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this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast seventeen-year-old tracy kirkpatrick was an honors student with a passion for
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poetry in 1989 tracy was stabbed in death from the clothing store where she worked
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three months later a man claiming to be the killer made this bizarre telephone call
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i know this is gonna sound surprising but three months ago perhaps you can help catch him
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folsom prison california for years he was thought to be virtually escape-proof but in 1984 a convicted killer steve
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wilson pulled off an ingenious jailbreak and became the first man to escape from
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folsom in 15 years in 1943 22 year old frankie bloomer was reported missing in action when the destroyer uss
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rowan was sunk in battle a few days later frankie's picture taken on a hospital ship appeared in the
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newspaper for almost 50 years his family has been asking what happened to frankie bloomer
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in 1965 22 year old judith hiams vanished without a trace from coral gables florida
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25 years later in a bizarre turn of events a series of anonymous phone calls claim that judith is still alive
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also we'll bring you an intriguing update on our story of amelia earhart the legendary aviator who disappeared
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while flying around the world in 1937 recently an expedition found a piece of equipment which may have been on her
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plane join me for this fascinating edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause]
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[Music] tracy kirkpatrick was an introspective pretty teenager from a small town near
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frederick maryland the third of four children tracy was an honor student who loved reading and
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writing poetry in early 1989 tracy read her family a haunting poem written by christina
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rossetti tracy seemed to be asking them not to grieve for her when she was gone remember me when i am gone away gone
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far away into the silent land when you can no more hold me by the hand [Music] her and her boyfriend had just recently
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broke up and i guess she expressed her feelings through her her writing she wrote a lot of uh
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lonely poems she's very intelligent she's a hard worker and she loved people
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and she loved to be around people and she loved to have a lot of friends and everything
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now this is our new spring line we have it in blue during tracy's senior year in
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high school she held down two part-time jobs one of them a sales clerk in a woman's
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clothing store on the night of march 15 1989 tracy was assigned to close the store
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and tally up the day's receipts 15 minutes before closing time tracy was alone it was 8 45 pm
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two hours later a shopping mall security guard noticed that the lights inside the women's clothing store were
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still on the front door was unlocked the guard called out but received no response
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he walked toward the back of the store in a storage room he found tracy kirkpatrick's lifeless body
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the guard immediately notified the police you better send someone down right away
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all right at almost the same moment billy and diane kirkpatrick tracy's parents were
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on route to the shopping mall it was nearly 11 p.m more than an hour after tracy usually returned home
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i'm worried for nothing okay i know everything's gonna be fine what the hell is this what is look
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there's police cars bill yeah okay [Music] as soon as i seen it was at the store i
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jumped out of the car and uh i went up to the door and they wasn't they didn't want to let us in at
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first because they really didn't know who we were tracy works here all right hold on chief
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your parents she's okay thank you tracy i said is she all right can i see her
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and when he shook his head no i just blocked out everything i didn't want to
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hear the rest of what was going to be said to me no all right bill oh okay diane
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sit down what did someone have it against her that they would do something like that to her
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she never did anything to hurt anybody police could find no apparent motive for tracy kirkpatrick's brutal murder
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there was no sign of sexual assault the day's cash receipts have been left untouched on the counter
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since there were no indications of a struggle police believe the murder must have been someone tracy knew
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a thorough analysis of the crime scene turned up late in fingerprints but no other physical evidence
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the case was stalled then three months later police got their first real lead when a mysterious telephone call was
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recorded by a nationwide confession hotline in las vegas hello my name is this is a tape recording of the actual
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phone call i know this is going to sound surprising but three months ago and you might think that in making
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mistakes the hotline immediately notified the frederick police the sincerity that i heard in that voice
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and the knowledge that the person was displaying talking about what he had done at that point convinced me that i
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probably was listening to the killer detective horner thought the caller's knowledge of the case was convincing
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he took the tape to his chief yes sir let's listen to it then our conversation turned into an argument
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and so i took out a knife that i have with me at all times and i killed her and a few days later i realized that i had
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created a lot of sadness and i thought about turning myself into the police or whatever they do to me that won't
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bring tracy back so i've decided that i better keep free because we have the death penalty in maryland uh
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thanks for listening i'm sorry about what i did but nothing can change it's fine
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just sounds like we have our killer doesn't it sounds very authentic they traced the call back to a supermarket in
