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