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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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a teenage girl and her friend vanished
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the night her parents are slain
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and their home set ablaze we only had
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one body accounted for
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could find no others yet we had all the
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cars there at the house
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were they abducted or were they involved
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in the murders
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a young american woman is stranded on
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jamaica when her business plans go awry
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days later she vanishes what happened to
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claudia kershaw
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a young teen tormented by ghosts for the
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past
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nine years michael jones believes
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supernatural spirits have been
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tormenting him
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from poltergeist activity to physical
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torture
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there's a there's a lot of ghosts in our
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house that are after me
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and there's a lot of bad ones and good
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ones and they're all fighting with each
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other
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could the spirits be vying for this
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boy's soul
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a young widow falls for the charismatic
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leader of the pack
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she has no idea he is a dangerous
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ex-convict wanted by federal authorities
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did she willingly join him as he fled
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or did she become his victim
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join me for these intriguing cases
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you may be able to help solve a mystery
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so
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so
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bonita oklahoma a small rural town in
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craig county
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december 29 1999.
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what is it ashley freeman turned sweet
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16
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at her home it is a night of celebration
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for her parents
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and for her best friend laura bible
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laura she said to me daddy is it all
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right if i spend the night with
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ashley to the freeman's home blow them
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all out i said well
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just make sure you're home by noon
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tomorrow
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you know and
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noon tomorrow didn't happen the way it
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should have
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sometime during the night the freeman's
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home becomes an inferno
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by 8 am when laura's parents arrive the
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fire is extinguished
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but the freeman's home has been reduced
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to ashes
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there's a car laura's car is on the
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charred property
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but there is no sign of their daughter
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jay and laureen bible
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fear the worst we did find one
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body but it's not laura county coroner
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told me
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that there was only one body that's all
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they found i said
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have they found any anybody else and she
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said no
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i said did they look and she said yes
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we've looked but there's no other bodies
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there
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the lone body discovered in the debris
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is that of kathy freeman
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the mother of laura's friend ashley
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the craig county sheriff's department
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and the oklahoma state bureau of
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investigation are perplexed
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where are ashley her father danny
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and laura bible we only had one body
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accounted for
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could find no others yet we had all the
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cars there at the house that was that
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was
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a little bit bizarre and no one could
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quite uh piece
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two and two together on that it didn't
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make any sense
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we was just kind of wondering where they
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could be
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i mean we didn't know we didn't have a
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clue what had happened
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couldn't even come up with a good idea
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as to what might have happened
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one person dead and three missing the
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case became even more baffling when the
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coroner determined kathy freeman died
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not in the fire
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from a shotgun wound to the head the
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arson squad concluded the blaze was
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deliberately set
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authorities speculated kathy might have
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been killed by her husband danny
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who then fled taking the girls hostage
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but there would be other suspects
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including the investigators themselves
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even the two missing girls were not
