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tonight on unsolved mysteries for
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decades many believe that this man
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Albert DeSalvo was one of the most
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notorious serial killers in history the
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Boston Strangler
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now shocking new DNA evidence seems to
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dispute the Salvos guilt raising a
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disturbing question is the Boston
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Strangler still on the loose a 22 year
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old college honors students seems to
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have it all until he is blamed for
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causing three deaths and a fatal traffic
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accident free on bail has disappeared
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authorities need your help to bring him
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to trial an ambitious young mother
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returns to the work force and crosses
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paths with a hot-tempered co-worker the
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woman is then brutally murdered and now
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authorities need your help to catch her
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alleged killer
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Carlos birthday hi also doctor accused
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of poisoning his patients and fleeing to
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Zimbabwe has been captured this update
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and more unsolved mysteries
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on a previous broadcast we brought you
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the story of one of the most infamous
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serial killers in history the Boston
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Strangler at that time we questioned
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whether the man held responsible for
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murdering eleven women Albert DeSalvo
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was in fact guilty recently major new
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information has come to light the
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potentially prove the salvo did not
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commit at least one of the murders join
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us as we examine the latest theories and
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evidence in this intriguing case perhaps
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the real identity of the Boston
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Strangler will finally be revealed today
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it is quiet but 40 years ago these very
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streets exploded in horror
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the year 1962 the place Boston
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Massachusetts the first known serial
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killer in American history was on the
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prowl victim number one anise lessers 55
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strangled with her bathrobe and raped
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with a blood object victim number two
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Helen Blake 65 sexually mutilated and
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strangled her bra twisted into an
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enormous bowl under the chin victim
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number three Nina Nichols 68 strangled
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her nylons tied into yet another
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gruesome bow it was only the beginning
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over the next two years eight more women
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fell victim to the psychopath all but
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one were brutally choked to death in
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their own homes their bodies posed and
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hideous positions the city buckled under
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a frenzy of fear and paranoia stepping
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into this maelstrom was Albert DeSalvo
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already facing a lengthy prison term for
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an unrelated series of rapes DeSalvo
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admitted that he was a Boston Strangler
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a wave of relief and calm passed over
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the residents of Boston order had been
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restored the sadistic killer was finally
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behind bars but many believe DeSalvo had
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reason to falsely confess first day yeah
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put my arm around backwards me right and
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then I put the pillowcase around her
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neck
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the first thing that Albert hoped to get
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out of being known as the Boston
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Strangler was the fame of it because he
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desperately wanted to be famous even if
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it were something terrible
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his second goal was to avoid a prison
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sentence he had apparently been
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convinced that if he confessed to the
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stranglings he would be sent not to
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prison but to a very fancy private
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institution where doctors would study
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him do you remember tie any knots in it
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yeah I did I did but if he was lying the
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Salvas confession was uncannily accurate
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I think I am many investigators were
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convinced he had to be the killer nh-2
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if he would have heard him go in a
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detail and tell you exactly how the
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furniture was and what it was adjacent
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to and so forth
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you know nobody could tell you that
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unless they were that
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after eight years of research on this
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case one thing I'm certain of and that
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is that Albert DeSalvo was not the
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Boston Strangler there are a number of
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very good suspects none of them happened
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to be Albert DeSalvo on November 24th
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1973 Albert DeSalvo called his former
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psychiatrist from prison stating he was
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ready to tell the truth about the Boston
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Strangler but he was murdered that night
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before he could meet with a psychiatrist
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now startling new DNA evidence suggests
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the real killer or killers were never
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actually caught was Albert DeSalvo the
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Boston Strangler evidence found on the
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last victim suggest that the answer is
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No
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Mary Mary On January 4 1964 Mary
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Sullivan was found by her roommate
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strangled to death and sexually
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assaulted in a final morbid gesture a
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Happy New Year card was placed at her
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feet the killer left semen on Mary's
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body that the police collected in 1964
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forensic technology at the time wasn't
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capable of determining to whom it
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belonged Mary Sullivan officially became
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the eleventh and final victim of the
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Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo later
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confessed to her murder but recently two
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families have formed an unlikely
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alliance to challenge that assertion
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more forcefully than ever before the
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family of Mary Sullivan and the family
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of her alleged killer Albert DeSalvo I
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never believed my brother was the boss a
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strangle from day one I just want the
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name cleared that's all
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Albert was not perfect Albert did some
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bad things
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Albert was not a murderer
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marry sister Diane also believes it
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DeSalvo was not the killer
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I mainly come here to say hi to Mary and
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I'm gonna try to do my what I can I'm
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gonna do everything I can to find her
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murderer to find the ax murderer marry
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to the disabled and Sullivan families
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there was an obvious solution to the
