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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast eric danowsky of Erie
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Pennsylvania was born with a serious
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liver disease after two unsuccessful
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transplants doctors doubted the boy
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would live to see his first birthday
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then Eric's plight was publicized and
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area churches were smoked by hundreds of
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worshippers praying for his recovery
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today Eric danowsky is a happy healthy
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seven-year-old a living testament some
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would say to the mysterious power of
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prayer but he was arrested at the tender
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age of 21 lilulu viana was considered
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one of the most powerful drug lords in
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Texas but while awaiting trial new Jana
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was transported to a private hospital
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for medical treatment even though he was
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under guard Viviano soon engineered a
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bold escape cleverly disguised as his
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own sister in south dakota a night of
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party culminated in terror for three
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young friends however this was no
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routine case of drinking and driving by
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the time help arrived two of the car's
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occupants had inexplicably vanished
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police scoured the area for days yet
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found no trace of the missing couple in
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credits
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three months later their bodies were
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discovered floating in a ditch just 75
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feet from the crash site police now fear
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they were victims of foul play
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but how and why remains a troubling
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mystery join me tonight for this
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intriguing new case much more on another
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fascinating edition of unsolved mystery
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over a century ago the poet Alfred Lord
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Tennyson wrote more things are wrought
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by prayer than this world dreams of but
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these days at least when things are
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going well it seems that many of us are
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almost too busy for prayer it can be
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quite different however what our life
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hangs in the balance you're about to
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meet two people a woman and a little boy
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who believe their lives were changed by
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prayer
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Friday December 1st 1991 fort lauderdale
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florida during a follow-up exam 42 year
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old kathleen Burghardt is stunned when a
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sonogram confirms a large lump in her
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right breast
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Kathleen's doctors feared the worst
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cancer she was directed to come back on
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Monday for a biopsy and possible
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mastectomy I just went into an absolute
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panic I had known two women that were
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younger than I that are dead from breast
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cancer so I had this anxiety in this
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panic about not having breast surgery or
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even a biopsy I didn't even want a
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biopsy Kathleen had read about the power
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of prayer and meditation and done a
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little bit of both
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but over that weekend she intensified
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her efforts I went home and I literally
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told everybody to leave me alone that I
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was going to concentrate my whole
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weekend on healing and that I wasn't
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gonna have that surgery on Monday
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I put into practice everything that I've
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been reading about fasting and went on a
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fruit juice and fruit fast and didn't
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eat any meat or any other kind of meals
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and listened to the tapes and did a lot
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of praying got down on my knees and just
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really asked God to heal me
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I didn't hear audible voices but I've
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just heard a still small voice in my
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head just like you read about in the
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books I felt the peace that passes all
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understanding I felt very peaceful very
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calm very serene the fear went away the
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anxiety went away I became very
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convinced that I was healed and that
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this was totally gone on Monday
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Kathleen was x-rayed again just prior to
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her biopsy
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they are are you sure these are her
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pictures yes and you didn't take any
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other patients pictures No
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you go get the doctor
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we're gonna talk to the doctor
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doctor this is what I wanted to show you
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the pictures that we took today and the
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pictures from Friday what happened here
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there are no lumps in her breasts
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Kathleen's doctor was dumbfounded he was
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cautious and wanted to conduct the
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biopsy anyway but Kathleen was adamant
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she was going home well I was leaving
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the hospital I was getting dressed and I
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was telling all the nurses and everybody
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I'm out of here I'm gone I'm healed I
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said this is an early Christmas present
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from God for many years doctors have
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called these phenomena spontaneous
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remissions and explained it away oh
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that's just a spontaneous remission but
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what is that this is a healing and we
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have to as healers find out how this
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happens what are the mechanisms so that
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more people can have this experience
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kathleen has been healthy for more than
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three years she continues to meditate
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and pray and to go in for regular breast
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exams but was she actually helped by the
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power of prayer some are skeptical
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there's no question that the mind exerts
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an influence over what happens in the
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body the issue at hand is whether prayer
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or any other kind of mental exercise can
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predictably influence what happens to a
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person and with respect to prayer there
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simply is no evidence that it does dr.
