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Next on Unsolved Mysteries, a young
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woman is brutally murdered in a secluded
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field. What the killers don't know is
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that there is a witness to their
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crime. Two patients nearly die after a
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nurse poisons their IVs. Will she be
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caught before she strikes again?
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A man accused of stealing minerals from
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the government vanishes while scuba
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diving. The FBI believes that he is
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still
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alive. And the surprising identity of a
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serial rapist who eluded police for more
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than 20
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years. Five fascinating mysteries, some
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just waiting to be solved. I'm Dennis
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Fina and this is Unsolved Mysteries.
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Heat. Heat.
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Pomona, California.
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Rehab one. Dr. Austin to rehab a problem
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in 2011. A medical emergency at a
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rehabilitation center. Two patients are
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in acute distress.
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One of the patients was definitely
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flushed, definitely having difficulty
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breathing, and the other patient was
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unconscious. She didn't respond to me at
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all. Let's go get the supervisor now. I
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had seen him the night before, and they
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were fine. There was nothing wrong with
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them, you know, uh other than needing
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their medication, you know, they looked
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really well. Just laying. It's got the
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nursing supervisor down here now. Okay.
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The patients have been receiving
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intravenous antibiotics for similar
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infections. As the staff works to
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stabilize them, nursing supervisor
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Lzette Nukita remains calm. But Aunt
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Gregory, the director of nursing, is
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alarmed from the start. I knew that we
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had something very seriously wrong here.
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There was no way that this could be a
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coincidence that this happened to these
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patients that that they had the same
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reaction from this medication at the
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same time.
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Paul, I need you to take those IVs and
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bring them. The patients are rushed to a
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nearby hospital for emergency treatment.
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Both have insulin shock. Both survive,
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but as a precaution, every IV bag in the
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facility is confiscated for
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analysis. Hospital officials were
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stunned to find that a total of 16 IV
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bags had been contaminated with
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potentially lethal doses of insulin.
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Worse still, it appeared to be
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intentional. The FBI was called in to
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investigate.
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One of the first people the FBI
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questioned was Lette Nikita, the nurse
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who had administered the IVs. She was a
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nursing supervisor on duty that night.
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Nukita had worked at the facility for 6
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months. In that time, she had earned a
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reputation as a hardworking nurse who
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took her job very seriously. Now, where
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are the IVs kept? They're kept in a
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storage room right down the hall. Who
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has access to? Only a handful of people
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had access to the medical supplies.
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Nikita was one of them. She said that
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she noticed nothing suspicious about any
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of the IV bags. If you have anything to
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add, please don't hesitate to call me.
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Here's my card. It was determined that
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the product tampering had occurred at
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the rehabilitation center. Lette Nikita
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was working during that shift and the
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supervisor on duty and we decided to
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call her in for another interview.
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Is your name Lette Nikita? Yes. 6 months
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into the investigation, Lette Nikita
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agreed to take a polygraph test. Midway
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through, she dropped a bombshell. Did
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you cause insulin to be introduced into
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the IVs of two patients on the morning
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of February 8th, 1991?
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Yes. Are you telling me now you did it?
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Yes. When I interviewed Lette, she told
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me that she injected the IVs with
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insulin to cause a reaction so that an
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investigation would be conducted and
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ultimately she could turn herself in.
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Why?
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Because I have had these terrible
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headaches and I haven't been able to get
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the help that I needed and I have gone
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to these doctors and I have gone to the
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hospital and I have taken these pills
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and nothing. She told me that she had
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read or heard that the best medical care
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available was for people in prison or
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jail and that if she was ultimately
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arrested and incarcerated, she would
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receive the treatment that she needed
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for her headaches. She was playing
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basically Russian roulette with these
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people's lives. There's no way that you
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could measure the amount of insulin to
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be given through those IVs and know that
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you're going to make them severely sick
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without killing them.
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Nikita was arrested in jail while
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awaiting trial. Is it okay if I get a
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drink of water? As far as anyone
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remembers, she never requested treatment
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for her headaches. It was at jail that
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Nukita met a 40-year-old prisoner who
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we'll call Steve. He had been convicted
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of smuggling heroin.
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I want you to promise me one thing. I'm
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being transferred up to Lombok next
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week. Great. Steve and Nikita managed to
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carry on a jail house romance. They met
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several times and began to exchange
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letters. Go ahead. I'll see you later.
