00:00:00
[Music]
00:00:04
Next on Unsolved
00:00:07
Mysteries. In a Maryland suburb, a young
00:00:10
man is found hanging from a tree. His
00:00:13
death was ruled a suicide. But why was
00:00:16
he wearing someone else's
00:00:19
clothes in 1968? A young photographer
00:00:23
was taking pictures at the exact moment
00:00:25
Senator Robert Kennedy was shot. Those
00:00:29
pictures may hold the key to what
00:00:31
happened that night, but they've
00:00:33
disappeared. A notorious murder case
00:00:36
from the distant past still brings out
00:00:38
the ghost of the beautiful
00:00:41
victim. It's late Halloween night. An
00:00:44
attractive young woman heads home after
00:00:47
a party and is never seen
00:00:49
[Music]
00:00:51
again. Our viewers have helped solve
00:00:54
hundreds of cases just like these.
00:00:57
Perhaps you can help, too. I'm Dennis
00:00:59
Fina, and this is Unsolved Mysteries.
00:01:14
[Music]
00:01:21
[Music]
00:01:38
Silver Spring,
00:01:41
Maryland. The 911 call comes in just
00:01:44
before 200
00:01:45
p.m. 19-year-old Keith Warren is dead.
00:01:51
Keith was a well-liked, dependable young
00:01:53
man who was just one month away from
00:01:55
starting
00:01:59
college. That will never happen
00:02:02
now. Keith was found in a wooded area
00:02:06
behind a townhouse where he lived with
00:02:08
his mother and sister. He was hanging by
00:02:11
the neck from a small tree that was bent
00:02:14
double with his weight. The elaborate
00:02:17
arrangement of the hanging rope would
00:02:19
raise questions later. The cord was
00:02:22
anchored around the base of a large
00:02:25
tree. It extended some 25 ft to a small
00:02:29
sapling. It circled the sapling's trunk
00:02:32
and then arched up through a fork
00:02:34
several feet off the ground.
00:02:38
After a very brief visual inspection,
00:02:41
the medical examiner determined that
00:02:43
Keith committed
00:02:45
suicide. No autopsy was ordered and the
00:02:48
body was sent to a funeral home for
00:02:52
inbalming. Surprisingly, several hours
00:02:55
passed before Keith's mother was told of
00:02:58
her son's death.
00:03:00
I didn't realize at the time that
00:03:03
Keith's body was not at a morg. There
00:03:05
had been no investigation and his body
00:03:08
had been discovered maybe five or six
00:03:10
hours
00:03:11
earlier. I didn't know at the time the
00:03:13
officer had chosen a funeral
00:03:18
home. A few days later, Mary Kooie
00:03:21
received her son's personal effects,
00:03:24
some audio tapes, a jacket, and his
00:03:27
trademark brown boots.
00:03:30
I saw the boots and that's when I knew
00:03:32
it was all over. The boots that was
00:03:35
Keith
00:03:39
and that was it.
00:03:45
At first, Mary had accepted that her son
00:03:48
committed suicide, but then she began to
00:03:51
have doubts. The reason?
00:03:55
Well, Mary heard that suspicious
00:03:57
characters had been looking for Keith
00:03:59
just a week before he died.
00:04:02
Hey yo, dude. Seen Keith Warren around?
00:04:06
It was mainly black males that were in
00:04:07
the car. Some friends looking for him.
00:04:09
Seen him around. Keith did not associate
00:04:11
much with black males. Most of his
00:04:13
friends were white males. So, I thought
00:04:15
that was pretty strange. And after I
00:04:16
told them that I haven't I hadn't seen
00:04:18
Keith, they left. They weren't from the
00:04:21
neighborhood or our school area. So, I
00:04:23
kind of kind of figured why would they
00:04:24
be looking for Keith? But I, you know,
00:04:26
no one had an answer for me.
00:04:28
Several days later, Rodney Kendall had
00:04:32
another odd encounter. This time with a
00:04:34
high school acquaintance of Keith named
00:04:36
Mark Finley. Rodney, have you seen
00:04:39
Keith? No, man. What's up? I I need to
00:04:41
find him. He seemed pretty urgent. I
00:04:44
thought it was pretty strange because he
00:04:45
act like he needed to find Keith very
00:04:46
quickly. I told him I didn't know where
00:04:48
Keith was and he left.
00:04:52
Some weeks after Keith's death, his
00:04:54
mother asked Rodney to show her the tree
00:04:57
where Keith's body was
00:04:59
found. When we got there, I looked
00:05:02
around and um couldn't find the
00:05:07
tree. The tree had been cut down. It was
00:05:10
just a stump
00:05:13
left. I called the police and they're
00:05:17
very rude. Yeah, we cut it down. And
00:05:20
what do you want us to do about it?
00:05:22
Police said they needed to cut the tree
00:05:24
down so they could hold it as
00:05:27
evidence, but this seems strange since
00:05:30
they had already closed the
00:05:33
case. Keith's mother no longer trusted
00:05:36
what the police said. She launched a
00:05:39
letterw writing campaign aimed at state
00:05:41
and federal officials. But for six long
00:05:44
years, Mary Kooie hit a stone wall
00:05:47
everywhere she
00:05:53
turned. Then on Keith's birthday, the
00:05:57
day he would have turned 25, Mary found
00:06:00
a plain manila envelope at her doorstep.
