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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast 1966 Quang Tri province South
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Vietnam a helicopter crash claims the
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life of Navy medic mark Dennis four
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years later this photograph for an
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unknown American POWs in Newsweek
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magazine the Dennis family became
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convinced that mark had survived the
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crash as captured by the Viet Cong
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Dorothy eyes at an unassuming Canadian
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home painter is captured these eerie
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lights on film and believes there is no
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explanation other than UFOs skeptics are
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unconvinced
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Ricardo Caputo a charismatic ladies man
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and allegedly a voodoo killer
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according to the police Caputo has
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murdered at least five women and
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authorities need your help to catch him
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also tonight an update on a recent
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profile of one of the FBI's 10 most
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wanted criminals thanks to our broadcast
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a suspected serial child molester is now
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in custody
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join us you may be able to help solve
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the list
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March 1966 Miamisburg ohio i remember
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this is the hardest part the war in
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vietnam is estimate navy medic mark
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dennis said goodbye to his family
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thank you
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- right mark had joined the Navy in 1964
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at the age of 17 he chose to be a men
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because he believed it would be used his
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desire to one day become a missionary
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mark Dennis was a deeply religious young
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man with a strong sense of compassion
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according to his family he had
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volunteered for service in Vietnam so
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that a marriage soldier with a family
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would not have to go once and get none
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mark was attached to the maligne 2nd
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battalion company Eve stationed in Dong
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Ha next to the demilitarized in combat
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slang the sector was hot we all knew he
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was going into combat but it was really
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not a name by his mind that it was as
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bad as it became a few months later so
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we all felt you know it was dangerous
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but it was his place to go he had
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volunteered
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July 15th 1966 mark and 15 other men
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were aboard a Chinook helicopter
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bringing assistance to a battalion
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hemmed in by the North Vietnamese Army
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the helicopter right into heavy enemy
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gunfire this is an actual photograph of
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Mark's helicopter shortly after it was
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hit
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a helicopter crashed and exploded in the
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midst of an infantry firefight according
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to Navy records only three men survived
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a pilot copilot and the gun 13 men had
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perished in the crash when I came down
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the street I saw the Navy vehicle first
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thing to hit my mind is his market kill
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I pulled up to the house and I heard my
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sister yell Marcus day
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it was just a total shock then the wait
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for the casket it just stays and then
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turned into weeks the whole thing was
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was really a trauma that that bridge
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difficult today to even talk about mark
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Dennis was buried on August 9th 1966 due
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to the condition of the body the Navy
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suggested that the family not view the
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remains they complied the first four
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years was rough and a Vietnam War went
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on and we just tried to shut it out of
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our lives until 1970 on November 30th
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1970 nose week magazine published this
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photograph of an unknown prisoner of war
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when the Dennis family saw the
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photograph they thought it looked just
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like mark suddenly faced with a
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possibility that mark might be alive the
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immediately contacted the Navy naval
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authorities requested additional
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photographs of mark to see if they could
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make a positive identification six weeks
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passed finally the Navy concluded the
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man in the photograph was not marked
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dentist but rather a previously
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documented prisoner the Navy continued
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to maintain mark had been killed in
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action
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unconvinced Jerry Dennis requested the
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Navy forward Marc's death certificate a
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death certificate got a disturbing
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revelation
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it appeared that every man killed in the
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crash had been positively identified
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except mark Dennis the Navy stated that
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they were definitely able to match 12
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bodies found in the wreckage with 12 men
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from Mark's unit the thirteenth body was
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burned beyond recognition they
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apparently assumed it was marked by a
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process of elimination Jerry Dennis
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still believing the man pictured in
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Newsweek might be his brother now became
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convinced that market survived several
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weeks after the photograph appeared
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Jerry received further evidence that his
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brother might not have died in the crash
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in 1971
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an article about Jerry Dennis's efforts
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to find out what happened to his brother
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appeared in local newspaper the next day
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Jerry was visited by a navy dental
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technician named Steve Wilcox Steve
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Wilcox had been mark's best friend and
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bootcamp
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six months after mark was reported
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killed Steve met another man who had
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served with mark in Vietnam everybody
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that came to the hospital had to come
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through my office they had to deliver
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their dental records to me so I knew
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where everybody came from and I knew
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there there was just one medic who had
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come from Nam I saw him later and we had
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a chance to talk we worked together a
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lot in the field as medics he's one of
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the best medics in the group too
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I mentioned that I had a friend it was
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killed in Nam and mentioned there was
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Mark Dennis and he was in Mark's unit
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hey were you there when that chopper
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went down no I wasn't actually there
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look then he started to share some
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information with me that was coming off
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guard it really surprised me