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Steve was transferred to the federal
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prison in Lampaul,
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California. A month before that, Nukita
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had been released on bail. She moved in
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with her parents to await trial and
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finally sought treatment for her
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headaches. Nukita and Steve stayed in
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close contact through letters and phone
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calls.
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Hello. She was obsessed with this man
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who was always writing to her long
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letters and calling on the phone. Yeah,
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I was just writing. I think she didn't
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have any hope and she was devastated
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with the idea of going back to prison
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and she used to say, "Well, he's the
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only one that loved me.
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By virtue of the authority vested in me,
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Nikita and Steve were married in the
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prison chapel at
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Lamp. 3 months later, Nikita told her
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family that she was going to Lamp and
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would soon
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return. What she didn't tell them was
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that her husband was going to be
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released on parole later that same day.
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The FBI believes that Nikita picked
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Steve up at the prison gate and they ran
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off to start a new life
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together. Two months later, Nukita's
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family received this letter written in
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Spanish and postmarked Oxnard,
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California. Nukita wrote, "I love you
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and please forgive me for everything I
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have done." She also mentioned that she
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was working in a school as both a cook
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and a nurse.
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The fact that Lette is out there
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somewhere and has a good chance of
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possibly working as a healthcare worker
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really scares me because if she has done
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this once, what's to say that under
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similar circumstances, she won't do this
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again?
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Update. 3 years after they disappeared,
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Lucet Nukita and Steve were tracked down
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and arrested in Porto Viarda, Mexico,
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Steve was returned to prison for
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violating the conditions of his parole.
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He has since been released. Nukita
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pleaded guilty to six counts of
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tampering with medical products and was
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sentenced to 18 years in
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prison. She served her time and has been
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released.
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Next, police need your help to find a
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mysterious man who witnessed a brutal
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murder in Florida.
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Miami, Florida.
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911 police on fire.
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A man calls 911 and tells a police
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operator that he had just witnessed a
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horrible crime in the town of Belglade,
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80 miles to the north.
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In a rushed, nervous voice, the caller
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says that he was hunting illegally in a
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sugarcane field when he heard a car in
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the distance.
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The man says that as he ran to hide, a
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blue Ford Bronco pulled up. A man and a
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woman got out. She called him
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Ricardito. What you are about to hear is
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a translation of the eyewitness's phone
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call to the police. Give me that money.
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They started to argue, the girl and him.
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Give me the money. I'll get it for you.
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I promise I'm going to kill you. It
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appeared to be a drug problem. You don't
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believe me? You see what I can do? He
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was telling her to give him the money. I
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don't have the money. She told him she
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could not give him the money yet.
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There were two of them. The young man
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appeared to be Cuban and the other
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Mexican by the way he spoke. I'm going
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to kill you. Give me the money. She was
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shouting, "Ricardito, don't kill me,
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Ricardito. Give me the money."
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After he killed her, he dragged her
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away. So I got down on my knees because
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I thought if this person sees me,
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they're going to kill me, too.
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Then the Bronco pulled away. I saw a
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seven and a two on the license plate.
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Then I left because I was scared. But
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later I thought it's a
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crime. Perhaps fearing for his safety.
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The eyewitness waited more than a week
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before contacting police. He never
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revealed his identity, but he did
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provide them with enough clues to begin
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their investigation.
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The caller said that the sugarce field
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was behind a building. shaped like a
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giant ice cream cone. The Palm Beach
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County Sheriff's Department sent a
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detective to investigate.
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I saw like a small brown object in the
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tall grass
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area. And after I got there, I realized
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it was the body of a female at that
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time, but the body was in a state at
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which at that time I couldn't determine
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which race it was. It was a very heinous
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crime. It was very violent. Uh I believe
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that the suspect had a lot of disregard
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for a human
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life. She had been laying there for
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approximately a week, maybe a few days
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longer. She had passed a decomposition
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stage and she had started to get into
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mummification. Her right thumb print was
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the only print left. The majority of her
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fingers had already turned to skeleton.
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And with that right thumb print, we were
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able to make an identification and prove
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that she was in fact Rebecca Young.
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Rebecca Young was a 21-year-old resident
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of Belgrade. Her mother had also been
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murdered when Rebecca was just 12 years
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old. At that time, Rebecca went to live
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with her
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aunt. Police looked into Rebecca's
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background and discovered that she had
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become involved with a man known to be a
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petty criminal.
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She had gotten hooked up with a person
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who had gotten her into a different type
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of life than she was accustomed to. He
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started introducing her to the drug
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scene and prostitution and things of
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this nature. He had beat her up on more
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than one occasion and had intimidated
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her and threatened her into this type of
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lifestyle.
