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[Music] tonight on unsolved mysteries dr michael swango's career began with great promise only to be derailed by
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allegations of poisoning and murder what happened to michael swango did an angel of mercy choose to become
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an angel of death some 30 years have passed as a young woman from texas and a jordanian airman
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fell in love only to be torn apart by the uncertainties of war now a heartbroken father needs your help
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to find the son he has never met little logan carroll was born with no heartbeat and no vital signs doctors
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could do nothing to save him but as logan's family gathered to grieve something truly extraordinary happened
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something that can only be called a miracle join me perhaps you hold the key perhaps you may be able to solve one of
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tonight's unsolved mysteries [Music] february 7th 1984 columbus ohio an intern at the state university
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hospital checked on a 69 year old woman recovering from routine back surgery no one knows why dr michael swango was
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in the room perhaps just to say hello when he left rena cooper seemed to be doing fine
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[Music] [Music] let's check as she was being stabilized rena struggled to tell the doctors what
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happened she wrote the doctor put something in my iv that was dr when i was over there i was
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taking some notes while this is going on we know that another nurse decided to walk down the hall to calm
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the other patients since there was a great deal of commotion and four rooms down within minutes sees dr swango
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exiting another room with a very funny grin on his face and those are her words not mine the nurse goes into that room
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and finds a large hypodermic needle with the plunger down sitting on the sink which is not very unusual you wouldn't
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expect that in a hospital hypodermics aren't left lying around oh mike good glad you're here
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i need to talk to you for a second three different doctors confronted michael swango about what had happened in rena
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cooper's room swango allegedly told three different stories at one point he claimed he had never
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even been in the room just kind of surgery it's coming for patients just out of surgery to be delusional
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most of us tend to hold doctors to a higher standard and perhaps that's fair
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after all we are sometimes compelled to trust them implicitly depending on their
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knowledge and expertise to save our lives did michael swango betray that trust for
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his own sadistic pleasure if you ask swango he'd probably tell you he was a victim of bad luck and
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circumstance but unfortunately the question cannot be posed no one can find michael swango
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michael swango came to ohio as a recent graduate of the medical school at southern illinois university
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he projected charm and confidence despite a lackluster med school record it came back normal normal michael
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swango became more and more withdrawn as he proceeded through his college classes
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and eventually got into medical school and though academically he did very well the more the classes became advanced and
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the more he needed to do hands-on patient work the more he pulled away from that to the point where he was um
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held back a year take a look at one of these appraisals and you can see what i'm talking about
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swango's poor performance continued through the first six months of his internship
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dr swango the end result is unless you have a significant improvement you will not be allowed to take sam you may not
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recommend me for residency i've been working my entire life to be a doctor swango's lifelong goal was now
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jeopardized it could mean he would never become a full-fledged doctor [Music] it was shortly after swangy was put on
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probation that rina cooper suffered her mysterious seizure it was one of a series of puzzling
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events at the hospital that spring rina cooper survived but at least five other patients died
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the five mysterious respiratory arrests in the last month the neurosurgery wing has caused quite an alarm among all of
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us i'm aware of that i've decided to see if there's some sort of pattern to this situation and i've
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developed a chart the upshot of it is that uh whenever these incidents occurred uh swango is always there
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a black cloud seems to follow michael swango wherever swango was there was an unexplained respiratory arrest and it
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didn't happen once or twice it happened five six seven times though some evidence appeared to point
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to swango hospital officials chose not to call the police they decided to watch him closely and
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quietly wait out the last months of his internship i think the kid was great i think i was
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better but i think chicken food thank you thank you so much swango did not appear disturbed by the
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hospital's decision to let him go or the whispered allegations against him in fact on several occasions during the
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last months of his internship he treated staff members to what he called extra spicy chicken
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you weren't kidding that really is spicy we know that from interviews with three
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doctors they became violently ill within hours of eating the spicy chicken so ill
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in fact that they needed treatment for their eyes from ruptured blood vessels from the vomiting
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michael swango left osu hospital in june of 1984 without being formally investigated
