1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,460 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,460 --> 00:00:06,300 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,100 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:11,900 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:23,140 On November the 24th, 1971, at 8.12 PM, 10,000 feet 6 00:00:23,140 --> 00:00:25,420 above Southwestern Washington State, 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,020 a man forced open the rear doorway of a commercial airline. 8 00:00:29,020 --> 00:00:32,920 Buffeted by winds gusting in excess of 200 miles per hour, 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,020 he stood briefly on a rear stairwell. 10 00:00:37,020 --> 00:00:41,460 The man, known only as D.B. Cooper, leapt into space. 11 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:42,460 The unknown. 12 00:00:55,420 --> 00:01:10,020 The last flight in strange disappears at D.B. Cooper, 13 00:01:10,020 --> 00:01:16,920 is one of the most baffling cases of this century. 14 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,020 Many, including the FBI, believe he must have perished, 15 00:01:20,020 --> 00:01:23,320 and he leapt from a 727 at 10,000 feet. 16 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:24,920 Others disagree. 17 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,820 They say he made it. 18 00:01:26,820 --> 00:01:29,420 Tonight, we will recreate D.B. Cooper's last flight 19 00:01:29,420 --> 00:01:31,820 and examine two other cases. 20 00:01:31,820 --> 00:01:35,060 In one, an $8 million collection of sports memorabilia 21 00:01:35,060 --> 00:01:36,540 has disappeared. 22 00:01:36,540 --> 00:01:39,660 Among the treasures was Babe Ruth's uniform. 23 00:01:39,660 --> 00:01:43,220 In the other, two teenage boys lay motionless in the path 24 00:01:43,220 --> 00:01:45,260 of an on-rushing train. 25 00:01:45,260 --> 00:01:48,020 Their parents believe they were murdered. 26 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:49,180 Join me. 27 00:01:49,180 --> 00:01:51,500 You may be able to help solve a mystery. 28 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:08,500 The Sum D.B. Cooper is a skyjacking mastermind 29 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,260 behind a daring crime that defied both the elements 30 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:13,180 and the authorities. 31 00:02:13,180 --> 00:02:15,940 To most of us, he's nothing more than a common criminal 32 00:02:15,940 --> 00:02:20,540 who risked the lives of 42 innocent people for $200,000. 33 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:22,500 But one fact remains. 34 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:28,720 Nobody knows whether D.B. Cooper is dead or alive. 35 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,840 Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, at 2 PM, D.B. Cooper 36 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,800 walked into the Portland Airport. 37 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,520 He was your typical businessman, a suit, tie, a raincoat, 38 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,640 carrying an attaché case. 39 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,840 Nothing distinctive about him except perhaps for the fact 40 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,960 that everything was very dark, a black tie, a black raincoat, 41 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:53,020 black shoes. 42 00:02:53,020 --> 00:02:54,300 Cooper. 43 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:58,780 He appeared at the ticket counter, bought his ticket, 44 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:01,460 and just gave the name Cooper. 45 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:04,740 By the way, is that a 727? 46 00:03:04,740 --> 00:03:05,540 Yes, sir, it is. 47 00:03:05,540 --> 00:03:07,140 It'll be $20, please. 48 00:03:07,140 --> 00:03:11,940 The 727 became notorious through this case 49 00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:16,820 because it is the only airliner from which a successful parachute 50 00:03:16,820 --> 00:03:19,060 jump can be made from the passenger cabin. 51 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,240 Flight 305, nonstop service to Seattle. 52 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,000 Cooper had purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle. 53 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,280 The only luggage he carried was an attaché case. 54 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:30,180 Thank you, sir. 55 00:03:30,180 --> 00:03:32,160 You have a good flight, ma'am. 56 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,680 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. 57 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,720 Welcome aboard flight 305, 727 jet service nonstop 58 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,480 from Portland to Seattle, Washington. 59 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,680 He was the last person to board the plane 60 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,880 and took his seat while the 727 began its taxi to the runway. 61 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,340 Florence Schaffner was the first crew member to talk to Cooper. 62 00:03:50,340 --> 00:03:52,900 You'll need to put this under your front seat, please. 63 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:57,380 He handed me a note, and he kept looking at me. 64 00:03:57,380 --> 00:04:00,140 And I just ignored him the first time he looked at me. 65 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:07,460 And then he said, I want you to read the note. 66 00:04:07,460 --> 00:04:09,740 It was printed, miss. 67 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:11,900 I have a bomb in my briefcase. 68 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:14,220 I want you to sit beside me. 69 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:15,320 This is no joke. 70 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,920 There's a bomb in here. 71 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,760 I saw a big battery with six dynamite sticks wrapped 72 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,400 around the battery. 73 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,040 And he said to me, all I have to do 74 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:33,240 is attach this wire to this gadget here, and we all be dead. 75 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,160 She saw the bomb, so we know it's for real. 76 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:36,560 Yeah. 77 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,800 Florence went to the cockpit to inform the crew about Cooper 78 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,000 and his threat. 79 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,400 Can you handle it? 80 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,200 Yeah. 81 00:04:44,260 --> 00:04:46,060 Tina, he's the guy in the very back. 82 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:47,060 He's all dressed in black. 83 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:49,460 We were very, very scared to death. 84 00:04:49,460 --> 00:04:51,140 All of us were. 85 00:04:51,140 --> 00:04:53,660 I was thinking about dying. 86 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:55,300 That's all I thought. 87 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:58,100 I was also thinking I'll never see my parents, 88 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:01,500 my brothers and sisters. 89 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:03,300 Scotty, we call headquarters? 90 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:04,180 Yes, ma'am. 91 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:05,100 Go ahead and go ahead. 92 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:06,340 The flight crew immediately notified 93 00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:08,500 air traffic control about the hijacking. 94 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:11,700 For you, five, we have a hijack in progress. 95 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,480 They, in turn, contacted the FBI. 96 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,520 OK, I gave the captain your demands. 97 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,320 Did you tell him $200,000 cash, small bills? 98 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,880 Yes, I told him smirking. 99 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:28,720 He wanted $200,000 in cash in a knapsack and four parachutes. 