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above suspicion
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laura bible and ashley freeman were
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inseparable friends since kindergarten
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both were honor students and popular
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school
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even when one ventured her own separate
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way there was the other
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cheering her on laura and ashley call
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each other at least once a week if not
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more
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what one was thinking the other was
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thinking it's kind of like when two
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people
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one can finish the sentence when the
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other one starts one
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the day after the fire laura's parents
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returned to what is now a crime scene
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they hoped to find a clue the
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investigators had missed
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after searching only five minutes jay
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bible made a shocking discovery
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oh no oh wow lorraine come here
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quick a body burn almost beyond
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recognition
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the bible's quickly determined however
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it was neither laura nor
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ashley but an adult male 1
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there was no face there he did not have
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anything from the
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upper teeth all the way to the top of
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his head
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he was totally gone like he'd been shot
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in the face we just couldn't believe
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that they had overlooked
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a second body in this fire
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the body was identified as danny freeman
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ashley's father
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who investigators had initially believed
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murdered his wife
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like kathy he had been shot at close
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range with a shotgun
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investigators reexamined the crime scene
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but
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no additional bodies were found
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the new search however yielded one
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important clue
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laura's purse which contained her
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driver's license and nearly two hundred
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dollars in cash
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honey what reason would laura have to
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leave it behind
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unless she had been taken away against
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her will laura's purse
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i feel that someone had went in there
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for whatever reason
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murdered denny and kathy and took the
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girls
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if laura and ashley were abducted who
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took them
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and why
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the craig county sheriff's department
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tried to piece together what happened
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the night of ashley's birthday
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her boyfriend who attended the party
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said that all was well
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when it broke up at 9 30 p.m
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whatever occurred must have begun
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sometime after he left at that hour
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at first investigators believed a
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robbery may have turned deadly
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but the cash left behind in laura's
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purse eliminated that possibility
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if murder alone was the intruder's
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intent who in venita oklahoma had reason
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to kill danny and kathy freeman
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one shocking possibility was voiced by
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danny freeman himself
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three months before he was killed he
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told his brother dwayne
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listen dwayne if anything should ever
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happen to me
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i want you to take a look at the
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sheriff's office
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sure why he and i were it was at his
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house and he put his finger in my face
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and he said if
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anything ever happens to me
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look at the sheriff's department and he
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was serious he was in my face to
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drive it home with me
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for months it had been rumored in veneta
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that the craig county sheriff's
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department had been feuding with the
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freemans
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it began when danny's son shane was shot
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and killed by a deputy
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after he had stolen a truck and a
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neighbor's gun
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although shane's killing was rule
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justifiable the freemans threatened to
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file a wrongful death lawsuit against
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the sheriff's department
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according to simon venita the freeman's
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accusations provoked deputies to embark
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on a campaign of intimidation
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get out of the truck danny what is this
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about
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this is about you looking all over he
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was basically told according to danny
