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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast December 1988 lady two-foot
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freighter named the freedom sets sail
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for Haiti with seven crewmen a dashing
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young German captain a beautiful 23 year
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old journalist Lisa Bishop a few days
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later freed on vanished without a trace
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24-year old Adam had struggled with the
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paradox of his own affluent lifestyle
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the poverty he saw in the back alleys of
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Beverly Hills in 1989 he befriended a
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homeless person and even invited him to
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share his apartment now Adam Hecht
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is missing in the final days of world
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war ii a fortune in gold and precious
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jews is allegedly smuggled out of the
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infamous concentration camp at Dachau
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today there is compelling evidence that
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this buried treasure still lies beneath
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a mountain lake in Austria also tonight
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an update on a case of a former mental
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patient who disappeared after her
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boyfriend was murdered
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Maria Armstrong is now in custody thanks
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to an anonymous tip received after a
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recent broadcast of the story join me
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you may be able to help solve the
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mystery
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[Applause]
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the popular conception of the Caribbean
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is that it is a playground for tourists
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paradise for those lucky enough to live
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there in actuality the gulf between
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haves and have-nots is dramatic nowhere
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these contrasts more evident than in
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Haiti the average income is less than
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$300 per person per year the day of the
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Caribbean is crisscross my dilapidated
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freighters overloaded with miscellaneous
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and often stolen goods heading to this
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impoverished island smugglers also
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abound in the area guns narcotics and
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stolen merchandise are continually being
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transported to and from Miami
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January 1989 Falk and jets from the
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United States Coast Guard conducted a
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search for an 82 foot [ __ ] freighter
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named the freedom enroute to Haiti the
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steamer had been reported missing at sea
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the week before
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despite the Coast Guard search the ship
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had apparently vanished without a trace
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on board the freed on a derelict cargo
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ship of bohemian registry were seven hey
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Shan crew members a handsome young sea
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captain and an attractive 23 year old
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American journalism student named Lisa
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Bishop on the morning of her departure
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Lisa had called her Paris to say goodbye
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I could feel something was wrong
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mother's intuition I guess you could
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call it ELISA was to call me when she
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arrived and that call never came known
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by her friends for her social conscience
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Lisa wanted to write an article that
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would dramatize the contrast between the
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wealth of America and the economic
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devastation of Haiti to Lisa her voyage
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on the free Don was a chance of a
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lifetime even though it meant leaving
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her boyfriend of three years we had a
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long discussion the night before she
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left that she had to make her own
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decision that in life that I couldn't
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follow her and take care of her wherever
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she went somewhere in the Caribbean Sea
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between Miami and Haiti
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Lisa Bishop and eight other people
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simply vanished explanations arranged
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from Pirates to smugglers even to an
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encounter with a so called Bermuda
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Triangle
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this voyage into the unknown began with
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a chance encounter with a dashing sea
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captain
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Atlanta Georgia at a nightclub owned by
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her boyfriend Paul corn would be sometta
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28 year old German national in Florian
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Mayer borscht Florian was a modern-day
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gypsy a brilliant mechanic who had
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briefly settled in Miami
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Florian had sailed throughout the
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Caribbean and was a fixture of the
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European expatriate community though
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Florian was outwardly charismatic and
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charming Lisa's parents felt appearances
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were deceiving when I first saw her in
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the photograph just by looking at him I
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didn't think that he was the type of
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person that Lisa would have anything to
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do with Florian from what I've learned
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about him as a drifter and he's spun
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just off of people free lives Lisa
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Christmas in the Caribbean think about
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it either for their first meeting orient
