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Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode

March 16, 2022 / 45:17

This episode covers unsolved mysteries including the murder of Roger Dean in Denver, a woman's past life memory of Pearl Harbor, and con artist Liza Montgomery's shopping spree.

The murder of Roger Dean occurred in Littleton, Colorado, in 1985. Dean was shot in his home, and his wife DJ was bound and blindfolded during the incident. The investigation revealed oddities, including Dean's financial dealings and a chilling extortion letter received by DJ five years later, claiming to be from her husband's killer.

A segment on Pearl Harbor features a woman named Sharon Johnson, who under hypnosis, recalls vivid details of the attack despite being born years later. Her therapist, Frank Baranowski, documented her sessions, which included specific names and events. Some details were later verified through naval records.

The episode also highlights Liza Montgomery, who went on a shopping spree in Las Vegas, spending over $150,000 using counterfeit cashier's checks. Her extravagant purchases raised suspicions, leading to a chase and eventual investigation into her con artist activities.

Throughout the episode, viewers are encouraged to provide tips that may help solve these mysteries.

TLDR

A woman recalls Pearl Harbor under hypnosis, while a murder case and a con artist's spree unfold in Denver and Las Vegas.

Episode

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this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast an unknown killer stalks a family in denver colorado in 1985 roger dean was
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gunned down in cold blood in his own house five years later the killer contacted
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dean's widow and threatened to kill her daughter unless he was paid extortion
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money december 7 1941 a japanese sneak attack devastates pearl harbor nearly 40 years later a woman under
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hypnosis provided a detailed first-hand account of that infamous day which occurred a full 10 years before she was
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born in las vegas an eccentric beautiful con artist named liza montgomery went on a
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wild two-day christmas shopping spree and gobbled up 150 000 worth of jewelry furs and other luxury items
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join me perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] [Applause] [Applause]
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[Music] december 7th 1941 7 38 a.m pearl harbor hawaii for those who were there and survived it
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was indeed a day that will live in infamy their memories are as vivid today as they were 50 years ago
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smoke [Music] those aren't [Music] i gotta get it done the narrative you have just heard was
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related by a woman under hypnosis she was born in 1952 11 years after the attack on pearl
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harbor the woman claims no more than a passing knowledge of the events of that fateful
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sunday morning yet much of her account is filled with specific names and details which lead
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some to believe that she was actually present during the attack in a past life others however are convinced that her
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memories are no more than a byproduct of hypnotic suggestion in either case the details of the story
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define logical explanation the woman at the center of this baffling mystery of the mind is asked to remain
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anonymous we shall call her sharon johnson in 1979 sharon johnson first visited hypnotherapist frank baranowski because
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she wanted help losing weight in 20 years of practice baronowski has placed thousands of patients under
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hypnosis everyone hypnotized before no you know when sharon was hypnotized she began to experience a recurring
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nightmare of smoke and fire which had plagued her since childhood [Music] water's on fire
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no water's burning all right sharon all right all right relax relax deeply relax now i don't
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have dreams like that as much as i used to you know just periodically uh the dream started when i was very
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small i always remember having the dreams about fires and explosions [Music] sharon lost 30 pounds but the dream
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remained unexplained [Music] six months later she visited hawaii for the first time on a group tour with
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frank baranowski and some of his friends [Music] it was strange when i was there because
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there were places that i i went to when i was there that it was like i've been
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here before i've seen this i knew where things were that i couldn't have known about
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[Music] sharon's visit to the battleship arizona memorial at pearl harbor triggered the
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same anxiety as her recurring nightmare she returned to her hotel room and asked
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frank to hypnotize her during this session sharon began to speak as never before and a new persona
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emerged his name was john gillespie so we take her to the time when she she's sharon johnson we go back to age
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12 age 10 age 5 down to birth and then i i asked her to start recalling something
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that happened i said when i reached the count of 12 you'll be in the 12th season of your life okay and suddenly
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when she's there uh she's talking like a 12 year old what's your name john
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john glaspie i'm a junior oh we're yet on the farm at what farm i said where are you about
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she's what this is omaha omaha yeah well omaha nebraska as the session continued a chilling
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account of the surprise japanese attack began to emerge bombs dropping everywhere they're
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everywhere let's play super well in farmers with it in the account several men were named
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were on board the nevada at the time of the attack among them a captain stanley a paymaster
