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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're about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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fourteen-year-old jeremy bright
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disappeared at a county fair in oregon
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some believe he was shot by local
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teenagers last november a virginia
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sheriff was brutally shot while on
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patrol
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before he died he described his
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attacker's car
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in 1936 a canadian gold prospector
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vanished leaving an unclaimed fortune
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that may be worth three million dollars
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leo cooley has been charged with
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extortion robbery and murder he has
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eluded the fbi for 10 years
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in november
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michaela garrett was abducted outside a
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local store
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her friend gave police an eyewitness
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description of the kidnapper
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in atlanta jordan the peaceful
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retirement of an elderly couple has been
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shattered by unexplained noises and
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apparitions
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tonight six cases on unsolved mysteries
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each needing that one vital clue to
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close the file forever
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join me you may be able to help solve a
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mystery
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no pain can match the suffering of a
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parent who's lost a child no frustration
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is greater than that of parents whose
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child is missing
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their fate unknown
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our next story concerns a 14 year old
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boy named jeremy bright who went to a
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county fair in myrtle point oregon in
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mid-august 1986.
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jeremy was never seen again since that
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weekend a number of clues and rumors
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have surfaced
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jeremy's parents and the police have
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come to one inescapable conclusion
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someone living in myrtle point oregon
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knows exactly what happened to jeremy
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they're not talking
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but they know
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to those who knew him jeremy was a
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popular sports loving boy he looked
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forward to beginning high school in the
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fall
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he always had lots to do and places to
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go he played basketball and baseball and
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football and
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he knew everybody and everybody knew him
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he was always a real outgoing kid
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every august the coos county fair rolls
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into myrtle point
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this is the occasion of a week-long
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celebration
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and a jeremy bright and close friend
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john it was one of the high points of
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the year
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normally jeremy lived a hundred miles
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away in grants pass where his mother
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worked
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but during the week of the fair he and
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his younger sister were staying with
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their stepfather ollie in myrtle point
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on friday august 15th holy went to work
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before dawn and didn't see jeremy lee
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for the fair
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but that day a handful of people saw
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jeremy and johnny enjoying the
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festivities
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around 4 45 that same thursday jeremy
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placed a long-distance call to his
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mother diane
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he told her he was having a terrific
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time at the fair
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she told jeremy she'd be back in myrtle
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point in two days to pick him up
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five hours later at 9 40 p.m jeremy went
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to a local tavern owned by his
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grandmother to meet his stepfather now
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home from work he asked to borrow some
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money from him
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here take some of this
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thanks
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this was the last time jeremy was ever
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seen by his family
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you behave yourself
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two days later on saturday diane arrived
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in myrtle point to meet jeremy
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he never showed up
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i went and got my car and i went to
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ole's house at kids and stepdad's house
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and i went in and on the tv set
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was his house keys from our grants pass
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apartment and his wallet
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and his new watch that he had told me
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he'd bought
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i knew when i found those things that he
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was around somewhere because he wouldn't
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leave without him
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as a carnival played on diane's fears
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began to escalate
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on saturday night she contacted the
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police
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at first they believed her son had
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succumbed to the romantic lure of the
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carnival and had run away
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he did like the fair
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there was the thought that perhaps he
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was hiding out intending to leave with
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the fair
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people and
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i've explored that possibility in every
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way that i can think of i can't
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lose sight of the fact that it is
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possible that he
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left with members of that fair troupe
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however in this particular case i've
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talked to
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family members and and friends of his
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that knew him well
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and he was just not from what i can
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learn the type of a kid who would have
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struck out on his own
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on sunday august 17 1986 the fair folded
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up its tent
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myrtle point returned to normal
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within days ominous rumors concerning
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jeremy's disappearance began to surface
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the week of the fair was a time for
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partying
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according to one rumor jeremy attended
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one of these parties and was offered a
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beer laced with a powerful illegal drug
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either
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hey we're looking for a beer yeah
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hey don't open the other one
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there's one already open right here you
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mean i can have this sure
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knock yourself out
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i've identified at least two and perhaps
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three parties where jeremy was present
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that
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the overdose theory could have occurred
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in
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it was reported that jeremy had a heart
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murmur and therefore a stimulant of some
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kind might have uh done some bodily
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damage to him just just by his sheer
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taking it
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an anonymous source told the police
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another story
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he claimed that three local tufts had
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shown up and harassed jeremy and his
