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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 tonight a special edition of
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unsolved mysteries at a truck stop in
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Oklahoma two hitchhikers unnerved by a
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man with whom they were traveling tried
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to report his strange behavior a few
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days later authorities discovered that
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the man's pickup truck was a stolen
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vehicle the hitchhiker's had unknowingly
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grabbed a ride with a murder suspect
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in Naperville Illinois a ten-year-old
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girl was abducted from her home and
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later brutally murdered two men were
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convicted of the crime and one of them
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Rolando Cruz is scheduled to be executed
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on March 22nd but in this most
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controversial case another man has
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confessed that he alone killed the girl
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and some of the evidence supports his
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claim in Canada they are known as The
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Lost Generation thousands of Native
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American children ripped away from their
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families and their ancestral homes to be
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put up for adoption
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tonight you may be able to help to
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families and years of painful forced
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separation
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join me another edition unsolved
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mysteries
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February 25th 1983 in Naperville
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Illinois Chicago suburb Krishna
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Carriacou and her friends came home from
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school to a nightmarish discovery
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someone had broken into the house and
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her little sister Jeanine was missing
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the police were called immediately they
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found that the front door had been
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locked in a visible footprint remained
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on the door and two more prints were
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found in the yard a sheet and a blanket
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were missing from one of the beds it
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appeared to me and I'm sure a couple
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other guys too it was like it was a
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burglary maybe that went bad she wasn't
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supposed to be home somebody kicks in
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the door next thing you know she's home
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and they take her
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two days later the young girl's body was
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discovered in the Illinois Prairie path
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apart less than two miles from her home
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10 year-old Jeanine Nicarico had been
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brutally raped and beaten to death today
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two men are in prison for the murder of
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Jeanine Nicarico one facing execution
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next March 22nd both claim they are
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innocent but there's a third man who
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says he is the killer that he acted
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alone
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the prosecutors call him a liar but so
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far three high-level law enforcement
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officials that quit their jobs to
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protest the handling of the case they
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believe it the man currently scheduled
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to die in five weeks is innocent in
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early 1983 an offer of a $10,000 reward
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led investigators to a man named Alex
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Hernandez Hernandez had a reputation for
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trying to impress people and told police
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he'd been driving around drinking with
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several men who had talked about a
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murder well Rick was talking to the guys
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through a passion that could buy all
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around okay and talking to me and he
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said something about busting a million's
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no I don't know his last name
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Hernandez had an IQ of 76 and was known
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around his neighborhood as crazy items
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his criminal record listed only one
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previous arrest for misdemeanor theft
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Hernandez name names but only one
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provided a possible link to the murder
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Steve Buckley owned a pair of boots a
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closely approximated the boot print
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found on the front door of the nikeyra
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Co home Buckley became a suspect police
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began to think Alex Hernandez knew more
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than he was telling you know somebody
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who told us about sitting in a car we
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figured maybe now he's just trying to
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shift the guilt away from other you know
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from himself and maybe he's involved so
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he was a prime suspect so to see what we
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could find out we arranged for him to
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sit down with a person that he would
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know of who was a burglar out of Aurora
