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[Music] this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have participated in recreating the events what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast [Music] in new hampshire freak accidents take the lives of a mother and her son 25
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years apart some believe that rena and danny paquette were in reality murdered because he had seen the face of the same
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killer in aurora illinois lavelda richmond was injured in a car crash on a lonely
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country road simultaneously her identical twin sister lavona claims that she saw the accident
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from her living room 20 miles away could this be a case of esp between identical twins
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and fbi director william sessions will announce the latest addition to the fbi's 10 most wanted list perhaps you
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can help track down a serial child molester also we have a heartwarming update from
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our story of a tennessee adoption home which abducted children and sold them to wealthy clients
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after our broadcast one of those orphans was reunited with her two brothers after
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a 30-year separation you can share in their joyous reunion tonight on unsolved mysteries
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] thirty years ago hooksett new hampshire was home to 2500 people and many of them
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farmers the surrounding woods concealed an abundant population of deer that attracted hutters from all over new
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england but by the winter of 1964 a hunter of a different kind had arrived in the area
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two teenage girls had been found murdered after having first been tortured the second victim was a 15 year old high
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school sophomore named pamela mason it was thought that her killer lived in the area a neighbor regarded neighbor
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with suspicion one area resident had good reason to be frightened forty-seven-year-old rina paquette told
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her friends and family that she believed she knew who had killed the two teenage
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girls at the time nobody took her seriously february 3rd 1964 rena's son 13 year old
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danny paquette had the day off from school mom danny and reina were alone at the family
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farm but when the boy came down for breakfast his mother was gone uncle 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 the dentist today when danny got up that morning i
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couldn't find my mother all right bye dan couldn't understand where she was
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because her purse and her winter coat were there and it was extremely bitterly cold and it was highly unlikely
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that she went anywhere without her coat or her purse she's not in there until charlie let's
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try the big barn danny's uncle immediately came over to help look for rena though the two
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searched for over an hour arena was nowhere to be found [Music] smoke [Music] rina mom was dead
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her charred body was found in the paquette barn one mile from the family home police concluded that she had somehow
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set herself on fire and then crawled into the barn to die however no flammable substances or
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containers were found near the area though where death was ruled as suicide her other son victor believes that she
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was murdered 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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that uh i think it was just kind of like kept on a very low profile not to create more
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public hysteria i feel at the time of my mother's death the person that was found
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to be the person responsible for killing the young pamela mason girl was the same
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person that was responsible for my mother's stuff in february of 1964 a local delivery man
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was arrested convicted and sentenced a life in prison for the murder of pamela mason
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at long last the nightmare seemed over but 20 years later reena's son danny was
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also found dead gunned down in front of his house there are those who believe that danny
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and his mother both died for the same reason they knew too much lorena paquette left behind five
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children her son danny seemed the most affected by her death his brother victor became his closest
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friend mom being killed was very traumatic for danny 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 adolescent into a troubled adult he married became a father but then divorced in 1981.