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when Lisa coming boys from Mary to Haiti
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where of her journalistic ambitions he
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invited her to accompany Lisa he's right
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at your fingertips
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it sounds wonderful Lisa Bishop and Paul
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Cornell had had a stormy three-year
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relationship
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Paul was upset when Lisa told that she
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planned to sail to Haiti with Florian I
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didn't trust him with Lisa of course I
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was concerned about Florian you know
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being a young guy and she tried to tell
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me there was nothing to worry about
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there was nothing romantic I tried to
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discourage her as her parents tried to
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discourage her from going because they
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were concerned about it
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I expressed my feelings about it
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did I didn't want to go or anything and
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Lisa was very our headstrong girl when
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she made up her mind to do something on
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the morning of December 17th 1988 the
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weather was cold water choppy Florian
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considered delaying the departure we
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don't go now I'm not gonna be able to go
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at all
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minutes before they left Lisa spoke to
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her parents for what would be the last
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time we said don't worry daddy said
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everything I'm bi you know in the last
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words I had weather was I was still
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asking her not to go you know and then
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she talked to her mother I never talked
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to her again after that
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find me at 2:30 in the afternoon
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tugboats ease the freedom through the
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Miami rivers that headed towards open
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sea what Lisa thought would be the
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adventure of a lifetime was just the
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beginning
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but to those caught in the wake of the
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freedoms disappearance it was the
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beginning of a nightmare the free dance
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plan REIT would take the ship 600 miles
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past the coast of Cuba to God ie a small
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port on the western coast of Haiti
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despite the fact that there were no
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storms and no distress calls the free
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Don apparently never arrived
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ELISA didn't call on Christmas Day her
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family became alarmed the relatives of
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the people on board kept calling us
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asking us for information we kept in
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touch with the affordability Zin the
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various ports and that made Caribbean
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area and likewise down in Haiti we said
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several search and rescue flights by
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Falcon jet aircraft in the most commonly
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traveled area the old Bahama Channel
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which is the area between the United
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States and Haiti
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still it was unsuccessful we even sent a
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telegram to the cuban border guards to
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ask them if they had any information on
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that vessel however they had no
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information either despite their sweep
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of the Caribbean the Coast Guard found
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no trace of the freedom
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but Lisa's friends and family refused to
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give up the search mrs. Bishop and I
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were the only people looking we felt we
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were the only people looking I mean
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there were no governmental agencies that
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would look at all we came to Miami
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hoping to maybe get some answers from
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some of Florian's friends or just fine
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you know anything we could we're
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desperate and we contacted the New Times
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and they sent a reporter out by the name
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of David Nicholls Miami April 1989 when
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an underwater salvage your name Bob
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Nyberg read the new Times article in the
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Frieden he realized that he had seen the
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ship two weeks after it had allegedly
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disappeared in a completely different
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part of the Caribbean I remembered that
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while I was working in Grand Cayman
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in January of that year they'd been a
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boat came in we were working underwater
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directly in the harbor area where the
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ship's pulled up and tied up when I
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heard the ship coming in we came up and
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as I was coming out of the water we
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looked back and noticed the name was
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freed on fre II do n and I made a
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statement to my friend that those guys
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need their freedom they can't even spell
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the word they were there for some time
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that afternoon next morning the boat was
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gone
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Nyberg saw the Friedmann in Georgetown
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harbor on Grand Cayman Island over 500
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miles from Haiti or it went after his
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sighting is unknown the fact that the
