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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast in 1992 one D camp of Oklahoma
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City her young daughter and her sister
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vanished after being dropped off in a
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department store parking lot their
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mysterious disappearance was a
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culmination of a bitter feud between two
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families which has now escalated
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demarcations of kidnappings and murders
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meet Joseph Prussia house key a devout
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Hasidic Jew a dedicated father of 12 and
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one of the most brilliant con man ever
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encountered authorities believe his
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international banking scams have netted
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illegal profits in excess of 200 million
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dollars soo-jung Kim and his wife
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Sooyoung came to the United States to
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build a better life then on a fateful
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day in 1991 tsuya left home to go
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shopping she never returned some Akins
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American Dream was completely shattered
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also tonight the poignant search for a
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remarkable teacher whose patience and
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understanding
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forever changed the life of one of her
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students jointly perhaps you may be able
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to help solve a mystery
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you're about to meet a master con artist
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named Joseph Purusha now ski during an
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astonishing 18 year crime spree crucian
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on skis allegedly defrauded financial
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institutions around the world estimates
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of his total thefts range as high as 200
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million dollars but this savvy swindler
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is a study in paradox Prussia now ski
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belongs to a deeply religious movement
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of Judaism known as the Hussey Dean when
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he is not orchestrating one of his grand
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frauds crucian Oskie will as likely is
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not be in temple praying the Hussey Dean
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prays several times a day and out of
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respect to God always cover their heads
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all forms of labor even driving are
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forbidden on the side acidic men do not
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shave or cut their head and keeping with
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a tradition handed down through the
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centuries in contrast to the austere
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appearance huh seedy leave in the joyous
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celebration of God's work ascetics are
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basically Jewish fundamentalists they
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all live very very simple lives they
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believe in actually having a community
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that is apart from the surrounding world
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they in fact rely very little on the
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surrounding world and so therefore our
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people who by their own choice tend to
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be apart from everybody else
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I had hearing disparate religious values
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a Hussey deem have acquired a reputation
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for honesty and rock-solid integrity it
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is a perfect common finds but Joseph
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portion of ski
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by all accounts Joseph pronounced key
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abides by the religious dictates of the
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Hasidic Jews except when it comes to the
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eighth commandment thou shalt not steal
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Joseph Pasha now ski settled in Canada
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in the late 1960 and his family which
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grew to include 12 children lived in a
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Hasidic community near Montreal crucian
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offski supposedly ran an export import
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business from the basement of his modest
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home the reality was quite different
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a 1985 swim is typical of crucian off
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skis ambitious schemes his first step
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was to open his own bank a clerical
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assistant named Ellen fine go
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unwittingly helped with the arrangements
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Ellen you have maybe permit the
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recommendations of the locations for the
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bank yes I have everything you've been
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asking for I recommend that we go with
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Anguilla yeah it's Caribbean island of
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Anguilla is notorious for some of the
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most lenient banking standards in the
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world
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crucian our ski supplied tool aims to be
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the owners or principals of his bank
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alan feingold didn't know she was a true
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chanel ski had made up the names we need
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now are the signatures of our principles
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that's all that's required these are
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steps
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yeah but they give me the authorization
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to use these signatures it really be a
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very busy man you know is it proper to
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use stamps on forms of this kind the
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application form required a witness so
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are you business the signatures I mean
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which I found out after it wasn't
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exactly a legally accepted procedure
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that your own one according to the law
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can only witness a person signing and
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not a signature stamp cut the jerks here
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yes these are the Chinese Circle look
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you live here chartering an actual Bank
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was a measure of proof Sinofsky
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sophistication could now issue official
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looking back cashier's checks infinitely
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more convincing than mere personal
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agendas I have the least deal of checks
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I've learnt you should tear out the ones
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with the numbers are the most important
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ones all right I'll get back to this
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together we're gonna the second step of
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closure now excuse Whitney was to write
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our checks and amounts of up to
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$1,000,000
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supposedly guaranteed by the bank in
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Anguilla
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them deposit the checks and business
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accounts he had set up around the world
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mr. Prussia now staff personnel scheme
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would then contact the bank in person or
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by phone please come in with his
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phenomenal talent for persuasion Prussia
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now ski convinced the bankers to advance
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in large amounts of cash even though the
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checks Hal I need to cash advance a
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$750,000
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mr. Percy an auskey is the policy of our
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bank to wait 14 days effort deposit
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before you can draw on your account so
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all I'm asking for $750,000 he's a very
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very very persuasive man a man who
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trades on his being a very religious
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person when he deals with banks I'd have
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to wait just a few more very good at
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persuading them to cashes checks written
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on funny banks in faraway places with
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strange-sounding names all right mr.
