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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode

July 26, 2021 / 42:51

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers five mysterious deaths linked to cyanide poisoning in St. Croix, the disappearance of two teenage girls in Oklahoma, and the story of a con man named Todd Mueller.

The first segment discusses the deaths of Rada and Christo Maharaj, along with three other victims, all believed to be connected to a master of obia, a form of sorcery. Investigators suspect that the victims were lured into a deadly scheme involving financial troubles and voodoo practices.

Next, the episode shifts to the case of Ashley Freeman and Laura Bible, who went missing after a fire consumed Ashley's home. The investigation reveals that Ashley's parents were murdered prior to the fire, and the girls' whereabouts remain unknown, leading to various theories about their fate.

The final segment features Todd Mueller, a con man who uses multiple aliases to commit fraud. Despite repeated arrests, he manages to evade authorities through clever tricks and deception, showcasing his ability to manipulate situations to his advantage.

Throughout the episode, viewers are encouraged to provide any information that could help solve these ongoing mysteries.

TL;DR

Five cyanide poisonings, two missing girls, and a slippery con man are featured in this episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

Episode

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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries five people in a tropical
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Paradise are dead are they the victims
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of
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vodra a vicious double murder and two
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missing teenage girls were they abducted
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or did they have reason to
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R and A K man with a twisted sense of
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humor taunts police with a series of
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practical jokes
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he calls himself Pat Brown he was found
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by the side of a road dazed and
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disoriented a victim of total
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Amnesia five cases some without endings
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our team is working on them and perhaps
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you can help I'm Dennis finina and this
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is Unsolved Mysteries
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s c D Roy the US Virgin
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Islands this popular vacation spot is
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Paradise to more than 1 A2 million
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visitors from the United States each
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year but even Paradise can have a dark
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side control this is 5 Echo reporting
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the traffic accident in Gallow B
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vicinity of just after 9:30 p.m. police
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arrive at the scene of what was reported
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as a minor traffic accident
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they find a local woman Rada Maharaj
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apparently suffering from internal
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injuries she would die on the way to the
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hospital 16 Mi away another body is
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discovered the dead man is Christo
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Maharaj rav's husband the clothing of
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both victims is saturated with seawater
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$25,000 in cash that the couple had
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borrowed was missing
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and the cause of both deaths cyanide
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poisoning make a total of five cyanide
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victims in the last four years
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authorities suspect that all of the
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deaths are linked to
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voodo contrary to popular belief there
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is nothing inherently Sinister about
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Voodoo it is a blend of Roman
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Catholicism and African tradition
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practiced mainly in Haiti and Louisiana
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curses hex's Effigy dolls and Potions
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are more often a part of obia an
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underground form of sorcery that is not
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connected to
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Voodoo police in St Croy now believe
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that the five cyanide poisonings were
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the work of a master KH he practices
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obia but pretends to use Voodoo he lures
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his victims into a vicious web of Deceit
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and
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murder R and krishn doth were both born
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in the Caribbean their parents came from
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India the couple ran a small grocery
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store kata's two daughters from her
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first marriage helped with the
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business we were paying our bills and we
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didn't have food to eat were all well we
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were strong and healthy and we were all
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working hard especially my mother
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see you
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soon several months before they died
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they took out a loan to expand their
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store they soon found themselves in
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financial
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trouble I've got the loan no I don't
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want to talk about the loan all right
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time they were very tense and especially
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when I spoke to my mother about what
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they were doing she didn't like for me
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to ask her all those things and she
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tried to um answer me as quickly as
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possible and try to change the subject
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I'm sorry I couldn't meet last week
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something else was wrong according to
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their daughters the maharaji had been
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receiving mysterious phone calls from a
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strange man but they wouldn't talk about
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it usually I answer the phone and this