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in a bitter legal battle danny lost custody of his children [Music] i believe that danny loved his children
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more than anything i'm sure that danny was extremely upset angered at the thought of losing
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his children it would of course mean to to him another loss in the summer of 1983 frustrated by not
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being allowed to see his children danny went to his former wife's home steve
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dude open the door what are you doing here dee i want to see the kids i haven't seen him in a month now open the
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door to see the kids you're not even supposed to be around here dee i'm telling you if i have to come through
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this plate glass door i want to see my kid after this frightening outburst danny's
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former wife called police they took him into custody i'm gonna take you back
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to february the 3rd 1964. danny was ordered to undergo psychiatric examination at concord state
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mental hospital it was during this time that the tragedy from his past began to catch up with his present
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under hypnosis danny began to recall details of the morning that his mother was killed i remember i
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i woke up because i heard down [Music] i [Music] a man's voice [Music] and i remember i went back to my room i
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was i was scared danny became convinced that he had seen his mother's murder
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he told friends that he was certain that the killer was a same delivery man imprisoned for the murder of pamela
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mason however there has never been any evidence to support this belief how's things going here anyway
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during this troubled time dany's brother would visit every day and when danny was
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released after five months he found that victor had paid all of his bills mailed out
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after danny went home he tried to pick up the pieces of his life he and victor would spend many afternoons together
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motorcycling through the countryside we spent time together and we started to uh enjoy life it was a real turning
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point for him [Music] saturday morning november 9 1985 danny was repairing a bulldozer while
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two of his friends worked on a car in the garage [Music] at 11 am danny's friends heard a loud
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pop [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 i'm just looking around something wrong danny paquetted and shot through the heart with a single bullet
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he died instantly after police arrived they discovered footprints behind danny's house where
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the bullet may have come from the distance between the individual footprints raised the possibility that
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someone had been running from the scene search of the area revealed about 50 to 80 yards away uh footprints
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heading toward the woods whether it was coincidental or in fact someone's footprint that was fleeing the
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scene is speculative at this time telephone service had been interrupted at about the time danny was shot their
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linemen had discovered a projectile in the telephone cable we did recover a bullet from it that was
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in line with danny's position investigators determined that the bullet in the telephone line was the same one
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that had killed danny the day of dany's death was also the beginning of hunting season and police
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began to theorize that he had been shot accidentally in order to test this theory they tried
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to pinpoint the location of the gunman we were able to ascertain that there were hunters in a gravel pit
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approximately a mile away that was sighting their weapons and at the time [Music]
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if danny was shot accidentally the fatal bullet may have come from this gravel pit
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for this to happen the bullet had to travel nearly a mile climb one thousand feet pass through
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dany and lodge in the telephone wire in the summer of 1990 ballistics expert r.j breglia was brought in from new york
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city in order to determine if such a shot could have occurred after examining the locations breglio
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concluded that such a shot would have been impossible i would rule out the possibility that
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there was an accident that the gun was fired from a mile or more away rather it was a shot
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fired in the vicinity deliberately you would have to traverse through woods would have to travel around vehicles
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get through a 24-inch opening on a bulldozer and hit somebody directly through the heart
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before being projected upwards into the telephone cable i think that's very hard to believe that that could
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happen i'm not any expert but i just don't buy that if anybody thinks that i'm going to lay
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down or go away on this one oh they're wrong we as a family are i think pretty well determined that the
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system is going to have to work the system is going to have to get out there and do its job
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[Music] was danny paquette the victim of a freak hunting accident or was he deliberately murdered
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he knew anything about me did someone want him silenced about what he claimed to have witnessed the morning of his
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mother's death you've been telling everybody in town that i did something that i did not do
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i got danny upstairs i don't care about danny let's go outside or did someone
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just want danny dead no one knows [Music] in 1949 the tennessee children's home
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society in memphis was considered a model orphanage director georgia tan was credited with
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placing five thousand orphans with new families and one national praise for her efforts
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the georgia tans orphanage had a darker side when i was growing up i was told that i
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was adopted from memphis tennessee after my adopted mother passed away i found correspondence from the
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tennessee children's home and that's when i started my search two and a half years later
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i found my name two hours later i found my mother [Applause] cindy lapresto discovered that her
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mother had never placed her for adoption i was playing on the playground and georgia tan drove up in her
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proverbial black limousine okay george let's go home now georgia tan had simply abducted cindy
