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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight we'll examine four new
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mysteries each one has been recreated in
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detail wherever possible using the
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actual participants in the hope that
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someone watching may know the truth join
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them you may be able to help solve a
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mystery
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February 19th 1982 a quiet residential
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community in a small city of Woonsocket
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Rhode Island on this day six years ago
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this peaceful New England town of 46,000
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was stunned by the most savage murder in
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his history at approximately 3:30 p.m.
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Doug Heath returned from work to his
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apartment on Providence Street as he
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walked through the door he found his
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neighbor's three-year-old child locked
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out of her mother's apartment when I saw
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a Nicole standing on the stairs I knew
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immediately something was wrong
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where's mommy I asked her where her
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mother was and she told me that she was
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downstairs lying down I tried the door
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into the first-floor apartment their
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apartment it was locked
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I knew something was was wrong right
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there
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Doug went down to the laundry room to
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check on her mother Susan Lafferty
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I saw a body leaned up against the dryer
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in the same instant I turned to my left
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and I saw a sue lying face down in a
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puddle of blood it hit me right then and
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there that the murderer something really
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bad had happened
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when rescue arrived at the scene alone
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at the first offices they found that two
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women had been brutally assaulted in a
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basement area of the kravan Street home
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and for all intents and purposes had
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been left for dead
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one woman expired at the scene and the
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other one was in a very very critical
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condition rescue stabilized her the best
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that they could and transported her from
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the scene to the hospital emergency room
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the two victims both lived in the
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apartment building on providence street
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22 year old Doreen Picard was pronounced
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dead at the scene
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the other woman 27 year-old Susan
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Lafferty was barely alive she was
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immediately rushed to the hospital Susan
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was in surgery for two and a half hours
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while she clung to life her husband
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Ernie waited and prayed the way they
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described it she was hanging by a thread
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her injuries were so severe it was
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touch-and-go at the time miraculously
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Susan survived but she remained in a
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deep coma fearful for her safety
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the police guarded her room around the
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clock it was obvious to us that the
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perpetrator in his mind had left both
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girls for dead
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we immediately became worried that he
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would realize that it was a witness to
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the attack and that he would come back
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and try to eliminate that witness by
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killing her we were hopeful that when
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she came out of the coma she would be
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able to tell us who it was that had done
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this
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thirty days later Susan finally and
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worse will her coma but she had no
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memory of her attack or her attacker she
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developed total amnesia about what
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happened during the brutal assault in
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the basement she'd also sustained
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injuries that have left her physically
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disabled
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Susan's amnesia sent the investigation
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of the seemingly motorist crime back to
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square one
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everyone expected me to wake up and tell