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Police have determined that the man is
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not a suspect in Rebecca's murder, but
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they do believe that his activities may
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have led to her death. This person may
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have robbed the client without Rebecca's
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knowledge that he was going to do this.
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Rebecca may have suffered the
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consequences as a result of his actions.
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3 weeks after Rebecca's murder, the
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sheriff's department arrested a possible
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suspect. He was a local man who
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reportedly told a prostitute that he had
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killed a black woman. The police
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suspected that the man was drunk or
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stoned at the time they pulled him.
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Would you stop me for sir? Step to the
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back. I know what you guys want right
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there. Before I could interview him, he
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told me that I wanted to talk to him
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about a murder. And when I told him no,
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I wanted to talk to him about the
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prostitute he had been out with, he
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said, "I don't want to talk to you. I
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want an attorney." And at that point
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where we didn't have any further
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evidence that he was involved in this, I
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had to release him.
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Even though the suspect was released,
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police believe that he was somehow
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involved in Rebecca's murder. But they
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need proof. They're searching for the
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eyewitness who originally called to
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report the crime. Not much is known
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about the man except that his name is
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Antonio. He said that he called from a
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pay phone because he didn't have a line
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at home. Judging from Antonio's accent,
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police believe that he was born in Cuba.
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This is a portion of the actual tape
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recording of Antonio's telephone call.
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The police and Rebecca's friends and
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family hope that Antonio will come
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forward. If you have any information,
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please log on to our website at
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unsolved.com.
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Next, a wealthy ay dies, leaving a
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billion dollar estate. Some say that she
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was murdered for her money.
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Los Angeles,
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California, March 4th, 1993.
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I want you to
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understand that I have no family.
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80-year-old Doris Duke is about to
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change the terms of her will. Long time
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ago, but hers is not just any will.
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Doris is one of the wealthiest women in
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America, worth more
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than$1.2
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billion. Waiting in the wings is the
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person who arguably stands to gain the
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most from Doris's death. her butler,
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Bernard Laferty. As sole executive of
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the estate, Laferty would be given a fee
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estimated to be $5 million. In addition,
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he would receive $500,000 a year for
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life. I cannot believe she would have
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put that kind of trust into Bernard.
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It's just not possible. There had to be
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some collusion. There was a manipulation
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between, in my feeling, between Bernard
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Laferty, the doctors, and the lawyers.
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The last will and testament of Doris
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Duke was bitterly contested. There were
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even allegations of murder. It was a
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sorted end to a charmed life. Doris Duke
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was the only child of tobacco tycoon
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James Buchanan Duke. She was just 12
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years old when her father died, leaving
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her $100
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million, a third of his holdings. The
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press called her the richest girl in the
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world. As Doris grew up, her fortune
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grew, too, from millions to over a
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billion. She personified the rich during
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the Great Depression. She was a cross
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between um Princess Dye and Madonna in
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the press. People treated her as if she
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were a major major star. Doris Duke led
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an eccentric and lavish lifestyle. She
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was married twice, divorced twice, and
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reportedly had dozens of lovers. Among
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them, movie idol Errol Flynn, General
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George S. Patton, and Duke Kahanamoko,
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the Olympic swimming champion.
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Kahanamoko allegedly fathered Doris's
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only child, a daughter who died at birth
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in 1940. Doris was
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27. It wasn't until Doris was well past
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70 that she adopted a daughter, a
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35-year-old woman named Shandi Hefner.
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In
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1987, Doris changed her will and named
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Shandi as executive. Eventually, she and
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Chandi had a falling out, but not before
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Shandi introduced Doris to Bernard
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Laferty.
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He was an alcoholic. He had a tremendous
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drinking problem. Doris told other
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family members that she was pretty
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disgusted with him. Uh that's why so
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many family members were so surprised
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when in the end he was in control.
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In 1991, Doris Duke removed Shandandy as
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executive and replaced her with Dr.
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Harry Demopoulos who built himself as a
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longevity specialist.
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When I went over with her who were the
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list of possible candidates for
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executive, Bernard wasn't even on the B
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list. He wasn't on the A list. He wasn't
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on the B list.
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Within a year, that had changed. Dr.
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Demopoulos was dropped and replaced by
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Duke's accountant, who was then replaced
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by Duke's half nephew along with the
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butler, Bernard Laferty. When Harry
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Demopoulos and I heard that, we said,
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"This isn't the misstuke that we know.