100 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,280 Identified the parachutes as two front-pack parachutes 101 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,040 and two backpacks. 102 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,280 And he specified that the airliner 103 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:40,920 remained in the air until the money and the parachutes 104 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:43,260 were ready at Seattle. 105 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:47,700 He also specified that the other passengers not be told 106 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:50,220 that the airplane was being hijacked. 107 00:05:50,220 --> 00:05:51,620 Can I get you something to drink? 108 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:53,220 The flight crew proceeded as if nothing 109 00:05:53,220 --> 00:05:55,420 was out of the ordinary. 110 00:05:55,420 --> 00:05:56,780 Drinks were served. 111 00:05:56,780 --> 00:05:59,700 Cooper ordered two bourbon and waters. 112 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:03,660 The FBI asked the airline what their approach to the hijacking 113 00:06:03,660 --> 00:06:04,460 was going to be. 114 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:07,420 That is, did they wish to pay the ransom? 115 00:06:07,420 --> 00:06:09,700 This is an option that the victim of an extortion 116 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,880 has rather than law enforcement. 117 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,000 And they responded instantly. 118 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,240 They wished to pay the ransom. 119 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,200 And so the FBI at Seattle set about assisting 120 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,520 in obtaining the money. 121 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,800 Each bill was photographed, and the serial numbers recorded. 122 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,920 Cooper also insisted the plane be immediately refueled 123 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,800 upon landing in Seattle. 124 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,160 No passengers were to be released until all of his demands 125 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,640 were met. 126 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:40,540 Flight 305, Seattle to come up. 127 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:43,700 We've just been informed the money and the shoots have arrived. 128 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:47,100 The hijacker instructed that they land, 129 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:50,540 but that they stay on the runway rather than 130 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:52,140 to taxi up to the terminal. 131 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:54,980 OK, Anisuke, check. 132 00:06:54,980 --> 00:06:55,380 Check. 133 00:06:55,380 --> 00:06:57,260 Check, gear. 134 00:06:57,260 --> 00:07:01,660 At 5.43 PM, flight 305 landed at the Seattle airport. 135 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:08,680 The plane taxied in and parked in a remote area of the field. 136 00:07:11,380 --> 00:07:14,640 The money and the parachutes were brought by an FBI agent 137 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,440 to the airplane. 138 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,560 They were carried on board by the flight attendant. 139 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,120 There were $10,020 bills assembled in straps of 100 bills 140 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,160 to a strap, and individual straps held together 141 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,480 with rubber bands. 142 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:33,980 The money alone, just the currency, weighed 21 pounds. 143 00:07:41,020 --> 00:07:44,140 Four parachutes were delivered, but the authorities 144 00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:47,500 and the skyjacker were unaware that one of the parachutes 145 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:48,900 was defective. 146 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:53,340 It would not open under any circumstances. 147 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:54,220 All right, that's two. 148 00:07:54,220 --> 00:07:55,700 Where's the other two? 149 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:56,700 They're right out back. 150 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:57,820 Get them up here. 151 00:07:57,820 --> 00:07:59,420 Both the flight crew and the FBI 152 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,040 were worried that Cooper would use the four parachutes 153 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,800 to take hostages along with him. 154 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,000 But the passengers on board were oblivious to what 155 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,520 was going on. 156 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,600 Though annoyed at the delay, they remained calm, 157 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,520 unaware of the drama surrounding them. 158 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,720 During the time the airliner was on the ground at Seattle, 159 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,240 there were FBI agents with scoped rifles 160 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,680 who were prepared if any indications were present 161 00:08:27,740 --> 00:08:29,500 that required it to pick him off. 162 00:08:33,420 --> 00:08:36,940 He was very, very uptight, suspicious. 163 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:40,460 He said to us to pull down the shade. 164 00:08:40,460 --> 00:08:44,740 Every shade must be down, so I did, and Tina did. 165 00:08:48,740 --> 00:08:50,580 They seemed to be having trouble with getting 166 00:08:50,580 --> 00:08:51,980 fuel on the aircraft. 167 00:08:51,980 --> 00:08:53,700 And we thought, well, maybe they're delaying it. 168 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,540 And we said, we don't want any delay. 169 00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:58,280 And at this time, the hijacker seemed 170 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,840 to be getting real shook up. 171 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,960 So we told them on the ground, if you're 172 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,080 trying to delay us with any of these kind of tactics, 173 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,080 let's get with it and get the fuel on, which they finally did. 174 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,280 Finally, the passengers were allowed to deplane. 175 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,040 But Cooper demanded that the flight crew and one flight 176 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,880 attendants stay on board. 177 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:25,160 Copilot said, you better get the hell out now. 178 00:09:25,180 --> 00:09:27,340 So I left without Tina. 179 00:09:27,340 --> 00:09:31,580 And that's when he decided to keep her, 180 00:09:31,580 --> 00:09:37,980 because he was getting suspicious at everything. 181 00:09:37,980 --> 00:09:40,660 The passengers are met by FBI agents. 182 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:42,940 Only then did they realize that their lives had 183 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:44,860 been in mortal danger. 184 00:09:44,860 --> 00:09:47,180 When debriefed, they could remember nothing 185 00:09:47,180 --> 00:09:51,940 about the man with the attaché case. 186 00:09:51,940 --> 00:09:54,380 All right, listen up, Captain. 187 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,320 Cooper ordered the pilot to fly from Seattle to Mexico City 188 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,040 at a height of 10,000 feet and a speed of 200 miles per hour. 189 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,240 Under these conditions, the 727 would 190 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,280 have to refuel along the way. 191 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,760 Cooper agreed to stop and refuel in Reno, Nevada. 192 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,360 He then made an unusual request. 193 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,880 And I want the back stairwell down. 194 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,080 We're checking with the company. 