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Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode

March 16, 2022 / 42:57

This episode of Unsolved Mysteries covers five cases: the mysterious death of teenager Russell Evans in Spokane, Washington; the deaths of Rina Paquette and her son Danny in Hooksett, New Hampshire; the disappearance of Pam Page in Peoria, Arizona; and the Medicaid fraud scheme by Sheldon Weinberg and his sons in New York.

The first case discusses the tragic death of 13-year-old Russell Evans, who was found injured on a road. His parents believe he was murdered, while police suspect a hit-and-run. Evidence, such as missing shoelaces and signs of a struggle, leads to conflicting theories about his death.

The second case involves Rina Paquette, who died under mysterious circumstances, ruled a suicide, but her family suspects foul play due to her connection to the earlier murder of teenager Pamela Mason. Rina's son Danny later died in a suspicious shooting, raising further questions about the family's tragedies.

The third case focuses on Pam Page, who vanished without a trace. Her husband Rob's inconsistent stories and a suspicious letter claiming she left him for another woman raise doubts about his involvement in her disappearance.

Lastly, the episode details the fraudulent activities of Sheldon Weinberg and his sons, who stole millions from Medicaid. After their arrest, Sheldon disappeared but was later apprehended. The episode highlights the impact of their crimes on the community.

TLDR

Five mysterious cases include a teenager's death, family tragedies, a woman's disappearance, and a Medicaid fraud scheme.

Episode

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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
00:37:06
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
00:37:24
i searched you know off and on for a number of years when i got the information that i wasn't born in some
00:37:31
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
00:37:50
armed robbery after more than nine years of searching jackie finally located her birth mother
00:38:01
hi may i speak with marge ryder please speaking and what i realized was that in a way
00:38:07
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
00:38:52
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
00:41:17
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

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Episode Highlights

  • The Mysterious Death of Russell Evans
    A popular teenager is found fatally injured on a lonely road, raising questions about a hit-and-run or murder.
    “What really happened to Pam Page?”
    @ 00m 37s
    March 16, 2022
  • Rina Paquette's Death
    Rina Paquette's death is ruled a suicide, but her family believes otherwise.
    “I don’t really believe my mother committed suicide.”
    @ 12m 43s
    March 16, 2022
  • The Disappearance of Pam Page
    Pam Page disappears without a trace, leaving behind a suspicious letter.
    “What do you mean she’s gone?”
    @ 20m 12s
    March 16, 2022
  • Psychic's Disturbing Vision
    A psychic reveals a shocking vision of Pam's fate, suggesting foul play.
    “I saw her with a man in her house.”
    @ 25m 50s
    March 16, 2022
  • Judge's Strong Statement
    The judge emphasizes the violent nature of the crime against Medicaid recipients.
    “This is a crime of violence to all the people of New York City.”
    @ 32m 18s
    March 16, 2022
  • Jackie's Emotional Reunion
    Jackie discovers she has two sisters after reuniting with her birth mother.
    “There’s more! You’re kidding!”
    @ 39m 57s
    March 16, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • I just knew he wasn’t gonna make it.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode
  • I don’t really believe my mother committed suicide.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode
  • I saw her with a man in her house.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode
  • This is a crime of violence to all the people of New York City.
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode
  • I can’t believe you’re calling me!
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode
  • There’s more! You’re kidding!
    Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 6, Episode 10 - Updated Full Episode

Key Moments

  • Unsolved Mysteries00:04
  • Teenager Found00:10
  • Family Tragedy00:20
  • Suspicious Letter19:30
  • Psychic Consultation25:34
  • Body Discovery26:40
  • Fraud Scheme Unraveled30:07
  • Amnesia Case33:23

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