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tonight on the season premiere of unsolved mysteries we travel to san francisco for a stunning special report
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a generation ago the zodiac killer terrorized northern california striking at random taunting the police taking at
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least five lives but when the killing abruptly stopped the memories faded until this
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the dramatic arrest of theodore kaczynski the accused una bomber changed everything
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two investigators soon challenged the authorities with a remarkable theory they believe the una bomber and the
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zodiac are the same man theodore kaczynski it may seem improbable that the similarities are chilly and even
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skeptics admit the evidence is worth debating join me for this compelling investigation as well as these
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intriguing mysteries for fourteen-year-old trish zembler a fall from her horse marked the onset of
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a rare often incurable nerve disease the grim prognosis left her family with little to do but pray for a miracle
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a heartless murder in georgia leads to a dramatic shootout with police now a killer is on the run
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and from the current case file two young coeds two different universities to baffling disappearances
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stay with us perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] here in the san francisco bay area the
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paths of two serial killers once crossed and recrossed seemingly intertwined yet the two haunted different decades
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and had markedly different tastes and murder an unmatched pair are merely different faces of the same
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madness the unabomber psychopathic general in a one-man war against society his targets anyone even loosely
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connected to technology university students airline officials computer salesman a decade earlier the zodiac he was
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obsessive and particular young couples moonlit knights secluded roads zodiac had five known victims though he
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claimed nearly 40 he was never arrested never even identified the una bomber burst onto the scene in
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1978 during an 18-year cross-country reign of terror he killed three and injured 23.
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he taunted police with letters all mailed from in and around the bay area frustrated officials said it was like
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chasing a ghost the unabomber was seen but once a sighting that resulted in this notorious
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portrait then april 1996 a suspect unmasked fbi agents named theodore kaczynski a
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55-year-old ex-mathematics professor as the elusive killer the fingerprints were hardly dry on
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kozinski's booking sheet when the case was spun in an entirely new direction by
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these two men mike rusconi and doug oswell working independently at opposite ends
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of the country and joining forces once their story hit the papers rusconi and oswell had each come up with
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the same stunning theory there's a there's a more even point of similarity
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i've concluded that there's a very good likelihood that the unabomber suspect ted kaczynski
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and zodiac are one and the same was there resemblance more than coincidence journalists wrote it off as unlikely
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to detectives it was doubtful but nobody said it was impossible at the age of 26 theodore john kaczynski
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was a rising star in the world of higher mathematics one of the youngest instructors ever hired by the university
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of california berkeley kozinski began teaching there in september of 1967. the zodiac crawled out of nowhere a
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little over a year later it was a full moon december 20th 1968. the zodiac's first victims were two
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teenagers parked on a lover's lane near the bay area town of vallejo [Music]
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both victims died at the scene to researchers mike rusconi and doug oswald huzinski's actions shortly after
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the murders were the first hint that he could be the zodiac killer one month later on january 20th 1969
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kozinski tendered his resignation from berkeley without any apparent motive and this
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astounded the people who worked with him it was just an inexplicable thing to do
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oswald and moscone find an even stronger link to kozinski and the zodiac's next
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murder some seven months later once again it was a full moon once again zodiac targeted two lovers
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parked on a secluded road near vallejo [Music] this time the zodiac left an eyewitness
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one of the intended victims mike mcgowan survived the shooting and watched the killer drive away
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mike mcgowan claimed that the man who shot him drove a light tan chevy ted kaczynski's brother in a washington
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post interview claimed that ted owned a 1967 chevy malibu tan in color at the time of the killings
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it's an interesting comparison i mean certainly ted kaczynski the suspect was
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at berkeley roughly at the same time that the zodiac killings occur we know both
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enjoyed taunting the police however there's many more differences than similarities
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after the murders zodiac bombarded local newspapers with letters as a una bomber would a decade later
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zodiac loaded the envelopes with far more postage than necessary he teased that his identity would be
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revealed if authorities could only decipher a three-part coded message each section of the cryptogram consisted
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of letters and astrological symbols arranged according to an unknown formula robert graysmith of the san francisco
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chronicles saw the cryptograms firsthand the genius of of zodiac's cryptograms
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first of all he laid them out like works of art are very perfectly arranged he would use 16 different symbols for