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This cannot have been a Miss Duke who
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was acting in her right mind at the
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time. On Wednesday,
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some say that Laferty was a natural
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choice for co-executive. They claimed
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that he was Doris's closest adviser and
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looked out for her best interests, but
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Doris's former housekeeper and her
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personal chef, who both sued Laferty for
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harassment and breach of contract
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disagree. Bernard is definitely a
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manipulator. Bernard let people in and
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let them out. He picked up the phone. So
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after a while, he had control of who got
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in touch with Miss Duke. He would
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instruct other employees of Miss Duke to
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uh have conversations with Miss Duke
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about how devoted he was to her. He was
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trying to win her trusts and affections
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in an obsessive kind of way. Everything
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seems to be fine for now. At the age of
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78 and within days of naming Laferdy as
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co-executive, Doris decided to have
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extensive cosmetic surgery. The surgeon,
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Dr. Harry Glassman, was reportedly
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recommended by
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Lavity. 2 days after the surgery, while
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on medication, Doris fell at home and
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broke her hip. Dr. Glassman referred her
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to Beverly Hills physician, Dr. Charles
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Kivowitz, who became her primary
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physician. Over the next year, Doris was
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in and out of the hospital several
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times. Following March, she was
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suffering from episodes of mild
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confusion. Around this time, she
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apparently decided to change her will
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and to give Bernard Laferty power of
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attorney. Papers were drawn up by
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attorneys who had been recommended by
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Dr. Glman. One of them, Bill Doyle,
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helped Doris at the signing. Miss Duke,
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we've prepared your will. The signing
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took place at Cedar Sinai Medical
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Center. Anne Bastitch was in the room
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and claims that Doris did not know, but
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she was signing. She couldn't really
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sign it. She just sat there like a
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wooden statue. And Bill Doyle lifted the
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will up and put his briefcase underneath
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to raise it up. And she still couldn't
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sign it. So he slid his hand under her
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wrist and sort of propelled her hand
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along so she could scroll her name. And
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I stood there and I was totally shocked.
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I thought this is there's something
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really wrong here. Very good. Thank you
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very much, mister. In a sworn
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deposition, Bill Doyle claims that Doris
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was of sound mind and knew what she was
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doing. A few weeks later, Laferty was
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named sole individual executive of the
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estate. He went on a spending spree.
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$60,000 on Armani clothing, $25,000 on
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jewelry, and several thousand more on
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flowers and gifts, all charged to the
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estate.
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In July of 1993, Doris suffered a
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stroke. She returned home after 2 months
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in the hospital. Her bedroom had been
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turned into a makeshift intensive care
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unit with 24-hour nursing supervision.
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Miss Duke. Miss Duke. According to Dr.
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Kowitz, Doris's condition began to
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deteriorate, but a nurse named Tammy
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Payet stated the following in a signed
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affidavit.
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Within a short period of time after she
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arrived home, Miss Duke's physical
00:22:38
therapy was cut off and she was placed
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on a massive sedation regime by Dr.
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Kivitz at the request of Bernard
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Laferty, Miss Duke's
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butler. But Tammy Payet's credibility
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has been called into question. She was
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convicted of stealing nearly a million
00:22:55
dollars in valuables from several of her
00:22:58
patients and was sentenced to 8 years in
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prison.
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On October 7th, Dr. Kibwitz began to
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administer the painkiller Demoral by
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injection, even though Tammy Payet
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claims that Doris was not in pain. Payet
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also says Doris's request to return to
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the hospital was
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ignored. They've got her home. She's
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signed the wills. If they let her out,
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if they let her meet a friend, if they
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let somebody come in there and they
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rehab her, she may sign other wills.
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This is the time for Miss Duke to
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die. She wanted to remain comfortable
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and pain-free there in her house. That's
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where if she was going to die, she
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wanted to die. And Dr. Kwitz followed
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her orders. He would have followed any
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orders she had given him.
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10 days later, a package was delivered
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to the Duke mansion addressed to one of
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the nurses. And it was from a drug
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company somewhere. And Bernard jumped
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out of the chair and and he ran over and
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he grabbed the box and he looked at it
00:24:02
and then took it downstairs and then a
00:24:05
few minutes later he he could make oh
00:24:08
Miss Duke is going to die
00:24:10
tonight. That afternoon Dr. Kibowitz
00:24:14
substituted morphine for demoral. In her
00:24:17
affidavit, Tammy Payet made note of
00:24:20
Lafert's reaction to the day's events.