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her who attacked me and killed Doreen I
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don't know who attacked us I have no
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idea even now Susan's family is
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concerned for her safety and she has
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requested that she not be identified on
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camera the coma I would be able to tell
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them it's five years later and I'm no
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closer at this period of time then I was
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five years ago I don't know what he
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looked like or anything else about him I
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have no memory whatsoever of the attack
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six years later the police are still
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searching for a motive
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Susan Lafferty was a housewife with two
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young children and was an active member
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of her neighborhood watch Doreen Picard
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was studying for a career in childhood
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development
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she lived upstairs in the apartment
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building to the l'affaire tazed owned
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ironically she was packing to move to a
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new building on the very day of the
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attack like Susan
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Doreen's parents desperately want to
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find an answer as to who kill their
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daughter
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go to bed thinking about her and we wake
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up thinking about her you know we have
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to keep pushing and knocking on doors
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because I feel like there's somebody out
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there that has the missing piece to that
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puzzle I have no recollection whatsoever
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of basically from New Year's Eve to the
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19th of February the 19th totally is a
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blackout on February 19th the day of the
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attack Susan had lunch with her sister
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Carol rivetti
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at 1:30 two friends came to the door hi
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my sister came back from the doorway in
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stuck her head in the parlor and said
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Carol I'm going downstairs
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I'll be right back she came back
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upstairs and I could hear her talking to
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somebody in the doorway so I got up to
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go see who she was talking to
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I knew one of the guys with the other
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guy I didn't know when she introduced me
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to him the two men then went to the
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basement to look at some puppies that
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susan was selling Susan talked to the
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men for five minutes and they left 10
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minutes later at 1:45 Carol went home
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that was the last time anyone saw Susan
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before the attack no one can be sure of
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what happened that day between 145 and
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320 when Doug Feith discovered Susan and
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Doreen's bodies
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you know alright I have to admit that I
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was shocked by the initial scene the
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brutality of the assault it was not just
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a murder it was not just an assault it
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was a frenzied attack it was an overkill
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okay 15 wounds okay
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only one person apart from Susan saw the
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killer Nicole Susan's three year old
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daughter was in the apartment that
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afternoon
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her grandmother Florence Lafferty tried
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to coax the details of the attackers
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identity out of Nicole's memory as I
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came in the house Nicole was there and
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from the very beginning she told me that
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she let him Ian she thought that was her
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mother's friend
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she saw the man she says he was probably
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a little bigger than her father he had a
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mustache she even told me that he wore a
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cap with the visor towards the back
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he had sneakers and he also had jeans
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when she heard a mother crying she went
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downstairs and as she was going down he
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was coming up he had a a a rack in his
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back pocket it was red and white she
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called it polka-dots and that she was
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locked out in the hallway while the man
