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next on Unsolved Mysteries falson prism was virtually escape proof until convicted killer
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Steve Wilson broke out how did he pull it off two women are brutally attacked one dies the other the only witness to
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the crime is left with [Music] amnesia at first it looked like a tragic accident
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but This Woman's death was actually a clever professional hit and her killer
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is still on the loose and neighbors notice that the family next door hasn't been around
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lately and there's a good reason they've all been murdered cunning deceit and lies can you
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figure out who's telling the truth I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries join us [Music] [Music] olanta California he had rugged good looks and
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smooth talking charm when 30-year-old Steve Wilson showed up in this small ranching town he quickly made friends
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with the locals people liked Steve Wilson he could tell you anything you wanted to hear and make you believe it
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he was very much involved with the college he liked to lift weights he liked to weld and when he was around a
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group of people that he enjoyed he was very friendly and very uh fun to be around Wilson said
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that he was from San Diego but he never revealed any details about his past he was a jack of all trades who
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occasionally did odd jobs on a ranch owned by Bill thornberg while working there Wilson met
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22-year-old Cali thornberg who lived at home and worked with her father Steve Wilson was instantly attracted to her
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and 9 months later Steve and cie ran off to Reno and were married dad wanted me to get married
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because he felt that I needed to have something other than him in the ranch as we were driving to Reno or even
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the day before we left I was wishing there was some way that I could get out of it the marriage was a disaster Wilson
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was abusive and he threatened cie just 2 months after their wedding cie left him
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and moved back in with her father I don't like to say this Wilson was no longer welcome at their Ranch the guys a
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n Wilson would call on the phone and harass us and he would say things like I will hurt you worse than you've ever
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been hurt before H I will take everything you love away from you you will pay you will
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learn to love me you will learn that loving me is easier than being away from me about 3 weeks after the breakup
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Wilson showed up to get C back key what do you want Wilson this between me and G
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get off the ramp why are you doing this to me just go away I love you Al Hey I've asked you know I'm telling you
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Wilson get off this Ranch you hear what I'm saying worth it I grabbed my dad and grabbed the gun
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and said no don't shoot him it's not worth it you know I didn't want my
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father and Wilson to get into any kind of a confrontation with each other because I was afraid that Wilson would
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hurt my dad a few days later bill thornberg left the ranch house to do his morning
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chores dad I walked out to the water lines and I found his truck with his every morning cup of
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coffee sitting on the dashboard and it was still hot dad bill farberg was never seen again
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and Steve Wilson disappeared 7 months passed and then on Christmas Eve a teenager riding his bike through
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the desert 45 Mi south of The Ranch House made a gruesome Discovery the boy knew his parents
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wouldn't believe him if he told him so he he actually took the head and rode
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back to his house with the evidence at the scene the clothing and different articles it was
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immediately known that it was Bill thornberg body and all the evidence led to Steve
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after a year and a half on the Run Steve Wilson was finally arrested in Las Vegas
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he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a sentence of 25 years to life at fome prison in
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California there hadn't been an escape from folson prison in 15 years folson
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prison is a maximum security facility filled with violent killers when Steve Wilson arrived he immediately
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started trying to get on the good side of the officers and the administrators he joined the in-house
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work program and successfully Charmed anyone who could help him Steve was a model prisoner I have 30 years in his
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career of mine and I would have to say that this guy is a greatest clerk I've
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ever had before long Wilson became the clerk in charge of shipping it was one of the
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best jobs in the prison because it offered the most freedom to move around hey Larry hey Steve how you doing when
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he became a clerk in in the warehouse up adjacent to the metal Factory in the license plate Factory his job would
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entail him being in all different areas of the uh of the warehouse picking up inventories picking up invoices work
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orders so for him to be in a certain area at any time would not be unusual would not be significant and if he
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wasn't there would not be significant either 2 years passed prison officials
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had no idea that during that entire time Wilson was plotting his Escape one day while he was working near the loading
