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tonight on unsolved mysteries imagine
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our great cities leveled in a blinding
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flash North America consumed by flame
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the entire planet enveloped in a massive
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cloud of smoke and debris the agent of
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this mass destruction
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a giant asteroid perhaps undiscovered
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until it is too late on Valentine's Day
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our thoughts naturally turn to love for
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centuries men and women have been
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consumed by a never-ending quest for
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greater passion connect rhodesia acts
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make us better lovers or is it all in
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the mind and the heart
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when Robert Durst died of a gunshot
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his family had little choice but to
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accept the police ruling of suicide then
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the arrival of a mysterious letter and
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the uncanny testimony of a psychic
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brought the case back to life join me
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are these intriguing new cases and much
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more on unsolved mysteries
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admit it
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unless you're Mick Jagger a Madonna you
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probably wished for a magic potion that
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could transform you into the consummate
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lover returned that aloof stranger into
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your adoring sweethearts you're not
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alone for the last few thousand years
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from Afghanistan to Zanzibar men and
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women have searched high and low for the
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perfect aphrodisiac
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wishful thinking or are the recipes for
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romance that deliver the goods modern
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science has a surprising answer one of
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the traditions in Europe was that
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newlywed couples would drink a wine made
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of honey every night and this would be a
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way for them to help increase their
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energy during the first month of their
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marriage and that's where the word
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honeymoon came about and of course we
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know honey is very very high in B
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vitamins and amino acids and is a very
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very highly nutritious product plus it
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gives the body energy which is required
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also for healthy sex
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even the straight-laced Puritans in
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colonial America had an aphrodisiac
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the dandelion weed which we now know is
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rich in vitamin A and other elements
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that jumpstart the engines of love but
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since time immemorial oysters have
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enjoyed a reputation as the food for
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lovers for some just a peek at the
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succulent mollusk can provoke thoughts
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of sex lab tests indicate that the
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oysters fame is honestly earned zinc is
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a mineral that's required for the
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production of testosterone and
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testosterone is the most important
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hormone for sexual response in both men
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and women and oysters have more zinc
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than almost any other food though dr.
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Watson has spent years studying
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aphrodisiacs many patients have come to
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her Southern California office are not
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lovesick at least that's not at the top
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of their list so Charlie are you having
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trouble sleeping yeah I'm only getting
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Charlie was there because his 18 hour
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work days had ground him down beyond
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exhaustion rested I get up and walk
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around I can't get back to sleep
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she starts to steer questions to how I'm
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one of my activities like am i energetic
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do I exercise you know how's my love
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life that was kind of an odd switch
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because most doctors don't take you down
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that path and how are these problems
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affecting you sexually well it's taking
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its toll on my relationship to the point
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where it's non-existent and dr. Watson
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prescribe a slower pace plus a regimen
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of herbs and vitamins but would they
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cure Charlie's exhaustion and rev up his
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love life the transformation began
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during that first visit to the office I
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saw this little box of chocolates and I
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just started nibbling away and I'm
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hungry and so I'm just popping these
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things eating them achoo and we are
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great chocolates but these were not
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merely great chocolates dr. Watson has
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spiced them up with a mix of South
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American herbs known for giving the
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libido a lift
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I started to eat these things and I'm
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boiling up the wrappers and you know
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there's pocket size I'm thinking oh this
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is great little little snacks relate and
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I got a couple my pocket excuse me oh hi
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how Mendes Chuck's have you eaten
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already no I had a whole bunch why
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because it's a dr. Watson's love potions
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love potions what's that those are
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aphrodisiacs aphrodisiacs really Charlie
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took some of the chocolates to share
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with his girlfriend okay he came home
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early made dinner put on sweet music
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hope for the best
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we're nothing in Avenel desert force
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Charlie was already halfway to Paradise
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and probably could have left dr.
