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[Music] this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have participated in recreating the events what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast [Music] summer 1977 in the city of new york year-long nightmare was coming to an end
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on august 10th a man named david berkowitz was arrested police believe that he was a lone gunman
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behind the son of sam killings a brutal series of shootings that had left six people dead and seven seriously injured
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the media rejoiced the elusive son of sam was behind bars or was he the general perception among the public
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for years had been that david berkowitz was a lone gunman the facts and the evidence not
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speculation the facts and the evidence say otherwise in 1977 the nation believed the son of
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sam murders were solved in the last 11 years reporter maury terry has collected convincing evidence
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that david berkowitz did not act alone tonight we examine terry's theory and
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present other mysteries where you may be able to help and a tiny baptist church in rural
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georgia a deacon and his wife were the victims of a double murder the killer dropped a pair of glasses
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that may lead to his identity and from omaha nebraska a poignant story of unrequited love a frugal bachelor who
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left an unclaimed fortune of 200 thousand dollars someone watching tonight may be his heir
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join me you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] son of sam's reign of terror began on
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july 29 1976 it occurred in an area in the bronx called pelham bay the time was 1 10 am
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[Music] two young girls were hit by 44 caliber bullets one died a composite sketch of the gunman was
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created from the survivor's eyewitness description on october 23rd in the borough of queens
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another 44 caliber shooting occurred a man suffered a serious head injury a month later again in queens two
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girls stood on a stoop talking a man appeared out of the shadows both survived but one would be confined
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to a wheelchair for the rest of her life eyewitnesses were able to help police in
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creating a new composite of the gunman [Music] 1977 two separate shootings took the lives of
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two women as in the earlier attacks a 44 caliber bulldog revolver was used eyewitnesses created two more composites
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of the killer they showed a very different face from the earlier drawings each appeared to be
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a different person [Music] on april 17 1977 another shooting occurred again in the pelham bay section
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of the bronx just three blocks from the scene of the first shooting this time a hand printed letter was left
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at the scene it read quote i am a monster i am the son of sam i'm a little brat
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the city was paralyzed with fear the people in the local neighborhoods particularly in the bronx were petrified
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i remember people yelling to people in the street get in that nuts out there and this is an
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early afternoon no one double parked their cars uh business at the local entertainment
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places such as bars restaurants will knill no one went out on memorial day another letter from the son of sam
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was sent to columnist jimmy breslin written in the same distinctive style it contained taunts and references to
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satanism finally on july 31st son of sam struck for the last time stacey moskowitz was killed her date
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robert violante partially blinded that guy came over to the car and blew those people away in
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less than four seconds like you know you pre you press the trigger and then both would you know
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both could have died luckily robin's alive but i'll never forget it zayno gave police a description of the
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shooter another composite was created showing the gunman again there were more differences and
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similarities when compared to the earlier drawings one of them would to look like
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david berkowitz the others did not resemble them at all it was completely different
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uh i thought it was rather strange although we know that these drawings are done by victims or witnesses who see the
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killer for a brief period of time and then a day or two or several hours later they have to go to a police
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department artist and he has to put that on paper that's a very difficult thing
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to do so many times these sketches are not very accurate so i thought perhaps maybe that's why we saw so many
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different versions of the son of sam on the composites in their investigation of the moscowitz
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shooting police discovered a parking ticket had been issued near the scene to a ford
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galaxy owned by a postal employee named david berkowitz right back into the park
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the police traced this ticket to berkowitz's home as they approached the building they saw
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the car they spotted a duffel bag with what looked like a rifle but protruding through the opening automatic rifle
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when they entered the car they found a letter threatening another attack it was signed
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son of sam john look at this we got him let's get back to these uh the police staked out the ford galaxy
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waiting for its owner to emerge [Music] at 10 p.m berkowitz walked to the car inside the brown paper bag he was
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carrying there was a 44-caliber revolver as detectives moved into he sat in his fort galaxy
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almost passively what took you guys so long step out of the car berkowitz confessed to all of the
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shootings he told the police that he received his orders to commit the crimes from the
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barking dog of an elderly neighbor named sam carr berkowitz pleaded guilty to all the