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pressure now sceeto we're gonna make an
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exception this time but please in the
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future give us 14 days before eventually
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the project's all bounced or most of
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them lands at the time the balloting
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stop the bank was a million dollars
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short
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nice to see you over windows right over
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there thank you very much have a nice
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day
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bye bye
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meanwhile Ellen triangle would found
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himself fielding calls from angry
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bankers demanding their money yes no
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means mr. Prosser offski is not here
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today ultimately a Japanese company
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would file a lawsuit against Prussia now
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ski and his assistant already firing we
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have many accounts with you in being
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sued for $1,000,000 was something
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relatively shocking to me and I didn't
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understand what was going on here being
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cited as a co-defendant Feingold's faith
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was completely shattered in March of
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1987 with agents of the royal canadian
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mounted police descended on an office
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personnel ski kept in montreal
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I'll ask you about mr. Polaski why give
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that mr. Pro Sinofsky what I said when
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was the next time you saw mr. Broflovski
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I saw mr. Prosser off ski here at the
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office yesterday afternoon are you
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familiar with a bank from Bank mr.
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Feingold Allen Feingold was hired by
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professional ski when he was 21 years
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old he was very naive very much about
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the business so he could not even
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contemplate the possibilities that
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portion of ski had a criminal mind
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whenever he was asked to do things for
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his ski was cleared of any involvement
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he actively assisted efforts to
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revolution of skis complex ripoffs this
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is it
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Canadian authorities also rated crucian
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of skis home but came up empty-handed
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the basement office had been cleared out
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and crucian Oskie had fled taking his
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wife and ten of his children with him
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his oldest son and daughter wouldn't
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join him later off did you know
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something working father - no it's just
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his business
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premise Canadian operations crucian
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offski left a trail of ripoffs totaling
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more than two million dollars it was
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just a hint of what was yet to come buys
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after Joseph pronounced King left
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Montreal he disappears off the face of
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the earth no one seems ever to see him
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hear from him again but what then
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happens is all of a sudden Joseph Weiss
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starts to appear and Joseph Weiss
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operates fraud on exactly the same way
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that Joseph Cotten offski did it didn't
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take much to figure out that Joseph
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White's and Joseph Pasha now ski were
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one and the same but now becoming almost
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absurdly large between 1990 and 1992
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financial institutions in Sweden lost
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more than 19 million dollars in Denmark
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more than 39 million dollars the
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Netherlands 32 million England 37
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million 30 million in the United States
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and more than 35 million dollars in
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Australia the astounding total worldwide
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it was more than 190 million dollars
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finally this master cut and came up with
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one more brilliant strategy one that
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keeps him safely beyond the reach of the
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law in many cases crucian our ski
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brazenly negotiated to give back a
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portion of the 50 cents in the dollar
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better than that I could never do he
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knows that banks don't like to go to the
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police they don't like to prosecute
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people what they want is their money so
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they will settle on what that of course
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does is by and large it removes the
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lender from being a complainant to
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create a criminal prosecution problem
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for pushing offski in that particular
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country and he's used that tactic very
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successfully all over the world
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however a few banks are unwilling to
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settle and today warns for crucian our
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skis arrests are outstanding in Canada
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and United States the stunning fact that
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Joseph Bhushan on skis convinced one
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bank after Ana hand over hundreds of
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millions of dollars naturally raises the
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question of what he does with all that
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money what is unique about Joseph's
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pushing our scheme is there is no
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evidence that he is actually personally
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benefited in any way at all from these
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frauds the evidence is such that you
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have to accept the person off skis
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frauds have largely had to benefit
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I believe indirectly not directly his
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own community another similar Hasidic
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community
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authorities believe Prashant asked uses
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a stolen funds a start up numerous
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legitimate businesses in turn the
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profits from these companies are given
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to the Hasidic community which remains
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unaware the criminal origin of the money
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personal ski I think likes to see
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himself as a Robin Hood figure it's a
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way of giving a rationalization to what
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he does I feel that it is caused
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irreparable damage for the Jewish
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community as I say around the globe
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because it helps to to portray and an
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image of Jewish religious Jewish people
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or Jewish people in general as being
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crooks and robbers which of course is
