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DENNIS FARINA: Next on Unsolved Mysteries.
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When a woman is murdered in a deserted parking lot,
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her family is convinced that she was
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killed by her business partner.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Legend says they were gunned down in Bolivia.
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But some believe that Butch escaped.
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Two restaurant owners compete for the same customers.
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One of them winds up dead.
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And a young boy is tortured and torn by demonic spirit.
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Can an exorcism save?
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Five compelling cases.
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Some just waiting to be solved and maybe, you hold the key.
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I'm Dennis Farina and this is Unsolved Mysteries.
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Webster, Texas.
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This much is known.
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Joan Jefferies died alone and scared in a suburban parking
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lot.
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The killer shot her twice in the head at close range.
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Then he fired two more times.
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Both bullets pierced her heart.
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No one has ever been charged with the murder
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of Joan Jefferies.
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But her family is sure they know exactly who killed her.
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A former business partner named Sam Patel.
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I did not kill Joan.
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I had no reason to kill Joan.
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I had no reason whatsoever.
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Hey, Sam.
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Hey Joan.
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DENNIS FARINA: Joan was a clerk at an aerospace firm
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in Houston.
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Sam Patel also worked there as a software engineer.
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But he had much bigger plans.
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We'll talk about a new business
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I'm getting involved in.
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DENNIS FARINA: The company would be called Best Aviation.
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A commuter airline for gamblers.
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But a few investors, but I think I'll
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need you for public relations.
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KELLEY WALKER: When Sam initially offered this position
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to my mother, she was, of course flattered and excited
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because the money was very good.
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At this file, I have set up for all correspondence.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel hired Joan to help start the company.
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She was also on its board of directors.
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Come to it any time you can find.
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DENNIS FARINA: Though Patel was married,
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he and Joan often met at the home of his girlfriend.
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RICHIE GUYOTE: Sam had arranged marriage.
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He had told me that he could not get a divorce.
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And so we lived as boyfriend and girlfriend.
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Thank you.
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You guys made me think of it.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel told Joan that overseas investors
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would be funding Best Aviation within a few months.
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Meanwhile, he wanted to get life insurance for the company's
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key employees.
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Joan herself was insured for a quarter of a million dollars.
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SAM PATEL: The initial idea was presented
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from the investor group because they wanted assurances.
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That if something happened to one of the key people
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in the organization, that the company could function
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and that they would recover their investment.
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Basically she's a secretary and I can't
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see that as a key point person.
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It just didn't-- nothing sounded right about that.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel agreed to pay Joan a monthly salary.
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But in the next seven months, she received only
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one check and that one bounced.
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Sam, I want out.
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Why, Joan?
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Because there's no money, Sam.
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No, there's money.
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DENNIS FARINA: Kelley claims that her mother
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wanted to quit but Patel convinced her to stay.
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It's all right.
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Just be honest with me.
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SAM PATEL: Joan never approached me and said that she
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wanted to leave the business.
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There was a time when she said, "Hey,
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look this isn't working out and I don't like it."
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She did come up and say that and the compromise
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we had come up with was fine.
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You can continue to be part time until you feel comfortable
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and we'll go out and get somebody
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else to work part time also.
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OK?
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All right, please.
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All right.
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DENNIS FARINA: But by then, Joan's back wages
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totalled close to $4,000.
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Two weeks later, Patel showed up at her apartment,
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late at night.
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You'll never believe what he just did.
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He brought the check.
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You have it?
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Well no, I don't have it.
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He had to take it out and get a copy.
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KELLEY WALKER: She said that he had to go get
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this certified check xeroxed.
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Which was odd to her and me.
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Sam?
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Hi.
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Look Joan, I tried, but I just couldn't find a Xerox machine.
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And I don't have a car, so I need to use the phone, please.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel told Joan that if he couldn't get a ride,
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that she should take him home.
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So I can get a ride home.
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Kelley, I've got to go.
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KELLEY WALKER: When she told me that he mentioned getting
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into her car, that I think was the firmest I
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have ever been with my mother.
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Saying over and over, "Absolutely not,
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do not ever let him in your car."
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Someone at the door, Kelley.
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DENNIS FARINA: According to Kelley,
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Patel showed up a third time.
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Oh Kelley, it's Sam.
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Look Sam, it's getting late.
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Go away.
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I'll see you at work tomorrow.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel says Kelley is wrong.
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SAM PATEL: I never met Joan like that in the manner
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that Kelley had described to the police, never ever.
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KELLEY WALKER: I truly believe it was a trial run.
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And I think because I was on the phone
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and my mother continued to say, "Kelley, it's Sam."
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I stopped it that night.
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DENNIS FARINA: Two weeks later, after a business
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dinner with Sam Patel, Joan Jefferies was murdered.
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Joan told Kelley that she planned to meet Patel
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and his wife Penny for dinner.
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Joan expected to get a check for her back wages.
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She also planned to hand over the company's files
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and sever her ties with Best Aviation.
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- So, how you doing? - Fine.
