1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,880 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,160 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, the story of newlywed Shannon 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,600 Davis, who died in a writing accident. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,960 Shannon's husband had purchased secret insurance 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,000 policy documents. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,240 Shannon's husband had purchased secret insurance policies 10 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,400 totaling $330,000. 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,360 In Oklahoma, Eileen Conway died in a mysterious car crash. 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,520 The highway patrol ruled it an accident. 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,360 Her husband believed she was murdered. 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,520 In 1928, Glen and Bessie Hyde vanished 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,240 on a Grand Canyon River trip. 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,120 50 years later, a secret skeleton was found. 17 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,560 In Concord, California, housewife Doddie 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,240 Kaler, terrified of unfamiliar places, 19 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,880 summoned the courage to take a train ride. 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:07,960 She has never returned. 21 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:35,760 Our four mysteries tonight are connected by common threats, 22 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,320 unexplained circumstances, deceit, 23 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:41,600 the suggestion of foul play, that the heart of each 24 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,880 is a husband and a wife. 25 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,760 These mysteries will be difficult to solve, 26 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,680 but the stakes are high when people's lives are involved. 27 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,440 Perhaps you can help. 28 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,400 We've recreated the events of each story in precise detail 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,000 in the hope that someone, somewhere, knows the truth. 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,520 Join me. 31 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,600 You may be able to help solve a mystery. 32 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,320 On July 23, 1980, in a small Michigan farming community, 33 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,640 newlyweds Dave and Shannon Davis prepared 34 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,600 to go for a sunset horseback ride. 35 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,000 Within an hour, Shannon was dead. 36 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,560 According to Dave, Shannon was not an experienced rider. 37 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,160 When they reached the edge of the woods, 38 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,560 she lost control and fell off the horse, 39 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,640 striking her head violently on the ground. 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,280 Dave's simple and plausible story was immediately accepted 41 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,040 by the couple's family and friends. 42 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,720 I felt that Shannon's marriage was made in heaven. 43 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,600 I really felt this. 44 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,600 I had began to love David. 45 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,400 I described him probably to a lot of people as a man's man. 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,680 He was an outdoor person, hunting, fishing. 47 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,640 He just was a man. 48 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:22,560 He was very manly and very likable. 49 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,880 And she'd say, isn't he neat, mom? 50 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,840 And I thought he was neat. 51 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,120 I thought he would protect her from anything. 52 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,560 I had no idea of what he was really like. 53 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,200 After Shannon's death, Bob and Lucille Moore 54 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,360 began to discover that Dave Davis was not the man he seemed 55 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:41,920 to be. 56 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,040 They began to find clues in Dave's behavior, 57 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,680 which led them to believe that their daughter's 58 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,720 death was not an accident. 59 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,600 Dave Davis has now disappeared, is 60 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,560 awarded out for his arrest. 61 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,880 But the Moors are afraid that their son-in-law may 62 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,800 have gotten away with a perfect crime. 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,320 At the hospital, Shannon was pronounced 64 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,240 dead of the injuries caused by her fall. 65 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,120 Minutes later, Shannon's parents were surprised and upset 66 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,720 when Dave insisted that their daughter's body be cremated. 67 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:20,320 I said, can we take Shannon back to Toledo for burial? 68 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:21,920 Please, let's take her back to Toledo. 69 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,080 Let's take her home. 70 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,440 It's not what she wanted. 71 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,360 I suppose our voices were getting a little bit loud 72 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,840 because I don't believe in cremation. 73 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:33,200 I knew Shannon didn't want that. 74 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,080 This is what she wanted. 75 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,720 I felt so strongly that if he was going to insist on it, 76 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,240 I was going to go try and find a judge 77 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,040 and get a temporary restraining order 78 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,360 to stop him from doing it. 79 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,200 That night, Lucille couldn't sleep. 80 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,720 She remembered that her husband, Bob, 81 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,360 had caught Dave in a lie about life insurance. 82 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:59,800 Bob says, David, do you have insurance on Shannon? 83 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,440 He said, no. 84 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:02,760 And it just shot right through me. 85 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,840 I remembered Shannon coming home from her honeymoon 86 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,720 the very next day, saying David took out a large life 87 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,720 insurance on me. 88 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,160 That was the first lie I picked up. 89 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,240 Three days later, Shannon was buried. 90 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,160 Bob and Lucille Moore noticed that Dave seemed unmoved. 91 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,800 I blessed the body of Shannon with the holy water. 92 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,480 After the funeral, Shannon's parents found out 93 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,320 that Dave had lived a life of deceit. 94 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,080 He bragged that he'd been wounded, yet numb. 95 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,440 His own parents said he was never in the service. 96 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,560 Well, all of this was crowding in on me. 97 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,360 And all I could think inside is, David, 98 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,280 did you kill my daughter? 99 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,000 And it just was there. 100 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,080 I knew that he had murdered my daughter. 101 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,480 I didn't know what to do with it. 102 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,560 I felt ashamed. 103 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,960 I just felt like I was going crazy inside. 104 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,280 Two days after the burial, six separate insurance companies 105 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,880 contacted the funeral home, requesting copies of Shannon's 106 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,680 death certificate. 107 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:23,440 Her death left Dave Davis the beneficiary of $330,000. 