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man would ask to speak to my stepfather
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as soon as I gave it to him he would ask
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me to go
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outside because he had something private
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to discuss yes uh
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$25,000 then 3 weeks before the maharaji
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died they brought home
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$25,000 in cash borrowed from R's
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relatives she told us that this is what
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they had to pay to the gentleman so I
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asked her well why she said well don't
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ask me any questions by Monday you will
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know what it's all about but by Monday
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Rada was
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dead on the previous Friday she left
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home without explanation
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for her to actually go out alone is
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something very strange for me and for
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her to go out at night that is even more
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strange because she didn't ever go
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anywhere at
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Night
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Never 30 minutes later krishn doth drove
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off in the opposite direction presumably
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to meet the mysterious
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Man 2 hours later R's car coasted to a
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stop near a local Beach
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Beach her dress was soaked with seawater
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she was unconscious and near death but
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there were no outward signs of struggle
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or Foul
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Play 16 M away krishn doth was found
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Lying by the side of a beach front Road
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he was dressed only in a pair of shorts
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which were also soaked with
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seawater once again there were no signs
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of Foul
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Play the police told me that they
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believe that Mom tried to commit suicide
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probably because she and my stepfather
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had quarreled about something so very
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big that there was no way they could
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patch it up that is
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nonsense autopsies of the bodies
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revealed that they had both died from
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cyanide
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poisoning oddly another s Croy couple
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edel stridden and Carman Torres had
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recently died under similar
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circumstances etel and Carman had owned
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a small neighborhood
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bar like the maharaji they also took out
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a loan to expand their business
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$54,000 in
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cash come on honey we got to go at dusk
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etel and Carmen left their home in their
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pickup truck truck their daughter later
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recalled that her father had slipped a
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small bottle into his pocket before he
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left it was the last time she would see
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her parents
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alive Carmen Torres was discovered near
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death less than a half a mile from the
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spot where Raja Maharaj had been found
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she too would die on the way to the
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hospital etel stridden was found dead
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head in his truck on a nearby Beach both
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Carmen andel's clothes were also soaked
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with seawater and both had died of
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cyanic poisoning plus the $54,000 in
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cash was
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missing the four deaths were clearly
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related and were linked by investigators
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to yet another previous cyanide
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poisoning the first victim was
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38-year-old heg
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Caesar 2 years earlier another car
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another strange death a young girl on
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her way to school found he in his car
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that had apparently run off the
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road hey Mr your car he too had been
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poisoned by S it he appeared to be dead
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for several hours there was no
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indication of f play or any struggle and
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we later found out that he had made
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contact with an individual that might be
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involved in
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voodo what he said is that the men had
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told them that they were three large
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jars of coins buried on the property
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that we owned and that the coins were
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being guarded by Spirits ancient spirits
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and in order to get those coins they
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would have to get rid of the spirits I
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can't feel something Jumbo's presence
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really here I can't feel
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it there's a lot of gold on this land
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before his death heg apparently paid
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$100,000 in cash to obia man who claimed
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that he could remove the evil spirits
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all right don't worry about that I'll
