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tonight on unsolved mysteries
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when Monica Rizzo disappeared an
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anonymous phone call led the police to
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her house but what investigators found
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buried in the backyard was beyond
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anything they ever expected his Bloods
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thicker than water
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not if you ask convicted felon Fredrik
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Yanni he's spending the rest of his life
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in prison for crimes he insists he did
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not commit so who's the real culprit
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according to Fredrik none other than his
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identical twin brother
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Cedric what would you do if someone sold
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you a house haunted by some very nasty
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ghosts this family in England decided to
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take the former owners to court
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by all accounts Sharon Kinney was a
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woman who knew what she wanted what she
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wanted most was sex and money but what
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she killed for the big payoff police say
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a trail of victims leaves little doubt
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join me for these stories of heartbreak
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and intrigue runs on the streets
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hello gonna help you just a San Antonio
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please yes it is like to report a murder
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okay
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a woman Monica reso was murdered ain't
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who killed her sir she was murdered by
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her husband Leonard Rizzo you could find
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her bones in the backyard of their house
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there's a skull and some other bones too
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it sounded like a gruesome prank but the
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police in San Antonio Texas wasted no
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time checking it out they intended to
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question Monica Rizzo's husband Leonard
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but that would have to wait just at the
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moment the detectives arrived RZA was
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having some sort of a seizure mr. Rizzo
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the dead how long has he been like this
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I don't know I was upstairs for a while
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mr. Rizzo at first the detectives
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suspected a drug overdose
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they were later told it was one of a
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series of seizures Rizzo had recently
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been suffering with Leonard Rizzo on his
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way to the hospital the police
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questioned his older son he lived across
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town he said he hadn't seen his mother
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for about a week
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you know when she's expected back no you
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mind if we have a look around no that's
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that's fine
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Monica's clothes still hung in the
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closet her car was parked in the
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driveway nothing seemed to be missing
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except Monica Rizal next the backyard
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the detectives did find boulders but
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they clearly belong to some kind of an
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animal the anonymous caller appeared to
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be wrong there was no sign of a body no
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clues to murder
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where was Monica Rizal for her
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co-workers at a government office in San
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Antonio the mystery had begun one month
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earlier on May 5th 1997 that day
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Monica Rizzo left her desk apparently on
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her way to lunch she walked out without
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even taking her purse after eight days
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of repeated phone calls Monica's boss
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finally reached her at home she told me
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that that she wasn't feeling very well
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and she would she want to let me know
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that she was going to be out the rest of
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that week and she would be returning to
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work Monday of the following week which
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would have been May the 19th but the
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19th came and went
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Monica Rizzo never returned to work
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Leonard Rizzo claims that a few days
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later he simply woke up one morning and
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she was gone he never reported it to the
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police I was very confused I was they
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made no sense although I felt very close
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there was no reason for me to believe
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she wouldn't be coming back where she'd
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gone I just I have faith in her I just
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chose to wait it's just the San Antonio
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Police yesterday is gonna help you
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remember you need to go back and search
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their house again
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Leonard Rizzo killed his wife the bones
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are in the backyard they're under a
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pilot tires by the fence look under
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those tires again the police responded
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out there along with some homicide
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detectives that went out there and took
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a look and they did find some what
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appear to be human bones
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detectives collected a skull a number of
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bone fragments and even a bag filled
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with what appeared to be human flesh
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Leonard Rizzo had some explaining to do
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they'd go for Hickman Center in my yard
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or an absolute mystery to me is his
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digging mystery is my wife's
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disappearance to me there's to me
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there's no question to me on someone
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who's trying to draw attention from
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themselves someone is doing this to me
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inside the hubs
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police found potential evidence of a
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violent struggle several sections have
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bashed or blood spattered drywall
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basically I just got very very emotional
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about missing her and attempted to beat
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up the house I guess you could say the
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house won I got the worst end of it
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detectives also learned that Monica's
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co-workers had been so worried about her
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that on one occasion they asked the
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police to check on her
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the officer who responded believed there
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was reason for concern something wrong
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Monica Risa yes I'm with the San Antonio
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Police some people your office asked
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that I stopped by are you okay yes I'm
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fine it looks like there's some bruising
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on your face no I just felt that I'm
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fine
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as your husband here yes but he's very
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sick I've been take care of him
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you sure you're okay yes
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there was no domestic abuse there was no
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domestic violence my wife and I deeply
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in love we are deeply in love
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we've been married 26 years going on 27
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years now it's a long time police
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brought in a team of archaeologists from
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the University of Texas to excavate the
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site we literally crawled across this
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area using our trials and moving the
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roots and the moving the grass blades
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and looking down beneath the grass and
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every time we found a bone fragment or
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something the police department
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considered might be evidence we put an
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orange pin flag out before they were
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done the yard was dotted with dozens of
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orange flags when you find bone in an
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old archeological site the bone is very
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dry this bone still had a greasy feel to
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it so we knew it had not been there very
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long but at the same time it had been
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there more than a week or a couple weeks
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there was no soft tissue still attached
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to it there were bones everywhere even
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inside the barbecue grill
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I picked it up and looked at it and I
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was sure it was a human hand bone
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because it has a distinctive shape
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although it's very small maybe a half an
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inch or so we got the archaeologists
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sifted the ashes finding more bones all
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of them from human hands sure no one is
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sure how many hands over eight days dr.