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that they could do anything they wanted
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to to him and his family and there
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wasn't a thing he could do about it
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you're taking yourself out of the
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investigation when danny and his wife
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were found dead the craig county
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sheriff's department voluntarily turned
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the case over to the oklahoma state
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bureau of investigation
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because it was of such a concern to the
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residents of the area
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we looked into the possibility that
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deputies could have been involved
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with the deaths of danny and kathy
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freeman
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we utilized several techniques
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one of which was polygraph all consented
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to the polygraph examinations and all
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cleared themselves as a result of those
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examinations
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the overall conclusion of our efforts
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was that the sheriff's office had
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nothing to do with the murders of danny
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and kathy
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and did not know the whereabouts of the
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two missing girls
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the hint of another possibility occurred
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two weeks before the murders
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according to an informant danny freeman
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met two
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unidentified men one of whom was clearly
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unwelcome
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what's he doing here we just got some
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things we want to talk about rumors in
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veneta had spread that danny was a
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small-time drug trafficker i'm not
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dealing with you
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while he's here so you can just take off
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danny could a drug deal gone bad
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have resulted in a double murder she
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wanted to consider that it was
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drug related and it's someone for
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revenge purposes
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entered the home killed the mother and
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father and abducted the children
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and nothing fits correctly in that type
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of scenario
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the very last thing that the people who
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committed the murder would want to do
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would be abduct
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the children a disturbing possibility
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remained
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could ashley freeman herself have
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murdered her parents
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then fled with laura i believe that the
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freeman girl could possibly be involved
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i believe there was a great deal of
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friction in freeman household because
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of reports that danny and his daughter
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did not get along well
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at all hadn't for some time that's
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something we can't overlook
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ashley freeman might have something to
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do with the
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death of danny and kathy however it's
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been 15 months since the incident and i
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find it difficult to believe that the
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girls by themselves could hide out that
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long and not be found
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today jay and laureen bible are left
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with only unanswered questions
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and the void of their daughter's absence
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we have come to the conclusion that
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laura's in the wrong place at the wrong
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time
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i do feel that she's still alive but
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whether she's alive or dead i want to
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know
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she put up the christmas tree and
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we still have that christmas tree
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standing in the house we haven't taken
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it down
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you know we love her dearly and wish we
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could have her back wish we could have
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both
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girls back because at this point i've
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taken and raise them both
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and never let them go
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jamaica a picturesque caribbean island
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known for its sun-drenched beaches
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crystal clear waters and all-inclusive
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resorts
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the kind of place where people come to
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live out their dreams
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but what if visiting the jamaican
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paradise turned into a nightmare
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in may 2000 new york-based travel
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writers claudia kershaw and tanya
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grossinger
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found themselves stranded on jamaica
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when their business trip to havana cuba
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was suddenly cancelled
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when we found out that we weren't going
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to cuba we were really really upset
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i had assignments claudia was there on
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work
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we were also concerned because when they
