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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries a Marine in Guantanamo Bay is
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brutally hazed later one of his
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tormentors is murdered this is the
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untold true story behind the movie A Few
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Good Men the search for Yeti several
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well-known explorers say the mysterious
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halfman half AP has been cited in the
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Himalayas there's even physical evidence
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part of a
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hand a terrorist hired as an armed guard
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takes his co-workers hostage and drives
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away with $7 million in cash and a
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chilling update when a viewer Tunes in
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to Unsolved Mysteries he discovers his
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former tenant is wanted for
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murder our viewers have helped solve
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hundreds of cases just like these and
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perhaps you can help too I'm Dennis
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finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries
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audiences all over the world lined up to
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see Tom Cruz and Jack Nicholson in the
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hit movie A Few Good Men but few were
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aware that it was based on a real story
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one that may have led to the murder of a
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courageous
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Marine David Cox joined the Marine Corps
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straight out of high school being one of
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of the proud and the few was all that he
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ever
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wanted David was stationed at the US
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Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba one
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day while on duty David became aware of
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a problem another platoon member PFC
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William alvado had written to his
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Senator complaining about Marine
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misconduct we didn't actually decide to
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have a code red for Alvarado on our own
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our platoon Commander had given us an
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implied order that if we were good
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Marines something should
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happen Saturday night we went into
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Alvarado's
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room what the hell's going on here we
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blindfolded him and gagged
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him and then dragged him off of his
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bed Dave started shaving his head and
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within 5 minutes he had stopped
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struggling he's not breathing get the
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gag David Cox convinced his platoon to
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stop The Hazing oh she's back up back up
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stop it so we removed the gag and he
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still didn't come around he was still
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unconscious so at that point we started
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to panic everybody else get to your room
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alado was rushed to the hospital he
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recovered but his 10 attackers were
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brought up on charges including David
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Cox relax Cox sir yes sir Don mcui was
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appointed to defend David
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they're going to charge you with
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attempted murder they got a confession
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from you and they get a pretty beat up
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Marine doesn't look too good sir I was
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just following orders sir I told David
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uh that this was the defense obedience
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to orders that had not been successful
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at nberg uh had not been successful with
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Lieutenant C mili and plus we had a
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colonel denying he ever gave an order
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David claimed the code red started with
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implied orders from his Superior
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officers want to risk 20 years in the BR
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so we had the additional burning of now
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saying he was following an implied order
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and it was a very difficult case to win
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and I told David that he decided he
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wanted to fight it because he believed
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in his heart that he didn't do anything
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wrong at his trial David was convicted
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of simple assault he was sentenced to
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time already served in the
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brig he then completed his duty and
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received an honorable
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discharge then he returned to civilian
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life in his hometown near
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Boston years later A Few Good Men was
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released David felt that the filmmakers
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had stolen his story one of the most
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realistic points in the movie other than
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that David's reaction was that he was
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stunned for one it was this movie