108 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,720 Bob Moore then discovered that Dave may have been involved 109 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,080 in other insurance scams. 110 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,240 He burnt the farm down across the road, 111 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,760 and he had other fires and the fake injury 112 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,000 from when he worked for the automotive company. 113 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,080 So I think he was just out to live on insurance money. 114 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,320 And he just kept getting bigger and bigger all the time. 115 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,840 He started out with a simple fire, 116 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:52,320 and now he was up to the point where he was going 117 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,600 to collect big insurance. 118 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,760 At Bob and Lucille Moore's insistence, 119 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,040 Shannon's body was exhumed. 120 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:05,480 The medical examiner found the injuries on the body 121 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,800 consistent with a fall from a horse. 122 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,000 Indications of an unknown drug, however, 123 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,360 were found in Shannon's body. 124 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,360 But the medical reports still rule Shannon's death an accident. 125 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,600 Three months later, an article in the Detroit Free Press 126 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,040 exposed Dave's alleged insurance swindles. 127 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,000 The case was reopened, and Dave moved to Florida. 128 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,280 Detective Don Brooks was assigned to the investigation. 129 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,880 And the information that was contained in that newspaper 130 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,720 article was phenomenal. 131 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,880 I thought if this is even 50% accurate, 132 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:45,920 we're on to something here. 133 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,960 Brooks contacted the toxicologist, 134 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,440 who had earlier found traces of the unknown drug 135 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,680 in Shannon's body. 136 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,640 I explained to him that we had a very large number of chemicals 137 00:07:58,640 --> 00:07:59,720 that we were looking at. 138 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,480 There's over 250,000 chemicals in common use. 139 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,160 And we had searched for and ruled out maybe 1,000. 140 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,040 And I said, what I need is some help. 141 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,400 Is that the metagraph right there? 142 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:13,000 This is it. 143 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,320 You see the peak is right here. 144 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,400 And you see how nice and clean it is. 145 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,320 Because it's so clean, that means that I think it's a drug. 146 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,520 This is important to the case. 147 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,360 It's got to be if we can identify with that. 148 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,360 He asked me, actually, for information 149 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:28,560 about Davis's background. 150 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,120 One of the things I told him was that he was a dirt farmer. 151 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,840 And he had some large animals on the farm. 152 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,600 Dr. Forney and I then discussed the idea 153 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,240 of contacting veterinarians in the area that may have 154 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,920 serviced Dave Davis. 155 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,520 I'm Don Brooks for the safe place. 156 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:42,800 I talked to you a little bit earlier. 157 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:43,800 That's right, Don. 158 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,240 I happen to ask two or three of the different vet 159 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,080 scenario if they knew of any drugs that 160 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,880 may affect the muscular system or the nervous system 161 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,120 that they would use on large farm animals. 162 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,200 And when I did so, one of the veterinarians 163 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,280 I talked to provided me the name of a drug. 164 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,720 Dr. Forney tested that drug, an animal tranquilizer. 165 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,560 It matched perfectly the sample taken from Shannon's body. 166 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:11,200 Now Brooks needed to connect the drug to Dave Davis. 167 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,240 We're able to determine that several years ago, 168 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,680 Dave Davis took part in a deer hunting camp, which members 169 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:23,880 of the camp used this drug to hunt deer with with bow and arrows. 170 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,200 Shannon was exhumed a second time. 171 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,640 Two injection marks were found. 172 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,920 One on Shannon's shoulder and one on her wrist. 173 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:42,480 Don Brooks called and he said, bingo, 174 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,960 they found Shannon is injected with something. 175 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,200 And we're going to move now. 176 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,840 We're going to get him. 177 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,120 On October 13, 1981, a grand jury 178 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,960 issued a first degree murder warrant for Dave Davis. 179 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,840 Detective Brooks believes that Dave Davis pushed or coaxed 180 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,400 Shannon off her horse, wrestled her to the ground, 181 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:15,400 then paralyzed her with the lethal tranquilizer. 182 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,800 Brooks believes that Dave then struck her head on a rock 183 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,160 so that the injuries would appear accidental. 184 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:26,360 I don't think there's any question 185 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,360 that this is premeditated murder. 186 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:35,800 I believe he married Shannon Davis to kill her and to profit. 187 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,360 I want to get him and I want him to see him locked up. 188 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,520 And I want him to feel it all times that we're breathing 189 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,880 right down his back. 190 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,320 Because I will not let go. 191 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,880 That can't bring her back. 192 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,800 But put him, put him away before he does it to some other girl. 193 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,200 And he will. 194 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:03,480 After a broadcast, a viewer recognized Dave Davis 195 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,880 as an acquaintance living in American Samoa, a small island 196 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,320 in the South Pacific. 197 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,560 Davis was arrested nine days later by FBI agents. 198 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,120 At the time of his arrest, Davis was living in this house 199 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,480 with a 20-year-old Samoan wife. 200 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:23,200 He told her that his first wife had died in a tragic accident. 201 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:24,920 Three and a half weeks later, Davis 202 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,920 was returned to Michigan to live in the city. 203 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,080 To stand trial for murder. 204 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,720 Any comment on the charges against you, Mr. Davis? 205 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,320 I didn't do it. 206 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,200 Well, at least your wife was poisoned. 