00:06:04
Oh, Sherry. Oh my god.
00:06:07
And Sherry came up and she saw the
00:06:09
pictures scattered and she picked them
00:06:11
up and then she says, "Oh my god, this
00:06:13
is Keith." There were five pictures in
00:06:16
all. Each showed a different view of
00:06:20
Keith hanging by his
00:06:22
neck. Mary forced herself to look and in
00:06:25
the process found a glaring discrepancy.
00:06:30
His clothing, it didn't fit him. That's
00:06:33
when we started to realize he was
00:06:35
wearing somebody else's clothing, but
00:06:38
the real eye catcher was that he was
00:06:40
wearing white sneakers. And those white
00:06:43
tennis shoes he did not own. He did not
00:06:46
own a pair of white tennis shoes.
00:06:49
The only items of clothing that police
00:06:51
returned to the family were Keith's
00:06:53
jacket and brown boots. Neither was
00:06:56
shown in the photographs, although
00:06:58
authorities said that they had found
00:07:00
them near Keith's body.
00:07:03
I didn't feel that the police were my
00:07:05
friends at all. I was advised to go to a
00:07:08
local investigator and find out the
00:07:11
source of the photos.
00:07:13
Mary hired private detective Joe
00:07:16
Alersia.
00:07:17
The police department conceded that they
00:07:19
were copies of original police photos,
00:07:22
but they had no idea where they came
00:07:24
from. None whatsoever. They were
00:07:25
questioned numerous times.
00:07:28
He noticed several leaves on the back of
00:07:30
Keith's shirt.
00:07:33
This suggested Keith had been lying on
00:07:35
the ground and was hoisted into a
00:07:38
hanging position by someone
00:07:41
else. Alertio says that his theory is
00:07:44
supported by the complex path of the
00:07:46
rope found at the scene. The
00:07:49
perpetrators noticed that the tree was
00:07:51
small and wouldn't hold the body.
00:07:53
Therefore, they needed some security by
00:07:56
tying around a big tree here.
00:07:58
No one seems to know whose clothing
00:08:01
Keith Warren is wearing in those
00:08:02
photographs and whether or not Keith
00:08:04
Warren was hanged or whether or not he
00:08:06
committed suicide.
00:08:08
Finally, Keith's family had his body
00:08:10
exumed for an autopsy and the results
00:08:14
were shocking.
00:08:16
I believe that Keith Warren's death
00:08:18
being listed as suicide is medically not
00:08:21
supportable.
00:08:23
Tests on Keith's body showed deadly
00:08:25
levels of several powerful chemicals
00:08:28
that are usually found in glue and
00:08:31
solvents. The levels found in Keith's
00:08:33
body were enough to kill
00:08:35
them. These substances can get in there
00:08:39
by inhalation or they can be actually be
00:08:41
taken in by mouth. Maryland's chief
00:08:44
medical examiner reviewed the report and
00:08:47
claimed the toxic chemicals were part of
00:08:49
the inbalming process. Dr. Mahalakus
00:08:52
disagrees.
00:08:55
The substances found in Keith Warren's
00:08:57
body could not have been introduced by
00:08:59
the inbombing fluid because the embomber
00:09:02
in his report never mentioned using any
00:09:04
of those substances. Secondly, the
00:09:06
distribution of the key substance
00:09:09
tricloreththane is more consistent with
00:09:11
inhalation. And third, they were found
00:09:14
at two additional substances which are
00:09:16
totally unrelated to any inbombing
00:09:18
solution.
00:09:21
But if the chemicals were not in the
00:09:23
inbalming fluid, where did they come
00:09:26
from?
00:09:27
He could have been at a party where
00:09:29
there's some drugs involved and he
00:09:30
accidentally killed himself and they
00:09:33
were afraid and then they decided to
00:09:34
take and hang and make it look like a
00:09:36
suicide or he could have been attacked
00:09:38
from the back and that particular
00:09:40
chemical so potent that one chemist said
00:09:43
that he was dead before he hit the
00:09:45
ground.
00:09:46
He couldn't have done this and placed
00:09:48
himself on the tree. That's the bottom
00:09:51
line. He could not have taken these
00:09:54
chemicals and then hung
00:09:57
himself. In a final disturbing twist,
00:10:01
the one person who might know what
00:10:03
happened to Keith also turned up dead
00:10:05
under suspicious
00:10:08
circumstances. Mark Finley was one of
00:10:10
those who came looking for Keith a few
00:10:12
days before he died. I I need to find
00:10:14
him.
00:10:16
6 years later, when Mary received the
00:10:19
photographs, a note attached to one
00:10:21
said, "Don't worry, Mark Finley will be
00:10:25
next."
00:10:26
Mark called my residence, left a message
00:10:29
on my answer machine. Miss Warren, this
00:10:33
is Mark Finley. Um, I got your message,
00:10:37
and I will be by to see you. I do
00:10:41
remember the specific words were, "I
00:10:42
need to unload."