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the letter e for instance and he would not repeat them he'd go completely through the 16 before he
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began he made it very very difficult he kept them short 360 symbols in the longest one that we had
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that made it difficult to break to oswan and rusconi the cryptograms forge yet another link between the
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zodiac and ted kaczynski cryptograms are the toys of mathematicians kozinski was a highly regarded
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mathematician he wasn't just a garden-variety mathematician he was he was touted as one of the top
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mathematicians in the country ted kaczynski was interested in very abstract mathematics
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there's not a lot of evidence that he was interested in astrology or the radeons
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or local geography or the full moon ted kaczynski is a man of numbers but not the kind of numbers that zodiac
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was interested in when the zodiac's message was finally deciphered it proved to be a vile ode to
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the joys of murder [Music] for the researchers there was one more connection to ted kaczynski
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the message was solved all except for the last 18 characters now coincidentally enough there happens
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to be 18 letters in the name theodore j kozinski so this possibly could be his signature
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at the end of the letter it was in these letters as zodiac introduced his now infamous symbol
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within a few weeks it would be seen again did you pack any more stuff in the basket yeah we've got apples bananas
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september 29 1969 just north of berkeley the zodiac stalked another couple don't worry about it all right
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don't move don't make any noise okay the intruder wore an executioner's hood
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emblazoned on his rope the sign of the zodiac what yeah tyra take my car keys man i don't once again
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it was a young man who would survive i'm an escaped convict from deer lodge montana and i don't have much time
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dear lodge montana the zodiac mention of such an obscure town to fight explanation
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until the capture of ted kaczynski at his cabin just 10 hours drive from deer lodge montana
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kozinski had owned the cabin for 25 years after his arrest fbi agents catalog kaczynski's every possession
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buttons to bomb parts i would certainly have expected to have found in the investigation
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at suspect ted kaczynski's cabin something there that belonged to zodiac now suspect ted kaczynski kept
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everything the hood the sunglasses bomb making paraphernalia he had a fetish for keeping these what we call
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souvenirs why wasn't there one shred of evidence in that cabin linking him to zodiac
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you guys come here come here look at this as for the zodiac himself teenage partygoers in san francisco were the
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next to catch a glimpse of the furtive killer it was october 11th 1969 roughly two
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weeks after his last assault it was a zodiac's fifth known murder an unarmed cab driver
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however a police dispatcher garbled the eyewitness description hey buddy see anything suspicious around here in
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the last few minutes as a result police did not arrest the man they encountered less than a block from the murder scene
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he was going on east on washington thanks a lot the man walked off into the night
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soon after he sent a letter to a local newspaper inside was a blood stained slice of the
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cab driver's shirt and a mocking letter describing the encounter with police
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it was signed the zodiac authorities released this sketch of the suspect researchers oswald and moscone maintain
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that without glasses the face is familiar a young ted kaczynski they both had a strong lower jaw with a
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cleft small cleft in the chin both had a reddish tint to their hair and they both were about five nine
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also the age given for the zodiac killer was between 25 years of age and 30 years
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of age theodore kaczynski at that time was around 29 years old after the cab driver murder zodiac
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announced a new ammo instead of guns and knives he would now kill with bombs he threatened to target a school bus
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filled with children and enclosed diagrams of complex triggering devices despite his threats zodiac did not bomb
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a single target indeed he was never heard from again after his letter of april 1978
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but one month later the unabomber attacks were underway and the zodiac reinvented himself as an
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anti-technology warrior i think it would be quite unusual to change your mo like that to go from
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different kinds of weapons to suddenly ball making i i think there are a lot of interesting
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connections but i do not believe they are the same zodiac is a confrontational killer
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hands-on he enjoys looking at his victims he enjoys stabbing shooting so there's a marked difference there
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serial bombers like suspect ted kaczynski tend to be nerdy cerebral they enjoy killing from afar
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it's been thought that kaczynski was a mathematical nerd growing up that he spent all his time with his nose and a
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book in a classroom that's not true he spent a great deal of time in the woods learning survival skills with his
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brother and his father that's been brought out by the fbi and by interviews with his brothers since so
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we know that kaczynski was familiar with weapons he knew how to use them and he was comfortable with them i don't
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believe a confrontational serial killer such as zodiac later on would become a serial bomber
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when he mellowed out when he became better educated settling back now i'm going to play a new game with law
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enforcement we rarely see that ted kaczynski was 36 when the first unabomber explosion occurred