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dock hey what it's your problem you ran into me listen I told you about this safety
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last week it was his fault watch it Wilson had enlisted other inmates to startu the
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guards this plan had worked nobody noticed that he was gone I think he was planning this at least well over a year
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ahead of time he was an intelligent individual and uh when you have vehicles going in and out of a secure area that's
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your weakest link as soon as the truck left the prison Wilson cut a hole in the roof
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using tin snips that he had stolen from the prison metal shop just minutes later the truck pulled
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into a local bone valy when the driver went inside for a cup of coffee Wilson squeezed through the hole he had cut and
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disappeared having Wilson on the loose is very hard for me because I can never really relax I don't like being alone
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and and I'm always looking around all the corners I I'm constantly in fear update Steve Wilson was arrested in
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England after a tip help FBI agents trace him to a London hotel Wilson was brought back to California to complete
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his prison term of 25 years to life but he was soon up to his old tricks Wilson arranged to have Escape
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materials sent to him in prison after officials intercepted the package they sent Wilson to a state-of-the-art
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Maximum Security Prison for violent criminals he served his time and has been released coming up was a young
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businesswoman murdered to prevent her from blowing the whistle on illegal banking activities
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Washington DC in the early morning fire units race to a blaze in the Georgetown district once inside firefighters
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discover that the blaze is restricted to the upstairs bedroom in fact the bed itself is on fire
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at first it looks like no one is home but as the smoke begins to clear the firefighters are stuned to see a woman
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in the bed she is barely alive 38-year-old Lynn Amos is a financial analyst who has lived in
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Washington for just 5 months she has rushed to a local hospital with third degree burns over 80% of her
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body at first in investigators believed that it was an accident Lynn's blood
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alcohol content was. 25 2 and 1/2 times the legal limit for driving in Washington DC that and the fact that
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they had found a cigarette butt seemed to indicate that Lynn Amos had been smoking in bed but Lyn's family and
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friends didn't believe that well Lyn didn't smoke I smoked until recently if
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you're a closet smoker you certainly smoke with your friends who smoke there
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were no dirty ashtrays in the house there were no matches there were no cigarette packs there was no evidence
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that she was smoking in bed the police had to rethink their initial Theory when Insurance
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investigators found accelerance on the mattress floor and pillow they concluded that the fire had been deliberately set
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the insurance investigators report showed that there was a combination of kerosene gasoline and
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turpentine and the doctor has told me that her Burns were consistent with those from a fire that was accelerated
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he told me at the hospital he couldn't believe that only she and the bed burned um he said she looked like the
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result of a house having been burned around her Lynn Amos clung to life barely conscious and unable to speak then 10
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days later she died the cause of death was officially listed at as [Music] homicide who would want Len Amos dead
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and why she was a friendly and outgoing person with no known enemies but Lynn apparently did have her secrets in the
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weeks before she died she had suddenly stopped talking to her friends about her job a motive for Lynn's murder soon
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began to emerge Lynn Amos had moved to Washington to take a position with a management
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consulting firm as part of her job she made frequent trips to Mexico to assess the lending
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practices of several large Banks less than a month before the fire Lynn had lunch with a close friend Emily
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Smith Lynn seemed reluctant to talk about her work I realized when we were having lunch that I didn't know what she
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was working on and that was unusual because we talked about work a lot we did sort of similar types things so tell
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me about work well I've been working on this project for the Mexican equivalent
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of the Federal Reserve and I've seen some very bad lending practices I waited and it was clear she
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wasn't going to say more so I said well is your report going to be ugly and she
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said yes it's going to be really ugly the day before the fire Lynn once again hinted to friends that she had
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uncovered some potentially explosive information are you still on that project with the banks yeah um I've seen
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some uh dangerous things in Mexico I I'm purely speculating here um but it's possible that she bumped into a
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loan having to do with drug money or a fraudulent loan that's the sort of thing
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you might bump into when you're reviewing credit portfolios no no I the last time anyone
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spoke to Lynn was late on the night of the fire I called we do know that she called her
