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next on unsolved mysteries a government scientist plunges to his death from a hotel window was it suicide
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or a cia cover-up he's called the dinnertime bandit he's stolen over 30 million in fine jewelry and he always
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strikes at suppertime a 14 year old boy disappears from a county fair some believe that he was killed by local
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teenagers and in a story featuring matthew mcconaughey in one of his very first screen roles a man is gunned down in
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texas and his murderer escapes five stories of crime deceit and intrigue i'm dennis farina and for the
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next hour it's unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music] greenwich connecticut he looks just like another tourist
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he rides tour buses to see the homes of the rich and famous his name is alan golder and he's a
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high-end jewel thief during the daytime he cases fashionable neighborhoods at night he strikes upstairs while the
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homeowners are downstairs enjoying their dinners allen is very good at what he does
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he gets a thrill out of what he does he has no other goal in life other than to be the best jewel thief that he can
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be they call him the dinnertime bandit and he's made millions stealing jewelry from
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the rich he's already spent 15 years in prison but apparently that wasn't enough to
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stop this one-man crime spree golder's life of crime began early at age six he grew up in long island new york poor
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his father a career criminal abandoned family when alan was just three at 16 years of age golder dropped out of
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high school but even at that young age he was still earning between a few hundred to several thousand dollars a
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night by stealing by 21 alan golder had found his vocation burglarizing the homes of wealthy people
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in greenwich connecticut he thinks he is today's answer to the pink panther he's
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in it for the thrill that he gets out of it in some ways i'm amazed alan hasn't
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come forward just because he's missing all these wonderful opportunities to be
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interviewed by different tv shows alan golder had some very good years it's estimated that he stole at least 25
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million dollars worth of jewels from the richest people in america when you think about the crimes that he
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committed the ordinary person would have said well with as much money as he's
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gotten why didn't he stop it was like an art for him and in another way it was almost
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compulsive for him as if he's suffering from some sort of compulsive disorder
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golder's reputation caught the attention of the mob it happened when he tried to fence some
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stolen jewelry at a shop in new york city what it turns out is that this particular jewel store was a front for
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the genovese family's uh international jewel fencing operation so being 19 years old or whatever he was at the time
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he didn't really know what he was getting into at that point he was just trying to sell some jewels but what he
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did was he was in in fact getting in bed with the mafia the mob liked golder's ambition so they
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took him under their wing he would go meet them in new york and he would hang out with them and they would
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take him out to restaurants it was sort of a pygmalion thing that went on i mean
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they sort of groomed him for the business you have to look for the three c's in a
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diamond the color the cut and the clarity don't pick me up diamonds from from a box on top of the dresser these
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are never good but it was his relationship with the mafia that would lead to golder's
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downfall golder was being pressured to bring in even more jewelry he and two other mafia jewel thieves
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were instructed to hit a home in the hamptons it is believed that golder never carried
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a weapon but one of his accomplices did [Music] alan claims he never saw the guy that
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happened in another room another part of the house and they didn't know if they'd killed
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him or not but they found out the next day that the man died alan golder's life spun out of control
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he was doing drugs and going through money like it was water eventually he was caught
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now facing a murder charge he looked for a way to reduce his sentence i need you
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to tell me specific names and specific numbers right there on that piece of paper
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in exchange for selling out the mop golder was given a sentence of 15 years to life
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you can assume that there was a contract out on his life he became an official protected witness and when he was in the
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entire time he was in prison he was you know basically in protective custody in prison he wasn't housed with the
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regular inmates he was housed with guys who were special cases and they had to watch out for so that he wouldn't be
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killed but according to authorities while in prison golder continued to sift through
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magazines profiling the homes of the wealthy following his parole in 1996 he tried to
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go straight or so he said he even had a job in mind working as a chimney sweep i explained to him there are certain
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employment positions that you because of your conviction and your criminal history you cannot work and
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entering into people's homes to clean chimneys is one of them then after that
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he had considered pursuing school we had talked at length as to what sort of careers he could choose but he was sort
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of set on going to a gemology school he wanted to study gems and not long after police had another
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rash of high burglaries on their hands and in october 1997 in greenwich connecticut
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police believe golder pushed his luck a bit too far oh my god he allegedly tied up a homeowner
