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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 about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight on Unsolved Mysteries
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an intriguing new
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story on April 10th 1967 Ralph probes
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the Cook County Illinois Sheriff officer
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had the night off while watching
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television with his wife Ralph went into
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the kitchen to make a phone
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call Ralph never regained Consciousness
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his killer is still at
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large in tiny lions Nebraska an
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intriguing love triangle left a woman
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murdered and the police chief on the
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Run also tonight the story of six
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Oklahoma children who were separated the
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day after their mother's funeral 30
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years later they are trying to reunite
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put the pain in the past behind them for
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every mystery there is someone somewhere
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who knows the truth perhaps it's you
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Lions Nebraska a quiet far town of 1200
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people is located 60 mi from Omaha in
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October of 1986 anamarie Anton a
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34-year-old divorce moved to this small
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isolated Community she was a stranger to
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town there was no rational reason why
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she would move here people don't move to
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Lions Nebraska unless they have a job or
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family or they're returning to a small
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Hometown and she didn't have any of
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those 10 years before she settled in
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Lions Anna had severely injured her leg
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in a car accident good morning good
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morning Anna oh nice to see you thank
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you very much God bless you have a nice
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day now Anna's neighbors were happy to
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lend her a helping hand and her fellow
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parishioners at St Joseph's would take
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turns driving her to and from
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church Anna appeared to be a very
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religious person she had very high
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morals and did not drink she went to
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church
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daily if she could find a ride Shirley
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edcom lived across the street from Anna
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and would often take her grocery
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shopping they became friends and Anna
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began to confide in
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Shirley want me to put these away for
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you that'd be great sh she told me that
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her ex-husband had been involved in some
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large drug ring and that she had
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testified against him and other members
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of this drug ring and she was afraid
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that he was going to harm her surely can
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I show you something she had moved to
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Lion's to get away from her ex-husband
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if anything should happen to me I want
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you to open this
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envelope and call the number that's in
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it she did tell me that she'd chosen
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that apartment because the police chief
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lived right above her and she thought if
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her ex-husband ever did find her that he
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would be lary about bothering her
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because of the police car parked out in
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front
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on December 16th 1986 Shirley brought
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some groceries over to Anna's apartment
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she was surprised to find the back door
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locked Anna Shirley knocked on Anna's
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windows and called out her
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name there was no
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response
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Anna that evening Shirley tried to
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deliver the groceries several times but
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still there was no
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answer Anna seemed to have disappeared
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appeared as mysteriously as she
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arrived I hope you don't mind letting me
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in I'm really worried about her it's not
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like her to just disappear police chief
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Greg Webb who lived upstairs from Anna
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agreed to help we went in thinking we
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probably find Anna had
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fallen and there was no sign of her
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looks like she hasn't been here for a
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couple days she was supposed to meet me
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I can't imagine why she didn't call
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let's check the bedroom okay
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there was an outfit of clothes that was
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laid out on the bed why she would lay
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her shirt and jeans all the way down to