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Where's Penny?
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I thought Penny was supposed to be here.
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Sorry, she didn't show up because she had to work late,
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but I'm here.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel insists that Joan
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was not planning to quit.
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How about you?
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A Diet Coke.
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OK.
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SAM PATEL: I asked Joan to meet with me,
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"I can give you the check, you can give me files.
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We can arrange for our meeting with the investor group
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for you to be there."
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And that was the purpose of the meeting.
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Guess what I have for you.
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I've got you your check.
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Is it good?
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It will be in a few days.
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See, the money's being transferred.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel and Joan left the restaurant
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together at about 10:00 PM.
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But Joan never made it home.
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I tried.
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The best I can tell, a couple of shots to the head,
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another couple through the chest.
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DENNIS FARINA: By 9:00 AM, detectives
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were at the crime scene trying to piece
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together what happened.
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I saw this. Can you see that over there?
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Not close.
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DENNIS FARINA: Joan's purse and keys were missing,
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but she was still wearing her gold and diamond necklace.
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Robbery did not seem to be the motive.
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DET. CHARLES PROPST: Because of the multiple gunshot wounds
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to the body, it would indicate that the offender
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is known to the victim or had a grudge
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or something of that nature.
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Could you account for your whereabouts right
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after leaving the restaurant? What happened?
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What were your actions?
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Yeah.
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We walked out in the parking lot.
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I spoke to her for 15, 20 minutes in the parking lot.
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I walked to her car and she went home
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and I went to my girlfriend's house.
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At any time, were you in her car?
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No sir.
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I was never in her car.
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- Are you sure about that? - Yes, sir.
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I'm positive.
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I've never been in her car and I was not in the car last night.
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DET. CHARLES PROPST: The first interview
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that we had with Sam Patel, he told us that he had not
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been in Joan Jefferies' car.
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Later in a second interview, he changed his story
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and said that he had in fact been in Joan's car
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and that we would find evidence of such in her car.
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Can you account for your movements
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after leaving the restaurant?
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Yes.
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When I went to my girlfriend's house,
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I rode the bicycle for a few minutes.
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You rode the bicycle?
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Yeah.
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From cul-de-sac for a few minutes.
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I guess your girlfriend will back you up on that.
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- She sure can. - What's her name?
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RICHIE GUYOTE: I opened the door and Sam was there with a shirt
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wrapped around his neck.
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And I said, "You know, what are you doing without your shirt
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on?
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It's cold out there, you're going to catch a cold."
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And he said, "I've been riding my bicycle."
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SAM PATEL: I was hot, you know.
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I hadn't ridden a bike and done any exercise
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in months and months.
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And you know, I was going into the house.
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I took my shirt off and I had it over me
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and I was walking into the house.
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RICHIE GUYOTE: And that shirt has never been found.
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I think it's a very crucial piece of evidence
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because he would have had to reach across Joan to take
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the keys out and that shirt would have had a smear
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of blood all up the arm.
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SAM PATEL: There's no blood stains on it
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I have it in my closet and if whoever
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wants it, if the Webster police department would
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send me a real nice note saying, "Please, could
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we have the shirt?"
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I would be glad to hand over the shirt to them.
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DENNIS FARINA: Investigators say that Patel
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has never been willing to give them that shirt.
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For Joan's family, Patel's refusal is just one more sign
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that he pulled the trigger.
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KELLEY WALKER: I think Sam is responsible for the murder
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of my mother because he had a life insurance policy
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out on her life for $250,000.
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She was ending her business relationship
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with him that night.
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So he needed to do it that night while she
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was still an employee.
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DENNIS FARINA: Patel insists that this accusation
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is completely groundless.
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SAM PATEL: The very next day after her death, the board
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of directors all got together and we decided that we would
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take the entire proceeds from the insurance and A,
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either give it to the family, B, donated to some local charity
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that would leave a lasting memorial for Joan
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or a combination of both.
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DENNIS FARINA: The case of the killing of Joan Jefferies
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is still open.
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If you have any information about her murder,
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please log on to our website at Unsolved.com.
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Next, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Did they really die in a shootout in South America?
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Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh.
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In the late 1800s, these two men became
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the legendary outlaws known as Butch
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Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford starred in the celebrated film
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about their final days.
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The movie, like history, tells us that Butch and Sundance died
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in a shootout in South America, but some believe that Hollywood
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and history may be wrong.
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There is some evidence that Butch
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Cassidy returned to the United States
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and died of natural causes.
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Do this right or we're going to run over to the fee.
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DENNIS FARINA: Two years after Butch and Sundance were
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supposedly killed, a man named William Thaddeus
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Phillips arrived in Spokane.
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He opened a successful machine shop
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and became a very prominent businessman.
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Looking good, looking good.
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DENNIS FARINA: But only, Phillips
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was a man without a past.
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JAMES DULLENTY: The first definitive record
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of William Phillips was his marriage certificate,
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dated May 14, 1988.
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There is no other previous record of William Phillips.
