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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 about to see is not a news broadcast 1971 the
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Philippines Roger roas an amateur treasure hunter found an intricate system of tunnels dug by the Japanese
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during World War II roas claims that deep inside he discovered an amazing hidden treasure a
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solid gold Buddha and countless boxes of gold bars but roar's joy was short-lived
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he soon found himself imprisoned and tortured at the orders of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and as for
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the treasure possibly worth billions its whereabouts remain an unsolved mystery Caitlyn arette was a popular
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vivacious honor student who dreamed of becoming a doctor but in 19 1989 Caitlyn was brutally and senselessly gunned down
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leaving her family haunted by unanswered questions who killed Caitlyn and why 20 years ago a large caring family
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in California took in a 4-year-old girl whose father needed help to care for her
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now that family asks for your help to find the young child that they loved and accepted as their
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own join me for these fascinating stories perhaps someone somewhere has at one vital clue that can help solve a
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mystery perhaps that someone is watching perhaps it's you [Music] [Applause]
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[Music] from 1965 to 1986 Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines first as an elected
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leader then as a virtual Dictator by the time Marcos was deposed his personal wealth was estimated at $10 billion much
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of it allegedly looted from his own people view Dare Challenge Marcos publicly but on May 5th 1971 newspapers
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in the Philippines carried a startling front page story a Filipino locksmith and part-time treasure hunter named
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Roger roas was accusing marcos's henchman of ransacking his house and stealing a rare solid gold Buddha which
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roas had found while Excavating near his home just days earlier Roger's brother
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had taken this photograph of Roger and the Buddha Roger was 27 years old at the time and in the prime of
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[Music] Life Roger Roan is Now 49 but his health is ruined wrecked by torture and Years
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of Living On The Run Roger's Nemesis Ferdinand Marcos died in Hawaii in 1989
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a fabulously wealthy man today his estate is a target of a number of lawsuits including one file by The
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Humble but unbowed locksmith Roger roas who dared to cross one of the most powerful men in Asia
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[Music] in 1970 Roger roas and his family lived 200 mil north of Manila on the Philippine island of Luzan Roger worked
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in nearby bagio city on weekends he was part of a large group of Filipinos whose
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avocation was treasure hunting one of Rogers fellow treasure Hunters was Albert fuchigami whose
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mother was Filipino but whose father had been an officer in the Japanese Army during World War II fuchigami had
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painstakingly recreated from memory a map of which his father had showed him as a youngster the map pinpointed the
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location of a secret tunnel system where a fortune and gold bars had allegedly been left behind when the Japanese were
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driven from the Philippines we were friends for a long time before he told me that he knew of a
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hidden treasure he revealed to me what he knew about the tunnels I had very high hopes because
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fuig was the son of a Japanese soldier Roger roas and Albert fuchigami hired a crew to excavate in the first
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few minutes of digging they found a layer of Japanese shrapnel a few weeks later the crew broke through into the
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tunnels which the Japanese had apparently dynamited shut the tunnel system was elaborate
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complete with railroad tracks for the next few weeks roas and fuchigami explored the Labyrinth they found that
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one explosion had blocked all access to the main underground passageway undaunted they dug a narrow tunnel
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around the Rocks I was the first one who went in because I was concerned for my companions if there was a booby trap
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then they would die because I was the leader I was the one who went in first to my surprise I found several Japanese
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skeletons there must have been more than 10 Roger had stumbled Upon A forgotten tomb Japanese soldiers had apparently
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been trapped Underground when their own retreating Army set off explosions to hide the tunnels
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[Music] [Music] [Music] foree [Music] the Explorers were stunned in a hidden cavity a Buddha which appeared to be
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made of gold stood solemn [Music] guard Roger knew that the Buddha was not native to the Philippines he assumed
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that it had been plundered from one of the Southeast Asian countries conquered by the Japan Japanese during World War
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II while their crew attempted to move the 2,000lb Buddha roas and fuchigami ventured farther inside the
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[Music] [Music] tunnel just as a map had predicted there were boxes upon boxes of solid gold bars
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roas and fuchigami hit on a plan they would Dynamite the tunnel Clos to safeguard their find then sell the
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Buddha to buy trucks and equipment to transport the gold Roger roas took the Buddha home a
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potential buyer confirmed that the Buddha was solid gold he offered Roger 1 million pesos 160 ,000 as a down
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payment after the buyer left Roger and his brother decided to take a closer look at the Buddha Roger had noticed
