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this program is about Unsolved Mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events what you about to see is not a news broadcast tonight on Unsolved Mysteries
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an intriguing new story on April 10th 1967 Ralph probes the Cook County Illinois Sheriff officer
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had the night off while watching television with his wife Ralph went into the kitchen to make a phone
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call Ralph never regained Consciousness his killer is still at large in tiny lions Nebraska an
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intriguing love triangle left a woman murdered and the police chief on the Run also tonight the story of six
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Oklahoma children who were separated the day after their mother's funeral 30
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years later they are trying to reunite put the pain in the past behind them for every mystery there is someone somewhere
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who knows the truth perhaps it's you [Music] Lions Nebraska a quiet far town of 1200
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people is located 60 mi from Omaha in October of 1986 anamarie Anton a 34-year-old divorce moved to this small
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isolated Community she was a stranger to town there was no rational reason why she would move here people don't move to
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Lions Nebraska unless they have a job or family or they're returning to a small
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Hometown and she didn't have any of those 10 years before she settled in Lions Anna had severely injured her leg
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in a car accident good morning good morning Anna oh nice to see you thank you very much God bless you have a nice
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day now Anna's neighbors were happy to lend her a helping hand and her fellow
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parishioners at St Joseph's would take turns driving her to and from church Anna appeared to be a very
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religious person she had very high morals and did not drink she went to church daily if she could find a ride Shirley
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edcom lived across the street from Anna and would often take her grocery shopping they became friends and Anna
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began to confide in Shirley want me to put these away for you that'd be great sh she told me that
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her ex-husband had been involved in some large drug ring and that she had testified against him and other members
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of this drug ring and she was afraid that he was going to harm her surely can I show you something she had moved to
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Lion's to get away from her ex-husband if anything should happen to me I want
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you to open this envelope and call the number that's in it she did tell me that she'd chosen
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that apartment because the police chief lived right above her and she thought if
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her ex-husband ever did find her that he would be lary about bothering her because of the police car parked out in
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front on December 16th 1986 Shirley brought some groceries over to Anna's apartment
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she was surprised to find the back door locked Anna Shirley knocked on Anna's
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windows and called out her name there was no response Anna that evening Shirley tried to
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deliver the groceries several times but still there was no answer Anna seemed to have disappeared
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appeared as mysteriously as she arrived I hope you don't mind letting me in I'm really worried about her it's not
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like her to just disappear police chief Greg Webb who lived upstairs from Anna agreed to help we went in thinking we
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probably find Anna had fallen and there was no sign of her looks like she hasn't been here for a
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couple days she was supposed to meet me I can't imagine why she didn't call
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let's check the bedroom okay there was an outfit of clothes that was laid out on the bed why she would lay
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her shirt and jeans all the way down to underwear here's the shoes she always
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wore where would she go without these this time of year and that seems strange because this is in the winter time and
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if you take your coat and your purse and your cane seems only reasonable you would take your
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shoes here it is call some of the people in this book maybe they've seen her why don't you let
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me do that it's my job okay a few hours later he called me and said that he had
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called those numbers in the book but uh she wasn't at any of those places 11 days after Anna disappeared
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her body was found in a remote field she had 2 38 caliber bullet wounds in her torso since the crime scene was outside
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Lion's jurisdiction state criminal investigator Jerry creger of the Nebraska state patrol was called in on
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the case upon observing the surroundings around Anna it was very apparent that uh
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she did not circum her death there that the body had been moved how you doing Mike
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hi yeah it looks like a gunshot one somebody had left her out there and was careful and ref to not leaving anything
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behind she was in an unclad condition it appeared as though the body had been cleaned didn't and it also appeared that
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it had been there for quite some time okay we're going to have to start uh getting out and canvasing the area and
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see if anybody heard anything or saw anything okay I'll get right on it surprisingly the autopsy revealed that
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Anna's blood alcohol level was 22 extremely high for a woman who purportedly did not
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drink after they found the body Jerry creger came over to our place he wanted to know everything about Anna
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this is the note that Anna gave me she told me to open it if anything should ever happen to her Shirley do you know
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why Anna would leave you a note she told me she was afraid of her ex-husband her
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feelings were that Anna's ex-husband had caused her death she had related to me
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that her ex-husband had involved in narcotics that he was a heavy drug dealer and that she was very fearful of
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her life within a short period of time we were able to determine that Anna's ex-husband
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did have an alibi and he was not involved in any drug activity and I just couldn't understand why Anna would
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fabricate this information the police officers working on the case agreed to meet in lions at
