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next on unsolved mysteries when a woman is murdered in a deserted parking lot her family is convinced that she was
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killed by her business partner butch cassidy and the sundance kid legend says they were gunned down in
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bolivia but some believe that butch escaped two restaurant owners compete for the
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same customers one of them winds up dead and a young boy is tortured and tormented
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by demonic spirits can an exorcism see five compelling cases some just waiting to be solved
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and maybe you hold the key i'm dennis farina and this is unsolved mysteries [Music]
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[Music] webster texas this much is known joan jeffries died alone and scared in a suburban parking lot
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the killer shot her twice in the head at close range then he fired two more times
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both bullets pierced her heart no one has ever been charged with the murder of joan jeffries
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but her family is sure they know exactly who killed her a former business partner named sam
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patel i did not kill joan i had no reason to kill joan i had no reason whatsoever hi sam
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hey joan joan was a clerk at an aerospace firm in houston sam patel also worked there as a
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software engineer but he had much bigger plans i'm talking about a new business i'm
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getting involved in the company would be called best aviation a commuter airline
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for gamblers i've got a few investors but i think i'll need you for public
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relations when sam initially offered this position to my mother she was of course flattered
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and excited because the money was very good this file i have set up for all patel
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hired joan to help start the company she was also on its board of directors come to it anytime you can find whatever
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though patel was married he and joan often met at the home of his girlfriend sam had arranged marriage um
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he had told me that he could not get a divorce and so we lived as boyfriend and girlfriend
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thank you you guys mean anything patel told joan that overseas investors would be funding
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best aviation within a few months meanwhile he wanted to get life insurance for the company's key
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employees joan herself was insured for a quarter of a million dollars the initial idea
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was presented from the investor group because they wanted assurances that if something happened to one of the
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key people in the organization that the company could function and that they would recover their investment
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basically she's a secretary and i can't see that as a key point person it just didn't
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nothing sounded right about that vettel agreed to pay joan a monthly salary but in the next seven months she
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received only one check and that one bounced sam i want out why john because there's no money sam
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kelly claims that her mother wanted to quit but patel convinced her to stay just be honest with you joan never
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approached me and said that she wanted to leave the business there was a time when she said hey look
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this isn't working out and i don't like it she did come up and say that and the compromise we'd come up with was
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fine you can continue to be part-time until you feel comfortable and we'll go out and get
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somebody else to work part-time also okay all right please all right but by then jones back
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wages totaled close to four thousand dollars two weeks later patel showed up at her apartment late at
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night you'll never believe what he just did he brought the check you have it well no i don't have it he
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had to take it out and get it copied but she said that he had to go get this certified check xeroxed
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which was odd to her and me sam hi look joe and i i drive but i just couldn't find a xerox machine and i
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don't have a car so i need to use your phone please patel told joan that if he couldn't get
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a ride that she should take him home so i can get a ride home uh kelly i've got to go
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when she told me that he mentioned getting into her car that i think was the firmest i have ever
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been with my mother saying over and over absolutely not do not ever let him in your car hold on kelly according to
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kelly patel showed up a third time oh kelly it's sam look sam it's getting
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late go away i'll see you at work patel says kelly is wrong i never met joan like that in the manner
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that kelly had described to the police never ever i truly believe it was a trial run and i
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think because i was on the phone and my mother continued to say kelly it's sam i stopped it that night
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two weeks later after a business dinner with sam patel joan jeffries was murdered
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joan told kelly that she planned to meet patel and his wife penny for dinner joan expected to get a check for her
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back wages she also planned to hand over the company's files and sever her ties with best aviation
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so how are you doing fine where's penny i thought penny was supposed to be here
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sorry she didn't show up because she had to work late but i'm here patel insists that joan was not
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planning to quit how about you um a diet coke i asked joan to meet with me i can
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give you the check you can give me files we can arrange for our meeting with the
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investor group for you to be there and uh that was the purpose of the meeting and
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guess what i have for you i've got you your chat is it good it will be in a few days
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let's see the money's being transferred patel and joan left the restaurant
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together at about 10 p.m but joan never made it home hey charlie now best i can tell a couple
