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Next on Unsolved Mysteries,
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a woman investigating the murder of her
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close friend is attacked by a stalker.
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Could he be her friend's killer?
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When the wealthy owner of a remote
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private island dies, the ashes of an
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unidentified woman are found in his
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gardening shed. Who is she and what
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happened to her?
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22-year-old Matthew Chase makes a
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midnight trip to an ATM and vanishes.
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This bank video may hold the key to his
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disappearance.
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And this house on 37th Street may look
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perfectly normal, but looks are
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deceiving. Those who live here believe
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it's haunted.
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Five stories with intriguing secrets and
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surprising revelations. I'm Dennis Fina
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and this is Unsolved Mysteries.
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North Hollywood, California.
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A single gunshot draws Mel Green and
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several others to the parking lot of his
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office building. They find Mel's wife,
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Anita, in her car. She had been shot
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once in the head. After two days in a
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coma, Anita Green dies.
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Her friend Michelle Sammit has written a
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book about the murder and now believes
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that the killer is stalking her.
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The knowledge that this guy's out there
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out on the streets terrifies me every
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day. Whether it's the person I think did
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it or not, because any person who did it
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knows that I know a lot about this case
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that they don't want me to know.
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Anita Green had been murdered in broad
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daylight. Whoever shot her was ruthless
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and confident. Anita's friend, Michelle
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Samut, claimed that when she researched
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the shooting, the same killer began
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stalking her. This frightening case had
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begun years before when Anita Green
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first met Mel Green.
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Anita worked as a bookkeeper in Mel's
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accounting firm. Both were married, but
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after a 7-year affair, they left their
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spouses and tying the knot. Anita's
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friends were shocked, not only because
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Mel weighed more than 500 lb, but also
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because he convinced Anita to sign an
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outrageous prenuptual agreement.
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Basically, there was a provision in it
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that he wore the pants in the family and
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he was the supreme boss, the god, the
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absolute ruler, and if they ever had an
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argument or disagreement, he would
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automatically win just because of that
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role.
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Wednesday night,
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Anita became active at her synagogue as
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a refuge from the difficult marriage.
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Other than attending some services,
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Mel showed little interest.
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Anita provided conflicting accounts of
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her relationship with Mel.
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Let's go. I'm late.
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All right.
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She'd say she was afraid of her husband,
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but then she said, "Oh, you know, Mel,
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he's just a loudmouth. He likes to hear
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himself talk. He's a blowhard. he's not
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really going to do anything to me. She
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had all the classic symptoms of an
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abused woman, thinking they were in
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control, thinking that they knew what
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they were doing, but really frightened
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and scared.
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Eventually, Anita was elected president
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of the synagogue. As a result, she and
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her rabbi spent a lot of time together,
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eventually becoming romantically
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involved. When Anita asked Mal for a
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divorce, he was furious.
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I absolutely demand that my property is
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handed over to me. I have an extensive
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stamp and coin.
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Despite his bitterness, Mel Green
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insisted that Anita continue to work at
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his accounting firm.
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She has to work for me. The business
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depends upon it.
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Mel was inconsistent. One minute, I
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don't need you. You're not worth
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anything. But the next minute, he would
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absolutely be insistent. She had to work
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for him. Throughout the divorce
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proceedings, Green bombarded Anita and
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her lawyer with threatening letters.
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Only after Anita was murdered were the
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letters turned over to the police.
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Malvin Green did send some letters where
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he threatened to kill Anita Green. In my
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mind, it just gave more credence to him
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being involved in her shooting.
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So, let me see if I understand. You were
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working at your desk. Detective
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Hernandez found three different
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witnesses to Anita's murder. One was a
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man who worked across the street from
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Gra's firm. He observed Green coming out
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of the building minutes before Anita
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drove up in her red Corvette.
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It's a door that is not used very often.
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So, it was unusual to this witness
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across the street to see this. After he
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observed Melvin Green looking, he
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observed Anita Green turned a corner
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closely followed by a motorcycle.
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A second witness working on a nearby
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roof, saw even more.
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And what brought his attention was he
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heard a motorcycle arrive, parked on the
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wrong side of the street. He observed
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the individual approach Anita Green,
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fire one shot,
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immediately ran to his motorcycle, and
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at a high rate of speed go northbound on
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the street.