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not the truth as to the basic doctrines
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of our faith and how we practice
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this mug shot the only known picture of
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Joseph pronounced key was taken when he
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was 42 years old at the time using a
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Connecticut prison on a fraud conviction
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pronounced key is now 54 he's 5 feet 9
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inches tall weighs Iran 170 pounds and
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probably has a full beer
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next charges of child abuse kidnapping
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and murder tear two families apart
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there is no such thing as a routine
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disappears
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last year in Oklahoma two women and a
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young girl suddenly and mysteriously
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dropped from sight when authorities
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began to investigate the unexpectedly
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found themselves in the midst of a
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bitter dispute between two families at
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the center of the controversy is 24 year
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old Wendy Kamp she her daughter Cynthia
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and her sister-in-law Renee were last
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seen in May of 1992 the truth remains
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tangled in an angry barrage of charges
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and counter-charges child abuse
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kidnapping and murder
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it all began rather innocently during
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the spring of 1987 wendy was divorced
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and her daughter Cynthia was less than
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six months old wendy was working at nice
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green pradhan Edmond Oklahoma when she
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fell in love with a co-worker named Chad
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no
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they hit it off fairly quickly and
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started a relationship and then she got
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pregnant with her second child and he
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convinced her to marry him and they got
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married about three or four weeks before
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Jonathan was born just one month after
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Jonathan's birth Wendi developed a
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crippling case of multiple sclerosis
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both her health and her marriage
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disintegrated wendy was hospitalized for
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nearly a year
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chad filed for divorce and was awarded
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primary custody of jonathan of course
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along with the MS i didn't think she
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would be able to help me raise my child
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and instead of having two people to or
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two children to deal with i just decided
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that it was best if we got a divorce and
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i helped her raise the child on my own
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and put this ring on wendy was too ill
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to contest the court's decision for
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about two years she struggled through
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physical therapy just to regain simple
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skills such as eating and walking during
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this time friends introduced Wendy to
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Leone camp they were married a 1990 and
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set up housekeeping in Oklahoma City
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Wendy's daughter Cynthia liberal
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and by all accounts Leon proved to be
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the loving father she needed as Wendy's
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condition improved she began to ask her
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ex-husband Chad for visits with Jonathan
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now three years over everyone agrees
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that at first the visitations went
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smoothly
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Jonathas spent a few weekends with Wendy
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and Leon in 1990 then according to
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Wendy's mother
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Chad's family began to sabotage the
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visits she would call and make an
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appointment with them set up a time and
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everything for her to see him and she
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would go there and they would not be at
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home and then they kept moving and
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getting unlisted phone numbers this type
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of thing so it was almost impossible to
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keep track of them or hurting you no
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Chad no remembers it differently she was
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allowed to visit him whenever she wanted
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and there was never really any hard
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feelings up until the time that my
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grandma or my mother informed me that he
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was being sexually molested and then
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that's whenever the visitations were cut
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off there was no molestation not once so
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ever and the idea of him thinking it
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just tore me up inside I was mad
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the visitation squabble had escalated
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sharply with Chad and his family now
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accusing Leon of criminal sexual abuse
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however the charges could neither be
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proven nor disproven the court cited
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Chad for contempt and ordered him to
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allow Wendy and Leon's visits to resume
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for more than six months chad refused
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then on May 29th 1992 he had a sudden
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change of heart
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oh yeah that would be great that would
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be just great chad is gonna let me see
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Jonathan today alright Chad even said
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his mother Beverly norm would pick Wendy
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up since a multiple sclerosis had left
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her unable to drive me see Jonathan
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today Beverly's gonna pick me up started
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one windy going by herself because I
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didn't trust these people and me and
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Chad didn't get along and I was just
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something inside of me I just felt like
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she better not go by herself
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by the time Beverly arrived Liana
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convinced his sister Renee Krieger to
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accompany Wendy and Cynthia on the trick
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Oh
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a couple hours probably around
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suppertime will you be careful you make
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sure you call me you hear all right I
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will
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all right I love you love you too babe I
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guess when did goodbye first and they
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got in the car took off and I waved at
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him that was the last time I seen him
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the 115 mile drive at Chad's almond
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shamrock Oklahoma took just over two
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hours when the group arrived in town at
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about 1:45 p.m.
