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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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[Music]
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on November the 24th 1971 at 8:12 p.m.
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10,000 feet above southwestern
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Washington State a man forced open rear
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doorway of a commercial area buffeted by
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winds gusty in excess of 200 miles per
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hour
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he stood briefly on rear stairwell man
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known only as DB cooper lept into space
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no
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[Music]
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the last flight and strange disappears
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at divi crouppen is one of the most
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baffling cases of his century many
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including the FBI believe he must have
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perished and he left from a 727 at
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10,000 feet
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others disagree they say he made it
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tonight we will recreate DB Cooper's
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last flight and examine two other cases
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in one an eight million dollar
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collection of sports memorabilia has
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disappeared among the treasures was Babe
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Ruth's uniform and the other two teenage
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boys lay motionless in a path of a non
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Russian train their parents believed
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they were murdered join me you may be
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able to help solve a mystery
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[Music]
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the Sun DD cuckoo is a skyjacking
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mastermind behind a daring crime that
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defied both the elements and the
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authorities the most of us he's nothing
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more than a common criminal who risk the
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lives of 42 innocent people for $200,000
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but one fact remains nobody knows where
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the DB Cooper is dead or alive
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Thanksgiving Eve 1971 at 2:00 p.m. DB
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cooper walked into the Portland Airport
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he was your typical businessman a suit
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tie a raincoat carrying an attache case
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nothing distinctive about him except
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perhaps for the fact that everything was
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very dark black tie a black raincoat
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black shoes Cooper he appeared at the
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ticket counter bought his ticket it just
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gave the name Cooper yes sir it'll be
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$20 please the 727 became notorious
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through this case because it is the only
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airliner from which a successful
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parachute jump can be made from the
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passenger cabin Cooper had purchased a
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one-way ticket to Seattle the only
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luggage he carried was an attache case
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he was the last person to board the
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plane and took his seat while a 727
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began its taxi to the runway Florence
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Schaffner was the first crew member to
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talk to Cooper he handed me a note and
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he kept looking at me and I just ignored
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him the first time he looked at me and
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then then he said I want you to read the
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note it was printed miss I have a bomb
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in my briefcase I want you to sit beside
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me no joke
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I saw a big battery with six dynamite
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sticks wrapped around a battery and he
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said to me all I have to do is attach
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this wire to this gadget here and we all
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be dead she saw the bomb so we know it's
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for real yeah Lawrence went to the
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cockpit to inform the crew about Cooper
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and his threat can you handle it
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Tina he's the guy in the very back he's
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old we were very very scared to death
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all of us were I was thinking about
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dying that's all I thought I was also
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thinking I'll never see my parents my
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brothers and sisters Scotty would call
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headquarters
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the flight crew immediately notified air
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traffic control about the hijacking 3:05
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we have a hijack in progress
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they in turn contacted the FBI did you
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tell him $200,000 cash small bills yes
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four parachutes
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he wanted $200,000 in cash in a knapsack
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and four parachutes identified the
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parachutes as two front packed
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parachutes and two backpacks and he
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specified that the airliner remain in
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the air until the money and the
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parachutes were ready at Seattle he also