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ship was spotted and I feel like it did
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not go down then it brought me hope that
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ELISA was alive and had to be held
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against her will in order for her not to
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contact us in May of 1989 at Paul
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Cornwell and Bob Nyberg went to Grand
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Cayman there they hope to find more
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information on the fate of the freedom
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after canvassing the port they found a
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number of witnesses of claim busine
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Floria around the same time that Nyberg
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had spotted the freedom yeah sure I've
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seen him around yeah though nobody could
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remember having seen Lisa an important
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clue did surface apparently Florian was
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not alone during his mysterious sojourn
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on Grand Cayman yeah he come with
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another fellow [ __ ] fellow with black
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hair I couldn't help feeling that he was
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right around the corner that I was gonna
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run across him any minute in one of
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these bars personally so I was very
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apprehensive very agitated ready for
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anything and I just made me to look
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harder Paul returned to Atlanta and
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questioned a woman who had been storing
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Florian's personal belongings there he
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found a picture of the man seen with
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Florian in Grand Cayman the woman gave
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his name as Philippe Paul would later
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find out that Philippe had chartered the
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freedom the girl told me at that time
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that she had had a personal relationship
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with this guy Philippe and that he
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mentioned that he was involved in a
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large-scale smuggling thing which really
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got me going thinking it was a smuggling
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thing and it something had gone wrong
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and you know that they were had gotten
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involved in something too deep
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Lisa didn't know about and that she
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couldn't handle I've heard how they say
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that gun runners are dope dealers the hi
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jacket killed everybody on board and
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used to ship one time to make a run or
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something I've heard about how the
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weather can change in a heartbeat out
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there and a ship can go under and they
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claim that uh nothing will ever be found
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I've heard all the stories and all the
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rumors it's just knowing hurt that you
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have that you don't know well how she is
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where she is or what you know but you
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always got help well the heart I could
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never go back
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perhaps someone hath not audience might
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be able to tell us the whereabouts of
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Florian and that would be the key to
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finally sir or what has happened to Lisa
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I feel that if Florian is out there
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eventually I'll find out about it and
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I'll locate him authorities believe that
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Florian Mayer borscht is the key to the
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mystery of the freedom he is thirty
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years old six feet two with blond hair
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and blue eyes
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don't press mechanical ability borscht
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may be working in a related area today
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Lisa Bishop would be twenty five years
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old she's 5 feet 2 inches in height
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blonde hair and brown eyes rumors
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persist at the Friedan with a telltale
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bent mast continues to roam the
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Caribbean under a different name these
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are the only known pictures of how the
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boat looked before his disappearance
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last November we examined the case of 25
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year old Maria Armstrong in 1984 Korea
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was diagnosed as suffering from paranoid
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schizophrenia physical disease of the
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brain in June of 1988 Maria moved from
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her home in New Jersey to Mesa Arizona
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to live with her childhood sweetheart 29
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year old Robert Ron our jetty our jetty
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was aware of Maria's condition but felt
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that he could somehow help her to
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overcome her illness we were concerned
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because we did hear that she was in a
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mental institution and we knew she was
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on drugs back back east so we were kind
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of concerned about it but you know they
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were holding hands kissing they were
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like a couple for the first few weeks
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Maria seemed happy at Mesa she seemed to
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blossom under Ron's loving attention but
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Maria soon began behaving erratically
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and she turns back towards Ron all right
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I would talk to Ron on the phone and I
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would tell him send her home I don't
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want to do that I want to help her he
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would say I says but you can't help her
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it's obvious you can't help her she
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needs more than you to help her she