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Wendy telephoned Leah
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we're fine we're fine we're just at the
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cafe we're waiting for Chad to get here
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the first time she called me that day
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was about one something to let me know
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that she'd made it alright we set there
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and visited and she didn't even really
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play with Jonathan her and Jonathan and
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Cynthia played for a while but she
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mostly set there and drank coffee with
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me out on the porch and tar around 4:15
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it was time for Wendy to say goodbye to
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Jonathan
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then she Cynthia and Renee climbed into
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Beverly's car for the ride back to
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Oklahoma City they were joined by Chas
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grandmother Ida Pruett
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before leaving Shamrock Wendy called
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Leon again will be home in just a few
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hours Beverly's ready to leave now
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okay about 4:30 4:45 she called me let
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me know had a visit when she said barely
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was in a hurry so she had golf the phone
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and that's last I talked to her
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phone company records verify that Wendy
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Corleone at 4:42 p.m. but virtually
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everything else about that afternoon has
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become tainted by suspicion the last
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people known to have seen Wendy and her
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companions alive were Beverly Nolan Ida
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Pruitt Chad's mother and grandmother
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Beverly declined to participate in this
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broadcast
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what follows his Ida Pruitt's account of
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the trip
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the visit took place here in shamrock
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after taking Wendy Cynthia and Renee to
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Oklahoma City Beverly was to drive back
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to Cushing where she planned to meet
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Chad in a restaurant between 7:00 and
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8:00 p.m.
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Wendy was unpleasant company from the
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time all the way to town she described
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another bitchin and that's all she could
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do so after they got back in the car and
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everything
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I told Barry me I said just take me back
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home I said you got to put up this but I
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don't so I she brought me back home and
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then she went on Ida Pro says she was
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dropped off at around 5:15 p.m.
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she claims Beverly later told her that
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the bickering continued for the next
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half hour I like that that was totally
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uncalled for Wendy she loves that little
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point I love him too that's why I want
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to spend more time well you've had
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enough time to spend with him but he
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knows me he needs his grandma she said
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there was time she got to Chandler she
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had had just about all she could stand
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and she pulled in Walmart and told him
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to get out
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Beverly is told police and she pulled
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into a shopping center parking lot in
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Chandler 45 miles from Wendy's home she
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then ordered Wendy Cynthia and Rene out