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In the 1920s, about 1922, the first reports
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began circulating in the West that Butch
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Cassidy had returned.
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People began to say that Butch Cassidy was William Phillips.
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DENNIS FARINA: Some see a resemblance
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between William Thaddeus Phillips
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and George Butch Cassidy.
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But if Phillips was Cassidy, then how did
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the outlaw escape from Bolivia?
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
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DENNIS FARINA: According to some historians,
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the account of how Butch and Sundance died
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can be credited to one man, Percy Seibert.
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
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DENNIS FARINA: Seibert had worked with the outlaws
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at a tin mine in Bolivia and became very friendly with them.
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Percy was the one who identified the two
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men killed in the shootout as Butch and Sundance.
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But Seibert may have deliberately lied.
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[SPEAKING SPANISH]
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LARRY POINTER: I believe that Percy told the story of Butch
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Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's death in Bolivia
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to pay back what he felt was a debt of loyalty and friendship,
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to allow these outlaws to begin a life
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under amnesty without a past.
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DENNIS FARINA: Larry Pointer is convinced
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that Butch Cassidy took on the identity of William Phillips.
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As Phillips, he returned to the Wyoming mountains
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where Butch and his outlaw gang had once roamed.
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JAMES DULLENTY: We know of a man who went with Phillips
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to Wyoming in 1933.
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This man died recently, but we have interviewed him.
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He was there all summer with Phillips
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and he met all the old timers that Phillips met,
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and in almost every case, these old timers
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accepted Phillips as Cassidy.
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But old timer stories are always the most interesting
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and the least reliable.
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DENNIS FARINA: Author Dan Buck has researched the life
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and death of Butch Cassidy and is convinced that William
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Phillips was an imposter.
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DAN BUCK: The William Phillips story
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is chock full of old timer tales,
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people would claim they were good friends with Cassidy
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and knew Phillips was Cassidy.
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And usually it's when asked by someone, when prompted
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by someone, "Well you were a good friend of Butch
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Cassidy's, weren't you?"
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And of course, the answer is yes.
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Who wants to say no?
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DENNIS FARINA: In Wyoming, Phillips met
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a woman named Mary Boyd Rhodes.
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In 1934, Mary and her 16-year-old granddaughter Ione,
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rode out to Phillips' campsite.
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IONE MANNING: The man that my grandmother
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met that day was going by the name of William Phillips
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and she knew him by the name of Leroy George Parker
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who is known as Butch Cassidy.
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Mary Boyd.
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IONE MANNING: He recognized her immediately
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and she recognized him.
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Oh, George Parker.
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IONE MANNING: I sensed that they had a relationship that I had
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never known much about, so my grandmother
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had finally told me that he was her childhood sweetheart.
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DENNIS FARINA: Three years later, Phillips
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mailed this ring to Mary.
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It was engraved, "George C. to Mary B."
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William Phillips died soon afterwards.
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DAN BUCK: I believe William Phillips
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pretended to be Butch Cassidy because he was having fun.
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He traveled out to the West.
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He met some people.
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He probably got some free beers.
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He certainly got a lot of adventures out of it.
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DENNIS FARINA: But several other clues
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do suggest that Butch and Phillips were one and the same.
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Phillips wrote a manuscript called "The Bandit Invincible:
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The Story of Butch Cassidy."
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It contained specific details about Butch's adventures.
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JAMES DULLENTY: Though there's material in that manuscript
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that no one else knew, that had never been published,
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that either the man who wrote it had to have intimate knowledge
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of Cassidy, or he was Cassidy.
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DENNIS FARINA: Phillips owned this six- shot Colt revolver.
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Carved into the pistol grip is a unique brand.
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LARRY POINTER: That brand was the reverse E
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box E. That was Butch Cassidy's brand in the 1890s.
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DENNIS FARINA: The passing of a century
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has turned these two outlaws into legends, if not, heroes.
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And we don't like our heroes to die.
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There seems to be at least some evidence that Butch Cassidy
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may have survived the shootout.
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But it was almost certainly the end of the road
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for the Sundance Kid.
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Next, a feud between two restaurant owners
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ends in murder.
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TK Harty's Saloon was a popular bar
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and restaurant that attracted the university
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crowd in Athens, Georgia.
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The saloon's owner was TK Harty.
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He rented space and a large complex
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of restaurants and shops.
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LEE EPTING: TK Harty was an obnoxious Yankee.
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When you first met him, he came on really strong.
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And when he came to town, it took me a little while
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to get used to him so that I would even
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want to have him as a tenant. - Hey, pretty good.
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How you doing?
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Pretty good.
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LEE EPTING: When you got to know TK,
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he was just a real teddy bear, just a really nice guy.
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He was enthusiastic about the complex and doing it right.
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DENNIS FARINA: Harty's rival was a man
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named John Mooney who also leased
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space in the same complex.
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His restaurant was called Somebody's Pizza.
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Mooney and TK Harty never really got
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along because both men were trying
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to attract the same customers.