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told us we couldn't go they also told us
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we couldn't get back to new york
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prior to a trip to the caribbean claudia
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kershaw had landed a job as an editor at
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fromer's travel guides
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for someone who had a passion for travel
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and adventure it was a dream come true
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but tragically this was destined to be
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the final trip taken by claudia
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while awaiting her return to the u.s the
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savvy and experienced 29 year old
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traveler vanished without a trace
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and has yet to make it home let's put
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one up here okay
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claudia's parents fred and marianne
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kershaw rushed to nagrill jamaica as
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soon as they learned of her
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disappearance
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when we found out she was missing we
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knew that there was a definite problem
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knowing her knowing that she called
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frequently
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knowing that she would have told us
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there was a change of plans
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we knew there was something drastically
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wrong
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fred and marianne kershaw were not
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prepared for the hurdles they would
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encounter when trying to learn claudia's
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fate
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but coming to grips with their
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daughter's dire situation they would
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have to deal with jamaican red tape
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false leads and lost her missing clues
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and in the end conflicting theories
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would emerge to explain
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what happened to claudia kershaw
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sandals resorts has sponsored claudia
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kershaw and tanya grossinger's original
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press trip to havana cuba
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when the trip was canceled without
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warning the chain put them up at the
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resort in the grill jamaica
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until returned flights could be booked
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back to new york
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in the meantime the two women who'd only
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met for the first time on this trip
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decided to make the best of being in
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limbo so ladies where come from
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we're from new york new york claudia
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made friends with anthony grant
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one of the resort's bartenders
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she was a big fan of reggae music and
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grant reportedly offered to take her to
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a nearby club
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the next morning she told me that she
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had gone out with one of the bartenders
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who turns out to be anthony grant she
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told me that they
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went to a club that they smoked
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some dope and that they went skinny
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it doesn't it didn't seem to be a
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remarkable experience
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for i mean it was just something that
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she did
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you know the situation is in retrospect
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i wish i could remember everything she
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said but in fact
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it wasn't such a big deal to her or to
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me
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well okay so you remember the bartender
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tanya grossinger managed to book a
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flight home sooner than claudia
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you mean those little beach bars she
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expected her travel companion would
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follow shortly
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and they agreed to meet up in new york
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city once claudia returned to her job
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there
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i wanted to go dance it's all good but
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later that afternoon
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claudia kershaw mysteriously vanished
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from the island
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you think i'm going to be able to find
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somebody that can braid my hair just up
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the way there a little bit
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she was reportedly last seen by a
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lifeguard walking along a negril beach
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away from the resort
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she didn't on june 2nd claudia's parents
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were notified that she hadn't shown up
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for work in new york as scheduled
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fred and marianne kershaw had an
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unsettling feeling when they finally
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reached someone at the jamaican resort
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hotel maids had reported claudia missing
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after noticing she had not slept in her
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bed for several days
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nothing in her room seemed to miss every
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item of her clothing
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except one bathing suit was neatly
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packed away in her suitcase
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her passport credit cards cell phone and
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180 dollars in cash
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were recovered from the hotel's safe