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cooper and then some tossing don't worry about me take them forward take a fork and scare
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the main guns in sharon's memory tossing was particularly prominent he was apparently the son of an admiral
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and was badly injured [Music] a few minutes later the story came to an abrupt end
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[Music] with great pain sharon realized that john gillespie had been killed very good
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deeper relaxed up to that point i had not had a past life regression i wanted to know more about what had
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happened and and who the person was that i felt i was in this traumatic experience i just had
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how about your grandfather what's his name they call him red over the next few months sharon
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underwent regressive hypnosis 20 more times frank recorded the details of these sessions and then set out to see if the
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story of john gillespie could be documented in one hypnosis session sharon speaking
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as john gillespie listed the names of nine men serving in the uss nevada she also gave john gillespie's serial
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number [Music] frank baranowski turned to the office of congressman john rhodes for help good
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morning frank bob scanlon senior aide to the congressman was assigned the case thank you
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when he first asked for our help and briefed me on the problem i was pretty skeptical i thought you
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know we get a lot of strange requests and this has to be one of the strangest i know it's rather incredible but she
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gives me names dates and places of people i have no way of checking here when i heard the story and listen to the tapes
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i figured that our office in washington certainly should be able to get into naval archives and either prove or
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disprove what this young lady had said using congressional privileges scanlon obtained the nevada's roster of officers
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from the national archives in washington dc amazingly eight of the nine men sharon
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mentioned were listed [Music] i remember when i received that and first read it i told my secretary that i
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don't know whether to point with pride or view with alarm this was a strange
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result that i really didn't expect however the ensign tossing who would play such a prominent part in cher's
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past life memory was not included on the list [Music] ensentosig was originally shown in all
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naval records to have been in long beach california the morning of the attack on
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pearl harbor when in fact he was on board the nevada and was was tragically injured that morning in
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fact i think as we found later he lost a leg due to the attack on pearl harbor unsolved mysteries contacted robert
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tosic a former ensign in the united states navy tossing declined to be interviewed on
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camera but incredibly confirmed many details of sharon's account he was on board the nevada that day and
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in fact had to have his leg amputated [Music] the name john gillespie does not appear
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on any of the ship's rosters the navy admits the only records that they carried were the pay masters
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records on board that ship the fires raged incessantly for two days all of that was destroyed
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fire would also frustrate any attempt to verify the serial number of john gillespie
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in 1973 flames ravaged a naval warehouse in saint louis destroying the service records of thousands of seamen from
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world war ii uh how about your grandmother sharon's past life memory also included
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information about john gillespie's personal life under hypnosis she stated that he was
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born in 1921 in omaha nebraska the son of john gillespie senior and grandson of harry gillespie
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in census records from 1899 frank found what he believes is proof that john gillespie did exist
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when we came across this frame we founded harry gillespie wife item a son benjamin son john and
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that john was john gillespie's father and he would have been 24 years old when
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john was born exactly the right age yes you can read about nebraska you can read about the farmlands you can read
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about omaha and lincoln and all of those places but unless you have experienced something
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then where do you get specific names specific places i mean your history how valid are
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sharon's so-called past life experiences at least one expert feels that sharon
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may have absorbed details from books from the power of hypnotic suggestion well the information about tossing is
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easily available to anyone who looks for it in a book that tells a story the events at pearl harbor
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have probably been as written about as any incident in this century no she never did any reading about pearl harbor
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it was one of those things that she just didn't care for when somebody would
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mention she would just shut her up and just walk away he asks leading questions of his subjects
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he seems to take control of the regression rather than allowing the person involved to be in control and to
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volunteer information in an attempt to refute the critics both frank and sharon agreed to undergo
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polygraph tests with glenn whiteside a polygraph examiner for 20 years who has been board certified in four states
