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next on unsolved mysteries a popular teenager breaks up a fight and then he's found fatally injured on a
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lonely road was it a random hit-and-run or was it cold-blooded murder a mother and her son both died
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mysteriously more than 20 years apart could there be a connection when a woman vanishes her
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husband tells two completely different stories about his wife's disappearance
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what really happened to pam page a man and his two sons steal millions of dollars through an elaborate medicaid
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fraud when he's finally caught he disappears five compelling cases i'm dennis farina
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and this is unsolved mysteries join us won't you [Music] spokane washington 105 am
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two friends on their way home are startled when their headlights reveal a body stretched out in the road
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thirteen-year-old russell evans has apparently been struck by a card he is barely alive
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brian russell is admitted to sacred heart hospital at 1 30 a.m as his parents stand by
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doctors struggle through the night to save his life when i got there i just wanted to see
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him and so i went right to the trauma room and he was unconscious mom's here
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i just knew he wasn't gonna make it the emergency team works frantically but
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by morning russell evans is dead i'm really grateful that i had those eight hours because
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even though he didn't talk to me i knew he was knew i was there and um that was really important to me
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the mangled body of a teenage boy lies in the street perhaps the victim of a careless driver
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or perhaps the target of a deliberate murderous attack in the case of russell evans his parents
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and local police have drawn opposite conclusions from the same set of evidence russell was an active and popular eighth
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grader at libby middle school in spokane by the age of 13 he was already six feet
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three inches tall he did everything together he's at my house every day and he was very well-liked had a good sense
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of humor and he got along with pretty much everybody he had no problems in the hours before russell died
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he was with aaron and other friends hanging out at a local park it was a typical summer evening until they were
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approached by two other teenagers hey man come here real quick and what's your name aaron aren't you
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yeah let me tell you something man hey hey you guys better take off before there's some real trouble and you don't
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even know what trouble is oh really he said you better watch out because of my homeboys
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but i didn't really think much of it you know so i just turned around and we left and he got in
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his car with his friend and took off after leaving the park russell spent the rest of the evening at a friend's house
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and then he called his father to say that he was heading home it was then about 12 30 a.m
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based on evidence found at the scene police constructed a hit and run scenario [Applause]
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on the impact with the vehicle he was separated from his shoes and shoelaces and other debris he finally came to rest
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about 75 feet from where we think he was struck from the bruises uh president russell i
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think the most prominent possibility here is that we're dealing with a motor
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vehicle accident the russell was struck in the back by a bumper and an ornament we looked at him after he died
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and i thought he'd been in a fight later on when the police started talking about hit and run
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his mom mom and i just couldn't buy that i mean the injuries weren't there
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john and sue evans obtained copies of the official police report complete with photographs
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they noted that russell's shoes didn't have their laces on somehow they had
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been torn out to russell's parents it seemed like an important clue the evans returned to the
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scene of the accident with sandy ferris the woman who had found russell there is blood on the shoelace now tell
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me how do you get blood on the shoelace if you're struck and driven out of your
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shoes and throwing 50 feet down the hill he was about right up there john and sue
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became convinced that their son had been struck by something other than a hit-and-run driver
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and they hired their own pathologists to investigate while he concluded that russell had been
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hit by a car he also found evidence of a struggle he's right about up in here this
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pathologist came back with the findings that russell had been in a physical altercation prior to his
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death if a body flies through the air when that body hits the pavement there would
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be some massive scraping russell did not have this well this isn't making a lot of sense
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i'll tell you based on their research russell's parents reconstructed their son's final
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moments i think it was a fight going back up the hill according to his hands he got his
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licks in he had finger bruises on his face on the side of the nose finger bruising on his upper fore upper
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arms as though he were being held the people that were allegedly involved in the argument with this friend of
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justice were polygraphed because other people were making allegations about them
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they passed a polygraph of flying cars when i first got there first thing i asked him
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was what happened and he started calling for brian hold me up brian help me out he said it more like a person was in
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listening distance that his friend should have been there uh like he thought his friend was close by
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after the police had gotten there and they started to put russell in the ambulance we saw a boy in white shorts
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up in the bushes and he was running up the hill and i tried to tell the policeman this a
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couple of times and he kept telling me to get on the sidewalk i thought maybe that probably could have
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been the boy that he was calling for brian one of russell's friends was named brian
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and i asked brian what he was wearing that night he said well i was wearing white white shorts and white t-shirt but
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i was nowhere around later down the line when the police questioned him he denied owning that
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kind of outfit we've asked for him and talked with everyone that we could possibly think of
