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[Music] this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have participated in recreating the events what you're about to see is not a news
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broadcast fourteen-year-old jeremy bright disappeared at a county fair in oregon
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some believe he was shot by local teenagers last november a virginia sheriff was brutally shot while on
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patrol before he died he described his attacker's car in 1936 a canadian gold prospector
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vanished leaving an unclaimed fortune that may be worth three million dollars leo cooley has been charged with
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extortion robbery and murder he has eluded the fbi for 10 years in november michaela garrett was abducted outside a
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local store her friend gave police an eyewitness description of the kidnapper in atlanta jordan the peaceful
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retirement of an elderly couple has been shattered by unexplained noises and apparitions
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] tonight six cases on unsolved mysteries each needing that one vital clue to
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close the file forever join me you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] no pain can match the suffering of a
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parent who's lost a child no frustration is greater than that of parents whose
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child is missing their fate unknown our next story concerns a 14 year old boy named jeremy bright who went to a
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county fair in myrtle point oregon in mid-august 1986. jeremy was never seen again since that
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weekend a number of clues and rumors have surfaced jeremy's parents and the police have
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come to one inescapable conclusion someone living in myrtle point oregon knows exactly what happened to jeremy
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they're not talking but they know to those who knew him jeremy was a popular sports loving boy he looked
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forward to beginning high school in the fall he always had lots to do and places to
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go he played basketball and baseball and football and he knew everybody and everybody knew him
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he was always a real outgoing kid [Music] every august the coos county fair rolls
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into myrtle point [Applause] this is the occasion of a week-long celebration [Applause]
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and a jeremy bright and close friend john it was one of the high points of the year
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normally jeremy lived a hundred miles away in grants pass where his mother worked
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but during the week of the fair he and his younger sister were staying with their stepfather ollie in myrtle point
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on friday august 15th holy went to work before dawn and didn't see jeremy lee
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for the fair but that day a handful of people saw jeremy and johnny enjoying the
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festivities around 4 45 that same thursday jeremy placed a long-distance call to his
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mother diane he told her he was having a terrific time at the fair she told jeremy she'd be back in myrtle
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point in two days to pick him up five hours later at 9 40 p.m jeremy went to a local tavern owned by his
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grandmother to meet his stepfather now home from work he asked to borrow some money from him
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here take some of this thanks this was the last time jeremy was ever seen by his family
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you behave yourself [Applause] two days later on saturday diane arrived in myrtle point to meet jeremy
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he never showed up i went and got my car and i went to ole's house at kids and stepdad's house
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and i went in and on the tv set was his house keys from our grants pass apartment and his wallet
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and his new watch that he had told me he'd bought i knew when i found those things that he
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was around somewhere because he wouldn't leave without him as a carnival played on diane's fears
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began to escalate [Music] on saturday night she contacted the police at first they believed her son had
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succumbed to the romantic lure of the carnival and had run away he did like the fair
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there was the thought that perhaps he was hiding out intending to leave with the fair
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people and i've explored that possibility in every way that i can think of i can't
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lose sight of the fact that it is possible that he left with members of that fair troupe
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however in this particular case i've talked to family members and and friends of his
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that knew him well and he was just not from what i can learn the type of a kid who would have
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struck out on his own on sunday august 17 1986 the fair folded up its tent myrtle point returned to normal
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within days ominous rumors concerning jeremy's disappearance began to surface
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the week of the fair was a time for partying according to one rumor jeremy attended
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one of these parties and was offered a beer laced with a powerful illegal drug either
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hey we're looking for a beer yeah hey don't open the other one there's one already open right here you
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mean i can have this sure knock yourself out i've identified at least two and perhaps
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three parties where jeremy was present that the overdose theory could have occurred
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in it was reported that jeremy had a heart murmur and therefore a stimulant of some
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kind might have uh done some bodily damage to him just just by his sheer taking it
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an anonymous source told the police another story he claimed that three local tufts had
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shown up and harassed jeremy and his friends while they played in a swimming hole
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then things went terribly wrong is that a gun what this it's a toy it was at the jail where an inmate
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related to me the information that he had heard wherein one individual from the myrtle point area was
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target practicing or shooting indiscriminately in the water in the area where jeremy was uh was swimming
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all right i'm just gonna sight it don't move show me what you're made of now
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that's better pierce's ear yeah i bet you can you think so yeah all right all right i'm gonna try this
