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tonight on unsolved mysteries it rained down from the heavens like a plague tiny toxic blobs of goo that brought an
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outbreak of flu-like illnesses to oakville washington and left behind a perplexing mystery
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that may never be solved 20 years ago a young doctor ventured into the chinese wilderness seeking
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knowledge about the ancient and mysterious art of qigong today aids patient salem baby believes
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the teachings of master hong lu have given him a new lease on life he's known as a ruthless operator with a
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hair trigger temper he's a reputed godfather of new england's irish mafia
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and now he's a fugitive have you seen james whitey bulger [Music] in california a house is torched to
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cover up the murder of a young woman in the abduction of her infant son now the boy's father rap music artist
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lathan young lay williams needs your help to solve this disturbing case join me for this intriguing edition
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unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music] it came from the skies to wreak havoc on the earth
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strange blob like droplets that look something like this it sounds like a bad science fiction
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movie but for a small town in the pacific northwest there was nothing entertaining or
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fictional about the scourge it befeld them in 1994 six times it rained down from above
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leaving dozens of local residents ill and several pets and small animals dead it all happened in oakville washington
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population 665. here in oakville clouds fill the sky daily bringing rain some 275 days a year
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so when it began pouring on the morning of august 7th 1994 no one was particularly concerned until
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they realized it wasn't raining rain it was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous
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goo it came down in torrance blanketing 20 square miles and brought with it something of a plane
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i got sick my wife got sick my daughter everybody that lived here got sick everybody in the whole town came down
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with like a flu only it was a really hard flu it didn't last like seven days it lasted like
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seven weeks two or three months a local policeman was among the first to report the
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perplexing precipitation officer david lacy was on patrol with a civilian friend at 3 a.m
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where the downpour began what's on the window there i don't know is that inside the car we turned our
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windshield wipers on and it just started smearing to the point where we could almost not see
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and we both looked at each other we said you know jesus isn't right i mean we're out in the middle of nowhere
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basically and and where did this come from officer lacy pulled into a gas station
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to de-goo his windshield as an added precaution he put on a pair of latex gloves
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the substance was very mushy it's almost like if you had jello in your hand and you know you
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could pretty much squish it through your fingers we knew it wasn't something that we
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would normally see because we had never experienced it before so we did have some bells go
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off in our heads that basically said that this isn't right this isn't normal
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local resident dottie hearn was equally baffled by the time she stepped outside that
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morning the storm had ended but the blobs were everywhere it looked like hill laying on top of the
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wood box and everywhere else so i just went over and i touched it and it was inhaled
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it was a gelatin it's like material i have an appointment by mid-afternoon officer lacy had inexplicably taken ill
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i was to the point where i could hardly breathe i started to put together that possibly whatever the substance was it
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it made me violently sick you know and ill like i never had been before to the point where you know it just
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totally shut me down across town dottie hearn wasn't faring much better i started feeling dizzy everything
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started moving around and around and it got worse and as it did i became increasingly nauseated
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mom an hour later dottie's daughter and son found her sprawled on the bathroom
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floor have you been throwing up yes donnie she's sick she was cold uh drenched with perspiration
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pale my mom had been vomiting she had extreme vertigo she complained that she had difficulty with her vision
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her vision was blurring dottie would spend the next three days in the hospital the diagnosis
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a severe inner ear infection for some reason as we were going out the door i remembered the substance and i
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wondered if perhaps it might have had some sort of an effect on her if it might have made her sick so i
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opted at that moment to take a sample of this gelatinous material to the hospital
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a lab technician found the first startling clue the substance contained human white
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blood cells but exactly what it was and why it fell from the sky could not be determined
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[Music] the goo was promptly forwarded to the washington state department of health
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for further analysis it was very uniform there was no structure that we could see
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visibly or or with a microscope i set it up on various microbiological media and attempted to isolate bacteria
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mike mcdowell discovered that the sample was literally teeming with two species of bacteria