00:10:46
Just one month later, Mark Finley was
00:10:49
dead. According to police, Finley died
00:10:52
accidentally when he struck a curb and
00:10:54
was thrown from his bike.
00:10:57
The original ambulance crew said the
00:11:01
damage to Mr. Finley didn't fit the
00:11:04
accident itself.
00:11:06
the the damage in his face. It was
00:11:08
looked like somebody either hit him with
00:11:10
a car, he was waiting for him with a
00:11:11
baseball bat and hit him with a baseball
00:11:13
bat. Mark Finley made a statement at a
00:11:15
party saying that Keith didn't kill
00:11:17
himself. I helped hang him in the tree.
00:11:20
It just seemed kind of strange that he
00:11:22
happened to expire when he had made that
00:11:24
statement.
00:11:28
When asked about this case, the
00:11:30
authorities have a standard answer. This
00:11:33
case is closed.
00:11:36
We're still being stonewalled and we're
00:11:38
still being fought and that's
00:11:40
incredible. I can't I can't understand
00:11:43
that. What What What is What is it that
00:11:47
the system does not want me to know
00:11:49
about my child's life or death?
00:11:53
The Warren family is offering a $5,000
00:11:56
reward for information about this case.
00:12:00
If you have any information about what
00:12:02
happened to Keith Warren, please log on
00:12:05
to our website at
00:12:10
unsolved.com. Next, when Bobby Kennedy
00:12:13
was shot in 1968, this man was there
00:12:16
taking pictures, but those pictures have
00:12:20
mysteriously disappeared. Why?
00:12:33
Los Angeles, California.
00:12:36
I would hope I would hope not. June 5th,
00:12:39
1968. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
00:12:42
addresses a room full of supporters
00:12:44
celebrating his victory in the
00:12:46
California presidential primary. My
00:12:49
thanks to all of you. And now it's on to
00:12:51
Chicago and let's win
00:12:53
there. Stay
00:12:56
back. Stand back.
00:12:59
Within 20 minutes, the senator is
00:13:01
fatally wounded in the hotel kitchen
00:13:04
pantry. The accused assassin is a young
00:13:07
Palestinian named Sir Han Sirhan.
00:13:12
Since the day of the assassination,
00:13:15
people have questioned whether Sir Han
00:13:17
acted alone or whether a second gunman
00:13:20
was involved.
00:13:22
The debate has been fueled by the belief
00:13:25
that there was no visual record, not one
00:13:28
photograph of the precise moment the
00:13:30
senator was gunned
00:13:34
down. But now that assumption has been
00:13:39
challenged. There is an audio recording
00:13:42
from a radio reporter and there are my
00:13:44
black and white photographs and that's
00:13:45
it.
00:13:47
This could be a photograph of Scott
00:13:49
Enard taken in the pantry of the
00:13:52
Ambassador Hotel. Scott claims at the
00:13:55
instant Senator Kennedy was shot, he was
00:13:58
there taking
00:14:00
pictures. But where are those photos?
00:14:04
Scott says that he shot three rows of
00:14:06
film that night. The authorities,
00:14:08
however, deny that two of those roles
00:14:11
ever
00:14:12
existed. When Senator Kennedy gave his
00:14:15
victory speech, 15-year-old Scott Enard
00:14:18
was just a few feet from the stage,
00:14:21
shooting photographs for his high school
00:14:24
newspaper. These are some of Scott's
00:14:27
pictures. He took his first role of film
00:14:30
before Kennedy at the podium. Scott says
00:14:34
he loaded a second role just as the
00:14:36
senator began to speak. Let's finish
00:14:38
this very brief little
00:14:41
talk and we'll make it. As the speech
00:14:43
concluded, Scott joined the crowd that
00:14:45
followed Kennedy from the stage. Have
00:14:48
been waiting for him. After leaving the
00:14:50
ballroom, Senator Kennedy headed down a
00:14:52
corridor which led to the pantry. There
00:14:55
he stopped to shake hands with kitchen
00:14:57
workers. When he stopped, I was about
00:15:00
10, 12 feet behind him. There was an
00:15:02
open wedge which had been made by the
00:15:04
two people on either side of him so I
00:15:06
had a clear view of him. It's at this
00:15:08
point that I brought my camera up and
00:15:10
started taking pictures. Then
00:15:12
suddenly
00:15:14
gunshots. Stand back. Now I was behind
00:15:18
Robert F. Kennedy. Siran Sirhan was in
00:15:21
front of Kennedy. So I did not see
00:15:22
Sirhan. All I saw was Kennedy twist and
00:15:25
fall. Senator Kennedy has been shot. I
00:15:29
moved back and jumped up on a steam
00:15:31
table and u I took some pictures over
00:15:34
where the dog pile on Siran was taking
00:15:36
place. Uh his hand was sticking out with
00:15:38
the gun in it, but I couldn't really see
00:15:40
what was taking place there cuz so many
00:15:42
people had crowded in at that point. Is
00:15:45
there a doctor in the Everybody please
00:15:47
stay back, please. A few minutes later,
00:15:49
Scott went back to the ballroom where
00:15:51
the large crowd was reacting with shock
00:15:53
and horror. At that time, Scott says he
00:15:56
loaded and clicked off his third roll of
00:16:04
film. I noticed uh two men in suits.