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specified that the other passengers not
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be told that the airplane was being
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hijacked the flight crew proceeded as if
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nothing was out of the ordinary drinks
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were served Cooper ordered two bourbon
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and waters the FBI asked the airline
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what their approach to the hijacking was
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going to be that is did they wish to pay
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the ransom this is an option that the
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victim of an extortion has rather than
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law enforcement and they responded
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instantly they wish to pay the ransom
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and so the FBI at Seattle said about
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assisting in obtaining the money each
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bill was photographed and the serial
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numbers recorded Cooper also insisted
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the plane be immediately refueled upon
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landing in Seattle no passengers were to
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be released until all of his demands
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were met light rail fire Seattle Tacoma
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the hijacker instructed that they land
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but that they stay on the runway rather
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than taxi up to the terminal
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check-check here at 5:43 p.m. flight 305
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landed at the Seattle Airport the plane
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taxied in and parked in a remote area of
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a field the money and the parachutes
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were brought by an FBI agent to the
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airplane they were carried on board by
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the flight attendant there were 10,000
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$20 bills
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assembled in straps of a hundred bills
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to a strap and individual straps held
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together with rubber bands the money
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alone just the currency weighed 21
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pounds four parachutes were delivered
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but the authorities and the skyjacker
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were unaware that one of the parachutes
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was defective it would not open under
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any circumstances both of flight crew
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and the FBI were worried that Cooper
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would use the four parachutes to take
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hostages along with him but the
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passengers on board were oblivious to
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what was going on though annoyed at the
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delay they remain calm unaware of the
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drama surrounding them during the time
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the airliner was on the ground at
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Seattle there were FBI agents with
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scoped rifles who were prepared if the
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indications were present that required
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it to pick him off he was very very
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uptight suspicious he said to us to pull
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down the shade every shade must be down
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so I did and Tina did
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they seem to be having trouble with
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getting fuel on the aircraft and we
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thought well maybe they're delaying it
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and we said we don't want any delay and
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at this time the hijacker seem to be
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getting real shook up so we told them on
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the ground if you're trying to delay us
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with any of these kind of tactics let's
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get with it and get the fuel on which
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they finally did finally the passengers
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were allowed to deplane but cooper
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demanded that the flight he was one
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flight attendant stay on board copilot
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said you better get the hell out now so
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I left without Tina and that's when he
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decided to keep her because he was
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getting suspicious that everything the
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passengers were met by FBI agents only
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then did they realize that their lives
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have been in mortal danger
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when debrief they could remember nothing
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about the man with the attache case all
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right captain Cooper ordered the pilot
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to fly from Seattle to Mexico City at a
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height of 10,000 feet and a speed of 200
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miles per hour under these conditions
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the 727 would have to refuel along the
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way Cooper agreed to stop and refuel and
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Reno Nevada he then made an unusual
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request and I want the back stairwell
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down the pilot explained that he wasn't
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able to take off with that door open and
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they argued back and forth and finally
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the pilot said he just couldn't fly the
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airplane it wasn't gonna try and
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hijacker consented for the door to be
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closed for takeoff which it was at 7:37