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friends while they played in a swimming
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hole
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then things went terribly wrong
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is that a gun
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what this
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it's a toy
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it was at the jail where an inmate
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related to me the information that he
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had heard wherein one individual from
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the myrtle point area was
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target practicing or shooting
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indiscriminately in the water in the
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area where jeremy was uh was swimming
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all right i'm just gonna sight it don't
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move show me what you're made of now
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that's better pierce's ear yeah i bet
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you can you think so yeah
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all right all right i'm gonna try this
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look good in it
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they subsequently took him to a
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cabin maybe within
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10 miles of the myrtle point area and
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attempted to nurse him back to health to
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no avail that he died as a result of
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that injury either from
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loss of blood or from
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infection or what have you
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that
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same
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source through the jail indicated that
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his uh body would be found within 200
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feet of this cabin in a in a shallow
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grave
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police searched the area surrounding the
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cabin and found nothing
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all the rumors were hard to handle all
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of them are hard to think about
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every time i'd hear a new one i'd have
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nightmares for a week or so
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the one
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that i hope
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is not what happened
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is one where he suffered for two weeks
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before he died
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and they buried his body
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because the thought of him suffering for
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two weeks
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just
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makes me sick
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there were two more strange clues
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jeremy was last seen by his family on
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thursday night the following night the
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sister of jeremy's friend johnny had a
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disturbing encounter
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it was friday night of the fair and it
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was between midnight and one
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when we were leaving my sister's
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apartment and we came down the stairs
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and we got to the last stair
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and
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we almost ran into one of the
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neighborhood guys
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and
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i jumped back because it startled me
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because he was completely covered in
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blood and i mean it was just all over
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him and it kind of scared me what
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happened to you
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well this
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he goes oh this this happened hours ago
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and he just laughed and then he went
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into one of the apartments
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a half hour after this encounter johnny
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arrived at the same building where
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another sister lived according to her he
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was overwrought and terrified but didn't
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want to explain
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whether it is just coincidence or
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whether they're directly related to
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jeremy's disappearance
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is another one of the the mysteries that
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you still have to sort through to try to
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determine what indeed did happen
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the three or four people whose names
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keep reappearing in all the rumors and
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all of the reports
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they're not
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exactly what anybody would call pillars
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of society
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but as long as these men are out on the
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street they can hurt somebody else's
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child the same as they hurt mine
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and if nobody comes forward that's
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leaving them out there and if they did
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to my son what people are saying they
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did
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and what they've been heard themselves
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say that they did they've got no
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business on the public streets
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and we can't do nothing until we
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get the whole story
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and make them pay for what they did to
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my boy
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i i would just encourage anyone
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especially those people who i feel have
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information that would help this
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investigation greatly
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to just simply have the courage to say
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yeah i'm scared to death
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but in a case like this
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my being scared doesn't warrant this
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family's pain
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if you've ever been stopped for a
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traffic ticket you might have noticed
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that the officer approached cautiously
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imagine what's going through his mind
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you know who he is because of his
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uniform but he has no idea who you are
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to him it could be another routine
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traffic violation
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then again it could be that one case
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where the unexpected happens and his
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life is on the line
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our next story is about just such a case
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it happened in a rural county in
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virginia where a police officer not been
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killed for over 20 years
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until last november
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in the early morning hours of friday
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november the 4th 1988 patrolman john
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martin a 17-year veteran of the lee
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county virginia sheriff's department was
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making his regular rounds
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when he noticed something unusual
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604 to jones
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go ahead 604.
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i'll be checking the park vehicle out at
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the western lee county health clinic
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john martin reported to
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our dispatcher in jonesville at 2 58 a.m
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on the morning of november 4
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that he was checking a car parked behind
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the lee county
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health clinic in ewing virginia
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604 jones
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this vehicle just pulled out on
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and then he came back and said that the
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car was moving out on him and then he
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was stopping it about halfway down the
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driveway and that it was a large
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light brown car possibly a cadillac and
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he couldn't give the license number
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because it was on the inside of the car
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in the back window
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that was a last transmission john martin
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made to the dispatcher
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authorities believe that martin left his
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patrol car and approached the driver to
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question him see your operator's last
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complete
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604.
