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unsolved mysteries a ten-year-old girl
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is abducted and brutally murdered two
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men are sentenced to death for the crime
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but many think they didn't do it a dog
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rescues a total stranger from drowning
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Pig gets help birds hunger whitey the
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life after a heart attack
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what turn these
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into life-saving on a lonely country
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road a young woman is attacked by a
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total stranger
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detectives need your help differently
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and a woman recalls repressed memories
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of
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he's rescued her from
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she wants to find that couple
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join me for these intriguing stories
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plus updates on cases solved by you I'm
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Dennis Farina and this is unsolved
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mysteries
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Naperville Illinois a suburb of Chicago
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Trishna carico and her friends arrived
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home from school to find that someone
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has broken into the house but the
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problem is much more serious
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her little sister Jeanine is missing
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Chris calls the police immediately they
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find the front door has been knocked in
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a footprint remains on the door another
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footprint and is found in the yard under
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the
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a sheet and blanket are missing Janine
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is gone it appeared to me and I'm sure a
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couple other guys too it was like it was
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a burglary maybe that went bad she
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wasn't supposed to be home somebody
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kicks in the door next thing you know
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she's home and they take her two days
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later the young girl's body was
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discovered in a wooded park less than
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two miles from her home ten-year-old
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Jeanine Nicarico had been raped and
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beaten to death
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two men would be convicted of killing
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Jeanine Nicarico both were sentenced to
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death but after another man confessed to
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the crime one of the lead detectives on
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the case began to fear that the wrong
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man would be executed for the crime from
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the beginning the rape and murder of
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Jeanine Nicarico was a high-profile
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high-priority case the offer of a
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$10,000 reward prompted a man named Alex
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Hernandez to contact investigators
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Hernandez told police that he'd been
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drinking with several men who had talked
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about this name names but only one
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provided a possible link to the murder
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Steve Buckley owned a pair of boots with
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treads similar to the print found on the
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front door of the nikeyra co home
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Buckley became a suspect but police also
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began to think that Alex Hernandez knew
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much more than he was telling
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you know somebody told us about sitting
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in a car we figured maybe now he's just
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trying to shift the guilt away from
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other you know from himself and maybe
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he's involved so he was a prime suspect
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but investigators needed more evidence
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to link Hernandez to the murder
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so they set a trap police put Hernandez
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in a room with a man he knew from his
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neighborhood nickname penguino penguino
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had been told to pretend that he knew
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about a murder
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Hernandez was told that he would get a
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$10,000 reward if he convinced penguin
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to talk about the murder detective
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listened in the hallway outside we
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figured that would be a perfect play if
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he knew anything hopefully how was us to
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get out some information and he was
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holding back hopefully he would talk
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easier to his peer somebody that he knew
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the meaning turned into a boasting
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contest penguin oh did as he was
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instructed pretending that he knew about
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the murder of a young boy not to be
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outdone Hernandez claimed that he knew
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about janean's murder he even bragged
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that he could show police the crime
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scene he said I was there I didn't kill
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her but I held her down
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police had hit the jackpot or so they
