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tonight on unsolved mysteries the
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terrorist bomb killed on and injured
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more than 100 at the Atlanta Summer
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Olympics a series of deadly bombings and
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a seemingly unrelated target soon family
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authorities now believe a single man was
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behind each of these brutal attacks and
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they need your help don't bring him to
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justice
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a young couples long-anticipated dream
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of owning their own home tragically
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unravels when their new next-door
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neighbor allegedly turns out to be a
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violent racist in the cases of Jessica
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constant and Albert one looks can truly
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be deceiving they may appear to be
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typical young people but they are
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anything but typical Jessica and Albert
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you see are geniuses and their
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astonishing gifts make for a mesmerizing
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mystery of the mind but her daughter
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Molly disappeared from the local pond
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Maggie bish was paralyzed by grief but
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now she will stop at nothing to find out
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what happened to Molly in fact she may
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even hold the key to solving the crime
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the day before Molly disappeared
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Maggie believes she saw the man who
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abducted her daughter Jonas are these
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stories and more on unsolved mysteries
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Centennial Park Atlanta during a 1996
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Summer Olympics six months later that
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daybreak a clinic in suburban Atlanta
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the other side lounge a Midtown Atlantic
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gay and lesbian nightclub
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one month later three seemingly
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unrelated bombings that authorities
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believe have a common link could the
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same man be behind each terrorist attack
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millions of people around the world were
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shaken by the Olympic Park bombing
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security guard Richard Jewell who was an
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early suspect was cleared of any
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wrongdoing and the person responsible
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for planning with the FBI called one of
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the largest pipe bombs in US history has
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yet to be caught for those in Centennial
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Park that fateful night their lives were
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changed forever
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fountain stubs at our mother Alice
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Hawthorne were visiting from Albany
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Georgia the last-minute trip was a 14th
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birthday gift for Fallon we were
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enjoying the moment and join the people
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it was a spiritual or
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and you know from to be in that kind of
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surroundings it just kind of it was a
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beautiful thing
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just before 1:20 a.m. Fallon and her
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mother paused to take a photograph a
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memento of a wonderful night the massive
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explosion knocked Fallon and her mother
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to the ground after the explosion it was
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it was chaos
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you never forget that moment afterwards
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and I ran towards everybody who could
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help I probably got about 15 feet away
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from my mother and it was like lay down
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lay down and I was like my mother my
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mother somebody's got to help my mother
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44 year old Alice Hawthorne had died
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instantly from injuries sustained in the
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attack although hundreds were injured
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she was the only person killed by the
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bomb planted at Centennial Park a task
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force of federal and state investigators
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was quickly assembled to apprehend the
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terrorist behind the vicious attack
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over the next seven months Atlanta was
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subjected to two more bombings but an
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even more disturbing trend had developed
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the bomber was not planning a secondary
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device apparently designed to harm
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police and rescue personnel who
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responded to victims of the first bomb
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adding to the frustrations of police
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investigations that not indicate a
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specific suspect we're building a good
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prosecutable court case based upon the
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forensic evidence we had well we get
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tired of moms together but we still
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didn't know the identity department we
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didn't know who he was FBI and ATF