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needs psychiatric care on November 14th
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Ron are Jetty's body was discovered in
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his living room he had been bludgeoned
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to death with a sledgehammer while he
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slept on the couch four days later Maria
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Armstrong was seen hitchhiking 260 miles
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north of Mesa Arizona this was a last
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reported sighting of Maria Armstrong
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until our broadcast
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Update Korea Armstrong has been captured
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shortly after this story aired the FBI
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received a call from one of our viewers
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with information regarding Armstrong's
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whereabouts
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we received a telephone call from an
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unidentified caller that Marie Armstrong
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had been living in the Memphis Tennessee
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area and that she was going to be at the
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airport
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on August 3rd of this year the FBI
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subsequently went to the airport and
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were able to identify her and a did
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place her under arrest
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Armstrong had changed her appearance by
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dyeing her hair blonde
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two weeks later she was returned to
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Arizona thanks a charge of first-degree
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murder
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Beverly Hills California than average
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yearly income of $75,000 per household
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this is one of the nation's wealthiest
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communities its street stores and
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sidewalks are filled with glamorous
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people living their lives and luxury but
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there is another side to Beverly Hills
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as with so much of the nation there is a
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growing population of homeless who pass
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through and even live on this affluent
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streets in the winter of 1989 at least
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one of these homeless individuals found
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an unlikely benefactor in 24 year-old
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Adam Hecht the son of an Academy
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award-winning producer Adam was born
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into Beverly Hills luxury he spent his
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childhood in an insulated world bordered
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by movie stars mansions and privilege
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after graduating from Beverly Hills High
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Adam earned his living giving tennis
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lessons and who knew he remembered a
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bright independent and friendly young
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man all that began to change on the
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morning of January the 10th 1989 when
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Adam and his brother Harold went to
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breakfast and local delicatessen in
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front of the restaurant they encountered
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a street person apparently blind in one
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eye
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[Music]
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a few minutes later Adam left the table
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and went back outside Adam said excuse
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me she went outside start talking to
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this person and I could see through the
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blinds and I could understand it
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it was quite surprised didn't understand
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what was his reason for being out there
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and came back in started talking I
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mentioned it briefly yes what are you
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doing out there he said nothing so we
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went on had our breakfast when we
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finished we left I went to my car but
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I'll catch up with you later I'm gonna
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make a quick call all right
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and just before I got in my car I looked
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back
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I was talking to this person I was very
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surprised that was the first time he met
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what we know now is Tony within a few
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weeks of their first meeting had him
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invited Tony to move into his apartment
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through his new friend Adam was exposed
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to a lifestyle it was as far away from
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his experience as night from day it
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seemed to strike a chord in Adam for
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according to his brother Harold he had
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become disillusioned with his pampered
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life his family fears that what started
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out as a gesture of a good Samaritan may
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have escalated into a nightmare today
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Adam Hecht is missing soon after Tony
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moved in Adam brought his new roommate
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to his mother's house for dinner she was
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surprised that her son would shelter a
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street person I thought my good is that
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strange you know but knowing Adam the
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way he is I could understand it until I
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met Tony you know I really understood it
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I thought oh my goodness it's so nice
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that he wants to help him you know
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Oh what is it right
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[Music]
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mom this is Tony Tony this is my mother
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pleased to meet you why'd you come in
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when I said Tony and how he talked and
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my god the smell it was unbelievable Wow
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it was scary that was really scary