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LEE EPTING: When John Mooney came to town,
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he was the preppy, out of college, a cool guy.
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And that lasted until he got the lease sign and got the place.
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Then John kind of got greedy.
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Hey, come see us next door.
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Nickel beer, Somebody's Pizza.
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Come to Somebody's Pizza right next door, good deal on beer.
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LEE EPTING: And John started wanting to infringe
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on everybody else's business.
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His idea was to go up to TK's, pass out
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flyers on the deck for Nickel beer
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and draw TK's crowd down to his place.
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What do you think you're doing here?
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Hey, what does it look like?
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LEE EPTING: That just went all over TK.
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I mean, he couldn't stand that.
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That was the last straw.
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I'll tell you what this is.
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This is private property.
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I want you out of here, right now.
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All right.
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LEE EPTING: John Mooney and TK Harty despise each other.
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They really had gotten to the point
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that there was no reconciliation between the two people.
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After three years of feuding, TK Harty
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finally got the upper hand.
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He was able to lease the entire complex
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and evict John Mooney from his restaurant.
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After that, their feud escalated into a full scale war.
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This is your eviction notice.
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Eviction notice?
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This is your eviction notice.
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You're out of here.
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DENNIS FARINA: 10 days later, TK arrived home
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in the early morning hours after closing
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up his saloon for the night.
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Someone was hiding in the shadows of his kitchen,
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watching him.
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When TK went into a study, the man followed.
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Then he shot TK once, in the head.
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[GUNSHOT]
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TK died instantly.
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Just have a seat there [INAUDIBLE]..
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DENNIS FARINA: Four hours after TK's body was found,
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police picked up Mooney for questioning.
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John, do you know why you're here tonight?
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Well, I guess it's about the shooting of TK Harty.
00:21:23
Yeah.
00:21:24
How did you know about the shooting?
00:21:26
KENNETH KILGORE: I told him that we had not released
00:21:29
that information, and that nobody knew
00:21:31
that except the police department and the people
00:21:34
that were investigating this murder that he had been killed
00:21:37
or how he had been killed.
00:21:40
At that time, he did become nervous.
00:21:42
He said, "I think I need to talk to my lawyer."
00:21:45
All right.
00:21:46
Thanks, bye.
00:21:48
Hold on a sec.
00:21:49
Sit down.
00:21:51
KENNETH KILGORE: When he hung up the phone,
00:21:53
he said, "My lawyer said for me to get up and walk
00:21:55
out if I wasn't under arrest."
00:21:57
I'm going to allow you to leave.
00:21:59
I want to tell you something before you go.
00:22:01
DENNIS FARINA: At the time, police
00:22:02
did not have enough evidence to arrest Mooney.
00:22:05
You're my man.
00:22:06
Go ahead.
00:22:09
DENNIS FARINA: After three weeks,
00:22:10
they were still at a dead end.
00:22:14
And then, the police got a lucky break.
00:22:17
Another restaurant manager called with a bizarre story.
00:22:21
He said he was cleaning up behind the bar
00:22:24
one night when an Atlanta electrician,
00:22:27
named Elmo Florence, offered him his services as a hit man.
00:22:33
You're a what?
00:22:34
I'm a hit man.
00:22:35
[LAUGHS]
00:22:36
You don't need to call New Jersey
00:22:37
if you want somebody good.
00:22:38
Give me a call.
00:22:40
RESTAURANT MANAGER: Elmo was bragging to me about the fact
00:22:43
that he was a hit man and that his services were for hire.
00:22:46
At first, I thought he was kidding me.
00:22:48
They did murder TK Harty and then we started to go on
00:22:53
and you know, I said, "All right,
00:22:55
how'd you get in the house?"
00:22:57
Piece of cake.
00:22:58
Busted at the glass.
00:23:01
[GLASS SHATTERING]
00:23:03
KENNETH KILGORE: Elmo Florence began
00:23:04
to describe the inside of the house,
00:23:06
where the murder took place.
00:23:08
He began to tell the point of entry, what type of weapon
00:23:12
was used to kill Ted Harty.
00:23:14
He told where the bullet entered the head and where it exited.
00:23:18
Basically, in the statement that we received from the manager
00:23:22
of the restaurant, there were 21 different points that we
00:23:26
had not released to the public.
00:23:30
We knew at that time that we had a very hot suspect here.
00:23:35
Mr. Florence?
00:23:36
Yeah.
00:23:37
Camouflage?
00:23:38
That's right.
00:23:39
You're under arrest.
00:23:40
DENNIS FARINA: Florence had told the restaurant
00:23:41
manager that John Mooney hired Florence to kill TK.
00:23:47
But when the police went to arrest Mooney,
00:23:49
they couldn't find him because he left the country.
00:23:55
A few weeks later, police were tipped off
00:23:57
that Mooney had returned to the States
00:23:59
and was staying at a friend's apartment.
00:24:02
They went there and approached two men who were
00:24:05
drinking in the parking lot.