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thought police drove Hernandez around
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Janine's hometown expecting him to
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identify the crime scene or at least
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Janine's home we didn't run out of gas
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we priced he'll be right we never found
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anything he never could take us anyplace
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he rode around and rode around looking
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at houses and places that he hoped would
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be it I think but he never could take us
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to that place nevertheless police
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followed other leads that Hernandez gave
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them one led to a 19-year old named
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Rolando Cruz unemployed and surviving on
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food stamps Cruz had been arrested twice
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once for trespassing and once for theft
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Alex Hernandez I know me but I don't
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think I was right yeah it was less time
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so they asked me about Alex I told that
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and you would he look like his name but
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I didn't know him the Pacific we had
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anything wrong with him or anything like
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that we have reason to suspect that Alex
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is involved in the caracal murder never
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heard of it so you don't know about the
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reward
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like Alex Hernandez Rolando Cruz seem to
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have been tempted by the reward in the
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nikeyra cold case and like Hernandez he
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began to provide police with bits of
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information about the murder in the
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process
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both men implicated themselves one year
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passed from the date of Janine's death
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there's no the investigation was going
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nowhere there was an election that was
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coming up and I just believed that the
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police took whoever was convenient and
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whatever evidence no matter how
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implausible it was no matter how weak it
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was and said let's bring the criminal
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prosecution against these people
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investigators built their case for over
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a year and then a grand jury indicted
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Alex Hernandez Rolando Cruz and Steve
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Buckley on 36 counts including murder
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rape and daeviated sexual assault
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once the indictments were handed in
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police expected the three defendants to
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implicate each other in order to save
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themselves
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none of the men attempted to make a deal
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for at least one detective it was a sure
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sign that this case was seriously flawed
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it was kind of like there was out of the
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balloon and I mean that was it it was
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like we threw our last phone card hoping
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that something was gonna come from it it
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never did it felt like right then and
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there it's time to go on and find
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someone else they're kind of like in
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they at that point put it in my mind
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that these guys just weren't involved
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detective John Sam wanted to take the
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investigation in a new direction but his
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superiors wanted the case closed
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finally one month before the three men
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went on trial
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Sam handed in his resignation and
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cleaned out his desk the real killer was
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still out there in my opinion and we the
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police weren't looking for him if we
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weren't looking for him that meant
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nobody was looking for him and therefore
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he was still out there and could either
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kill again or he just gets away with it
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and that to me was the worst part of
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this whole thing
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Steve Buckley's trial ended in a hung
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jury and he walked away a free man but
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Alex Hernandez and Rolando Cruz were
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convicted of kidnapping raping and
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killing Jeanine Nicarico they were both
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sentenced to death
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next a suspect in another murder says
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that he killed Jeanine Nicarico model
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and that he acted alone
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ten-year-old Jeanine Nicarico was
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abducted from her home and murdered two
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years later Alex Hernandez and Rolando
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Cruz were sentenced to die for the crime
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Hernandez and Cruz had been in prison
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six months when another young girl was
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abducted raped and murdered just like
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Jeanine
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7 year old Melissa Ackerman had lived in