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he didn't respond to the radio so we had
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an officer probably seven miles away
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that we sent to check on him
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when i arrived at his location i found
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officer martin
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lying in the driveway of the clinic
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at the time of arrival i didn't know
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what had happened to him when i got to
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him he told me doug i've been shot
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number bad
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i contacted the dispatcher
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and had a rescue squad dispatched
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on where you're going to be all right
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you know i knew he'd been seriously
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wounded
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and
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of course he was a good friend of mine
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as well as a fellow officer
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i knew the point when i found him he was
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probably critically injured and it was
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very important that i'd be able to
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maintain the scene and to be able to
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get what information i could from him
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while he was conscious and that was the
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most important thing to do at the time
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and that's what i attempted to do
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did you see who did it or did you get a
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description of the vehicle
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he was in his mid-20s
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had a mesh tag
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i'd ask him about the animal being about
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the tag
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he advised me the tag was in the real
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window that it was a dealer tag
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however he could not read
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the registration numbers from the tag
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but he was able to give me a rough
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description of the vehicle as a buick
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light brown or tan
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and it was a buick from the 1970 to 1977
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perhaps one of the large buicks
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martin was able to give officer parsons
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one final piece of information about the
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lysis plate
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it read land of lincoln which is the
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motto for the state of illinois
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did you shoot into the car or shoot
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anyone yes i shot at the vehicle
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he had advised me he had emptied his gun
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into the car i checked his weapon and it
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was empty he had fired all six rounds
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from his revolver
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martin was rushed to the nearest
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hospital 22 miles away suffering from
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three bullet wounds
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doctors removed a 44 caliber bullet from
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his body but he lapsed into a coma
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three days later
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john martin died
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on november the 10th john martin was
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laid to rest with full honors
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police officers from seven states and
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hundreds of area residents came to pay
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their final respects to the 39 year old
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father of four
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i just
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thought it wouldn't happen to him
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and
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we had talked about it but
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it don't feel real
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cause i just feel like our officer's job
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is to protect other people
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and that's all he was doing
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but we just out of this we're hoping
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that we can possibly catch whoever done
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it
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that's our main priority right now
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that's all we want
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two weeks ago a man believed to be john
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martin's murderer was arrested by
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sheriff's deputies in illinois
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on november 5th effingham illinois
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police impounded a stolen car burnt
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almost beyond recognition
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inside they discovered evidence that
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this was the car that was used in john
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martin's killing
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the
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lee county sheriff's office was
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immediately contacted and
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their first question was does your burnt
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car have a bullet hole in the door and
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our answer was yes
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and at which point they decided to send
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a team of investigators
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to effingham and continue the
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investigation
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police believe that the bullet holes
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were caused by john martin's gun
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during their investigation authorities
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uncovered information that linked a 24
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year old man named david wayne mills to
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the car
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during a search of the home where mills
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was living investigators found
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additional evidence connecting him to
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the murder of john martin when mills
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arrived home he was immediately arrested
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mills admitted being present when
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officer martin was killed but claims
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that an accomplice fired the gun
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this alleged accomplice has been
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questioned but no formal charges have
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been made
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on january 5th mills was extradited back
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to virginia where he is currently being
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held without bail