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Hart and his team collected more than
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200 bone fragments most of them had been
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chopped into pieces less than three
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inches long what do you think could
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cause that we felt it was some such kind
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of machine some type of chipper shredder
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has been discussed quite a bit it's the
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only machine that we can come up that we
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can come up with that could possibly
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account for this type of breakage you
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wouldn't get it with a saw you wouldn't
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get it with a knife you wouldn't get it
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with a lawnmower we can't think of
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anything else that would break up bone
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like this once again police had
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questions for Leonard Rizzo I have never
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even operated a wood chipper I have
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never running rented anything in a
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rental store other than a car dolly
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maybe a trailer no I did do not did not
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operate a wood chipper never have the
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case of Monica Rizzo at this point is
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being investigated as a missing persons
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case the human remains they were found
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in the backyard of Leonard Rizzo we have
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no knowledge how those people died we
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don't know the cause of death we haven't
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established that a crime did in fact
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occur
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whatever happened in his backyard and
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whoever it happened to Leonard Rizzo
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continues to insist he had nothing to do
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with it those bone fragments and such
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where they came from I don't know how
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they got there I don't know and I
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adamantly did not give him or anyone
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else
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they look so much alike even their
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mother can't tell them apart is it
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possible the police made the same
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mistake
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the final appeal of Frederick young June
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9th 1993 midnight a motel in Greensboro
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North Carolina the five young people
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gathered in the room never knew what hit
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them the heavily armed robbers took cash
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and jewelry it was all over in a matter
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of minutes
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based on eyewitness testimony from one
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of the victims police arrested two men
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one was 22-year old Frederick young he
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was convicted of the motel robbery as
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well as two others at same night he will
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be in prison until his 91st birthday
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rust assured that every hour of every
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day of every one of those years
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Frederick young will like many other
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convicted felons be claiming his
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innocence but Young's claim may hold
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more water than most
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he says his is a case of mistaken
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identity incredibly Frederick insists
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that the real robber was his brother
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in fact his identical twin brother
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Cedric young that accusation has forced
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her mother to make an impossible choice
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which son to support and indeed she
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supports Fred the son in prison
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we were very close closer than anybody
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dressed the like all the time did mostly
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everything ago it was a bond you know
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I'm saying much greater than any bond
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you know like friends or anything or any
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other relative in the family this close
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cédric young or said was born four
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minutes before Fred on December 29th
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1971 from the start it was virtually
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impossible to tell the twins apart their
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relatives still have a tough time even
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their own mother
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nobody knows Sanford
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if you don't see them when you do
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something you don't know who did what I
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can't do it I know you can't do cuz I'm
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the one in heaven
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June 10th 1993 the night after the motel
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robbery luck was not on Fred's son
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everything that could have gone wrong
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for him did you don't officer mr. brown