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the highway Cafe to compare notes Chief Webb was among them knowing that Anna lived in the same building as the chief
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Jerry creger quiz him about his neighbor how long did you know ant Anton 2 2 and a/2 months where did you meet
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her Arnold's Park were you and she ever intimately involved [Music] no were you and she ever intimately
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involved yes on the night you moved in officer web would you please excuses du the fact that he had lied to me being
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a police officer especially a chief of police during a major investigation like this and also thinking back to the crime
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scene my thoughts were thinking strongly to the fact that uh Greg was a suspect okay Rea let's go over here by the chair
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and work our way back okay two days after Anna's body was found Creer and lab technicians performed a test in
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Anna's apartment to search for blood stains through throughout the test Greg
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Webb was upstairs in his apartment there were times that we would hear somebody walking or moving
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upstairs it did sound as though he might have been listening the police use a special
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chemical called illuminal which makes drops of blood hemoglobin glow in the dark even if they have been washed away
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or are small and Faded we found traces of blood in the living room and dining room area of an Anton's apartment oh
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look at that look at that the trail of blood just outside of Anna Anton's door was quite heavy the
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trail then led up the stairs to Greg Webb's apartment all the way right here
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right here at the top of the step okay my main concern at that particular time was uh attempting to obtain a
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search warrant for Greg Webb's apartment during the police investigation Greg Webb left his
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apartment the next day he withdrew $3,000 and then disappeared 5 days later armed with a
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warrant investigator creger searched the chief's apartment well why don't you go
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ahead and get the kitchen here okay we did find a mop that did have a trace of blood that was later shown to be the
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same type as an anons Jerry you want to take a look at this in the bedroom closet the police
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found a military style coat with several spots of blood these stains Prov to be the same
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blood type as Anna Anton's package it and label it okay once I started checking into an
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Anton's background I had learned that she had two separate lives one life down
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here in Lions Nebraska where she was very religious and then the other up in Arnold's Park where she would uh
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referred to as a bar F Denny Denny Hi how are you good how you she would uh carry on with men hi you
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get better looking every day well thank you this is where an Anton and Greg Webb
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had met I want to introduce you to a friend of mine this is Greg Webb he's chief of
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police at lines Nebraska nice to meet you Greg and Anna became friends when Anna told him she was looking for a
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place to live web suggested that she move into an unoccupied apartment in his building I think Anna Anton moved here
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with the anticipation that uh her and Greg Webb uh may have something in common and possibly maybe you eventually
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U getting together and maybe even marriage you're on duty tomorrow my day off an I was infatuated with web but she
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soon learned that he had another girlfriend Anna seemed to be preoccupied with the fact that Greg had this
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girlfriend and the fact that they were not not married but evidently sleeping together she talked about uh laying in
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bed at night and hearing them upstairs making love and it bothered her she would turn the stereo
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[Music] on she felt that it was a sin to the point that she would get holy water and
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sprinkle it up and down the steps and on the door knobs investigator creger has learned
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that the night of Anna's death Greg Webb was intoxicated I believe Anna Anton's death
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could have resulted from a fight that might have occurred due to the fact that Anna Anton had found out about this
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other woman and confronted Greg Webb about this give me it was learned that during the
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following day in the early morning hours Greg Webb was seen carrying something from his house out to the trunk of his
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car and it was learned later that what he was carrying was actually an Anton the police believe Webb removed
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all of Anna's clothes and carefully washed her body before she was carried from the
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apartment it is possible that Anna's body was left in that particular Farmer's field because Webb knew the
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land was part of an Indian reservation which would cause jurisdiction problems for the
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[Music] authorities I feel that Greg web might have thought that he had committed the
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perfect crime in the way he had disposed of the body and also to the fact that uh
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he would have known about uh an Anton's ex-husband on January 6th 1987 a warrant
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was issued for police chief Greg Webb's arrest he was charged with first-degree
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murder update Greg Webb is now in custody when this story was rerun in February of
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1993 an alert viewer in Orlando Florida recognized web as a man he knew as Jim Weber a construction
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worker well when I when I was watching it and they showed Greg when he came on um they they mentioned him as Greg web
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and I mean just just like the guy I knew is Jim and uh again they had said it was
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Greg and uh this Greg Webb and I met knew him as Gregory James Weber and he went by Jim Weber so uh I just put the
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two together like I say it just looked just like him so it was quite a shock Florida had faxed me uh
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photographs of the driver's license that was issued under Gregory James Weber and
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once I did see the photographs I knew that that was Gregory uh John web the the arrest went very well we uh