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Larry Dossey former chief of staff at
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Medical City Hospital in Dallas Texas
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takes issue with dr. Barrett one of the
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best-kept secrets in modern medicine is
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the scientific data surrounding prayer
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currently there are over a hundred and
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thirty studies showing that if you bring
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prayer into the laboratory the hospital
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or the clinic and you do what we call a
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controlled double-blind study the prayer
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works the most significant study in the
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century I think was done by dr. Randolph
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Byrd at the University of California
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Medical School in San Francisco it took
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place in the coronary care unit almost
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400 people were involved they either had
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a heart attack or severe chest pain
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everybody gets treated with
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state-of-the-art coronary care
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techniques the difference was that half
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the people get prayed for this was a
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double-blind study nobody knew who was
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and wasn't being prayed for what the
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results showed that the prayed for
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patients did significantly better they
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needed fewer drugs there were fewer
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deaths in the prayed for group and
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nobody in the prayed for group wound up
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on the mechanical ventilator 12 of the
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people not being prayed for had to have
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this done
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many in the medical community find dr.
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bird study unconvincing and even as
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proponents admit that when it comes to
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prayer you cannot adequately monitor a
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human control group but sometimes as in
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our next story the life of a child can
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make scientific studies seem completely
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irrelevant
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on March 2nd 1988 at Children's Hospital
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in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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world-renowned organ transplant
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specialist dr. Thomas Starzl worried
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over one of his patients an 11 month old
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baby boy Eric danowsky who had just
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undergone a liver transplant by the time
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he had his first transplant in February
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of 1988 he was already quite ill his
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outlook became progressively work
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because worse because the first liver
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was rejected necessitating a second one
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which was done about eight or nine days
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later the second one you know I was like
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how much more can his little body take
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you know he was so frail says he had
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bones sticking out of his back he was so
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skinny and had been bedridden for so
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long that we were you know he you had
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your doubts you know I mean I kept my
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faith kept positive attitude but in the
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back of your mind there's always that
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doubt is he really gonna be able to pull
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through all this you know
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three weeks after Eric's second
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transplant his pairs were put on alert
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again dr. Starzl was not optimistic
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how's Eric I'm afraid not good Eric has
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developed viral pneumonia and I give him
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about a 50-50 chance fifty-fifty
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well what what can you do for him
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there's really nothing more we can do I
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think you should prepare yourself for
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the worst during the next 48 hours
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forty-eight I'm sorry and down inside I
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guess I wouldn't accept that you know
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but hearing it from such a powerful
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doctor who has been through so much and
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has seen so much that it was a very
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scary thought coming you know a
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statement coming from him
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I didn't want to hear that my son wasn't
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going to live there's nothing more the
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doctors could do and there was nothing
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we could do and the only thing that we
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had left was to hope that the Lord would
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answer our prayers
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he said that the next 48 hours are very
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crucial that same night Debbie spoke