00:16:08
They were looking at me rather
00:16:10
strangely, and I moved a few steps and
00:16:12
they moved a few steps. And not knowing
00:16:15
who's a terrorist, who's an assassin,
00:16:17
and and who's the police, um I took off.
00:16:22
[Music]
00:16:29
Wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on. Okay,
00:16:31
okay, okay, okay. Where's the camera?
00:16:34
They went through my pockets and took
00:16:35
all three rolls of the film. Uh, they
00:16:38
took uh camera, of course, and it's at
00:16:41
that point I realized these are
00:16:42
detectives and I'm with the good guys.
00:16:46
At around 3:00 a.m., Scott was taken to
00:16:49
a police station in downtown Los
00:16:52
Angeles. Well, I'm not exactly sure.
00:16:54
Where were you, Scott? Okay. I was in
00:16:56
the embassy room. Scott was questioned
00:16:59
for about 20 minutes. This is an actual
00:17:02
recording of the interrogation pictures.
00:17:04
So, there was a table here about 3 and
00:17:06
1/2 ft tall, I'd say. So, I got up on
00:17:08
it. So I was above everyone and I and to
00:17:11
take and then the shots started to be
00:17:13
fired and I took pictures and kept
00:17:15
taking pictures. All the shots were
00:17:17
being fired. All the shots were being
00:17:18
fired. Maybe Scott Enard had become a
00:17:22
small part of history. I can only tell
00:17:24
by the pictures.
00:17:27
10 months later, Sirhan Sirhan was
00:17:29
sentenced to life in prison for the
00:17:31
murder of Robert Kennedy. The court
00:17:34
ordered that all files from the case,
00:17:36
including Scott's photographs, be sealed
00:17:40
for 20
00:17:44
years. In 1988, he asked for his
00:17:48
confiscated pictures to be
00:17:50
returned. He was told that they were
00:17:53
quote destroyed by the LAPD. In August
00:17:58
1968, Scott filed a lawsuit against the
00:18:01
police.
00:18:03
Top LAPD detectives were assigned to
00:18:06
work with our attorneys uh in
00:18:08
preparation for this lawsuit. Naturally,
00:18:10
if we could find what Scott was looking
00:18:12
for, we thought that that would make the
00:18:13
lawsuit go away.
00:18:16
Incredibly, 8 years later, the pictures
00:18:19
were found.
00:18:22
The city attorneys presented Scott with
00:18:24
a proof sheet made from those negatives.
00:18:28
Scott became suspicious. The proof
00:18:30
showed only one roll of film. The film
00:18:33
stock was Ilford ASA
00:18:37
125. Scott claims he shot three rolls of
00:18:40
film that were Trix ASA 400 manufactured
00:18:45
by Kodak.
00:18:48
Basically, what I believe the police did
00:18:49
was they took role number two, which
00:18:51
showed the speech, and they used part of
00:18:54
that in this proof sheet, and then they
00:18:56
used roll number three, which was once I
00:18:58
returned to the ballroom afterward,
00:19:00
where you see the aftermath and some of
00:19:02
the victims and things, and they just
00:19:04
put them together as a proof sheet, and
00:19:06
expected that they could pass that off
00:19:08
as being all the film that I shot.
00:19:11
That role is a continuous role of film,
00:19:13
shows pictures uh before Mr. Kennedy
00:19:17
speaks, pictures of Robert F. Kennedy
00:19:19
speaking to the audience, and then
00:19:21
pictures of the aftermath of the
00:19:23
shooting. There are no photographs in
00:19:26
the pantry. Our position is that Mr.
00:19:28
Inert did not make it into the pantry
00:19:30
and did not take photographs inside the
00:19:32
pantry.
00:19:34
While Scott's suit was pending, a book
00:19:36
came out with previously unpublished
00:19:39
photographs. This one was taken in the
00:19:41
pantry a few moments after Senator
00:19:43
Kennedy was gunned down. Scott Enard
00:19:46
swears that he's the young man that's
00:19:49
standing on the table with camera in
00:19:51
hand just as he told detectives on the
00:19:54
night that he was interrogated. I don't
00:19:56
know who that person is for sure. We
00:19:59
don't believe that that's Scott Anard. I
00:20:01
think it's just a coincidence that he,
00:20:02
you know, says that he was standing on a
00:20:04
table and there's somebody standing on a
00:20:06
table in the picture. We don't think
00:20:07
that's him.
00:20:09
Scott continued his case against the
00:20:11
LAPD.
00:20:12
The city attorney's office hired a
00:20:14
private courier to transport the
00:20:17
negatives in question from the archives
00:20:19
in
00:20:20
Sacramento to Los
00:20:25
Angeles. Soon after leaving the airport
00:20:27
in a rented car, the courier had to pull
00:20:30
over into a service station. His right
00:20:33
rear tire was
00:20:34
flat, apparently slashed by a knife.
00:20:37
What do you want me to do? Sometime
00:20:40
during the next 10 minutes, the
00:20:42
briefcase containing the negatives was
00:20:45
stolen.