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the next County her body was found in a
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drainage ditch a few miles from where
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janean's body had been left a man
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already under arrest for three other
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sexual assaults was now being charged
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with killing Melissa his name was Brian
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Dugan the arrest of Brian Dugan raised
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new questions about the death of Jeanine
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acara thought not only were the two
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murders similar Dugan actually told this
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lawyer that he had killed Jenny but
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Dugan wouldn't formally confess without
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immunity from the death penalty
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prosecutors were tempted but could they
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believe Brian Dugan
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commander Eadie Sasaki of the Illinois
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State Police came up with a list of
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questions about janean's murder and gave
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them two Duggan's attorney
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Hey
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we've got a couple of questions what
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kind of a car were you driving on
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February 25th of 83 983 I was driving a
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green Volare Dugan said that on the day
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Janine was murdered he didn't go to work
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his employer confirmed his absence Dugan
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said he prowled through Naperville
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smoking marijuana sometime in the early
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afternoon he knocked on the front door
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of the nikeyra car I need to borrow a
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screwdriver try next oh okay
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in point after point Dugan's description
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matched the evidence Dugan claimed that
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he bound and gagged Janine
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he described the sheet in which he
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wrapped her and remembered that he had
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taken time to wipe his fingerprints from
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the doorknob he also said that he was
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wearing boots that matched the print
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found on the front door Dugan described
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driving Janine to a park called the
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Illinois Prairie path there he raped her
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and beat her with a tire iron and left
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her for dead Dugan story also matched
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the testimony of two tollway workers who
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had reported seeing a white man driving
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a green car on the day of the murder
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Dugan remembered saying the men and said
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that as he drove out of the park he
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almost got stuck trying to turn around
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the tires on his car had treads that
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matched the tire prints left at the
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crime scene he said I did it and here is
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how I did it and here are the details of
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what I did and he said it in such a way
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as to permit the Illinois State Police
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to corroborate each and every of the 50
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or so details he gave to commander
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Suzuki and prove that he and he alone
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did the crime
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a polygraph confirmed that Dugan was
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telling the truth
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nevertheless DuPage County prosecutors
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never charged them with janean's murder
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and never offered him a plea deal this
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case is like a runaway train in the
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sense that the prosecutors convicted two
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men and yet refused in light of
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overwhelming evidence which showed that
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they had made a mistake
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to admit that mistake
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five years after the murder the state
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Supreme Court ruled that Cruz and
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Hernandez should not have been tried
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together in ordered new separate trials
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for each Alex Hernandez was ultimately
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released after successfully appealing
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his conviction when Rolando Cruz went on
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trial for the second time his attorneys
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intended to prove that Brian Dugan alone
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was responsible for janean's murder
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the prosecution set out to prove that
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Rolando had at the very least been an
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accomplice to the murder the shoe prints
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found outside the new Caraco home were
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key elements in the prosecution's case
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they were evidence that several people
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not just Brian Dugan's were involved in
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abducting and killing Jimmy they said to
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our jury there are three different sets
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of footprints it must have been three
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different people involved in the crime
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prosecution's argument was convincing
