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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 recently we were astonished to
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discover according to one medical
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researcher 50% of all Americans who lost
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a loved one say they have later been
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visited by that loved one with beyond
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the grave after her husband John died
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Patty Eggleston insisted on several
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occasions he appeared to her and endowed
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her with the strength to carry on
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in 1984 18 year-old Paige Roark left
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home for an evening out six hours later
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she was killed by a drunk driver
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incredibly Paige's mother and
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grandmother both claimed they were
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visited by Paige's spirit hallucinations
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remarkable unexplained phenomena but
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under slain Kathleen Belcher began
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talking to her mother about blood types
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she never dreamed the conversation would
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spring the lock on a deeply held secret
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the mothers post-world War two romance
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the true identity of Kathleen's
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biological father jointly are these
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fascinating stories perhaps you may be
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able to help solve a mystery
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what happens beyond the grave life is
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over
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despite a myriad of religious beliefs
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seems to be one surprising area of
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consensus according to a noted medical
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researcher seven out of ten widows and
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widowers in the United States report
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that their spouses have come back to
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visit them after death hallucination or
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does a bond of matrimony transcend the
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grave January 28 1989 John and Patty
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eggleston along with her two young sons
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Johnny and Kris were packing up after a
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day of skiing ahead lay a 70 mile drive
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to their home in a Seattle suburb
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everything was calm routine normal
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disaster the Eccleston's car careened
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off this bridge and plummeted into the
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river below a free fall of more than 80
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feet it was pitch dark a car rapidly
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filled with Pacey water Pattie Eccleston
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was badly injured yet at the moment she
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might have panicked paddy was suffused
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with an inexplicable calm
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I had this feeling come through me and
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fill me and fill every pore every cell
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of my being with warmth and love it was
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pure love and it was guidance and that
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feeling gave me the knowledge and the
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strength to do what I needed to do next
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Patti did not at first realize that her
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husband John had died on impact
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but she came to believe that it was
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John's spirit even after death which
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inspired her gave her the strength to
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break free and rescue her boys Johnny
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and Christopher were saved by the heroic
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efforts of their mother and a brave
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passerby who plunged into the river to
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help after a brief stay in the hospital
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Patti Eccleston returned home and
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struggled to be strong
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Patti says that when things seemed bleak
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ste once again since John's spirit
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at first it was at night in the bedroom
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I was woken up from a sound sleep with
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the feeling that John had just been
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there I could feel him I could smell him
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I could feel where he was in the bed the
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only sensation I didn't have was visual
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I did not see him every other part of it
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I felt and experienced and it was not a
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dream it was too real to be a dream
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eventually a Seattle physician Melvin
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Morris heard about Pattie Eggleston dr.
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Morris has documented hundreds of after
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death visits and believes as such visits
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actually happened that they are not
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simply the product of overactive
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imaginations I feel that the fact that
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these experiences are emotionally
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dynamic that they help to heal grief and
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that people learn from them are a
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powerful piece of circumstantial
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evidence and I grant that it's
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circumstantial but a powerful piece of
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circumstantial evidence that that
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experience
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at least as real as any other human
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experience
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for paddy John's presence became more
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and more real
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finally he appeared in bodily form I was
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sitting in my living room and had the
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lights on and I was sitting on the couch
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reading a book I just kind of glanced up
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and John was there I couldn't touch him
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but I could see him and he started
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communicating to me and I say
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communicating because he was not talking
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with his lips I think John is beginning
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to feel better I think so too but it was
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a conversation it was a two-way
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conversation he was talking to me I was
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talking to him I don't know if I can do
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this alone I'm here to tell you that you
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can there's a reason you survived
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remember to trust and you'll always know
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what to do thank you Patti says that
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John's visits continued for nearly a
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year looking back I know it was he he
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didn't come anymore after I had gotten
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my life together I was okay I was truly
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okay things were still rough I was still
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hurting but I had gained enough strength
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personal strength that I could go on
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without him and he wasn't there anymore
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despite Patti Eccleston xĂ bia sincerity
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her experience could be written off as a
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spouse's grief induced hallucination but