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company that was making millions of
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money off of his story and if it weren't
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for him the story never would have
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existed to in the first
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place David and some of the other
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Marines involved in the code R sued the
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movie production company while they
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waited for a ruling David spoke out
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about his case on radio talk
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shows David was living with his
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girlfriend Elaine he was hoping his
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temporary job with UPS would become
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permanent Dave was very enthusiastic
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about getting on board with them I think
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it was something where he felt that he
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could have a full-time steady
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occupation the night before he was
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supposed to get the good news his back
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was giving him trouble and he spent the
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night on the couch I hope UPS
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calls have a good
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day Elaine left at about 8:30 a.m. and
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then called home at about noon love you
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David didn't answer but there was a
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message for him on the
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machine hi message for David Cox this is
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Jim at UPS got some good news for you
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give me a call thank you so I was really
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excited I like got cold Dave's going to
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get this job and he's going to be so
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excited and then I called back again at
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1:00 to check the messages and that
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message was still there and the UPS guy
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had called again
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too
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David at 5:30 p.m. Elaine returned home
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David when I came into the house that
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night after work I realized right away
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that the doors to all the rooms were
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open and our rabbit who we usually just
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kept in the kitchen was like hopping all
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over the
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place hi David it's Jim again at UPS
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please give me a call thank you David's
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truck was still in the driveway with the
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keys in the ignition his uncashed
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paycheck was on the dashboard and his
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9mm gun was in the glove box but David
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was
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gone I immediately had a feeling of
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dread because I know David well enough
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David would not just disappear and right
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from the start I was very
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concerned as the days went on and there
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was no news from him I mean we checked
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his bank account there was no activity
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on his bank account you start to believe
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that you know maybe something did happen
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but
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why the answer came with the spring thaw
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the body of David Cox was discovered on
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the banks of a river in Medfield
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Massachusetts about 5 miles from his
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apartment he was shot according to the
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me four times once at the base of the
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rear of the neck and three times in the
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left side torso area
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it was clear that robbery was not the
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motive the idea on this Bo says that
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David clk's from David's cash and his
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credit cards were still in his well I
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don't know if that's this individual and
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police rule out a random we have photo
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come we'll take U secure the area and
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we'll take some pictures investigators
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are convinced David left home with
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someone that he knew it's our belief
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that he get in the car willingly that he
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knew who was coming to pick him up and
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that he went to this area and walked
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into the woods with this person
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I think that if it was somebody that was
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just holding a gun in him or something
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like that that they would do it within
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the first 30 or 40 yards into the woods
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David was found almost 3/4 to a mile
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walk into the
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woods I don't know why David was killed
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I personally believe it had something to
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do with the military he was taken out of
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his house without signs of struggle uh
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he was wearing his Marine Corp jacket