00:24:23
Later that evening, Bernard became very
00:24:25
excited and impatient because Miss Duke
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was lingering and called Dr. Kivowitz,
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explaining that Miss Duke had not
00:24:32
expired. Records indicate that Dr.
00:24:35
Kivowitz returned to the mansion and
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administered another 10 mg of morphine.
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He recorded that Doris was in a state of
00:24:44
advanced pulmonary edema, a fluid
00:24:47
buildup in the lungs.
00:24:50
Everybody there knew that Miss Duke was
00:24:52
going to be dying with the addition of
00:24:54
that morphine. And you can see the
00:24:56
lockstep relationship. Increased doses.
00:24:58
Drip, drip, drip into Miss Duke. Down
00:25:02
goes the breathing. Down goes the
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heartbeat until we're at a flat line.
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Miss Duke, can you hear me? By 400 a.m.
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on October 28th, Doris Duke was clinging
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to life. Miss Duke, can you hear me?
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According to the records written by
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attending nurse Tammy Payet, Dr.
00:25:19
Kivawitz phoned and increased the
00:25:22
morphine dosage. I asked in the
00:25:24
deposition of the doctor, was she in
00:25:27
pain? Of course not. She's unconscious
00:25:29
and yet we're increasing the morphine.
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There's no reason other than pain or
00:25:34
terminating a patient to increase the
00:25:36
morphine at that point. And that's what
00:25:38
happened with Miss Duke. Dr. Kwood did
00:25:41
everything he could to keep her painfree
00:25:42
and comfortable. And whenever he gave
00:25:44
nurse Payet the discretion to increase
00:25:47
the medication if necessary, nurse Payet
00:25:50
increased it far beyond what he
00:25:51
authorized, then claimed 18 months later
00:25:54
that he was the one overmedicating her.
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It doesn't make sense.
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At 5:15 a.m., according to notes from
00:26:02
another nurse, a 100 mgram dose of
00:26:06
Demoril was added to the morphine drip
00:26:09
by quote telephone order of Dr.
00:26:12
blastsman per Dr. Kivowitz. One hour
00:26:15
later, Doris Duke was
00:26:20
dead. I believe that woman wanted every
00:26:23
chance possible to live. She had a
00:26:26
strong constitution and a will. And I
00:26:29
know she wanted to live and I know they
00:26:32
killed her.
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Update. After a prolonged investigation,
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the Los Angeles DA's office found no
00:26:43
credible evidence of criminal homicide
00:26:46
in the death of Doris Duke. The civil
00:26:49
suit challenging Duke's will filed by
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her former housekeeper and cook was also
00:26:55
dismissed. Bernard Laferdy has since
00:26:58
died.
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Next, a surprising update on a rapist
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and murderer who terrorized women in
00:27:07
upstate New York. And later, a
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businessman vanishes after scamming the
00:27:13
government out of millions of dollars.
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Previously, we reported on a serial
00:27:28
rapist who had been targeting young
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women in and around Buffalo, New York
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for more than a decade. One of his first
00:27:35
known victims was a 17-year-old girl
00:27:38
taking a shortcut to school. Shut up.
00:27:42
Don't look at my face. He started
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dragging me back into the woods and then
00:27:47
he started strangling
00:27:49
me and then I thought that's it. I was
00:27:52
going to die.
00:27:54
After sexually assaulting the young
00:27:56
woman, the rapist fled. He was described
00:27:59
as a short, stocky, possibly Hispanic
00:28:01
man with a mustache in his
00:28:04
mid30s. His next victim was a
00:28:07
16-year-old girl walking along some
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isolated railroad tracks.
00:28:13
The same individual double wrapped a
00:28:15
rope around her neck, gained control of
00:28:17
her, and took her to the bush area
00:28:18
behind me. He forced her to place tape
00:28:20
over her eyes. He bound her and sexually
00:28:22
assaulted
00:28:25
her. Over several months, the attacker
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assaulted six women using the same
00:28:30
method before letting them go. His
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seventh victim wasn't so lucky.
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22-year-old Linda Yalam was a student at
00:28:40
the State University in Buffalo when she
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was
00:28:46
attacked. Linda was left to suffocate in
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the woods, her mouth and nose wrapped
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tight with duct tape. It was
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premeditated murder. He planned on
00:28:57
killing her when he grabbed her that
00:28:58
day. Once he put that tape over her nose
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and her mouth, there was no chance for
00:29:03
survival.
00:29:04
After four years, the man police call
00:29:07
the bike path rapist struck again. A
00:29:10
14-year-old was his eighth known
00:29:14
victim. This guy strikes so
00:29:16
infrequently. He's very hard to profile.