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one of which makes its home in the human digestive system the initial speculation was that it
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might have been human waste from an airliner and that would make sense you would expect to find something like
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a human white blood cell in human waste however the faa ruled that out because under the
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regulations human waste is dyed blue the substance was not blue it was crystal clear in color
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[Music] all told the blobs rained down upon oakville six times over a three week
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period dozens of people took ill several dogs and cats reportedly died after coming in
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contact with a toxic droplets included in the death toll with sonny barkley's eight-week-old kitten
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[Music] but the nature of the substance and any connection it may have had with the
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outbreak remained a mystery here we have sample number 128.76 nearly a year after dottie hearn's
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illness she took a sample of the material she had stored in her freezer to a private research lab
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i saw what i think was a eukaryotic cell which was is basically a cell that has a definable nucleus
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and is found present in in biology in most animals [Music] translation the goo was alive
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but how in the world did living matter make its way into the clouds the explanations are as mind-boggling as
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a substance itself [Music] perhaps inevitably the finger of suspicion was soon pointed directly at
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the military someone uh theorized that since the navy had been conducting live bombing runs at sea they might have
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blown up a school of jellyfish and of course this jellyfish would have been thrown up into the air
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and floated 50 miles inland and over a period of three weeks fallen six times in the month of august
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1994. i find that somewhat preposterous now if that were jellyfish floating around up there for that long
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they would have smelled a heaven the air force confirms a practice bombing runs are being conducted over
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the pacific in august of 1994. however they deny any knowledge of the unknown substance
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or any involvement in creating or dispersing it the locals don't buy it we had a significant amount of military
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aircraft flying over the home uh prior to this happening every day almost to slow flying bombers
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helicopters all black in color and we kind of thought maybe it might have come from them
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they let off things in the air all the time here testing you know there's testing done all over
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the place there's a lot of places you can't go into maybe we were a biological experiment of
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some kind a small one maybe just get people a little bit sick to find out say if an enemy did come
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over here with a biological bomb or something and dropped it maybe just a test run to see how it
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would what would happen translation germ warfare however that seems unlikely given the severe
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international restrictions regarding experiments with biological weapons and populated areas
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the present is impossible to say what the strange ghoul was or where it came from
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unfortunately all samples of the substance are gone making further study impossible
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perhaps the answer will come someday soon when the skies open up over another small community
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and the blobs once again fall to earth next on a cottage campus in texas two brutal rapes one unknown assailant
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now the suspect is identified and on the run after a chance encounter with one of his
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[Music] accusers perhaps the most shocking of all crime statistics is that one out of every
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three women in the united states will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime one of three occasionally even the
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safety of a college campus can be violated by a sexual predator as it was at texas a m university in
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january of 1995. the rapist hid his intentions behind a show of normalcy he was just a jogger he looked like any
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other student when the jogger ran by the victim he ran out of sight then turned around came back she didn't
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feel at that time that that was really strange because the fact that there are a lot of joggers that
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you know go to a certain area they'll turn around and come back and they may
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come back the same way or they may continue a different route hey hi a chilly evening tonight
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the suspect kept telling the victim to do what he told her to do get on your feet he also kept that knife
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within her sight and she had every indication at that point that he would use that
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knife on her 30 minutes later the rapist disappeared into the shadows university police soon released a
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composite drawing and character profile of the suspect he was probably a college student he
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would strike again he would use that knife we had to catch this guy we had to identify him we had to find
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out where he was and we had to prevent him from performing another sexual assault
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the profile was right on target three months later a knife-wielding assailant attacked another texas a
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m student [Music] she was very frustrated that she couldn't overpower him but from nowhere she said a knife
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appeared and was placed against her throat he threatened her he told her that if she screamed he was
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going to kill her and therefore she comply with his instructions he then took her to a nearby field