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technicians meticulously reconstructed
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the devices and found forensic links
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between all three bombings in the wake
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of the third incident authorities
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received letters from the so called army
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of God claiming responsibility for the
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last two bombings attacks on a family
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planning an abortion clinic and on a gay
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and lesbian nightclub in the letters he
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got into the components of the bomb
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which had not been made public at that
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time so we knew the letters were written
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by the bomber those who participate in
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any way in the murder of children may be
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targeted for attack we will target
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sodomites their organizations and all
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those who push their agenda we will
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target all facilities and personnel of
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the federal government you got three
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fairly distinct different groups of
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people that were targets and so you know
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we begin to wonder exactly who his
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targets were an FBI profiler analyzed
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the letters and the details of all three
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bombings his conclusion the Bombers true
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target was law enforcement
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Birmingham Alabama 11 months after the
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third Atlanta bombing head nurse Emily
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Lyons arrived early for work at a
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woman's health an abortion clinic
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off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson
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was working there as a security guard we
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met on the sidewalk in front of the
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clinic and we talked for a moment just
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then they spotted something that looks
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strangely out of place there was an
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overturned flowerpot kind of buried a
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little bit and that was not anything we
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would have ever had so at that point
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sandy knew something was wrong
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apparently sensing danger Sanderson
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instructed Emily to back away
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the explosion killed security guard
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Robert Sanderson instantly Emily Lyons
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lost her left eye in the explosion
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dozens of masonry nails and screws tore
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through 90% of her body Robert Sanderson
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left behind a wife and two sons he had
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been a birmingham police officer for
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eight years task force members
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immediately believed the man they were
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hunting had achieved his objective the
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murder of a law enforcement officer but
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this time the authorities caught a break
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forensics would later reveal that the
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bomber had detonated this device by
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remote control which meant one thing the
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bomber was there that increased his
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chances of killing police officers but
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it also direct increased his chances of
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being identified in call just after the
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explosion a witness saw a man walking
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away from the scene when the man removed
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a wig and discarded it the witness
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became suspicious and began pursuing him
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on foot the witness observed the
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suspicious man getting into a pickup
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truck and before losing him relayed the
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license-plate number to police the gray
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Nissan truck was traced to a man named
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Eric Rudolph who resided in Western
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North Carolina a warrant was issued for
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the arrest of the 31 year old Rudolph
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investigators learned where Eric Rudolph
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lived an FBI SWAT team raided Rudolph's
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trailer the traitors air conditioner was
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still running and food was still on the
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table investigators believe they missed
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Eric Rudolph by minutes he told friends
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and associates when he was a teenager
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that if he got in trouble with law
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enforcement he would disappear into the
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mountains and we feel that this is
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something that he was planning for a
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long time 250 law enforcement officers
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converged on the Nantahala national
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forest after Rudolph's truck was found
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abandoned nearby but Eric Rudolph had
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vanished he grew up in the woods he knew
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the terrain much better than we did and
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there are places that we knew very well