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underwear here's the shoes she always
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wore where would she go without these
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this time of year and that seems strange
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because this is in the winter time and
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if you take your coat and your purse and
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your cane seems only reasonable you
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would take your
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shoes here it
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is call some of the people in this book
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maybe they've seen her why don't you let
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me do that it's my job okay a few hours
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later he called me and said that he had
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called those numbers in the book but uh
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she wasn't at any of those
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places 11 days after Anna disappeared
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her body was found in a remote field she
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had 2 38 caliber bullet wounds in her
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torso since the crime scene was outside
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Lion's jurisdiction state criminal
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investigator Jerry creger of the
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Nebraska state patrol was called in on
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the
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case upon observing the surroundings
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around Anna it was very apparent that uh
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she did not circum her death there that
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the body had been
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moved how you doing Mike
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hi yeah it looks like a gunshot one
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somebody had left her out there and was
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careful and ref to not leaving anything
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behind she was in an unclad condition it
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appeared as though the body had been
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cleaned didn't and it also appeared that
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it had been there for quite some time
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okay we're going to have to start uh
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getting out and canvasing the area and
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see if anybody heard anything or saw
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anything okay I'll get right on it
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surprisingly the autopsy revealed that
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Anna's blood alcohol level was 22
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extremely high for a woman who
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purportedly did not
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drink after they found the body
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Jerry creger came over to our place he
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wanted to know everything about Anna
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this is the note that Anna gave me she
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told me to open it if anything should
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ever happen to her Shirley do you know
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why Anna would leave you a note she told
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me she was afraid of her ex-husband her
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feelings were that Anna's ex-husband had
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caused her death she had related to me
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that her ex-husband had involved in
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narcotics that he was a heavy drug
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dealer and that she was very fearful of
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her life
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within a short period of time we were
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able to determine that Anna's ex-husband
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did have an alibi and he was not
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involved in any drug activity and I just
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couldn't understand why Anna would
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fabricate this
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information the police officers working
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on the case agreed to meet in lions at
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the highway Cafe to compare notes Chief
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Webb was among them knowing that Anna
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lived in the same building as the chief
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Jerry creger quiz him about his
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neighbor how long did you know ant Anton
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2 2 and a/2 months where did you meet
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her Arnold's
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Park were you and she ever intimately
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involved
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no were you and she ever intimately
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involved
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yes on the night you moved
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in officer web would you please excuses
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du the fact that he had lied to me being
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a police officer especially a chief of
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police during a major investigation like
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this and also thinking back to the crime
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scene my thoughts were thinking strongly
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to the fact that uh Greg was a suspect
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okay Rea let's go over here by the chair
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and work our way back okay two days
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after Anna's body was found Creer and
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lab technicians performed a test in
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Anna's apartment to search for blood
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stains through throughout the test Greg
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Webb was upstairs in his
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apartment there were times that we would
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hear somebody walking or moving
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upstairs it did sound as though he might
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have been