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which he never wore he was found between
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two hunting ranges where gunshots would
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not be unusual and he was murdered
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execution
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style now there is a movie opening
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tonight called A Few Good Men after the
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release of A Few Good Men David was
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quite vocal about his story and the US
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activities in Cuba David's family
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believes he may have talked too much the
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Colonel had implied to us to uh
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discipline a certain Marine after I
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heard that interview on the radio I
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spoke to him and I said I don't like
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what you're doing I think what you're
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doing is
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dangerous I think he felt too free to
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just speak his
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mind this guy there he's a supervisor
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David's brother had a different Theory
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suggesting another possible scenario he
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thought that perhaps the murder was
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connected to David's job at UPS stealing
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yeah stealing l a couple of months
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before Dave disappeared he had mentioned
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to
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me that he had come upon a supervisor
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and one of the drivers involved in some
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type of activity what he believed to be
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was theft at this point uh the
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investigation's still open uh it'll
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remain open until we solve
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it we'll follow any leads that come
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through vigorously and remain to do that
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until it is
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solved if you have any information about
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the murder of David Cox please log on to
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next evidence that the legendary
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creature called Yeti really
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exists the
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Himalayas the site of the world's
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highest mountain and one of its most
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intriguing Mysteries
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for centuries the sherpa people native
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to the Himalayas have told frightening
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Tales of a strange halfman half ape
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called the
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yeti to the sherpers yeti has always
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been very real and very much alive some
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Western explorers agree they have found
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convincing evidence that the
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Sherpas may be
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right several Expeditions have uncovered
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my ing stories of strange humanlike
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creatures who live in the
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Himalayas in 1951 Eric Shipton a world
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famous Mountaineer came across a curious
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set of
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tracks this was the first clear evidence
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that the yeti might in fact be real the
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photograph of the shipon footprint is
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very big piece evidence because it
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showed toes individual toes it showed a
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squat Square footprint which a lot of
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the other Expeditions had found but not
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had good photographic equipment with
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them the footprint was 13 in long and 8
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in wide it didn't look like it was made
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by a man or an
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ape in
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1957 a Texas oil man named Tom Slick and
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Explorer Peter burn set off for the
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aroon valley in northeastern Nepal in
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search of Yeti Tom Slick's um interest
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in in the beginning was to find out uh
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if the yeti were really there and uh
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that's the reason he came on the first
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reconnaissance I had been hearing about
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the yeti for years ever since I was a
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child but I think that what eventually
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convinced me that they were there was
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meeting with the sherpers and talking
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with them face to face Namaste
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Namaste the sherpers viewed the yeti as
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a real living creature uh not as a
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mythical creature they call him a hairy
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man that lived out there separate from
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them on the first Expeditions we took
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along with us 8 by1 pictures of a
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chimpanzee a gorilla A Primitive man and
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so on and they used to point to the
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Primitive man and say that's the yeti in
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fact they thought we had a picture of