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walkersville maryland which is uh seven or eight miles just north of frederick city
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if it was the killer he wanted to be caught and he was seeking help through this
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hotline and it was a decision made by my chief of police and and members of my division to compose a
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letter to this individual and address it to dawn and asked dawn to please come forward if
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he needed someone to talk to i was available the letter was published in a local newspaper on october 10
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1989 police received no response but two weeks later another unlikely phone call provided them with a new lead
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hello my name is john and i have rather an unusual request how can i help you sean
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on october 24th martha woodworth a massachusetts woman with a reputation as a psychic
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began to receive calls from a young man who identified himself as sean well i don't usually take cases sean
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seemed obsessed with finding the person who had murdered tracy kirkpatrick martha told shawn she needed more
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information before she could help eventually he agreed to send martha newspaper clippings
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and when i received the envelope with his handwriting on the outside i thought this person has a much
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stronger involvement than just being a friend who's interested i found the handwriting
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extremely disturbed so i felt it was my responsibility to alert the police that i had a potential suspect for them
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martha do you think you've talked to sean enough that you could recognize his
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voice from a tape yes i i'm pretty sure okay let me play a little tape for you on telephone
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chief ashton played the confession tape for martha woodworth she believed the voice was shawn's
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[Music] i knew it was sean in fact my heart dropped it was very chilling to hear the voice of the
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person i'd been speaking to for months actually confessing to the crime you know i certainly
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didn't encourage uh her to maintain contact with him because i mean at that time we thought
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it was a viable lead and it's the best lead that we had and she was the you know conduit between
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sean dawn and the police department what if the killer commits suicide police checked out the return
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address on sean's envelope it was in walkersville maryland the same town where the call in confession had
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been made however the young man living at the address was not named sean or don he was obsessed with that
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good morning as requested by frederick said another dead end the frederick police turned a local
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radio stations for help the caller claims to have killed tracy lynn kirkpatrick who was brutally murdered in frederick
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one year ago today authorities encourage you to listen carefully there's a chance someone may
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recognize the caller's voice [Applause] after the tape aired three people claimed they thought they recognized the
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voice again the man was not named sean or don but he was the young man who lived at
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the return address on the psychics letter police searched his home the next day our hopes in serving the search and
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seizure warrant on his person obtaining physical evidence from that suspect was to send
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that material to our forensic lab and the state lab and confirm our suspicions that he was in
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fact the person who committed this crime unfortunately the evidence was examined and
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re-examined and we were unable to confirm that he was either at the crime scene that night
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or had any any particular part in this criminal act okay i guess in the search police found
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many newspaper clippings about tracy's murder but could find no evidence that
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the young man knew tracy kirkpatrick personally he plead the fifth amendment and refused to answer any questions
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there has to be someone that's seeing something someone coming from that store running from the
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store or leaving that store or heard something i just can't imagine something happening like that no one
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knowing nothing about it the frustrating part is you know we obviously know somebody
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killed her and we've never been able to nail it down to the suspect that definitely did it but i
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mean that's has been our pledge to the community to the family that you know we're not going to give up
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until we do identify that person on march 20th 1989 tracy kirkpatrick was buried in oak grove cemetery near
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pittsburgh pennsylvania the poem she had once recited for her family was inscribed on her tombstone
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[Music] remember me when i am gone away gone far away into the silent land when you can no more hold me by the hand
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yet if you should forget me for a while and afterward remember do not grieve for if the darkness and corruption leave
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a vestige of the thoughts that once i had better by far that you should forget and
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smile and that you should remember and be sad six decades ago famed aviator amelia
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earhart captured the heart and spirit of an entire generation with their courageous
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record-breaking flights but in 1937 erhart became the subject of one of the most enduring and fascinating
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unsolved mysteries on may 20th 1937 emilia enter navigator fred noodle began their attempt to
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circumnavigate the world in a twin-engine lockheed electra they never returned on july 2nd they disappeared on route to
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the small south pacific island of holland [Music] a massive search turned up no trace of
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amelia fred or their airplane years later rumors surfaced that earhart and noonan were taken prisoner by the
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japanese and held on the island of saipan this woman was brought ashore by the japanese
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neva blas has lived on saipan her entire life she claims that she witnessed amelia