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of the car they never returned hook they
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never called they never asked anyone for
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help it was as though they had dropped
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off the face of the earth
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about eight o'clock at night I started
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thinking well they should have been home
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by now and then midnight that night I
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said this has gone too far I've got to
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call police and I did and that came out
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and took a brief description of
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everything we did an aerial search which
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involved four and five airplanes
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searching five County area it also
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involved several search teams and
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nothing was discovered at that time the
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bizarre disappearance was a talk of
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Oklahoma City four days with no other
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leads in the case
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Beverly knows version of the afternoon's
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events became the focus of intense
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official scrutiny at the time that
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Beverly now left shamrock Oklahoma which
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would have been between 4:30 and 5:00 in
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the evening she agreed to meet her son
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Chad in Cushing at a restaurant at 7:00
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that evening it could not have been done
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in that small amount of time
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according to authorities Beverly had
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told Chad she would meet him just two
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hours after she left shamrock even
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though the trip from Shamrock to
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Oklahoma City and back to Cushing would
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take three hours to drive
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in addition Beverly took the old
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two-lane highway instead of the faster
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superhighway
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Wendy's family is also disturbed about
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Wendy's failures a telephone from the
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shopping center
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Wendi was very very dependent upon Leon
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and she had already called twice
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she would have been mediately going in
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and called her husband Leon or and she
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wasn't able to go and she would have
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called me
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I failed it my daughter and my
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granddaughter and the sister-in-law were
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murdered that Friday night I feel that
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Ida Beverly in Chad all three are
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involved I feel that they pretty well
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had their plans laid out on what they
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were going to do when they made the
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phone call to ask Wendy if she wanted to
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see Jonathan and I figured whoever got
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in that car they were going to do what
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they had planned to do Beverly and I did
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not have nothing to do with their
00:26:03
disappearances and I know this I don't
00:26:06
care whether they know it or not or
00:26:08
believe it but I know it there is no way
00:26:12
that I or my grandma or my mother could
00:26:14
have killed him or shipped him off
00:26:18
somewhere or are still holding them in
00:26:22
spite of Chas denials to residents of
00:26:25
shamrock have told authorities that they
00:26:27
overheard him boasting that he had
00:26:28
killed Wendy Cynthia and Rene but that
00:26:31
no one would ever find their bodies
00:26:34
maybe in one of my drunken stupors I am
00:26:38
I popped up oh yeah yeah I get it better
00:26:41
there ain't no way then no way ever I
00:26:46
could have did something like that I'm
00:26:48
not a violent person
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despite all the bitter recriminations
