00:00:05
tonight on unsolved mysteries [Music] a teenage girl and her friend vanished the night her parents are slain
00:00:14
and their home set ablaze we only had one body accounted for could find no others yet we had all the
00:00:22
cars there at the house were they abducted or were they involved in the murders a young american woman is stranded on
00:00:30
jamaica when her business plans go awry days later she vanishes what happened to
00:00:37
claudia kershaw a young teen tormented by ghosts for the past nine years michael jones believes
00:00:45
supernatural spirits have been tormenting him from poltergeist activity to physical
00:00:51
torture there's a there's a lot of ghosts in our house that are after me
00:00:56
and there's a lot of bad ones and good ones and they're all fighting with each
00:01:00
other could the spirits be vying for this boy's soul a young widow falls for the charismatic
00:01:09
leader of the pack she has no idea he is a dangerous ex-convict wanted by federal authorities
00:01:16
did she willingly join him as he fled or did she become his victim join me for these intriguing cases
00:01:27
perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] so so bonita oklahoma a small rural town in
00:02:19
craig county december 29 1999. what is it ashley freeman turned sweet 16 at her home it is a night of celebration
00:02:31
for her parents and for her best friend laura bible laura she said to me daddy is it all
00:02:39
right if i spend the night with ashley to the freeman's home blow them all out i said well
00:02:45
just make sure you're home by noon tomorrow you know and noon tomorrow didn't happen the way it
00:02:53
should have sometime during the night the freeman's home becomes an inferno by 8 am when laura's parents arrive the
00:03:07
fire is extinguished but the freeman's home has been reduced to ashes there's a car laura's car is on the
00:03:16
charred property but there is no sign of their daughter jay and laureen bible fear the worst we did find one
00:03:24
body but it's not laura county coroner told me that there was only one body that's all
00:03:29
they found i said have they found any anybody else and she said no i said did they look and she said yes
00:03:37
we've looked but there's no other bodies there the lone body discovered in the debris
00:03:43
is that of kathy freeman the mother of laura's friend ashley the craig county sheriff's department
00:03:49
and the oklahoma state bureau of investigation are perplexed where are ashley her father danny
00:03:56
and laura bible we only had one body accounted for could find no others yet we had all the
00:04:04
cars there at the house that was that was a little bit bizarre and no one could quite uh piece
00:04:10
two and two together on that it didn't make any sense [Music] we was just kind of wondering where they
00:04:19
could be i mean we didn't know we didn't have a clue what had happened couldn't even come up with a good idea
00:04:28
as to what might have happened [Music] one person dead and three missing the case became even more baffling when the
00:04:37
coroner determined kathy freeman died not in the fire from a shotgun wound to the head the
00:04:44
arson squad concluded the blaze was deliberately set authorities speculated kathy might have
00:04:50
been killed by her husband danny who then fled taking the girls hostage but there would be other suspects
00:04:57
including the investigators themselves even the two missing girls were not above suspicion
00:05:06
laura bible and ashley freeman were inseparable friends since kindergarten both were honor students and popular
00:05:13
school even when one ventured her own separate way there was the other cheering her on laura and ashley call
00:05:21
each other at least once a week if not more what one was thinking the other was thinking it's kind of like when two
00:05:27
people one can finish the sentence when the other one starts one the day after the fire laura's parents
00:05:34
returned to what is now a crime scene they hoped to find a clue the investigators had missed
00:05:40
[Music] after searching only five minutes jay bible made a shocking discovery oh no oh wow lorraine come here
00:05:51
quick a body burn almost beyond recognition the bible's quickly determined however
00:05:58
it was neither laura nor ashley but an adult male 1 there was no face there he did not have
00:06:05
anything from the upper teeth all the way to the top of his head he was totally gone like he'd been shot
00:06:12
in the face we just couldn't believe that they had overlooked a second body in this fire
00:06:19
the body was identified as danny freeman ashley's father who investigators had initially believed
00:06:26
murdered his wife like kathy he had been shot at close range with a shotgun investigators reexamined the crime scene
00:06:37
but no additional bodies were found the new search however yielded one important clue
00:06:45
laura's purse which contained her driver's license and nearly two hundred
00:06:48
dollars in cash honey what reason would laura have to leave it behind unless she had been taken away against
00:06:57
her will laura's purse i feel that someone had went in there for whatever reason