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no charges have ever been filed one month later swango had a new job not as a doctor but as a paramedic
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on september 14th he brought donuts for the whole crew i grabbed a donut started eating the
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donut but i noticed there was something different about the donut it didn't spring back up like most donuts do
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you already know 45 minutes later brent and several others became very ill they wanted to test the leftover donuts
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but they had disappeared only an empty box remained no one had any suspicions of mike at all
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at that time they figured that that was food poisoning since the donuts were gone and they couldn't analyze it they
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just more or less thought that that's what it was and let it go by that well the next night i worked with mike
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at a football game a local football game at halftime he offered to buy me a soda
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i started sipping the soda at halftime and about the start of the third quarter i
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became deathly sick yet another mysterious illness made swango's co-workers increasingly
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suspicious they also couldn't help noticing swango's grisly fascination with
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accidents and death the gorier the better is she breathing he would describe his ultimate calls as
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a paramedic and that would be a busload of children hitting head on with the tanker truck
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and igniting and as he's approaching the scene he would see charred bodies out of
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the out of the windows of the buses bodies that are up up against the barbed wire fins caught in the car caught in
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the barbed wire fences i mean this is to me i thought was really strange just you know to want to see death
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no no just stay calm man finally the paramedics decided to fake a call to get swango out of the building
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they wanted him away long enough to search his locker in michael swango's gym bag his
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co-workers found two bottles of ant poison one full one empty poison michael swango
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yes i am detective reynolds these are officers dewitt rogers we have a warrant search premises paul wants to start a
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living in swango's apartment police discovered more incriminating evidence dozens of bottles of poisons books on
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poisons recipe cars for making poisons and an assortment of syringes one syringe was full of ant poison
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the evidence was overwhelming swanger was convicted of six counts of aggravated battery and sentenced to five
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years in prison after serving half his sentence he was given time off for good behavior
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amazingly swango again found work in the healthcare field he was apparently able
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to convince employers that he had been the victim of a miscarriage of justice in newport news virginia he turned up at
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a medical vocational school there three of his colleagues reportedly fell ill swango then talked his way into the
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university of south dakota hospital again he was shadowed by his past and dismissed
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finally in august of 1993 swango resurfaced to stony brook university in new york he was assigned to a veterans
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administration hospital on long island while there he changed his name to michael kirk
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he was accepted into the stony brook program and they never bothered to check him with a central registry for medical
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residents which apparently had a file that was an inch thick on him there were 180 people who applied for 12 slots
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and he managed to get one of those 12 slots despite these clouds of questionable activity
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that followed him in at least four states on september 29 1993 michael swango's
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path crossed out of lc and baron harris baron harris was a 60 year old cabinet maker from long island hi mr harris he
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had a fever of 104 degrees and a slight case of pneumonia i'm going home tomorrow well we'll see
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if we can't accommodate you my first impressions of dr kirk he seemed very professional he seemed to be very
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concerned he seemed to know what he was doing a very pleasant man okay if you say so okay all right yes he
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will okay thank you see you in the morning yes swango told elsie to go home there was nothing more she could do i'll
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see you in the morning sweetheart don't you forget to come back and get me no
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you'll be all right i love you love you too elsie harris claims that sometime during
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the night dr michael swango alias michael kirk gave her husband a sedative by the next morning baron had been moved
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to intensive care he had lapsed into a coma doesn't make any sense to me he was coughing he had a little fever i
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don't get it i don't understand mrs harris sometimes people have allergic
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reactions to certain drugs now that may have happened in your husband's case why
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a coma i just hope it wasn't anything that we did he had a very smirky attitude
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like a half cocked smile on his face like a little kid with his hand in the cookie
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jars this is what he reminded me of even though he had a terrific bedside manner
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he there was just something sneaky about him once the uh story hit the wires and uh
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reporters started uh converging on the northport va hospital and on his dorm room he very hastily
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packed up and disappeared before michael swango vanished elsie harris says he told her that baron would
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never come out of his coma swango apparently knew what he was talking about baron harris died on november 9th 1993.