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look good in it [Music] [Applause] they subsequently took him to a cabin maybe within
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10 miles of the myrtle point area and attempted to nurse him back to health to no avail that he died as a result of
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that injury either from loss of blood or from infection or what have you [Music]
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that same source through the jail indicated that his uh body would be found within 200
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feet of this cabin in a in a shallow grave police searched the area surrounding the
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cabin and found nothing all the rumors were hard to handle all of them are hard to think about
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every time i'd hear a new one i'd have nightmares for a week or so the one
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that i hope is not what happened is one where he suffered for two weeks before he died
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and they buried his body because the thought of him suffering for two weeks just
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makes me sick there were two more strange clues jeremy was last seen by his family on
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thursday night the following night the sister of jeremy's friend johnny had a
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disturbing encounter it was friday night of the fair and it was between midnight and one
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when we were leaving my sister's apartment and we came down the stairs and we got to the last stair
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and we almost ran into one of the neighborhood guys and i jumped back because it startled me
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because he was completely covered in blood and i mean it was just all over him and it kind of scared me what
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happened to you well this he goes oh this this happened hours ago and he just laughed and then he went
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into one of the apartments a half hour after this encounter johnny arrived at the same building where
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another sister lived according to her he was overwrought and terrified but didn't
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want to explain whether it is just coincidence or whether they're directly related to
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jeremy's disappearance is another one of the the mysteries that you still have to sort through to try to
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determine what indeed did happen the three or four people whose names keep reappearing in all the rumors and
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all of the reports they're not exactly what anybody would call pillars of society
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but as long as these men are out on the street they can hurt somebody else's
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child the same as they hurt mine and if nobody comes forward that's leaving them out there and if they did
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to my son what people are saying they did and what they've been heard themselves
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say that they did they've got no business on the public streets and we can't do nothing until we
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get the whole story and make them pay for what they did to my boy i i would just encourage anyone
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especially those people who i feel have information that would help this investigation greatly
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to just simply have the courage to say yeah i'm scared to death but in a case like this
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my being scared doesn't warrant this family's pain [Music] if you've ever been stopped for a
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traffic ticket you might have noticed that the officer approached cautiously imagine what's going through his mind
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you know who he is because of his uniform but he has no idea who you are to him it could be another routine
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traffic violation then again it could be that one case where the unexpected happens and his
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life is on the line our next story is about just such a case it happened in a rural county in
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virginia where a police officer not been killed for over 20 years until last november
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[Music] in the early morning hours of friday november the 4th 1988 patrolman john
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martin a 17-year veteran of the lee county virginia sheriff's department was
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making his regular rounds when he noticed something unusual [Music] 604 to jones
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go ahead 604. i'll be checking the park vehicle out at the western lee county health clinic
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[Music] john martin reported to our dispatcher in jonesville at 2 58 a.m on the morning of november 4
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that he was checking a car parked behind the lee county health clinic in ewing virginia
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604 jones this vehicle just pulled out on and then he came back and said that the
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car was moving out on him and then he was stopping it about halfway down the driveway and that it was a large
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light brown car possibly a cadillac and he couldn't give the license number because it was on the inside of the car
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in the back window that was a last transmission john martin made to the dispatcher
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authorities believe that martin left his patrol car and approached the driver to
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question him see your operator's last complete [Music] 604. he didn't respond to the radio so we had
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an officer probably seven miles away that we sent to check on him when i arrived at his location i found
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officer martin lying in the driveway of the clinic at the time of arrival i didn't know
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what had happened to him when i got to him he told me doug i've been shot number bad
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i contacted the dispatcher and had a rescue squad dispatched on where you're going to be all right
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you know i knew he'd been seriously wounded and of course he was a good friend of mine
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as well as a fellow officer i knew the point when i found him he was probably critically injured and it was
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very important that i'd be able to maintain the scene and to be able to get what information i could from him
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while he was conscious and that was the most important thing to do at the time and that's what i attempted to do
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did you see who did it or did you get a description of the vehicle he was in his mid-20s
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had a mesh tag i'd ask him about the animal being about the tag he advised me the tag was in the real
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window that it was a dealer tag however he could not read the registration numbers from the tag