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the Yeti when they saw
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that
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Yeti the sherpers described the yeti to
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us always as um being a manlike and form
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um about 5' 6 5' 7 5' 8 not not very
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large covered with hair walking upright
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uh the face was Bare of hair Palms of
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the hands that sort of
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thing slick and burn decided to split up
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to cover a wider search
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area each made his own startling
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Discovery we started out from our camp
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in the early morning and we simply chose
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a mountain and I came across a line of
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footprints Yeti you're sure yet
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bti Peter
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yeti in Peter Burns photograph the yeti
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footprint is on the left on the right is
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the much smaller bootprint of one of the
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Expedition
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members St Tom St Tom what is it in
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another part of the valley Tom Slick and
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his Sherpa guides discovered a similar
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set of
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tracks you're saying these are ye TRS
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this the significance of the of the
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prince that Tom Slick
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found is that they were in mud whereas
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snow will distort with heat and with
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wind and so on mud will not he only saw
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two or three because it's very hard to
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track in that stuff in fact he was lucky
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to find
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them a plaster cast of the footprint was
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shipped to the US to be
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analyzed the print measured 10 in long
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and 7 in wide it was similar to the
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footprint discovered by Eric Shipton 6
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years
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earlier it was a short squat almost
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Square type of footprint and I sent it
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to the various physical anthropology
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experts around the country and what they
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usually the terminology came back was
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unique but we don't know what it
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is in February of 1958 Peter burn
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embarked on another Expedition on this
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trip he met a Buddhist monk who had an
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amazing story to
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tell you like Scotch this this old
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man and uh one evening while we were
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sitting there having a drink and talking
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he said you know that up in the uh
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Temple we have a hand hand a what yet
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hand and he said would you like to see
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it and I said
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yes so we went back up to the temple and
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he showed me this hand
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about the size of a human hand cut off
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at the wrist uh I considered it very
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significant and I took some pictures of
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it immediately some flash pictures I
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asked the Lamb of course could I have it
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and he said no he said it must never
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leave the temple here if it leaves the
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temple various calamities will befall
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the temple and the community and so
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on the photographs of the Yeti hand were
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unlike anything scientists had seen
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before was it human or was it ape or was
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it an entirely new species they needed
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the actual hand or at least a piece of
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it to find
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out the next year Peter burn returned to
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the monastery with another bottle of
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Scotch for the Monk and an outrageous
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plan I cut the finger off and I replaced
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it with the human finger it took quite a
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long time to wire the whole thing
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together put it back in the box and U
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nobody ever knew anything about it and
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everything everybody actually was
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perfectly happy they still had their
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hand it still had its
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fingers the finger was brought back to
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London to be
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examined it was sent to me and I sent it
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to some the 20 experts which I thought
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should look at the hand and they were
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about equally divided whether it was
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human or whether it was some type of
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primate known or
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unknown Dr agago put a tissue sample
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from the bone fragment in an envelope in