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earhart's execution [Music] amelia earhart and fred newman taken prisoner and executed on the island of
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saipan or did their plane in fact go down in the vast and unforgiving waters of the
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south pacific shortly after our broadcast we learned of an intriguing discovery that may
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finally solve the mystery of amelia earhart's disappearance in october of 1989
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a 17-member expedition spent three weeks on a tiny uninhabited island called nikumaroro
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nikumaroro is 420 miles from amelia's destination howland island the operation was headed by aviation
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archaeologist rick gillespie no one ever really searched on that island for amelia
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earhart although the u.s navy flew over it one week after she disappeared the pilot in charge of the flight saw
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what he later described in his official report as clear signs of recent human habitation
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what he could not have known at that time is there should have been no one on that island
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no sign of any human activity on that island the expedition found this aluminum aircraft part
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which may have been installed in the lockheed elector by navigator fred noonan the number on the box positively
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identifies it as a navigator's bookcase we know there was a structure of this
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box's size and shape installed aboard the earhart aircraft tests performed by the fbi laboratory in
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washington d.c conclude that the bookcase came from a civilian aircraft and was manufactured
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in the years just prior to earhart's disappearance what the fbi has told us doesn't
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constitute proof what it does is constitute sufficient evidence to merit a return to mararo
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to find and photograph the ultimate proof the airplane itself rick gillespie and the archaeological
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team plan to return the nikumaroro using sonar and computer tracking devices they will try to locate amelia
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hearts plane in the waters just off the island perhaps just perhaps the mystery of the
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legendary amelia earhart will finally be solved [Music] in 1976 a 30 year old jack of all trades
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named steve wilson showed up in atlanta california he was a licensed pilot and a certified
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electrician he said he had come from san diego but never revealed much else about his past
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with his rugged good looks and smooth-talking charm wilson soon made friends with the local residents
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people liked steve wilson he could tell you anything you wanted to hear and make you believe it he was very much
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involved with the college he liked to lift weights he liked to weld and when he was around
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a group of people that he enjoyed he was very friendly and very uh fun to be around wilson did
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occasional odd jobs on the cabin bar ranch a 900 000 acre spread 100 miles west of
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death valley the ranch was owned by bill thornberg a prominent horseman 22 year old cali thornberg lived at home
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and worked right alongside her father when steve wilson met cali he took an immediate interest in her
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they courted for nine months and bill thornburg's blessings ran off to reno to
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get married dad wanted me to get married because he felt that i needed to have something
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other than him in the ranch as we were driving to reno or even the day before we left
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i was wishing there was some way that i could get out of it or not get married but
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i felt as though i had made that commitment and there was no way to get out of that
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the marriage was an immediate disaster wilson was abusive and threatened callie just two months after the wedding callie
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left her husband and moved back in with her father wilson was no longer welcome on the
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cabin bar ranch hi john a few days later cali told her father that wilson had been making threatening phone calls
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i didn't realize that guy was so crazy i'm really afraid i don't know what to
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do the threats sparked a feud between bill thornburg and steve wilson well i don't like to say this at all
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callie but i really fear for your life the guy's a nut i know wilson would call on the phone and
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harass us and he would say things like i will hurt you worse than you've ever been
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hurt before i will take everything you love away from you you will pay you will learn to love me you will learn
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that loving me is easier than being away from me about three weeks after the breakup
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steve wilson showed up at the ranch to get callie back kelly kelly come out here
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telling want to talk to you right now come out here what do you want wilson i want to talk to kelly she'd want to
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talk to you kelly i love you but she don't love you it's over with that's between me and kelly get off my
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ranch why are you doing this to me just go away i love you callie i'm telling you you hear what i'm saying
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i grabbed my dad and grabbed the gun and said no don't shoot him it's not worth it you
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know i didn't want my father and wilson to get into any kind of a confrontation
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with each other because i was afraid that wilson would hurt my dad may 29 1979 at 6 a.m
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bill thornburg left the ranch house to do his morning chores and never returned when i got there he wasn't there and so
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i waited for about oh 15 to 20 minutes and he never showed i thought something was wrong because he
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was always on time dad and so i walked out to the water lines and i found his truck
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with his every morning cup of coffee sitting on the dashboard and it was still hot
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dad bill thornberg was never seen again steve wilson had also disappeared seven months passed then on christmas
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eve 1979 a teenager riding his dirt bike through the desert 45 miles south of the ranch