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at least put Hernandez in a room with a
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man he knew from his neighborhood
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nicknamed penguin penguin was told to
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pretend he knew who had murdered another
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child police got Hernandez to cooperate
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by telling him he was a junior deputy
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who would get ten thousand dollars and
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reward money if he convinced penguin oh
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to talk Tech t'v listened in the hallway
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outside we figured that would it be a
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perfect way if he knew anything
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hopefully I was is to get out some
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information and he was holding back
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hopefully he would talk easier to his
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peer somebody that he knew the meeting
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conducted partly in Spanish turned into
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a boasting contest and we don't claim he
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knew about the murder of a young boy
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Hernandez claimed he knew about the
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Nicarico murder
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Hernandez even bragged he could show
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police the crime scene he said I was
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there I didn't kill her but I held her
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dies police would later drive throughout
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Naperville with Hernandez hoping he
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could identify the nikeyra Co home or
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the crime scene if we didn't run out of
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gas we'd price still be riding we never
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found anything he never could take us
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anyplace he rode around and rode around
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looking at houses and places that he
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hoped would be it I think but he never
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could take us to that place
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well I don't cruise yeah police I'd ask
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a couple questions I do nothing
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regardless police followed the other
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leads Hernandez had given one led to a
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man named Rolando Cruz Cruz was 19 years
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old unemployed and surviving on $75 a
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month in food stamps he had been
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arrested on two occasions once for
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trespassing once for theft Alex
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Hernandez I know me but I don't think I
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was a man yeah it was less time so and
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they asked me about aliens I told that
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and you would he look like his name but
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I didn't know him the Pacific cleared
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him around with the money thing like
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that oh we have reason to suspect that
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Alex was involved in the caracal murder
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never heard of it
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so you don't know about the reward I
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know about a reward neither you hear
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about the reward I hear about none
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neither
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no tempted by the reward money both
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Rolando Cruz and Alex Hernandez began to
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feed police a series of titbits on the
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murder of Jeanine Nicarico in the
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process they implicated themselves one
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year passed from the date of Janine's
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death there's no the investigation was
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going nowhere there was an election that
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was coming up and I just believed that
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the police took whoever was convenient
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and whatever evidence no matter how
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implausible it was no matter how weak it
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was and said let's bring a criminal
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prosecution against these people on
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March 8th 1984 a grand jury indicted
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Hernandez Cruz and Steve Buckley on 36
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counts including murder rape and deviant
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sexual assault
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once the indictments were handed in John
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Sam expected the defendants to roll on
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each other
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to his surprise it didn't happen
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it was kind of like the air was out of
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the balloon and I mean that was it it
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was like we threw our last trump card
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hoping that something was going to come
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from it it never did
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it felt like right then and there is
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time to go on and find someone else you
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know kind of like in at that point put
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it in my mind if these guys just weren't
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involved despite resistance from his
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superiors Sam continued investigating on
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his own finally in December of 1984 one
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month before the three men went on trial
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Sam handed in his resignation cleaned
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out his desk the real killer was still
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out there in my opinion and we the
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police weren't looking for him if we
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weren't looking for him that meant