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Watson's love drops on the mantle but
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Charlie wasn't taking any chances
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aphrodisiacs where did you get them by
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half an hour later I'm sitting there and
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she's playing with my hair and I'm
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sitting you're gone it's working so glad
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you didn't have to work late she didn't
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say that she felt that anything
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different she said oh I just feel you
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know normal well I can tell you if she
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wasn't normal she was better than normal
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cuddly huggy you know paying attention
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to me and it progressed into a really
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nice steamy evening which was after all
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we could all use one of those once in a
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while the mind is the best aphrodisiac
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we have yet there are really physical
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components that happen I see it in my
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practice I see men and women who really
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want to have great sex but something's
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wrong physically chemically that
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something's just not happening and
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definitely when they take the herbs
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which react in the body in that chemical
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process definitely there's a change
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there's an improvement when people say
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you're taking an aphrodisiac you know
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you're taking an aphrodisiac isn't it
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all in your mind isn't it a placebo and
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I look at them and I say it's very
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possible that it is I mean there's tons
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of medical records that show people been
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given placebo medicine that cured
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themselves
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but hey who cares as long as it gets you
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there the will spring of passion will
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undoubtedly remain one of life's great
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mysteries as for aphrodisiacs perhaps
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the most potent of all is the heartfelt
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phrase I love you before flying off in
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search of romance a few down-to-earth
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warnings prior to ingesting any kind of
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love potion be sure to consult your
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physician and remember giving someone
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drugs are aphrodisiacs without their
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knowledge and consent may be a crime
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punishable by law when in doubt try a
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box of chocolates or a dozen roses
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coming up it may be the greatest danger
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our planet will ever face giant
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asteroids and meteors drifting
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undetected through space when or where
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one will strike cannot yet be predicted
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but first when a Marine helicopter
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assigned to transport the president
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crashes in America a self-taught
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aviation investigator launches his own
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search for answers
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the following story originally aired on
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February 14th 1997 since then there have
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been dramatic developments regarding the
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murder of Bill Cosby's son Ennis on
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January 16 1997 27 year-old Ennis
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William Cosby was shot to death while
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changing a flat tire only one witness a
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woman is known to have caught a glimpse
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of the suspected assailant according to
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that woman the man who authorities
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believed murdered Ennis was a white male
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wearing a light-colored knit cap he was
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25 to 32 years old of average height and
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weight our evidence at this time would
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indicate a random type of situation a
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random crime and again the most logical
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motive at this time is robbery other
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scenarios may come as we move along and
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follow these leads that the public give
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to us right now it appears that it's a
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random crime and the robbery is the most
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logical motive here's what we know about
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1:30 a.m. Ennis cosby pulled off the 405
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freeway on to a lonely off-ramp near
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Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles he
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called a woman on a cell phone and told
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her he had a flat tire she went to the
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scene she was sitting in her car when
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the suspect rapped on her window she
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drove away in a panic when she returned
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minutes later Ennis cosby was dead his
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attacker was nowhere to be seen during
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the next few days police searched for