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house made a grisly discovery a teenage boy on a dirt bike had been over in the sand canyon area
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and had come across the skeletal remains of a body the boy knew his parents wouldn't
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believe him if he told him so he actually took the head and rode back to his house
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and at that time his parents called the sheriff's office and they went out and
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investigated with the evidence at the scene the clothing and different articles it was
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immediately known that it was bill thornberg's body and all the evidence led to steve wilson
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i believe he vented a lot of his rage at bill up unto the point where he took him out
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and murdered him another year and a half passed and steve wilson was still on the run
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then in 1981 he was spotted by a game warden in kodiak alaska and was subsequently arrested in las
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vegas he pled guilty to first degree murder and received a sentence of 25 years to life at folsom prison in
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california folsom prison is a maximum security facility housing many violent killers
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when steve wilson arrived there had not been an escape in 15 years wilson immediately went to work
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ingratiating himself to the officers and administrators mr martin good morning to you sir
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i go steve listen a little favor i'd like to ask if you could help me out he joined the in-house work program and
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used his charm on those who could help him steve was a model prisoner i have 30 years
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in his career of mine and i would have to say that this guy is the greatest clerk i've ever had
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before long wilson became the clerk in charge of shipping it is one of the most coveted inmate
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jobs in the prison with a lease supervision and the most freedom of movement hey larry hey steve how you doing good
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hey look at invoice 1403 you only see when he became a clerk in in the warehouse up uh
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adjacent to the metal factory in the license plate factory but his job would entail him being in
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all different areas of the uh of the warehouse picking up inventories picking up invoices
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work orders so for him to be in a certain area at any time would not be unusual would not be significant
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and if he wasn't there would not be significant either two years passed prison officials had no
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idea that during that entire time wilson was plotting a way out at 8 30 a.m on august 3
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1984 while wilson was working near the loading dock he put his escape plan into effect
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[Music] what is your problem he ran into me listen i told you about this safety last
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week [Music] when the truck was fully loaded the officers sealed the door shut unaware that wilson had enlisted other
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inmates to create a diversion and help him make his escape [Music] wilson's meticulous planning had worked
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nobody noticed that he left the loading dock it's my opinion that steve wilson was looking for the
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weakest link in our security to get out i think he was planning this at least well over a year ahead of time
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he was an intelligent individual and when you have vehicles going in and out of a secure area
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that's your weakest link escape plan was modeled almost exactly after the last successful escape from
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folsom in 1969 15 years period authorities believe that as soon as a truck left the prison grounds
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wilson cut a hole in the roof using tin snipes he had stolen from the prison metal shop
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just minutes later the truck pulled into the local building when the truck's driver went inside for
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a cup of coffee wilson squeezed through the hole he'd cut and disappeared having wilson on the
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loose is very hard for me because i can never really relax i don't like being alone and i'm always
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looking around all the corners i i'm constantly in fear before steve wilson was sent to folsom
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prison he was interviewed on videotape by a psychiatrist i was thinking anything i can't say that i was planning
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to kill him that i wasn't planning to kill him or anything i just turned in and drove straight to the grave who was
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driving [Music] [Music] next the poignant mystery of an american sailor whose ship was sunk by the nazis
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he was later photographed on a hospital ship and never seen again most of us are familiar with the
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heartbreaking stories of american soldiers still missing in action in vietnam and the anguish and uncertainty
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their families face it's astonishing to think that their other families have been carrying that
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same terrible burden ever since world war ii yet along with that burden of despair
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comes a miracle of hope this is a story of one american sailor's family and their steadfast
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dream of reunion frank joseph bloomer was born on october 12 1921 in ziegler illinois the younger of two
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sons he loved the outdoors especially swimming and fishing when world war ii broke out frankie
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enlisted in the navy against his parents wishes frankie bloomer served as a radio technician
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aboard the uss rowan a destroyer operating in the mediterranean sea on september 11 1943 just off the coast
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of italy a german u-boat targeted the roan his torpedo hit home going sank in less than a minute
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202 american sailors were killed reported missing in action was 22 year old radio man third
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class frankie bloomer his parents heard that the roland was sunk on their car radio in a short time they
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were notified that it was missing in action incredibly less than a week later mrs
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jane bloomer saw a newspaper article with this photograph of three survivors of the uss rowan
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she recognized the man in the middle as her son frankie i know this is him look at this she immediately contacted her
