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Next on Unsolved
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Mysteries. On a North Carolina highway,
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four young men are stalked in a savage
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high-speed chase. What was the motive
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for this vicious hit and run
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killing? A forklift crushes the prime
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suspect in a young woman's
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disappearance.
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Was it an accident, suicide, or
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murder? Nazi leader Rudolph Hess was
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captured after his plane crashed in
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Scotland. Or was he? Some experts
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believe this man was an
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imposter. And a 7-year-old who has only
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hours to live is visited by a mysterious
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boy who seems to bring him back to life.
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Five stories of crime, deceit, and
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intrigue. I'm Dennis Fina, and this is
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Unsolved Mysteries. Join us.
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Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Tom Keer is a forklift driver at a wood
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processing plant on the outskirts of
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town. Just after the morning shift
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change, his co-workers notice something
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is
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wrong. When they reach Tom, they find
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his head has been crushed beneath the
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wheels of his fort. Let's go get the
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foreman.
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Tom was 29 when he died. He is survived
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by his wife Nancy and two children.
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Those are the facts that everyone can
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agree on, but the cause of his death is
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still a
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mystery. Tom's family believes that he
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was murdered, but the police have a very
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different
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theory. Their investigation concluded
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that Tom loaded the
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forklift, set it in
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motion, and then laid down in front of
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it.
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But why would Tom kill himself?
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Police believe that his death may be
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connected to the mysterious
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disappearance 4 days earlier of a woman
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named Tina
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Marquott. Connection or coincidence?
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Well, nobody knows for sure. Tom Keer
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and Tina Marott were casual friends who
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once worked for the same company. But
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one turned up missing and the other
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turned up dead.
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Tina Marott worked a late shift on
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Thursday at Black Hills Moldley. Shortly
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after midnight, she phoned her best
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friend, Vicky Riddle.
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I was already asleep and the phone rang
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and she was very upset. Hello, Vicki. My
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tire is flat. It's flat. Who is this?
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It's Tina. Look, I just finished my
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shift and now my tire is so flat that I
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can't even drive on it. Just give me a
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few minutes to get dressed and then I'll
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be right there.
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You know what? Hold on just a second.
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Somebody just pulled up. Let me go see
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who this is. Okay. Okay. But be careful.
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So, I waited and she went and talked to
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whoever it was.
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Hey, you don't have to come. Tom's here
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and he's going to give me a ride home.
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Tom who? You know Tom, you used to work
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here.
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I I'll talk to you later. It was the
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last time anyone spoke to Tina. Bye.
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Initially, no one even reported her
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missing. Patrick Gleason, Tina's living
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boyfriend of 11 years and the father of
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her three children, thought that she
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would soon return. Who it was? On
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Saturday morning, Patrick and Tom showed
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up at Vicky's house. According to Vicki,
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Tom became defensive when she mentioned
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Tina's last phone call. As far as I
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know, you're the only Tom that used to
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work with her. Tom tried to say I was
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drunk and went no Tom from Ron. And then
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I said, well, she said Tom the one that
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used to work here. And then we started
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talking about that and Tom finally
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admitted that he was the only Tom that
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he ever knew that worked there.
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He was just glaring at me and not acting
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himself.
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Patrick listened patiently and then
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asked Tom the obvious question. Tom,
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just be straight with me. You messing
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around with my old lady? Oh, man. You
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know me better than that.
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That right there didn't seem right to
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me. Because the way Tom was, if you
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tried to blame him for something that he
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didn't have anything to do with with it,
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he would have started fighting with me.
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That's the type of person he was.
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Patrick and Tom went together to report
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Tina missing. But when the police went
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to check on Tina's car, they discovered
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that the tire had been slashed with a
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knife. Thursday, it suggested foul play.
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Black Hills mold. After you dropped your
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friend off following the softball game,
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my car broke down on the way home. Tom
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Cter was asked to come in and he
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voluntarily came in to give his story.
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Uh he denied giving Tina a ride anywhere
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or even being out there. He stated that
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he had been at a softball game. He had
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given a a friend a ride home and his car
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had broken down and he had spent
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approximately 3 or four hours fixing his
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car under a street light.