00:24:07
MAJ. LEE MOSS: When I saw the two individuals drinking beer,
00:24:10
this gave me a perfect out.
00:24:12
I figured to approach them from this angle.
00:24:15
All your cans here kind of upset me.
00:24:17
All this litter.
00:24:18
DENNIS FARINA: Officer Moss recognized one of the men
00:24:21
as John Mooney.
00:24:23
I'll tell you what.
00:24:25
Put your hands on the car.
00:24:27
DENNIS FARINA: Mooney was arrested
00:24:28
and charged with murder.
00:24:30
Among his belongings, police found
00:24:32
several incriminating notes that he jotted to himself.
00:24:37
JOHN MOONEY (VOIVEOVER): See Elmo--
00:24:39
Offer to him if worse comes to worse to take the whole rap
00:24:42
and say robbery was the motive.
00:24:44
We have agreement for me to take care of his wife and family.
00:24:47
[GUNSHOT]
00:24:48
DENNIS FARINA: Elmo Florence's trial lasted only one week.
00:24:52
He was sentenced to life at a maximum security
00:24:54
prison in Georgia.
00:24:57
John Mooney was also sentenced to life
00:25:00
but he ended up in a minimum security facility.
00:25:04
After six months, prison officials gave Mooney
00:25:07
the job of kitchen clerk.
00:25:09
Now, he had access to areas that most prisoners did not.
00:25:14
How's the count today? Pretty good?
00:25:15
245.
00:25:16
245.
00:25:17
CALVIN GREEN: John Mooney was what you call an ideal inmate.
00:25:19
He didn't complain about the rules and regulations.
00:25:22
He just worked hard and he gained the confidence
00:25:25
of the staff and myself.
00:25:28
Now we say, he was a con artist and he has gotten us all.
00:25:32
DENNIS FARINA: After serving only
00:25:34
19 months of his life sentence, John Mooney
00:25:37
engineered his escape.
00:25:39
When the prisoners went back inside,
00:25:41
and the guard locked the gate and walked away,
00:25:44
Mooney made his break.
00:25:50
A getaway car was waiting.
00:25:53
As Mooney ran to it, he threw off his uniform piece by piece.
00:25:58
[CAR ENGINE WHIRRING]
00:26:00
Two hours later, prison officials realized
00:26:02
that Mooney was missing.
00:26:04
But by then, it was too late.
00:26:06
Mooney had made his escape.
00:26:08
HARRY GORDON: Without the actions of Mooney
00:26:10
and actually hiring somebody to take another person's life,
00:26:13
TK Harty, would be here today.
00:26:16
Unless John Henry Mooney is captured,
00:26:18
he got away with murder.
00:26:21
DENNIS FARINA: Update.
00:26:23
Within just minutes of our broadcast,
00:26:26
two viewers reported that John Mooney was living
00:26:30
in this house in Scottsdale, Arizona
00:26:33
under the name Robert J. Kelly.
00:26:37
He was immediately arrested.
00:26:39
Mooney had been enrolled at Arizona State University
00:26:43
and was working as an accountant.
00:26:45
He was married and had a one-year-old son.
00:26:49
John Mooney was returned to prison in Georgia.
00:26:52
He served his time and has been released.
00:26:58
Next, a young boy says that his house is haunted.
00:27:02
Even after an exorcism, the ghosts remain.
00:27:07
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
00:27:16
Manchester, Connecticut.
00:27:20
The Jones family says the haunting
00:27:22
started without any warning.
00:27:24
[SCREAMING]
00:27:28
DENICE JONES: I ran upstairs.
00:27:30
Michael!
00:27:31
DENICE JONES: I thought maybe he had cut himself.
00:27:32
I really didn't know.
00:27:34
[WHIMPERING]
00:27:36
Michael?
00:27:37
DENICE JONES: And there was Michael, just
00:27:39
curled up like he was a fetus.
00:27:42
I mean, he was just frightened and shaking
00:27:44
and crying hysterically.
00:27:45
Something I've never seen him do.
00:27:48
DENNIS FARINA: Michael Jones told his mother Denice
00:27:50
that he had seen a man in his room,
00:27:54
but it was not an ordinary man.
00:27:57
MICHAEL JONES: He was standing in front of me
00:27:58
and he reached out to me and he was smiling
00:28:02
and then he just disappeared.
00:28:04
He touched my shoulder.
00:28:06
MICHAEL JONES: He was white like the crayon color white.
00:28:09
He said he was a ghost.
00:28:10
DENICE JONES: I thought, maybe something
00:28:12
was wrong with Michael.
00:28:13
I can't say I didn't believe in ghosts.
00:28:15
I just never experienced something,
00:28:18
so I never thought it would happen to us.
00:28:23
DENNIS FARINA: Soon after Michael
00:28:24
saw the ghost in his room, he was with his family
00:28:27
visiting his grandmother.
00:28:30
DENICE JONES: I was in the kitchen
00:28:31
talking with my parents, when Michael
00:28:34
started screaming again.
00:28:35
- Mom! - What?