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in my opinion sharon and frank absolutely are not conducting a hoax they did not get their
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information out of records books they are not using mind conditioning or hypnotic suggestion
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they are not perpetrating a hoax in any way any place else under hypnosis sharon revealed that john
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gillespie had a hawaiian girlfriend named sugar this composite was made from cher's
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description john met sugar while he was stationed at pearl harbor if she exists sugar would today be 70
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years old for most of us the incredible facts of this story seem hard to accept how could a woman living today have such
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vivid memories of someone else's life and death at pearl harbor 50 years ago
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is there any way to prove the details of sharon's account beyond a shadow of a
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doubt probably not but for believers there is no need to next a killer has returned to torment
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the family of the man he murdered [Music] littleton colorado is an affluent suburb
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15 miles from denver its residents are for the most part business and professional people
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roger dean was typical he and his wife dj had lived in littleton for 15 years november 21 1985 seemed like an ordinary
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wednesday morning except for the car nobody recognized parked outside the dean home
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some remembered it as a 68 pontiac others as a 76 oldsmobile but all agreed on one thing
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they had never before seen the lone man who sat inside at the time they thought nothing of it
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but at the time roger dean was still alive dj come out here at approximately 7 a.m roger dean called
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his wife dj into the bedroom jay come out here what is it roger all right lady shut up
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and get on the bench oh shut up and get on the bed shut up tie your hands the masked intruder forced roger to tie
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a blindfold dj then he took roger into another room as dj lay bound helplessly on her bed
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she could hear roger and the gunman talking but she could not tell what they were saying
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you had enough time to think about it how much money have you got in your savings account i don't know how much
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money have you got in your savings account i don't know dj heard the gunman rifling through
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drawers going to the bank let's go all right i'll give you go suddenly the gunman fired
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the bullet ricocheted striking roger dean in the arm at the front door he fired again five
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times at point-blank range [Music] roger dean died before paramedics could be summoned
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after i started hearing the gunshots i made my way down the steps and i did get outside
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and from there things are a little blur i think someone that was driving by must have come by
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and taken my blindfold off i'm really not even sure of that i just knew that raj i saw raj went over to him
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and he was lying in the street and then he was taken away and i was taken to the
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neighbors from the start authorities were struck by several oddities in the case
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roger had twine fiber embedded in only one wrist it appeared that roger had never
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actually been tied up by the gunman went on up the street there also roger was wearing contact lenses
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when he was shot look at these glasses here yet strangely in an upstairs bedroom his eyeglasses were found
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covered with duct tape police began to theorize that the twine and the glasses were both red herrings
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planted to give the impression that roger had been blindfolded and bound whoever wore them we believe that roger
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hired an individual to come over to basically kidnap him take him to his bank withdrawal thirty thousand dollars from
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their account and then obviously drop roger off someplace so roger could report a robbery and he
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would have that thirty thousand dollars to himself the investigation two other unusual
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facts emerged in the year prior to his death roger dean had taken nearly thirty thousand
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dollars from his business and deposited the money in a private account unbeknownst to his wife
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also on the day of his murder roger was seen sipping coffee in his garage at 7am
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on most weekdays roger left the house no later than 6 15. what we make of that timing is that
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he was waiting for this individual to come and meet him at his house we also believe that the individual was
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probably sitting in his car when roger lifted the garage door which was a signal for this individual to get
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out of his car and walk over to roger's home this is the man that i was married to for 26 years and
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yes there had been personal problems in the last few years especially since the death of our son
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but i knew the man too well [Music] in my heart i cannot believe that roger had anything to do with this
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[Music] tragedy was not new to dj dean two years earlier her son had been killed in an automobile accident
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within a few months another accident took the lives of her parents dj and her daughter tammy tried
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desperately to rebuild their lives then five years after roger dean's murder dj received a chilling anonymous