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nobody was looking for him and therefore
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he was still out there and he could
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either kill again or he just gets away
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with it and that to me was the worst
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part of this whole thing
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in January of 1985 Alex Fernandez and
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Rolando Cruz were convicted - Jeanine
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Nicarico murder Steve Buckley's trial
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ended in a hung jury and the prosecution
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would eventually decide not to retry him
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Alex Hernandez an alum dope crews were
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sentenced to die for the murder of
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ten-year-old Jeanine Nicarico
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six months later police found the body
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of seven year old Melissa Ackerman in a
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drainage ditch the Kane County Illinois
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right next to the Paige County like
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Jeanine she had been abducted and raped
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five days after Melissa was found dead a
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man under arrest for three other sexual
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assaults was charged with her murder his
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name was Brian Dugan the arrest of Brian
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Dugan soon cast considerable doubt on
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the convictions of Rolando Cruz now Alex
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Hernandez Dugan wanted to cut a deal
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that refused to formally confess with
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our guaranteed immunity from the death
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penalty however to his attorney he
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admitted raping and killing three people
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Melissa Ackerman a 27 year old nurse
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named Donna Schnoor and Jeanine Nicarico
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how did you leave the body
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in other words like what position all
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right
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Dogen refused to talk directly to the
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authorities commander EDA sonski of the
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Illinois State Police came up with a
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list of questions about the 'no caracal
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case and gave them the Duggan's attorney
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Hey
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got a couple of questions what kind of a
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car were you driving on February 25th of
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83
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an 83 I was driving a green Volare green
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yeah according to Bugan on the day
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Jeanine Nicarico was murdered he did not
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go to work
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his employer confirmed his absence Dugan
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said he prowled through Naperville
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smoking marijuana sometime in the early
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afternoon he knocked on the front door
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than the caracal home I need to borrow a
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screwdriver try next door okay
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the in point after point
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Dugan's description matches the evidence
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Dugan claimed that he bound and gagged
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Janine
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he described the sheet in which he
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wrapped her remembered he had taken time
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to wipe his fingerprints from the
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doorknob he also said he was wearing the
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same brand of boots that matched the
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print found on the mckarrick o door
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bucum described driving Janine to the
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Illinois Prairie path there he claimed
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he raped her beat her with a tire iron
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and left her Dugan story also lashed the
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testimony of two tollway workers who had
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reported seeing a white man driving a
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green car on the day of the murder Dugan
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remembered seeing the men and said that
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as he drove out of the park he almost
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got stuck try to turn around his car had
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tires that were consistent with a tire
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prints left at the crime scene you think
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Heath gone he said I did it and here is
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how I did it and here are the details of
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what I did and he said it in such a way
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as to permit the Illinois State Police
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to corroborate each and every of the 50
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or so details he gave to Commander
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Suzuki and prove that he and he alone
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did the crime a polygraph test given by
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the Illinois State Police indicated that
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Dugan was telling the truth
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nevertheless the page County prosecutors
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never charged him with janean's murder
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and never offered him a plea bargain
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this case is like a runaway train in the
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sense that the prosecutors convicted two
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men and yet refused in light of
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overwhelming evidence which showed that
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they had made a mistake to admit that
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mistake
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then in January of 1988 the Supreme