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but he was able to give me a rough description of the vehicle as a buick light brown or tan
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and it was a buick from the 1970 to 1977 perhaps one of the large buicks martin was able to give officer parsons
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one final piece of information about the lysis plate it read land of lincoln which is the
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motto for the state of illinois did you shoot into the car or shoot anyone yes i shot at the vehicle
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he had advised me he had emptied his gun into the car i checked his weapon and it
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was empty he had fired all six rounds from his revolver martin was rushed to the nearest
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hospital 22 miles away suffering from three bullet wounds doctors removed a 44 caliber bullet from
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his body but he lapsed into a coma [Music] three days later john martin died [Music]
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on november the 10th john martin was laid to rest with full honors police officers from seven states and
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hundreds of area residents came to pay their final respects to the 39 year old father of four
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[Music] i just thought it wouldn't happen to him and we had talked about it but
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it don't feel real cause i just feel like our officer's job is to protect other people
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and that's all he was doing but we just out of this we're hoping that we can possibly catch whoever done
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it that's our main priority right now that's all we want two weeks ago a man believed to be john
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martin's murderer was arrested by sheriff's deputies in illinois on november 5th effingham illinois
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police impounded a stolen car burnt almost beyond recognition inside they discovered evidence that
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this was the car that was used in john martin's killing the lee county sheriff's office was
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immediately contacted and their first question was does your burnt car have a bullet hole in the door and
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our answer was yes and at which point they decided to send a team of investigators
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to effingham and continue the investigation police believe that the bullet holes
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were caused by john martin's gun during their investigation authorities uncovered information that linked a 24
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year old man named david wayne mills to the car during a search of the home where mills
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was living investigators found additional evidence connecting him to the murder of john martin when mills
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arrived home he was immediately arrested mills admitted being present when officer martin was killed but claims
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that an accomplice fired the gun this alleged accomplice has been questioned but no formal charges have
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been made on january 5th mills was extradited back to virginia where he is currently being
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held without bail during questioning he gave authorities information which led them to a 44
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caliber pistol ballistics tests have confirmed this was the gun that killed john martin
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david wayne mills has been charged with first-degree murder however the prosecuting attorney may elevate the
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charge to capital murder which carries a death penalty [Music] in a moment the story of a mysterious
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canadian prospector who left the fortune that may be worth three million dollars
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someone watching tonight may be his heir [Music] last year on unsolved mysteries we told
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you about george marsh and charlie shield who when they died left unclaimed fortunes
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both cases were solved and legitimate heirs came forward to claim their inheritance
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tonight we have another missing air story dan willens a mysterious canadian prospector spent a lifetime finding gold
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according to public records he left an unclaimed estate of nearly one hundred thousand dollars but willen's wealth may
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be worth much much more than that some say as much as three million dollars and as theirs may well be alive today in the
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united states [Music] dan williams is one of thousands of men who poured into canada wanting to strike
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it rich they came from all walks of life between trucks in the wilderness they settled in rough mining towns like haley
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berry in ontario canada where dan williams was well known by 1925. oh he's not laughing
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there we go aces twos nine thrown together by fate and greed these rough prospectors spent their nights
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playing poker and their days hoping to find that one strike that would make their fortune
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gentlemen the game is yours dan williams and his closest friends relied on each other to share information and mistakes
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and claims even they didn't know who dan williams really was thanks a lot dan
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he was very private i don't know if i ever listen to him ever brag about himself never
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never or comment about as fast never never i consider him as a gentleman gentleman
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always well dressed and his walk and his stance i would take her to be a military man good night
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really good here dan williams had a partner bill costner one night another miner pulled out a map
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he told dan and bill that there might be gold in red lake 850 miles to the west you've heard of
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red lake heard of it i've heard of it yes well here it is mm-hmm right here i've staked some claims on this point
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and i've got some real good showings i think we should go there i think you're right dan williams and
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bill karchner journeyed for more than a month with a desolate outback in the next year williams and his
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partner staked 12 claims around red lake finally their hard work turned up tiny glints in the sand that meant gold
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from that small beginning one of canada's most profitable gold mines sprang to life
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and with it the community of red lake the koshner woolens mine drew 45 million dollars worth of gold
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worth a billion dollars in today's values running a lucrative mining company
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didn't interest dan his real love was panning for gold dan williams continued his solitary