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listening the police use a special
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chemical called illuminal which makes
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drops of blood hemoglobin glow in the
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dark even if they have been washed away
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or are small and Faded we found traces
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of blood in the living room and dining
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room area of an Anton's apartment oh
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look at that look at
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that the trail of blood just outside of
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Anna Anton's door was quite heavy the
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trail then led up the stairs to Greg
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Webb's apartment all the way right here
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right here at the top of the step
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okay my main concern at that particular
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time was uh attempting to obtain a
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search warrant for Greg Webb's
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apartment during the police
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investigation Greg Webb left his
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apartment the next day he withdrew
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$3,000 and then
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disappeared 5 days later armed with a
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warrant investigator creger searched the
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chief's apartment well why don't you go
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ahead and get the kitchen here okay we
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did find a mop that did have a trace of
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blood that was later shown to be the
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same type as an
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anons Jerry you want to take a look at
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this in the bedroom closet the police
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found a military style coat with several
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spots of
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blood these stains Prov to be the same
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blood type as Anna Anton's package it
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and label it
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okay once I started checking into an
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Anton's background I had learned that
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she had two separate lives one life down
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here in Lions Nebraska where she was
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very religious and then the other up in
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Arnold's Park where she would uh
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referred to as a bar F Denny Denny Hi
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how are you good how you
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she would uh carry on with men hi you
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get better looking every day well thank
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you this is where an Anton and Greg Webb
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had met I want to introduce you to a
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friend of
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mine this is Greg Webb he's chief of
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police at lines Nebraska nice to meet
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you Greg and Anna became friends when
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Anna told him she was looking for a
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place to live web suggested that she
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move into an unoccupied apartment in his
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building I think Anna Anton moved here
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with the anticipation that uh her and
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Greg Webb uh may have something in
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common and possibly maybe you eventually
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U getting together and maybe even
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marriage you're on duty tomorrow my day
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off an I was infatuated with web but she
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soon learned that he had another
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girlfriend Anna seemed to be preoccupied
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with the fact that Greg had this
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girlfriend and the fact that they were
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not not married but evidently sleeping
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together she talked about uh laying in
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bed at night and hearing them upstairs
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making love and it bothered her she
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would turn the stereo
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[Music]
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on she felt that it was a sin to the
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point that she would get holy water and
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sprinkle it up and down the steps and on
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the door
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knobs investigator creger has learned
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that the night of Anna's death Greg Webb
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was
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intoxicated I believe Anna Anton's death
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could have resulted from a fight that
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might have occurred due to the fact that
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Anna Anton had found out about this
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other woman and confronted Greg Webb
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about this give
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me it was learned that during the
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following day in the early morning hours
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Greg Webb was seen carrying something
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from his house out to the trunk of his
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car and it was learned later that what
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he was carrying was actually an
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Anton the police believe Webb removed
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all of Anna's clothes and carefully
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washed her body before she was carried
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from the
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apartment it is possible that Anna's
