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tonight on unsolved mysteries the name
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alone is enough to make you stop and
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think twice welcome to The Devil's
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Backbone in Central Texas locals say
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it's the most haunted spot in the
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country a mother lode of restless
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spirits showed a frightening or perhaps
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even possess you a romeo-juliet love
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affair ends tragically when Leroy's
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right says goodbye to his girlfriend and
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just minutes later smashes his car into
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a tree
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the coroner called it suicide Leroy
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sister Vicki believes she has compelling
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evidence that Leroy was murdered on
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David Kempton invited a new friend home
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to dinner he never imagined his wife and
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this friend and become lovers within
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months
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Davis wife left then she dropped from
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sight along with David's four-year-old
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daughter
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join me perhaps tonight you can make a
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difference perhaps you can help solve
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the mystery
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well County Colorado
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Memorial Day 1968 Leroy Dreyfus killed
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instantly
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the coroner's ruling is suicide 25 years
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later at his family's request the body
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of Leroy Dreyfus exhumed for an autopsy
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it is a culmination of a long struggle
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for Leroy sister Vicki who is convinced
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that her brother was murdered
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I took a vow that I would do this for my
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brother and I don't feel like I can stop
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until it's done because I would be
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letting them down I already feel like
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the authorities let him down
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and that obviously someone took his life
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and that he can't I can't let him down
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someone has to stand up and talk for him
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Vicky Marling is a woman and a
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relentless quest a quarter of a century
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may seem like an eternity but for Vicky
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time has Stood Still since a day her
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brother died her mission is simple to
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bring Leroy's killer to justice no
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matter how long it takes Leroy was the
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oldest of four children seventeen Leroy
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fell in love with a 16 year old Hispanic
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girl named patty a year later they were
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engaged on the day he died Memorial Day
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1968
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Leroy attended a party at Patty's house
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he left in the late afternoon a block
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and a half away
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Leroy's car smashed head-on into a tree
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word of the accident spread quickly the
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first people on the scene were Leroy's
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father and brother
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I tried to hug him your hand I said how
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gets up gonna go get you some help so
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I've run to the truck and told uggs I
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still run to the grocery store and call
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the ambulance
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by the way sir folks does anybody know
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what happened here he had a fight with
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his girlfriend he said he's gonna kill
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himself it was that offhanded remark
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from a bystander to set the suicide
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scenario in motion ambulance driver
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Delbert Mickelson remembers the corner
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come to the hospital and went over what
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happened and then I I was the first one
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to relay the story to him that he'd had
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a fight with his girlfriend and was
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going to kill himself
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based on that information the corner
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demon autopsy was necessary he
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attributed Leroy's death to cult auto
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suicide I went to the district attorney
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in Greeley and I said I don't believe
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this mr. suicide I believe it was a
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murder and I need for you to investigate
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it and he was very rude he said you're
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just a distraught parent there's no
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reason for us to investigate this you
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just gone home and get old for it I just
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cried and went home I never got over
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why don't you take this you always liked
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for 11-year old Vicki Leroy's death
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would prove to be the defining moment in
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her life I remember that my mom was
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crying for a long time and even though I
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was only 11 I knew that was something
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wrong but I had to wait until I was an
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adult to attempt to solve the problem I
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believe the Leroy committed suicide June
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1988 Vicki paid a surprise visit to the
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Boulder County coroner's office she
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fully expected to be Stonewater instead
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she discovered that the current regime
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had already noted the lack of a thorough
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investigation into Leroy's death well
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you see there's only three recorded auto
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suicides in the whole history of
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Colorado only three and also because
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they see the other two cases you know at
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six-month investigations with reams and
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reams of paperwork and as you can see at
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this report yeah two pages why is there
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only two pages I really couldn't tell
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you but I want to encourage you to look
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further into this and if I were you I
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would hire a private investigator I felt
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like it was a real strange thing for
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them for the authorities to bring it to
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my attention as dramatically as they did
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that something's wrong here Vicki became
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her own investigator she knocked on
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doors she talked to Patty's neighbors
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looking for anyone who had any memory of
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the day of her brother died
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has been that fight oh they said there