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widows and widowers are not the only
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ones who report after death visits in
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fact some studies claim that more than
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50% of the populations experienced this
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phenomenon many are afraid to talk about
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it openly but the family of
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eighteen-year-old Paige Rourke agreed to
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share their story
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Paige was our baby and we were just so
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pleased to have her she was a fun child
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she loved people even from when she was
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a little girl there was a sparkle in her
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eyes and in her demeanor on the
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afternoon of April 14th 1984 page :
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Roark left her house in Fallbrook
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California for an outing with friends I
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love you mom I love you too
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six hours later Paige Roark was dead she
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and one of her friends had been killed
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when a drunk driver smashed into their
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car I have never felt so helpless and
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hopeless and out of control of my life
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it was as though my heart was crushed
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you can't see the scars on me because
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they're inside it's almost as if I've
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marked my life from the moment I was
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told that she was dead
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Cynthia tried to escape her grief by
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running it was an activity for which she
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and Paige had a shared passion two days
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after the crash Cynthia left her house
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at 5:00 a.m. she ran for more than an
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hour then as dawn was breaking I was
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coming back towards home and there are a
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rays of sunshine coming down through the
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trees and they were beautiful I stopped
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and I you know I looked up into that
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light and I was blinded it was like it
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was just white and then I heard Paige
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I'm okay mom
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I can see through that light
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I'm with the Lord and I'm okay
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I remember a feeling of joy of peace I
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didn't expect it I didn't try to have it
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happen I feel that at that at the point
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I was I was extremely extremely
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devastated and it turned my my whole
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thinking around at that point
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later Cynthia would be stunned to find
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out that her mother who lived a thousand
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miles away in Denver and had an even
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more vivid experience love you grandma
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Paige
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I'm okay you
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and so is my mom she said I have seen
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mom that's my mother and I'm going to
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take care of her yeah I had never told
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anyone I'd had this I thought maybe they
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would think something's wrong with me
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but it was very clear to me that I had a
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vision and she was just so beautiful and
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perfect and here we were worried about
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her and she was comforting us all the
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time comforting me okay and it was just
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very real and I know I know what
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happened I know it in my heart
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prior to my research these experiences
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have been thought to simply be grief
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induced hallucinations passive fantasies
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of the mind struggling to deal with a
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terrible loss the difference is that I'm
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saying that death related visions and
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post death visitations are real they're
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emotionally dynamic we can learn things
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from them that they're actually an
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interaction between the person who has
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died and the person who is seeing the
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vision dr. Barry Byers Dean a
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physiological psychologists disagrees I
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believe these people are telling us some
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very interesting things I think they're
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telling us honest recollections of what
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it seemed like to them and so I'm
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interested in their experiences now I
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don't interpret them probably the way
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they do I think these are things that
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seemed incredibly real to them but
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probably didn't exist in reality outside
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the theater of their own minds I don't
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want to be perceived as a nutcase but it
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is important it's very important for
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people out there to hear this story if
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it helps one person and I'll share this
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story and I'll continue to share it for
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whoever ever needs to hear it
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is there any way to explain what
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happened to the families of John
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Egleston and Paige or can the Dead
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return or are after death visits simply
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the echo of a strong earthly love
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perhaps we will never know the answers
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perhaps it does not matter as Albert
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Einstein once said the greatest
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experience we can have is the mysterious
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on August 3rd 1957 the streets around
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st. bonaventure zs-- monastery in
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Detroit Michigan swelled with some
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10,000 mourners it was one of the
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largest funerals in the city's history
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the inspiration for this massive
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outpouring was not the death of a
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powerful Cardinal Archbishop but rather
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the passing of a humble friar named
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father salanas Casey for more than 50
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years
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father Solanas was a church receptionist
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and doorman one of the lowest ranking
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priests and the Catholic hierarchy
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father Solanas was a man who really
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cared for people and when people came to
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him with their worries and fears and
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pains he had a way of simply giving them
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courage to live their life the way there
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was those whose lives were touched by
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father Solana's claimed that he said at
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the right hand of God to them Solana's