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there wasn't any resistance whatsoever we took him by surprise and um he was
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arrested at an off-site construction [Music] site next the story of two brothers who
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had a heartwarming reunion deserted gas station in rural Oklahoma 25 years after
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they were separated they are looking for their lost siblings perhaps you can help find
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[Music] them sadly one out of every 30 children in America suffers from child abuse for
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these victims healing the wounds is a long painful process in our next Story five brothers and their sister were put
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up for adoption after particularly brutal and violent childhood and for 23 years never saw each other again now
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they want to purge the hate and bitterness from their past they are hoping that if they can be reunited they
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will be able to exercise those terrible memories that are still a part of their [Music]
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lives Locust Grove Oklahoma in 1959 Edith Rogers her husband top Rogers and their six
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children all lived in this remote rural community [Music] life was hard for the Rogers family it
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was little money even for the necessities of life for clothing and food we never had
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much clothing that I can remember we didn't ever wear shoes and there was one time there I can
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remember going out without food for several days getting what I got week that I was
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in bed and it seemed like the people of the town of Lo Grove brought us some food out to eat I think I think that's
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one of those times that Mom and Dad run off on one of their drunks ain't nobody in this house going
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to top Roger frequent drinking led to regular beatings for his wife and children one night I grabbed a stick of
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wood out of the stove box and run at him and he hit me knocked me across the floor threw a kitchen knife at me you'll
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never find fin beat of and tell me what the bottle is I got memories of him being a good man
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but 90% of the time he seemed like he was drunk and that's when he was mean thank you Robert by 1960 the family
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had only a little happiness and no real future well mom come in the house and gave us some presents said this would be
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the last chance you'd get to give it to us said that your kids are going to have
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to go away [Applause] in the spring of 1960 a Court ruled that Edith and top were unfit parents and in
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June social workers arrived to the Rogers Log Cabin the children were taken away to
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the local prior orphanage [Music] home they said they was going to take us away and we'd never get to come back
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again it didn't really hit us right then what was happening it was later on it
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really took effect you know we lost her mom and dad she didn't even really have any family
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it was just Dad and us kids there's just nothing else to live for except more of
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the same that she got from him few more beat and she missed us so bad I know how
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that must have tore her heart out 6 months later Edith Rogers committed suicide by swallowing poison
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I can't say that I would have done the same thing I just wish she'd have been
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strong enough to endure it but we were all she had and when we were gone her life was over she probably
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died before she even died the children's father top Rogers had been arrested in Arkansas charged
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with killing a man in a fight handcuffed he was escorted back to Oklahoma to attend his wife's
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funeral here for these few sad moment the rers children were reunited for the last time for the memorial service of
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Edith Rogers it has been requested that we close the service today with singing the old hymn silent night would you
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please join me please silent night holy night it's time I thought that was a
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strange song to be singing at a funeral he'd get me down every time I'd hear
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that song [Music] afterward it wasn't a Christmas carol to me it was a death
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[Music] song Heavenly peace sleep in heav losing your mother and all your brothers you might as well shot me
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in a heart it wouldn't have been any more painful after the service the children
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were once again separated they were subsequently adopted into six different homes where they grew up isolated from
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each other 23 years later El May who is now called Celia Wangler wrote a letter to
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the Oklahoma Department of Human services at the same time Johnny Lee whose name is now John rer also
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contacted the same Authorities on February 10th 1984 Celia and John were reunited in the suburb of
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Oklahoma [Music] City hello hi brought you Son thank you how are you okay how are you when I met him it was
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just a neat feeling she good we were both lit up like a Christmas tree your K I felt like I'd known him
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all my life and that was the strangest part let's go we sat and visited for hours and within 3 weeks of that we
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found Robert when they told me I'd never see my brothers and sisters again I know
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better than that cuz I knew I loved them and they was my family and I was going to find them and that never left my mind
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for 26 years Robert and John agreed to meet on a Sunday morning in April 1984 at a gas
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station only 20 M from their childhood home in Locust [Applause] Gro well when he got out of his pickup
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it just seemed like an empty spot and my heart had been filled hello Big Brother
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little brother my foot you're bigger than I am how are you just fine how are
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you I'm good I've waited all my life so have I there was a great love there they could have sent 10 people to
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replace John and I don't think I'd have felt it I think I'd have seen through it
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and I can't explain it that's just the way it was in the spring of 1984 a third
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brother Vernon was found in April John and C agreed to meet Robert in Locust Grove where they had