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letter its author claimed to be the man who had killed her husband the letter arrived on july 21 1990
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[Music] it demanded 100 thousand dollars if roger's murder did not get the money
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he planned to kill again [Music] do you know that i've met your daughter tammy on a few occasions
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she is a very attractive blonde and a very good model do not make me kill her your son is dead your husband is dead
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do not risk your daughter she is the last one left i was in total shock i mean this was like something that
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doesn't happen to you this only happens in the movies it makes me angry that we
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had just started to get on with our lives and put the past in the past and it's all brought up to you again you
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know this person isn't letting us continue and we never did anything to deserve this
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dj and tammy notified the local authorities in the fbi the fbi had no doubt that the
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extortionist was who he claimed to be roger dean's killer dj and tammy were given round-the-clock
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protection the killer had told dj that he would telephone her on july 27 1990 fbi agents moved into dj's home and set
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up a wiretap operation wait for the second ring now okay dj pick it up hello listen your husband owe me money and i
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want my money if my husband owed you money i'll pay you what he owed you i want my money
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i'll give it to you the fbi traced the call to a phone booth in denver all right i'll call you tomorrow
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but before they could get there the killer had disappeared i don't believe my husband owed anyone
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this money but that was what he said and the phone calls continued and continued and continued
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after nearly a dozen phone calls the extortionist told dj to drive to a supermarket 20 miles north of her home
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and wait for further instructions okay dj be calm with an fbi agent hidden in her car and
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surveillance trucks and a swat team for backup dj attempted to lure the killer into a trap
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okay she's out of the car and she's headed across the parking lot now she's headed towards the
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i waited and i waited and i waited i could not believe i was really having to go through this chair
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and then finally when i did get hello a call yes i was given instructions as to which streets to take and where to make
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the drop the extortionist told dj to leave one hundred thousand dollars in an alley
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behind an apartment complex in downtown denver at 10 p.m on august 19 1990 dj left the
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money once again shadowed by the fbi [Music] hello you haven't followed instructions
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yes we have no you haven't you haven't followed instructions and now i'm gonna
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hurt you he called about it seemed like forever but a couple of hours later and was using a lot of profanity and
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said that she had basically not followed his instructions had not done what he had told her to do
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and that now he was going to do what he had said that he would do to me because of that he would hurt me
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[Music] the fbi kept the bundle of cash under surveillance until dawn it was never picked up whether or not he
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spotted something whether or not he just took for granted that the law enforcement was
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involved or whether or not he got cold feet and although he didn't detect any
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type of law enforcement he just was too scared to actually make the pickup i think all
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those are possibilities when he didn't pick it up i was devastated because i
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thought this is not over i was totally devastated there's nothing more that either one of
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us want than for this to be solved and for whoever murdered my dad to be caught and at the same time
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for him to be also caught for the fact that he's still terrorizing us he is still making us live a nightmare
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that continues on and on all the time in his last call the extortionist told tammy he still planned to kill her and
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that he would strike when she least expected it authorities know only the suspect is
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about six feet tall and uses an extensive vocabulary interestingly they feel that the
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extortion letters are written by a man and a woman working in conjunction [Music]
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in the past four years 68 wanted fugitives profile and unsolved mysteries have been captured thanks to vital
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information provided by you our viewers one recent case is out of a convicted con man wanted by nevada police for
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murder on october 6 1990 henderson nevada police entered the home of 50 year old
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joe weldon smith inside the house they found the bodies of smith's wife judith and his two
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stepdaughters all three victims had been strangled and bludgeoned to death hello two hours after the bodies were
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discovered joe smith telephoned his wife's daughter-in-law he denied any involvement in the murders
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joe what's going on she called her on the phone told her that he had killed one of the people that did
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the killing and knew who the other ones were i'm gonna find the guys who did it
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i know who they are and i'm gonna kill them in my opinion it was a ruse by mr smith
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to get support from judah smith's family members and make them believe that he