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body was left in that particular
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Farmer's field because Webb knew the
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land was part of an Indian reservation
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which would cause jurisdiction problems
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for the
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[Music]
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authorities I feel that Greg web might
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have thought that he had committed the
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perfect crime in the way he had disposed
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of the body and also to the fact that uh
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he would have known about uh an Anton's
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ex-husband on January 6th 1987 a warrant
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was issued for police chief Greg Webb's
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arrest he was charged with first-degree
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murder update Greg Webb is now in
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custody when this story was rerun in
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February of
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1993 an alert viewer in Orlando Florida
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recognized web as a man he knew as Jim
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Weber a construction
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worker well when I when I was watching
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it and they showed Greg when he came on
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um they they mentioned him as Greg web
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and I mean just just like the guy I knew
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is Jim and uh again they had said it was
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Greg and uh this Greg Webb and I met
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knew him as Gregory James Weber and he
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went by Jim Weber so uh I just put the
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two together like I say it just looked
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just like him so it was quite a
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shock Florida had faxed me uh
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photographs of the driver's license that
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was issued under Gregory James Weber and
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once I did see the photographs I knew
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that that was Gregory uh John
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web the the arrest went very well we uh
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there wasn't any resistance whatsoever
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we took him by surprise and um he was
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arrested at an off-site construction
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site next the story of two brothers who
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had a heartwarming reunion deserted gas
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station in rural Oklahoma 25 years after
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they were separated
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they are looking for their lost siblings
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perhaps you can help find
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[Music]
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them sadly one out of every 30 children
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in America suffers from child abuse for
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these victims healing the wounds is a
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long painful process in our next Story
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five brothers and their sister were put
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up for adoption after particularly
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brutal and violent childhood and for 23
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years never saw each other again now
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they want to purge the hate and
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bitterness from their past they are
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hoping that if they can be reunited they
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will be able to exercise those terrible
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memories that are still a part of their
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[Music]
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lives Locust Grove
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Oklahoma in 1959 Edith Rogers her
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husband top Rogers and their six
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children all lived in this remote rural
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community
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[Music]
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life was hard for the Rogers family it
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was little money even for the
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necessities of
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life for clothing and food we never had
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much clothing that I can remember we
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didn't ever wear
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shoes and there was one time there I can
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remember going out without food for
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several
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days getting what I got week that I was
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in bed and it seemed like the people of
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the town of Lo Grove brought us some
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food out to eat I think I think that's
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one of those times that Mom and Dad run
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off on one of their
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drunks ain't nobody in this house going
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to top Roger frequent drinking led to
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regular beatings for his wife and
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children one night I grabbed a stick of
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wood out of the stove box and run at him
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and he hit me knocked me across the
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floor threw a kitchen knife at me you'll
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never find fin beat of and tell me what
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the bottle is I got memories of him
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being a good man
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but 90% of the time he seemed like he
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was drunk and that's when he was
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mean thank you Robert by 1960 the family
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had only a little happiness and no real