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was a big fight according to the
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townspeople there was a party going on
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at Patty's house and there had been a
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fight but that it had not been between
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Patty and Leroy that there had been
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several other family members there that
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did not like Leroy and that have been
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drinking all day
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Vicky heard similar stories from a
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number of people but not everyone was
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convinced that there was more to the
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situation than suicide Vicky had a
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little luck with the son of the original
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caller very sorry but I just want you to
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know one thing my father was a coroner
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here for 25 years he was very good at
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what he did I'm sure he did everything
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he could now there's really nothing more
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I can help you with I'm sorry excuse me
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finally Vicky placed an ad in the local
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paper urging Leroy's former girlfriend
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patty to contact her it worked I went to
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the corner and got the coroner's report
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and it stated that you had told the
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authorities that he was gonna leave your
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house to kill himself did you say that
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no no I never said that
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can you tell me anything about that day
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anything else
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I felt like patty knew answers but was
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reluctant to talk
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as far as Vickie was concerned the
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evidence was becoming undeniable
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I just I don't think about that day
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anymore next came the exhumation at long
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last after 25 years the body of Leroy
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would be autopsy it was a tough decision
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it took me about six months to finally
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decide that they weren't going to do
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anything and couldn't do anything unless
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we did the exclamation it almost didn't
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seem right but on the other hand it
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seemed wrong to just stop there and say
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oh well it was immediately apparent that
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this young man had sustained some sort
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of incised wound to the neck actually
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two incised wounds to the neck and they
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were very characteristic of what I see
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all the time and other persons who have
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received the stab or slash wounds to the
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neck from a knife Vickie was stunned in
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simple layman's terms the two incisions
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translated into establish nearly two
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inches long and a slash four inches long
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the severed Leroy's windpipe based upon
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dr. Allen's findings the cause of
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Leroy's death was changed from auto
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suicide to undetermined for Vicky's
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crucial questions remained who killed
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her brother and why
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in retrospect everything leads back to
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Patty's house every time I think of a
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scenario think of what happened the same
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conclusion and the same thought that it
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is started at Patty's house with an
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argument
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Leroy arrives at around 5 p.m.
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one of the gifts was Patty's
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sister-in-law Carolyn Leroy come over
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that day and a lot of Patty's family was
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there and everyone had been drinking
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quite heavily that day I was married to
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Patty's brother and I was living in the
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house with the family for about eight
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months before and after this happened
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Patty's family and Leroy had a slight
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argument kind of a racial argument over
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girlfriends and boyfriends
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soon after the argument Patti escorted
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Leroy to his car
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Vicki is convinced that just before he
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drove off Leroy was attacked by one of
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Patti's family members I believe that
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they continued arguing and that a male
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person just quickly reached out and cut
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Leroy's throat I feel that Leroy was
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probably fleeing for his life in the
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automobile and then lost consciousness
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or lost control of the vehicle because
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of the injuries he would have been
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annexed in pain and would have been
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extremely afraid but the actual cause of
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death were injury sustained from the
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automobile crash I feel like I have
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become a cop in this whole scenario
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which is very difficult at times because
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I have no training and I don't know what
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to do and I'm sure I've made the wrong
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mistakes at times but I also know that I
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care deeply about my family and that I
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love my brother very much and I know
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that as long as I am doing this is my
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heart pure and doing it for the good
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reasons that there is going to be a
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conclusion
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here at unsolved mysteries each and
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every case saw brings us feelings of
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immense satisfaction
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tonight's update is particularly
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gratifying it involves a young man
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sentenced to life in prison for a murder
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most people are convinced he did not
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commit
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on Sunday night April 13th 1986 fire and
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rescue squads raced to a raging house
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fire in Aurora Missouri when firemen
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were finally able to search the wreckage
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they found the body of 79 year-old
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Pauline Marx she had been bound gagged
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and left to die investigators concluded
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the fire had been deliberately set five
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days later the police questioned the
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local 20 year old named Johnny Lee
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Wilson Wilson is mildly [ __ ] when IQ