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was a miracle worker even today some
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still turn to father Solana's for help
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when facing a medical crisis I do
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believe my / - father Solanas was
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answered the first time my prayers have
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really been answered like that in such a
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dramatic way I'm still in awe of what
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had happened I have no other explanation
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for it in the fall of 1990
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David Witt cop's wife Joann developed a
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lump in her breast we were concerned
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whether this density could be a cancer
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we weren't sure what we were dealing
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with so medically you have to do a
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biopsy to see is it benign or malignant
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an appointment with a surgeon was
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scheduled immediately when David and
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Joann arrived at the hospital they
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happened upon a small prayer room there
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hung a portrait of father Solanas Casey
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I was very desperate and I just prayed
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to father Solanas that there would be no
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more surgery and I just want to join
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that not to have this this kind of
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operation at all anymore
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jo-ann was wheeled into surgery and
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David prepared for a long actress
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wait David they looked up and it was
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Joann out in the hallway there I thought
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well maybe if they're taking her down
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for surgery now on your wife there's no
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sign of a mass what does that mean well
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we took another set of x-rays today to
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locate the mass for the surgery but the
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plates were clean they didn't reveal any
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mass that's over david prayed to God
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that I wouldn't have surgery and his
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prayers were answered
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even though a half hour before it looked
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hopeless and I believe that Solanas and
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God saw fit to have a healing that day
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miracles aren't usually things that I'm
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comfortable with I don't look for them I
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don't expect them I'm that a miracle
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worker
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I think Joann believes it was a miracle
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and that's good enough for her in my
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mind all I know is it went away and
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she's better and I'm thankful for it
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science has coined the term spontaneous
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remission to account for sudden
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recoveries like Joanne Witt cops but the
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faith see her case was one more example
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of the marvelous healing powers of
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father's Solana's Casey a petition to
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declare father Solanas a saint is
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currently before the Vatican a stunning
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tribute to a one-time Wisconsin farm boy
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named Bernard Casey
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Barnard Casey was born in 1871 of 16
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brothers and sisters at the age of 21 he
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was moved to dedicate his life to the
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church classes bender
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Barnard was accepted at a Seminary in
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Milwaukee Wisconsin where classes were
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taught in German and Latin Bernard who
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had not even completed high school
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struggled from the start
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man-ho fisty stew Ellis yaja professor
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explores all good
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Barnard was ultimately asked to withdraw
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he later enrolled in the Capetian
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Seminary in Detroit where he was given
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the name Father salanas here too he
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floundered miserably in his studies
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father Solanas was one of these people
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who had difficulty remembering the
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question and answers and theology and so
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on and as a result he never really
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passed all the tests in a seminary days
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once again salanas was close to failure
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but a few of his superiors recognized a
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spiritual character and proposed a
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compromise Solanas was ordained but he
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was barred from hearing confession
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preaching a sermon or teaching the
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doctrine all the most cherished duties
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of a priest this was a rather
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humiliating thing but I think he
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accepted it as God's will and that act
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of humility then made him more pleasing
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in God's eyes and so God could work
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great things through him after his
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ordination in 1904 Father Solanas was
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sent to New York
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my daughter father his day in and day
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out he would greet the parishioners at a
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church in Yonkers soon it was father
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salonist people came to see I'm afraid
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or you must trust God when you pay he
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will hear you yes yes Father Solana
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served in New York for 20 years by the
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time he was transferred to st.
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Bonaventure Eze and Detroit many had
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come to regard Solanas as a divine
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healer but the power to intercede with
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God perhaps the most extraordinary cure
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ascribed to Solanas came in the case of
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12 year old Charles Rogers his sister
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Helen 8 years old at the time remembers
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vividly in 1935 we had the polio
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epidemic in Detroit and at that time my
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brother came down with a severe headache
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and stiffness of the neck that went down
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into his arms and legs and eventually he
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ended up with spasms he would shake his
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body would shake dr. Ronald Athey was
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one of the choice top polio specialists
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it didn't take him long to make the
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diagnosis
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what we do nothing but we must get him
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to the hospital tonight
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dad wouldn't hear about it right away he
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wanted to you know see if things would
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change
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father Salamis father Solanas pardon me
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for interrupting you but one of mr.