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and our assumption is it was just somebody that was curious that heard the commotion that heard the sirens and went
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out to take a look when sue evans arrived at the hospital someone named brian had just called the
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emergency ward to ask about russell i don't want any information given out about him now someone by the name of
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brian's already called concerning his condition that's odd who would have known about
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this unless somebody named brian was at that scene that he was calling for there may be one or two that know
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more than they're telling and the reason they're probably not telling is that they are afraid for
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their lives evidence from the scene totally convinced russell's parents that he had
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been attacked and murdered the police still believe that russell was the victim of a hit and run driver
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however officially the case still remains unsolved if you have any information about the
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death of russell evans please log on to our website at unsolved.com when we come back two mysterious and
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violent deaths in the same family 20 years apart the small town of hooksett new hampshire
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like most of new england it springs to life when the winter snows have melted away long days and warmer temperatures
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promise better days to come [Music] but one year the retreating snow revealed the body of a missing teenager
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the second local girl to be found tortured and murdered one of the victims was a 15 year old
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high school student named pamela mason [Music] it was rumored that her killer lived in
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the area and neighbors began looking at each other with suspicion 47 year old rina paquette told her
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friends and family that she knew who had killed the two teenage girls at the time
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nobody took her seriously but 10 days after the second body was found rena's son 13 year old danny paquette
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mom came down for breakfast and found that his mother was gone to charlie this is danny speaking yeah i
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can't find my mom well she said she was gonna take me to dennis today when danny got up that morning he
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couldn't find my mother dan couldn't understand where she was because her purse and her winter coat
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were there and it was extremely bitterly cold and it was highly unlikely that she went anywhere without her coat
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charlie danny and his uncle searched the property for over an hour but rena was nowhere to be found
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[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] authorities recovered her charred body they concluded that she had deliberately
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set herself on fire reena's death was ruled a suicide however her family remains convinced
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that someone had killed her [Music] i don't really believe my mother committed suicide because of the
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tremendous amount of fear and panic in the community because of the two earlier brutal murders
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i think it was just kind of like kept on a very low profile not to create more public hysteria i feel at the time of my
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mother's death person that was found to be the person responsible for killing
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the young pamela mason girl was the same person that was responsible for my mother's death
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within weeks of rena's death a local man was arrested convicted and sentenced to
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life in prison for the murder of pamela mason nearly 20 years would pass before danny
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paquette discovered a possible link between the murder of his mother and the killing of the two girls
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it was danny paquette who had discovered his mother's charred body perhaps that's why of rina's five
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children danny was the most impacted by her death i think everybody's mom is a little
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security blanket and from there you lose that emotionally it leads to a lot of problems
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danny grew from a troubled teenager into a troubled adult i'm gonna take you back
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to february the third danny was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination at a mental
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hospital his treatment there led to some unexpected revelations about the past under hypnosis danny recalled details of
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the morning that his mother was killed i woke up because i heard it down [Music]
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danny became convinced that he had actually seen the person who had killed his mother
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he was certain it was the same delivery man who had murdered pamela mason but there was never any evidence to support
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his belief danny returned home after five months and tried to pick up the pieces of his
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life he and his brother victor spent many afternoons together motorcycling through
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the countryside if it was a real turning point for him we spent time together and
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we started to enjoy life one saturday morning danny was repairing a bulldozer in his yard while two of his
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friends worked on a car in the garage at 11 am danny's friends heard a loud pop
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[Applause] i ran up towards where danny was working it appeared to me that he'd been
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electrocuted we noticed the air escaping from a hole in the middle of his chest and i thought that it was a welding
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probe that he fell on when he hit the ground i the time i didn't know it was a bullet
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wound danny paquette had been shot through the heart with a single bullet he died
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instantly a surge of the area revealed about 50 to 80 yards away footprints heading toward the woods where it was
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coincidental or in fact someone's footprint that was fleeing the scene is speculative at this time
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local phone service had stopped at the same time that danny was killed and police later pulled a slug from the
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telephone line it was the bullet that killed danny paquette the day danny was shot was the beginning
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of hunting season and police thought that he might have been accidentally hit by a straight bullet
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we were able to ascertain that there were hunters in a gravel pit approximately a mile away that was
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sighting their weapons and at the time if danny was shot accidentally the fatal bullet may have come from this gravel
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pit for this to happen the bullet had to travel nearly a mile climb one thousand
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feet pass through danny and then penetrate the telephone cable ballistics expert rj gregorio was
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brought in from new york city to determine if such a shot was even possible greg leo's conclusion
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no way i would rule out the possibility that there was an accident that the gun was