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his desk it remained there for more than
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30
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years when we learned of the bone
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fragment in Dr agaj Gino's desk drawer
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we asked the University of California to
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analyze
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it the results were inconclusive but
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seemed to indicate that the tissue
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probably came from a human hand the
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problem with something as vague as the
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yeti is that almost any result you have
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can be fitted into the theory so I'm
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sure that most Believers will say well
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this is great this proves that the yeti
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is some sort of subhuman species I think
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that's what we've always thought uh that
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it wasn't an animal that it wasn't an
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upright walking ape because Apes don't
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walk upright anyway that it was um a
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homonid a human form of some
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kind meanwhile the sightings of Yeti
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continued I had made camp at 16,500 ft
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when out of the darkness a very loud
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piercing call began that sounded like
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nothing I'd ever heard before it moved
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around it circled our campsite it would
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get closer it would get farther away it
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would call intermittently and the call
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was always very loud and very piercing
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and very
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frightening I was on a distance of 10 m
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so it was my impression it's bigger than
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me it was quite hairy and strong with
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short legs the body was quite dark dark
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brown black hairs long long hairs and he
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has quite a lot of hairs on the on the
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on the on the head I have to leave it
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open that I do not know what the
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abominal Snowman is but I feel there is
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a very good chance probably 50/50 that
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something resembling the thing they're
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looking for does exist
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perhaps these mountains are home to an
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elusive half-human species or perhaps
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Yeti is just a myth after all either way
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we must remember that a new species is
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discovered almost every year you never
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know Yeti may still surprise
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us coming up when her home is invaded by
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Intruders a young girl is stricken by
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amnesia
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14-year-old Sarah Powell was home from
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school with the flu when she woke up she
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had absolutely no idea where she was or
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why she was there she didn't even
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remember her
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name I remember this little dog I was
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licking my face and that's what woke me
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up I tried to move move and I realized
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that I was tied
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up I had no recollection of who I was or
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why I was tied
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up tried to remember things but as soon
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as I started asking myself who I was and
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what I was doing there it upset me
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more I grabbed the phone cord with my
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teeth and pulled it off the bed and that
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knocked the phone off the hook and then
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I thought who am I going to call I don't
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know anybody I don't even know where I'm
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at and then I looked down I saw that
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there was a redial
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button
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hello I need some help the girl reached
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the local post office one of the
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employees was a woman named Deborah pal
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they had a child on the phone the child
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said that everything in the room was
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pink and there were teddy bears
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everywhere and I knew at that point that
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there there was no doubt in my mind it
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was
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Sarah Sarah was Deborah's 14-year-old
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daughter
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she had stayed home sick from school
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that day what's going on is she all
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right we don't know we haven't gotten
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into the house
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yet
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SAR when we went into the house and I
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saw it was ransacked I knew she was in
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big trouble S I was scared I was
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frightened I didn't know what I was
