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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
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Christmas Eve 1983 a freak snowstorm in
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Mexico spells disaster for a vacationing
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family from Atlanta Georgia fortunately
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an American couple both apparently
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doctors happened upon the scene and
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helped save the lives of at least five
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people perhaps you can help find these
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unknown good Samaritans all around the
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world hundreds of people say they are
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being tormented 24 hours a day by a loud
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rumbling sound that almost no one else
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can detect could the source be a hi-tech
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radio system used by the Navy to
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communicate with our submarine fleet
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meet Randolph dial sculptor artist
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convicted murderers for eight years
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dialed it is time quietly and peaceably
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Oklahoma's prison system a became a
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model prison and even started an inmate
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arts program with a woman named Bobby
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Parker a wife of a deputy warden then
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last August Bobby Parker left her
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husband a note saying she had gone
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shopping she never came home later that
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night authorities discovered that
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Randolph dial that somehow slipped away
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from the prison and vanished
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join me for this exciting and intriguing
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addition bums solve mysteries
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in additions later in the show we'll
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bring you a dramatic new update of a
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pointed case of lost love solved thanks
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to you our viewers
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imagine being plagued by the sound a
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loud annoying hum that grinds away
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incessantly day after day night after
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night incredibly more than a thousand
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people throughout the world reporting
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just such a phenomenon and it's driving
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them to destruction the thing I noticed
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about it was it didn't change the sound
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didn't change like it was getting closer
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or further away or slowing down or
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speeding up it was just a steady droning
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sound there is a little bit of a whine
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somewhere in the background here and
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it's a it's kind of like the air is
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sizzling I've been hearing the hum for
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about five years it sounds like a diesel
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engine running parked away but yet it
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has a physical effect it seems to make a
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sound rest and that's in their sternum
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in our thorax area it causes a vibration
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temporal lobe lobe and actually causes
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ear pain at times and paint on the
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earlobes Pal Rooney Anand moved from
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Detroit to Michigan's northern peninsula
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hoping to escape the hustle and bustle
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of suburban living but instead of peace
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and tranquility he'll soon found himself
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tormented by the hum it began as a minor
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annoyance while Hal was studying for a
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trade school entrance exam I noticed it
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a few times before I was studying but
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thinking that it was a motor it wouldn't
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bother me that much
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but then I noticed it affecting how I
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could focus and how I could concentrate
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that's when it really started agitating
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me so I was able to ignore it maybe for
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the first month or two but after a while
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when I got closer to the deadline of
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this entrance exam I started noticing
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this thing is really affecting how I'm
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studying it's really affecting my
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thought process and how I'm taking in
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information and it got to where I
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couldn't tolerate it anymore and I had
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to know what it was the first few nights
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I went out looking for it I went to the
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natural places that you would think a
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hum was coming from I checked out the
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sewage pumping stations the airport the
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ventilation systems on top of Michigan
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Tech University any place that would
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generate a sound finally I was driving
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like a hundred miles a night in one
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direction looking for it
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no matter where I went the intensity was
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always the same okay I have a tuning