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more possible witnesses sorting through
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hundreds of tips we have been contacted
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by several people who believe they may
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have seen something they're either seen
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mr. Cosby before the shooting when he
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was still alive or may have seen
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something shortly thereafter a bel-air
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security guard gave police a description
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of a man in a blue hatchback he had seen
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in the area minutes before the murder
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police hoped that they had gotten a
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major break when they tracked that man
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to a mini mall and nearby Torrance
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California but it quickly came to
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nothing well we're always disappointed
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if a lead turns out that it isn't what
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we thought it was going to be or hoped
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it would be on the other hand it's a
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lead that becomes eliminated and allows
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you to go on and spend your time in the
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productive areas of the leads that we
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have not eliminated police are certain
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someone knows a suspect they are hoping
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that person will recognize this
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composite and call them with a critical
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tip there's a mother there's a father
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there's a sister there's a brother there
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are friends who know this suspect they
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know that he committed this crime and we
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want them to come forward we have a
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brutal suspect somebody that carries a
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weapon somebody that is probably an
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experienced criminal and has committed
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these types of crimes before
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seven months a pass is a night TWA
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flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic off
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the coast of Long Island killing more
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than 200 people
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the spider likely ruling of mechanical
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failure rumors about the cause of the
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tragedy have run rampant most incredible
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was a theory that the plane went down
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because of an accidental missile attack
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by her own military outlandish perhaps
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but it's not the first time such charges
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have been leveled since 1993 similar
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rumors have swirled around the crash of
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a United States Marine Corps helicopter
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but this was no ordinary helicopter it
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was one of a small fleet used to
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transport the President of the United
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States the president of course was not
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on board when the helicopter went down
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but tragically four crewmen were as with
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flight 800 the controversy surrounding
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the crash pits a theory of mechanical
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failure against an accusation of
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friendly fire with one ominous twist a
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secret weapon straight out of science
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fiction
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it was an overcast morning in May of
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1993 shortly before noon a blackhawk
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helicopter flew over a wooded area near
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Washington DC and archeologist named
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Frank Owens and his assistants saw the
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helicopter fly by half an hour later
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they discovered the crash site this is a
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first time Frank Owens has agreed to be
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interviewed for national television we
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were driving down a road when off to our
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right I glanced and I saw the tail
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section of a helicopter and a clearing
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we put in Reverse we stopped we jumped
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out as we walk down the logging road I
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could tell that this was a presidential
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helicopter
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the local authorities responded within
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minutes the wreckage was strewn across
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an acre and a half of dense forests all
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four crewmen were dead within an hour
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heavily armed unit of Marines secured
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the area three months later the Marine
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Corps released what is known as a Jag
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report the official conclusion was that
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the crash have been caused by mechanical
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failure due to faulty maintenance
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portions of the report stunned Frank
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Owens in the weeks after the accident he
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has spent considerable time at the crash
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site erecting a memorial to the crew the
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Jag report indicated that all debris all