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future well mom come in the house and
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gave us some presents said this would be
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the last chance you'd get to give it to
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us said that your kids are going to have
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to go away
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in the spring of 1960 a Court ruled that
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Edith and top were unfit parents and in
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June social workers arrived to the
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Rogers Log
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Cabin the children were taken away to
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the local prior orphanage
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[Music]
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home they said they was going to take us
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away and we'd never get to come back
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again it didn't really hit us right then
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what was happening it was later on it
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really took effect you know we lost her
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mom and dad
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she didn't even really have any family
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it was just Dad and us kids there's just
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nothing else to live for except more of
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the same that she got from him few more
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beat and she missed us so bad I know how
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that must have tore her heart
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out 6 months later Edith Rogers
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committed suicide by swallowing poison
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I can't say that I would have done the
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same thing I just wish she'd have been
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strong enough to endure
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it but we were all she had and when we
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were gone her life was over she probably
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died before she even
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died the children's father top Rogers
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had been arrested in Arkansas charged
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with killing a man in a fight handcuffed
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he was escorted back to Oklahoma to
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attend his wife's
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funeral here for these few sad moment
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the rers children were reunited for the
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last time for the memorial service of
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Edith Rogers it has been requested that
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we close the service today with singing
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the old hymn silent night would you
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please join me please
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silent
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night
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holy
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night it's time I thought that was a
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strange song to be singing at a funeral
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he'd get me down every time I'd hear
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that song
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[Music]
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afterward it wasn't a Christmas carol to
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me it was a death
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[Music]
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song
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Heavenly
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peace
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sleep in heav losing your mother and all
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your brothers you might as well shot me
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in a heart
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it wouldn't have been any more
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painful after the service the children
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were once again separated they were
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subsequently adopted into six different
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homes where they grew up isolated from
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each
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other 23 years later El May who is now
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called Celia Wangler wrote a letter to
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the Oklahoma Department of Human
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services at the same time Johnny Lee
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whose name is now John rer also
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contacted the same
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Authorities on February 10th 1984 Celia
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and John were reunited in the suburb of
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Oklahoma
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[Music]
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City hello hi
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brought you Son thank you how are you
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okay how are you when I met him it was
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just a neat feeling she good we were
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both lit up like a Christmas
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tree your K I felt like I'd known him
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all my life and that was the strangest
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part let's go we sat and visited for
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hours and within 3 weeks of that we
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found
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Robert when they told me I'd never see
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my brothers and sisters again I know
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better than that cuz I knew I loved them
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and they was my family and I was going
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to find them and that never left my mind
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for 26
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years Robert and John agreed to meet on
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a Sunday morning in April 1984 at a gas
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station only 20 M from their childhood
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home in Locust
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[Applause]
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Gro well when he got out of his pickup