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with Jack greasier a newspaper reporter
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who had written several articles about
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Eric's medical Odyssey Jack told Debbie
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you would write another piece asking his
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readers to pray for the boy the article
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appeared in the Erie Pennsylvania Daily
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Times a few days later immediately
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churches all over central Pennsylvania
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or inundated with worshippers pray for
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little Eric danowsky I felt that heaven
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was bombarded that night with prayers
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and I really really feel strongly but in
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the power of prayer you know and we both
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went down to the chaplain you're like
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God whatever you have in store for us
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just give us the strength to deal with
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it whether you you know you want Eric or
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whether you're gonna keep them with us
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you know we you know we want them with
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us but you know and just give us some
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strength and we'll deal with what we
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have to deal with within a few days it
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seems that a miracle was taking place
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Eric experienced a sudden and unexpected
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turn around less than a week later it
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was Eric's first birthday his family and
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medical team gathered to celebrate well
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I've got some pretty good news for you
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folks on this birthday look like Eric
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has beaten the virus
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that's great I feel in my heart that
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Eric's recovery was definitely a miracle
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he was just such a very sick little boy
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I've had some of the best doctors in the
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world
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state that medically there was nothing
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more that they could do for him it was
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the first day that I think I felt like a
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really sense of relief that he was gonna
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make it did prayer give Eric a booster I
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don't know when I when I was young I
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would probably have scoffed at the idea
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but I've seen things and uncovered
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things over the last nearly 40 years
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that make me unwilling to be nihilistic
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about any possibility and I think that
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includes prayer eventually every Kundra
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what a third liver transplant this one a
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resulting success today Eric is eight
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years old and going strong more than
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able to keep up with his big brother
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thankfully Eric was far too young to
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remember his ordeal his parents have
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told him about it though and he thinks
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he understands
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[Music]
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I found out how so tellers I realized
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that um I was really sick and a lot of
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people are praying for me I want to make
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one thing perfectly clear if you've got
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appendicitis you ought to have an
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appendectomy
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we're not advising people to give up
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drugs and surgical procedures and just
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wing it with prayer on the other hand
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you should feel free while you're doing
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that while you're having surgery for
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your appendicitis to get prayed for it
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too because there are studies which show
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literally that prayer increases the
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healing rate of surgical wounds so we
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ought to do what works I think this just
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falls into the category of common sense
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[Music]
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did prayer help Cathleen Burkhart and
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Eric Donnell scheme each of us must
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decide for ourselves well / can never
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take the place of Medicine it seems to
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offer a powerful assist next authorities
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need your help to capture a fugitive
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drug lord to escape from custody dressed
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as a woman August 4th 1994 21 year old
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Lionel lugar was arrested in Houston
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Texas the culmination of a six-month
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sting operation despite is you Louisiana
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was a key figure in an international
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drug ring that reportedly moved nearly a
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quarter of a million dollars in heroin