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escaped to defect
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the killer left his murder weapon a pipe
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in the house as he left it was not found
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for four days after the assault
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Nicole was questioned extensively by the
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police department as much as the police
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would like to have a person who
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definitely saw the perpetrator that day
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her story has changed too much to be of
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real value to us the stress and
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confusion as she was under at that point
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in time really made it very difficult to
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get a real solid sure story it's a
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complex case because of the different
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factors involved first we have two
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victims and those victims all bring
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their individual traits with them they
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have their own friends they were
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involved in different things there was
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also two newspaper ads that had been
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running one was fair puppies for sale
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any other was for an apartment for rent
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the perpetrator might have responded to
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one of the ads was a friend of either
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one of the victims or their family or
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was just a total stranger
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since the murder
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Doreen's family has conducted their own
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informal investigation which they
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believe has led to a series of anonymous
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phone calls a few months after Doreen
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was killed I received a phone call about
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2:00 a.m. he said that I should be
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concerned with my family my children and
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not pursue the matter so hard and that
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for openers they might burn my garage
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down my repair shop every time we pursue
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the matter we get phone calls
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obviously we're putting somebody uneasy
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we're keeping somebody off-guard
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you know it's like a nightmare because
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I'm watching over my shoulder all the
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time and I'm very fearful for Susan
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because maybe some day this person's
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gonna realize that hey maybe she can
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remember I still hope every morning when
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I get off that maybe today something
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will snap and he'll come back but it's
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been five years and it's still not I'm
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no closer now than I was five years ago
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I'm current I don't look over my
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shoulder one when I do things but I've
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always got this back thought is he still
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there
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next the story of a man who makes his
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living by getting married over and over
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he is known as the heart attack and so
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far he has fleeced as many wives and
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over a million dollars
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[Music]
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New York City 1981 Luis Carlucci arrived
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in the suburb of Forest Hills carrying
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nothing but a garment bag is one good
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suit in this affluent community he was a
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stranger a man without a past he found
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work as a short-order cook in a diner
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but no one knew where he came from
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in September 1981 Lewis Carlucci met a
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41 year old woman who we will call
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Barbara at a neighborhood bar seven
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weeks later he married but Barbara did
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not is at least Carlucci is a con man he
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makes his living by stealing women's
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hearts and then their money Carlucci is
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suspected of marrying at least nine
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different wives and fathering over 30
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children around the country he is said
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to have swindled his victims out of more
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than 1 million dollars Lewis Carlucci is
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known as con Juan or the heart attacker
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when you try to explain to someone what
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happened they look at you and say well
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how could you get taken like that and
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then you find out there were 500 other
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people that were taken the same way it
