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tonight on unsolved mysteries in 1975 a
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notorious bandit radical is known as the
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SLA allegedly gunned down an innocent
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woman during a bank heist
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finally some 27 years later but being
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brought to trial on murder China all
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except this man incredibly Jim Kilgore
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is still on the loose
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Mike two lusty and Laura law were
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together 11 years then according to
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Laura Mike abruptly packed his bags and
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left but after police questioned her
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about Mike's whereabouts Laura also
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vanished but investigators found on the
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property would shock everyone the
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beautiful restored southern mansion is
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now a bed-and-breakfast but many guests
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report experiences that can only be
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described as supernatural at least eight
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ghosts are said to haunt the property
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spirits of adults and children who died
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of foul play
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AM current his son was viciously
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murdered by a street gang despite her
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tragic loss
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Pam refuses to be overwhelmed by grief
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she is pursuing the killers and fighting
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to rid her neighborhood of gangs once
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and for all
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perhaps someone watching holds a key
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that will unlock the secrets of a
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mystery perhaps as you
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join me run solve mysteries
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[Applause]
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April 21st 1975 on the cool spring
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morning three volunteers from a local
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church in Carmichael California a suburb
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of Sacramento entered the crocker
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National Bank the women had come to
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deposit the collection from weekend
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services when suddenly they were
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surrounded authorities contend the four
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armed robbers were members of the
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notorious Symbionese Liberation Army or
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SLA a ragtag group of power-hungry
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radicals who advocated the violent
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overthrow of the US government
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the shotgun Tooting bank robber was
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especially menacing her manner as
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chilling as her words just 10 feet away
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42 year old Myrna Opsahl froze then the
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unimaginable happened she was gunned
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down in cold blood
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my mother evidently didn't move fast
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enough the bank employees pleaded with
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the robbers to come to her assistance
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and they shouted more obscenities and
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threatened more injury and wouldn't let
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anyone come to her assistance the bank
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robbers appeared to be following a
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script every word and movement precise
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it was very well coordinated
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everybody had a role and at all times
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they were very conscious of the time
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ticking at some point some of the the
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tellers were grabbed one woman was
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kicked so all of them actually had
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weapons and it was very very violent and
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all the timer knob saw was not dead yet
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she laid on the ground and she literally
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bled to death on the ground all the bank
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robbers ran out of the bank to a car
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that was waiting for them the driver of
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the getaway car was 20-year old
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newspaper heiress Patty Hearst she had
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been kidnapped by the Symbionese
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Liberation Army some 14 months earlier
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however within weeks of her abduction
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Hearst assumed the name Tanya and
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declared herself a revolutionary the SLA
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had a marquee name but the search for
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Patty Hearst also unleashed the biggest
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FBI manhunt sis John Dillinger a massive
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effort paid off in September 1975 the
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SLA 22 month reign of terror came to an
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end with several arrests including Patty
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Hearst however the story was far from
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over
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eyewitnesses to the crocker bank heist
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and the murder of Myrna opsahl could not
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positively identify the assailants 24
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long years have passed before a stunning
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twist in the case led to murder
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indictments all of the suspects involved
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in the crime have been arrested and are
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awaiting trial
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except one the FBI needs your help to
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bring him in his name Jim Kilgore Jim
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Kilgore's Odyssey began nearly a year
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before the shooting at Crocker National
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Bank in the spring of 1974 to San
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Francisco drive-in theater Kilgore's
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girlfriend Cathy Solia introduced him to
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SLA kingpins bill and Emily Harris
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that's my boyfriend
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Jim Kilgore and he's a great guy Kilgore
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agreed to join the group smart in tough
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he was a prize catch he was born in
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Portland Oregon he was vice president of
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the senior class he participated in
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varsity golf he was on the high school
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basketball team he was very athletic he
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attended the University of California
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Santa Barbara graduating in 1969 during
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that time period he became acquainted
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with Kathy so Lina
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so Lia and Jim Kilgore were welcomed
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into the group small inner circle
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Herr Kilgore reportedly proved
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especially adept at creating false IDs
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with the SLA on everyone's most-wanted
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list he was kept plenty busy
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we know that members of this group would
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steal credit cards and driver's licenses
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for example at local gymnasiums and
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other health clubs we know that they
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engaged in in special missions to steal
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existing identification in the fall of
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1974 the SLA convened at a safe house on
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a quiet neighborhood of Sacramento and
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we come up with a new structure for this
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group with a small but faithful army
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gathered around him Bill Harris
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allegedly laid out his plan to escalate
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the SLA violent revolution against the
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US government I need money but anarchy
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came with a price and robbing banks
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offered the quick cash needed to further
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the group's agenda
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according to police and late February
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1975 SLA members held up the guild
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Savings and Loan in Sacramento allegedly
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the point man in the heist was Jim
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Kilgore he was a central member of the
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group he was not peripheral he was
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actively involved in the violence he
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embraced it yeah that bank robbery was
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was a violent act he was right there
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inside the bank two months later on
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April 21st 1975 Emily Harris Michael