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it just seemed like an empty spot and my
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heart had been filled hello Big Brother
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little brother my foot you're bigger
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than I am how are you just fine how are
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you I'm good I've waited all my
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life so have I there was a great love
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there they could have sent 10 people to
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replace John and I don't think I'd have
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felt it I think I'd have seen through it
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and I can't explain it that's just the
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way it
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was in the spring of 1984 a third
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brother Vernon was
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found in April John and C agreed to meet
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Robert in Locust Grove where they had
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all been born and try to exercise the
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ghosts of their
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[Music]
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past it would be the first time in 24
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years that they would be going home all
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three had mixed feelings about the trip
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they worried that seeing the log cabin
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again would awaken long buried memories
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of their truly unhappy
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childhood I came to find the answers to
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the question questions of who I am and
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my past my
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roots parents teach your children to
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love when they're little or they teach
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them to hate they taught me to
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hate you pull up there you know like to
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the log cabin and it's like you finally
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found your roots and it's like going
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home you know
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yeah don't look like it's been lived in
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while
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sure
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something this is where you live a
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[Music]
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[Music]
00:24:22
baby well kids what do you think of this
00:24:25
place it's
00:24:26
home that's where we used to live check
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it out you know when Mom and Dad adopted
00:24:33
me dad he he told me that I had like
00:24:38
scars on my back and on my legs and way
00:24:41
more scars than what most normal kids my
00:24:44
age should have we all got a lot of
00:24:47
weapons and they was usually severe
00:24:50
beatings I didn't have any physical
00:24:52
scars but they were mental do you know
00:24:56
myself I feel were way better off
00:24:59
getting adopted out I I imagine both of
00:25:02
y'all feel the same way don't you yeah
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right later that day they went to the
00:25:10
cemetery to find their mother's grave
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they discovered their father had also
00:25:15
died 8 years
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before here it is I found it over
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[Music]
00:25:21
[Applause]
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here I hated my father very much I hated
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him at least 18 solid years that's what
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lived in my
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mind some of the things that he done to
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me when I was a child I had full
00:25:40
intentions of going
00:25:41
back when I got older and giving him a
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chance to do it
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again the day that I got to my father's
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grave the hate kind of left me it
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died and I wish then that he was still
00:25:58
alive so I could say I was sorry and
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maybe he would tell me he was
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sorry as much alike as the three of us
00:26:11
are I tend to believe that the other two
00:26:15
are a lot similar and probably have the
00:26:18
same needs and pains that we went
00:26:21
through and I think finding the other
00:26:24
two brothers when that day comes it will
00:26:26
be the climax of of the whole story for
00:26:29
us you
00:26:31
know of the remaining two untraced
00:26:33
brothers Billy is the youngest of the
00:26:35
six children and was born in
00:26:37
1959 Billy would now be 30 years old
00:26:41
Joey was born in 1957 and as a brother
00:26:44
between Robert and John he would
00:26:46
probably remember his brothers and would
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currently be 32 years
00:26:50
old the happy ending to this story to me
00:26:53
is when I get a phone call from my other
00:26:56
brothers that that that'd be the truly
00:26:59
happy
00:27:00
ending to have found
00:27:03
him thanks to our broadcast John riger's
00:27:06
dream of a happy ending became a reality
00:27:09
the morning after the story aired John
00:27:11
contacted his brothers Joey and Billy
00:27:13
for the first time in almost 30 years
00:27:15
the Rogers children immediately made
00:27:17
arrangements for a
00:27:19
reunion Joey was five and Billy just a
00:27:22
year old when the family was separated
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on the morning of October 27th
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34-year-old Joey whose adopted name is
00:27:37
Rusty dunant arrived at his sister
00:27:39
Celia's home in Oklahoma
00:27:41
City Rusty been waiting a long time
00:27:45
buy Rusty lives only 36 miles from his
00:27:48
brother John amazingly they have mutual
00:27:50
friends and have even met socially on a
00:27:52
number of
00:27:53
occasions a lot of coffee we've brushed
00:27:56
shoulders several times we've been to
00:27:59
several places we were within speaking
00:28:02
distance of each other and I've seen him
00:28:04
out eye and I never would have known he
00:28:06
as my
00:28:08
brother later that day the youngest of
00:28:11
the Rogers children Billy whose name is
00:28:13
now Chuck Young arrived at the airport
00:28:15
and was greeted by his brothers and
00:28:17
[Music]
00:28:21
sister are
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[Music]
00:28:26
you Chuck who Liv Liv in Tennessee
00:28:28
watched our broadcast and was shocked
00:28:30
when he realized that he was one of the
00:28:32
missing
00:28:33
Brothers at the end of the show they put
00:28:35
the family picture together well I I
00:28:38
seen me sitting there and I just got up
00:28:41
out of the chair and I said that's me
00:28:43