00:20:47
I was with my attorneys when we when we
00:20:49
learned this, and we were just
00:20:50
absolutely shocked. I mean, we we we
00:20:53
were, for some reason, we weren't
00:20:55
surprised, but we were just truly
00:20:58
shocked. I couldn't believe it happened.
00:21:00
Uh it uh but if I was a conspiracy
00:21:03
theorist, I'd say, "See, there's further
00:21:06
proof. Uh now, we'll never know.
00:21:09
In the next few years, Scott's case was
00:21:11
argued twice in court. At first, he was
00:21:14
awarded damages. Then that decision was
00:21:18
reversed. Finally, the case was settled
00:21:21
out of court for an undisclosed amount.
00:21:24
But the ruling was
00:21:25
bittersweet. If those photos exist and
00:21:28
can shed light on how Robert Kennedy was
00:21:30
shot, their value would be immeasurable.
00:21:35
The Enyard photos, if he captured the
00:21:38
actual shooting, would be the only
00:21:40
photographic record that we
00:21:42
have. If those Enyard frames were on
00:21:45
Kennedy as he was falling, it could be
00:21:47
the whole case. It could tell us
00:21:48
everything we want to know about what
00:21:51
happened. To this day, there has been no
00:21:54
trace of Scott's missing photographs.
00:21:58
For many, the true story about what
00:22:00
happened that night
00:22:02
remains an unsolved
00:22:06
mystery. Next, a college student comes
00:22:10
home from partying one Halloween night
00:22:12
and vanishes.
00:22:23
Pennsylvania State University.
00:22:27
I'm strong. I'm beautiful. I can do
00:22:31
anything I want.
00:22:34
These are the words of Cindy Song posted
00:22:37
on her personal website 8 months before
00:22:40
she would have graduated from Penn State
00:22:43
University. A day that would have
00:22:45
celebrated a lifelong
00:22:47
dream. Cindy grew up in South Korea but
00:22:51
lived with her aunt and uncle in
00:22:53
Virginia during high school. She was
00:22:55
enjoying every minute of her new found
00:22:58
freedom in
00:22:59
[Music]
00:23:00
America. It was a Wednesday night,
00:23:04
Halloween, the perfect excuse for
00:23:06
students to party on a school night.
00:23:09
Cindy and two of her girlfriends, Stacy
00:23:12
Peek and Lisa Kim, showed up at their
00:23:14
favorite haunt dressed in
00:23:17
costumes, ready to drink and dance the
00:23:21
night away.
00:23:23
Cindy wore a rabbit outfit. She had
00:23:25
bunny ears and a tail that she had
00:23:27
bought. It was a very cute outfit. It
00:23:29
wasn't like a sexy outfit. It was a very
00:23:31
cute outfit. That was her thing. She was
00:23:33
very cute. She liked to look cute.
00:23:40
The girls partied until 2:00
00:23:43
a.m. Next stop, a friend to play some
00:23:46
video games, then home.
00:23:51
It was now 400 a.m. on Thursday,
00:23:53
November 1st.
00:23:59
Stacy waved goodbye to her friend and
00:24:01
drove
00:24:02
off. She never saw Cindy enter her
00:24:06
apartment and has not seen her since.
00:24:09
Neither has anyone else.
00:24:12
We have no body. We have no crime scene
00:24:14
and we have no actual crime.
00:24:16
So, it's been uh very frustrating uh
00:24:20
without any of those pieces of the
00:24:21
puzzle and because of that it it seems
00:24:24
that she just vanished in thin air.
00:24:29
Cindy was known to have an independent
00:24:31
streak, but she was also hardworking and
00:24:34
responsible. She had good grades and
00:24:36
held down two jobs. Her friends say that
00:24:39
Cindy running off on a whim was simply
00:24:42
out of the question.
00:24:45
What happened? and I kept on calling
00:24:46
her. A search of Cindy's apartment
00:24:48
showed no signs of a struggle, but there
00:24:51
were some clues. We found her eyelashes
00:24:55
on the counter cuz she was wearing fake
00:24:57
eyelashes.
00:24:58
[Music]
00:24:59
We knew that she must have at least come
00:25:01
in and took those off and her backpack
00:25:05
was in her room as well, which she had
00:25:08
been carrying earlier. So, we knew that
00:25:10
she at least came in and dropped that
00:25:12
off. Another clue, Cindy's cell phone
00:25:17
was still in her bag. According to
00:25:20
friends, she never went anywhere without
00:25:22
it and her budding custom was nowhere to
00:25:26
be found. Or she could have I don't
00:25:28
think she ran away because we know that
00:25:31
whenever she left the apartment, she was
00:25:32
wearing the clothes she had on that
00:25:34
night. concert. We also know that her
00:25:37
her purse or pocketbook or whatever she
00:25:39
had with her that evening that contained
00:25:40
her driver's license and credit cards
00:25:42
were with her too cuz we could not
00:25:44
locate those in the apartment.
00:25:47
Did Cindy Song leave her apartment that
00:25:49
same night? Detectives checked her phone
00:25:52
records. No calls in or out. They
00:25:56
checked her credit cards and email.