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fired from a mile or more away rather it was a shot fired in the vicinity deliberately
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summoned had deliberately targeted danny and killed him with a single shot but who
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update 20 years after danny paquette was killed police arrested 38-year-old eric
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windhurst for the murder windhurst was a high school friend of danny's stepdaughter melanie cooper
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she claimed that danny had sexually abused her she later admitted that she was with wynhurst when he shot danny
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windhurst pleaded guilty and received the sentence of 15 to 36 years in prison he served his time and has been released
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for her role in the crime melanie cooper received the sentence of three to five years she has since been released
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the death of rina paquette is still classified as a suicide next when a woman in arizona disappears
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police suspect that her husband knows much more than he's saying peoria arizona is a comfortable suburb
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just outside of phoenix pam and rob page were among those who lived in peoria and by all accounts
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their marriage was solid one day however pam page disappeared without a trace rob would later explain that he came
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home to an empty house and a letter from pam rob by the time you read this i'll be a
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long way from here i have thought this thing out and i've been planning this
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for several months the letter said that pam had left town with a woman named sarah
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rob claimed that he was embarrassed because he thought that his wife had left him for another woman
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he did not notify pam's family in arkansas that she was gone four days later however pam's oldest
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sister trina i was calling to see how pam was doing she's gone what do you mean she's gone
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well i came home on saturday and and she left me a letter it seemed out of character to me uh for
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her not to let anyone know that where she was where she was at but i didn't think about that at first i
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just had one thing on mine was getting my word to somebody that she was missing the time you read this i will be a long
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way from here pam's father asked to see the letter and rob fax them a copy when i received that fax
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letter i knew that something was bad wrong one thing i looked at signature i had
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birthday cards and letters from pam and the the signature wasn't her signature
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rob told pam's family that a missing person's report had already been filed
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but when one of pam's sisters called the local police she discovered that they
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had never even heard of the case detectives began their investigation by questioning rob
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he told them that on the day of pam's disappearance he had gone to several auto park stores
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at one his truck wouldn't start rob said he called home and got no answer so he phoned for a taxi
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rob told police that he never went into the house only the garage he got a part for his truck and rode his bike back to
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the store when the truck finally started he drove home and that's when he found the letter
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the letter said that pam had taken all of their money sixty thousand dollars in cash out of
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the safe at the video store rob said he went to the store and confirmed that the
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cash was gone the letter also said that pam had left the couple's corvette at a local donut
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shop rob claimed that he found it the next day soon police began to question the
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details of rob's story none of the employees at the last auto parts store remembered rob asking about
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an ignition switch robert said that his truck which was very distinctive was parked at the store
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for nearly four hours that afternoon none of the employees ever recall seeing that truck being out from the store or
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anyone ever working on it and one particular employee stated if that truck had been out in front of his business he
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would have known it finally three weeks after pam disappeared the arizona state crime lab
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confirmed that the signature on the letter was almost certainly not dance mr page uh refused to believe me and was
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adamant that his wife had in fact signed the letter after continuing to question
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mr page about the signature on the letter he admitted to me that he in fact did sign that letter
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it was a stunning turnaround enough to make rob page a suspect suddenly he began to tell a completely
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different story now rob insisted that he had actually found the letter in the family computer
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a few days before pam disappeared mr page stated that while he was on the family's home computer he discovered a
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letter that he claims his wife had authored in which in essence that she was going to be leaving him
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i was working on the computer just now and i found something very interesting mr page stated um he confronted his wife
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about that letter i'm sorry you found this i wrote this a long time ago oh then you weren't planning to leave me
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huh no i wasn't i wrote this one i was upset well then you're not gonna take
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our money and run off why do you have to blow everything out of proportion according to rob's new story a few days
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after the confrontation he came home to find a house in a mess [Music] rob told police that most of pam's
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clothes were gone along with the family pictures and one of their dogs pam's credit cards and house keys were
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on the kitchen table but rob could not find her driver's license rob claims that after making these discoveries he
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decided to act he went downstairs and added four sentences to the letter in the computer
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printed it out and signed pam's name he then drove her corvette to the donut
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shop went to the pay phone across the street and called a taxi mr page stated that he fabricated some of the things he
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did because no one would ever believe him that his wife had in fact left him had
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he not done this due to mr page's inconsistent statements throughout this investigation as well as
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the suspicious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of his wife he was offered a polygraph examination on
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several occasions and he declined to take a polygraph on each occasion that it was offered
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despite the suspicions about rob page police found no evidence that he had done anything wrong except change his