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was supposed to be as brilliant as
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Barbra was the only one or carlucci's
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victims who had talked to us she asked
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her she not be identified on camera and
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at one time she feared reprisals from
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carlucci but the fact that he's still
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roaming someplace in the United States
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and getting away with this
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it's terrible Phillip barbers telling
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her story tonight because she wants to
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warn other women about Lewis Carlucci
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the police are convinced that Carlucci
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is perpetrating a same con game on some
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unsuspecting woman at this very moment
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tonight we'll see exactly how Carlucci
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perpetrated his schemes which a police
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call marriage swindles
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Carlucci usually finds his victims and
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restaurants and friendship clubs excuse
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me I was out with friend I'm loosening
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and having a drink and he sent over
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drinks and got to talking that's how a
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[Music]
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first impression when I first saw him no
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style no class however he was warm very
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friendly we had a good sense of humor
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so I started dating him I thought that's
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pretty nice bye
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he told me he grew up in the Bronx that
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he traveled a lot that he was in the
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restaurant business and he wants to
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settle down and then he could give me
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everything that anybody could really
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want and I said okay the guy he's pretty
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nice I like him I like this company
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and I thought well why not the power
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vested in me by the state of New York I
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now pronounce you man and wife
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you may now kiss the bride after a
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whirlwind courtship lasting only seven
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weeks
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Barbara married Lois Carlucci in a small
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ceremony at the bar where they'd first
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met immediately after the wedding the
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relationship began to deteriorate kind
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of jumped on me for talking to other
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people at the wedding and he got very
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angry about the idea
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possibly that we even got married after
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the honeymoon they moved into an
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unfurnished apartment in New York where
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they lived out of suitcases Carlucci
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would not let Barbour out of his sight
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and paid for the living expenses with
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Barbara's credit cards
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the change in his attitude and his
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personality shocked me because there
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were times when he was real nice and
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then all of a sudden he flipped and it
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would be like black and white
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jquan hi Donna and then I got scared I
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really liked it because I realized
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there's our compact in it you know I
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didn't have what he thought I had which
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was money the man was very physical ever
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pull that again I couldn't turn my head
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he'd pull my hair if I look the wrong
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way I'd get smacked of course I couldn't
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talk to anyone at all if we were in the
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restaurant
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I couldn't even order anything from the
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waitress because he felt like I was
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looking at the person to signal or
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whatever can I get you some dessert
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Thank You Man just the check
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Carlucci continued to put the bite on
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Barbara he used her credit cards up to
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their limit emptied her bank account and
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when they went out together he always
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used Barbara's money Carlucci bled
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Barbara dry
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I was just held captive let's put it
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that way
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for about six months did never let me
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out of his sight not one time I couldn't
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go to the bathroom without them being