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there was about five foot tall grass and he had already matted down a six foot diameter area so the grass
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was real low which is where he then sexually assaulted her the site was chosen but not necessarily the victim he just
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waited for the right one to come by and then took her to the location that he was
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he had already prepared [Music] this composite is based on the second victim's description
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when compared with the first drawing it bolstered investigators fears that a serial rapist was stalking the
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campus upon reviewing the information that we had we became very concerned that if it was indeed the same person if he
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had committed one and committed a second there was most likely going to be a third and a fourth
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and so on until he was stopped authorities wallpapered the campus community with posters
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however the sketches could only deal in generalities the suspect had straight hair not curly
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he was young not old white not black a lot of people end up saying yep looks like just any regular person
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even the second victim that i had interviewed in depth she made the comment to just looked
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like a clean-cut student the critical break came from the first victim herself in november of 1995 10 months after the
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assault she stopped for groceries at a local market have a good day thanks howdy how you
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doing hey hi thanks this is a knife do what i say and i won't hurt you we're gonna go for a little walk
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okay okay that'll be 42.57 please can i write you a check sure the call is [Music]
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can i see your driver's license please driver's license [Music] thank you the young woman was convinced
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she was face to face with a man who raped her excuse me hey you forgot something police would soon
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learn that the clerk was named don richard davis jr he was scheduled to graduate in three
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weeks from texas a m i'm detective villarreal this is detective lynn holmer with the texas a m
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university police department hi we're investigating the two rapes that took place on the campus last year
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your name came to us a little look-alike yeah now this is just routine and we've
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already interviewed more than 70 people but i'd like to get your picture for
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photo lineup sure his demeanor his posture even his physical continence was very timid very sheepish
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but interesting enough we started to really study that picture and look at him and he started to really look in those
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eyes they didn't match the sheepish behavior we had seen the eyes ended up reflecting a very
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thoughtful aware focused individual when this photograph of davis was shown to the second victim
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she too identified him as the rapist [Music] dna was the clincher police say the
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preliminary tests showed with 90 certainty that davis and the rapists were one and the same
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in january of 1996 don davis jr was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault
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those who knew him were incredulous teachers praised his abilities and his works his peers liked him very much
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he had lady friends both within the university and outside the university environment
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some described him as a very handsome young man with with good manners there's a lot of
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people that think very highly of them and can't even perceive of him ever committing these type of offenses
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when i heard these charges i was in disbelief i thought there's got to be some mistake don's not
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that type of person he's he there's nothing aggressive about his personality
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and i thought it was a case i still think it is a case of mistaken identity however investigators say that the final
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dna test results have left little margin for such an error the evidence was pretty overwhelming and
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conclusive that out of all the white males in the world he was a one in five million on one
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incident and one in five billion in the other don davis jr was released on bail of 150
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000 the court ordered him to stay with his parents and observe a 10 p.m curfew on august 20th 1996 six days before the
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start of his trial davis did not come home [Music] [Music] coming up the authorities say whitey
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bulger ruled the boston underworld for more than 20 years now they need your help to track him
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down but first the mysterious art of qigong can this ancient chinese practice harness a body's natural energy to help
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heal the sick [Music] to the chinese energy is a force vital to all life they believe it flows through our bodies
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like blood through our veins the chinese also believe there are rare few can control that energy healers who have
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mastered an ancient and mysterious art known as qigong literally the exercise of energy
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canton province southern china 20 years ago yeah hong lu a young doctor from shanghai
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climbed to a cave hidden high in the mountains lou had grown up in a family of physicians schooled in traditional
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western medicine but he suspected there was more to healing than science the isolated cave was a home of a qigong
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master named quan a man who reputedly could diagnose illness with a single glance
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and perform cures without even touching the patient [Music] for eight long years hong lou worked