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charges against him he was sentenced to 25 years to life in new york's attica prison
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but to maury terry his confession seemed too convenient after the arrest of berkowitz uh just
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through fate or whatever i started poking around into the case because i had some suspicions that uh
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maybe there was more to it than the public was being uh being led to believe and that's when i started my own
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investigation in into the case right really the day after berkowitz got arrested
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maury terry believes that david berkowitz did not act alone that he was part of a gang of killers and it was the
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killing of stacey moskowitz that first aroused his suspicions next we will go through a step-by-step
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reconstruction of the events leading to the killing of stacy moskowitz mauri terry believes that this last
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killing was deliberately planned and executed not just by david berkowitz but by at least three people
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and he says that there is eyewitness testimony to corroborate this theory well the very early reports that um on
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the moskowitz killing had me concerned david berkowitz's resemblance his features were widely different from the
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sketches of the killer that had been done by the police artist started seeking out witnesses found tommy zayno
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who was a key witness in the to the shooting tommy zano was with his girlfriend parked on shore parkway in front of the
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car that held stacy moskowitz and her boyfriend was looking through the mirror in the
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car and i seen i noticed somebody you know standing in the park what i seen is he had long hair and it's
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hard to really see the face but it was he was then he looked like he was in pretty good
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shape from looking through the mirror when he was into the in the park the guy who came over to the car
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it's nice he walked up to the car like as if he was gonna get in the car then
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he went into a stance shot and that was it turned around and ran i can't picture burka which run like
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that that's the thing that confused me after they quote him if they seen him
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as either he was he you know i in a week he can't get that fat you know he that's
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all i could say he's he's you know he didn't look like the type of guy run and do
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that this is a map showing the neighborhood where the last killing occurred stacy moskowitz and her boyfriend were
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parked here two blocks away on may 17th stream david berkowitz received the incriminating
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parking ticket on his ford galaxy parked here according to terry the events leading up
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to the shooting began here at the shore parkway entrance to the park at about 1am
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witnesses saw a yellow volkswagen arrive at the park entrance two men emerged this same car was seen fleeing the crime
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scene after the shootings 30 minutes later tommy zano noticed the yellow volkswagen drive past more than
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once a half hour later at 205 a policeman issued a parking ticket to berkowitz's
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ford galaxy a neighborhood resident named cecilia davis pulled up in a friend's car just
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ahead of berkowitz's ford she then said goodbye to her friend we were triple parked
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and i was looking in the in the back so in case a car comes up i saw that guy taking the summons off his
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windshield and keep on looking watching the cops as they still gave tickets then he got in the car
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and he came behind us he couldn't pass because we were blocking the whole street
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and he blowed the horn at us so i got out and i took a look at him more or less i gave him a dirty look
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what's the percussion middle in the night cecilia has identified the man in the
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car as david berkowitz after she left her friend she saw berkowitz drive up bay 17th street
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and turn right on bath following the police the fact that david berkowitz pulled up behind mrs davis and her date
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as he did uh with the police car still on the block or just pulling off the block blaring his horn he would not be
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doing something like that if he's the elusive ingenious son of sam carrying that 44 bulldog in his car he would he
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would try to be as stealthy as possible 15 minutes after the parking ticket was issued stacy moskowitz and robert
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violante went for a late night stroll as they walked in a nearby park stacy and robert saw a man standing next to a
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restroom watching this restroom was over two blocks from cecena davis's apartment
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at 2 33 am mrs davis returned to her apartment after walking her dog she saw david berkowitz the man who had
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honked earlier walking straight towards her i know it was the same guy because i saw
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him when i got out of the car for my friend i looked at him because he blow their horn
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cecilia saw berkowitz here over two blocks away from where stacy and robert were parked
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approximately one minute later in her apartment cecilia heard the sounds of gunfire in the distance
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those four shots killed stacey moskowitz and almost blinded robert violante how could berkowitz have traveled from
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this spot where cecilia last saw him to this area where stacy and robert were shot in one minute
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when it takes at least two and a half minutes to briskly walk the two blocks from bay 17th street to the park
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just 15 seconds after the shooting witnesses saw a man wearing a cheap light-colored wig run out of the park
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get into a yellow volkswagen and speed away up 17th avenue in his haste he ran a red light and
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narrowly missed colliding with another car maury terry believes that at least three