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all been born and try to exercise the ghosts of their [Music] past it would be the first time in 24
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years that they would be going home all three had mixed feelings about the trip they worried that seeing the log cabin
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again would awaken long buried memories of their truly unhappy childhood I came to find the answers to
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the question questions of who I am and my past my roots parents teach your children to
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love when they're little or they teach them to hate they taught me to [Music]
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hate you pull up there you know like to the log cabin and it's like you finally
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found your roots and it's like going home you know yeah don't look like it's been lived in
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while sure something this is where you live a [Music] [Music] baby well kids what do you think of this
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place it's home that's where we used to live check it out you know when Mom and Dad adopted
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me dad he he told me that I had like scars on my back and on my legs and way more scars than what most normal kids my
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age should have we all got a lot of weapons and they was usually severe beatings I didn't have any physical
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scars but they were mental do you know myself I feel were way better off getting adopted out I I imagine both of
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y'all feel the same way don't you yeah right later that day they went to the
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cemetery to find their mother's grave they discovered their father had also died 8 years
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before here it is I found it over [Music] [Applause] here I hated my father very much I hated
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him at least 18 solid years that's what lived in my mind some of the things that he done to
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me when I was a child I had full intentions of going back when I got older and giving him a
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chance to do it again the day that I got to my father's grave the hate kind of left me it
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died and I wish then that he was still alive so I could say I was sorry and maybe he would tell me he was
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[Music] sorry as much alike as the three of us are I tend to believe that the other two
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are a lot similar and probably have the same needs and pains that we went through and I think finding the other
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two brothers when that day comes it will be the climax of of the whole story for
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us you know of the remaining two untraced brothers Billy is the youngest of the six children and was born in
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1959 Billy would now be 30 years old Joey was born in 1957 and as a brother between Robert and John he would
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probably remember his brothers and would currently be 32 years old the happy ending to this story to me
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is when I get a phone call from my other brothers that that that'd be the truly
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happy ending to have found him thanks to our broadcast John riger's dream of a happy ending became a reality
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the morning after the story aired John contacted his brothers Joey and Billy for the first time in almost 30 years
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the Rogers children immediately made arrangements for a reunion Joey was five and Billy just a
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year old when the family was separated [Music] on the morning of October 27th 34-year-old Joey whose adopted name is
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Rusty dunant arrived at his sister Celia's home in Oklahoma City Rusty been waiting a long time
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buy Rusty lives only 36 miles from his brother John amazingly they have mutual friends and have even met socially on a
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number of occasions a lot of coffee we've brushed shoulders several times we've been to
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several places we were within speaking distance of each other and I've seen him
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out eye and I never would have known he as my brother later that day the youngest of
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the Rogers children Billy whose name is now Chuck Young arrived at the airport and was greeted by his brothers and
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[Music] sister are [Music] you Chuck who Liv Liv in Tennessee watched our broadcast and was shocked
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when he realized that he was one of the missing Brothers at the end of the show they put
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the family picture together well I I seen me sitting there and I just got up out of the chair and I said that's me
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that's me you know they looking for [Music] me for the Rogers family this reunion
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marks the beginning of a new chapter in their lives I think what we were all looking
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for was the part of our our hearts that was torn out years ago and now you know I don't I don't hurt anymore because
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that part of my heart's been replaced it it it's back again and it feels
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good all right this is a toast to us and I want you all to know I love all of you I'm glad to be here today
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[Music] two-thirds of the fugitives profile and Unsolved Mysteries have been captured
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because of Vital Information receiv receiv from our viewers one of those fugitives was John money who eight years
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ago escaped from a Georgia prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder in the early morning hours of
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August 30th 1977 an Athens Georgia restaurant owner named TK Hardy was murdered while reading in his study at
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home [Music] the prime suspect in the case was John Mooney a rival restaurant owner who had
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a long running Feud with Hardy actually I had to do a lot of four weeks later police got their first break
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in the case a local restaurant manager told him that an Atlanta electrician named Elmo Florence had bragged that he
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killed TK Hardy and that John money had paid him to do it on June 20th 1978 El Florence was
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convicted of first-degree murder John Mooney was also convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to
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life in a Maximum Security Prison but 3 months later he was transferred to a minimum security facility on March 16th
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1980 he escaped update Scottdale Arizona within minutes of our broadcast two viewers
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called our teles Center to report that John Mooney was living in this house under the assumed name Robert J