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that the buyer paid special attention to the Buddha's neck my brother and I had a suspicion
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that there was a joint an opening inside the Buddha so what we did was we got a piece
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of wood and we hit the Buddha several times with this piece of wood Roger says there were several
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handfuls of diamonds inside the Buddha some were rough cut some fine Roger hid the diamonds in a
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closet that night Roger's brother took these pictures of Roger with the Buddha
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Roger thought the photographs would protect him but news of Discovery had already spread fast and far all the way
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to the president's Palace in Manila although the Philippines was still nominally a democracy Ferdinand
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Marcos along with his wife Amala ruled with virtual autonomy when Roger found the Buddha in
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1971 Marcos was in his prime and his primary tactic was Brute Force two months after Roger brought the
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Buddha home soldiers swarmed his house the red ribbons on their rifles indicated that they were members of
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President marcos's Elite Palace guard in effect his personal Army out of nowhere the buyer
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appeared Roger had been double crossed with the buyer was another civilian who seemed to be in charge
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he ordered the soldiers to ransack the house I took everything even the piggy banks of my
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children even the picture album whatever my wife inherited all her jewelry all the diamonds in the closet they took all
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of it what would have happened if we had fought back they would just have killed
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us the next day Roger and his brothers reported the incident to the local police then he went to visit judge po
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Marcos a family friend for whom Roger had once worked as a chef I told him judge why did you let
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them confiscate my treasure we're friends he said Roger there is nothing I can do I said why he said because the
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prince asked for it I said who's the prince and he said the prince president
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[Music] Marcos [Music] for in June of 1971 on the Philippine island of Luzan members of President
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Ferdinand marcos's Elite Palace guard seized a Golden Buddha from the home of
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Roger roas the next day a judge warned Roger that there was a price on his head Roger and his family fled to an isolated
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jungle Village while Roger remained secluded Filipino reporters had already gotten
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hold of the story maros did allow the press to view the Buddha but his political opponents felt that Marcos had
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substituted a fake one opposition Cabinet member hoping to embarrass the president convinced Roger to come to
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Manila to identify spee spe spee for Marcos and his minions were outraged once again Roger fled Manila but 2 weeks
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later he says he was tracked down by the palace guard three men approached me and pointed
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their guns at me they knew me they told me Roger come with us in the car we will
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bring you to Manila I could not Escape I knew they were soldiers they had guns they were so happy
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they were drinking whiskey saying so finally we got him the famous the famed Roger
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roas they called The Palace and they were speaking English I knew that it was Marcos that they were talking to because
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they addressed him as Mr President Marcos must have asked them are you sure it is Roger roas that you captured and
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they said yes we're sure thank you Mr President the boss is is really happy to
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hear we have you in our [Music] custody the soldiers demanded that Roger sign a confession authenticating the
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Buddha and saying that he had been paid off by the opposition party Roger says that when he refused a
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palace thugs brought in a crude electroshock machine fashion from automobile batteries
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[Music] then they showed me a picture and they said Roger do you know who this is in
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the picture and I said yes that's my wife and my kids they said Roger if you love your
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family cooperate with us show us where you found the Golden Buddha Roger says he endured hours of
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torture which permanently damaged the nerves around his left eye I made a promise to Mr Fuigi his
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name is Albert I told him Albert even if they try to kill me I will not tell them
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where the tunnel is so they had to persecute me and while I was conscious I really
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tried not to tell them where the location of the tunnel was that was my promise to Mr
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[Music] chami Roger says he was held captive at a hotel in Manila and tortured almost
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daily for several weeks finally he agreed to sign a document stating that he had been paid
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off by the opposition party son was a courthouse [Music] Roger's captors allowed the worst of his
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wounds to heal then they took him to a courtroom in bagio city and ordered him to point at marcos's
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Buddha he was photographed several times giving this tasset sign of approval [Music]
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I went to my wife first and my kids my wife was crying she was surprised she said what is happening to you you know
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they might kill you and I said just [Music] pray I stayed with my family for about
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10 minutes and then the soldiers took me again Roger was sarily reimprisonment been