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the fbi was a little puzzled as to why somebody that age would want to begin on a career of serial murder usually it's
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much younger people who do perhaps they didn't dream that he had had an earlier more violent
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period of murder and had mellowed out over the years as serial killers are said to do if they're
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not caught rusconi and oswell's theory prompted police to review their zodiac case files
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sifting for evidence against theodore kaczynski mr ted grozinski is not a viable suspect
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at this point as the zodiac we have not made any conclusion as to who the zodiac was or is
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the record detectives specify one suspect among the more than 2 000 questioned in the case that they believe
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was a zodiac however there was never enough evidence to make their suspicions stand up in
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court the zodiac has been silent now for almost 20 years is he still with us perhaps facts will emerge at the trout
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of theodore kaczynski and expose him as a zodiac killer or perhaps the truth about the zodiac
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will remain forever just out of reach [Music] [Music] next two young coes from opposite sides of
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the country mysteriously vanish and later do you believe in miracles if you don't trish zemba's recovery from
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a painful nerve disease might just convince you [Music] tim harris a veteran journalist with a
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long list of credits but one particular story had haunted him for years his own as told to him by his adoptive
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mother helen harrell [Music] in 1946 helen was working as a nurse at a hospital in saint louis missouri
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she told tim that she had found him abandoned in a trash can she took him home and raised him as her own
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tim was still a boy when helen told him that story because of the tim harbert a lifelong grudge against his birth mother
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a woman he thought had thrown him away by 1976 tim was on staff for the los angeles herald examiner when he got a
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call out of the blue city desk speaking who's calling this is your mother excuse me
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what are you talking about my mother's at home this is your mother your real mother
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all of a sudden all the hatred just exploded i said how could you how could you throw me away like i was a piece of
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garbage [Music] how could you do that and uh she said well you don't understand
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i said i don't want to understand after helen died tim began to reconsider in 1990 on a trip back to saint louis
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with a second wife tim tried to locate his birth mother through adoption records
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thanks to a helpful lawyer tim learned that everything helen had told him had been a lie
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his birth mother was helen's own niece and she had given tim up because he needed medical care
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care that helen could provide it threw me like a jolt of electricity the only thought in my mind was is i
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really wanted to find her now i really wanted to say look i didn't know and i am so sorry
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i am so sorry for what i said to you and how i acted to you you may have lived in the st
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tim harold called on all his skills as a reporter to track his birth mother but it was not until the night of our
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broadcast that he got the help he needed here's keely shea smith with the tales
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of a reunion long overdue bob one of the people watching our broadcast that night was a private
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investigator from scottsdale arizona alice simon volunteered her expertise and resources for tim's search within
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one week she telephoned him with extraordinary news she called and she said i just talked to
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your mother and you have a wonderful family of three sisters and a brother and scads of cousins and nephews and nieces
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and everything and i just broke down and cried tim's birth mother muriel gartner lives
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in campbell california this past june muriel gathered her entire family to welcome tim and his son adam home at
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last [Music] it feels right it feels like finally everything has come full circle
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this is your grandson [Music] there's always been the hole an empty hole though i've had a lot of
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other kids in a wonderful life great kids but it it feels like this hole's beginning to feel fill in now
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this is your brother [Music] it's just the most amazing feeling in the world to know that i've got this
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family and that i'm going to be a part of this family and that they're going to
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be a part of my life i mean i just can't tell you what the feeling is like i was involved
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[Laughter] he's just one of us and it felt that way from the very beginning when he called me he
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said hello mom and i said hello son and that was it when we went to hang up he said can i
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call you again tomorrow mom i've been wanting to call my mom for a long time
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and i cried and he cried [Music] did [Music] at this time every year a familiar ritual plays out all across america
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kids head off to college the last thing any parent imagines is that their child will go to school and
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vanish without a trace but recently the unimaginable is exactly what happened to 18 year old april
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gregory and 19 year old kristen smart april and kristen never met indeed they were enrolled at different
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universities on opposite sides of the country yet within the same five-hour period
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they were both suddenly gone no warning no explanation april gregory took her schoolwork very
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seriously she wrapped up freshman year at syracuse university in new york then turned right