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p.m. like 3:05 took off
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the Seattle control tower alerted all
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other aircraft in the area to remain
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clear so the 727 had the sky to itself
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weather had deteriorated the storm front
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directly in the planes flight path he
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told her to go back into the cockpit and
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to close the curtain between the coach
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and the first class cabins and as she
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turned around to close the curtains she
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said she saw him tying something to his
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waist with what she thought was rope
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later in the cockpit the light flash
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indicating that the hijacker was
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attempting to operate the door at 8:12
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the pilot told us that they were
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experiencing a rapid change in the air
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pressure reflected in a ears popping
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experience
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somewhere over the forests of southern
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Washington State
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Cooper jumped he has never been seen
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since
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since DB Cooper's hijacking all 727s
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have been modified so that the rear door
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cannot be opened during a flight when we
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return we'll reveal an important new
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clue to the identity of DB Cooper no one
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can be certain DB Cooper's survived his
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jump from ten thousand feet they are
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crafty left no identifiable fingerprints
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no personal items no clue to his
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identity DB Cooper seems to have
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vanished from the face of the earth upon
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landing in Reno Nevada every inch of the
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727 was scrutinized for clues as to DB
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Cooper's real identity the fight
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attendants who had seen Cooper up close
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created a composite drawing of his face
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flight 305 flew along this path on his
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way to Reno the crew felt that Cooper
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had jumped somewhere near the southern
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tip of Washington State for that reason
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it was believed that Cooper would be
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found in this area bordered by Lake
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Merwin to the north and ending 20 miles
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north of Portland Oregon no matter where
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Cooper landed Frank Hale believes he
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could have survived let's say he went
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down in the water you've got to know how
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to manage that parachute we can use it
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for some flotation now his life
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expectancy is not going to be very long
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in that water it's cold we have to think
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of the time of the year it was in so he
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had probably a very very few minutes to
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get on shore but I think he could have
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done this
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a large white object have been reported
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floating in Lake Merwin divers
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repeatedly explored his depths but found
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nothing my feeling is he would have been
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hurt regardless of what he landed into I
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think that Cooper most likely crawled to
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a creek he didn't have any water
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supplies I didn't bring any along with
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him and he would have had to have water
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to survive so I assumed he made his way
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to a little creek and perished there
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some feel that Cooper could not have
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survived in that rugged terrain dressed
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only in a business suit we don't know
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what he wore under the suit could have
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had a pair of long underwear on which he
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certainly should have had and what he
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had in his pockets may have been the
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most important thing because this would
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have given him the tools of survival as
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long as a man's got a knife a cigarette
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lighter and the clothes on his back and
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could have lived indefinitely out there
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could do it it's possible I think he
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buried this chute I think he probably
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buried the briefcase he got rid of that
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I think he probably put the money in his
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coat and I think he headed for a big
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city someplace and lost himself
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the search for DB Cooper continued but
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no new clues were discovered seven years
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passed then in November of 1978 a hunter
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deep in the Washington forest discovered
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a plastic placard from a 727
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it had been ripped from a lower