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every month since the tender age of 17
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Luciano had enjoyed a Playboy's lavish
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lifestyle cars motorcycles expensive
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clothes and plenty of girlfriends the
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one thing he had never planned on was
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serious jail time but with his arrest
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for heroin trafficking
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Luciano faced the very real possibility
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of spending the best years of his life
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behind bars
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Lionel lluvia however have no intention
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of trusting his fate to the legal system
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shortly before his arrest he had wrecked
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his motorcycle and sustained serious
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injuries while Luciano awaited trial
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authorities had no choice but to let him
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continue his medical treatments outside
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of jail in a private facility
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Luciano is transferred to a guarded room
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in Houston's lvj hospital or he would be
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shackled to his bed 24 hours a day
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Viviano shared room 3b3 with a total
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stranger named Vasquez Martinez the
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recent victim of an armed robbery a week
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passed uneventfully then on October 4th
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visitors arrived unannounced three
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individuals two women and a man walked
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into LBJ Hospital did not have to go
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through any security measures as this is
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not an institution walked up to the
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third floor
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Lionel lluvia nose room marking his
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place yes they indicated they were going
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to visit the individual across the bed
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from Lionel Louisiana the guard was in a
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position to see them walk over to the
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other individuals bed so he felt
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comfortable in the fact as with anybody
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that they were just visiting the
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individual across the bed who was not a
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prisoner and he was able to have
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visitors at any time of the day on that
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day behind the door of room 3 b3 an
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incredible escape began to unfold we got
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some business take care of
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in reality the three visitors were one
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of lluvia nose sisters and two other
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family members Vasquez Martinez would
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soon realize what the three strangers
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had in mind believing they were armed
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Martinez could only look on and stunned
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disbelief
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meanwhile Lionel was in the midst of a
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total makeover a shave
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a simple full cut two-piece crepe suit
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then a wig a dash of makeup and the
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transformation was complete
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Lionel lugano was about to make his
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escape masquerading as his own sister
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the guard outside of the hospital room
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was not surprised when he saw two women
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and a man leave the room that's what he
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had observed walk into the room
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[Music]
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Le'Veon Oh sister stayed behind with a
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concealed gun she kept the bewildered
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Vasquez Martinez from sounding the alarm
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she would later slip away during the
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commotion following the discovery of
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Luciano's escape a clever charade had
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gone exactly as planned
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eventually the Liana's accomplices will
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be captured but to this day the
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cross-dressing drug lord remains on the
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lam
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[Music]
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Linna in Ljubljana was looking at
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approximately 20 years in prison being
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that it being a federal prison he would
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approximately do 19 of those years
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there's very little good time given and
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such like this so I'm sure that this
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played quite heavily on his mind his
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desire to escape
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Lionel lluvia know would a very
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extravagant lifestyle when he was free
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in the Houston area there's no doubt in
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my mind that he is attempting to still
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live that type of a lifestyle he's 21
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years old and had all the luxuries of an