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around and enrolled in summer session at 11 45 on may 24 1996 april's brother lamar dropped her off at
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her dorm sadler hall i helped people with her bags to the front of the dormitory
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and that was the last i saw the mystery begins april walks up these steps enters these doors under the watchful
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eyes of dorm officials ascends to a seventh-floor room these are the meager facts
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later police examine april's room she is not completely unpacked was she interrupted
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in the closet a clue april is employed at a local restaurant and her work uniform is missing
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this is a path april takes to her job did she even get this far all we know is that april never arrived
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at work really did she miss work very really i just knew something bad happened to my
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baby whatever happened happened between midnight and 5 am during that same time three thousand
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miles away another young woman mysteriously disappeared kristen smart 19 years old a freshman at
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cal poly state university in san luis obispo california about the time april gregory should have
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been heading to work in new york kristen was walking along this road in california
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she was returning to her dorm after a party she was not alone paul flores 19 years old also a freshman
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at cal poly he had offered to walk kristen back to campus after the party [Music]
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an eyewitness saw paul and kristen at this corner roughly 200 yards from their dormitories
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paul told police that kristen headed to her dorm and he continued across the street alone
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to his kristen phoned home every sunday religiously and when that sunday passed and she
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hadn't phoned i knew something was wrong authorities agreed 100 sheriff's
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deputies and 300 volunteers search the campus for any trace of christian smart results negative
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search dogs specially trained to recognize the odor of a dead human body were taken through campus dorms
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experts say the only possible false positive is a scent of menstrual blood those dogs
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hit on this room run room 128 at the cal poly campus and specifically came into this room and
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hit on this mattress and the corner of this mattress this room was occupied by coincidentally the
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male subject that was last seen with kristin smart on the day she became a missing person
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that male subject was paul flores authorities began to question flores statement that he and kristen had gone
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their separate ways once they arrived at the dorms toured their dorms when they got to approximately here
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he says he continued into his dorm which is up the hill and she left and went up
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between the two dorms to her dorm however we believe that based on what we've learned from the
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search dogs she actually continued into his dorm with him at this time no criminal charges have
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been filed in the case kristen smart is still considered a missing person we never give up hope that kristen will
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be found but as any parent can imagine the longer that it goes on the dimmer the
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light and we can only hope [Music] coming up authorities need your help and track down a convicted killer
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but first in a remarkable story of faith and resilience a young girl overcomes a
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painful nerve disorder [Music] do [Music] it was a normal christmas eve western style in phoenix arizona the sky was
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blue temperature of bomby 75. fourteen-year-old trish zamba saddled up her ex-racehorse sly and headed out for
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a ride [Music] [Applause] ah [Music] i felt it hurt very much but i was in shock i had so much adrenaline rushing
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through my system that what had just happened did not register with me at the moment i helped
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her into the house she was lumping a little bit and uh took her in and took everything
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off to look for broken bones and she was scraped on the one side somewhat scraped and it was red like
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road rash and some bruising where you could tell there was going to be bruising the injuries appeared superficial trish
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improved overnight and the incident had little impact on the family's christmas
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day plans i got up got myself dressed came out and basically spent all christmas day on the
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couch i was sore stiff hobbled around some but i was able to get around the accident seemed like a thing of the
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past until trish was bathing some 10 days later i remember i went to get up and when i
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was standing up i started feeling dizzy i heard a thump and i called out to her and she didn't answer me
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[Music] i was panicked when i saw trisha passed out i didn't know what had happened i
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couldn't get a response out of her first i i just didn't know what was going on
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from there on then she her condition seemed to get worse pain increased her mobility you know started to be less
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she had more trouble getting around and sitting so that's when we started taking
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her to the round of doctors [Music] the bathtub fault had triggered an avalanche of pain doctors could neither
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diagnose nor relief after five weeks of unrelenting agony trish was hospitalized
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can you tell me where it hurts is it hurting your back is hurting your legs she was in a lot of pain so they started
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administering morphine and they just kept giving it to her and giving it to her in large doses and
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it wouldn't affect the pain does not help the pain at all and finally they had given her so much they couldn't give
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her any more without killing her it was horrible seeing trisha in this pain and not being