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jet fuel had been taken care of
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everything had been removed in a very
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very professional way I found that not
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to be true Frank says he has the proof
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at his home 43 pounds of wreckage that
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he collected at the site when Frank
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decided to launch an investigation he
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attracted the attention of several
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military and weapons researchers yeah
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when you look at the crash of this
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presidential helicopter the Blackhawk
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and you compare it with the TWA 800
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crash on Long Island Sound here they
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have scraped the bottom of the ocean for
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months to recover the most minut pieces
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of debris from the aircraft they've
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tried to essentially reassemble the
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airplane as completely as possible and
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that's what they do in every aircraft
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accident investigation and then you look
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at the fact that this is a presidential
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helicopter
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makes you wonder what were they thinking
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what were their motives it's it's highly
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unusual according to the Jag report the
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accident was caused by improperly
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installed roll pins 2-inch metal rods
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that connect the transmission to the
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engine after speaking to the individuals
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the Train change these roll pins they
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felt that they did it correctly I feel
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that something else brought this
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helicopter down in talking to officials
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from the aircraft
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they say that if in fact that roll pen
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were misplaced the aircraft wouldn't
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have flown and that roll pen was
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replaced a month before the aircraft
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crashed in the interim President Clinton
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had gotten on this helicopter and flown
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from Washington DC all the way down to
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Norfolk Virginia and out to the USS
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Roosevelt and back to DC and it
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stretches all kinds of credibility not
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to mention the laws of physics that this
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helicopter would fly that long and that
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far if these pins had been improperly
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installed as the Marine Corps says six
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across Frank Owens believes other clues
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can be found by studying the flight path
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of the helicopter and they continued in
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a south direction I was here when I
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observe the helicopter fly overhead this
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is my location as I continued through
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this area here at Point 16 they made a
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dramatic change in course the thing I
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found most significant about the flight
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path of the helicopter was that the
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pilot was extremely experienced he made
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an extreme u-turn which indicates that
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he believed something was wrong and he
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was heading back and then he passed over
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a field large enough to land a dozen
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helicopters into crashing the trees just
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a few hundred yards beyond it really
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kind of made me wonder if it was
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possible that he could have division
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could have been impaired
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I'm not certain what the cause of the
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crash was I don't think it's what the
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Marine Corps claims and there is
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physical evidence and circumstantial
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evidence that indicates the helicopter
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could have been exposed to microwave
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radiation if true it is a stunning
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revelation during the Reagan
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administration a number of high-tech
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weapons were developed as part of the
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Star Wars initiative allegedly one of
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the systems involved microwave energy
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designed to disrupt electronic equipment
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and aircraft and missiles the helicopter
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like the Black Hawk would be far more
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susceptible to a microwave weapon
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because it would directly interfere with
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the flight control electronics so you
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would immediately find that the
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helicopter may become partially disabled
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on its flying ability when you read
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about the physical symptoms of exposure
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to microwave energy and there are a
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number of studies that have been done on