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stairwell of flight 305 15 months later
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an even more dramatic discovery was made
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On February 10th 1980 a family was
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preparing a barbecue on the shore of the
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Columbia River 165 miles south of
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Seattle and 20 miles southwest of
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Cooper's supposed jump point they
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planned on digging a fire pit but dug up
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something else
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the bills totaling five thousand eight
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hundred and eighty dollars were
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waterlogged and deteriorated there was
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two hundred and ninety four bills found
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and all of those serial numbers are on
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the ransom list so that money is
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definitely positively identified as
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having come from that particular ransom
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money money was found if they'd have
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found a two hundred thousand dollar
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cited said hey it's all over he's out
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there he's dead now we've got some real
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proof but they did not find two hundred
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thousand dollars where's the rest of the
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money that's what I want to know he
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risked his life to hijack the airliner
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he didn't get to spend the money he may
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have lost his life now I don't know that
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he lost his life but I think there's a
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very good chance that he did none of the
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money not one bill has ever turned up in
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circulation
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kadhi B Cooper have struck again only
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five months after Cooper's flight in
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April of 1972 a half million dollars was
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extorted from another airline by another
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skyjacker the crime was remarkably
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similar to the Cooper skyjacking his
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name was Richard McCoy a former Green
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Beret skydiver he was sent most of 45
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years for air piracy but escaped and was
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tracked down and killed in a gun battle
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with the FBI due to the resemblance
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between their pictures
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some believe that DB cooper and Richard
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McCoy are the same man Florence
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Schaffner however believes a composite
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of Cooper may be inaccurate the
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composite never really looked like him
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the hair does not look like him the face
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does not look like him the requests of
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unsolved mysteries
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Florence worked with Malin Coleman a
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forensic artist from the Los Angeles
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County Sheriff's Department together
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they created a new portrait of DB cooper
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wide four-handed it's still strong in my
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mind okay
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I remember everything the color of his
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eyes color his eyebrows and Annie's
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features what do you think last May we
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examine the case of Diane brought back a
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Pennsylvania housewife and mother of two
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whose charity work led her to exchange
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letters of friendship with convicted
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killer John Yount Yount a former high
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school math teacher was sentenced to
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life in prison in 1966 for the brutal
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murder of a teenage girl brought back in
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yonce friendship gradually grew into a
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romance on April 5th 1986 John yot
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escaped from prison and on the same day
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Diane brought back disappeared I know my
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daughter she would not deliberately help
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a convicted murderer escape from prison
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yes I think my wife probably did help
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John y'all get out of jail under
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pressure for what reason I don't know
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update John Yount and Diane brought Baek
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had been captured two of our viewers in
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Boise Idaho recognized brought Becca's a
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former coworker Kathy Kerman when they
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showed the picture it was Cathy's face
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obviously and once they said she was a
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bank manager and it was from
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Massachusetts and they said that John's
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a background was in computers there was
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a dead giveaway
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the Humphries called the FBI and after a
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month-long investigation
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the fugitive couple was arrested at
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their home
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[Music]
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in the pre-dawn hours of August 23rd