207 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:37,000 I didn't do it. 208 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,280 After only two and a half hours of deliberation, 209 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,920 a Michigan jury convicted Dave Davis of first degree murder. 210 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,560 For Shannon's parents, the verdict 211 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:53,440 brought an end to their nine-year struggle for justice. 212 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:54,720 This is what we waited for. 213 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:55,440 Can you like it? 214 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:56,400 We got what we wanted. 215 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,800 He's going to be locked up the rest of his life. 216 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:00,880 And that's what we wanted. 217 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,920 But we were going to rest our life missing her. 218 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,360 That's why I said he gave us the death penalty. 219 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:06,400 Now we're giving it to him. 220 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Last September, he presented the mystery of George Marsh, 221 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,840 a Kansas City laborer who died alone in a nursing home in 1982. 222 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,440 He had no known heirs or relatives. 223 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,760 But he left behind a legacy of $175,000. 224 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,640 We hope that someone watching the broadcast 225 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,760 might have known George Marsh or his heirs. 226 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,320 There were a few clues, a birth certificate 227 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,240 showing that George Marsh had changed his name 228 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,520 from Joseph Zelenka and some family photos, 229 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,480 including this portrait of a young woman inscribed 230 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,600 your loving niece, Eleanor. 231 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,720 When I looked up and saw my senior high school picture 232 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,520 on TV, I couldn't believe it. 233 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,160 So then when he read your loving niece, Eleanor, 234 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:18,160 that that's how it was signed. 235 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,920 I was just stunned. 236 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,560 I was just amazed. 237 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:25,000 And then the very next picture was Uncle Joe. 238 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,040 And I said, my gosh, that's Uncle Joe. 239 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,840 This woman, Eleanor Toller, is George Marsh's long lost 240 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,120 niece in the high school photo. 241 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,280 The Zelenka family lives in Rock Springs, Wyoming. 242 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:45,120 Joseph's brother Jim has been looking for Joe since 1931. 243 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:52,280 I had never no idea why he kept away from the family. 244 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,680 Because there was no hard feelings. 245 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:01,400 We were all united, always, in everything. 246 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:02,880 The Zelenkas are currently waiting 247 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,760 for a final judgment from the public administrator's office 248 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,440 in Kansas City. 249 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,280 Jim and Eleanor planned to divide the $175,000 250 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,680 among Joe's surviving relatives. 251 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:17,480 But more importantly, they want to preserve Joe's memory. 252 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,760 They intend to bring his body back to the family burial site. 253 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:31,360 The money, you don't mean as much as finding out where he's at. 254 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,360 I just feel good all over, to know that I located him 255 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,840 and nowhere is that, and I'd be able to bring his body back 256 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,240 to rest with the rest of his family. 257 00:14:54,680 --> 00:15:05,760 In our next story, we'll meet a man who will turn home 258 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,760 to find his house empty, the bathtub full of water, 259 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,000 a phone off the hook, and his wife missing. 260 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,800 April 29, 1986, 10.40 AM. 261 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,480 A farmer in rural Oklahoma notices an ominous plume of smoke 262 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,000 rising from a nearby road. 263 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,280 He called the authorities, and 20 minutes later, 264 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,240 the Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrived at the scene. 265 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,640 They found a burning car embedded in a deserted bridge. 266 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,960 The heat was so intense that the car had actually 267 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,160 melted into the metal guardrail, into which it had crashed. 268 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,440 When the Highway Patrol arrived, 269 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,600 a body was inside the car at the time. 270 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,440 But it was a futile exercise whatsoever 271 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,800 to try to get to the occupants in the car. 272 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,040 Due to the car, it already burned so bad. 273 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,080 By the time the flames subsided, the body behind the wheel 274 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,840 was burned beyond recognition. 275 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,640 Skidmarks indicated that the car's speed and impact 276 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,560 was 50 to 60 miles per hour. 277 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,360 To the Highway Patrol, it seemed like just another senseless 278 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:28,800 accident. 279 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,200 A computer check revealed the car belonged to Pat Conway, 280 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,560 who lived with his family in Lawton, Oklahoma, 15 miles 281 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,720 from the crash site. 282 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,440 The next day, the victim was identified 283 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:47,600 as Pat's wife of 33 years, Aileen. 284 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,680 The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled Aileen Conway's death 285 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,400 as a one-vehicle fatality accident. 286 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,520 Within hours of the crash, however, 287 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,280 a number of mysterious discrepancies emerged, 288 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,360 which led Pat Conway to believe that his wife had, in fact, 289 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,080 been the victim of foul play. 290 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,960 There's no doubt in my mind it was murder. 291 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,200 And if I live to be 100 years old, 292 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,800 I'll still be pushing to try to find the individual, 293 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,880 or possibly two individuals who ever was involved. 294 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,440 Pat first became suspicious when he returned home 295 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,160 a few hours after the accident. 296 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,120 The patio door was wide open. 297 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:37,400 Aileen's purse, which he always carried with her, 298 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,320 was sitting by an armchair. 299 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,760 Her driver's license and glasses were still in it. 300 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,240 An ironing board was set up, and the iron had been left on. 301 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,560 Water from a garden hose was running into the backyard 302 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:53,440 swimming pool. 303 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,160 And most significantly, in the master bathroom 304 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,000 at the back of the house, the tub was still full of water. 305 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,320 And the phone was off the hook. 306 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,640 The thing that really got my attention 307 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,880 was the phone being off the hook as though she 308 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,440 attempted to make a phone call, possibly the police department. 