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did you know your license plate light is
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out Nana I'm sorry miss your driver's
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license Fred acknowledges that he had a
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history of trouble with the law
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otherwise he might have acted
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differently I think I left at home I
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don't get it far away what's your name
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Cedric young spelling CED Ric I gave him
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my brother's name because I didn't even
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having a driver's license you know my
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brother did
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keep an item it seemed like a good idea
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at the time to use Cedric's name instead
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of his own it turned out to be anything
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but Cedric turn around put your hands
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behind your back the license is revoked
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license revoked
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Cedric young yeah sure under arrest for
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driving under a suspended license Oh
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same time he asked me could he searched
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and caught I told him sure you could
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things were about to go from bad to
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worse for Frederick young he saw
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searching the passenger side and he
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reached and grabbed a bag
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consider would you like to explain what
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this is doing in your car office I swear
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to you I've never seen that gun before
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my life that same gun was later linked
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to the holdups at the police station
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Fred clean clean about the mix-up was
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Cedric's name it was too late an
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incriminating chain of events had been
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set into motion
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Fred young was charged with six counts
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of armed robbery so was his alleged
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accomplice Chris Ross a boyhood friend
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of the twins
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Fred's trial got underway a year later
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during the court proceedings it would
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come out how the sawed-off shotgun got
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in his car it was just one of many
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revelations to come now what happened
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after they came into the room busting
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Tina was in the bathroom the first joke
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the testimony of Debora Haney
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one of the motel robbery victims she
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claims she recognized Fred during the
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holdup Chris opened the bathroom door
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where Buster and Tina was at and he had
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a gun on him and then Fred came in the
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room where we was at and he had Larry
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and Veronica to lay down on a bed you
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say Chris and Fred do you know their
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names well I learned their names
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afterwards Fred's face was familiar to
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me I had seen him around just in various
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places in Winston when you say Fred do
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you see that person here in this
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courtroom
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not so says Fred when she pointed
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directly at me that's when I kind of
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figured in my head you know if she think
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it was me
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it's definitely my brother Fred claims
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that hit him like a bolt of lightning
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that until that moment it had never
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occurred to him that his twin Cedric
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might have been Chris Ross's partner in
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crime how long did it take for all this
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to happen from the time they came in the
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door less than 10 minutes no more than
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five but less than 10 minutes Fred says
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that in his mind the picture was
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becoming crystal clear so was his belief
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that his attorney was not doing a good
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job told him and right there in the
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courtroom I say it's a peanut Chris Rose
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he's like no I can handle it from here
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well and didn't happen that way he
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didn't do anything not long after the
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trial
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Fred's attorney would have his license
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to practice law suspended for various
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violations including neglecting his
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clients cases I just really feel like
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that he was being misrepresented by a
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lawyer he never called Fred
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he never wrote Fred alone as a matter of