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Rogers employees has heard about
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Charles's plate and went straight to
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father so Louis will you please pray for
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him father I know you have the power to
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make it better
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will you pray for him father please
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don't worry he will be better than that
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Helen Gleeson says her brother underwent
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a miraculous transformation that very
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night dad how are you feeling
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all right let's get you back to bed come
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on doctor Athey returns skeptical that
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Charles's condition could possibly have
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improved
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now give me your hand put it up against
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mine push my hand back he told him to
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put his hand up against his and push and
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do the same with the other hand and his
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muscles were moving the paralysis seemed
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to leave his Charles paralyzed muscles
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seemed to get better and walk over to me
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and dr. AC said mr. Rogers you did more
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than prey he says this is indeed as a
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miracle and medical men do not use that
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term according to Helen
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Charles recovered fully within a month
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he lived to be 64 years old and was
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never again troubled by any symptom of
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polio father Solanas Casey retired in
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1956 at the age of 85 until his death
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the following year medical problems
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caused him great suffering the week
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complained little his skin became very
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red and scaly at times it was very
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burning and so a very painful to him and
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so at the end of his life his body was
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one of the witnesses described it he was
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as red as a lobster in 1966 father
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Solano's was proposed as a candidate for
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sainthood a formal procedure that often
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takes decades in 1987 30 years after
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Solano's Casey's death his body was
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exhumed to allow church officials to
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look for signs that might validate
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canonization while his hands and his
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face were somewhat darkened the rest of
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his body was very natural-looking and in
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fact the the doctor even pressed day and
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it was appliable but there was no sign
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of any skin disease of any kind usually
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after 30 years there will be significant
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decomposition the stunning condition of
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Selena's Casey's body reported by church
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officials is said to be characteristic
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of some candidates for sainthood
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following the ritual examination a body
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of father Solana's was placed in a
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special sanctuary within st. bonaventure
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x' as he did in life father Solanas
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continues to draw pilgrims and inspire
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believers from around the world to me a
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lot of times us myself praying to God I
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need help so or I might need an
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interpreter if I can put it that way
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and I think he does how people do that
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was father Solanas a divinely inspired
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miracle worker who somehow had the ear
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of God or Kenny's cures be explained in
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more earthly terms in the end like the
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mystery of faith itself the only answer
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is in the eye of the beholder in a
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moment when a well-guarded family secret
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is revealed a woman embarks on a search
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for her birth father
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in May of 1988 in Plant City Florida a