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during the meal Tony began to wave his
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hands over his food as if he were
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blessing it
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[Music]
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I don't know what's going on with him
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well that's just the way Tony is and
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it's hard to understand right at first
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but once you get to know him from him
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from the inside out he's a really
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fantastic guy Adam yeah very much Jones
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last wanting to talk about Tony mission
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- the seem to have a good relationship
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Adams seem to understand Tony you know
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and yeah and I was led to believe that
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Tony was a really being very kind to
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Adam as far as you know helping him grow
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up as a person mature that's what he
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said to me he's helping me mature as a
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person Adam at the beginning he was an
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elite preppy businessman you know drove
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a great car taught tennis and then you
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met Tony and it I mean it just all
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changed and you became a mystical person
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and I just I didn't know him anymore
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part of me was torn because I felt for
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for what he was trying to do I mean it
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was it was a very noble thing
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with Tony by his side Adam began to
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visit Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles
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and often stayed out on the streets at
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night I know that when Adam sets his
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mind to something he really goes
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wholeheartedly into any type of project
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hey Tony I got some food and stuff in
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the back to my car maybe help me pass it
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out
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okay cool let's go his involvement with
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street people increased when he met Tony
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I think started to understand their
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problems
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all these things you have Adam
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it's not what Cosmo Casas with society
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Tony and Adam would also share in
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strange mystical rites of Tony's
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devising you have to let go and one of
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these rituals hadn't burned his hand
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severely embrace things all I know is
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I'm sorry I said my god Adam what
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happened to you he said always said you
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know he said I was testing a test of
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endurance he said Tony told me were
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experiments that see how would make me
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stronger
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June 10th 1989 Harold had not heard from
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his brother for several days concerned
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what - at his apartment Adam oh gosh
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Tony is that him here my brother was not
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there as car was not there and I tried
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to get in I said where's that old I said
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where's he gone in his strange strange
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way did not answer that question or seem
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to really know he's really worried will
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you let me in let me in a few days later
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Adams mother also went to his apartment
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as I'm walking back down the cargo
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following to me and he put his arms
00:24:53
around me at violence Oh scary thing
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what's wrong are you afraid of me
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I just want to know where my son is
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where my son is where is he I'm your son
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I'm his son right and you advise of a
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private investigator the Fagor contact
00:25:19
of the Beverly Hills Police filed a
00:25:21
missing-persons report
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began to arrange with Tony's evictions
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why'd you stay right there for second
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okay what I need you guys to do is go
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around the back watch for the second
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story I'm looking at a big guy let's
00:25:33
make sure he doesn't
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okay partner talk on top of the stairs
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on July 9 the family accompanied by the
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investigators goodbye as Tony was
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forcibly evicted from Adams apartment
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during the eviction Tony made no effort
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to avoid police local detectives
00:26:03
interviewed Tony and came to the
00:26:04
conclusion that he had not been involved
00:26:06
in Adams disappearance
00:26:07
Tony claimed to have no knowledge of
00:26:10
this we're of us I can't to this day I
00:26:14
understand why they didn't interrogate
00:26:16
him you know because he obviously knows
00:26:19
much more than what was already on I
00:26:22
would love to have some sodium pentathol
00:26:24
whatever they do and just try and get a
00:26:26
truth serum and have him talk because I
00:26:29
couldn't get two sentences out of this
00:26:31
man he was he was just so strange you
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know
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one month after Adams disappearance his
00:26:39
car was found abandoned on a Beverly
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Hills side street on the windshield were
00:26:44
several parking tickets
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inside the keys were still in the
00:26:53
ignition and police found Adams wallet
00:26:55
credit cards and $600 in cash and checks
00:26:59
no other trace of Adam was found we wish
00:27:03
we knew specifically what happened to
00:27:04
Adam Hecht
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apparently he in the past or
00:27:08
occasionally had gone away for a few
00:27:10
days at a time that always had returned
00:27:11
and whether he did this time and just
00:27:14
decided not to return we don't know he
00:27:17
had a very solid business very active
00:27:21
with a number of different people on a
00:27:23
number of different levels for him just
00:27:25
to disappear does not fit his character
00:27:30
well there are some suspicious
00:27:32
circumstances as far as finding the car
00:27:34
and finding his property in the car
00:27:35
normally you take with that with you if
00:27:37