00:07:03
murdered denny and kathy and took the girls if laura and ashley were abducted who
00:07:08
took them and why the craig county sheriff's department tried to piece together what happened
00:07:16
the night of ashley's birthday her boyfriend who attended the party said that all was well
00:07:22
when it broke up at 9 30 p.m whatever occurred must have begun sometime after he left at that hour
00:07:35
at first investigators believed a robbery may have turned deadly but the cash left behind in laura's
00:07:41
purse eliminated that possibility if murder alone was the intruder's intent who in venita oklahoma had reason
00:07:50
to kill danny and kathy freeman [Music] one shocking possibility was voiced by danny freeman himself
00:07:59
three months before he was killed he told his brother dwayne listen dwayne if anything should ever
00:08:07
happen to me i want you to take a look at the sheriff's office sure why he and i were it was at his
00:08:14
house and he put his finger in my face and he said if anything ever happens to me
00:08:21
look at the sheriff's department and he was serious he was in my face to drive it home with me
00:08:27
[Music] for months it had been rumored in veneta that the craig county sheriff's
00:08:33
department had been feuding with the freemans it began when danny's son shane was shot
00:08:40
and killed by a deputy after he had stolen a truck and a neighbor's gun although shane's killing was rule
00:08:48
justifiable the freemans threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the sheriff's department
00:08:56
according to simon venita the freeman's accusations provoked deputies to embark
00:09:00
on a campaign of intimidation get out of the truck danny what is this about this is about you looking all over he
00:09:09
was basically told according to danny that they could do anything they wanted to to him and his family and there
00:09:14
wasn't a thing he could do about it you're taking yourself out of the investigation when danny and his wife
00:09:20
were found dead the craig county sheriff's department voluntarily turned the case over to the oklahoma state
00:09:26
bureau of investigation because it was of such a concern to the residents of the area
00:09:33
we looked into the possibility that deputies could have been involved with the deaths of danny and kathy
00:09:39
freeman we utilized several techniques one of which was polygraph all consented to the polygraph examinations and all
00:09:51
cleared themselves as a result of those examinations the overall conclusion of our efforts
00:09:57
was that the sheriff's office had nothing to do with the murders of danny and kathy
00:10:01
and did not know the whereabouts of the two missing girls [Music] the hint of another possibility occurred
00:10:07
two weeks before the murders according to an informant danny freeman met two unidentified men one of whom was clearly
00:10:16
unwelcome what's he doing here we just got some things we want to talk about rumors in
00:10:22
veneta had spread that danny was a small-time drug trafficker i'm not dealing with you
00:10:27
while he's here so you can just take off danny could a drug deal gone bad have resulted in a double murder she
00:10:34
wanted to consider that it was drug related and it's someone for revenge purposes
00:10:40
entered the home killed the mother and father and abducted the children and nothing fits correctly in that type
00:10:46
of scenario the very last thing that the people who committed the murder would want to do
00:10:51
would be abduct the children a disturbing possibility remained could ashley freeman herself have
00:10:59
murdered her parents then fled with laura i believe that the freeman girl could possibly be involved
00:11:07
i believe there was a great deal of friction in freeman household because of reports that danny and his daughter
00:11:15
did not get along well at all hadn't for some time that's something we can't overlook
00:11:21
ashley freeman might have something to do with the death of danny and kathy however it's
00:11:28
been 15 months since the incident and i find it difficult to believe that the girls by themselves could hide out that
00:11:34
long and not be found today jay and laureen bible are left with only unanswered questions
00:11:43
and the void of their daughter's absence we have come to the conclusion that
00:11:48
laura's in the wrong place at the wrong time i do feel that she's still alive but
00:11:54
whether she's alive or dead i want to know she put up the christmas tree and
00:12:02
we still have that christmas tree standing in the house we haven't taken it down
00:12:07
you know we love her dearly and wish we could have her back wish we could have both
00:12:10
girls back because at this point i've taken and raise them both and never let them go
00:12:27
[Music] [Music] [Music] jamaica a picturesque caribbean island known for its sun-drenched beaches
00:12:52
crystal clear waters and all-inclusive resorts the kind of place where people come to
00:12:58
live out their dreams but what if visiting the jamaican paradise turned into a nightmare
00:13:05
in may 2000 new york-based travel writers claudia kershaw and tanya grossinger found themselves stranded on jamaica
