1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,600 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 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 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:19,600 Lee Selva, a popular Los Angeles disc jockey, 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,900 had a fondness for motorcycles. 7 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:25,400 Late one night, an argument led to a high-speed duel. 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,100 Lee Selva won the race. 9 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:29,400 The argument led to a high-speed duel. 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,300 Lee Selva was run down and killed. 11 00:00:32,300 --> 00:00:33,900 His murder is still at large. 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,460 Eight years ago, 25-year-old Michael Rosenblum 13 00:00:39,460 --> 00:00:42,380 vanished from the sight of a Pennsylvania highway. 14 00:00:42,380 --> 00:00:44,020 His father believes Michael may have been 15 00:00:44,020 --> 00:00:45,460 the victim of the foul play. 16 00:00:48,460 --> 00:00:51,260 In Florida, a 77-year-old Don Juan 17 00:00:51,260 --> 00:00:53,500 first steals the hearts of his victims 18 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:56,740 and then their cash and jewelry. 19 00:00:56,740 --> 00:00:59,240 Also tonight, we'll update the poignant story of Roger's 20 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,720 cane, a Los Angeles man apparently suffering 21 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,980 from amnesia, who left his home for a simple trip 22 00:01:03,980 --> 00:01:06,940 to the hardware store and vanished. 23 00:01:06,940 --> 00:01:08,620 Shortly after our broadcast, a viewer 24 00:01:08,620 --> 00:01:10,140 called claiming that Roger's is now 25 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:12,220 living in Topeka, Kansas. 26 00:01:12,220 --> 00:01:14,220 When the police investigated this lead, 27 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:16,180 the man had disappeared again. 28 00:01:16,180 --> 00:01:18,300 Perhaps you can help find him. 29 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:19,420 Join me. 30 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:21,340 You may be able to help solve a mystery. 31 00:02:21,340 --> 00:02:22,340 I'm a rock star. 32 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:25,340 3, 2, 1, rock star. 33 00:02:25,340 --> 00:02:26,340 Rock star. 34 00:02:26,340 --> 00:02:27,340 Rock star. 35 00:02:27,340 --> 00:02:28,340 Rock star. 36 00:02:28,340 --> 00:02:29,340 Yeah. 37 00:02:29,340 --> 00:02:32,340 26-year-old Lee Selva is a familiar face 38 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:34,340 of the trendy rock and roll nightclubs that 39 00:02:34,340 --> 00:02:35,340 populate Los Angeles. 40 00:02:35,340 --> 00:02:36,340 I'm a rock star. 41 00:02:36,340 --> 00:02:37,340 Rock star. 42 00:02:37,340 --> 00:02:38,340 Rock star. 43 00:02:38,340 --> 00:02:39,340 Rock star. 44 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:40,340 Rock star. 45 00:02:40,340 --> 00:02:41,340 Rock star. 46 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:42,340 Yeah. 47 00:02:42,340 --> 00:02:44,340 He was a close friend to many popular rock stars 48 00:02:44,340 --> 00:02:46,060 and musicians. 49 00:02:46,060 --> 00:02:48,340 He was also a member of the late-night motorcycle 50 00:02:48,340 --> 00:02:49,340 riding crowd in Hollywood. 51 00:02:56,060 --> 00:03:00,060 On October 8, 1988, Lee Selva would fight for his life, 52 00:03:00,060 --> 00:03:03,100 the victim of a bizarre encounter with a crazed killer 53 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:04,340 on the streets of Los Angeles. 54 00:03:06,940 --> 00:03:09,580 It was a fight for survival that Lee would not win. 55 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:16,340 Lee Selva was a man who loved the night life of Los Angeles. 56 00:03:16,340 --> 00:03:18,340 He was an important part of it. 57 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:20,340 But simply because he looked different, 58 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:23,340 Lee and his friends were arbitrarily targeted for murder. 59 00:03:23,340 --> 00:03:25,340 The sad irony of his death is that he was only 60 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:27,340 an innocent bystander. 