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office confirm that she was going to be late for work the next day so we know Lynn was at home
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Lucid completely fine had a 30-minute conversation at 10:00 at night at 10:30 she then we then don't know what
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happened when we first told our attorney Howen was killed he first statement was that's a
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professional hit the fire detective who came to the scene said that it had all the indications that this was a
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controlled fire that somebody was there making sure that this fire didn't do
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more than it needed to do Lynn's family and friends believe that sometime after midnight the killer
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broke into the townhouse there were no signs of forced entry so he made may have had a key or maybe Lynn knew her
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asent you do what I tell you I don't want to have to use this drink the Intruder may have then
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forced Lynn to drink until she passed out to achieve the level of alcohol that she was found with it takes between 9
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and 14 drinks in an hour for a woman her size which is almost impossible to consume that means you have a new drank
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every 4 to 7 minutes and then the killer tried to make her death look like an [Music]
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[Music] accident what was done to lenus is so horrible I really do not have the words
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just gra it Lynn was just a great friend she was really fun she loved life and uh people should not be allowed
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to get away with that Lynn Amos never completed her report on the Mexican Banks her former
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employer declined to appear on camera for this segment in a letter to our producers he wrote We Are troubled by
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the same questions being asked by investigators we can only hope that forensic science will provide some
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answers if you have any information about the death of Lyn Amos please log on to
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unsolved.com [Music] next a woman survives a brutal murder attempt however she now has Amnesia and
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cannot identify her attacker W socket Rhode Island at approximately 3:30 p.m. Doug
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Heath returned home from work to his apartment on Providence Street as he walked through the door he found his
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neighbors 3-year-old child locked out of her apartment hi Nicole when I saw Nicole standing on the
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stairs I knew immediately something was wrong where's Mommy I asked her where
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her mother was and she told me that she was downstairs lying down I tried the door into the first floor apartment
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their apartment and it was locked and I knew something was was wrong right there Doug went down to the laundry room
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to check on her mother Susan laferte I saw a body leaned up against the dryer in the same instant I turned to my left
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and I saw Sue lying face down in a puddle of blood [Music] when rescue arrived at the scene along
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with the first offices they found that two women had been brutally assaulted in the basement area of the provence Street
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home and for all intents and purposes had been left for dead one woman expired at the scene and
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the other one was in very very critical condition rescue stabilized her at the best that they could and transported her
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from the scene to the hospital emergency room [Music] 22-year-old darene peard was pronounced
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dead at the scene The Other Woman 27-year-old Susan laferte was barely alive actually I was shocked when I saw
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the condition that my wife was in because she had no physical resemblance at all of being my wife from
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the severe injuries all the swelling and the way they described it she was hanging by a thread her injuries were so
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uh severe that it was touch and go at the time Susan survived but she remained in
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a deep coma fearing for her safety the police guarded her room around the clock it was obvious to us that the
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perpetrator in his mind had left both girls for Dead We immediately became worried that he would realize that there
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was a witness to the attack and that he would would come back and try to eliminate that Witness by killing
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[Music] her 30 days later Susan finally came out of her coma but she had no memory of the
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attack or her as salent investigators had no motive and no eyewitness they had to start from
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[Music] scratch I don't know who attacked us it's 5 years later and I'm no closer at
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this period of time than I was 5 years ago I don't know what he looked like um or anything else about him I have no
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memory whatsoever of the attack what she does remember is this on February 19th the day of the attack
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Susan's sister Carol rivet came over for lunch I'll get that at 1:30 two of Susan
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friends came to the door hi hi my sister came back from the doorway and stuck her
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head in the Parlor and said Carol I'm going downstairs I'll be right back she
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came back upstairs and I could hear her talking to somebody in the doorway so I got up to go see who she was talking
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too guy the two men were interested in some pit bold puppies that Susan was selling Susan talked to the men for 5
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minutes and then they left 10 minutes later at4 Carol went home and that was the last