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of shots of the head another couple to the chest by 9 a.m detectives were at the crime scene
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trying to piece together what happened but then i saw this can you see that over there necklace jones purse and keys
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were missing but she was still wearing her gold and diamond necklace robbery did not seem to be the motive
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because of the multiple gunshot wounds to the body it would indicate that the offender is known to the victim or
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had a grudge or something of that nature could you account for your whereabouts right after leaving the restaurant what
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happened what were your actions yeah we walked out in the parking lot i spoke to her for 15-20 minutes in the
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parking lot i walked to a car she went home and i went to my girlfriend's house now at any time were
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you in her car no sir i was never in a car are you sure about that yes sir i'm positive i've
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never been in a car and i was not in the car last night the first interview that we had with sam
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patel he told us that he had not been in joan jeffrey's car later in a second interview he changed his
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story and said that he had in fact been in jones car and that we would find evidence of such in in her
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car can you account for your movements after leaving the restaurant yes i when i went to my girlfriend's
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house and rode the bicycle for a few minutes you rode the bicycle uh yeah ron called
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the sack for a few minutes i guess your girlfriend will back you up on that she sure can what's her name to
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open the door and sam was there with a shirt wrapped around his neck and i said you know what are
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you doing without your shirt on you're you know it's cold out there you're going to catch a cold
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and he said i've been riding my bicycle i was hot you know i hadn't i hadn't
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ridden a bike i've done any exercise in months and months and you know i was going into the house
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i took my shirt off and i had it over me and i was walking into the house and that shirt has never been
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found i think it's a very crucial piece of evidence because he would have had to
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reach across joan to take the keys out and that shirt would have had a smear of blood all up the arm
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there's no blood stains on it i have it in my closet and if whoever wants it if the webster
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police department would send me a real nice note saying please could we have the shirt
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i would be glad to hand over the shirt to them investigators say that patel has never
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been willing to give them that shirt for jones family patel's refusal is just one more sign that he pulled
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the trigger i think sam is responsible for the murder of my mother because he had a
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life insurance policy out on her life for 250 000 she was ending her business relationship
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with him that night so he needed to do it that night while she was still an employee
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patel insists that this accusation is completely groundless the very next day after her death so the
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board of directors all got together and we decided that we would take the entire proceeds from the insurance
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and a either give it to the family be donated to some local charity that would leave a lasting memorial for june or a
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combination of both the case of the killing of joan jeffries is still open if you have any information
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about her murder please log on to our website at unsolved.com next butch cassidy and the sundance kid
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did they really die in a shootout in south america robert leroy parker and harry alonso
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longbow in the late 1800s these two men became the legendary outlaws known as butch cassidy and the sundance kid
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paul newman and robert redford starred in the celebrated film about their final days
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the movie like history tells us that butch and sundance died in the shootout in south america
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but some believe that hollywood and history may be wrong there is some evidence that
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butch cassidy returned to the united states and died of natural causes let's do this run we're gonna run over
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to the feed two years after butch and sundance were supposedly killed a man named william thaddeus phillips
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arrived in spokane he opened a successful machine shop and became a very prominent businessman
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gentlemen looking good looking good but oddly phillips was a man without a past the first definitive record of william
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phillips was his marriage certificate dated may 14 1988 there is no other previous record
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of william phillips in the 1920s about 1922 the first reports began circulating in
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the west that butch cassidy had returned people began to say that butch cassidy was william phillips
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some see a resemblance between william thaddeus phillips and george butch cassidy but if phillips
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was cassidy then how did the outlaw escape from bolivia [Music] according to some historians the account
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of how butch and sundance died can be credited to one man percy seiber [Music] siebert had worked with the outlaws at a
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tin mine in bolivia and became very friendly with them percy was the one who identified the two men
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killed in the shootout as butch and sundance but siebert may have deliberately lied
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[Music] i believe that percy told the story of butch cassidy and the sundance kid's
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death in bolivia to pay back what he felt was a debt of loyalty and friendship to allow these outlaws to begin a life
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under amnesty without a past larry poynter is convinced that butch cassidy took on the
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identity of william phillips as phillips he returned to the wyoming mountains where
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butch and his outlaw gang had once roamed we know of a man who went with phillips to wyoming in 1933.