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controversy one of the most powerful
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forensic tools ever created DNA
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profiling if the Boston Police
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Department still have the biological
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evidence from Mary Sullivan's crime
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scene her killer could be found I made
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several inquiries to the Boston Police
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Department and they told me flat-out
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that they did not have any physical
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evidence left in the Boston Strangler
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case to test for DNA evidence
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Casey Sherman and his mother Diane were
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then forced to turn to the only evidence
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available to them the body of Mary
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Sullivan we had to do the exhumation of
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my aunt's body it was a horrible
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experience we didn't want to do it but
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it was our last and only recourse we
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thought and it was the only chance to
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find her killer to supervise the
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exhumation the Solomons asked for the
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help of world-renowned professor of law
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and forensic science James II stars and
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a team of experts we were obviously
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looking for any seminal fluid and we do
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know that seminal fluid will fluoresce
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under UV light so we looked and similar
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fluid for us and it also was in the
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right location for seminal fluid it's on
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pubic hair
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could this be the evidence a team had
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been hoping for a chilling clue reaching
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across decades to identify the killer a
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sample of her pubic hair was transferred
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to a forensic molecular biologist David
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foreign and his team so we examined that
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and went after that as far as could we
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getting any DNA from it we had to be
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extra careful because obviously her hair
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is going to have her DNA in it so one of
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the tricky parts becomes isolating DNA
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only from this material that's stuck in
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the pubic hair and not from the hair
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itself
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dr. foreign successfully isolated a DNA
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sequence from the sample poor and
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uncompetitive Albert DeSalvo z' by using
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DNA taken from his brother Richard the
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results were virtually indisputable the
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DNA found on Mary Sullivan's body did
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not belong to Albert DeSalvo someone to
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our surprise in no instances did we find
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anything from Albert DeSalvo it wasn't
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there on the other hand we did find DNA
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sequences that are from someone and
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they're not someone we can account for
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despite how hard we tried a well of
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emotions came over me because a lot
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there have been a lot of times where I
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didn't know if we had done the right
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thing but when he said that there was
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DNA they believed from Mary's killer on
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her body and that DNA didn't match
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Albert DeSalvo it was just complete
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vindication as far as I was concerned
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for those who say that Albert DeSalvo
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did do it if the shoe is on their foot
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now it's for them to come forward and
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show the evidence to prove that Albert
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DeSalvo did do it as of now we've got
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evidence indicating in all scientific
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probability that he didn't do it
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if Albert DeSalvo did not kill Mary
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Sullivan than who did before disciples
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confession put an end to the
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investigation the police were pursuing a
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number of promising suspects the
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original investigators of Mary's murder
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found a strange piece of evidence in her
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bathroom implicating Mary's allegedly
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abusive ex-boyfriend but they found an
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ascot cut up in the toilet when my
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sister dated this person that's all she
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bought him for presents where he loved
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ask gods so I could see him definitely
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cutting that Ascot up in the bathroom
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and I could absolutely see him killing
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Mary
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the second suspect is based on an
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eyewitness account a neighbor saw a man
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in Mary's apartment at the approximate
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time of the murder so they're giving you
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a hard time at work huh yeah what'd they
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say Mary Sullivan's roommate had a
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boyfriend who matched the neighbors
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description off what did you just beat
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him up the roommates boyfriend may have
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also had access to Mary's apartment
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explaining why there were no signs of
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forced entries at the height of the
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Boston Strangler case mine was
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well-versed in what was going on she
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wouldn't let a stranger into the
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apartment she would have had to have
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known that man or that man who would
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have had to have gotten into the
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apartment with a key so the day before
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Mary's murder her roommate had spent the
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entire day with the prime suspect and
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Mary's killing I want to state what are
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these for the keys to the apartment next
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to set at her apartment key had gone
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missing the day before she was killed
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now this key hadn't fallen off the
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keychain it was taken off you live in
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Vermont no
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you know suspect was brought in for a
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lie-detector test did you take a key
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from Mary Sullivan's apartment No
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you kill Mary Sullivan no face front
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please
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according to police his responses were
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deemed untruthful once the cell will
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confessed however were investigations
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into this suspect and Mary's
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ex-boyfriend were closed and what about
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the other murders author Susan Kelly's
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extensive investigation has revealed
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that the police had promising suspects
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in many of these cases as well if Albert
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wasn't the Boston Strangler who was the
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Boston Strangler from what my research
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indicates there wasn't one there were
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many
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On June 14th 1962 the maniac claimed his
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first victim
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56 year old and slicers earlier that day
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a painting crew was working at her
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apartment 16 days later the same
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painting crew arrived at the apartment
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building of Helen Blake she became