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going to find Sarah
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ma'am
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Sarah don't Hur me Sarah honey it's
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Mommy it's what's wrong honey it's Mommy
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don't hurt me I didn't know what to
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think what to do the more I tried to go
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toward her and and help her she began to
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Panic it's all right Sarah I'm a
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policeman just let me get you out of
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this my first impression was she was a
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teenager that was up to
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something and probably did not want her
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parents to find out uh what had happened
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that
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day the police had good reason to be
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suspicious after searching the house
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they found no signs of forced entry and
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no fingerprints or Footprints anything
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and we later learned that nothing was
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taken so these sort of things make us
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think that she's going to be able to
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tell us what went on and U uh she will
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know who it is and we'll solve this as
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as soon as Sarah's ready to deal with it
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Sarah did you get yourself into some
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trouble here is that why you're afraid
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to say anything anything to
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me I can't remember anything that
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happened I just know that I woke up all
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tied up I could tell that they thought I
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was holding something back I was trying
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as hard as I could they would show me
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pictures and ask me if I remembered my
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parents and um I couldn't remember
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anything after 2 months of trying to
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remember her family and 2 months after
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struggling with even the most basic
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skills something unpredictable
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happened Sarah honey what is it s
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Sarah Sarah honey what is
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it I need some help somebody help I was
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scared to death I didn't know what was
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happening I thought what in the world
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this looks like a seizure go get the
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school
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nurse
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okay I and I remember thinking maybe
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this is the memory coming back but I
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couldn't be sure I didn't let them in
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the memories had returned in a
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terrifying
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rush I remembered walking up the stairs
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when I heard a loud
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noise so I started running up the stairs
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and I heard a second loud
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boom and that's when I saw people trying
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to break in the window I saw the phone
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sitting on my bed so I just Dove onto my
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my bed and called my mom at
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work the front door was locked with a
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double
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deadbolt and Sarah couldn't find her
00:24:11
keys then suddenly everything was
00:24:16
quiet I started sneaking up the stairs
00:24:18
and stood up slowly and I looked in my
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room and nobody was there
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don't look up stay right here don't look
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up I promise he just pushed my head down
00:24:36
on the bed and put a pillow on my head I
00:24:38
believe he was trying to kill me that's
00:24:39
enough this ain't funny shut up
00:24:42
right I was at the point where I just
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couldn't hold my breath anymore so I
00:24:46
just went limp and pretended like I
00:24:49
either passed out or
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dead you just had to get a look didn't
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you
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and that's the last thing I remembered
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when we passing out and uh that's what I
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remembered in my first seizure and I
00:25:10
thought that was all at the time but it
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turned out that it
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wasn't over subsequent seizures Sarah
00:25:17
began to recall the rest of the
00:25:24
story I remembered waking up and nobody
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was in the room except for the smaller
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guy why are you doing this to
00:25:32
me look you just got to be quiet okay
00:25:34
I'm I'm going to tie you up but you be
00:25:36
all right bigger guy that's when he
00:25:38
walked in and saw us
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talking the bigger guy he had the gun
00:25:44
for such good friends now I'm sure
00:25:46
you're going to love this he had it to
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my
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head please come on shut up shut up man
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and you Tire
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up I know that there were downstairs
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Reds acing the house because I could
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hear things fall into the floor the
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smaller guy unraveled the phone cord
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once and plugged the phone back in and
00:26:06
set it on the bed I think he felt sorry
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for
