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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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july 12 1996 spokane washington
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july 27 1996 atlanta georgia
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two vicious attacks separated by 15 days
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and 3 000 miles is there a connection
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in a special report we'll examine
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compelling evidence that may help solve
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the infamous olympic park bombing
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according to his ex-wife salvatore
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spinato had everything you'd expect a
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con artist to have
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charm a glib tongue and a secret past
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according to the police spinato has
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something extra a nasty temper and a
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taste for violence
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christina yumowski was still a toddler
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when doctors told her parents she would
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likely die before the age of 10.
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today christina is a happy healthy 12
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year old
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did the sublime faith of father ralph
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diorio bring about her miraculous
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recovery
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join me for these intriguing cases
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perhaps you may be able to help solve a
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mystery
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the con artists we have profiles seem to
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share similar characteristics
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they are seductively charming totally
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convincing utterly without conscience
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but rarely violent
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some who know the debonair hustle you're
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about to meet say he also fits the type
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that is
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unless you cross him
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hello tony the usual table please
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well this looks very nice
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when beth smith met sal olivario she had
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one vulnerability
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oliverio found it and latched on
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ah thank you
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tony your best champagne
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i was um a single mother of two children
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financially i was very stable
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career-wise i was very stable and i i
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guess the only thing that was really
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missing in that equation was a husband
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and a father for my children
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you're gorgeous
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at the time beth was a computer
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consultant
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oliverio ran a physical therapy business
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best says he recounted in detail his
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distinguished navy career including two
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years as a pow in vietnam i can't
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understand unless you were over there
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he told me stories about how he was
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captured in vietnam how he was a
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prisoner of war how long were you a
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prisoner
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about two years he told these war
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stories to me he told him to my children
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you know my children thought of him as a
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war hero the only thing i knew was i was
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not gonna die there
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when he would tell these stories he
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would cry he would literally
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cry
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he would be
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very believable very believable
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beth fell in love with the man oliverio
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pretended to be war hero turned
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entrepreneur
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they were married in october of 1988.
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beth quit her own job to run oliveria's
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company
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she says that before long his charming
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facade had started to flake away
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the bottom line numbers always showed
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him in the red and it was just you know
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amazing i didn't understand how he
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thought he was going to pay these bills
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that he had coming in sal
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could you come in here for a minute
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yes dear you know i have been over and
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over these numbers and i just don't
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understand what's going on don't worry
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about it what do you mean don't worry
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about it where's the money gonna come
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from don't worry about i've got some
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checks coming in so what about the
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quarterly taxes you don't understand
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this business i'll take care of it it's
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not your problem
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it just started becoming obvious that
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things were not as they appeared to be
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before we were married at all in his
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personality and his background it
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changed he changed the true hymn came
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out
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the true hymn was stuffed in a box
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hidden in the basement
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beth found it shortly before her third
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wedding anniversary
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it had written on its lexington
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correctional institution
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and i'd never seen that before and i'd
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never heard that name before
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oliverio's untidy pass was spelled out
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in 20-point bold type
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so was his real name
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salvatore spinato
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he had done time in kentucky for bank
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fraud
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the article said he had run business
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scams for years allegedly duping one
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investor of more than a quarter of a
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million dollars
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when it suited him spinato had worked
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undercover for the fbi posing as a
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corrupt contractor in a widely
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publicized sting operation
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the people who had taken him into their
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confidence and had paid him bribes felt
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double-crossed when they found out he
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was working for the fbi and i think the
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fbi wasn't too sure at the end whether
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sal was leaking information to the other
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side for whatever reason nobody trusted
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him at the end of that investigation
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it told me that i was married to someone
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that was
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very deceptive very manipulative and
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someone i didn't know at all
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and everything that he told me about
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what he wanted and who he was was a lie
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beth moved out a few days later she