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I don't think mark died that day but
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they sent the body home I mean the
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family buried mark well I was in the
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first recovery cool right first of all
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he said that mark was not supposed to
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have been on that hillock on mark and
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secondly nobody really in the unit
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believed that mark was did there was no
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evidence at the crash site that he was
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on the helicopter when it crashed
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the chaotic aftermath of the crash I'm
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ready for call that run equipment
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belonging to Navy medics were found in
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the debris nor where mark Dennis's dog
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most alarming he reported there were not
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13 bodies recovered as claimed by the
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Navy
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I was very frustrated and I could not
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remember his name there are a lot of
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things that that were unsettling with
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him I was more concerned with mark
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naturally so that's what I remember the
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most but I do remember that he was he
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indicated things were happening there
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that he he didn't understand and
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bothered him based on Steve Wilcox his
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story the Dennis family chose to ignore
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the Navy's recommendation not to view
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the body they decided to have the
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remains exhumed because the body had
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been burned beyond recognition military
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procedure called for the uniform to be
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placed on top the remains were
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underneath wrapped in a plastic bag
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covered by a navy blanket
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jerry found dog tags pinned to the
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blanket the tag seemed brand new and
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still had sharp edges I immediately
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grabbed the dog tag to read it a
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neighbor and the dog tag something to my
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thumb actually drew blood and I
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immediately realized these dog dates
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were never worn or they would have cut
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your chest to ribbons
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Jerry also noticed curious burn marks on
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the tags they were not from here a
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copper crashed I was into the arson
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field I knew what the temperature is
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reached and that helicopter is it burned
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and melted down these dog tags were not
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many recovered Jerry Dennis once again
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contacted the Navy their initial
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response was that the tags must have
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been thrown from the helicopter and
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burned at a lower temperature later they
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arrived at a different conclusion the ID
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tags that are recovered from a crash
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site would have been brought to the
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mortuary with the remains but since it
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was not mentioned on the death
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certificate that ID tags were part of
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the identification process I had to
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assume that new ID tags were made at the
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army mortuary in Saigon that was
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standard policy at that time that is
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normal it is not normal to make up a dog
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tag and burn it to make it simulate that
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it was in a
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crash Jerry had lab technicians examine
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residue from the tags they concluded the
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tags had been charred in a low-grade
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fire under a controlled flame
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a forensic anthropologist determined at
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the height of the dead man's
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approximately five feet seven which
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corresponded with a Navy's estimate
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however in 1963 mark Dennis was measured
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at five feet nine and a half further his
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family claims that when he left for
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Vietnam three years later he had grown
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to six feet tall
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Jerry also ordered tests on scrapings
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taken from the remains the tests
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revealed traces of lead another
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inconsistency the body was not blown up
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in a Chinook helicopter because a
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Chinook helicopter uses jp4 jp-5 non
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literacy this body had been burned with
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regular gasoline what he failed to
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consider as possible other contaminants
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of lead in that incident were military
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radio batteries onboard the aircraft
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ammunition paint from the aircraft that
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kind of thing the standard reference
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used by the FBI states that they're also
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my dude presence of lead and occurs
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naturally in human bone we weren't
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talking about bone Morrow we're talking
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about the residues the smoke on the
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surface of the burn areas the bone the
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flesh the skull itself so they were
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comparing eggs and oranges in November
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1971 Gerry officially requested a change
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in marks status from killed in action to
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missing an action the Navy refused I was
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given a choice either accepting that
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body you know or if we refused to accept
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it
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the Navy was going to bury it in
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Arlington Cemetery with Marsh headstone
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oh and I decided to have no way in hell
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they're gonna do that two months later
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the Dennis family reburied the body in
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Miamisburg
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Jerry placed a ribbon upon the headstone
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it read the memory of one known only to
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God
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March 1973 the war in Vietnam was over
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the first prisoners of war began coming
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home the Dennis family prayed that mark
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would be among them he was not the
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arrival of the Vietnamese boat people in
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the late 1970s brought renewed hope
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stories of American GIs still being held
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captive in Vietnam for most of us a
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Vietnam War begun to fade by 1984 Jerry
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Dennis and the families of other men
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whose fate was still unknown the war
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raged on Jerry decided to renew his
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efforts and petitioned his congressman
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to investigate the circumstances
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surrounding Mark's death
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in 1981 pressure from Jerry's
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congressman forced the Navy into
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interviewing captain Gary Lucas the
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helicopter gunner who survived the crash
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in a signed affidavit Lucas stated the
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two men had jumped from the helicopter
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though he assumed they were killed the
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man who got out of this alive said men
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jumped out of the aircraft in enemy
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territory prior to the crash at least