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there so I had no way of trying to
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contact anyone or telling anyone about
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anything
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he caught me with the razor I was going
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to come over because that was the only I
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could get out he knew that I was going
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to die whether I did it myself or I
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would just waste away and die so his
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reaction was well I may as well let you
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go cuz you're gonna die on May 13th 1982
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almost six months after their wedding
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Lois Carlucci left Barbara having
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squandered all of her savings a total of
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twenty thousand dollars encouraged by
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her friends Barbara filed charges with
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the police when Barbara face came to us
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and gave us information about Colucci we
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started our investigation and began to
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talking to quite a few people to speak
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to these women was an eye-opener for me
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Colucci doesn't just leave physical and
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financial wreckage behind it's kind of a
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psychological scarring that you see and
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how long was it between the time they
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feel embarrassed and ashamed and they
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don't want their relatives and friends
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and co-workers to know about it I would
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like to see this man get caught he
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doesn't belong out in society and
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whether he'll hurt anybody very
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physically I don't know but he
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definitely has to be taken off the
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streets
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he travels all over we have had him in
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California Las Vegas New Orleans in
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Florida New Jersey New York State he
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moves around quite a bit
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he's wanted for bigamy grand larceny and
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fraud I'd be very surprised if at this
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moment that she was not with a woman I'm
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sure he's been dealing with maybe 10 or
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15 women a year at the very least
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because he's not going to stop what he's
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doing this is the way he makes his
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living
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luis Carlucci has a dubious distinction
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of being captured twice thanks to
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viewers tips after we first broadcast
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carlucci's story he was arrested in
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Nashville Tennessee he was extradited
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back to New York and later released on
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$1,000 bail pending trial
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once again Carlucci disappeared and once
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again after we featured him on a second
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broadcast a viewers tip led to his
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arrest this time in Los Angeles
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[Music]
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in a moment the story of a quiet
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church-going house is accused of helping
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a convicted murderer escape from prison
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[Music]
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Oh
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in 1986 Diane brought back the 43 year
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old housewife lived in a small
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Pennsylvania town of Roseburg she was a
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devout Christian and had been active in
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her local church for almost 20 years
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on April 5th 1986 ion brought back
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disappeared
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a month later Dianne's abandoned car was
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found in a motel parking lot 30 minutes
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from home in the trunk
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the police found Diane's overnight bag
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the same day Diane banished John young
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our own remember the local prison
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escaped the aunt was serving a life
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sentence for the brutal murder of an
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18-year old school girl at the exact
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time that he escaped
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Diane brought Beck was seen just one
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half mile from the prison driving along
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the same country road for Johnny out
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vanished I don't know if Diane's life
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I hope she's alive I really do I believe
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personally that she is alive and I think
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she is with John neither John Yahoo