00:28:36
RICHARD PIERCE: He says, "That's the man, that's the man!"
00:28:38
I said, "Michael, what is the man?"
00:28:41
He says, "That man up on the wall in the picture.
00:28:43
That's the man I see."
00:28:46
MICHAEL JONES: I saw the picture and I got scared because that
00:28:50
was the man that I saw.
00:28:53
DENICE JONES: The man in the picture,
00:28:54
Michael was pointing to, was my grandfather who had passed
00:28:57
away when I was 10 years old.
00:28:58
Michael had never met him.
00:29:00
DENNIS FARINA: It was the first time
00:29:02
that Michael had ever seen a picture
00:29:04
of his great grandfather.
00:29:07
MICHAEL JONES: I felt safer that it wasn't like a bad person
00:29:10
that was going to hurt me.
00:29:11
And my mom said not to be afraid of him
00:29:13
because he was a good man and she
00:29:15
said not to be afraid of ghost because it can't harm me.
00:29:19
DENNIS FARINA: Denice had no idea what to do.
00:29:22
Her son kept saying that he was being visited
00:29:25
by her grandfather's ghost.
00:29:27
And to make matters worse, Michael now
00:29:29
said that evil spirits were also invading their home.
00:29:35
DENICE JONES: And I asked him what
00:29:37
these things wanted from him and I told him to talk to grandpa.
00:29:41
Grandpa will protect him.
00:29:42
Grandpa said that some of the bad people
00:29:44
want me on your side.
00:29:46
MICHAEL JONES: When I talk to my grandpa,
00:29:48
he just said that there was a lot of ghosts in our house.
00:29:51
They are after me.
00:29:53
And there's a lot of bad ones and good ones
00:29:55
and they're all fighting with each other.
00:29:58
DENNIS FARINA: Denice says that she
00:29:59
took Michael for dozens of medical tests,
00:30:02
hoping to get some answers.
00:30:05
DENICE JONES: They all say it's not medical.
00:30:07
They realize it's very bizarre, that Michael is a ghost boy.
00:30:12
He sees ghosts and there's nothing medically they can do.
00:30:17
DENNIS FARINA: Feeling desperate,
00:30:19
Denice asked a paranormal specialist to examine
00:30:22
both Michael and her home.
00:30:25
JOHN ZAFFIS: It's very important to be
00:30:26
able to go in and determine that it is something supernatural
00:30:29
that is occurring in the home.
00:30:31
DENNIS FARINA: John Zaffis has been
00:30:32
a paranormal investigator for 26 years
00:30:36
and he has studied dozens of similar cases.
00:30:39
He spent many, many hours with Michael,
00:30:42
researching Michael's sightings firsthand.
00:30:46
JOHN ZAFFIS: We usually have to go
00:30:48
through all types of different evaluations,
00:30:51
psychological, physical.
00:30:53
I really would like it documented and known
00:30:56
that there isn't anything physically
00:30:57
or mentally wrong with these people
00:30:59
that are going through this.
00:31:01
DENNIS FARINA: Michael's psychological profile also
00:31:04
showed nothing unusual, but his drawings of a ghost
00:31:08
he calls "The Black Shadow Man", told another story.
00:31:13
MICHAEL JONES: Every day, I feel, it's
00:31:16
not really the same "Shadow Man",
00:31:18
just like a bunch of different ones.
00:31:20
I don't know why I see ghosts or why this is happening to me.
00:31:25
DENNIS FARINA: Zaffis learned that when Michael was born,
00:31:27
his heart stopped 26 times.
00:31:31
JOHN ZAFFIS: My explanation is that he
00:31:33
had near-death experiences.
00:31:35
I believe since birth, he's had that ability where that door
00:31:39
has been open for the spirit to be able to communicate
00:31:42
back and forth with him.
00:31:44
And I think it is at the point where
00:31:47
it is trying very, very hard to be able to totally
00:31:51
take Michael over.
00:31:53
DENNIS FARINA: Dennis was concerned that the bad spirits
00:31:56
might be winning.
00:31:58
DENICE JONES: One time, me and my husband were downstairs,
00:32:01
when all of a sudden, we were listening to banging upstairs.
00:32:05
We heard him scream and we heard
00:32:07
a thumping, so we ran upstairs.
00:32:11
BRUCE JONES: And Michael was on his bed
00:32:13
like a little boy, scared.
00:32:14
His bed was shaking up and down.
00:32:16
MICHAEL JONES: The bed started shaking a lot
00:32:17
and it lifted up like three inches
00:32:21
and I just yell at my mom.
00:32:23
Mom!
00:32:24
Oh my god.
00:32:27
MICHAEL JONES: And then it dropped and stopped shaking.
00:32:30
KENNY JONES: We all ran out of the house
00:32:32
because we needed to get a break from the house.
00:32:35
Because it's very scary in there.
00:32:37
DENNIS FARINA: Michael now said that the evil spirits
00:32:40
were physically tormenting him.