309 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,600 We have no way of knowing who. 310 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,280 Between me and the kids, one would see one thing and one 311 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,040 another, and we start putting it together. 312 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:27,840 And right away, we find out, well, 313 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,200 there was no accident at all. 314 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,640 Another disturbing detail, Nagted Pat. 315 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,600 What was Aileen doing out on that lonely country road? 316 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,680 Neither of them had ever been in the area, 317 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,680 and there was certainly no reason for Aileen 318 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,720 to be there by herself. 319 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,240 Nothing about his wife's death made sense. 320 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:54,360 Pat contacted Ray Anderson of the district attorney's office. 321 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,880 The first impression that I had of this case 322 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,080 when I met with Mr. Conway was that of a spouse that 323 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:05,880 was left alone and behind, not expecting the tragedy that 324 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,960 happened, and looking for an excuse 325 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,400 or looking for some reason why this happened other than just 326 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,080 being an accident. 327 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,440 However, when you start looking at the extenuating 328 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,360 and surrounding circumstances, the way 329 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:19,720 that she left her house, then it leads you to believe 330 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,640 that there is a possibility that there could be foul play. 331 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,640 Pat, you want to take that side of the road, 332 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:30,560 and I'll take this side. 333 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,720 Just kind of look for anything that might look familiar 334 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,320 or unusual. 335 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,080 A few days later, Pat and Ray Anderson 336 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,520 went to the crash site, looking for clues, any clue. 337 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,760 Pat, could you come over here a minute? 338 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,560 200 feet from the bridge, they found a church bulletin 339 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:47,560 in the grass. 340 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,400 What's the matter with you? 341 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,320 Yeah, this is the church bulletin 342 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,520 out of our car from the previous Sunday, 343 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,720 and it was on the dash of the car. 344 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,560 Are you sure that's out of your car, you think? 345 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,840 No, I'm positive. 346 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,960 No doubt, that's where it was. 347 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,920 Aileen, you know, I've been looking for a car 348 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,400 that was in the car, and I've been looking for it. 349 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:08,400 I've been looking for it. 350 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,400 I've been looking for it. 351 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,880 That's where it was. 352 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,880 Aileen always drove with the windows rolled up 353 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,240 and the air conditioning turned on. 354 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,000 The bulletin could not have flown out of a moving car. 355 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,880 The car would have to have been stopped. 356 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,560 Someone else may have been with her, opened the door, 357 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,800 set the accelerator, and slammed it into drive, 358 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,640 hoping to run Mrs. Conway off into the creek 359 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,440 and to make it appear as though it was an accident. 360 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,840 As a result of Anderson's investigation, 361 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,520 the Lawton District Attorney changed the official cause 362 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,040 of death from accidental to unexplained. 363 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,520 The DA then asked the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation 364 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,440 and the State Fire Marshal to evaluate 365 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,160 the likelihood of arson. 366 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,240 What made me suspicious at first 367 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,640 was looking at photographs and seeing how much burn 368 00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,680 that was in the vehicle. 369 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,800 This thing was completely burnt destroyed. 370 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,320 The barn was similar to that where 371 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,680 gas lane or something like that was used in it. 372 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,760 And another thing that brought my curiosity up 373 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,320 was the fact that the gas cap was missing. 374 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,680 And most arson cases, and this is documented, 375 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,880 have a vehicle, the gas cap is removed, 376 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:23,920 and that was the case here. 377 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,320 Informal burn tests on dashboard and upholstery samples 378 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,600 from a car similar to Aileen's, 379 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,840 suggest the inside of her car 380 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,880 may have been doused with gasoline. 381 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:41,320 We took the material and we applied a blow torch to it, 382 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,360 set the material on fire, then removed the blow torch, 383 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:46,560 and the fire went out, which is consistent 384 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,840 with a flame retort type of material. 385 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,360 And then we took some gasoline and soaked the material, 386 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,120 and then of course the thing was completely destroyed. 387 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,520 And the point being without some type of an accelerant 388 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,240 like gasoline, the fire would not burn that back. 389 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:04,880 If Aileen Conway was murdered on the bridge that day, 390 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,000 one question still remains, why? 391 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,840 We don't really have an answer for what put her out there. 392 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,240 A lot of theories floating around, 393 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,240 perhaps she interrupted a burglary. 394 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,680 We backtracked a little bit into the neighborhood 395 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,680 and apparently there had been reports of burglaries 396 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,880 in the weeks and months preceding this situation. 397 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,640 So the possibility of an interrupted burglary is there. 398 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,000 It had to be robbery. 399 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,240 Whoever came in didn't know she was here. 400 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,080 And once they found out she was here, 401 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,920 they didn't want to leave her to identify them. 402 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,960 So then this makes murders out of them. 403 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,840 If this case is solved, it'll be because 404 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,200 that there'll be somebody that talks, 405 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,040 there'll be somebody that admits their involvement in this. 406 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,520 And of course I'm a firm believer 407 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,960 that that's what normally captures the criminals 408 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,080 is their inability to keep their mouth shut. 409 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,240 No one knows exactly what happened to Aileen Conway 410 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,040 on a remote country bridge in Oklahoma that day. 411 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,440 A year later, Pat Conway is still searching for answers. 