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that we could have walked within 5 feet
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of him and we would not have seen Eric
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Rudolph would prove a formidable
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adversary investigators learned he'd
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been raised in a family that reportedly
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preached white separatism the
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experienced outdoorsman and survivalist
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had also served in the US Army Deborah
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Rudolph was married to Eric's brother
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and had known Eric since he was a
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teenager I never really heard him talk
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about positive things it was a lot of
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hateful things a lot of negativity and
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you know about you know Authority and
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you know our gun laws and government and
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politics
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the last known sighting of Eric Rudolph
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was made by a man who had known Rudolph
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for years
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George Nordmann was a local health food
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store owner who lived in a remote
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mountain cabin what the hell are you
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doing here I need your help man when he
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approached him about food stuff George
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made the decision not to help Eric and I
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believe became somewhat frightened of
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him two nights later nordmann's home
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warehouse was raided of several hundred
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pounds of food and his truck was stolen
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it was believed Rudolph had made of the
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turn visit Eric Rudolph has not been
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seen since July 1998 Eric Rudolph was
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not a joiner we found no evidence that
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he ever was a member of a militia he was
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someone who had a streak of paranoia
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about him he also liked being alone so
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we don't believe that any group is
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helping him I think this is a game to
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him
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he wanted to be in Special Forces he
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wanted to be a mercenary he is a one-man
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army and he is got the authorities
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running around looking for him spending
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millions of dollars the alleged victims
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of Eric Rudolph bombs have moved on but
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will never forget the end for me will be
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to find him and it'll be a beginning of
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a whole nother book but it'll be a into
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the that book and I was just fine and be
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like it's a long time coming
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I'll talk him
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as they struck out for their new life in
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Denver Colorado Deborah Loiselle and her
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fiance Jason Horsley were brimming with
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optimism about what this move would
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bring having been raised in rural areas
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the college sweethearts were excited for
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the prospects of living in a big city
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for the first time
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Deborah and Jason would eventually
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purchase a house in one of Denver's
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tree-lined inner-city neighborhoods they
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quickly fell in love with her new
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surroundings all was well until one
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afternoon a short time after they moved
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in Deborah had a strange encounter with
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a neighbor
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all right we're gonna be neighbors so
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let's get along Deborah would later
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learn her angry neighbor was Malaika
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Griffin a woman who rented a room in the
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house next door when you can't talk to
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someone it's kind of scary it just made
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no sense that someone should start
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attacking us this way Jason Horsley and
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Deborah Loiselle had realized every
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young couples dream of buying their own
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home but their optimism would soon dim
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with the discovery that they're innocent
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purchase had caused him to cross paths
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with the rational neighbor Malaika
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Griffin as police later discovered
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Griffin was a ticking time bomb that
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could go off at any moment Deborah and
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Jason were committed to making the best
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of a bad situation
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happily pouring time and money into
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transforming a former crack house into
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their new home they had actually put the
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incident with Malaika Griffin behind
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them when without any provocation she
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became enraged again although she didn't
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own a car griffin didn't want anyone
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parking in the public space in front of