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victim number two the only thing that
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connected those murders was a painting
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crew working on the exteriors of the
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woman's apartment buildings at the
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approximate times they were killed two
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of the members of the painting crew
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their alibis couldn't be corroborated by
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their boss or by their fellow workers
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and that's an unusual connection as was
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first uncovered by Susan Kelly's
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research police also had a suspect for a
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victim number six 20 year old Sophie
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Clark
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the suspect in the Sophie Clark case was
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seen entering her apartment building he
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was seen fleeing her apartment building
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covered in sweat police identified the
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man and learned that he had dated Sophie
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at least once he resided he was given
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lie-detector tests on two separate
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occasions and according to authorities
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failed both victim number seven was 23
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year-old Patricia Bisset in this case
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two Susan Kelly discovered that police
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had a viable suspect Tricia
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Patricia's boss who discovered her body
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detectives found out that Patricia
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Bassett was having an affair with her
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happily married boss at the time she was
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killed while I found her autopsy report
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it shows that she was one month pregnant
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when she was murdered not only do you
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have motive but you have a suspect there
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like the suspects and Mary Sullivan's
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murder investigations into every one of
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these individuals stop cold
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when Albert DeSalvo confessed that there
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were more than one strangler there's a
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possibility that some of the older women
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died at the hands of the same person
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each of the young women who died was
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murdered by a different individual who
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had his own motives
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[Music]
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if you hated a woman back in the early
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1960s you could kill her
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loosely wrap a stocking around her neck
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and hope that the police would think it
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was the Boston Strangler
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I mean clearly the killers that were
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murdering these women they had a diagram
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on how to commit a Boston strangling
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because all the grisly details were
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printed in the papers at the time if you
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wanted to commit a murder he or her
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diagram the Sullivan family continues to
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hope that Mary's killer will one day be
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held accountable
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I want closure from my mother my mother
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has had to live nearly 40 years without
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any answers in this case we want to
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publicly identify Mary's killer look him
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in the eye and tell him what what he
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stole from us
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[Music]
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[Music]
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headlight came right right into the
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driver's side window
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that's pretty much the last thing I
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remember and then I woke up about 10
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minutes later eyeglass my eyes my reason
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I couldn't really see much just because
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of all the glass and I just kind of
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looked around and kind of clicked to me
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that there's no way everybody could have
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made it out of there and saw saw my
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friends on the road it was ugly
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yes real ugly Matt Wagner had somehow
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survived a devastating for car accident
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on State Route 278 a Pullman Washington
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three of his closest friends were not so
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lucky
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Brandon s Clemmons his best friend Ryan
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Sorensen Ryan's girlfriend Stacy Morin
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Stacy was my daughter Stacy Gretchen
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tomorrow she was 21 17 22 student at
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Washington State University and just one
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of the most beautiful young ladies I
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ever knew shortly after the fatal crash
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Stacy morose
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along with Brandon and Ryan were honored
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at a Washington State University
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memorial I didn't know what to do and I
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had mixtures of course a sadness and
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just raged that something like this
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would happen I mean nothing's been the
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same since it was just a nightmare a
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nightmare that should have been you know
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that could have been a easily avoided
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and was totally unnecessary
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police believe dat Frederic Russell a 22
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year old honours student had recklessly
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caused the accident he was charged on
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three counts of vehicular homicide and
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four counts of vehicular assault but
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fred has his share of supporters do I
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believe that that accident was caused
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primarily by my son I don't I think
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there were a lot of causes and I think
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there were a lot of people responsible
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for what happened on that road that
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night that doesn't make it any better or
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any worse that's just an interpretation
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of the facts my sense of what Greg
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gressil is doing in this case is that he
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is defending his son beyond a reasonable
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amount and is making statements that are
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trying to cloud the issue spread the
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responsibility and excused his son to
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try to get this young man off the hook
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for the deaths of my daughter and
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brandonandryan confront Russell the
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innocent of the charges against him
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Russell is from a respected family whose
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father is a chair of the criminal
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justice department of Washington State
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University he doesn't believe that is
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solely responsible for what happened
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that night but the victims families
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vehemently disagree this tragic case has
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put the college town of Pullman
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Washington in a warring camps many
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believe it only the driver that night
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Fred Russell can stop the outbursts of
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rage and grief but Fred Russell is
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nowhere to be found
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okay investigators have pieced together
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Fred's activities and the hours leading
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up to the deadly crash I think several
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witnesses claim they saw Fred and his
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friend Jacob McFarland drinking at a
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local bar at approximately 10:15 p.m.