00:26:55
between the two families no physical
00:26:58
evidence has ever been found to indicate
00:26:59
what happened to Wendy camp
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Cynthia brittle and Renee Krieger three
00:27:04
months after they disappeared a woman
00:27:07
who knows the family claimed to have
00:27:08
seen Cynthia alive police believe the
00:27:11
account is credible however there have
00:27:13
been no further sightings for more than
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a year
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when we return a woman needs your help
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to find the teacher who turned her life
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around 45 year old Dolores Brooks has
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spent much of her life in the same
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section of Brooklyn New York she knew as
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a young girl her thoughts frequently
00:28:21
turned to her childhood and a special
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friend Dolores hasn't seen since she
00:28:25
herself was a teenager more than 25
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years ago in the early 1960s
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Dolores moved to Brooklyn from a small
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town in North Carolina she was a shy
00:28:37
country girl
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overwhelmed by the Crown's of the
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concrete jungle that was New York City
00:28:44
it was really a big culture shock in
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reference to the buildings being so tall
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and everything because in North Carolina
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people used to come from miles around
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just to see a three-story building
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uh-huh it was really a big deal
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dolorous suffered the awkwardness common
00:29:06
to many teenagers that was complicated
00:29:09
by strained relations at home and the
00:29:11
anxiety of entering a big-city school
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the kids they seem to be so knowing that
00:29:18
New York kids and being a southern girl
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you know I just didn't feel that I fit
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in at that time as Dolores began her
00:29:29
first semester at Decatur junior high
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she was shocked by her classmates rowdy
00:29:34
behavior she never dreamed that in the
00:29:36
midst of the chaos she was about to meet
00:29:38
the person who would change her life the
00:29:53
new music teacher Madeleine strums was
00:29:56
an outsider just like Dolores
00:29:59
so she really looked like a uptown girl
00:30:04
she didn't look like the type that would
00:30:08
be teaching at this school you know she
00:30:10
really looked stylish a new day had
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dawned a music class
00:30:21
Dolores would soon discover that life
00:30:24
offered much more than problems and
00:30:26
conflict her eyes were open to the
00:30:28
beauty in the world thanks to Madelyn
00:30:30
sprouts
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she really loved music and she demanded
00:30:36
that we loved it too if we didn't love
00:30:39
it we have to be quiet about it and
00:30:41
respect it but eventually music it comes
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through to everyone and we all did love
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it
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hi Dolores come on in thanks for coming
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I really appreciate it
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by the following school year Madeline
00:30:58
had become a friend to Dolores as well
00:31:00
as a teacher Dolores was frequently
00:31:02
invited to visit the apartment where
00:31:04
Madeline lived with her father
00:31:07
the first time I went to her apartment
00:31:09
it was really overwhelming such a
00:31:12
beautiful place and so much space I
00:31:15
couldn't get over that I didn't know it
00:31:19
was luxury it looked just like a big
00:31:21
museum
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she lived at least 30 floors up I don't
00:31:29
remember how many but it was at least 30
00:31:31
and I would look out and I could see
00:31:34
Central Park
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this was really a new experience for me
00:31:38
you know it was like walking out of one
00:31:42
world into another and I became like a
00:31:44
changed person when I walked through
00:31:46
those doors that's the time when I won
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over the next two years Madeline took
00:31:59
Dolores to chamber concerts and other
00:32:01
musical events even lending her clothing
00:32:03
and jewelry for these occasions it is a
00:32:06
light Delores had only dreamed up it's
00:32:08
slowly nurtured a new self-image once
00:32:13
somebody care about you automatically
00:32:16
your self-esteem pick up you know it
00:32:19
wasn't anything that I can't really
00:32:21
explain that happened but I just felt
00:32:24
better about myself I walked with my
00:32:26
head up for once in my life and I just
00:32:29
felt more relaxed and at ease because
00:32:32