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But Tom never called his wife to say
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that he'd been delayed. He finally got
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home at around 3:30 in the morning.
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Where were you? The car broke down.
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Tom's wife, Nancy, told us that when Tom
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got home that night that he immediately
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washed his clothes, which would have
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included his softball uniform as well as
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his shoelaces. And that led us to
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believe that that was suspicious
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behavior.
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3 days after Tina disappeared, the
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police interviewed Tom at the lumber
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yard. We found a suspicious stain in
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your car.
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Oh man. The next morning, Tom Keer was
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dead.
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You got to call somebody.
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Hurry up. Go call the foreman. In my
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opinion, Tom Cter took his own life in
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an attempt to make it look like an
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accident in order for his family to
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receive some sort of benefits. I believe
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that Tom was very overwhelmed as to what
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was taking place and he needed a way
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out. Tom's wife, Nancy, disagrees.
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Tom wouldn't do that. He wouldn't leave
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me and the kids. He He would not do
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that. I I won't ever believe that.
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Nancy is convinced that someone attacked
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Tom in the lumberyard and then crushed
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him under his own forklift. I believe he
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was murdered. I just wish the the police
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would investigate this more instead of
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closing um my husband's case cuz there
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there are leads in this case. Um and I
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don't believe they followed up on them.
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There were no drag marks to indicate
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that anybody had had drugg him. He
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weighed approximately 200 lb. would have
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been difficult to carry him and there
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was no signs of a struggle in the area.
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So, in my opinion that I don't I don't
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believe the the murder theory. But the
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police do believe that Tom murdered Tina
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Marquott. They think that on the night
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Tina disappeared, Tom showed up outside
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of her office.
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I believe that Tina's tire was
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intentionally slashed in order to keep
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her from leaving the place. I I don't
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believe that Tom's appearance out there
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at 12:30 was coincidence. I think that
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was planned. It's Tina. Look, I just
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finished my shift and now my tire is so
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flat that I can't I think Tom was out
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there waiting for her when she got off
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of work. The only thing
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that really failed in the whole plan was
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that she was on the phone when he drove
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up. Great. Thanks.
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According to the police theory, Tom made
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sexual advances towards Tina. When he
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was rejected, he became enraged and
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killed her. What are you doing over
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here?
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They have no evidence
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or anything to leak Tom into Tina's
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disappearance. They have nothing.
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update.
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There are new developments in this case.
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Here's one of our staff with details.
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4 and a half years after Tom Keer's
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death, his wife finally received
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insurance death benefits. A judge ruled
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there was not enough evidence to prove
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that Tom had committed suicide.
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16 months after Kina Marquott
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disappeared, her body was found under a
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wood pile at Tom's workplace. She had
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been hit on the head with a blunt
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object. Detectives continued to
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investigate this case for the next 8
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years. They now consider the case
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closed. Up next, Adolf Hitler's second
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in command spent 40 years in a prison,
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but some say that he was an impostor.
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1933 Adolf Hitler seizes total power in
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Germany. By his side is his closest
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confidant, Deputy Reich's viewer,
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Rudolph
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Hess. Today, Hess is at the center of
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one of the most remarkable mysteries of
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World War II.
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Rudolph Hess is in Britain. The story
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begins with this shocking 1941 news
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reel. The world is astounded to learn
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that Rudolph Hess has been captured in
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Scotland. While trying to deliver a
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secret peace proposal to contacts in the
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British
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government Rudolph Hess. After the war,
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Hess is returned to Germany and
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sentenced to life in prison for war
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crimes. to imprisonment for life.
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And then 40 years later, he is found
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dead in the prison garden. Though his
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death is officially declared a suicide,
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his family and some experts are
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convinced that he was murdered.
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I have no sympathy for the Nazi past or
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any crimes that Hess may have committed,
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but he was a human being and he deserves
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the dignity at least to find out if he
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was murdered, who did it.