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story no charges were filed and the investigation ground to a halt this is a picture of your sister pam as
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a last resort pam's sister jimmy rice consulted carol pate a psychic in little
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rock arkansas pate had worked with the little rock police for 10 years working only from a photo of pam the
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psychic recounted a disturbing scenario thank you i saw her with a man in what appeared to be her
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house and she was arguing with him he knocks her to the floor he's trying to strangle her
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he grabs a pillow and all of a sudden she's she's quiet [Music] then a female comes
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she assists him on placing her in the trunk now i'm seeing them pull out of the
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garage and they're driving then i'm seeing a factory and it's gray in color
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and there's a railroad track parallel then he pulls over on the side of the road
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and removes the body and begins to dig the name coolidge comes into my mind and two four one
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jana thorson an arizona newspaper reporter covering pam's disappearance followed up the clues
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thorson did find a gray factory building near some railroad tracks in peoria nearby she found a sign with the numbers
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2-4-1 a route that ran from bob and pam's house to the home of a friend passed
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both these sites and ended at a street named coolidge there is no way to evaluate carol pate's
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information until it is known whether pam page met with foul play or chose to disappear
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as for rob page he still insists that his wife is alive rob page declined our request for an
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interview and has since divorced his missing wife police say that he is no longer a
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suspect in this case and they still have no idea what happened to pam page pam has red hair and brown eyes and is
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five feet eight inches tall if you have any information about the disappearance of pam page please log on
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to our website at unsolved.com coming up how did sheldon weinberg manage to steal 16 million
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dollars from new york's medicaid program we recently profiled the disturbing
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story of a new york businessman named sheldon weinberg along with his two sons weinberg stole an estimated 16 million
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dollars of taxpayers money funds allocated to medical care for the poor sheldon weinberg and his sons operate at
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the bedstuy health clerk clinic in one of brooklyn new york's poorest neighborhoods they employed over 25
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physicians and catered primarily to medicaid recipients but their real specialty was fraud
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they were submitting up to thirty thousand dollars a week in false spellings to the government
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they began small manually writing up uh phony records and phony bills but once they started getting away with
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it they realized the scam was working the weinberg started using a computer to create bills and medical records for
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non-existent charges their profits soared from thousands to millions of dollars we bring these numbers up why not
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hey it looks good they used medicaid like it was a private bank account for them and from that bank account the
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weinberg's led the high life on the backs of poor people i think their appetite for
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conspicuous living for fancy clothes and especially shoes was only outdone by imelda marcos
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for seven years the money rolled in but the weinberg's elaborate scheme started to unravel when authorities
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investigated their billing practices auditors spent weeks carefully searching through the clinic's records and tracing
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the phony billings if you look at the medical charts you'll see that a four-year-old boy
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was uh shown as having smoked four packs of cigarettes a day and haven't drank a
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quarter of booze a day you found men with gynecological problems and that's the type of things that
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jumped out off the paper ratchet sheldon weinberg and his two sons ronald and jay were convicted of grand larceny
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conspiracy and 63 other counts relating to their fraud scheme ronald weinberg was sentenced to five to
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15 years in prison jay weinberg received an eight to 25 year sentence with additional time for
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tax evasion they served their time and have been released sheldon weinberg faced a 7 to 21-year
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prison term but just before sentencing he and his wife disappeared update within three hours of our broadcast
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sheldon weinberg was arrested by fbi agents in scottsdale arizona where he and his wife were living under assumed
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names right after the show aired we got specific information from callers who had seen them all over the scottsdale
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area and one of the callers told us that the weinbergs were using the alias davita
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and this corresponded with information we previously had back here in new york they were traveling under that name so
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when the caller told us that he had seen people that looked like the weinberg's using the name davida in
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scottsdale we knew we had our man weinberg was brought back to new york and three days later appeared before new
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york state supreme court justice ruth moskovitz who reimposed the seven to 21 years sentence
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i do not regard this as a white-collar crime this is a crime of violence to all of
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the people of new york city this is a crime of violence to the medicaid recipients
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medicaid state funds should not go so that people could live in trump towers so that people could live in luxury on
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florida estates authorities have recovered less than six million of the estimated 16
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million dollars that weinberg and his son stole from taxpayers after serving 16 years in a new york
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prison sheldon weinberg was released his son ronald has also been released and his son jay served its time and has
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been released you find yourself in a strange and alien place you scan your surroundings for clues
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even your own possessions are unrecognizable finally the terrifying realization you
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don't know where you are you don't even know who you are you are suffering from
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amnesia that's exactly what happened to a woman who one day woke up in a park
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in new orleans it's horrible and it's it's so sudden like you're not
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prepared for it you don't expect things like that to happen to you i didn't know
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what to do i know i had to go get help somewhere the woman thought her name might be gigi