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Borton Kathy solía and Jim Kilgore
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reportedly executed the daring holed up
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at Crocker National Bank killing
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customer Myrna opsahl a mother of four
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allegedly Emily Harris fired the fatal
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blast they all stormed the bank knowing
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someone could get hurt what was their
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back-up plan at that point they all
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chose to let my mother lie on the floor
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and bleed to death and didn't let people
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come to her assistance
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the robbers netted more than $15,000
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according to police bill Harris was a
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mastermind behind the heist the SLA
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changed modes essentially after killing
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were tops all and taking the money that
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they got from robbing the bank and
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killing her they now were looking to
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place bombs in locations that were
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targeted to kill people they seemed to
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be more hungry to take other human lives
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and that's what they set out to do by
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the summer of 1975 investigators say the
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operation has shifted to San Francisco
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aracely members worked odd jobs painting
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houses in their spare time
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the allegedly planted pipe bombs then in
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late August kathy Solia bill Harris and
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Jim Kilgore made the 375 mile trek south
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to Los Angeles reportedly to create more
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carnage authorities believe they were
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hauling an arsenal of deadly explosives
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in the back of the car
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most of them were pipe bombs using
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either 2 inch or three inch pipe which
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is big the pipe bombs used in Los
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Angeles were three inch pipe and those
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are very substantial bonds they filled
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those pipe bombs with concrete nails and
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with gunpowder
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fun in Los Angeles
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Jim Kilgore and the other SLA members
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allegedly planted a pipe bomb beneath an
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LAPD patrol car but the triggering
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mechanism malfunctioned and the officer
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narrowly escaped serious injury or death
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authorities say it was not an isolated
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incident a call then went out to all the
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other police cars in the county check
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under your vehicles and sure enough an
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officer with Hollenbeck division went
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out and checked underneath all the
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vehicles and found an identical device
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under one of the cars there
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over the next few days Paris solely and
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Kilgore returned to San Francisco to
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rejoin their comrades but the heat was
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on
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FBI agents acting on a tip finally got a
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break the owner of several apartment
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buildings recognized some house painters
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he had recently hired as SLA members
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within hours Jim Kilgore and the others
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are under surveillance
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the next morning September 18 1975
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agents followed one of the suspects to a
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safe house on procedure Avenue so they
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started to watch proceeded address and
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from watching the procedure address they
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see Bill Harris and Emily Harris coming
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out of the house
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when the Harris has returned from
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jogging they were confronted by FBI
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agents correa guns and handcuffs about
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an hour after that having identified a
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second safe house in San Francisco
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agents and members of the San Francisco
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Police Department raided a second
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location in San Francisco and during
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that raid they apprehended Patty Hearst
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592 days after being abducted at
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gunpoint Patty Hearst days on the lam
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ended the high-profile arrests of Hearst
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and Bill and Emily Harris instantly hit
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radio and television broadcast
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nationwide meanwhile the dragnet closed
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in on Kathy Solia and Jim Kilgore who
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authorities now believe were painting a
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home in nearby Pacifica they raided that
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house later that afternoon
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and when they showed up the house all
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the remnants of the painting the buckets
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of paint in the paintbrushes were just
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left drying in the room and radio was on
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with a all-new station
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Kathy so Leigh and Jim Kilgore had
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simply vanished on agents search
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Kilgore's apartment that afternoon they
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found boxes of bomb-making materials the
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evidence FBI lab technicians later
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determined positively linked Kilgore to
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the SLA crime spree at that location
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they found a fully manufactured bomb
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similar to the bombs that were placed
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under the police cars in Los Angeles and
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also up in San Francisco when they
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inspected that bomb
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they found his fingerprint it was a very
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good break for law enforcement because
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it allowed us to charged James Kilgore
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with with a serious offense still no
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charges had been filed in the murder of
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Myrna opsahl however some twenty four
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years later in June 1999 Kathy solía was
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arrested in upscale Minnesota suburb
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where she had been living as a homemaker
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and community activists under the alias
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Sarah Jane Olsen Olsen was brought to
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Los Angeles to stand trial for planting
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explosives under a police car 1975 her
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testimony and new advances in forensic
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science led Sacramento District Attorney
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Jan Scully to re-examine the opsahl
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murder case the state of the evidence
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today has convinced me now is the time
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to seek justice from her absol still
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miss my mother intensely and she's
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missing out on the best years of her
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life and her grandkids and all but this
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isn't about revenge or paybacks it's
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just a matter of justice that they chose
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to do this and
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they need to be held accountable SLA
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members bill Harris
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Emily Harris Michael Burton Cathy so Lia
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and Jim Kilgore have all been indicted
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in the case under the felony murder rule
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they're all potentially responsible for
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the death of Myrna Opsahl Patty Hearst
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who'd been granted immunity in exchange
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for her testimony about the shooting is
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expected to be the prosecution's star
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witness no date has been set for the
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trial now the only missing suspect is
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Jim Kilgore he's still on the loose the
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heat has definitely been turned up more
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and more throughout the course of the
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last two and a half years for mr.