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people including david berkowitz were involved in the moscowitz killing he claims they were members of an
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organized conspiracy responsible for every single one of the son of sam shootings
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david berkowitz was selected to be the fall guy on the son of sam killings he was not a willing fall guy he wanted
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it to be another way but berkowitz knew that he had been involved in all the shootings uh he has pulled the trigger
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definitely two times responsible for three murders he's not an innocent man and was on the scene of all the others
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as a lookout a wheel man whatever so berkowitz was involved and berkowitz knew he was guilty he also was
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responsible for getting a parking ticket on his car that night which also made him susceptible to be the guy to be
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picked out to take the fall and on top of that the real killer escaped in the yellow volkswagen and that person was
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deemed more valuable to the conspirators than david berkowitz was no i didn't think it was david berkowitz
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then and i don't think it's him now i definitely don't think it's him it has
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crossed my mind and it's a strong opinion of mine that david berkowitz was not the sole killer
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and was aided by other accomplices we um received information that um other people may have been involved
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i had a statement made to me by someone who allegedly spoke to david berkowitz wherein david berkowitz is supposed to
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have stated that others were involved new york prosecutor john santucci has moved the status of the son of sam
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investigation from inactive to active next week we'll continue maury terry's
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investigation he has discovered that david berkowitz and at least two friends were members of
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a satanic cult these two friends were brothers and their father's name was sam
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next the poignant tale of curly green for half a century he lived a solitary frugal life in a tiny omaha apartment
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when he died his friends were amazed that he had amassed a 200 000 fortune someone watching tonight may be his heir
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[Music] until ten years ago walter greene lived alone in a small apartment near downtown
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omaha his nickname was curly and he lived a simple frugal life [Music] he was cordial to his neighbors but kept
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mostly to himself on april 24 1978 curly green had a heart attack he died while working in his yard
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everyone who knew him was astounded to find that curly during his lifetime had accumulated more than two hundred
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thousand dollars he left no will and his next of kin could not be located ten years after his death curly green's
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fortune remains the largest unclaimed estate in nebraska history when it came out in the papers
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that he had the amount of money that they said he had we were shocked i can't imagine how he amassed that
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amount they found stock certificates i understand they found a coin collection and they found much to everyone's
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surprise that curley actually owned the apartment building where he was living it is extraordinary that a man who lived
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as simply as curly green could have accrued such a large sum of money it is even more extraordinary that the
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money remains unclaimed but this is not just a story of missing airs and unclaimed fortunes
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it is also a love story a sweden haunting that began nearly eight decades ago [Music]
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we don't know much about curly green's early life but we can surmise is this
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when he was nearly 17 he hopped a train bound for omaha curly jumped off outside the city near a
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small farming town called skyler [Music] curley immediately began to pound the pavement looking for work
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hal rominger a local tavern keeper saw the young stranger and offered him not only a ride but a home-cooked meal with
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his family [Music] catherine the younger of the rummager was then only nine years old
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i don't know if my dad brought him we suppose he came from denver we were curious when he set up the table because
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we'd never seen him before but he was a nice looking young man well i'll bet it's been quite some time
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since you smelled cooking like this curly well yeah a little while at dinner curly was secretive about his family and
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his birthplace in montana where is your family curly well i left my mom and my stepdad back
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in denver and that's about all the family i really have curly said he hadn't gotten along with his stepfather
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so he had traveled east he had a very nice way of evading see when mama asked him said didn't you have
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some cousins or something he just said well i did once and he changed the subject and that's the way
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curly was and we respected him for it do you have any brothers or sisters well none as pretty as your daughters ma'am
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the moment curly first saw jessamine rominger catherine's older sister he was
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smitten he would never feel the same way about anyone else al rominger found curly a job working at
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the local garage the automobile was still a pretty newfangled machine curly had a knack for
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fixing cars he earned enough to enable him to move into a boarding house [Music]
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he wasn't a spendthrift and i used to like it when i have to get paychecks because he'd give me nickels
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and dimes with his new salary curly began to court jessamine he only had one problem
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getting rid of catherine the little sister go to the movies yeah well i was thinking of the park how
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about if you go to the movies and me and justin go to the park okay okay well here we are
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[Music] he and jasmine would go wherever they went they had some friends in skyler