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come up with the money when I found out
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about all the money he was borrowing and
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all the cash that he had taken out of
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our accounts and everything without even
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letting me know I really was very angry
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about it um and shocked overall just
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shocked that he would have taken it so
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far on the night he died police believe
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heg returned to the spot where the obam
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man had said a treasure of Priceless
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coins was buried the OB a man Scamp
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called for him to drink a potion that
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would drive away the spirits guarding
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the coins that potion turned out to be
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cyanite by the time hag's body was
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discovered the next day both the obia
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man and the
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$100,000 had vanished I knew that he was
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aware of OB and Voodoo I mean most
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people who live in the islands are I
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thought he was smart enough intelligent
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enough aware enough to know that you
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know it wasn't
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real we all five deaths the work of an
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obia man I have a poor son was the man
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who promised bury treasure to heg Caeser
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the same man who telephoned the maharaji
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25,000 you got to go was he also the man
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OS stridden and Kon Torres went to meet
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on the night they died the similarities
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in all three cases go far beyond mere
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coincidence it's very hard to understand
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why people would want to cheat and
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kill and if somebody doesn't find him
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then I don't believe that there is any
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justice in this
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world the man who has murdered five
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people on St Croy is believed to travel
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throughout the Caribbean and even into
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the United States He Speaks with a heavy
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French West Indian accent
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if you have any information about this
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case please log on to our website at
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uno.com
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next on the night her parents were
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murdered a teenage girl and her friend
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go Venita Oklahoma a small small rural
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town in Craig
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County Ashley Freeman turns sweet 16
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it's a night of celebration for her
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parents and for her best friend Laura
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Bible Laura she said to me Daddy is it
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all right if I spend the night with
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Ashley to the Freeman's home I said well
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said just make sure you're home by noon
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tomorrow and uh noon tomorrow didn't
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happen the way it should have
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sometime during the night the Freeman's
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home became an
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[Music]
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Inferno by the time Laura's parents
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arrived the fire is out but Ashley
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Freeman's home has been reduced to ashes
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there's a car Laura's car is still there
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but there is no sign of their daughter
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Jay and Loren vial fear the worst we did
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find one body but it's not Laura I the
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county coiner told me that there was
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only one body is all they found I said
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have they found any any anybody else and
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she said no we've looked but there's no
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other bodies there the body is Cathy
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Freeman the mother of Laura's best
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friend
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Ashley but where are Ashley her father
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Danny and Laura Bible we only had one
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body accounted for could find no others
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yet we had all the cars there at the
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house that was that was a little bit
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bizarre and no one could quite piece two
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and two together on that it didn't make
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any
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sense one person dead and three missing
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the case became even more baffling when
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the coroner determined that Kathy
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Freeman did not die in the fire but from
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a shotgun wound to the head and then the
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arson Squad concluded that the blaze was
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deliberately set
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Laura and Ashley had been best friends
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since kindergarten Laura and Ashley call
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each other at least once a week what one
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was thinking the other was thinking it's
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kind of like when two people one can
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finish the sentence when the other one
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starts
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one the day after the fire Laura's
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parents returned to the crime scene they
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had hoped to find a clue investigators
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missed oh no after only 5 minutes line