00:29:19
Very, very difficult. He's either got
00:29:21
tremendous self-control or else he's
00:29:24
hitting in other parts of the country
00:29:26
that we're not aware of.
00:29:31
Update. The so-called bike path rapist
00:29:35
has been identified as 49year-old
00:29:37
Eltemio Sanchez of Chick Taga, New York,
00:29:41
a suburb of Buffalo. Sanchez was a
00:29:44
married churchgoing little league coach
00:29:47
with two grown children. Acting on a
00:29:50
tip, police had put Sanchez under
00:29:52
surveillance. They obtained DNA from a
00:29:55
drinking glass at a restaurant Sanchez
00:29:57
had visited and matched it with DNA
00:30:00
found at some of the crime scenes. A DNA
00:30:04
match also links Sanchez to two earlier
00:30:06
sexual assaults for which another man
00:30:09
was already serving time. In
00:30:12
1985, Anthony Caposi, who suffers from
00:30:16
schizophrenia, was convicted of raping
00:30:18
two women and was sentenced to 35 years
00:30:21
in prison. After 22 years behind bars,
00:30:25
Anthony was released and reunited with
00:30:28
his family, who never doubted his
00:30:33
innocence. By the time that Elteio
00:30:36
Sanchez was arrested, the statute of
00:30:38
limitations had run out on the rape
00:30:40
charges. Sanchez eventually plead guilty
00:30:43
to three counts of murder in the second
00:30:45
degree and was sentenced to 75 years to
00:30:54
life. An April day off the coast of
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Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Can you
00:31:00
show me that hole? Raymond Young, his
00:31:02
son Edward, and two friends had been
00:31:04
scuba diving since dawn. At 6:00 p.m.,
00:31:08
Raymond and Edward decided to take one
00:31:11
final
00:31:12
dive. 20 minutes later, Edward surfaced
00:31:16
alone in a panic. Help! Did you see my
00:31:20
dad? No, I haven't seen him. The
00:31:21
peaceful outing became a crisis. Raymond
00:31:24
Young was missing.
00:31:27
A massive search turned up nothing and
00:31:30
Young's family assumed he had drowned,
00:31:33
but authorities were convinced that
00:31:35
Young was alive and well and that he had
00:31:38
staged his own disappearance.
00:31:43
Raymond Young was a type of person who
00:31:44
liked to gamble. He was a chance taker.
00:31:47
He spent millions of dollars in his
00:31:49
activities. He liked to live the good
00:31:51
lifestyle and he saw that he could make
00:31:53
big money fast. Raymond Young was a
00:31:56
flashy self-made millionaire who owned
00:31:58
and operated a wholesale fuel company on
00:32:02
Marco Island, Florida. Message was
00:32:04
right. Opportunity of a decade. The
00:32:07
company distributed diesel fuel for
00:32:09
offshore marine use because he
00:32:12
supposedly sold to wholesalers only.
00:32:15
Young was exempt from paying certain
00:32:18
federal taxes. But when customs
00:32:20
officials found that millions of dollars
00:32:22
were flowing in and out of Young's
00:32:25
personal bank accounts, they began to
00:32:27
suspect that his real business was
00:32:30
scamming the
00:32:31
government. In fact, Young had been
00:32:34
selling his fuel to retail gas stations
00:32:37
in Texas and pocketing the money he
00:32:39
should have been paying in taxes. About
00:32:42
40 cents per gallon sold.
00:32:46
40 cents a gallon may not seem like a
00:32:48
lot of money, but when you multiply that
00:32:49
by the hundreds of thousands of gallons
00:32:51
that Ray Young was distributing, he
00:32:53
could have uh in actuality of defrauded
00:32:56
the government for in excess of $15
00:32:58
million. When the IRS and US Customs
00:33:02
Service launched a joint investigation,
00:33:04
Young began to liquidate his assets.
00:33:07
Eventually, he was charged with 17
00:33:10
counts of tax evasion. But Young left
00:33:14
Florida while the investigation was
00:33:15
still
00:33:17
underway. Several months later, he
00:33:19
surfaced in New Orleans where federal
00:33:22
agents set up a surveillance operation.