that's me you know they looking for
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[Music]
00:28:46
me for the Rogers family this reunion
00:28:49
marks the beginning of a new chapter in
00:28:51
their
00:28:53
lives I think what we were all looking
00:28:55
for was the part of our our hearts that
00:28:58
was torn out years ago and now you know
00:29:01
I don't I don't hurt anymore because
00:29:04
that part of my heart's been
00:29:06
replaced it it it's back again and it
00:29:09
feels
00:29:10
good all right this is a toast to us and
00:29:13
I want you all to know I love all of
00:29:16
you I'm glad to be here today
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two-thirds of the fugitives profile and
00:29:33
Unsolved Mysteries have been captured
00:29:35
because of Vital Information receiv
00:29:36
receiv from our viewers one of those
00:29:39
fugitives was John money who eight years
00:29:41
ago escaped from a Georgia prison where
00:29:43
he was serving a life sentence for
00:29:47
murder in the early morning hours of
00:29:49
August 30th 1977 an Athens Georgia
00:29:52
restaurant owner named TK Hardy was
00:29:54
murdered while reading in his study at
00:29:56
home
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00:30:01
the prime suspect in the case was John
00:30:03
Mooney a rival restaurant owner who had
00:30:06
a long running Feud with
00:30:08
Hardy actually I had to do a lot of four
00:30:11
weeks later police got their first break
00:30:13
in the case a local restaurant manager
00:30:15
told him that an Atlanta electrician
00:30:17
named Elmo Florence had bragged that he
00:30:19
killed TK Hardy and that John money had
00:30:22
paid him to do
00:30:24
it on June 20th 1978 El Florence was
00:30:28
convicted of first-degree
00:30:30
murder John Mooney was also convicted of
00:30:33
first-degree murder and was sentenced to
00:30:35
life in a Maximum Security Prison but 3
00:30:38
months later he was transferred to a
00:30:40
minimum security facility on March 16th
00:30:43
1980 he
00:30:47
escaped update Scottdale Arizona within
00:30:50
minutes of our broadcast two viewers
00:30:53
called our teles Center to report that
00:30:54
John Mooney was living in this house
00:30:57
under the assumed name Robert J
00:31:00
Kelly on August 8th John money Alias
00:31:03
Robert Kelly was arrested at his home by
00:31:06
the Mesa Police Mooney had been living
00:31:08
in Arizona since
00:31:09
1982 he was enrolled at Arizona State
00:31:12
University for the past several years
00:31:14
he've been working as an accountant for
00:31:16
various companies in the Scottdale area
00:31:18
Mooney married 6 years ago and has a
00:31:20
one-year-old
00:31:24
child on September 16th 1989 over 9
00:31:27
years years after he escaped John money
00:31:29
was returned to
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[Music]
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Georgia outside the Academy Theater the
00:31:49
atmosphere is electric even though I
00:31:52
have attended 15 ceremonies I April 10th
00:31:56
1967 the night of the Oscars like
00:31:59
millions of Americans Ralph proest and
00:32:02
his wife marleene settled down in front
00:32:04
of the television to watch the
00:32:07
ceremony well we were watching the
00:32:09
Academy Awards on TV that night and I
00:32:12
must have dozed
00:32:13
off and the next thing I knew there was
00:32:16
this loud explosion that woke me
00:32:19
up I saw this cloud of smoke from behind
00:32:23
the television set when I went in the
00:32:25
kitchen Ralph was laying on the kitchen
00:32:27
floor
00:32:29
Ralph probest had been shot once in the
00:32:31
back of the
00:32:33
head by the time Marlene was able to
00:32:36
summon help her husband was dead he
00:32:38
never regained
00:32:41
Consciousness Ralph probest was a
00:32:43
30-year-old Cook County Illinois
00:32:45
sheriff's officer in addition to
00:32:47
marleene Ralph Left Behind three small
00:32:50
children and a series of baffling
00:32:52
questions that over 23 years later
00:32:54
remain unanswered
00:32:59
4 days after his murder officer probest
00:33:01
was laid to
00:33:04
rest among the MERS was a fellow officer
00:33:07
Bob barowski on that afternoon he made a
00:33:10
silent
00:33:12
pledge as I Stood Beside the casket and
00:33:15
looked down at Ralph I made a vow to him
00:33:19
that I would find his killer and I would
00:33:21
not rest until I get
00:33:23
him I figured it would be solved quickly
00:33:27
but it didn't turn out that
00:33:30
[Music]
00:33:32
way bar barasi is still trying to keep
00:33:35
his
00:33:38
promise it is said that there is no such
00:33:40
thing as the Perfect
00:33:42
Crime but for more than two decades the
00:33:44
murder of Ral propes has come
00:33:46
uncomfortably
00:33:47
close evidence left at the scene pointed
00:33:49
to a carefully planned and premeditated
00:33:51
crime but to date no motive has been
00:33:54
established today 23 years later Bob
00:33:57
barowski carries on the search for his
00:33:59
partner's
00:34:01
killer Bob barowski and Ralph probes met
00:34:04
for the first time in 1964 shortly after
00:34:07
Ralph graduated from the police
00:34:10
academy okay Gentlemen let's shape up
00:34:12
your inspection time the two men were
00:34:14
both assigned to an elite unit called
00:34:16
the Tactical Squad excellent Ralph had
00:34:19
originally been a chemical engineer but
00:34:21
then decided to pursue a career in law
00:34:23
enforcement looking good propes and
00:34:26
barowski you got stick Township tonight
00:34:29
we had a lot of problems out there last
00:34:30
night everybody else on the department
00:34:32
looked up at the attack unit we were a
00:34:33
very elite unit we were all spit and
00:34:36
polish and we are a very proud Bunch Ral
00:34:39
was not only a partner but he was also a
00:34:41
friend and it was that sort of
00:34:43
relationship you can depend on him and
00:34:45
he could depend on
00:34:47
you you driving again Ralph soon earned
00:34:49
the reputation as a man who played
00:34:51
strictly by the rules this inflexibility
00:34:54
earned him at least one bitter enemy
00:34:58
a few months before his death Ralph and
00:35:00
Bob were two of the officers assigned to
00:35:02
guard Duty in a notorious mobster Sam D
00:35:05
Stefano D Stefano had been convicted and
00:35:07
sentenced on charges of conspiracy but
00:35:10
had been transferred from prison to a
00:35:11
local hospital after complaining of
00:35:13
stomach trouble to guard you you two
00:35:15
lackes are going to guard me Sam you
00:35:18
can't have any visitors here you folks
00:35:19
are going to have to go come on you're
00:35:20
my doctor hang on call the doctor don't
00:35:23
steal my apples copper man' you're going
00:35:26
to have to go too get your hands off for
00:35:28
her call my lawyer you're also going to
00:35:31
have to eat the regular hospital food
00:35:33
just like everyone else in the hospital
00:35:35
oh I am as a matter of fact I do that's
00:35:37
why you're here now uh lie down on the
00:35:40
bed hey what are you doing when uh Ralph
00:35:43
handcuffed the Stefano to the bed he
00:35:45
became very irate and threaten to kill
00:35:48
him better grow eyes in the back of your
00:35:51
head if you need us we'll be outside get
00:35:54
out get out of here we really didn't
00:35:58
take it very serious we felt that he was
00:36:00
just a big bag of wind and uh just
00:36:03
brushed it off I don't think that the
00:36:06
risk ever entered Ralph's mind I really
00:36:08
don't I think it to him it was a job he
00:36:10
enjoyed it and I don't think he was ever
00:36:14
afraid I imagine in the back of anyone's
00:36:16
mind something could happen but I don't
00:36:19
think he dwelled on
00:36:22
it on the night of Ralph's death police
00:36:25
were confronted by an unusual pattern of
00:36:27
circumstantial
00:36:29
evidence it appeared as if Ralph had
00:36:31
been shot through the kitchen
00:36:34
window okay now secure the house make
00:36:36
sure nobody gets in it doesn't belong I
00:36:38
don't care who it is Police canvased the
00:36:40
neighborhood looking for Witnesses
00:36:42
though the killer was allegedly standing