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come here
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quick it was more than a clue it was
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body burned almost beyond
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recognition but it wasn't Laura or
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Ashley it was an adult male he did not
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have anything from the upper teeth all
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the way to the top of his head was
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totally gone like he'd been shot in the
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face we just couldn't believe that they
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had overlooked a second body in this
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fire the body was identified as Danny
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Freeman Cathy's husband and like Kathy
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he had been shot at close range with a
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shotgun investigators reexamined the
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crime scene no other bodies were found
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but they did find one important clue
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Laura's purse Laura's purse honey in it
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were her driver's license and nearly
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$200 in
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cash why would Laura leave her purse
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unless she had been abducted I feel that
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somebody had went in there for whatever
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reason mured Denny and Kathy and took
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the
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girls the Craig County Sheriff's
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Department tried to piece together what
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happened the night of Ashley's
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birthday if it had been a robbery the
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purse would have been taken and if
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murder was the motive who had reason to
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kill Dany and Kathy Freeman Ashley's
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parents Dany himself may have had the
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answer which he revealed to his brother
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DNE listen
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Dwayne if anything should ever happen to
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me I want you to take a look at the
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Sheriff's
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Office Sheriff what he put his finger in
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my face and he said if anything ever
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happens to
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me look at the sheriff's department and
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he was serious he was in my face to
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drive it home with me for months it had
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been rumored that the Craig County
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Sheriff's Department was feuding with
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the Freemans it all began when Danny's
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son Shane was shot and killed by a
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deputy after he had stolen a truck and a
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neighbor's gun Shane's killing was ruled
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justifiable but the Freemans threatened
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to file a wrongful death lawsuit against
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the sheriff's
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department some say that the deputies
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started to intimidate the Freemans get
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out of the truck Danny what is this
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about this is about you looking all over
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town for he was basically told according
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to Danny that they could do anything
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they wanted to to him and his family and
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there wasn't a thing he could do about
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it you're taking yourself out of the
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investigation when Danny and Kathy
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Freeman were found dead the Craig County
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Sheriff's Department voluntarily turned
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the case over to the Oklahoma State
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Bureau of Investigation they also
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consented to polygraph
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tests then all cleared themselves as a
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result of those examinations the overall
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conclusion of our efforts was that the
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Sheriff's Office had nothing to do with
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the murder of Danny and Kathy and did
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not know the whereabouts of the two
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missing
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girls another possibility according to
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an informant Danny Freeman met with two
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unidentified men a couple of weeks
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before his murder one was clearly
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unwelcome what's he doing here we just
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got some things we want to talk about
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some people said that Danny was a
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smalltime drug trafficker him I'm not
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dealing with you while he's here so you
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can just take off Danny could a drug
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deal gone bad have resulted in a double
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murder if you wanted to consider that it
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was drug related and Nothing fits
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correctly the very last thing that the
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people who committed the murder would
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want to do would be abduct the
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children there is another possibility
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perhaps the most disturbing theory of
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all Ashley Freeman murdered her own
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parents and then fled with Laura there
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was a great deal of friction in the
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Freeman household Danny and his daughter
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did not get along well and all Haden for
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some time that's something we can't
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Overlook I find it difficult to believe