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tortured I knew they were going to kill me but you know I'm a locksmith I know
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how to open locks so I went to the restroom there was a small window with a small
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[Music] lock Roger roas went into hiding and never again saw the Golden Buddha the
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strain of living underground tore his family apart and eventually led to a divorce Roger who has remarried
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continues to make his home at an undisclosed location in the Philippines when Ferdinand Marcos died
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in 1989 his personal assets exceeded the entire Philippine national treasury Roger roas is convinced that
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the source of that wealth was a countless boxes of gold bars as for the Buddha no one knows exactly
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where it is in 1975 at least two witnesses claimed to have seen it at one of marcos's Summer palaces rumor has it
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that the Buddha is still somewhere in the Philippines hidden by a member of the Marcos
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[Music] family of course it's very painful I worked very hard for it I spent so much
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time about 7 months that we really labored hard and then in 1 hour they take it all
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away it's very very painful through a corporation Roger Ro has formed with a friend in the United
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States a suit has been filed against the Marcos estate the case is currently on the docket in
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Honolulu Roger established a foundation to assure that a large portion of any settlement money he may receive will go
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to provide education Medical Aid food and job training in the Philippines next a young woman is gunned down in her
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car was she the victim of a random shooting or the target of a hired assassin [Music]
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on June 14th 1989 18-year-old Caitlyn arette graduated from Highland High School in Albuquerque New Mexico Kate
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was an outgoing popular honor student who'd been accepted at the University of
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New Mexico she planned one day to attend Medical School shortly before graduation Kate
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moved into an apartment with her boyfriend using money she had received from an insurance settlement he um we're
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almost finished honey let me take you out to dinner tonight as far as we could tell Kate and her boyfriend did get
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along very well I can call a couple friends over well I was just kind of hoping it could be just the two of us he
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was 8 years older than she but we didn't know it because they lied to us uh she
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knew we wouldn't let her date someone that much older uh we thought he was only four years older he seemed like a
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nice guy he was around the house a lot we liked him 6 weeks later on the afternoon of
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Sunday July 16th Kate admitted to her mother that she and her boyfriend had been having serious problems almost from
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the moment they moved in together mother all you have to do is tell them you don't know where I am and you don't know
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when I'll be back it's a lie it's not fair he's going to be worried about you
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mother please you don't understand she told us she'd had a big fight with her boyfriend
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she was breaking up with him and she was going to a girlfriend's house for dinner
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and she would either spend the night there or come back and spend it at our house she was not going to go back to
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the apartment Kate visited her girlfriend from 9:30 to 10:45 p.m she then headed
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east along lus Road toward her mother's house [Music] a little bit before midnight the phone
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rang it was phone call from the emergency room of the hospital they said Kate is there that she's been injured
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and I said what's happened and they said they wouldn't tell me they said we can't
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tell you in the phone so my husband and I drove to the hospital and had been shot twice in the head she was in a
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coma 5 hours later the police arrived at Kate's apartment her boyfriend was Home
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Alone seemingly unaware that his girlfriend had been shot and was near death we with the aloc Creek police
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department just like to come in and talk to you a minute sure what's this about
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just want to ask you a couple of questions look around you mind no just tell me what's going on on just like to
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know where you were tonight I was at with the Caitlin's boyfriend told me that he had been out with a couple of
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friends uh they had eaten they had played pool and they had a couple of drinks what's going on while I was there
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myself and the other detectives we discovered a note on top of the kitchen table and the note read something to the
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affect uh hun I'll be home at a certain time that sort of thing uh it was my
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belief that he indicated to me that the note came from Caitlyn it must have come
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from Caitlyn because he was not home and when he got home he found the note there
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yes you did I think you should sit down Caitlyn's boyfriend uh stated that he
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and Caitlyn did argue and they did have their disagreements but he was not aware
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of her uh at any time wanting him to leave the apartment or move out or anything that
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severe to re when the police left the apartment Kate's boyfriend went straight to the
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hospital and joined her family in a bedside [Music] vigil less than 24 hours later Caitlyn