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two he saw jump did he see it and the
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pilot said the smoke was so bad after
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the aircraft was hit he could not see to
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fly the helicopter or did he see two
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people move towards the rear of the
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aircraft to try and get away from the
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fire the fact remains that the all the
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remains of the holes that's perished on
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that aircraft were recovered
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when I first became involved in this it
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was a personal issue it was a brother
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Mark Dennis the kid they got left behind
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by the US government and it was a very
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personal thing everybody involved in
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this issue the family members start out
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that way but you don't remain that way
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very long over the next four years Jerry
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Dennis became increasingly active in
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national powa and m.i.a organizations he
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made numerous trips to Washington to
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plead his case then in December of 1986
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Jerry got another piece of compelling
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evidence and Marquette and not died on
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the crash
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this is a bracelet of Jerry's brother
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who the POWs the gentleman to my left
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really became absorbed in listening and
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I knew he was interested excuse me yes
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sir
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I didn't want to interrupt but I haven't
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overhear a part of your conversation my
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name is John King John I'm Jerry this is
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Gerald I heard you talking about the
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POWs well I was in the Air Force I
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happen to be a powa firm 66 to 69 I was
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moved around a lot four different camps
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and the last camp I was in it was a
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gentleman by the name of Dennis I said
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well what was his first name I don't
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know we all went by nicknames I said
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what was his nickname when he told me
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his nickname was preacher I get cold
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chills
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mark was very close to the church he
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talked about becoming a missionary
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before he went into service while in
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this service he had just written home in
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letters that his unit was separated and
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he was the acting chaplet for the group
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he was in he was proud of that here's a
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man telling us all these years later
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excuse me but that was distinct
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then we pulled out marks picture
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[Music]
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yeah yeah that's him you're sure I'm
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positive that's him
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it's what I'd been singing along could
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be probably was that he lived he
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definitely lived through the crash in 66
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the odds he was still alive especially
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if he was once captured as a medic he
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was useful to these people as a medic I
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basically feel I had become pretty good
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friends with mr. Jerry Dennis over the
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years since I've been working with him
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and I've made every effort on behalf of
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the Navy to try and convince him that we
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have a positive identification of his
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brother Mark's remains I get the
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impression from mr. Dennis that he still
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does not believe they are his brothers
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remains or for some reason doesn't want
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to believe it but I in my own heart feel
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that for sure we had the remains of Mark
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Dennis no matter what we come up with I
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swear if I'm marched Mark Dennis in to
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the United States Navy headquarters
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tomorrow they'd find some excuse to
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discredit his identification it doesn't
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matter what you present they aren't
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going to change did Mark Dennis die on
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the helicopter crash did he survive only
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to be taken prisoner by the North
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Vietnamese Jerry Dennis may never know
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who is buried in his brother's grave but
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if it isn't Mark Dennis and another
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family has never been able to put their
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son to rest
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whether Mark is alive today I don't know
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what condition he would be in where he
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would be I don't know but in my opinion
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no one else knows either except some
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Vietnamese who hold the keys but the
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point is Mark Dennis has a right a
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constitutional right to not be listed
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dead by the stroke of a pen he has a
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right to be accounted for he has a right
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to be demanded and that's never been
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done by our government for Mark Dennis
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after the story originally aired
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additional details emerge which may shed
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new light on the mystery of Mark Dennis
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we are contacted by the Department of
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the Army which sought to clarify some of
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the more controversial issues presented
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in our broadcast as we reported Jerry
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Dennis first became convinced that his
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brother might still be alive when
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Newsweek magazine published this
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photograph of an unidentified prisoner
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of war
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Jerry felt that it bore strong
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resemblance to mark six months later the
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Dennis family was told by the Navy that
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the man had been positively identified
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as Paul Galante a u.s. navy commander
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shot down over North Vietnam in 1966 and
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released from captivity in 1973
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nevertheless Jerry Dennis continued to
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press his case against the military I
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was in the Air Force I happen to be
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appeared of me myself from 66 to 69 16
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years later in 1986
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Jerry met a man named John King King
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presented himself as a former POWs had
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managed to escape he claimed to have met
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mark Dennis while both were in captivity
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that's him
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it is now known that the name John King
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is not officially listed as a powa in
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any branch of the military perhaps the
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most controversial aspect of the case
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concerns the remains exhumed for Mark
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Dennis's grave Jerry Dennis did not
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believe x-rays taken of those bones
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matched x-rays taken of his brother at
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the time of his enlistment with a
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cooperation of the US Department of the
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army we contacted dr. John Fitzpatrick
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an independent forensic radiologist to
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positively identify the body dr.