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and fled in her car after that the burglary stopped but golder had amassed three quarters of a
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million dollars since his prison release and then he disappeared he's wanted on charges of kidnapping and
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23 counts of burglary update 000 miles away in antwerp belgium alan golder has been arrested after nine
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years on the run local police captured the 53 year old during what might be his last home
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burglary golder was returned to connecticut where he was convicted on charges of kidnapping burglary and
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larceny he served his time and has been released [Music] next a respected attorney is trapped in
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an elevator and then murdered and later there's something strange going on at the general wayne inn
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earlier we told the story of an unfamiliar pickup truck that rolled into a quiet neighborhood in pasadena texas
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the driver was edward harold bell and he was naked from the waist down get me the pasadena please real quick
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please while dorothy was on the phone to the police her son larry went outside to
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prevent bell from leaving oh my god he's got a gun oh god he's got to go
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not getting your keys he just shot it in the air you're not he's shooting larry i see
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blood shooting larry no time to give me the keys i believe i call the police and i said please don't shoot him
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and the man just shot him anyway and then he turned and started running out of our garage
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and larry even with all those bullets in him was still trying to stop this man larry had been shot four times in the
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chest and once in the head with a 22 caliber pistol moments later his sister donna arrived
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i remember i just went over and i knelt down beside my brother and held his hand to my face
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and i watched him die [Applause] only blocks away the police were already pursuing the suspect
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the getaway ended abruptly after the gunman turned on the street with no accident
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edward harold bell a successful businessman was charged with the murder of 27 year old larry dickens
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but bell was released on bail less than two months after the killing and soon vanished without a trace
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update 15 years after he disappeared we ran the story on unsolved mysteries a viewer recognized bell as a 10-year
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resident of panama and sent these pictures and a letter bell was prospecting for gold on land
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that he owned near panama city bell was arrested by panama police and flown back to houston escorted by fbi
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agents waiting for him at the houston airport were dorothy lang and her daughter donna
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over a decade after her son had been gunned down the accused killer shuffled pastor
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shackled in leg and handcuffs he got off the airplane he seemed so arrogant and it just
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infuriated me here they're bringing this murderer back and they could never bring back my son
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at least justice will be done and i think we'll all be able to go on with our lives
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edward harold bell will go on with his life behind bars he was convicted of murder and sentenced
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to 70 years in prison our next story is about an execution-style murder a bullet to the
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back of the head of a squeaky clean real estate lawyer it seemed that he had no enemies no
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skeletons in his closet and no sordid past so what was the motive dallas texas at 7 am attorney clint blackman arrived
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at his office building he bypassed the notoriously slow elevator and took the stairs to the
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third floor at 7 30 a.m juanita lackey arrived without her keys secretary roxanne letterman let her in
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oh my god [Music] i heard a lot of screaming and hollering juanita said that she thought that there
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was a man in the elevator but all they'd really seen was legs and and weren't
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really sure what was there oh my god it's david merrifield oh no it couldn't
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be david murryfield was one of clint blackman's colleagues and a partner in his law firm
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he left behind two children and a new bride of only three months ladies what time did you get to work
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his wallet was taken so at first police thought it might be robbery mr maryfield's wallet was recovered a
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few miles from the crime location and in the wall it was still a small amount of money and all of his credit cards so
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i believe had robbery been a motive that stuff would not have been recovered but as police dug deeper they learned
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that the day before he was murdered david received four phone calls from a mysterious stranger named sam jones
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he's on the other line right now can i take a message he asked if he could hold on
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he told me his name was sam jones but he wouldn't tell me who he was with or
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what it was concerning hi david i have a mr sam jones on the other line he's very
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insistent he wants to talk to you right now all right put him through david spoke to him for i guess
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a little under 10 minutes i went up and kind of joked with dave and i said well is he trying to sell you
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and david says well he's not trying to sell me anything yet he says he says he wants to do something
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for me david merrifield we discovered during the investigation had a notepad on his
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desk which had a calendar on it and on february the 9th he had a marking there for a name and an appointment that
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he had at 6 30 a.m with sam jones due to the common nature of the name it's my guess it's possibly a fictitious
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name had known david and worked with him for years and know david's habit and that
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was he never liked to get to work early in fact to see him at work before nine was just unusual he was he was not an
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early riser he used like to work later police theorize that the killer insisted on an early meeting in order to get