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Diane brought back had been seen for
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almost two years the authorities
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believed Diane may have been yonce
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accomplice and her family is mystified
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as to why this apparently respectable
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and happily married woman should have
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vanished without a word was Diane
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kidnapped by a desperate prisoner was
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she a willing accomplice who helped a
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convicted murderer escape I know my
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daughter she would not deliberately help
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a convicted murderer escape from prison
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my daughter would not do this yes I
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think good my wife probably did help
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John y'all get out of jail under
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pressure for what reason I don't know
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it's hard to say she could have been
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threatened by John you out I don't know
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what happened I really don't
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Dyanne brought back and her husband
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Chester had two daughters and had just
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celebrated their silver wedding
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anniversary
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Diane led a busy life she had worked as
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a bank manager avidly pursued an
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interest in psychology and as one of her
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many community activities wrote letters
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to prisoners who had no family or
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friends
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in 1966 John Yount was a popular math
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teacher at the high school and Dubois
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Pennsylvania when April 28 1966 the out
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offered a ride to Pamela sue Ryman one
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of his pupils as she was walking home
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from
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later that afternoon pamela school books
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were discovered beside the country road
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in the nearby woods searchers found her
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body she had been beaten with a wrench
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raped and her throat had been cut
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the next day John Yount confessed to the
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murder of Pamela sue rhymer he was
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convicted of first-degree murder and
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sentenced to life in prison
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sixteen years later John began writing
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to Diane brought back
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by my precious lady I wanted you to be
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close to me so much today
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I hope my enjoyment and adoration of you
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is an incentive to be the best you can
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you are a classy lady I miss you
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Dyan met John through a friend of hers
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who had been visiting John and she was
00:26:06
no longer able to do it and Diane had
00:26:10
been corresponding with prisoners in
00:26:12
other states and she thought this would
00:26:13
be like a continuation of what she had
00:26:16
been doing and it would be a very
00:26:18
fulfilling thing for her to do she was
00:26:21
just always thinking of other people
00:26:23
she really was a people person after 20
00:26:30
years behind bars
00:26:31
John yout had become a model prisoner he
00:26:35
played Oregon for the choir mastered
00:26:37
computer programming and taught in the
00:26:40
prison school around here it was very
00:26:43
easy for him with to be liked and he had
00:26:46
a real good manner about him in terms of
00:26:49
us getting involved with people okay
00:26:52
class if you would open your books to
00:26:54
page 69 the bottom of the page John is a
00:26:57
strong-willed person and very persuasive
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I believe that he could probably
00:27:01
persuade almost anybody given the right
00:27:04
opportunity and given the right time he
00:27:07
has a lot of skill in being able to
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manipulate people
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Diane began visiting out at the local
00:27:15
jail and continued to see him even when
00:27:18
he was transferred to Rockview prison
00:27:20
over two hours away Diane came to see
00:27:25
John the aunts every week she never
00:27:27
missed it was regular is this week after
00:27:30
week she was his girlfriend definitely
00:27:33
they were it was not a casual visit like
00:27:35
a brother and sister visiting when they
00:27:37
started her visit they were embrace and
00:27:39
kiss and the same when they left which
00:27:43
is really all it's permitted during a
00:27:44
visit
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I'm always fine when I see Diane brought
00:27:49
back fell in love with John Yount I had
00:27:55
no idea that they were romantically
00:27:58
involved it appeared to me that they
00:28:01
were simply very good friends she never
00:28:04
confided in me if they were romantically
00:28:07
involved Diane talked it's about John
00:28:13
you out I know she was writing him I
00:28:15
know she visited him which that's about
00:28:19
all it was just a little bit as far as I
00:28:22
knew
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John yow tried repeatedly to appeal his
00:28:27
conviction finally the United States
00:28:30
Supreme Court denied yonce request for a
00:28:33
retrial
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in February 1985 John Yao wrote Diane
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again be my Valentine love forever
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I hope more than anything that this is
00:28:50
the last Valentine Day that we will
00:28:53