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The Hess affair is a tangle of
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accusations and rumors. Was the man in
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prison for 40 years truly an impostor?
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And if he was murdered, who had a
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motive? The answers may reveal a
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conspiracy at the highest levels of the
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British
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government. The man called Rudolph Hess
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was incarcerated in Berlin Spandal
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prison from 1947 until his death in
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1987.
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He was a loner and made no friends.
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The X-rays are fine. In
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1973, British surgeon Hugh Thomas did a
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full physical examination of Hess. He
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expected to find scars from the severe
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bullet wounds that Hess had received in
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the First World War.
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There were no
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scars, no bullet wounds, nor was there
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any evidence of an
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operation. They're not things that you
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can
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miss. So, I'm left with a situation
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whereby a man
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has total evidence in surgical terms of
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no wounding and total evidence in
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documentary terms of such wounding. It
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can't be the same man.
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If the man Dr. Thomas examined at Spando
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was not Rudolph S, then who was he? The
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answer may lie in a series of events
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that took place in May of 1941.
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On May 10th, Rudolph Hess told his wife
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that he planned to fly to Berlin for a
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critical meeting.
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Records show that he took off the same
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day in a Meers plane marked
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NJC11. He was tracked by German radar
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and defense controllers right across
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Germany and across occupied Europe. and
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just after half 7 that evening was lost
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to German radar going north over the
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North
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Sea. 4 and 1/2 hours after Rudolph Hess
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left Germany, a lone measurement was
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picked up on British radar heading
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towards
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Scotland. That evening, a Scottish
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farmer caught sight of a plane about to
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crash.
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Right, pal. Hands up.
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The pilot said his name was Alfred Horn.
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He asked for a meeting with the Duke of
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Hamilton, a member of the British
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Parliament who lived in the
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area. Surprisingly, the man carried no
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identification. But he was wearing the
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uniform of a Luwaffa officer. I am here
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for a peace.
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The next morning, a meeting was arranged
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with the Duke of Hamilton, then an
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officer in the Royal Air Force.
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How you were, gentlemen? Hamilton had
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met Hess briefly years before, and he
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was convinced that this man was Hess,
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but some historians disagree.
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They believe that Hitler and other
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members of the Nazi elite used doubles
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for security reasons and that a double
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was used to impersonate Hess on the
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flight to
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Scotland. Photographs taken upon Hess's
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departure support this theory. They
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appeared to show a different plane from
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the one that crash landed in Scotland.
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The plane that took off in Germany was
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marked
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NJC11. The plane that landed in Scotland
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was marked on the side of the fuse
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lounge VJ or
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NJOQ, a totally different plane.
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British researchers know that that
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aircraft was based at a a fighter
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airfield in northern Denmark called
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Alberg. It was tracked in from that
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direction and there really seems no
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reason to to doubt that it came from
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Denmark rather than Germany.
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And there is more evidence that the real
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Hess was replaced by a double. The real
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Rudolph Hess was a skilled pilot. Yet
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the man who flew to Scotland made many
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basic mistakes.
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The man who approached Britain and flew
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over Scotland was an amateur in every
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sense of the word. He did everything
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wrong. He approached the British coast
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at the ideal height to be intercepted by
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radar instead of under it. Then he power
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dived using far too much fuel and then
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he flew at only 50 ft across the
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Scottish borders. Now that meant that uh
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people on the ground could observe the
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aircraft and track it every step of the
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way. But the pilot was too low to even
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pick up his landmarks. So whoever he
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was, he was an amateur pilot.
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If the man who landed in Scotland was a
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double, how and why was this deception
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engineered? Next, a possible murder to
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keep the H cover up a secret and a
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conspiracy that could go to the highest
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levels of government.
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During World War II, a man claiming to
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be Nazi leader Rudolph Hess was captured
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in Scotland. He died in prison 46 years
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later. Yet many now doubt that the man
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was really Rudolph
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Hess. Was he a body double? And if so,
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why? From the beginning, Rudolph Hess
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was Hitler's closest confidant. But by
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the beginning of World War II, others
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were competing for Hitler's
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attention. Hess's biggest rival was the
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head of the dreaded
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SS Hinrich
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Himmler. Hess had come to power purely
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by being one of the first of Hitler's
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loyal
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supporters. In such a position, he was
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obviously a threat to Himmler, who
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aspired to gain control of all of life.