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david alone let's come out to the office we think that mr mayorfield entered the
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elevator with another person whoever sam jones is it's obvious from our investigation lured him to this
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location to do exactly what he did to take his life on the elevator that morning
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no one ever heard from this man again the sam jones we all kind of felt like if the man had really come to try to
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meet david then he would have probably found him would have called later to say we i
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wasn't able to get in the building and mr merefield never showed up i mean this
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man just disappeared i think the thing that's most disturbing to me is the loss
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of david merefill it's also very upsetting that there is a criminal out there
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who knows he's out there and has not been brought to justice this baffling case has stumped
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detectives for years if you have any information that can help please let us know log on to
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unsolved.com next a man has jumped out of a hotel window in washington dc what's the connection between him
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the cia and lsd new york city in the early morning hours a crowd gathered outside of new york's hotel
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statler a man had apparently jumped to his death from a 13-story window [Music] the victim was later identified as a
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government scientist named frank olson it was 1953 and frank olson left behind a wife and three small children
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his sons are now grown up and are trying to find out what really happened to their father
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this is a story of a government cover-up of secret drug testing and in the middle
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was one lone scientist why was frank olson killed was he a man who knew too little
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or a man who knew too much frank olson worked at fort detrick maryland headquarters for the military's
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biological warfare program also known as germ warfare my father was a research scientist who
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was involved with germ warfare associated with the so division which stood for special operations that was
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the most top-secret kind of research that was done out at fort detrick and some of that research was being done
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in coordination with the cia two weeks before his death frank went to a three-day conference with some of his
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colleagues and came home a changed man the weekend after that meeting my father was severely depressed he felt that he
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had done something terribly wrong and he told my mother that he had done something wrong but he
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couldn't tell her what and she asked him whether or not he had broken security and he indicated
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that he would never do such a thing but he felt that he had done something terribly wrong
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vincent ruit frank's boss told the olsons that he believed that frank was on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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just before thanksgiving he took frank to new york for treatment while in new york frank shared a hotel
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room with dr robert lashbrook a cia scientist nearly a week passed before frank's
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family finally heard from him i'm gonna see a couple of doctors there do me a favor
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would you kiss the kids for me my father seemed a little uh a little more peaceful than he had he made a call
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to my mother to say he was all right they went to sleep fairly early about 11 and the next thing we know from
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lashbrook is that he was awakened by the sound of crashing glass right oh my god
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frank olson was dead at the age of 43. investigators determined that he had either jumped or fallen to his death i
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remember as a nine-year-old and actually for years after that i was completely stumped and dumbfounded by trying to
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resolve that alternative i mean it's a big difference between fall or jump and
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i couldn't understand how either of them could have occurred the night manager of the hotel also
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found frank's death suspicious i rushed outside to find frank olson's eyes wide open looking straight at me
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trying to tell me something okay buddy he was definitely trying to speak but it was nothing coming out
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but grumbles he was in terrible condition and i stepped back because now i have to find out where he
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came from so i looked up the building and finally i saw a little movement of a window shade and when i concentrated on
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that then i see that the window shade was stuck through a broken window armond took police to room 1018a
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and here is lashbrook sitting on a john in his skivvies and the police start to question him
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and i heard him say well all i heard was a crash i walked around the room to look around
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nobody ever jumps through a window they open the window and they're going to go
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out not dash or a shade and a sheer drape you know there's no sense to that but the olsons weren't told about the
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doorman's suspicions they were told simply that frank had a nervous breakdown and jumped out of a
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window they believed that story for the next 22 years years later a government commission was
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formed to investigate past abuses committed by the cia the official report made mention of a
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scientist who had plunged to his death from a hotel room 10 days after being dosed with lsd
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that scientist turned out to be frankelson over the next year and a half the olsen
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family received a formal apology from president ford and a check from the government for 750
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000 the olsens also met with cia chief william colby as a result of meeting with william
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colby at the cia we were given what was supposedly a complete set of documents relating to
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the events of the last nine days of my father's life we learned that he had gone to a retreat in deep
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creek lake in western maryland with a group of other scientists the principle of the