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good morning children a few days later judge camille kelly ordered the custody of cindy be given to
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the tennessee children's home society miss tan thank you judge kelly i'm confident
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that camille kelly was involved with georgia tan in this operation georgia tan could not have
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carried it on without her and camille kelly could not have lived in the style she lived unless she had
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outside income in 1950 robert taylor investigated georgia tan in the tennessee children's
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home society he discovered that tan was using the orphanage as a cover for a black market
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baby ring and that she was making a fortune in the process on september 12 1950 robert taylor
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presented his report to the governor of tennessee three days later georgia tan died of
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cancer two months later judge camille kelly resigned the tennessee children's home society
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was shut down i get very angry when i think of georgia tan and camille kelly because what
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they've done to me and thousands of other people it makes me very angry because my mother
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missed my growing up and those years can never be replaced we've been robbed
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tonight we are pleased to announce that because of our broadcast another orphan from the tennessee children's home
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society has been reunited with her family lynn hines was five years old when she
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was adopted by a wealthy california couple i was adopted into a very very fine family
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but there wasn't a lot of love in the family and even though you know you try to make the adopted child part
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of the family you're always still just a little bit different and so it meant a great deal to me to
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find that i really had a true family lin was born martha jean goocon and was placed in georgia tannen's orphanage in
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1949 she never saw or heard from her natural family again then just three weeks after our
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broadcast lynn learned that her father and two brothers paul and randall were still living in tennessee
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one of the things that i had been fearful is that the family did not want me to find them
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when i did finally get hold of randall randall said if you don't come here we're coming there
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like tomorrow you know it wasn't soon enough [Music] the next day lin flew from her home in
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denver colorado and saw her brothers for the first time in more than 40 took me that years to find you guys
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she walked all the plane i knew she was just like that well she spitting image of her mother
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a very spitting image you haven't your void that had never been filled but it wasn't
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that afternoon randall and paul took lynn to meet their 86 year old father rufus guccin yeah
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i had pictures of myself when i was adopted that the adopted parents had taken and they had pictures
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of randall and i and mother before i had been adopted so we naturally had to compare all our pictures and all that
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type of thing and i guess we decided that we really were brothers and sisters it was very exciting very thrilling
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as we grew older while we just always had a the thought there the love there but she wasn't
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you want me to take it with me when i leave just like yesterday you know somebody to love be
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loved by that you never had before [Music] i would have to say that this is like
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christmas new year's everything rolled up into one when i found the family i felt like i
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was queen for a day and all [Music] there are over 15 million sets of identical twins living in the world
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today throughout history they have fascinated and delighted us all their mirror images are a perfect
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example of nature's whimsy the physical similarities of identical twins can easily be explained by
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genetics but in the three stories you're about to see these eerie likenesses go
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beyond the realm of science and defy explanation [Music] mark newman and jerry levy are identical
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twin brothers who were separated at birth for 32 years neither one knew the other
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existed when they met for the first time three years ago they were amazed to discover
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that their uncanny resemblance was more than skin deep too much that first time we met when we went into
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the bathroom and looked in the mirror uh it was tomatoes a little spooky uh now i was seeing
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four of my faces instead of just a one when i normally look in the mirror i graduated
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incredibly mark and jerry's separate lives and personal habits were nearly identical
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both are volunteer firemen and have worked in the lawn care industry both are confirmed bachelors they always
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drink the same brand of beer and they even carry their keys in the same distinctive manner
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we were instantly comfortable each with each other uh the only way i could explain it was it
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was almost like a brother who moved away for 32 years and then came back and you know what
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we've been doing for for the last 32 years and as it turned out we were doing the
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same exact things [Music] and still after you know 32 years of separation it was
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like there wasn't any separation our lives were basically parallel [Music] that's too much coincidence
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too much these identical twins wear it apart are remarkably alike on almost everything we look at
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okay mark and jerry let's have you stand up against the wall over here mark and
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jerry are alike in a wide array of ways they have a lot of gestures and postures
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they're the same they tend to hold their beer can in the same way they tend to
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laugh in the same way there's kind of a cycle and a pattern to their laughter and i've watched them
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sit in chairs and just watch the way they cross their legs things of that sort there's a whole pattern to their
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behavior that's very much alike now that raises the question how is it the two individuals reared