00:33:24
They saw Young's Mercedes parked near a
00:33:27
luxury yacht which was being prepared
00:33:29
for a voyage. And although the boat was
00:33:32
flying a foreign flag, records show that
00:33:35
it belonged to Raymond Young. It is our
00:33:38
man. Let's get
00:33:40
him. By all indications, Raymond did not
00:33:43
think he was going to be found guilty on
00:33:44
these charges. I told all of his friends
00:33:46
that he would not be convicted and felt
00:33:48
very confident that that would be the
00:33:50
case. Ray, wait. Now, that was a totally
00:33:52
unexpected verdict. Young could not have
00:33:55
been more wrong. He was found guilty on
00:33:58
16 counts.
00:34:01
Counselor, I am not going to prison.
00:34:03
Even though Young faced up to 13 years
00:34:06
in prison, he was granted bail to
00:34:08
organize his personal and business
00:34:12
affairs. 2 days before his sentencing,
00:34:15
he went scuba diving in the Gulf of
00:34:17
Mexico and has not been seen
00:34:20
since. We do feel that he has millions
00:34:22
of dollars at his disposal and he could
00:34:25
live a very good lifestyle outside of
00:34:26
the United States wherever he pleased to
00:34:28
live. He could be anywhere at this time
00:34:30
living a life of luxury.
00:34:36
Update. 7 years after Raymond Young
00:34:38
disappeared, the US Marshall Service
00:34:41
received a tip that he was living in San
00:34:43
Jose, Costa Rica. Police there set up a
00:34:46
surveillance and after one failed
00:34:48
attempt were finally able to capture
00:34:50
him. Young fought extradition, but he
00:34:53
was eventually returned to the United
00:34:56
States. 4 months later, he was sent to
00:34:59
prison for his original conviction of 7
00:35:02
years. Raymond Young has since been
00:35:09
released. Next, doctors are puzzled by a
00:35:12
strange illness that has afflicted four
00:35:15
children in one family.
00:35:28
Vallejo, California.
00:35:31
Hey, bye. One February day, Christina
00:35:34
Smith returned home from a brownie
00:35:36
meeting. Mommy, I don't feel good. Why
00:35:39
don't you come over here and sit down by
00:35:41
me? I gave her medicine and I brought
00:35:44
her upstairs. So, she stayed up during
00:35:47
the night complaining of her sore legs
00:35:49
and stomach ache, which I actually
00:35:51
thought it was due to the fact from the
00:35:54
cold. The next morning, I thought it was
00:35:56
a good idea for Christina to sleep in.
00:35:59
Just after breakfast, Christina's uncle,
00:36:01
Joseph, stopped by for a short visit.
00:36:04
The children's in the living room. I
00:36:05
went upstairs and I found Christina
00:36:08
laying down. She opened her eyes and
00:36:10
looked at me and there was a glaze in
00:36:12
her eyes. Christina, you better get out
00:36:14
of here. There's something wrong with
00:36:15
Christina. Hurry up. I'm talking to her,
00:36:16
but she's not hearing me. We took her to
00:36:19
the living room onto the couch, and at
00:36:21
that time, we started uh examining her,
00:36:24
asking her what's wrong, and I didn't
00:36:27
even feel like she knew where she was.
00:36:30
By that time, her neck had swelled and
00:36:33
she was having seizures.
00:36:36
Christina, wake up. At that moment,
00:36:38
Tina's husband, Charles, arrived home
00:36:41
from work.
00:36:42
I didn't know what was going on. So, I
00:36:44
walked over and I looked into
00:36:46
Christina's eyes and she looked
00:36:49
relatively unconscious.
00:36:51
And your doctor, what's wrong? My
00:36:53
daughter. Her family rushed Christina to
00:36:55
the nearest hospital. How long has she
00:36:57
been like this? Oh, for about 2 hours. I
00:37:00
knew she was real sick. You have a
00:37:01
seizure? I'm not sure. I was starting to
00:37:04
become real, real frightened. We have an
00:37:06
unconscious child here. I don't know
00:37:08
what's going on.
00:37:10
We were trying to search our minds to
00:37:12
try to come up with what might have
00:37:14
happened, but we had no answers.
00:37:19
Christina Smith was racked by seizures
00:37:22
and her breathing was labored. Then she
00:37:24
developed a fever and her temperature
00:37:26
shot up to
00:37:28
105°. Finally, Christina lapsed into a
00:37:32
coma.
00:37:34
Christina is stable. She has had a
00:37:37
massive seizure and she's no longer
00:37:39
seizing. We've given her medication.