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wherever michael swango is today authorities believe that he is most likely working in the medical field
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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] every parent hears of these stories that
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it's your worst nightmare it's worse than that the person that hurt amy and took amy
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has no idea what they've done i mean she was such an integral vital part of life
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that um it's very hard very very hard i guess the biggest question in anybody's mind is why did the person
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choose amy [Music] she had no enemies no secret habits no taste for danger she was a world-class athlete who kept
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her mind focused and her body primed there was no reason for her to die the circumstances of amy willard's death
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would lead some to conclude that the killer was well-versed in police procedure during the investigation three men with
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just such knowledge came forward to offer eyewitness accounts each reportedly placed himself at the
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crime scene it each told a different story some believe all three were merely publicity seekers
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but until a suspect is actually charged with amy's murder their true motives
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will remain the subject of intense scrutiny [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
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[Music] in 1992 george mason university in fairfax virginia offered amy a full athletic scholarship
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[Music] by her junior year amy was ranked among the top 25 female lacrosse players in
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the united states [Music] she had talent and she loved it aim always said whether they won or lost she
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had a good day she played well the team did well she felt good it didn't matter
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what the outcome was like they didn't have to win all the time as long as everybody enjoyed what they were doing
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as much as she did in june of 1996 amy returned to her home in philadelphia for the summer
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she enrolled in classes at a local school on wednesday night june 19th amy met up
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with friends at smokey joe's tavern a well-known college hangout she stayed for about three hours
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yeah i've gone on a couple of dates lately but you know nothing serious really
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amy's friends say that she drank less than one beer and left the bar before they did somewhere between 1 30 and 1 40
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a.m bye guys at 203 am amy's car was discovered by off-duty paramedics it was parked on the
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shoulder of a highway transition road engine running headlights ablaze car radio plane
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amy however was gone and fresh blood stains on the pavement suggested that she hadn't gone willingly
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within the hour state police would be scouring the area for clues they found some blood along the right
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side of the car on the guard rail they found a palm print on the car and the next morning about 10 a.m at the
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top of the ramp they found her underwear and her tennis shoes with daylight the search had expanded to
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include helicopters canine teams and legions of volunteers around noon as police were searching for
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amy willard's body essentially police say a guy showed up at the ramp and told them he had been on the ramp
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the night before and had seen a car you were out here last night yeah i was driving by and i saw the car
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did you see anyone near the car no i just saw the car they took his name and an address and said they'd get back
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in touch with him and in the interim they checked him out and found out that he used to work in the area of 16th and
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indiana where amy's body was found amy's unclothed body was found the afternoon of her disappearance by
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children playing in a vacant lot in philadelphia she had been dumped 20 miles from her
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car and five blocks from where the young man had once worked there was no conclusive evidence of
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sexual assault three momentous blows to the head had crushed amy's skull the investigation quickly focused on the
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would-be eyewitness initially he willingly answered questions and cooperated with the
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authorities police searched his car and they found handcuffs they found a flashlight that
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is the type used by police and when they searched his house they found some police paraphernalia and they
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also found a magazine that you could be used to order police equipment [Music] prior to the search authorities learned
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that the young man had once been charged with impersonating a police officer without warning he stopped cooperating
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then he lawyered up he says through his lawyer he didn't do it but he also denies coming to the ramp
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that day and police are steadfast saying he did come to the ramp the now reluctant eyewitness remains a
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potential suspect but police have been unable to find any evidence that links him directly to the murder
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meanwhile a second witness had come forward to say that he too was on the highway transition road the night amy
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was abducted an off-duty pennsylvania state trooper who has since resigned claimed that not
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only had he seen the car but he has spoken to a uniform policeman sitting in a squad car parked behind it
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the police are very adamant that this trooper was elsewhere when he said he was on the ramp but the trooper is just
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as adamant that he saw what he saw and he has always stood by his story that he saw this cop car behind amy's
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in a stunning turn around one week later newspapers reported that a local policeman did come forward to admit he
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had been at amy's car are you okay here yeah i already called the local pd they're on their way
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however the officer made no mention of the state trooper though he did say that he had talked to the ambulance driver on