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where she left them
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probably the most devastating piece of
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news initially was that all of her
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belongings were in her room
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i mean we would rather have heard that
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some of her things were missing and then
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we would have thought maybe she went
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somewhere else
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when we heard the news that claudia's
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things were all in her room and they
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didn't know where she was
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it's not that's not claudia claudia's
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really organized orderly person
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if she was planning to go off somewhere
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she would have made a phone call
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she would have let us know we felt earl
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very early on that something happened to
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her
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that something just was not right
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as soon as they found out claudia was
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missing the kershaw's hurried to jamaica
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good afternoon i wonder if you could
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tell me if you've seen my daughter once
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in the grill the kershaw's attempts to
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find out what happened to their daughter
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were repeatedly dashed by frustration
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thank you beginning with a resort that
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had sponsored claudia's trip
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as a security precaution the license
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plates of all vehicles entering and
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leaving the sandals resort are
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meticulously recorded in a log book
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the log book for the month the claudia
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disappeared
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cannot be found
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the videotape from a surveillance camera
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mounted near claudia's room was recorded
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over
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before being viewed
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room 621 the room where claudius stayed
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was cleared by housekeeping and hotel
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security
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before the potential crime scene was
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processed for clues
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without any evidence of foul play
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jamaican authorities focused on other
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possibilities
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because she was last seen on the beach
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and because a bathing suit was the only
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item of clothing known to be missing
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from her belongings
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jamaican police investigated the
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possibility
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that claudia had drowned
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it's not impossible but i would say it's
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highly unlikely
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that area it's not deep
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and the current is not very strong
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and if something should go wrong with
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someone there the body will be found
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easily
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as news of claudius disappears spread
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through jamaica
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numerous sightings of a woman fitting
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claudia's description began to suggest
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another possibility
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many local negril residents believe that
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claudia was alive
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and had intentionally gone into hiding
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the local phrase broken loose was used
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to describe how she may have chosen to
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run away from her old life
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to live in the hills with a jamaican
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lover
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we know she wouldn't do that she had no
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reason
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to escape as as has been said she loved
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her
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life you know her family her friends her
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new apartment
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everything was going right for her so
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there was nothing to escape
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so we got a call that claudia went off
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with a restaurant
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in some hills in jamaica bongo i
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we have checked several areas we have
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spoken to a number of restaurants
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everything cool all righty we just want
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some help
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in fact we have gone to an area where
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the report said she was
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take a look and there is no information
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to suggest
00:21:03
that claudia curtis was ever seen in
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that area
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if you ever see her or hear anybody say
00:21:09
anything about her
00:21:10
you'll never find me where is she now
00:21:13
show me
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frustrated by the progress of the
00:21:16
investigation claudia's parents enlisted
00:21:18
the assistance of the fbi
00:21:20
and an american search and rescue team
00:21:26
according to harry oaks he and his dog
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valerie track claudius sent to the home
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of anthony grant
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the sandals resort bartender claudia had
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befriended
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the dog reportedly hit on a pair of
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boots a pair of gloves
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and a knife bingo
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while searching grant's car valerie