195 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,880 The pilot explained that he wasn't 196 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,600 able to take off with that door open. 197 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:23,900 And they argued back and forth. 198 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:27,260 And finally, the pilot said he just couldn't fly the airplane 199 00:10:27,260 --> 00:10:29,140 and wasn't going to try. 200 00:10:29,140 --> 00:10:32,180 And the hijacker consented for the door 201 00:10:32,180 --> 00:10:36,340 to be closed for takeoff, which it was. 202 00:10:36,340 --> 00:10:39,860 At 737 PM, flight 305 took off. 203 00:10:42,820 --> 00:10:45,820 The Seattle control tower alerted all other aircraft 204 00:10:45,820 --> 00:10:49,060 in the area to remain clear, so the 727 205 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:51,860 had the sky to itself. 206 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,040 The weather had deteriorated, with a storm front directly 207 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:56,320 in the plane's flight path. 208 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,840 I want you to get up there with your flyboard. 209 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,280 He told her to go back into the cockpit 210 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,000 and to close the curtain between the coach 211 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,560 and the first class cabins. 212 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:10,640 As she turned around to close the curtains, 213 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,200 she said she saw him tying something to his waist 214 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,720 with what she thought was rope. 215 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,400 Later in the cockpit, the light flash 216 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:25,380 indicating that the hijacker was attempting to operate the door. 217 00:11:25,380 --> 00:11:32,580 At 812, the pilot told us that they were experiencing 218 00:11:32,580 --> 00:11:36,500 a rapid change in the air pressure reflected 219 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:38,500 in a ears popping experience. 220 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,660 Somewhere over the forest of southern Washington state, 221 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:48,120 Cooper jumped. 222 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,280 He has never been seen since. 223 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,320 Since DB Cooper's hijacking, all 727s 224 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,580 have been modified so that the rear door cannot be 225 00:11:57,580 --> 00:11:59,520 opened during a flight. 226 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,880 When we return, we'll reveal an important new clue 227 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,040 to the identity of DB Cooper. 228 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,880 No one can be certain if DB Cooper survived his jump 229 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,120 from 10,000 feet. 230 00:12:16,140 --> 00:12:18,980 On the aircraft, he left no identifiable fingerprints, 231 00:12:18,980 --> 00:12:22,740 no personal items, no clue to his identity. 232 00:12:22,740 --> 00:12:25,740 DB Cooper seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. 233 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:32,300 Upon landing in Reno, Nevada, every inch of the 727 234 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:36,540 was scrutinized for clues as to DB Cooper's real identity. 235 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:39,220 The flight attendants who had seen Cooper up close 236 00:12:39,220 --> 00:12:41,540 created a composite drawing of his face. 237 00:12:41,540 --> 00:12:49,280 The flight 305 flew along this path on his way to Reno. 238 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,200 The crew felt that Cooper had jumped somewhere 239 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,560 near the southern tip of Washington state. 240 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:56,640 For that reason, it was believed that Cooper 241 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,440 would be found in this area, bordered by Lake Merwin 242 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:04,680 to the north and ending 20 miles north of Portland, Oregon. 243 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:07,160 No matter where Cooper landed, Frank Hile 244 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,040 believes he could have survived. 245 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,700 Let's say he went down in the water. 246 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:14,340 You've got to know how to manage that parachute. 247 00:13:14,340 --> 00:13:16,700 You can use it for some flotation. 248 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:18,380 Now, his life expectancy is not going 249 00:13:18,380 --> 00:13:20,540 to be very long in that water. 250 00:13:20,540 --> 00:13:21,180 It's cold. 251 00:13:21,180 --> 00:13:23,180 You have to think of the time of the year it was in. 252 00:13:23,180 --> 00:13:26,900 So he had probably a very, very few minutes to get on shore. 253 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:28,100 But I think he could have done this. 254 00:13:32,540 --> 00:13:36,620 A large white object had been reported floating in Lake Merwin. 255 00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:39,220 Divers repeatedly explored its depths, 256 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,280 but found nothing. 257 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,560 My feeling is he would have been hurt 258 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:47,440 regardless of what he landed into. 259 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,560 I think that Cooper most likely crawled to a creek. 260 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:55,560 He didn't have any water supplies. 261 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:57,080 Didn't bring any along with him. 262 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,960 And he would have had to have water to survive. 263 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:03,920 So I assume he made his way to a little creek and perished there. 264 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:10,220 Some feel that Cooper could not have survived in that rugged 265 00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:13,740 terrain, rest only in a business suit. 266 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:16,980 We don't know what he wore under the suit. 267 00:14:16,980 --> 00:14:18,780 He could have had a pair of long underwear on, 268 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:20,620 which he certainly should have had. 269 00:14:20,620 --> 00:14:23,420 And what he had in his pockets may have been the most important 270 00:14:23,420 --> 00:14:26,860 thing, because this would have given him the tools of survival. 271 00:14:26,860 --> 00:14:30,500 As long as a man's got a knife, a cigarette lighter, 272 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,760 and the clothes on his back, he could have lived indefinitely 273 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,440 out there. 274 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:35,320 Could do it. 275 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:35,920 It's possible. 276 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,280 I think he buried the shoe. 277 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,840 I think he probably buried the briefcase. 278 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,280 He got rid of that. 279 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,000 I think he probably put the money in his coat. 280 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,920 And I think he headed for a big city someplace 281 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:50,800 and lost himself. 282 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,720 The search for D.B. Cooper continued, 283 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,200 but no new clues were discovered. 284 00:14:59,220 --> 00:15:01,100 Seven years passed. 285 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:04,820 Then in November of 1978, a hunter deep in the Washington 286 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:09,340 Forest discovered a plastic placard from a 727. 287 00:15:09,340 --> 00:15:12,500 It had been ripped from a lower stairwell of Flight 305. 