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extremely extravagant individual
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[Music]
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Lake Andy South Dakota December 12th
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1992 at 6:00 in the morning a car
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stopped at a remote intersection at the
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edge of the Yankton Sioux Indian
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Reservation it was cold
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the road was icy all three of the cars
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occupants have been drinking
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the car jumped the highway and came to
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rest in a frozen / ditch the driver of
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the car was 20 year old Arnold R Shambo
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one of the passengers was his girlfriend
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Ruby brew year age 19
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the other passenger was Ruby's cousin
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17-year old Tracy Dion
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by the time help arrived
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Tracy was the only person still in the
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car for some unexplained reason a reason
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Tracy still cannot understand Arnold and
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Ruby had apparently just walked away and
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abandoned her I was really scared
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because GE Ruby's my cousin you know how
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can she leave me you know if she got out
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how come how come you know she didn't
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want to help me out you know i widen
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Arnold try to help me get out too you
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know
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why did Arnold and Ruby leave their best
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friend trapped in an overturned car in
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the bitter cold for three months there
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were no signs whatsoever of the young
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couple they had quite literally vanished
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into thin air then came the morning of
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March 10th 1993 and a tragic discovery
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the body of Ruby brew year was found
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floating in the ditch the next day
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Arnold's body turned up just a few yards
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away
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what could have happened
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Arnold our Shambo and Ruby brew year the
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area surrounding a ditch have been
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repeatedly searched in the weeks after
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the accident if the bodies were found
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just 75 feet from the crash site in this
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incredible and bizarre case every answer
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seems to give rise to another disturbing
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question and one question in particular
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haunts every aspect of the investigation
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Arnold R Shambo and Ruby brew year the
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victims of foul play Arnold and Ruby
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were both Yankton Sioux they grew up
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together on the reservation began dating
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in high school and soon fell in love
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Arnold was a very nice young man he's
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never been in any serious trouble of any
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kind I pushed him and pushed him and I
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got him graduated and he was crowned
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king and his senior year you know and
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he's at the prom and all this and he was
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really popular
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Ruby is a real gentle person she's
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always laughing you know she's jokes
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around she never sitting in harsh words
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to us and if she'd done anything wrong
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she always told us that she did do
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something wrong in 1991 Arnold and Ruby
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became parents when their daughter Erika
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was born from the start it was a
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struggle Arnold and Ruby were still kids
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themselves and hardly ready to settle
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down on Saturday December 11th 1992 Ruby
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Arnold and Tracy embarked on an
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all-night party spree at around 6:00 the
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next morning they ended up back at
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Tracy's house where they had left the
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baby
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Tracey's father was waiting for them
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Arnold hi kids
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you kids been drinking pretty hard
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tonight huh just a little why'd you guys
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leave her here and I'm back later this
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afternoon pick her up then all right
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okay very careful now okay we left from
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there then that's when we came up to
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that stop sign that's all I remember is
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just him you know us looking and you
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know saying there ain't no cars and him
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spinning out from the stop sign
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and it was just like a snap of a finger