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and but i didn't care where he went i got the nickel and dime that's all i cared about
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curly's got quite a bit of adjustment because he never went with other girls
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only jasmine in 1917 curly left his job as a mechanic to enlist in the army he also left his beloved jessamine
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she began training to be a nurse curly served on the european front it was his unenviable duty to drive the
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dead and wounded in a makeshift army hospital the suffering he witnessed scarred curly
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but when the war ended he returned home full of hope to skylar nebraska and to jessup
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[Music] catherine it's good to see you again have you been fine is justin in here
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no curly i'm sorry he's gone to omaha well nothing flowers jasmine liked him and he was a gentleman
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always but she wanted other things out of life and he didn't appear to be educated
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and his earning capacity wasn't great i suppose and anyhow they didn't go together
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anymore [Music] curly followed jessamine to omaha and got a job first as a mechanic at a newspaper the
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omaha b then as a night watchman for the union pacific railroad curley refused to give
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up on jessa but jessamine rominger married another man curly never fell in love again he
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never married or had a family curly spent the next 60 years alone in all those years he never told anyone
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who his real family was other than catherine curley's best friend was riley marr his barber and a
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fellow member of the masonic lodge i really never really got that close to him actually i thought i was a pretty
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good friend of his because he did invite me over to his home on occasion and we did sit around
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and have coffee and talked about things once riley noticed some postcards and pictures neatly displayed in curly's
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apartment he was curious to know if they were from curley's family i picked one of them up
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and it had a postmark of brooklyn new york and i asked him something about where that was
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it was a long ways from home and he said never mind and he took it and put it away
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well it made me feel like i was probably intruding on his privacy of some sort and that he had something that he maybe
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didn't want revealed or maybe he'd had a tragedy in his lifetime somewhere along
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the way that he was trying to avoid talking about over the years kirliad amassed a
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considerable fortune but he kept that a secret too some people attributed curly's wealth to
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an extremely valuable coin collection but catherine thought he just plain saved every penny he made
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well he said he would get up in the morning and after he'd eat breakfast he'd put a can on the pilot light
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and by the time he'd come back and ready for lunch or the evening meal it was
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just right to eat he was that saving maybe that's how he got the money when he died curly green had accumulated
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a fortune of more than two hundred thousand dollars held primarily in real estate stocks and
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bonds so far no legitimate heirs have claimed curley's estate in 1986 investigator josh butler who
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tracks down missing heirs professionally began researching the case of curly green
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josh had heard that curly once mentioned having a brother who was killed in a shootout indeed there had been a man
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named al green who was shot and killed shortly after the fourth of july in 1921. we really went to some
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extremes in this case but were surprised and a little disappointed never to have found any
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clear connection with curly green part of the mystery here is that al green's
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father i believe to have been a joseph greene and i now understand that curly green's
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father was a harry albert green so quite probably al green and curly green we're cousins rather than
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brothers the man named al green was killed in 1921. josh butler now thinks it is probable
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that curley's actual brother was killed several years earlier the search for curly's heirs continues
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it's very strange that a man would accumulate 200 000 in his lifetime and that he would have no known
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relatives that anybody knew about and not leave some sort of a written document concerning the disposition of this money
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somewhere there's somebody who has enough information in their own family that they're going to be able to come
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forward and prove their entitlement to this it'll be a case of going from the people back to the money
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these are five of the few known photographs of curly green showing him as a young man
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in middle age and before he died we know he said he was born in kendall montana and lived in denver
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we know he had a collection of gold coins some of which he might have obtained in mexico
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he received postcards from someone in brooklyn new york curley claimed he had a brother who was
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killed in a shootout and he stated on a 1938 birth certificate that albert harry greene
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born in england and anne morin green born in latvia were his parents none of these three relatives has been
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traced at curley's funeral a mysterious wreath of flowers became the final clue to his
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past this card came with the flowers it signed mrs joe greener denver colorado perhaps mrs greener is the key to the
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puzzling life of walter curly green next the story of a double murder in a tiny baptist church in rural georgia
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the only clue is a pair of ordinary glasses left behind by the killer [Music] [Applause]