00:32:42
[SCREAMING]
00:32:43
MICHAEL JONES: Everything started getting worse
00:32:45
and they started hitting me and scratching me and poking me,
00:32:48
and it hurt.
00:32:49
JOHN ZAFFIS: Usually, when there's
00:32:51
a physical manifestation, scratches, bite marks,
00:32:55
this is definitely a sign that something
00:32:57
is either attached to that individual
00:32:59
or it has some way gained access.
00:33:03
And at that point is where it could be very, very
00:33:06
vulnerable, where that person could
00:33:07
go completely under possession.
00:33:10
DENNIS FARINA: To protect their son from the intruders,
00:33:13
then he sold their home and moved the family across town.
00:33:18
But the new house was no better.
00:33:22
DENICE JONES: I was on the phone with my mother.
00:33:23
Michael was sitting right next to me, watching TV.
00:33:27
When all of a sudden, he started screaming.
00:33:29
- Ah! - What?
00:33:30
KENNY JONES: We just looked at my brother
00:33:32
and he just felt like a scrape, going all the way up his arm
00:33:36
and like it was drawing blood.
00:33:38
Michael!
00:33:40
MICHAEL JONES: I felt a sharp pain like a knife,
00:33:42
but it hurt really bad.
00:33:45
DENICE JONES: After this incident,
00:33:47
we needed someone who dealt with this.
00:33:49
And I was able to find the bishop who
00:33:52
agreed to give me the exorcism.
00:33:54
DENNIS FARINA: Denice felt that an exorcism was
00:33:57
the only way to save Michael.
00:34:01
DENICE JONES: They started performing
00:34:02
an exorcism in Latin.
00:34:04
[SPEAKING LATIN]
00:34:06
DENICE JONES: I could tell there was
00:34:07
something wrong with Michael.
00:34:09
He kept looking to one side of the church.
00:34:12
[SPEAKING LATIN]
00:34:15
MICHAEL JONES: And I saw the "Shadow Man"
00:34:17
in the front, left corner room of the church.
00:34:20
I could see his whole body and his feet
00:34:23
and he was just standing.
00:34:25
And he was all black.
00:34:26
And my stomach started burning and I told the priest.
00:34:30
And he gave me Holy water and said, "Drink this."
00:34:36
BRUCE JONES: I was praying to God that it
00:34:37
was going to work and help.
00:34:39
And that Michael might be granted some relief.
00:34:42
Although, we were told it might not be the end all.
00:34:45
It might have to be repeated.
00:34:46
There may need to be a house exorcism.
00:34:48
And they were right because about three weeks later,
00:34:52
it all began again.
00:34:54
DENNIS FARINA: Over the next few years,
00:34:56
Michael underwent four exorcisms and his family
00:35:00
moved eight times, but the improvement
00:35:03
was always temporary.
00:35:06
DENICE JONES: We just live one day at a time.
00:35:09
It hurts when I see my son going through this.
00:35:12
I don't know what to do.
00:35:16
JOHN ZAFFIS: Do I see a brighter future
00:35:17
for Michael and the family?
00:35:19
Absolutely.
00:35:20
There's many of families that go through this
00:35:23
and it's very difficult. And it's
00:35:24
like the old saying goes, "It's always
00:35:26
the darkest before the dawn."
00:35:28
Pretty much everything's been hard for me,
00:35:32
so everything that's happened has been hard.
00:35:35
And I'm getting used to it.
00:35:40
DENNIS FARINA: Next, a hired farm
00:35:42
hand turns out to be a killer.
00:35:52
CALLER: It's the same height, same build.
00:35:54
He's a big guy and he's a hot tempered guy.
00:35:56
This is the guy, man.
00:35:57
I'm telling you, this is the guy.
00:35:59
DENNIS FARINA: This call to our phone center led to the arrest
00:36:02
of an accused killer.
00:36:03
He'd been on the run for more than a
00:36:05
year, hiding behind half a dozen aliases.
00:36:09
You may remember him as David Freeman.
00:36:14
Freeman was hired as a handy man by a Pennsylvania farmer,
00:36:18
named Tim Good.
00:36:20
Freeman considered himself something of a preacher.
00:36:23
And he used his sermons to slowly
00:36:25
gain control over Tim Good.
00:36:29
So I was wondering, I'm going to be
00:36:32
leading the Bible study up at the house, later this evening.
00:36:35
Thought you might like to come up and check it out.
00:36:37
But what time?
00:36:38
DENNIS FARINA: Tim became a believer.
00:36:40
When he sold his farm for a million dollar profit
00:36:43
and moved to West Virginia, Freeman followed.
00:36:48
Hey Tim, how about when you're done with that,
00:36:50
clear some more of that land over by the fence.
00:36:52
DENNIS FARINA: Within a few years,
00:36:54
the role reversal was complete.
00:36:57
Once you get some of that wood over there for kindling.
00:36:58
DENNIS FARINA: Freeman gave the orders.
00:37:00
Tim obeyed him.
00:37:01
But clear as much as you can.