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she carried a strange assortment of things four pairs of scissors a gold-plated table setting
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ups forms used only by company employees and deposit envelopes from banks across
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the northeastern united states she was also carrying 26 tubes of lipstick 24 lip liner pencils
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and lots of other cosmetics police reviewed hundreds of missing persons files doctors probed and tested even sodium
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amitav a so-called truth serum was given to gigi nothing worked her past remained a secret that no one
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could unlock she has made a conscious effort to assist me on every phase of trying to
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find out who she is through the law enforcement agencies through the media if she was in fact trying to
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conceal her identity she would not have signed the releases that allow us to do this
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doyle mcgee was puzzled by the total absence of anything personal in gigi's wallet or handbag he feared that this
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was no accident somebody has gone to great pains to make sure that we don't know who she is
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the wallets are fairly new they had absolutely nothing personal in them no personal photos no credit cards
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no checks what could have triggered gigi's amnesia experts believe that she experienced
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something so horrible that in her own defense her memory simply shut down update
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during the broadcast of this story several viewers called our phone center saying that they did recognize gigi
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she was identified as belinda lynn from wilmington delaware however none of the callers could tell us how she got to new
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orleans or why she lost her memory [Music] next the reunion of a young woman and
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her mother launches a new search for two long lost sisters in san francisco california
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jackie dragon grew up in a typical middle class home she knew she had been adopted but had no
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information about her birth parents but for some reason jackie had an extraordinary interest in films and
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television shows about women in prisons there was some strange sense of security
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that i felt in watching the stories and you know the women interacting in these in their lives in their relationships in
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prison at the age of 12 years old jackie made a surprising discovery i was sneaking around in my father's
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closet and looking through a box of papers and what i found were legal papers and
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as i read through them i realized they were my adoption papers jacqueline stark it was a big thing it was a turning
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point it was something that i knew from that point on that someday i would find those people in that paper
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i searched you know off and on for a number of years when i got the information that i wasn't born in some
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hospital somewhere but that i was born in prison [Music] jackie learned that she was born at a
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women's prison in chicago her mother marge ryder was serving a one-year sentence for her part in an
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armed robbery after more than nine years of searching jackie finally located her birth mother
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hi may i speak with marge ryder please speaking and what i realized was that in a way
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i was setting myself up to feel rejected all over again does the date february 16th 1964 mean
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anything to you what did you say your name was again well my name is jackie i can't believe you're calling me
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not for a second did she hesitate she was happy that i called and i felt so relieved and so lucky
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well do you have time to talk right now i've got all the time in the world to
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talk now yes marge talked about the agonizing decision to give jackie up for adoption
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i convinced myself that the best thing to do for jackie was to give her a home that i assumed
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had two upstanding parents that there was security in that home that she could be
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guaranteed an education all the things that i knew at that time in my life there was no way i could possibly give
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her any of that after she had left they came and told me that jackie had gone to her new home in some other state
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and it hurt same as it's certain now that's one memory i didn't lose
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a few weeks after saying goodbye to jackie marge completed her sentence and was released she never again got in
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trouble with the law she married and lived a conventional life but when she talked to jackie years
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later marge did have some dramatic news one of the first things she said was i never thought any of you girls would be
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calling me and then she let me know that there were two other sisters it was very exciting i couldn't believe
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it was like there's more you're kidding there's something more that i didn't
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know marge's first daughter laura may was just 18 months old when marge went to
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prison she was left in the care of marge's grandmother the courts just stepped in because she
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was too old a woman to raise a infant child and i think i think they lost her as
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well as i did laura may was ultimately taken by the cook county welfare department and
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became a ward of the state marge never saw laura may again after her prison term marge gave birth
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to a third daughter dawn marie she too was given up for adoption i had often gone over in my mind what if they come
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looking for me i felt i was giving each child the very best that i could give them
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[Music] marge ryder flew to california and met her daughter jackie for the first time
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[Music] this is laura may and this is you of course wow you can definitely tell it's family
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she really looks the same look at all those knees i guess thanks to our viewers jackie dragon and
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marge rider's dreams of reuniting their family finally came true after we first broadcast the story they
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were contacted by laura may now called susan and by dawn marie whose adoptive name is carlin
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three months later they all got together at jackie's home in glendale california
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hi susan oh it's good to meet you i think when i first started feeling really comfortable is when we went out
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and took some polaroids it's a very once in a lifetime kind of a thing to find
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a sister that you've never met everybody smile each one is totally individual
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they're all strong i've found out [Music] and they've done good with their lives
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i'm probably [Music] [Music] you