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that the girls by themselves could hide
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out that long and not be
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found Jay and Loren Bible were left with
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only unanswered questions where were
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Laura and Ashley and why had they left
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we have come to the conclusion that
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Laura is in the wrong place at the wrong
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time I do feel that she's still alive
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but whether she's alive or dead I want
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to know you know we love her dearly and
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wish we could have her back wish we
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could have both the girls back cuz at
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this point I take and raise them both
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and never let them
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go update there are new developments in
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this case here's one of our staff with
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details thanks to tips from Witnesses
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three suspects had been identified in
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the murders of Dany and Kathy Freeman
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and the kidnapping murders of Ashley
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Freeman and Laura Bible several
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witnesses claim that three men Ronnie
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Dean buk Warren Welch and David
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Pennington allegedly bragged about
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raping and murdering the two girls after
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holding them captive in Welch's trailer
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for 3 Days Ronnie Dean buk was charged
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with four counts of first-degree murder
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buk met with family members but was not
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helpful in locating the girls remains it
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has been claimed that the girl's bodies
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were hidden in a nearby mind shaft but
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they have never been found fusk pleaded
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guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in
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prison next the story of a clever and
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slippery kman who eludes authorties over
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and over
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[Music]
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again the Hawaiian island of Maui a man
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arrives at a local bank and introduces
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himself as Papito Deion I've been name
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representative to my aunt's estate and
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what I like to do is take the funds from
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her account and open up a new account in
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addition to the $52,000 from her account
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i' like to deposit this check also do
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you have some
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identification and also there was
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something about the smooth talking
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customer that made the bank manager
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suspicious if you could come back in an
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hour we'll be all ready for you to go
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when you come back okay great I guess
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I'll see you in around an hour yes
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an hour later the man returned as
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scheduled are you Pito deay that's me
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you believe this check is a forgery
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you're under he's arrested on suspicion
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of
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forgery at first Maui police have no
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idea who they have in custody the
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suspect carries 15 identification cards
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each with a different
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Alias but eventually their prisoner is
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identified as The elusive con man known
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as Todd
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Mueller Todd Mueller specialized in
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forging court documents he used them to
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steal money from the Estates of people
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who had recently died Mueller was also
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something of a practical joker he
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enjoyed taunting anyone who tried to
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keep Todd Mueller Behind
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Bars Honolulu Hawaii hello my name is
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Clara hi Clara how are you I'm Arthur IA
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only a few months after his arrest in
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Maui Todd Mueller was out on bail and
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back on the scam this time he was
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calling himself Arthur
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Iona we think Todd Mueller looked in a
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newspaper from there he would get names
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of deceased persons their accounts being
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in Probate Court he would then go over
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to the coping machines located right in
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circuit court and he would make up
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letters of administration naming him the
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trustee for the
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account I've been a personal
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representative to the the estate of
00:22:28
George mlin and what I'd like to do is
00:22:31
take the funds from this account and
00:22:32
open a checking account in my name may I
00:22:34
see some ID
00:22:36
absolutely 3 days after he opened the
00:22:38
account rer returned to the bank in
00:22:40
Honolulu and withdrew More Than
00:22:44
$31,000 This instantly aroused the
00:22:47
suspicions of the bank manager who acted
00:22:50
quickly she called me to tell me that
00:22:52
she thought these probate documents were
00:22:55
false she described the individual to me
00:22:57
I immediately thought Todd
00:23:00
Mueller Todd Mueller detective thego
00:23:03
finally me hi you're under arrest for
00:23:05
forgery chance be on your back after the
00:23:08
arrest detective nobriga went to the
00:23:10
home address that Mueller had given him
00:23:13
once he was sure that Mueller lived
00:23:15