00:13:13
when their business trip to havana cuba was suddenly cancelled when we found out that we weren't going
00:13:20
to cuba we were really really upset i had assignments claudia was there on work we were also concerned because when they
00:13:28
told us we couldn't go they also told us we couldn't get back to new york
00:13:33
prior to a trip to the caribbean claudia kershaw had landed a job as an editor at
00:13:38
fromer's travel guides for someone who had a passion for travel and adventure it was a dream come true
00:13:46
but tragically this was destined to be the final trip taken by claudia while awaiting her return to the u.s the
00:13:53
savvy and experienced 29 year old traveler vanished without a trace and has yet to make it home let's put
00:14:00
one up here okay claudia's parents fred and marianne kershaw rushed to nagrill jamaica as
00:14:07
soon as they learned of her disappearance when we found out she was missing we knew that there was a definite problem
00:14:14
knowing her knowing that she called frequently knowing that she would have told us
00:14:19
there was a change of plans we knew there was something drastically wrong [Music]
00:14:25
fred and marianne kershaw were not prepared for the hurdles they would encounter when trying to learn claudia's
00:14:30
fate but coming to grips with their daughter's dire situation they would have to deal with jamaican red tape
00:14:37
false leads and lost her missing clues and in the end conflicting theories would emerge to explain
00:14:44
what happened to claudia kershaw sandals resorts has sponsored claudia kershaw and tanya grossinger's original
00:14:53
press trip to havana cuba when the trip was canceled without warning the chain put them up at the
00:15:00
resort in the grill jamaica until returned flights could be booked back to new york
00:15:05
in the meantime the two women who'd only met for the first time on this trip
00:15:10
decided to make the best of being in limbo so ladies where come from we're from new york new york claudia
00:15:17
made friends with anthony grant one of the resort's bartenders [Music] she was a big fan of reggae music and
00:15:26
grant reportedly offered to take her to a nearby club the next morning she told me that she
00:15:43
had gone out with one of the bartenders who turns out to be anthony grant she told me that they
00:15:49
went to a club that they smoked some dope and that they went skinny it doesn't it didn't seem to be a
00:15:59
remarkable experience for i mean it was just something that she did you know the situation is in retrospect
00:16:08
i wish i could remember everything she said but in fact it wasn't such a big deal to her or to
00:16:13
me well okay so you remember the bartender tanya grossinger managed to book a flight home sooner than claudia
00:16:19
you mean those little beach bars she expected her travel companion would follow shortly
00:16:24
and they agreed to meet up in new york city once claudia returned to her job there
00:16:28
i wanted to go dance it's all good but later that afternoon claudia kershaw mysteriously vanished
00:16:35
from the island you think i'm going to be able to find somebody that can braid my hair just up
00:16:39
the way there a little bit she was reportedly last seen by a lifeguard walking along a negril beach
00:16:45
away from the resort she didn't on june 2nd claudia's parents were notified that she hadn't shown up
00:17:02
for work in new york as scheduled fred and marianne kershaw had an unsettling feeling when they finally
00:17:09
reached someone at the jamaican resort [Music] hotel maids had reported claudia missing
00:17:17
after noticing she had not slept in her bed for several days nothing in her room seemed to miss every
00:17:23
item of her clothing except one bathing suit was neatly packed away in her suitcase
00:17:29
her passport credit cards cell phone and 180 dollars in cash were recovered from the hotel's safe
00:17:36
where she left them probably the most devastating piece of news initially was that all of her
00:17:41
belongings were in her room i mean we would rather have heard that some of her things were missing and then
00:17:47
we would have thought maybe she went somewhere else when we heard the news that claudia's
00:17:51
things were all in her room and they didn't know where she was it's not that's not claudia claudia's
00:17:58
really organized orderly person if she was planning to go off somewhere she would have made a phone call
00:18:04
she would have let us know we felt earl very early on that something happened to
00:18:10
her that something just was not right as soon as they found out claudia was missing the kershaw's hurried to jamaica
00:18:20
good afternoon i wonder if you could tell me if you've seen my daughter once
00:18:27
in the grill the kershaw's attempts to find out what happened to their daughter
00:18:30
were repeatedly dashed by frustration thank you beginning with a resort that had sponsored claudia's trip
00:18:40
as a security precaution the license plates of all vehicles entering and leaving the sandals resort are
00:18:46
meticulously recorded in a log book the log book for the month the claudia disappeared