00:37:03
You know the Lord says, the man that doesn't work, doesn't eat.
00:37:07
Please bless this food.
00:37:08
DENNIS FARINA: Tim became a prisoner in his own home.
00:37:11
He lived in a basement cell while Freeman and his family
00:37:16
live comfortably upstairs.
00:37:18
J.B. ARMSTRONG: He indicated what chores Timothy
00:37:20
Good was to perform that day.
00:37:22
Even indicated what Timothy Good was to eat
00:37:24
that day, if he was allowed to eat that day.
00:37:27
Every aspect of Timothy Good's life
00:37:30
was controlled by Dave Freeman.
00:37:32
I'm studying, man, like you told me to do.
00:37:34
Is that what I told you to do?
00:37:35
Is there anything else I told you to do, Tim?
00:37:37
DENNIS FARINA: Police believe that Freeman
00:37:39
eventually strangled him and left his body in the basement.
00:37:44
Yesterday.
00:37:44
Yesterday?
00:37:50
DENNIS FARINA: Investigators discovered the badly
00:37:52
decomposed body, months later.
00:37:58
By then, Tim's million-dollar bank account
00:38:01
had been reduced to $2.00.
00:38:03
And Freeman was long gone.
00:38:08
Update.
00:38:11
CALLER: I'll take you right to the guy.
00:38:12
The guy rip me off in the first place.
00:38:14
He got me for like over 1,000 more
00:38:15
than what he told me he was going to get.
00:38:16
And then he got all upset because I got upset because.
00:38:18
DENNIS FARINA: The viewer who called
00:38:19
said that he knew Freeman as George Jelks, an auto mechanic.
00:38:24
J.B. ARMSTRONG: When I realized that it was a valid tip,
00:38:26
I was pretty excited.
00:38:27
I've been chasing this subject for a year and a half.
00:38:30
And once I finally knew that he was within grasp,
00:38:33
it was almost too good to be true.
00:38:36
DENNIS FARINA: Within hours, police
00:38:38
staked out Jelks' apartment.
00:38:41
WILLIAM SCHOEB: When he came out of the house,
00:38:43
we could tell that this was a suspect match description.
00:38:48
DENNIS FARINA: Four children were in the apartment,
00:38:50
so police waited for Jelks to leave.
00:38:52
And then, they made their move.
00:38:56
[DOG BARKING]
00:38:57
After he was arrested, police discovered
00:38:59
that Jelks' real name was William David Cooper.
00:39:04
He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter
00:39:06
and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
00:39:14
We recently told you about a vicious armed robber who left
00:39:18
his victim severely disabled.
00:39:21
But thanks to our viewers tip, this robber is now in custody.
00:39:28
DENNIS FARINA: Richmond, Virginia.
00:39:32
Shortly after midnight at a McDonald's restaurant,
00:39:35
assistant manager Mark Klavuhn and truck driver Perry Duncan
00:39:40
were unloading supplies.
00:39:42
Mark had recently moved to the area with his wife
00:39:46
and three children.
00:39:48
You guys got two more after this.
00:39:50
Two more and then we can go.
00:39:53
DENNIS FARINA: Four other employees
00:39:54
were in the basement store.
00:39:59
Hey!
00:40:01
Now, we're going to go inside and open up the safe.
00:40:06
Don't shoot.
00:40:07
Hey, send some more napkins down here, later.
00:40:10
[GUNSHOT]
00:40:15
Hey, Mark, are you all right?
00:40:17
[ALARM RINGING]
00:40:21
No, no!
00:40:26
DENNIS FARINA: Mark Klavuhn was shot once in the forehead
00:40:29
at point blank range.
00:40:32
He didn't die, but he will never be the same.
00:40:37
ROBERT EAST: He suffered some severe brain damage
00:40:39
and paralysis on the left side.
00:40:41
He has regained use, partial use, of his left leg,
00:40:45
but he has no use of his left arm at all.
00:40:47
And no matter what happens, as far as apprehending these two
00:40:51
individuals, it cannot outweigh the suffering that
00:40:54
this family is going to go through
00:40:55
for the rest of their lives.
00:40:58
DENNIS FARINA: Police learned that the gunmen had fled
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on foot and that later, they tried
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to steal a car from a woman in a nearby residential area.
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ROBERT EAST: So she just arrived home,
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and they attempted to accost her and take
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her keys away from her.
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They were identified by her as wearing
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the same type of clothing as the situation at the restaurant.
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She was able to get away from them and run into the house.
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DENNIS FARINA: The next morning, police
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made a surprising discovery, only a few
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yards from the woman's house.
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The robbers had left behind their ski masks and gloves,
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as well as a 357 revolver.
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The weapon was traced to a convicted murderer named
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Michael Anthony Starr, who had been paroled from a Virginia
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prison only the year before.
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Update.
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Thanks to a viewer tip, police arrested Michael Anthony Starr.
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He was convicted of attempted robbery
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and two weapons violations.
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He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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He served his time and has been released.