288 00:15:15,980 --> 00:15:19,500 15 months later, an even more dramatic discovery was made. 289 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:22,420 You run up there and just clear a spot off for fire. 290 00:15:22,420 --> 00:15:26,100 On February 10, 1980, a family was preparing a barbecue 291 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,000 on the shore of the Columbia River, 292 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,120 165 miles south of Seattle, and 20 miles southwest 293 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,320 of Cooper's supposed jump point. 294 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,560 They planned on digging a fire pit, 295 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:38,960 but dug up something else. 296 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:48,640 The bills totaling $5,880 were waterlogged and deteriorated. 297 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,040 There were 294 bills found. 298 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,640 And all of those serial numbers are on the ransom list. 299 00:15:55,660 --> 00:15:59,580 So that money is definitely positively identified 300 00:15:59,580 --> 00:16:05,140 as having come from that particular ransom money. 301 00:16:05,140 --> 00:16:06,100 Money was found. 302 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:10,500 If they'd have found $200,000, I'd have said, hey, it's all 303 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:11,020 over. 304 00:16:11,020 --> 00:16:11,740 He's out there. 305 00:16:11,740 --> 00:16:12,380 He's dead. 306 00:16:12,380 --> 00:16:13,620 Now we've got some real proof. 307 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:17,220 But they did not find $200,000. 308 00:16:17,220 --> 00:16:18,500 Where's the rest of the money? 309 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:21,820 That's what I want to know. 310 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:26,320 He risked his life to hijack the airliner. 311 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,080 He didn't get to spend the money. 312 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,760 He may have lost his life. 313 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,600 Now, I don't know that he lost his life, 314 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,040 but I think there's a very good chance that he did. 315 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,560 None of the money, not one bill, has ever 316 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:41,800 turned up in circulation. 317 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,000 Could D.B. Cooper have struck again only five months 318 00:16:49,020 --> 00:16:52,540 after Cooper's flight in April of 1972? 319 00:16:52,540 --> 00:16:55,380 A half million dollars was extorted from another airline 320 00:16:55,380 --> 00:16:57,420 by another skyjacker. 321 00:16:57,420 --> 00:17:00,860 The crime was remarkably similar to the Cooper skyjacking. 322 00:17:00,860 --> 00:17:05,260 His name was Richard McCoy, a former Green Beret skydiver. 323 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:08,340 He was sentenced to 45 years for air piracy, 324 00:17:08,340 --> 00:17:11,340 but escaped and was tracked down and killed in a gun 325 00:17:11,340 --> 00:17:13,860 battle with the FBI. 326 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:16,020 Due to the resemblance between their pictures, 327 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:18,780 some believe that D.B. Cooper and Richard McCoy 328 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,640 are the same man. 329 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,680 Florence Schaffner, however, believes 330 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,800 that composite of Cooper may be inaccurate. 331 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,360 The composite never really looked like him. 332 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:32,920 The hair does not look like him. 333 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,320 The face does not look like him. 334 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,000 OK. 335 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,560 I've had it a little bit of eyelid up here. 336 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,840 At the request of Unsolved Mysteries, 337 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,680 Florence worked with Maylon Coleman, a forensic artist 338 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,360 from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. 339 00:17:48,420 --> 00:17:52,420 Together, they created a new portrait of D.B. Cooper. 340 00:17:52,420 --> 00:17:54,780 Wide forehead. 341 00:17:54,780 --> 00:17:56,300 It's still strong in my mind. 342 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:57,820 OK, narrow face. 343 00:17:57,820 --> 00:18:00,980 I remember everything, the color of his eyes, 344 00:18:00,980 --> 00:18:05,740 color of his eyebrows, and his features. 345 00:18:05,740 --> 00:18:08,220 What do you think of that? 346 00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:11,300 Yeah. 347 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:12,300 That's it. 348 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:20,520 MUSIC 349 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:28,020 Last May, we examined the case of Diane Broadbeck, 350 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:30,880 a Pennsylvania housewife and mother of two, 351 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,120 whose charity worked letter to exchange letters of friendship 352 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,280 with convicted killer John Yount. 353 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,720 Yount, a former high school math teacher, 354 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,640 was sentenced to life in prison in 1966 355 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,660 for the brutal murder of a teenage girl. 356 00:18:45,660 --> 00:18:47,680 Broadbeck and Yount's friendship gradually 357 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,300 grew into a romance. 358 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:54,700 On April 5, 1986, John Yount escaped from prison. 359 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:59,140 And on the same day, Diane Broadbeck disappeared. 360 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:01,180 I know my daughter. 361 00:19:01,180 --> 00:19:05,380 She would not deliberately help a convicted murder 362 00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:07,140 escape from prison. 363 00:19:07,140 --> 00:19:09,320 Yes, I think that my wife probably 364 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,760 did help John Yount get out of jail under pressure, 365 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,320 for what reason I don't know. 366 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,520 Update. 367 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,040 John Yount and Diane Broadbeck have been captured. 368 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,320 Two of our viewers in Boise, Idaho 369 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,680 recognize Broadbeck as a former coworker, Kathy Kerman. 370 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,760 When they showed the picture, it was Kathy's face, obviously. 371 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,560 And once they said she was a bank manager 372 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,480 and was from Massachusetts, and they said that John's 373 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:37,140 background was in computers. 374 00:19:37,140 --> 00:19:40,180 It was a dead giveaway. 375 00:19:40,180 --> 00:19:42,140 The Humphries called the FBI. 376 00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:44,460 And after a month-long investigation, 377 00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:46,580 the fugitive couple was arrested at their home. 378 00:19:46,580 --> 00:20:06,320 In the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, 379 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,520 a 75-car, 6,000-ton cargo train made 380 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:14,320 its regular night run to Little Rock, Arkansas. 381 00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:17,340 The train was over a mile long and was traveling at a speed 382 00:20:17,340 --> 00:20:20,780 of 52 miles per hour. 383 00:20:20,780 --> 00:20:23,220 So far, the run had been clear sailing, 384 00:20:23,220 --> 00:20:26,220 as engineer Stephen Shroyer approached the small town 385 00:20:26,220 --> 00:20:27,500 of Bryant, Arkansas. 