00:25:59
There was no activity on her credit
00:26:01
cards and there was no uh emails or any
00:26:04
activity on your email accounts that
00:26:06
gave us any clue on to her
00:26:10
disappearance. Early
00:26:13
November, police and volunteers searched
00:26:15
the wooded area near Penn
00:26:19
State. No trace of Cindy
00:26:23
Song. So, what did happen to Cindy Song
00:26:26
that Halloween night?
00:26:31
It seems Cindy left her apartment
00:26:33
voluntarily, locking the door from the
00:26:36
outside. Police wondered where she might
00:26:39
go at 4:00 a.m. Friends said that it
00:26:43
wasn't unusual for Cindy to run out to a
00:26:45
nearby 24-hour market, no matter how
00:26:48
late it was.
00:26:51
Upon her going there or coming back,
00:26:53
something happened. Maybe somebody had
00:26:55
grabbed her and abducted her.
00:26:59
[Music]
00:27:04
A few days later, a chilling scene
00:27:07
unfolds.
00:27:10
A woman matching Cindy's description was
00:27:13
seen crying and yelling for help.
00:27:18
You keep walking. I mean it. Go. Keep
00:27:21
walking, lady.
00:27:24
Later, an eyewitness came forward with a
00:27:27
description of the abductor. A police
00:27:30
artist created this composite drawing of
00:27:33
a man with olive to light brown
00:27:35
complexion and medium length hair. He is
00:27:38
not a suspect, but the police would like
00:27:42
to talk to
00:27:43
him. This is the last photo of Cindy
00:27:46
Song taken the night she disappeared.
00:27:49
Cindy is 21 years old in this picture,
00:27:52
stands just over 5t tall, and weighs 110
00:27:57
lb. If you have any information, please
00:28:00
log on to our website at
00:28:06
unsolved.com. Next, a classic case of
00:28:09
love, murder, and betrayal, complete
00:28:13
with a ghostly haunting.
00:28:19
[Music]
00:28:25
Big Moose Lake, New
00:28:27
York. When darkness falls, the plaint of
00:28:30
cry of loons summon haunting memories
00:28:34
and more.
00:28:36
One summer night, several young people
00:28:38
working at Covewood Lodge were walking
00:28:41
towards the staff residence. Cut that
00:28:43
out. Let's go. Rhonda Buselo went
00:28:46
inside, unaware that someone or
00:28:50
something
00:28:52
might be waiting. I walked into the
00:28:54
staff lodge straight up the stairs with
00:28:57
my hand out, reaching for the string,
00:28:59
which is how to turn on the light. Just
00:29:02
before I was ready to turn on the light,
00:29:05
a feeling came over me that somebody was
00:29:07
right there.
00:29:10
Karen, something definitely or someone
00:29:13
or was there and it just kind of took my
00:29:16
breath away.
00:29:18
But the real show was
00:29:20
outside. Rhonda's friends were seeing
00:29:22
the presence that Rhonda felt. All three
00:29:26
of them had the same exact
00:29:29
story. It lingered for just a few
00:29:32
seconds and then moved away. Did you see
00:29:35
that? All three of them saw the ghost. I
00:29:38
didn't see anything myself, but I felt
00:29:40
that somebody was right there and it was
00:29:44
just a strange feeling.
00:29:46
Someone or something is haunting Big
00:29:50
Moose Lake. People here believe it's the
00:29:53
ghost of the young and beautiful Grace
00:29:57
Brown. In 1906, her brutal murder
00:30:00
shocked the nation.
00:30:03
Decades later, Hollywood turned the
00:30:06
notorious case into a hit film, A Place
00:30:09
in the Sun. Shelley Winters played
00:30:12
Grace's character, a poor factory girl
00:30:15
seduced and murdered by a faithless
00:30:17
lover, Montgomery
00:30:19
Cliff. He was having a passionate affair
00:30:22
with a beautiful young Elizabeth Taylor.
00:30:26
Hollywood portrayed Grace as an
00:30:27
unattractive nag.
00:30:30
In truth, Grace Brown was a naive,
00:30:33
lovely 19-year-old who worked at the
00:30:35
Gillette Skirt Factory in Courtland, New
00:30:38
York. It was there in 1905 that she met
00:30:42
the charming and handsome Chester
00:30:44
Gillette, the factory owner's nephew.
00:30:46
Hi.
00:30:48
I think he was considered quite a catch
00:30:50
by the people in town because he was
00:30:52
popular and he was uh you know athletic
00:30:54
and he was handsome and uh a lot I'm
00:30:57
sure a lot of women in Courtland were
00:30:58
interested in him.
00:31:00
From the start it was a scandalous
00:31:03
romance.
00:31:04
Grace Chester convinced Grace to see him
00:31:07
without a chaperone which in those days
00:31:10
put her reputation at risk.
00:31:13
I think she saw him as the ideal person,
00:31:17
you know, that he was everything that
00:31:18
that she wanted. You look so beautiful
00:31:20
tonight. Thank you. She was in love
00:31:23
probably for the first time in her life
00:31:25
and she wanted to see this through no
00:31:27
matter what. For Chester, it was a
00:31:30
secret
00:31:31
affair. He never took Grace out in
00:31:34
public. He never acknowledged their
00:31:36
relationship.