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Fred and Jacob were seen leaving the bar
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Fred then got behind the wheel and
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headed onto Route 270
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ridiculous lady pick it up according to
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police reports Fred came upon a
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slower-moving vehicle in front of him
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although he was in a no passing zone
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fred illegally tried to go around the
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car at 90 miles an hour
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police believe that friends Chevy Blazer
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first truck a Geo Prizm heading in the
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opposite direction then a Cadillac
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carrying seven and college students
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Brandon Clemens Ryan Sorensen and Stacey
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Mauro were killed on impact Matt Wagner
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and three other students were critically
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injured but survived the Blazer then
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smashed into a third vehicle before
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bursting into flames amazingly Fred
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Russell and his friend Jacob escaped
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relatively unscathed two hours after the
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accident
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Fred's blood alcohol was tested at a
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nearby hospital it measured point one
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two well above the legal limit later
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Fred Russell was arrested at his home
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and charged with three counts of
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vehicular homicide
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Fred Russell's bail was set for $5,000
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which his father Greg had no problem
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posting Fred would remain free until his
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trial in fact he was even allowed to
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drive to and from work that was pretty
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hard to take you know when you lose your
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three friends it feels like somebody
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murdered him kind of feel like the guy
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should be behind bars right away and he
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shouldn't be able to be out be out in
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public anymore but the bail is so low as
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to be nothing other than a slap on the
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wrist is almost insulting to victims and
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their families we believe that he poses
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no flight risk
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and now whether there was a personal
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connection between judge Frasier and
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Greg Russell the Dean of the school of
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Criminology at WSU I don't know I do
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believe though that Greg Russell's
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standing in the community was one of the
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reasons why Frederick Russell was
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allowed to be out on bail and why that
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bail was so low I would imagine that
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99.9 percent of the time most judges in
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this country in the same situation would
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have done the same thing
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public anger began to grow as Fred's
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team of lawyers prepared his defense a
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motion was filed disputing the blood
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alcohol finding and challenges were made
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as to whether fred was really
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responsible for the accident I was shown
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toxicology reports of the deceased
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driver of the Cadillac that indicated
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there were drugs and alcohol in his
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system I was shown toxicology reports of
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other occupants that showed that there
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were drugs and alcohol in their systems
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as well meth and marijuana there was
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absolutely nothing in the system of the
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decedent's that contributed in any way
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either to the collision or to their
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subsequent death I think that the