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fork and I'm just gonna sort of get an
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idea of how well your ears line up with
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each other so the first we brought how
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to Los Angeles to visit dr. Eugene flows
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one of the nation's leading ear nose and
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throat specialists he'll was found to be
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suffering some hearing loss but there
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was nothing specific that might explain
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the bizarre hum from what we learned
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today we can't prove one way or the
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other whether there are extraneous
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sounds in the environment or within him
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those sounds in the environment might be
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perceived by him differently than they
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really are because of things going on in
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his system I'm certain that I'm feeling
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something from an outside source I'm a
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yoga teacher massage therapist or offer
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I've studied acupuncture I'm very aware
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of the sounds that my body makes and I
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know this isn't my body producing this
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many people have suggested that I might
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be picking up the electrical fields from
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the local power grid so what I'd like to
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do is go down into the caves and get
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completely underneath it and see if I
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can get away from the
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Electrical Fields has tried just about
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everything to escape the auditory
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onslaught even braving the deep tunnels
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of an old abandoned copper mine near his
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home what he'll finally be at peace we
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soon had our answer now I hear it I hear
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it louder it's more penetrating it's
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actually conducting through my bones
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more forcefully than it does on the
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surface
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disappointing very disappointing
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I thought I could get away from it down
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under all this problem it's worse this
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is a tape I developed as a simulation of
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the phenomenon as I experienced it I'm
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gonna play it Sara
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Ellen has been hearing the hum for three
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years I am then I experienced it out but
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just so that you can hear kind of what
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it sounds like that's what I'm going to
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do
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now the volume level that I hear it at
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is much more like that so you bring it
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down to the minimum and then you turn it
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up until you can just perceive it which
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is right there
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and that's how it's in my environment
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all the time whenever it's quiet
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whenever there's a quiet moment I'm in
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meditation or something I have to share
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my space with this and it's not
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comfortable
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Sarah Allen lives in Taos New Mexico
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which literally hums with activity since
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1989 dozens of local residents claimed
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to have heard the irritating sound sara
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is a radio broadcast engineer she first
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experienced the hum in 1992 after she'd
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been dispatched to repair a transmitter
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it was Sarah's knowledge of electronics
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that later enabled her to recreate the
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noise so that non sufferers would know
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exactly what it sounded like
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we played Sarah state for Winona witted
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of nearby Santa Fe New Mexico
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that's very close very very close
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tell me buddy that's very close it's uh
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it's it's a little it's quite a lot more
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pleasant and then the then the jagged
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grinding glass sensation that or sound
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that would come through for Winona five
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years of constant humming is completely
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disrupted her life she is currently on
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disability leave from her job with a
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national park service like many
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sufferers Winona takes comfort in the
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knowledge that she is not alone in no
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fewer than 10 countries on five
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different continents people have been
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hearing a similar low-frequency sound
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most often described as a truck laboring
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up a hill today many of the
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low-frequency suffers belong to an
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international network dedicated to
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finding the cause of the hum we call