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hospital nurse and Cathleen Belcher
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received an urgent call from her mother
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Miriam
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Kathleen stepfather was about to have
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major surgery and needed several pints
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of blood from both Kathleen and her
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sister was mostly afraid of the blood
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transfusion age you know things like
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that he wants us to donate blood
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well what's his blood type carefully no
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was only too happy to help
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what are you are you eight
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no no I'm B oh I guess maybe it was
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daddy who was a Kathleen never dreamed
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that this conversation with her mother
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would prompt an extraordinary revelation
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are you sure your father was a no and I
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said that's impossible because I have a
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positive and I have to have one of your
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blood types every person has to have
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either their mother or their father's
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blood type and obviously I did not I had
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a and my father or the man that raised
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me and I thought was my father had oh
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and my mother has B my heart went down
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to my feet and I thought you know all
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these years and now this my secret will
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be out Kathleen I don't want to talk
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about this anymore
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mĂriam Terry had inadvertently revealed
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a secret she had kept hidden for nearly
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40 years the true identity of Kathleen's
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biological father
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Miriam was thrown back to the end of
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World War two and she made the most
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agonizing decision of her life Miriam's
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first husband Budd Terry the man
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Kathleen knew as her father had flown
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dozens of bombing missions overseas
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after the war bud was a changed man
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before he was in the service he was a
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wonderful man when he came out of the
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service he was completely different
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Budd could not get jobs anymore because
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every job he got he would write their
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checks to customers and so on and so
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forth
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to pay his bills his gambling debts and
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he was afraid of even being killed
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because he owed gamblers both gambling
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was very bad I don't really have any
00:28:36
idea how much he won how much he lost
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but he was always as good in 1945
00:28:49
Berryman Budd had a daughter
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Kathleen's older sister in 1948 Budd
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rien listed hoping military discipline
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would restore some order to his life it
00:28:59
did not but Terry want a whoa leaving
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Miriam and the young daughter behind
00:29:06
you've been alone a long time darling
00:29:09
and you really need Miriam says bud had
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been gone for several months when his
00:29:18
parents began to suggest Miriam start
00:29:20
dating they even introduced her to Chet
00:29:23
Norris the bartender at their local
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social club in Covington Kentucky he's
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been looking at you I didn't know much
00:29:31
about him at the time he was very
00:29:33
nice-looking he had dark eyes I want to
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introduce you to marry him our daughter
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in life how do you do hi
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he had a good personality he was just
00:29:45
very nice and he seemed to be attracted
00:29:47
to me I hadn't I really didn't even feel
00:29:51
like a woman anymore at this time I felt
00:29:54
deserted like I was unattractive like I
00:29:57
was nothing so uh what do you like to do
00:30:03
for fun
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I like to dance oh I love to dance
00:30:10
do you dance very well from his
00:30:16
tentative beginnings Miriam and Chet's
00:30:19
friendship quickly blossomed a few
00:30:21
horses I wanted a divorce from my
00:30:24
husband and I wanted to marry Chet and
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he wanted to marry me
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chut began to think about a future with
00:30:36