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Kilgore so I'm sure he's probably
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looking over his shoulder a little bit
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more every day
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this is a picture of Jim Kilgore in 1975
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at age 27
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Kilgore is now in his mid-50s
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authorities believe he has used as many
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as 13 different aliases and he may have
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altered his appearance
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[Music]
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Laurel and her boyfriend of 11 years
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Mike tell us t enjoyed entertaining in
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their art Dale Wisconsin home the nice P
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Coney and her husband were often guests
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nice was Mike's cousin and Laura's best
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friend Laura was just a wonderful person
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she had wonderful family dinners and she
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was good to Mike I saw Mike very happy I
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never saw them argue or fight and there
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were a lot of fun to be with however one
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night in March 2001 Mike + T was ready
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to argue that when he trapped Laura down
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at a nearby casino where she'd gone to
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gamble with Denise and her mother I
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gotta go
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what's wrong Mike showed up he's in the
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truck he's so upset he wants me to go
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Lauren goodnight
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she was just trembling she was shaking
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and I said well what's wrong and she
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said I don't know he's depressed
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something's wrong with him we gotta go
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you guys stay and have a good time you
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call me yeah tomorrow I'll call you
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tomorrow and I said you know my
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something's just not right here because
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he doesn't get me and he doesn't have a
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temper he boy he has a temper but he
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usually says what he needs to say and
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it's over after that night Mike tell us
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T would never be seen again according to
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friends and family Mike's behavior in
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the casino may indeed have been out of
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character but for him to completely
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avoid contact with them was
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incomprehensible strangely however one
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person who claimed a know where Mike
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went his longtime girlfriend Laura
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lobbed ultimately she too would
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disappear when they returned from the
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casino Laura said Mike pack some clothes
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and 73 thousand dollars in cash which
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she said came from the graphics business
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they owned he then set out on foot from
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their rural hole in the middle
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the night I said that's so strange he
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left on foot and she said yeah nice and
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Lauren why would he leave off his
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vehicles he said this doesn't make any
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sense and she said well I think he had a
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trucker pick him up he's my cousin he's
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like the sweetest guy in the world why
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would he just disappear that's what I
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want to know I thought she was lying but
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I thought she was trying to cover her
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embarrassment maybe he said I'm leaving
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you for another woman well we had that
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big fight the first night like that I
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need to give her the benefit of the
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doubt
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because we truly loved her as a family
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member also I didn't wanted to actually