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fact he'd never even accepted a call
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coming in for free what time did you
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leave your sister's place to go to the
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bowling alley according to Fred and his
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mother it was a case of mistaken
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identity that led to a miscarriage of
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justice Chris Ross has since freely
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admitted that he put the shotgun in
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Fred's car without Fred's knowledge miss
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my shotgun and I've put it up on a car
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seat I didn't come forward with my
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information for the trial what cost
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nobody to try to contact me to give my
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side of the story about him being tough
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something he did not do Chris Ross plea
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bargained and received a 20-year
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sentence Fredrick young insisting he was
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innocent refused to plea bargain and was
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found guilty of six armed robbery counts
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he was given a separate sentence for
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each conviction a total of 68 years
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away my client was sentenced and even if
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he were guilty of something we think the
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sentence is out of whack but it makes it
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even worse when he's not guilty to get
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that kind of sentence he never said I'm
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innocent it was my brother you won't
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knock me he waited until I went to trial
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trial didn't go as he hoped it would I
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think and this became a desperate effort
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on his part to throw the blame elsewhere
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I'm doing the trial you know I had no
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idea that you know that my twin brother
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committed these robberies until the lady
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pointed directly at me that's when I
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come with conclusion I knew it when my
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brother at some point in time did deed
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a year after the verdict no Fredrik got
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another chance the court of appeals
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agreed to consider new evidence Chris
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Ross took the stand hoping to straighten
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out the Cedric versus Fredrik
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predicament once and for all
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and while you and Cedric young were in
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Guilford County did the two of you in
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fact commit these six armed robberies
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yeah these same six armed robberies that
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you pled guilty to yeah picked up the
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wrong one free with no mercy it was with
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reason why he picked up free cuz he got
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caught him a gun so they figure he was
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one of youse I'm willing to take any
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polygraph test
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anything whatever it has to take the
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food and I'm innocent you know I'm
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willing to go along with it a
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lie-detector test has never been done
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Chris Ross is uncorroborated testimony
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failed to persuade the judge
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Frederick young was denied a new trial
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with his legal options limited Fred took
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his case to the court of public opinion
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on a national talk show with millions of
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viewers playing jury the question was
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put to said are you the guilty party no
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I'm not to be in issues I'll be saying
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the same thing exact same thing me
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brother
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don't do me like that man make me suffer
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for something you doing me if I was a
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rich man if I had money
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I was being all of my money to get my
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brother out of jail
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now I spend all my money I don't smear
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all my money to get a high-paying lawyer
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to get my brother out of jail I miss
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them is Fred languishing in prison for
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crimes his brothers said committed or is
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it simply a desperate ploy to gain
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freedom at all costs as far as the
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courts are concerned the case is closed
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but if the twins mother were the judge
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the verdict would be very different
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something will come out of this and I'm
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dealing with now that fred is released
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and he can go on with his life
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and saves punished because he has done a
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great hurt to me