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filed for a marriage annulment based on
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spinato's fraudulent identity
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eventually they settled on a divorce
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we still maintained a
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relationship at that point because he he
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still owed me a significant amount of
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money and he was making payments on that
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not consistently and not by court order
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at all just occasionally he would call
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and say i have some extra money and give
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me a few hundred dollars towards what he
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owed me
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oh sal hi uh thanks for calling back in
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june of 1996 beth was preparing to leave
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town for 10 days
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her boyfriend greg had his own plans to
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be away for part of that time
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beth asked pinato to help keep an eye on
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her 17 year old son i got a favor to ask
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sal and my son had a had a good
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relationship when we were married and
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before we were married they got along
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well together
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i knew he was dating several other women
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so i assumed there was no other
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you know meaning that he could take from
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this at all
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and he said that was fine you know just
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you know that was fine he would do that
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he would look in on my on my son
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a couple days after beth left the
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country i got a call out of the blue
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from sal
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he identified himself as sal alvario and
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he called me and said that he needed to
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talk to me right away um that he was
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very concerned about her son that he was
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involved with some drugs yeah it's drugs
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the kid's gonna get in trouble she's out
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of the country i don't know what to do
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greg says it on july 3rd he met with
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spinato at a local convenience store
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he's going to get in trouble
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i had no reason to doubt him he he
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seemed genuine in what he was saying he
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was very concerned about uh his welfare
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his health and well-being it was his you
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know his stepson he said there's a house
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that i just bought around the corner
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that i'm in the process of remodeling
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would i mind just following him there
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and
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he'd give me some more information and
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there was some information that had to
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do with me so i agreed it's a great
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neighborhood i got the house for a
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wonderful price the drug story was a
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ruse
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according to greg spinato's real motive
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soon became painfully clear
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i thought this would be a little more
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private let me show you what i found
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the club had um
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an electric shock to it it was a
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it was a taser weapon
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i knew that i was in a real bad
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situation i mean nobody saw me go in
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nobody knew where i was
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i knew i was history
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we're gonna kill you you ain't walking
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out of here you ain't never seen your
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kids again what's going on i thought
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this was about the kid you're idioting
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about him it's about my wife
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she's still my wife's competition i
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realized that this had nothing to do
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with her son
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the whole purpose in sal's mind was to
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um for me to stop seeing his ex-wife
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i've got a decision to make i've got to
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decide if i want this guy to blow you
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away or not
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look at him look at him
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so i looked up at him and i recognized
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him this is a guy
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who had been in my house
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how old did you say the roof was a few
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weeks earlier greg had listed his home
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for sale
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he says the man represented himself as a
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prospective buyer but it now seemed he
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had been a spy for sal spinato
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and uh
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we'll be in touch
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thanks
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he mentioned his name but i didn't
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remember it you know
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so as he pulled away i wrote down his
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license plate number
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i don't know
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what possessed me to even think of doing
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that
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but thank god that i did
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okay sal
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i'll do whatever you want i was willing
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to do anything say anything
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to get out of that house
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the whole conversation shifted you know
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he had decided that he had decided that
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he was going to let me live
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that he wasn't going to kill me but that
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i better come up with a real good story
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about how to break it off with his wife
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we're going to go for a little ride we
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got to come up with a plan
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greg had another plan
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he went straight to the police
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they identified paul homer shaffer
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spinato's alleged accomplice from the
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license number greg jotted down earlier
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schaefer is currently in jail awaiting
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trial on charges of kidnapping and
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assault
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salvatore spinata was arrested booked
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then released on bail
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he did not show for a scheduled court
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date in january and his whereabouts are
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currently unknown
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i think he's a very desperate man
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i think he's gone over the edge of what
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he's done in the past
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with this latest incident
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i think he's a very dangerous person and
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if he would do this what else would he
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do
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now he's moved into the realm of
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manipulating people by using violence
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there's no reason to conclude that he