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take sides with either one of them and
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then two weeks after Mike disappeared
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she called me and she was well he just
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called and he's out west and I said well
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when's he coming home and she goes why I
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asked him are you ready to come home yet
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and he said no four months passed and
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there was still no sign of Mike to Asti
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but because Mike and Laura ran their own
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business few knew Mike was gone by
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mid-summer though Denise insisted Laura
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talked to Mike's family they had still
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not been told about his strange
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disappearance I'm gonna tell him that
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he's on an extended fishing trip and
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Winnipeg
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what they said this is going on
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too long if this was my son I'd be
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furious if somebody didn't tell me that
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he's been missing I don't want to worry
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that I don't care you've got to tell
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them all right oh all right okay I've
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found the truth to Denise's shock Laura
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lied to Mike's mother anyway and told
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her that Mike had gone to Canada it was
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so bizarre that scared me
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it scared me that she would be so
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underhanded to platt and say this is
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what we're gonna say whether suspicions
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now aroused
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Denise recalled other instances of
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Laura's increasingly bizarre behavior
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hello hi this is nice oh hi Denise I'm
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gonna come today and get my snowmobiles
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okay well sure but I don't have the keys
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Denise's snowmobiles were stored in a
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shed in Mike and Laura's backyard and
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Laura seemed determined to prevent
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anyone from entering the padlocked shed
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I don't know what's going on with you
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but the past three weeks
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every time I call about the snowmobiles
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I say Laura if you don't hand the
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snowmobiles I that should I'm coming
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with a locksmith and I'll replace the
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wax and pay for it and give you a new
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keys and new locks I said but I need my
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snowmobiles I don't know what you're
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making such a big deal about this for
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because you put me through the wringer
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trying to get these snowmobiles I'm
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telling you something if that [ __ ] isn't
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open I'm gonna break it open Denise
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Laura had removed the snowmobiles by
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herself but she was still preventing
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anyone else from entering the shed the
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thought now crossed Denise's mind could
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something to do with Mike's
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disappearance be hidden in the shed it
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was the straw that broke the camel's
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back
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I called Mike's brother and I said mark
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we have to talk I said something's wrong
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something's terrible wrong
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four months after Mike tell us he
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disappeared mark tell us T filed a
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missing-persons report with the local
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authorities because of the way the
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stories weren't jiving and things didn't
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add up and no one's heard from I didn't
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hesitate at all and he left everything
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and that also made me very suspicious