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Court ruled that Cruz and Hernandez
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should not have been tried together and
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ordered new separate trials for each two
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years later on January 11th 1990 Rolando
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Cruz went on trial for the second time
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the defense intended to prove that Brian
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Dugan alone was responsible for janean's
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murder the prosecution on the other hand
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theorized that if Dugan had murdered
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Jeanine Cruz and Hernandez were his
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accomplices officer wilcos did you have
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occasion to they present a testimony
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from a police officer who said that
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Cruz's cousin Herman Rodriguez and told
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him she had seen Dugan and Cruz together
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on Rodriguez took the stairs
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commander sasaki without direct
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testimony from Dugan the defense had to
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rely on what state police commander
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Sasaki has learned about Logan's
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background and criminal MO would you
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tell the ladies and gentlemen of this
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jury what you learned about Brian
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Dugan's background the prosecution
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however objected and the judge did not
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allow the line of questioning objection
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sustained
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commander it was utterly frustrating the
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jury was not permitted to hear much of
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this statements made by Dugan confessing
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the crime of his sole and exclusive
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participation in the death of Jeanine
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Nicarico mr. Stonehouse told you that as
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he processed the out information the
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prosecution argued that the footprints
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found outside the Nicarico home proved
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several people's not just Dugan and/or
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involved with Jennings murders he found
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two different distinct shoe impressions
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they argued that because there were two
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footprints underneath a dining room
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window and because there was a boot
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print on the front door and because the
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boot print on the front door was
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different from the two footprints by the
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window that therefore Dugan was a liar
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when he said he committed the
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alone they said to our jury there are
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three different sets of footprints it
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must have been three different people
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involved in the crime several months
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later a crucial footprint evidence was
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found to be bogus two of the prints were
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in fact a woman's size five and a half
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or six but the jury never heard this the
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de Paige County prosecutors say that
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they were unaware of the discrepancy the
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defense attorneys disagree the entire
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theory of the prosecution's case was
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that there were multiple intruders in
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order to prove that there were multiple
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intruders they had a show that there
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were footprints around the perimeter of
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the house that belonged to the two other
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people and they knew they knew that this
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wasn't a male's shoe and they didn't
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tell us they knew that Rolando and Alex
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and Stephen Buckley couldn't have made
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those footprints and they lied about it
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now that's misconduct and you shouldn't
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be afraid of the word prosecutorial
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misconduct you should point your finger
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and say you were wrong the jury finds
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the defendant Rolando Cruz guilty of the
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offense of aggravated kidnapping on
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February 1st 1990 the jury returned its
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verdict of rape the jury finds the
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defendant Rolando Cruz guilty of the
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offense of murder
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I couldn't understand it I couldn't
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understand how anybody could have said
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guilty again first reaction was to look
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back behind me where my mother my sister
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sitting and to make sure that they were
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okay and
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you know Chris my main concerns my
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family so I'll affect them and I just
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thought as well
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it's gotta keep fighting these people I
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mean I can't give up and after all these
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years you don't give up the jury finds
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the defendant Alejandro hernández guilty
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of the second trial of Alex Hernandez
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ended in a hung jury the jury at his
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third trial Hernandez was once again