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1987 a 75 car 6,000 ton cargo train made
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his regular night run to Little Rock
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Arkansas
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the train was over a mile long I was
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traveling at a speed of 52 miles per
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hour so far the run had been clear
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sailing his engineer Stephen Shawn
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coached the small town of Bryant
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Arkansas
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[Music]
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suddenly Schroyer saw something in his
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path he couldn't tell what it was this
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train drew closer we made a horrifying
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discovery that two boys lying motionless
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across the railroad tracks
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[Music]
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and the time that we had placed a train
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into an emergency position and laid down
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on the horn I would estimate about three
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to five seconds to impact and that may
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not sound like a long period of time but
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when you're bearing down a couple of
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children it's an eternity honestly
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despite the engineers Frederic emergency
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stop the weight of the heavy cargo truck
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trade it for a full half mile the boys
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bodies were terribly mangled the two
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boys were identified as 16 year old Don
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Henry and 17 year old Kevin Ives best
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friends and popular seniors at the
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bryant arkansas high school it is
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extraordinary the Kevin and Don lay on
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the tracks without moving a muscle but a
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huge freight train was hurtling towards
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them blaring its emergency horn the
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state medical examiner said the boys
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have been under the influence of
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marijuana he ruled the deaths accidental
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Don and Kevin's parents could not accept
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that ruling they began a crusade to find
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out what really happened and a salvage
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the reputation of their sons well I
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couldn't believe that that Kevin was
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knocked out on marijuana or into any
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kind of heavy drugs anything like that
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because I was a home lot during the day
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when Kevin come in from school and Linda
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was here at nights and we'd never seen
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him in a state that he even act like he
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was you know spaced out or however you
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want to phrase it
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I just couldn't see any signs that he
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was into any kind of heavy drugs or any
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kind of really drugs at all Kevin and
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Don were both typical teenage boys they
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loved to work on their cars they loved
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to hunt Don was a natural comedian and
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Kevin was his best audience most
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weekends the two double-dated however in
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the night of Saturday August 22nd 1987
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Kevin and Don met a group of friends and
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the outskirts of Little Rock at a
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favorite gathering play
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for the local teenagers
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the two boys left around midnight to go
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back to Don's house kevin waited on the
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porch while Don went inside to talk to
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his father and he came in approximately
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12:15 came to bed ring and told me where
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he was going and everything you know I
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told him just be careful and he took one
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of my spotlights with him it took his
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twenty-two and we talked for
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approximately 15 minutes before he live
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the two boys set off to go spotlighting
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a form of night hunting which is illegal
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in Arkansas one of them would shine a
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light in the animals eyes transfixing
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the prey while the other fired
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spotlighting was a fairly widespread
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activity among the local boys so far
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Kevin and Don had avoided being caught
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that night the boys chose a usual
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hunting ground along the railroad tracks
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that ran behind Don's house
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I never wasn't even concerned you know
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worried about him when he was in the
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woods uh-huh
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but I didn't and I realized you could
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get in trouble hunting it was almost one
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o'clock in the morning three hours later
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Stephen destroyers locomotive came
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speeding down Bryant Hill when we were
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about six poles away from it my