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Fitzpatrick examined the blow-up of a
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known x-ray of mark Dennis and an x-ray
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of the remains buried and Mark Dennis's
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grave when he compared three specific
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points from the x-rays he concluded that
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the bones had exactly the same
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configuration I compared the x-rays
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taken on the three vertebrae
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that were excavated from the site in
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Vietnam with the x-ray of mark Dennis
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the three vertebrae are identical
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there's enough unique about everybody no
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matter what we look at that no two
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people are alike and therefore the
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vertebrae are those of mark Dennis and
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this is a one on a percent
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identification
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after we receive dr. Fitzpatrick's
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analysis we contact a Gerry Dennis for
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his comments in spite of the new
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forensic findings Gerry still believes
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that his brother did not die when the
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Navy said he did the Department of the
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army considers a case of Mark Dennis
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closed next our viewers help capture
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Kenneth Robert Stafford one of the FBI's
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10 most wanted criminals recently the
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director of the FBI
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William sessions made a special appeal
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on unsolved mysteries to announce the
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latest addition to the FBI's ten most
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wanted list in 1964
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Kenneth Robert Stanton was convicted of
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child molestation and diagnosis a
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criminal sexual psychopath
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he was later declared fit to reenter
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society and was set free
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in 1989 statin was identified in Jackson
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Mississippi by a twelve-year-old girl he
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allegedly attempted to molest according
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to the girl
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Stanton gained entry into her home by
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posing as a policeman hi is your mother
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home no well I'm officer Tom Coles and
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with the local PD have a high IQ and
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he's very intelligent he's able to gain
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her confidence to get inside the house
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I'll be gone okay all right once he's
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inside and he's determined that the
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children or child is alone he the
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blindfolds and frequently quite often he
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uses eyedrops
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and a thermometer possibly for a
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distraction it's at that time then that
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he continues on and assaults the
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children according to the
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twelve-year-old girl step the flare when
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she began screaming after the Jackson
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Mississippi assault
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there were identifications of stem at
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Columbus Mississippi that's lost
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Tuscaloosa Alabama Leesburg Georgia
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Douglasville Georgia and Warner Robins
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Georgia after reviewing a number of
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these cases and looking at Stan's
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history from the early 1960s we were
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able to conclude that he apparently was
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a delightful on child molester and
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probably could be described as a serial
00:23:44
child molester
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update kenneth robert Stanton has been
00:23:50
captured within minutes of our broadcast
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several viewers called our tell us of a
