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tonight on unsolved mysteries Karen
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Wolters was quiet and reserved dedicated
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to working with disabled children then
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she fell in love with and married
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Richard SEPA Louis a convicted bank
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robber serving a 50-year sentence today
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Karen is awarded fugitive accused of
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helping her husband escape from prison
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania is peaceful now
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but in 1863 these rolling fields saw
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some of the fiercest fighting of the
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Civil War many believe the spirits of
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those who died in here still haunt the
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battlefield the journey into history for
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a spine-tingling search for the ghosts
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of Gettysburg was it harmless recreation
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or a window into a dark forbidden world
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in 1994 a quiet evening of fantasy games
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ended in the horrible death for two
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young lovers some say the killer was
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motivated by the ritualistic forces of
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black magic and the occult it was an
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unforgettable sight a fully loaded
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18-wheeler terrorizing campers and
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picnickers and a remote forest by the
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time police arrived the rampage was over
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the trucks driver had vanished into thin
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air
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join me perhaps tonight your call will
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make a difference perhaps you can help
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solve a mystery
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I Karen take Richard to be my husband i
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Karen take Richard to be my husband on
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January 13th 1985 after an intense
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eight-year courtship Karen Wolters and
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Richard SEP aloneness became husband and
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wife Karen was a dedicated special
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education teacher shy and unassuming she
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still lived at home with her mother and
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sisters it was a happiest day of Karen's
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young life for Richard it may have been
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something different
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perhaps nothing more than a means to an
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end
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richard cept aloneness was a career
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criminal serving time for bank robbery
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and armed assault with the intent to
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murder his sentence was 58 282 years a
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long time to think about the crime that
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had put him behind bars
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August 9th 1973 set the lowness and two
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accomplices struck in Auburn
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Massachusetts one robber jumped over the
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counter two others had their automatic
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weapons on me one in front of me one
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behind me man in front of me put the
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weapon under my chin and waited what
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seemed like a long time was probably
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just a second so I'd said come on let's
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get out of here recess em if we see a
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cop outside I'm gonna kill the cop and
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I'm gonna come back in and kill you
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the bandits made off with more than
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$17,000 in cash a silent alarm got none
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marked police unit within seconds
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everyone's fine it's got guns the red
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Mustang
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the bank manager pointed the direction
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in which the getaway car had left the
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bank
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I followed behind the car
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when it's probably three three to four
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countless behind and going down the
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street I'm in pursuit of a red Mustang
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Eddystone paint beach three suspects
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extremely dangerous
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and that's when they started firing the
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machine guns they put my gun out the
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window and fired two warning shots in
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the air at that point the person that
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was hanging out the window shooting in
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the fashions inside went back into the
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car and they pulled him in front of a
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car that was going in the same direction
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and opened fire on the driver of the car
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to create a diversion the robbers had
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shot and wounded a 60 year-old woman it
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gave them just enough time to escape