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next what would you do if you discovered
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the house you just purchased is haunted
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they're about to meet a couple who are
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taking the former owners to court
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there's a certain charm to Lowe's
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cottage the two hundred and fifty year
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old farmhouse sits on an idyllic piece
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of property in the English countryside
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it's an oasis of peace and quiet though
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it may have a few unearthly surprises
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expect frightening we we think the place
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is haunted we've seen ghosts we've had
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articles thrown about I've seen candles
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move all the time the inside of your
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stomach's churning up expecting
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something to happen even when it's quiet
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still on edge
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another story about a haunted English
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farmhouse not quite the Smiths are suing
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the homes former owners for selling him
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a house they say is haunted
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the previous owners have filed their own
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lawsuit they believe the Smiths are
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trying to get out of paying for the
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house by telling a ghost story
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it's a precedent-setting trial that
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could rot the English legal system which
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side do you think has the most
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compelling case the story begins in May
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of 1994 Andrew Smith and his wife Josie
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moved their family to an old farmhouse
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in the remote hamlet of Upper Mayfield
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they believe it would be the ideal place
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to raise their two children and because
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the forum was badly in need of repairs
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The Smiths bought it at a bargain price
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we wanted to have Stuart out and sell it
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and with the equity that we would have
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made on the price we wanted to buy
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another place but it's about six weeks
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after we moved in we know two things
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happening you'd walk into our bedroom
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when the temperature would be couple
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degrees lower than the rest of the house
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definite temperature drop the rooms you
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could never really see this ceiling
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there was always this hazy it was how
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its hazy but the former owners two
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sisters who grew up in the cottage say
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they never experienced anything out of
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the ordinary
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our parents myself and my sisters never
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saw any ghosts or heard any strange
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noises or anything associated with the
00:24:47
paranormal I don't think it's haunted I
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would live there about 25 years never
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saw anything heard anything but the
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Smiths
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claimed life at Lowe's cottage was a
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nightmare
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we got this feeling when you in the room
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that if this thing was a person with its
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little finger it could flick you
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straight across the room one night we
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stayed away till about 3:00 in the
00:25:25
morning then we just fell asleep so
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exhaustion and within minutes of us
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falling asleep I felt this pressure on
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my throat strangling me when Joseph was
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being strangled that was that's what he
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called failure that was that made me her
00:25:50
sheep straight up one night I was in the
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kitchen that was downstairs I was about
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8 o'clock at night and I turned around
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and I saw this young girl she had the
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old gathered top with the body cell and
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they gathered skirt and I thought oh
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there's somebody outside it wasn't so
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like thought about it that I realized I
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could see the window frame through her
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as rubbish absolute rubbish we never saw
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any ghosts no unusual happenings
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there was nothing flying around rooms
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there was no vile smells and mists
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nothing at all
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convinces some demonic force was living
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in Lowe's cottage dismiss went to the
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local church for help we have requests
00:26:43
that come from individuals who are very
00:26:45
deeply upset to people who have
00:26:47
buildings that causing the problems you