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found guilty of murder and kidnapping he
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was sentenced to 80 years in prison his
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conviction and sentence are currently
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under appeal Rolando Cruz remains on
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death row awaiting execution how can you
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sit there and say we're gonna execute
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you and though this other person
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confessed we think he's lying personally
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so we're not putting - understand well
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it's not my understanding is it's not
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for the state to decide whether I'm
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guilty for a jury
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so what do mean I understand let the
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jury hear what Duggan's got to say let
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him either be totally discredited or let
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us prove sound truth and let the jury
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determine
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what about communism John Sam is not the
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only person to quit in protest over the
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handling of Janina Caracol murder
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investigation philip gilman director the
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DES Page County Crime Lab also left his
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job in June of 1992 Assistant Attorney
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General Mary Brigid Kent turned in her
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letter of resignation saying I have come
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to believe Rolando Cruz is not guilty I
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do not want to be party to the execution
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of an innocent man Rolando Cruz is
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scheduled to die by lethal injection in
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just over a month on March 22nd 1993
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recently we featured a story that began
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in Madisonville Tennessee during the
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Great Depression in the spring of 1939
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Tom Underwood an out-of-work single
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father left his two young daughters
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Madeline an ADA and woodcare of a kindly
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farmer named Charlie best times were
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hard but he was willing to take them and
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and give my home and and give him what
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we had to eat it might not been
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everything but we never did go hungry
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Thank You muse name Amen
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Madeline and ADA were immediately
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accepted as part of the family
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Charlie treated them as if they were his
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own chore
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over the next two years
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Tom Underwood visited his daughters on
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several occasions then in the spring of
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1941 he returned to the farmhouse for
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the final time Zella may I come for the
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tour it's coming on nightfall and I need
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to be on the road before dark if you'll
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just pack some things for that afternoon
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Tom Underwood left with his daughters
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the best family never saw Madeline or
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ADA again at the time we filmed the
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story Charlie best was 96 years old
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although we had not seen Madeline or ADA
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in more than 50 years
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they were never far from his thoughts he
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don't look at him as being women he
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calls him two little girls this day
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other day he said have you heard any
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more about two little girls and I said
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no daddy but they're coming they're
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coming
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the night this story aired ADA Underwood
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now 59 years old was watching our
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broadcast at her home in Indiana EDA was
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shocked to see herself and her older
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sister Madeleine profiled sadly
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Madeleine passed away several years ago
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but for ADA Charlie and Zell amaze
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stories their distant childhood memories
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ten days after our broadcast ADA under
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traveled to Madisonville Tennessee for a
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very special reunion
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Charlie best and his two children is
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Ella Mae and Carl well I was anxious to
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see her it was exciting to know she was
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coming
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[Music]
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it is today I have been waiting for her
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up ready for 51 years
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how's your father
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well I was very excited when I heard
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that they were looking for me because
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somebody cared enough about me to hunt
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for me that long
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[Music]
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although only eight years old when she
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last saw Charlie Haden never forgot the
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warmth and kindness he and his family
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brought into her life that is you
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remember Charlie had to be very good for