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accusation by Greg Russell that is
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clearly intended to cloud the issue of
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his son's responsibility in this case is
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sinful within weeks
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Fred Russell and his supporters claimed
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that he became the target of the
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community's growing outrage the death
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threats that he indicated that he
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received were two phone calls in July
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early July and then we received
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information that a card was left at the
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front doorstep of the residents that he
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was at indicating that he wouldn't live
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to see his trial four weeks later Fred
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Russell disappeared both his lawyers and
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family claimed to have not heard from
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him since shortly after he jumped bail
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Greg Russell and several local
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newspapers received a letter signed by
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Fred it read in part
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I left because I had no choice since the
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first day after the tragic accident
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horrible things have been printed about
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me now people are so enraged that they
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would rather see me dead than receive a
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fair trial I maintain my innocence but
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my life has been repeatedly threatened
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so I cannot stay
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Fred Russell's whereabouts are currently
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unknown I think Fred has an expensive
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lifestyle
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I think Fred's I'm accustomed to good
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things being able to go out and party
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and drink and socialize I would find it
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impossible for Fred to make his ends
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meet without assistance in some manner
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from some family member a friend since
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that letter nobody in the family to my
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knowledge has heard anything from him we
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don't know anyone who has heard from him
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and I would hope that if anyone did if
00:27:58
any of my friends know if anyone in the
00:28:00
family heard from him that they'd tell
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us what I would say to Frederick Russell
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is we'll get you
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you can't hide forever and I've got a
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long time left in this life and I'll
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find you
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ten-year-old Johanna Molina of Merced
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California will soon be reunited with
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her mother Jean Jean Molina has recently
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moved to Tustin four hours to the south
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and is now ready for her oldest child to
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join her Jean was real happy because
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Joanna was going to come and live with
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her and we made it and we made
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arrangements to take her down that
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weekend two months earlier feeling a
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need to take a sabbatical from her
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marriage Gena taken a job as a cook it
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would be a chance to assert some
00:29:27
independence however other forces may
00:29:30
have prompted her move as well she'd had
00:29:33
a dream that I was going to battle to
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beat her up and she felt that she should
00:29:38
get out of my house and I never
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understood why she would have a dream
00:29:43
like that and believe that dream but her
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Paris and Johanna stopped by G's new
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home no one was there
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not knowing where else to turn the
00:29:54
Hitchcock's checked the restaurant or
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Jean worked I was just really not sure
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what to do because Jean if she said she
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was going to be there she would have
00:30:22
been there the next morning the
00:30:25