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was not involved in the killings joe weldon smith was charged with three counts of first-degree murder his
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whereabouts remained a mystery until the night of our broadcast [Music] just minutes after we profiled smith's
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case an anonymous viewer called our telecenter to report that the fugitive was living near los angeles california
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smith was hiding out at this motel but managed to escape before he could be apprehended
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once we established that joe willand smith was in the los angeles area we focused our attention to his brother who
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we knew that he had close contact with after five days of surveilling this brother we established where the suspect
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was residing 20 minutes later joe weldon smith was arrested at another local motel where he
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was registered under an assumed name inside smith's room detectives recovered
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several credit and identification cards smith told police that he was in the process of creating a new identity
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at the time of his arrest joe smith indicated to me that he had seen the last airing of the unsolved mystery
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program he also told me that it was very tough being a fugitive and he always knew that someone would be
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knocking at the door one day is kind of glad it's all over at this point [Music]
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next a beautiful young con artist embarks on a wild shopping spree [Music] las vegas nevada the city of light in
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the desert a seductive town of high rollers and big spenders where money flows quickly and
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easily [Music] on the weekend shortly before christmas 1990 an eccentric young woman named liza
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montgomery began a bizarre and most unusual shopping spree remarkable even and free-wheeling las
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vegas on friday afternoon december 21st liza dressed to the nines visited local businessman mark husby
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she was responding to his newspaper ad offering to sell a full-length mink coat and a two-carat diamond ring
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hi eliza how are you come on in oh thank you the license personality was like uh
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that of us excited school director here is your cashier's check oh my god there
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it is and there's the ring eliza i told you to bring cash i know but the bank was closing enough
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anyway that's just as good i mean don't worry about it i mean it's a good check
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well can i see your id please oh sure i asked to see her identification because i had told her when she came to the home
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here that i did want cash but uh i settled for the cashier's check thank you well let me walk you to the car oh
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all right thank you as i was saying goodbye to liza uh and i walked her out to her
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car uh it seemed very unusual to me that she how she treated the main coat uh she just uh
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literally shoved it in the car as if it meant nothing to her have a nice christmas
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oh you too liza's shopping marathon was just beginning that same evening she purchased two
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rings which she had selected the previous week she paid with a cashier's check in excess of 39 000.
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and here are your rings oh thank you they're just beautiful liza had been coming to us for about three
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months she was always well dressed so we never had a problem believing whether or
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not she could actually afford anything she wanted to that's good you know you're very fortunate to get both of
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these diamonds at this price well that's why they call me lucky here's your cashier's check oh great
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this looks fine the next day liza continued her rounds clad in the mink coach she had bought from mark husby and
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driving an old battered moving van honey if you could just write down that number
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she purchased what she called a surprise gift for her husband 23 000 worth of furniture
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throughout the weekend liza continued her seemingly endless christmas shopping always paying with cashiers checks
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at nine different stores she picked up an additional one hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry furs and luxury
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items all along the way liza made a big impression and raised quite a few eyebrows
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people were becoming suspicious starting with businessman mark husby [Music] shortly after selling lies of the mink
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code and ring usb began to question where the liza's check was good he drove to an exclusive gated community
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looking for the address printed on liza's identification card hi do you have a lives montgomery living
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here at 2901 wrenching will air dry no sir are you sure i'm positive that address
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doesn't even exist hughesby immediately returned home and called the police i explained to him that unless or until
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the bank received that check and officially notified him that it was counterfeit or somehow forged there was
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really nothing we could do at that point even if we were able to find her we'd
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have no authority to detain her simply because the address on a cashier's check
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was somehow an error and that we couldn't detain her just based on that be careful with that meanwhile back at
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the furniture store liza was having difficulty squeezing everything she had bought into the van