someone cared about me and I knew it
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graduation day June of 1964 a day of
00:32:42
mixed emotions for Dolores Brooks
00:32:47
leaving junior high meant that Madelyn
00:32:50
sprouts but no longer to be a daily
00:32:52
presence in her life without that
00:32:56
positive influence family problems would
00:32:58
overwhelm Dolores she ran away from home
00:33:01
dropped out of school and eventually
00:33:04
became a ward of the court in 1966
00:33:09
Dolores was stricken with what she
00:33:11
believes was Reye's syndrome a
00:33:13
potentially fatal condition that affects
00:33:15
the brain she spent nearly a month in
00:33:18
the hospital most of that time in a coma
00:33:21
Dolores recovered that was left with
00:33:23
partial amnesia in the summer of 1967
00:33:29
Dolores was stopped on the street by a
00:33:31
woman who seemed to know her
00:33:34
oh goodness look at you you look so
00:33:36
great I missed you how are you do I know
00:33:41
you
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it's a Laura start you remember me it's
00:33:46
me Madeline your music teacher well I
00:33:50
hope I was a good student I have to go I
00:33:54
didn't know who she was you know when I
00:33:57
saw her maybe three to four times after
00:34:00
that over the next year or so and I
00:34:03
still didn't remember her and she would
00:34:05
hug me in the street and exhale glad to
00:34:07
see me and I didn't know who she was
00:34:12
Dolores what on a complete her education
00:34:14
and trained as a practical nurse she
00:34:17
eventually moved to Chicago for a 1982
00:34:20
her memories of Marilyn Strauss reawaken
00:34:25
excuse me where are you from I'm from
00:34:28
Brooklyn
00:34:29
that's what I thought you said what
00:34:30
section best died me too no kidding what
00:34:34
school you go to Decatur junior you know
00:34:36
that's where I went
00:34:38
I remember you we were in the same music
00:34:41
class i sat right across from you really
00:34:43
remember the teachers not talking about
00:34:45
our teachers in Madeline came Mary and
00:34:48
from there the minis
00:34:50
coming back once the memory came back I
00:34:54
decided I would like to find her because
00:34:56
I really realize how much we had in the
00:35:02
past and then when I met her on the
00:35:03
street so many time and didn't know her
00:35:06
that I felt that I needed to see her
00:35:09
again
00:35:10
to let her know that it wasn't all loss
00:35:13
the time that she put into me
00:35:17
I would like to just say thank you
00:35:32
next a family's dream of a better life
00:35:35
in America and his own tragedy New York
00:35:47
City has traditionally served as a
00:35:49
beacon for those who look to America for
00:35:51
a new and better life nearly every
00:35:53
country in the world has an immigrant
00:35:55
community enriching the city and to the
00:35:57
newly arrived New York symbolizes the
00:36:00
American dream
00:36:01
Sooyoung Kim and suyai you lived that
00:36:04
dream born in South Korea they've worked
00:36:07
hard and saved every penny in 1981 they
00:36:10
married in Seoul then moved to the
00:36:12
United States Sooyoung and su ER worked
00:36:15
in flea markets until they were able to
00:36:17
open two stores one in Long Island and
00:36:20
the other and bushmen a section of
00:36:22
Brooklyn known for his ethnic diversity
00:36:26
to God my wife and I were very nervous
00:36:29
about our energy we couldn't understand
00:36:32
everything together there was no single
00:36:34
item in the store not hard to buy
00:36:38
we work very hard from early in the
00:36:41
morning in late at night seven days ago
00:36:43
and we were blessed with water and as a
00:36:52
business grew so did the Kim family soo
00:36:54
Yong soo Jung had two sons and often the
00:36:57
whole family could be found at the
00:36:59
Brooklyn store the Kim's eventually
00:37:07
moved to a spacious apartment in Queens
00:37:09
there early afternoon of June 29th 1991
00:37:13
is five days after Sooyoung and soo yah
00:37:15
had celebrated their 10th wedding
00:37:17
anniversary
00:37:18
soo yar left the boys with her
00:37:20
grandmother while she went out shopping
00:37:22
okay not too much time with their father
00:37:24
when suya walked out of the apartment
00:37:26
that day no one imagined that the Kim's
00:37:29
American dream was about to come
00:37:31
crashing down
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00:37:38
when Sooyoung Kim came home from the
00:37:41
store at 8 p.m. he was worried to find
00:37:44
that suya had not returned from her
00:37:45
shopping trip he called all her friends
00:37:47
but no one knew where she was
00:37:54
took a yogi doc
00:37:56
eventually soo Yung's brother joined the
00:37:59
vigil
00:37:59
soo Yung's concerned mountains after he
00:38:02
found sujes car still parked in the
00:38:04
garage
00:38:05
his engine stone-cold she knows he knows
00:38:10
my wife er has never been our debtor
00:38:12
late for the 10 years of our marriage I
00:38:14
was getting more and more worries that I
00:38:16
could not stop thinking that something
00:38:18
bad must have happened to her
00:38:21
I stayed up all night waiting for her
00:38:23
but she didn't hardly come home Kanchana
00:38:25
katha as the coroner gave us a call the
00:38:29
next day su Yong Kim was similar to the
00:38:32
medical examiner's office to identify a
00:38:34
body
00:38:34
I want to believe what was going on as
00:38:43
soon as I recognized my wife's body I
00:38:45
felt that everything was over the whole
00:38:48
world seemed to crush upon me I could
00:38:50
not think of anything else except my
00:38:53
children
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tsuya Kim had been stabbed nine times
00:39:03
her body dumped in the section of
00:39:05
Brooklyn known as Bedford Stuyvesant
00:39:07