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jury finds the defendant Rolando Cruz
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guilty of the offense of murder
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I couldn't understand it I couldn't
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understand how anybody could have said
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guilty again and I just thought as well
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it's gotta keep fighting these people I
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mean I can't give up
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and after all these years you don't give
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up it was only after the trial that Cruz
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and his attorneys learned that the
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footprint evidence was false the imprint
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under the window was a woman's size six
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and a half not even close to fitting
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Rolando Cruz the jury however never
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heard about the shoe size prosecutors
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claimed that they were unaware of the
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discrepancy
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they knew that Rolando and Alex and
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Stephen Buckley couldn't have made those
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footprints and they lied about it
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now that's misconduct and you shouldn't
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be afraid of the word prosecutorial
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misconduct you should point your finger
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and say you were wrong with Rolando Cruz
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on death row prosecutors decided not to
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put Brian Dugan on trial despite his
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intimate knowledge of the crime how can
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you sit there and say we're going to
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execute you and though this other person
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confessed we think he's lying personally
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so we're not putting him understand
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what's not
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my understand is this not for the state
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to decide whether I'm guilty for a jury
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so what do they understand let the jury
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hear what Duggan's got to say
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either be totally discredited or let us
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prove sound truth and let the jury
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determined
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about communism update Roanoke crews
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spent nearly eleven years on death row
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before DNA evidence finally confirmed
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his innocence Cruz was released from
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prison and fully exonerated the DNA test
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finally convinced authorities to charge
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Brian Dugan with the murder of Jeanine
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Nicarico twenty-two years after her
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death he was later convicted and
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sentenced to death
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next what would make a dog and a pig
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each risk their lives to save a human
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there's a lot we don't know about the
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animals that we live with including when
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they might suddenly become heroes so you
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think your pet would risk its life to
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save yours watch this Seaside Oregon
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Annette MacDonald and her dog Norman
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often walk along the Oregon coast Norman
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is a yellow lab the kind of dog used to
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guide the blind but in this case those
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roles are reversed
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Norman is white and a net guy - when
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Norman's gonna bump into something I
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just say easy easy
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if I throw the stick and he doesn't hear
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where it lands and he goes the wrong
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direction I tell him to go the other way
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and say other way other way
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I usually turn around and go the right
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way one August day they were on the
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beach when Norman suddenly ran off
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I was surprised that he didn't run that
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across the net tried to call him back
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worried that he would hurt himself but
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he completely ignored her 15 year old
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Lisa in Italy was caught in the
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dangerous on the toe of the incoming
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tide Norman started swimming straight
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towards he knew what to do when Lisa saw
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Norman heading toward her she stopped
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screaming Norman became instantly
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disoriented
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Annette realized that he had been
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following Lisa's voice
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with Lisa call them norman's man
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straight towards her
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it was the most helpless moment in my
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life I'm not a swimmer and I wouldn't
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have been able to save her it was all
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depending on him when he swam out to me
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he kind of looked at me in my face and
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kind like he was saying grab ahold of me
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I'm gonna help you
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Risa grabbed Norman and then lost her
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grip her arms were shaking with fatigue
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Norman came back for another try