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So in essence he was part of a power
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struggle and from that point of view he
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was hated.
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In early 1941 Hitler's inner circle
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including Himmler was planning the
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invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Hess argued that Germany should make a
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secret peace with England before this
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attack, but Himmler may have been a step
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ahead of
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him. Himmler may have recruited a body
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double for Hes and waited for a chance
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to replace him.
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And he used this double to actually
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supplant Hess, get rid of Hess, kill off
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Hess and put the double into England to
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contain to carry over peace proposals to
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the English hierarchy.
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According to this theory, if the
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double's mission had been successful,
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Himmler would have stepped in, finished
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the negotiations, and taken the
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credit. But the plan didn't work.
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Churchill refused to meet with Hess and
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the peace proposal was
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rejected. Despondent, Hess attempted
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suicide a few days later. And then he
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claimed amnesia and refused to answer
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any questions from investigators and
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psychiatrist.
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Rudolph Hess. When the war ended, Hess
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was brought home to Germany for the
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Nuremberg trials.
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At the time, two of Hess's former
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secretaries were brought in to meet with
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him. Officials hoped to jog his memory.
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The prisoner's most significant lack of
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recognition is that of his secretaries.
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That
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is one of them showed him a picture of
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his son whom he didn't recognize. Yet
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he'd carried a picture of that son with
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him supposedly on his flight to England.
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So the man was behaving in a very
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bizarre fashion.
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The two secretaries left upset, but were
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still sure that the man they had met was
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Rudolph
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Hess. Hess was sentenced to life
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imprisonment in a converted fortress in
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West Berlin. His new home was to be
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jointly administered by the United
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States, Britain, France, and the Soviet
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Union. One by one, Spandal's six other
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Nazi prisoners died or were released.
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But Rudolph Hess had his freedom blocked
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by a Soviet veto. For the last 11 years
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of his life, he was Spandal's only
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prisoner at a cost of over $1 million
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per year.
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Rudolph has loved to walk in the garden.
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This long trail about 267 paces
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around. For the first two years in my
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talking with Hess, I never got beyond
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food, health, and weather. He lived in
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this
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eggshell. Time seemed to have stood
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still for him since 1941, since his
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flight. And though Hess was in prison in
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his native Germany, he refused all
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visits from his wife and son for the
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first 28 years. The reason why he didn't
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accept visits beforehand was simply that
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the surrounding and the circumstances
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under which these visits take place in
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Chwanda were so bad that he said it's
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better not to see each other and to
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write. And after having paid these
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visits after 1969, I can only completely
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agree with him.
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In December 1969, he finally agreed to
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meet with his family. During this
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reunion, they were not allowed to touch
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one another or to discuss the past.
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Despite the fact that she felt his voice
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was lower in pitch, Fra has still felt
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that the man at Spandal was her husband.
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difficult for me in prison. I have the
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impression that my father was keeping
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some secret which he was not able to
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relieve to anybody. This is the reason
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why he was kept so long in prison and
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finally was murdered in prison.
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Hess lived to the age of 93. On the day
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he died, he went out as usual for his
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daily walk.
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He was accompanied by an American guard,
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but according to the official record,
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the guard became
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distracted. Several minutes later, he
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went looking for his prisoner.
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He found Hess lying on the floor of a
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garden shed with a thick electrical cord
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wrapped around his neck.
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Couple of seconds. The official inquiry
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declared that Rudolph Hess had committed
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suicide, but almost immediately charges
00:24:01
surfaced that Hess had been murdered.
00:24:05
Now there are so many things against him
00:24:08
committing suicide. He could hardly open
00:24:11
his hands because of arthritis that he
00:24:15
was suffering under. He's going to have
00:24:17
to raise those hands, isn't he? Above
00:24:19
his head to put that cord around
00:24:23
something to hang himself. He wasn't
00:24:26
capable of doing
00:24:28
that. I think he was murdered.