spend apart
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on April 5th 1986 journey out escaped
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[Music]
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yawns excellent behavior had earned him
00:29:12
the right to work unsupervised outside
00:29:15
the prison fence the morning of the
00:29:20
escape John was to go out and cut some
00:29:23
hay he was told specifically by the
00:29:29
supervisor what he was supposed to do
00:29:31
look the other men to their particular
00:29:33
areas and then made his rounds that was
00:29:40
the last time John Yount was ever seen I
00:29:43
was on the way up over Rishel Hill
00:29:46
they're headed for the bowling alley and
00:29:48
I've seen his car come door I just
00:29:51
casually looked over and I thought that
00:29:53
girl looks familiar
00:29:54
looks like John yawns his girlfriend so
00:29:57
I thought to myself what is she doing on
00:29:59
this road that was the last time Diane
00:30:03
broad Beck was ever seen a chair project
00:30:07
yes sir sergeant dagger from the
00:30:09
Pennsylvania State Police mr. Robert
00:30:11
Scott oh yes sir like to talking about
00:30:14
John Young and your wife are you
00:30:16
familiar with John Young when a troopers
00:30:18
came to my door on Sunday wanting to
00:30:21
know where my wife was saying that route
00:30:24
had been broken out of prison by someone
00:30:28
or thinking it was her as far as I was
00:30:31
concerned they were completely wrong she
00:30:32
had nothing to do with it I thought that
00:30:35
she had going to Williamsburg Virginia
00:30:37
and I believe that until Monday or
00:30:40
Tuesday when she did not return the
00:30:45
police discovered that Diane had a
00:30:46
secret bank account and had withdrawn
00:30:49
$7,500 in the weeks just before she
00:30:51
disappeared
00:30:56
we discovered that she also placed a car
00:30:59
into a u storage facility and that car
00:31:03
was placed in there within two weeks
00:31:05
prior to the escape and we discovered
00:31:09
that there was telephone contact with
00:31:11
John yonder between she and he at the
00:31:15
prison the night before the escape there
00:31:18
was a 14 minute conversation which
00:31:20
occurred at that point in time we
00:31:23
decided to file charges against her in
00:31:25
assisting John yon I do not believe that
00:31:29
Diane deliberately helped a convicted
00:31:31
murderer escape from prison
00:31:33
she was a very moral person and you just
00:31:36
did not do certain things she had a very
00:31:39
strong code of ethics and certainly
00:31:42
helping a prisoner escape was not among
00:31:46
them a month after the escape Diane's
00:31:51
car was found abandoned at a motel just
00:31:55
20 miles from her home a bag was found
00:31:58
in the trunk containing Diane's personal
00:32:00
items Julie
00:32:02
cosmetics and over a dozen pairs of
00:32:05
underwear there is a theory that John
00:32:08
used Diane as an instrument of his
00:32:11
escape
00:32:14
he discovers that he is not gonna get
00:32:17
out of the prison system he has a woman
00:32:20
on the outside who can do things for you
00:32:23
she does them he then kills her he
00:32:28
departs from the scene he would be gone
00:32:31
free and clear the other theory is that
00:32:35
she really loved him and he really loved
00:32:38
her that theory is one on I hold I
00:32:41
believe she is with him well my wife has
00:32:46
run off with another man or that for
00:32:49
sure I do not like it that's for sure
00:32:51
you know we were married for 25 years
00:32:55
and I thought they were fairly good
00:32:58
years you know and I told many people
00:33:00
she didn't believe just me she left the
00:33:03
whole family I don't think she's alive
00:33:07
because I think she is she would contact
00:33:10
somebody in the family I will never even
00:33:15
think that she is dead I know she's
00:33:18
alive
00:33:18
I think of nothing else but my missing
00:33:24
daughter and I want her back John Yount
00:33:29
murdered a high-school girl at one time
00:33:32
he flew off the handle at that time and
00:33:35
could do it again I think she should
00:33:40
fear for her life I think at some point
00:33:43
in time John can kill again update John
00:33:48
Yount and Diane brought Beck had been
00:33:50
captured two of our viewers in Boise
00:33:53
Idaho recognized brought Beck as a
00:33:55
former coworker Cathy Herrmann when they
00:33:58
showed the picture it was Cathy's face
00:34:00
obviously and once they said she was a
00:34:02
bank manager and was from Massachusetts
00:34:04
and they said that John's a background
00:34:06
was in computers there was a dead
00:34:08
giveaway
00:34:10
the Humphries called the FBI and after a
00:34:13
month-long investigation
00:34:14
the fugitive couple was arrested at
00:34:16
their home
00:34:17
he seemed a little surprised for a
00:34:19
minute and he put his hands up in the
00:34:20
area he didn't look around or anything
00:34:22
really deserve it I think he had his
00:34:24
eyes on the guy with the gun next the
00:34:36
mystery of 21 million dollars in gold
00:34:38
and silver buried somewhere in Virginia
00:34:41
it has eluded treasure hunters for over
00:34:43
a century
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I have deposited in the county of
00:34:57
Bedford 5,100 pounds of silver and 2921
00:35:04
pounds of gold securely packed in iron
00:35:07
pots with iron covers no difficulty will
00:35:11
be had and find in it in 1821 Thomas J
00:35:16
Beale wrote of an enormous fortune he
00:35:18
buried in the hills of Bedford County
00:35:20
Virginia
00:35:21
according to legend 21 million dollars
00:35:24
in gold silver and jewels for over 100
00:35:28
years treasure hunters have been combing
00:35:30
the countryside looking for Beals buried
00:35:32
hoard no one has found it the amount of
00:35:36
gold and silver that was supposed to be
00:35:39
in the pasta there's two deposits gave
00:35:41
me an idea that you'd have to have two
00:35:43
wagons are more than two to bury it his
00:35:46
pots on pot with silver and gold in in
00:35:51
Cohen's and I'm excited about getting
00:35:55
down to work set well some wetter will
00:35:57
get lucky somebody will get lucky and
00:35:59
find it by mistake or they'll find it
00:36:01
because they've really searched it out
00:36:02
and know what they're doing when weather
00:36:04
I think it'll be found the legend of
00:36:08
Beals fortune begins in the early 1800s
00:36:10
in New Mexico Thomas beam and a team of
00:36:14
30 miners dug up gold and silver worth
00:36:17
over 21 million dollars of today's
00:36:19
prices they brought the treasure to
00:36:22
Virginia for Biel buried it
00:36:24
he left written instructions to the
00:36:27
location of his fortune in the form of
00:36:29
three secret codes or siphons
00:36:32
then he went back to New Mexico and
00:36:34
disappeared
00:36:37
in 1869 a wealthy Virginian Psalm one of
00:36:41
the three ciphers using the Declaration
00:36:44
of Independence as the key he numbered
00:36:46
the first letter of every word in the
00:36:48
Declaration of Independence then for
00:36:50
each number in the cypher he substituted
00:36:53
the corresponding letter decoded the
00:36:56
message read I have deposited in the
00:36:59
county of Bedford and excavation or
00:37:01
vault six feet below the surface of the
00:37:04
ground
00:37:05
five thousand one hundred pounds of
00:37:08
silver in two thousand nine bills then
00:37:12
describes the treasure in detail