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other son's wife dorothy the two women compared the newspaper photograph with pictures of frankie yes
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see i noticed that too how it is when i first saw the newspaper picture of the three survivors
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i was positive the one was frankie it had characteristics that he had features and um i knew it was frankie
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jane bloomer took the photographs to a local mortician who was an expert at photo identification
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see how he's holding his arm there did he ever break his arm maybe as a child yes he
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did i would say that these two men are absolutely the same are you sure from my observation of this evidence
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i definitely would conclude they're one and the same thank you when the mortician told my
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mother-in-law that he felt this picture was a frankie it gave her a lot more hope
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she wrote to the american red cross to see if they could help her and they said they got all of their
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information from the war department and that they could not find any information that she did not already
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have frankie's mother never stopped believing that her son was alive when mrs bloomer died in 1971
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she passed her hope to a new generation her granddaughter janie as a very small girl the first
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time i can remember hearing or finding out about my uncle frankie was at my grandma's house
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i noticed the picture sitting on the mantel i went over and i asked my grandma i
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said well who is this and she said this is your uncle frankie why haven't i ever met him well
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he went into the navy a long time ago he just hasn't come back yet but i'm
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sure he will i would say that my grandmother and grandfather lived with this haunting feeling of never knowing
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if he was alive or dead until the day they died awesome i think my grandparents would
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commemorate frankie's birthday in different ways from year to year it never went forgotten
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i can recall a time when we were over at my grandmother's house to eat dinner
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and there happened to be a cake on the table and and i asked why there was a cake there
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and she told me that it was because it was frankie's birthday where is he he's away just now
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when is he gonna be back i don't know janie i don't know i'm searching to find the answer whether
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he is alive or dead so that i don't end up the same way that my grandparents did
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because they both died not knowing the real truth of whether he was alive or dead
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twelve years ago janie's parents erected a memorial headstone for frankie i do go to the grave occasionally and
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our family is all buried in the same proximity it's kind of strange though when when i
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look at my uncle frankie's grave marker and know that he's not in there and think of the possibility that he
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could be walking a street somewhere yet there's a marker here with his name on it
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[Music] for a young woman to be pregnant and unmarried is nearly always a disturbing
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and unsettling prospect in 1965 judith hines a 22 year old medical technician from coral gables florida found herself
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in that difficult predicament with nowhere else to turn judith hyams apparently decided to have an illegal
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abortion it was a decision that probably led to her disappearance and quite possibly
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her death judith hines learned she was pregnant in august of 1965 the name she gave her pregnancy test was
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b kenny evidence that she may have been trying to keep her condition a secret judy never said anything to me about the
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fact that she might have been pregnant she never even told me that she went to have a test
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a pregnancy test she called me i guess the day that she was going to have the abortion if that is what
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happened to tell me that she was going shopping she was leaving work early and going shopping
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the day she disappeared judith went to her bank and withdrew three hundred dollars
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she told her friends that she was going to buy a watch police believe that instead judith used
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the money for an illegal abortion we were able to determine that she contacted a close friend of hers
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who uh helped arrange an abortion through the suspect dr george hodgin and uh through that a date and time and
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a price were set for it judith made the arrangements to get the money and uh the last time she was seen we feel
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that she was on her way to get this abortion get plenty of rest you'll be fine in no
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time huh george haju was a hungarian immigrant who poses an accredited physician
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according to police haju operated an illegal abortion clinic in coral gables judy
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having an abortion i don't think she really had any other choice because nobody in those days would have a child
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and keep it it just wasn't done not not in in the group that she was friendly with
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julie judy judy right through here huh a lot of people have said that what happened to her was that she
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died having an abortion judy was a medical a lab technician she had a lot of medical knowledge i
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find it hard to believe that she could have died having an abortion i mean surely she would have known she
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was intelligent enough to know to go for help someplace judith heims disappeared on september 14
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1965. three weeks later a rattle car registered in her name was found 650 miles away in atlanta georgia
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on the back seat were traces of blood unfortunately the car had sat there for two or three days before it was found
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and then by the time we were able to conduct any crime scene on it the car had been handled by other people
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of the police agencies and by the time it got back to dade county to be processed whatever crime