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yeah he turned around and like swung
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himself around so I could grab the back
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of him so he could swim and I could hold
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on to him I think he knew that he had to
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help me he knew what he was doing
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Norma totally stood towards shore as
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though he had been trained for it all
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his life he's my guardian angel and I
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was so happy they but the happy that he
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saved me and it was amazing what
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mysterious instinct inspired Norman to
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risk his life for a total stranger
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and how did he even know that Lisa was
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drunk Lisa herself has no answers but
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she will always be grateful on the shore
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of Lake Erie Joe Altman was relaxing in
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her vacation trailer while her husband
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was out fishing suddenly she felt a pain
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in her chest and her left arm Quentin
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no one in the campground heard her cries
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no one except me
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her pet pot-bellied pig Joe's pain
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increased and she was terrified that she
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would die seconds past 10 minutes she
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was getting weaker
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hello is anybody home I'm having a heart
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attack call 9-1-1 the phone is at the
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center all right all the luck get some
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help I'll get an ambulance just hold on
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I'll be right back
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within minutes paramedics were rushing
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Joe to the hospital they took me to the
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emergency room and admitted me they said
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in even 15 minutes I would have no
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quality of life or I would have died but
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how did the young men happen to arrive
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just in the nick of time just ask that
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guard pig loose from the moment Joe fell
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to the ground Lulu seemed to know
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something was very wrong she ran to the
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kitchen and squeezed herself through the
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dog door scraping her belly rock outside
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wound threw herself against the gate
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battering it until it broke Lulu went to
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the campgrounds main cross roads and
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parked herself in the middle of the road
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forcing drivers to back up or swerve
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around she'd come back in through all
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the doggie door and scrape rebellion
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chuckling me and put that big mug of
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hers over my face and she'd go out back
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up through everything and do everything
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again it just seemed like I hollered
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forever and Lulu had run back and forth
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forever and nobody came but Lulu wasn't
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willing to give up finally someone got
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the message from a movie
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Lulu's behavior defies explanation
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did she actually think up a plan to save
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Joe's life animal behaviorists my credit
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pack instinct or a genetically
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programmed response to fear firmly but
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Joe has a simpler answer every morning I
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thank Lord that she was there but every
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morning I think her literally saving
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coming up
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a country road a young woman is attacked
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by a total stranger
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in the Dallas suburb of Richardson Texas
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a well-dressed woman fainted at a bus
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station and was rushed to a local
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hospital and she had no memory of who
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she was or why she was there
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this photograph was taken the day that
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she was found
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she told hospital workers that her name
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was Sandra Evans
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however the tag on her luggage said
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Linda Kennedy Sanders said the
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handwriting was hers but the name was
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not inside the bags were several
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photographs one of Sandra as a bride
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another showing two young children and
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finally a picture of a teenage girl
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perhaps a high school graduation
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portrait across my brain and it won't
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let me see the other side occasionally a
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snapshot comes through and I get a
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glimpse of a life before but nothing
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solid nothing concrete
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Sandra believes her amnesia is the
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result of some traumatic perhaps violent
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experience she is haunted by a vague
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fear of both her past and her future