00:31:38
However, Chester was frequently seen
00:31:40
with other young women, especially those
00:31:43
from the town's wealthier
00:31:46
families. Her friends were warning her
00:31:49
that he wasn't what he seemed to be,
00:31:51
that he was something different. And I
00:31:53
think that she had no experience with
00:31:55
that type of person. And and so she she
00:31:57
was seeing what she wanted to see rather
00:31:59
than what her friends were telling her.
00:32:03
But Grace could not resist
00:32:06
Chester. Eventually, she discovered she
00:32:09
was
00:32:13
pregnant. At the time, unwed mothers
00:32:15
were
00:32:16
outcasts. It was not uncommon for girls
00:32:19
to commit suicide rather than face
00:32:22
public
00:32:23
shame. Grace begged Chester to marry
00:32:25
her. Chester stalled as long as he
00:32:30
could. Finally, he took Grace to the
00:32:33
Aderandex.
00:32:35
She assumed it was a wedding
00:32:38
trip. At Big Moose Lake, they rented a
00:32:41
rowboat from a man named Robert
00:32:43
Morrison.
00:32:46
Morrison expected them to come back
00:32:47
around dinner time.
00:32:50
And when they didn't come back, uh, he
00:32:52
thought that that was somewhat
00:32:53
suspicious. Let's take it around this
00:32:54
way a little bit. Morrison organized the
00:32:57
search party the next
00:33:00
morning. A short distance away from the
00:33:03
cap-sized boat, they found Grace's body.
00:33:06
Look down there.
00:33:12
Two days later, police found Chester
00:33:14
Gillette in a nearby hotel. At first, he
00:33:17
denied even knowing Grace Brown, and
00:33:20
then he claimed that Grace had drowned
00:33:22
herself because he didn't love her
00:33:24
anymore. But at his trial, the
00:33:27
jury was not buying that story.
00:33:33
Chester Gillette was convicted of
00:33:34
first-degree
00:33:36
murder on March 30th, 1908. He died in
00:33:41
the electric
00:33:43
chair. Had justice been
00:33:47
served, apparently not enough to satisfy
00:33:50
the restless spirit of Grace
00:33:53
Brown. Two other visitors also had a
00:33:56
strange encounter not far from where
00:33:58
Grace's body was found.
00:34:01
Oh my god.
00:34:03
I was aruck. Look at her face. And not
00:34:07
only uh was I certain that I was looking
00:34:10
at a ghost, but I had a very strong
00:34:13
feeling of sadness. Um she was very sad.
00:34:18
Over the years, there have been
00:34:20
continual sightings of Grace Brown's
00:34:22
ghost.
00:34:24
Many wonder if her spirit has been
00:34:27
trapped at Big Moose Lake since the day
00:34:29
she was drowned by her faithless
00:34:35
lover. Coming up, a 14-year-old girl is
00:34:39
lured away from her home into a vampire
00:34:42
fantasy game.
00:34:51
[Music]
00:34:53
They are dark. They are dangerous. They
00:34:56
are
00:34:58
sexy. From Transylvania to Hollywood,
00:35:01
vampires attract followers and
00:35:04
imitators. Today, vampire chat rooms and
00:35:07
fantasy games attract thousands of
00:35:09
visitors every day.
00:35:13
Most of this is
00:35:14
harmless, but for some, the fun may have
00:35:17
a sinister
00:35:19
side. This 14-year-old girl disappeared
00:35:23
from her home one week before Christmas.
00:35:27
Police think that Kira O'Connell was
00:35:29
lured from her home by a man she met on
00:35:32
the internet on a website for vampires.
00:35:36
I believe she's being held against her
00:35:38
will. I believe he's not letting her
00:35:39
call. I don't know if she's even aware.
00:35:41
What's going on? Authorities believe
00:35:44
Kira is with this man, 22-year-old
00:35:47
Brooker Malté. He's a senior airman in
00:35:51
the US Air Force, now listed as a
00:35:55
deserter. Malté helped run a vampire
00:35:58
chat room on the internet, the Black
00:36:00
Rose
00:36:02
Nightclub. Kira started playing the game
00:36:04
and somehow met some people that were
00:36:06
playing the game and started shooting
00:36:07
off into a separate chat room, talking
00:36:09
to this man one-on-one.
00:36:12
And we know now from reading his emails
00:36:14
to her that he figured out how to talk
00:36:16
to her, how to get inside her mind, how
00:36:18
to basically control
00:36:19
it. Generally speaking, we're looking at
00:36:22
kids who are usually intelligent
00:36:25
children and want to belong, want to be
00:36:28
a part of something, want to
00:36:30
participate. And so this comes along and
00:36:33
reaches out to them and says, "There are
00:36:35
no rules. It's exciting. It's different.
00:36:39
uh mom and dad won't like it very much
00:36:41
and once they get involved in it
00:36:44
sometimes it you know it becomes more
00:36:46
than just a game to these children. When
00:36:48
teen vampire fantasies reel out of
00:36:51
control the results can be a nightmare.
00:36:55
This blood bath made national headlines.