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Finally, a third witness helped police
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come up with this composite. He got a
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good look at the motorcyclist shortly
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after Anita's murder. Investigators
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began to suspect that Green had hired a
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hitman to kill his wife. Their
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suspicions were increased when they
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heard about Green's behavior at the
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hospital. Anita's friend, Phyllis
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Bolton, recalls a bizarre conversation
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with Mel. Moments after Anita died,
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Anita's body was still in the room.
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I look pretty good, don't I?
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It's the new liquid diet that I'm on.
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He was talking about how much weight he
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had lost and how good he had looked. It
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was absolutely nauseating. There was not
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one moment of remorse, not one tear
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shed. He was as talkative as if she was
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wide awake and sitting there watching
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us.
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The day after Anita was shot, Detective
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Hernandez tried to interview Green at
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his office.
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Detective, you stop right there. I can't
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talk to you. My attorney says I can't
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speak with anyone.
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Why do you need an attorney?
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Green refused to cooperate, but the
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investigation continued.
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Talk to my attorney.
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We were able to piece together the fact
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that Melvin Green specifically control
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the date and time Anita Green was
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supposed to be at his office. That would
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allow Melvin Green to have somebody
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hired to follow her and shoot her. And
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that's how Anita Green was shot.
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Mel Green was eventually arrested for
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conspiring to kill his wife, even though
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there was no physical evidence tying him
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to the crime. The jury ruled that he had
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murdered Anita for financial gain. Green
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was convicted of first-degree murder and
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sentenced to life in prison without the
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possibility of parole. But the case was
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far from over. Green appealed, claiming
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that he was innocent and the hitman,
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whoever he was, remained at large.
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A few months after his conviction, a
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journalist, Michelle Samut, visited
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Green in a local jail where he was
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waiting to be transferred to a state
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prison. Against his lawyer's advice,
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Green agreed to be interviewed for
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Michelle's book.
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Hello, Mel.
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Hello, Michelle.
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How are you doing? I wanted to go in
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there with an open mind and I started to
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listen to him and for the first few
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weeks of our visits. I wasn't certain of
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anything anymore.
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There's no connection. So there's more
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than one road to reasonable doubt.
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But as our visits continued, Mel himself
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made me more certain of his guilt than
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ever before.
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Michelle continued her investigation.
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There was one thing that kept nagging at
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her. How and when had Mal paid the
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hitman? Michelle claims that she
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uncovered evidence that Green sold off a
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$30,000 coin collection just 3 weeks
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before Anita was murdered. Michelle told
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the police about her discovery.
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My innocence will come.
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Michelle continued to interview Green.
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On one occasion, their session was
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interrupted by an unusual visitor. All
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right. This is a man I call my brother
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because he'd do anything for me. In
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fact, he's a homeowner because of me.
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You can wait outside.
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Mel had visitors come every day during
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our visits. My visits were all day long.
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Mel had never asked me to leave during
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his visits before. And and that alone I
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thought was unusual.
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And I went downstairs and I went into my
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car and sat. I knew I'd have about a
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half hour until this guy came out
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and my mind started to run away with me
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that um this guy looked a lot like the
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police composite of Anita's shooter.
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Michelle says that when the visitor
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left, he got on a motorcycle that looked
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exactly like the one driven by Anita's
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killer.
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When I went back to the jail, I made a
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very stupid mistake. I said to Mel, I've
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got this theory.
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You paid for the murder with the money
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from the coins you said Anita stole. She
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didn't steal them.
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You're not going to write that.
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Michelle claims that when she told Green
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about her suspicions, he threatened her.
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Nobody's going to put those lies about
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me. If you end up dead after I make a
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call, you'll know who did it.
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I knew Mel likes to talk like that. You
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know, this is just a blowhard, just a
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man talking. And I realized, God, how
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stupid can you be, Michelle? That's
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exactly what Anita said and she's dead.
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The next day, Green was transferred to a
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prison east of San Diego. From there, he
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sent a stream of frightening letters to
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Michelle.
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He's threatened to harm my children.
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He's threatened to hurt me. But I
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couldn't stop because I knew I had the
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potential to find the answer.
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Michelle says that over the next few
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months, someone began to stalk her. The
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front gate of her house was ripped from
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its hinges and her house was vandalized.
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Then in her driveway, an unidentified
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man hit her in the face, breaking her
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nose.
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A lot of that has stopped now that the
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book has come out. But of course, you
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always live your life fearing that what
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you've uncovered might lead to some
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potential danger for your family.