there noga left to get a search Point
00:23:19
meanwhile Todd Mueller posted bail and
00:23:22
was gone but not out of touch Todd
00:23:26
Mueller calls me in my office he tells
00:23:28
me you don't have to make any search
00:23:30
warrants just come over to my house and
00:23:32
I'll let you look
00:23:34
around but Todd Mueller had cleared out
00:23:37
of his house I just kind of smiled and
00:23:39
thought well he's leading me on a wild
00:23:42
goose
00:23:43
chase and where was Todd
00:23:46
Mueller living it up 5,000 m away in an
00:23:50
exclusive Hotel in Chicago hi it it's
00:23:54
1720 want a paper tonight tomorrow I'm
00:23:57
not sure when not be checking out Mr
00:23:59
Mueller we became suspicious of Mr
00:24:02
Mueller he had very suspicious looking
00:24:04
people coming to the hotel and he was uh
00:24:08
giving large sums of money uh to them
00:24:11
and I informed the front office manager
00:24:13
that we should not extend this day the
00:24:15
hotel's booked that's
00:24:18
correct are you sure there isn't some
00:24:20
mistake I've been here all week I'm
00:24:21
afraid not Mueller however wasn't quite
00:24:25
ready to leave he simply called the
00:24:27
hotel's reservation service and booked
00:24:30
another room across the hall that irked
00:24:34
me to say the least and at that point
00:24:37
that's when I felt that we should take
00:24:38
some sort of
00:24:40
action Pat amiano searched Mueller's
00:24:43
vacated room he found several discarded
00:24:46
checks which later proved to be
00:24:48
forgeries amiano also discovered that
00:24:51
Mueller had placed several calls to
00:24:53
Honolulu
00:24:55
Hawaii he called one of the phone
00:24:57
numbers and it happened to be my office
00:24:59
I think he just has this pension for uh
00:25:02
making everyone chase him around you
00:25:05
know Pat Amano called the police when
00:25:08
they arrived Mueller wasn't around but
00:25:11
his cmate from Hawaii Roy Hartsock was
00:25:15
authorities discovered that heart Sox's
00:25:18
release documents had been forged by
00:25:21
Todd mure you have any identification
00:25:25
yeah Todd Muer
00:25:28
Chicago ped and you're under arrest once
00:25:31
again Mueller was in custody but this
00:25:33
time there would be no bail you have the
00:25:36
right to remain silent anything you say
00:25:38
tad was praed around town prior to his
00:25:40
arrest pretending to be someone other
00:25:42
than what he was committed several
00:25:43
burglaries stole meil opened bank
00:25:46
accounts and attempted to withdraw a sum
00:25:48
of $24,000 from one
00:25:50
account Roy Hartsock was returned to
00:25:53
Hawaii to complete his sentence Todd
00:25:56
Mueller was booked on charges of forgery
00:25:59
fraud and robbery he was held in the
00:26:01
Cook County Jail pending
00:26:04
trial but Mueller had one more trick up
00:26:07
his sleeve after 6 months behind bars he
00:26:10
told guards that he had swallowed a
00:26:13
razor blade he was immediately rushed to
00:26:16
an emergency room Mueller was handcuffed
00:26:19
to his hospital bed a guard was posted
00:26:22
outside the door but it didn't do a bit
00:26:25
of good authorities still and explain
00:26:29
how Mueller got away I don't
00:26:32
particularly enjoy what he's doing but I
00:26:34
just think what he's doing is silly you
00:26:36
eventually he's going to get
00:26:39
caught
00:26:41
update as predicted Todd Mueller was
00:26:44
caught again this time in New Jersey and
00:26:48
now he was using his real name David
00:26:51
Livingston Livingston Alias Mueller
00:26:54
Alias Pepito Deion Alias Arthur IA was
00:26:59
tried and convicted of wire fraud he was
00:27:02
sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in
00:27:08
prison coming up a man's Vivid dream of
00:27:11
being in prison by enemy soldiers comes
00:27:14
true for one of his best
00:27:20
[Music]
00:27:24
friends on a previous broadcast we
00:27:27
featured a murder in Athens Georgia
00:27:30
during the early morning hours a
00:27:32
stranger entered the home of a
00:27:34
restaurant owner named TK hardy hardy
00:27:38
was apparently the victim of a contract
00:27:41
hit the prime suspect in the case was
00:27:44
John money a rival restaurant owner who
00:27:47
had a long running Feud with Hardy have
00:27:50
you all
00:27:52
decided police learned that a man named
00:27:55
Elmo Florence had bragged about killing
00:27:57
TK hard
00:27:58
you're a what I'm a hit man yeah and
00:28:01
said John money paid him to do it Elmo
00:28:05
Florence was convicted of first-degree
00:28:08
murder John Mooney was also convicted of
00:28:11
first-degree murder and was sentenced to
00:28:13
life in a Maximum Security
00:28:16
Prison but 3 months later he was
00:28:19
transferred to a minimum security
00:28:21
facility and
00:28:25
escaped
00:28:26
update Scot Dale Arizona within minutes
00:28:30
of our broadcast two viewers called us
00:28:33
to report that John Mooney was living in
00:28:35
this house under the assumed name Robert
00:28:39
J
00:28:40
Kelly John money Alias Robert Kelly was
00:28:43
arrested at his home by the Mesa Police
00:28:46
he had been working as an accountant for
00:28:48
several companies in the Scottsdale
00:28:51
area over 9 years after he escaped John
00:28:54
money was returned to Georgia
00:28:58
he served his time and has been
00:29:05
released at one time or another most of
00:29:08
us have had a dream so intense so vivid
00:29:12
that we felt it had to be real few
00:29:15
though have ever discovered that the
00:29:17
dream actually was real even fewer have
00:29:21
had the spying tingling experience of
00:29:23
the man you're about to meet
00:29:29
Kuwait the Middle
00:29:34
East January
00:29:36
1991 desert
00:29:40
stor the conflict was instantly seen on
00:29:43
television sets around the world I would
00:29:46
like to see a peaceful solution to this
00:29:48
question I think Saddam Hussein should
00:29:51
fully Joe O'Brien of Crestline
00:29:53
California watched with special
00:29:57
interest one of the Kuwaiti jet Pilots
00:29:59
fighting with the Allied Forces was his
00:30:01
longtime friend Muhammad Mubarak
00:30:04
nicknamed Sammy they had met 16 years
00:30:08
before when Samy was in the United
00:30:10
States on a training Mission they had
00:30:13
been friends ever
00:30:15
since during the hours of Darkness
00:30:17
Baghdad was bombed by Allied war planes
00:30:20
wait hold on Joe had no doubt that Samy
00:30:23
would be in the middle of the fighting
00:30:25
I'm going to have to call you back but
00:30:27
he was stunned to see his friend's face
00:30:29
right there on television the Iraqis had
00:30:33
shot down Samy's plane and taken him
00:30:35
prisoner it was like my blood turned
00:30:38
lead I think my biggest concern when he
00:30:40
was shot down was that Saddam Hussein
00:30:42
would make an example out of him Iraq's
00:30:45
issue is with Kuwait so we have a
00:30:46
Kuwaiti pilot uh we will if they were to
00:30:49
torture or kill him uh uh that was my
00:30:53
main
00:30:55
concern that night Joe had a bizarre our
00:31:04
dream in my dream I was very much aware
00:31:07
that I was Sammy I was in his cell and I
00:31:10
was seeing things through his
00:31:11
eyes and it was a fairly small cell with
00:31:14
a high ceiling the floor was very cold I
00:31:18
noticed the color was almost like a dark
00:31:20
flat
00:31:22
porcelain uh it had on a maroon took on
00:31:25
a maroon or purplish color when the
00:31:27
light was was on I remember being very
00:31:29
uncomfortable but the pain I had in my
00:31:32
hands almost overrode everything else
00:31:34
about my captivity it was so painful my
00:31:37
hands were on
00:31:38
fire in his dream Joe had a powerful
00:31:41
feeling about what seemed to be an
00:31:44
ordinary striped
00:31:46
blanket I was very happy to have it I
00:31:48
remember studying the material and the
00:31:50
design and it was shortly after that
00:31:52
when I woke up in a cold sweat I've
00:31:55
never had a dream like that and I've
00:31:56
never woken up like that before and I I
00:32:00
immediately got out of bed it was about
00:32:02
6:00 and I went right into the bathroom
00:32:05
to run some water on my wrists which
00:32:07
were very very
00:32:08
[Music]
00:32:10
sore that morning Joe met a friend John
00:32:13
goth for breakfast Hey Joe how's it
00:32:16
going okay how are you all right big
00:32:19
night yeah I'm
00:32:20
sure when he showed up I noticed that
00:32:23
his hands were kind of red and he had a
00:32:25
tough time picking his coffee cup up and
00:32:27
he said the the darnest thing happened
00:32:29
to me last night I I had this strange
00:32:31
dream and in the process of my dream um
00:32:34