00:36:58
Five teenagers from the small town of
00:37:00
Murray, Kentucky arrested for a shocking
00:37:03
double murder. One of the five was
00:37:06
Heather Wendorf, whose parents were the
00:37:10
victims.
00:37:11
The vampire leader was 16-year-old Rod
00:37:15
Ferrell.
00:37:17
The city police detective said that he
00:37:21
would cut his arm and let others suck
00:37:23
his blood. They call it being embraced.
00:37:26
Embraced into the family. Frell and his
00:37:29
group reportedly like to play vampire at
00:37:32
various places around town.
00:37:34
One of Frell's favorite hangouts was an
00:37:37
abandoned building he
00:37:39
called the vampire
00:37:43
hotel. He told the sheriff's department
00:37:45
he thought he was immortal. He told the
00:37:47
sheriffs that he didn't think whatever
00:37:50
happened to him. He feels he's
00:37:52
invincible. He honestly believes he's a
00:37:53
vampire.
00:37:55
Heather Wendorf was cleared in the
00:37:57
deaths of her parents. The other members
00:37:59
of the group were all convicted of the
00:38:01
murders. Rod Ferrell received the death
00:38:04
sentence, but he escaped death row. His
00:38:07
sentence was commuted to life
00:38:09
imprisonment because he was just 16
00:38:11
years old when he committed the
00:38:17
crimes
00:38:19
update. Kira Okano has been found. She
00:38:24
and Brooker Malté were living in Marian,
00:38:26
Illinois, posing as father and daughter,
00:38:29
or sometimes brother and sister. Kira is
00:38:33
now back with her family. Brooker Malté
00:38:36
was convicted and sentenced to 4 years
00:38:38
in military
00:38:40
[Music]
00:38:45
prison. Santa Monica, California.
00:38:50
from as far back as he could remember.
00:38:52
Bill O'Neal was told that his father
00:38:54
died when he was a baby. But yet, he
00:38:58
always felt somehow different from his
00:39:01
older brothers and sisters.
00:39:04
I was the only one with hazel eyes and
00:39:07
everybody else had these bright blue
00:39:09
eyes. My skin was more like an olive
00:39:12
skin where they were fairer skinned. Not
00:39:15
that anything was ever said to me or
00:39:17
anything like that that was different
00:39:19
than anybody else. Like my mom didn't
00:39:22
treat me any different. Just a feeling
00:39:24
inside like something was
00:39:27
lost. Years later, Bill discovered that
00:39:30
Hugh O'Neal, the man he thought was his
00:39:32
father, had in fact died 2 years before
00:39:36
he was
00:39:37
born. When Bill confronted his mother,
00:39:40
she told him everything.
00:39:44
Hugh O'Neal was a patient at Chicago's
00:39:46
VA hospital. There, Bill's mother met a
00:39:49
friend of Hughes named Jim Burke, a
00:39:51
divorced father of four. Jim, so this
00:39:54
must be the beautiful lady you've been
00:39:56
keeping from me. Hugh O'Neal died within
00:39:59
a month of that meeting. My wife, nice
00:40:02
meeting you. Nice to meet you. Before
00:40:04
long, Jim Burke became a familiar
00:40:06
presence in the O'Neal
00:40:08
household. Two years later, Bill was
00:40:11
born.
00:40:13
Bill later discovered that he also had a
00:40:15
sister who had been put up for
00:40:18
adoption. Jim Burke was her father, too.
00:40:22
Bill eventually found his sister, Karen
00:40:25
Alouse, and together they decided to
00:40:28
search for their natural father, Jim
00:40:30
Burke.
00:40:34
Update. On the night of our broadcast,
00:40:37
we were contacted by two of Jim Burke's
00:40:40
four children from his previous
00:40:42
marriage. Bill and Karen were sad to
00:40:45
hear that their father had died just a
00:40:47
few years earlier, but they were happy
00:40:49
to know that two of his daughters were
00:40:52
anxious to meet them.
00:40:54
[Music]
00:41:01
I didn't know I was going to die.
00:41:03
I didn't know I was going to do this.
00:41:06
I felt a connection, a definite
00:41:09
connection. Like when I reached out to
00:41:11
hug them, I didn't feel like I was going
00:41:15
to be as emotionally tied as I felt.
00:41:19
Ditto.
00:41:21
For Sheila, an and Eileene, the bond was
00:41:25
just as strong.
00:41:28
As soon as I saw Bill, as soon as I saw
00:41:31
his face, there was absolutely no doubt
00:41:34
in my mind that he was a brother. No
00:41:36
doubt. This is our father. This is what
00:41:39
I've wondered all my life. Who are my
00:41:41
parents? Do I have more family? Did I
00:41:44
have brothers and sisters? Things like
00:41:46
that. And it's exciting to finally see
00:41:49
them, to touch them, to to get to know
00:41:52
them.
00:41:53
It was just a inside warm feeling that
00:41:56
everything was now completed.
00:41:59
[Music]
00:42:03
If you have any information on the cases
00:42:05
presented tonight, log on to
00:42:08
[Music]
00:42:21
unsolved.com. Heat. Heat.
00:42:24
[Music]
00:42:38
[Music]