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me Sarah was literally in a
00:26:14
life-threatening situation and then two
00:26:16
things happened that probably insulted
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her brain one was that she got hit in
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the head and the other one was that she
00:26:22
was suffocated so that the combination
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of
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Terror and a psychological Amnesia
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component and the physical insults I
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think combined to result in this unique
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Amnesia
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presentation can you describe those
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people to me the police however remain
00:26:42
skeptical they even put Sarah under
00:26:44
hypnosis to see if her story would hold
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up there's a big guy with
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muscles she told the same story that she
00:26:54
had always told the hypnotist told me in
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his opinion she was being
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truthful I believe that I've remembered
00:27:01
the attack accurately I don't I don't
00:27:03
think there's anything else to remember
00:27:06
it's always possible but um I really
00:27:08
feel like everything is here and um I'm
00:27:12
ready to uh maybe see if I can get some
00:27:16
answers and find out why this all
00:27:19
happened this is a composite of the tall
00:27:22
male Intruder as he might look without
00:27:24
the stocking mask he's about 5 10 in and
00:27:28
very muscular he has a tattoo of a Cobra
00:27:31
on his right bicep or shoulder if you
00:27:34
have any information please go to our
00:27:36
website unsolved.com
00:27:41
next a missing biker scattered remains
00:27:44
and a chilling letter confessing to
00:27:47
murder is it real or a cruel hoax
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Burbank
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California Tom Ro and Barbara Rondo love
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nothing more than to hit the road on
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their Harley
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Davidson after 15 years together cycling
00:28:12
was a passion that they
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share we've known each other since 76 in
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all our extra time was spent
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riding Tom's my father lover
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teacher guide times of my
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life Tom just accepted a well-paid
00:28:37
management position with a company that
00:28:39
played at aircraft Parts 3 days before
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Tom was to start his new job he drove
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Barbara to work and then they made plans
00:28:46
to meet for lunch okay don't be late
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Miss You
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00:28:51
by but Tom never showed up for
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lunch and when Barbara got home she
00:28:58
still had not heard from him
00:29:00
Tom she was surprised to find the front
00:29:03
door was unlocked
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Tom Tom there was no sign of Tom
00:29:17
everything was in its place except for
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Tom
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[Music]
00:29:22
Tom but an ominous pattern soon
00:29:26
emerged the newspaper was still unopened
00:29:29
strange since Tom always read the sports
00:29:32
page in the morning a motorcycle battery
00:29:35
that Tom had planned to installed that
00:29:36
day was still on the counter and the
00:29:39
answering machine was off which meant
00:29:41
that Tom had planned to be at home most
00:29:44
of the
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day I didn't sleep at all that
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night just trying to figure out where
00:29:54
Tom was and why he hadn't called to let
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me know where he might
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be there's a lot of different
00:30:03
circumstances for different types of
00:30:04
missing persons they could take off
00:30:06
because of family problems they could
00:30:08
take off because of money problems we
00:30:11
really don't know the reason until we
00:30:12
get into talking with the family or
00:30:14
friends you see a lot of people going in
00:30:16
and out of that house neighbors were
00:30:18
questioned but no one had seen Tom that
00:30:21
morning police didn't know whether Tom
00:30:23
had left on his own or if he was a
00:30:25
victim of Foul
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Play Barbara posted these flyers at his
00:30:30
usual hangout but no one came forward
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with any
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information Tom Ros was officially
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listed as a missing
00:30:39
person days passed with no word and then
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a letter arrived it was addressed to the
00:30:45
family of Tom
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Ro it contained Tom's driver's license
00:30:51
and the earring he had been wearing the
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day he disappeared
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the letter also contained this bizarre
00:31:02
confession you don't know me and
00:31:05
hopefully never will but I am the one
00:31:07
who killed Tom Ro the closing words I'm
00:31:10
very sorry for what I have done and I
00:31:12
know in time that the guilt will leave
00:31:14
me so will your
00:31:17
pain was this chilling letter a hoax
00:31:21
Tom's Family couldn't think of a single
00:31:23
person who would want him harmed and
00:31:25
they simply could not believe that he
00:31:27
was dead the investigation
00:31:31
continued authorities once again went
00:31:33
back to the day he
00:31:37
disappeared on that day Tom made two
00:31:40
deposits at his bank at approximately
00:31:42
8:20 a.m. but he did not withdraw any
00:31:45
money indicating he had no plans to
00:31:48
leave
00:31:50
town Tom was next seen by a neighbor he
00:31:54
was talking with an unidentified white
00:31:56
male at about 9 :30 a.m. if the letter
00:32:00
is not a hoax then police believe that
00:32:02
this man may have been Tom's
00:32:05
killer we contacted Wen witness who told
00:32:08
us that she had seen Thomas that morning
00:32:10
with another subject standing by a
00:32:13
pickup truck looking into the bed of the
00:32:15
pickup truck she said that they were not
00:32:17
arguing it looked like they were just
00:32:19
carrying on a normal conversation and
00:32:21
there was nothing suspicious about that
00:32:23
and I believe that was the last time
00:32:25
Thomas was
00:32:26
seen okay stop for sports however a
00:32:29
statement from one eyewitness suggest
00:32:31
that the letter might be a hoax
00:32:34
9.95 an employee at a motorcycle part
00:32:37
store was convinced Tom came in one day
00:32:40
after his family received the letter
00:32:43
saying that Tom was
00:32:45
killed he acted a little strange in the
00:32:49
sense that he didn't joke around with me
00:32:52
we would always joke around about what
00:32:54
kind of motorcycle he rode and about it
00:32:56
leaking oil and stuff you know Al so I
00:32:58