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during questioning he gave authorities
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information which led them to a 44
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caliber pistol
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ballistics tests have confirmed this was
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the gun that killed john martin
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david wayne mills has been charged with
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first-degree murder however the
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prosecuting attorney may elevate the
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charge to capital murder which carries a
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death penalty
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in a moment the story of a mysterious
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canadian prospector who left the fortune
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that may be worth three million dollars
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someone watching tonight may be his heir
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[Music]
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last year on unsolved mysteries we told
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you about george marsh and charlie
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shield who when they died left unclaimed
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fortunes
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both cases were solved and legitimate
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heirs came forward to claim their
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inheritance
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tonight we have another missing air
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story
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dan willens a mysterious canadian
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prospector spent a lifetime finding gold
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according to public records he left an
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unclaimed estate of nearly one hundred
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thousand dollars but willen's wealth may
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be worth much much more than that some
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say as much as three million dollars and
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as theirs may well be alive today in the
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united states
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dan williams is one of thousands of men
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who poured into canada wanting to strike
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it rich
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they came from all walks of life
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between trucks in the wilderness they
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settled in rough mining towns like haley
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berry in ontario canada where dan
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williams was well known by 1925. oh he's
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not laughing
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there we go aces twos nine
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thrown together by fate and greed these
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rough prospectors spent their nights
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playing poker and their days hoping to
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find that one strike that would make
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their fortune
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gentlemen the game is yours dan williams
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and his closest friends relied on each
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other to share information and mistakes
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and claims
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even they didn't know who dan williams
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really was thanks a lot dan
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he was very private
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i don't know if i ever listen to him
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ever brag about himself never
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never
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or
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comment about as fast never never
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i consider him as a gentleman gentleman
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always well dressed and his walk and his
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stance
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i would
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take her to be a military man good night
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really good here dan williams had a
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partner bill costner
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one night another miner pulled out a map
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he told dan and bill that there might be
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gold in red lake
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850 miles to the west you've heard of
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red lake
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heard of it i've heard of it yes
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well here it is mm-hmm right here
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i've staked some claims on this point
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and i've got some real good showings
00:22:05
i think we should go there
00:22:07
i think you're right dan williams and
00:22:09
bill karchner journeyed for more than a
00:22:11
month with a desolate outback
00:22:16
in the next year williams and his
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partner staked 12 claims around red lake
00:22:22
finally their hard work turned up tiny
00:22:24
glints in the sand that meant gold
00:22:28
from that small beginning one of
00:22:29
canada's most profitable gold mines
00:22:31
sprang to life
00:22:33
and with it the community of red lake
00:22:36
the koshner woolens mine drew 45 million
00:22:38
dollars worth of gold
00:22:40
worth a billion dollars in today's
00:22:42
values
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running a lucrative mining company
00:22:46
didn't interest dan his real love was
00:22:48
panning for gold
00:22:50
dan williams continued his solitary
00:22:52
prospecting
00:22:53
often he disappeared in the wilderness
00:22:55
alone for months at a time
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still staking claims and sifting through
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sand
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there was another side to dan williams
00:23:04
the rough outdoorsman led a double life
00:23:06
as a gentleman of culture and breeding
00:23:08
every autumn he take over an entire
00:23:10
floor of the elegant king edward hotel
00:23:12
in toronto wax his mustache and
00:23:15
entertain his friends with lavish
00:23:16
amounts of champagne
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had a social life that very few people
00:23:23
knew anything about i think and he loved
00:23:26
life he there's none of the vote he
00:23:28
loved life he liked social ability there
00:23:30
was no nothing about this
00:23:32
from prospector to gentlemen and back
00:23:34
again dan williams kept up this double
00:23:36
life for years
00:23:39
in the autumn of 1936 dan williams
00:23:41
mysteriously vanished while on one of
00:23:43
his prospecting trips
00:23:46
baffled by his partner's absence bill
00:23:48
koshner began to search for willems
00:23:51
he said he went to his cabin and found
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everything
00:23:55
immaculately in place
00:24:04
he
00:24:06
got that eerie feeling that he had just
00:24:09
left things in place and
00:24:11
was gone and wouldn't be found
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when he disappeared
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the story was that
00:24:20
he'd taken a trip into the bush and he
00:24:22
was never heard of again he was lost
00:24:25
that he perished
00:24:29
now dan was a good
00:24:30
bushman and he wasn't a weak man he was
00:24:33
a very strong man
00:24:35
and i don't think for one minute that he
00:24:37
was lost
00:24:40
i think he went back to england and took
00:24:42
his social place in life
00:24:44
i'm in for five five is that all um some
00:24:48
believe that dan may have been killed
00:24:49
after a poker game
00:24:51
and his body thrown down an abandoned
00:24:53
mine shaft
00:24:55
i think i'm gonna take a chance if you
00:24:57
got any poker game it's just hard to say
00:24:59
what might have happened give me the one
00:25:00
i want money
00:25:02
and losers
00:25:04
don't work too well together especially
00:25:06
if they lose their money i'll see you
00:25:07
five and i'll race 20.