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prospecting often he disappeared in the wilderness alone for months at a time still staking claims and sifting through
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sand there was another side to dan williams the rough outdoorsman led a double life
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as a gentleman of culture and breeding every autumn he take over an entire floor of the elegant king edward hotel
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in toronto wax his mustache and entertain his friends with lavish amounts of champagne
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had a social life that very few people knew anything about i think and he loved life he there's none of the vote he
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loved life he liked social ability there was no nothing about this from prospector to gentlemen and back
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again dan williams kept up this double life for years in the autumn of 1936 dan williams
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mysteriously vanished while on one of his prospecting trips baffled by his partner's absence bill
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koshner began to search for willems he said he went to his cabin and found everything
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immaculately in place he got that eerie feeling that he had just left things in place and
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was gone and wouldn't be found when he disappeared the story was that he'd taken a trip into the bush and he
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was never heard of again he was lost that he perished now dan was a good bushman and he wasn't a weak man he was
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a very strong man and i don't think for one minute that he was lost i think he went back to england and took
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his social place in life i'm in for five five is that all um some believe that dan may have been killed
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after a poker game and his body thrown down an abandoned mine shaft i think i'm gonna take a chance if you
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got any poker game it's just hard to say what might have happened give me the one
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i want money and losers don't work too well together especially if they lose their money i'll see you
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five and i'll race 20. he was a good poker player [Music] the truth of dan williams disappearance
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remains as elusive as his past only a handful of clues exist he appeared to be from england
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he was skilled as a horseman and at cards he never married one prospector believes he may have had
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a sister in england his unclaimed estate was valued 1936 at 71 000. this money held by the public
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trustee of ontario is now worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars but we know that willian's owned half
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the shares in the costner williams mine that his partner bill brought back most of those shares seven years after
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willems vanished those shares alone would have been worth at least eight hundred and fifty
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thousand dollars in 1943 45 years later it could be worth much more yet no one can locate the money
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terry howes a toronto-based tracer of missing heirs has learned that dan willens may not be his true name
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we have reason to think that his real name was dalton thomas williams and we feel that there are heirs either
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in britain or the us somewhere in the world today if an air turned up and we have
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every reason to think that their heirs are going to turn up the estate could be worth in the
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vicinity of three million dollars depending upon the interest that's been paid over the years
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update within days of our broadcast davey willens a new york businessman called our 800 number claiming he might
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be one of the heirs to dan willen's fortune my grandfather we have determined came
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from the uk to ontario in 1895 at that time he was 11 years of age we believe he traveled with another
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family member and we also have been told that there was a cousin someplace up in
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the outback of ontario but there was never any contact with that individual through the years so when this unsolved
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mysteries program aired and this dan willens a bushman from ontario was was disclosed it certainly was an exciting
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possible link for our family tree searching davey williams flew to toronto to meet
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joe perkins one of dan willen's last surviving friends he brought along photographs of his grandfather harold
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wilders and his great-grandfather john williams to see if there was a family resemblance
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it's uncanny i couldn't believe it the similarity of the face the nose spacing of the eyes
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forehead and i think if you took the beard off the old man they'd look like twins
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indeed there does seem to be a strong resemblance our great-grandfather john grandfather harold and prospector dan
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willens all-blood relatives is davey and heir to dan willen's fortune certainly money is important to
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everybody and if the ontario government is holding considerable assets that could rightfully be claimed by a willens
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then i'd like to see that happen i don't know if it'll be me and my cousins or
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not but maybe now we can get some willances to come forward and maybe we do have a strong case to be made and
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certainly we are going to take the next steps to pursue that possibility [Music]
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next the story of leo curry a volunteer softball umpire active in his local church
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and a suspected murderer an arsonist who has eluded the fbi for 10 years [Music]
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on march 19 1975 in richmond virginia a bodyguard named chuck kernighan was murdered
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and his body placed in a trunk police were told the kernighan's corpse was driven to the rappahannock river
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weighed down with a bumper from a 57 chevrolet and thrown overboard kernighan's body has never been found
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the police believe that local businessman leo curry was responsible for this contract killing
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in the mid 70s the same leo curry was a volunteer softball empire and active in his local church
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leah was married with four children and a member of the american legion [Applause]
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leo was a nice guy to many people there are people that are close to him that characterize him as a as a caring