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with master kwan learning how to tap the energy of the universe to find enlightenment and heal
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the sick today dr hong lu is one of twelve qigong high masters in the world he lives in southern california and is
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the only one of those masters practicing in the united states is not a miracle but it cannot cure every illness
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i really wanted and hoped that there was somebody out there that had a magic wand
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that was going to wave it over me and say oh you're cured you have your full use of your left side back that's
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that's the kind of you know that's where i was coming from at the time [Music]
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that time was december 1994. salem babic accompanied by his mother made his first visit to master liu
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salem was in the final stages of aids he was partially paralyzed losing his vision and had recently been
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diagnosed with pml a brain virus that is swift and deadly [Music] i remember asking my physician maybe a
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month or so after i was diagnosed do you have any other pml patients who says yes and i said how are they they
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said they're all dead master lou claims he can simply look at his patients and see where the qi energy
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flow is blocked then he uses his own qi to help clear the path the session had barely begun when master
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liu's apprentice removed salem's leg brace next master liu told salem to rise
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stand up [Music] okay okay i was amazed i couldn't believe that i was standing
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without the aid of anything okay it felt like something was coming into my body from afar
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from behind me when master lou was working on me it felt like something something was penetrating my
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skin and as a result making me stand upright every time i felt myself leaning this way or leaning that way or
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falling he would just push his energy into my body and that would make me stand upright again
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it was like shadow boxing in a way my son would start going to one side he would bring the energy from his body
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toward my son without touching my son and he would straighten up he would start going to the other side
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he would go from the other side it was it was it was the most incredible thing to watch
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[Music] from that day on weekly sessions with master lou were a regular part of salem's therapy
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with western medicine and they work together what will happen the effect has been positive
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you want to have a backgammon trouble tonight why not to salem the result was nothing short of miraculous
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within six months he had regained 80 percent of the mobility on his left side and could walk without a brace or crutch
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salem's dramatic improvement amazed everyone especially his western doctors i was quite surprised to see salem
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recover in the way that he did in my experience patients with aids and pml do not improve they deteriorate
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it's clear that for the moment at least salem has beaten the worst odds his doctors credit a new approach to
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drug therapy that uses a combination of aids drugs rather than one at a time salem however is convinced that qigong
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was a crucial component i cannot say master luke cured me but he definitely brought me to the road of recovery
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if you can imagine coming from the point of being diagnosed as somebody who's
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just as good as dead to where i am now i mean it's just i'm elated i'm totally elated
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salem babic is now one of thousands worldwide who practice qigong sometimes in group sessions like
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this one debbie patella has a bone marrow disease a condition that is often a precursor
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to leukemia for debbie qigong is a full partner in her therapy it's not a cure but a way to alleviate
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the side effects of drugs prescribed by her doctors i don't have any of the symptoms anymore
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i don't get the headaches i don't get nauseous i have tried everything you name it
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nothing has ever given me the energy that qigong has done for me i wish i would have known about it a long time
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ago i feel like i'm me again how it works i don't know i don't know but i honestly feel it worked for me
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and it can work for others in 1993 randy hebert says he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of
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prostate cancer three doctors told him he should have surgery instead he tried qigong
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skeptically with uh one eye kind of open and the other one kind of closed i started to go to him
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master lou put randy on a macrobiotic diet taught him exercises to do at home and
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gave him treatments three times a week [Music] i know that other people he has worked
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on they they've gotten into trance-like states i never did but i did feel something
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going through me something almost like heat after working with randy for three months master lou made an astounding
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pronouncement he said to me the the cancer is gone and i still get goosebumps to this day
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that i i said what did you say he says the cancer is gone randy scheduled another biopsy
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immediately how you doing today the results appear to confirm master lu's diagnosis
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good news for you you do yes your biopsy results are negative there's no sign of
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cancer that's great over the next year and a half randy had three more biopsies all were negative