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the house attempts at reasoning with her
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proved futile
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you can't live in fear in your own house
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and it wasn't anything about the
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neighborhood I mean it was this this one
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woman you know I never felt threatened
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in my neighborhood within days
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Jason was confronted again what's the
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problem
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he had asked the landlady of the house
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if he could put the ladder there and she
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said yes go ahead
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well Malaika didn't know or shouldn't
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want to know that the lady had said yeah
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go ahead and right there he couldn't see
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the evil he just he didn't understand
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evil his philosophy was you get to know
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me you won't hate me and I tried and
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tried to explain to him some people
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don't want to know you even though the
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anger behind the confrontations was
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escalating Jason still believed he could
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win over Malaika don't I want to get
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some of my tools out of my truck when we
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got home I said don't go out there don't
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go and he said no I'm gonna clean my
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truck so I went out back to water the
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flowers
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there was no doubt in Deborah's mine who
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was responsible the neighbor drove Jason
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to the hospital the bullet had caused
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extensive internal injuries while
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emergency room doctors struggled to save
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Jason's life Deborah was questioned by
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police we just got word from the
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hospital Jason didn't make it
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investigators later learned that while
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Deborah was being questioned Malaika
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Griffin carjacked an acquaintance with
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several blocks from the murder scene on
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Malika Griffin took the keys at gunpoint
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she then fled Denver in the victims 1988
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olds movie
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when Denver police searched the home of
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Malaika Griffin detectives were stunned
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by what they found
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we found books and paperwork that she
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had on how to make bombs and booby traps
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we also found dummy hand grenades the
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the fuse was intact but the cores had
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been removed the Anarchist Cookbook and
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the poor man's james bond manuals often
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found in the collections of terrorists
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or among the literature recovered at the
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scene notebooks filled with Griffin's
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ramblings advocating a coming race war
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and the killing of white people were
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also discovered authorities now believe
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they had confirmation a racially
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motivated killer was on the loose
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she eluded our dragnet the next time we
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found that car was approached me two and
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a half days later in Iowa City where the
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car had broken down she befriended a man
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in Iowa City he took her to a bus
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station and put her on a bus for Chicago
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after Chicago alayka Griffin's trail
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grew cold since then there have been no
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verifiable sightings
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you lose a kid and you think about him
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all the time every hour every day I had
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future plans with Jason you know he was
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an extremely positive person so I try to
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live my life the way he would I'm not
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gonna feel sorry for myself
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and I keep going on never hurt anybody
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and I don't believe I'll meet someone
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like him again
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on rare occasions the world has been
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introduced to children who pisar
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seemingly mysterious powers to excel in
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the worlds of art and science
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Mozart began composing at the age of
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five Bobby Fischer competed with chess
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grandmasters when he was only six the
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incredible talents of such young
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geniuses have fascinated and puzzles
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scholars for centuries what can possibly
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explain the phenomenon of child
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prodigies meet Jessica concert of Queens
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New York she may look like a typical
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teenager but at 14 she's already a
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County student jessica attends New York