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apart in entirely different environments come 40 years later when they're reunited to be so similar
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we really as scientists simply do not know in some cases the unique bond between
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identical twins is even more mystifying some identical twins claim to have paranormal experiences such as
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telepathic communication or esp and even a bizarre phenomenon known as shared pain
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scientists can either dismiss or explain these strange occurrences there's a saying among twins that's very
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very common it's us against the world so when we go back to back we can see 360
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degrees we're not blindsided we see things that other people don't and we
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protect each other identical twins lewis and donald keith have lived in separate cities for most
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of their lives but believe they are connected by a sixth sense they even claim to have experienced
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shared pain the first incident occurred three years ago while lewis was working out at a
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health club in chicago i took a swim i did a few bicycle exercises and i tried this
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exercise which had been told to me was good for getting rid of those uh i guess they're colloquially called
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love handles that everybody would like to get rid of anyway i tried the exercise it was going along very well
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it's not difficult it's not painful it doesn't take any great intellectual
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talent but uh i hurt myself it was probably the most intense pain that i ever felt in my life
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at that exact moment donald was over 500 miles away at his office just outside of
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washington dc [Music] i had some papers to xerox at the office and as i was walking down the corridor
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there was this pain in my right groin area this pain was unlike any i had ever experienced in my life
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and then it was gone and and i wondered what was the pain and what caused it later that day i called louis and his
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secretary said that he had injured himself and he was home and then my uh curiosity got the best of me and
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curiosity or sixth sense i don't know i really don't know whether it was curiosity or sixth sense but i
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wanted to know where you hurt yourself and then i found out that he had injured himself
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in the same place that i felt this pain and then i asked him about the time and when the time clicked
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that i remember distinctly the hair on the back of my neck standing up it was electric i could just feel every hair
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sticking straight out [Music] the experience of sharing pain proved again that we were identical twins again
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that we were very close again that psychologically and psychically we were able to communicate with us it didn't
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surprise it it just confirmed what we already knew we feel pain for each other whenever anything happens
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to one the other one can experience like if they're going through the same thing
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herself for example i fell downstairs at school they came in to tell my sister they were taking me to the hospital and
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she was unconscious [Music] lavona and lavelda richmond were born in 1933 and have lived together ever since
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even after they married their identical twin husbands alwyn and arthur we are what they call identical mirror
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image twins our medical history has been pretty much the same throughout our life
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in fact when one gets ill anymore they check the other one to make sure she's
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going to be okay we've had tonsils taken out together we've had breast biopsies the same time
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and we had major surgery together the eye correction is the same except for opposite eyes my left eye is my weak eye
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and my right eye is my root guy and our cavities have appeared on opposite sides
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lavona and lavalde have taken part in many scientific studies of twin behavior in one study they were rated highest
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among the 300 sets of twins tested for extrasensory perception we feel among every set of twins one is
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the sender and one is the receiver i happen to be the receiver and i am the sender
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and whenever lavelda has been in an occasion where she has felt pain or has been in trouble
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i have sensed it the most starting example of this unique psychic bond occurred in 1952
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lavelda was riding in a car with a young man who had asked her to join him in town for a cup of coffee
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where are you going coffee shops this way relax don't worry about it go somewhere nice and quiet where you and i
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can talk when this gentleman turned the opposite direction of what he was supposed to turn i knew something was
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wrong i got very very uneasy and i moved over as close to the passenger side of the door as i could
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and the more he drove the more agitated he got and the more frightened i got and i thought i was in trouble
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then when the car skidded the only thing i could think of was oh my god what are they going to tell my
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sister and evidently that's when i got the strong message was when she started
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thinking to me how i was going to react to if something had happened to her i was sitting in the living room
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studying and all of a sudden it's just like if i went into a trance could see what was happening
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but i could not stop the vision from happening [Music] i wonder what's wrong
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dad call the police police what for sis has been in an accident and i told father to call the police and i could
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not convince him that sis was in trouble she's hurt that she's she's been in an
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accident how do you know i can see it she's on a country road he told me i was
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jealous i couldn't be with him that this was the first time we had been separated
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for any events and i better get used to it because there'd be other times that
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would be separated from her also the car stopped just inches before plummeting into a water-filled ravine
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are you okay lavelda hit her head on the dashboard but was not seriously hurt i did not see her hit her head on the
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dash at the time what i did see was a farmer coming with a tractor pulling them out of a
