismissed chief de bourree for
00:33:09
interfering with the investigation into
00:33:11
Michael's disappearance when he was
00:33:15
discharged he appealed that to the Civil
00:33:18
Service Commission and their conclusion
00:33:20
was that the chief was not guilty the
00:33:29
Civil Service Commission voted to
00:33:30
reinstate Gabor E as police chief
00:33:33
finding there was no misconduct they
00:33:36
have never published a transcript of
00:33:38
their hearings but clearly they didn't
00:33:40
believe Fred Capelli why they didn't
00:33:43
believe me because the chief had friends
00:33:50
on that Civil Service Commission and he
00:33:55
wouldn't believe me no matter what I
00:33:57
said there's been so many windows made
00:34:00
about the way it was handled and all I
00:34:02
can say is this Commission rendered his
00:34:06
decision strictly on the evidence in a
00:34:09
testimony that was presented at the
00:34:11
hearing this matter has never totally
00:34:15
and resolved to satisfy anybody in law
00:34:18
enforcement who knows what he's doing
00:34:21
the time that I'll let this go is when
00:34:25
it ends and it's not over yet it's not
00:34:29
over we're getting close but it's not
00:34:31
over
00:34:40
Lloris rosenbloom persistence may have
00:34:43
paid off during the search of the steep
00:34:46
hillside last April a six inch fragment
00:34:48
of what appears to be a human bone was
00:34:50
discovered I contended all along that
00:34:56
something had happened to them but the
00:34:58
possibility that I might have proof in
00:35:01
my pocket makes you kind of sick the
00:35:10
search also turned up patches of
00:35:12
corduroy in a piece of shoe sole both
00:35:15
items are consistent with the pants and
00:35:17
boots Michael Rosenblum is wearing when
00:35:19
last seen these objects were discovered
00:35:23
above River Road overlooking the spot
00:35:26
where Lisa's car was abandoned over
00:35:28
eight years ago
00:35:30
[Music]
00:35:50
last month the examine the strange
00:35:53
disappearance of Raja stain a 62 year
00:35:56
old father of seven from Los Angeles
00:35:58
California on February 19th 1986
00:36:03
Raja's Kane told his sister that he was
00:36:06
going to a local hardware store his
00:36:08
family never saw him again a month after
00:36:12
his disappearance Rocha scar was found
00:36:14
inside were many of his important papers
00:36:17
including the deed to his property as
00:36:19
well as his glasses and false teeth
00:36:22
Rocha skeins family believes he is alive
00:36:24
and may be suffering from some form of
00:36:26
amnesia I don't give up I still pray and
00:36:32
I find him somewhere one day I just feel
00:36:37
it within my heart Topeka Kansas the
00:36:44
night after our broadcast police
00:36:46
received a call from a man who believed
00:36:47
he recognized
00:36:48
Rogers cane local resident named Homer
00:36:51
Jackson the caller said when he'd seen
00:36:54
him on TV that he was and in questioning
00:36:59
that's when he come up with the
00:37:00
mannerisms the fact that he had no
00:37:03
dentures at that time a scar on his body
00:37:08
which I don't think any probably
00:37:10
probably knew except maybe the Los
00:37:12
Angeles Police and the relatives
00:37:14
acting in the collars tip police
00:37:17
attempted to locate only jackson only to
00:37:19
discover he had disappeared within days
00:37:22
roaches game Sunland Rudy Topeka joined
00:37:25
the police search
00:37:27
I'm glad I know he's been an area of
00:37:30
about a year a year and a half and a
00:37:34
truck driver picked him up decided to
00:37:37
contain him Elmer and gave him his last
00:37:40
name which was Jackson's he goes by
00:37:42
Elmer Jackson he's been working several
00:37:45
jobs or side jobs here and there laying
00:37:48
bricks and things like that
00:37:50
Lyn Canaan the Topeka police canvassed
00:37:52
the neighborhood where Jackson his left
00:37:54
seizure they passed on flyers and will
00:37:57
just canes picture but we're unable to
00:37:59
locate it it's finished it's the best
00:38:02
lead so far the only lead for us we're
00:38:07
unsuccessful today
00:38:13
[Music]
00:38:28
on July the 29th 1988 a brazen daylight
00:38:32
robbery took place in a suburb of Palm
00:38:34
Beach Florida the thief had a key to the
00:38:38
house he was highly selective and seemed
00:38:41
to know just what he wanted not one
00:38:45
fingerprint was left behind it was a
00:38:48
quintessential inside job at the door
00:38:52