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the scene [Music] the police re-interviewed the ambulance crew and they said that absolutely they
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had not talked to this officer that night he agreed to resign from the force and
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cooperate fully with them and in exchange he would not be prosecuted for lying to them
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well one alleged police impersonator and two bona fide officers was there an ounce of truth in anything
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they said each had reportedly thrust himself into the limelight with an eyewitness account
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each in turn was questioned as a potential suspect there are a lot of coincidences here on
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the first suspect worked in the area of where amy's body was found the trooper
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lived around the corner very near where amy lived with her mom the the officer used to take his drunk
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drivers for blood tests to the hospital where amy's mom works are they coincidences or are they all
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linked i mean that's for the police to find out to date authorities have not amassed
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enough proof to charge anyone with a crime however some of the evidence does suggest that whoever killed amy willard
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approached her under the guise of authority [Music] a woman like amy according to her family
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would not have stopped for just anyone it's nearly 2 am in the morning she's in
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a car she's alone so a police impersonator or police officer seems to be the most likely
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reason she would have pulled over take a step out of the car please i don't understand what they're doing
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i don't understand what the problem is listen on the road i think amy realized she was in trouble
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and was on a run and took off and that she was moving they hit her and aim was gone that's what i would like to think
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happened that she only had fear for a couple seconds and that she didn't know anything else that
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happened to her we loved amy we loved her more than anything in this world and we are
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thankful to god for giving her to us and the way that he chose to end her life that's something that we try to deal
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with but we're not going to dwell on our job is making sure that amy is remembered for the wonderful person that
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she was instead of the way that her life was ended that's for the police to handle
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amy willard was last seen alive at smokey joe's tavern in wayne pennsylvania just outside philadelphia
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on june 20th 1996 around 1 30 a.m amy's car was found here on the transition road leading from interstate
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476 to route 1. amy willard's body was discovered in this vacant lot at 16th in indiana in
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north philadelphia [Music] [Music] in a moment the tragic death of an infant is followed by a miraculous rebirth
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[Music] perhaps the only time we welcome a visit to the hospital is for the birth of a
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child but even this special moment can be marred by sudden disaster just ask an indiana couple named todd
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and tammy carroll their second child megan was still born after an eight-month pregnancy
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naturally megan was very much on their minds when the carols arrived at the hospital for the birth of their third
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child the son named logan they had no idea how close they would come to another tragedy
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this is my sister ruthie she's going to be with us today hi ruthie nice to meet
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you nice to meet you well tammy everything looks great after we lost megan i was real anxious
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it was real stressful um i was worried is anything going to be wrong with this baby is you know everything going to be
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all right and after the ultrasound and everything looked good on it and then we ran some other tests that looked fine
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that eased my mind i really tried to look at it as a separate incident okay here comes the next one
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tammy's obstetrician dr diana oaken induced labor at around 8 45 a.m the contractions grew stronger and more
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frequent through the day the baby's vital signs were consistently stable and positive
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4 30 p.m birth was imminent tammy's sister ruthie stationed herself near the fetal heartbeat monitor
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the red numbers showed a normal rate 120 to 140 beats per minute another deep breath
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and push while tammy was pushing trying to push the baby out i noticed that the heart monitor like would drop way down
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and that really kind of alarmed me and they had her take some slow breaths and it recovered back up
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one more push deep breath and push 4 42 p.m at the moment logan carroll was born his
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heart rate plunged to zero a fragile life in mortal danger i knew something was wrong as soon as he
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delivered because he didn't have any tone when i felt his umbilical cord i didn't feel any pulse at all
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and that's when we started cpr why isn't he crying why's he crying relax it's all right
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[Music] call a code [Music] for 15 minutes the emergency team tried desperately to revive logan
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[Music] 4 57 dr mary valentine the carol's pediatrician joined the emergency team
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what's the history here an eventful pregnancy we lost the heart rate immediately before delivery logan still
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had no vital signs no heartbeat no breathing no heart rate [Music] stop compression
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no heart rate flat line continue resuscitation we continued doing cpr throughout that
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time again with no response for approximately another 15 minutes after my arrival
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and i began inserting a line into his umbilical cord to try to administer some drugs to help revive him
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they had put ekg monitor on him and the tracing was not showing any electrical activity so i
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i knew oh it didn't look good at all well i was still hoping but that he was there so long