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ourselves hearers but actually we don't
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really feel like we're hearing we feel
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like we're sensing and none of us we're
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not protesters or we're not activists
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it's it's not like we want to take the
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day off of work and study physics and
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electromagnetic resonance but it's
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driving us nuts and we have the support
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and exchange of information that we need
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with each other and that's really been
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helpful we began to keep notes not so
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much a logbook of every day because it's
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there every day you write in the law
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gets there today you know and that's
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about all you can say about it what we
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did start noticing was the intensity
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increases which seemed to track
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international events mostly whenever the
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United States is involved militarily
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somewhere the intensity seems to
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increase
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the hearers have come to believe at the
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hum may be caused by a radio system
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known as e.l.f for extremely low
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frequency the Navy developed a LF to
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better communicate with the nation's
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submarine fleet but a sub is underwater
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it cannot receive standard radio waves
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however low frequency signals are
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capable of penetrating through hundreds
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of feet of water to reach vessels on the
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ocean floor perhaps not coincidentally
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the system has been in use since the
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late 1980s around the time the people in
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the u.s. first began to hear the hum I'm
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fairly convinced that it is military not
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only because of my own research into it
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in my own reading and my own theories
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but because of feedback I've gotten from
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scientists from people in the Armed
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Forces or who have armed forces
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connections and other people like I
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can't name but who have come forward to
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me and who have pretty much verified my
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theories at least in principle recently
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a team of scientists was commissioned to
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find the source of the hum they traveled
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at hours with some of the most
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sophisticated sound and radiation
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sensing equipment available in the end
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the scientists were unable to find
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anything dramatic or unusual at Taos
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that might explain the hum however they
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did conclude that the hum is a quote
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bona fide scientific mystery that
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deserves additional inquiry I'm hearing
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the hum now and we have days where it
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isolates on different sides and today it
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seems to be oscillating more on the
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right side of my body
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I don't believe how you can't hear it
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what is a source of the mysterious hum
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could it be Els or is it possible that
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more than a thousand people around the
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world are imagining the same thing it is
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interesting to note that there is an e
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LF transmitting station just 80 miles
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from Hal Rooney Ana's house in Michigan
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however there is not a known station or
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than 1,500 miles of Taos tour now the
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hum remains a mystery for those who
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cannot hear it
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and a major source of aggravation for
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those who can
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[Music]
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on a previous broadcast we brought you
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the poignant story of the Stallings
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family of Tipton Oklahoma a family so
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poor that in 1948 Lila Stallings her
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husband and their six children were
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forced to live in an old school bus in
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spite of the terrible hardships Lila
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valiantly struggled to maintain a home
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belief that was as normal as possible
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thank you we always had something to do
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and we had toys to play with and each
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other to play with so we don't we didn't
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think of ourselves as being different
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however the authorities felt otherwise
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Lila and her husband were eventually
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charged with child neglect
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the charges would later be dropped but