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this man died recently but we have interviewed him he was there all summer with phillips
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and he met all the old-timers that phillips met and in almost every case these old-timers uh
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accepted phillips's cassidy but old-timer stories are always the most interesting
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and the least reliable author dan buck has researched the life and death of butch cassidy
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and is convinced that william phillips was an imposter the william phillips story
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is chock full of old-timer tales people had claimed they were good friends with cassidy and new phillips was cassidy
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and usually it's when asked by someone when prompted by someone well you were a good friend of butch
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cassidy's weren't you and of course the answer is yes who wants to say no in wyoming
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phillips met a woman named mary boyd rhodes in 1934 mary and her sixteen-year-old
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granddaughter ione wrote out to phillips campsite the man that my grandmother met that day
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was going by the name of william phillips and she knew him by the name of leroy george parker who is
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known as butch cassidy he recognized curry immediately and she recognized him george parker i sensed that they had a
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relationship that i had never known much about so my grandmother had finally told me that he was her
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childhood sweetheart three years later phillips mailed this ring to mary it was engraved
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george c to mary b william phillips died soon afterwards i believe william phillips pretended to
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be butch cassidy because he was having fun he traveled out to the west he met some
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people he probably got some free beers uh he certainly got a lot of adventures out of
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it but several other clues do suggest that butch and phillips were one and the same phillips wrote a
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manuscript called the bandit invincible the story of butch cassidy it specific details about
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butch's adventures there's material in that manuscript that no one else knew that
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had never been published that either the man who wrote it had to have intimate knowledge of cassidy or uh he
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was cassidy phillips owned this six-shot coat revolver carved into the pistol grip is a unique
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brand that brand was the reverse e box e that was butch cassidy's brand in the
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1890s the passing of a century has turned these two outlaws into legends if not heroes
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and we don't like our heroes to die there seems to be at least some evidence
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that butch cassidy may have survived the shootout but it was almost certainly the end of
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the road for the sundance kid [Music] next a feud between two restaurant owners ends in murder
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tk hardy's saloon was a popular bar and restaurant that attracted the university
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crowd in athens georgia the saloon's owner was tk hardy he rented space in a large complex
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of restaurants and shops t.k hardy was an obnoxious yankee when you first met him he came on really strong
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and when he came to town it took me a little while to get used to him so that i would even want to have him as
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a tenant how are you doing pretty good when you got to know tk he was just a real teddy bear
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just a really nice guy he was enthusiastic about the complex and doing it right hardy's rival was a man named john
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mooney who also leased space in the same complex his restaurant was called somebody's
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pizza mooney and tk hardy never really got along because both men were trying to attract
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the same customers john mooney came to town he was the preppy out of college cool guy and that uh lasted until he got
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the lease sign and got the place then john kind of got greedy hey come see us next door nickel beer
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somebody's pizza come to somebody's pizza right next door good deal on beer john started wanting
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to infringe on everybody else's business his idea was to go up to tk's pass out
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flyers on the deck for nickel beer and draw tk's crowd down his place what do you think you're doing here hey
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what does it look like that just went all over tk i mean he couldn't stand that that was the last straw
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i'll tell you what this is this is private property i want you out of here right now right
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john mooney and t.k hardy despised each other they really had gotten to the point that there was no
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reconciliation between the two people after three years of feuding t.k hardy finally got the upper hand
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he was able to lease the entire complex and evict john mooney from his restaurant
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after that their feud escalated into a full-scale war this is your eviction notice eviction
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notice this is your eviction notice you're out of here ten days later tk arrived home in the
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early morning hours after closing up his saloon for the night [Music] someone was hiding in the shadows of his
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kitchen watching him when t.k went into a study the man followed [Music] then he shot tk once in the head tk
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died instantly four hours after tk's body was found police picked up mooney for questioning john dude you know why
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you're here tonight well i i guess it's about the shooting of t.k hardy yeah how did you know about the shooting
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i told him that we had not released that information and that nobody knew that except the
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police department and the people that were investigating this murder that he had been killed
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or how he had been killed at that time he did become nervous he said i think i need to talk to my