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i don't know how many five or six doctors there working on him at one time trying to
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do get him revive and he still ain't doing nothing i i just couldn't lose
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this baby i just could not believe this could happen again at some point you know you always have
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to just say we've done what we can do this baby is not going to respond and we finally called it and pronounced him
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dead at that time i'm sorry i don't think there's any lower feeling than holding
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your dead child it's supposed to be such a time of joy and renewed life giving birth that when they
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they hand you this child that's no longer living i just can't begin to tell you how low
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that that feeling is and sitting there holding him and looking in his face i just i just wanted him to be alive so
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bad logan james carroll was officially pronounced dead at 5 15 pm he was 33 minutes old
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in accordance with hospital policy the carols were allowed time to say their goodbyes
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swaddled in a blanket logan was cradled by each grieving family member in the midst of their anguish tammy and
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todd agreed to an autopsy hoping for some explanation [Music] tammy todd i don't mean to sound crass or anything
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but we usually take pictures of the baby for the family you never know how people are going to
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take that when you come in and say i'd like to take pictures of you and the baby but they were very receptive
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because they said they didn't get enough pictures the last time that this had
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happened to them these photos were taken that afternoon stark portraits meant to commemorate the
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end of a young life instead they would mark the beginning of a miracle what was that what was what he just made
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a noise that was just a reflex action tammy are you sure i'm sorry while i was
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holding logan he made the gasping sound it was a very eerie feeling but we had been told that that was normal
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it is called agonal gasping and it can happen because of the medication it can go on for quite a while so i
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wanted to let them know because every time he would do that he did a couple times for tammy
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they would they would just their eyes would light up and then they would be really let down when he wouldn't do it
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again as the minutes went by i was slowly becoming unaware of what even was going
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on in the room i just wanted to completely detach myself and float away somewhere and be somewhere where it
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wasn't hurting so bad i wanted to get away from the pain some 40 minutes had passed since logan
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was pronounced dead a time for his autopsy was close at hand however as tammy's stepmother held the
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infant she was beginning to think that an autopsy would not be such a good idea this color looks so good ruthie's
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getting warmer bailey i'll get the nurse just look [Music] i'll be right back
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what's going on ruthie there's no reason for this to happen dr o'conn i
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understand about agonal breathing but is there such a thing as an agonal heart rate susan he has a heart rate please
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come and take a look at him i thought she was nuts you know if you keep this up you're going to give me a
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heart attack i just i think i was afraid that she was reacting in a way that was going to
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upset the family even more because i mean the baby was dead [Music] [Music] this baby's alive let's get him nursery
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what it was total unbelief and i wanted to touch him i can't i had an uncontrollable urge i needed to touch
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him and i don't know how soon it was but it was real soon they came in took my iv out
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and i had monitors on me and i had a blood pressure cuff i mean they were taking wires and just pulling them off
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of me and put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me into the nursery and i reached in and i held his arm and i i
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was talking to him telling him that he had to hang in there and that i loved him and that i was proud of him for
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being so strong i was still in a different type of shock because it was so unbelievable
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[Music] unbelievable indeed at least six physicians and eight registered nurses all certain that logan
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carroll had died high-tech meters and monitors had confirmed that judgment i figured god's hand hadn't been in it
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but that's not in the medical literature to account for the miraculous as an
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explanation but um yeah it's amazing i mean we're all trained to do something as doctors and here we did
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nothing and he came back words spread through the hospital very quickly you know people from the lab
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people from other nursing units came up just to look at him to say that they could have seen this miracle baby it was
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it was incredible the emergency room doctor came up and was totally amazed it was
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it was something you know something logan's metamorphosis from the lifeless infant in this photo the squirming
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marvel videotaped just one day later was simply astonishing he would remain in the hospital for the
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next five weeks his vital signs never faltered though logan remains healthy doctors
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fear he may have sustained some degree of permanent neurological damage during the time he had no oxygen
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only time will tell [Music] my feelings for him will stay the same whether he has an iq of 180 or 50. he's
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here he's alive i've held the alternative and holding him no matter how he's going to develop in
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the future we try to live for today and we're keeping [Music] it is impossible for most of us to fully
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appreciate the carroll family's experience today logan's extraordinary revival