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uh sensitive individual however our investigation turned up another leo corey and that is the leader of a
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racketeering enterprise who made a living committing crimes then on april 20th 1979 leo corey was
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placed on the fbi's 10 most wanted list as an accused murderer he has eluded the
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authorities for 10 years curry was a successful restaurant owner who was fiercely competitive
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reportedly he tried to force his rivals out of business by sending in thugs to terrorize the patrons
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on january 15th 1977 corey's friends brutally attacked innocent customers at
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the mailbox restaurant one person died and several were injured it became apparent after a few months of
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investigation that leo corey was the very center of a racketeering enterprise and that means
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that he ran an organization that their primary income was through illegal purposes be it
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frauds extortion murder uh whatever but their income was uh was from crime while the fbi suspected corey was
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responsible they could not indict him because his inner circle was extremely loyal
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they often picked vulnerable groups like the local gay community as victims for his scams and extortions i want you to
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kill a man for me i'll do it in october 1977 curry asked eddie lore to make a hit on
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restaurant owner jim hilliar [Applause] a few days later cooley scheme backfired
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when eddie lore was found hiding outside jim hilliar's home [Music] [Applause]
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[Music] this arrest was a turning point for the fbi and directly led to curry's
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indictment i've heard enough okay we later learned that he was there allegedly at leo corey's behest to kill
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hillary to eliminate hilliar as competition in the restaurant business what are your
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options laura agreed to work with the fbi he was equipped with a hidden microphone
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and the fbi secretly recorded a conversation with curie for their investigation this is the actual recording of leo
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curry's voice in the car i can't understand based on the surveillance tapes on
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october 31st 1978 leo curry was indicted by a federal grand jury he was charged with murder attempted
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murder extortion assault racketeering fraud and arson but the day before the charges came down
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leo curry disappeared from richmond virginia leo corey is a very competitive person
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and it would not surprise me and it's been done in the past with top 10 fugitives where they pick up the phone
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and call the agent who's who's looking for them simply to tweak their nose that would be an interesting
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call i'd just like to know he's alive over the last 10 years the fbi have
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recorded 165 sightings of kuri mostly on the east coast but also in brazil in the
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middle east the fbi are offering a 25 000 reward in this case and have even put up
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billboards around the country with leo curry's face on them his fbi file is now 38 volumes thick
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what we come up with is the most logical location for leo corey and what he's doing is
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probably drugs and we believe he's still closely associated with the gay community
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[Music] on november 19th 1988 a nine-year-old girl named michaela joy gary and her
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best friend were given five dollars by the friend's father to spend at a local
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market in hayward california a suburb of oakland the two girls rolled from michaela's
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house to the market on their scooters mikaela came and asked if she could go and i said yes and she jumped up and
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down and said oh goody goody they went to the market and that's the last time we've seen her
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although mikira's house was only four blocks from the market her parents insisted she be accompanied by a friend
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she usually made us a trip to the store at least once a day or every other day or so she'd get a friend and go up there
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on her scooters we never let her go to the store by herself she always had to be with somebody
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[Music] when they came out of the store michaela's scooter was gone [Music] it was over by a car and when she went
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over to get the scooter a man stepped out of the car and grabbed her from behind and threw her into the
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[Music] michaela's friend went back into the store advised the clerk in the store that her
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friend had been kidnapped they called the police the biggest thing that makes this one a
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little different than most is that we do have a suspect description we do have a suspect vehicle description
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and we do have a witness that saw this take place look at the pictures and see if there's
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michaela's friend was shown mug shots of possible suspects but was unable to
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identify any of them she was however able to assist police artists in creating a composite of the
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suspect she described a white male age eighteen to early twenties approximately six feet
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in height with dirty blonde shoulder-length hair the man had a slender build and a
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pockmarked complexion the car he was driving was a large american model a few years old in poor
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condition it appeared to be brown or tan in color right now what we need to know if if
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anybody was to call is we need a name a place where we could find michaela or the kidnapper
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nobody has to leave a name all they have to do is just give us that tip that we need to act
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life just is not the same and it won't be the same again until michaela comes home
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[Music] our next story we will meet a retired couple jim and kay tatum who are sober
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reliable people jim was a career army officer k an accountant but in their new home they've
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experienced unexplained sounds and objects that move for no apparent reason experts call this poltergeist activity
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some believe that such activity is not caused by ghosts but rather by psychokinesis a hidden psychic power in