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not before all of the Stallings children
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were placed in foster homes two of them
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Mary and Joe were reunited in 1959 since
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then they have done everything possible
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to find their brothers and sister only
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to be thwarted time after time I've
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tried every avenue that I have came
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before me to try and locate these
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presents history
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and I'll never quit until the last day
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in my life
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unsolved mysteries appeared to be the
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last hope and happily the day after our
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broadcast 35 years of frustration came
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to an end for John Mary a man named Li
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Shu lien of Owasso Oklahoma called our
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phone center he identified himself as
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Ernest Lee Stallings it was only five
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when the family was split apart Lee was
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thrilled to hear that his brother and
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sister were looking for him and was
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anxious to meet them three weeks later
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Lee arrived at a hotel in Tulsa Oklahoma
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to be reunited with Jo you know the two
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brothers had not seen each other in
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nearly half a century
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[Music]
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no no that's what I heard
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how describe it it's such a wonderful
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feeling about I'm definitely against
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walking in this morning he walked in and
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we met hugged each other no bike and
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realized the feeling separated too many
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years about 40 47 I really didn't know
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how I was going to react you know we've
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been separated 46 years
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I felt a lot better than what I thought
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I might I was really you know felt real
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good too hugging we've already started
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making us some plans to get together go
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fishing so we've got a future ahead of
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us to be together and enjoy each other
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sadly Jo and Lee's sister Mary was
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unable to attend the reunion however she
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has spoken with Lee on the phone and
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they plan to get together in the very
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near future at Judy
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right yeah
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[Music]
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when we return a family is rescued from
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a terrifying accident by two anonymous
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strangers
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[Music]
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it is a traveler's worst nightmare
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you're in a foreign country driving
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along a dark winding road with almost no
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visibility and suddenly lose control of
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your car
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[Applause]
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that exact scenario came horribly true
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with an over family of Atlanta Georgia's
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some 12 years ago they were in Mexico on
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their way to celebrate Christmas with
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relatives when the journey was cut short
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by an unexpected disaster a disaster
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that overs miraculously survived thanks
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to the selfless heroism of two anonymous
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strangers
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the adventure began two days before
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Christmas in 1983 along for the trip for
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Joe Dover his son Vance his
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father-in-law James cousin tongue
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Tommy seven-year-old son David and a
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close family friend Mary Ann pretending
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[Music]
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there's a real warm atmosphere we were
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all because we were all related we're
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all friends we talked and we you know we
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ate in the van coming down we played
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games and just really had a real warm
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warm time coming down we had dis
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purchased a new customized van and it
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was loaded with everything we had a
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television then we had a refrigerator so
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we were stocked up and just make an
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extremely good time and having a good
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time the drive from Atlanta to the city
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of Ciudad Victoria Mexico was about 1200
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miles the Dover's hope to complete the
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trip in 48 hours and arrive by Christmas
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Day to save time they stopped only for
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gas and the adults took turns driving
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[Music]
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now we left on Friday afternoon and we