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lawyer alrighty thanks bye hold on just a second sit down when he hung up the phone he said my
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lawyer said for me to get up and walk out if i wasn't under arrest i'm going to allow you to leave i want
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to tell you something before you go though at the time police did not have enough evidence to arrest mooney
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after three weeks they were still at a dead end and then the police got a lucky break another
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restaurant manager called with a bizarre story he said he was cleaning up behind the bar one night
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when an atlanta electrician named elmo florence offered him his services as a hitman
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you're a what i'm a head man you don't need to call new jersey if you want
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somebody good give me a call elmo was bragging to me about the fact that he was a hitman and
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that his services were for hire at first i thought he was kidding me that he had murdered tk hardy
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[Applause] and then we started to go on and you know i said all right how'd you get in the
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house piece of cake busted out the glass elmo fox began to describe the inside of
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the house where the murder took place he began to tell the point of entry what type of weapon was used to
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kill ted hardy he told where the bullet entered the head and where it exited basically in the statement that we
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received from the manager of the restaurant there were 21 different points that we had not released to the public
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we knew at that time that we had a very hot suspect here mr florence yeah telmo florence that's
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right you're under arrest florence had told the restaurant manager that john mooney
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hired florence to kill tk but when the police went to rest money they couldn't find him because he left
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the country a few weeks later police were tipped off that mooney had returned to the states
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and was staying at a friend's apartment they went there and approached two men who were drinking
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in the parking lot when i saw the two individuals drinking beer this gave me a perfect out
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i figured to approach them from this angle tell you all these cans here kind of upsets me always literally officer moss
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recognized one of the men as john mooney i'll tell you what to put your hands on
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the car mooney was arrested and charged with murder among his belongings police found several incriminating notes that
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he chatted to himself see elmo offer to him if worst comes to worst to take the whole rap and say
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robbery was the motive we have agreement for me to take care of his wife and family
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elmo florence's trial lasted only one week he was sentenced to life at a maximum
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security prison in georgia john mooney was also sentenced to life but he ended up in a minimum security
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facility after six months prison officials gave mooney the job of kitchen clerk now he had access to areas
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that most prisoners did not how's the count today pretty good 245 245. john moody was what you call an ideal
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inmate he didn't complain about the rules and regulations he just worked hard and he gained the confidence
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of the staff and myself now we see he was a gun artist and he was gun and assault after serving
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only 19 months of his life sentence john mooney engineered his escape when the prisoners went back inside and the
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guard locked the gate and walked away mooney made his break a getaway car was waiting as mooney ran
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to it he threw off his uniform piece by piece two hours later prison officials realized that mooney was missing
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but by then it was too late mooney had made his escape without the actions of mooney and
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actually hiring somebody to take another person's life t.k hardy would be here today unless
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john henry mooney is captured he got away with murder update within just minutes of our
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broadcast two viewers reported that john mooney was living in this house in scottsdale arizona
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under the name robert j kelly he was immediately arrested moni had been enrolled at
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arizona state university and was working as an accountant he was married and had a one-year-old
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son john mooney was returned to prison in georgia he served his time and has been released
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next a young boy says that his house is haunted even after an exorcism the ghosts
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manchester connecticut the jones family says the haunting started without any warning
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i ran upstairs michael i thought maybe he had cut himself i really didn't know
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michael and there was michael just curled up like it was a fetus i mean he was just
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frightened and shaking and crying hysterically something i've never seen him do
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michael jones told his mother denise that he had seen a man in his room but it was not
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an ordinary man he was standing in front of me and he reached out to me and he was
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smiling and then he just disappeared he touched my shoulder he was white like the korean color white
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he said he was a ghost i thought maybe something was wrong with michael i can't say i didn't believe in ghosts i
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just never experienced something so i never thought it would happen to us soon after michael saw the ghost in his
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room he was with his family visiting his grandmother i was in the kitchen talking with my parents when michael
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started screaming again he says that's the man that's the man i said michael what is the man