00:18:53
cannot be found the videotape from a surveillance camera mounted near claudia's room was recorded
00:19:01
over before being viewed room 621 the room where claudius stayed was cleared by housekeeping and hotel
00:19:10
security before the potential crime scene was processed for clues without any evidence of foul play
00:19:21
jamaican authorities focused on other possibilities because she was last seen on the beach
00:19:27
and because a bathing suit was the only item of clothing known to be missing from her belongings
00:19:32
jamaican police investigated the possibility that claudia had drowned it's not impossible but i would say it's
00:19:41
highly unlikely that area it's not deep and the current is not very strong and if something should go wrong with
00:19:51
someone there the body will be found easily [Music] as news of claudius disappears spread
00:19:59
through jamaica numerous sightings of a woman fitting claudia's description began to suggest
00:20:05
another possibility many local negril residents believe that claudia was alive and had intentionally gone into hiding
00:20:17
the local phrase broken loose was used to describe how she may have chosen to run away from her old life
00:20:23
to live in the hills with a jamaican lover we know she wouldn't do that she had no
00:20:30
reason to escape as as has been said she loved her life you know her family her friends her
00:20:35
new apartment everything was going right for her so there was nothing to escape so we got a call that claudia went off
00:20:43
with a restaurant in some hills in jamaica bongo i we have checked several areas we have
00:20:50
spoken to a number of restaurants everything cool all righty we just want some help
00:20:55
in fact we have gone to an area where the report said she was take a look and there is no information
00:21:02
to suggest that claudia curtis was ever seen in that area if you ever see her or hear anybody say
00:21:09
anything about her you'll never find me where is she now show me frustrated by the progress of the
00:21:16
investigation claudia's parents enlisted the assistance of the fbi and an american search and rescue team
00:21:26
according to harry oaks he and his dog valerie track claudius sent to the home of anthony grant
00:21:32
the sandals resort bartender claudia had befriended the dog reportedly hit on a pair of
00:21:40
boots a pair of gloves and a knife bingo while searching grant's car valerie
00:21:48
seemed to also hit on claudia kershaw's sent in the back seat and the trunk the articles found
00:21:55
boots knife material that made up the trunk of the car was removed by the evidence the fbi
00:22:02
evidence response team it was taken to the fbi uh forensic laboratory in the states it was
00:22:10
checked for signs of human blood nothing was found anthony grant was investigated and
00:22:18
polygraphed but the results were deemed inconclusive and at this point grant is not considered a suspect in
00:22:25
claudia kershaw's disappearance we interviewed him for several weeks we just don't find enough evidence to
00:22:37
in any way believe that grant is involved in her disappearance other than that he was associated with
00:22:47
her no one disappears from the face of the earth in a town of three thousand people
00:22:51
without one other person knowing it we do believe that anthony grant the bartender
00:22:57
introduced her to someone who has a much better idea of what happened we believe anthony grant probably knows
00:23:03
something as well you know she could be today the kershaw struggled to keep the search for claudia
00:23:10
alive despite dwindling leads and diminishing support you know we've come this far now
00:23:15
we're just gonna keep we're not left with many good theories uh you know all of them all of them are
00:23:22
bad in some way or another the hardest part daily is claudia's absence of knowing we
00:23:28
may never see or hear of her again i mean it's very easy to crawl up and either stay in your bed and just not go
00:23:34
on with life you know but we've got to find out what happened to claudia and we're just going to keep
00:23:40
digging and looking the last apparent sighting of claudia kershaw was on may 27 2000 near the beaches resort in the
00:23:48
grill jamaica [Music] in this day and age it may be hard to believe that there are people who claim
00:24:02
ghosts haunt their homes and demons possess them but this quiet colonial house in connecticut is said to
00:24:08
be just such a place and the jones family who live here say they had no warning of the ghostly incidents they claim have
00:24:16
occurred i ran upstairs michael i thought maybe he had cut himself i really didn't know
00:24:32
michael and there was michael just curled up like it was a fetus i mean he was just
00:24:40
frightened and shaking and crying hysterically something i've never seen him do
00:24:46
michael jones told his mother denise he saw a man in the room but it was no ordinary man
00:24:56
he's almost scared he was standing in front of me and he reached out to me and he was
00:25:02
smiling and then he just disappeared the man he touched my shoulder he was white like
00:25:10