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two months later Richard Sepp Ilona's
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has tracked down in New York City he was
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convicted by a court in Massachusetts
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and remanded to Walpole state prison a
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maximum-security facility despite his
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penchant for violence on the outside
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Sepp aloneness became a model citizen on
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the inside over the next five years he
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was good as gold
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a perfect inmate then he met Karen
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Walters at the time Karen was attending
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William Paterson College in her home
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state of New Jersey Walters was doing a
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project on while she was attending
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college and this project involved
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writing to a prisoner in Massachusetts
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or in a correctional system and by
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chance she selected SEPA lowness
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this campaign is letter-writing campaign
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grew and grew and shortly after that she
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began visiting
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you are much prettier than your picture
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that was the drive oh it was fine thank
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you
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you've never been at a present before no
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I have it I'm sorry excuse me
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don't worry about I just want you to be
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comfortable means a lot to me
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I liked your letters
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I liked yours too
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your typical inmate in imprisonment
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I find takes advantage of people on the
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community oftentimes they'll latch on to
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women who will only want some attention
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and they take advantage of them
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and I think the women have beguiled by
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the all that attention I can only assume
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that his relationship with miss Walters
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was being conducted in that same vein
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yeah why don't you ever ask me about the
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shooting you know why I'm here
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I just thought you didn't want to talk
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about it
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Karen I did not shoot that inside
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I know you do
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a man on the outside has a job to go to
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he's got friends he's got other
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commitments but a man on the inside a
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man who's you know either a murderer or
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a felon serving along an inmate serving
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a long sentence he is so focused on that
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woman she feels so special and so
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desired and so wanted it elevates the
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whole romance to a very high level by
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1980 Karen Walters was in effect leading
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a double life she was teaching learning
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disabled children was highly regarded by
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her fellow faculty members none of them
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knew she was in love with a convict
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we got this shot of view up against the
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bars let's do one of the Dean Hanna made
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it at home meanwhile Richard Sipe
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aloneness continued his winning ways
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excelled academically and became the
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first inmate at all Pole state prison to
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earn a college degree
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dearly beloved we have come together in
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the presence of God to enlighten 85
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Karen Mary Sep aloneness even though we
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had served less than a third of his
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sentence two years later his model
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behavior would pay off in a big way
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except aloneness was transferred to a
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minimum-security facility he was very
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bright and very personable so I think
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it's once staff find that in an inmate I
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think it's it's easy for staff to let
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their guard down you know I think you
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always have to be careful with an
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individual like that Sepp alona's new
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home was literally a prison without bars
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Karen could now visit unsupervised
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almost whenever she wanted but with this
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new freedom claim the ultimate
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temptation
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I want that dream be patient
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and it'll happen unless we make it
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happen