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that something happened to him
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the case was ultimately assigned to
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investigator Gary silca Laura seemed to
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be very cooperative the day that we were
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there she also invited me to look around
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on the property if I desired what do you
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normally keep in the shed Oh Laura threw
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a roadblock in front of me when I asked
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to go into that building can we take a
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look
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well actually I cleared all of that
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stuff out a couple months ago so that I
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could rent it do you have a key
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oh no the man I rented it to has the key
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you don't have a spare oh no but I
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couldn't let you in there anyway what's
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his name George George
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Giuliani Laura agreed to make
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arrangements for mr. Giuliani to drive
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up to the arc tale property and then
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meet law enforcement so we could
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couldn't it'll continue the search
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inside the shed authorities now believe
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that within hours of being questioned by
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investigators
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Laura law hastily fled her home her
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whereabouts are still not known
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it would take several more months of
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investigation before Gary silca was
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granted a search warrant for the
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property January 22nd 2002 investigators
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finally entered the mystery shed in the
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minute that we stepped inside I could
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smell the strong punch and order of what
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I believed to be that of a decomposing
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human body in the near empty shed under
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several pieces of wood and covered in a
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blanket and plastic wrapping police
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found the decomposed body of Mike tell
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us team he had been dead between nine
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and ten months the autopsy showed cause
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of death was attributed to a single
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gunshot wound to the back of the
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victim's head several years before the
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incident
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Laura law had purchased a 9-millimeter
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handgun we believe that that is the
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weapon that was used in the homicide of
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Michael two lusty despite the evidence
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those who knew them were stunned to
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conclude Laura had murdered Mike I was
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with her for 11 years and I thought she
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was a wonderful person did I know her at
00:23:44
all it's Laura the one that we had so
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much fun with and did things with Aunt
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Laura or is this more of the one I did
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shot him who is Laura it's unbelievable
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what happened it's bottom line what
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happened I'm almost sure that she had a
00:24:03
has a gambling problem and I think
00:24:07
that's probably what triggered all this
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Michael may have told her that enough
00:24:14
was enough and that she needed to
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consider leaving and Laura you didn't
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want to leave that relationship and
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didn't want to leave the life as she
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knew it
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a summer lightning storm thunders over
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st. Francisville Louisiana illuminating
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the myrtles plantation the myrtles is an
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infamous 200 year old antebellum mansion
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converted to a bed-and-breakfast decades
00:25:06
ago it claims to be one of America's
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most haunted houses shooting poisoning
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lynching are just a few of the deadly