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time anyone saw Susan before the attack no one can be sure what happened that day between 1 145 and 320 when Doug
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Heath discovered Susan and dar's [Music] bodies to I have to admit that I was
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shocked by the initial scene the brutality of the assault it was not just a murder it was not just
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an assault it was a frenzied attack it was an Overkill okay 15 more minutes okay other than Susan there was only one
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other witness to the crime Nicole Susan's three-year-old daughter as I came in the house Nicole was there and
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from the very beginning she told me that she let him in she thought that was her
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mother's friend she saw the man she says he was probably a little bigger than her father
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he had a mustache she even told me that he wore a cap with a visor towards the back he had sneakers and he also had the
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jeans when she heard her mother crying she went downstairs and as she was going down he
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was coming up he had a a a rag in his back pocket it was red and white she called it polka
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dot and then she was locked out in the hallway while the man escaped through the
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front after the assault Nicole was questioned extensively by the police department as much as the police would
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like to have a person who definitely saw the perpetrator that day her story has changed too much to be of real value to
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us the stress and confusion as she was under at that point in time really made it very difficult to get a real solid
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sure story 4 days after the attack the murder weapon a metal pipe was found in the
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house it had been wiped cleaned of fingerprints there was little to go on and the police investigation
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stalled update a man named Raymond Tempest has been convicted of killing darene peard
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apparently Tempest attacks Susan with a pipe after arguing over a litter of pitbull puppies
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and killed peard when she walked in on the assault the investigation was hindered by a possible police cover up
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Raymond tempest's brother Gordon was a police officer at the time of the murders Gordon Tempest was sentenced to
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7 years for perjury he has served his time and was released Raymond Tempest received the sentence of 85 years for
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murdering darene peard next a government official is suspected of murdering his entire family and he's
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been missing for over three decades Columbia North Carolina a state park ranger responds to
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a report of a brush fire in a remote wooded area as the ranger brings the fire under
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control he finds an empty gas can and a shovel When the Smoke Clears the ranger also discovers the remains of five
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partially charred bodies in a shallow grave three young boys and two women investigators had only a few Clues
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the victim's clothes had labels from expensive Department stor in Bethesda Maryland the shovel came from a hardware
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store in the same area however Bethesda police had no missing person's reports
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that they could link to the bodies until 6 days later 12 I received a radio call to
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investigate the absence of five persons from a residence in Bethesda unit 12 direct the call came from a neighbor of
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William Bradford Bishop a respected economist with the state department there was a common driveway
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to the neighbor's home and to the bishop home and I met the neighbor there to
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investigate the whereabouts of the family you called in a missing person report yeah the Bishops usually when
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they go was rather routine to do an investigation like this it's not unusual
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okay thank [Music] you and I wasn't overly concerned about it until I reached the front step of the
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um home and I noticed there were blood droplets on the front step upon opening the front door I saw
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blood droplets uh leading from the doorway through the forer and to a set of stairs that led to the upper bedroom
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level of the home and going to the stairs I observed Blood splattering on the wall and then the one bedroom that I
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could see into almost the entire ceiling and wall was completely splattered with
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blood hardly a place you could put your hand there wasn't blood splattering i' had been a police officer
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for approximately 12 years and this was the worst scene that I've ever observed authorities were finally able
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to identify the five bodies Brad Bishop's Wife Annette his three sons and his mother there was no sign of
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Brad Bishop was he also a victim or was there a far more Sinister explanation for his
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disappearance Bishop worked for the state department as a director of commercial practices and trade to most
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of his co-workers he seemed to be on the FasTrack to a high level job but at least one coworker saw a
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different side of Brad Bishop Brad Bishop had extensive experience overseas he liked the international
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scene from the time he was in the Army and Italy Brad's career uh was very much
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on track although he was exceedingly despondent about not uh getting a promotion Roy Harold ran into Bishop
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just outside the state department on the day the annual promotion list came out what's the matter