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in the mid 60s his chair and he sat here
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and looked you right in the eye and said
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John he was there before that fire
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started after a grueling four-hour
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interrogation Wilson confessed a
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confession he would later recant
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at the end of the gym tape at the end
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interrogation he he forced my head back
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and that's that's when I said okay okay
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I did it well when I really didn't
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that's that's when I lied Johnny's
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attorneys recommended that he plead
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guilty to avoid the possibility of the
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death penalty in doing so he waived his
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right to a trial by jury in April of
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1987 Johnny Lee Wilson was sentenced to
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life in prison
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he was immediately remanded to the
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Missouri State Penitentiary several
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legal experts insist by this apparent
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injustice spraying the Johnnies defense
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it's one of those cases perhaps there's
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only one in a thousand where an innocent
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man is doing time in the penitent
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and Johnny Lee Wilson is innocent and if
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he had a trial he would probably be
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acquitted I don't think the jury would
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deliberate more than an hour before they
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acquitted him and it's a shame that he
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never got a chance to prove his
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innocence all I want somebody to believe
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me
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you know you know just that I didn't do
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this over the years a case against
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Johnny Lee Wilson began to fall apart a
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key witness recanted his testimony an
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inmate in another prison actually
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confessed to the crime
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nevertheless both the state court of
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appeals in the Missouri Supreme Court
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refused to grant Johnny a trial Johnny
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Lee Wilson had only one other option one
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last hope here's Keeley Shay Smith with
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the details in July of 1994 Johnny's
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case came before Missouri governor Mel
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Carnahan Johnny's attorneys had
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requested a pardon on the grounds that
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there was no evidence against their
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client only quote a pathetic desperate
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confession after hours of interrogation
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my counsel re-interviewed the witnesses
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talked to the prosecutors and the police
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looked at the evidence read the
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transcripts a year-long study and we
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became convinced that wasn't proferred
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not only wasn't appropriate for him to
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remain in prison but that he was
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innocent
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the pardon was granted on September 29
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1995 Johnny Lee Wilson was finally a
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free man exonerated of all charges I
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know I never never thought that I would
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see the day that I would walk out those
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doors and I'd be driving away from that
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place it's out great all together Johnny
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had spent nine years five months and ten
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days behind bars at a hastily assembled
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news conference
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Johnny's thoughts turned to Pauline
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marts why why would someone hurt a nice
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lady like falling and she was a
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wonderful person I bring my
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grandmother's and she is
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following his release Johnny was
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reunited with his mother and grandmother
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made mother and I cry and we just you
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know we hugged each other and all of us
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and was really happy could hardly
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believe it you know after all those
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years
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Johnny now lives with his mother and
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grandmother in his hometown of Aurora
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Missouri where he hopes to put his long
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ordeal behind him
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I know bareness of nothing I got so much
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faith you know I I knew sometimes
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somehow that I was gonna get out I just
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I'm just glad I did
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New Year's Eve 1952 a time of hope and
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guarded optimism by Cuban elected
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president conflict in Korea was drawing
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to a close but in Glendale California
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David camtonz world was about to come
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apart David's wife Barbara was in love
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with another man nine months later
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Barbara would disappear along with a
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couple's young daughter Darla and the
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last time I saw her was just a few weeks
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after her fourth birthday it's been a
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very long time so I'm sitting there with
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this guy I met down at the plant
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he says Washington David Kempton
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troubles began in July of 1951 when he
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brought a co-worker home for dinner and
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I meet Barbara Stanwyck at the time the
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Kempton lived in Ohio David and Barbara
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had been married for five years and had
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two children Stephen and done for a few
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minutes
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David's new friend Charles was an
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engaging storyteller who entertained
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everyone with delightful tales of his
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adventures around the country Charles
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was a person who lived an unusual kind
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of life almost anything or anyplace you
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wanted to talk about he had some stories
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related to it there's restaurants
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there's nightclubs there's dancing
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Charles never stopped talking about
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California the promised land eventually
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David and Barbara decided that was a
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place to be
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all worthwhile until Charles joined the
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captain's on the west coast I'm in love
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with Charles I want a divorce
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I was totally unforced I have never