you were gonna leave we have no real
00:27:39
evidence of any foul play or any
00:27:41
criminal involvement so we're not
00:27:43
handling it as a a crime strictly as a
00:27:45
missing person case
00:27:50
his Tony know more about Adams
00:27:52
disappearance and he is telling did
00:27:55
someone from Adams brief time on the
00:27:56
street decide a violently reappeared yes
00:27:59
or did Adam reject his former life of
00:28:02
luxury and just lose himself among the
00:28:05
homeless we all want him back he wants
00:28:10
so much for our family to understand to
00:28:14
understand his thoughts and what I would
00:28:18
like him to know is that it's very hard
00:28:20
for someone like my mother to to listen
00:28:25
to what he has to sad to say and and
00:28:28
take it in because everyone has limits
00:28:31
to to their understanding and his was so
00:28:34
vast his spiritual knowledge that it was
00:28:37
difficult for us to take it in [ __ ] I
00:28:41
said I just I just love him and I just
00:28:43
want him to come home I miss him if it
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with all my heart it's not a complete
00:28:49
family without him and I would try and
00:28:52
understand whatever he was thinking and
00:28:55
I would not be mad at him in any way I
00:28:59
just want him to just come home because
00:29:03
he's truly loved by all of us and many
00:29:05
other people too
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Adam Arthur Hecht is five feet 11 inches
00:29:14
in height and weighs 160 pounds
00:29:16
his eyes are hazel and his hair is black
00:29:19
today he would be 25 years old and maybe
00:29:22
wearing a beard Adam also I still have
00:29:25
the burn scar on his right hand next the
00:29:32
story of stolen Nazi treasure allegedly
00:29:34
buried in Austria near the end of World
00:29:36
War two day it could be worth over fifty
00:29:39
million dollars
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April 1945 the final days of the Nazi
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Empire despite desperate measures taken
00:29:59
by the defense
00:30:00
combined Allied forces closed in on the
00:30:02
last pockets of German resistance the
00:30:06
end of the war in Europe was near
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[Music]
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as the Allies advanced into Germany they
00:30:15
discovered treasures plundered from the
00:30:16
Nazis of former conquests carefully
00:30:18
hidden away in caves and vaults in the
00:30:22
months following the German surrender
00:30:23
billions of dollars and riches were
00:30:25
uncovered including these gold bars
00:30:28
found in an abandoned salt mine by US
00:30:30
soldiers while a bulk of these stolen
00:30:33
treasures was recovered billions of
00:30:35
dollars still remain unaccounted for
00:30:40
there was of course more shocking
00:30:42
evidence of Nazi barbarism Buchenwald a
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thousand back howl
00:30:47
names that would come to symbolize man's
00:30:50
inhumanity to man and through the gates
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of Dachau one multi-million dollar Nazi
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treasure allegedly passed tonight we
00:31:01
will investigate the story of this
00:31:03
treasure was told to us by dr. Edward
00:31:05
Gregor he is convinced it was buried on
00:31:07
the shores of a small Austrian lake in
00:31:09
the spring of 1945 or it remains today
00:31:12
they've uncovered dramatic evidence
00:31:14
supports dr. Greger story a story first
00:31:17
told by an Austrian physician named
00:31:19
Wilhelm grosse after the war dr. gross
00:31:24
had treated in prison Nazi war criminals
00:31:26
an SS officer who had been condemned to
00:31:29
death toll gross of the location of the
00:31:31
buried treasure in 1952 dr. gross shared
00:31:35
the story with Edward Gregor who was
00:31:37
then a US Army officer stationed in
00:31:39
Austria started at concentration camp at
00:31:44
Dachau gold and treasure that was
00:31:46
accumulated from the prisoners that had
00:31:49
brought in there who were executed and
00:31:51
cremated the concentration camp of
00:31:54
Dachau has been preserved as a memorial
00:31:56
this recreation was filmed there
00:32:03
according to dr. girls the commandant of
00:32:06
Dachau and Freeman assistance loaded the
00:32:09
treasure into four boxes which were
00:32:11
probably a man issue boxes according to
00:32:13
her thighs these boxes were filled with
00:32:17
jewelry rare stamps and gold bars some
00:32:20
of the processed from the gold fillings
00:32:22
of concentration camp victims today
00:32:25
their contest will be worth at least
00:32:27
fifty million dollars
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00:32:33
dr. grosses informant claimed to be one
00:32:36
of four SS officer who conspired to
00:32:38
smuggle his treasure out of dock on
00:32:44
their route allegedly took them from the
00:32:46
outskirts of Munich into Austria through
00:32:49
the Arlberg pass toward the small town
00:32:51
of brought their brought was a pristine
00:32:54
mountain lake called the Lunars a this
00:32:56
lake located on the Swiss border was her
00:32:59
ultimate destination Allied armies had
00:33:05
not yet reached this isolated region the
00:33:07
men believed their loot would be safe
00:33:09
there after burying the treasure the men
00:33:11
planned to escape across the Swiss
00:33:13
border
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after several days the men finally
00:33:22
arrived at the lunar is a the only
00:33:26
structure in the area was a small hut
00:33:28
dr. gross stated the officers buried the
00:33:31
treasure exactly halfway between this
00:33:34
Hut and a brook across the lake they
00:33:46
then said their farewells and what their
00:33:48
separate ways
00:33:49
planning one day to return three of them
00:33:53
left and headed into Switzerland the
00:33:55
fourth person went back down into the
00:33:57
valley and returned to his family
00:34:01
according to dr. gross this fourth
00:34:04
officer was captured and while awaiting
00:34:06
execution revealed his secret the
00:34:09
officers three companions were never
00:34:10
seen again
00:34:14
Gregor believed dr. grosses story and
00:34:17
agreed to help search for the treasure
00:34:18
but before they could mount an
00:34:20
expedition dr. gross mysteriously
00:34:23
disappeared in 1956 a dam was
00:34:28
constructed on the lunar zey and
00:34:29
submerged the treasures alleged location
00:34:31
under 75 feet of water
00:34:35
34 years passed in the summer of 1990
00:34:39
enough water had been let out of the dam
00:34:41
to return the lake to its original depth
00:34:43
this coupled with a severe drought had
00:34:46
brought the water level to an all-time
00:34:47
low get your pick out of the way there
00:34:51
and I'll go in there and watch it's not
00:34:55
getting any stronger going down deeper
00:34:57
armed with information call from dr.
00:34:59
grosses personal papers Eduard Gregor
00:35:02
finally went to the lunar is a strong as
00:35:06
can be I think it's something under
00:35:09
rocks Gregor an associate pinpointed the
00:35:11
treasures location by using coordinates
00:35:14
from a have given him by dr. gross but
00:35:18
despite a thorough search he was unable
00:35:20
to find the treasure
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where is the Lunars a treasure had the
00:35:31
other three Nazi officers dug it up
00:35:34
Edward Gregor feels this is unlikely by
00:35:37
the time it would have been safe to
00:35:39
return the treasure would have been
00:35:40
submerged Orca dr. grosses story be just
00:35:45
that a story documents brought to light
00:35:49
at a 1946 war crimes trial indicate that
00:35:52
such a treasure did exist I had
00:35:56
discovered some evidence in the archives
00:35:59
specifically an interrogation statement
00:36:03
from a gentleman by the name of Joseph
00:36:08
Juran Joseph Geralyn was tried convicted
00:36:12
and executed for atrocities committed
00:36:15
while he was a sub comment out of the
00:36:17
house according to his testimony and
00:36:19
statements from four other sources the
00:36:21
head commandant of Dachau had been
00:36:23
involved in a conspiracy to smuggle a
00:36:25
treasure from inside the camp this
00:36:28
officer's name was Frederick fighter
00:36:31
one witness said that he saw fighter
00:36:35
have a trucks loaded being loaded with
00:36:39
valuables out of the cash storage areas
00:36:45
according to some other testimony
00:36:48
fighter was seen leaving the camp in
00:36:51
those vehicles
00:36:55
later on he was also seen by other SS
00:36:59
personnel heading towards the Swiss
00:37:01
border
00:37:05
also Geralyn testified that other camp
00:37:09
personnel had assisted in burying this
00:37:12
treasure and that approximately five
00:37:15
million in gold rice marks was taken in
00:37:19
valuables
00:37:21
Joseph Geralyn went to his grave never
00:37:24
revealing any more about the treasure
00:37:27
Edward Gregor believes that Geralyn was
00:37:29
one of the four men who buried the
00:37:31
Lunars a treasure and perhaps he was dr.