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I didn't make the promotion list again neither did I he said I'm think I'm
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getting the flu I don't feel well at all and U that's the reason I'm leaving work
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now okay let's get a taxi so I helped him heal a taxi and I watched him drive
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out the next day Brad Bishop's Family was found dead and he had disappeared almost 3 weeks after the murders a
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ranger in Tennessee discovered an abandoned station wagon in the back he found what looked like dried
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blood the car was registered to William Bradford Bishop Bishop was now the prime
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suspect in the slaying of his own family there was enough evidence for a warrant to be issued for his arrest for
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homicide based on the fact that there appeared to be premeditation in connection with the events that occurred
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on March 1st the FBI has pieced together Bishop's activities leading up to the murders on
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the day he left the state department he withdrew several hundred from his bank account and went to a local hardware
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store and gas station as far as we know after that he returned to his home probably around 7:30 to 8:00
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at night after the children were put to bed our investigation shows that Mrs Bishop was probably killed first she was
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found beside a book which she may have been reading at the time that that she was killed
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the children were probably killed next followed by Bishop's mother they were all killed with a blunt
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instrument and none of the victims had an opportunity to defend themselves according to the FBI Bishop
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loaded the five bodies into the family's station wagon and headed 200 mil South
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to the countryside near Columbia North Carolina [Music] Brad Bishop felt from the time I knew
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him that there was something lacking in himself this feeling was nourished constantly by both his mother and to
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some degree his wife who constantly told him he was inadequate and washed up and
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uh wasn't going anywhere in his career and I think that uh he conceived in his
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mind this was a way to as he's often said many times about other people this
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would be a way of putting them in their place after buying a pair of tennis shoes near the side of the fire Bishop
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drove 400 miles to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee where his station wagon was found abandoned Brad Bishop
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successfully covered his tracks and was not seen for 2 years then 5,000 m away in sento Italy a
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bizarre coincidence Roy Harold came face to face with Bishop in a bus station restroom I was washing my hands and uh
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this bearded dishevel looking man came in in my mind's eye I took the beard and
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the scrubby clothes off of him and I saw the Brad Bishop I had seen coming out of
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the state department oh my God no R come back come back I pa watched him disappear down the cliffs going toward
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the boat landing where boats go to Capri Bishop is wanted by the FBI Intero and the US Marshals he has evaded
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capture for over 30 years authorities believe he is living in Europe William Bradford Bishop is 6' 1
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in tall with brown hair brown eyes and a medium build he is fluent in French Italian and serbo Croatian and holds a
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diplomatic passport the FBI created this computer aged photograph to reflect how Bishop
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might look today if you have any information about this case please contact us at
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unsolved.com next a woman is reunited with a little girl she took into her home 40 years
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ago Bob it was the fall of 1969 glendine Butterfield rushed to greet her niece kellyanne who she
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planned to raise as part of her own family so beautiful blendin's brother Bob ARS was in the Army and being
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shipped to Germany he and kellyanne's mother were separated and neither was able to care for the child glendan was
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granted legal custody kellyanne spent the next few years happily growing up with glendan
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and her children she lik her horse she liked riding horses she just did everything
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that anybody's normal kid them me no different than them except they were a little older you know I mean she
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just happy gol lucky she was no different than my sister Vicki except for more fun she doesn't even know what it's like
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to have a father kellyanne was 4 years old when Bob suddenly returned and wanted his daughter back glendine was
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worried that her brother mother couldn't provide adequate care for kellyanne so
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she began looking for a more suitable home you don't stand a chance kellyanne's birthmother Marian was in
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the Air Force she was married and had two sons glendine felt that she could provide the stable environment that
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kellyanne needed a judge agreed to the plan I'm going to miss you so much I love you I
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don't want you to go what glendine did know was that the tearful party would be the last time she
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would see kellyanne there hasn't been one day went by since I gave her up I haven't thought
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of her a dozen times and wondered is she okay does she need anything is she happy I just wish I