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darket was de head her boyfriend had remained by her side until the very end 6 months after cait linar cat's
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murder the Albuquerque Police Department announced that she'd been the victim of
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a quote random act of violence Caitlyn's mother Lois Duncan refuses to accept
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their ruling following her daughter's death she began to uncover the first dark hints that Kate is somehow gotten
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mixed up with a major criminal organization to this day the police continue to pursue the random om victim
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Theory but Lois Duncan is convinced that her daughter was executed by a hired [Music]
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assassin we're all set no questions asked 2 and a half months before she was
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killed Caitlyn and her boyfriend took a trip to Southern California it was at that time that Kate apparently became
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involved in a lucrative car insurance scam one of our daughters told me that that March
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a couple of months before the boyfriend had staged an accident a fake accident in a car that Kate had rented for him
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with our credit card the scheme was allegedly orchestrated by an organization comprised of powerful
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members of Southern California's Vietnamese Community everyone in the accident complained of soft tissue
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injuries to the neck and lower back which were later treated by a doctor who was part of the
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organization ultimately a pargal working out of an Orange County California law office handled the insurance claim Kate
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and her boyfriend were given $1,500 as their share of the settlement which they used to to rent the apartment everything
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went well it was evidently a major multi-million dollar insurance scam and Kate had found out about
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it at the time we didn't know how we could fit this in with with her shooting
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but all of a sudden there was another element there something that suggested a possible motive because if Kate was
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breaking up with her boyfriend at that time then maybe maybe she was a danger to the people who had arranged this
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a few weeks after Kate's death Lois is putting her daughter's Affairs in order
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when she made a disturbing Discovery three phone calls had been made from Kate's apartment at virtually the same
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moment she died in fact they were made just minutes after she was pronounced dead when her
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boyfriend was with us at the hospital and the apartment should have been unoccupied the number turned out to
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belong to a Vietnamese pargal in Orange County uh a pargal who lived in Santa Ana but worked in a law office in Garden
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Grove and it was the same pargal who set up the car wrecks Lois wanted uh me to look into
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Caitlyn's uh relationship with a boyfriend uh she felt that Lois felt that not everything was right there uh
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that there had been uh some real problems and that the police had failed to to take a look at it what was going
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on Mike Gallagher first met with Kate's former landlord mostly with her boyfriend's friends they didn't treat I
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had the impression from Neighbors that Caitlyn was more afraid of uh her boyfriend's friends rather
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than her boyfriend she would get Disturbed when they only spoke Vietnamese around her uh
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the the friends uh her boy boyfriend's friends tended to uh make fun of her uh and cause friction between her and a
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boyfriend and she did not like his friends uh I think the feeling from what I could gather was Mutual how come you
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let them treat me so lousy they do not treat you that way they do they make fun of evidently things were much more
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stormy than we had ever guessed and it wasn't just a little lover spat there
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was something very major happening in Kate's life after she moved in with her
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boyfriend and she told us she was very sorry that she had ever let him move in with her it had been a big mistake she
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wanted him to move out so her girlfriend could move in instead Mike Gallagher was able to
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obtain a copy of the note which Kate allegedly left for her boyfriend on the day of the shooting he compared it with
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another sample of her handwriting it was obvious just by comparing the handwritings of the not
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note with uh Caitlyn's writing that she did not write that note and that led me
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to believe that within hours of her shooting um her boyfriend was already lying to
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police the landlord also told Gallagher that on the night Caitlyn died three of her boyfriend's Associates were in her
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apartment drinking Kate's mother is convinced that one of them made the phone calls to Santa
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Anna I don't think that the Vietnamese connection uh is related to this case uh thus far I
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have not received any information and to indicate uh positively that the Vietnamese is involved in this
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homicide was Caitlyn arette executed because she had learned too much about the auto insurance scam while Kate's
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family and Mike Gallagher were pursuing their investigation the police were going in a completely different
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direction I'm trying to cooperate with you guys I'm telling you the truth I
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don't remember what 6 months after the murder an informant led the Albuquerque