00:37:34
grosses mysterious informant today if it
00:37:41
exists this multi-million dollar
00:37:43
treasure is underwater
00:37:44
but Edward Gregor will return again when
00:37:47
the water level has lowered he believes
00:37:50
that it found the proceeds of the Lunars
00:37:52
a treasure should be used to provide
00:37:54
medical care for needy individuals a
00:37:56
fitting use for wealth stolen under such
00:37:59
grim circumstances next the story of a
00:38:07
bold prison break and two unlikely
00:38:08
lovers an escaped convict and his female
00:38:11
guard
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[Music]
00:38:14
I like for to come home and tell me why
00:38:25
she did it doesn't turn herself in
00:38:30
because I don't want me to get hurt
00:38:33
I do Lauer just confused right now
00:38:40
[Music]
00:38:43
you've just heard the plea of Leslie
00:38:46
Beeman a daughter in anguish over the
00:38:48
disappears of her mother K as K Beeman a
00:38:51
victim or a criminal
00:38:54
Leslie holds out hope that K is innocent
00:38:57
but no matter what she wants her mother
00:38:59
to come home
00:39:02
kay Beeman was divorced when her son and
00:39:05
daughter were nearly grown for ten years
00:39:08
she had worked as a matron and
00:39:09
corrections officer at the Allegheny
00:39:11
County Detention Center for men and
00:39:13
women in Cumberland Maryland August 29th
00:39:18
1990 just seven weeks ago kay Beeman was
00:39:23
on duty in the prison control center
00:39:25
with another female officer Michelle
00:39:27
Puterbaugh a to 12 a.m. Kate left the
00:39:35
control center to conduct a routine
00:39:36
check of the cellblock all inmates are
00:39:40
behind bars except one low security
00:39:42
prisoner and was working in an adjacent
00:39:44
room everything seemed normal but within
00:39:50
minutes the calm of an uneventful night
00:39:52
shift would be dramatically turned
00:39:54
upside down like a ton of listen to this
00:40:04
Barnes coming down with him and he's got
00:40:06
with him he escaped
00:40:07
Edgard Kern's a maximum security
00:40:09
prisoner to try anything in somebody I
00:40:12
didn't know what they were gonna do when
00:40:14
I saw the bathroom doors
00:40:16
Sani ajar so I just darted out and ran
00:40:21
at first I felt a relief that I was at
00:40:26
least for the moment safe but then I was
00:40:29
thinking but my god you know what are
00:40:31
you gonna do here and they have K what
00:40:33
are they going to do to her it appeared
00:40:37
that key Beeman had been taken hostage
00:40:38
by James Barnes
00:40:40
Edgar kern cellmate I heard the buttons
00:40:45
click and the controls and so I I
00:40:49
thought well they're going
00:40:50
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00:40:56
two days later Kay Beeman telephoned her
00:40:59
daughter Leslie it was about quarter
00:41:03
after 5:00 in the morning and she called
00:41:05
Colette and she told me she was alright
00:41:08
and that she loved me and she missed me
00:41:10
and not to worry about her that she was
00:41:13
alright and she said she told me she
00:41:17
goes I went with them
00:41:23
three days after the breakdown James
00:41:26
Barnes was apprehended he told
00:41:28
authorities that he Beeman's car was
00:41:30
used in the getaway he also claimed that
00:41:33
Kay Beeman had helped plan the escape
00:41:35
because she was in love with Edgar
00:41:37
Kearns
00:41:42
Edgar Kearns had been convicted of theft
00:41:44
and forgery in West Virginia he was
00:41:47
awaiting sentencing in Maryland for
00:41:48
passing bad checks James Barnes said
00:41:53
that Kay Beeman and Edgar Kearns had
00:41:55
been romantically involved for three
00:41:56
months at the prison but too had long
00:41:59
soulful conversations
00:42:03
[Music]
00:42:04
mr. bored's told us that she would spend
00:42:07
sometimes half an hour 40 minutes in the
00:42:10
maximum security area just talking to
00:42:12
currents so there definitely was a
00:42:14
relationship there sleeping as usual I
00:42:17
guess you maybe fall in love with
00:42:21
somebody and you do some strange things