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next thing ya know we end up in the
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ditch
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we was upside down in the ditch and just
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Ruby and I was in the car he no Arnold
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wasn't in the car I don't know where he
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was
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Ruby was crying she was saying oh my god
00:26:02
oh my god she just kept hitting the car
00:26:04
the next thing I know the door you know
00:26:06
it was opened a little ways and she had
00:26:09
enough room where she slid out and then
00:26:13
so I was gonna reach over it and then it
00:26:15
was just like that the door went shut I
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00:26:25
know if that was me and I had gotten out
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I wouldn't have left without trying to
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get rid you know why she left I don't
00:26:35
know why Arnold left I don't know if if
00:26:38
they left together I don't know I don't
00:26:41
know why by daybreak the police were
00:26:47
already searching the area even though
00:26:50
the spot where the card come to rest was
00:26:52
frozen solid the authorities feared that
00:26:54
Arnold and Ruby had wandered off and
00:26:56
fallen through the ice at some other
00:26:58
location we walked around the ice part
00:27:02
we had one officer walk on the opposite
00:27:03
side of the railroad tracks thinking
00:27:05
maybe they wandered off toward the lake
00:27:07
area which was also frozen I've been to
00:27:12
a number of accidents where there hasn't
00:27:14
been somebody around the driver hasn't
00:27:16
been there no passengers there and a lot
00:27:19
of times it's because they've been
00:27:20
partying out drinking I mean we do have
00:27:22
a DWI law that was initially my first
00:27:26
thought maybe Arnold was out drinking
00:27:27
and didn't want to get arrested so we
00:27:30
figured he'd show up in a few days I
00:27:35
know he wouldn't hide you know he would
00:27:38
I came home to us
00:27:39
I called us and told us I'm over here
00:27:41
don't worry about me but we never heard
00:27:44
anything from him I thought well gee she
00:27:47
you know she it's not who I could uh um
00:27:49
leave her baby this long so maybe there
00:27:53
is something wrong somewhere or maybe
00:27:54
she's hurt
00:27:55
or she can't get to us you know the
00:27:59
police never found any evidence that
00:28:01
Arnold and Ruby had fallen through the
00:28:03
ice over the next three months
00:28:06
deputy Young strum turned the search
00:28:07
into a personal crusade he worked
00:28:10
tirelessly investigating every possible
00:28:12
lead day after day he came up empty
00:28:16
until the spring thaw
00:28:25
in early March a passing motorist saw a
00:28:28
body in the ditch just 75 feet from the
00:28:30
accident site it was Ruby brew year I
00:28:35
was very shocked the morning that I
00:28:38
received the radio transmission that
00:28:41
they had found a body of course it
00:28:44
wasn't broadcasted any names across but
00:28:47
I knew immediately who they had found it
00:28:50
was either gonna be Ruby Brewer or
00:28:52
Arnold or Shambo her glasses were
00:28:57
missing both shoes were missing her
00:29:00
clothes were intact it appeared to be
00:29:01
the same clothes that she had on the
00:29:03
night of the accident but the body was
00:29:05
very decomposed and it was hard to
00:29:07
recognize and in fact we had to get down
00:29:10
to a look at a tattoo to get a positive
00:29:12
identification on the body at that time
00:29:18
our department decided that we would
00:29:20
start pumping the ditch out at about
00:29:22
noon the next day we found the body of
00:29:24
Arnold submerged in the water about 15
00:29:27
feet away from where we found Ruby
00:29:30
Arnold's body was very well-kept his
00:29:33
skin color was fine he was not frozen to
00:29:37
the ground the clothes were not frozen
00:29:38
to the ground there is a question mark
00:29:40
as far as in our investigation if he
00:29:42
will he was wearing the same clothes
00:29:44
that he was the night of the accident
00:29:49
deputy Jung's tremors completely baffled
00:29:51
how could two bodies found in the same
00:29:54
location be in such different states of
00:29:56
decomposition and how could they end up
00:29:59
in an area that had already been so
00:30:01
thoroughly searched the bodies were
00:30:04
immediately autopsy but the results only
00:30:07
served to deepen the mystery there was
00:30:10
no way of determining the time of death
00:30:12
and there seemed to be no evidence of
00:30:14
foul play
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the coroner concluded that Arnold and
00:30:17
Ruby had both died of exposure death by
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exposure is kind of a tamiya it's just
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like they froze to death
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and I cannot actually buy that they may
00:30:33
have froze to death but they didn't
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freeze to death at that ditch
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that's impossible that they could have
00:30:40
been there the entire three months I
00:30:41
myself personally walk that ditch
00:30:44
several times during that period I've
00:30:47
gotten written out for David's from
00:30:49
people that's also watched walked at
00:30:50
people that had nothing to do with the
00:30:52
case they couldn't have been there they
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couldn't been missed
00:30:58
police were further baffled by the
00:31:01
discovery of two items I seemed to
00:31:02
support the theory that Arnold and Ruby
00:31:05
had not died in the ditch on December
00:31:07
12th we found a tuff of hair alongside
00:31:12
the road this hair was later determined
00:31:15
by the forensic laboratory to belong to
00:31:17
Ruby brewer that hair couldn't have
00:31:20
stayed there for three months in my
00:31:23
opinion it was when whoever brought the
00:31:26
bodies back to the ditch that's when
00:31:29
that piece of hair fell off a ruby prior
00:31:32
to being placed back in the ditch area
00:31:36
at the time we pulled Arnold's body from
00:31:39
the ditch I found a set of keys in his
00:31:41
pocket
00:31:42
the keys were a car or vehicle key and
00:31:45
what appeared to be two house keys I
00:31:48
still have these keys in my possession
00:31:50
and to this day I have not found the
00:31:52
vehicle nor the house that these keys
00:31:54
fit soon another startling revelation a
00:32:01
witness claimed to have seen Arnie
00:32:03
accompanied by three other people on New
00:32:05
Year's Eve almost three weeks after he
00:32:08
was reported missing in my mind it is a
00:32:14
very credible sighting she talked to
00:32:16
Arnold knows Arnold personally and was
00:32:20
the doubter and in her mind that it was
00:32:22
Arnold that she was talking to do you
00:32:25
think you were mistaken when you seen on
00:32:28
New Year's Eve authorities brought the
00:32:32
witness in for a polygraph exam she
00:32:35
passed
00:32:35
later the couple she identified as being
00:32:38
in the back seat of the car also
00:32:40
underwent a polygraph they denied being
00:32:44
there but they did fail the polygraph we
00:32:46
questioned those two people thoroughly
00:32:48
afterwards and they held their story
00:32:50
that they were not there that night they
00:32:52
never seen Arnold during or Rubi during
00:32:55
those three months and said that they
00:32:58
were at home that evening