00:25:10
he was a good poker player
00:25:13
[Music]
00:25:18
the truth of dan williams disappearance
00:25:20
remains as elusive as his past
00:25:22
only a handful of clues exist
00:25:25
he appeared to be from england
00:25:27
he was skilled as a horseman and at
00:25:29
cards
00:25:30
he never married
00:25:32
one prospector believes he may have had
00:25:34
a sister in england
00:25:36
his unclaimed estate was valued 1936 at
00:25:39
71
00:25:40
000. this money held by the public
00:25:43
trustee of ontario is now worth nearly
00:25:45
one hundred thousand dollars
00:25:48
but we know that willian's owned half
00:25:50
the shares in the costner williams mine
00:25:52
that his partner bill brought back most
00:25:54
of those shares seven years after
00:25:55
willems vanished
00:25:58
those shares alone would have been worth
00:26:00
at least eight hundred and fifty
00:26:01
thousand dollars in 1943
00:26:04
45 years later it could be worth much
00:26:07
more
00:26:08
yet no one can locate the money
00:26:11
terry howes a toronto-based tracer of
00:26:14
missing heirs has learned that dan
00:26:16
willens may not be his true name
00:26:19
we have reason to think that his real
00:26:20
name was dalton thomas williams
00:26:23
and we feel that there are heirs either
00:26:26
in britain or the us
00:26:28
somewhere in the world
00:26:30
today if an air turned up and we have
00:26:32
every reason to think that their heirs
00:26:34
are going to turn up
00:26:36
the estate could be worth in the
00:26:37
vicinity of three million dollars
00:26:39
depending upon the interest that's been
00:26:41
paid over the years
00:26:43
update within days of our broadcast
00:26:46
davey willens a new york businessman
00:26:48
called our 800 number claiming he might
00:26:50
be one of the heirs to dan willen's
00:26:52
fortune
00:26:55
my grandfather we have determined came
00:26:57
from the uk to ontario in 1895
00:27:01
at that time he was 11 years of age
00:27:04
we believe he traveled with another
00:27:06
family member and we also have been told
00:27:09
that there was a cousin someplace up in
00:27:11
the outback of ontario but there was
00:27:13
never any contact with that individual
00:27:15
through the years so when this unsolved
00:27:18
mysteries program aired and this dan
00:27:21
willens a bushman from ontario was was
00:27:23
disclosed it certainly was an exciting
00:27:26
possible link for our family tree
00:27:28
searching
00:27:30
davey williams flew to toronto to meet
00:27:32
joe perkins one of dan willen's last
00:27:34
surviving friends he brought along
00:27:36
photographs of his grandfather harold
00:27:38
wilders and his great-grandfather john
00:27:40
williams to see if there was a family
00:27:41
resemblance
00:27:44
it's uncanny i
00:27:46
couldn't believe it
00:27:47
the similarity of the face
00:27:50
the nose
00:27:51
spacing of the eyes
00:27:53
forehead
00:27:55
and
00:27:56
i think if you took the beard off the
00:27:58
old man
00:28:01
they'd look like twins
00:28:03
indeed there does seem to be a strong
00:28:05
resemblance our great-grandfather john
00:28:08
grandfather harold and prospector dan
00:28:10
willens all-blood relatives
00:28:12
is davey and heir to dan willen's
00:28:14
fortune
00:28:16
certainly money is important to
00:28:18
everybody and if the ontario government
00:28:20
is holding considerable assets that
00:28:22
could rightfully be claimed by a willens
00:28:24
then i'd like to see that happen i don't
00:28:26
know if it'll be me and my cousins or
00:28:28
not but maybe now we can get some
00:28:31
willances to come forward and maybe we
00:28:33
do have a strong case to be made and
00:28:36
certainly we are going to take the next
00:28:37
steps to pursue that possibility
00:28:40
[Music]
00:28:50
next the story of leo curry a volunteer
00:28:53
softball umpire active in his local
00:28:55
church
00:28:56
and a suspected murderer an arsonist who
00:28:58
has eluded the fbi for 10 years
00:29:03
[Music]
00:29:10
on march 19 1975 in richmond virginia
00:29:13
a bodyguard named chuck kernighan was
00:29:15
murdered
00:29:17
and his body placed in a trunk
00:29:21
police were told the kernighan's corpse
00:29:23
was driven to the rappahannock river
00:29:25
weighed down with a bumper from a 57
00:29:27
chevrolet and thrown overboard
00:29:30
kernighan's body has never been found
00:29:33
the police believe that local
00:29:34
businessman leo curry was responsible
00:29:37
for this contract killing
00:29:42
in the mid 70s the same leo curry was a
00:29:44
volunteer softball empire and active in
00:29:46
his local church
00:29:48
leah was married with four children and
00:29:50
a member of the american legion
00:29:53
[Applause]
00:29:54
leo was a nice guy to many people
00:29:58
there are people that are close to him
00:30:00
that characterize him as a as a caring
00:30:04
uh sensitive individual however our
00:30:07