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drove all day and all night we got into
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Rio Texas Saturday morning which was
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Christmas Eve and across the border the
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further along we got hit in the
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afternoon it really began to get cold
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and began to snow the weather was
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getting really bad and I had been to
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Mexico several times in the past and I
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had never experienced anything like this
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in my life it was extremely cold rainy
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snowy it was just very uncharacteristic
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for the area by the time the Dover's
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crossed the border
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the Vance was behind the wheel they were
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now an hour outside of Monterey the last
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major city before their final
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destination they're supposed to go over
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a mountain range to get to the city and
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then we were diverted there was a
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policeman in the road
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hi well no we need to go to Monterey
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what are they scared of that he's not
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sitting up what I yeah with his father
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translating from the backseat advanced
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learned that the main road through the
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mountains had been closed and we had to
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circle around the on the mountings can
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come into Monterey from a more easterly
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direction and the snow began to really
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pick up and it was a real driving snow
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it didn't want coming to straight down
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him and the size of the road began to be
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coated we could see it on the heels
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slowed down a little bit everybody a
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second little bit slick out there okay
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we're trying to be extremely cautious
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because the road conditions were really
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getting getting pretty bad and my father
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had just told me to even be extremely
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careful and just moments after he had
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told me that suddenly lost control
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I don't know how much time of laughs I
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don't know how long I was out I have no
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idea if it was five minutes or an hour
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but I woke up and it was just a matter
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of moments when someone opened the door
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and pulled me out and the pain that I
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felt that that time was absolutely
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scruciating as Vence was pulled from the
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wreckage he was unaware of the carnage
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surrounding him the four occupants of
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the other vehicle had been killed
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instantly incredibly the Dover's had all
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survived but most of them were barely
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clinging to life by the time Vance's
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father was pulled from the van the
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rescue effort had been joined by a
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passing American coupling both of them
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apparently doctors my father and he was
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taken in us and put in the back of the
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pickup truck as well as my grandfather
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my grandfather had received just severe
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head injuries to the point of his skull
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showing his cut his head was just cut
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really badly and the doctors later told
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us that by him putting being put in the
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back of a pickup truck actually saved
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his life because the cold weather
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actually helped seal up and clot the
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blood
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through a haze of terrible pain baths
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watched the rescue effort unfold he
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gradually realized that the two
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Americans had taken charge of the
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operation
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my cousin Tommy was pulled from the van
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and his vital signs were taken and it
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was assumed that he was dead and they
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were pulling other people out and trying
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to revive the ones that they thought
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were still alive after a few minutes had
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gone by this doctor went you checked
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Tommy's vital signs again and found a
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very small pulse vance now believes that
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if not for the woman's attention
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Tommy would have died on the spot a few
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moments later she placed Tommy's son
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David apparently uninjured in the car
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with vance a lady then got in the back
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seat with me
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and she was talking to me and comforting
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me and I think she was trying to tell me