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this with fish and with people and
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animals one of the first things affected
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is your vision because the microwave
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energy heats the fluid in your eyes and
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you can't see now such a weapon exists
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apparently the Army has experimented
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with high powered microwave technology
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but most experts say an actual delivery
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system is not yet a reality high-power
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microwave weaponry does not exist period
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there are no high-power microwave
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weapons the work that's being done now
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and over the last decade is to assess
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whether or not the military electronics
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of the United States and other powers
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are vulnerable to high-power microwave
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effect
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but others disagree they believe such
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weapons do exist and may have been
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tested at this Army Research Lab in
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blossom Point Maryland five miles from
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the crash site Frank Owens and his
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colleagues believe a high-powered
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microwave is the only way to explain the
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most baffling aspect of the entire case
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unusual burn marks on each of the
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victims bodies we asked dr. Richard
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Grossman a leading burn specialist to
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examine several of the autopsy photos it
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doesn't have the appearance of an acid
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burn it doesn't have the appearance of a
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flame burn
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but I can tell you that that tissue is
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burned but I can't tell you what caused
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it because I don't know the Marine Corps
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had attributed the marks to chemical
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burns from spilled fuel I don't think an
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ignited jet fuel any kind of aviation
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fuel would give you a contact burn like
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this the kinds of microwave pulses that
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are being studied as possible weapons
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are not in anywhere near the domain
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necessary to produce biological effects
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on burns on humans can takes a great
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deal of energy and there isn't much
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energy in the microwave pulses that are
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being produced what caused the crash of
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the Black Hawk helicopter was it a
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mechanical malfunction
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or is a Marine Corps conceding a much
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different scenario the accidental
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downing of one of its own helicopters by
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a top-secret weapon system
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just recently Frank Owens informed us
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that he is indefinitely suspending his
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investigation out of respect for the
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victims families
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however he remains convinced that the
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whole truth has yet to be uncovered the
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Marine Corps stands by its original
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report and considers the matter closed
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next a disturbing unsigned letter and a
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bizarre psychic vision lead to
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speculation that the death of a loving
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husband and father was not suicide and
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later catastrophic danger lurks in the
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infinite beauty of space are we on a
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collision course with a giant asteroid
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we're surprised as anybody when one of
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our earliest episode solves a crime
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perhaps you'll recall this next story
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first broadcast during our fourth season
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it recently led to the identification
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and indictment of an alleged killer
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thanks to DNA a seven year old
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fingerprint and of course one of our
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viewers
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Ethel kid was a youthful 61 when she
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retired a rural Virginia in 1988 Ethel
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look forward to a simple country life
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just down the road from her daughter and
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son-in-law Joanne and Thomas kid Thomas
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would be the first to notice something
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was wrong it was a morning of April 12th
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1989 my wife called her mother about
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7:30 and the after machine answered and
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she said that's funny mom
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must've left early either she's on her
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way here to have a cup of coffee but
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9:30 I rode by and I saw the car there
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it was a bad sign
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Ethel hadn't answered her phone if she