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Kelly on August 8th John money Alias Robert Kelly was arrested at his home by the Mesa Police Mooney had been living
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in Arizona since 1982 he was enrolled at Arizona State University for the past several years
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he've been working as an accountant for various companies in the Scottdale area
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Mooney married 6 years ago and has a one-year-old child on September 16th 1989 over 9
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years years after he escaped John money was returned to [Music] Georgia outside the Academy Theater the
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atmosphere is electric even though I have attended 15 ceremonies I April 10th 1967 the night of the Oscars like
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millions of Americans Ralph proest and his wife marleene settled down in front of the television to watch the
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ceremony well we were watching the Academy Awards on TV that night and I must have dozed
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off and the next thing I knew there was this loud explosion that woke me up I saw this cloud of smoke from behind
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the television set when I went in the kitchen Ralph was laying on the kitchen floor
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Ralph probest had been shot once in the back of the head by the time Marlene was able to
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summon help her husband was dead he never regained Consciousness Ralph probest was a
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30-year-old Cook County Illinois sheriff's officer in addition to marleene Ralph Left Behind three small
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children and a series of baffling questions that over 23 years later remain unanswered
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4 days after his murder officer probest was laid to rest among the MERS was a fellow officer
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Bob barowski on that afternoon he made a silent pledge as I Stood Beside the casket and
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looked down at Ralph I made a vow to him that I would find his killer and I would
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not rest until I get him I figured it would be solved quickly but it didn't turn out that
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[Music] way bar barasi is still trying to keep his promise it is said that there is no such
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thing as the Perfect Crime but for more than two decades the murder of Ral propes has come
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uncomfortably close evidence left at the scene pointed to a carefully planned and premeditated
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crime but to date no motive has been established today 23 years later Bob barowski carries on the search for his
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partner's killer Bob barowski and Ralph probes met for the first time in 1964 shortly after
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Ralph graduated from the police academy okay Gentlemen let's shape up your inspection time the two men were
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both assigned to an elite unit called the Tactical Squad excellent Ralph had originally been a chemical engineer but
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then decided to pursue a career in law enforcement looking good propes and barowski you got stick Township tonight
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we had a lot of problems out there last night everybody else on the department looked up at the attack unit we were a
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very elite unit we were all spit and polish and we are a very proud Bunch Ral was not only a partner but he was also a
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friend and it was that sort of relationship you can depend on him and he could depend on
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you you driving again Ralph soon earned the reputation as a man who played strictly by the rules this inflexibility
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earned him at least one bitter enemy a few months before his death Ralph and Bob were two of the officers assigned to
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guard Duty in a notorious mobster Sam D Stefano D Stefano had been convicted and
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sentenced on charges of conspiracy but had been transferred from prison to a local hospital after complaining of
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stomach trouble to guard you you two lackes are going to guard me Sam you can't have any visitors here you folks
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are going to have to go come on you're my doctor hang on call the doctor don't
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steal my apples copper man' you're going to have to go too get your hands off for
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her call my lawyer you're also going to have to eat the regular hospital food
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just like everyone else in the hospital oh I am as a matter of fact I do that's
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why you're here now uh lie down on the bed hey what are you doing when uh Ralph
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handcuffed the Stefano to the bed he became very irate and threaten to kill him better grow eyes in the back of your
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head if you need us we'll be outside get out get out of here we really didn't
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take it very serious we felt that he was just a big bag of wind and uh just brushed it off I don't think that the
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risk ever entered Ralph's mind I really don't I think it to him it was a job he
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enjoyed it and I don't think he was ever afraid I imagine in the back of anyone's
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mind something could happen but I don't think he dwelled on it on the night of Ralph's death police
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were confronted by an unusual pattern of circumstantial evidence it appeared as if Ralph had
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been shot through the kitchen window okay now secure the house make sure nobody gets in it doesn't belong I
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don't care who it is Police canvased the neighborhood looking for Witnesses though the killer was allegedly standing
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outside the house nobody saw the gunman but a few people did hear a shot we want
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a good clear shot of this Ricochet Mark the bullet that killed Ralph had ricocheted off a kitchen cabinet and
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then Fallen onto the stove this bullet had been fired from a rare 41 caliber magnum a gun that had only recently been
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manufactured keep your eyes nears working as what's going out on the street see if there's any talk contact
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all your informants though there were only 2,000 of these guns in the United States police were unable to locate the
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murder weapon and in spite of a huge Manhunt there were no suspects and no other leads okay we don't have a motive
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on this one yet it could be some nut who just doesn't like police officers so
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when you're out there be very careful one likely suspect Sam D Stefano was immediately cleared of complicity in the