mean I knew Tom well enough to know sday
00:33:01
that it was Tom that came
00:33:03
in authorities believe Annie Marcel did
00:33:07
see Tom Ro but suspect that he is
00:33:09
mistaken about the
00:33:12
date with no new leads the case became
00:33:19
inactive pler County 500 M north of
00:33:23
Burbank authorities were called to
00:33:25
investigate weathered bone fragments and
00:33:27
personal effects that were found on a
00:33:29
remote
00:33:31
Hillside motorcycle emblems on the
00:33:33
clothing link the items to Tom
00:33:38
Ro a duffel bag flashlight hunting knife
00:33:44
two pairs of prescription eyeglasses an
00:33:47
empty prescription medicine bottle and
00:33:50
several
00:33:52
shirts Tom seemed to have been packed
00:33:55
and ready for the road Barbara Rando
00:33:58
recognized all the shirts and a pair of
00:34:01
eyeglasses as
00:34:03
Tom's I do feel that what they found is
00:34:07
Tom but there's that hope that he is
00:34:11
still out there somewhere and then in
00:34:13
fact I will find
00:34:17
him
00:34:19
update DNA tests have confirmed that the
00:34:22
remains found in pler County are those
00:34:24
of Tom Ro and that he died of a gunshot
00:34:27
one
00:34:28
the exact circumstances of his death as
00:34:31
well as the identity of the letter
00:34:32
writer are still a mystery Burbank
00:34:36
Police cannot reveal additional
00:34:39
details however they continue to work on
00:34:42
this
00:34:43
case if you have any information
00:34:45
regarding the death of Tom Ro please log
00:34:48
on to our website at unsolved.com
00:34:54
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00:34:55
next a man wanted for murder his
00:34:58
girlfriend is captured thanks to
00:35:00
[Music]
00:35:13
you we recently told you the story of
00:35:16
22-year-old Paula pacak and her
00:35:19
boyfriend Jerry gervasoni Paula they
00:35:21
were traveling to kiss me Florida to
00:35:24
visit Paula's mother I am so glad Paul
00:35:27
was happy as a l the two of them were I
00:35:29
mean they were
00:35:30
very together they were they were just
00:35:34
happy gol lucky PA Paula and Jerry
00:35:38
arrived on a Wednesday and then on
00:35:40
Sunday night they said their goodbyes
00:35:42
they told Barbara they would be leaving
00:35:44
early the next day oh we're getting I
00:35:49
got up the next
00:35:50
morning and I thought I heard them
00:35:53
up I didn't know whether they were or
00:35:56
not so I didn't
00:35:58
bother to say
00:36:04
goodbye maybe if I had you know things
00:36:08
would have been
00:36:10
different days later Barbara noticed an
00:36:13
odd odor in the house she checked her
00:36:20
bedroom hidden under the
00:36:22
bed wrapped in a bamboo curtain was her
00:36:26
daughter's body
00:36:29
PA aesc had been strangled to death and
00:36:32
left under the bed for nearly a
00:36:35
week the prime suspect was Jerry gervon
00:36:39
but by then he
00:36:41
disappeared gervon avoided being
00:36:43
captured for more than 7
00:36:47
years
00:36:50
update British Columbia
00:36:53
Canada when our program aired in Canada
00:36:56
Jerry ger Sony's former landlord
00:36:59
recognized him and called authorities he
00:37:02
was living under the assumed name Gordon
00:37:05
McIntyre several days later gervasoni
00:37:08
was arrested in the small community of
00:37:10
Salt Springs Island I come home and uh
00:37:14
sit down to dinner about 9:30 qu to 10
00:37:17
and uh flip on the TV and there was his
00:37:19
black and white photo of gour
00:37:23
McIntyre once in custody the suspect
00:37:26
still insisted that he was G Gordon
00:37:27
McIntyre but fingerprints soon confirmed
00:37:30
that he was in fact Jerry
00:37:34
gerbon at the local airport gervasoni
00:37:37
tried to avoid photographers as he was
00:37:39
hustled on to a waiting plane he was
00:37:42
returned to the United States and
00:37:44
convicted of second de gree
00:37:46
murder he served 6 years of a 17-year
00:37:50
sentence
00:37:52
[Music]
00:37:57
was one of the most daring heists in US
00:38:00
history one man single-handedly loaded
00:38:03
$7 million into a getaway car and
00:38:08
vanished and he's still on the
00:38:11
run the robber was a 25-year-old armored
00:38:14
car guard named Victor Manuel
00:38:17
herena what's up Vic a trusted employee
00:38:21
at the West Hartford Connecticut office
00:38:23
of the Wells Fargo Express company
00:38:26
herena arrived that work that day as
00:38:28
usual but with a special request is
00:38:31
there any way I can park my car over
00:38:33
here at Bay 5 I would really appreciate
00:38:35
it what's wrong with your car it's not
00:38:37
mine it's a friend of mine I hate to see
00:38:39
something happen to it the vehicle that
00:38:40
Victor was driving that day was a a 1973
00:38:43
Buick Las saber which was a full-size
00:38:45
big car capable of of carrying a a large
00:38:48
load whatever that may
00:38:50
be that day herena and his partner made
00:38:53
all their scheduled rounds collecting
00:38:55
more than $3 million from local banks
00:38:58
and businesses the Wells Fargo vaults
00:39:01
already held more than $4 million Tim
00:39:05
I'm going to check in the guns okay take
00:39:10
mine by 9:00 p.m. herena his partner and
00:39:13
the supervisor were alone in the armored
00:39:16
car terminal with more than $7 million
00:39:20
in
00:39:21
cash listen I'll kill you I swear to God
00:39:25
I'll kill you what are you doing shut up
00:39:27
stay no come on you lay down lay down no
00:39:31
lay down move it put your hands behind
00:39:34
your back you handcuffed his
00:39:36
supervisor's arms behind his
00:39:38
back and also taped up uh their mouth
00:39:41
and used duct tape to tape their feet
00:39:44
and and bind them so they couldn't move
00:39:47
and he put jackets over both their heads
00:39:48
so they would not be able to see what
00:39:49
was going
00:39:53
on Hera began to move the seven minion
00:39:56
bag buy
00:39:58
back it took the better part of an hour
00:40:01
and a half to load his car with roughly
00:40:04
a half a ton of
00:40:09
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00:40:15
cash after the car was loaded we believe
00:40:17
that he sent a signal to someone on the
00:40:19
outside that was helping him he hon the
00:40:21
horn and opened the bay door to the
00:40:23
terminal it's believed that at that
00:40:25
point someone else came into the
00:40:26
terminal and drove his car out of the
00:40:29
terminal with the money inside the
00:40:33
car herena left the building without
00:40:36
harming the guards they soon worked
00:40:38
themselves free and they called the
00:40:42
police the next day hena's car was found
00:40:45
a short distance from the Wells Fargo
00:40:48
terminal Victor herena vanished along
00:40:52
with the $7
00:40:54
million investigators soon learned that
00:40:56
Victor herena was a member of a Puerto
00:40:59
Rican terrorist group called Los
00:41:02
macheros they were fighting for the
00:41:04
independence of Puerto Rico from the
00:41:06
United
00:41:08
States this is an underground video
00:41:10
created by Los macheteros flush with
00:41:13
Millions from the robbery the terror
00:41:15
group purchased a surfac to- a missile
00:41:19
it was launched at the FBI headquarters
00:41:21
in San Juan Puerto Rico little damage
00:41:24
was done and some of Hera's
00:41:26
co-conspirators were quickly
00:41:28
arrested Victor herena escaped
00:41:32
again he is now on the FBI's 10 most
00:41:35
wanted list the reward for his capture
00:41:38
is $1 million Victor Manuel herena has
00:41:41
brown hair striking green eyes and when
00:41:43
last seen weighed about 165 lb he stands
00:41:48
5' 6 in
00:41:49
tall recent leads put herena in Cuba but
00:41:54
investigators believe he could now be
00:41:56
back in the United States States Victor
00:41:58
herena should be considered armed and
00:42:01
very
00:42:03
dangerous if you have any information
00:42:05
about Victor herena or any of the other
00:42:09
cases profile tonight log on to our
00:42:11
website at unsolved.com
00:42:28
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