00:23:55
report that Stanton was living in a
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trailer park in moraine Ohio with his
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wife he had been married just a few
00:24:00
weeks earlier local police and FBI
00:24:03
agents arrived to staff this trailer
00:24:05
only to learn that he himself had seen
00:24:07
our broadcast and fled Stanton's wife
00:24:10
and neighbors were stunned stay in the
00:24:17
yard just in case he come back no one
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said if I can run around the streets at
00:24:22
all does anything like I should be put
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away five days later Stephanie's
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identified Rock Hill South Carolina
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after he allegedly attempted to molest a
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nine-year-old girl based on seeing the
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segments on the program coupled with a
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police report we suspected as a strong
00:24:41
possibility but Stanton was in Rock Hill
00:24:43
or somewhere in this area and we
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proceeded on an assumption that he was
00:24:48
possibly staying at a local motel two
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days later
00:24:53
FBI agents spotted Stanton's car in the
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parking lot of this motel after
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identifying the vehicle we establish the
00:25:01
surveillance of the motel with FBI
00:25:04
agents in York County Sheriff's
00:25:05
Department detectives incredibly a check
00:25:09
with the motel office revealed as
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Stanton had registered under his own
00:25:12
name he had indicated to the clerk
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previously that he wanted to stay an
00:25:18
additional week but he also wanted to
00:25:20
move to the main building the clerk at
00:25:24
our direction called his room told him
00:25:28
the new room was ready and he could move
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when stanton emerged from his room we
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arrested him
00:25:34
we asked then his name he said you know
00:25:37
who I am and he indicated he was not a
00:25:40
threat to us that he was only a threat
00:25:42
to himself he did indicate that the
00:25:46
following day was his birthday
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[Music]
00:25:55
when we return the police are hunting
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for a suspect who they believe is
00:26:00
murdered at least five women July 31st
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1971 Nassau County New York 11:00 p.m. a
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20 year old Argentine man named Ricardo
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Caputo made a late-night call to the
00:26:25
police he told police to go to the home
00:26:38
of his girlfriend's parents her name was
00:26:41
Natalie Brown Caputo had been dating
00:26:45
Natalie for over a year and had told
00:26:47
authorities that he intended to marry
00:26:49
her I responded to the scene on Middle
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Neck Road it was a yes small college
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type Cape Cod house I went in the front
00:26:59
door and Emilio my left I saw a kitchen
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and in the kitchen was the body you have
00:27:03
Miss Brown she had been stabbed
00:27:09
repeatedly the room was covered with
00:27:11
blood it was really a vicious assault
00:27:15
was the worst I have a scene in Winnie's
00:27:17
G nice couple a lot of homicides in my
00:27:20
life during the time that Natalie and
00:27:21
Ricardo were seeing each other I never
00:27:24
saw any signs of volatile behavior on
00:27:29
his part both my father and mother
00:27:33
seemed to like him they got along with
00:27:35
him well they both thought he was a nice
00:27:36
boy badly Browns friends and family
00:27:40
describe her fiance as amiable and
00:27:42
attractive winning personality in the
00:27:46
case of Ricardo Caputo appearances were
00:27:48
more than deceiving they became a lethal
00:27:50
weapon police believe it since 1971
00:27:53
Caputo has employed his charms to kill
00:27:55
again and again and again after Caputo
00:28:01
was taken into custody for Natalie
00:28:03
Browns murder authorities learned that
00:28:05
before arriving in the United States in
00:28:07
1970 he had been treated for mental
00:28:09
illness in an Argentine Hospital the
00:28:14
psychiatric review ruled that Caputo was
00:28:17
incompetent to stand trial so he was
00:28:19
remanded to the Matawan State Hospital
00:28:21
in upstate New York
00:28:23
marijuana's a maximum-security
00:28:24
institution and it was there that caputo
00:28:27
would meet a 26 year old psychologist
00:28:29
named Judith Becker
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[Music]
00:28:35
very well thank you how are you there's
00:28:40
something I want to talk to you about
00:28:42
the other doctors and I were discussing
00:28:44
a project which would involve taking you
00:28:47
and a few other patients outside to grow
00:28:49
a garden I think I believe it was a
00:28:51
relationship a psychologist and a
00:28:57
patient she felt that her patients were
00:29:00
also her friends she wanted them to
00:29:03
trust her and I think she felt they had
00:29:06
to trust her in order to for her to be
00:29:10
able to help them becquer was charmed by
00:29:15
Caputo and over the next two years he
00:29:17
worked overtime to gain her trust
00:29:19
apparently he succeeded in speaking to
00:29:25
other inmates of Matawan state hospital
00:29:27
several of them stated that Ricardo
00:29:29
Caputo had been bragging that he was
00:29:31
going to use Judith Becker to gain his
00:29:34
freedom from Matawan state hospital in