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I am afraid of what I'm going to find on
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the other side because something made me
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forget it
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I am afraid that if I've had children
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that they won't understand where I've
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been for the last five months update
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just moments after this story aired in
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Canada a viewer identified Sandra Evans
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as her sister Carol and Rosic of London
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Ontario Caroline soon learned that she
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was divorced the photographs found in
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her luggage were offered to sons now
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teenagers and her 13 year old daughter
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when I talked to my daughter I asked her
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about things that we had done and she
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said we did everything together she said
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we were real close in fact the first
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time I talked to her it was more like
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she was the mother and I was the
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daughter she was so sweet she was so
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excited to talk to me even though the
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information about her past did nothing
00:26:03
to jog her memory Carol and immediately
00:26:06
began packing for her return to Canada
00:26:08
there her children four sisters and a
00:26:11
brother would be waiting to welcome her
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six months after she disappeared Carol
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Ann arrived at the Dallas Airport to
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board a flight that would take her back
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to her family
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oh yes I'm happy to go home little
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nervous a little nervous but happy to be
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going home
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carol-anne is back in Milton Ontario she
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still has no idea what caused her
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amnesia but she's hoping that ongoing
00:26:39
therapy will help her fully recover her
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memory near the town of Putnam
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Connecticut a woman will call Carole was
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headed to work along a quiet two-lane
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highway
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Carroll worked as a social worker at the
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local hospital this particular morning
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she was running late the road I took
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that morning was mine
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and in a way that I always go to work
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sometimes I think I was at the wrong
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place the wrong time you know why me I
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didn't do anything wrong
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as I was driving I all of a sudden came
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upon a black truck that was in front of
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me
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it was driving very slow so I slowed up
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right behind it the truck began to
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swerve speed up and slow down
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erratically and crossed the center line
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as if it was out of control
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shortly after that he stopped the truck
00:27:48
in front I can see it all happening in
00:27:52
slow motion he just slid out of his
00:27:55
truck and I realized he had a gun in his
00:27:57
hand
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I can remember a second after it
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happened that I was gonna die
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I just felt or heard a Russian in my
00:28:13
ears
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and then I heard the radio on and I knew
00:28:18
that I wasn't gonna die
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so my next thought was I'm paralyzed
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Carole was semi-conscious and slumped
00:28:27
across the front seat other drivers
00:28:30
could not see her
00:28:33
a few minutes passed before a utility
00:28:35
service men drove by from his elevated
00:28:38
cab he can see into Carol's car he
00:28:42
immediately called for help
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00:28:45
EMTs knew that they were racing against
00:28:48
the cotton Carol had already lost - /
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exactly
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Carroll was barely alive when she
00:29:01
reached the hospital the bullet had torn
00:29:04
through her face about two inches below
00:29:06
her left eye her carotid artery had been
00:29:09
severed paralyzing her left vocal cord
00:29:14
immediately following the shooting we
00:29:17
had troopers and detectives on Bremen
00:29:19
Hollow Road in all the main
00:29:21
intersections looking for both the
00:29:24
suspect vehicle and also a vehicle
00:29:26
similar in style to the one driven by
00:29:28
the victim two drivers told police that
00:29:32
in the hours before the shooting a black
00:29:35
pickup truck had pulled on and off the
00:29:37
highway repeatedly taunting other
00:29:40
motorists it's entirely possible that
00:29:43
all of the incidents are related it was
00:29:46
the same black pickup truck involved in
00:29:49
all these incidents it appears that it's
00:29:51
a totally random shooting and the victim
00:29:55
just happened to be the next motorist to
00:29:59
encounter this as fell on Bremen Hollow
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Road
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it's the general feeling of
00:30:05
investigators that the suspect is still
00:30:07
out in the area still going to work
00:30:09
still going to the same gas station he's
00:30:11
just your average citizen who for
00:30:15
whatever reason on this particular
00:30:16
Monday morning either under the
00:30:18
influence or angry we just don't know
00:30:21
what provoked him to do this
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three months later Carol's condition
00:30:25
improved dramatically but she was left
00:30:28
with a grim reminder of the incident the
00:30:31
bullet that had pierced her cheek is
00:30:33
still lodged in the back of her neck
00:30:36
close to her spine at first I thought
00:30:40
about the bullet being in me every day
00:30:41
have wanting it out and not being in me
00:30:45
I'm afraid that if I do go through an
00:30:48
operation that something may go wrong
00:30:50
and it could be worse
00:30:52
so I will just leave the bullet in me
00:30:55
until there's complications or pain we
00:31:00
have a motiveless crime at this point
00:31:02
we're not able to determine any
00:31:04
particular reason why this gentleman