00:37:14
securely packed for over 100 years the
00:37:17
other two ciphers have remained unsolved
00:37:19
one list Thomas Beals associates and
00:37:22
heirs and this one pinpoints the exact
00:37:26
location of the treasure
00:37:27
whoever decodes it may find deals
00:37:30
fortunes stowed in the secret vault
00:37:32
roughly the size of two rolls-royce's in
00:37:36
this next mystery no join several
00:37:38
treasure hunters some of whom say they
00:37:40
have broken the cipher they are
00:37:43
convinced that sooner or later someone
00:37:44
will strike it rich
00:37:48
two brothers Eddie and Joe Tony and
00:37:51
their father-in-law Earl Boggs have
00:37:53
spent nine years searching for the
00:37:55
treasure
00:37:55
they say the ax broken the cipher and
00:37:58
that the message tells of five
00:38:00
geographical points for a hundred and
00:38:02
sixty-seven years ago Thomas Beale left
00:38:04
the clues which one-by-one will lead to
00:38:07
his fortune but Tony brothers are
00:38:11
currently looking for the fifth and
00:38:13
final point which is the clue that will
00:38:15
lead them to the vault we only have one
00:38:18
more point to go and we've verified each
00:38:21
place we found something that he layout
00:38:24
and degrees and the footage and paces
00:38:27
came out exactly if we can't find this
00:38:31
field point after finding four there's
00:38:33
something bad wrong I'm confident that
00:38:35
we'll find it
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the Tony brothers believe this 19th
00:39:03
century carriage rod is the fifth clue
00:39:05
in our search they think that it was
00:39:07
purposefully buried by Beal pointing in
00:39:09
the direction of his secret vault we
00:39:12
know what the last degree is to go I'm a
00:39:16
little shaky right now on account of it
00:39:20
because I could I know there's not
00:39:22
enough time today to go do it
00:39:24
well when the middle of dictor went off
00:39:26
I got excited
00:39:27
and it's hard to explain how exciting
00:39:30
you do get and you imagine a goal down
00:39:34
in there behind them rocks
00:39:35
and my heart felt like it come up in my
00:39:39
throat
00:39:41
meanwhile miles away in a completely
00:39:44
different section of Bedford County
00:39:46
Wilbur Swift from Garden Grove
00:39:47
California is also searching he believes
00:39:51
that he too is broken a cipher and has
00:39:54
spent the last year and 20,000 dollars
00:39:56
trying to find the Beale treasure I'm a
00:39:59
computer programmer to start with so on
00:40:02
my own personal computer I decided to
00:40:05
try to decipher this in about eight
00:40:07
months time I was able to break the code
00:40:09
and it told me about a specific type of
00:40:13
rock that I was looking for and I
00:40:16
happened to locate that specific type of
00:40:18
rock and there it is right there it has
00:40:23
a face on it and it has a head on it
00:40:27
this is what the deciphered code told me
00:40:31
looked for and then I said okay the
00:40:34
treasure has to be underneath it because
00:40:36
it said that's where it was supposed to
00:40:38
be
00:40:42
Wilbur hired a local contractor Ken
00:40:45
Dooley to help him excavate under the
00:40:47
rock I have lived in Biff account all of
00:40:50
my life and over the past 25 years I
00:40:53
held Douglas Tracy up here for about 20
00:40:57
25 people most of them knew exactly
00:41:00
where it was and when talking to him if
00:41:03
he's so uptight
00:41:04
I just couldn't hardly breathe really
00:41:06
and when you start digging fall there
00:41:10
was always just two feet away from it I
00:41:12
don't care how deep in a grind you went
00:41:14
and still it was two feet deeper than
00:41:16
what you dug the target was pre measured
00:41:21
at 26 feet and we're down right now at
00:41:25
about 24 feet so we don't have too much
00:41:27
farther to go now that we found the rock
00:41:32
and we've done some extensive testing by
00:41:35
the way and we're sure that we're
00:41:37
getting the treasure out of there
00:41:39
I've been lady yep Oh 50 years born
00:41:43
raised here they've searched and
00:41:46
searched and I haven't seen anybody come
00:41:48
up with anything yet Bedford counties
00:41:51
local residents have seen diggers
00:41:52
commonly diggers go empty-handed they're
00:41:55
not convinced there really is a traveler
00:41:58
it may be here only be sitting on it
00:42:02
I've got some land in taxes know where
00:42:05
it may be on my spread I don't know I
00:42:08
hope it is I say I think it's outside
00:42:10
possibility it might be a treasure
00:42:12
somewhere yet but I don't think you can
00:42:14
not believe enough in it to go up and
00:42:16
start digging they think they can break
00:42:18
that code maybe they can I hope I'm good
00:42:22
luck but personally I just don't believe
00:42:25
it you could the Beale ciphers be a hoax
00:42:32
a computer pioneer dr. Carl hammer has
00:42:35
spent 30 years studying Veals numbers to
00:42:38
determine if there truly is a coded
00:42:40
message as part of his investigation he
00:42:43
attempted to recreate the conditions
00:42:45
under which bill wrote the cipher in his
00:42:48
computer lab my aim was to find out
00:42:53
whether the ciphers are real or whether
00:42:55
hoax hoax means these are random numbers
00:42:58
doodles and so I start to analyze those
00:43:01
numbers there and I discovered that
00:43:03
there were some very distinguishable
00:43:05
patterns and they were in fact not
00:43:07
random numbers there were not doodles
00:43:10
but they contained information we don't
00:43:13
know what the information is but there
00:43:15
are a legitimate set of cryptographic
00:43:17
numbers and that is all that is known to
00:43:21
the state even though he has lost his
00:43:26
job now living in a nearby motel room
00:43:29
Wilber Swift is still digging at the
00:43:31
bottom of his 25-foot shaft so far it
00:43:35
was found nothing my wife is back in
00:43:38
California and some of the neighbors say
00:43:41
a word Wilbur and I I don't think any
00:43:43
other take it serious
00:43:45
well he who laughs last last best and I
00:43:51
believe that that one of these days I
00:43:52
might get the last laugh the Tony
00:43:57
brothers believe they will have the last
00:43:58
laugh they still haven't found the
00:44:01
treasure but they do believe they have
00:44:03
located the final clue while we were
00:44:06
filming they had to return home after
00:44:08
running out of money but they will be
00:44:11
back the fact that we've got I know it's
00:44:13
not hope you know I'm convinced that
00:44:16
it's not it's Ben's are a hundred and
00:44:18
sixty some years supposedly and it's
00:44:20
gonna be there until it's found in spite
00:44:25
of all the computer programs historical
00:44:27
research digging and searching Thomas
00:44:30
Beals secret ball if it exists remains
00:44:33
intact
00:44:36
the residents of Bedford County have
00:44:38
played host to treasure seekers for
00:44:40
nearly a century and I've asked us to
00:44:42
remind everyone that unauthorized
00:44:44
digging is against the law
00:44:54
tonight we've examined four mysteries
00:44:56
and at the heart of each is a secret the
00:44:59
secret kept hidden by amnesia by a con
00:45:02
game by a prison escape and by a code
00:45:05
perhaps someone somewhere can unlock
00:45:08
these secrets perhaps as someone was
00:45:10
watching perhaps it's you
00:45:13
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