00:25:26
means by which the ghosts of the myrtles
00:25:28
met their mortal demise at least eight
00:25:31
people died violent deaths here and
00:25:34
legend has it their spirits remain on
00:25:36
the premises appearing regularly to
00:25:39
guess and staff alike I've had enough
00:25:43
happen to let me know that other people
00:25:45
live here that we can't always see
00:25:49
perhaps the myrtles plantation was
00:25:51
destined to be haunted legend has it
00:25:54
that a 1796 the original owner General
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David Bradford built the house directly
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on top of an ancient Indian burial
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ground
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since that time literally hundreds of
00:26:04
sightings of the unexplained have
00:26:06
occurred could spare us be haunting the
00:26:08
plantation thousands believe they are
00:26:16
this mysterious mansion is said to be a
00:26:19
window into the supernatural guests here
00:26:22
are well aware of the possibility of
00:26:24
having a ghostly encounter I guess I
00:26:27
have to say I really didn't believe that
00:26:29
there were actually ghosts or spirits
00:26:32
there that it was just folklore and
00:26:35
legend and it wasn't until I was already
00:26:37
in that things began to happen that
00:26:40
convinced me that yes they are here but
00:26:43
by then it was too late financially I
00:26:45
couldn't afford to be scared when Amy
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Campbell and her friend Michelle came to
00:26:53
stay at the B&B last October 30th they
00:26:56
were well informed of its ghostly past
00:26:58
we were very hesitant if we were gonna
00:27:02
stay all night
00:27:02
because we had heard that the place was
00:27:04
haunted we had heard that there were
00:27:06
ghosts that visit people at night that
00:27:08
tuck you in fix your clothes we weren't
00:27:12
sure we wanted to experience any of that
00:27:13
I obviously was sleeping for a little
00:27:18
while and I woke up feeling bouncing on
00:27:22
the end of my bed and I saw a little
00:27:25
girl jumping on the end of my bed and I
00:27:27
thought surely I'm dreaming and I stuck
00:27:28
my head back under the covers
00:27:30
it kept bouncing and bouncing and
00:27:31
bouncing it felt like forever and all of
00:27:34
a sudden it stopped and I looked back up
00:27:36
at the little girl that was jumping on
00:27:37
the bed was gone
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the child ghosts is thought to be
00:27:44
Cornelia Woodruff one of four people who
00:27:47
died in a tragic set of events 175 years
00:27:50
ago Cornelia was a daughter of judge
00:27:54
Woodruff whose family lived at the
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myrtles in the early 1800s on the
00:27:58
Woodruff's house slave Chloe was caught
00:28:00
eavesdropping on the judge he was
00:28:02
compelled to punish her this is the
00:28:05
third time the judge at Khloe's ear cut
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off fearful of also being sent to the
00:28:20
fields to do hard labor Chloe made a
00:28:22
plan she decided to grind poisonous
00:28:26
oleander leaves into a birthday cake
00:28:28
hoping to make the family ill then she
00:28:31
would endear herself by nursing them
00:28:33
back to health
00:28:36
she may have thought she was boiling
00:28:38
just enough only ender to make the
00:28:40
family sick already knowing what was
00:28:42
wrong she would take care of them be the
00:28:45
hero and be left in the household to
00:28:47
take care of him but Chloe scheme
00:28:50
backfired young Cornelia her mother and
00:28:54
sister all died from the poison
00:28:57
a lot of guests want to know what
00:28:59
happened to Chloe after the poisoning
00:29:01
it's believed that she was killed by a
00:29:04
mixed mob black and whites were probably
00:29:06
together of course the other slaves were
00:29:08
probably afraid of what was going to
00:29:10
happen to them she was supposedly beaten
00:29:13
hung and then thrown into the river it
00:29:18
is said that Cornelia along with her
00:29:20
mother and sister have joined Chloe in
00:29:22
eternally haunting the house I think
00:29:30
I've been frightened more in the day
00:29:32
than at night
00:29:34
Arland Dee's owned and restored myrtles
00:29:37
plantation over 30 years ago he
00:29:40
remembers his first ethereal encounter
00:29:42
very well it was 1970 and he was mowing
00:29:45
the North Lawn first of all I never
00:29:48
thought that I would see any type of
00:29:51
ghost it was in the afternoon
00:29:53
approximately four or five o'clock and
00:29:56
as I was mowing I simply looked up and
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there was this vision and then with a
00:30:06
blink of an eye it was gone
00:30:09
well needless to say there's a chill
00:30:13
factor that comes over one when when
00:30:15
that occurs the vision Arlen's saw is
00:30:20
said to be the ghost of the elderly
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caretaker who was robbed and killed on
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the estate in 1927
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three years ago mark and Holly Peretti
00:30:33
spent a frightening night at the myrtles
00:30:35
back then Mark had been reluctant to
00:30:38
visit but knew his wife would be
00:30:40
intrigued by the hotel's history it's
00:30:43
known as one of the most haunted
00:30:44
plantations in America and I wasn't
00:30:47
looking forward to finding out why a
00:30:53
Hester the tour guy came out and she
00:30:55
says you know welcome to the myrtles it
00:31:05
was scary the thought of being in this
00:31:07
haunted house by ourselves no one else
00:31:10
in here was was very scary more probably
00:31:13
tomorrow than me but I was scared too
00:31:16
perhaps the Peretti's had reason to be
00:31:18
nervous a former myrtles owner is said
00:31:21
to haunt that very staircase mark and
00:31:24
Holly's room was just beyond that same
00:31:26
flight of stairs my mind had gotten to
00:31:31
me a little bit because I wouldn't let
00:31:33
her turn the lights off so we're laying
00:31:35
in bed and she's sort of having a