like a crayon color white he was a ghost he said he was a ghost well i thought maybe something was wrong
00:25:20
with michael i can't say i didn't believe in ghosts i just never experienced something so i never
00:25:28
thought it would happen to us michael jones was just five years old when he says he saw his first ghost
00:25:38
he claims the spirits have continued to invade his home and torment his family the ghost haunt the jones house or could
00:25:45
there be another explanation for the extraordinary occurrences michael has experienced
00:25:50
[Music] soon after michael's episode in his bedroom denise drove her family to her
00:25:58
parents nearby home i was in the kitchen talking with my parents when michael started screaming again mom what
00:26:08
look and he says that's the man that's the man i says michael what is the man he says that man
00:26:15
up on the wall in the picture that's the man i see it's the old man i saw the picture
00:26:23
and i got scared because that was the man that i saw the man in the picture michael was pointing to was my
00:26:30
grandfather who had passed away when i was 10 years old michael had never met him
00:26:36
until that evening michael had never seen a picture of his great-grandfather who had been dead over 17 years
00:26:45
i felt safer that it wasn't like a bad person that was going to hurt me my mom said not to be afraid of him
00:26:51
because he was a good man and she said not to be afraid of ghosts because they can't harm me
00:26:58
at this point denise didn't know what to think her son was supposedly being visited by her grandfather's ghost
00:27:04
and that wasn't all michael now believed evil spirits were also invading the home
00:27:11
one time me and mike were in his room and i asked him what these things wanted from him and i
00:27:17
told him to talk to grandpa grandpa will protect him grandpa said that some of the bad people want me on
00:27:23
their side when i talked to my grandpa he just said that there's a there's a lot of ghosts in our house
00:27:29
that are after me and there's a lot of bad ones and good ones and they're all fighting with each
00:27:35
other by now they were convinced the invisible enemies were multiplying so denise sought out a paranormal
00:27:43
specialist to examine both michael and her home it's very important to be able to go in and
00:27:49
determine that it is something supernatural that is occurring in the home john zaphis has been a paranormal
00:27:56
investigator for 26 years he has studied dozens of similar cases zaphis spent hundreds of hours with
00:28:04
michael and his family researching michael's sightings first hand we usually have to go through all types
00:28:13
of different evaluations psychological physical i really would like it documented
00:28:19
and known that there isn't anything physically or mentally wrong with these people
00:28:23
that are going through this [Music] hoping to get some answers for the strange goings-on
00:28:30
denise says she submitted michael to dozens of neurological evaluations we went to the hospital a lot i had cat
00:28:39
scans and eeg but they said everything was fine they all say it's not medical they realize it's
00:28:46
very bizarre that michael is a ghost boy he sees ghosts and there's nothing medically they can do
00:29:00
michael's psychological profile also showed nothing unusual but his drawings of what he claims to be
00:29:06
the most aggressive ghost whom he calls the black shadow man told another story every day i i see him the shadow man
00:29:17
it's not really just the same shadow man it's just like a bunch of different ones
00:29:22
i don't know why i see girl stylists happening to me zaphis's research uncovered that michael
00:29:29
was very ill at birth his heart had stopped 26 times with michael my explanation is that he
00:29:38
had near-death experiences i believe since birth he's had that ability where that door has been open for the
00:29:45
spirit to be able to communicate back and forth with him at this point michael is more under
00:29:51
oppression oppression is the stage before possession and i think it is at the point where it
00:29:59
is trying very very hard to be able to totally take michael over according to denise it seemed the bad
00:30:09
spirits were winning one time me and my husband were downstairs when all of a sudden we were listening
00:30:18
to banging upstairs we heard him scream and we heard a thumping so we ran upstairs and michael was on
00:30:27
his bed like a little boy scared his bed was shaking up and down the bed started shaking a lot
00:30:32
and it lifted up like three inches and i just yell from my mom and then drop then stop shaking we all
00:30:45
ran out of the house because we needed to get a break from the house because it's very scary in
00:30:50
there there was one time when i walked into michael's room something caught my peripheral vision
00:31:02
i saw this shadow and he just walked right across the wall pastor i said is it six feet
00:31:12
and she said yeah and i said it's just all black she said yeah and i told her
00:31:16
that was the man i've been seeing denise said michael later revealed that the evil spirits were
00:31:23