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murder there were no other suspects save one Ralph's wife marleene I know from the beginning of
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the investigation I think what puzzled everybody is how I had seen smoke inside the house but if the gunman had been
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outside there would have been smoke inside and yet when I woke up that's the
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first thing I saw was this small cloud of smoke coming up from like in back of my television
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set this Telltale puff of smoke LED police to suspected the shot had been fired from inside the house in addition
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glass was found in the yard not on the kitchen floor when you have a murder investigation one of the first places
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you start with is with the family and it's just normal unless you have immedi evidence to lead you away
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from the family are you set inside yeah the investigators conducted an experiment to see if Marlene was telling
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the truth first they fired from 15 ft away there was no smoke and the glass fell
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inside but then they fired 2 in away from the window there was a puff of smoke inside
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the house all over I never seen anything like that we found the glass came out back under the shooter and fell to the
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ground and we had the puff of smoke inside the house from that point on we knew that Marlene was telling the
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truth we determined that the shooter would have have to have been 5' 11 or taller in order for that projectile to
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follow the path to where it struck Ralph to strike the center of the back of the
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head where the entry point was took one terrific shot he could have been a professional
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Hitman and he could always have been a law enforcement person there was another baffling facet
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to this case how was a killer able to know that Ralph would be standing by the kitchen
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window if anyone had been watching the house they wouldn't have been able to
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know even what room we were sitting in unless they were standing by that kitchen window there was no other window
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in our house that they could have seen through but the kitchen window every other window was covered my my theory on
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Ralph's murder is that somebody knew Ralph was going to be in that position at that certain time there was too much
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light in the driveway and that person did not stay there and wait for hours for Ralph to get in that certain
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position whoever did it knew Ralph was going to be there at that time and that person was there at that time it wasn't
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somebody that was laying for Ralph was set up to be in that position I believe that possibly he was
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going to receive a phone call or he was going to make a phone call we have information that prior to
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uh coming home and and watching TV with his wife that Ralph went to a gas station made a phone
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call that could have been where he received information that he was going to receive a phone call or to make a
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phone call therefore put him in that position by the window at that certain time hi it's
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Ralph biggest question I think in my mind is why he was killed who did it and why I can remember a conversation with
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Ralph where uh he made the statement that I'm working on something and uh when I solve it they're going to make me
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a sergeant you're going to be Sergeant I'm telling you I'm going to make
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sergeant and of course my reaction was yeah sure Ralph okay you know and they're going to make me the president
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of the United States and it was just laughed off and he said no more on it and apparently he was
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serious you're going to be sorry H bar I believes that Ralph may have been working on his own secretly in
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order to bring down a vice ring support for this Theory came when it was discovered that several days before his
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death Ralph had been seen at the home of ex-convict Frank Calvis Ralph had spoken with Cal's wife
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and then left come on in I'll show you around I think you'll like it one week before the
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murder a man closely resembling calv paid a visit to a house for sale across the street from Ralph's home as they
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toured the house the visitor asked if the floor plan was similar to the probest residence and we just put in new
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cabinets hey I just was wondering uh all the houses on this block have the same floor plan most of the houses in this
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area were built about the same time yeah however after identifying calv in a police lineup the neighbor changed his
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story some believe he was frightened into retracting his testimony not bad not bad not being touch all any other he
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stated to one of the investigators you realize that if they shot Ralph probes across the street they wouldn't hesitate
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to kill me too so that left us at a a dead end on uh Frank K that house over there is the
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same as yours Frank Kel died in 1974 no charges were ever filed in connection with Ralph's death Ralph had
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information on something whether would be Vice pornography fencing operation and whoever killed him
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knew that he was going to talk about it and they killed him before he could immediately after R probes murder
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30 officers were assigned to the investigation today only two Cook County officers are on the case barasi works on
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his own at this time I am unofficially still working on a case and whoever did it
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I've been making him awful nervous because he knows that I'm not giving up
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that somehow some way somebody's going to say something and he's going to get
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caught so somewhere somebody's awful nervous and I'm going to keep him that
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way next week on Unsolved Mysteries for over one 100 years the inhabitants of Marfa Texas have seen bizarre lights
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hovering over the Desert Sands science can offer little explanation as to what they might be but local Legend has given
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them the name ghost lights join me next week for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries
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