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Michelle believes that the man she saw
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visiting Green in jail was the same man
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pictured on the police composite. He has
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blonde hair, dark eyes, a muscular
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build, and may own a red or maroon
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Suzuki motorcycle. Mel Green's appeal
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was denied. Investigators think
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Michelle's theory concerning the gunman
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has merit, and they are anxious for new
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leads about his identity.
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Next, the story of a young man who went
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to deposit his paycheck at a local ATM
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and never returned.
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Los Angeles, California,
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11:45
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p.m.
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No, I forgot to deposit my check. It
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wasn't until 22-year-old Matt Chase
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returned home from dinner with his
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roommate Teresa that he remembered he
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needed to deposit his paycheck. Matt
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borrowed Teresa's car and promised to
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pick up some cat food on the way home.
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Okay, see you in a few minutes.
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It should have taken Matt approximately
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10 15 minutes to run the errand. The
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bank was about two blocks from our home
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and normally he walked and that
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particular evening he'd taken my car so
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at the most 15 minutes would be
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sufficient.
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But by the next morning, Matt still had
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not come home. Teresa and her other
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roommate Steve called the bank
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pretending to be Matt.
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Hello. Uh my name is Matthew Chase.
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They wanted to find out if he had used
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his bank card. the night before
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there had been transactions. Great.
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The bank said that he had
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okay
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a couple of times
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what time they were made, what day and
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Steven Teresa call the police.
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A light came on indicating this is not
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going to be a normal run-of-the-mill
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case. It's going to be something that
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requires some in-depth investigation
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and it may may not turn out to be a good
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case as we call them.
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When we reviewed the bank records, it
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indicates that he made a successful
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deposit of a paycheck, received cash
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back, and then returned to the same
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branch approximately 30 minutes later,
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and attempted to withdraw $280, which he
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knows is over the amount of cash he can
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receive per day.
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The theory there would be that either he
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was being forced to attempt to withdraw
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these amounts or he was signaling to the
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bank to the computer for help.
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That same night, two more attempts were
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made to withdraw cash. The first was for
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$200. It was rejected because of
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insufficient funds, and then a minute
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later, $100 was requested. Since Matt's
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paycheck had not been posted, that
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request was also denied.
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Only 11 minutes later, the card was used
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at another branch in a different
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neighborhood. Again, the withdrawals
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were unsuccessful,
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but this time, a hidden camera took
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pictures and showed a strange man
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standing over Matt's right shoulder.
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According to these surveillance cameras
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at the branch, the person standing next
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to Matt was somewhat shorter, somewhat
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stockier, and overall he shouldn't have
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been in the photograph. No one is going
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to let someone stand that close to him
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while they're using an ATM machine where
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they can see the PIN number.
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Police fear that Matt may have been
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abducted by the man in photograph while
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he was making his first transactions.
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Over the next day and a half, there were
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five more withdrawal attempts. By this
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time, Matt's paycheck had cleared, so
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$400 was withdrawn from his account.
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Finally, the card was confiscated by the
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machine.
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We put a freeze on the card, thinking
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that the police might be able to go get
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fingerprints off the card.
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The card was dusted for Prince and none
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were found.
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Police believe it was either wiped clean
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or that Matt's abductor used gloves.
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Matt's mother and father came down from
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Oregon to search for their son and for
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the car he drove to the bank that night.
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In this picture, would you please call
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the number? Okay.
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At first, we had great hopes, I think,
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that we were going to stumble onto the
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car somewhere in near proximity of where
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they lived.
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I believe after a couple three nights of
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doing this, we became very frustrated.
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Los Angeles can be a dangerous place at
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night. We saw a lot of things that were
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very frightening, and that only made it
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more real to us that that something
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perhaps very
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serious had happened to Matt.
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The police had no immediate answers. An
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attack may have left Matt injured,
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abducted, or even worse. Undeterred,
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Matt's roommates, Steve and Teresa,
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began distributing his picture at a
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local rescue mission.
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I talked to several of the people there.
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And a couple of the volunteers that
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worked at the Midnight Mission said when
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I showed them just his driver's license,
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cuz I'd run out of posters, said, "Oh,
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yes, we have seen him. He's been in here
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several times eating. Um, he's really
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And then they just started to describe
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him to me and they said, "He's very tall
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and thin, isn't he?" And and very lanky.
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And I said, "Yes, exactly." And for them
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to get that from one of those tiny
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pictures from a driver's license
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is really miraculous. And we thought,
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well, wow, they really have seen him.
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And we thought we were just so close to
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finding him at that point.