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nevertheless it will take more than one case to convince a medical community that qigong is an effective treatment
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biopsy every six months despite four thousand years of history i think that qigong and other
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forms of alternative therapies really need to be held up to the same uh light and burden of proof
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burden of evidence that traditional medicine has held up to that's why i recommend western medicine
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combined with our methods this is more guaranteed for the patient [Music] officially the american medical
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association has no opinion on qigong as a legitimate healing technique next join the search for whitey bulger
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the reputed godfather of boston's irish mafia and later a rising rap star searches for
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his infant son and the people who kidnapped him next january six men are scheduled to go
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on trial for extortion and racketeering here in boston massachusetts the star witnesses will be several of
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their alleged victims but authorities have every reason to fear for the safety of those witnesses
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if the trial were to start today one of the defenders would be conspicuously absent
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he is perhaps new england's most notorious fugitive whitey bulger the reputed godfather of
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the irish mafia james j whitey bulger has been described as a throwback to the gangsters of the
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1930s quick-witted hot-tempered ruthless a petty thief turned bank robber who spent nine years in federal prisons
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including alcatraz after his release bulger allegedly established an empire in south boston
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according to the authorities whitey ruled his turf with an iron fist for more than
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20 years and in the process earned an estimated 25 million dollars in his heyday whitey bulger operated out
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of the back of a liquor store on the edge of south boston late one night in 1989 he allegedly
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arrived to take care of some unfinished business relax timmy reportedly whitey's
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associate stephen the rifleman flemmi was waiting inside their guest of honor is a local tavern
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owner named tim connolly whom whitey had allegedly targeted for extortion oh fine fine thanks sit down
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sit down how's your family it's good i mean i got a problem here i get this guy he owes me forty thousand
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dollars and he decides the way he's gonna pay me back is take a mortgage out
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on his house get that paperwork yeah yeah and uh something's happening here and my friends
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aren't helping this guy along waiting whitey i want some respect from you oh i'll
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show you some respect this is respect this is respect that's respect that's respect that's respect i'm gonna
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let you buy your life for fifty thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars by the end of the
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week i can't get it all today oh yeah well could you call me on a good day huh
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cause i'm gonna let you give me 25 in two days two days later tim connelly claims he
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did the only thing he felt he could do he returned to the liquor store with 25 000
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cash how are you tim good jimmy yourself good good going out of florida yeah yeah i'm
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leaving in the morning jimmy good bulger realized that they got half of the money back and connolly had promised
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the other half and everything was forgiven connolly claims that bulger then came out put his
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arm around him said now you're our friend again but tim connolly apparently did not feel
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as enthusiastic about the friendship he went to the fbi they in turn began building a case against the so-called
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dawn of south boston james j whitey bulger came from a prominent local family his older brother billy is a former
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state senator the current president of the university of massachusetts but by all accounts whitey was a wise
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guy from day one in south boston you very often had in real life angels with dirty faces when jimmy
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cagney is the bad kid and pat o'brien becomes the priest that happens over there
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i know many families that have a priest and a gangster in the same family or a gangster and a police officer in
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the same field it's very common in that culture south boston is an insulated irish
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catholic community a place where whitey bulger known to his friends as jimmy felt right at home
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dr frankie uh yeah some of his guys don't know uh where north ends and south
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begins listen we got to talk to frankie we got to get that straightened out south boston really believes that we
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look out after our own and that's what whitey bulger was all about in south boston whitey bulger was
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widely viewed in the working class as our gangster yeah he's a wise guy yeah he'll hurt you
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if you deserve it or if you cross him but he's a gangster with scruples he's a
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guy that will keep an order a certain order to the underworld people maybe love the fact that that
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they felt that he took care of the community that he would be the guy that would
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carry the groceries of the elderly woman that was you know getting out of a taxi
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and trying to get up to her apartment i would help a little boy that maybe had a dog his dog died would go out and buy
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a dog for a little boy but he also was viewed as somebody that you didn't cross oh wait look what we