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I don't know if you're ready for that
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how do you mean it would be ten months
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before Karen was ready the trigger was
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an incident where she and SEPA lowness
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were caught allegedly having sex on the
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prison grounds as a result Karen was
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indefinitely barred from visiting her
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husband three weeks later on a chilly
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September morning Karen apparently drove
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to an isolated spot about a mile from
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the prison in her pocket twenty thousand
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dollars in cash for entire life savings
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at around noon Richard SEPA lowness
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appeared yet simply walked away from the
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prison grounds
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Karin waters had made her choice she
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left behind her career and her family
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for the life of a fugitive on the run
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with Richard SEPA Louis 11 years would
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pass before anyone knew where Richard
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SEPA lowness and Karen Walters were
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hiding let's go to Keely che Smith to
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find out what happened after a recent
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broadcast a viewer in Minneapolis who
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had done business with a couple
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recognized Karen's photograph a
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taskforce which included the local
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police and FBI was mobilized and the
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house was staked out on October 1st 1996
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officers observed Richard Sepp aloneness
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leave his residence and drive to a
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nearby convenience store as soon as he
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pulled into the parking lot and got out
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of the vehicle one of the task force
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members was right there with him so he
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jumped out drew his weapon ordered
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secularist not to move and at that point
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other task force members got there
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jumped out and assisted in the arrest
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Karen Walters was picked up twenty
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minutes later for eight years
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she and Sepp Ilona's had completely
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fooled their neighbors when I found out
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that they were who they were I was
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shocked I couldn't believe it my mouth
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fell to the floor
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I never would imagine in a million years
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that these two people would be that
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would do anything wrong a bag of robbery
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paraphernalia found inside the hideout
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gave authorities a much different
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impression the discovery of the bag with
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the face mask the gun the rubber gloves
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the a large amount of cash and small
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bills we think that perhaps he's been
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back in the bank robbery or robbery
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business again
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coming up two young lovers fall victim
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to a vicious killer their involvement
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with a role-playing fantasy game lead to
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their deaths but first around the Civil
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War battlefield at Gettysburg
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Pennsylvania they say history comes
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alive in a most unnerving fashion
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the obvious scars of healed but 132
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years ago at the height of the Civil War
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this was hell on earth Gettysburg
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Pennsylvania the Confederate and Union
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armies 170,000 strong converged on the
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small town of 2400 both sides dead set
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and determined not to yield an inch
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three days of ferocious combat left some
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50,000 casualties
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the creeks literally ran red with blood
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some say Cadiz burg is still haunted by
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the ghosts of those cut down before
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their time at Gettysburg there was so
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much emotional energy expended in such a
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short period of time from the 15 year
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old kid who was scared to death that
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he'd never make it home or the 40 year
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old man who'd just been shot through the
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lungs and was dying thinking about his
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family so much emotional energy was
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expended at Gettysburg you have to think
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that some of them must remain many of
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the ghosts have been reported by Civil