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was out she would have taken her car
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inexplicably a road atlas lay open in
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the front yard
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then another bad sign Ethel never left
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the door unlocked
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inside concern turned to fear there was
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no trace of Ethel kid anywhere eight
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days crept by the nfl's body was
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discovered in the woods nearby she had
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been sexually assaulted strengthened
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then left tied to a tree
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the killer is extremely brazen it's even
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as if he may have been taunting the
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police saying catch me if you can a
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suspect would indeed because however
00:24:04
authorities would need the help of one
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very sharp eyed viewer
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here's Keeley che Smith with more on the
00:24:10
improbable break in this case Bob from
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the very start
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investigators believe their best hope of
00:24:18
identifying the killer lay with the
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Atlas that Thomas Kyd had found in
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Ethel's yard they were right but it
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would take seven years and several
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reruns of the story for their hunch to
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pay off at the Virginia Bureau of
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forensic science technicians were able
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to pull fingerprints from several pieces
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of paper that had been tucked into the
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Atlas but without a known suspect the
00:24:41
prints were useless the critical break
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would come from what authorities judged
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to be the killer's own list of
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preparations for the abduction of Ethel
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Kidd
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this is the suspects checklist over the
00:24:55
years millions of viewers saw it but one
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person actually thought the handwriting
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looked very familiar
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the tipster provided a name Edward Wayne
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Beverly Beverly had lived in Burrell
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Virginia just a few miles from Ethel
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Kidd shortly after her murder he
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abruptly left town Virginia authorities
00:25:16
finally located Beverly in a Tennessee
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prison where he was serving time for
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armed robbery
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we compared fingerprints and they
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matched to mr. bevel his prints and on
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the victim's body there was evidence
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there indicating sexual contact and we
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compared mr. Beverly's blood through DNA
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testing and that matches up also I'm
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convinced that we had the right guy that
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did this crime based on the evidence
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that's available
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robert darshan beloved husband and
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father of five born 1923 died 1977
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darshan was killed by a single gunshot
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to the chest authorities called it
00:26:36
suicide for 16 long years der shells
00:26:39
wife and children had no choice but to
00:26:41
accept the official ruling all that
00:26:44
changed suddenly and unexpectedly in
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March of 1993 guy darshan one of Roberts
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sons received a letter postmarked March
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13th 16 years to the day after his
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father's death it's a small short letter
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and block strange handwriting and I read
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it once and I read it the second time
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and I was just totally flooded with
00:27:10
emotion I was it was as if I'd been
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kicked right in the chest
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the letter was short just 35 words but a
00:27:20
stark message would turn the Durrell's
00:27:21
world upside down I have AIDS
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I am dying I must make my peace with the
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Lord I killed your daddy 15 years ago he
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found me in his bedroom I had no choice
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please pray for me
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a mean-spirited hoax or sincere deathbed
00:27:43
confession without a signature a return
00:27:46
address there was no way to find out the
00:27:48
darshan alia believes that this letter
00:27:50
is genuine evidence that robert darshan
00:27:52
did not take his own life
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what's more they say corroboration came
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from an even more extraordinary source a
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psychic vision from beyond the grave
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this most unusual case began in the most
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mundane matter
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March 13th 1977 was a Sunday it was 7:30
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a.m. an hour and a half before robert
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darshan and his wife Jenny would head
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off to church I heard a sound a loud
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sound but I assumed it was the slamming
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of the back door because the doors and
00:28:34
windows were all open and when you went
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out to the pool that did slam a few
00:28:41
minutes later Jenny went to the bedroom
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to dress her husband was bleeding from a
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wound of the chest his shotgun lay