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meeting was that they were going to be discussing ongoing research but in fact there were agents in the cia who were
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meeting with them who decided that they were going to give them each a dose of lsd
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without their knowledge or consent and then see what their reaction was anyone for a drink the olsens learned
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that the lsd was slipped into an after-dinner liqueur by either sydney gottlieb head of the cia's technical
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staff or by his deputy dr robert lashbrook the cia worried that the soviet union
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might use lsd on captured agents cotley believed that his test would prepare american spies for that
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possibility thank you sydney yeah just what i needed the latest drinks were served to eight
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of the ten scientists present some of them including frank olson were not warned about the test
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within an hour the lsd took effect are we all feeling a bit strange when gottlieb told the group that their
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drinks had been spiked with lsd frank olson got very angry wait a minute we're having an experiment
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here you put a drug in our drinks yes yes we're in the middle of the next experiment we understood that my father
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uh was quite agitated and was having a serious confusion with separating reality from
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from fantasy then frank made his fatal trip to new york supposedly suffering from a nervous
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breakdown well frank how are we feeling today i feel lousy doctor frank was taken to see dr harold
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abramson an lsd expert who worked extensively with the cia it's been continuing for about a week look at me
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please you were saying that you weren't resting very well is that improving no
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i'm not resting i haven't been able to sleep for over a week accompanying frank
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were robert lashbrook and frank's boss vincent ruit frank sit down i don't want
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to sit down i can't sit down frank remained in new york and he made repeated visits to the doctor's office
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someone has been following me it's impossible to deduce what was accomplished in those meetings and you
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certainly don't see any any indication that a treatment process was occurring
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you can suspect that some kind of assessment process was going on the purpose of which was more to
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protect the cia's interest than it was to help my father one of the nights that my father was up
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in new york he was having delusions that he was hearing voices and in the middle of the night he woke up
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and went and threw all of his identification out and his money all right get rid of all
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my money my identification apparently the pattern continued in the immediate aftermath of frank's death
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for some unexplained reason robert lashbrook never phoned for help however he allegedly did make a disturbing call
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which was overheard by the hotel operator in those days you know all the calls were manual
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you call the operator and you tell her what number you want and she would dial it for you and then she'd listen to see
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that you got connected when the man in the room called this number he said well he's gone
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and the man on the other end said well that's too bad and they both hung up i mean what's more suspicious than that
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you don't have to be a genius to figure out that there's something i miss
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because who said hamlet said there's something rotten in denmark i mean i knew there was something rotten
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at the pennsylvania hotel that night in 1993 frank's widow alice passed away
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erica nils had their father's body moved to rest beside her but before frank was reinterred they
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asked a forensic scientist to perform an autopsy quite frankly we had no idea what the
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condition of the remains would be after 41 years we were delighted that the remains were in
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perfect condition for our analysis as part of his investigation professor stars and his colleagues went to the old
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hotel statler the first thing the professor looked for was evidence that frank had indeed
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smashed through a window the medical examiner in new york who did an external examination back in 1953
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said there were multiple lacerations on the face and neck there were none soon after that finding was made public
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lashbrook changes his story which he's held to for 40 years and suddenly now
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starts saying that he can't remember whether the window in fact was open or closed
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at some point he had to hit some glass i cannot believe that he wouldn't have gotten cuts in the
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lower extremities of his body on the front of the legs we don't find any cuts
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after years of research and investigation the olsen family has become convinced that frank olson was
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murdered by agents of the u.s government the olsen family believes frank was silenced because he had become extremely
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critical of illegal top-secret programs and policies of the cia and u.s government with which his own research
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group was deeply involved frank olson's family hopes that someday the entire
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story will be exposed if you have any information please log on to our website at unsolved.com
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[Music] next playful poltergeist at the general wayne inn do ghosts really exist
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and if they do is it possible that some might even have a sense of humor well guess who have stayed at the
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general wayne inn certainly think so just east of philadelphia in marion pennsylvania is the general wayne inn it
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opened in 1704 and since then a lot of american history has passed through these halls ben franklin visited here
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george washington slept in what later became this dining room and in 1836 edgar allan poe wrote part
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of his famous poem the raven right here but the guests who caused the biggest stir are the ones who have been haunting