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won't do it again in the future
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especially especially if he sees from
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some point of view he's got nothing to
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lose and he's got to know he's been
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around the system long enough to know
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that we're looking for him we want him
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next
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they said she'd never live long enough
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to jump rope but that was before
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christina yumowski's remarkable
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encounter with a faith-healing priest
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named ralph diorio
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the journey from sickness to health is
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often a mysterious passage at times
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inexplicable even the doctors themselves
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perhaps most baffling of all other
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dramatic recoveries attributed to divine
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healing
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tonight we visit the world of father
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ralph de orio a catholic priest who's
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been credited with thousands of
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miraculous healings
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at father diorio's prayer meetings
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worshipers topple to the floor left and
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right
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it is not uncommon to see dozens of
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people sprawled around the room
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some call it the slaying of the spirit a
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total surrender of individual will to
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the power of god you might be getting
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the gift of tears
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that's a gift too
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father diorio ministers to ills of the
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body as well as those of the soul
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though he is quick to point out that any
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miracle cures are not his work but gods
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it appears that god has chosen me
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openly clearly
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publicly
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and all he needed for me was okay lord i
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want it to be your instrument of speech
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of thought of touch
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so i become the visible presence of god
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but god is the divine healer
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steve christie christina was born with
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neurofibromatosis stan yumowski and his
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family are among those who speak from
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experience when they testified of the
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extraordinary power of diorio's prayers
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it's a degenerative genetic disorder
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the umowski's ordeal began a few weeks
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before christmas in 1988
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it was a proverbial ordinary day
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mary umowski was immersed in housework
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three-year-old christina was napping on
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the living room floor
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sleepy head did you have a good nap
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christina
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i walked over to her
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and her eyes were kind of staring up at
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the ceiling and she didn't respond to me
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sweetie
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can you hear me
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her eyes were open but she wasn't
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acknowledging me she wasn't saying
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anything and she was just making this
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little girl gurgling sound in her throat
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christina
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sweet come on come on baby
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honey
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as i dialed the doctor that's when she
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started convulsing
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not a wild convulsion was basically a
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tremor on one side of her body
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sweetie christina
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okay that's all right it's okay
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i don't know what told me to start
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timing it i remember it started at one
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o'clock that day december 1st and the
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seizure lasted for 20 minutes
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i'm sorry but the news is not good
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christina is suffering
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with neurofibromatosis
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nf causes tumors to grow on the nerve
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endings
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and in christina's case she's developed
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an optic glioma the specialists all
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agreed
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the neurofibromatosis was unstoppable it
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would compromise christina's vision
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disrupt her physical coordination and
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ultimately take her life
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it was almost a certainty
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is she going to time
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i'm afraid that's a possibility you're
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going to have to face
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we sat down and we cried for weeks on
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end
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tears would just come to our our eyes at
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any time during the day or night we
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couldn't sleep
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we were devastated by it
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we were going every six months for
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follow-up mri and hearing the worst news
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each time that the tumor was growing
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the disease took its toll
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as expected christina fell far behind
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her classmates and physical ability
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there's certain things she would not be
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able to do at all
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skipping forget about it
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running i mean the coordination wasn't
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there to do any of these things jumping
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she couldn't get her feet off the ground
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of course the first question you ask is
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why why why god why my daughter what did
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she ever do to hurt you you know that
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type of thing anger set in for a while
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at the urging of a friend the umowskis
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attended one of father diorio's prayer
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meetings in february of 1992.
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stan was deeply skeptical
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his doubts however were outweighed by
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his desperation
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i still had some anger in me
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even though i agreed to go i
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i carried a tape recorder in my pocket
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and i taped the entire service
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thinking that if this man is a fraud
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i'll expose them
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dozens had come to be healed each hoping
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for a personal blessing
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despite his skepticism stan was
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determined that christina would be
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chosen
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are there any children out there who are
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suffering please raise your hand father
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right here father yes