physically tormenting him everything started getting worse and they started hitting me and
00:31:29
scratching me poking me and it hurt usually when there's a physical manifestation scratches
00:31:36
bite marks this is definitely a sign that something is either attached to that individual
00:31:42
or it has some way gained access and at that point is where it could be very very
00:31:48
vulnerable where that person could go completely under possession [Music] to save her son from the intruders
00:31:57
denise says she sold their home and moved the family across town but the new house was no refuge
00:32:06
i was on the phone with my mother michael was sitting right next to me to my left
00:32:10
watching tv when all of a sudden he started screaming [Music] we just looked at my brother and he just
00:32:20
saw like a scrape going all the way up his arm and like it was drawing bl blood i felt
00:32:26
a sharp pain like a knife but it hurt really bad michael that was very horrifying i i mean it was
00:32:34
almost like i was on top of him trying to protect him and i still could not protect my son
00:32:40
after this incident we needed someone who dealt with this and i was able to find the bishop
00:32:47
who agreed to give the exorcism as frightening as an exorcism sounded denise felt it was the only way to save
00:32:56
michael they started performing exorcism in latin i could tell there was something wrong
00:33:05
with michael he kept looking to one side of the church and i saw the shadow man in the
00:33:15
front left corner of the room of the church and i could see his whole body and his feet
00:33:21
and he was just standing and he was all black and my stomach started burning and i
00:33:27
told the priest and he gave me a cup of holy water and said drink this i was praying to god that it was going
00:33:36
to work and help and that michael b might be granted some relief although we were told it might not be
00:33:45
the end-all it might have to be repeated there may need to be a house exorcism we were aware of that but and they were
00:33:52
right because about three weeks later it all began again [Music] to this day very little has changed at
00:34:02
the jones household over the past few years michael has undergone four exorcisms
00:34:08
and his family has moved eight times although these things always seem to provide relief
00:34:13
it is usually temporary today michael still has negative attacks and he also sees spirits
00:34:24
we just live one day at a time [Music] it hurts when i see my son going through this
00:34:31
i don't know what to do do i see a brighter future from michael and the family
00:34:38
absolutely there's many of families that go through this and it's very difficult and it's like
00:34:44
the old saying goes it's always the darkest before the dawn pretty much everything's been hard for
00:34:50
me so everything that's happened has been hard [Music] now i'm getting used to it
00:35:02
[Music] nadine jelivek is worried about her sister margie without explanation margie has abruptly
00:35:19
left her home in gary indiana i was looking for clues did she write something down did she leave something
00:35:27
that i could pick up on to know that she would return i looked in the closets luggage was
00:35:35
there clothes were there oliver things so whatever she left with it had to be just enough for a few days
00:35:42
not enough to be for a long period of time [Music] nadine is puzzled to find many personal
00:35:51
items margie never leaves behind when she travels but the most baffling of all is margie's
00:35:56
inhaler which she needs for her asthma [Music] wherever she is gone she is not travel
00:36:10
there in her car her family is as perplexed as they are worried did margie jelovic suddenly leave of her
00:36:21
own free will or was she the victim of foul play over the previous year margie's life had
00:36:29
been turned upside down by a series of turbulent events her puzzling disappearance may be the
00:36:34
final result of that turmoil margie's sister nadine suspected she was in hiding with a dangerous fugitive
00:36:41
named randy yeager how she became involved with such a man is a story as unlikely
00:36:47
as it is tragic six months before her disappearance margie's life seemed ideal she was
00:36:55
fulfilling her dream as a musician playing violin in the detroit orchestra she was also a happy newlywed planning a
00:37:03
bright future with her husband nasser but just six months after their wedding he was killed in a traffic accident
00:37:11
[Music] margie was shattered she decided to quit her job in the orchestra leave michigan and move back to her
00:37:19
hometown gary indiana there she sought the security she had always found with her mother
00:37:26
and sister it was really hard for her because she was so used to being in michigan
00:37:31
with all her friends school and work and everything it was really really hard on her she
00:37:37
spent a lot of time crying and trying to decide what to do and she insisted to come back and help my
00:37:42
mom with the business [Music] margie coped with her despair by immersing herself in her new job
00:37:51
she managed the night shift at the tavern owned by her mother there she first encountered randy yeager