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[Music] knew update within minutes of our broadcast we heard from a friend of Kelly Anne's
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family she told us that kellyanne was married the mother of two young children and now living in Anchorage
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Alaska kellyanne and glendine spoke on the phone that night and made plans to get
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together it feels wonderful I just can't believe I found her I don't believe
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that all these years I've pitched her like she's still 6 and 1/2 years old I
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never could imagine her grown [Music] up hearing from her again has it has filled gaps in my
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life that I have felt like you know there's part of my life missing you know
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where is it you know and I always feel like I'm looking for something but you know to know that
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she's cared about me and loved me all these years is very good feeling we drove truck lendine and
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kellyanne spent time catching up on the in years after the reunion they contined
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to stay in [Music] touch Lona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci's Masterpiece through the centuries
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Millions have been drawn to its mystery and Beauty most art historians say that Mona Lisa was the wife of a prosperous
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Merchant but could the portrait hide a secret identity when Leonardo da Vinci died in
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1519 The Secret of Mona's identity went with him to the Grave however a recent
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computer analysis of the portrait has uncovered a new intriguing Theory lilan Schwarz co-author of the
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computer artist handbook pioneered the use of the computer in art Lillian and a colleague were working
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with a new computer program when she compared a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci to the Mona
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Lisa when the self-portrait was reversed and placed beside the Mona Lisa a single
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face emerged the results were amazing this was an incredible match when I pointed this out I said my God I
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look at this look at this I mean Leonardo probably used himself for the model for the Mona
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Lisa the two faces appeared to be a perfect match the eyes the nose and especially the mouth using a different
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computer Lillian and her colleague even managed to turn up the corners of the self-portraits mouth to copy the famous
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Mona Lisa Smile next they compare the foreheads an extremely important clue was that the superorbital ridge that is
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very prominent in the Mona Lisa image and in Leonardo self-portrait is found in almost all males over 90% males
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rarely would you see that in a female head did Leonardo da Vinci actually serve as the model for one of the
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world's most beautiful women lilan Schwarz took her findings to magazine publisher Wick Allison initially I was
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very skeptical of Lillian's Discovery but when I got to understand um a very detailed work being done in
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the laboratory um it started to make uh not only sense to me that this was the answer but uh as we got to know more
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about human facial characteristics uh that it was the only answer there's certain things that right
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away would puzzle an art historian one is that the images Leonardo's images say the
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Mona Lisa is remarkable precisely for the fact that it's not very distinct the
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outlines of the face are not very strongly marked there's a shadow under the nose so you can't tell exactly how
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long it is so if one wants to apply an a scale there's nothing that tells you
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exactly where that scale should go in other words you're placing something very specific
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on top of something that's not very specific Professor Kathleen Brent is also skeptical about whether the drawing
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is a self-portrait if it was done by Da Vinci it style suggests the date when he would
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not have yet looked so old some in the art World believe the portrait was actually drawn by a clever
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forger well I found something really interesting here look Lillian set out to prove her Theory
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eventually she came across this study of an Italian Duchess named Isabella that many believe was a preliminary sketch of
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the Mona Lisa when Lillian compared the drawing of Isabella to an x-ray of the painting
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she found that it matched an UND sketch that people always assumed was the Mona Lisa for her it was a crucial
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detail I'm convinced that Leonardo started with isab B and then he used himself to complete
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this work of art changed much of what was the Duchess incorporating his own uh dimensions and
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forehead to create this fictionalized face however Professor Kathleen Brant argues that Lillian's Theory conflicts
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with Da Vinci's own philosophy about art Leonardo k artists that every painter
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somehow paints himself that is that his own self-image is somehow inherent in his images of others Leonardo says we
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have to try to counteract that so therefore it would be absolutely a contradiction if he would should
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willingly impose His Image into that of a young woman so did Leonardo da Vinci serve as
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his own model for the world's most famous painting for 500 years the Mona Lisa has
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