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got here hey hey bobby come over here bulger reportedly had no qualms about flexing
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his muscle in full view of the neighborhood hi jimmy hi steve nice seeing you both
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it's not nice seeing you bobby steve they're going to close me down last
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month i had to come up with a double months rent for these people stephen i i swear if i only bobby friday
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two o'clock friday two o'clock jimmy whitey bulger absolutely controlled what went on in south boston
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in fact nothing happened in south boston without his approval every bit of illegal gaming loan
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shocking drug dealing he had a piece of it if it happened he had to sanction it and he had to have a
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piece of it from time to time the feds brought whitey in for questioning but they never had enough evidence to
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nail him or all intents and purposes whitey bulger was untouchable whitey bulger is the master of eluding
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surveillance he learned quickly um how to avoid you know being caught he never said anything
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incriminating in any confined place and he had a real habit of conducting all of his business
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outside but the boston globe has reported there was another reason why he was never
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busted that he was actually working with the fbi as an informant to bring down the italian mafia
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i think there was always a split within the fbi i think there were some agents who for their own reasons
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wanted to use him as a resource and probably liked him at one level and i think there
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were other agents who looked at him and said he's just another gangster those are the people
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we're supposed to be taking off what i can tell you is that when it comes to matters within the fbi
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involving informants and sources and witnesses cooperating witnesses that we just do
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not talk about that that is not something we speak about in public john gamble has been on the bulger case
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since 1990. by that time whitey had set up his office on castle island at the tip of
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south boston just across the harbor was boston's busy logan airport you have planes coming over you have
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joggers running by you have dogs barking it is a perfect location to avoid having people like me listen to
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you what do you think bulger also used a technique the fbi has labeled disciplined randomness
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when i was watching whitey he might be sitting and talking with somebody and i have literally seen him having a
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conversation with somebody look at his watch and go three benches down and sit down
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and continue that conversation with these people ten minutes later and then move again in
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ten minutes i've been there when it was 20 degrees i've been there when it's 94 degrees
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and he's been out there he had a select group of trusted associates and they would be the go
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between they were the ones that would go out and deal with bookmakers and loan sharks and pick up money to bring back
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to whitey very rarely did whitey make an appearance and actually have a face-to-face confrontation he left other
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people to do his dirty work but unfortunately for whitey he made an exception in connelly's case
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i'm gonna let you give me 25 000 in two days now get out and if i don't get the rest of it this
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is you tim connolly turned to the fbi because he was scared and i think um connolly decided that it was time to
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start talking are you implying that mr bulger threatened you mr common connolly provided authorities with the evidence
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needed to build a federal racketeering case against bulger in january of 1995 whitey was indicted
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along with his associate stephen the rifleman flemmi also indicted was cadillac frank salemme
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the boss of new england's italian mafia but in true whitey fashion bulger managed to slip through the authority's
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grasp i think that the law enforcement um rushed the arrests a little bit because
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they were worried that they were they were going to lose their their intended targets that they would all take off
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and so they grabbed stevie flemi and when they did they were unable to locate frank salemme or whitey bulger six
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months later they found frank salemme in florida but they have yet to find whitey
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i think a lot of people who have had dealings with whitey and who are going to be witnesses
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in the upcoming case are probably nervous about about the fact that he's not in custody
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[Music] next a house set a fire a young woman murdered a four-week-old son of a rap musician
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[Music] abducted [Music] his name is lathan williams known to his fans as young lady
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a rising star in the rap music woman now a young man at the center of a bizarre double mystery
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a tragedy that is torn from him the two most important people in his life a case that has stumped police in
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vallejo california for months in the spring of 1996 things were going well for lathan williams he had recently
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signed a recording this new video was about to be released and his girlfriend had just given birth
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to their first child a boy named liazon what i feel about zion was it's the first son
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you know what i'm saying uh the summer confetti to come you know what i'm
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saying i'm gonna uh be with him you know i'm saying take care of him and it was experience to me