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he says that man up on the wall in the picture that's the man i see i saw the picture and i got scared
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because that was the man that i saw the man in the picture michael was pointing to was my
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grandfather who had passed away when i was 10 years old michael had never met him
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it was the first time that michael had ever seen a picture of his great grandfather i felt safer that it wasn't
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like a bad person that was going to hurt me my mom said not to be afraid of him because he was a good man and she said
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not to be afraid of ghosts because they can't harm me denise had no idea what to do
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her son kept saying that he was being visited by her grandfather's ghost and to make
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matters worse michael now said that evil spirits were also invading their home and i asked him what these things wanted
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from him and i told him to talk to grandpa grandpa will protect him grandpa said
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that some of the bad people want me on their side when i talked to my grandpa he just said
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that there's a there's a lot of ghosts in our house that are after me and there's a lot of bad ones and good
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ones and they're all fighting with each other denise says that she took michael for
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dozens of medical tests hoping to get some answers they all say it's not medical they realize it's
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very bizarre that michael is a ghost boy he sees ghosts and there's nothing medically they can
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do feeling desperate denise asked a paranormal specialist to examine both michael and her home
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it's very important to be able to go in and determine that it is something supernatural that is occurring in the
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home john saphis has been a paranormal investigator for 26 years and he has studied dozens of similar
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cases he spent many many hours with michael researching michael's sightings first
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hand we usually have to go through all types of different evaluations psychological
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physical i really would like it documented and known that there isn't anything physically or
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mentally wrong with these people that are going through this michael's psychological profile also
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showed nothing unusual but his drawings of a ghost he calls the black shadow man
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told another story every day i see him it's not really the same shadow man it's just like a bunch of different ones
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i don't know why i see ghost alice is happening to me zaphos learned that when michael was
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born his heart stopped 26 times my explanation is that he had near-death experiences
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i believe since birth he's had that ability where that door has been open for the
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spirit to be able to communicate back and forth with him and i think it is at the point where it is trying
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very very hard to be able to totally take michael over denise was concerned that the bad
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spirits might be winning one time me and my husband were downstairs when all of a sudden
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we were listening to banging upstairs we heard him scream and we heard a thumping so we ran
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upstairs and michael was on his bed like a little boy scared his bed was shaking
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up and down bed started shaking a lot and it lifted up like three inches and i just yelled
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my mom and then dropped and stopped shaking we all ran out of the house because we needed to get a break from
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the house because it's very scary in there michael now said that the evil spirits
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were physically tormenting him everything started getting worse and then started hitting me and
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scratching me poking me and it hurt usually when there's a physical manifestation scratches
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bite marks this is definitely a sign that something is either attached to that individual or
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it has some way gained access and at that point is where it could be very very vulnerable where that person could go
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completely under possession to protect her son from the intruders denise sold their home and moved a
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family across town but the new house was no better i was on the phone with my mother
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michael was sitting right next to me watching tv when all of a sudden he started
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screaming ah what we just looked at my brother and he just felt like a scrape going all the way up his arm and
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like it was drawing bl blood michael i felt a sharp pain like a knife but it hurt really bad after this
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incident we needed someone who dealt with this and i was able to find the bishop who agreed
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to give the exorcism denise felt that an exorcism was the only way to save michael they started performing
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exorcism in latin okra i could tell there was something wrong with michael he kept looking to
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one side of the church and i saw the shadow man in the front left corner of the room of the
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church i could see his whole body and his feet and he was just standing and he was all
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black and my stomach started burning and i told the priest and he gave me holy water i said drink
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this i was praying to god that it was going to work and help and that michael b might be granted some
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relief although we were told it might not be the end-all it might have to be repeated
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there may need to be a house exorcism and they were right because about three weeks later it all began again
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over the next few years michael underwent four exorcisms and his family moved eight times but the improvement was
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always temporary we just live one day at a time it hurts when i see my son going through this i don't know what to