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conductor yelled out Big O I immediately
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recognized what we saw
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it looked like like a body morgue it
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they were just laid out the boys were
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lying exactly parallel on the tracks
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their arms straight down by their sides
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they were partially covered by a light
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green tarp lying parallel to both of
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them was Dawn's 22 rifle
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neither boy was moving and I started
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laying down on the diesel horn and I got
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no reaction not at all not so much as a
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flinch and the we just passed over what
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had caused the two boys to lie side by
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side on the railroad tracks the state
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medical examiner concluded they had
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smoked the equivalent of 20 marijuana
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cigarettes he determined that Kevin and
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Don had been in a deep sleep induced by
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the drug and had never heard the
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oncoming train he ruled their death an
00:26:07
accident Don and Kevin's parents would
00:26:10
not accept the medical examiner's
00:26:13
conclusion if they were that stoned how
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did they lay down in identical positions
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that was my immediate reaction to his
00:26:21
ruling
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we checked the training it was 98
00:26:24
decimals which is equal to a jackhammer
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and air compressor rusty I don't think
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that no one can sleep through that kind
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of noise
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and another thing too my son's gun it
00:26:40
was laying on gravel I know my son too
00:26:43
well he would not lay it on gravel he
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wouldn't take a chance on the wood
00:26:48
getting scratched
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we hired a private investigator to
00:26:52
trying to find out what happened every
00:26:55
time he would try to find out something
00:26:57
it seemed like he would meet resistance
00:27:00
from different authorities and
00:27:01
everything and we weren't getting
00:27:03
anywhere five months after their sons
00:27:07
were killed Don and Kevin's parents held
00:27:09
a press conference they hope to force
00:27:12
the authorities to reopen the
00:27:14
investigation would you like to give up
00:27:16
your son and everybody think they was
00:27:18
smoked up in late day and passed out no
00:27:22
I don't think anyone wants to give up
00:27:23
that kid unless that is honestly proved
00:27:27
to be the truth then you have to accept
00:27:29
it at this point he has not been proved
00:27:31
to those the day after their press
00:27:34
conference the investigation was
00:27:36
officially reopened newly appointed
00:27:39
prosecutor Richard Garrett had the boys
00:27:41
bodies exhumed for a second autopsy to
00:27:44
be performed by a noted expert this
00:27:47
doctor concluded that together the boys
00:27:50
had smoked not 20 but between one and
00:27:52
three marijuana cigarettes he also found
00:27:56
evidence to indicate that one boy was
00:27:57
already dead and one unconscious when
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the train hit them in July of 1988 a
00:28:06
grand jury reversed the medical
00:28:08
examiner's original finding of
00:28:09
accidental death and officially ruled
00:28:12
the boys s probable homicides prosecutor
00:28:16
Garrett then focused on the green tarp
00:28:19
neither boy owned such a tarp who would
00:28:22
covered them with it and why all for the
00:28:26
people on the train who were able to
00:28:27
observe the scene prior to the accident
00:28:32
stated that the boys were partially
00:28:34
covered by a green tarp police who
00:28:39
searched the scene later denied that
00:28:40
engineer Schroyer had even told them
00:28:42
about that time they even questions this
00:28:45
existence now to me would be like
00:28:47
question to the existence of the boys on
00:28:49
the track
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yep they were covered up with the tarp
00:28:51
because what's real is real and what's
00:28:53
not is not and that's you know it was
00:28:56
there as well as the boys I can
00:28:59
understand to people laying down on a
00:29:01
railroad track I can understand two
00:29:02
people laying down and cover themselves
00:29:03
up for the tarp where would the tarp
00:29:05
come from I am convinced that the tarp
00:29:09
existed the tarp hour was never found
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the ensuing investigation unearthed an
00:29:18
intriguing lead one week before the boys
00:29:21
were killed a man wearing military
00:29:23
fatigues had been spotted in the
00:29:25
vicinity his behavior that aroused
00:29:28
suspicion and police officer Danny Allen
00:29:31
stopped a question a man opened fire I
00:29:35
got up from the safe the subject was
00:29:37
gone in five minutes later Saline County
00:29:41
showed up and we searched the area and
00:29:43
never found a subject on the night Kevin
00:29:48
and Don died witnesses again reported
00:29:51
seeing a man in military fatigues this
00:29:53
time he was leaving town heading down a
00:29:56
road less than 200 yards from the spot
00:29:58
where the boys bodies were run over
00:30:00
police have been unable to locate him
00:30:06
six weeks after the investigation was
00:30:09
reopened
00:30:09
Richard Garrett came up with a strangely
00:30:11
similar case in Hodgkin Oklahoma just
00:30:14
200 miles west of Little Rock two young
00:30:17
men lying together on the railroad
00:30:19
tracks had been run over by a locomotive
00:30:22
in 1984 they were lying motions on the
00:30:25
tracks in a position nearly identical in
00:30:28
Kevin and Don's
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I think that someone took these boys
00:30:39
lives they incapacitated one of the boys
00:30:41
and then felt like they had to do
00:30:43
something the other and then to cover
00:30:46
their tracks laid the boys on the
00:30:48
railroad track and covered them up at
00:30:49
the time the reason why they did that
00:30:52
I'm not sure what I'm looking for is the
00:30:55
reason why they did it
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I've never carried a gun in my life but
00:31:00
since we've started working on this
00:31:02
thing
00:31:04
I'm carrying it down because I do feel
00:31:09
like that that my life could be in
00:31:13
danger at some point in time whatever it
00:31:17
takes however long it takes as long as
00:31:20
there is anything to investigate as long
00:31:23
as there is anything to work on we'll do
00:31:27
it hundreds of times I've been up there
00:31:35
day and night just trying to get it in
00:31:39
my mind of what could have happened what
00:31:42
did it happen I've been at there at
00:31:44
night to see how far you can see the
00:31:47
train how far you can hear the train had
00:31:48
allowed is a train I basically think
00:31:52
that they walked up on something that
00:31:57
was not supposed to see theirs at the
00:31:59
wrong place at the wrong time I know in
00:32:05