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if you want you can borrow one of our trucks and we can follow you over there no thank you are you sure i mean after
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you surprised your husband i'd be glad to help you set up some of the furniture
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i don't care what you have to do just get it in there just just get it in okay
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the store owner was troubled by her belligerent attitude once a van was loaded he decided to
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follow in his own car just to see where liza would go [Music] before leaving the amateur sleuth gave
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his wife a walkie-talkie and took one for himself [Music] she's turning away from rachel bel-air i
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knew she was lying i call the police okay we learned from dispatch that the check
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had already been passed at the furniture store and that it was in the name of liza montgomery which was
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the exact same name that mark usb had given us based on that information we felt that
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there was enough corroboration now since there were two checks floating around that
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she needed to at least be stopped and identified sounds of it only 10 minutes away maybe
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six if we hurry the furniture store owner followed liza's van to a residential neighborhood
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five miles away he described each event as it unfolded she just pulled over into a residential
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street and met up with a man standing next to a red convertible [Music] now he's getting into the truck she's
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getting into the car [Music] they're leaving together and heading north on jones
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okay my husband says that the woman made contact with the man the store owner's
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wife attempted to keep authorities abreast of her husband's wearable buys the store owner to try and keep up with
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the vehicle if he can and we'll be there momentarily within two or three minutes
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the van and the red convertible head is south the store owner remained on their heels
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[Music] when the vehicles reached an intersection on the outskirts of town the van made an illegal right turn and
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sped away she stopped her car well i better get out of here the store owner was fearful that this
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angry woman in a white mink coat might be carrying a weapon he sped off with a convertible and hot pursuit
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[Music] after nearly a three mile chase the store owner pulled to the side of the
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road liza whizzed by and disappeared the police were just minutes away but it was too late
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they combed a five-mile area searching for eliza and her accomplice they ran checks on various garages and warehouses
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hoping to recover the stolen goods but the perpetrators on the property were gone
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in summary she hit at least 12 places that were aware of and the amount of loss to all of those in
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in total was over 150 000 the last of the places she hit was a gaming supply store
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at which time she bought three slot machines almost as if she wanted to take a souvenir of las vegas with her out of
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town eventually the van and the convertible were recovered liza had rented both vehicles at local agencies in each case
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she persuaded the rental clerk to accept a 500 cash deposit in lieu of a credit card the cash was never reclaimed
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[Music] usually we only find this type of skill amongst people who are going to get involved in a scam that's worth
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thousands upon thousands of dollars for the most part some of these nickel and dime
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con games fall through when the victim looks straight through the suspect and is able to see that it is a con game but
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when we talk about big money like this if they're going to get away with it they're going to have to be very good
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and liza was one of the best liza montgomery did leave behind one significant piece of evidence when she
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rented the van the clerk made this copy of her state id card [Music] when we return an intriguing eyewitness
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account may help solve a string of bizarre disappearances [Music] february 4th 1990 4 30 a.m
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sheriff's deputies responded to a call at a convenience store in orlando florida
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two customers had found the all-night market open but curiously unattended no one was minding the store
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and a friend of mine works here and i stopped in to say hello and she wasn't
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here i don't know where she is she just kind of disappeared deputies immediately search for any
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signs of the missing clerk behind the counter they found a work smug neatly folded
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[Music] the cash register was locked and there was no evidence of a robbery the store appeared to be just abandoned
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there was absolutely no signs of any struggle nothing appeared to be missing from the
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store with the exception of the store clerk the missing clerk was 26 year old deborah diane poe who worked days at a
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local newspaper and nights at the store deborah had moved to orlando just four months earlier with her friend and
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roommate lori tillman debbie and i were more like sisters than i am with my own sister
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we had a very unusual friendship we could fight like sisters do we could ignore each other like sisters do but we
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were there for each other if we ever needed anything we could count on one another good evening sir