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Almost 3 weeks after Matt disappeared,
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the missing car was found close to where
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he had vanished.
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When they found that car, they ran the
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license plate via the SVS system, and it
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indicate that it was associated with a
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missing person and that I wanted the
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vehicle held for latent fingerprints.
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The criminalist dusted it for
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fingerprints, looked at it for other
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evidence of a crime, and the car was
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completely void of fingerprints.
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Police found only one clue in the car.
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It was a blue bandana.
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Investigators believe that it may have
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been left by Matt's abductor.
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I don't know what happened. I know that
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I hope none of the things that I've
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dreamed about
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and wake up in the night and think about
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are the things that could have happened
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to Matt. We'll never stop looking for
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him until we find him. And I know we'll
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find him.
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He means a lot to me.
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He's my best friend.
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Update.
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3 months after he disappeared, the
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remains of Matt Chase were discovered in
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a ravine in nearby Pasadena. The cause
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of his death was a gunshot wound.
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This is an artist rendering of the prime
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suspect in this case based on computer
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enhancements of the bank photographs.
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Coming up, a young couple buys a new
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house, but no one told them that they'd
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be sharing it with a gang of restless
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ghosts.
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It seemed like a nice house on a nice
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street in a nice neighborhood. There was
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nothing extraordinary about it. Or so it
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seemed to the couple who bought it. But
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then strange noises and even stranger
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apparitions made them realize
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that they were not alone.
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Vancouver, Washington.
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It was the little things at first. A
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quiet rattle, a slight chill, the
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tiniest hint of a presence. Then about 7
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months after Ed and Mary Woods moved in,
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I've heard the sound of a music box.
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It was very faint.
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[Music]
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I went into my husband's office and
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looked around.
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There was no sign of anything in there,
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but I kept hearing it.
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And it wasn't something I heard in my
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mind like like you would imagine. It was
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an actual sound in the house. I thought
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somebody had opened up a music box and
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it was playing.
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The first time I had an experience where
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I noticed something actually happening,
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um, I was sitting in my office with the
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door closed.
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Mary had warned Ed that there was
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something strange about the house, but
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Ed just assumed that his young daughter
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was playing a prank. I thought I'd
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surprise her by opening the door.
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Gotcha.
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There was nobody there. I checked and
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everyone in the house was asleep.
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Who or what was stirring up all the
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trouble.
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Well, Mary was about to find out.
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[Music]
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I actually saw the figure of a woman.
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She was about my height. Um, wearing a
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scarf around her head and like a long
00:22:10
flannel night gown.
00:22:13
I was not scared of her. I did not get
00:22:15
the impression that she was mean. I was
00:22:19
not frightened of her. I was just
00:22:21
startled by her.
00:22:23
After several encounters, Mary decided
00:22:26
to do a little research.
00:22:29
I have been able to identify her through
00:22:31
going through records. She was a former
00:22:34
resident who had died in the home of
00:22:36
cancer.
00:22:38
the latter part of the her life towards
00:22:42
the end because of the heavy radiation
00:22:43
and chemotherapy. She wore scarves
00:22:45
because she had lost all her hair and
00:22:47
she practically lived in flannel night
00:22:50
gowns. I found out later that her
00:22:53
children were in the same bedrooms that
00:22:55
my children are in.
00:22:58
And it could be she's just looking for
00:22:59
hers.
00:23:03
The first thing I actually saw was a man
00:23:05
standing in the living room.
00:23:08
looked like an old riverboat gambler
00:23:10
with a little ribbon tie and a mustache.
00:23:14
You look at him twice because you're not
00:23:16
too sure if he's going to do something.
00:23:17
He He never moves though.
00:23:24
And then there was Pinky.
00:23:32
Pinky is a a little girl 8 to 10 years
00:23:35
old.
00:23:37
And once in a while you hear a giggle.
00:23:43
First time I thought it was our youngest
00:23:44
daughter. We'd been sitting in the
00:23:46
living room watching movies and I
00:23:48
thought it was my youngest daughter
00:23:50
giggling at the movies till I looked
00:23:53
down and realized she had fallen asleep
00:23:54
in front of the TV and was sound asleep.
00:23:56
So there was no way.
00:24:01
For Ed and Mary, the unearly visitors
00:24:04
were becoming part of their daily life.
00:24:07
Even in the shower,
00:24:09
ourselves and many people that have been
00:24:12
guests of ours who've taken baths or
00:24:14
showers have found themselves
00:24:17
accompanied in the shower by a a
00:24:21
friendly hug and a general body rub that
00:24:25
seems to be quite female in nature.