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you know i'm saying i was happy lathan's girlfriend 17-year-old daphne boyden lived with her grandmother in
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vallejo daphne was working hard to finish high school while caring for baby liaison
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[Music] on may 17 1996 daphne's grandmother riva lee boyd was getting ready to go to her weekly
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bingo game when the doorbell rang [Music] is daphne home yeah come on in she's in
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the back you have company daphne was getting a lot of visitors she was a mother of a local rap star's
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baby everybody wanted to see lathan's son we just came by to see the baby so cute you can sit down
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daphne i'm going to play bingo i'll be gone a couple days rivally didn't
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recognize these two girls but daphne obviously knew them everything seemed fine briefly couldn't have been more wrong an
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hour later she was rushing home neighbors had told her that her house was on fire she had no idea whether
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daphne and lizon were still inside [Music] he said [Music] your granddaughter [Music]
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daphne was dead the news grew worse none of it had been an accident daphne had been murdered the house torched to
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cover up the crime and there was more baby liaison was missing apparently kidnapped for lathan williams
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a shock was devastating he couldn't believe they were both gone i was saying please to myself please
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daphne coming walking around this corner you know what i'm saying with this baby
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you know what i'm saying daphne's death outraged the community hundreds turned out for a march
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memorializing daphne and urging liaison safe return the question on everyone's mind was why
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i did hear that some girls were threatening her and i didn't understand that you know
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but they said it was behind my son i don't know for sure or not what the situation is but it seems to me
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as some apparently somebody wanted a baby and they wanted to do away with her and why i don't know
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daphne herself was a 17 year old girl that attended school did well seem to be well
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liked the problem was that she did have this baby that was fathered by a up-and-coming rapper in the area
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he was assigned to a contract and was actually doing quite well and we initially felt that possibly there were
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some jealousies that have been aroused in competing females for lathan's affections
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is daphne home yeah come on in she's in the back the obvious suspects were the two girls
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who had visited daphne the evening of her murder they were first seen just before they
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arrived at the house by a neighbor who wishes to remain anonymous i saw two girls on the same side of the
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sidewalk one of the girls she had like a black tote bag she unzipped the bag and pulled out
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something which appeared to me to be a rope you got the light yes when they were walking past by me you
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know how you watch scary movies and you get scared that's the kind of feeling
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i had inside me when i looked at their eyes another witness allegedly noticed the
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girls leaving the boyden house just before the fire broke out one girl may have been concealing
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something in her jacket a few blocks down the street the two girls were spotted again
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yeah come here i want to talk to you for a minute these witnesses too believe one of the girls may have been
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concealing something if the girls did indeed murder daphne and kidnap baby laizan
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was it for love of lathan or could there have been another motive [Music] ten months earlier lathan himself had
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been a target the victim of an attempted hold up break yourself what's up homie what time it is
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i thought we was close you're about the damn little one busting come on come on anybody moves everybody
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dies [Music] one bullet hit lathan piercing his brain when he recovered he testified against
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the shooter it's only natural to assume that there could be some possible connection there
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that it may be some type of retaliation we don't want to overinflate that possibility
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but again it's unsolved so we're trying not to close any doors on it okay i don't think uh you know what i'm
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saying however lathan williams is convinced the two attacks are not connected you know what i'm saying
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had nothing to do with it you know i'm saying because of the fact that uh they would uh try to get at me
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you know i'm saying my life would have been in danger you know what i'm saying not uh
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you know i'm saying my baby mama's like you know what i'm saying and my kid
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whatever the motive police have no doubt that whoever killed daphne also kidnapped liaison
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still feel that there's hope to recover the baby obviously we feel it's still alive and we hope that this
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information on a nationwide level it can lead to some further leads that eventually lead to an
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arrest [Music] [Music] [Music] on our next unsolved mysteries a deranged ex-policeman and his wife
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a homemade bomb an elementary school held hostage at the moment of detonation it seemed
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only a miracle could save the children and many believe that is exactly what happened
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[Music] join me next time for another compelling hour of unsolved mysteries [Music]
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