00:38:00
what's your name i haven't seen you here before my name's margie margie how do
00:38:04
you do my name's randy randy nice to meet you randy was one of the highest ranking members of a
00:38:08
notorious biker gang called the outlaws he possessed an allure taylor made to charm a vulnerable young widow
00:38:15
i think that he complimented her in ways that she needed to be complimented and she needed perhaps those accolades
00:38:22
that made her feel good and he knew how to say the right things to charm her and she in turn was in turn was charmed
00:38:30
by him well you should hook up with us sometime i mean meet a lot of new people go out
00:38:34
have a good time maybe randy's charisma masked a darker side to his personality
00:38:44
margie had no idea he was the next convict with a long criminal record his apt nickname was mad he and other
00:39:01
members of the outlaws were then under federal investigation for racketeering drug dealing
00:39:06
and murder two of the outlaw members murdered this old couple because they had a lot of money inside
00:39:12
their house and actually stabbed them with a screwdriver through the throat i mean this is these are these are bad
00:39:19
people that do that [Music] soon after they met margie began dating yeager margie was a good girl lack of a better
00:39:29
term who seems to have taken a walk on a wild side this is uncharacteristic of uh from what i've learned of her
00:39:36
through interviews and stuff at what point she became aware of his criminal activities her family does not
00:39:42
know the only thing they knew for certain was that margie began to change she became extremely distant how about
00:39:50
making some coffee no i gotta go you sure she became distant with me and my children and distant with the
00:39:59
customers and i don't know whether she was told to be distant and not to speak
00:40:04
or she just totally started to remove herself from society three months into her relationship with
00:40:11
jaeger margie left with him on a trip to las vegas they were unaware that at that very
00:40:20
moment united states marshals had begun an operation to arrest randy and several members of the outlaws
00:40:29
48 hours later news of the operation reached margie's mother 17 members of the outlaws were indicted
00:40:37
for a midwest crime spree that included bombings robberies and six murders but u.s marshals had been unable to
00:40:44
locate randy yeager i saw the pictures and i said oh my god my daughter went with that man you know
00:40:52
oh my god what's going to happen to her now [Applause] federal agents rapidly traced yeager to
00:40:59
las vegas but it was too late he and margie had apparently fled the city the first thing i could think of was was
00:41:10
he going to hurt her was she going to be in arm's way because she's with this guy
00:41:15
who now everyone in the country is looking for and she's with him and what if by
00:41:20
mistake they find him and they hurt her two weeks passed then margie returned to
00:41:27
gary safe but shaken strangely her devotion to jaeger was stronger than ever according to her family she was consumed
00:41:35
by irrational fears of the authorities pursuing him is everything all right yeah
00:41:41
everything's fine do you want to talk no i don't want to talk she felt that they would try and find
00:41:48
him through her she was led to believe that her apartment was bugged that people were following her in her parking
00:41:56
lot she had an extreme paranoia and i said marge what should you be paranoid about nobody's after you've not
00:42:03
done a thing [Music] three months after her return margie mysteriously disappeared
00:42:15
at first it just seemed like that she had run off and and joined jaeger wherever
00:42:20
he was at but upon investigation we found out that she had taken none of her clothes her car or anything
00:42:28
else it just seemed that she was gone we're really not sure what happened there
00:42:35
did margie willingly join her fugitive boyfriend or could something more sinister explain
00:42:40
her abrupt disappearance [Music] margie's family believes that even if she is with randy yeager
00:42:49
she is no longer his girlfriend but his victim i feel that he is holding her back and
00:42:55
he won't let her communicate to her family and at this point he's brainwashed her
00:42:59
because this is so out of character for margie not to make a phone call to us it is possible however that margie has
00:43:07
attempted to do just that hello over the past four years her mother has fielded several mysterious
00:43:15
calls all in the morning before her tavern opens the caller never speaks and only after a long pause hangs up
00:43:24
for margie's family the baffling calls offer the slender hope that they will one day see her again
00:43:32
i would margie i want her to come home i want her to hear her voice and whatever she did she did would
00:43:40
come home my heart and my door is always open for her i'm waiting for her [Music]
00:44:02
[Music] join me next time for another intriguing edition of unsolved mysteries [Music]
00:44:30
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you