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these halls for the past 100 years we have had reports of sightings of entities ghosts we have had
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a funny incident with a new cadillac in the parking lot outside that incident began when a valet walked
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by a cadillac parked in front of the end the owner had gone inside and took his keys with him
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[Music] doors were locked windows were all closed the kid was scared to death and i
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said look calm down these things happen around here and just relax i enjoy these ghosts i mean they don't
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bother me at all i think they come up with some real clever little things for god's sake what are you doing
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what the hell are you doing like on a busy night that's when this entity will start
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and he'll go down the entire side of the bar blowing on the back of the girl's neck and the poor
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guys they really were doing nothing now i knew when the first one started that it would continue all the way down
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to the end of the bar it always did did you do that do what no on the back of my neck it happened so often that i
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enjoyed standing back on the other side of the bar and watching hundreds of occurrences have happened
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some very minor some more dramatic but there have been hundreds of them bart has witnessed ghostly events but
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has never actually seen a ghost others have i was made her d at the time and i was
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we were closing the restaurant up for the night and i was starting on my way out and i
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had looked up i only saw it for a split second it's just a head sitting on this chest
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of drawers it didn't register with me right away and when i got out into the bar area it
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was like like i had hit a brick wall and it just stopped dead in my tracks and i
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started saying i i saw a head i saw something i saw a head it was just like it happened yesterday
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i'll never forget the details although i just saw it for an instant other employees have also seen
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apparitions one day alice garnley was walking through the dining room and i heard someone call my name
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alice alice so i walked out of here to see if it was the manager and i saw this apparition this person
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on the on these stairs and he was standing on this step and he looked so startled
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and when i said can i help you he just disappeared [Music] historian jay robert menti has studied
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the n's history in detail he says that this specter was seen over a hundred years ago the first written record of a
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ghost in the general wayne inn that we came across in writing was in a report of an election in 1848 that took place
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in here a lady went down to the basement to get some more ballots when she came up she
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said to the lady in charge of the elections i just saw a soldier down there in a green uniform
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in recent times there have been three new sightings of this soldier three witnesses saw the same apparition at
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different times each of them saw the ghost in this basement each one described the imperfect way the
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green uniform and the yellowish lapel of the and the black mustache of a hessian
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soldier of the regiments that were occupying philadelphia at that time what about the british barracks room upstairs
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we invited michaelene mayer a paranormal investigator to the end michaelin begins her investigation with
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detailed floor plans then she evaluates the responses of both skeptics and hand-picked psychics who
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have been brought to the scene of the hauntings when we bring them into a an experimental situation into a haunting
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we ask them to tour the place where something has been reported micheline asked psychic paula
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rogers to walk through the building paula knew nothing about the inn's history she went through every room and
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in the basement she made a surprising discovery i got an extremely strong impression i see
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a young soldier hiding i can still see it and he's in a very old costume we're
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probably talking at least 200 years i could see if it was a memory him crouched there petrifying he seemed to
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have been left behind [Music] at the general weighed in the ghosts check in but they don't check out
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one night during a local newscast halloween story on the end a number of regular patrons gathered in the bar to
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watch johnson has had a number of these the whole picture started to go very very slowly
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clockwise all the way around and all 50 people in the bar were looking at this and wondering what
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was going on and their all heads are all turning and the whole thing just kept going
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around until our portion was over but never did that before and i never did it afterwards and no one else in the
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whole neighborhood had it that way so are there ghosts at the end ask the innkeeper
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i don't believe in ghosts but i know they're here they have no other place to go and they
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might as well have a little fun and that's exactly what they're doing and i don't think they're going anywhere
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either [Music] next a 14 year old boy is last seen at a carnival and his parents desperately
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want to know why he never came home myrtle point oregon every august the cous county fair rose
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into town for many it's a week-long party to jeremy bright and his close friend
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johnny it was one of the high points of the year normally jeremy lived a hundred miles away in
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grants pass where his mother worked but during the week of the fair he and his younger sisters stayed with their
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stepfather in myrtle point on thursday jeremy and johnny hung out at the fair that afternoon jeremy phoned his mother
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diane he told her that he was having a great time diane says that she made plans with