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City Technical College where she has
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studied since she was 12 years old oh I
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used to hate the first days because I
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would have to walk into class and
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everybody'd be staring at me
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I was so scared but now I'm used to it I
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want to become a doctor but I'm gonna
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become a nurse before microbiology and
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child psychology the only two courses I
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have left before I enter the nursing
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program then after I do two years of
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that I get my associates degree then I'm
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gonna go to home to medical school but
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Jessica's interests are not solely
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confined to academics jessica is also an
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accomplished cellist who attends a
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prestigious Julliard School of Music
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along with her two older brothers she
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makes up the constant trio Jessica
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Daniel and Pierre have performed at the
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Kennedy Center in Washington DC
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remarkably neither paired as any musical
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talent themselves and they are awed by
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the artistry of their children
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sometimes when I look at the kid playing
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I wish I could be the one playing
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instead of having to listen I never
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thought I would have it in my own house
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when I see the kids doing three years
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together it's it's fantastic it it's
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kind of like a dream come true for me
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what mysterious set of circumstances
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contributes to a child having such
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extraordinary talents David Henry
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Feldman professor of child development
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at Tufts University has studied the
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phenomenon of child prodigies what
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causes prodigies seems to be a
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combination of timing and talent and the
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right circumstances all occurring during
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the same moment and sustaining itself
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for at least 10 years so a prodigy is a
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child with unusual talent who appears in
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a society that has value for that talent
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Feldman notes at very few scientific
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studies have been performed relating to
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child prodigies the knowledge base is
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extremely limited
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recently a change has been observed in
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relation to the gender of the typical
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prodigy however that change may be a
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matter of media publicity there have
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historically been more boys than girls
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who have been called prodigies in recent
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years that has tended to reverse itself
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such that they're now pretty much an
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equal number of boy and girl prodigies
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in music if you want to say ask why such
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a change occurred the answer is because
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society has taken an interest in finding
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girl prodigies as amazing as Jessica
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constant is once in a great while a
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child prodigy will be born with even a
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rarer type of genius one which expresses
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itself in many areas at once at age 12
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Albert Wong of Carrollton Texas is so
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smart he no longer attends school at all
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albert is already an accomplished
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violinist teaches himself a wide variety
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of subjects from college textbooks and
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is famous in the world of music as a
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concert pianist
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it's very rare when you find a musical
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prodigy it's very rare when you find a
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child who was so talented at academic
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work that they need to move at such a
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rapid pace the combination of those two
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things in one child is extremely rare
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each appears separately infrequently the
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combination appears almost never
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Albert Wong first displayed his
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mysterious musical talents when he was
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just three years old yet by the time he
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was five he had already won the grand
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prize on a Dallas piano competition for
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children up to 18
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[Applause]
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wanting to nurture their only child
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mystifying gift albert's Paris took him
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shopping for a concert grand piano of
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his own to test the pianos I believe I
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was playing a piece about the third
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piano I was playing on and then this