386 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:38,540 Suddenly, Shroyer saw something in his path. 387 00:20:38,540 --> 00:20:40,540 He couldn't tell what it was. 388 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:43,580 As his train drew closer, he made 389 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,520 a horrifying discovery that two boys were lying 390 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,680 motionless across the railroad tracks. 391 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,720 In the time that we had placed the train 392 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:00,120 into an emergency position and laid down on a horn, 393 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:05,160 I would estimate about three to five seconds to impact. 394 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,320 And that may not sound like a very long period of time, 395 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,360 but when you're bearing down on a couple of children, 396 00:21:12,420 --> 00:21:16,300 it's an eternity, honestly. 397 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,620 Despite the engineer's frantic emergency stop, 398 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:21,420 the weight of the heavy cargo train 399 00:21:21,420 --> 00:21:24,340 carried it for a full half mile. 400 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:26,260 The boys' bodies were terribly mangled. 401 00:21:30,420 --> 00:21:33,580 The two boys were identified as 16-year-old Don Henry 402 00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:37,900 and 17-year-old Kevin Ives, best friends and popular seniors 403 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:41,660 at the Bryant, Arkansas High School. 404 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,480 It is extraordinary that Kevin and Don 405 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,040 lay on the tracks without moving a muscle, 406 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,520 while a huge freight train was hurtling towards them, 407 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,680 blurring its emergency horn. 408 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,720 The state medical examiner said the boys had been 409 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,520 under the influence of marijuana, 410 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,000 and he ruled the deaths accidental. 411 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,040 Don and Kevin's parents could not accept that ruling. 412 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,200 They began a crusade to find out what really happened 413 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,880 and to salvage the reputation of their sons. 414 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:14,880 Well, I couldn't believe that Kevin was knocked out 415 00:22:17,620 --> 00:22:20,980 on marijuana or into any kind of heavy drugs, 416 00:22:20,980 --> 00:22:24,340 anything like that, because I was a home lot during the day 417 00:22:24,340 --> 00:22:27,460 when Kevin came in from school and Linda was here at nights, 418 00:22:27,460 --> 00:22:30,540 and we'd never seen him in a state that he even, 419 00:22:30,540 --> 00:22:35,220 act like he was spaced out or however you want to phrase it. 420 00:22:35,220 --> 00:22:37,600 I just couldn't see any signs that he was 421 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:43,040 into any kind of heavy drugs or any kind of really drugs at all. 422 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,240 Kevin and Don were both typical teenage boys. 423 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,000 They loved to work on their cars. 424 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,680 They loved to hunt. 425 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:54,240 Don was a natural comedian, and Kevin was his best audience. 426 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,760 Most weekends, the two double dated. 427 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,560 However, in the night of Saturday, August 22, 1987, 428 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,360 Kevin and Don met a group of friends 429 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,080 in the outskirts of Little Rock at a favorite gathering 430 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:06,620 place for the local teenagers. 431 00:23:12,140 --> 00:23:13,740 The two boys left around midnight 432 00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:15,100 to go back to Don's house. 433 00:23:18,260 --> 00:23:20,820 Kevin waited on the porch while Don went inside 434 00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:22,620 to talk to his father. 435 00:23:22,620 --> 00:23:27,180 And he came in approximately 12, 15. 436 00:23:27,180 --> 00:23:29,700 Came to the bedroom and told me where he was going 437 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:31,340 and everything. 438 00:23:31,340 --> 00:23:32,420 I told him, just be careful. 439 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:35,520 And he took one of my spotlights with him. 440 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,520 Took his 22. 441 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,400 And we talked for approximately 15 minutes before he left. 442 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,040 The two boys set off to go spotlighting, 443 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,840 a form of night hunting which is illegal in Arkansas. 444 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,520 One of them would shine a light in the animals' eyes, 445 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,840 transfixing the prey while the other fired. 446 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,200 Spotlighting was a fairly widespread activity 447 00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:04,180 among the local boys. 448 00:24:04,180 --> 00:24:08,740 So far, Kevin and Don had avoided being caught. 449 00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:11,260 That night, the boys chose a usual hunting ground 450 00:24:11,260 --> 00:24:14,020 along the railroad tracks that ran behind Don's house. 451 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,940 I never was even concerned, worried about him, 452 00:24:19,940 --> 00:24:23,220 when he was in the woods, hunting. 453 00:24:23,220 --> 00:24:28,700 Because I didn't realize you could get in trouble hunting. 454 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:30,420 It was almost 1 o'clock in the morning. 455 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,620 Three hours later, Stephen Shroyer's locomotive 456 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:40,780 came speeding down Bryant Hill. 457 00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:42,780 When we were about six poles away from it, 458 00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:46,660 my conductor yelled out, big hole. 459 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:49,180 I immediately recognized what we saw. 460 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:50,180 Now, come on, the body. 461 00:24:50,180 --> 00:24:51,180 Oh, god. 462 00:24:51,180 --> 00:24:52,080 Oh, god. 463 00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:08,240 It looked like a body, morgue. 464 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,140 They were just laid out. 465 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,920 The boys were lying exactly parallel on the tracks, 466 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,800 their arms straight down by their sides. 467 00:25:17,820 --> 00:25:21,300 They were partially covered by a light green tarp. 468 00:25:21,300 --> 00:25:25,140 Lying parallel to both of them was Don's 22 rifle. 469 00:25:25,140 --> 00:25:27,540 Neither boy was moving. 470 00:25:27,540 --> 00:25:30,940 I started laying down on the diesel horn. 471 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:34,380 And I got no reaction, none at all. 472 00:25:34,380 --> 00:25:37,220 Not so much as a flinch. 473 00:25:37,220 --> 00:25:44,940 And the, we just passed over. 474 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:50,820 What had caused the two boys to lie side by side 475 00:25:50,820 --> 00:25:52,540 on the railroad tracks? 476 00:25:52,540 --> 00:25:54,500 The state medical examiner concluded 477 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:58,660 they had smoked the equivalent of 20 marijuana cigarettes. 478 00:25:58,660 --> 00:26:01,540 He determined that Kevin and Don had been in a deep sleep 479 00:26:01,540 --> 00:26:06,820 induced by the drug and had never heard the oncoming train. 