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considered such a thing didn't know
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there was anything that wrong with the
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marriage eventually what we decided was
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that if that's where things were gonna
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be I would step out of the picture he
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would step into my shoes there'd be as
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little disruption as possible with the
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kids and I went back to Cleveland but
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within about a month or five or six
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weeks I got a phone call it was totally
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out of the blue a thunderbolt kids I
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want to come home I sent her the bus
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tickets and I tore out and dug up a
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house forced to leave it
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Davis joy was short-lived within weeks
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Charles was back in the picture Barbara
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moved out again she moved back in then
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she dropped another bombshell I'll live
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here and I'll take care of our children
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but don't ask me for anything more this
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time David left and he took the children
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with him a judge soon granted David
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temporary custody of both Stephen and
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daughter Barbara received weekend
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visitation rights on the occasion of the
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first weekend visitation she called me
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ahead of time to say that she was in a
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rooming house and couldn't accommodate
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both kids could she just take Donna so
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on Friday I delivered on Sunday evening
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went back to pick her up she's going
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inside or I know they left yesterday
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they packed up some family business and
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had to leave wait that's not right ma'am
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I'm supposed to pick up Donna today he
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wasn't there they went it was
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devastating because I had no way not a
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way in the world to know where they
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might have gone
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[Music]
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more than 40 years of now past 40 years
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of birthdays dances graduations perhaps
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a wedding and even grandchildren
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[Music]
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I'd like Donna to know that she's always
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been a part of my feeling whenever
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anyone mentions what kids do I have
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usually I'll I'll include her in the
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count I want to say hello and that I
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love you if in whatever way that's
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possible under the circumstances I have
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love for you
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[Music]
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we'll be back in a moment to investigate
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the mysterious disappearance of a young
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woman named Bonnie hey some people
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believe her husband was more about
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Bonnie's fate than he is saved
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[Music]
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Christmas morning 1992 in Jacksonville
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Florida a young wife and mother Bonnie
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Haim open presents Bonnie's husband
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Michael captured the moment forever on
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videotape less than two weeks later
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Barney Haines would inexplicably vanish
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police began to suspect that Bonnie was
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dead a victim of foul play
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their suspicions soon focused on Michael
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Haines among the most damning evidence
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was extraordinary testimony of a
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surprising witness Michael and Bonnie's
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three-year-old son Barney Ames uncertain
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fate and the cloud of suspicion that
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hangs over her husband Michael spawned a
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contorted family dispute on one hand
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Bonnie's own Parris believe that she was
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unhappily married and willfully
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abandoned Michael and her son and yet
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some members of Michael's family are
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convinced that bonnie is dead murdered
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by Michael Haines Bonnie I'm sorry to
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say is it's gone she's not alive if she
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was alive and had one ounce of life in
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her she would have contacted someone
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there are thousands of women that that
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leave their husbands and families every
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year and it's always a complete surprise
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to their families
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Michael worked as a manager the
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construction supply company owned by his
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aunt Eva and her husband Bonnie did
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their accounts it's got a lot even
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claims that Michael was often abusive to
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Bonnie at the office let's go me what is
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so important that you can't go to lunch
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the even also claims that at least once
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Michaels abuse became physical one day
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they got into an argument and a fight in
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the parking lot and she came in crying
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and he had slammed her pan in the door
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her nails were broke and she was very
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upset at that point
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even says that bonnie eventually decided
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to leave her husband and in preparation
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opened a bank account in her own name to
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keep her plans secret bonnie had the
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bank statements mailed to her at work
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according to a van
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michael was enraged when he found out
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Michael what are you doing no what are
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you doing Bonnie why don't I know about
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this we're married
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this is our money should be in our
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account well it's from my paycheck well
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you're gonna close it you're gonna close
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it today do you understand me
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Bonni closed the account but according
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to those closest to her Bonnie never
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wavered in her plan to divorce Michael
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she secret admirer that rend for
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safekeeping and went so far as to put a
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deposit on an apartment and enroll her
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son in a new preschool
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the evening of January 6 1993 Bonnie
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came home from work at around 7:30 p.m.