seven miles from the Kim's apartment in
00:39:09
Queens although she was new there was no
00:39:12
evidence of rape sujes murder appeared
00:39:14
to be yet another senseless act of
00:39:16
random violence but unlike many random
00:39:19
crimes this one had a witness Jo Jones
00:39:26
is a private security guard hired to
00:39:28
patrol an abandoned building in Bedford
00:39:30
Stuyvesant around 3:00 a.m. ten hours
00:39:33
after suya had disappeared
00:39:35
Jones noticed a man behind the building
00:39:39
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00:39:43
hey yo man you can't dump that I can't
00:39:47
dump here
00:39:48
no you can't dump here he like hesitated
00:39:52
no like a couple of seconds then he said
00:39:55
Oh what if I gave you $20 so I said okay
00:40:00
so at that time when I'm taking betrayal
00:40:02
I see that he had blood on you know so I
00:40:05
said oh you'll make it blood blood on
00:40:08
you like that
00:40:10
I just got into a fight
00:40:15
the man's demeanor made joe jones
00:40:17
suspicious he got a brief glimpse of the
00:40:19
license plate before the car backed out
00:40:23
yes in a car drive away but he stops at
00:40:27
the corner so when he stopped at the
00:40:30
corner I'm still standing there no I
00:40:33
think he thought I was gonna go back to
00:40:34
see what he put in the garlic and I
00:40:36
really got suspicious when he drove
00:40:38
through the corner he was looking at me
00:40:41
and I'm looking at
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[Music]
00:40:50
so when I went back I looked on the
00:40:52
ground I saw spiced spots of blood bones
00:40:55
water the garbage can Joe Jones
00:40:58
recruited a friend who happened fine
00:41:00
together they cautiously probed the
00:41:02
contents of the dumpster
00:41:05
it's layers of debris they saw a woman's
00:41:08
hand it was the body of Soo Hyuk Kim
00:41:14
in uncanny coincidence the first vehicle
00:41:17
to passed by was an ambulance it was too
00:41:19
late
00:41:20
tsuya had already been dead for hours
00:41:22
thanks to JoJo's overnight police had a
00:41:25
description of the killer
00:41:26
and his car we ran all the the Nissan's
00:41:32
that fit that description with that
00:41:33
plate number and New York City we tried
00:41:35
to match registered owners by using that
00:41:38
partial plate and we were able to come
00:41:40
up with one match thank you the vehicle
00:41:45
was registered to a Taiwanese exchange
00:41:47
student at CW post college in Long
00:41:50
Island
00:41:50
she said she had not driven it since
00:41:52
about 10 o'clock the night before did
00:42:00
you go anywhere after that tsuya had
00:42:03
been stabbed repeatedly yet there was no
00:42:05
blood in or on the car when police
00:42:08
checked the engine they found that the
00:42:10
car had in fact not been driven for
00:42:13
hours that was extra set of keys to your
00:42:17
car
00:42:19
so you're the only driver you didn't
00:42:20
have anyone borrow the car last night
00:42:22
well at this time we don't have any
00:42:24
other clues the plate number came up to
00:42:26
a car that there was a blue Nissan that
00:42:28
fit the description that mr. Jones told
00:42:30
us however it wasn't the car we don't
00:42:33
believe it was the car at this time I
00:42:35
don't understand it was it isn't misty
00:42:39
you know cuz I don't watch the once I
00:42:42
gave him a nice place in the car they
00:42:44
could pick him up but the only final car
00:42:47
they said this one the car so I don't
00:42:51
know police now began to look at the
00:42:57
star witness Joel Jones as a suspect
00:42:59
they requested that Jones take a
00:43:01
lie-detector test
00:43:02
he passed with flying colors police are
00:43:06
positive he had nothing to do with sujes
00:43:08
murder
00:43:10
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00:43:13
for nearly two years soo-jung Kim's
00:43:15
stayed on in the United States but the
00:43:17
memories of suya proved too painful to
00:43:20
bear in April of 1993 he shut down his
00:43:23
business and returned with his two
00:43:25
little boys to Korea
00:43:29
I could not stand being in the store
00:43:31
anymore because everything they remind
00:43:34
me of my wife now there are no good
00:43:36
memories for him here in America since
00:43:41
it happened I lost all my hope and dream
00:43:43
I have a suffered so much I'm still
00:43:46
struggling hard care about my wife's
00:43:48
death for the sake of our children I
00:43:53
still truly love her and miss her
00:43:59
police have one particular theory which
00:44:01
may yet help identify sujes killer the
00:44:05
dumpster in bedford-stuyvesant was not
00:44:07
easily visible from the street some
00:44:09
police believe the killer may be a
00:44:10
delivery man or a cab driver someone
00:44:13
would detailed knowledge of the
00:44:14
neighborhood
00:44:17
the suspect is in his mid-20s in
00:44:20
approximately five feet six inches tall
00:44:22
he has blond hair and blue eyes and
00:44:25
weighs between 130 and 140 pounds when
00:44:29
last seen he was wearing a torn and
00:44:31
blood-stained fishnet tank top with blue
00:44:33
and white jockey shorts which had yellow
00:44:35
sailboat insignias on the leg
00:44:38
[Music]
00:44:50
but our next unsolved mysteries with
00:44:53
Halloween just around the corner a
00:44:55
ghostly tale seems an owner and at Lake
00:44:58
Wales Florida will find a haunted house
00:45:00
it apparently has it all and a burying
00:45:03
phantom a shadowy Specter and a demonic
00:45:08
possession
00:45:11
join me next time for this lively tour
00:45:13
of the spirit world and much more
00:45:16
unsolved mysteries
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[Applause]
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you
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