investigation turned up another leo
00:30:09
corey and that is the leader of a
00:30:11
racketeering enterprise who made a
00:30:13
living committing crimes
00:30:16
then on april 20th 1979 leo corey was
00:30:20
placed on the fbi's 10 most wanted list
00:30:22
as an accused murderer he has eluded the
00:30:25
authorities for 10 years
00:30:29
curry was a successful restaurant owner
00:30:31
who was fiercely competitive
00:30:33
reportedly he tried to force his rivals
00:30:35
out of business by sending in thugs to
00:30:38
terrorize the patrons
00:30:52
on january 15th 1977 corey's friends
00:30:56
brutally attacked innocent customers at
00:30:57
the mailbox restaurant
00:31:00
one person died and several were injured
00:31:03
it became apparent after a few months of
00:31:06
investigation that
00:31:08
leo corey was the very center of a
00:31:11
racketeering enterprise and that means
00:31:13
that he ran an organization that their
00:31:16
primary income was through illegal
00:31:18
purposes be it
00:31:19
frauds extortion murder
00:31:22
uh whatever but their income was uh was
00:31:25
from crime
00:31:27
while the fbi suspected corey was
00:31:29
responsible they could not indict him
00:31:31
because his inner circle was extremely
00:31:33
loyal
00:31:34
they often picked vulnerable groups like
00:31:36
the local gay community as victims for
00:31:38
his scams and extortions i want you to
00:31:41
kill a man for me
00:31:44
i'll do it
00:31:45
in october 1977
00:31:47
curry asked eddie lore to make a hit on
00:31:49
restaurant owner jim hilliar
00:31:55
[Applause]
00:31:59
a few days later cooley scheme backfired
00:32:01
when eddie lore was found hiding outside
00:32:03
jim hilliar's home
00:32:09
[Music]
00:32:11
[Applause]
00:32:13
[Music]
00:32:18
this arrest was a turning point for the
00:32:20
fbi and directly led to curry's
00:32:22
indictment i've heard enough okay we
00:32:24
later learned that he was there
00:32:27
allegedly at leo corey's behest to kill
00:32:31
hillary
00:32:32
to eliminate hilliar as competition in
00:32:35
the restaurant business what are your
00:32:37
options
00:32:39
laura agreed to work with the fbi
00:32:41
he was equipped with a hidden microphone
00:32:43
and the fbi secretly recorded a
00:32:45
conversation with curie for their
00:32:47
investigation
00:32:48
this is the actual recording of leo
00:32:50
curry's voice in the car
00:32:52
i can't understand
00:33:03
based on the surveillance tapes on
00:33:05
october 31st 1978
00:33:07
leo curry was indicted by a federal
00:33:09
grand jury
00:33:11
he was charged with murder attempted
00:33:13
murder extortion assault
00:33:16
racketeering fraud and arson
00:33:20
but the day before the charges came down
00:33:23
leo curry disappeared from richmond
00:33:25
virginia
00:33:26
leo corey is a very competitive person
00:33:30
and it would not surprise me and it's
00:33:32
been done in the past with top 10
00:33:33
fugitives where they pick up the phone
00:33:35
and call the agent who's
00:33:37
who's looking for them simply to tweak
00:33:39
their nose that would be an interesting
00:33:41
call i'd just like to know he's alive
00:33:45
over the last 10 years the fbi have
00:33:47
recorded 165 sightings of kuri mostly on
00:33:51
the east coast but also in brazil in the
00:33:53
middle east
00:33:55
the fbi are offering a 25 000 reward in
00:33:58
this case and have even put up
00:34:00
billboards around the country with leo
00:34:02
curry's face on them
00:34:04
his fbi file is now 38 volumes thick
00:34:08
what we come up with is the most logical
00:34:12
location
00:34:14
for leo corey and what he's doing is
00:34:17
probably
00:34:19
drugs and we believe he's still
00:34:22
closely associated with the gay
00:34:24
community
00:34:26
[Music]
00:34:48
on november 19th 1988 a nine-year-old
00:34:51
girl named michaela joy gary and her
00:34:53
best friend were given five dollars by
00:34:55
the friend's father to spend at a local
00:34:57
market in hayward california a suburb of
00:34:59
oakland
00:35:00
the two girls rolled from michaela's
00:35:02
house to the market on their scooters
00:35:06
mikaela came and asked if she could go
00:35:09
and i said yes and she jumped up and
00:35:11
down and said oh goody goody
00:35:14
they went to the market and that's the
00:35:16
last time we've seen her
00:35:19
although mikira's house was only four
00:35:21
blocks from the market her parents
00:35:22
insisted she be accompanied by a friend
00:35:26
she usually made us a trip to the store
00:35:27
at least once a day or every other day
00:35:29
or so she'd get a friend and go up there
00:35:31
on her scooters we never let her go to
00:35:33
the store by herself she always had to
00:35:35
be with somebody
00:35:41
[Music]
00:35:43
when they came out of the store
00:35:44
michaela's scooter was gone
00:35:48
[Music]
00:35:50
it was over by a car and when she went
00:35:51