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ditch and i turn a desert it's all right dad the danger has passed she's going to
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be okay see dad i told you you okay i was not surprised when lavelda came in the house
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showing a little bit where for her adventure because i could sense what was happening
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and i knew what was happening but i was surprised at dad's reaction listen i don't say a word
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lavona you said you saw this thing happen right we're gonna get in the car right now and
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you're gonna take us to where this thing happened and i said how am i gonna do it dad i've
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never been there he said you saw it you can show me where it is just keep going this way all right
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dad asked lavonna which way to go and she directed him i sat in the back seat and i kept very
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quiet all the way and as we were driving i tell that you turn here dad he said you ever been here
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before i said no how do you know i said feel it turn here and she directed dad to the actual road
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and when she got there you could see the tire tracks where we went off and where
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we were pulled back onto the road this place honey yes it happened right here after we reached the crash site he said
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you were right i never actually believed it could happen before he said i know you told me it has
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happened in the past but he says it's the first time i've actually sought i
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would never doubt you again if you tell me one of you is in danger he said i'll
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believe you [Music] three intriguing stories three sets of identical twins are they born with a paranormal ability
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to silently communicate if you were an identical twin perhaps you already know the rest of us can only wonder
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[Music] when we return the poignant story of a tennessee family's search for their
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missing sister [Music] our next story is about a family in the best sense of the word
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a family that has survived hard times and endured to see better times but for the hinkle family of tennessee
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there is a sadness that the passing of 65 years has not managed to erode it began when two infant girls were torn
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from their home tonight with your help those painful memories may finally be put to rest and
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you may be able to help reunite a family greenville tennessee a small rural community 60 miles northeast of
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knoxville it was the summer of 1924 and though the great depression was five years away it arrived earlier for the
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tobacco farmers who carved out a marginal living in the countryside times were tough that summer and tenant
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farmer rufus hinkle was forced to make an agonizing decision shortly after giving birth to twin girls
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rufus wife of 22 years had died with nine other miles to feed rufus felt incapable of making ends meet
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where are you going with the twins where they're a little bit sick sons i'm gonna
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take them to the hospital for a couple of weeks here hold your sister while i get in the truck now be careful
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be careful with her now now well i'm gone son lord is in charge so you pay attention to what lord says
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you hear me you'll be a good boy he was a man that loved his family and he hated to part with any of us
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especially the twins but uh sometime you gotta sacrifice and uh just do the best you can do
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bye mary bye martha bye on that hot july afternoon in 1924 rufus henkel took his two baby girls on a
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one-way trip to the orphanage he hoped to reclaim mary and martha once his fortunes improved
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i'm sure that after he left the twins at the orphanage that he worried about him
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and thought about him a lot and one of his sons lloyd remembers going to the orphanage with
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rufus to see about the twins and see if they could take them back [Music] sadly it was too late the twins had
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already been given away we did try to place them together but that was just not possible they'll be
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well taken care of you say you don't have to worry about that they're with
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fine families well must be the lord's will i'm very sorry mr hinkle thank you man
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[Music] come on son we're going home rufus hinkle never saw his two daughters
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again he passed away in 1950 later on i heard that they would not tell us where they
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were at until my father died so shortly after he died we started looking for the twins and we
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found mary in 1955 rufus's son shorty contacted the orphanage the one able to locate martha
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they were able to trace mary in september of that year shoddy and his wife drove into bluefield west virginia
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to meet the sister he never knew as we drove by my wife said to me he said right there she said said i know that's
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her she looks just like your brother and sure it was mary we know the first look
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that it was and it was a very happy time very much it's great to see you it was like
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finding a part of you that had always been missing and just like putting something together
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and when you put two and two together you got to hold you know and it was just great
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oh it feels great to know that we can we all be together at times and be a family
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that they are part of me and part of my i'm part of their blood they're part
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of mine why don't you come on over here and have a seat let me take your picture okay sit
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down okay smile oh great you know shorty it's amazing how much she looks like dalton i can't believe it
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she that afternoon mary learned that she had a twin sister mary i've got some news for you
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you have a twin sister named martha really really i just don't can't explain
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how i did feel not knowing that i had a twin sister a part of me where is she well we don't know that
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exactly shorty told mary that the orphanage had lost track of martha she had never been
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officially adopted but had instead been sent to a temporary home we can't seem to find her oh