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able to do anything for her and it was very very scary until we would pray dear jesus we would just ask father that
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you would reach down and lay your hands on tricia father trish was wrecked by pain every waking hour
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her left leg alternately turned purple and then back to normal grew hot and feverish and icy cold
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the diagnosis could hardly have been more frightening trish had a rare often incurable nerve
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disease called reflex sympathetic dystrophy or [Music] this is rsd far the worst i had ever
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seen and i was feeling pretty hopeless about her chances of getting any kind of a
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good recovery here and i remember her mother being so strong in their faith saying
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we're going to see a miracle here before this is over and i kept thinking no i don't think so
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this videotape of trish was made at the hospital where she was treated for rsd doctors believe the disease is produced
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by malfunctioning nerve circuits the nerves endlessly amplify and re-amplify pain sensations making even a minor
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injury unremitting torture she was literally writhing in pain unable to have anybody touch or move her
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leg her hip if you even breathe on it or put a blanket over the skin she would just
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jump we continually gave her medication to try and basically numb her legs the idea
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being that if we break the cycle kill the pain stop the cycle of pain from renegotiating itself that the
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condition itself would disappear [Music] doctors injected the most potent pain killing drugs available directly into
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trisha's spinal column but trish hardly noticed the rsd continued to worsen and trisha's
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muscles began to weaken from disuse it started telling us that they were going to have to institutionalize her
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that most patients with rsd this bad either die from it or they commit suicide or they literally go crazy
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because they cannot live with this type of pain [Music] even in the face of such bleak
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predictions trisha's parents say they never lost faith countless times each and every day they
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turn to prayer grant her some peace and take away this pain so that she can rest father
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we would pray and again that sense that things would be all right would come over us
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and though trisha would still be moaning and our circumstances didn't change it was
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like things were all right trish's doctors were less optimistic they propose an operation usually
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reserved for terminal cancer patients implanting a morphine pump into trisha's
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body if it sufficiently dulled her pain they could at least attempt physical therapy
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to slow the deterioration of tricia's leg muscles that was our next step that was really
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all that we had left to offer and quite frankly what i foresaw was a long painful
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route in rehab and with a very uncertain outcome as to whether this would ever resolve
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surgery loomed then early on the morning of march 11 1994 the family's prayers were answered
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suddenly and dramatically i felt the pain that my body moved down as it was moving down my ribs
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i remember feeling what my roots felt like i felt it keep on moving down and moving down and then finally i felt
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it move all the way down my leg and i felt it exit through my toes i felt it leave my
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body and i heard very very quietly almost the point where i couldn't hear it get up
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and i remember thinking i can't get up my i'm physically unable to get up and i
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heard again clear and more much more authoritative get up and i remember grabbing onto the side of
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bed rail and beginning to sit up and i was able to sit up like i would have in the past i sat up and i was sitting on
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the edge of the bed and the second i set my feet on the ground i didn't have any pain anywhere
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in my whole body [Music] i stood up and i remember staying there like well what now
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and i started walking [Music] it was unbelievable to walk into her hospital room and see her standing there
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she hadn't stood for two and a half months on her own tremendous relief and gratitude
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to god who never let us down he didn't ever let us down as a medical physician i have to go by
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the medical data and the medical data has no explanation for this on a purely personal basis
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and based on my own religious beliefs i feel that yes she did have a miraculous healing
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we work in the world of science but that does not mean it necessarily has to be mutually exclusive
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of the realm if you will of of the spirit or of religion and i think we work together uh to
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create a successful end when the ends are successful that same morning trish was released
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from the hospital trish's parents made this videotape soon after she arrived home
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i know it was a miracle the pain just left my body in one fell swoop i felt like god was standing there right
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there just taking this pain from me and saying you know i love you so much i just want to set you free
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[Music] spontaneous remission is virtually without president in acute cases of rsd
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medical science still cannot explain trish zimba's stunning turnaround however the tradition her family it is
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no mystery at all just further evidence of the infinite power of faith when we return
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an abduction and murder leads to a wild shootout with the police [Music] for most of us 22 years seems like a
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long time but when it comes to tracking down a ruthless killer who's escaped punishment