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nearby I bent down enough to know that
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he was dead I was sure he was gone I
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don't think I touched him I called the
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police and it seemed like they arrived
00:29:02
immediately time to get here 8:15
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investigators found no evidence of a
00:29:08
break-in no sign of a struggle within 15
00:29:12
minutes they concluded that Robert Durst
00:29:14
all had committed suicide I say here the
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left she was off I think what he did is
00:29:20
he sat on the edge of the bed but the
00:29:22
shotgun up to his chest pulled the
00:29:25
trigger was a big toe jenny argued that
00:29:27
her husband had merely been medicating a
00:29:29
foot ailment but she argued in vain it
00:29:32
would take the arrival of the mysterious
00:29:34
letter more than 16 years later to push
00:29:37
authorities to take a second look within
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two weeks the case was reopened
00:29:44
the darshan family had never seen the
00:29:46
original police report on Robert's death
00:29:48
they secured a copy and went over it
00:29:51
word by word it was just so full of
00:29:57
untruths guesswork interviews of people
00:30:05
that hadn't seen my father in more than
00:30:08
two years close friends weren't spoken
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to investigators had concluded that
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darshan was driven to suicide by despair
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over an unsuccessful surgery years
00:30:23
earlier the one interview that they
00:30:26
probably weigh most heavily is from a
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nurse who hadn't seen him in two years
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who gives a report about his health that
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is so far from the truth that's it's
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ridiculous she portrays him as a
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bedridden vegetable where he was a happy
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how fair ly healthy man had social life
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he still traveled and still was a
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productive salesman
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it was strictly investigated as a
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suicide I don't think there were any
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fingerprints taken of the gun or
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anyplace in the house and that was the
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biggest mistake they made not
00:31:01
investigating I can see where it would
00:31:05
be difficult for family to accept a
00:31:09
decision like that when they feel that
00:31:12
perhaps their loved one may have been a
00:31:17
victim of some other circumstance but in
00:31:21
law enforcement we have to deal with
00:31:24
what the evidence tells us the original
00:31:27
investigation was conducted by the
00:31:29
Dunedin Police Department which
00:31:31
dissolved in 1995 the Pinellas County
00:31:34
Sheriff's Office later reviewed the
00:31:35
available case files there seemed to be
00:31:39
no sign of struggle no forcible entry no
00:31:44
broken windows disarray of any
00:31:47
description in the bedroom where this
00:31:49
encounter allegedly occurred which again
00:31:53
was one of the gives us more belief that
00:31:56
this was a suicide
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without additional evidence a ruling
00:32:01
remains suicide but for Robert Durst
00:32:03
family the case was anything but closed
00:32:06
indeed it grew more and more bizarre in
00:32:10
February of 1995 Jenny's sister Fran
00:32:13
traveled from Florida to California Fran
00:32:16
who is now deceased told Jenny about an
00:32:18
unnerving encounter on the train an
00:32:21
episode that defies explanation to this
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day yes
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was your husband a doctor the young
00:32:34
woman was a total stranger but she
00:32:36
revealed an uncanny familiarity with
00:32:38
Fran and the Durrell's
00:32:40
well then your husband's name was Earl
00:32:42
he had a set right
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well they're here with Bob Bob yes your
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sister's husband and he was murdered
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about 15 years ago murdered please don't
00:33:06
be frightened
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I'm not a mystic or anything of that
00:33:10
kind my father passed away a number of
00:33:15
years ago and he sends me messages from
00:33:22
the other side I think it's best that I
00:33:26
write this down so that you can keep it
00:33:29
with you and give it to your sister
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Jimmy friend said that the woman wrote
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down her psychic vision on a napkin my
00:33:38
first reaction to psychic was I mean I
00:33:42
didn't believe in psychics I'm sorry and
00:33:46
yet the more I heard on the Amtrak train
00:33:49
I had to say I believe in this I see a
00:33:55
picture in my mind regarding the murder
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of your sister's husband Bob
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I see a narrow door opening
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with a gun case showing
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and your sister's husband is going to
00:34:17
another cabinet
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near the mirror
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to look for foot treatment for athlete's
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foot
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he looks up and he sees a stranger in
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the adjoining room
00:34:43
alarmed the robber fights with Bob
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the things that were written by the
00:35:03
young lady on the Amtrak train were
00:35:06
startling in that some of this
00:35:08
information wasn't anywhere to be found
00:35:11
it was just too real It was as if this
00:35:15
person was in the room she's made no
00:35:18
effort to to gain from it
00:35:21
there's been no no approach to us which
00:35:23
you would expect if there was a hoax and
00:35:25
I honestly believe it was a situation
00:35:29
that that took place that I can't
00:35:33
explain in the reality of this world
00:35:37
it's kind of spooky bobdor she'll died
00:35:42
at 54 seemingly well before his time
00:35:45
perhaps it was his choice made for
00:35:48
reasons known only to himself or perhaps
00:35:51
bobdor CIL's life was taken by a
00:35:53
stranger wrote from the deathbed asking
00:35:56
for forgiveness in my own mind my father
00:36:01
is a victim of murder and I would like
00:36:05
to be able to tell my children without a
00:36:08
question that this is what took place
00:36:10
and I would like the people who know my
00:36:12
father in the community to know what
00:36:14
happened there may be somebody out there
00:36:19
who was talked to by the killer revealed
00:36:25
something in prison to an attorney to a
00:36:28
parent to a friend it's a small world
00:36:31
and stranger things have happened that
00:36:33
that's one of my hopes is that somebody
00:36:35
out there can fit the last piece of the
00:36:39
puzzle into place
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the unsigned confession letter was
00:36:44
mailed from Tampa Florida and postmarked
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March 13th 1993