00:31:37
nervous tic Chad and what I heard was a
00:31:40
very deep sounding bang as soon as I
00:31:47
heard that noise you know the adrenaline
00:31:49
rush how you stay here oh come on oh if
00:31:57
I had to venture a guess it sounded like
00:32:00
footsteps the reason for the murder of
00:32:03
the prominent homeowner remains a
00:32:05
mystery
00:32:08
why young wintered it was late one night
00:32:12
in 1871 on a mysterious Horseman
00:32:15
appeared on the myrtles front lawn
00:32:30
whoever was there shot him in the chest
00:32:34
he made it back through the double doors
00:32:36
trying to reach his wife Sarah she was
00:32:39
upstairs he only made it to the 17th
00:32:47
step he died there in her arms I wish
00:32:58
someone would be able to explain it
00:33:00
other than the story that I heard but I
00:33:03
can't tell you for sure what it was all
00:33:06
I know was that it was enough for me you
00:33:09
know it was enough for me to make me
00:33:11
want to leave in a way I think we were
00:33:13
both hoping it might have been our
00:33:14
imagination but it definitely wasn't
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for all who ventured a Myrtle's
00:33:24
plantation for a glimpse of the
00:33:25
hereafter perhaps they should take
00:33:28
advice from those who have actually
00:33:29
braved the halls of this haunted house
00:33:32
there are certain times that I'm
00:33:35
uncomfortable here certain times that
00:33:37
you could say I get the creeps I can't
00:33:41
explain it it's no certain hour it's
00:33:44
just times you can walk in and as I said
00:33:47
before you can feel a sadness or you can
00:33:49
walk in and you hear especially up
00:33:52
stairs footsteps you know you hear them
00:33:54
someone is right behind you you can stop
00:33:56
the footstep stop once you have the
00:34:00
encounter and you feel the sensation you
00:34:04
will know that their intention is not to
00:34:08
harm you they are truly here to protect
00:34:12
you they protect this home this is their
00:34:15
station this is their life this is where
00:34:18
they live if a myrtles plantation truly
00:34:24
haunted we can't say for sure but our
00:34:26
production crew certainly had more than
00:34:28
their share of unexplained technical
00:34:30
difficulties electrical equipment
00:34:32
including cameras cellphones and
00:34:34
walkie-talkies constantly malfunction
00:34:36
well these just mysterious mishaps were
00:34:39
ghostly intervention
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00:34:46
a tetanus shots those are what hurt for
00:34:52
Pam karate it was just another day of
00:34:55
running errands in her quiet
00:34:56
working-class neighborhood of Freeport
00:34:58
New York as Pam was driving her teenage
00:35:03
son to the doctor she saw what appeared
00:35:05
to be a terrible car accident
00:35:11
I said to myself look over there and see
00:35:13
what's going on so he just looked over
00:35:15
and said I don't see anything you can't
00:35:17
see anything there's just ambulances all
00:35:18
over so I passed it I took him to the
00:35:21
doctor's office we came back home it was
00:35:26
then that Pam received an unusual phone
00:35:28
call about her eldest son 21 year old
00:35:31
Damien currenty and I got a phone call
00:35:37
from one of his friends asking me is
00:35:39
Damien there I said no he's not he was
00:35:42
gonna go out to see his friends aren't
00:35:44
you with him no okay nevermind and they
00:35:48
hung up hello and that was just the
00:35:51
whole thing was odd after paging Damien
00:35:53
to no avail and with the accident still
00:35:55
fresh in her mind
00:35:56
Pam decided to check local hospitals I
00:35:59
called himself Nassau hospital and said
00:36:03
to have a Jamie in current-day there yes
00:36:05
who is this I said this is his mom she I
00:36:08
said is he there is he okay why didn't
00:36:11
anybody call me why aren't you why
00:36:13
aren't I been informed you die what's
00:36:15
going on just tell me what's going on
00:36:16
and she said didn't the detective come
00:36:19
to your house yet within minutes Pam was
00:36:23
at the hospital her son Damien had been
00:36:25
involved in the incident she saw earlier
00:36:27
but it was no traffic accident my son
00:36:33
was there on the bed and he was in a
00:36:36
hospital cam and he looked like a
00:36:40
complete angel and I went to hug him and
00:36:46
there was blood on my hand
00:36:51
when they told me he was shot five times
00:36:53
in the head it was I couldn't comprehend
00:36:57
it everything went crazy at that point
00:37:04
there are a saw my wife crying on the
00:37:08
other side of the door with there wasn't
00:37:09
a nurse then I said to her I was sorry
00:37:13
he's dead just like that
00:37:18
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00:37:20
something died in me that day too
00:37:26
Pam karate and her husband Damiano soon
00:37:29
learned that their son had died in a
00:37:31
gang shooting
00:37:32
now the grieving parents had to deal
00:37:34
with insinuations that Damien was
00:37:36
himself a gang member and it somehow
00:37:38
played a role in his own murder
00:37:39
but the Pam karate that just didn't make
00:37:42
any sense Damien was a pre-med student
00:37:48
at Stony Brook University and he had an
00:37:52
ambition and that was to go to college
00:37:55
and get his degree and become an
00:37:56
anesthesiologist my son had absolutely
00:38:00
no gang affiliation that was proven over
00:38:04
and over it was written in every
00:38:07
newspaper he was absolutely not a part
00:38:10
of a gang and had no gang affiliation
00:38:12
yeah that's like why don't you go ahead
00:38:14
and fax well I'm taking off could you
00:38:16
hold on was it honey could you do
00:38:18
something for me can you run this by the
00:38:20
bank okay okay what time you do back
00:38:22
before dinner there's a six eight all
00:38:24
right okay thanks honey I appreciate it
00:38:25
okay in the weeks leading up to his
00:38:27
death Damien had returned home for
00:38:29
winter break and had rekindled
00:38:31
friendships he formed in high school one
00:38:35
of those friends was a man by the name
00:38:38
of Harold Sam Brannan Harold was a 19
00:38:44
year old member of a local gang called
00:38:48
Mientus
00:38:50
can you go by the school or biovolt
00:38:52
romantic stuff I was just looking for