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Police to a young man named Robert Garcia in this AR killing Garcia was interrogated for two hours finally he
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admitted that on July 16th 1989 he was out with three friends when one of them shot a woman in her car on a
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dare based on Garcia's statement police arrested Dennis Martinez henal oscoo and
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Miguel Garcia who is not related to Robert according to Robert Garcia it was Miguel who did the actual
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shooting on the same day that Robert Garcia was interrogated the police discovered that es ccoo had recently
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sold his car a brown Chevrolet Camaro suddenly an eyewitness report that they had initially disregarded took on a new
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significance on the night of the murder a truck driver said he saw Brown Camaro chasing a young woman in a car similar
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to Caitlyn's in the area where she'd be gunned down an hour later the police believed that the men
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in the Camaro had been out joy riding and Kate became their random victim it was later learned that Robert
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Garcia had in fact been in jail on the night cait was shot ultimately all charges against the three suspects were
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dropped for lack of sufficient evidence well talk to you guys later we certainly
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appreciate you coming in and talking to us again and all your cooperation got a few questions finally under pressure
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from Kate's family the police questioned her boyfriend once again of this time he
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admitted that he and a friend from Albuquerque had taken part in the auto insurance scan our relationship was
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going great we had our arguments but nevertheless charges have never been pressed against him or any of his
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friends in connection with that scam in addition Caitlyn's boyfriend is not considered a suspect in her murder you
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or anytime in the past been involved in a Vietnamese gang I I think it's important for the police to remember and
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anybody who looks at this case to remember that Caitlyn's boyfriend's friends were involved with large scale
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organized criminal activity in Los Angeles and multi-million dollar insurance frauds I don't think the
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police ever took that seriously Caitlyn Arquette was killed in July of 1989 in this most bizarre case there
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seemed to be two viable theories leaving Kate's family to wonder who in fact was
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responsible and why did they target Kate our family doesn't have any real idea who pulled the trigger on Kate the
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one thing we feel very strong about is that she was not shot randomly as just people out on a spree having fun
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shooting a pretty girl in a red car we believe Kate was killed because she was going to talk was going to expose
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illegal activities involving her boyfriend and his companions uh it might have been that
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she was shot by the Vietnamese it might have been that they hired someone else to shoot her the one thing we're
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absolutely sure of in in our own minds is that this was not a random shooting Kate was
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[Music] assassinated next a family's poignant search for the young girl they raised as
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their own [Music] on August 4th 1990 24-year-old Shannon Tim Payne was married in San Francisco
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California surrounded by all eight of her brothers and sisters but one very important person was not there to share
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the joy of that special [Music] day 20 years earlier when Shannon was still just a toddler a 4-year-old girl
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named Terry ly Smith had come to lived temporarily with the Tim payes in Orange California she stayed for 6 years and in
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every way became a member of the family it seems that some families no matter how large have more than enough
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love to go around the Tayes have not seen Terry Smith for more than a decade and they feel that without her their
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family will never be complete perhaps someone watching tonight can help bring Terry ly Smith back to the ones who
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still love her as their own John and Jerry Tim pay met in 1945 he was an intern specializing in
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obstetrics she was a nurse between 1953 and 1965 John and Jerry had nine children six boys and
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three girls the tempay household was boisterous and bustling the entire family loved animals and enjoyed an
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active outdoor life in the summer of 1967 at the ranch where they boarded their two horses the Tim
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pays came to know the manager of the ranch herb Smith I tell you what why don't you go get this big guy some
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carrots Terry help Shannon with the carrots wait please was that your little girl herb herb was divorced his daughter
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Terry and Son Mark lived with him in a small trailer but herb felt that the ranch was no place for a young girl he
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believed that Terry needed a real family hey there you are I think the first time
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I saw her I thought she was rather for laor here was this little girl on this large Ranch and while she loved horses
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there were no children for her to play with they were mostly Cowboys I was drawn to her because she
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was so sweet and she came she was so happy to come and talk to me and uh I just decided to talk to my husband about
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it and see if it would be feasible for us to take another one we always had an extra bed in the the house for
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somebody herb Smith took Jerry Tim pay up on her generous offer in return herb insisted that the Tim pays allow him to