00:24:28
Doesn't seem to matter if the person
00:24:29
taking the shower is male or female.
00:24:32
Just u somebody's been gone a long time,
00:24:35
I think, and missed some of the things
00:24:37
that the world had to provide.
00:24:41
As far as the woods were concerned,
00:24:43
there was little doubt that the house
00:24:45
was haunted.
00:24:47
Let's go ahead and move down the hallway
00:24:48
here. Now, I want you to tell me both
00:24:50
you tell me just pretty much where where
00:24:53
the lady in white and where things
00:24:54
happen. We called in Lloyd Hourbach, a
00:24:58
paranormal investigator, to check out
00:25:00
the house.
00:25:02
Hourbach came armed with an instrument
00:25:04
that measures electromagnetic activity.
00:25:07
It was reading next to nothing.
00:25:09
Literally,
00:25:10
it's not a ghost detector by any way,
00:25:12
shape, or form. It's a good indicator
00:25:13
that there's a physical connection in
00:25:15
the environment to their experience.
00:25:17
That helps validate that they're not
00:25:19
completely making it up in their minds.
00:25:21
Helps me understand that they're not
00:25:22
completely making it up in their minds.
00:25:24
also there is some correlation.
00:25:27
He walked all through the house and in
00:25:29
several areas the magnetometer spiked
00:25:31
without explanation.
00:25:33
Okay, now we got a reading again
00:25:35
in the back bathroom in the living room.
00:25:38
I'm getting some things in the corner
00:25:40
and the hallway.
00:25:41
I'm getting actually a high reading
00:25:42
again. high energy reading which I just
00:25:44
this is a very unusual pattern that
00:25:47
we're seeing here that seems to relate
00:25:49
to the phenomena or at least to a
00:25:51
sensation of it but doesn't seem to
00:25:53
relate to anything else. So I can pretty
00:25:55
much rule out the physical environment
00:25:57
causing this. You don't have like a
00:25:59
generator under the house somewhere, do
00:26:01
you?
00:26:01
No. For myself, there was an odd
00:26:05
correspondence, I guess, with the spike
00:26:07
in the meters, and I'd get a real cold
00:26:10
feeling or a chill down the back of my
00:26:12
neck or the hair on my arms would raise
00:26:15
up like goosebumps. It didn't happen all
00:26:19
the time,
00:26:22
but on several of the occasions, I felt
00:26:24
like there was somebody in the room.
00:26:26
No, this one I've seen several times.
00:26:28
Was somebody or something actually
00:26:31
there? Perhaps a few unhappy spirits
00:26:35
trying to bridge the gap between the
00:26:37
dead and the living. Lloyd Hourbach
00:26:40
believes it's possible, but by no means
00:26:42
definite.
00:26:44
Ed and Mary Woods, however, have gone
00:26:46
from wondering
00:26:48
to believing.
00:26:49
[Music]
00:26:54
Next, a mentally unstable young man
00:26:58
disappears and his family fears the
00:27:01
worst,
00:27:07
[Music]
00:27:12
Oak Park, Illinois.
00:27:16
Today is August 3. No, 29th. Right.
00:27:19
This is Jim Kimble at the age of 18. At
00:27:23
15, he was diagnosed with a severe
00:27:26
psychological disorder. At 24, 6 years
00:27:30
after this home video was shot, Jim
00:27:32
disappeared.
00:27:34
But that was all still to come. Growing
00:27:37
up, Jim was the sixth child in a large
00:27:40
and loving family.
00:27:42
Well, ever since Jim was young, he was
00:27:44
always on the shy side and maybe more
00:27:46
sensitive than other people.
00:27:49
You never expected any trouble when Jim
00:27:53
was around.
00:27:55
He was pretty special.
00:27:58
Friends, we have gathered here to
00:28:00
remember the life of Donald
00:28:01
when he was just 13. Jim's father
00:28:04
suddenly died of a heart attack.
00:28:06
Our grieving hearts are saddened that
00:28:08
the breath of life
00:28:09
Jim seems very quiet and he didn't
00:28:11
really show a lot of emotion. and the
00:28:13
rest of us were all upset and and
00:28:15
absorbed in our own grief. You I noticed
00:28:19
he didn't seem to really be crying or
00:28:20
carrying on. You know, maybe he was
00:28:22
holding a lot of his emotions inside and
00:28:25
he wasn't expressing himself.