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what all hadn't had occurred although at
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that time I really just couldn't make it
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out the nearest clinic was in Monterey
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approximately an hour away
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the unidentified American woman stayed
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by Vance's side during the trip the
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hospital was taken in too it was unlike
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anything I've ever seen before
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it was it reminded me almost like a mass
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unit or something out of a war movie
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there was there was one nurse there
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though she spoke really good English her
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name was Alicia she told me that my leg
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was broken really bad
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she told me that they didn't have any
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anesthesia but they had to put it in
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traction she said they were gonna have
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to put a pin through my knee we can to
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help you wait where is everybody else
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well there is a man and a woman and a
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child here the nurse was referring to
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Vance's cousin Tommy his friend Marielle
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and Tommy's son David the nurse told me
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that they were injured severely they had
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head injuries and she didn't think that
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they would make it through the night
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there were appeared to be no sign of my
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father and grandfather and I had all
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kind of thoughts go through my head I
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mean it I mean they weren't at the
00:25:35
hospital I didn't know maybe they were
00:25:37
taken to a morgue and I had no idea and
00:25:40
no one in the hospital knew where they
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were at Christmas morning dawned with a
00:25:46
Christmas miracle Vance awoke to find
00:25:49
that his young cousin David had in fact
00:25:51
escaped unharmed and that Marianne and
00:25:53
Tommy were going to pull through Vance
00:25:57
was surprised to see that the mysterious
00:25:59
woman his guardian angel was still with
00:26:02
him
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Christmas it brought a lot of joy to me
00:26:10
knowing that she was there and she she
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brought us both the little Christmas
00:26:15
present and she spent Christmas morning
00:26:18
with us there the woman raised Vance's
00:26:21
spirits even higher when she assured him
00:26:24
that his father and grandfather was
00:26:25
still alive and being treated elsewhere
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another clinic my husband is with him
00:26:31
right now you remember anything about
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last night
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she told me that her husband were on
00:26:41
vacation and they happened upon the
00:26:43
accident just moments after it occurred
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I've always wondered what would have
00:26:51
happened had they not come upon the
00:26:53
accident because we were an hour or so
00:26:57
outside of this major city and there was
00:26:59
nothing out there at all and these
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people just showed up
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doctors showed up out of nowhere and and
00:27:08
you know I believe they were extremely
00:27:10
instrumental in saving our lives 12
00:27:15
years later the accident has had a
00:27:17
profound effect on the entire Dover
00:27:19
family today they are all actively
00:27:21
involved in the church and in fact Joe
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is a lay pastor with his own
00:27:25
congregation of more than 300 perhaps
00:27:30
the most thankful of all is Joe's wife
00:27:32
Linda she is convinced that had it not
00:27:35
been for the two unknown angels she
00:27:37
might have lost her entire family I feel
00:27:42
like it is a miracle
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many times is an accident and you know
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we just drive by an accident but and
00:27:49
they could have done that that day but
00:27:50
they didn't they stopped and through
00:27:52
their staffing they saved the lives of
00:27:54
our family and we just wanna say thank
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you
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it is a prison officials worst nightmare
00:28:31
an inmate who can charm the devil who
00:28:34
knows how to play the system who harbors
00:28:36
a deep but completely hidden desire to
00:28:38
escape confessed murderer Randolph
00:28:41
Franklin Dyle was just such a man last
00:28:48
August
00:28:48
diode escaped from the Oklahoma State
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Reformatory and he took 32 year-old
00:28:53
Bobby Parker the deputy wardens wife
00:28:55
with him
00:28:56
this is their story it began in 1986 on
00:29:03
videotape Randolph Dyle voluntarily
00:29:06
confessed to committing a contract
00:29:08
killing five years earlier and tell me
00:29:10
to get off his property not fired for
00:29:22
nearly eight years Dyle served hard time
00:29:24
but Randolph Dyle was not your
00:29:27
run-of-the-mill lifer an artist of some
00:29:29
repute before prison he managed to
00:29:32
hoodwink the guards and wardens in
00:29:34
prison eventually he was transferred to
00:29:37
a minimum security unit at Oklahoma
00:29:40
State Reformatory there Randolph dial
00:29:43
became the very definition of a model
00:29:45
prisoner
00:29:47
Randolph Dahl was given trusty status he
00:29:51
was given full run of the prison in fact
00:29:53
as a trustee even though he was under a
00:29:55
murder conviction he was given access to
00:29:57
property outside the prison there was
00:30:00
really no supervision over Randolph dial
00:30:04
dials regular work assignment was
00:30:06
caretaker at the home of deputy warden
00:30:08
Randy Parker Parker his wife Bobbie and
00:30:12
their two young daughters lived right
00:30:13
next door to the prison over the years
00:30:18
Bobbie Parker had worked with a number
00:30:20
of inmates as a volunteer for various
00:30:22
rehabilitation programs she and Randolph
00:30:26
Dyle were brought together when money
00:30:28
was donated to start up a prison arts
00:30:30
project
00:30:32
what's the big push on it anyway because
00:30:36
we've got people wanting to buy these
00:30:38
dial
00:30:38
I mean darn often spent time alone with
00:30:42
Barbie in her garage which had been
00:30:43
converted into a ceramic studio given
00:30:47
the circumstances it was not unusual
00:30:49
when dial developed something of a crush
00:30:51
on Bobby I think that he probably read
00:30:55
more into the working relationship than
00:30:58
what was actually there you know a man's
00:31:01
locked up for over eight years going on
00:31:03
nine years he has a woman who is very
00:31:06
attractive very cordial very
00:31:08
compassionate caring I tell you why