412 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,240 Even though you're discouraged, 413 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,360 you keep pushing it every day. 414 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:29,640 You constantly think about it when you go to bed at night 415 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,480 or get up in the morning, it's on your mind all the time. 416 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,000 But somehow it needs to be solved. 417 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,000 I'll never quit as far as trying to solve the case. 418 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,800 Next, the story of Glen and Bessie Hyde, 419 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,120 who disappeared on a perilous rafting trip 420 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:53,000 on the Colorado River. 421 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,160 Both were soon lost until a woman claiming to be Bessie Hyde 422 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,720 said she murdered her husband. 423 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,120 The Colorado River cuts through the Grand Canyon, 424 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,480 a perilous stretch of water that was once considered 425 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:29,920 the most dangerous in the world. 426 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,440 In 1928, two newlyweds set out to navigate 427 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,240 these treacherous whitewater rapids. 428 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,120 They were never seen again. 429 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:47,040 Emory Cole, a Grand Canyon photographer, 430 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,120 was one of the last people to see them alive. 431 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,040 50 years later, when Cove died, 432 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,760 authorities were surprised by a gruesome discovery 433 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,040 in his boat house on the rim of the canyon. 434 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,840 Hidden in a canoe was a single human skeleton 435 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,760 that appeared to have suffered a violent death. 436 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,920 Whose bones were these and how did the victim die? 437 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,120 One good option would be that the individual met death 438 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,600 by homicide. 439 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,000 A second option would be suicide. 440 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,880 It would be nice to know who this individual was. 441 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,040 I mean, somebody is missing. 442 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,280 Somebody was out there, and there 443 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,240 may be friends or relatives who would very much 444 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,600 like to know who it is. 445 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,520 The disappearance of the honeymoon couple 446 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,840 and the discovery of the human remains in the boat house 447 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,280 happened almost 50 years apart. 448 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,580 Yet they were connected by an article in an Idaho newspaper 449 00:25:51,580 --> 00:25:54,400 and by the Arizona law authorities. 450 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,960 They suggested that the bones might 451 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,160 be those of the adventurous young river after Glenhide. 452 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,200 Tonight, we'll examine these mysteries of the Grand Canyon. 453 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,320 What happened to Glenhide and his bride, Bessie? 454 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,800 Is their disappearance connected 455 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,240 to the secret of the bones in the boat house? 456 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,760 Glenn and Bessie Hyde were married in Twin Falls, Idaho 457 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,640 on April 10, 1928. 458 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,000 Glenn was 27 and Bessie just 18 years old. 459 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,640 That fall, they built a boat for a special honeymoon 460 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,760 adventure, a trip down the Colorado River to California 461 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,280 through the dangerous Grand Canyon. 462 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,040 Glenn was a thrill seeker. 463 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,080 This journey would mean instant notoriety. 464 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,440 Glenn wanted to make a record run through the Grand Canyon. 465 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,720 He wanted to do it in a homemade boat. 466 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,080 He wanted to do it with a new bride who had never 467 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,360 been on rivers before. 468 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,920 And he wanted to do it without life jackets. 469 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,480 In the fall of the year, about six months after they were married, 470 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,560 they were in Green River, Utah. 471 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,760 An experienced riverman at the Green River looked at the boat, 472 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,600 and he thought it looked to him like a coffin. 473 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,040 It was unlike anything that had run down the Colorado before. 474 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,840 The Hydes took 26 days to get from Utah to the Bright Angel 475 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:24,080 Trail in the heart of the Grand Canyon, a new record. 476 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,520 With the most dangerous stretch still ahead, 477 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,240 they stopped to see Emery Cobb, who had already twice 478 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,080 navigated the Colorado River Rapids. 479 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,560 Cobb had arrived at the canyon in 1902 480 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,080 and set about documenting its grandeur. 481 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,080 His stunning photographs and immense knowledge of the river 482 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,840 soon made Emery Cobb a legend. 483 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,240 He was very enthusiastic about his river trips 484 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,080 and so proud of them. 485 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,280 Everybody that I know that was interested in the river, 486 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,080 at all, all the years I was there, 487 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,080 first came and talked to Emery Cobb. 488 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,080 Frankly, I just don't think we should go. 489 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,080 No one would have thought that we would have to go to the river. 490 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,080 No woman has ever traveled the river from this point. 491 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,080 When the Hydes visited Cobb, Bessie had grown tired of the river trip. 492 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,080 Now, especially the idea of not taking life jackets. 493 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,080 Emery tried to warn them of the certain dangers ahead. 494 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,080 He asked them to stay with him through the winter 495 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,080 and postpone their trip until the weather improved. 496 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,080 He even offered the couple his own life jackets, 497 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,080 but Glenn refused all Cobb's offers. 498 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,080 There's really no reason to fear. 499 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,080 Both Bessie and I are good, strong swimmers. 500 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,080 Come on, Bessie, the light will be fading. 501 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,080 Mr. Cobb told me that he tried his best 502 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,080 everywhere in the world to talk him out of going. 503 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,080 He said, you have no idea what you're getting into. 504 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,080 He said, I've been there and I know what it's like. 505 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,080 He begged them to take life with servers and even inner tubes. 