00:28:30
This was just the first sign that
00:28:32
something was terribly wrong. But at the
00:28:34
time, the family was consumed with grief
00:28:37
and didn't notice. In fact, Jim was
00:28:40
holding his emotions inside and he was
00:28:43
wrestling with a severe mental disorder
00:28:46
which would erupt almost 3 years to the
00:28:48
day after his father's death.
00:28:53
As teenagers, Jim and his brothers
00:28:56
formed their own garage band. Jim played
00:28:59
the drums.
00:29:01
Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Jim,
00:29:02
come on. Got to have something steady
00:29:04
from you. You're all over the place.
00:29:05
What's going on, Jim?
00:29:08
Hey, what's with you, man? Jim, are you
00:29:11
okay?
00:29:12
He was acting strange and I and I was
00:29:14
afraid for him. It came to a point where
00:29:16
it was like we better bring him to
00:29:18
hospital or something cuz we didn't know
00:29:20
what he was going to do next.
00:29:25
You don't seem to be too sure of
00:29:26
anything.
00:29:28
No,
00:29:30
it's all a waste of time.
00:29:33
It's not like it used to be. Jim was
00:29:36
diagnosed with a mental illness, a form
00:29:38
of manic depression characterized by
00:29:41
strange thoughts and severe mood swings.
00:29:44
Never come back.
00:29:46
Was this some friend of yours?
00:29:48
He was confused. He indicated that he
00:29:50
had heard some voices
00:29:53
that he had both sorrow and certainly
00:29:56
anger with his father's death. I
00:29:59
think maybe they never did.
00:30:02
Jim required medication to control his
00:30:04
condition. The next eight years were
00:30:07
full of hospitalizations, relapses, and
00:30:10
recoveries. But Jim somehow managed to
00:30:13
graduate from high school and hold a few
00:30:15
jobs. Eventually, he moved into a nearby
00:30:19
halfway house.
00:30:22
One Easter weekend, Jim showed up at his
00:30:24
mother's house earlier than expected.
00:30:27
Well, your brother could have picked you
00:30:28
up later. Yeah, I know. I just I come
00:30:31
home
00:30:31
pretty surprised that he would go
00:30:33
through all that trouble to walk home.
00:30:35
You know,
00:30:36
all the family was together. We had a
00:30:39
nice turkey dinner for Easter.
00:30:42
Everything seemed to be pretty good.
00:30:47
But all of that changed the very next
00:30:49
day when Jim became frustrated with the
00:30:52
family's new stereo system.
00:31:00
And I was having lunch and uh I heard
00:31:03
from downstairs,
00:31:05
a commotion.
00:31:07
I don't like this house. You guys keep
00:31:09
changing things.
00:31:10
Well, if you got a problem with the
00:31:11
stereo, I mean, let's talk about it, you
00:31:13
know? I mean, you don't have to throw a
00:31:15
a temper tantrum. I mean, are you 5
00:31:17
years old?
00:31:18
No, I'm four. Get out of my face, you
00:31:20
idiot.
00:31:21
Yeah. I said, "Hey, you know, if you're
00:31:23
not feeling well, you should go to the
00:31:24
hospital." But he said that he wasn't
00:31:26
going to go to the hospital. He take
00:31:28
care of things. So we cleaned things up
00:31:31
and then and then he left and that was
00:31:34
last I saw him.
00:31:36
[Music]
00:31:37
Jim vanished. The Kimbles launched a
00:31:39
frantic search of the neighborhood.
00:31:41
Yeah, we could try Steve's the community
00:31:43
living center.
00:31:44
Didn't have any medication with him. He
00:31:46
had no money, no coat. It was rather
00:31:49
cold out. And it just almost seemed that
00:31:51
he went and just took a walk and never
00:31:53
came back.
00:31:56
The family made phone calls, searched
00:31:58
homeless shelters, and distributed
00:32:00
missing person's flyers all across the
00:32:03
country. 11 months went by with no sign
00:32:06
of Jim.
00:32:08
The first promising lead came from
00:32:10
Southbend, Indiana, some 90 mi from
00:32:13
Jim's home in Oak Park. Sir, come here
00:32:16
for a minute, please.
00:32:18
You got anything to drink today?
00:32:20
Nope.
00:32:21
Why don't you have a seat in the car? He
00:32:23
appeared to be under the influence,
00:32:28
but the result of the test showed 00 on
00:32:30
the alcohol sensor.
00:32:32
Okay, you're 00. I'd prefer if you were
00:32:34
going to hitchhike.