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him my sister and I for him to take us
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in and take care of us when we had
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nobody else to take care of this move so
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I think he was had to be a really great
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man you breathe thank you it is meant a
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lot to Daddy and I feel that in his own
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mind dream has come true
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sadly eight weeks after we filmed this
00:24:45
update charlie best passed away
00:24:48
according to his family the reunion with
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Ada brought Charlie great comfort in his
00:24:53
final days every way force 1969 in
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Manitoba Canada
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Dorothy meecher's a member of the plains
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of ghibli Indian nation gave birth to a
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daughter
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she named the baby Priscilla but
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Dorothy's joy will be all too brief even
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though she was unmarried and living with
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her parents she already had five
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children
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you need to sign here within days a
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social worker
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convinced Dorothy to give up her new
00:25:46
baby what I thought me when I was
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signing those papers I thought they were
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gonna place her in a home for a few
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months till I got back on my feet to get
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a place of my own so I can get her back
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but all this time those were adoption
00:26:01
papers I was signing people were in
00:26:05
difficulty as in all communities and
00:26:08
difficulties occur and rather than any
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rehabilitated work and type of
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counseling and a type of resources being
00:26:17
placed and those homes are in those
00:26:19
communities children were taken out two
00:26:30
decades ago what happened the Dorothy
00:26:32
meecher's was not uncommon on Indian
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reservations throughout Canada families
00:26:37
torn apart by a well-meaning but
00:26:39
misguided social welfare system however
00:26:44
Dorothy and Priscilla were more
00:26:46
fortunate than most in 1987 they would
00:26:49
be reunited through the native adoption
00:26:51
registry in Winnipeg Manitoba
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I feel hurt sometimes because she wasn't
00:26:59
raised up with us I didn't see her since
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she was small like it's nice to have her
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back the family I am happy that I did
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this I'm glad that I found my family and
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if there are and there are other
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children out there that are looking for
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their parents I would advise them to do
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it because it's something that they
00:27:22
would like if they'd like to know about
00:27:23
their family they may as well give it a
00:27:25
chance because their families are
00:27:26
probably looking for them right now
00:27:30
during the nineteen sixties and
00:27:32
seventies thousands of Native American
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children were immune from their tribal
00:27:36
homelands in Canada and placed with
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adoptive parents many of them white many
00:27:41
of them in the United States
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it was a system born of cultural
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misunderstanding which is since proven
00:27:47
to be a colossal mistake this forced
00:27:50
exodus of children has created a lost
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generation which can never fully be
00:27:54
replaced perhaps something our audience
00:27:57
will be able to fulfill two families
00:27:59
dreams of reunion
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[Music]
00:28:05
our mother died in 1972 14 year-old
00:28:09
Glenda Keewatin Kapil's stood with her
00:28:11
father at the funeral
00:28:13
Glenda had no way of knowing that she
00:28:15
and her six brothers and sisters would
00:28:17
soon become part of Canada's lost
00:28:19
generation just hours after the funeral
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a social worker arrived unannounced
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at their home today at 7:00
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I'm Gail Emory yeah Kayla Maureen and
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I'll be back later in the week for the
00:28:35
rest of the children okay
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I think my father was in shock still
00:28:40
because like when I look back now I I
00:28:44
remember my dad when you talk to him
00:28:48
like you just say yeah you know just
00:28:53
agreeing with everything
00:28:58
he was real quiet so could you call over
00:29:02
Maureen and Gail Jim Murray come here
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within a week
00:29:08
all seven children will be taken away
00:29:10
Maureen and Gail adopted the oldest
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sister sent to relatives Glenda and her
00:29:16
three brothers placed in separate foster
00:29:19
homes
00:29:20
[Music]
00:29:26
I think my dad was really really young
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but I think at the time too my dad felt
00:29:35
like it was he was doing what was best
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[Music]
00:29:45
there's a lot of fear and not only like
00:29:48
what was gonna happen to the rest of us
00:29:51
and I get somehow feeling like we
00:29:54
weren't gonna see each other again
00:29:58
fortunately Glenda was wrong over the
00:30:01
last few years all a Keewatin Kapoor
00:30:03
children have been reunited except one
00:30:06
there is no existing photograph of
00:30:08
Maureen Francis Keewatin Kapoor she was
00:30:11
born on June 29 1968 and was adopted by
00:30:15
a family in Brandon Manitoba like many
00:30:17
of Canada's lost generation marine as a
00:30:20
youngest and her family sadly it seems
00:30:23
the little ones our hardest to find
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when Sandra Seaton was just nine years
00:30:29
old her family was broken apart she is
00:30:32
still searching for her two youngest
00:30:34
brothers Sandra's father was an
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alcoholic who often beat her mother in
00:30:52
1969 he was barred from the house by
00:30:54
court order Sandra's mother was forced
00:30:58
to take work as a food vendor with a
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traveling carnival
00:31:02
Sandra has something to tell you what
00:31:04
I'm going to be going away for a few
00:31:07
weeks why I'm just not making enough
00:31:10
money looking after houses here who's
00:31:14
gonna be watching you see that lady over
00:31:16
there yeah
00:31:17
her name is Eleanor she's my friend
00:31:19
she'll be looking after you I'll be back
00:31:24
in three weeks the babysitter stayed
00:31:29
with us for a while and then she left
00:31:31
and so it was just us kids that were