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do i see a brighter future from michael and the family absolutely there's many of families that
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go through this and it's very difficult and it's like the old saying goes it's always the
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darkest before the dawn pretty much everything's been hard for me so everything that's happened has been
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hard now i'm getting used to it next a hired farmhand turns out to be a killer
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it's the same height same build he's a big guy he's a hot tempered guy
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this is the guy man i'm telling you this is the guy this call to our phone center
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led to the arrest of an accused killer he'd been on the run for more than a year
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hiding behind half a dozen aliases you may remember him as david freeman freeman was hired as a handyman by a
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pennsylvania farmer named tim goode freeman considered himself something of a preacher and he used his
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sermons to slowly gain control over tim good say tim i was wondering yeah man i'm gonna be leading a bible study up at
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the house later this evening i thought you might like to come up and check it out
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by what time tim became a believer when he sold his farm for a million dollar profit and moved to west virginia
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freeman followed hey tim how about when you're done with that clearance some
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more that land over by the fence within a few years the role reversal was complete why don't you get some of
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that wood over there for kindling freeman gave the orders tim obeyed them let it clear as much as
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you can you know the lord says the man that doesn't work doesn't eat please bless this food tim became a
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prisoner in his own home he lived in a basement cell while freeman and his family lived
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comfortably upstairs he indicated what chores timothy good was to perform that day
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he even indicated what timothy good was to eat that day if he was allowed to eat
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that day every aspect of timothy good's life was controlled by dave friedman
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i'm studying man like you told me to do is that what i told you to do is there
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anything else i told you jinxing police believe that freeman eventually strangled him
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and left his body in the basement yesterday investigators discovered the badly decomposed body
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months later [Music] by then tim's million dollar bank account had been reduced to two dollars
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and freeman was long gone update i'll take you right to the guy the guy ripped me off in the first place he got
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me for like over a thousand more than what he told me was going to get and then he got all upset because i got
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upset because the viewer who called said that he knew freeman as george jokes an auto mechanic when i
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realized that it was a valid tip i was pretty excited i've been chasing this subject for a year and a half and
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once i finally knew that i he was within grasp it was almost too good to be true
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within hours police staked out joke's apartment when he came out of the house we could
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tell that this was a suspect he matched the description four children were in the apartment so
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police waited for jelks to leave and then they made their move after he was arrested police discovered
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that joke's real name was william david cooper he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced
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to 10 years in prison we recently told you about a vicious armed robber who left his victim
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severely disabled but thanks to a viewer's tip this robber is now in custody
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richmond virginia shortly after midnight at a mcdonald's restaurant assistant manager mark clavoon and
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truck driver perry duncan were unloading supplies mark had recently moved to the area with
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his wife and three children all right you guys got uh two more after this four other employees were in the
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basement store [Music] hey now we're going to go inside and open up the safe don't
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shoot hey since more napkins down you're lighter hey parker you're right
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no no mark clavoon was shot once in the forehead at point-blank range he didn't die
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but he will never be the same he suffered some severe brain damage and paralysis on the left side
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he has regained use partial use of his left leg but he has no use of his left arm at all
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and no matter what happens as far as apprehending these two individuals it cannot outweigh the suffering that
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this family is going to go through for the rest of their lives police learned that the gunman had fled
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on foot and that later they tried to steal a car from a woman in a nearby residential area
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[Music] she had just arrived home and they attempted to accost her and take her keys away from her
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they were identified by her as wearing the same type of clothing as the situation at the restaurant she
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was able to get away from them and run into the house the next morning police made a surprising discovery
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only a few yards from the woman's house the robbers had left behind their ski
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masks and gloves as well as a 357 revolver the weapon was traced to a convicted murderer named michael
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anthony starr who had been paroled from a virginia prison only the year before update thanks to a viewer tip
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police arrested michael anthony starr he was convicted of attempted robbery and two weapons violations
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he was sentenced to 45 years in prison he served his time and has been released [Music]
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