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the mind of an individual which unconsciously moves objects through space could it be that jim and k tatum caused
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their own hauntings this is a quiet suburb near atlanta georgia where jim and kate tatum build a
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new home there they plan to retire but five months after they moved in the tatums began to experience unusual
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events that forced them to put their house up for sale for this reason they requested we not
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show it but they did allow us to film inside one night in january of 1986 kate tatum woke from a restless sleep
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not wanting to disturb her husband she left their bedroom [Music] she sensed a strange presence
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jim i'm in here jim i'm in here kay had seen a glimpse of a man walking past the open doorway
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jim at first i thought it was my husband and i went into the bedroom and there and my husband was in the bed so i
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thought we had a burglar no jim searched the house it was definitely a man and he was
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swinging his arm slightly and his head was slightly bent and he walked briskly past me there was nothing that you could
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see through there's no evidence of any entry there's no evidence of anyone having been in the
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house and i thought perhaps kay had been using an overactive imagination [Music]
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as the night passed into dawn k tatum lay awake and wondered i had fear and i was perplexed about
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what happened while i was tossing and turning i suddenly remembered that i didn't hear
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any sound as he passed me and i still am unable to figure out why it happened after kay's first experience two months
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pass by without incident then one night jim was repairing a ladder that led up to their attic his
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work was interrupted when kate called him for dinner i specifically unplugged the drill
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because it's a very old drill i thought it might be dangerous to leave it plugged
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as the evening wore on he wanted to watch a movie and i decided to go upstairs and read
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one hour later kay heard the sound of the drill outside her room she thought the gym was teasing her
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about having seen a ghost and she tried to ignore the noise eventually she went into the hallway
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it was empty and the drill was unplugged i was really frightened and i reached out and felt out and it
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was ice cold it had not been turned on i was very confused i knew very well that something was happening
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because kay is very level-headed and she was truly frightened these incidents continued
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one night kay heard the sound of coins falling in a bowl but she was alone in the room
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another time while cooking kay felt two sharp tugs on her blouse after that incident i decided we have a
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problem in this house there's something going on it's it's not something that we can
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understand or explain but there's something definitely going on this is where most of
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the things have been happening these occurrences seem to center around k parapsychologist william roll visited
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the house to try to interpret these events you know the question comes up why is this family having these
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experiences is there a sort of ghost that has come back to haunt them for some unknown reason or what's taking place
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a lot of people have these experiences it's part of who we are as humans to have uh so-called psychic experiences
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but the pot was up here on the wall i see okay rohl believes that memories can actually be transferred to physical
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objects and these residual memories may be triggered by ordinary people the nature of his presence seems to be
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a teasing type of thing as though it's teasing us in february jim finally had his first
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experience it started with this small bell located in the guest room jim had a habit of waking hours before
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his wife when k woke she would ring the bell if she needed him upstairs i'd grown used to climbing the stairs
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after hearing the bell and so i did so and it wasn't kay she was asleep so i went in and looked at the bell and
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it was there and i thought obviously i heard something else other than the bell after the third time this happened the
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couple decided to make up a code in order to outwit the entity if it ranks three times
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i'll come on up the stairs all right we'll do that so the next time it rang three times i
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knew this was k because this was our signal but k was sound asleep and the bell was in the other bedroom
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where it stays i went in and looked at it i turned around and walked out the door
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and the thing rang again then i began to see how kate felt i mean i was frightened the hair stood up on my neck
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i told kay then i says no more bail i'm not going to answer that bill anymore
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and that bell has not rung since i've never seen him like that before the number of uh horny cases that are
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not very striking not very strong but where the phenomena nevertheless are disturbing to the family it might be a
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bell ringing a fleeting glimpse of an aberration the events are trivial but they're deeply upsetting to the family
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because they don't fit into the picture that most of us have of the world and that image of
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the physical world particularly our of our home is intricately related to who we picture
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ourselves as being the story about the bell gets me emotional because uh this was a real turning point
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in my life i i knew then that there are things that are unexplained the tatums feel that their home is no
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longer their own they have decided to move leaving the entity if that indeed is what it is
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to live in the house alone [Music] for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows the truth
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perhaps that someone is watching perhaps it's you [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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