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War buffs known as reenactors dressed in
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period costumes may we stage the epic
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Battle of Gettysburg blow-by-blow ray
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Hawk says he and a friend were taking a
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break from one of these mock skirmishes
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when they were approached by a haggard
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figure too realistic to be just another
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reenactor I think I've seen a ghost
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I think this guy had original equipment
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on original code everything to me points
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out that it was original role McCoy he
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smell he he smelled extremely bad a
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sulfur and he really looked tired and
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Hollow look in a face and stuff all
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right day huh boys yeah what ray says a
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soldier handed them each to
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authentic-looking cartridges when they
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looked up the mysterious visitor had
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vanished where'd you go
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I simply don't know where he got to I
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have no clue this is one of the four
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rounds that he gave myself and my friend
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live ammunition hasn't been allowed at
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Gettysburg for a hundred years but
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according to Ray Hawk a university
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expert determined of the cartridges
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powder law or genuine Civil War issue
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vintage 1863 the Battle of Gettysburg
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race for three long days each evening
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darkness brought a lull in the fighting
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a morning of the wounded and dying fills
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a hot humid air soldiers who would
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survive picked their way through the
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battlefield searching for missing
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comrades a search that some believed
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continues to this day
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in the summer of 1993 the 130th
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anniversary of the battle a group of
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friends were at Gettysburg for a weekend
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of reenactments one evening we hiked
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along a creek called bloody run don't
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let go you'll be ok I was walking along
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with my wife and she had stopped me
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about halfway up the trail he appeared
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to be a man laying there but he wasn't
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solid like you and I are and he news he
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was more of a hazy mist he was shivering
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because it looked like he was in a lot
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of pain I couldn't go no further
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emotionally I broke down and cried I was
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shaken I had to actually have somebody
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come back and lead me out of the trail
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Richard and his wife are the only ones
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who had seen the apparition soon after
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Richards brother David and a few others
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headed out towards an area called a
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slaughter panel they didn't get far
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did you see that no no see what over
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there the Phantom was gone but the sons
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of the night suggested they were still
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not alone
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I was heron cannon shots and drum rolls
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and men marching on the road it sounded
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like it was getting closer so I said to
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everybody okay let's go it's time to go
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we had a thing in Vietnam called the
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thousand-yard stare
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and that's when a soldier saw too much
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too often
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Ron Waddell talked to a member of the
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group the following day and one of the
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young men definitely had that the next
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morning when I saw him he had
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experienced something which went beyond
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the normal the patterns that emerged
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tell me that something's going on out
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there other than just individual
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sightings when two or three or four
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different people at different times
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described seeing the same thing then you
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know that something else is going on out
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there something unexplainable the terror
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of Gettysburg was not limited to the
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battlefield army surgeons deluged with a
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wounded lacking medicine and proper
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instruments handled most injuries with
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one quick treatment amputation many of