00:24:32
Disturbingly, the cable that was
00:24:34
actually used to murder him was the
00:24:37
first thing to be destroyed on the
00:24:40
specific orders of the British military
00:24:42
governor. And the British military
00:24:44
governor also ordered the shed burnt
00:24:48
down. As well as that, they refused all
00:24:51
measures of identification of the
00:24:53
prisoner.
00:24:56
The Hess family insisted on another
00:24:58
autopsy and hired Dr. for Wolf Gang
00:25:01
Shawn, a well-known German forensic
00:25:03
pathologist.
00:25:06
The degree of deep bruising and
00:25:08
fracturing of the bones in the neck also
00:25:11
indicates that he was strangled very
00:25:13
forcibly. Dr. Thomas is convinced that
00:25:16
the prisoner at Spandow was murdered
00:25:19
before his release. The purpose to keep
00:25:22
him from revealing the treasonous
00:25:24
conduct of his secret British contacts
00:25:27
during the war. If the prisoner had ever
00:25:32
revealed his part in these
00:25:36
negotiations, it would have led to the
00:25:38
exposure of 30 extremely powerful
00:25:43
personages whose relatives are still in
00:25:47
control of much of British finance and
00:25:50
government. And that would be totally
00:25:55
and utterly unacceptable to any British
00:25:58
government.
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If the prisoner at Spandal was Rudolph
00:26:04
Hess, as his family and authorities
00:26:06
claim, then why were there no scars on
00:26:09
his chest from his World War I bullet
00:26:11
wounds? Why did his plane take off from
00:26:14
Germany with one set of serial numbers
00:26:17
and land in Scotland with another? But
00:26:20
if the prisoner at Spandanda was an
00:26:23
impostor, why did he remain silent for
00:26:26
46 years? Prisoner number seven is
00:26:29
buried in this small Bavarian cemetery.
00:26:33
But who really lies in this grave?
00:26:36
Rudolph Hess or an impostor? The
00:26:40
inscription on the grave reads simply,
00:26:43
"It was worth the risk."
00:26:46
History may never know what those words
00:26:49
really
00:26:51
mean. After several years, the British
00:26:54
government released a few selections
00:26:56
from the official file, but the bulk of
00:26:59
the material on the case of Rudolph Hess
00:27:02
will remain locked up until the year
00:27:07
2016. Coming up, a high-speed assault
00:27:10
leaves one man dead and three others
00:27:13
badly injured.
00:27:24
Kurdsville,
00:27:28
Missouri. One October night, Charlie
00:27:30
Sigman showed up at the home of his
00:27:32
aranged wife Anne and her boyfriend Gary
00:27:36
Goff. According to Anne, Charlie arrived
00:27:39
in a drunken rage and forced his way
00:27:41
into the house. Once inside, Anne claims
00:27:44
that Charlie began to beat her severely.
00:27:48
Then Gary Goff came to her rescue.
00:27:51
Despite having a broken arm, Gary fought
00:27:54
with Charlie and then shot him seven
00:27:59
times. Charlie died before police
00:28:02
arrived. I was yelling. During
00:28:05
questioning by police, Anne and Gary
00:28:07
claimed that the shooting was in
00:28:09
self-defense. No charges were filed and
00:28:12
the two were
00:28:15
released, but authorities were still
00:28:17
suspicious of Anne Sigman and Gary
00:28:22
Goff. They continued to investigate.
00:28:25
Finally, they convinced one of Sigman's
00:28:28
friends to wear a hidden microphone. I
00:28:31
will wait until tomorrow and then I'll
00:28:33
call her. She had in talking with Miss
00:28:35
Sigman had told her she was fixing to go
00:28:37
to the police. Miss Sigman ultimately
00:28:39
told her not to go to the police or
00:28:41
asked her not to go to the police and
00:28:42
give her time to her and Mr. Goff time
00:28:44
to leave
00:28:45
town. She incriminated herself on the
00:28:49
tape. Arrest warrants were issued for
00:28:51
both Anne Sigman and Gary Goff, but the
00:28:54
couple had
00:28:57
disappeared.