00:31:11
Bobby you just come right over here you
00:31:14
work side by side with me
00:31:15
we'll be on your schedule what do you
00:31:18
think I think you do your job
00:31:21
and I will do mine and we'll meet my
00:31:23
schedule after a few weeks Randy Parker
00:31:27
began to feel that dial was spending too
00:31:29
much time with Bobby at the house and
00:31:31
acting as if he controlled the arts
00:31:33
program you need help over there I had
00:31:35
told him you screw up out here and I'll
00:31:40
show you what administrative power is
00:31:42
all about and he was very much aware
00:31:44
that August 30th 1994 began normally
00:31:49
enough for Randy and Bobbie Parker first
00:31:52
breakfast were their two daughters then
00:31:54
Randy went to work next door and the
00:31:56
girls headed off for school
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when Randy Parker left his house
00:32:06
Randolph diet was already out front
00:32:08
working in the yard yeah she gonna make
00:32:11
me do this all day she's got some other
00:32:13
things lined up for me she came back to
00:32:15
work out trade jobs we take it easy on
00:32:21
them on over there sir
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00:32:33
at noon Randy Parker came home for lunch
00:32:35
but found the house empty there was a
00:32:38
note from Bob he's saying that she had
00:32:40
gone shopping and that his sandwich was
00:32:42
in the refrigerator it was not anything
00:32:46
out of the ordinary at all to see a note
00:32:48
there let me know where she was being
00:32:50
concerned that I would be worried there
00:32:52
having my lunch there for me back at the
00:32:58
prison
00:32:59
Randy Parker's day proceeded without
00:33:01
incident then at 4:45 he received a
00:33:04
troubling call from his older daughter
00:33:07
not here right now and I just came in
00:33:11
and brandi was sitting all alone on the
00:33:14
floor mommy's gone shopping she'd be
00:33:16
home real soon
00:33:17
and got to be home in a little bit okay
00:33:20
thanks dad
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Randy Parker arrived at his house thirty
00:33:31
minutes later
00:33:31
Bobby was still not there soon Randy
00:33:35
began to fear the worst he contacted the
00:33:40
area hospitals but there was no word of
00:33:42
Bobby at a loss Randy rehashed the day
00:33:45
in his mind then I begin to thank back
00:33:50
you know I hadn't seen down since this
00:33:51
morning and usually when I come home for
00:33:53
lunch he's usually there hanging out
00:33:56
hello captain Randy yeah would you do me
00:34:00
if I have just cleared dial from his
00:34:02
cell and sent him over here now
00:34:08
till two to two or one
00:34:10
be advised then midol it's not in his
00:34:12
cell repeat him $1 not in himself I need
00:34:17
at that point that the Dow had escaped
00:34:19
in the fear that he had taken Bobby but
00:34:24
yet I hadn't I hadn't admitted that to
00:34:27
myself yet Bobby what are you talking
00:34:53
about Bobby what's wrong Bobby Bobby and
00:35:02
she hung up and I knew immediately that
00:35:05
she probably had been abducted because
00:35:08
my daughter wouldn't talk like that she
00:35:12
would have called her own girls and
00:35:14
everything she was not a crying person I
00:35:17
didn't know what that was going to do if
00:35:20
he did how he was gonna harm or hurt her
00:35:21
straightening her and of course I was
00:35:25
worried sick about her but then I was
00:35:26
also worried you know how am I going to
00:35:28
tell the girls the next day
00:35:31
Bobby called her best friend with the
00:35:33
same message the friend also felt that
00:35:35
Bobby was being held against her will
00:35:38
then 24 hours later
00:35:40
Bobby's van was found abandoned just
00:35:43
across the Texas border the vehicle was
00:35:47
basically clean we found no indications
00:35:50
that a violent struggle had taken place
00:35:52
in the vehicle there was there were no
00:35:54
blood splattering zatt all we did find
00:35:58
cigarettes their basic cigarettes which
00:36:01
was the brand that Randolph Dyle smoked
00:36:05
in the meantime brandy Parker had
00:36:07
learned from an inmate but for several
00:36:09
months
00:36:09
dile had been actively trying to barter
00:36:11
for valium on the prison black market
00:36:13
this fit with Randy Parker's firm belief
00:36:16
that dial had kidnapped his wife he
00:36:23
could have got some valium to her in a
00:36:24
glass of tea or something then he picked
00:36:28
her up then he walked her up to the van
00:36:30
and he laid her down in there he took
00:36:32
off
00:36:32
I believe that's what happened but the
00:36:38
fact remained that there was no concrete
00:36:40
evidence of a kidnapping the authorities
00:36:43
began to consider another possibility
00:36:45
perhaps Bobby Parker had run away with
00:36:48
Randolph diam
00:36:50
it does appear that there was a certain
00:36:53
fascination that Randolph doll had for
00:36:55
her Bobbie Parker from interviews with
00:36:58
other inmates at the institution he made
00:37:00
comments indicating that that he was
00:37:02
romantically attracted to Bobby we don't
00:37:06
know if that was reciprocated in any
00:37:09
fashion at this point we are under the
00:37:12
assumption that she was taken against
00:37:14
her will we have no information to
00:37:16
indicate otherwise
00:37:18
my wife did not leave voluntarily went
00:37:22
down she did not fall in love with him
00:37:24
she III believe that to the very depths
00:37:29
of my soul that that is that is not even
00:37:33
within the realm of possibilities that
00:37:34
she would abandon two children run off
00:37:37
with an inmate who's convicted for
00:37:39
murder throw away everything that she's
00:37:42
ever had that's just not even possible
00:37:45
that is absurd and ridiculous
00:37:50
thank his quick ten days after Bobby
00:37:54
disappeared she made one final phone
00:37:56
call this one to her brother's wife
00:37:58
once again Bobby sounded upset she asked
00:38:02
her sister-in-law to tell the girls she
00:38:04
loved them and that everything would be
00:38:06
all right and that was the last contact
00:38:10
that anybody's had that I know of and
00:38:14
this plane that's been September night
00:38:17
that's been a long time and I just keep
00:38:18
waiting for another phone call keep
00:38:20
waiting for something but dials not
00:38:24
gonna let her call again well I
00:38:26
personally painted all these ones you
00:38:28
see here there have been several
00:38:31
sightings of Randolph nine and a woman
00:38:33
who may be Bobby Parker's one of the
00:38:35
most credible occurred in September of
00:38:37
1994 at an art sale in Galveston Texas
00:38:40
if the woman would dial was indeed Bobby
00:38:44
she had either dyed her hair blonde or
00:38:46
was wearing a wig
00:38:47
witnesses say she seemed nervous and
00:38:50
scared
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next a businessman suspected of criminal
00:39:41
activity disappears during a fishing
00:39:43
trip a tragic accident a clever ruse to
00:39:46
avoid arrest the muddy turbulent waters
00:39:59
of the Colorado river's snake some 1500
00:40:02
miles from seven different states over
00:40:05
the centuries the Colorado's powerful
00:40:07
currents have carved out hundreds of
00:40:09
gorges including the Grand Canyon in
00:40:11
Arizona but hidden by the rivers
00:40:14
majestic beauty is a world of untold
00:40:16
secrets among them the puzzling fate of
00:40:19
a man named Robert RCA who disappeared
00:40:22
during a fishing trip on the Colorado
00:40:24
more than eight years ago to all
00:40:28
appearances Bob are Syria was a jovial
00:40:30
fun-loving family man who made friends
00:40:33
at the drop of a hat he was also the
00:40:36
quintessential wheeler dealer in fact
00:40:44
around Phoenix our Syria was known as a
00:40:46
man who could get you almost anything
00:40:48
from soft pretzels to camper shells bill
00:40:51
ruddy knew him as well as anyone the
00:40:54
first time I met Bob our Series was I
00:40:56
went down to bought a camper shell fine
00:40:57
and then he needed some work done I