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the men underwent amputations of limbs
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without any anaesthetic whatsoever
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except perhaps a shot of good
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old-fashioned army whiskey so the Civil
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War hospital then was was probably as
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close to a descent into hell on earth as
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the Civil War soldiers would have ever
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gotten to
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this building Pennsylvania Hall served
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as a field hospital during the battle a
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day it houses the offices of Gettysburg
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College a four-year liberal arts school
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but the cries of the wounded still echo
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here at least that's what two school
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administrators reported several years
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ago it was late close to midnight the
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two women were alone in the building or
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so they thought
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oh my god what is this what's going on
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here
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as the stench of a hospital was was all
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around and as they peered out of this of
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course this began to panic there was no
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place to go
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suddenly one of the orderlies turned to
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them and looked at them beseeching me as
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if he needed help with his horrible task
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that he was doing or perhaps helped to
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get out of this forced incarceration
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he'd been in for the last 13 decades the
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two officials were so shaken by their
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experience that they have never granted
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a formal interview that night however
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they told the whole story to a campus
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security officer I would have to say
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that something frightened them I can't
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explain it although I don't believe in
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ghosts I guess to a certain extent I
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believe that they saw maybe what they
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said they saw only because I know miss
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credible people are such ghostly
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sightings of products of overheated
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imagination shadows transformed into
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apparitions fireflies seen as Lantern
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lights or is it possible to the spirits
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of soldiers have breathed their last at
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Gettysburg remain here eternally in
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search of peace
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in a moment long-distance trucker Devin
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Williams as known as a dependable family
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man then he took a wild detour off the
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highway and mysteriously disappeared and
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later a secluded Lovers Lane an unknown
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intruder a brutal double murder a
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possible link to the occult
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[Music]
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many of the mysteries we profile are
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just one tantalizing clue from solution
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a key eyewitness the missing telephone
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number a clear fingerprint but in the
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bizarre case of a missing truck driver
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absolutely nothing adds up Clues never
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yield answers the only raise more and
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more questions Memorial Day weekend 1995
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Arizona's Tonto National Forest
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the last thing any of the campers
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expected to see crashing through the
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woods with a 10-ton semi-truck
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astonished to see a large truck like
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that on those roads because the roads
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are not that passable by that large of a
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vehicle usually most the vehicles we
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have up there are four wheel drive the
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18th litre thundered back and forth
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several times that morning to other
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campers at a frightening ly close
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encounter they said he never looked at
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them as if you recognize there was
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someone there there was no expression on
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his face at all he didn't attempt to
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slow down or look over to see if they
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needed help or anything he just kept on
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going later that day a carload of
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picnickers came upon the truck now mired
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in a field they spoke with a man they
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believed to be the driver hey how did
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you get in here what jail when he said