480 00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:09,500 He ruled their death an accident. 481 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,260 Don and Kevin's parents would not 482 00:26:11,260 --> 00:26:14,580 accept the medical examiner's conclusion. 483 00:26:14,580 --> 00:26:16,300 If they were that stoned, how did they 484 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,000 lay down in identical positions? 485 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,320 That was my immediate reaction to his ruling. 486 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,040 We checked the train, and it was 98 decibels, which 487 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,080 is equal to a jackhammer and air compressor running. 488 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:35,040 I don't think that no one can sleep through that kind of noise. 489 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,920 And another thing too, my son's gun, it was laying on gravel. 490 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,320 I know my son too well. 491 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,120 He would not lay it on gravel. 492 00:26:46,140 --> 00:26:50,140 He wouldn't take a chance on the wood getting scratched. 493 00:26:50,140 --> 00:26:52,980 We hired a private investigator to try 494 00:26:52,980 --> 00:26:55,020 to find out what happened. 495 00:26:55,020 --> 00:26:57,580 Every time he would try to find out something, 496 00:26:57,580 --> 00:27:00,220 it seemed like he would meet resistance 497 00:27:00,220 --> 00:27:03,060 from different authorities and everything, 498 00:27:03,060 --> 00:27:06,100 and we weren't getting anywhere. 499 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:08,420 Five months after their sons were killed, 500 00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:11,500 Don and Kevin's parents held a press conference. 501 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,140 They hoped to force the authorities 502 00:27:13,140 --> 00:27:15,340 to reopen the investigation. 503 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:16,800 Would you like to give up your son, 504 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,720 and everybody think they was smoked up and laid down, 505 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,160 and passed out? 506 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,800 No, I don't think anyone wants to give up their kid, 507 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,800 unless that is honestly proved to be the truth, 508 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,320 then you have to accept it. 509 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,600 At this point, it has not been proved to us. 510 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,400 The day after their press conference, 511 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,080 the investigation was officially reopened. 512 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,280 Newly appointed prosecutor Richard Garrett 513 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,040 had the boys' bodies exhumed for a second autopsy 514 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,180 to be performed by a noted expert. 515 00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:50,660 This doctor concluded that together, the boys had smoked 516 00:27:50,660 --> 00:27:55,420 not 20, but between one and three marijuana cigarettes. 517 00:27:55,420 --> 00:27:57,180 He also found evidence to indicate 518 00:27:57,180 --> 00:28:01,260 that one boy was already dead, and one unconscious 519 00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:04,460 when the train hit them. 520 00:28:04,460 --> 00:28:08,660 In July of 1988, a grand jury reversed the medical examiner's 521 00:28:08,660 --> 00:28:11,300 original finding of accidental death, 522 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,240 and officially ruled the boys' deaths probable homicides. 523 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,960 Prosecutor Garrett then focused on the green tarp. 524 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,240 Neither boy owned such a tarp. 525 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,680 Who had covered them with it, and why? 526 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,200 All four of the people on the train 527 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:32,640 who were able to observe the scene prior to the accident 528 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,040 stated that the boys were partially covered by a green 529 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:36,840 tarp. 530 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:37,880 See what you can find. 531 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:38,760 I'll go ahead and call it in. 532 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,200 Police who searched the scene later 533 00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:42,100 denied that engineer Shroyer had even 534 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,420 told them about the tarp. 535 00:28:44,420 --> 00:28:46,500 They even questioned this existence. 536 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,100 That, to me, would be like questions 537 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:50,740 of the existence of the boys on the track. 538 00:28:50,740 --> 00:28:52,180 They were covered up with a tarp. 539 00:28:52,180 --> 00:28:54,740 Because what's real is real, and what's not is not. 540 00:28:54,740 --> 00:28:58,820 And that's, you know, it was there as well as the boys. 541 00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:01,900 I can understand two people laying down on a railroad track. 542 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:03,700 I can understand two people laying down and covering 543 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:05,340 themselves up with a tarp. 544 00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:07,580 Where would the tarp come from? 545 00:29:07,580 --> 00:29:11,080 I am convinced that the tarp existed. 546 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,520 The tarp however was never found. 547 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,640 The ensuing investigation unearthed an intriguing lead. 548 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920 One week before the boys were killed, 549 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,000 a man wearing military fatigue had been spotted in the vicinity. 550 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,560 His behavior had aroused suspicion. 551 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,880 When police officer Danny Allen stopped to question him, 552 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,280 the man opened fire. 553 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,260 When I got up from the seat, the subject was gone. 554 00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:42,380 And five minutes later, Slain County showed up, 555 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:47,380 and we searched the area and never found a subject. 556 00:29:47,380 --> 00:29:49,500 On the night Kevin and Don died, 557 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:53,660 witnesses again reported seeing a man in military fatigues. 558 00:29:53,660 --> 00:29:57,140 This time he was leaving town, heading down a road less 559 00:29:57,140 --> 00:30:00,140 than 200 yards from the spot where the boys' bodies were 560 00:30:00,140 --> 00:30:01,500 run over. 561 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,700 Police have been unable to locate him. 562 00:30:07,260 --> 00:30:10,300 Six weeks after the investigation was reopened, 563 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:13,500 Richard Garrett came up with a strangely similar case. 564 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,420 In Hodgan, Oklahoma, just 200 miles west of Little Rock, 565 00:30:17,420 --> 00:30:20,780 two young men lying together on the railroad tracks 566 00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:24,300 had been run over by a locomotive in 1984. 567 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:26,740 They were lying motions on the tracks 568 00:30:26,740 --> 00:30:29,540 in a position nearly identical to Kevin and Don's. 569 00:30:36,620 --> 00:30:40,180 I think that someone took these boys' lives. 570 00:30:40,180 --> 00:30:42,700 They incapacitated one of the boys, 571 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:46,100 and then felt like they had to do something to the other one. 572 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:48,460 And then to cover their tracks, laid the boys on a railroad 573 00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:51,340 track and covered them up with a tartan. 