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yes father my daughter
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would you please bring her here to me
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i was so excited and thrilled just for
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the fact that they got called forward
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you know after seeing a number of people
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there
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i thought our chances of even being
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called or having christina blessed were
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almost nil
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sweetheart what is your name
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christina christina
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now christina do you believe in jesus
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yes
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do you love jesus yes i love jesus good
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i'm gonna say a prayer for you right now
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there are three types of healing there's
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the physical healing the spiritual
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healing and the psychological healing
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so god is aiming for all three of these
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healings
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to give this person a new chance a new a
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new order a new chapter in the
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autobiography of that person's life you
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see
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though stan and mary had come in search
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of a miracle they had no idea what one
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might look like mommy what is it sweetie
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mommy how did that man do that do it
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christina how did he make it so hot what
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are you talking about
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mommy when that man touched me on my
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head he made me feel hard
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and then i remembered what father diorio
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had said during the service about people
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feeling a warmth in their body
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and then only then me who was all
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bundled up i was so cold i looked at her
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her hood was down no gloves on
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her coat was hanging open do you
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remember when father diorios said that
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when the holy spirit enters your body
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you might feel warm was it a miracle in
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the making within two days the answer
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became clear to stan and mary
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right on the front stoop of this school
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she starts jumping rope and her feet are
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not just an inch off the ground she's
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literally jumping a half a foot off the
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ground
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and not just a couple of jumps she's
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jumping and she's jumping
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and i'm looking at her like disbelief
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and she calls out to me mommy how can i
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do this all of a sudden
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her words all of a sudden
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hello
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doctor thanks for calling listen i was
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wondering if you had a chance to view
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the mris
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any lingering dumpster dissolved two
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weeks later when christina's doctor
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called with results from the latest mri
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well how much is it going down
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okay
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all right we'll see it meeting
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we we went to see uh the doctor in in
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person and um
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i said well doctor show me where the
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tumor is
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you you said it was greatly reduced
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please show me where the tumor is he put
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his finger on this one he said well this
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is where it was
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we asked a physician unconnected with
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this case to review two of christina's
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mris
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one was made in 1991 almost a year
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before christina's visit to father
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diorio
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christina's tumor showed up as
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thickening on a part of the brain known
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as the optic chiasm
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the other mri was made in 1992 shortly
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after father diorio's blessing
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christina's mri scan in 1992
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in the region of the optic chiasm
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appears to be normal
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it appears that in 1992 the thickening
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of the optic chiasm has disappeared when
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compared with the previous exam of 1991.
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in neurofibromatosis
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there have been rare instances of
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regression of optic nerve gliomas but
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this is a rare event
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[Music]
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it would appear that christina is among
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those rare few
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recent mris confirmed that in the five
00:20:57
years since father diorio bless
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christina the life-threatening tumor has
00:21:01
not returned
00:21:04
i couldn't jump rope and now i could do
00:21:06
it very well
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i couldn't really do anything
00:21:11
i couldn't jump
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or run
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or anything
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i'm glad that i can do things now
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and i can keep up with the other kids
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there are many healings where both
00:21:27
medicine and prayer are constantly
00:21:29
working
00:21:30
god works through all his creation
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and one of god's primary materialistic
00:21:36
naturalistic scientific ways of healing
00:21:38
is through the medical profession
00:21:40
i thank god every day for what he's done
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of course i thank father diorio
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for being the catalyst
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in that healing
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absolutely positively was a miracle
00:21:53
and i could never thank him enough for
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that
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[Music]
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in this age of cold facts and hard
00:22:00
science is a room for something as
00:22:02
unexplainable as an honest-to-god
00:22:04
miracle
00:22:06
for the umowskis and literally thousands
00:22:08
of others who believe father deorio's
00:22:09
intervention saved them from sickness or
00:22:11
death
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the answer is a heartfelt yes
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next
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a door-to-door saleswoman has a
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startling face-to-face encounter with a
00:22:24
murder suspect
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[Music]
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july 31 1995 roebuck south carolina
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the end of a hot summer day became a
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prelude to mystery for a door-to-door
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saleswoman we will call shirley it was
00:22:50
nice meeting you it's nice doing
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business with you okay i better get
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at around 6 30 p.m shirley sold a bottle
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of cleaning fluid to a new customer 27
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year old dana satterfield
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the mother of two children dana had
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recently separated from her husband
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she owned and operated her own beauty
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salon just off state highway 221.