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whatever it was with jail as his last
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word I envisioned a hostage situation of
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hijacking kidnapping whatever a
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jailbreak maybe and someone had a gun on
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someone in the cab he made no effort to
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keep us there no effort to ask for help
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do anything for him late Sunday
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afternoon deputy Dean Wells followed up
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a bizarre report at the 48 foot semi was
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marooned in the heart of the forest when
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I initially got the call it really
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surprised me that you know an 18-wheeler
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would go down that road and actually
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came on to the 18-wheeler it was kind of
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a matter of odd it was extremely strange
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to king
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the cargo some 1,200 boxes of lettuce
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and strawberries appeared intact and
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undisturbed the refrigeration unit was
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running the cab was locked the man
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Charles Hall has spoken with earlier had
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vanished when deputy Wells checked the
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National Crime computer he found no
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reports of either a missing truck or
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driver I did not find any indication of
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foul play there at the scene the inside
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of the cab appeared to be very clean I
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could not answer at all why of the
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18-wheeler was back in there the
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following afternoon another sighting the
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gentleman is his mouth is moving we can
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hear sounds but like a mumble there's
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nothing coherent that we can make out
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that he's saying he's looking at a tree
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he doesn't turn to look at us when Jack
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is asking him the questions hey mister
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can we help you
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yeah I can't Brown closeby
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I gotta light the grill he has a $20
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bill in his hand and in front of him is
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a flat rock we look around we don't see
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anything else around that he would be
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grilling there was nothing else there
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[Music]
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let's go
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Linda Arrington and her husband were the
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last ones to see the confused young man
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that same day a long-distance trucker
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named Devin Williams turned up missing
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Devin Williams was 29 years old a
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husband and father of three by all
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accounts he was not the type to dump a
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fully loaded rig in the middle of a
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forest but the eyewitnesses were
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positive
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the young man matched photographs of
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Devin Williams finally the mystery had a
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starting point on May 23rd 1995 Devin
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Williams had left his home in Kansas and
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headed west it was a Rudy had taken many
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times
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Williams delivered his load in
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California on schedule he picked up blue
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loads for the return trip and checked in
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as planned with his boss Tom Wilson okay
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looking back I can't see anything out of
00:27:10
the ordinary to make me suspect anything
00:27:14
everything indicated it was just a very
00:27:17
normal trip and the time frame and that
00:27:19
everything was going real good
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Saturday evening May 27th Williams
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rolled into Kingman Arizona from there
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he phoned headquarters for the last time
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I wanna get back on the road by Sunday
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morning Devin Williams was off the map
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barreling through the woods miles many
00:27:38
highway to this day no one knows why
00:27:42
none of the theories make sense
00:27:46
something happened it was not like him
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to even go off throughout let alone to
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be that irrational reports at Williams
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were disoriented and incoherent prompted
00:27:58
suspicions that he was on drugs but that
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didn't fit Devin Williams we'd had no
00:28:06
drug problem with him he had passed his
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drug tests and everything all along with
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no problem when you're dealing with
00:28:13
people who are missing you can point to
00:28:16
something you can see they have a long
00:28:18
criminal history they they've had severe
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drug problems they've had some mental
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illness none of those things fit he
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didn't appear to be mentally ill and and