00:36:44
outside the house nobody saw the gunman
00:36:47
but a few people did hear a shot we want
00:36:50
a good clear shot of this Ricochet Mark
00:36:52
the bullet that killed Ralph had
00:36:53
ricocheted off a kitchen cabinet and
00:36:55
then Fallen onto the stove this bullet
00:36:58
had been fired from a rare 41 caliber
00:37:00
magnum a gun that had only recently been
00:37:04
manufactured keep your eyes nears
00:37:06
working as what's going out on the
00:37:08
street see if there's any talk contact
00:37:10
all your informants though there were
00:37:12
only 2,000 of these guns in the United
00:37:14
States police were unable to locate the
00:37:17
murder weapon and in spite of a huge
00:37:19
Manhunt there were no suspects and no
00:37:21
other leads okay we don't have a motive
00:37:23
on this one yet it could be some nut who
00:37:26
just doesn't like police officers so
00:37:27
when you're out there be very careful
00:37:29
one likely suspect Sam D Stefano was
00:37:32
immediately cleared of complicity in the
00:37:34
murder there were no other suspects save
00:37:37
one Ralph's wife
00:37:40
marleene I know from the beginning of
00:37:42
the investigation I think what puzzled
00:37:44
everybody is how I had seen smoke inside
00:37:47
the house but if the gunman had been
00:37:49
outside there would have been smoke
00:37:50
inside and yet when I woke up that's the
00:37:52
first thing I saw was this small cloud
00:37:55
of smoke coming up from like in back of
00:37:58
my television
00:38:02
set this Telltale puff of smoke LED
00:38:05
police to suspected the shot had been
00:38:06
fired from inside the house in addition
00:38:10
glass was found in the yard not on the
00:38:12
kitchen
00:38:14
floor when you have a murder
00:38:17
investigation one of the first places
00:38:19
you start with is with the
00:38:23
family and it's just normal unless you
00:38:26
have immedi evidence to lead you away
00:38:29
from the family are you set inside yeah
00:38:33
the investigators conducted an
00:38:34
experiment to see if Marlene was telling
00:38:36
the
00:38:38
truth first they fired from 15 ft away
00:38:42
there was no smoke and the glass fell
00:38:45
inside but then they fired 2 in away
00:38:48
from the
00:38:51
window there was a puff of smoke inside
00:38:55
the house all over I never seen anything
00:38:58
like that we found the glass came out
00:39:01
back under the shooter and fell to the
00:39:03
ground and we had the puff of smoke
00:39:06
inside the house from that point on we
00:39:09
knew that Marlene was telling the
00:39:13
truth we determined that the shooter
00:39:16
would have have to have been 5' 11 or
00:39:19
taller in order for that projectile to
00:39:22
follow the path to where it struck Ralph
00:39:27
to strike the center of the back of the
00:39:30
head where the entry point was took one
00:39:32
terrific
00:39:34
shot he could have been a professional
00:39:38
Hitman and he could always have been a
00:39:41
law enforcement
00:39:44
person there was another baffling facet
00:39:46
to this case how was a killer able to
00:39:48
know that Ralph would be standing by the
00:39:50
kitchen
00:39:52
window if anyone had been watching the
00:39:55
house they wouldn't have been able to
00:39:57
know even what room we were sitting in
00:40:00
unless they were standing by that
00:40:01
kitchen window there was no other window
00:40:03
in our house that they could have seen
00:40:05
through but the kitchen window every
00:40:08
other window was covered my my theory on
00:40:11
Ralph's murder is that somebody knew
00:40:14
Ralph was going to be in that position
00:40:16
at that certain time there was too much
00:40:19
light in the driveway and that person
00:40:21
did not stay there and wait for hours
00:40:23
for Ralph to get in that certain
00:40:25
position whoever did it knew Ralph was
00:40:28
going to be there at that time and that
00:40:31
person was there at that time it wasn't
00:40:33
somebody that was laying for Ralph was
00:40:34
set up to be in that
00:40:37
position I believe that possibly he was
00:40:40
going to receive a phone call or he was
00:40:42
going to make a phone
00:40:47
call we have information that prior to
00:40:52
uh coming home and and watching TV with
00:40:54
his wife that Ralph went to a gas
00:40:56
station made a phone
00:40:58
call that could have been where he
00:41:01
received information that he was going
00:41:02
to receive a phone call or to make a
00:41:05
phone call therefore put him in that
00:41:08
position by the window at that certain
00:41:11
time hi it's
00:41:15
Ralph biggest question I think in my
00:41:18
mind is why he was killed who did it and
00:41:24
why I can remember a conversation with
00:41:27
Ralph where uh he made the statement
00:41:29
that I'm working on something and uh
00:41:32
when I solve it they're going to make me
00:41:33
a sergeant you're going to be Sergeant
00:41:36
I'm telling you I'm going to make
00:41:37
sergeant and of course my reaction was
00:41:39
yeah sure Ralph okay you know and
00:41:41
they're going to make me the president
00:41:42
of the United States and it was just
00:41:44
laughed off and he said no more on it
00:41:48
and apparently he was
00:41:49
serious you're going to be sorry
00:41:55
H bar I believes that Ralph may have
00:41:58
been working on his own secretly in
00:42:00
order to bring down a vice ring support
00:42:03
for this Theory came when it was
00:42:04
discovered that several days before his
00:42:06
death Ralph had been seen at the home of
00:42:08
ex-convict Frank
00:42:10
Calvis Ralph had spoken with Cal's wife
00:42:13
and then
00:42:16
left come on in I'll show you around I
00:42:18
think you'll like it one week before the
00:42:19
murder a man closely resembling calv
00:42:22
paid a visit to a house for sale across
00:42:25
the street from Ralph's home as they
00:42:27
toured the house the visitor asked if
00:42:29
the floor plan was similar to the
00:42:31
probest
00:42:33
residence and we just put in new
00:42:35
cabinets hey I just was wondering uh all
00:42:38
the houses on this block have the same
00:42:40
floor plan most of the houses in this
00:42:42
area were built about the same time yeah
00:42:45
however after identifying calv in a
00:42:47
police lineup the neighbor changed his
00:42:49
story some believe he was frightened
00:42:51
into retracting his testimony not bad
00:42:54
not bad not being touch all any other he
00:42:57
stated to one of the investigators you
00:43:00
realize that if they shot Ralph probes
00:43:03
across the street they wouldn't hesitate
00:43:06
to kill me
00:43:08
too so that left us at a a dead end on
00:43:12
uh Frank K that house over there is the
00:43:15
same as yours Frank Kel died in
00:43:19
1974 no charges were ever filed in
00:43:21
connection with Ralph's death Ralph had
00:43:25
information on something whether would
00:43:27
be Vice pornography fencing
00:43:31
operation and whoever killed him
00:43:34
knew that he was going to talk about
00:43:37
it and they killed him before he
00:43:41
could immediately after R probes murder
00:43:44
30 officers were assigned to the
00:43:46
investigation today only two Cook County
00:43:49
officers are on the case barasi works on
00:43:52
his
00:43:54
own at this time I am unofficially still
00:43:58
working on a case and whoever did it
00:44:00
I've been making him awful nervous
00:44:03
because he knows that I'm not giving up
00:44:06
that somehow some way somebody's going
00:44:08
to say something and he's going to get
00:44:09
caught so somewhere somebody's awful
00:44:12
nervous and I'm going to keep him that
00:44:22
way next week on Unsolved Mysteries for
00:44:26
over one 100 years the inhabitants of
00:44:28
Marfa Texas have seen bizarre lights
00:44:30
hovering over the Desert Sands science
00:44:33
can offer little explanation as to what
00:44:34
they might be but local Legend has given
00:44:36
them the name ghost lights join me next
00:44:40
week for another edition of Unsolved
00:44:43
Mysteries
00:44:48
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00:45:10
[Applause]
00:45:13
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