my hand started hurting and so then he
00:32:36
told me about the dream your friend is a
00:32:38
qu pilot yeah yeah I dreamed I was him
00:32:42
in his cell Joe Brian is not a person to
00:32:45
just fabricate stories and when he told
00:32:47
me about this story I really did think
00:32:49
that it was something really unusual he
00:32:51
explained in detail about a prisoner of
00:32:54
war and the pain of his hands didn't go
00:32:56
away for 5 days
00:32:58
you know someone's captive you're going
00:32:59
to picture a cell but why the pain and
00:33:02
why in my wrists uh you know I I've I
00:33:06
used to be a Mason I have strong hands
00:33:08
I've never had problems with my hands
00:33:09
and here I can't even hold a coffee
00:33:12
cup 42 days after the War Began Iraq
00:33:17
surrendered Saddam Hussein agreed to a
00:33:20
ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners
00:33:23
Joe again saw Samy's face on television
00:33:27
when I saw Sammy actually being released
00:33:30
I couldn't believe it I was just so
00:33:31
happy I called him that night he was in
00:33:33
the hospital and had a wonderful
00:33:35
conversation with him and I was very
00:33:36
happy it was a it was a a good
00:33:41
day
00:33:43
my the following Christmas they
00:33:45
celebrated Sammy and his sister visited
00:33:49
Joe in California for a reunion that
00:33:52
night Joel told Sammy about his dream I
00:33:56
dreamed that I was in a Cell it was a
00:33:59
dark black and burgundy tile with this
00:34:01
little window way up high Sammy was
00:34:06
stunned Joe's words took him back back
00:34:10
to the horror of captivity when the
00:34:13
Iraqis were taking Sammy to a p camp he
00:34:16
had been handcuffed so tightly that his
00:34:19
wrists were cut and
00:34:21
bleeding the pain I hardly can move my
00:34:24
rest around I had the handcuffs for five
00:34:29
long days you know very tight and really
00:34:32
hurting my rest
00:34:34
badly and I had this beige and green
00:34:37
striped cloth which was really important
00:34:40
to
00:34:40
me the detail was astonishing Joe was
00:34:44
describing Samy's blanket the only
00:34:47
comfort he had I very cold so I usually
00:34:51
just have the blanket around me because
00:34:53
it was keeping me warm you've described
00:34:56
my exactly Joe and Sammy compared notes
00:35:00
for hours even the that was my I was
00:35:03
totally amazed surprised his dream
00:35:06
matched the cell and the reality uh
00:35:10
almost let me say 100% you know
00:35:13
100% the feeling the description the
00:35:15
colors how I
00:35:17
felt uh
00:35:20
everything maybe Joe's dream was just an
00:35:22
ear coincidence or maybe some dreams are
00:35:26
real in ways that we don't understand or
00:35:30
perhaps Joe's dream is proof that
00:35:32
friendship transcends the limits of time
00:35:35
distance or
00:35:38
dimension for more than 3 years he was a
00:35:41
man without a past caught in the
00:35:44
unforgiving grip of Amnesia would he
00:35:47
ever find his true identity
00:36:03
imagine you are awakened by a stranger
00:36:05
on a distant roadside you have no idea
00:36:08
who you are where you are or how you got
00:36:12
there you're right man Chris Chris sound
00:36:17
like you know your
00:36:18
name he asked me who I was and what I
00:36:22
was doing here and I didn't have a clue
00:36:25
everything was blank from the moment I
00:36:28
saw his face and that was really scary
00:36:32
here let's lean you up against my pack
00:36:34
buddy come on I had a bunch of lumps on
00:36:36
the back of my head and there were
00:36:38
bruises inside my elbows like somebody
00:36:42
tied me
00:36:43
up what happened I don't know when I was
00:36:46
awake enough he told me that I'd been
00:36:49
saying three names Pat and Chris and
00:36:52
Joel and
00:36:55
uh that's how I got my name
00:36:59
basically he picked the name Pat and got
00:37:02
cleaned up at a local shelter then he
00:37:05
went to the police yes sir may help you
00:37:07
well I sure hope so uh I think I've been
00:37:09
hit on the back of the head I've got a
00:37:11
couple of big bumps back there but the
00:37:12
thing is I don't remember anything about
00:37:15
my life I don't remember my name or
00:37:16
anything do you have any identification
00:37:18
on you or no with your picture when I
00:37:20
woke up all I had was this comb in 23
00:37:23
cents okay a closer look revealed that
00:37:26
Pat had a callus on his ring finger
00:37:29
perhaps he had once worn a wedding band
00:37:32
can I get you to step around the corner
00:37:33
here please they took my fingerprints
00:37:36
but they didn't find anything evidently
00:37:39
I not wanted for anything and I didn't
00:37:42
match any missing person's descriptions
00:37:45
but I didn't have any more clues as to
00:37:48
who I was it's the worst case of Amnesia
00:37:51
I've ever seen by far we're not sure the
00:37:54
cause of his Amnesia he tells us that he
00:37:56
suffered an injury to the head and that
00:37:59
his memory for all events in his life
00:38:01
prior to that head injury are
00:38:04
gone Pat didn't know who he was but he
00:38:08
knew that he had to take care of himself
00:38:10
without identification he couldn't get a
00:38:12
job in Cheyenne so he set out for
00:38:15
Jackson Hull 450 Mi
00:38:19
away he had heard about work there that
00:38:22
did not require
00:38:26
ID Pat landed a job at a local newspaper
00:38:29
but even as he began a new life pieces
00:38:32
of his old life started to
00:38:34
surface one day out of the blue he
00:38:37
remembered a date December 31st
00:38:41
1949 could it be his birthday he called
00:38:45
Social Security but got nothing uh the
00:38:48
name I'm using is Pat Brown there is a
00:38:51
sadness about Pat there's something
00:38:53
missing and I know he feels it it's a
00:38:56
void it's a darkness that he can't see
00:38:58
through and I feel for
00:39:02
him gradually other cryptic Clues began
00:39:05
to
00:39:06
emerge one day at work I was adding up
00:39:09
the figures on one of the monthly
00:39:11
reports and somebody said how do you do
00:39:14
that I do what how can you run an adding
00:39:17
machine without looking at the
00:39:20
keys I don't know it it just just
00:39:26
does when Pat saw a movie that was set
00:39:28
in the city of
00:39:30
Chicago he was sure that he had been
00:39:33
there before all already I'll need to
00:39:34
see a picture ID please okay but without
00:39:38
a passport or driver's license Pat
00:39:41
wasn't allowed to board the plane not
00:39:43
being able to fly to Chicago was really
00:39:46
disappointing because that was a clue to
00:39:48
my past and I don't know of any other
00:39:52
quick way to get there Pat's true
00:39:56
identity remains a mystery but another
00:39:59
clue emerged a reoccurring dream might
00:40:02
be the key to the life he had
00:40:06
lost I'm in a shower it's like a
00:40:09
campground shower the little boy comes
00:40:11
running up and says Dad Dad Mom and
00:40:16
Chris need you I think Chris is hurt I
00:40:20
tell him okay Joel I'll dry off and be
00:40:23
right there and that's when I wake up
00:40:26
and it comes so often that I'm pretty
00:40:29
sure it's a memory and not just a
00:40:31
dream Chris and Joel were the names Pat
00:40:35
kept repeating when he was found by The
00:40:38
Hitcher I'm pretty sure I have a family
00:40:40
out there and I hope they love me and
00:40:43
miss me and want to see me back CU I I
00:40:46
know I i' love them of necessity I've
00:40:50
basically started over from scratch I
00:40:53
came to with 23 cents in a comb and now
00:40:56
I've got a little bank account and the
00:40:59
only thing that's really missing is is a
00:41:02
past and and the family I think I
00:41:06
had
00:41:09
update on the night of our broadcast we
00:41:11
learned that the man who had no name or
00:41:14
past turned out to have a family they
00:41:18
called Unsolved Mysteries and said Pat's
00:41:20
real name is Carl
00:41:22
brnik his wife and sons immediately flew
00:41:26
from Indianapolis for their long awaited
00:41:28
reunion do you know
00:41:30
me do
00:41:34
you but also waiting for Broadneck was a
00:41:37
warrant for his arrest after the reunion
00:41:41
he flew home to Indiana with his family
00:41:43
to face embezzlement
00:41:46
[Music]
00:41:48
charges Carol Broadneck was sentenced to
00:41:51
100 days home detention and 200 hours of
00:41:54
community service in addition he he was
00:41:57
required to repay the company for the
00:41:59
money he embezzled Carl has served his
00:42:02
time and has paid his
00:42:04
debt if you have any information on any
00:42:07
of the other cases featured on the
00:42:09
program log on to unsolved.com