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nobody that I talked to said that he did
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he ever had any drug so I simply don't
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know what was wrong with him
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certainly we a lot of times we have
00:28:38
people that that want to run away from
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their responsibilities they having a
00:28:42
problem with their wife with their kids
00:28:43
whatever they simply want to run away
00:28:45
had devin williams left job and family
00:28:48
to start a new life was a significant
00:28:51
the devas briefcase was in the truck
00:28:53
but his duffle bag and favorite party of
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tapes were gone
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if Williams had run away he certainly
00:29:02
concocted an elaborate cover his erratic
00:29:05
behavior would have to have been an act
00:29:07
performed for a succession of
00:29:08
unsuspecting witnesses Devon's wife
00:29:11
doesn't buy it we're at the happiest
00:29:16
point I think we had been in our
00:29:17
marriage we had just bought a house we
00:29:21
had so many plans and we've been arguing
00:29:23
whether to put linoleum or carpet in the
00:29:26
dining room
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I talked to a lady who who helped him
00:29:30
quite a bit in California when he'd pick
00:29:31
up loads and she told me that the only
00:29:34
time Devon ever seemed irritated is when
00:29:36
he had to wait for his load because he
00:29:38
was eager to get back home and get back
00:29:39
to his family
00:29:41
if Devon Williams didn't run off where
00:29:43
was he foot patrols canine search and
00:29:47
rescue teams and off-road vehicles
00:29:48
returned empty-handed
00:29:50
hunters and hikers in the area never
00:29:52
reported finding so much as a bone
00:29:54
fragment or a scrap of clothing some
00:29:59
began to suggest only half-jokingly
00:30:01
that it seemed as though Devon Williams
00:30:03
had been abducted by a UFO
00:30:05
local authorities remain totally baffled
00:30:09
I've conducted many searches and I have
00:30:12
not had any instances where I've
00:30:15
conducted a search and not been able to
00:30:17
find the person I'm looking for either
00:30:20
dead or alive nearly a year has passed
00:30:23
as devin williams detour to an unknown
00:30:26
fate back home in Kansas Devon's wife
00:30:29
still clings to the hope that her
00:30:31
husband will be found I hope that dims a
00:30:34
bit with each passing day I've got kids
00:30:38
that look at me and they'll be doing
00:30:40
fine and then one day though when's he
00:30:42
coming back is he coming back so I just
00:30:46
told me I don't know now if he ain't
00:30:49
coming home he's probably up with God
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next a private detective and a
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respective psychic joined forces with a
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police to investigate a brutal double
00:31:16
murder
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to play you need nothing more than a set
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of special cards in a vivid imagination
00:31:39
the game involves mystical creatures
00:31:42
magic and fantasy elements that some say
00:31:45
push participants dangerously close to
00:31:47
ritual violence and the occult you know
00:31:50
I'm getting kind of tired I think we
00:31:52
should call it a night you gotta go but
00:31:58
Michael Johnston aeroshell Robinson
00:32:00
showed no such concerns as they left
00:32:02
just such a game one night in June of
00:32:04
1994 perhaps they should have the next
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day both Michael and Rochelle were found
00:32:13
dead
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the victims of a hideous double murder
00:32:19
25 year-old Michael Johnson was married
00:32:21
the father of - Rochelle Robinson was 19
00:32:25
studying to be a teacher detectives soon
00:32:28
discovered that Michael and Rochelle had
00:32:30
been lovers in light of the secret
00:32:35
romance authorities ascribed the savage
00:32:37
murders to an explosion of jealous rage
00:32:39
however a private investigator no
00:32:42
respected psychic disagree they see the
00:32:45
homicide as a work of a charismatic
00:32:46
killer entangled in the shadowy world of
00:32:49
the art coat
00:32:54
a woman discovered Michael Johnston's
00:32:58
body less than six hours after he left
00:33:00
the card game his throat had been cut
00:33:02
and he was shot once in the head at
00:33:04
point-blank range
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he was sprawled next to Rachelle's car
00:33:08
near a popular shooting range called the
00:33:10
Tacoma sportsmen club
00:33:15
Rachelle's body was found later that day
00:33:17
on a remote road some five miles from
00:33:20
where Michael had been killed she had
00:33:22
been stabbed repeatedly and her throat
00:33:24
was slashed to the bone
00:33:25
Rachelle's body was left partially
00:33:27
covered by a large cardboard box
00:33:33
eyewitness accounts and crime scene
00:33:35
evidence enabled authorities to piece
00:33:37
together a possible scenario for that
00:33:39
fatal evening police believe that
00:33:41
sometime after 1:00 a.m. Michael and
00:33:44
Rochelle parked her car on the quiet
00:33:45
road near the Sportsman's Club they were
00:33:48
alone for a while
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they were forced to dress hastily
00:34:08
Rochelle Robinson had michael johnson
00:34:12
t-shirt on inside out on her body was
00:34:14
found and they were removed from her
00:34:18
vehicle probably at gunpoint forensic
00:34:23
evidence suggests that michael was
00:34:24
handcuffed and forced to kneel near the
00:34:27
front of Rochelle's car law enforcement
00:34:36
believes that michael johnson was a
00:34:37
passive victim with the real target was
00:34:40
Rochelle Robinson they were servile
00:34:43
straight-in type knife pricks I would
00:34:46
call them maybe a quarter inch deep and
00:34:48
a quarter inch wide in her neck which
00:34:50
would indicate to me - somebody held a
00:34:52
knife to her throat to force her to
00:34:54
accompany him
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detective Reineke concluded that the
00:35:01
killer drove Rochelle to the isolated
00:35:03
Road some five miles away
00:35:05
we believe this was a crime of passion
00:35:08
because of the brutal way in which
00:35:11
Rochelle was murdered investigators
00:35:31
believe that the perpetrator of this
00:35:33
crime is a person that New Rochelle well
00:35:37
and probably wanted to have a
00:35:41
boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with
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or was an ex-boyfriend of hers
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Rochelle felt that she was being stalked
00:35:49
by a guy that came into her work
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approximately three or four months
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before they found her she felt that that
00:35:59
he'd followed her home several times
00:36:00
that he came to work and has stared at
00:36:02
her until she left work
00:36:04
this sketch of the stalker is based on
00:36:07
eyewitness descriptions however his
00:36:09
identity and any connection he may have
00:36:11
to the case remain unknown after a year
00:36:16
the official investigation began to wind
00:36:18