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continues to baffle any expert who studies the case however those who were in the delivery room that day when
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despair turned to wonder are certain that they witnessed nothing less than a modern day miracle
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next a poignant tale of love denied and a son lost [Music] you're about to meet a man named fawzi
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mahmud almost 30 years ago a single moment changed his life forever it was the spring of 1967 in san antonio
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texas the event nothing less than love at first sight [Music] fauzi mahmoud was a trainee in the
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jordanian air force he was in the united states to learn american flying techniques he was not interested in
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anything else or so he thought how are you doing do you remember barbara hi hello
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her name was zoyla maldonado she was just 20 years old in fauzi's eyes she was dazzling
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what i mean she looked so beautiful to me and she got this green dress and just she was a knockout and i was
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knocked out i fell in love with her i mean i felt madly in love with her this is beautiful
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it is pretty i like it like you very beautiful for both fawzi and zoiler this was her
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first taste of true love but for fawzi it was also much more i liked that [Music]
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actually zoella was not only the first love it was the first woman i ever talked to in my life because we came
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from a very very strict family and strict people and a strict government you know
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but she was my first ever thing oh mom he's waiting zoila's parents were very conservative
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and she was their only child they did not like the idea of zoyla dating anyone the fact that fauzi was a foreigner who
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spoke little english did not help he's a nice boy well what does it matter and i guess
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even though her parents were conservative and strict we managed to go out almost daily
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we went dancing we went to the lake we went to the mountains we went everywhere together
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six months later zoil and fauzi found themselves at a turning point [Music] bowsey i think i'm pregnant
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to zoyla's great relief fauzi was ecstatic you are yes i want to marry you [Music]
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but the marriage would never take place several months earlier the six-day war had erupted between jordan and israel
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tension between the two countries remained high in late november 1967 fousey was ordered
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home i back i promise rosie we talked and we promised and we vowed that we will always be together no
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matter what happens when i come back i can't raise baby by myself i can't you and baby come to jordan i
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just felt so helpless i come back very soon come on kids we need to get going i felt my life should be like that i
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mean we're having so good time together we're happy why the happiness have to go
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[Applause] [Music] [Music] sometimes i miss you so much i think i'll go crazy but then i receive your
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letters and i feel better zoiling files he continued the love affair by letter the jordanian air force refused to
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release fawzi so zoyla planned to go to jordan please take care of yourself and stay
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safe i will close now i'm tired but the baby's fine it still kicks all the time if he's a
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boy he'll probably be a football player in late june 1968 zarla gave birth to a
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healthy baby boy she named him amadeo marcelo i mean i was thrilled i was very happy i
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was jumping but i also was very unpleased because of the fact that i cannot be there to see him and be with
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her and be of help to her i was very frustrated even on duty fauzi's thoughts were with
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zoyla and his infant son he could not wait to bring his new family to jordan zoyla kept writing to fawzi but the tone
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of her letters soon changed pozzi i'm writing to say i'm sorry to hear of your problem
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i want us together more than ever i will always believe my love is strong but the war
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i refuse to take that chance with marcelo's life zoyla made a difficult decision
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she needed a father for her baby she wrote fousey that she had married someone else
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fawzi could not bring himself to right to zoyla again but he could never forget his son
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in 1970 fawzi returned to the united states he claims he tried to call zoyler by
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phone but her mother hung up on it then had the number changed she apparently blamed fauzi for her
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daughter's out of wedlock child and was understandably upset to hear from him
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again in desperation fauzi went to zoiler's house hello i like cinzoyla please nobody wants to
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talk to you my son i like seeing my son you ruined my daughter's life no no i love your daughter you know what
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you are three years too late [Applause] if you don't get out of here i'm gonna
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call the police no please wait i just want to see my son please wait fauzi had no choice
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he could not risk being arrested and possibly deported that moment was as close as fauzi
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mahmoud has ever gotten to meeting his son today fauzi lives in enid oklahoma with
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his wife robin they have a young son and fauzi has three grown children from a previous marriage
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but thoughts of his firstborn still haught him there is one thing missing all the time
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i would like to see my son i would like to see how he looks like i want to hug him i want to tell him i love him
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i mean there's a lot of things that we did not do together maybe we can do it
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now even at this age [Music] do [Music] join me again next week perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery
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