574 00:30:51,340 --> 00:30:54,700 The reason why they did that, I'm not sure. 575 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:58,100 What I'm hunting for is the reason why they did it. 576 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:00,540 I've never carried a gun in my life. 577 00:31:00,540 --> 00:31:05,860 But since we've started working on this thing, 578 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,960 I don't care any gun. 579 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,560 Because I do feel like that my life could be in danger 580 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,960 at some point in time. 581 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,320 Whatever it takes, however long it takes, 582 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,560 as long as there is anything to investigate, 583 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,880 as long as there is anything to work on, we'll do it. 584 00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:34,380 Hundreds of times, I've been out there day and night, 585 00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:39,380 just trying to get it in my mind of what could have happened 586 00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:41,380 or what did happen. 587 00:31:41,380 --> 00:31:44,880 I've been out there at night to see how far you can see the train, 588 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,380 how far you can hear the train, how loud is the train. 589 00:31:48,380 --> 00:31:54,380 I basically think that they walked up on something, 590 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,880 that they were not supposed to see. 591 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,880 They're at the wrong place, at the wrong time. 592 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:08,880 I know in my own mind that they was murdered and put there. 593 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,380 Since we filmed this story, 594 00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:23,380 Don Henry's t-shirt has been analyzed by an expert pathologist. 595 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,880 Tears in the fabric indicate that Don had been stabbed before 596 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,880 he was run over by the train. 597 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,880 In light of this new evidence, 598 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,880 the grand jury changed this ruling from probable homicide 599 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,880 to definite homicide. 600 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,880 Next, a curious footnote to the legend of Babe Ruth. 601 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,880 His uniform, long displayed as a price of sports treasure, 602 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,880 has been stolen, along with other sports memorabilia worth $8 million. 603 00:32:53,880 --> 00:33:02,880 In 1927, legendary Babe Ruth hit 60 homeruns. 604 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,880 Record has stood for over 30 years. 605 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,880 Today, his 1927 World Series ring is valued at $50,000. 606 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,880 It has disappeared. 607 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,880 In 1956, Mickey Manley, 608 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,880 at the most homeruns and the best batting average 609 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,880 of any place in the world, 610 00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:26,380 today Manles 1956 World Series uniform is valued at $15,000. 611 00:33:26,380 --> 00:33:28,380 It has disappeared. 612 00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:33,380 Pete Rose, a hometown boy from Cincinnati, 613 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:36,380 has more hits than any player in the history of the game. 614 00:33:36,380 --> 00:33:40,380 Rose's silver bat is worth $30,000. 615 00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:42,380 It too has disappeared. 616 00:33:45,380 --> 00:33:47,380 At conventions across the country, 617 00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:49,380 millions of people have been killed. 618 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:51,380 At conventions across the country, 619 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:54,380 millions of avid collectors have made baseball memorabilia 620 00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:57,380 a multi-million dollar business. 621 00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:00,880 One of the most ardent of these collectors was Dennis Walker. 622 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,880 He amassed a trove of sports memorabilia 623 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,880 valued at nearly $10 million. 624 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,880 Today, this irreplaceable collection is missing. 625 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,880 Among the items in Dennis Walker's collection 626 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,880 are Babe Ruth's ring, Mickey Manley's uniform, 627 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,880 Pete Rose's silver bat, 628 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,880 and hundreds of Prices Sports treasures. 629 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,880 Number three, the classic New York Yankees pinstripe. 630 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,880 Sadly, this uniform is only a prop. 631 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,880 Babe Ruth's real uniform, 632 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,880 along with most of Walker's collection, is missing. 633 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,880 America's national pastime has been robbed 634 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,880 of a major portion of its history, 635 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,880 and someone watching tonight may be able to help find it. 636 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,880 In June of 1980, 637 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,880 Dennis Walker quit his job teaching political science 638 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,880 at a small Oregon college 639 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,880 and set up an investment company 640 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,880 in his hometown of Medford, Oregon. 641 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,880 He concocted grandiose investment schemes 642 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,880 and opened his own bank on the South Pacific Island of Tonga. 643 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,880 Walker offered an amazing 25% rate of interest, 644 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,880 and indeed paid off early investors on schedule. 645 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:19,880 More than 140 people gave Walker better than $7 million to invest. 646 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,880 He had the mightest touch and word spread, 647 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,880 because if somebody says, 648 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:31,880 give me $10,000, and I will give you $12,500 right now, 649 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,880 that sounds like one whale of an investment. 650 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,880 The only thing was is that 651 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,880 he didn't actually give him $12,500. 652 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:47,880 He gave him a piece of paper saying that he owed them $12,500 one year from now. 653 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,880 Dennis, I have a few things I'd like you to sign. 654 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,880 Dennis Walker's employees also invested with him. 655 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,880 He seemed to be a astute business person, 656 00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,880 seemed to be very intelligent, 657 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,880 and seemed to be very fair. 658 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,880 I was an investor, 659 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,880 and I had a considerable amount of money with Dennis. 