Hitchcock's rushed to jeans room hoping
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to find a sign of her sadly there were
00:30:31
no clues to where she might be it was
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very difficult because at that point we
00:30:36
were so worried and Joanna she kept
00:30:39
watching me she wanted to see how I was
00:30:42
reacting how frightened I was her how
00:30:45
bad the situation was by my reaction the
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Hitchcock's immediately went to the
00:30:52
Anaheim Police Department to file a
00:30:54
missing-persons report yesterday we were
00:30:56
supposed to meet with my daughter deep
00:30:58
down I didn't know that something was
00:31:00
very wrong but I tried not to think
00:31:04
about it because I knew that it would
00:31:06
just make things sores
00:31:07
Thank You Joanna and the Hitchcock's
00:31:13
returned home empty-handed without a
00:31:14
single clue to Jean Molina's whereabouts
00:31:17
over the next several days he would
00:31:19
anxiously wait by their phones hoping
00:31:21
for news that Jean was safe and unharmed
00:31:23
sadly that car would never come
00:31:27
Jean Malina was raised in Merced
00:31:30
California following a tour of duty with
00:31:33
the Navy Jean returned home and began a
00:31:36
family she married Frank Reed and had
00:31:39
three children Joanna
00:31:40
Elizabeth and John
00:31:43
though she and Frank had their ups and
00:31:45
downs it was a fulfilling marriage we
00:31:49
had a lot of fun we had a lot of respect
00:31:51
for each other
00:31:51
she just had all of the things that I
00:31:54
have always wanted it I mean she was she
00:31:56
made me want to be married for a long
00:31:59
time but what her youngest child was 2
00:32:02
years old
00:32:03
Jean felt a need for some changes in her
00:32:05
life and decided to go back to work
00:32:08
Mercedes such a small town and she
00:32:11
didn't feel she could go far here so she
00:32:14
went to Southern California jeans
00:32:17
experience as a cook in the Navy helped
00:32:19
her land a job with a restaurant chain
00:32:22
within six weeks she had been promoted
00:32:25
she was going to be training all of you
00:32:27
of the new hires that each restaurant is
00:32:30
they opened up she had planned to take
00:32:32
Johanna with her so it was kind of it's
00:32:35
gonna be kind of a neat experience for
00:32:37
her she was really excited about it she
00:32:38
was real happy then just when everything
00:32:41
was going so well for her 33 year old
00:32:43
Jean Molina vanished the very day the
00:32:50
hitchcock's drove to Tustin to see Jean
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a gruesome discovery was made in
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Westminster a town ten miles away the
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badly battered body of an unidentified
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woman was found near an abandoned
00:33:03
construction site it was one of the more
00:33:06
vicious crime scenes that we've
00:33:08
investigated and we've investigated an
00:33:10
awful lot of homicides just after
00:33:12
daybreak that Sunday a husband and wife
00:33:15
witnessed a man acting suspiciously near
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his car he picked up some type of large
00:33:22
objects and we later found that to be a
00:33:24
piece of asphalt and
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with both hands above his head just
00:33:28
thrust it now hard and then looked up
00:33:31
and saw her and in her words she
00:33:34
panicked and jumped back in this compact
00:33:36
vehicle and sped off and was seen in
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highway to speak we didn't feel that
00:33:43
robbery was a motive she had some money
00:33:47
on her she had a ring on her finger
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we felt that probably under the
00:33:53
circumstances the suspects that did this
00:33:56
Neuer in some way they were trying to
00:33:59
prevent us from finding out who she was
00:34:02
she was so badly damaged that we
00:34:06
couldn't tell she's a female Asian white
00:34:08
Hispanic an autopsy revealed that she
00:34:14
had been sexually assaulted strangled
00:34:16
and bludgeoned before being run over by
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a car three days after jean molina
00:34:23
vanished her landlord read a newspaper
00:34:25
article about the unidentified female
00:34:28
victim found in Westminster and thought
00:34:30
it might be Jean he immediately
00:34:32
contacted authorities who contacted
00:34:35
jeans husband possibly the most
00:34:41
difficult thing in my life I ever had to
00:34:42
do to go down and identify somebody who
00:34:45
was beaten so badly she was
00:34:48
unrecognizable it wasn't until Frank was
00:34:54
shown the ring the victim was wearing
00:34:56
that he was certain his beloved Jean had
00:34:59
been murdered
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really sorry frança called me and told
00:35:03
me that he had had to identify the body
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I didn't handle that very well - it was
00:35:09
a horrible week and I was the day was
00:35:12
worse but somehow at least I can't say
00:35:14
it was a relief it was just it made me
00:35:16
angry
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despite G's dream about her husband
00:35:20
beating her investigators were able to
00:35:23
quickly eliminate Frank Reed as a
00:35:25
suspect I kind of come to believe that
00:35:28
the dream wasn't about me it was a dream
00:35:30
about something else and she had
00:35:31
foreseen what was going to happen to her
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detectives went to the restaurant and
00:35:37
questioned jeans co-workers one of the
00:35:43
things we found out was that she had
00:35:45
worked on July 16th just about till 11
00:35:50
o'clock at night one witness stated that
00:35:54
she did come back after signing out on
00:35:57
the timecard
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she did come back and talk to this
00:36:01
particular individual for a few minutes
00:36:02
that individual was short-order cook
00:36:05
Carlos Gardel investigators theorize
00:36:14