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seemed to also hit on claudia kershaw's
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sent in the back seat
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and the trunk the articles found
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boots knife material that made up the
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trunk of the car
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was removed by the evidence the fbi
00:22:02
evidence response team
00:22:03
it was taken to the fbi uh
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forensic laboratory in the states it was
00:22:10
checked
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for signs of human blood nothing was
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found
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anthony grant was investigated and
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polygraphed
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but the results were deemed inconclusive
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and at this point
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grant is not considered a suspect in
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claudia kershaw's disappearance
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we interviewed him for several weeks
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we just don't find enough evidence to
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in any way believe that
00:22:41
grant is involved in her disappearance
00:22:44
other than that he was associated with
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her
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no one disappears from the face of the
00:22:49
earth in a town of three thousand people
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without one other person knowing it we
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do believe that anthony grant the
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bartender
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introduced her to someone who has a much
00:23:00
better idea of what happened
00:23:01
we believe anthony grant probably knows
00:23:03
something as well
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you know she could be today the kershaw
00:23:08
struggled to keep the search for claudia
00:23:10
alive
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despite dwindling leads and diminishing
00:23:13
support you know we've come this far now
00:23:15
we're just gonna keep we're not left
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with many good theories
00:23:18
uh you know all of them all of them are
00:23:22
bad in some way or another
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the hardest part daily is claudia's
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absence of knowing we
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may never see or hear of her again i
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mean it's very easy to crawl up and
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either stay in your bed and just not go
00:23:34
on with life you know but
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we've got to find out what happened to
00:23:37
claudia and we're just going to keep
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digging and looking the last apparent
00:23:43
sighting of claudia kershaw was on may
00:23:45
27
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2000 near the beaches resort in the
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grill jamaica
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[Music]
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in this day and age it may be hard to
00:24:01
believe that there are people who claim
00:24:02
ghosts haunt their homes
00:24:04
and demons possess them but this quiet
00:24:06
colonial house in connecticut is said to
00:24:08
be just such a place
00:24:10
and the jones family who live here say
00:24:12
they had no warning
00:24:14
of the ghostly incidents they claim have
00:24:16
occurred
00:24:22
i ran upstairs
00:24:26
michael i thought maybe he had cut
00:24:28
himself i really didn't know
00:24:32
michael and there was michael
00:24:35
just curled up like it was a fetus i
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mean he was just
00:24:40
frightened and shaking and crying
00:24:42
hysterically something i've never seen
00:24:44
him do
00:24:46
michael jones told his mother denise he
00:24:48
saw a man in the room
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but it was no ordinary man
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he's almost scared he was standing in
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front of me
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and he reached out to me and he was
00:25:02
smiling
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and then he just disappeared the man
00:25:07
he touched my shoulder he was white like
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like a crayon color white
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he was a ghost he said he was a ghost
00:25:18
well i thought maybe something was wrong
00:25:20
with michael
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i can't say i didn't believe in ghosts i
00:25:23
just never
00:25:24
experienced something so i never
00:25:28
thought it would happen to us
00:25:34
michael jones was just five years old
00:25:36
when he says he saw his first ghost
00:25:38
he claims the spirits have continued to
00:25:40
invade his home and torment his family
00:25:43
the ghost haunt the jones house or could
00:25:45
there be another explanation for the
00:25:47
extraordinary occurrences michael has
00:25:49
experienced
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[Music]
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soon after michael's episode in his
00:25:55
bedroom denise drove her family to her
00:25:58
parents nearby home
00:26:02
i was in the kitchen talking with my
00:26:04
parents when
00:26:05
michael started screaming again mom what
00:26:08
look and he says that's the man that's
00:26:11
the man i says
00:26:13
michael what is the man he says that man
00:26:15
up on the wall in the picture that's the
00:26:17
man i see
00:26:19
it's the old man i saw the picture
00:26:23
and i got scared because that was the
00:26:25
man
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that i saw the man in the picture
00:26:28
michael was pointing to was my
00:26:30
grandfather
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who had passed away when i was 10 years
00:26:32
old michael had never met him
00:26:36
until that evening michael had never
00:26:38
seen a picture of his great-grandfather
00:26:40
who had been dead over 17 years
00:26:45
i felt safer that it wasn't like a bad
00:26:48
person that was going to hurt me
00:26:49
my mom said not to be afraid of him
00:26:51
because he was a good man
00:26:53
and she said not to be afraid of ghosts
00:26:55
because they can't harm me
00:26:58
at this point denise didn't know what to
00:27:00
think her son was supposedly being
00:27:02
visited by her grandfather's ghost
00:27:04
and that wasn't all michael now believed
00:27:08
evil spirits were also invading the home
00:27:11
one time me and mike were in his room
00:27:13
and i asked him
00:27:15
what these things wanted from him and i
00:27:17
told him to talk to grandpa
00:27:19
grandpa will protect him grandpa said
00:27:21
that some of the bad people want me on
00:27:23
their side
00:27:24
when i talked to my grandpa he just said
00:27:26
that there's a
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there's a lot of ghosts in our house
00:27:29
that are after me
00:27:31
and there's a lot of bad ones and good
00:27:32
ones and they're all fighting with each
00:27:35
other
00:27:37
by now they were convinced the invisible
00:27:39
enemies were multiplying
00:27:41
so denise sought out a paranormal
00:27:43
specialist to examine
00:27:44
both michael and her home it's very
00:27:48
important to be able to go in and
00:27:49
determine that it is something
00:27:51
supernatural that is occurring in the
00:27:52
home
00:27:55
john zaphis has been a paranormal
00:27:56
investigator for 26 years
00:27:59
he has studied dozens of similar cases
00:28:02
zaphis spent hundreds of hours with
00:28:04
michael and his family
00:28:06
researching michael's sightings first
00:28:07
hand
00:28:10
we usually have to go through all types
00:28:13
of different evaluations
00:28:15
psychological physical i really would
00:28:18
like it documented
00:28:19
and known that there isn't anything
00:28:21
physically or mentally wrong with these