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the most dangerous time for convenience store employees is the graveyard shift this was deborah's shift
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five nights a week from 11 p.m to 7 a.m she was behind the counter alone how you all doing treat me ladies nice
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on a saturday night there you go she needed to work and get the money she had a brand new car to pay
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for she wanted to buy a house and she wanted to start a business so if it meant working two full-time
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jobs that she really didn't like that's what she'd do just after eleven o'clock on the
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night she disappeared a friend of deborah's dropped by to discuss some house plans with her
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it's cool that's what i want i don't know if i can afford it police verified
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that debra waited on customers from the time her friend left until 305 a.m i gotta take care of her i'm sorry okay
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when her friend returned at 3 50 a.m debra was nowhere to be found her vehicle was parked where she parked it that
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night when she came to work it had not been disturbed it was locked and her purse was sitting on the
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backseat investigators concluded that deborah po had probably been abducted it looks to
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be about 25 cash in here they soon discovered that debra was not the first store clerk in florida to
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disappear on the graveyard shift six months earlier on august 6 1989 29 year old donna callahan disappeared from
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a convenience store in gulf breeze florida as in deborah's case there were no signs
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of struggle at the scene donna was three months pregnant and left behind a two-year-old daughter
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[Music] five weeks later on september 18th 36 year old darlene messer was abducted
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from a lake city convenience store two days later darlene's body was found in a nearby creek she had been
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bludgeoned to death three victims all single females in their 20s or 30s all had vanished while
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working the graveyard shift alone investigators believe that the cases were linked but had no suspect
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then three days after deborah poe's disappearance authorities were contacted
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by a young woman who read about the case in a local paper she came forward after realizing that
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she may have stood face to face with deborah po's abductor i stopped by a convenience store about 3
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30 to pick up a pack of cigarettes and there was only one person in the store and it appeared to be the clerk
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looking back on it he didn't know where the cigarettes were which isn't that
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uncommon if it's a new clerk and i had to point out which ones i wanted no the regular ones up top over there he
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had long stringy hair he was wearing an earring of a cross smoking and a skull's ring
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and he had a rock t-shirt and the name megadeth across the top we cannot locate anyone else that has
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been able to tell us whether or not this individual was in the store when they were in the store
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he might have been a customer that walked in and was walking around looking for the clerk he might have been an
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individual who is taking an opportunity to shoplift or steal some things or he might be responsible or in part
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responsible for the abduction of deborah pope there's a of good possibility that we're
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dealing with an individual who is a serial type of person who abducts these people
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debra poe is officially listed as missing she is 26 years old 5 feet 2 inches tall
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and weighs approximately 105 pounds if we don't find her alive then we can at least put her to rest
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give her give her a decent service go after her killer do [Music] [Music] join me next time for an all-new edition
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of unsolved mystery [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Episode Highlights

  • The Mystery of Pearl Harbor
    A woman under hypnosis claims to have memories of the Pearl Harbor attack, despite being born years later.
    “Their memories are as vivid today as they were 50 years ago.”
    @ 02m 14s
    March 16, 2022
  • A Chilling Letter
    DJ Dean receives an anonymous letter from her husband's killer, demanding money and threatening her daughter.
    “Do not risk your daughter; she is the last one left.”
    @ 20m 41s
    March 16, 2022
  • Joe Smith's Murders
    Joe Weldon Smith is charged with the murders of his wife and stepdaughters.
    “All three victims had been strangled and bludgeoned to death.”
    @ 26m 37s
    March 16, 2022
  • Liza Montgomery's Shopping Spree
    Liza Montgomery embarks on a wild shopping spree in Las Vegas, using counterfeit checks.
    “Liza's shopping marathon was just beginning.”
    @ 30m 46s
    March 16, 2022
  • Deborah Poe's Disappearance
    Deborah Poe vanishes from a convenience store during her graveyard shift.
    “The store appeared to be just abandoned.”
    @ 38m 51s
    March 16, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • How could a woman living today have such vivid memories?
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • This only happens in the movies.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • I know who they are and I'm gonna kill them.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • It's kind of glad it's all over at this point.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • Liza was one of the best.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode
  • If we don't find her alive, then we can at least put her to rest.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 8 - Updated Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:04
  • Cold Blood Murder00:28
  • Chilling Threat20:05
  • Ominous Phone Call21:42
  • Murder Discovery26:30
  • Joe's Denial26:49
  • Fugitive Arrest28:06
  • Deborah's Vanishing39:01

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