00:29:38
1973 with Judith Becker's assistance
00:29:41
Ricardo Caputo managed to get
00:29:42
transferred out of marijuana to a
00:29:44
Manhattan psychiatric hospital it had
00:29:47
been two years since Natalie Brown had
00:29:49
been stabbed
00:29:52
this hospital is much less restrictive
00:29:55
than level allowed patients to leave the
00:29:57
facility during the day this new freedom
00:30:01
allowed Judith and Caputo to spend more
00:30:03
time together outside the hospital walls
00:30:05
today there is still a debate on just
00:30:08
how intimate they became from their
00:30:12
their relationship became romantic from
00:30:17
time to time he would leave the grounds
00:30:19
and go up to her apartment in Yonkers
00:30:22
Judy and Ricardo did not have a romantic
00:30:27
relationship
00:30:28
she never described it that way and I
00:30:33
believe she knew enough about her
00:30:35
profession and her patience to not have
00:30:38
allowed that to happen I think she felt
00:30:41
that he needed whatever help she might
00:30:45
be able to give him Judith even took
00:30:49
Caputo home to meet her family when we
00:30:53
met Ricardo she introduced him as a
00:30:56
fellow who worked with her at Matawan
00:30:58
she continued the relationship as a as a
00:31:02
friend and as a psychologist and as
00:31:05
somebody he could turn to and I don't
00:31:09
believe that she knew she was in as much
00:31:12
danger as she ultimately was
00:31:17
October 21st 1974 Judith had failed to
00:31:21
meet her parents as planned for a family
00:31:23
boating trip concerned they went to her
00:31:25
apartment did you dressed as they
00:31:29
located the super of the apartment
00:31:30
building and by the use of a passkey
00:31:33
allowed them to enter the apartment when
00:31:41
they entered the apartment where she
00:31:44
lived there was dinner for two on the
00:31:47
coffee table in the living room
00:31:50
and when they walked into the bedroom
00:31:52
they found their daughter lying on her
00:31:56
back in bed wearing only a half slip she
00:32:04
had been brutally beaten about the head
00:32:06
and strangled with one of her stockings
00:32:10
police believe that Caputo took Judas
00:32:12
car checkbook and some of her clothing
00:32:15
then he disappeared
00:32:18
San Francisco six months later
00:32:21
Ricardo Caputo had met another trusting
00:32:23
woman Barbara Taylor was a local book
00:32:28
editor these pictures were taken by
00:32:30
Barbara and Caputo on a romantic getaway
00:32:32
to Yosemite but on March 30th 1975
00:32:37
Barbara was discovered beaten to death
00:32:39
in her apartment Caputo's fingerprints
00:32:42
were found at the scene of the crime by
00:32:45
the time Barbara's body was discovered
00:32:47
Ricardo Caputo was nowhere to be found
00:32:51
five days later El Paso Texas
00:32:54
the search for Ricardo Caputo took a
00:32:56
dramatic turn a land calling and sulfur
00:32:59
kado Diaz was delivered into the hands
00:33:01
of US immigration by Mexican authorities
00:33:04
he was turned over the custody of US
00:33:07
officials and he was incarcerated at the
00:33:10
alien detention facility which is
00:33:12
located here in El Paso Texas it was
00:33:14
actually lockup there where he is being
00:33:16
detained no charges had been filed again
00:33:19
I guess ten of just an administrative
00:33:20
thing but first Diaz attracted little
00:33:24
attention until he was fingerprinted
00:33:27
he knew them but it would not take long
00:33:29
for his real identity to be uncovered
00:33:32
ricardo dia was in reality
00:33:35
Ricardo Caputo April 7th 1975 Bhutto and
00:33:44
three other detainees took the guard
00:33:46
hostage picked up makeshift weapons in
00:33:48
the kitchen
00:33:50
[Music]
00:33:57
the men then fled the compound and
00:33:59
crossed the border into Mexico in a
00:34:01
stolen car all the men were recaptured
00:34:06
with the exception of Caputo his
00:34:09
companions told police Caputo was headed
00:34:12
to Mexico City
00:34:15
there he moved in with a young 21 year
00:34:17
old college student by the name of Laura
00:34:20
Marie Gomez two years later
00:34:24
23 year old Laura Marie Gomez was found
00:34:26
dead in her Mexico City apartment miss
00:34:30
Gomez was found brutally beaten stomped
00:34:34
to death she had been tortured prior to
00:34:37
her death Laura Gomez was two and a half
00:34:40
months pregnant police believe the
00:34:42
killer and the father the same man
00:34:45
Ricardo Caputo handsome charming
00:34:49
intelligent has a violent temper which
00:34:53
usually results in homicidal outburst
00:34:56
says he's done this all over the United
00:34:59
States and in Mexico we have to consider
00:35:01
him may a serial killer incredibly
00:35:05
police believe ricardo caputo was killed
00:35:08
again on August 2nd 1983 60-year old
00:35:13
Jackie Bernard a prominent author and
00:35:15
social activist was found murdered her
00:35:18
throat crushed West Side Manhattan
00:35:20
apartment
00:35:22
On January 22nd 1985 a private
00:35:26
investigator hired by Jackie's fancy
00:35:28
received an anonymous home instead of
00:35:31
fiying Jackie's killer as Ricardo Caputo
00:35:34
the caller also said that computer
00:35:37
boasted about killing several other
00:35:40
women and also some men Jackie burnouts
00:35:45
residence our superintendent told Gordon
00:35:47
McEwen I was positive that he had seen
00:35:50
Caputo on the premises attempting to
00:35:52
gain entry into Jacqueline's apartment
00:35:54
the superintendent was absolutely
00:35:57
positive of his identification of Caputo
00:36:00
he even added that the hairline of
00:36:03
Caputo hair had receded somewhat he also
00:36:06
informed me that Caputo spoke with a
00:36:08
South American accent he was very
00:36:12
positive Caputo is a chameleon
00:36:17
he can change his identity he can change
00:36:20
his looks and he can kill and have no
00:36:23
remorse for having killed he's a good
00:36:25
con artist he's a smooth talker he could
00:36:30
function and probably just about any
00:36:31
situation he set his mind to go into I'd
00:36:34
hate to think that Ricardo will have the
00:36:36
opportunity to do it to another lady or
00:36:39
anybody else for that matter and I think
00:36:44