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she was real nice and you know she told
00:23:14
me to wait because she wanted to see my
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product
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she was real friendly she was outspoken
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real friendly lady
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[Music]
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after the sale shirley headed down the
00:23:27
road to look for other customers
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an hour later she would pass back by the
00:23:31
salon and emerge as the key witness in a
00:23:34
murder case
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on her return trip shirley looked in the
00:23:40
window and saw that it was 8 11 p.m
00:23:44
dana was cleaning up
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getting everything i guess to close up
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the shop for the night she was like
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wiping out the sink she was standing
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right between where i left my product at
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and um i waved at her and i kept going
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at around 8 30 after she made two more
00:24:01
calls shirley returned to the salon one
00:24:04
final time to wait for her ride home
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i noticed the lights was on and i was
00:24:10
gonna go into the shop the beauty shop
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but i just stopped
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and i said no i bet not going i might
00:24:16
get in trouble so i went and stood at
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the street at the edge of the pavement
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then i noticed i heard a noise a loud
00:24:25
thump noise
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[Music]
00:24:29
i kept hearing about two or three thump
00:24:32
noises i kept looking back
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the next time shirley turned around
00:24:37
someone had turned the lights out
00:24:40
and i said wow she can really come out
00:24:42
then i was happy because you know i
00:24:44
wanted to talk to her
00:24:47
by that time i heard a big crash sound
00:24:50
when i looked to my left i noticed a man
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getting off the ground off his knees
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knocked this grab my bag and i started
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running
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shirley thought she had crossed paths
00:25:02
with a burglar
00:25:03
she ran to the liquor store 50 feet away
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to call the police
00:25:10
and we met and we looked at each other
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you know how a crazy person looked when
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they crazy that's how he looked like he
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was real crazy
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and he scared me so that's why i had to
00:25:21
run again to get away from it
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shirley tried to flag down a motorist
00:25:27
when that failed she ran to the nearest
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house and phone 9-1-1
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a deputy sheriff arrived assuming that
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the beauty salon had been robbed
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he had no idea if dana satterfield was
00:25:40
still inside
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[Music]
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dana satterfield had been
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beaten severely
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she had been
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raped she had been strangled
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and
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there was no indication that robbery was
00:26:00
a motive and there was no
00:26:02
evidence of any other disturbance in any
00:26:04
other part of the salon
00:26:07
i just couldn't believe that anybody
00:26:08
would want to hurt her because
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she never hurt no one
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she tried to help a lot of people and
00:26:16
she did help a lot of people
00:26:19
initially suspicion focused on dana's
00:26:21
husband mike
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however mike says their breakup was
00:26:25
amicable
00:26:26
in addition mike in no way fit the
00:26:28
description of the man seen fleeing from
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the trailer
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all friends and family and people that
00:26:35
knew us know you know that that i didn't