over to get the scooter a man stepped
00:35:54
out of the car and grabbed her from
00:35:55
behind and threw her into the
00:36:00
[Music]
00:36:03
michaela's friend
00:36:05
went back into the store
00:36:06
advised the clerk in the store that her
00:36:09
friend had been kidnapped
00:36:12
they called the police
00:36:13
the biggest thing that makes this one a
00:36:15
little different than most
00:36:17
is that we do have a suspect description
00:36:20
we do have a suspect vehicle description
00:36:24
and we do have a witness that saw this
00:36:26
take place
00:36:27
look at the pictures and see if there's
00:36:29
michaela's friend was shown mug shots of
00:36:31
possible suspects but was unable to
00:36:33
identify any of them
00:36:35
she was however able to assist police
00:36:37
artists in creating a composite of the
00:36:39
suspect
00:36:41
she described a white male age eighteen
00:36:43
to early twenties approximately six feet
00:36:45
in height with dirty blonde
00:36:47
shoulder-length hair
00:36:49
the man had a slender build and a
00:36:51
pockmarked complexion
00:36:56
the car he was driving was a large
00:36:58
american model a few years old in poor
00:37:00
condition
00:37:01
it appeared to be brown or tan in color
00:37:05
right now what we need to know if if
00:37:08
anybody was to call is we need a name
00:37:12
a place where we could find
00:37:14
michaela or the kidnapper
00:37:18
nobody has to leave a name
00:37:20
all they have to do is just give us that
00:37:22
tip that we need to act
00:37:27
life just is not the same and it won't
00:37:30
be the same
00:37:31
again until michaela comes home
00:37:34
[Music]
00:37:57
our next story we will meet a retired
00:37:59
couple jim and kay tatum who are sober
00:38:02
reliable people jim was a career army
00:38:05
officer k an accountant
00:38:07
but in their new home they've
00:38:08
experienced unexplained sounds and
00:38:10
objects that move for no apparent reason
00:38:13
experts call this poltergeist activity
00:38:16
some believe that such activity is not
00:38:18
caused by ghosts but rather by
00:38:20
psychokinesis a hidden psychic power in
00:38:23
the mind of an individual which
00:38:25
unconsciously moves objects through
00:38:27
space
00:38:29
could it be that jim and k tatum caused
00:38:32
their own hauntings
00:38:36
this is a quiet suburb near atlanta
00:38:38
georgia where jim and kate tatum build a
00:38:40
new home
00:38:42
there they plan to retire
00:38:44
but five months after they moved in the
00:38:46
tatums began to experience unusual
00:38:48
events that forced them to put their
00:38:49
house up for sale
00:38:51
for this reason they requested we not
00:38:53
show it but they did allow us to film
00:38:55
inside
00:39:01
one night in january of 1986
00:39:04
kate tatum woke from a restless sleep
00:39:06
not wanting to disturb her husband she
00:39:08
left their bedroom
00:39:10
[Music]
00:39:14
she sensed a strange presence
00:39:21
jim i'm in here
00:39:26
jim i'm in here kay had seen a glimpse
00:39:28
of a man walking past the open doorway
00:39:33
jim
00:39:34
at first i thought it was my husband
00:39:37
and i went into the bedroom and there
00:39:39
and my husband was in the bed so i
00:39:41
thought we had a burglar no
00:39:44
jim searched the house
00:39:46
it was definitely a man and he was
00:39:48
swinging his arm slightly and his head
00:39:51
was slightly bent and he walked briskly
00:39:54
past me there was nothing that you could
00:39:56
see through
00:39:58
there's no evidence of any entry there's
00:40:00
no evidence of anyone having been in the
00:40:02
house
00:40:03
and i thought perhaps kay had been using
00:40:06
an overactive imagination
00:40:08
[Music]
00:40:10
as the night passed into dawn k tatum
00:40:13
lay awake
00:40:14
and wondered
00:40:16
i had fear and i was perplexed about
00:40:18
what happened
00:40:19
while i was tossing and turning i
00:40:21
suddenly remembered that i didn't hear
00:40:23
any sound as he passed me
00:40:26
and i still am unable to
00:40:28
figure out why it happened
00:40:34
after kay's first experience two months
00:40:36
pass by without incident
00:40:38
then one night jim was repairing a
00:40:40
ladder that led up to their attic his
00:40:43
work was interrupted when kate called
00:40:44
him for dinner
00:40:46
i specifically unplugged the drill
00:40:48
because it's a very old drill i thought
00:40:50
it might be dangerous to leave it
00:40:52
plugged
00:40:53
as the evening wore on
00:40:55
he wanted to watch a movie and i decided
00:40:57
to go upstairs and read
00:41:00
one hour later kay heard the sound of
00:41:02
the drill outside her room
00:41:06
she thought the gym was teasing her
00:41:07
about having seen a ghost and she tried
00:41:09
to ignore the noise
00:41:11
eventually she went into the hallway
00:41:14
it was empty
00:41:16
and the drill was unplugged
00:41:20
i was really frightened