506 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,080 And Glenn flat with huge. 507 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,080 He said, I'm going to do it without or else. 508 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:14,080 Two days later, Glenn and Bessie disappeared. 509 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,080 Army aviators flew into the canyon 510 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,080 and spotted the empty boat below Diamond Creek. 511 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,080 Emery Cobb was asked to leave the search party 512 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,080 to find the lost couple. 513 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,080 Surprised by the fact that he was not alone, 514 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,080 he was able to find the lost couple. 515 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,080 He was also able to find the lost couple. 516 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,080 Surprisingly, when he discovered the boat, 517 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,080 it was undamaged. 518 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,080 Glenn! 519 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,080 Bessie! 520 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,080 The boat seemed to be intact. 521 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,080 The clothes, food, Glenn's rifle was on board, 522 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,080 the camera was exposed to film. 523 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,080 There was a very sketchy diary, 524 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,080 but a diary that Bessie Hyde had been keeping was on board. 525 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,080 They found everything there except for the people. 526 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,080 There's no sign of them. 527 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,080 The bodies of Glenn and Bessie Hyde were never recovered. 528 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,080 Fifty years later, the discovery of the bones 529 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,080 in Cobb's Boathouse fueled speculation. 530 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,080 Could these be the remains of Glenn Hyde? 531 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,080 And how are they connected to Emery Cobb? 532 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,080 We'll get them examined. 533 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,080 The authorities turned the skeleton over to Dr. Walter Birkby, 534 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,080 an expert in the science of identifying human remains. 535 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,080 He discovered that the bones are of a male Caucasian, 536 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,080 20 to 23 years of age, 537 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,080 six feet tall with light brown hair. 538 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,080 Dr. Birkby also discovered a bullet embedded in the skull. 539 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,080 What we found out from the bullet 540 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,080 that was removed from the skull 541 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,080 was that not only was this a 32-caliber projectile, 542 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:13,080 it came from a revolver that began manufacturing about 1902. 543 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,080 The production date of the gun and clothing fragments 544 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,080 found with the skeleton suggest the death occurred in the 1920s. 545 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,080 During that time, only two people, Glenn and Bessie Hyde, 546 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,080 are known to have disappeared in the Grand Canyon. 547 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,080 Statue estimate. 548 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,080 Somewhere along the line, I heard a rumor to the effect that 549 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:44,080 Emery Cobb could have murdered Glenn Hyde 550 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:49,080 in order that he could have, I guess, beautiful Bessie. 551 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,080 It's so preposterous and that I just can't believe it, 552 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:57,080 that he would off somebody and then keep the damn body around. 553 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,080 You got verticality on these mirrors? 554 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,080 Yes. 555 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,080 We're going to have to rotate that more to the left. 556 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,080 Dr. Birkby hoped to put the rumors to rest. 557 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,080 More yet. 558 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,080 He superimposed a photograph of Glenn over the skull 559 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,080 to precisely compare bone structure. 560 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,080 Even more. 561 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:21,080 This was the only way to determine if the skeleton was indeed Glenn Hyde's. 562 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,080 Right there. Hold it. 563 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:30,080 The skull is of a different shape than the face of Glenn Hyde. 564 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:35,080 The eye orbits themselves are angled in a different direction than Glenn Hyde's. 565 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,080 The cheeks are wider. 566 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,080 Even the shape of the chin is wrong. 567 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,080 Glenn Hyde's chin was somewhat rounded, as we can see on the photograph, 568 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:49,080 whereas the chin of the submitted skull tends to be fairly squared off. 569 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:53,080 So those features alone do not match. 570 00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:02,080 These bones that were submitted for analysis are not the remains of Glenn Hyde, period. 571 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,080 End of story. 572 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,080 But the story in fact does go on and the mystery deepens. 573 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,080 If the bones did not belong to Glenn Hyde, 574 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,080 then what happened to Glenn and Bessie? 575 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:26,080 The answer may lie in the eyewitness reports that claim Bessie Hyde is still alive 576 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,080 and that she was seen back in the Grand Canyon, 577 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,080 retracing the steps of her ill-fated honeymoon adventure, 578 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,080 43 years after she disappeared. 579 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:42,080 In 1971, an unknown woman took a 20-day rafting trip through the canyon. 580 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,080 Geologist George Billingsley was also in the party. 581 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,080 She was a very serious person. 582 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,080 She was always just watching the canyon and helping out a little better on camp, 583 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,080 all the time wanting to do something, 584 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:02,080 and fairly happy, but quiet, and pretty much to herself. 585 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,080 Towards the end of the trip, they made camp at Diamond Creek. 586 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,080 The same spot where Glenn and Bessie's boat had been found four decades earlier. 587 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,080 That evening, a river guide told the legend of the missing couple, 588 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:22,080 and the woman, matter of factly, revealed her true identity. 589 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:29,080 She told us seriously enough to where we wasn't sure what else to say, 590 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,080 but we all figured she was just making up her own story. 591 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,080 But later on, we got to thinking, 592 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,080 maybe she really was Bessie because the age was right, 593 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:43,080 and she never smiled when she said what she said, as if she really knew. 594 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:51,080 It was right along here we had a bad fight, and he beat me up. 595 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,080 According to the woman, Glenn was obsessed with completing the trip, 596 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,080 no matter how dangerous. 597 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,080 When she tried to leave, the fight erupted. 598 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,080 It was a great experience. 599 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,080 I got the full name of the woman, 600 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,080 and eventually contacted her back in Ohio. 601 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,080 But when I asked her about the hides and their disappearance, 602 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,080 she denied everything. 