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gentleman just walked over actually
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himself is a professional musician so he
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came over and introduced himself and
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said actually very directly say that
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Albert is very talented and I know just
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the right teacher for him
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Albert began taking lessons at once
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eventually Albert came under the
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tutelage of renowned former prodigy Earl
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wild New York's world-famous
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Carnegie Hall at the conclusion of a
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wise performance celebrating his 85th
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birthday 10 year-old Albert Wong was
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invited on stage to present his esteemed
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instructor with the bouquet mr. Weil
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stunned everyone especially Albert by
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announcing that Albert would be playing
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an impromptu piece and I mean I didn't
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even have a chance to warm my fingers
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Albert's performance of Hummels Rondo on
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e-flat major brought down the house that
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senior still at age 10 Albert recorded
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his first CD the work received rave
00:27:28
reviews one critic wrote an impressive
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debut for any musician for a
00:27:33
ten-year-old it is astonishing
00:27:37
professor Feldman has reviewed many
00:27:39
theories attempting to explain talents
00:27:42
like Albertson ranging from the
00:27:44
scientific to the supernatural the
00:27:47
prodigy has always represented the
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unexplained there are some who believe
00:27:53
that the prodigy phenomenon should not
00:27:55
be studied scientifically in the absence
00:27:59
of an explanation that meets rational
00:28:03
and scientific criteria we look for an
00:28:07
explanation wherever we can find one and
00:28:09
reincarnation is attractive because it
00:28:11
seems to account for some of the
00:28:14
unbelievable and and unexplainable parts
00:28:18
of the prodigy good Albert Wong's
00:28:23
musical gifts possibly have begun in a
00:28:25
previous life the mere notion seems
00:28:28
incredible but Albert himself does not
00:28:31
dismiss a possibility of his own
00:28:33
existence in a past life I must have
00:28:37
done something good in order to have
00:28:39
deserved this
00:28:43
hammering in your team from all sides
00:28:46
so there's no escape route as astounding
00:28:50
as Albert's musical gifts were to his
00:28:51
parents they quickly learned he also
00:28:54
possess an extraordinary aptitude for
00:28:56
math and science his mother feared he
00:29:01
get bored of the conventional education
00:29:03
so she gave up her career to home-school
00:29:05
Albert I used to gather was three or
00:29:09
four in the morning to prepare myself to
00:29:12
teach it over fast enough now I don't
00:29:15
have to do it because the other is old
00:29:17
enough to be independent so my life is
00:29:23
much easier now
00:29:25
when Albert developed a strong interest
00:29:28
in science
00:29:29
his mother's search for someone
00:29:30
qualified to guide him to higher levels
00:29:32
of learning can you show me on your
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drawing the y-direction
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she found that person in a professor of
00:29:39
physics at a local college in order to
00:29:45
comply with I think the biggest thing in
00:29:48
terms of working with Albert is that you
00:29:50
never have to say something twice
00:29:51
whatever a mistake he might make he's
00:29:54
made it the last time he's gonna make it
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off the three sciences physics chemistry
00:29:58
and biology is my all belief that vision
00:30:01
is the most center of all the sciences
00:30:03
that every other science branches from
00:30:05
physics biology is physics applied to
00:30:09
living organisms and chemistry is
00:30:12
physics applied to chemical reactions
00:30:14
atoms molecules and macromolecules
00:30:20
Albert's insatiable hunger for learning
00:30:22
is not limited to music and science well
00:30:27
I love to sully I'd love to read books I
00:30:29
love studying Shakespeare's Romeo and
00:30:32
Juliet every time I'm studying I uncover
00:30:34
new literary elements there are very
00:30:36
tasty delicious work at the stirring
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talents of an Albert Wong come from
00:30:46
neither his mom or my family had any
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clue or any relatives in the families
00:30:54
who had ever been a musician or even
00:30:56
good in one instrument at all we know
00:31:01
that there have been amazing prodigy
00:31:04
cases through history so we know that
00:31:07
from time to time such individuals
00:31:10
appear what we don't know is what the
00:31:14
causes underlying the appearance of
00:31:17
prodigies might be are they genetic are
00:31:20
the evolutionary are they cultural are
00:31:22
they historical are they something
00:31:25
that's a combination of all of those
00:31:28
things those are questions we don't know
00:31:31
the answers to
00:31:35
although we hope to understand the
00:31:38
prodigy better in the 21st century it
00:31:41
remains a mystery there are few places
00:31:57
left in America where doors are always
00:31:58
unlocked and parents have no fear of
00:32:01
letting their children run about freely
00:32:06
Warren Massachusetts population 4,800 is
00:32:10
just such a place the towns rural charm
00:32:16
and quaint innocence seemed the perfect
00:32:17
tonic to the bish family urban violence
00:32:20
had suddenly invaded their neighborhood
00:32:22
in Detroit a young lady was followed one
00:32:28
day after work as the facts unfolded and
00:32:30
she was abducted and was missing and my
00:32:35
husband and I thought let's move to the
00:32:36
country and and find our peace raise our
00:32:42
children
00:32:44
the Bish's flourished in Warren 15 years
00:32:49
after the moon the two older children
00:32:51
went off to college and the baby of the
00:32:53
family 16 year old Molly landed her
00:32:56
first real job as a lifeguard at a
00:32:58
nearby pond molly was very proud to be a
00:33:04
lifeguard she worked very hard for that
00:33:07
and she did get this position at the
00:33:10
warren pond it's a beautiful location
00:33:14
but it's surrounded by woods and it is
00:33:16
somewhat isolated on June 27th 2000
00:33:24
Maggie accompanied Molly to the pond
00:33:26
said goodbye to her daughter and
00:33:28
returned home three hours later Maggie
00:33:34
received an alarming phone call hello no
00:33:38
she's not she's at work I got a phone
00:33:40
call from the local police who said that
00:33:43
there then no lifes are all day no I
00:33:47
dropped her off there myself and that
00:33:49
Molly's belongings were on the beach but
00:33:52
there had been no Molly
00:33:55
Maggie rushed to the pond she found her
00:33:58
daughter's flip flops chair and lunch
00:34:00
sitting on the beach there was no sign
00:34:04
of this one lady came up and she had a
00:34:09
whistle on and she said I think then no
00:34:12
lifeguard I've been doing it all day
00:34:13
nobody there's a lot of confusion it was
00:34:16
like a bad movie nobody knows what's