00:37:41
Doctors and Christina's parents had no
00:37:44
idea what caused the sudden illness. But
00:37:47
they were afraid that it might be
00:37:48
connected with what happened to
00:37:50
2-year-old Dominique, the youngest child
00:37:52
of Christina's uncle,
00:37:55
Joseph. A year earlier, Dominique had
00:37:58
also been rushed to the hospital after
00:38:00
suffering the same symptoms as
00:38:02
Christina. Dominique fell into a coma
00:38:05
and suffered severe brain damage. She
00:38:08
died just one month before Christina got
00:38:11
sick. Doctors still have no idea what
00:38:15
caused Dominique's death. I think the
00:38:17
scariest part was being that I was there
00:38:20
once before. I didn't think that these
00:38:22
doctors knew what was going on.
00:38:24
Okay, Christina, here we go. Got
00:38:26
extremely high fever. Uh had great
00:38:29
difficulty breathing. showed severe
00:38:32
abnormal movements of her body. Uh she
00:38:35
had despite all efforts had remained in
00:38:38
a nonresponsive coma state and that
00:38:41
carries a terribly terribly grave
00:38:43
prognosis. How you doing? Fine. You look
00:38:47
at a child and you think it's hopeless.
00:38:50
Many families stay away. In Tina's case
00:38:52
and Charles, they came every day.
00:38:57
We felt that maybe she could hear us and
00:39:00
she can fill us around her.
00:39:03
There goes his ears in your ear. So, we
00:39:05
decided to keep her life as busy as
00:39:08
possible while she laid there
00:39:10
unconscious.
00:39:13
Soon, Christina's room was filled with
00:39:15
getwell cards, posters, and her favorite
00:39:18
toys. The hospital staff even organized
00:39:21
potluck dinners, which everyone ate in
00:39:24
Christina's room. Despite all the
00:39:27
attention, there was no improvement in
00:39:29
her condition. The doctors who were
00:39:32
still baffled by the disease ordered
00:39:34
more tests.
00:39:36
And after all those testing for months,
00:39:38
they still did not locate her illness,
00:39:41
what caused her to become ill. They
00:39:43
realized that she had suffered brain
00:39:45
damage. So they told us that Christina
00:39:48
would remain a vegetable for the rest of
00:39:50
her life. And that normally when a
00:39:52
patient suffers brain damage, they don't
00:39:54
recover.
00:39:55
It was felt at that time that she should
00:39:57
be sent to an institution that could
00:40:00
take care of her uh and just maintain
00:40:04
her in her comeoma state.
00:40:07
The Smiths refused to give up hope. They
00:40:10
decided to look after Christina at home.
00:40:13
Okay, Christina, it's time for your
00:40:15
favorite TV show. When we brought
00:40:17
Christina home, I was happy but then
00:40:20
scared, not knowing what might happen.
00:40:23
Put your brakes on. Okay. And mommy's
00:40:27
going to go right behind you on the
00:40:28
couch. The only thing I could do was
00:40:30
just play it by ear and go with the
00:40:32
emotions and how I felt for her care as
00:40:35
each day went on.
00:40:38
But on this particular day, 6 weeks
00:40:41
after Christina had come home, something
00:40:44
extraordinary happened.
00:40:48
I worry. Without any apparent cause,
00:40:52
Christina completely awakened from her
00:40:55
coma. And I didn't know what was going
00:40:57
on. My heart dropped. I was so excited.
00:41:00
I was in tears. It was incredible. You
00:41:04
know, I've never had a feeling like
00:41:05
that. It was incredible.
00:41:08
Christina's recovery was remarkable. She
00:41:11
began to move her arms and legs. Her
00:41:13
speech improved, and she started the
00:41:15
long fight back to health. Soon she was
00:41:19
enrolled in physical therapy. It was
00:41:22
just an exciting, incredible change in a
00:41:24
youngster who had been so desperately
00:41:26
ill. All the 30 years that I've been in
00:41:28
this field, I've never seen a family or
00:41:30
a situation exactly like this. It was
00:41:33
just just unique. This mystifying
00:41:36
illness seems to be centered on Tina and
00:41:39
Joseph's family. In total, three of
00:41:42
Christina's cousins have been afflicted.
00:41:45
Two of them did not recover and died. In
00:41:49
my own medical experience, I've never
00:41:51
seen anything uh to equal the
00:41:53
devastation in this particular family.
00:41:55
And certainly, it it is one of the
00:41:57
unsolved medical mysteries at this time.
00:42:00
If there are any doctors or families who
00:42:03
know of similar cases, please log on to
00:42:06
our website at unsolved.com.
00:42:09
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00:42:10
[Laughter]
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00:42:28
Heat. Heat.
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