00:28:59
Update. After more than 2 years on the
00:29:02
run, Gary Goff turned himself in and
00:29:04
pleaded guilty to seconddegree murder.
00:29:07
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison
00:29:09
and was released after serving just over
00:29:13
13. But Anne Sigman has never been
00:29:16
caught. There is a warrant out for her
00:29:18
arrest for firstdegree murder. She may
00:29:22
be living in Oregon or Arizona under the
00:29:25
alias Andy Hayes or Andy
00:29:29
Part. If you have any information,
00:29:32
please log on to our website at
00:29:34
unsolved.com.
00:29:40
Few of us will ever face the terror of
00:29:43
being attacked, but it does happen.
00:29:46
You're about to meet four young men who
00:29:48
felt that terror, and police need your
00:29:50
help to find the hit-and-run killer who
00:29:52
assaulted
00:29:55
them. Greensboro, North Carolina.
00:30:00
19-year-old Ken Dunie hurried to join
00:30:03
three of his best friends to do some
00:30:05
lastminute Christmas shopping in
00:30:07
Raleigh. It had been a good year for all
00:30:10
of them. Hey man, what's happening?
00:30:12
[Music]
00:30:15
The driver, 17-year-old Leverne Allen,
00:30:19
had just received a scholarship to the
00:30:21
Air Force Academy. It was a dream come
00:30:24
true.
00:30:26
You got the $50.
00:30:28
Ken Dunie was a drafting and engineering
00:30:31
student headed for college in the fall.
00:30:35
17-year-old Kenneth Newkerk had just
00:30:39
received a scholarship to a local
00:30:42
college. And 17-year-old Darius
00:30:44
Bannerman was a high school basketball
00:30:47
star with a promising future.
00:30:52
On their way to the shopping mall, the
00:30:54
four passed the car driven by a man
00:30:56
named Grady
00:30:59
Alexander. When they went by me, they
00:31:01
were doing about 60
00:31:04
65. I looked over and one of the boys
00:31:08
saw me looking at him. He grinned and
00:31:09
waved. The car kept on going. After
00:31:13
that, another car came off me very
00:31:16
fast. And as he got by me, I happened to
00:31:19
look down at the license plate and I
00:31:21
said a redneck from Georgia because his
00:31:23
hair was looks like it's dirty and
00:31:25
greasy and stringy and he's probably
00:31:28
doing 75 or 80.
00:31:32
A few moments
00:31:34
later, close, man. That's really close.
00:31:39
What's Can you speed up, man? Can you
00:31:40
speed up? When I looked in the rearview
00:31:42
mirror, I saw a car and uh he was so
00:31:46
close to me, I could not see his front
00:31:49
bumper. At first, I just thought it was
00:31:52
uh somebody just tailgating.
00:31:55
[Music]
00:31:58
Hey,
00:31:59
man. Let's get over. He bumped us and it
00:32:04
didn't seem as though this was all
00:32:07
happening. It just seemed it was
00:32:09
like
00:32:12
horror. Traffic was moving fast and we
00:32:16
speed it up to get away from the guy.
00:32:22
The man driving the Monte Carlo, he had
00:32:25
a look like we had done something
00:32:28
personal to him, like mad.
00:32:35
It just looked like he wanted to hurt
00:32:39
us.
00:32:48
[Applause]
00:32:52
[Music]
00:33:01
minutes later, police and paramedics
00:33:03
arrived at the accident
00:33:07
site. They found a horrific
00:33:10
scene. Leverne Allen was trapped in the
00:33:13
car for half an hour after being
00:33:15
airlifted to a trauma center. His leg
00:33:18
was amputated at the
00:33:20
thigh. Ken Newkerk had suffered a
00:33:23
fractured skull and a broken leg. Tell
00:33:25
me your name. What's your name? Various
00:33:27
Bannerman had a broken wrist and facial
00:33:30
injuries. Ken Dunie was pronounced dead
00:33:34
at the scene.