00:32:36
When I saw the flyer, I'd say 3 to 4
00:32:38
weeks later. The picture on the flyer
00:32:41
matched the description of the
00:32:44
individual I had spoke with.
00:32:47
It really worries me that he's out there
00:32:50
and might not be able to take care of
00:32:52
himself.
00:32:54
We really want to have Jim back with us.
00:32:57
We want him to know that we love him and
00:32:59
care about him and want to help him
00:33:00
through his problems.
00:33:03
Jim's family is still searching for him
00:33:06
and they're worried that without
00:33:07
medication, he will never find his way
00:33:10
home.
00:33:11
Jim Kimble is 5' 7 in tall and weighs
00:33:15
165 lbs. He has green eyes and his brown
00:33:19
hair may still be long and parted in the
00:33:22
middle.
00:33:24
Coming up, the ashes of an unknown woman
00:33:27
are discovered on an isolated California
00:33:30
island.
00:33:40
Kansas City, Missouri.
00:33:42
This is Julie Cooper. With her is Tim
00:33:45
Santi, the man who rescued her from a
00:33:48
childhood that she says was a living
00:33:50
nightmare.
00:33:52
When Julie was just 6 years old, her
00:33:55
parents joined a religious cult called
00:33:58
the Decloud family. The leader of the
00:34:01
sect was a charismatic ex police officer
00:34:04
named Nelson Decloud.
00:34:06
White in the blood of the lamb.
00:34:08
Amen.
00:34:10
Nelson thought that he was um God's son.
00:34:15
Not really that he was Jesus Christ, but
00:34:17
that he was one of God's sons and that
00:34:20
he couldn't do any wrong.
00:34:22
Julie says that by the time she was 10,
00:34:25
the cloud was demanding to have sex with
00:34:28
her.
00:34:30
What I want you to do, Julie, is what
00:34:32
God wants you to do. You understand me?
00:34:34
Yes.
00:34:34
All right. According to Julie, she
00:34:36
initially refused, but eventually the
00:34:39
pressure became so great
00:34:41
that she gave in.
00:34:42
Now you listen to me. Do you know how
00:34:44
old Mary was when she had Jesus?
00:34:46
And he says, "Well, are you ready now?"
00:34:49
Of course, you know, after all that had
00:34:51
happened. And I just said, "Yes." You
00:34:53
know,
00:34:55
Julie claims that over the next 12
00:34:57
years, Decloud humiliated, emotionally
00:35:01
tortured, and forced her into sexual
00:35:04
slavery.
00:35:08
Finally, one fall day, Julie made her
00:35:10
escape, helped by Tim Santi, an
00:35:12
electronics repair man. They had met
00:35:15
when Tim visited the compound to work on
00:35:17
the cloud satellite dish.
00:35:21
Last Thursday, I called my friend Tim to
00:35:24
come.
00:35:24
Tim encouraged Julie to go to the
00:35:26
police. They immediately issued a
00:35:29
warrant for Decloud's arrest. But before
00:35:31
he could be captured, Decloud and his
00:35:33
followers disappeared.
00:35:36
I want Nelson to get caught because it's
00:35:38
not fair to anyone else that's up there.
00:35:40
My mom and dad, they need to know that
00:35:43
he isn't the Messiah. He's a criminal.
00:35:46
What he was doing was wrong.
00:35:51
update.
00:35:53
After Julie's story aired, several
00:35:55
viewers from San Angelo, Texas, called
00:35:58
us to say that they had seen Decloud's
00:36:00
wife in the area. The cult had settled
00:36:03
in this farmhouse. When state and local
00:36:06
agents swarm the area, Decloud kicked
00:36:09
out the screen of the upstairs window
00:36:11
and tried to escape.
00:36:13
The deputies approached him and he tried
00:36:16
to wrestle with a few of them briefly.
00:36:18
There are so many law enforcement
00:36:19
officers though that he didn't that
00:36:21
didn't last very long. They uh put the
00:36:23
handcuffs on him and um escorted him out
00:36:25
of the building.
00:36:32
Nelson Decloud was booked at the local
00:36:34
county jail and later brought back to
00:36:36
Liberty, Missouri, where he stood trial
00:36:39
on four criminal counts, including
00:36:41
forcible rape and sodomy. He was
00:36:44
sentenced to spend 220 years in a
00:36:48
Missouri prison,
00:36:54
Santa Cruz Island, California.