00:33:03
how did the bodies of Arnold our Shambo
00:33:06
and Ruby brew year end up in the very
00:33:08
ditch where they crashed their car three
00:33:10
months earlier a bizarre coincidence an
00:33:13
oversight by the police or perhaps
00:33:16
something far more insidious didn't die
00:33:20
there I had to die someplace else has
00:33:24
somebody had to come and put him back in
00:33:26
or yeah to make it look like that that's
00:33:29
where they died I believe that someone
00:33:34
done that yeah someone killed Arnold I
00:33:36
really do believe that but how I don't
00:33:40
know Ruby and Arnold had a daughter
00:33:44
she's gonna grow up without a mother and
00:33:47
father they were taken from her when she
00:33:51
asked me the question what happened to
00:33:53
my mom and dad I don't want to say I
00:33:55
don't know I want to be able to tell her
00:33:58
what happened
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time has not dimmed the image al
00:34:14
Henderson and Jean more during happier
00:34:16
days before jeans unexplained
00:34:18
disappearance before Al fell under a
00:34:21
cloud of suspicion during a courtship to
00:34:26
spend some 20 years al built a
00:34:28
multi-million dollar real-estate Empire
00:34:30
Jean rose through the corporate ranks to
00:34:33
become a regional bank escrow officer in
00:34:36
December of 1991 al proposed marriage
00:34:39
and Jean accepted she was very happy and
00:34:44
we were making plans for the wedding she
00:34:49
was just real real happy once she had
00:34:52
decided that it would be okay to marry
00:34:55
me then she got more excited about it
00:34:57
but with each passing day
00:35:01
however jeans engagement did little to
00:35:04
alter her children's opinions of Al
00:35:06
Henderson the longer I knew him the less
00:35:11
genuine he seemed I know he said that he
00:35:14
loved her many times but he also had a
00:35:17
habit of putting her down in front of
00:35:19
other people and to me that just didn't
00:35:21
sound like love when your mother asked
00:35:25
you to be nice to somebody who they
00:35:29
liked
00:35:31
you go along with it even though you've
00:35:34
tried to talk like I did I try to talk
00:35:36
my mom out of being around the guy Jean
00:35:42
more followed her heart a few months
00:35:45
after the proposal she and I'll set out
00:35:47
from their home in Apple Valley
00:35:48
California a vacation at Laughlin Nevada
00:35:51
a scaled-down version of Las Vegas it
00:35:54
was there on April 9th 1992 that al
00:35:57
reported Jean missing no one has seen or
00:36:00
heard from her since today most of those
00:36:06
acquainted with this case are convinced
00:36:08
a jean more met with foul play says Jean
00:36:11
vanished her children simmering
00:36:13
disapproval of Al Henderson has turned
00:36:14
to outright suspicion pitting them
00:36:17
against the man their mother planned to
00:36:18
marry
00:36:19
what follows is al Henderson's account
00:36:22
of jeans last day
00:36:26
it was Thursday April 9th 1992 according
00:36:31
to Al Jean wanted a final chance at her
00:36:33
lucky slot machine before checking out
00:36:35
of their hotel al told us that he
00:36:38
dropped her off at a side entrance of a
00:36:40
nearby casino and went to find a parking
00:36:42
place when I did not find one then I
00:36:47
returned to the valet parking thank you
00:36:51
got the ticket went inside the casino
00:36:56
where Jean was waiting for me there's a
00:36:58
claim check for the car our plan was
00:37:00
that we would meet back at our hotel
00:37:02
room at a quarter of 12:00 al claims he
00:37:08
left Jean and the casino at around 9:30
00:37:10
a.m. once outside he planned to flag
00:37:13
down a taxi and return to their hotel
00:37:16
there was no cab there so after waiting
00:37:20
a couple of minutes and a cab didn't
00:37:21
come I thought well it would be nice I
00:37:23
could go play the slots with her a
00:37:26
little bit but I found Jesus a bird slot
00:37:32
machine already in use I felt well
00:37:36
because someone was there playing it she
00:37:37
may have decided to go shopping or some
00:37:41
other thing
00:37:42
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00:37:46
from a quarter of 10 to 10:15 I played
00:37:53
the machine that she liked and hoping
00:37:55
this she would come back and I would be
00:37:57
able to give up and just say here's your
00:38:00
machine have fun
00:38:04
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00:38:09
12:15 p.m. still believing that nothing
00:38:15
was wrong al returned to the hotel and
00:38:17
checked out he then took a cab back to
00:38:20
the casino to find Jean when I saw that
00:38:24
the car was right where it had been left
00:38:27
and spoke to the valet nobody had
00:38:31
brought a ticket for the car then I
00:38:34
began to become alarmed al says he
00:38:38
thoroughly searched the lobby the shops
00:38:40
in the gaming area Jean Moore is nowhere
00:38:44
to be found over the next few days al
00:38:49
questioned dozens of people and
00:38:51
distributed thousands of these flyers in
00:38:53
the Laughlin area despite the offer of a
00:38:56
$25,000 reward not one helpful call was
00:39:00
received after a certain amount of time
00:39:04
I had to figure that something terrible
00:39:10
has happened
00:39:12
geeze children reached the same
00:39:15
conclusion but they are convinced that
00:39:17
al Henderson knows more about genes fate
00:39:19
than he has admitted the more we find
00:39:24
out about what supposedly happened as
00:39:28
compared to what can be verified the
00:39:30
less I'm inclined to believe that he's
00:39:33
telling the full truth in my opinion
00:39:37
that I all have nots that everything
00:39:40
that had happened then the reason I say
00:39:44
that is because number one the story has
00:39:46
changed a couple of times in his
00:39:50
original statement to police el
00:39:52
Henderson insisted repeatedly that he
00:39:54
dropped gene off in front of the casino
00:39:56
and gave her the valet ticket there but
00:40:00
I'll told us that he left gene at a side
00:40:03
entrance and gave her the ticket inside
00:40:05
the casino other details made G's uneasy
00:40:12
for starters Genoud left most of her
00:40:15
jewelry in the hotel room it seemed very
00:40:18
odd to me that she had left her
00:40:21
engagement ring that she was so proud of
00:40:22
I thought it was very strange she was
00:40:26
not one to go out without her purse or
00:40:28
without her jewelry he's within a couple
00:40:31
of days hour within the day you know I I
00:40:34
knew that he was involved or I in my
00:40:38
heart I know he was involved when I got
00:40:40
off the plane when I flew into bullhead
00:40:43
which is across the river I had the
00:40:45
first place I went to us at the police
00:40:47
station
00:40:47
I asked then if there was anything on my
00:40:51
mother and I let them know my feelings
00:40:54
on what had happened
00:40:58
l had given police precise details about
00:41:01
his last morning with Jean authorities
00:41:04
turned up an impartial witness that
00:41:06
could validate his account a network of
00:41:08
surveillance cameras monitoring
00:41:10
virtually every square inch of the
00:41:12
casino 24 hours a day al henderson says
00:41:19
he pulled into the valet area at around
00:41:21
9:15 a.m. surveillance tapes confirmed
00:41:25
the arrival of Al's Cadillac that
00:41:27
morning cameras in the lab he also
00:41:32
recorded Al's entry into the casino
00:41:34
beyond this point Al and the
00:41:37
surveillance footage seemed to disagree
00:41:40
this tape shows two views of the area
00:41:43
where Al said he gave the valet ticket
00:41:45
to Jean additional cameras should have
00:41:48
picked up glimpses of Jean as she moved
00:41:50
about the casino I have reviewed four of
00:41:54
those tapes of the areas that mr.