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she intended to drop by Avanza day
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to finalize plans for a co-worker's baby
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shower about 8:30 that evening she
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called me on the phone she was crying
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and she was upset
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I asked why she said that her and my had
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gotten into a discussion and I asked her
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she want me to call her back later and
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she said no that she would just talk to
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me in the morning actually not too good
00:28:03
I think I'm coming down with something
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but the next morning neither Bonnie nor
00:28:08
Michael showed up at work she's not here
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I don't know she we had an argument well
00:28:16
she got mad at me last night took off I
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don't know where she's at
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however hopes for Bonnie's safe return
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began to dim that same morning her purse
00:28:30
turned up roughly five miles from home
00:28:32
buried in a motel dumpster near the
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Jacksonville Airport robbery apparently
00:28:39
was not a motive due to the amount of
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money and the credit cards being there
00:28:42
it had all of her identification
00:28:45
checkbook and the purse was secured by
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the maintenance worker and a police
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officer was called to the scene along
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with family members 6070 573 does there
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appear to be anything missing from the
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purse no it's all here as far as I can
00:29:04
tell when I walked into the room she
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give any indication of worship Mike and
00:29:11
his dad nothing more in there tell me
00:29:14
anything Michael didn't say much about
00:29:17
Bonnie being missing the hell was body
00:29:20
doing with all that money
00:29:21
he didn't just come out and like oh my
00:29:25
god my wife is gone where is she just
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nothing nothing michael has insisted
00:29:34
from the start that he was not involved
00:29:36
in his wife's disappearance he says it
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on the night of January 6 bonnie drove
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off alone after an argument at around
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11:00 p.m.
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thanks B stated that he called his
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mother Carolyn a man asked her to come
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over to the house and early morning
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hours and watch the child while he went
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and looked for Bonnie
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according to Carolyn Mike he was gone
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approximately 45 minutes then after he
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allegedly did that he returned to the
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house where he waited until the next
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morning never calling the police and
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called in and told his employer that he
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was gonna be sick that day
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detective Hinson was less than convinced
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by Eames account his instincts led him
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back to the Jacksonville Airport near
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the motel Merv isn't that it sure enough
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there was Bonnie's car abandoned in a
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lot for long-term parking what was
00:30:36
unusual about Bonnie's car when we found
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it at the airport was the positioning of
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the seat the driver's seat of the car
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which appeared to be farther back than
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would have been comfortable for Bonnie
00:30:47
to have driven the car it was more in
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relation to someone about Michael Haynes
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sighs and after the vehicle was
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processed we found a shoe print and the
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driver's side floorboard it was very
00:31:01
pristine print
00:31:05
police concluded that the print had been
00:31:07
made by the last person to drive the car
00:31:09
the distinctive tread pattern was traced
00:31:12
to a rare style of athletic shoe one
00:31:15
pair was owned by none other than
00:31:17
Michael Haines the shoe print in the car