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take care of their horses free of charge they promised herb that they would bring
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Terry to visit him whenever he wanted in August of 1967 Terry Smith moved into the already overflowing Tim
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pay home hi Herb hi is she okay about stay I think in the beginning uh she was little girl that was staying with us but
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as she as the time grew longer and longer she stayed with us as a sister and she was included in everything in
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the family so she therefore became part of the family all the Tim pay children grew to
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love Terry but for Shannon the youngest Terry's arrival was a dream come true there was a succession of boys in
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my family and I was you know the youngest little girl and I couldn't really hang out with them because they
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didn't want me to I think Terry and I were especially close because we were so close in age
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and things seem to happen to us at the same time we we both learned to swim around the same time and you know she
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basically taught me how to ride and we got the chickenpox at the same time kind of scary for
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you I think Terry loved being part of the family family she'd call them her brothers she'd call them her sisters and
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I think she enjoyed it very much years passed the temporary Arrangement had in effect become
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permanent none of the Tim pays could remember life without Terry she shared in all the family's
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Joys and in all their sorrows on May 2nd 1972 the family was scarred by tragedy 46-year-old John Tim
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pay succumbed to cancer Jerry Tim Payne was forced to go back to work as a nurse because she had
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teenage children who could take care of the younger ones at night Jerry worked the graveyard shift that way she could
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be at home every afternoon when the children returned from school and every morning to see them
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off of course it was tough but there was nobody else to do it and I decided I had
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to do it there was that was going to be my future and I had nine children or 10 children to raise hi everybody so I did
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was work oh it's fine I'm just a little tired is everybody up Shannon and Terry
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are still sleeping I think Brendan is too it's okay money became a very big concern and my mom was not around as
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much anymore because she was now the um primary supporter in our family so that also changed because she used to to be
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there all the time come on girls it's time to get up come on even though the
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Tim pay family managed to cope having one more mouth to feed was now a problem come on with a heavy heart Jerry Tim pay
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realized that she would have to send Terry back to her father right awake don't bother sitting down go brush your
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teeth and when I told the kids they said no they didn't want me to send her back
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and I said but it has to be and I don't want to do it but it's one of those
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things that happens and she has her father and she's going to go with him in the summer of 1974 herb Smith
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came to take his daughter home Terry had lived with the Tim pays for more than 6
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years Terry come over on Saturday she was very sad she didn't want to leave um
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we were her family she'd grown attached to us goodbye everyone bye bye on the other
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hand I think Terry was really excited to go home and and live with her father again she loved her father a great deal
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and um when she went to visit him on the weekends it was always a real special thing and she came home with many
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stories of what they did and where they went and if it was summertime she would come and spend a week with us and she
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loved coming back she loved having in the swimming pool there she loved having uh the friends that she had made and the
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family around her and unfortunately uh these started to get less and less because they had moved to a different
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part of the state and it was difficult to get her here in 1980 when Terry was 16 she
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surprised the Tim pays with one final visit well it was great seeing you Terry you should come by more often the
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reunion was bittersweet Terry was no longer living with her father and though she had brought her boyfriend with her
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to meet the Tim pays she seemed uneasy and uncertain about her future by by Shannon
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got a sense of feeling that she was not as happy as she could be we talked more and then she her friend said that it was
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time to go and they left and that was the last time I saw her I didn't realize that would be the
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last time I saw Terry because if I would have known that I would have stopped her
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there would be no way I would have let her go it was very confusing and um we were
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trying to get her to stay and we never asked where she was going cuz we were trying so hard to get her to stay and we
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lost touch I don't think that we ever forgot Terry everyone has a special place in
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their hearts for Terry they have their own special relationship and they they would not forget that and they they want
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to make sure that she's safe and secure they miss her a lot everybody talks about her all the time you know
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when we reminisce we reminisce and everything always includes Terry you [Music] know join me next time perhaps you may
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be able to help solve a mystery [Music]