00:31:34
home we were very careful that you know
00:31:38
we didn't want anybody to know we were
00:31:40
alone we were kind of waiting and hoping
00:31:42
mom would be back they've been gone a
00:31:54
long time
00:31:55
yes I'm Mary Williamson from the welfare
00:31:59
department and we've come to take you
00:32:00
away to somewhere where someone can take
00:32:02
care of you alright it was just it
00:32:05
happened so fast they just you know come
00:32:08
in and they don't really explain
00:32:09
anything you know they just picked up
00:32:12
the kids and then put them in the car
00:32:15
[Music]
00:32:18
we're coming back for you that was real
00:32:22
scary
00:32:24
you know not knowing where they were
00:32:27
gonna be taken kind of go little dead
00:32:31
inside or something you know cuz you
00:32:34
just we're all just kids on October 25th
00:32:48
1969 Sandra's mother was summoned before
00:32:51
a Winnipeg Court the director of the
00:32:54
Children's Aid Society is petitioning
00:32:55
the court at this time for custody of
00:32:58
mrs. Seaton six children
00:33:00
I read the material are you the mother
00:33:05
of Sandra Wanda Brenda
00:33:08
Chesley could you please stand a lot of
00:33:15
our people showed up in court but they
00:33:17
were so intimidated by that whole
00:33:18
process that what a social worker
00:33:22
sitting up there and given evidence and
00:33:24
saying how bad these people are most
00:33:27
cases the parents just kind of snuck out
00:33:30
the back door and just went away because
00:33:32
they were so intimidated by the whole
00:33:33
process and they were so ashamed of what
00:33:36
the social worker was saying about them
00:33:39
having reviewed the material and there's
00:33:43
no opposition by the mother the order
00:33:46
will go as applied for and the children
00:33:49
placed in the custody of the director of
00:33:52
child welfare we're sort of just in
00:33:56
there and out of there again really you
00:33:59
know not understanding too much you know
00:34:05
I always prayed for my my mom and my dad
00:34:09
and wherever my brothers and sisters
00:34:12
were you know everyday you know hoping
00:34:16
that it'll get back together again you
00:34:20
know somehow make things work
00:34:24
in 1971 saundra was reunited with her
00:34:27
two sisters Wanda and Brenda in 1988
00:34:31
they found their brother Chesley who'd
00:34:33
been adopted in the United States along
00:34:35
the way they also found their mother who
00:34:38
was joined in the search for the two
00:34:39
youngest boys Calvin and Bernard it's
00:34:43
very hard as I think about them all the
00:34:46
time in anything I do I pray for them
00:34:50
every night that someday we'll all be a
00:34:52
family again I believe that they're out
00:34:56
there and they're wondering too you know
00:34:59
about us I just feel it you know and
00:35:03
somewhere you know I'm gonna find Calvin
00:35:07
and Bernie I just I think it's gonna be
00:35:12
real soon too
00:35:15
or the night 2 story aired in Canada
00:35:18
Bernie's adoptive parents one of
00:35:20
Calvin's former foster mothers were
00:35:21
watching the show through their efforts
00:35:24
and cooperation the two brothers are put
00:35:26
in touch with her sister Sandra three
00:35:29
weeks after our broadcast everything was
00:35:31
arranged
00:35:32
March 4th 1993 would be a day of
00:35:35
reunions joy and tears
00:35:40
at 10:30 a.m. sander and her mother
00:35:43
Myrna were at the Winnipeg Airport
00:35:45
awaiting the arrival of Bernie
00:35:48
I had such an anxious feeling just
00:35:51
looking and wondering cuz I'd we hadn't
00:35:54
seen Bernie at all didn't see no picture
00:35:56
and I was oh I just and all of a sudden
00:35:59
his face just you know sort of just was
00:36:03
right there and oh that's him
00:36:14
[Music]
00:36:23
with Bernie back in the fold the group
00:36:26
headed to miRNAs house with a new Calvin
00:36:29
would be waiting in his youth Calvin had
00:36:43
been shunted about to 14 different
00:36:45
foster families now he was finally home
00:36:48
again after nearly 25 years it feels
00:36:56
really good to be taken in instead of
00:36:57
being pushed away hey like this is a big
00:37:01
swish for me
00:37:02
and I'm happy if I knew bigger words I
00:37:09
probably could say some big word that
00:37:11
would describe how I feel right now but
00:37:14
there's no words that I can think of
00:37:17
that describes this just you know it's
00:37:21
the beginning I just think it's the
00:37:22
beginning of a good thing
00:37:25
it's all good it feels great just great
00:37:28
that there's a piece of my life put
00:37:30
together which I think all my friends
00:37:32
knew that there was a piece missing
00:37:35
maybe this is just the part to my life
00:37:37
that was missing
00:37:39
[Music]
00:37:41
it's so much to talk about you know so
00:37:46
it's just a really great feeling there
00:37:49
is a piece you know there's there was
00:37:50
always that piece of my my heart somehow
00:37:56
just needed you know to know that they
00:38:00
were okay each one of us has our own
00:38:04
lives but it's it's so good to know that
00:38:06
we have family on May 20th 1991 the
00:38:26
Henderson family of Washburn Texas
00:38:29
gathered to bid farewell to one of its
00:38:31
members 66 year old bill Henderson a
00:38:35
retired banker had been plagued by heart
00:38:37
and lung problems for years but the
00:38:40
grief is family felt was compounded by
00:38:42
anguish and anger for bill Henderson had
00:38:45
not succumbed to illness he had been
00:38:48
murdered in his own bedroom I'm mad
00:38:52
about what happened to my dad I felt
00:38:56
like he was cheated
00:38:59
[Music]
00:39:01
I felt like my whole family was cheated
00:39:06
and it it was very brutal the freezer
00:39:19
and then take care of you till Saturday
00:39:21
when I see you again okay I'll be fine
00:39:23
on May 12th 1991 bill Henderson said
00:39:27
goodbye to his wife granddaughter and
00:39:30
great-granddaughter they were off to
00:39:33
visit relatives in Austin Texas more
00:39:35
than 400 miles away Bill's failing
00:39:38
health prevented him from leaving home
00:39:40
for long periods over the next three
00:39:43
days bill stayed in touch with other
00:39:46
family members then for an entire day no
00:39:50
one heard from him finally on May 16th
00:39:56
Bill's son Gary tried to reach him by
00:39:58
phone started calling my dad about one
00:40:03
o'clock I guess and every time I called
00:40:07
it was just a busy signal so I didn't
00:40:10
really know if the phones were just off
00:40:13
the hook or what happened we're afraid
00:40:16
that maybe it may have had a heart
00:40:18
attack or some health problem was sick
00:40:21
in the house and couldn't get to the
00:40:22
telephone or maybe had been trying to
00:40:25
call for help and drop the telephone or
00:40:27
something like ants what was afraid of
00:40:31
concerned Gary Frank and Frank
00:40:34
stepdaughter sherry went to Bill's house
00:40:36
to investigate this truck up front on
00:40:38
Lauren's the concern turned to alarm
00:40:41
when they noticed that Bill's pickup
00:40:42
truck was gone when we arrived at my
00:40:51
dad's house that phone in the kitchen
00:40:53
was off the hook
00:40:55
my brother-in-law Frank went over and
00:40:57
she hung that phone up and then I
00:40:59
decided to go on through the house and
00:41:03
check the other phones so I was walking
00:41:06
down the hall saw my dad's glasses
00:41:09
broken glasses laying in the floor
00:41:12
really I still didn't think a whole lot
00:41:15
about it until we got on down the hall
00:41:18
and there was a picture laying in the
00:41:20
floor and that's when I saw my father
00:41:24
laying in the floor and I'm all tore up
00:41:30
Frank come into the room and he fell -
00:41:34
my dad and my dad had been he was cold
00:41:38
he'd been there for a while and I
00:41:42
remember telling Frank that I think it's
00:41:46
too late or something like that and
00:41:49
Frank told me that he didn't think my
00:41:52
dad died of a heart attack that it
00:41:54
looked like he was murdered bill
00:41:58
Henderson had been strangled and beaten
00:42:00
to death with an electric iron a full 8
00:42:03
to 10 hours before he was found this was
00:42:07
a extremely violent murder the man was
00:42:10
beaten time and time again and it was
00:42:14
extremely obvious to us also that mr.