00:26:38
have anything to do with uh dana's
00:26:40
murder
00:26:41
because i wouldn't
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put someone through that or put my
00:26:45
children through that or i couldn't do
00:26:47
something like that
00:26:48
we've not ruled anyone out in terms of
00:26:52
saying that one person or another has
00:26:55
absolutely no connection with this case
00:26:58
but at this point in time we're not
00:26:59
actively pursuing
00:27:01
mike satterfield
00:27:03
as a suspect
00:27:06
the police did look into the possibility
00:27:08
that mike had hired someone to kill his
00:27:10
wife
00:27:11
but the brutal manner in which dana had
00:27:13
been raped and strangled was
00:27:14
inconsistent with a professional hit
00:27:19
we believe this is a predator
00:27:21
a serial killer
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a person who
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would have stalked miss satterfield
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and waited for an opportunity
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to
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kill her in the manner that they did
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i'm sure
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he didn't anticipate a sales lady
00:27:39
and and certainly not a sales lady who
00:27:42
would make a sale earlier in the evening
00:27:45
and then come back by
00:27:46
and be standing in front of the trailer
00:27:50
maybe even while this murder was taking
00:27:53
place
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i didn't know what had happened but i
00:27:57
knew somebody needed help
00:27:59
and i just wanted somebody to get
00:28:01
somebody there to see what was going on
00:28:05
it was pure luck that shirley had come
00:28:07
face to face with the alleged killer
00:28:10
two weeks later another bit of luck
00:28:12
a second eyewitness came forward
00:28:17
ken smith was one of dana satterfield's
00:28:19
customers
00:28:20
at around 8 40 on the night of the
00:28:22
murder he was driving past the salon
00:28:26
as i come up 221 i looked over at dana's
00:28:29
i seen her lights off i seen her car
00:28:31
sitting there i thought that was odd
00:28:33
that
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she was her car was there without her
00:28:36
lights on
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as soon as i turned back around and
00:28:40
looked at the road that's where i seen
00:28:41
this guy run out of the road to the
00:28:44
shoulder
00:28:45
he turned around and looked at me while
00:28:46
he was standing at his bronco
00:28:49
he had his hand like in his shirt
00:28:51
as i come by he sort of just
00:28:54
turned around and gave me a you know go
00:28:56
to hell look like what are you looking
00:28:58
at
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you know why are you looking at me
00:29:03
based upon the descriptions of both
00:29:05
eyewitnesses police have come up with
00:29:06
this composite
00:29:08
the suspect is 18 to 25 years old he is
00:29:12
five foot six to five foot nine inches
00:29:14
tall and weighs between 145 and 170
00:29:18
pounds
00:29:18
he has blonde or light brown hair
00:29:22
he's got to be stomped
00:29:24
and he's got to pay for what he did
00:29:27
to my child
00:29:29
and if he's done this to somebody else
00:29:32
we need to stop him
00:29:34
now
00:29:35
[Music]
00:29:36
sometimes
00:29:38
i wake up at night and sit straight up
00:29:40
in bed and see somebody strangling her
00:29:43
and i can't get to her
00:29:47
it's
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it's heard a song
00:29:52
[Music]
00:30:09
[Music]
00:30:21
coming up a possible break in the
00:30:23
olympic park bombing was that attack
00:30:25
connected to similar bombings which
00:30:27
occurred weeks earlier on the other side
00:30:29
of the country
00:30:31
but first
00:30:32
some 20 years ago a simple act of
00:30:34
kindness launched the career of renowned
00:30:36
chef moses travis
00:30:38
now he wants to find the woman who
00:30:40
inspired him to pursue his dream
00:30:43
[Music]
00:30:55
at one time or another we've all done
00:30:57
something nice for someone else without
00:30:59
expecting anything in return
00:31:02
whether we realize it or not such acts
00:31:04
can occasionally have a profound effect
00:31:07
every so often a small kindness can
00:31:10
completely change a person's life
00:31:13
[Music]
00:31:16
moses travis is one of the country's
00:31:17
most critically acclaimed chefs
00:31:19
he owns two award-winning mexican
00:31:21
restaurants in arizona both curiously
00:31:24
named such is life
00:31:26
how moses acquired that name as at the
00:31:28
center of his own personal unsolved
00:31:31
mystery
00:31:32
[Music]
00:31:33
in the mid-1970s moses was a day cook at
00:31:36
a small taco stand on the island of
00:31:38
cozumel in mexico
00:31:40
he had a reputation for making the best
00:31:42
tacos in town
00:31:46
one of moses favorite customers was an
00:31:48
american tourist named judy anderson oh
00:31:50
hi judy are you unusual yes
00:31:54
judy was a school teacher who visited
00:31:56
the island seven times over a three-year
00:31:58
period
00:31:59
moses vividly remembers judy and her