the thief paused long enough to leave a
00:38:53
note for his victim he signed it el the
00:39:03
active socialite from the warm healthy
00:39:05
climate of Florida may get a welcome new
00:39:07
home for retiring senior citizens many
00:39:10
of them are widows and divorcees who
00:39:12
often hope to remarry and in fact love
00:39:14
does bloom frequently in the warm
00:39:15
Florida sunshine but sometimes these
00:39:18
widows and divorcees become easy marks
00:39:20
for a particularly sleazy type of conman
00:39:23
a conman who moves in on their emotions
00:39:25
and makes off with our cash we're gonna
00:39:30
speed it up for you with a little
00:39:31
shuffle let's all get up and dance
00:39:35
[Music]
00:39:38
on May the 20th 1988 a widow who has
00:39:43
asked that her identity not be revealed
00:39:44
went to a Friday night singles dance at
00:39:47
st. Mary's Church in West Palm Beach we
00:39:50
will call her mrs. K eligible men were
00:39:53
not plentiful at these dances so when a
00:39:55
good-looking man named Arthur Frankfort
00:39:57
approached mrs. K and asked her to dance
00:40:00
she was flattered my name is IRA
00:40:05
Frankfort Emily
00:40:08
nice to meet you Emily would you like to
00:40:11
have this dance
00:40:11
delighted when I first saw him sitting
00:40:14
up against the wall I thought it was too
00:40:16
old you know it is a single stance and
00:40:18
you do look him over after he'd asked me
00:40:21
to dance I realized he wasn't as old as
00:40:22
I thought he first appeared mrs. K at
00:40:28
Arthur Frankfort danced every dance that
00:40:30
Friday evening is st. Mary's Church it
00:40:33
was the beginning of a two-month
00:40:34
whirlwind romance and the day that I met
00:40:37
him till the time that he left never
00:40:40
once was I suspicious of any move that
00:40:41
he made as far as to question his
00:40:44
character who he was and he was that he
00:40:47
was a liar and a thief
00:40:50
Frankfort told mrs. K he was a geologist
00:40:53
he said he had worked for the government
00:40:55
primarily in Alaska and I just retired
00:40:57
after twenty-one years of service he
00:41:00
told her we owned a house and several
00:41:02
other rental properties in nearby towns
00:41:04
and lived off that income in addition to
00:41:07
his retirement pay so one night he came
00:41:10
home and he said instead of renting
00:41:12
another place for himself he thought it
00:41:14
would be better if he lived here once he
00:41:16
moved in it was great I would come home
00:41:18
from work he'd have my dinner ready he
00:41:20
would do the grocery shopping he would
00:41:21
make dinner he would clean the house
00:41:23
vacuum the house there was no reason to
00:41:27
have anticipated what he did
00:41:29
[Music]
00:41:36
he came to the house one day with money
00:41:39
it was wrapped in a plastic grocery bag
00:41:43
and he said that he'd sold the house
00:41:44
that he had rented it out with the
00:41:46
option to buy he asked me if I would put
00:41:48
it away for safekeeping I'd like to ask
00:41:51
you to put it in the safe money but I'd
00:41:54
like to give you the combination so you
00:41:57
don't worry about the combination please
00:41:59
I offered him the safe combination
00:42:01
because it was his money and he refused
00:42:04
the combination he said he didn't really
00:42:06
want it all right eventually arthur
00:42:13
frankfurt did allow mrs. k to give him
00:42:15
the combination to her safe by the end
00:42:20
of july mrs. K in Frankfurt had lived
00:42:22
together for one month and had settled
00:42:24
into a comfortable domestic routine when
00:42:27
I came home from work that night we
00:42:29
started play gin and during the course
00:42:31
of the gin game he stopped what he was
00:42:34
doing and he says to me Emily
00:42:37
yes you really love me yes I do very
00:42:43
much I guess that means I can get away
00:42:49
with anything at that time I thought he
00:42:52
meant to gin game because he would like
00:42:54
to try to cheat he head the win
00:43:02
the day after their card game mrs. K
00:43:05
arrived home to find the bed she shared
00:43:07
with Arthur unmade my beds always made
00:43:12
either art made it or I made whoever was
00:43:14
last up even then it did not appear out
00:43:18
of the ordinary to me until the time and
00:43:20
I walked into my closet to change my
00:43:22
clothes and discovered all the clothes
00:43:23
from the closet missing
00:43:28
and then I realized that he had left
00:43:34
mrs. K was heartbroken