00:31:08
would get out of his truck and without
00:31:10
any provocation shoot the only other
00:31:12
person in the face and do it so very
00:31:15
quickly and leave the girl for death
00:31:18
we don't have any idea where someone
00:31:21
would do that I think of it every day
00:31:25
especially when I look in the mirror and
00:31:28
I see the scars and think about the
00:31:30
incident and I'm afraid and I'm also
00:31:33
angry that this happened to me and that
00:31:35
he's still out there and maybe leading
00:31:40
his normal life without any cares to
00:31:43
what happened to my life
00:31:44
the shooting took place near Putnam
00:31:47
Connecticut the suspect is a white male
00:31:49
5 feet 10 inches he has a medium build
00:31:52
in brown curry hair he was driving a
00:31:56
well-maintained black stepside pickup
00:31:57
truck it had flared fenders standard
00:32:01
with Blackwall tires and shiny plain
00:32:04
wheel covers the next one woman's
00:32:08
repressed memories caused her to seek
00:32:10
out the parents that she barely knew she
00:32:13
had
00:32:24
Irving's in New York I have this vague
00:32:28
feeling that Miriam was in her forties
00:32:31
when she started psychotherapy she had
00:32:34
thought that her childhood had been a
00:32:35
happy one
00:32:36
so she was surprised to experience
00:32:38
fragmented flashbacks of shocking events
00:32:47
image like a mummy was the only thing I
00:32:50
could liken it to it was so terrifying
00:32:53
and so frightening
00:32:57
and I became so petrified by it I didn't
00:33:03
know what was happening I didn't
00:33:07
understand what was going on Miriam's
00:33:11
journey into her past triggered a flood
00:33:13
of memories that refused to go away I
00:33:17
found myself getting up at night and
00:33:20
sitting on the floor in the bathroom and
00:33:25
all of these memories started coming
00:33:30
back of my father attacking me of my
00:33:34
father being subdued by the police what
00:33:39
would happen is that she began to become
00:33:41
subject to Flint what she called
00:33:43
flashbacks these would be images that
00:33:46
would suddenly come out of nowhere and
00:33:48
grab her in such a way that she would
00:33:51
just be paralyzed for the instant that
00:33:53
it occurred those flashbacks indicated
00:33:57
that there was a certain amount of abuse
00:33:59
that went on very early in life that she
00:34:03
did not have a handle on and there was a
00:34:05
big part of her that they did not want
00:34:07
to deal with it I only remembered good
00:34:11
things about my father and to suddenly
00:34:15
have a whole new side of him revealed to
00:34:20
me it was a terrible shock and I
00:34:23
remember saying in therapy I don't want
00:34:27
this to be true I don't want to believe
00:34:30
this about my father
00:34:32
Miriam was her parents only child
00:34:34
although her father had often been
00:34:37
unpredictable
00:34:38
Miriam's conscious recollections of him
00:34:41
had always been happy ones but gradually
00:34:44
fragments of her childhood memory came
00:34:46
together to form a different picture
00:34:50
the recreations you are about to see are
00:34:53
based on Miriam's memories
00:34:55
see you later Miriam honey what are you
00:35:09
talking about a couple others right when
00:35:10
it falls off the tree it's fine
00:35:13
Miriam would you rather have some
00:35:15
crackers or she said she was
00:35:23
somehow your mommy's an expert on
00:35:25
coconut sir
00:35:28
[Music]
00:35:35
I remembered that he grabbed me and my
00:35:43
father was attacking me and somehow I
00:35:49
guess I kicked him enough to hurt him
00:35:51
and he put me down or dropped me or
00:35:54
whatever
00:35:54
I remember watching from a hiding place
00:35:59
where he finally left me alone my he was
00:36:03
ranting somehow policemen were there
00:36:11
with the policeman trying to subdue her
00:36:14
father was terrified beyond anything I
00:36:18
can possibly relate to you I don't know
00:36:21
how to tell you the terror that I felt
00:36:24
maryam believes that her father suffered
00:36:27
from severe mental illness she now feels
00:36:30
certain that while her mother tried to
00:36:32
cope Maryam herself
00:36:34
was taken away when I started having
00:36:39
these flashbacks I started thinking
00:36:41
about mommy and daddy and the images
00:36:45
that went with my parents weren't the
00:36:48
images that were popping in my mind and
00:36:50
I didn't know who these people were
00:36:51
I suddenly realized they were people in
00:36:54
my life that were important to me and I
00:36:59
didn't know who they were just something
00:37:02
to eat I'm really afraid it's all right
00:37:07
I remember I was absolutely frightened
00:37:12
out of my mind
00:37:16
slowly I realize that this was a safe
00:37:20
place that these people were kind and
00:37:23
they weren't going to hurt me and they
00:37:27
were loving and I was very happy there
00:37:31
what are you coloring sweetheart as the
00:37:34
gates have a repressed memory opened
00:37:36
miriam recalled being placed with loving
00:37:39
foster parents my foster father had
00:37:43
white hair and he was a young man it was
00:37:46
very striking I remember his hands I
00:37:50
remember that they were strong and
00:37:54
powerful hands that made me feel very
00:37:59
safe
00:38:01
Miriam believes she called her foster
00:38:03
parents daddy Mike and mommy Pat Mike
00:38:07
was a fireman and Pat sang her to sleep
00:38:09
with Irish lullabies I just remember
00:38:14
being hugged and kissed and just playing
00:38:17
with mommy Pat's ringlets and the
00:38:20
overwhelming sense of being loved they
00:38:24
thought I was the most wonderful child
00:38:27
in the world and I really delighted in
00:38:31
that
00:38:34
there's some people but unhappy memories
00:38:37
soon intruded first a serious discussion
00:38:41
with Mike and Pat Merriam sense that she
00:38:45
was about to lose them maybe what's
00:38:46
important is that we love you
00:38:51
[Music]
00:38:54
after hearing the testimony of all the
00:38:57
part Miriam then remembers herself in a
00:38:59
courtroom sitting with a social worker
00:39:01
her birth parents were there as well as
00:39:04
pet emotions it's the decision of this
00:39:07
court that Miriam pardon be returned to
00:39:10
the natural parents
00:39:17
I was very very distraught I did not
00:39:23
want to leave him as far as I was
00:39:28
concerned these are the people I wanted
00:39:31
to spend the rest of my life with I
00:39:35
[Music]
00:39:39
really didn't remember about that kiss
00:39:41
for a very long time actually it didn't
00:39:45
come until almost the very very end of
00:39:49
all my memories in fact that was
00:39:51
probably one of the very last flashbacks
00:39:53
I had and somehow that I love you that
00:40:00
was came across and that kiss has been
00:40:04
enough for me to make peace with the
00:40:08
loss and to go on with my life and just
00:40:11
keep their memory in my soul and in my
00:40:14
heart
00:40:15
Miriam lived with her natural parents
00:40:17
until she got married at the age of 47
00:40:21
she began her search for my competin
00:40:24
their names were Pat and Mike and I
00:40:28
think their last name was McGuire
00:40:32
then repeated flashbacks we got the
00:40:35
beautiful picture of these marvelous
00:40:39
foster parents and without these months
00:40:45
with two loving parents she might not
00:40:49
have survived
00:40:53
they gave me a lot they saved me from
00:40:58
despair and I would like them to know
00:41:02
that there was a good outcome I just
00:41:07
pray that their lives are wonderful and
00:41:10
that they've had happiness and I hope
00:41:13
that I'll get a chance to be reunited
00:41:15
with them and share with them the good
00:41:18
things that I have in my life update
00:41:24
after our broadcast a friend of Patton
00:41:27
Mike's sent Miriam this photograph of
00:41:30
Pat it was taken when she was in her 30s
00:41:33
the front confirmed that Pat and Mike
00:41:36
had indeed cared for a little girl
00:41:37
around the same time that Miriam
00:41:40
remembers being with them members of
00:41:43
their church also confirmed that
00:41:44
Miriam's memory is accurate but Pat and
00:41:48
Mike McGuire have yet to be found
00:42:07
[Music]
00:42:21
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