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time doesn't matter 22 years ago might just as well be yesterday [Music] march 6 1974 sawani georgia 30 miles
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northeast of atlanta i just got my uh my check cashed i've got 200 in my wallet just just reach in the back james
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rouse jr a teacher husband and father of two young children is abducted at gunpoint by two fugitives william jordan
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and anthony prevette jordan and provette were wanted in north carolina for a series of burglaries
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make another right up oh here you've got my thrust turn around that way you've got my money the ride ended at
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the edge of a remote forest the kidnappers forced rouse to go barefoot and marched him into the
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when they woods the shore of a deserted lake they stopped [Music] james rouse died instantly shot at
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point-blank range with a sawed-off shotgun [Music] the next day wadesboro north carolina
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240 miles from siwani that's it over there 421. police got an anonymous tip that jordan
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and pravette were back in town hiding at the home of a friend you recognize that car
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nah it doesn't look familiar to me we knew who we were looking for we were looking for two guys last name of
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private and jordan they had a reputation of being bad guys uh predominantly in the property theft
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house break-in those type of things we didn't really suspect that they were involved
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in anything serious other than that the officers approached the house fully expecting to make an arrest but jordan
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and prevet were one step ahead sheriff's office 107 in pursuit of suspects traveling east on highway 117.
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suspects are firing upon us requesting backup everything was happening so fast but it
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seemed extreme that these guys were using this much excessive force to get away from us just because we wanted to
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talk to them about some housebreakings [Music] suspects has thrown out what looks like
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to be a weapon just past olivet church [Music] i'll get up along [Music] [Music]
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get your hands up let's go get him out get him up first get out the door run up
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get out of the car let me see your hands come on come on give me hands 24 year old anthony private and 31 year old
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william jordan were booked on charges of breaking and entering larceny and assaulting officers with a firearm
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police in north carolina still didn't know that the two men were killers [Music]
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48 hours later the body of james ross jr was discovered in georgia it was his stolen car that jordan and
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pravat had crashed in waysburg it didn't take long to piece together the rest
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[Music] a shotgun shell found at the murder scene further damned jordan and pravette
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ballistics tests reveal rouse had been killed with a blast from the shotgun dumped during the chase
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finally and most chilling of all police in north carolina found arrogant trophies of murder inside the wrecked
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car photographs of jordan and pravat leaning against rouse's car and posing proudly
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with a shotgun that killed him they were both eventually extradited back to georgia
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they were both tried both found guilty of first-degree murder both given death given the death sentence
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however neither jordan or pravat stayed long on death row upon review by the georgia supreme court
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they felt there were some prejudicial comments made by the district attorney in his
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closing argument that lifted the burden of the decision from the jury and it was reversed and their sentences
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commuted to life in 1991 prabhat was paroled but was returned to prison after he murdered his
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girlfriend pravat is currently on death row in north carolina the story of william jordan however has
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yet to end jordan you and greene take the truck on back to the house gas it up make yourself useful
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yes sir after 10 years of good behavior jordan had been assigned to a minimum security work farm in odom georgia
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but his image as the model prisoner proved false [Music] william jordan just kept driving
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a month later police caught the inmate who escaped with him but jordan has alluded capture ever since
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jordan was possibly seen in 1992 in virginia he possibly works in virginia west virginia as a heavy equipment
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operator he also possibly has a family in west virginia he uses the name william bill jordan or
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william junior jordan [Music] it's been more than 20 years since jordan and prevent heartlessly murdered
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james rouse jr but the rouse family still feels the pain the hardest part has been
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not only the way it happened but certainly the fact that he has not been with us
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and been able to enjoy his own family [Music] we have lived through years of anger for what jordan did
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to my brother-in-law jim and what it has done to the children as well as to his wife
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this is how william jordan looked in 1974 the year he murdered james rouse this photograph the last known taken of
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jordan shows how he looked in 1979 computer aging shows how he might look today at the age of 54.
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william jordan is six feet two inches tall has brown graying hair and probably wears glasses
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jordan has several distinctive tattoos a skeleton on his right forearm a spider on his right upper arm a cross
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with the name sybil on his left forearm and the name louise on his left leg [Music]
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join me next time for another intriguing edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music]
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