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[Music]
00:37:02
when we return 65 million years ago a
00:37:06
giant meteor slammed into earth creating
00:37:08
a new ice age and ending the reign of
00:37:10
the dinosaur will it happen again could
00:37:13
humankind citizen calamity
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00:37:31
imagine the Manhattan skyline flattened
00:37:34
the sprawl of Los Angeles pulverized the
00:37:37
entire country devastated in the blink
00:37:40
of an eye an atomic nightmare no a
00:37:44
natural disaster unparalleled in human
00:37:46
history a disaster no one can predict it
00:37:50
will come from outer space July 16th
00:37:56
1994 a frightening preview huge
00:37:59
fragments of a giant comet called
00:38:01
shoemaker-levy slammed into the planet
00:38:04
Jupiter causing the most massive chain
00:38:06
of explosions ever witnessed by man well
00:38:12
out of this 21 series of fragments there
00:38:16
were actually 15 that survived that we
00:38:18
saw hit the planet and of those about
00:38:20
four or five were the big ones when each
00:38:24
of those largest fragments hit Jupiter
00:38:26
had had about the same energy as if you
00:38:29
had taken all of the nuclear bombs in
00:38:32
the world but to gene shoemaker his
00:38:34
co-discoverer of the shoemaker-levy
00:38:36
comet
00:38:36
put them all in one big pile and set him
00:38:39
up set him off all at once that's about
00:38:42
10,000 million tons of energy one of the
00:38:48
impacts on Jupiter created a cloud of
00:38:50
debris as large as Earth this
00:38:52
cataclysmic event immediately brought
00:38:54
troubling questions to mind could it
00:38:56
happen here and what if it did could
00:38:59
life as we know it survive in a vast
00:39:02
cosmic shooting gallery
00:39:06
fortunately the odds are in our favor
00:39:09
astronomers estimate that here on earth
00:39:12
celestial disasters on the grand scale
00:39:14
of shoemaker-levy occur only once every
00:39:16
hundred million years but that's not to
00:39:19
say we're entirely safe at this very
00:39:21
moment there are literally thousands of
00:39:23
asteroids and comets streaking through
00:39:25
the solar system is it possible that one
00:39:28
the size of shoemaker-levy could collide
00:39:29
with our planet not only is it possible
00:39:32
it has already happened more than once
00:39:41
this is meteor crater three hours north
00:39:43
of Phoenix Arizona
00:39:45
it was here long before the dawn of
00:39:47
civilization that an asteroid slammed
00:39:49
into the desert floor scientists
00:39:53
estimated velocity at more than 40,000
00:39:55
miles per hour meteor craters the first
00:40:01
recognized impact crater on the earth
00:40:03
it's 4,000 feet across about 600 feet
00:40:06
deep
00:40:07
he was formed by an iron asteroid about
00:40:11
50 yards in diameter and it was formed
00:40:14
very close to 50 thousand years ago but
00:40:16
if you'd been there you wouldn't want to
00:40:19
bend too close if you had been standing
00:40:22
where Flagstaff is today 40 miles away
00:40:25
you'd have probably been knocked over by
00:40:27
the shockwave buildings would have been
00:40:29
collapsed but meteor activity on earth
00:40:34
isn't just consigned to ancient history
00:40:36
early the century in 1908 a fireball
00:40:39
raced through the sky over Siberia it
00:40:42
exploded above the remote area of
00:40:44
Tunguska spraying debris with a force of
00:40:47
a thousand atomic bombs to get a good
00:40:53
idea of a devastating effect of this
00:40:55
impact of it a city that did I know very
00:40:59
well Houston has surrounding it a
00:41:03
highway a Beltway highway 610 loop
00:41:07
everything inside the 610 loop would
00:41:09
have been flattened and charred all the
00:41:12
buildings all the infrastructure nothing
00:41:16
would have been standing inside that
00:41:18
area anyone who lived there would have
00:41:20
been dead incredibly such devastation
00:41:25
did occur on a worldwide scale at least
00:41:27
once in the history of our planet that
00:41:30
was 65 million years ago during the
00:41:32
reign of the dinosaur a gigantic meteor
00:41:36
some five miles in diameter smashed into
00:41:38
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 75 miles east
00:41:42
of where the city of Veracruz now stands
00:41:44
the surface expression would not lead
00:41:52
you to believe that there is an impact
00:41:53
crater there you have a nice flat
00:41:56
Yucatan Peninsula with really no
00:41:59
topographic signs that a crater 180 to
00:42:02
200 miles across exists below
00:42:07
Virgil Sharpton has created this
00:42:09
three-dimensional map depicting the
00:42:11
Chicxulub crater immediately after
00:42:13
impact his detailed description of that
00:42:16
catastrophic event is chilling and very
00:42:19
possibly prophetic well immediately
00:42:22
before the impact we think you would see
00:42:24
a comet keep in mind that this object is
00:42:29
traveling at about a hundred and forty
00:42:30
thousand miles per hour you don't have a
00:42:35
lot of time between the time it goes
00:42:37
into the atmosphere and the time that
00:42:38
actually strikes the earth less much
00:42:40
less than a second obviously the impact
00:42:44
of Chicxulub was heard and felt in every
00:42:46
corner of the earth instantaneously the
00:42:48
ground surged up countless tons of rock
00:42:51
and dust formed a massive curtain
00:42:53
hundreds of miles across and hundreds of
00:42:56
miles high as this dust started to make
00:43:01
its way into the atmosphere it would
00:43:03
block the sunlight completely it would
00:43:05
be as dark as night as some of this
00:43:07
material started to re-enter the
00:43:09
atmosphere however things would begin to
00:43:12
light up not by the illumination of a
00:43:14
Sun but by the illumination of countless
00:43:16
meteorites shooting stars streaking
00:43:19
through the upper atmosphere
00:43:21
according to Sharpton these balls of
00:43:23
fire touched off a raging inferno the
00:43:25
spread across the entire Western
00:43:27
Hemisphere a smoke then rose to join
00:43:30
with the impact debris blanketing the
00:43:32
earth with an impenetrable cloud
00:43:37
darkness was achieved almost
00:43:39
instantaneously
00:43:41
and this cloud would basically expand
00:43:43
around the earth in a very short period
00:43:44
of time for the better part of a year
00:43:48
there was no sunlight what emerged was a
00:43:50
new ice age with his own catastrophic
00:43:53
consequences roughly 75% of Earth's
00:43:56
plant and animal life perished the most
00:43:59
prominent victim the dinosaur the
00:44:03
consensus is today that dinosaurs were
00:44:07
doing very nicely up until this event
00:44:10
and immediately after this event they
00:44:13
were gone and they never came back
00:44:19
there's a large enough risk that I think
00:44:23
we really should pay attention to it the
00:44:26
hazard of impact in terms of loss of
00:44:28
life on the original you don't take out
00:44:31
just a hundred thousand lives lost you
00:44:34
could wipe out half or more of the
00:44:36
entire human population if an event
00:44:39
similar to the one that formed chicks
00:44:41
eula happened tomorrow then there would
00:44:44
be no civilization there is no doubt
00:44:47
about that there would be widespread
00:44:51
devastation death like we have never
00:44:55
even imagined and there's no protection
00:45:00
for it it's just one of those things
00:45:02
that we have to live with fortunately
00:45:05
however events like Chicxulub are
00:45:07
extremely rare the present there are
00:45:13
only a handful of scientists worldwide
00:45:15
actively scanning us guys for near-earth
00:45:17
asteroids just recently scientists
00:45:20
discovered the hale-bopp comet which
00:45:22
will pass close enough to earth next
00:45:23
april to be seen without a telescope
00:45:26
despite our extremely limited warning
00:45:28
system it is calming to note that there
00:45:30
is no record of anyone ever being killed
00:45:33
by an asteroid
00:45:42
join me next time for another
00:45:44
fascinating edition once all the streams
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