00:38:54
these punks these puns why what's up
00:38:58
peril tones maybe in the two days
00:38:59
earlier he was jumped by members of
00:39:01
ms-13 a violent El Salvadorian street
00:39:05
gang originally from Los Angeles they
00:39:08
jumped you man look at that they cracked
00:39:09
me over the head with a bottle
00:39:11
no Harold asked Damien for help David
00:39:17
had the biggest heart in the world that
00:39:19
was part of his projects anybody asked
00:39:22
him for anything he would do it and he
00:39:24
would be there even if he had his own
00:39:26
plans that's not right I know yo that's
00:39:29
why you got my back son yeah yeah I got
00:39:33
your back
00:39:35
Damien currently on the day that he died
00:39:38
I'm sure had no idea as to what he was
00:39:40
getting involved in Harold Zambrano
00:39:43
being a gang member probably never
00:39:45
publicized that fact to Damien
00:39:48
but a local strip mall Harold found what
00:39:51
he was looking for that's one of them
00:39:53
that's one of them right there stop the
00:39:55
car stop the car 19 year old Herman Daly
00:39:58
own Herman Daly own is a known ms-13
00:40:01
member and was wearing the colors so
00:40:04
there was no question in their mind that
00:40:05
they had found somebody
00:40:08
no please now son they approached her on
00:40:11
de Lyonne so did you do this like they
00:40:15
confronted him with the injury to
00:40:17
Harold's umbrella he was there at the
00:40:23
Wonder Man with his girlfriend de Lyonne
00:40:25
admitted that he was named as their team
00:40:27
member in tall men he had nothing to do
00:40:29
with that particular incident ambriano
00:40:34
when those guys indicated that they
00:40:36
respected the fact that he was with his
00:40:37
girlfriend and it wouldn't cause him any
00:40:39
trouble
00:40:40
while he was with his girlfriend Damien
00:40:43
Harold and the others returned to their
00:40:44
car and the incident would have ended
00:40:47
right there if it weren't for a tragic
00:40:49
coincidence two more members of the
00:40:53
ms-13 stumbled out of the scene the
00:40:58
confrontation then exploded into
00:41:00
violence
00:41:02
Harold Zambrano was shot in the neck and
00:41:05
critically injured Damien corrente was
00:41:09
fatally shot five times in the head a
00:41:12
police investigation quickly revealed
00:41:15
the identity of the alleged shooters
00:41:18
herman de Lyonne mario Portillo
00:41:22
and one heel ferro Fino but the suspects
00:41:26
could not be found the whole family was
00:41:30
absolutely devastated and detectives
00:41:33
started coming to my house and police
00:41:35
started coming to my house and all my
00:41:36
children's friends started coming to my
00:41:38
house and they would sit the kids down
00:41:40
and say to them tell me about gangs and
00:41:42
the kids started telling about gangs and
00:41:45
I was shocked I said why didn't you tell
00:41:48
me about gangs
00:41:50
Oh then I began driving around to look
00:41:52
for myself and I saw exactly what they
00:41:55
said I went up to the junior high school
00:41:57
and the high school and I saw them and
00:41:59
you can tell by their colors and you can
00:42:00
tell where they'd get bandanas I was
00:42:04
totally unaware totally unaware and I
00:42:08
saw kids hanging out and different it
00:42:10
never occurred to me I just thought it
00:42:12
was just groups and groups these groups
00:42:14
are extremely violent males between the
00:42:17
ages of 18 and 25 sometimes younger
00:42:19
later that week pam attended a police
00:42:22
forum on gangs held in reaction to her
00:42:24
son's murder when someone asked a
00:42:27
question point-blank
00:42:29
are there gangs here in Freeport the
00:42:32
answer was I would have to say at this
00:42:34
moment not really and that's when I went
00:42:36
berserk how dare you tell these people
00:42:39
there's no gang activity here my son did
00:42:41
I stood up in front of everyone and I
00:42:44
started screaming how do you even say
00:42:46
that when my son was murdered on your
00:42:48
doorstep I think my gang saying you're
00:42:51
gonna tell them there's no gangs in
00:42:52
Freeport there's graffiti all over the
00:42:54
town all the repetitive patterns we've
00:42:56
been seeing it was at that moment of Pam
00:42:58
corriente had an epiphany she would lead
00:43:01
the charge to rid her neighborhood of
00:43:03
gangs perhaps you would like to join me
00:43:06
for a closed meeting with the mayor
00:43:07
tomorrow night on this very topic I
00:43:09
would love to yes thank you I had no
00:43:14
choice all I had to fight it was either
00:43:16
that or go to rage and the anger and the
00:43:19
hate so I can't do that but I can fight
00:43:22
back by trying to educate our children
00:43:23
and trying to find a way for them and to
00:43:26
educate the parents to educate the
00:43:27
children Pam and the Freeport Police
00:43:30
Department formed gasp the gang
00:43:33
awareness suppression program I have a
00:43:39
gang problem this neighborhood we're
00:43:42
opening their eyes to a very big problem
00:43:44
that maybe didn't exist when we were
00:43:46
kids and it was such a good healthy
00:43:50
outlet instead of the hate and the anger
00:43:52
and the rage and the frustration that I
00:43:54
was feeling living only blocks from the
00:43:57
mother and father of the kids who killed
00:44:00
my son thanks a lot
00:44:01
I appreciate
00:44:02
help thank you bye I hope I can make a
00:44:06
difference I don't know that I am but I
00:44:08
hope I can says Pam founded gasp not one
00:44:12
person has died from gang violence in
00:44:14
the Freeport area but even though Pam
00:44:21
finds our new work rewarding it will
00:44:23
never take away the pain of losing her
00:44:25
son there is only one thing that would
00:44:29
help catching the alleged killers of
00:44:31
Damien corrente although police trace
00:44:38
her mendelian Maria Portillo and one
00:44:41
heal Farrow Fino to El Salvador they now
00:44:44
believe the suspects may have returned
00:44:46
to the United States
00:44:49
all three are young Hispanic males and
00:44:52
may be hiding in Los Angeles or Miami
00:45:00
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with every mystery one critical clue may
00:45:08
lead to a solution join us again for
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