660 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,880 We all trusted Dennis. 661 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,880 I believe that every one of the employees had money invested with Dennis. 662 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,880 Walker had always been an avid baseball fan. 663 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:23,880 How you doing, Scott? 664 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,880 With his newly accumulated investors' money, 665 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,880 he bought rare and expensive sports memorabilia. 666 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,880 Well, I just came in to see if you had anything new to show me today. 667 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,880 Oh, yeah, I got some new Mickey Mouse cards. 668 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,880 It was as if you were acting out a childhood fantasy. 669 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,880 It's his rookie year, isn't it? 670 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,880 The first thing that Walker did was he spent a great deal of money on sports memorabilia. 671 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,880 $995. 672 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,880 Yeah. 673 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,880 What about that Willie Mays? 674 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,880 Sure have an eye for him. 675 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,880 $225. 676 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,880 They are some nice cards. 677 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,880 Walker had a passion for sports collectibles, 678 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,880 and he freely indulged it with the investor's money. 679 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,880 To some degree, I felt that that was somewhat comforting, 680 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:12,880 because we had anywhere from five to perhaps $22 million worth of collectibles. 681 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,880 Obviously, that's a rather large amount of assets, 682 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,880 so the investors weren't too concerned. 683 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,880 Walker soon graduated from $1,000 baseball cards to the really major collectibles. 684 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,880 He built one of the most prized collections in the country. 685 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,880 Major League batting champion, 1981, 370 Irish. 686 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,880 They're an absolute steal if I'd said to you this whole package at $12,000. 687 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:39,880 $12,000. 688 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:40,880 That's right. 689 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,880 Walker leased an empty bank building in Medford, Oregon, 690 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,880 and opened his very own sports hall of fame. 691 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:52,880 Pete Rose was Walker's special guest at the grand opening of his hall of fame. 692 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,880 Walker had bought several pieces of memorabilia from Rose personally. 693 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,880 He displayed them elaborately among his vast collection, 694 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:03,880 which spanned nine decades of sports history. 695 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,880 Some of the most prized items were a pristine, uncut sheet of baseball cards 696 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,880 from the year 1933 worth $10,000. 697 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,880 Two Honus Wagner baseball cards from the year 1910 698 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,880 valued at an incredible $70,000. 699 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,880 The diamond studded ring awarded to Pete Rose 1984, 700 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:31,880 the year he achieved 4,000 hits, valued at $30,000. 701 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:38,880 And finally, a New York Yankees uniform worn by the great Babe Ruth. 702 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:45,880 In 1986, the Medford police obtained a warrant and searched Walker's office. 703 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,880 The state of Oregon had been watching him for a year, 704 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:54,880 and had filed suit, charging him with fraud and racketeering. 705 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,880 The search yielded enough evidence to prosecute Walker 706 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,880 for the illegal sale of unregistered securities. 707 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,880 Here's some monetary amounts. 708 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,880 Once we had done that, then we ran into a brick wall 709 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:13,880 as far as cooperation from the people who had invested their money. 710 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:21,880 The investigation was not a case where an investor did not get money 711 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,880 or had complained to the state of Oregon. 712 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,880 Everybody at that point was getting their principal interest, 713 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,880 whatever it was that they required, to my knowledge. 714 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,880 Walker immediately filed a countersuit against the state, claiming his innocence. 715 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:42,880 He received a number of summons, but continually failed to appear in court. 716 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,880 Anticipating the state of Oregon would confiscate his assets, 717 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:52,880 Walker asked Sandy Sanders, an employee, to pack up his prize sports collection. 718 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,880 Actually, I was all for getting it out of there 719 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,880 so that it could be turned into liquid assets 720 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,880 and be given back to the investors 721 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,880 and to keep the state from getting their cotton-picking hands on it. 722 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,880 In April 1986, Walker decided to leave Oregon 723 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,880 and took his entire collection of sports memorabilia with him. 724 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,880 Most of Walker's collection would never be seen again. 725 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,880 Sixteen months later, a man registered under the name of Charles Lee 726 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,880 was found dead in the Las Vegas motel. 727 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,880 There was no apparent cause of death and no signs of identification 728 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,880 except a prescription bottle bearing the name Dennis Walker. 729 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:59,880 From reviewing the autopsy photographs and the autopsy records 730 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,880 and looking at the dental charts and records, 731 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,880 there's no doubt in my mind that was Dennis Walker. 732 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,880 There are a number of theories as to why he died, 733 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,880 and no one has ever really been able to determine what caused his death. 734 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:23,880 That, combined with the missing sports memorabilia, 735 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,880 leaves many, many more questions open and closed in this case. 736 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,880 For every mystery, there is someone somewhere who knows the truth. 737 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,880 Perhaps that someone is watching. 738 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,880 Perhaps it's you.