00:28:22
people
00:28:23
that are going through this
00:28:25
[Music]
00:28:27
hoping to get some answers for the
00:28:28
strange goings-on
00:28:30
denise says she submitted michael to
00:28:32
dozens of neurological evaluations
00:28:36
we went to the hospital a lot i had cat
00:28:39
scans and eeg
00:28:40
but they said everything was fine they
00:28:43
all
00:28:44
say it's not medical they realize it's
00:28:46
very bizarre
00:28:48
that michael is
00:28:51
a ghost boy he sees ghosts and
00:28:55
there's nothing medically they can do
00:29:00
michael's psychological profile also
00:29:02
showed nothing unusual
00:29:04
but his drawings of what he claims to be
00:29:06
the most aggressive ghost
00:29:08
whom he calls the black shadow man told
00:29:10
another story
00:29:13
every day i i see him the shadow man
00:29:17
it's not really just the same shadow man
00:29:19
it's just like a bunch of different ones
00:29:22
i don't know why i see girl stylists
00:29:24
happening to me
00:29:27
zaphis's research uncovered that michael
00:29:29
was very ill at birth
00:29:31
his heart had stopped 26 times
00:29:35
with michael my explanation is that he
00:29:38
had near-death experiences
00:29:40
i believe since birth he's had that
00:29:42
ability
00:29:43
where that door has been open for the
00:29:45
spirit to be able to communicate
00:29:47
back and forth with him at this point
00:29:50
michael is more under
00:29:51
oppression oppression is the stage
00:29:54
before possession
00:29:56
and i think it is at the point where it
00:29:59
is
00:29:59
trying very very hard to be able to
00:30:03
totally take michael over
00:30:07
according to denise it seemed the bad
00:30:09
spirits were winning
00:30:12
one time me and my husband were
00:30:14
downstairs
00:30:16
when all of a sudden we were listening
00:30:18
to banging
00:30:19
upstairs we heard him scream and we
00:30:21
heard a thumping
00:30:23
so we ran upstairs and michael was on
00:30:27
his bed like a little boy scared
00:30:29
his bed was shaking up and down the bed
00:30:31
started shaking a lot
00:30:32
and it lifted up like three inches
00:30:35
and i just yell from my mom
00:30:42
and then drop then stop shaking we all
00:30:45
ran out of the house
00:30:47
because we needed to get a break from
00:30:48
the house because it's very scary in
00:30:50
there
00:30:51
there was one time when i walked into
00:30:54
michael's room
00:30:55
something caught my peripheral vision
00:31:02
i saw this shadow and he just walked
00:31:06
right across the wall
00:31:09
pastor i said is it six feet
00:31:12
and she said yeah and i said it's just
00:31:14
all black she said yeah and i told her
00:31:16
that was the man i've been seeing
00:31:19
denise said michael later revealed that
00:31:21
the evil spirits were
00:31:23
physically tormenting him everything
00:31:26
started getting worse
00:31:27
and they started hitting me and
00:31:29
scratching me poking me and it hurt
00:31:32
usually when there's a physical
00:31:34
manifestation scratches
00:31:36
bite marks this is definitely a sign
00:31:39
that something is either attached to
00:31:41
that individual
00:31:42
or it has some way gained access and at
00:31:46
that point
00:31:47
is where it could be very very
00:31:48
vulnerable where that person could go
00:31:50
completely
00:31:51
under possession
00:31:53
[Music]
00:31:55
to save her son from the intruders
00:31:57
denise says she sold their home and
00:31:59
moved the family across
00:32:00
town but the new house was no refuge
00:32:06
i was on the phone with my mother
00:32:08
michael was sitting right next to me to
00:32:09
my left
00:32:10
watching tv when all of a sudden he
00:32:13
started screaming
00:32:17
[Music]
00:32:18
we just looked at my brother and he just
00:32:20
saw like a scrape going all the way up
00:32:22
his arm
00:32:23
and like it was drawing bl blood i felt
00:32:26
a sharp pain like a knife
00:32:28
but it hurt really bad michael
00:32:32
that was very horrifying i i mean it was
00:32:34
almost like i was on top of him trying
00:32:36
to protect him
00:32:37
and i still could not protect my son
00:32:40
after this incident we needed someone
00:32:43
who dealt with this
00:32:44
and i was able to find the bishop
00:32:47
who agreed to give the exorcism
00:32:51
as frightening as an exorcism sounded
00:32:54
denise felt it was the only way to save
00:32:56
michael
00:32:58
they started performing exorcism in
00:33:00
latin
00:33:03
i could tell there was something wrong
00:33:05
with michael he kept looking to
00:33:07
one side of the church
00:33:12
and i saw the shadow man in the
00:33:15
front left corner of the room of the
00:33:17
church and i could see his whole body
00:33:19
and his feet
00:33:21
and he was just standing and he was all
00:33:23
black
00:33:24
and my stomach started burning and i
00:33:27
told the priest
00:33:28
and he gave me a cup of holy water and
00:33:30
said drink this
00:33:35
i was praying to god that it was going
00:33:36
to work and help
00:33:39
and that michael b might be granted some
00:33:41
relief
00:33:43
although we were told it might not be
00:33:45
the end-all it might have to be repeated
00:33:47
there may need to be a house exorcism
00:33:49
we were aware of that but and they were
00:33:52
right because about three weeks later
00:33:55
it all began again
00:33:59
[Music]
00:34:00
to this day very little has changed at
00:34:02
the jones household
00:34:04
over the past few years michael has
00:34:06
undergone four exorcisms
00:34:08
and his family has moved eight times
00:34:10
although these things always seem to
00:34:12
provide relief
00:34:13
it is usually temporary
00:34:18
today michael still has negative
00:34:21
attacks and he also sees spirits
00:34:24
we just live one day at a time
00:34:27
[Music]
00:34:28
it hurts when i see my son going through
00:34:30
this
00:34:31
i don't know what to do
00:34:35
do i see a brighter future from michael
00:34:37
and the family
00:34:38
absolutely there's many of families that
00:34:41
go through this
00:34:42
and it's very difficult and it's like
00:34:44
the old saying goes it's always the
00:34:46
darkest before the dawn
00:34:48
pretty much everything's been hard for
00:34:50
me
00:34:51
so everything that's happened has been
00:34:53
hard
00:34:54
[Music]
00:34:56
now i'm getting used to it
00:35:02
[Music]
00:35:12
nadine jelivek is worried about her
00:35:14
sister margie
00:35:16
without explanation margie has abruptly
00:35:19
left her home in gary indiana
00:35:22
i was looking for clues did she write
00:35:25
something down did she leave something
00:35:27
that
00:35:27
i could pick up on to know that she
00:35:30
would return
00:35:33
i looked in the closets luggage was
00:35:35
there clothes were there
00:35:37
oliver things so whatever she left with
00:35:40
it had to be just enough for a few days
00:35:42
not enough to be for a long period of
00:35:44
time
00:35:45
[Music]
00:35:48
nadine is puzzled to find many personal
00:35:51
items margie never leaves behind when
00:35:52
she travels
00:35:54
but the most baffling of all is margie's
00:35:56
inhaler which she
00:35:58
needs for her asthma
00:36:00
[Music]
00:36:08
wherever she is gone she is not travel
00:36:10
there in her car
00:36:12
her family is as perplexed as they are
00:36:14
worried
00:36:19
did margie jelovic suddenly leave of her
00:36:21
own free will
00:36:22
or was she the victim of foul play
00:36:27
over the previous year margie's life had
00:36:29
been turned upside down by a series of
00:36:31
turbulent events
00:36:33
her puzzling disappearance may be the
00:36:34
final result of that turmoil
00:36:37
margie's sister nadine suspected she was
00:36:39
in hiding with a dangerous fugitive
00:36:41
named randy yeager
00:36:43
how she became involved with such a man
00:36:46
is a story as unlikely
00:36:47
as it is tragic six months before her
00:36:51
disappearance
00:36:52
margie's life seemed ideal she was
00:36:55
fulfilling her dream as a musician
00:36:57
playing violin in the detroit orchestra
00:37:01
she was also a happy newlywed planning a
00:37:03
bright future with her husband nasser
00:37:06
but just six months after their wedding
00:37:09
he was killed in a traffic accident
00:37:11
[Music]
00:37:13
margie was shattered she decided to quit
00:37:16
her job in the orchestra
00:37:18
leave michigan and move back to her
00:37:19
hometown gary indiana
00:37:22
there she sought the security she had
00:37:24
always found with her mother
00:37:26
and sister it was really hard for her
00:37:29
because
00:37:29
she was so used to being in michigan
00:37:31
with all her friends
00:37:32
school and work and everything
00:37:36
it was really really hard on her she
00:37:37
spent a lot of time crying and trying to
00:37:39
decide what to do and
00:37:40
she insisted to come back and help my
00:37:42
mom with the business
00:37:43
[Music]
00:37:47