he'd be better off dead
00:36:56
[Music]
00:37:13
when we return an eerie tale of bizarre
00:37:16
lights in a Canadian sky a woman who is
00:37:19
filmed
00:37:19
[Music]
00:37:29
UFO sightings can usually be explained
00:37:31
away as airplane lights
00:37:33
weather balloons military maneuvers even
00:37:36
mass hysteria sightings sometimes gain
00:37:39
credibility when they were supported by
00:37:40
photographs which cannot be written off
00:37:42
as obvious hoaxes all of these
00:37:44
photographs and thousands like them have
00:37:46
been taken over the last 16 years in
00:37:48
Canada they baffle even the harshest
00:37:51
skeptic and raised two elegantly simple
00:37:53
questions how and why Vancouver British
00:38:01
Columbia the Pacific coast of Canada for
00:38:05
35 years this city has reported an
00:38:07
inordinate number of UFO sightings the
00:38:10
most frequent and well-documented of the
00:38:12
sightings have all been attributed to
00:38:14
one woman Dorothy eyes at a homemaker
00:38:17
and mother of four Dorothy's first
00:38:20
sighting occurred 16 years ago on
00:38:22
November 9th 1974 she was 52 years old
00:38:30
I was in the kitchen fixing myself a cup
00:38:33
of tea and I had a sensation that
00:38:36
something was watching me very strong
00:38:42
feeling so I went over to the window and
00:38:45
here was this enormous object sitting up
00:38:48
in the sky it looked like an enormous
00:38:51
diamond it was just flashing with going
00:38:53
around and around and around it was so
00:38:58
beautiful to look at that I thought I
00:39:00
was really lifted up it was absolutely a
00:39:03
wonderful feeling I wasn't afraid at all
00:39:06
you know I was I felt really privileged
00:39:09
to be able to see something like that at
00:39:13
that time Dorothy and her family lived
00:39:15
in Richmond a modest suburb of Vancouver
00:39:18
they considered themselves average
00:39:20
working-class people Dorothy's husband
00:39:23
and children took her UFO sightings
00:39:25
lightly almost as a joke their
00:39:27
skepticism motivated Dorothy to prove
00:39:30
which she had seen was not simply a star
00:39:32
or an airplane I say I must find some
00:39:38
way of communicating with this thing up
00:39:40
there so I picked up a flashlight and
00:39:43
said all right whatever I do with this
00:39:45
flashlight will you please imitate me
00:39:49
so I flashed the light three times to
00:39:52
the left and this object went three
00:39:54
times to the left
00:39:56
then I flushed it three times to the
00:39:58
right and the object went three times to
00:40:00
the right then I went three times
00:40:02
upwards II went three times upwards
00:40:04
three times downwards or three times
00:40:05
down wit was doing everything and
00:40:07
zigzagging and it went zigzag so I said
00:40:09
I'm not imagining this I said this is
00:40:10
really happening
00:40:11
so it's intelligent Dorothy was amazed
00:40:17
that the light seemed to be trying to
00:40:18
communicate with him so she attempted to
00:40:21
capture them on film
00:40:23
the results would be startling
00:40:30
what I saw in the sky was just round
00:40:32
objects of light rum balls of light but
00:40:37
what was on a film you'll see the balls
00:40:39
of light but after a couple of frames
00:40:42
there will be an enormous blast of light
00:40:45
this is actual footage from Dorothy
00:40:48
super 8 millimeter home movies
00:40:54
[Music]
00:40:58
on her home viewer Dorothea inched the
00:41:01
film back and forth until she isolated a
00:41:03
single bright frame but had it first
00:41:06
appeared to be a simple flash of light
00:41:07
was actually a maze of colored streaks
00:41:12
oddly like did not spill over onto
00:41:15
adjacent frames
00:41:16
I noticed that while I'm filming these
00:41:21
objects there suddenly stopped and then
00:41:23
notice one object like shooting out a
00:41:27
little beam at the other object and that
00:41:29
object was shooting out or being back at
00:41:31
it and so I guess it must be messages
00:41:34
are summarily passing back and forth on
00:41:36
these beams of light and then when I get
00:41:38
it developed how finally strange one
00:41:41
frame shots on it Dorothy had the single
00:41:45
frames of film blown up into photographs
00:41:47
bright kinetic beams careened in all
00:41:49
directions
00:41:50
she also blew up frames of the
00:41:53
mysterious balls of light these
00:41:55
photographs began to show more and more
00:41:57
curious detail sometimes their beam a
00:42:01
light down at me
00:42:02
they'll just beam this enormous light
00:42:04
down at me you know and I'll be all lit
00:42:07
up with this light I used to ask them to
00:42:10
come closer and closer cuz I wanted
00:42:12
better shots and they did you know like
00:42:14
come closer and closer
00:42:18
I don't think she's lying about what
00:42:21
she's doing I feel that she's quite
00:42:23
sincere on the other hand I am not able
00:42:27
to assess her her photographs
00:42:30
professionally because that's not part
00:42:32
of my expertise but her personality
00:42:36
makeup would make me believe that she's
00:42:39
not making things up like most UFO
00:42:43
sightings Dorothy's experiences and her
00:42:45
photographs seem to defy conventional
00:42:47
logic she says she used three different
00:42:50
cameras each one yielded similar results
00:42:55
we asked a photography expert to
00:42:57
evaluate Dorothy's film I have seen
00:43:01
several similar examples of photography
00:43:03
like this light sources in the sky with
00:43:06
dark backgrounds are quite easy to
00:43:09
manipulate but these are more
00:43:11
extraordinary in the sense that they
00:43:13
were done with a 8-millimeter camera a
00:43:15
motion picture camera rather than a
00:43:17
still camera and they have so many
00:43:19
different types of effects there's
00:43:22
images that I can't explain at all
00:43:25
explain how the lights got into the
00:43:28
individual frames
00:43:31
I can suggest ways that they could have
00:43:33
been put in intentionally but no ways
00:43:36
that they could accidentally have been
00:43:38
placed into the film I believe that
00:43:41
these images were produced by natural
00:43:44
occurring phenomenon in the night sky
00:43:46