00:41:00
needed things done and we just traded on
00:41:03
and off and and I sold him a car that I
00:41:08
had fixed and our relationship just kind
00:41:11
of rolled from there from the rest of
00:41:13
time on bill Redick and his wife Janet
00:41:18
hit it off with Bob RCA and his wife
00:41:20
right from the start
00:41:21
hey check out these little guys all
00:41:23
right that was nice
00:41:24
that's our continued collection got some
00:41:26
more Bob was fascinated by Bill's
00:41:28
collection of rare Native American
00:41:30
Kachina dolls worth $75,000 you know I
00:41:34
also collect guns I've got an 1881 Smith
00:41:36
& Wesson I'd like to see oh I'd love to
00:41:38
see that I'll go get it
00:41:39
great bill was equally proud of his
00:41:42
priceless antique guns
00:41:44
he left Bob in the living room while he
00:41:46
went to retrieve them from the safe I
00:41:50
had enough my safe where they were at
00:41:53
and then I turn around looked and he's
00:41:55
right behind me it seemed unordinary to
00:41:59
me because I was gonna get him out the
00:42:02
ones that I wanted to show him now we're
00:42:04
just easy to pick up and bring in there
00:42:05
and I didn't do that craftsmanship he
00:42:09
was very calm and very cool or about the
00:42:11
whole issue he didn't seem to be
00:42:13
interested anything he just seemed to be
00:42:15
more like MoMA that's nice sort of like
00:42:19
nonchalant on April 3rd 1984 bill
00:42:26
Reddick was out of town on business at
00:42:28
around 8 p.m. his wife Janet came home
00:42:31
from work the house had been ransacked
00:42:34
the valuable Kachina dolls were laid out
00:42:37
on a sofa and table
00:42:39
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00:42:44
I went to leave to get out of the house
00:42:47
[Music]
00:42:50
from that point on my memory is kind of
00:42:54
black until I woke up in the hospital a
00:42:56
couple days later with Janet unconscious
00:43:01
the thieves made off with the Redax
00:43:03
entire collection of Kachina dolls all
00:43:06
of Bill's antique guns and Janet's
00:43:08
jewelry total value more than two
00:43:11
hundred thousand dollars Janet had been
00:43:15
struck five times in the head with a
00:43:17
ball-peen hammer
00:43:18
miraculously she would recover but only
00:43:21
after major surgery and months of
00:43:23
rehabilitation got the gun got the
00:43:28
Kachina dolls while Janet was
00:43:29
recuperating
00:43:30
barbar series stopped by to see how she
00:43:32
was doing at the time the writing's just
00:43:36
assumed he was a concerned friend
00:43:38
perhaps a little too conservative she
00:43:44
said to us that he was wish that he
00:43:47
could help us find the guy and if he did
00:43:50
he'd be glad to kill him for us there's
00:43:53
three things that bob was involved in he
00:43:54
was balding drugs he was involved in
00:43:57
murder and he was involved in robbery
00:44:00
almost two years later this man an
00:44:03
admitted contract killer went to the
00:44:05
police with an incredible story he
00:44:07
claimed Bob our cieariy had masterminded
00:44:09
a series of robberies but the targets
00:44:12
were our series owned friends and
00:44:14
business associates would have dinner
00:44:16
with these guys have more to the house
00:44:17
play golf with him and then maybe two
00:44:20
three years down the road he'd set them
00:44:22
up we were initially a little skeptical
00:44:26
of this information however as we began
00:44:28
to investigate the crimes this subject
00:44:32
story seemed very credible
00:44:37
Phoenix police sought to verify the
00:44:39
informants allegations they arranged for
00:44:42
him to secretly tape record a
00:44:44
conversation with our cieariy
00:44:45
okay don't forget that to make that
00:44:47
thing to see him drive up got you man
00:44:51
the meeting between the information
00:44:55
source and Robert are sherry took place
00:44:57
in a parking lot I was able to view the
00:45:00
meeting through binoculars from some
00:45:02
distance away in the exchange our Siri
00:45:11
canceled an alleged hit he had hired the
00:45:13
informant to carry out its off come on
00:45:16
Bob it's on it's off after we retrieved
00:45:21
the recording device from him and
00:45:23
listened to what was being said left
00:45:26
little doubt that our Siri was in fact
00:45:29
involved in the crimes that the
00:45:31
information source was alleging the
00:45:37
informant gave detective flicked several
00:45:39
items he said were stolen by our series
00:45:41
henchmen I never thought I'd see these
00:45:43
again some of the valuables belong to
00:45:47
Janet Redding's
00:45:48
let me know if any of them are familiar
00:45:50
to you
00:45:52
robbing our cieariy yeah is he involved
00:45:55
in this when I looked at the slip of
00:45:58
paper and I saw Bob's name on it
00:46:01
everything just hit this person is
00:46:04
involved with what happened at my house
00:46:08
Robert our Siri was charged with seven
00:46:11
felony counts including heading an
00:46:13
organized crime syndicate racketeering
00:46:15
and conspiracy to commit murder but a
00:46:19
few months later in November of 1986
00:46:21
those charges were dropped called police
00:46:23
continued the investigation according to
00:46:27
the authorities they were gambling if
00:46:29
they could build an even stronger case
00:46:35
Bob or Siri was once again free to come
00:46:38
and go as he pleased
00:46:39
in January of 1987 he set off on a
00:46:43
fishing trip with his nephew and two
00:46:45
friends they chose a spot on the
00:46:47
Colorado River known as Lee's ferry Bob
00:46:52
called me and he said he'd been
00:46:53
exonerated
00:46:54
and he wanted to celebrate and that's
00:46:59
why we went to Lee's ferry was to kind
00:47:01
of celebrate that being all over and
00:47:03
done with
00:47:07
Ray Brown says that his darkness fell on
00:47:09
the first day of the trip
00:47:10
our serie began to complain about chest
00:47:12
pains at the duck our Siri was the last
00:47:18
man to disembark his nephew had to help
00:47:21
him from the boat the other man on the
00:47:26
fishing trip was asked not to be
00:47:28
identified I walked up the dock and left
00:47:32
the nephew and Bob standing there and I
00:47:36
went to the bathroom and when I was
00:47:39
leaving I heard a splash down by the
00:47:42
dock the water was over a man's head at
00:47:57
the boat dock and I backed the truck up
00:48:00
and shined the lights out on the river
00:48:02
and we could see nothing and I knew he'd
00:48:07
must be drowned in the area where our
00:48:13
Siri disappeared the river brought us
00:48:15
out almost into a lake rescuers feared
00:48:18
that he may have floated a half mile
00:48:20
downstream towards a set of powerful
00:48:22
Rapids but an intense four-day search
00:48:26
yielded no trace of Bob our Siri I feel
00:48:30
that if he were in that upper section of
00:48:33
the river in the Clearwater there's a
00:48:35
very high likelihood that we would have
00:48:37
seen him in that area and he would have
00:48:39
been found
00:48:41
at Bob our cieariy suffer a heart attack
00:48:43
fall into the Colorado River and drown
00:48:46
or was the entire episode a clever ruse
00:48:49
enabling our Siri to escape his
00:48:52
impending legal troubles I feel that Bob
00:48:56
our Siri is dead he was a family man out
00:49:02
of this world and going in that River
00:49:08
there's I just can't see any way he
00:49:11
could have got out of it Bob probably
00:49:13
didn't even get his feet wet for all I
00:49:17
know that guys were willing threw a rock
00:49:18
overboard no he's not dead
00:49:23
it's my belief that knowing that he was
00:49:27
looking at spending the rest of his life
00:49:29
behind bars resulted in making some hard
00:49:32
choices and that was either facing them
00:49:34
or feigning his death and I believe he
00:49:37
took the latter every indication I have
00:49:40
is that he he did not drowned and he is
00:49:44
alive today
00:49:45
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join me next time perhaps you may be
00:50:28
able to help solve a mystery
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