margie coped with her despair by
00:37:48
immersing herself in her new job
00:37:51
she managed the night shift at the
00:37:53
tavern owned by her mother
00:37:55
there she first encountered randy yeager
00:38:00
what's your name i haven't seen you here
00:38:01
before my name's margie margie how do
00:38:04
you do my name's randy
00:38:05
randy nice to meet you randy was one of
00:38:07
the highest ranking members of a
00:38:08
notorious biker gang called the outlaws
00:38:11
he possessed an allure taylor made to
00:38:13
charm a vulnerable young widow
00:38:15
i think that he complimented her in ways
00:38:17
that she needed to be complimented
00:38:19
and she needed perhaps those accolades
00:38:22
that made her feel good
00:38:23
and he knew how to say the right things
00:38:26
to charm her
00:38:27
and she in turn was in turn was charmed
00:38:30
by him
00:38:31
well you should hook up with us sometime
00:38:32
i mean meet a lot of new people go out
00:38:34
have a good time
00:38:36
maybe randy's charisma masked a darker
00:38:38
side to his personality
00:38:44
margie had no idea he was the next
00:38:46
convict with a long criminal record
00:38:58
his apt nickname was mad he and other
00:39:01
members of the outlaws were then
00:39:02
under federal investigation for
00:39:04
racketeering drug dealing
00:39:06
and murder two of the outlaw members
00:39:09
murdered this old couple
00:39:11
because they had a lot of money inside
00:39:12
their house and actually stabbed them
00:39:14
with a screwdriver through the throat
00:39:16
i mean this is these are these are bad
00:39:19
people that do that
00:39:20
[Music]
00:39:22
soon after they met margie began dating
00:39:25
yeager
00:39:27
margie was a good girl lack of a better
00:39:29
term
00:39:30
who seems to have taken a walk on a wild
00:39:32
side this is uncharacteristic
00:39:34
of uh from what i've learned of her
00:39:36
through interviews and stuff
00:39:38
at what point she became aware of his
00:39:40
criminal activities her family does not
00:39:42
know
00:39:44
the only thing they knew for certain was
00:39:46
that margie began to change
00:39:48
she became extremely distant how about
00:39:50
making some coffee
00:39:52
no i gotta go you sure she became
00:39:54
distant with me
00:39:56
and my children and distant with the
00:39:59
customers
00:40:00
and i don't know whether she was told to
00:40:02
be distant and not to speak
00:40:04
or she just totally started to remove
00:40:06
herself from society
00:40:10
three months into her relationship with
00:40:11
jaeger margie left with him on a trip to
00:40:14
las vegas
00:40:18
they were unaware that at that very
00:40:20
moment united states marshals had begun
00:40:22
an operation to arrest randy
00:40:24
and several members of the outlaws
00:40:29
48 hours later news of the operation
00:40:32
reached margie's mother
00:40:34
17 members of the outlaws were indicted
00:40:37
for a midwest crime spree
00:40:39
that included bombings robberies and six
00:40:41
murders
00:40:42
but u.s marshals had been unable to
00:40:44
locate randy yeager
00:40:46
i saw the pictures and i said oh my god
00:40:50
my daughter went with that man you know
00:40:52
oh my god what's going to happen to her
00:40:54
now
00:40:55
[Applause]
00:40:57
federal agents rapidly traced yeager to
00:40:59
las vegas
00:41:03
but it was too late he and margie had
00:41:06
apparently fled the city
00:41:08
the first thing i could think of was was
00:41:10
he going to hurt her
00:41:11
was she going to be in arm's way because
00:41:13
she's with this guy
00:41:15
who now everyone in the country is
00:41:17
looking for
00:41:18
and she's with him and what if by
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mistake they find him and they hurt her
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two weeks passed then margie returned to
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gary
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safe but shaken strangely her devotion
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to jaeger was stronger than ever
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according to her family she was consumed
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by irrational fears of the authorities
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pursuing him
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is everything all right yeah
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everything's fine
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do you want to talk no i don't want to
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talk
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she felt that they would try and find
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him through her
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she was led to believe that her
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apartment was bugged that
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people were following her in her parking
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lot she had an extreme paranoia
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and i said marge what should you be
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paranoid about nobody's after you've not
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done a thing
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three months after her return margie
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mysteriously disappeared
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at first it just seemed like that she
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had
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run off and and joined jaeger wherever
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he was at
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but upon investigation we found out that
00:42:24
she had taken
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none of her clothes her car or anything
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else it just seemed that she was gone
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we're really not sure what happened
00:42:32
there
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did margie willingly join her fugitive
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boyfriend
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or could something more sinister explain
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her abrupt disappearance
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margie's family believes that even if
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she is with randy yeager
00:42:49
she is no longer his girlfriend but his
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victim
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i feel that he is holding her back and
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he won't let her communicate to her
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family
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and at this point he's brainwashed her
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because this is so out of character for
00:43:01
margie not to make a phone call to us
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it is possible however that margie has
00:43:07
attempted to do just that
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hello over the past four years her
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mother has fielded several mysterious
00:43:15
calls
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all in the morning before her tavern
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opens the caller never speaks
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and only after a long pause hangs up
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for margie's family the baffling calls
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offer the slender hope
00:43:28
that they will one day see her again
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i would margie i want her to come home
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i want her to hear her voice and
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whatever she did she did would
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come home my heart and my door is always
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open for her i'm waiting for her
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[Music]
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join me next time for another intriguing
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edition
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of unsolved mysteries
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