and not by extraterrestrial beings or
00:43:50
unexplained objects
00:43:53
despite endless skepticism from the
00:43:55
scientific community
00:43:57
Dorothee eyes that has become an
00:43:59
internationally known figure in the
00:44:00
world of UFOs as dorothy's fame spread
00:44:04
people often came to visit her in
00:44:06
Vancouver one of them was Gerry Makai of
00:44:09
planning and marketing consultant he had
00:44:11
read an article about Dorothea and felt
00:44:13
strongly that he had to meet her I was
00:44:17
interested enough and moved enough by
00:44:18
that article that I really did just want
00:44:20
to find out more from my own interesting
00:44:22
I think it's healthy to be skeptical
00:44:24
because I was myself they didn't have
00:44:29
any previous experience with the subject
00:44:31
matter at all I didn't even realize up
00:44:33
until that point that I had as much of
00:44:34
an interest with it as it's turned out
00:44:36
that I do these are like daytime type
00:44:40
shots or they look like it is it or is
00:44:42
it just the type of lightning or
00:44:43
whatever when I was told to try and get
00:44:45
some pictures in the daytime as well and
00:44:47
that's why I got leaves I was listening
00:44:49
very intently to what she was saying at
00:44:51
which time I noticed that I was hearing
00:44:54
some kind of audible sensing thing that
00:44:57
was happening only in my right ear so
00:44:59
they know it's solid and it's not just
00:45:01
so excuse me Dorothy I don't mean to
00:45:02
interrupt you but I'm getting a strange
00:45:04
sensation in my ear here
00:45:06
losing what you're saying you can hear
00:45:09
that and I looked at her and I said yes
00:45:11
I can
00:45:11
what is it and this brilliant beam of
00:45:16
smile went from ear to ear on her face
00:45:19
and I remember the look that she gave me
00:45:21
and she said there here
00:45:27
Gerry Makai was the first person to say
00:45:30
he actually heard the same thing that
00:45:31
Dorothy heard
00:45:33
[Music]
00:45:36
I don't think any more than 15 or 20
00:45:38
seconds went by and she said do you see
00:45:41
it their sanctuary no I don't see
00:45:44
anything where you're looking I'm
00:45:46
looking straight ahead to cross the
00:45:48
sector's Bowl she goes no no look over
00:45:50
here to the left where I am to my
00:45:54
complete shock and amazement what
00:45:56
appeared to be sitting right out in
00:45:58
front of the window just to our left was
00:46:01
a hard metallic object I remember the
00:46:04
feeling was so intense it was like that
00:46:05
was standing in a vacuum and all my hair
00:46:07
was standing on it and as soon as it
00:46:11
disappeared Dorothy let out a giggle
00:46:13
that was like there you go what do you
00:46:18
think of that
00:46:19
Jerry commissioned an artist to draw
00:46:22
what he and Dorothy had seen he says he
00:46:24
was completely overwhelmed he did not
00:46:27
occur to him to try to photograph the
00:46:29
object
00:46:34
Dorothy has accumulated more than 25
00:46:36
hours of film and has had blow ups made
00:46:38
of 3,000 frames her enthusiasm remains
00:46:43
unabated and she continues to film
00:46:45
hoping that she can one day decipher the
00:46:47
meaning if any of the lights I feel
00:46:52
there is some sort of message and there
00:46:53
for us
00:46:54
they're trying to tell us something from
00:46:56
these pictures it seems like they're
00:46:59
coming closer and closer all the time
00:47:01
compared to the first pictures I used to
00:47:04
take and each picture now that I'm
00:47:07
getting is far more vivid it varies all
00:47:11
the time
00:47:16
my mission is to just keep filming I
00:47:21
guess and receiving these pictures for
00:47:23
as long as I am able to and hope that
00:47:27
one day someone somewhere will be able
00:47:30
to understand what it's all about
00:47:33
[Music]
00:47:40
when unsolved mysteries visited Dorothea
00:47:43
Isaac's home in Vancouver she told us
00:47:45
the lights were there and she filmed
00:47:46
them with her super 8 millimeter camera
00:47:48
we could not see the lights but our
00:47:50
cameraman attempted to film them anyway
00:47:52
he also asked Dorothy to operate his
00:47:55
camera the film from Dorothy's 8
00:47:57
millimeter camera showed the usual
00:47:59
brilliant light patterns when we
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developed our film we did find one tiny
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unidentifiable light in the sky but it
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exhibited none of the characteristic
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seen in Dorothy's photographs next week
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on unsolved mysteries in 1986 the body
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of 28 year old Debbie Wolfe was found in
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an oil room submerged in the icy waters
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of a pond near Fayetteville North
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Carolina
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the police ruled it an accidental
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drowning a family says it was murdered
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80 years ago conrad inna bolson boarded
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a train in wisconsin and was never seen
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again
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her granddaughter will not rest until
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she finds an answer did conrad ena
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simply run away or was she murdered
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we'll also bring you a dramatic update
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on our recent story of a female prison
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guard who fell in love with a convict
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and allegedly helped him escape join me
00:48:58
next week another edition unsolved
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