down to keep the inquiry alive Michael
00:36:21
Johnson's wife Janet hired a private
00:36:23
investigator Jim Wright Janet as part of
00:36:27
this investigation I'm gonna have to ask
00:36:28
you some uncomfortable questions Jim
00:36:31
Wright played it by the book first he
00:36:33
had to clear the victim's family members
00:36:35
starting with Janet Johnston then what
00:36:39
type of an insurance policy did you have
00:36:41
on Michael and how much was that for we
00:36:43
have life insurance policy on on Michael
00:36:45
and we had one on myself as well both of
00:36:48
them were $250,000
00:36:49
we both had very large life insurance
00:36:53
policies on each other and that was my
00:36:54
at my insistence because I was felt if
00:36:57
something happened to me I wanted to
00:36:59
make sure that Mike had the financial
00:37:01
stability so that he wouldn't have to
00:37:04
work so he could take care of the kids
00:37:05
were you ever aware of any extramarital
00:37:09
relationships that Michaels had he and
00:37:13
Michelle were seeing each other I don't
00:37:15
know how long it had been going on I
00:37:17
don't know if they were going to stop
00:37:20
soon or if he was going to leave me or
00:37:22
what I don't we don't know any of that
00:37:27
based on a polygraph test the police had
00:37:30
already cleared Janet Johnston victims
00:37:32
Jim Wright has found no concrete
00:37:33
evidence that might implicate her forth
00:37:36
so there was nothing that we were able
00:37:38
to uncover from either Mike or Michelle
00:37:41
side initially that every indicated that
00:37:44
she was a suspect but Jim Wright did
00:37:48
uncover a secret side to Michael
00:37:49
Johnston a world of roleplay fantasy
00:37:52
games black magic and the occult
00:37:55
right now believes that this passion but
00:37:58
Michael and Rachelle on a collision
00:37:59
course with their killer Michael had a
00:38:02
very extensive collection of material
00:38:05
relating to the occult because of the
00:38:08
the nature of this crime we believe that
00:38:11
people who were involved in possible
00:38:14
occult type activities could be the kind
00:38:17
of people that would commit this type of
00:38:19
a murder but more than a year had passed
00:38:23
since the murders every which way he
00:38:26
turned Jim Wright found the trail stone
00:38:28
cold clearly this was an investigation
00:38:31
that demanded an unorthodox approach
00:38:33
right turn to Nancy Meyer a respected
00:38:36
psychic who was assisted police on more
00:38:38
than 300 homicides it was very hard on
00:38:42
Jim because I said you will not tell me
00:38:45
anything because it has no validity if
00:38:49
you tell me things ahead of time I don't
00:38:52
want someone else's theories because to
00:38:55
me if you're going to work psychically
00:38:57
and do it purely you should not pre-read
00:38:59
you should go out don't work it cold
00:39:03
without revealing his destination Jim
00:39:06
Wright took Nancy Maier to the road near
00:39:08
the Sportsman's Club where Michael
00:39:10
Johnson had been murdered
00:39:11
I can feel Michael here I can feel his
00:39:18
pain I can feel the fear I can feel him
00:39:20
pleading I can also get images of what
00:39:29
just happened - Rochelle so I feel he
00:39:31
must have died second because I can feel
00:39:34
that the awful images in his mind of
00:39:38
what Rochelle has gone through
00:39:40
I would not be able to agree with the
00:39:44
theory that would have Michael as an
00:39:48
innocent you know bystander not the
00:39:51
object of this killing to me from what I
00:39:55
can sense it's the other way around
00:39:57
Michael was the actual object indeed
00:40:01
Meyer believes that Michael and the
00:40:03
killer knew each other from their
00:40:05
involvement in black magic
00:40:08
as Nancy Meyer sees the crime Michael
00:40:12
and Rochelle were parked on the isolated
00:40:14
Road Meyer believes that the killer a
00:40:17
man in his late 30s and too young
00:40:19
accomplices crept up on the unsuspecting
00:40:21
lovers
00:40:28
come on out Mikey I need to talk to you
00:40:31
man no just need to talk what they seem
00:40:43
to be accusing him nice of violating
00:40:47
some kind of regulations relative to
00:40:50
some kind of it almost felt like a cult
00:40:54
type of situation according to Nancy
00:40:58
Meyer
00:40:59
after the killer stabbed Rochelle he and
00:41:01
his accomplices drove Michael to the
00:41:03
Sportsman's Club the older man seems to
00:41:08
have emotional control over these kids
00:41:10
he seems to be able to tell them what to
00:41:13
do like a bunch of foolish puppets they
00:41:17
do it
00:41:19
Meyer says that her crime scene
00:41:21
impressions were so vivid that she was
00:41:23
able to envision the three assailants an
00:41:26
artist's sketch Myers impressions this
00:41:31
is the killer as he appeared to Nancy
00:41:33
Meyer she feels that he teaches at a
00:41:36
local college or university and probably
00:41:38
has killed before
00:41:41
these are the two accomplices both in
00:41:44
the early to mid-twenties according to
00:41:47
mine they are now in danger of being
00:41:49
murdered themselves in addition Maier
00:41:54
envisioned this stylized dragon wing
00:41:56
medallion she feels that the symbol
00:41:58
comes from the occult world that links
00:42:00
michael and the assailants the
00:42:04
authorities however are unmoved by
00:42:06
Nancy's visions or theories that the
00:42:08
double murder is linked to the occult
00:42:10
they remain convinced that the killer
00:42:13
will be found among Rochelle Robbins's
00:42:15
friends or acquaintances meanwhile
00:42:17
Rochelle and Michael's families must
00:42:19
wait for resolution it's a horrible
00:42:23
horrible feeling you just keep going
00:42:26
around and around and around it's almost
00:42:29
like a merry-go-round and some days you
00:42:31
just want to sit let me off I can't take
00:42:33
it and you can't you'll never never get
00:42:38
off of it I know these people whoever
00:42:40
did it they're gonna pay then this life
00:42:42
or the next and I have complete faith
00:42:43
that that's gonna take place authorities
00:42:48
believe the solution to this brutal
00:42:49
crime may lie with one of us more
00:42:51
mundane clues the cardboard box a killer
00:42:54
placed on Rochelle's body
00:42:58
originally the Bucks have large sheets
00:43:00
of high-grade paper used only by
00:43:02
professional printers forensic tests
00:43:05
have convinced investigators that the
00:43:07
carton was brought to the site by the
00:43:09
killer
00:43:09
further evidence suggests that for
00:43:11
several years the Box may have been in
00:43:13
the killer's home or vehicle perhaps
00:43:16
someone watching tonight saw it there
00:43:27
no one will ever forget the terrible
00:43:30
devastation and loss of life resulting
00:43:32
from the Oklahoma City bombing last year
00:43:36
well the Federal Building once stood
00:43:38
only this vacant lot remains a somber
00:43:41
monument to the tragedy and while the
00:43:44
rubble has been cleared away the painful
00:43:46
legacy of that day lives on next week
00:43:51
we'll be in Oklahoma City for a poignant
00:43:53
and very special profile one of the
00:43:56
survivors of the Bund needs your help
00:43:58
to find the two unknown heroes who saved
00:44:00
his life also a surprising report on the
00:44:05
controversial case of White House deputy
00:44:06
counsel Vince Foster authorities say he
00:44:09
took his own life some handwriting
00:44:11
experts claim Foster's suicide note was
00:44:14
faked join me next time for another
00:44:18
edition of the solve mystery
00:44:21
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