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scene existed was totally ruined a local resident had spotted a man in his 30s parking the vehicle
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he removed what appeared to be a duffel bag from the trunk and then left the area this man has
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never been identified three months later george [ __ ] was arrested for impersonating a
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he physician bail and has not been seen since perjury charges against him are still in
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the books and police speculate he may know what happened at judith heims shortly after hajju's escape police
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ended their investigation into judas disappearance the judith heim's case soon faded from
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local memory but 25 years later the investigation will be reopened thanks to a bizarre series of events
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that began with a police narcotics lecture in nebraska captain chuck scheer of the coral gables
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police department was unfamiliar with ohium's case in 1990 shearer had a speaking
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engagement at a police academy 200 miles west of omaha nebraska the lecture itself was uneventful and
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sheer returned home it was then that he received a phone call from the past two days after the nebraska lecture
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captain shear received a long-distance phone call at his office in coral gables hello hello yes it is
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what can i do for you the caller identified himself as steve brown the host of a popular radio talk show in
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omaha he said an anonymous caller had given him information on the disappearance of
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judith heims i told the mr brown that i didn't wasn't familiar with the case and i'd have to
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research and get back to him i asked him for for his phone number and if he knew how to get
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back in touch with this person that had called the radio talk show he said yes he did know how to get back
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to him and he gave me two phone numbers a day later captain shearer called steve
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brown in nebraska steve brown he said well regarding your call to me i have dug up the information that
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you needed and i have it for you and i said excuse me i because this is a call out of the blue i
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didn't know who the man was or could not imagine what he was talking about he
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was totally surprised never heard of me never knew anything about it and denied adamantly that he was the one that made
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the phone calls no no that's right that's my home number it's my private unlisted number
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who gave you that when he gave me my own unlisted home phone number i began to think through the people that
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come to mind who have that telephone number thinking they could have called and no
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one has yet come to mind who would make such a phone call without telling me about it
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claiming to be me well now i'm confused i don't know what uh what to think why would uh why would
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a 25 year old case surface all of a sudden out of omaha nebraska when in fact i've never been to
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omaha nebraska in my life prior to this time uh and had no knowledge or anything about
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the case i never mentioned the case whatsoever the whole time we were out there for the simple reason i really didn't
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even know about the case uh to to give anybody any information or anything good evening corgavs police department
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captain shear one moment two days later captain shear received another unusual phone call
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hello hello who is this my gut feeling is that something is going on to bring this case back up 25
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years later and it it very possibly is that judy is in fact living in in the omaha area
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in the fall of 1989 an article on the heim's case appeared in a local newspaper
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captain shearer then received yet another anonymous phone call hello the third phone call that i
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received was from a man that identified himself as an informant for the fbi he refused to give me his name at that
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time but he said that he had just spent several weeks with hajju over in budapest hungary and he
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gave me the phone number i contacted uh interpol an interpol our interpol through their
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budapest interpol determined that the phone number that he gave me indeed comes back
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to the same name of the suspect at that time the doctor that supposedly performed the abortion
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police have yet to locate george hajju in hungary but they feel it is highly unlikely that he was responsible for the
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phone calls the only real evidence that judith is still alive has come from the mysterious
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phone calls police have searched the omaha area but have found no trace of her whereabouts
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who placed the anonymous phone calls if they are telling the truth where is judith hymes today
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did she have an abortion and die as a result or did she just disappear the only possible scenario that i could
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see is that if in fact she is she didn't want the family to know about the supposed abortion at the time and
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she just disappeared and in fact has been missing for 25 years not wanting her family to know about it
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i'd like to believe that she's someplace and that she could be found or that she
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can back or that we know that she's all right i guess my personal theory is is it's
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hard to believe that she that she would be dead um but i can't understand if she's alive
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why she wouldn't contact somebody after all this time after all there's no more stigmas left
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why wouldn't she come back [Music] [Music] [Music] in 1980 two women in texas had a strange
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encounter with an unidentified object on a desolate highway outside of houston within hours he was stricken with
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mysterious illnesses which continue to plague them today a genuine ufo a military operation
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or something new and unexplained [Music] join me next time for another edition of
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unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] you