00:41:22
and i reached out and felt out and it
00:41:24
was ice cold
00:41:26
it had not been turned on
00:41:28
i was very confused
00:41:30
i knew
00:41:32
very well that something was happening
00:41:33
because
00:41:34
kay is very level-headed
00:41:36
and
00:41:38
she was truly frightened
00:41:40
these incidents continued
00:41:42
one night kay heard the sound of coins
00:41:44
falling in a bowl
00:41:46
but she was alone in the room
00:41:50
another time while cooking
00:41:52
kay felt two sharp tugs on her blouse
00:41:55
after that incident i decided we have a
00:41:57
problem in this house
00:41:59
there's something going on
00:42:01
it's it's not something that we can
00:42:03
understand or explain but there's
00:42:05
something definitely going on
00:42:07
this is where most of
00:42:09
the things have been happening
00:42:11
these occurrences seem to center around
00:42:13
k
00:42:15
parapsychologist william roll visited
00:42:17
the house to try to interpret these
00:42:19
events you know the question comes up
00:42:20
why is this family having these
00:42:22
experiences
00:42:23
is there a sort of ghost that has come
00:42:25
back to haunt them for some
00:42:28
unknown reason or what's taking place
00:42:30
a lot of people have these experiences
00:42:32
it's part of who we are as humans to
00:42:35
have uh so-called psychic experiences
00:42:38
but the pot was up here on the wall i
00:42:40
see okay rohl believes that memories can
00:42:43
actually be transferred to physical
00:42:45
objects
00:42:46
and these residual memories may be
00:42:49
triggered by ordinary people
00:42:52
the nature of his presence seems to be
00:42:55
a teasing type of thing
00:42:59
as though it's teasing us
00:43:01
in february jim finally had his first
00:43:04
experience
00:43:05
it started with this small bell located
00:43:08
in the guest room
00:43:09
jim had a habit of waking hours before
00:43:11
his wife
00:43:13
when k woke she would ring the bell if
00:43:15
she needed him upstairs
00:43:18
i'd grown used to climbing the stairs
00:43:21
after hearing the bell and so i did so
00:43:23
and
00:43:24
it wasn't kay she was asleep
00:43:28
so i went in and looked at the bell and
00:43:30
it was there
00:43:32
and i thought obviously i heard
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something else
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other than the bell
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after the third time this happened the
00:43:38
couple decided to make up a code
00:43:41
in order to outwit the entity if it
00:43:43
ranks three times
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i'll come on up the stairs
00:43:48
all right we'll do that
00:43:52
so the next time it rang three times i
00:43:55
knew this was k because this was our
00:43:57
signal
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but k was sound asleep
00:44:00
and the bell was in the other bedroom
00:44:03
where it stays
00:44:05
i went in and looked at it
00:44:07
i turned around and walked out the door
00:44:08
and the thing rang again
00:44:15
then i began to
00:44:16
see how kate felt i mean i was
00:44:18
frightened the hair stood up on my neck
00:44:24
i told kay then i says no more bail i'm
00:44:27
not going to answer that bill anymore
00:44:30
and that bell has not rung since
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i've never seen him like that before
00:44:39
the number of uh horny cases that are
00:44:42
not very striking not very strong
00:44:44
but where the phenomena nevertheless are
00:44:46
disturbing to the family it might be a
00:44:48
bell ringing a fleeting glimpse of an
00:44:51
aberration the events are trivial but
00:44:54
they're deeply upsetting to the family
00:44:56
because they don't fit into the picture
00:44:59
that most of us have
00:45:01
of the world
00:45:02
and that image of
00:45:04
the physical world particularly our of
00:45:06
our home
00:45:08
is intricately related to who we picture
00:45:10
ourselves as being
00:45:12
the story about the bell gets me
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emotional
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because uh this was a real turning point
00:45:19
in my life
00:45:21
i
00:45:22
i knew then that there are things that
00:45:23
are unexplained
00:45:26
the tatums feel that their home is no
00:45:28
longer their own
00:45:30
they have decided to move leaving the
00:45:32
entity if that indeed is what it is
00:45:35
to live in the house alone
00:45:40
[Music]
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for every mystery there is someone
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somewhere who knows the truth
00:45:50
perhaps that someone is watching
00:45:52
perhaps it's you
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[Music]
00:46:19
[Applause]
00:46:22
[Music]
00:46:40
[Music]
00:46:43
you