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jeremy in two days she would come down to myrtle point and pick him up five hours later on thursday night
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jeremy showed up at a local tavern owned by his grandmother there he met his stepfather and asked to
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borrow some money it would be the last time jeremy was ever seen by his family you behave yourself
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since that weekend a number of rumors have surfaced about jeremy's disappearance
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his parents and the police have come to one conclusion someone in myrtle point knows exactly
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what happened to jeremy and they're not talking diane arrived in myrtle point on
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saturday as planned but when she went to pick up jeremy at his stepfather's house
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he wasn't there i went in and on the tv set was his house keys from our grants pass
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apartment and his wallet and his new watch that he had told me he'd bought i knew when i found those things that he
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was around somewhere because he wouldn't leave without him a few hours later that same night diane
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was worried enough to contact the police at first they believed her son had simply
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run away he did like the fair there was the thought that perhaps he was hiding out intending to leave with
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the fair people and i've explored that possibility in every way that i can think of however in this
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particular case i've talked to family members and and friends of his that knew him well
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and he was just not from what i can learn the type of a kid who would have struck out on his own
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on sunday the fair closed down myrtle point was buzzing about jeremy's disappearance
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and gradually conflicting stories began to emerge according to one rumor jeremy went to
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one of myrtle point's many parties and drank a beer laced with a powerful truck
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we're looking for a beer hey don't open another one there's one already open right here
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i've identified at least two and perhaps three parties where jeremy was present
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that the overdose theory could have occurred at it was reported that jeremy had a heart
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murmur and therefore a stimulant of some kind might have done some bodily damage to him just just
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by his sheer taking it police heard a different story from a jailhouse informant he claimed that
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three teenagers showed up at a local swimming hole and harassed jeremy and his friends is that a gun
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what this it's a toy it was at the jail where an inmate related to me the information that he
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had heard wherein one individual from the myrtle point area was target practicing or shooting
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indiscriminately in the water in the area where jeremy was uh was swimming tell me what you're made of now
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that's better here's a deer yeah i bet you can't you think so yeah all right all right i'm gonna try this
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look good in it [Music] [Applause] they subsequently took him to a a cabin maybe within
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10 miles of the myrtle point area and attempted to nurse him back to health to no avail that he died as a result of
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that injury either from loss of blood or from infection or what have you that same
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source through the jail indicated that his body would be found within 200 feet of
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this cabin in a in a shallow grave police searched the area around the cabin but found nothing
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all the rumors were hard to handle all of them are hard to think about every time i'd hear a new one i'd have
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nightmares for a week or so the one that i hope is not what happened is one where he suffered for two weeks
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before he died and they buried his body because the thought of him suffering for
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two weeks just makes me sick there were two more strange events the night that jeremy disappeared
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first a sister of jeremy's friend johnny had a disturbing encounter it was friday night of the fair and it
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was between midnight and one when we were leaving my sister's apartment and we came down the stairs and we got
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to the last stair and we almost ran into one of the neighborhood guys and he was completely covered in blood
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and i mean it was just all over him and it kind of scared me what happened to you
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well this he goes oh this this happened hours ago and he just laughed and then he went into one of the apartments
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a half hour later johnny arrived at his sister's apartment according to her he
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was visibly upset but refused to explain why whether it is just coincidence or whether they're directly related to
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jeremy's disappearance is another one of the mysteries that you still have to sort through to try to
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determine what indeed did happen the three or four people whose names keep reappearing in all the rumors and
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all of the reports they're not exactly what anybody would call pillars of society
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but as long as these men are out on the street they can hurt somebody else's
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child the same as they hurt mine and if they did to my son what people are saying they did
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and what they've been heard themselves say that they did they've got no business on the public streets
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i would just encourage anyone and especially those people who i feel have information that would help this
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investigation greatly to just simply have the courage to say yeah i'm scared
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to death but in a case like this my being scared doesn't warrant this family's pain
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this age progressed photo shows what jeremy might look like today he has scars on his forehead and nose
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and a mole on his chin the prime suspect in his disappearance recently died in prison and there are no
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new leads however the case is still open if you have any information about the disappearance of jeremy bright please
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