00:34:18
going on
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it's hard for me to describe that to
00:34:30
sinking hollow feeling you have as
00:34:33
divers looking for your daughter as dogs
00:34:37
are combing the woods and police
00:34:41
officers are searching and interviewing
00:34:44
people and I almost immediately began to
00:34:49
think that something really horrible
00:34:52
happened there's no sign of any struggle
00:34:57
at the scene there were no clues left
00:35:00
left behind
00:35:01
Molly's chair her lunch bag her first
00:35:06
aid kit and the two-way police radio was
00:35:10
just right right there in intact
00:35:13
undisturbed so we had no clues
00:35:17
whatsoever
00:35:19
[Music]
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Maggie Bush and her husband John had
00:35:23
done everything possible to ensure their
00:35:25
daughter Molly's safety but apparently
00:35:27
even that was not enough now the energy
00:35:30
Maggie once poured into motherhood is
00:35:32
being channeled into discovering Molly's
00:35:34
fate
00:35:35
Maggie's convinced her daughter was
00:35:37
abducted in fact she may have seen the
00:35:39
man responsible it happened the day
00:35:41
before Molly disappeared
00:35:45
On June 26 2009 a company's Molly to the
00:35:50
pond for her seventh day of work we pull
00:35:59
up at the pond and there's a vehicle
00:36:01
parked in the parking lot right next to
00:36:03
our car there's a man sitting in there
00:36:06
smoking I somehow just feel
00:36:12
uncomfortable I look at this man he
00:36:18
doesn't not or greet me
00:36:20
I just felt uneasy I did not want to
00:36:24
leave Molly with this man in the white
00:36:27
car Maggie is corded Molly all the way
00:36:31
down to the beach and expected the
00:36:33
stranger in the late-model white car to
00:36:35
be gone when she got back lo and behold
00:36:38
I think I've been gone a reasonable time
00:36:42
but this man who was in this vehicle is
00:36:45
still there I'm very upset that he's
00:36:48
still there so I lock eyes with him I am
00:36:52
giving him a stare trying I guest him
00:36:55
maybe scare him away but at the same
00:36:57
time he turns to stare and just boldly
00:37:00
stares at me just cocky is all just
00:37:04
squinted his eyes and he stared at me
00:37:06
and he just kept smoking but he didn't
00:37:09
seem to care
00:37:12
fearing for her daughter's safety
00:37:14
Maggie waited for the man to leave
00:37:27
the following day
00:37:29
Maggi once again went with her daughter
00:37:30
to the swimming hole the suspicious man
00:37:37
was nowhere to be seen
00:37:41
instead there was a truck unloading sand
00:37:43
for the beach when I seen the sand truck
00:37:47
I realized that this was our local
00:37:49
company we know that they are
00:37:52
businessmen in town and I felt a relief
00:37:55
and that I could leave Marlene and it
00:37:59
would be okay but Maggie never saw Molly
00:38:03
again
00:38:04
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the police investigation is centered on
00:38:15
the man Maggie saw in a white car the
00:38:19
sand truck driver saw a similar car in
00:38:22
the pond parking lot just moments before
00:38:23
Molly and Maggie arrived on the other
00:38:27
side of the pond is a cemetery a worker
00:38:30
there saw a similar white car later the
00:38:32
same morning a path leads from the
00:38:34
graveyard to the swimming hole and it's
00:38:38
my fear that this person parked at that
00:38:40
path went to the pond and had taken
00:38:44
Molly took control of her and took her
00:38:48
out of the beach through that path into
00:38:52
his car and out of the cemetery and down
00:38:54
the road
00:38:56
despite setting up roadblocks searching
00:38:59
crime databases and interviewing
00:39:01
convicted sex offenders police are
00:39:03
unable to identify the man in the white
00:39:05
car a composite based on Maggie's
00:39:08
description produced no reliable leads
00:39:11
this is the picture that I chose of
00:39:13
Molly for the website desperate to
00:39:16
generate any information Maggie and her
00:39:18
husband took action we wanted to get an
00:39:22
avenue to get Molly's picture out to as
00:39:24
many people as we could the computer we
00:39:28
came up with the idea an email chain
00:39:29
would be a wonderful wonderful explosive
00:39:34
way to make more than one person you
00:39:37
know get this picture and keep sharing
00:39:39
it with others 35,000 people were
00:39:43
emailed pictures of Molly a website
00:39:45
devoted to finding her received
00:39:47
thousands of hits but one year passed
00:39:51
and the search for Molly had stalled
00:39:54
Maggie decided there was more she could
00:39:56
do she tracked down famous sketch artist
00:40:03
Jean Boylan who's worked on the
00:40:04
Unabomber and Polly Klass cases Jean
00:40:10
agreed to meet Maggie at a local
00:40:11
bed-and-breakfast with the hopes of
00:40:13
producing a more accurate drawing of the
00:40:15
man in the white car
00:40:18
so what was it about this man that drew
00:40:21
your attention to him when Maggie came
00:40:24
in to work with me what I tried to do
00:40:26
and what she was willing to do was to
00:40:28
talk about the positive aspects of her
00:40:30
relationship with her daughter which
00:40:31
were plentiful when she finally could
00:40:33
fit into my shoes it'll allows for that
00:40:35
sense of relaxation and then with that
00:40:37
comes new information typical 16 year
00:40:41
old but nine hours of two women chatted
00:40:47
as Jean slowly we've departed the mouth
00:40:50
and finally the drawing was complete
00:40:54
it's just like him
00:40:56
although impressed with his uncanny
00:40:58
accuracy Maggie still felt something was
00:41:00
missing it's amazing
00:41:02
the only thing that's missing is the
00:41:04
cigarette and the way he held that
00:41:06
cigarette the whole time well you know
00:41:09
what you've had a really long day I
00:41:10
don't want to put you through anything
00:41:11
else to him why don't I work on that
00:41:13
tonight and then I'll bring it down
00:41:14
tomorrow morning you can let me know
00:41:16
what you think you want to do it that
00:41:17
way thank you okay and I had stayed up
00:41:20
fairly late that night using my own hand
00:41:22
as a model creating the image of the
00:41:26
hand holding the cigarette and then
00:41:27
added that to the drawing and I think
00:41:29
that was just sort of the you know the
00:41:31
finishing touch that really brought
00:41:33
everything into focus
00:41:35
[Music]
00:41:36
the next morning Jean showed the updated
00:41:40
drawing to Maggie well what do you think
00:41:42
when I saw the completed picture with
00:41:45
the cigarette
00:41:45
I thought instant fear I mean it was him
00:41:51
you know the eyes it was just cockiness
00:41:54
it was this look the Bish's hope the new
00:41:57
composite drawing of the suspect will
00:41:59
lead them to Molly we want this person
00:42:02
to know that we will never stop
00:42:04
searching for you know that we will
00:42:08
never stop searching for him
00:42:12
I'm very angry I'm very angry and that
00:42:17
anger is gonna drive me on forever that
00:42:22
will not stop mollies disappearance as
00:42:27
transform Maggie and her husband and a
00:42:28
staunch child safety advocates there's
00:42:32
somebody out there who knows their fight
00:42:34
has now expanded beyond mommy to help
00:42:36
prevent any child from becoming a victim
00:42:40
we're in educating people were giving
00:42:42
them tools and the kids are gonna get
00:42:44
smarter and they're not going to get our
00:42:47
children because you could lose your
00:42:50
keys you can lose your glasses but how
00:42:53
do you lose your children in America
00:42:56
something is wrong very wrong and if it
00:43:00
could happen here it could happen
00:43:01
anywhere
00:43:06
[Music]
00:43:15
[Laughter]
00:43:17
[Music]
00:43:27
join me next time perhaps you hold the
00:43:31
crucial clue that can help solve a
00:43:33
mystery
00:43:34
[Music]
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[Music]
00:44:09
[Applause]
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[Music]
00:44:10
[Applause]
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