00:32:02
last visit in 1977. getting me the hotel
00:32:06
much better she was very nice lady quiet
00:32:08
the lady wrote a book all the time
00:32:12
and she asked me if i can uh
00:32:14
if i have time to because she wants to
00:32:16
go to the mainland which is across the
00:32:19
island which is you know
00:32:21
15 miles 17 miles across the aisle and
00:32:24
the mainland is where all the ruins are
00:32:29
the next day moses closed up shop and
00:32:31
set off with judy on a day-long
00:32:33
excursion
00:32:34
their destination
00:32:36
the mayan pyramids along the yucatan
00:32:38
peninsula
00:32:40
around noon they stopped for lunch and
00:32:42
communicated as best they could in
00:32:44
broken english
00:32:46
moses
00:32:48
wouldn't you like to own a restaurant
00:32:50
like this someday with tables and chairs
00:32:53
oh yeah you know i dreamed to open a
00:32:55
restaurant but you know no money
00:32:58
such as life
00:33:00
excuse me
00:33:03
such is life
00:33:04
it means that's the way life is you know
00:33:07
such is life i like that yeah
00:33:11
you know what judy when i open my
00:33:13
restaurant i want to call sachi's life
00:33:15
and put it on the menus and it's like a
00:33:18
paid idea
00:33:20
nothing more was said but deep inside
00:33:23
moses an idea had taken root
00:33:26
it would begin to blossom later that
00:33:28
afternoon
00:33:29
you know any time you come as the day
00:33:31
came to a close it was time to say
00:33:33
goodbye
00:33:34
moses would take a ferry back to the
00:33:36
island judy would stay on the mainland
00:33:38
to catch a flight back to the united
00:33:40
states
00:33:42
oh no tip no no no no it's not a tip
00:33:46
before parting judy had an unexpected
00:33:48
gift for moses
00:33:52
goodbye
00:33:53
bye judy
00:33:57
when moses opened the envelope he was
00:33:58
stunned to find five one hundred dollar
00:34:00
bills and a hastily written note
00:34:03
dear moses go make such his life happen
00:34:07
love judy
00:34:09
moses did just that within a month he
00:34:12
had opened his own tiny restaurant on
00:34:14
cozumel
00:34:15
naturally he named it such as life
00:34:18
moses eagerly awaited judy's next trip
00:34:20
to the island but he never saw her again
00:34:25
now some 20 years later moses travis is
00:34:27
a united states citizen
00:34:29
his restaurants have been lauded by both
00:34:31
local newspapers and the national press
00:34:34
he and his family live in scottsdale
00:34:36
arizona and believe they owe much of
00:34:38
their good fortune to the unselfish
00:34:40
kindness of judy anderson
00:34:44
the story helps to understand that it
00:34:47
came out of nothing i mean it came out
00:34:50
of an act of love
00:34:51
it's not an act of money or power or
00:34:55
it's just an act of love
00:34:58
moses need just a little push to become
00:35:01
a wonderful butterfly
00:35:05
she understood what moses had inside
00:35:07
english such as life she was very wise
00:35:10
to
00:35:11
let him know that he was good enough to
00:35:14
become what he is now
00:35:17
it will be a very nice surprise for
00:35:19
somebody you know like her after 20
00:35:22
years somebody say they looking for you
00:35:24
because you are the one that says i just
00:35:26
laugh that would be nice no i think that
00:35:29
will be more than thank you
00:35:32
[Music]
00:35:45
next
00:35:46
two bombings and two bank robberies in
00:35:48
spokane washington the terrifying
00:35:50
explosion during atlanta's olympic games
00:35:53
our special report examines possible
00:35:55
links that may be much more than
00:35:57
coincidence
00:35:59
[Music]
00:36:12
july 27th 1996 atlanta centennial park
00:36:17
thousands had gathered to share in the
00:36:19
excitement of the olympic games
00:36:21
but no one realized that a 9-1-1
00:36:23
operator had just received this shocking
00:36:26
phone call
00:36:29
[Music]
00:36:34
[Applause]
00:36:42
at 1 25 a.m the park became like a war
00:36:44
zone
00:36:45
two people died
00:36:47
111 were injured
00:36:49
a pipe bomb hidden in a military
00:36:52
backpack had exploded next to the atnt
00:36:55
pavilion
00:36:57
the initial suspect was a security guard
00:36:59
named richard jewell
00:37:01
but after months of investigation he was
00:37:03
officially cleared
00:37:05
i am not the olympic park bomber
00:37:10
with a simple statement the
00:37:12
investigation threatened to grind to a
00:37:13
halt
00:37:15
then a west coast newspaper published
00:37:16
startling new information as some
00:37:18
believe could lead to an arrest in the
00:37:20
olympic bombing the evidence is purely
00:37:23
circumstantial but it seems much more
00:37:25
than coincidence
00:37:27
in the newspaper scenario atlanta was a
00:37:29
last in a series of attacks that began
00:37:31
three months earlier and 3000 miles away
00:37:39
april fools day 1996 2 36 p.m
00:37:43
a customized van pulled up to the rear
00:37:45
of the spokesman review spokane
00:37:48
washington's leading newspaper
00:37:57
get out get out call 9-1-1 just then the
00:38:00
newspaper's operations manager arrived
00:38:08
fortunately no one was injured in the
00:38:10
blast but the bombers did leave a
00:38:12
calling card
00:38:13
a rambling incoherent diatribe that
00:38:15
quoted liberally from the bible and
00:38:17
appeared to be an extreme right-wing