00:41:57
Henderson said that they were in and the
00:42:00
tapes that I have reviewed the
00:42:02
surveillance tapes that I have reviewed
00:42:03
we do not see Jeanne and any of those
00:42:06
tapes I can't really comment on that I
00:42:10
can only tell you what happened I accept
00:42:14
no responsibility for what their tapes
00:42:17
show or don't show because I am NOT an
00:42:20
expert in that field I can just tell you
00:42:22
what happened
00:42:24
eles assertion that he played jeans
00:42:26
lucky slot machine should also have been
00:42:29
backed up by the cameras in examining
00:42:34
the tapes for the time frame I'll give
00:42:36
us 9:45 to approximately 10:15 the
00:42:40
machines that he told security was her
00:42:43
favorite machine we do not see how
00:42:45
playing those machines well the only
00:42:48
response to that is that he was
00:42:50
evidently looking at the tape of the
00:42:52
wrong machine I have checked with the
00:42:55
surveillance personnel for the hotel and
00:42:59
they have advised me that this is the
00:43:01
group of machines that al Henderson told
00:43:04
the security personnel was Jeannie's
00:43:06
favorite machine and asked if they would
00:43:09
make a copy of them for him he was
00:43:13
instructed they could not do that that
00:43:14
they would turn him over to the police
00:43:15
so these are the surveillance tapes for
00:43:18
the machines al told security with her
00:43:20
favorite machine
00:43:25
investigators began to wonder if gene
00:43:27
had been in Laughlin at all eventually
00:43:30
they found a waitress would served Allen
00:43:32
gene on Monday April 6th the day they
00:43:35
arrived
00:43:37
other than the coffee shop we have
00:43:39
nobody seeing Jeannie in the Laughlin
00:43:42
area the question remained
00:43:47
where was gene more between the Monday
00:43:50
sighting and a Thursday report that she
00:43:52
was missing a few weeks later a witness
00:43:54
came forward with a possible answer a
00:43:58
friend of Jesus made the stunning claim
00:44:01
that she saw the couple 150 miles away
00:44:04
from Laughlin at a gas station in their
00:44:06
hometown of Apple Valley when April 8
00:44:10
4:30 p.m. the day before gene was
00:44:13
reported missing we have witnessed
00:44:17
remembered the time because they were in
00:44:19
route to a school function and it would
00:44:22
been only at that time and pinpointed
00:44:25
the time and date I've provided several
00:44:32
people with copies of my telephone log
00:44:35
from call us a showing that I made a
00:44:39
call from Laughlin to the Victorville
00:44:43
area at a little bit after 3:00 on that
00:44:48
day I had another call I think it was at
00:44:51
6:59 on that day so you've got less than
00:44:56
four hours and it's physically
00:44:58
impossible even if all you did was drive
00:45:01
from Laughlin and turn around and go
00:45:03
back you can't do it in less than six
00:45:05
hours phone records verify the calls
00:45:09
were made from Laughlin on Wednesday as
00:45:11
henderson says furthermore Al's
00:45:14
bookkeeper told us that he called her
00:45:16
from Laughlin that same Wednesday
00:45:18
evening and so we discussed various
00:45:21
things and then he says well just a
00:45:23
minute Jeannie wants to say hi too so
00:45:26
Jeannie got on the phone and she was
00:45:29
just happier than happy could be because
00:45:33
she had run into a stroke of luck
00:45:36
one of the poker machines less than 24
00:45:41
hours later gene more would be reported
00:45:43
missing since then
00:45:45
precious little his surface to suggest
00:45:47
she will ever return the riddle of gene
00:45:52
Moore's disappearance reportedly from a
00:45:54
busy casino and broad daylight as defied
00:45:57
explanation as all henderson know more
00:45:59
about genes fate than he has
00:46:01
acknowledged there is he's something of
00:46:03
a victim himself burdened with false
00:46:05
accusations during a time of crushing
00:46:07
personal loss unequivocally I had
00:46:11
nothing to do with the disappearance
00:46:13
I've seen more I had offered the $25,000
00:46:18
reward I think that my net worth has
00:46:22
gone down from around two and a half
00:46:24
million to 1 million if I could get her
00:46:27
back I'd get the whole 1 million I would
00:46:29
do anything to get her back
00:46:32
[Music]
00:46:45
for generations the Ouija board has been
00:46:47
a source of entertainment and
00:46:48
fascination for people of all ages but
00:46:51
is it more than just a game next week
00:46:54
we'll bring you the remarkable tale of a
00:46:56
restless spirit named patience worth
00:46:58
some believe that patience use the Ouija
00:47:01
board as an instrument to communicate
00:47:03
from the realm of the dead balsa will
00:47:06
bring you the intriguing case of a young
00:47:08
army enlisted man who mysteriously
00:47:10
vanished in 1993 did he simply tire a
00:47:13
military life and go AWOL or was he
00:47:16
involved in secret operations that could
00:47:18
have led to his death join me next time
00:47:22
perhaps you hold the crucial clue that
00:47:26
can help solve a mystery
00:47:27
[Music]
00:48:07
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