00:42:23
but caves pretty well lost about
00:42:26
everything that she ever had over this
00:42:29
one incident well once there was almost
00:42:33
a certainty in my mind of what had
00:42:35
happened I just I felt so betrayed I
00:42:40
felt I just couldn't believe she could
00:42:44
do that I wanna know why she did it
00:42:49
and I like to have her home say she can
00:42:52
explain it to me she hurt me and I don't
00:43:01
know how to feel about it or about her
00:43:06
it just hurts a lot
00:43:12
Sandra Kay Beeman is 46 years old and 5
00:43:15
feet 3 inches tall she weighs 170 pounds
00:43:19
she has experience as a beautician and
00:43:22
may have changed her hair style and
00:43:24
color
00:43:26
Edgar Eugene Kern's is 30 years old and
00:43:30
5 feet 9 inches tall
00:43:31
he weighs 200 pounds his hair color and
00:43:34
style may have been altered by Kay on
00:43:37
his right forearm he has a tattoo of a
00:43:40
panther and heart tattoos on both biceps
00:43:43
[Music]
00:43:45
updated just six hours after our
00:43:47
projects sandra KP Medgar Kearns were
00:43:50
captured in Canada on September 10th 12
00:43:56
days after the escaped demon and Kearns
00:43:58
checked into the beach motor motel in
00:44:00
Hamilton Canada they registered as
00:44:03
husband and wife under the assumed names
00:44:04
Fred and sandy Smith I was watching TV
00:44:09
and all of a sudden this lady's picture
00:44:12
come on so I called my wife and she was
00:44:16
open the kitchen ironing and I said do
00:44:18
you recognize this lady and she said yes
00:44:21
she's the lady that's living in room 12
00:44:23
and by this time the gentlemen come on
00:44:27
and I said oh he also lives in there so
00:44:30
I reached over immediately and picked up
00:44:33
the phone and call the police when we
00:44:36
got to the beach Motor Hotel the
00:44:38
information from the Mitchells was to
00:44:41
the effect that they hadn't left the
00:44:42
room and it wasn't their policy to leave
00:44:45
the room during the evening we were
00:44:47
convinced they were still inside the
00:44:48
room
00:44:49
the officers of the emergency response
00:44:51
unit which is equivalent to the SWAT
00:44:53
team forced the door open
00:44:55
the room was found to be vacated with
00:45:00
Slater told of things if he had seen the
00:45:02
fugitive couple getting into a taxi cab
00:45:04
earlier that evening we were able to
00:45:08
determine the name of the cab and a
00:45:11
check with a cab company revealed the
00:45:12
driver I picked them up at the beach
00:45:14
strip and that just up from the motel
00:45:17
and the I asked him where they were
00:45:20
going and they said the red rose motel
00:45:24
when we got to the motel the cab driver
00:45:27
said he had taken one of our officers
00:45:30
was able to determine from the office
00:45:32
register at that location that they had
00:45:34
in fact booked in and had currents in
00:45:36
fact that used his right name luminously
00:45:41
the emergency response unit moved in
00:45:46
three or four officers of the emergency
00:45:48
was launched and approached the front
00:45:50
door the motel room it was at that point
00:45:52
that someone from the inside of the room
00:45:55
looked out through the drapes
00:45:57
the officers then forced open the door
00:46:00
entered the room terms he was forced to
00:46:06
the floor of the motel room and held in
00:46:08
a position of safety the female in the
00:46:11
room was in the bed and her hands were
00:46:14
handcuffed above her head to the head
00:46:15
book at that point they're both persons
00:46:18
were arrested Kearns was removed by my
00:46:21
partner myself and transported to
00:46:23
Central Station
00:46:26
he wanted to know how we had learned of
00:46:29
his whereabouts we asked him if he had
00:46:32
ever seen the program before he said yes
00:46:35
he had we told him that he was on it
00:46:38
tonight he was astounded
00:46:52
[Music]
00:47:04
join us next week for another edition of
00:47:07
unsolved mystery
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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