00:36:58
Dr. Carrie Stanton was a fascinating
00:37:01
eccentric, a lifelong bachelor and a
00:37:04
member of a wealthy California family.
00:37:07
After he graduated from Stanford Medical
00:37:09
School, Stanton practiced as a
00:37:11
pathologist in New York City. Then when
00:37:14
he was just 34 years old, he left New
00:37:17
York and returned to California to run
00:37:20
the family cattle ranch. It was not a
00:37:23
typical ranch. Stanton's family owned
00:37:26
9/10en of Santa Cruz Island. At 62,000
00:37:31
acres, it is the largest of California's
00:37:34
Channel Islands. When Dr. Stanton's
00:37:36
parents died, he took over.
00:37:39
Carrie Stanton was very protective of
00:37:41
Santa Cruz Island. He used to say that
00:37:43
this island was not his. It was just a
00:37:46
responsibility that was handed down to
00:37:48
him from his parents.
00:37:53
There was one instance in which he was
00:37:55
walking down a beach and he came across
00:37:57
a very large bag of trash.
00:38:01
He actually went through the bag until
00:38:04
he found an envelope and on this
00:38:06
envelope was the name and address of a
00:38:09
very prominent yacht broker in Ventura.
00:38:11
So Carrie Stanton
00:38:14
left the island with this trash bag,
00:38:16
drove up to the yacht broker in Ventura,
00:38:20
to whom this trash had obviously
00:38:22
belonged, and he deposited on the man's
00:38:25
desk, and said, "Excuse me, sir. I
00:38:27
believe you left this on my island."
00:38:32
For Dr. Stanton, Santa Cruz Island was
00:38:34
heaven on earth. He established a
00:38:37
private cemetery exclusively for those
00:38:40
he felt had an important connection to
00:38:42
the island.
00:38:44
There were 14 graves surrounding the
00:38:46
ranch chapel. Then one December day, the
00:38:50
number increased by one. Dr. Carrie
00:38:53
Stanton died at the age of 64.
00:38:59
Dr. Stanton left the entire ranch to the
00:39:02
Nature Conservancy.
00:39:04
Marla, come on over for a second.
00:39:07
One afternoon, an official from Santa
00:39:09
Barbara County discovered an old metal
00:39:11
box in a shed on the ranch.
00:39:13
Take a look at this. What do you think?
00:39:18
And I looked in the box and it was full
00:39:20
of ashes. And I recognized the ashes as
00:39:23
being those of a human human remains.
00:39:28
Let's pour these out and see what we can
00:39:30
find. No one on the island knew anything
00:39:32
about the mysterious ashes. However, the
00:39:35
local corner found a few intriguing
00:39:38
clues. A snap-like clothing fastener
00:39:41
made in the 1940s.
00:39:43
Several false teeth from the 1950s and a
00:39:46
diamondstudded platinum ring dating back
00:39:49
before World War II. the ring.
00:39:52
We believe that it's an elderly female
00:39:54
victim based upon the findings of the
00:39:56
arthritic changes of the bones and the
00:39:58
characteristic of that one particular
00:40:00
wrist bone that uh appeared to be
00:40:02
female.
00:40:05
Was Dr. Carrie Stanton the keeper of a
00:40:07
dark secret? Not likely. He was known as
00:40:11
a compulsive archavist who meticulously
00:40:14
labeled everything.
00:40:16
It is very unlike Carrie Stanton to have
00:40:20
the loose end in particular of human
00:40:24
remains left on Santa Cruz Island. It's
00:40:28
not something that he would do.
00:40:33
So, who was this mysterious woman and
00:40:36
how did her ashes end up in a metal box
00:40:39
in a small shed on this remote island?
00:40:43
All we know is that she died sometime
00:40:45
after World War II and that she was
00:40:47
older than 50. She also suffered from a
00:40:51
slight arthritic condition and wore a
00:40:53
platinum and diamond eternity ring.
00:40:56
The Santa Cruz Island Foundation doesn't
00:40:58
know what to do with her and we very
00:41:01
much would like to do the right thing
00:41:03
and find a place where she belongs. And
00:41:06
if it's on the island, we would like to
00:41:08
see that she's added to the cemetery if
00:41:10
she belongs here.
00:41:12
We want to do the right thing to make
00:41:14
sure that these ashes receive a final
00:41:17
resting place which is appropriate.
00:41:33
[Music]
00:41:36
Heat.
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[Music]
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[Music]
00:41:50
Heat.
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[Music]