603 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,080 She said she hadn't told the story, 604 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,080 she said she didn't know anybody named Hyde, 605 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,080 and she said she wasn't Bessie Hyde. 606 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,080 My gut feeling though is that she was. 607 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,080 The mysteries surrounding the story still remain unsolved. 608 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:53,080 If the bones in Emory Cove's boathouse are not Glenn Hyde's, who's are they? 609 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:57,080 And why did Cove keep them hidden in that canoe for so many years? 610 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,080 The mysteries have survived the years, 611 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:05,080 and for now, they remain part of the legend of the Grand Canyon. 612 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,080 Next, the story of a woman trapped in her house by agoraphobia, 613 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,080 the irrational fear of unknown people and places. 614 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,080 Strangely, she has vanished. 615 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,080 The Bay Area Rapid Transit System, 616 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,080 known to commuters as the BART trains, 617 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,080 that links San Francisco with the East Bay cities. 618 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,080 On June 12th, 1985, 619 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,080 Jule Kaler drove his wife, Dottie, 620 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,080 to the BART station in Pleasant Hill, California, 621 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,080 18 miles from Oakland. 622 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,080 She entered the station and purchased a ticket. 623 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,080 A simple task performed each day by millions. 624 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,080 But this was a test of courage for Dottie Kaler. 625 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,080 Dottie suffers from agoraphobia, 626 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:09,080 an irrational, overwhelming fear of being in public places. 627 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,080 Facing the unknown, 628 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,080 and the possibility of panic shadows every step. 629 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,080 No one knows if Dottie overcame her fear that day, 630 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,080 and actually boarded the train. 631 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,080 What is certain is that for two and a half years, 632 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,080 there's been no trace of Dottie Kaler. 633 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,080 Oh, after the first few days, 634 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,080 I thought that she had left temporarily 635 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:44,080 to, well, simply make things inconvenient for me. 636 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,080 I think that Dottie could have disappeared 637 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,080 to get even with her husband, 638 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,080 who had disappeared on her for half of their married life. 639 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,080 She could have done that in the beginning. 640 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,080 It's very hard to imagine her doing that 641 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,080 for a great long period of time. 642 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,080 Immediately after she disappeared, 643 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,080 Dottie's friends wondered why a woman so afraid of the unknown 644 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,080 would leave behind everything she had, 645 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,080 and everyone she knew. 646 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,080 At first they thought she may have left to escape an unhappy marriage, 647 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,080 and start a new life in another city. 648 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,080 But as a months and years elapsed, 649 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,080 there was no word from Dottie. 650 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,080 Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries went by. 651 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,080 Now Dottie's friends and family are wondering 652 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,080 could she really have vanished voluntarily, 653 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,080 or was her disappearance more sinister? 654 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,080 In 1973, Dottie married Jewel Kaler, 655 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,080 an entomologist with the National Forest Service. 656 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,080 They settled in the Oakland suburb of Concord. 657 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,080 But over the years, her home became a self-imposed prison. 658 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,080 Dottie had what doctors have called agoraphobia. 659 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,080 She would stay inside most of the time, 660 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,080 and she couldn't even apply for a job, 661 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,080 much less hold one down. 662 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,080 It was a real problem. 663 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,080 Dottie and Jewel's marriage deteriorated. 664 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,080 Dottie was often home alone, 665 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,080 because Jewel was working out of town over 50% of the time. 666 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,080 Then in November of 1981, 667 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,080 the relationship erupted in violence. 668 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,080 She told me that they got in an argument. 669 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,080 It escalated to the point where he finally hit her 670 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,080 with a board or something, 671 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,080 and she received a wound in her head, 672 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,080 and that she did grabs and scissors 673 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,080 and said, you keep away from me and protect it herself. 674 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,080 And she was standing over top of me with those scissors. 675 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,080 Jewel says that Dottie started the fight. 676 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,080 Swearing at me and saying, I'll kill you, you son of a... 677 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,080 I'll kill you. 678 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,080 And I grabbed her little typing stand 679 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,080 and hit her with it. 680 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,080 Dottie needed to pull together the threads of her disintegrating life. 681 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:13,080 So in 1984, she joined a support group called Women in Transition. 682 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,080 Without ever telling Jewel, 683 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,080 she attended meetings for over a year. 684 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,080 I met her in the fall, 685 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,080 and of course the last time I saw her was in late spring, 686 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,080 and I thought she'd made a tremendous amount of progress, actually. 687 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:32,080 As time went on, I would notice she's adding a little more color to her outfits. 688 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:36,080 She is taking a little more care with her hair. 689 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:40,080 She cut her hair in a new style, which was a very scary thing for her. 690 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,080 It was as if a new Dottie were emerging. 691 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:49,080 She had secret lives, a secret existence that I knew nothing about, 692 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,080 and she wanted it that way. 693 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,080 She pursued that. 694 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,080 I only began to become aware of it, 695 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,080 oh, near the time that she disappeared. 696 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,080 I wasn't even aware of it. I was just suspicious. 697 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,080 Dottie secretly rented a post office box 698 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,080 so she could receive mail without Jewel's knowledge. 699 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:15,080 She opened a personal bank account and transferred $5,000 into a cashier's check. 