00:43:36
[Music]
00:43:40
on the whole table she found a note
00:43:50
the note Arthur Frankford left said
00:43:52
sorry
00:43:53
things too possessive l which was their
00:43:57
code for love then mrs. K remembered
00:44:01
giving him the combination to her safety
00:44:03
[Music]
00:44:07
they didn't realize until the time that
00:44:09
I read the note and went back and opened
00:44:11
the safe and then I discovered that I
00:44:14
was wrong her most expensive jewelry
00:44:17
valued at $4,500 was gone also missing
00:44:21
were several items that had belonged to
00:44:23
her late husband his wedding ring
00:44:25
handgun work ID card and driver's
00:44:28
license renewal for mrs. K notified the
00:44:32
authorities took a lot of courage to
00:44:35
call the police I wasn't in a hurry I
00:44:37
didn't want to say it out loud to myself
00:44:39
that art was who he was detective David
00:44:44
Hoyt came up with sordid background
00:44:45
information on this senior citizen Don
00:44:48
Juan Arthur Frankfort was wanted for
00:44:52
check forgery also burglary to a
00:44:56
condominium
00:44:57
he's using a aka are also known as James
00:45:02
Ferguson
00:45:06
police also learned that mrs. K was not
00:45:08
Arthur Frankfurt's only victim the
00:45:11
president of a senior Olympic center
00:45:13
were Frankford worked for a short time
00:45:15
remembers receiving telephone calls from
00:45:17
three women who had been conned
00:45:19
by Arthur Frankfort and they took me
00:45:22
into their confidence admitting that
00:45:25
they had invited him to live with them
00:45:27
they were sexually involved with him and
00:45:30
it made them very very vulnerable of
00:45:32
course this is and of course he stole
00:45:35
everything he could lay his hands on
00:45:36
when he was in their home Arthur feeling
00:45:42
Frankfort preys on the emotions of women
00:45:45
in their late 50s early 60s often passes
00:45:49
himself off as 65 years of age in
00:45:51
reality he is 77 this is the sort of a
00:45:56
game to it and I know he's probably
00:45:58
somewhere else in the United States
00:46:00
preying on other women the same way
00:46:05
Arthur Frankfort is six feet tall weighs
00:46:08
about a hundred and sixty-five pounds
00:46:09
and has gray hair blue eyes he has been
00:46:13
known to use the alias James Ferguson
00:46:14
who may now be using the alias of Andrew
00:46:17
Kern's
00:46:18
posing as a widower from West Palm Beach
00:46:21
he would have the identification papers
00:46:24
and wedding rings to substantiate this
00:46:26
false identity update within minutes of
00:46:30
our broadcast two viewers called our 800
00:46:33
number to report that they recognized
00:46:34
arthur franklin the individual said I'd
00:46:38
know where Arthur Frankfort is I'm his
00:46:41
ex brother-in-law my name is Floyd
00:46:43
meadows I asked him if he had ever seen
00:46:46
this Arthur Frankfort do magic he said
00:46:48
yes he did and he does it very well this
00:46:51
is one of the keys that I never released
00:46:53
to the press or any other medium that
00:46:56
Arthur Frankfort does magic we received
00:47:00
another call about 20 minutes later from
00:47:02
a white female since Arthur Frankfort
00:47:04
lives next door to me and Whitley
00:47:06
Kentucky this was the confirmation call
00:47:09
that I was looking for at that time
00:47:13
I knew we had our man two hours later
00:47:18
Frankford was arrested at his home in
00:47:20
Kentucky by the McCreary County Sheriff
00:47:22
and Kentucky State Troopers he was
00:47:24
living under the assumed name James
00:47:26
Ferguson with his new wife of two months
00:47:29
during a search of Frankfurt's house
00:47:31
police uncovered several identification
00:47:33
and credit cards with different aliases
00:47:35
they also found a handgun that may have
00:47:37
been stolen from mrs. Kay's home we got
00:47:41
other calls from women that say yes I've
00:47:44
been married to this man I've divorced
00:47:46
him he's left me holding the bag and
00:47:49
what I need is for the people that have
00:47:53
been victimized by Arthur Frankfort to
00:47:56
come forward it's time for the public to
00:47:59
stand up and say hey we've had enough of
00:48:01
Arthur Frankfort this man has preyed on
00:48:03
the public long enough
00:48:05
[Music]
00:48:13
every mystery someone somewhere who
00:48:17
knows the truth perhaps said someone is
00:48:20
watching
00:48:21
perhaps as you
00:48:22
[Music]
00:48:48
[Applause]
00:48:52
[Music]