Miriam he quit his job at the club and
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found work as an apprentice tile Center
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six months flew by then reality came
00:30:47
crashing down Miriam's husband bud Terry
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was arrested by military authorities
00:30:53
they had found him living with another
00:30:56
woman in Indianapolis all this while and
00:31:02
I was so upset because of my I did not
00:31:08
want to go back to him that I didn't
00:31:11
care what I did and I felt like I I I
00:31:15
just lost my cool I guess and I got
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pregnant
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Miriam was in a quandary pregnant and in
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love with a man who wasn't her husband
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[Music]
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I'm not sure it's good news sure of
00:31:41
course what is it I'm pregnant I mean I
00:31:44
think I'm pregnant you can't be I don't
00:31:47
think I can have kids Chet I'm telling
00:31:51
you I've been pregnant before remember I
00:31:52
I feel like I am well if you are let's
00:31:58
go get married I mean we've been talking
00:32:00
about getting married anyway so let's do
00:32:03
it
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well I have to divorce but first that
00:32:09
shouldn't be a problem should it
00:32:16
Miriam soon visited but in jail she was
00:32:22
determined to end there Mary
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the only reason I'm here is because I
00:32:28
want a divorce
00:32:30
Miriam I'm sorry for what I did but I've
00:32:35
met someone else I love him and he loves
00:32:39
me and we want to get married no but you
00:32:44
were the one that left Edward although
00:32:46
my husband had been gone all this while
00:32:48
and I didn't feel I loved him anymore
00:32:51
I was worried about losing my daughter
00:32:54
I'm back and that's that we are not
00:32:57
getting divorced but I'm pregnant did
00:33:06
you hear what I said I said that I am
00:33:08
pregnant he bashed his head against the
00:33:15
wall and cried and then he said I want
00:33:21
you to come back anyway and nobody will
00:33:24
ever have to know just come back to me
00:33:26
so at this time I felt like I was
00:33:30
between a rock and a hard place what
00:33:34
about the baby
00:33:35
what are you gonna do about that tell
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but it's his Miriam decided that hiding
00:33:40
the truth was the only way out of the
00:33:42
emotional tangle she told Chet that she
00:33:44
was not pregnant after all she's married
00:33:50
look I know things are very complicated
00:33:52
right now was terribly hard but I felt I
00:33:55
had no choice I had to do that it was
00:34:00
awful really awful
00:34:03
yeah we take Deborah and leave Oh be
00:34:06
reasonable I can't you can't just sit
00:34:09
there you have to do something I am
00:34:10
doing something I'm staying here
00:34:14
with Deborah and bud he was very upset
00:34:19
and very angry and said this is going to
00:34:22
happen again and again and again you'll
00:34:25
see your life is just gonna be one of
00:34:27
misery never heard anything about him
00:34:37
ever anymore it was like he dropped off
00:34:40
of the face of the earth
00:34:43
but Terry was released from jail after
00:34:46
Miriam wrote to a judge begging for
00:34:48
clemency Kathleen was born on February
00:34:51
12 1950 and true to his word Budd raised
00:34:55
her as his own he never gave me any
00:34:59
indication that he knew that I was not
00:35:01
his there's no way that I would ever
00:35:04
known in fact I have renewed respect for
00:35:08
him because he never left me no he
00:35:09
always loved me and loved me equal and
00:35:12
we spent a lot of time together
00:35:15
bud struggled to make his marriage work
00:35:18
but his addiction to gambling kept the
00:35:20
family on the brink of bankruptcy in
00:35:23
1969 he and Miriam finally divorced
00:35:26
Miriam remarried in 1974 bud Terry
00:35:30
committed suicide around that time and
00:35:33
Miriam assumed her secret would be safe
00:35:35
forever
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more than a decade would pass before
00:35:38
circumstance forced her and tell
00:35:40
Kathleen the truth I would have taken
00:35:46
this secret to my grave but since it's
00:35:50
my fault
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because of me that this happened I want
00:35:54
to help her because I love my daughter
00:36:01
with her mother's blessings Kathleen
00:36:03
Belcher has spent six years searching
00:36:05
for her father
00:36:06
using Social Security records classified
00:36:09
ads and computer hotlines with the name
00:36:13
of Chet Lee Norris Kathleen is phone
00:36:16
literally hundreds of norris's across
00:36:18
the country but today she is no closer
00:36:20
to seeing her father than when she first
00:36:22
began to look I just hope I can find him
00:36:29
before he does pass away it would be
00:36:32
terrible to know that he just passed
00:36:33
away months ago
00:36:35
and I miss my chance to know him it may
00:36:39
seem that I'm calm about the whole
00:36:40
circumstance but deep down I'm uh it is
00:36:43
I think about it day and night I think
00:36:46
what it would be like to look in his
00:36:48
face and see my face it would be nice to
00:36:50
see you know where I got my nose which
00:36:52
doesn't look like anybody's where I got
00:36:54
my ears and you know just to look at
00:36:56
somebody and see familiarity
00:37:00
this is the only known photograph of
00:37:03
chetley Norris taken when his about 32
00:37:05
years old today he would be in his
00:37:07
mid-70s Chet said he was a Golden Gloves
00:37:10
boxer during the 1940s he may have had a
00:37:13
brother named John when we returned
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authorities need your help to track down
00:37:22
a serial killer tonight we have a case
00:37:32
of the utmost urgency
00:37:34
someone is murdering young women in the
00:37:37
Midwest the authorities need your help
00:37:39
please watch closely 26 year-old Robin
00:37:46
fool down at Indianapolis Indiana wanted
00:37:48
more than anything to marry and start a
00:37:50
family on April 8 1992 Robin was found
00:37:55
shot to death at the shoe store where
00:37:57
she worked
00:37:59
23 year old patricia smith and 32 year
00:38:02
old Patricia majors were both happily
00:38:04
married they work side-by-side at a
00:38:07
bridal shop in Wichita Kansas