00:26:50
know various smells apparitions anything
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really that is to do with the
00:26:55
supernatural or you know the occultic or
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that kind of area and I would say that
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Lowe's cottage becomes a fairly near the
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top of the list of this The Smiths
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ass Reverend monkford to bless their
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home after the vicar blessed the place
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the house was little everywhere
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it just seems so light when when you see
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the reaction to a prayer in the house
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that's when he kind of really amazed and
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there's no two ways about it there's
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definitely something that the Smiths
00:27:38
believe the vicar's prayers would
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finally bring them peace but later that
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evening then the Smiths began to make
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inquiries in the local village
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everything all right there's a story
00:28:13
about they so found out that they were
00:28:17
the only ones in town who didn't know
00:28:20
about the history of Lois cottage a
00:28:22
tragic story had been handed down in
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local legend for 140 years during the
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1860s a milkmaid named Elaine herring
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lived in the cottage along with her
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lover Joseph Phillips the Smith's
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checked the town records and say the
00:28:43
young couple did exist local folklore
00:28:48
says that Elaine was murdered by her
00:28:50
employer and died in the cellar of Lois
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cottage which today is the homes kitchen
00:28:56
when Joseph Phillips received word of
00:28:59
Elaine's death he hung himself in
00:29:01
despair next to the body of his lover or
00:29:05
so the story goes the cottage isn't
00:29:08
haunted the cottage has no reputation in
00:29:11
or Mayfield of being haunted or in
00:29:13
Ashbourne for that matter it's all
00:29:15
untrue there's no record whatsoever
00:29:17
Elaine herring Josie Philips ever living
00:29:20
at Lowe's cottage local newspapers began
00:29:24
carrying accounts of the haunting when
00:29:26
the Smiths tried to refinance their
00:29:28
mortgage as a bank refused saying that
00:29:30
publicity had devastated the homes value
00:29:32
with no money to move the Smiths filed a
00:29:36
lawsuit against Susan melbourne and
00:29:37
sandra pod more we definitely believe
00:29:42
that they should have told us a house is
00:29:43
haunted we have got to tell people if
00:29:46
anybody should anybody in their right
00:29:48
mind want to buy our house we have got
00:29:50
to tell them what has happened and the
00:29:51
fact it's haunted and I think the same
00:29:53
should apply to them The Smiths hired
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two paranormal investigators to
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videotape their home hoping to get
00:30:03
evidence to support their case the
00:30:06
investigators used a night-vision camera
00:30:08
and place two candles that capture
00:30:11
evidence of a haunting suddenly the
00:30:16
lower canvas seemed to tumble down the
00:30:18
stairs then the camera on an upper step
00:30:22
appeared to fly through the air really
00:30:26
well literally scared to death we didn't
00:30:29
know what to think what to do or you
00:30:31
just definitely got the presence that it
00:30:33
was somebody with you they're definitely
00:30:35
not imagining it because we've had the
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experience herself
00:30:40
the two sisters think the whole thing is
00:30:43
ridiculous
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absolute rubbish nothing happened at
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Lowe's cottage mr. mr. Smith are I've
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come up with his story about the ghost
00:30:53
to try and get out of pain how do we
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know any of this
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anything at all we wouldn't have bought
00:31:00
the place yeah we'll just stay clear of
00:31:02
it we should have been given the choice
00:31:04
if anybody a bought our house instead of
00:31:07
us with a weak heart I'm sure it would
00:31:08
have killed them
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when we return some say she was the
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black widow of Missouri the baddest of
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bad girls have you seen Sharon Kinney
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[Music]
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some people might call Sharon Kinney a
00:31:47
man's woman that is if you're a man who
00:31:50
likes his women fast and loose and
00:31:52
ruthless or it has it that in her youth
00:31:56
Sharon took on lovers at the drop of a
00:31:58
hat and was well-versed in the art of
00:32:00
deception she was a very definition of a
00:32:04
bad girl in the eyes of the law
00:32:06
a lethal Black Widow today she is still
00:32:09
a wanted fugitive whereabouts unknown
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[Music]
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March 19th 1960 Independence Missouri a
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sheriff's deputy was summoned by a
00:32:21
distraught Sharon Kinney then 20 years
00:32:23
old
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calm down this can't calm down worthy
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Cher's husband James Kinney had been
00:32:37
shot once in the back of the head a 22
00:32:40
caliber target pistol lay in plain sight
00:32:42
there was no sign of a struggle
00:32:45
25 year-old James Kinney would died
00:32:47
enroute to the hospital mrs. Kinney I
00:32:50
realize how difficult this time is for
00:32:52
you but if you could tell us exactly
00:32:54
what happened the next day Sharon Kinney
00:32:56
was interviewed by detectives
00:32:57
James was cleaning his gun her grief and
00:33:00
heartbreak were convincing her bizarre
00:33:02
story demanded no less James was in the
00:33:07
bedroom cleaning his pistol Sharon was
00:33:10
in the bathroom putting on makeup
00:33:12
James laid down for a nap the couple's
00:33:16
two-year-old daughter Danna wandered
00:33:18
into the bedroom and then I heard the
00:33:32
shot and I ran in there and there he was
00:33:34
just lying there was it common for him
00:33:38
to keep the gun loaded I thought she was
00:33:40
credible and she was very distraught and
00:33:44
it was a very genuine and then for me it
00:33:47
became problem of if the little girl did
00:33:49
it what a shame what a terrible tragedy
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in fact it was beyond terrible Sharon
00:33:57
Kinney was blaming two-year-old Donna
00:33:58
for the death of her own father for the
00:34:01
police doubt began to blossom we were