00:42:19
Henderson had put up a fight for his
00:42:21
life
00:42:23
police were puzzled by the lack of an
00:42:25
apparent motive for such a brutal
00:42:26
killing the only item missing other than
00:42:29
Bill's pickup truck was his wallet
00:42:32
[Music]
00:42:35
then five days later a man walking along
00:42:38
Interstate 40 90 miles east of Amarillo
00:42:41
made a curious discovery bill
00:42:44
Henderson's wanted the next day bill
00:42:51
Henderson's pickup truck was discovered
00:42:53
abandoned just outside of Chicago
00:42:55
Illinois more than 1,000 miles from
00:42:57
Amarillo police searched the vehicle but
00:43:00
found no clues that should lead them to
00:43:02
a suspect but they did learn of two
00:43:04
eyewitnesses who not only saw the killer
00:43:06
but actually spent the day with him
00:43:08
writing and Bill Henderson's truck
00:43:16
on the day of the murder some 265 miles
00:43:19
east of Washburn three young men arrived
00:43:22
at a truck stop near Oklahoma City it
00:43:26
was immediately obvious that something
00:43:27
was not quite right the truck stop
00:43:34
attendant told us that he had two young
00:43:37
men come into the truck stop and they
00:43:39
were extremely nervous started telling
00:43:47
him that the truck they were using that
00:43:49
the man had stolen truck to hitchhike
00:43:55
and I started requesting that he called
00:43:59
police department 8 861 Texas the driver
00:44:05
of the truck used the telephone then
00:44:07
went to the restroom the truck stopped
00:44:10
attendant took the opportunity to call
00:44:12
the police yeah it's not reported stolen
00:44:18
okay thanks
00:44:19
[Music]
00:44:20
he got the license number off the truck
00:44:23
he called it in to the local authorities
00:44:26
they run it and called him back it's not
00:44:30
stolen it's gotta be stolen I said no
00:44:33
the problem we had was that when they
00:44:38
ran the license plate number on the
00:44:41
truck we had yet to find mr. Henderson's
00:44:45
body 15 minutes later the driver of the
00:44:50
pickup truck left the hitchhiker's
00:44:52
refused to accompany him any further
00:44:55
after the suspect drove off they were
00:44:58
still so insistent on trying to get this
00:45:01
man picked up so scared of him that they
00:45:04
went in dial nine-one-one themselves
00:45:07
trying to get someone to stop the
00:45:09
suspect in the truck yeah I'd like to
00:45:11
report a stolen vehicle again sheriff's
00:45:14
deputies maintained that no such vehicle
00:45:16
had been reported missing according to
00:45:20
the attendant the two hitchhikers then
00:45:22
headed towards the highway they never
00:45:24
gave authorities their names or
00:45:26
addresses unhampered in his flight the
00:45:31
suspect continued north along interstate
00:45:33
287 according to police calculations you
00:45:37
would have required at least one stopped
00:45:39
for refueling before reaching hazel
00:45:41
crest Illinois Riya Bandhan the pickup
00:45:44
truck less than 24 hours later
00:45:48
I think it's extremely important that we
00:45:51
catch this anybody that walked had an
00:45:55
elderly man that is gnarly defenseless
00:45:59
because of natural disease and illnesses
00:46:02
will attack and kill anybody it hurts to
00:46:10
know what Bill had to go through or pain
00:46:13
and suffering he had to go through out
00:46:14
there before he took his last breath and
00:46:18
I would just like to see this person
00:46:23
caught and tried convicted and sentenced
00:46:28
I don't feel like my dad should have had
00:46:31
to see something like that leaning over
00:46:36
him you know it was the last thing he
00:46:38
ever saw it just wasn't fair
00:46:47
who murdered bill Henderson police had
00:46:51
but one solitary clue that may
00:46:53
ultimately give them an answer there was
00:46:56
a palm print in blood inside the room it
00:47:00
was on a art type tablet if we can find
00:47:07
the person that matches up to that
00:47:11
bloody palm print then we have our
00:47:14
murder suspect
00:47:25
[Music]
00:47:51
tomorrow night on unsolved mysteries
00:47:55
shortly after the death of his
00:47:57
grandfather
00:47:58
Donnie Decker's friends and family
00:47:59
noticed a change had come over and his
00:48:01
surroundings rain appeared everywhere
00:48:04
and no one not even the police could
00:48:07
find its source but that was only the
00:48:09
beginning
00:48:10
[Music]
00:48:12
San Francisco the city of shimmering
00:48:14
lights but on February 24th 1992 across
00:48:18
the bay a bizarre senseless death
00:48:21
miraculously Michael hunter managed to
00:48:23
guide his motorcycle into a gas station
00:48:25
despite being shot through the heart
00:48:27
almost later he was dead and police
00:48:30
would like your help to catch his killer
00:48:33
join me tomorrow night perhaps you may
00:48:37
be able to help solve a mystery
00:48:41
[Music]
00:48:59
[Applause]
00:49:02
[Music]