my own mind that they was murdered and
00:32:09
put
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since we filmed a story Don Henry's
00:32:21
t-shirt has been analyzed by an expert
00:32:23
pathologist tears in the fabric indicate
00:32:26
that Don had been stabbed before he was
00:32:28
run over by the train in light of this
00:32:31
new evidence the grand jury changed its
00:32:32
ruling from probable homicide to
00:32:34
definite homicide next a curious
00:32:38
footnote to the legend of baby his
00:32:41
uniform
00:32:42
long displayed as a priceless sports
00:32:44
treasure has been stolen along with
00:32:46
other sports memorabilia worth eight
00:32:48
million dollar
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00:33:00
in 1927 legendary Babe Ruth hit 60 home
00:33:04
runs record has stood for over 40 years
00:33:08
today is 1927 World Series ring is
00:33:11
valued at $50,000 it has disappeared
00:33:16
in 1956 Mickey meant that the most
00:33:20
homeruns and the best batting average of
00:33:22
any player in the game today mammals
00:33:25
1956 World Series uniform is valued at
00:33:28
$15,000 it has disappeared
00:33:33
Pete Rose a hometown boy from Cincinnati
00:33:36
has more hits than any player the
00:33:38
history of the game versus silver bat is
00:33:41
worth $30,000 it too has disappeared at
00:33:49
conventions across the country millions
00:33:51
of avid collectors have made baseball
00:33:53
memorabilia a multi-million dollar
00:33:55
business one of the most ardent of these
00:33:58
collectors was Dennis Walker
00:34:00
he amassed a trove of sports memorabilia
00:34:02
valued at nearly 10 million dollars
00:34:05
today this irreplaceable collection is
00:34:09
missing among the items and Dennis
00:34:13
Walker's collection for Babe Ruth's ring
00:34:16
Mickey Mantle's uniform Pete Rose's
00:34:19
silver bat and hundreds of places sports
00:34:22
treasures number three the classic New
00:34:27
York Yankees pinstripe sadly this
00:34:30
uniform is only a problem Babe Ruth's
00:34:33
real uniform along with most awards
00:34:35
collection is missing America's national
00:34:38
pastime has been robbed of a major
00:34:40
portion of its history and someone
00:34:42
watching tonight may be able to help
00:34:44
find it in June of 1980 Dennis Walker
00:34:50
quit his job teaching political science
00:34:52
at a small Oregon college and set up an
00:34:55
investment company in his hometown of
00:34:57
Medford Oregon he concocted grandiose
00:35:00
investment schemes and opened his own
00:35:02
bank on the South Pacific island of
00:35:04
Tonga Walker offered an amazing 25
00:35:08
percent rate of interest and indeed paid
00:35:11
off early investors on schedule more
00:35:13
than 140 people gave Walker better than
00:35:16
7 million dollars
00:35:18
to enlist he had the Midas touch and
00:35:22
word spread because if somebody says
00:35:26
give me $10,000 and I will give you
00:35:30
$12,500 right now that sounds like one
00:35:33
whale of an investment the only thing
00:35:37
was is that he didn't actually give him
00:35:39
$12,500 he gave him a piece of paper
00:35:41
saying that he owed them $12,500 one
00:35:46
year from now
00:35:49
Dennis Walker's employees also invested
00:35:53
with him he seemed to be a astute
00:35:57
businessperson seemed to be very
00:35:59
intelligent and seemed to be very fair I
00:36:05
was an investor and I had a considerable
00:36:09
amount of money with Dennis we all
00:36:11
trusted Dennis I believe that every one
00:36:14
of the employees had money invested with
00:36:16
Dennis Walker had always been an avid
00:36:21
baseball fan with his newly accumulated
00:36:25
investors money he bought rare and
00:36:27
expensive sports memorabilia It was as
00:36:34
if he were acting out a childhood
00:36:36
fantasy
00:36:37
it's his rookie year isn't it yeah the
00:36:39
first thing that Walker did was he spent
00:36:41
a great deal of money on sports
00:36:43
memorabilia Walker had a passion for
00:36:57
sports collectibles and he freely
00:37:01
indulged you'd lift the investors money
00:37:03
to some degree I felt that that was
00:37:05
somewhat comforting because we had
00:37:07
anywhere from five to perhaps twenty two
00:37:10
million dollars worth of collectibles
00:37:13
obviously that's a rather large amount
00:37:16
of assets so the investors weren't too
00:37:20
concerned
00:37:20
Walker soon graduated from
00:37:23
thousand-dollar baseball cars to the
00:37:25
really major collectibles he built one
00:37:27
of the most prized collections in the
00:37:29
country major Lee
00:37:31
adding champion 1981 370 average they're
00:37:35
an absolute steal if I said you this
00:37:36
whole package of $12,000
00:37:40
12000 M T Bank building in Medford
00:37:43
Oregon and opened his very own Sports
00:37:45
Hall of Fame Pete Rose was Walker's
00:37:49
special guest at the grand opening of
00:37:51
his Hall of Fame Walker had bought
00:37:53
several pieces of memorabilia from Rose
00:37:55
personally he display them elaborately
00:37:58
on his vast collection which spanned
00:38:01
nine decades of sports history some of
00:38:04
the most prized items were a pristine
00:38:06
uncut sheet of baseball cards from the
00:38:09
year 1933 or $10,000 to Honus Wagner
00:38:14
baseball cards from the year 1910 valued
00:38:18
at an incredible 70 thousand dollars a
00:38:22
diamond studded ring awarded to Pete
00:38:24
Rose 1984 the area achieved 4,000 hits
00:38:28
valued at $30,000 and finally a New York
00:38:34
Yankees uniform worn by the great Babe
00:38:37
Ruth in 1986 the Medford police obtained
00:38:44
a warrant and searched Walker's office
00:38:46
the state of Oregon had been watching
00:38:48
him for a year and in filed suit
00:38:50
charging him with fraud and racketeering
00:38:54
the search yielded enough evidence to
00:38:57
prosecute Walker for the illegal sale of
00:38:59
unregistered securities once we had done
00:39:04
that then we ran into a brick wall as
00:39:08
far as cooperation from the people who
00:39:11
had invested their money the
00:39:14
investigation was not a case where an
00:39:19
investor did not get money or had
00:39:22
complained to the state of Oregon
00:39:24
everybody at that point was getting
00:39:26
their principal interest whatever it was
00:39:28
that they required to my knowledge
00:39:31
Walker immediately filed a countersuit
00:39:34
against the state claiming his innocence
00:39:36
he received a number of summons but
00:39:38
continually failed to appear in court
00:39:41
and
00:39:43
the state of Oregon would confiscate his
00:39:45
assets or caress sandy Sanders an
00:39:48
employee to pack up his prized sports
00:39:51
collection actually I was all for
00:39:55
getting it out of there so that it could
00:39:58
be turned into liquid assets and be
00:40:00
given back to the investors and to keep
00:40:02
the state from getting their
00:40:03
cotton-pickin hands on it in April 1986
00:40:08
Walker decided to leave Oregon and took
00:40:10
his entire collection of sports
00:40:12
memorabilia with him most of Walker's
00:40:15
collection would never be seen again
00:40:22
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sixteen months later a man registered
00:40:37
under the name of Charles Lee was found
00:40:39
dead on a Las Vegas motel there was no
00:40:43
apparent cause of death
00:40:44
no signs of identification except a
00:40:47
prescription bottle bearing the name
00:40:49
Dennis Walker from revealing the autopsy
00:40:55
photographs and the autopsy records and
00:40:59
looking at the Gentle charts and records
00:41:01
has no doubt in my mind that was Dennis
00:41:03
Walker there are a number of theories as
00:41:09
to why he died but no one has ever
00:41:11
really been able to determine what
00:41:13
caused his death
00:41:14
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00:41:17
that combined with the missing sports
00:41:22
memorabilia leaves many many more
00:41:24
questions open and closed in this case
00:41:29
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00:41:46
for every mystery someone somewhere who
00:41:50
knows the truth perhaps said someone is
00:41:53
watching
00:41:54
perhaps as you
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