700 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,080 Then one month before Dottie disappeared, 701 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,080 Jewel told her he had to accept a job transfer to Salt Lake City. 702 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,080 Dottie had said in the event that I got transferred 703 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,080 that she was not interested in going with me, 704 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:36,080 so I wasn't expecting her to go with me, 705 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,080 and wouldn't even have wanted her to, I guess. 706 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,080 According to Jewel, on Wednesday, June 12th, 707 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,080 Dottie set off on an overnight trip. 708 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,080 He drove her to the Pleasant Hill Bart Station. 709 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:58,080 I took her down to the Bart Station. 710 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,080 She had with her a little overnight bag. 711 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,080 Goodbye, Jewel. 712 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,080 And I dropped her off. 713 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,080 Then she walked around the corner of the station and disappeared. 714 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,080 Jewel is certain that Dottie had her purse, 715 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,080 as well as her overnight bag, 716 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,080 as she walked into the station for the last time. 717 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,080 But he can't be sure that Dottie ever boarded the train. 718 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,080 The next day, around noon, 719 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,080 Jewel returned home early from work 720 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,080 and got off the train at the Concord Bart Station. 721 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,080 In the parking lot, he was surprised to find 722 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,080 Dottie's Volkswagen next to his car. 723 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,080 So I walked over and looked inside, 724 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,080 and then I noticed her purse, 725 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,080 and that was very, very strange. 726 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,080 She told me how important it was to her 727 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,080 to have her purse with her all the time. 728 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,080 She felt secure if she felt she had a lot of her things with her, 729 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,080 and she felt safe out in the world. 730 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,080 That's one of the things that made me feel so terribly upset 731 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,080 when I realized that she had not taken her purse with her. 732 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,080 Jewel left a note on Dottie's car, 733 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,080 asking her to contact him. 734 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,080 Over the next four days, he left two more notes, 735 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,080 talking about problems he was having with the house. 736 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,080 He also expressed his love and pleaded with her to come home. 737 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,080 I spoke to Jewel, and Jewel told me that he hadn't seen her 738 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,080 for three or four days, and he didn't know where she was, 739 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,080 and that her car was there, her purse was there, 740 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,080 and he didn't know where she was. 741 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,080 I was extremely upset. 742 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,080 I asked him if he called the police, 743 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,080 and he said that he had not, 744 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,080 and this made me very... 745 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,080 just almost hysterical. 746 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,080 Five days after Dottie vanished, 747 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,080 Jewel filed a missing person's report 748 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,080 with the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police. 749 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,080 The following day, the Concord Police Department 750 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,080 was finally notified of Dottie's disappearance, 751 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,080 not by Jewel, but by the Bart police. 752 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,080 Two weeks after Dottie vanished, 753 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,080 Jewel moved to Salt Lake City, where he still lives and works. 754 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,080 Back in Concord, Diane hired a private investigator, 755 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,080 Francie Kohler. 756 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,080 Hi, Francie Kohler. 757 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,080 The status of the case at this point is we view it as... 758 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,080 I view it as 10% missing person's case 759 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,080 and 90% potential foul play. 760 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,080 As their attempts to locate Dottie turned up no new leads, 761 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:49,080 Diane and Francie started to worry that Dottie might be dead. 762 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,080 They began to consider Jewel a suspect. 763 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,080 We don't know for sure if Dottie ever got to the Bart station, 764 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,080 the only one that has reported that Dottie went to the Bart station 765 00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,080 is her husband, Jewel. 766 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,080 We don't know if she ever got there. 767 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,080 If this was... 768 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,080 proves to be anything other than a straight disappearance case, 769 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:11,080 Jewel will be a suspect in her disappearance 770 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,080 or in her death, whatever it may be, 771 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,080 along with anybody else that may have been close to her 772 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,080 at the time or prior to her disappearance. 773 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:24,080 You would certainly consider those around that person 774 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:28,080 as being possible, possible suspects. 775 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,080 No, that doesn't bother me at all. 776 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:37,080 I suspect that she either willfully disappeared 777 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:42,080 and then was helped to permanently disappear 778 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:52,080 or perhaps just got in with the wrong person 779 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,080 right at the start. 780 00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,080 Two and a half years have passed 781 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:03,080 and still no one knows if Dottie Kader built a secret life for herself 782 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:05,080 to escape an unhappy marriage 783 00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:09,080 or if she was simply the victim of foul play. 784 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,080 I think there's a chance that Dottie is dead, 785 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,080 which is very disturbing to think about. 786 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,080 I have many dreams about this 787 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,080 and the authorities I speak to and the friends I speak to 788 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,080 with hundreds of ideas. 789 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,080 There's no peace, there's no rest, 790 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,080 there's no conclusion and we won't forget her. 791 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,080 It was hell livin' with Dottie. 792 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:42,080 It was hell having her disappear the way that she did. 793 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:48,080 And yet, since I've gotten here 794 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:52,080 and gotten settled and into a new job 795 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:56,080 and that whole problem is behind me, 796 00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:00,080 things are really pretty good. 797 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,080 Tonight's mysteries are stories without endings, 798 00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,080 all missing that one vital clue. 799 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,080 Perhaps someone watching tonight knows what happened 800 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,080 and can reveal the truth, perhaps as you.