00:33:38
Beth Velicette was the first reporter to
00:33:41
arrive. She spoke with witnesses who
00:33:43
described the assault.
00:33:46
Both of the eyewitnesses said that after
00:33:49
the car, black car went off the road,
00:33:52
the Monte Carlo did pull over to the
00:33:54
side. Come on. A man and a woman got out
00:34:00
just for a moment and looked back and
00:34:02
then they just got back in the car and
00:34:04
drove off.
00:34:07
I swear he laughed when he got in the
00:34:08
car and left. I swear he did. Georgia
00:34:11
plates. Georgia plates.
00:34:14
We asked an artist to sketch a composite
00:34:16
of the Hidden Run driver based on
00:34:18
eyewitness testimony. The man had a
00:34:21
mustache and brown stringy hair. He was
00:34:24
traveling with a woman who had blonde
00:34:26
hair.
00:34:28
I know how it happened. I know when it
00:34:30
happened, but I don't know why it
00:34:33
happened. Until I understand that, it
00:34:36
would never be to ask.
00:34:41
If you have any information about this
00:34:43
case, please log on to our website at
00:34:51
unsolved.com. Next, a gravely ill child
00:34:54
makes a sudden recovery under some very
00:34:57
mysterious circumstances.
00:35:09
Philadelphia,
00:35:11
Pennsylvania. Dad, come. Nancy and Chuck
00:35:14
McGyvern respond to their oldest son's
00:35:16
calls for
00:35:18
help. Their 7-year-old son, Chucky, has
00:35:22
been in bed with chickenpox. To their
00:35:24
horror, he has slipped into a coma.
00:35:29
And he is ice cold.
00:35:33
They rush him to a hospital. Doctors
00:35:35
work to stabilize him only to discover
00:35:38
that his brain is dangerously swollen.
00:35:43
The doctor warned me when I went in
00:35:46
there. He says, "When you see him, he's
00:35:48
going to look like he's dead." His skin
00:35:51
was so hard and cold and pure white and
00:35:54
just his liver, everything was just
00:35:56
hooked up to everything. And I was
00:35:58
shocked. I was really shocked.
00:36:01
Chucky's diagnosis was grim. He had rise
00:36:05
syndrome, a rare disease of the nervous
00:36:08
system, brain, and liver that is often
00:36:11
fatal.
00:36:12
Steven, please come to Nancy and Chuck
00:36:14
were soon joined by other family
00:36:16
members, some of whom brought religious
00:36:19
medals for comfort and healing. Nancy's
00:36:23
cousin gave her a medallion from the
00:36:25
robe of St. John
00:36:28
Newman, the patron saint of vocations.
00:36:32
You remember when I was in that car
00:36:33
crash in Italy? This was in my pocket
00:36:36
and I swear it saved my life.
00:36:40
John Newman was a beloved Catholic
00:36:42
priest and the bishop of Philadelphia in
00:36:45
the mid 19th
00:36:47
century. After his death, people began
00:36:50
praying to him for blessings and many
00:36:52
healing miracles were attributed to him.
00:36:56
so many that in
00:36:58
1977, John Newman was declared the first
00:37:01
American male
00:37:04
saint. Nancy was willing to try anything
00:37:07
to save her son. She pinned several
00:37:10
medals, including the one showing John
00:37:12
Newman, to Chucky's
00:37:18
pillow. But Chucky didn't improve
00:37:24
after a day or two. like his lungs
00:37:26
collapsed, pneumonia set in, and there
00:37:30
was two nurses, and they didn't know I
00:37:32
was there in the room. They were behind
00:37:34
this this door there. And when I came
00:37:36
in, I heard them say, "He's not going to
00:37:38
make it."
00:37:41
Chucky's parents could do nothing but
00:37:43
hope. And then the next morning,
00:37:45
Chucky's father had an odd encounter in
00:37:47
the hospital waiting
00:37:49
[Applause]
00:37:50
room. It was like 11:00 or something
00:37:53
like that.