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is interesting but beyond that if it's
00:31:31
his footprint I'm not sure it means
00:31:34
anything my footprint is in my wife's
00:31:36
car that doesn't mean I have ever done
00:31:41
her any harm in a bold attempt to
00:31:51
uncover the truth investigators arranged
00:31:54
for child psychologists to interview
00:31:56
Bonnie and Michael's son
00:32:07
from what the child told us that day my
00:32:10
only conclusion was is that there had
00:32:12
been a domestic fight and the Michel
00:32:14
Haim had killed his wife and had removed
00:32:16
her and that their three and a half year
00:32:18
old son meant witnessed this the
00:32:24
credibility of a child is something that
00:32:27
you have to actually judge in
00:32:29
perspective he's said a couple of things
00:32:33
that we know were not true mom's cars in
00:32:37
the lake we know her car wasn't there
00:32:40
the issue of child witness credibility
00:32:44
is always a concern but generally
00:32:47
children do not lie about what they see
00:32:51
and they do not lie about what happens
00:32:54
to them at this point custody of Bonnie
00:32:58
and Michael's son is still in litigation
00:33:00
however he is safe meanwhile the
00:33:04
families remain split about what if
00:33:06
anything Michael hey knows about his
00:33:08
wife's disappearance I'm not saying that
00:33:14
I'm a hundred percent convinced that
00:33:16
Mike is innocent I haven't seen any
00:33:19
evidence that convinces me he's guilty
00:33:22
his behavior and general attitude
00:33:27
convinces me that he's not guilty I
00:33:32
think that Michael did something to
00:33:38
Bonnie
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I think her son and was there and I
00:33:42
think he's seen exactly what happened I
00:33:44
think he witnessed his mother's murder
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I refuse to give up hope that bonnie is
00:33:51
alive until we get some proof some
00:33:56
evidence that Bonnie's dead
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[Music]
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through his attorney Michael Haim
00:34:03
declined our request for an interview he
00:34:06
has not been formally charged with any
00:34:07
crime however authorities still consider
00:34:10
him to be the prime suspect in Bonnie's
00:34:12
disappearance
00:34:13
in addition investigators believe
00:34:16
Michael may have had an accomplice
00:34:17
someone who picked him up after he left
00:34:19
Bonnie's car at the airport and also
00:34:21
helped to dispose of his wife's body the
00:34:24
possibility remains of course at Bonnie
00:34:26
Haim is still alive
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[Music]
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[Music]
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next if you like a good frame you love
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The Devil's Backbone many believe it's
00:34:56
the most haunted spot in America and the
00:34:58
eyewitness accounts leave little doubt
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I was feeling extremely scared it was a
00:35:25
ghost it had to be I didn't tell anybody
00:35:27
about it that chilling sensation I got
00:35:31
kind of stayed with me there's something
00:35:35
here what it is I don't know I've had
00:35:39
probably 25 30 or 40 s at different
00:35:41
spirits and ghosts from different people
00:35:43
they'll never leave I'll be dead and
00:35:46
gone they'll be here they called it the
00:35:52
Devil's Backbone
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and when it comes to ghosts per square
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mile
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few places short of purgatory could
00:35:58
match these 4,700 acres and Central
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Texas to get here you head south out of
00:36:05
the state capital Austin about 50 miles
00:36:07
and some 200 years
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[Music]
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the gnarled canyons of The Devil's
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Backbone or was home to Comanche and
00:36:17
Apache Indians in the 1700s Spaniards
00:36:21
pushed through on the road to conquest
00:36:22
among them was a Franciscan monk named
00:36:25
best Spinoza infamous for his ruthless
00:36:27
ambition more than a century later
00:36:29
renegade Confederate soldiers and a
00:36:31
doomed quest for gold breathed their
00:36:33
last in The Devil's Backbone today their
00:36:36
spirits live on our so says longtime
00:36:39
resident Bert wall
00:36:45
I had a situation one time where I was
00:36:53
finishing a particular thing I was
00:36:55
writing and it was late at night that
00:36:57
midnight and and the dog started barking
00:37:00
a little bit but not loud the wind was
00:37:02
blowing it was a coal night that looks
00:37:10
through the window that's when I saw the
00:37:12
Spanish monk
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[Music]
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I don't believe it could have been a
00:37:20
person there's no way he was definitely
00:37:23
from the 1700s he was dressed that way
00:37:25
and his habit of whatever his cross
00:37:27
hanging I probably watched him for all
00:37:32
15 seconds maybe which is a long time he
00:37:36
disappeared in a way that was more of
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[Music]
00:37:48
the luminous Spanish monk is but one of
00:37:51
many spirits that prowl the ranch just
00:37:54
ask John Meyers he came to Burt walls
00:37:56
place to hunt deer but hunting in The
00:37:59
Devil's Backbone isn't like anywhere
00:38:01
else in the world the stand I was on was
00:38:06
a tree stand once I got up and situated
00:38:10