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there waverly georgia population 825 is a predominantly black community nestled in
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the baptist bible belt lumber farming and the paper mill provide the income for this small
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isolated area over 35 miles from the nearest big city jacksonville florida [Music]
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for years rising daughters baptist church has served not only as a place of worship but also as a social center for
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the small township [Music] but on march 11 1985 this quiet community was shattered by violence
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the quiet sanctity of rising daughter's church was violated by the brutal double
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murder of harold and thelma swain harold swain was a well-respected deacon of the church a member of the county
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jury commission and a spokesperson for the black community thelma swain was also closely involved
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with church affairs harold and film had been married for over 43 years [Music] harold was always happy and jolly
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laughing it's something like that might have come natural to harold because of his love and kindness for
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everyone and he would always go out of his way to help someone at any time day or night no matter what time
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if you needed a favor of any type and he could do it he was there same thing about them
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all the people up here well they came to this funeral most people ever saw a funeral
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here in my life just called everybody who you know thought that much of hell and respect
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on the night they were murdered harold and thelma held their weekly tuesday night bible class
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nine women do i put my attended let me never be put to confusion now let us pray
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oh god i want to thank you for bringing us together tonight in jesus name amen now is there any father of business that
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you care to discuss sister brenda yeah well i'd like to remind everybody at 8
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50 one of the women excused herself may i help you yeah i want to talk to somebody oh
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some money in there she encountered a stranger in the church festival i want to talk to him they'll be right
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back some of the other women in the group caught just a glimpse of the man a young
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white male in april excuse me what's happening [Music] the women rushed into the pastor's
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office and tried to call for help the phone didn't work 20 minutes passed while the women waited
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in fear finally one of them made a dash for her car and went to summon help that night the georgia bureau of
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investigation was brought in a massive manhunt started in this tiny black community
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harold and thelma were personal friends of mine and my families and it was kind of a
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shock to me i think i was in shock for a while when i got there there was a lot of
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confusion no one really knew what had happened they didn't know what the facts were
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they didn't know who had done the killing they didn't know what the motive
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was the swain's highly respected people very active in the community are just not the type of person that
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you know would be the victim of a murder plot there was a lot of physical evidence at
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the scene bullet casings two pair of glasses for one we were able to determine belong
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to the emt harold swan the other pair no one knew who they belonged to the first gut reaction that i had was a
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transient because the glasses appeared to belong to a person who did not have enough
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money to properly maintain their glasses or to buy glasses when they needed them
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these are the glasses found on that night and they're not ordinary glasses the lenses are thick
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the surface pocked by a welding torch the earpieces don't match or they drop by the killer
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when the police discovered these glasses they investigated the theory that the murder may have been a transient
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rising daughter's church is located on busy highway 17. transients often would stop by for a
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handout or a free meal but if robbery was the motive why were over 300 left in harold swain's
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pocket other evidence suggests that the crime was premeditated the authorities feel that the church had
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been cased before the brutal attack [Music] the telephone lines at the church had
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been cut which uh could or could not say that it was a premeditated murder could have
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been a premeditated armed robbery attempt the woman who left the church early clearly saw the attacker
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fearing for her life she did not want to appear on camera he was calm i was thinking
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that he was there for a handout he didn't seem to be someone to hurt anybody
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i didn't see any weapon or anything and it seemed like he had on scuff boots
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and he had long blonde hair shoulder-length hair but i really wasn't looking at him that
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hard you know because i wanted to leave all right the police attempted to create a picture
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of the killer using an identicate but the eyewitnesses did not agree on many of the details
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an artist was brought in to sketch a composite drawing for five months the police searched for
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the killer using the composite drawing but no new leads or clues surfaced [Music]
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finally on july 5th 1985 police 135 miles away in telfair county georgia pulled over a car for a minor traffic
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violation in the trunk they found an automatic weapon in a submachine gun three suspects were taken into
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custody one of them donny baringtine we were given some information by some acquaintance of these people
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that donnie barrett had told people in florida that he had murdered a black preacher and his wife