00:38:10
just three days after Robin fooled our
00:38:12
was murdered both Patricia Smith and
00:38:15
Patricia majors were shot to death in
00:38:17
the back store room of the shop 24 year
00:38:21
old Nancy Kitzmiller of st. Charles
00:38:23
Missouri had just recently qualified to
00:38:26
join a government mapmaking team and was
00:38:28
awaiting assignment three weeks after
00:38:31
the Wichita murders
00:38:33
Nancy Kitzmiller was shot to death in
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the boot store where she worked as a
00:38:37
manager for murders in three different
00:38:40
states separated by more than 1200 miles
00:38:43
at first glance they seemed to be random
00:38:46
killings yet each took place at his
00:38:49
shopping just off Interstate 70 or a
00:38:51
connecting Highway indeed there was a
00:38:54
pattern after all greater Missouri
00:38:59
another link in the deadly chain a
00:39:02
Woodson village shopping center near an
00:39:04
access road to interstate 70 on May 7
00:39:09
1992 37 year-old Sarah blessing was
00:39:12
working alone in a gift shop at the mall
00:39:16
at 6:30 p.m. that day a local auctioneer
00:39:19
noticed a stranger walking into his
00:39:21
auction house the stranger looked around
00:39:26
briefly and walked out again
00:39:29
Tim Hickman who owned a video store next
00:39:32
to the gift shop where Sarah blessing
00:39:33
worked took notice as the man crossed
00:39:36
the parking lot and passed by his store
00:39:40
minutes later Tim heard a loud pop that
00:39:43
sounded like a gunshot he reached his
00:39:45
front door just as a man was
00:39:47
disappearing around the corner right
00:39:50
away it registered with Tim Hickman that
00:39:52
this was the stranger he had just seen a
00:39:55
grocery clerk collecting shopping carts
00:39:57
also noticed a stranger she watched as
00:40:00
he climbed the embankment to an
00:40:01
interstate 70 access road and vanished
00:40:05
meanwhile Tim Hickman grabbed a portable
00:40:07
phone and went next door to the gift
00:40:09
shop
00:40:10
I kind of looked in through the door and
00:40:12
I didn't see anything
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and I was calling ma'am ma'am and I
00:40:19
stepped forward a couple of more steps
00:40:21
and then I sent her legs sticking out of
00:40:23
the other room
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Sarah blessing lay lifeless in a pool of
00:40:30
blood
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Tim Hickman immediately called the
00:40:33
police in no time the returned tragedy
00:40:40
was connected to the earlier shopping
00:40:41
mall killings a multi-state task force
00:40:44
was formed ballistics tests confirmed
00:40:47
that all five women had been killed with
00:40:49
the same gun most likely a
00:40:51
semi-automatic 22 caliber pistol that
00:40:55
gun was also linked to the murder of
00:40:57
another victim this one a man on April
00:41:00
27th 1992 40 year-old Michael McCown of
00:41:03
Terre Haute Indiana had been killed in a
00:41:05
shopping mall ceramics store near
00:41:07
Interstate 70 there were now six victims
00:41:11
the most promising lead came from
00:41:13
Wichita
00:41:16
police believed the killer had chosen
00:41:18
the bridal shop there because he thought
00:41:20
only a single female clerk was in the
00:41:22
store he was probably surprised to find
00:41:36
two women on duty I'm just gonna tie you
00:41:44
up calm down
00:41:57
moments later a customer arrived to pick
00:42:00
up a cummerbund for his tuxedo
00:42:02
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he had no idea that Patricia Smith and
00:42:14
Patricia majors had just been shot hey
00:42:24
man I don't know what's going on here
00:42:26
but I need wait a minute I want you to
00:42:28
come in the back room with me look man
00:42:30
like what are you doing there what are
00:42:31
you doing I I just need you to come in a
00:42:34
back room hey man I can't come in the
00:42:37
back room I just won't get out of here I
00:42:38
didn't see nothing I don't know nothing
00:42:40
that's going on here I just I just
00:42:42
wanted to shut up and get the hell out
00:42:43
of here then and don't call the cops
00:42:47
inexplicably the killer left the
00:42:48
eyewitness go free a short time later he
00:42:51
called the police using his description
00:42:54
as well as those of the rate tile I
00:42:56
witnesses a police artist came up with
00:42:58
this composite drawing of the i-70
00:43:00
killer the suspect is between 5 feet 8
00:43:04
inches and 6 feet tall weighs around 170
00:43:07
pounds and seems to be 35 to 40 years
00:43:10
old he has ready share and a high
00:43:12
forehead and what witnesses described as
00:43:15
lazy eyelids according to each of the
00:43:20
eyewitnesses the suspect was neatly
00:43:21
dressed in clean-cut he appeared to be
00:43:24
almost in a trance as if he were
00:43:26
thinking of something else
00:43:28
it's important for the audience to know
00:43:30
that a serial killer never stops they
00:43:33
may stop for a period of time but they
00:43:35
never stopped completely and they will
00:43:36
always start up again so we're trying to
00:43:40
find this person and stop this person
00:43:42
before we have six more now tragically
00:43:49
there are seven victims after we filmed
00:43:51
this story the murder apparently struck
00:43:53
again killing a young woman in Arlington
00:43:55
Texas
00:43:56
although the bullet this time did not
00:43:58
come from the same gun the mo is so
00:44:00
similar the police are virtually sure
00:44:02
it's the same man
00:44:05
once again the suspect is between 35 and
00:44:08
40 years old 5 feet 8 to 6 feet tall
00:44:12
with reddish or sandy hair and thin lips
00:44:15
[Music]
00:44:25
but our next turn solve histories
00:44:28
30 years ago he was America's most
00:44:31
notorious criminal Albert DeSalvo the
00:44:33
Boston Strangler he confessed to killing
00:44:36
13 women in the city between 1962 and
00:44:39
1964 but many doubted DeSalvo story and
00:44:44
the night before he had promised to tell
00:44:45
the whole truth
00:44:46
DeSalvo was stabbed to death in his
00:44:48
prison cell somebody found out somebody
00:44:53
didn't want that interview happening
00:44:56
and I think they have said before dead
00:44:59
men tell no tales
00:45:02
today some believe DeSalvo was innocent
00:45:05
and that the real Boston Strangler got
00:45:07
away with murder
00:45:08
join me next time for this controversial
00:45:11
investigation and more on unsolved
00:45:14
mysteries
00:45:19
[Music]
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[Applause]
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