myself you have to be real quiet and
00:38:13
real still and watch for the deer as I
00:38:17
was sitting up in the standing and
00:38:19
that's what you taught in a lot and deer
00:38:21
hunting is just wait I heard footprints
00:38:28
or footsteps I should say walking around
00:38:30
the tree the base of the tree I couldn't
00:38:35
see because I was sitting on a platform
00:38:37
and it kept just walking in a circle
00:38:42
whatever it was
00:38:46
I started getting a little eerie feeling
00:38:50
because it wouldn't move away from the
00:38:53
tree it just kept going in this circle
00:38:55
and finally it just stopped it didn't
00:39:00
walk away the sounds just stopped and
00:39:04
the Sun started going down and it
00:39:07
started getting darker and I thought
00:39:09
well I'm just gonna get out off the tree
00:39:10
walk back to the house didn't see any
00:39:13
footprints
00:39:14
twigs broken or branches broken or
00:39:17
anything like that I kept getting this
00:39:20
feeling that someone was watching me so
00:39:23
I stopped and I turned back and looked
00:39:25
toward the tree and there was an Indian
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it was a very cold night it was in the
00:39:34
20s and he was without a shirt and he
00:39:37
was looking at me rather strangely like
00:39:39
who are you
00:39:42
so immediately I turned around and
00:39:44
started back toward the house and
00:39:46
noticed to my right out of the corner of
00:39:49
my eye that that he was there and he was
00:39:52
walking parallel with me I didn't feel
00:39:57
threatened by him it's just you know
00:40:00
like who are you and what are you doing
00:40:01
here and I made about two steps toward
00:40:05
him and what I did it was a ghost it had
00:40:15
to be you know to be able to do there
00:40:18
the bunkhouse was a sight of yet another
00:40:21
extraordinary vision if you believe Lynn
00:40:23
Gentry one-time foreman at Burt Falls
00:40:26
ranch I was kind of relaxed in and off
00:40:30
in the distance I heard what at first I
00:40:32
thought was thunder
00:40:36
then as the sound came closer I realized
00:40:39
that it was horses hooves in a very fast
00:40:43
run
00:40:48
there were several horses with probably
00:40:51
15 or 20 riders on what I believed to
00:40:55
have been Confederate soldiers
00:41:00
they certainly look real to me at the
00:41:02
time but then when you begin to slowly
00:41:05
realize that hey what I'm looking at is
00:41:07
not real you know if this is these are
00:41:11
ghosts
00:41:16
perhaps most amazing of all was the
00:41:18
experience of John theory on a few years
00:41:21
back John was hiking with two friends in
00:41:23
an area known as the haunted Valley John
00:41:27
claims he not only saw a supernatural
00:41:28
vision of a wolf but that the spirit
00:41:31
actually possessed him quarry and BC
00:41:35
were often another part of the creek and
00:41:37
I got the sensation and basically saw a
00:41:42
vision of a wolf
00:41:49
I was looking up watching it come
00:41:52
towards me and it left at me
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[Applause]
00:41:58
and where it would have hit me I felt
00:42:03
the just a chilling sensation go through
00:42:06
me we didn't see anything mysterious
00:42:10
it's all what John says that he saw when
00:42:16
we got back into the truck it got
00:42:18
extremely cold in the truck he was
00:42:20
sitting in between BC and I I was
00:42:23
sitting on the passenger side so the
00:42:25
whole left-hand side of my body got
00:42:28
extremely numb and cold it's almost like
00:42:32
if there was a big block of ice sitting
00:42:35
next to me when we got back to the ranch
00:42:39
that night I didn't know what was going
00:42:42
on I didn't know if my friend was going
00:42:44
to be all right
00:42:46
I was actually pretty worried about him
00:42:49
[Music]
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according to his friends
00:42:53
John initially lapsed into a silent
00:42:55
trance when he did speak his voice was
00:42:57
an unearthly baritone John suddenly
00:43:00
seemed obsessed with Indian massacres
00:43:02
ambushes and other little-known events
00:43:05
from a history of Devil's Backbone while
00:43:09
I was standing there I was feeling
00:43:10
extremely scared and all of a sudden a
00:43:15
big gust of wind came out of the kitchen
00:43:19
I was just in shock I didn't know what
00:43:23
that was
00:43:25
I sniffed her kind of frozen and kept
00:43:27
asking questions what what was that what
00:43:29
was that and that's when someone said I
00:43:32
think the spirits left him I think it's
00:43:35
gone now I don't know for sure what kind
00:43:38
of spirit was inside of me but something
00:43:41
that knew about this ranch that knew
00:43:45
about the history of the ranch it had to
00:43:47
be going through me and it's it's hard
00:43:51
to believe but it you know basically
00:43:54
that's what would have had to happen
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[Music]
00:43:59
here The Devil's Backbone ghost says
00:44:01
common as spines on a cactus but why
00:44:04
should this particular patch of land
00:44:06
prove so irresistible to spirits The
00:44:10
Devil's Backbone is haunted because it's
00:44:13
loved its loved by the spirits
00:44:16
it's loved by myself and I imagine
00:44:20
someday when I'm gone I will haunt this
00:44:23
same son of a gun
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
00:44:30
if the local accounts are anything close
00:44:32
to true Bert wall would join a host of
00:44:35
other selves and once called his place
00:44:37
home old company in which to spend the
00:44:40
rest of eternity
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[Music]
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join me next time for another intriguing
00:45:02
edition unsolved mysteries
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