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in a church after several interviews with donny he uh admitted that he had told these people
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in florida that he killed a black preacher and his wife and then he just smiled and said but i
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was lying to him we have never been able to come up with any hard evidence to connect
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donnie with this case donnie barentine was then given a polygraph test and he flunked it as a matter of fact the
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polygraph operator told us that mr barentine was a very good suspect in the murder the resemblance between the man
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on the wanted poster and donnie berringtime was inconclusive so the eyewitnesses from the church in
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waverly were taken to jacksonville for a police lineup you'll be viewing five individuals
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i'd like if you will to place yourself in your mind back at the church the night this
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incident happened okay yes sir five individuals on the other side won't be able to see or hear
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you lights lights there was about six men there and i really couldn't see that
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one of them was him you know because the person i saw had short hair his completion was a little bit lighter
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but he had the same boots that i saw that night the boots was what i recognized but i i wasn't really really sure
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the murder charges against donnie berringtime were not pursued but he was subsequently convicted on weapons
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charges and is currently serving five years in a federal penitentiary one year later the swain investigation
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took a new direction agent joe gregory came across a face in a state crime bulletin which exactly
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matched the identicate picture created by one of the witnesses at the church [Music]
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it gave me a chill it literally gave me a chill when i saw the composite because there are so many
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hundreds of thousands of combinations to make a composite and what are the odds that
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two of them being exact and these composites were exact matches the kansas suspect was wanted
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for armed robbery in a church but was never taken into custody the kansas bureau of investigation could not even
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give agent gregory the suspect's name we found that they had never developed
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any leads they don't know who he is other than the fact that he drove an older car with a florida tag on it
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three years later the brutal murders of harold and thelma swain remain a mystery
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were they just random killings committed by a violent transient or were they a planned and premeditated
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murder and if so why they say your first hunch is usually your best everything that night
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uh pointed to a transit attempting to pull a robbery my feelings are and that the individual did not get any
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money he went around and checked to find out if there was a phone and then cut those lines
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and singled out one individual from the church and brought him out to the vegetable
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shot him and then in my opinion intended that he'd be dead he shot him the last
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round in the temple there's no question that his intent was to kill harold swain
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personally a case like this haunts you it's it's the type of case that you never forget
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i drive by rising daughters every day coming into this county and i never drive by that i don't look
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and think about the swains [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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[Applause] [Music] last february on unsolved mysteries we examined the case of elmer de boer an
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oil company courier who was murdered execution style on may 11 1987. the two key suspects in the case were
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jerry strickland and his 16 year old girlfriend missy mundy local police believe the couple
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kidnapped elmer robbed him of ten thousand dollars then took him to a deserted wooded area outside of pontiac
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michigan and murdered him [Music] jerry and missy were never seen again [Music] update moses lake washington
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within minutes of our broadcast 20 viewers in this small rural community called the police to say they recognized
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jerry strickland and missy mundy seven hours later the police arrested the fugitive couple at a friend's house
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they discovered that jerry and missy had themselves watched the broadcast and we're waiting for the police
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all he says i'm the guy you're looking for [Music] and he was just real calm and collect
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no violence at all i figured the time was about seven hours and 15 minutes from the time the
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unsolved mysteries aired and he was in custody i just felt sick about it on february 12th jerry and missy were
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extradited back to michigan to stand trial for armed robbery kidnapping and murder
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jerry insists they are innocent they got circumstance of evidence all hearsay it's people talking
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but no witnesses i mean okay that's why you know i say they're gonna learn that we didn't do
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this we have enough evidence circumstantial evidence and physical evidence uh that we feel he's guilty all they
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want is a conviction and they don't care if they burn me or not thanks to our viewers jerry strickland
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and missy mundy will have their day in court they're being tried separately and if
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convicted could face life imprisonment without the possibility of parole [Music]
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next week we'll continue our examination of the son of sam shootings reporter
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maury terry claims that the attacks are engineered by a satanic cult a cult he believes is still alive and has not yet
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been brought to justice join us next week for another edition of unsolved [Music]
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