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i've often wondered if it's been good or if martha's life has been bad
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uh you wonder about them things 30 years later rufus's granddaughter jackie took on the family quest
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well i started my search for martha at holston home for children in greenville where she was placed along with mary in
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1924 and they showed me what records you know that they could that were available
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mary's okay yeah in 1986 jackie uncovered the original orphanage records greenville tennessee
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she learned that in november of 1924 martha had been given temporarily to a charles and lida meek in johnson city a
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small town 30 miles away from greenville [Music] so then i centered my search in johnson
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city and i went through old record books and uh census records and city directories
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and things of that sort went down sydney street where she was supposed to live and
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i've never found any trace of the mix whatsoever so i really don't know what
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happened to him from there [Music] not much is known about the meeks other than the fact that charles was a 34 year
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old farmer and a member of the holiness church in april of 1990 three generations of
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hinkles got together for a family reunion there was only one person missing today the family refuses to give up the
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search for martha they are certainly she is alive somewhere they wanted to become part of a family
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that has never stopped caring about one another our family has been very close very
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close but uh we're not a complete family without finding the other sister and when we found mary this was the the
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part of it but there's still a part of us missing yet oh it would just be the happiest day of my life
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to get to be reunited with my twin sister martha there are no known pictures of martha
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but there is a chance that mary and martha are identical twins these photographs of mary may help
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identify her lost sister the first was taken when she was eight years old [Music]
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the second when she was 17. this is how mary appears today she and martha were born in the spring
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of 1924 they were taken to the holston orphanage in greenville tennessee when they were
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four months old shortly after our broadcast one of our viewers sandy detained of san bernardino
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california contacted the hinkle family with surprising news during a search for her mother's
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biological family sandy accidentally discovered the location of martha henkel's adoptive family
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martha lived with john and lyda meeks for three years when the couple divorced martha was taken in by the dan jackson
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family of johnson county georgia in 1940 she married james thomas and together they had four sons
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[Music] sadly martha passed away just weeks before the hinkle family could contact
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her i'm glad that i found her we won't have to do no more searching but it's so sad that i couldn't need her
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that that i couldn't be with her just to talk to her just for just for an hour or two
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and tell her that i loved her although she never realized her dream of meeting her twin sister mary's 35-year
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search was not in vain on july 27 1991 martha's four sons met mary and a side
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of the family they had never known that day in a bittersweet reunion two families came together as one
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we were part of the family before we ever walked up and touched one of them it was
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written all over their faces when we saw those smiles and tender hearts all the little fears big fears the
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apprehensions just left it was all over with glad to be home with our family i'm proud that she left four sons
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left part of her here for me to get together and know know her through her sons but part of them is gone
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that i never that i never found and i never will find but she'll always be in my heart
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[Music] next a cunning and disturbed child molester is added to the fbi's 10 most
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wanted list forty years ago the federal bureau of investigation initiated his ten most
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wanted list to alert the public of the most dangerous criminals in america now from washington d.c a special appeal
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by fbi director william sessions since 1950 125 fugitives on the fbi's 10 most wanted list have been captured
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thanks to your help tonight with this broadcast of unsolved mysteries we are announcing the most
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recent addition to the most wanted list he is kenneth roberts stanton who is wanted on charges of child molestation
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burglary unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and impersonating a police officer
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please watch carefully in 1964 kenneth robert stanton was convicted of child molestation
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he was committed to a state mental hospital in ionia michigan stanton was diagnosed as a criminal
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sexual psychopath a few years later staten was declared fit to re-enter society and set free
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in 1989 kenneth stanton was identified by a young girl in jackson mississippi the events she described matched the
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modus operandi of numerous molestations attributed to stanton kenneth robert stanton quite frequently
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scouts an upper middle class white neighborhood and carefully selects a house where a
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victim is quite often home alone usually a young white female is between the ages of 7 and 12
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and his job as a traveling salesman permits him time to do this he is careful to approach the houses not
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to disturb anybody he usually wears a conservative suit he's nice looking he's well dressed
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quite often stanton comes to the front door of the house presents himself as a person of authority and quite often
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shows a badge as though he were a policeman dressed in plain clothes [Music] hi is your mother home
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no well i'm officer tom coles i'm with the local police department we're
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helping out the county health service there's been a report of contaminated milk in the area and i'd like to come in