00:37:55
And I was uh watching TV and uh all of a
00:37:58
sudden this little boy walks
00:38:00
in. He looks at everybody in the room
00:38:03
and he looks stares at
00:38:05
me. I'm staring at him thinking, you
00:38:08
know, I mean his parents are going to
00:38:09
come in next and I'm wondering why like
00:38:11
why is he by himself? And he just walked
00:38:16
out. So later that day the nurse comes
00:38:20
up and says, "We had a little incident.
00:38:21
We don't want you to get worried, but uh
00:38:24
a little boy came to visit Chucky.
00:38:27
I came to see Chucky. How did you get in
00:38:30
here? I only wanted to see Chucky. Wait,
00:38:33
wait. Come back here. Wait, wait a
00:38:34
second. Excuse me, doctor.
00:38:41
Less than an hour later, the impossible
00:38:44
happened.
00:38:53
Chucky. Chucky.
00:38:57
To his parents, it was a miracle. Within
00:39:00
hours, Chucky would be awake and off
00:39:04
life support.
00:39:06
From being very low where you think,
00:39:08
well, my son might die to he came
00:39:11
through. It was it was like great. I
00:39:13
mean every we were calling everybody on
00:39:15
the phone that he was getting better and
00:39:17
you know but he got better so fast it
00:39:19
was unbelievable.
00:39:21
There you go. Chucky began telling his
00:39:23
parents about a dream he had while
00:39:26
unconscious. He described the same boy
00:39:28
that his father and his doctor had seen
00:39:31
in the hospital.
00:39:33
I remember when I got up, I was sort of
00:39:36
confused because I didn't understand if
00:39:39
I that was all a dream or did that
00:39:42
actually happen. Well, there were lots
00:39:44
of kids in the room giving me presents
00:39:47
and you and dad were here, too.
00:39:51
And all these Asian kids would surround
00:39:54
me, coming in and out, giving presents
00:39:56
of all sorts. But there was one boy
00:39:59
particular who was uh stayed by my
00:40:01
bedside. Everything's going to be all
00:40:04
right to me. This boy in my dream was my
00:40:07
best friend and uh um he he he was like
00:40:11
the strength for me and at all times
00:40:13
when I wasn't feeling like in the dream
00:40:15
when I wasn't maybe not feeling so good,
00:40:17
he was there to make sure everything was
00:40:19
all right.
00:40:21
One week after he had lapsed into a
00:40:23
coma, Chucky McGyvern was released from
00:40:26
the hospital. High five. The doctor said
00:40:30
they never had anybody so gravely ill
00:40:33
recover so fast. And 3 months later, we
00:40:36
went back and they went through
00:40:39
everything and he came out like he was
00:40:41
never sick is what the doctor said. Like
00:40:43
nothing ever happened to him.
00:40:45
St. John Newman. Two weeks after Chucky
00:40:48
left the hospital, his parents took him
00:40:50
to the shrine of St. John Newman in
00:40:53
Philadelphia. Of St. John Newman. when
00:40:56
he died as bishop of Philadelphia in
00:40:58
1860.
00:41:08
What is it, honey? That was my best
00:41:10
friend in my dream in the hospital. Are
00:41:13
you sure? Yeah, I'm sure. Watch him. The
00:41:16
McGivers were amazed when they realized
00:41:19
that the portrait was of St. John Newman
00:41:23
as a boy.
00:41:24
I was so taken back. I then I started
00:41:27
thinking it really hit me that something
00:41:30
happened here that St. John Newman
00:41:33
interceded for him in some way there was
00:41:36
some kind of a connection there.
00:41:41
It's hard to believe. I don't know
00:41:43
why. He's just like any other kid at his
00:41:46
age. But there must be a reason for it.
00:41:49
I don't know. The reason why St. genuine
00:41:52
came to my aid. I have no idea. Um,
00:41:55
that's something I'll never never be
00:41:57
able to explain, but I I know like St.
00:42:00
John will always like be there for me,
00:42:02
which is always good. You know, I know
00:42:04
will always be like near my side.
00:42:08
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