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Episode Highlights

  • The Dark Side of Paradise
    In the US Virgin Islands, five cyanide poisoning victims raise suspicions of voodoo-related murders.
    “Even Paradise can have a dark side.”
    @ 01m 39s
    July 26, 2021
  • The Mysterious Disappearance
    On the night of Ashley Freeman's birthday, a fire leads to the discovery of her parents' bodies, but Ashley and her friend Laura are missing.
    “One person dead and three missing.”
    @ 13m 38s
    July 26, 2021
  • Unanswered Questions
    The investigation into the Freeman case reveals tensions with local law enforcement and unsettling theories about the girls' disappearance.
    “I do feel that she’s still alive.”
    @ 18m 51s
    July 26, 2021
  • Todd Mueller's Arrest
    Todd Mueller was arrested again, this time with no bail after multiple crimes.
    “You have the right to remain silent.”
    @ 25m 36s
    July 26, 2021
  • Joe's Vivid Dream
    Joe O'Brien dreams he is in captivity, feeling pain that matches his friend's experience.
    “I dreamed I was him in his cell.”
    @ 32m 42s
    July 26, 2021
  • Pat's Identity Revealed
    Pat, who suffered from amnesia, learns his true identity as Carl Brdnik after a family reunion.
    “Pat's real name is Carl Brdnik.”
    @ 41m 20s
    July 26, 2021

Episode Quotes

  • Even Paradise can have a dark side.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • It’s very hard to understand why people would want to cheat and kill.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • I do feel that she’s still alive.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • I think what he's doing is silly.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • I've never had a dream like that before.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • I hope they love me and miss me.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Dark Side of Paradise01:39
  • Mysterious Disappearance13:38
  • Unanswered Questions18:51
  • Arrest in Hawaii24:53
  • Forged Documents25:15
  • Custody Again25:31
  • Dream of Captivity31:04
  • Family Reunion41:26

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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 3, Episode 11
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 2
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 2
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 2
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 2
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 1 - Full Episode
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 1, Episode 1 - Full Episode
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 9
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 9
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 13
March 09, 2017
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 13
Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode
July 26, 2021
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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 1 - Updated Full Episode