00:38:19
manifesto
00:38:24
at that very moment two armed men
00:38:26
operating with military-like precision
00:38:28
entered the u.s bank 20 blocks away
00:38:36
the robbers made up with some 70 000 in
00:38:39
cash
00:38:40
they too left a calling card copies of
00:38:43
the same rambling diatribe found founded
00:38:45
the newspaper
00:38:51
[Music]
00:38:56
three months later another pipeline
00:38:59
at a planned parenthood office
00:39:01
and another robbery at the same u.s bank
00:39:07
these surveillance photos would provide
00:39:08
the major break in the case when a
00:39:10
military surplus dealer in idaho
00:39:13
recognized a parka worn by one of the
00:39:15
gunmen
00:39:16
he told authorities he had sold similar
00:39:18
parches to three men
00:39:20
robert berry vern merrell and charles
00:39:23
barbie
00:39:25
in october of 1996 all three were
00:39:28
arrested in portland oregon they were
00:39:30
allegedly members of an obscure
00:39:32
right-wing religious sect
00:39:35
a year earlier charles barby himself had
00:39:38
been interviewed by the spokesman review
00:39:40
for a series on the anti-government
00:39:41
movement
00:39:44
barbie said that there may be a time
00:39:46
when when
00:39:47
he and people like him would have to
00:39:48
resort to warfare and that they would
00:39:50
have to blood would have to be
00:39:52
shed because
00:39:54
because the government was so evil
00:39:57
on the day of the arrest no one imagined
00:39:59
that there might be a possible
00:40:01
connection between these three men and
00:40:03
the bombing of the olympics
00:40:05
then in december the fbi released
00:40:08
photographs of the type of backpack
00:40:10
reportedly used to conceal the bomb in
00:40:12
atlanta
00:40:13
once again the military surplus dealer
00:40:16
in idaho came forward with a shocking
00:40:18
disclosure
00:40:20
he proceeded to tell me that that he
00:40:22
believed he'd sold a backpack to these
00:40:24
men that was similar to the
00:40:25
military-style backpack the alice pack
00:40:28
used in the atlanta bombing
00:40:29
he said that the men had asked how to
00:40:31
get fingerprints off such a backpack and
00:40:33
he'd told them just to throw in the
00:40:34
washing machine
00:40:35
and he said they'd asked about a
00:40:36
detonator about how to create a
00:40:38
time-delayed detonator much like the one
00:40:39
used in the atlanta bombing and that he
00:40:42
had given them advice on that
00:40:45
the spokesman review immediately
00:40:46
launched its own investigation
00:40:49
more possible links between the spokane
00:40:51
and atlanta bombings now came to light
00:40:55
what we found was that one of the men
00:40:58
charles barbie had worked for a t and
00:41:00
left the company and discussed because
00:41:03
of their support of affirmative action
00:41:05
and and some other programs
00:41:07
and if you will recall the bomb was
00:41:09
detonated not far from the atm t
00:41:11
pavilion within centennial park
00:41:14
suggesting that there might have been a
00:41:16
motive
00:41:18
in addition to that the fbi had obtained
00:41:21
phone records that showed that there had
00:41:23
been telephone calls made
00:41:26
from the atlanta area to
00:41:28
barbie's north idaho home
00:41:31
immediately after the bombing in atlanta
00:41:34
a backpack
00:41:36
an alleged grudge against a t
00:41:38
several suspicious phone calls
00:41:41
the evidence was hardly conclusive but
00:41:43
it was enough for the spokesman review
00:41:46
the paper went public with his findings
00:41:48
on super bowl sunday 1997.
00:41:51
within hours another stunning link
00:41:53
between the bombings was revealed
00:41:56
an architect in atlanta was watching the
00:41:58
super bowl he saw during the halftime
00:42:01
pictures of the three men who were
00:42:04
charged with the bombings up here and
00:42:05
might have been linked to the bombings
00:42:06
in atlanta
00:42:08
when he saw the picture of robert berry
00:42:11
he said to himself and later to others
00:42:14
that looks like the man i saw carrying a
00:42:17
backpack into centennial park the night
00:42:20
of the olympic bombing
00:42:23
the architect had twice faxed this
00:42:24
sketch of the man with a backpack to the
00:42:26
fbi
00:42:28
both times there was no response
00:42:30
in january he faxed it to the spokesman
00:42:32
review
00:42:34
for many people the resemblance between
00:42:36
the sketch
00:42:37
and robert berry is striking
00:42:41
was robert berry among the celebrants in
00:42:43
centennial park on the night of the
00:42:45
bombing
00:42:47
if so was he responsible for the tragedy
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the fbi has interviewed the architect
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and investigated the claims of the
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spokesman review
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they maintain that any connection
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between the spokane and olympic bombings
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is quote a creation of the spokesman
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review
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the newspaper stands by its story
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