00:34:05
skeptical about the little girl
00:34:07
but unfortunately they were the only
00:34:09
witnesses there there was no one else to
00:34:12
talk to except except Sharon Kinney all
00:34:14
they could do was just buy into whatever
00:34:15
was Sharon was telling him and she was
00:34:17
very convincing and that's not to their
00:34:20
discredit when when Sharon told you
00:34:22
something it was expected that you
00:34:24
believed it you were just expected to
00:34:26
believe she was that good she was
00:34:29
certainly good enough for the insurance
00:34:31
companies in short order
00:34:33
Sharon collected on policies totaling
00:34:36
$29,000 equal to more than one hundred
00:34:38
and fifty thousand dollars today
00:34:42
Sharon moved on quickly she paid cash
00:34:45
for a sporty new car and allegedly took
00:34:48
up with a married man she bought it from
00:34:51
she wanted the salesman to leave his
00:34:54
wife and his children and take care of
00:34:56
her she wanted it in her mind whatever
00:35:00
Sharon wanted Sharon got but the
00:35:04
salesman apparently had no intention of
00:35:06
leaving his family even though Sharon
00:35:08
told him she was pregnant
00:35:13
some people say Sharon Kenny knew
00:35:16
exactly how to separate the car salesman
00:35:18
from his wife hello Patricia Jones I'm
00:35:22
sorry to have to tell you this but I
00:35:24
have some information about your husband
00:35:28
well he's been having an affair with my
00:35:30
sister I'd like to get together with you
00:35:33
if I could and talk about this a little
00:35:35
more
00:35:36
Patricia Jones reportedly agreed to a
00:35:38
meeting she asked a friend to go with
00:35:40
her you know why don't we take a drive
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come with me and we'll go talk somewhere
00:35:49
else
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not here yeah but probably a good idea
00:35:54
I'm gonna take a quick ride with her and
00:35:57
sure I need to do this okay just be
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careful
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Patricia Jones never made it home that
00:36:04
night when word got around the next day
00:36:07
Sharon herself volunteered to help in
00:36:09
the search east-southeast
00:36:17
Shannon listed the aid of yet another
00:36:19
lover John bolus perhaps not
00:36:22
surprisingly their search yielded no
00:36:24
sign of Patricia Jones according to John
00:36:30
bonus
00:36:31
Sharon suggested that they finish off
00:36:33
the evening at a popular Lovers Lane a
00:36:35
spot Sharon was reportedly very familiar
00:36:38
with it's been a while since we've done
00:36:41
this since we've done this yeah I think
00:36:45
you're right
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[Music]
00:36:49
what do you see that see what my
00:36:58
friend's wife was wearing a yellow dress
00:36:59
just like that yesterday she makes this
00:37:03
young man get out look and it scares the
00:37:06
living bejesus out of him because there
00:37:08
is the salesman's wife laying shot and
00:37:11
dead at the grass because she's dead we
00:37:19
have to go to the police all right fine
00:37:21
go to the police but you know what drop
00:37:23
me off at home first and don't tell him
00:37:24
I was with you straight away he gave
00:37:28
Sharon away straight away he told him
00:37:30
well I wasn't out here by myself I was
00:37:32
out with mrs. Sharon Kinney and the name
00:37:34
just set off all kinds of bells and
00:37:36
whistles in the investigators head
00:37:37
because they remembered her story from
00:37:39
just a couple months before that
00:37:41
prosecutors wasted no time Sharon Kinney
00:37:45
was charged with both the murder of
00:37:46
Patricia Jones and the murder of her
00:37:48
husband James the circumstances were
00:37:51
sensational and across Missouri Sharon
00:37:54
Kinney became a household name the
00:37:57
Patricia Jones case was tried first and
00:37:59
considered the strongest even though the
00:38:02
murder weapon
00:38:02
another 22 caliber target pistol was
00:38:05
never located by all accounts
00:38:08
Sharon's newfound celebrity charmed the
00:38:11
all-male jury
00:38:12
Sharon had control of that courtroom she
00:38:16
had control love of the jury she had
00:38:18
control of the spectators everybody's
00:38:20
attention was focused on Sharon Kinney
00:38:22
even to the point the second day of the
00:38:25
trial after the trial started Sharon
00:38:26
came moseying in late fashionably late
00:38:29
probably in her mind the trial went on
00:38:32
for about ten days the jury came back
00:38:34
after deliberating only an hour and a
00:38:36
half for the verdict of not guilty the
00:38:39
courtroom erupted in cheers jurors came
00:38:41
out of the juror box and went over and
00:38:42
got Sharon's autograph people in the
00:38:44
audience came in got Sharon's autograph
00:38:47
Kenny's glory would be short-lived in
00:38:49
the case of her husband she was
00:38:51
convicted of murder in the first degree
00:38:54
the star witness for the prosecution was
00:38:56
none other than Sharon sometime
00:38:58
boyfriend John bolus he testified that
00:39:01
Sharon had once offered him $1,000 to
00:39:04
kill her husband
00:39:06
Sharon Kenny was sentenced to life in
00:39:08
prison but in March of 1963 the Missouri
00:39:11
Supreme Court overturned her conviction
00:39:14
on a legal technicality she was released
00:39:16
on a $25,000 bond pending retrial in no
00:39:25
time Sharon had a new lover a man who
00:39:27
listed his occupations as hairdresser
00:39:29
and blacksmith you know I'm surprised
00:39:32
you know so much about all this well you
00:39:35
know I'm full of surprises
00:39:37
Sharon meets a traveling nomadic type
00:39:40
fellow in the unemployment line in
00:39:41
Kansas City in the summer of 1964 they
00:39:45
fall in love and decide that what
00:39:48
they're gonna do is they're gonna go to
00:39:49
Mexico on a pre-marriage honeymoon now
00:39:52
that's okay for Sharon to go to Mexico
00:39:53
she can go to the moon even though she's
00:39:54
under 25 thousand dollars bond
00:39:56
there's no Geographic restrictions once
00:40:04
in Mexico a series of misadventures
00:40:06
landed Sharon in a seedy hotel room with
00:40:09
yet another man she would later tell the
00:40:13
local police that she acted
00:40:15
in self-defense the Mexican authorities
00:40:21
never bought the story
00:40:22
Sharon Kenny was convicted of murder and
00:40:25
sentenced to 13 years in prison
00:40:27
she served less than five in December of
00:40:30
1969 Sharon Kinney apparently squeezed
00:40:33
through an unguarded window and vanished
00:40:37
Sharon Kinney could have been somebody
00:40:39
she could have used her intelligence and
00:40:40
used her wit she could have been a
00:40:42
Pioneer Woman you know politics are in
00:40:45
and academia or anything but she chose
00:40:49
it to go the other way around she let
00:40:50
greed avarice and promiscuity rule her
00:40:55
life James faces convinced that Kinney
00:40:59
is alive and well she may have stayed in
00:41:01
Mexico or she may have gone to Alaska
00:41:04
where she has relatives computer aging
00:41:07
shows how Sharon Kinney might look today
00:41:09
at the age of 57 a final intriguing
00:41:14
footnote long Sharon Kenny's belongings
00:41:18
seeds in Mexico was a 22 caliber target
00:41:20
pistol that killed Patricia Jones
00:41:22
because of double jeopardy law skinny
00:41:25
cannot be retried for that crime however
00:41:28
she can still be tried for the murder of
00:41:30
her husband
00:41:31
[Music]
00:41:42
join me next time perhaps you hold the
00:41:46
key that can solve em astray
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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