Jean might have left with Brad AHA to
00:36:16
celebrate her daughter's impending
00:36:18
arrival she already bought a bed for her
00:36:23
daughter she already stocked up the
00:36:25
refrigerator I mean this was a exciting
00:36:27
time for her this was something that she
00:36:29
was really really looking forward to
00:36:32
police would soon learn the Carlos
00:36:35
Verdejo reportedly admitted committing a
00:36:37
previous murder he's got a temper okay
00:36:41
can you tell me what that means
00:36:42
you know I was working one day and I was
00:36:46
just joking around with him never go out
00:36:49
with you on account of your ugly the
00:36:51
line cook thought it was just minuscule
00:36:53
he was just kidding with him and he said
00:36:55
the guy just went off and pulled a
00:36:57
butcher knife out and threatened him
00:36:59
with a butcher knife
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yeah I killed him me her hey de then
00:37:10
came back in according to the person
00:37:13
that we interviewed the next day and had
00:37:15
some kind of paperwork with him stating
00:37:17
that he was wanted someplace in Mexico
00:37:19
for an additional homicide he came in
00:37:22
the morning but he didn't show up at
00:37:23
night
00:37:24
jeans co-workers also inform police that
00:37:27
Carlos bodega had abruptly resigned from
00:37:30
his job
00:37:31
yes that was Sunday when investigators
00:37:33
went to bar de Haas residence they
00:37:35
learned that he and his common-law wife
00:37:37
had vacated the premises the day of the
00:37:39
murder left his clothes behind some of
00:37:42
his claws that afternoon another
00:37:45
neighbor caught Carlos Brad AHA behaving
00:37:48
oddly around his car her haida was then
00:37:51
seen attempting to clean out parts of
00:37:54
the vehicle
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the sedan registered decorous bodega was
00:38:04
later found abandoned near by the car
00:38:07
provided a wealth of physical evidence
00:38:09
in the case evidence not only in the
00:38:11
vehicle but on the undercarriage of the
00:38:13
vehicle that secured in my mind with
00:38:17
beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was
00:38:20
the vehicle have been used to run over
00:38:22
jean molina authorities have been
00:38:25
searching for Connors body ha ever since
00:38:28
they believe he may have additional
00:38:30
wives and families in Mexico who are
00:38:33
helping him evade capture well I hope
00:38:36
they catch him and I just hope to be
00:38:38
able to tell him what I think of him
00:38:40
there is some kebab a test condors are
00:38:43
who her father is - Madhuri you're a
00:38:46
coward and you hide beneath your
00:38:49
mother's skirts Carlos Garcia Barajas
00:38:53
wanted for the murder of Jean Molina
00:38:55
Barajas 37 years old 5 foot 7 inches
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tall and weighs 180 pounds he is adept
00:39:04
of creating aliases and should be
00:39:05
considered extremely dangerous
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on a previous broadcast we profound a
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suspected serial killer who fled halfway
00:39:17
around the world to avoid being charged
00:39:18
with murder in a remarkable twist of
00:39:22
fate he is now in custody
00:39:26
the story of Michael Swango was a
00:39:28
bizarre one as a medical student he used
00:39:31
his hospital internship to secretly kill
00:39:34
when mysterious deaths occurred on his
00:39:36
watch hospital officials became
00:39:38
suspicious when co-workers became ill
00:39:40
they believed Swango was poisoning them
00:39:44
Swango represents the ultimate betrayal
00:39:47
we trust doctors we put our lives and
00:39:50
health in their hands and so Michael
00:39:52
held himself out of someone who's
00:39:53
willing to help but in fact he was
00:39:55
looking to hurt using various aliases
00:39:58
the doctors spent years evading the law
00:40:01
and when police began to close in he
00:40:04
quietly fled to Zimbabwe Africa soon
00:40:08
after authorities issued a warrant for
00:40:10
swango's arrests for the only thing they
00:40:12
could fraud he had lied on a federal job
00:40:15
application that warrant would
00:40:17
eventually come back to haunt him update
00:40:23
three years later Swango was fleeing
00:40:26
Africa to Saudi Arabia but had to stop
00:40:29
in the US to renew his visa at Chicago
00:40:32
O'Hare Airport an alert customs agent
00:40:35
ran his name through the computer found
00:40:37
the warrant and Swango was arrested it
00:40:39
was June 1997 and little did officials
00:40:43
know that they had captured possibly the
00:40:45
most prolific serial killer of the
00:40:47
century
00:40:48
nothing compares to Swango the
00:40:51
unbelievable strange motives that he had
00:40:54
and the length of time for which he did
00:40:56
it and the number of times he got away
00:40:57
with it I mean nothing compares while
00:41:00
serving time on the fraud charge
00:41:02
federal prosecutors had three years to
00:41:04
develop a murder case against Wingo that
00:41:07
could put him away for life we had to
00:41:10
prove that there was a homicide normally
00:41:12
that's not a problem in a murder case
00:41:14
you have a dead body there's a bullet
00:41:16
there's a stabbing there's a strangling
00:41:18
beating in this case people had been had
00:41:21
passed on and it had been assumed that
00:41:23
they died naturally exhumed bodies
00:41:26
complicated toxicology tests an
00:41:29
eyewitness and even swango's own Diaries
00:41:32
sealed a deadly doctor's fate page after
00:41:34
page of his personal writings are filled
00:41:36
with morose texts like I love it sweet
00:41:40
husky clothes smell of an indoor
00:41:42
homicide we can tell from Michael
00:41:45
swango's writings that he simply liked
00:41:49
to kill people
00:41:51
for him the thrill was doing the killing
00:41:54
and getting away with it and that's why
00:41:56
it was difficult to establish a pattern
00:41:58
with him because he was something of an
00:42:01
opportunistic killer he would kill
00:42:03
whenever he had the chance to kill
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join me next time more fascinating
00:42:28
stories from the realm of unsolved
00:42:31
mysteries
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