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and check if i could i'm not supposed to let strangers in the house well i'm not
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a stranger i'm a policeman i've been up and down the neighborhood all day
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checking your neighbor's ice box for the milk and the expiration date he often
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has a clipboard and indicates to the child in the house that he's taking a survey
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or that he's looking for contaminated milk and that he is there to test the milk in the refrigerator
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do you know where your milk is coming from no well that's even more reason i should
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come in and check it'll only take a minute if a young person would resist entry
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stanton quite often displays a bag of marijuana or marijuana cigarette stating that he found this on the front
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porch and he's is entitled to search the house for evidence well how do i know
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that you're really a policeman well here's my badge [Music] he has a high iq and he's very
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intelligent and he's able to gain their confidence to get inside the house i'll
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be gone okay all right [Music] once he's inside and he's determined that
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the children or child is alone he blindfolds them frequently quite often he uses eye drops and a thermometer
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possibly for a distraction it's at that time then that he continues on and assaults the children
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in the summer of 1989 at jackson mississippi stanton was in the house of a young white female
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attempted assault when she screamed and scared him away when he ran out of the house a neighbor
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boy saw him jump into a car and correctly wrote down his license tag number thereafter police were able to use that
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license number and identify that car as being registered to kenneth robert stanton of mobile alabama christy what i
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need you to do is i need you to look at each and every picture and think in your
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mind what this man looks like and then look at each and every picture and pick out the picture that looks like
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him okay the young girl who was a solid on that day thereafter picked out a photograph
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of stanton from a spread presented to her by the jackson mississippi police department
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that's the man that's the man that's him after the jackson mississippi assault
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stanton apparently traveled east through alabama and georgia and committed several crimes before he was identified
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at houston county georgia there were identifications of stanton at jackson mississippi and columbus
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mississippi as well as tuscaloosa alabama leesburg georgia douglasville georgia and warren robbins georgia
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stanton is suspected of at least 11 child molestations from mississippi alabama and into georgia
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after reviewing a number of these cases and looking at stanton's history from
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the early 1960s we were able to conclude that he apparently was a lifelong child
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molester and probably could be described as a serial child monster kenneth robert stanton is 52 years old
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approximately six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds he has blue eyes and brown thinning hair
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he usually wears glasses and occasionally sports a mustache and beard stanton travels frequently and works as
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a heavy equipment he is known to have relatives in indiana in december of 1989 his car was found
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abandoned in terrysburg ohio [Music] update kenneth robert stanton has been captured
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within minutes of our broadcast several viewers called our telecenter to report that stanton was living in a trailer
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park in moraine ohio with his wife he had been married just a few weeks earlier local police and fbi agents arrived to
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staten's trainer only to learn that he himself had seen our broadcast and fled
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stanton's wife and neighbors were stunned i've talked to my son and i've had him
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in front of the house staying in the yard just in case he come back you know i don't want someone like aunt
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running around the streets at all you know anyone that does anything like that should be put away
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five days later stanton was identified in rock hill south carolina after he allegedly attempted to molest a
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nine-year-old girl based on seeing the segment on the program coupled with the police report
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we suspected there's a strong possibility that stanton was in rock hill or somewhere in this area
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and we proceeded on an assumption that he was possibly staying at a local motel two days later fbi agents spotted
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stanton's car in the parking lot of this motel after identifying the vehicle we
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established the surveillance of the motel with fbi agents in york county sheriff's
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department detectives incredibly a check with a motel office revealed that staff met registered under
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his own name he had indicated to the clerk previously that he wanted to stay an additional
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week but he also wanted to move to the main building the clerk in our direction called his room
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told him the new room was ready and he could move when stanton emerged from his room we
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arrested him we asked stanton his name he said you know who i am and he indicated
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that he was not a threat to us he was only a threat to himself he did indicate that
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the following day was his birthday [Music] next week unsolved mysteries falls on
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halloween in keeping with that tradition four intriguing mysteries of eerie people and
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events which cannot be explained scores of witnesses in south carolina say they have encountered legendary
00:51:29
ghosts called a grey man some even claim that he has saved their homes by warning them of approaching
00:51:35
hurricanes we'll also meet a woman named katie whose apparent psychic powers have left
00:51:41
eyewitnesses baffled and skeptics crying fraud on halloween just two years ago 29 year
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old david stone set forth on a spiritual odyssey in the bleak desert in new mexico he never returned
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authorities are still perplexed by a trail of mystical clues he left behind join us on halloween for a special
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edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you