61 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:29,340 The search for his killer has been taken to the streets 62 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:32,340 of Los Angeles by his family and the rockers and bikers 63 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:33,340 who loved him. 64 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:40,340 When he first got his motorcycle, I guess I was probably 65 00:03:40,340 --> 00:03:42,340 a little bit nervous about it. 66 00:03:42,340 --> 00:03:44,340 But I knew that he was careful. 67 00:03:44,340 --> 00:03:47,340 And I knew that he wouldn't take unnecessary chances, 68 00:03:47,340 --> 00:03:49,340 he wouldn't ride on the freeways. 69 00:03:49,340 --> 00:03:53,340 He wasn't a crazy kind of person. 70 00:03:53,340 --> 00:03:55,340 So I really didn't worry about him. 71 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:02,340 At 2 AM, on October the 18th, Lee and three friends 72 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:04,340 left a Hollywood nightclub unaware of the danger 73 00:04:04,340 --> 00:04:08,340 that awaited him on the street. 74 00:04:08,340 --> 00:04:10,340 They rode two by two. 75 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:12,340 Lee and a friend named Beachy, trading Mike Auerbach 76 00:04:12,340 --> 00:04:16,340 and Rob Caliphate rode in front. 77 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:19,340 Driving along, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, 78 00:04:19,340 --> 00:04:21,340 this truck comes flying by me. 79 00:04:21,340 --> 00:04:24,340 As he comes by, he dives in on me, laughing. 80 00:04:24,340 --> 00:04:26,340 He's screaming, ha, ha, he's screaming something. 81 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:28,340 I don't know, I couldn't hear, just laughing. 82 00:04:28,340 --> 00:04:32,340 Dives in on me, I look over at Mike, and in LA, 83 00:04:32,340 --> 00:04:34,340 this happens every day. 84 00:04:34,340 --> 00:04:36,340 Every day, but not so blatant. 85 00:04:36,340 --> 00:04:38,340 What are you doing? 86 00:04:38,340 --> 00:04:40,340 What are you trying to do? 87 00:04:40,340 --> 00:04:41,340 Talk? 88 00:04:41,340 --> 00:04:42,340 What? 89 00:04:42,340 --> 00:04:45,340 I got infuriated because he was trying to kill me. 90 00:04:45,340 --> 00:04:47,340 And I'm really close to the guy yelling, 91 00:04:47,340 --> 00:04:49,340 what the hell are you trying to do, trying to kill me? 92 00:04:49,340 --> 00:04:53,340 And he starts screaming at me, and looking like a nut, 93 00:04:53,340 --> 00:04:55,340 some drug, spear, whatever, psycho. 94 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:59,340 Then he rolls his window down and spits in my face, 95 00:04:59,340 --> 00:05:00,340 right in my face. 96 00:05:00,340 --> 00:05:03,340 And it was just anybody that spit in their face 97 00:05:03,340 --> 00:05:05,340 because I rate. 98 00:05:05,340 --> 00:05:08,340 So I punched out his mirror, and he still rolls his window down 99 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:11,340 up and down, spitting at me, growling, screaming. 100 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:14,340 And then he starts reaching down like he's got a gun. 101 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:17,340 I put my fist through his driver's window. 102 00:05:17,340 --> 00:05:21,340 As soon as I broke his window, he triggered, 103 00:05:21,340 --> 00:05:25,340 shot out of the intersection, and he's doing a brody U-turn, 104 00:05:25,340 --> 00:05:28,340 and Mike and I look at each other, this guy's gonna kill us. 105 00:05:28,340 --> 00:05:30,340 He's coming after us. 106 00:05:31,340 --> 00:05:32,340 He's coming after us. 107 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:33,340 He's in the most down. 108 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:38,340 This U-turn comes after us. 109 00:05:38,340 --> 00:05:41,340 We're flying down the street, and I'm just going. 110 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:43,340 And I see his headlights bearing down on us. 111 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:45,340 I'm just going, we still gotta get out of here. 112 00:05:45,340 --> 00:05:47,340 So we choose to go right. 113 00:05:47,340 --> 00:05:50,340 And as I look back, he comes flying through the intersection, 114 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:54,340 screeching, bouncing, and coming to a slight stop. 115 00:05:54,340 --> 00:05:57,340 When Lee got to the intersection, he turned left, 116 00:05:57,340 --> 00:06:00,340 and the man in the truck followed Lee. 117 00:06:00,340 --> 00:06:03,340 He's like a cra- he's from what I've seen, 118 00:06:03,340 --> 00:06:07,340 he's a crazed maniac, because he just wanted to kill me. 119 00:06:07,340 --> 00:06:09,340 He wanted to kill me. 120 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:15,340 Instead of Rob Caliphate, Lee Selber became the target 121 00:06:15,340 --> 00:06:17,340 of the driver's rage. 122 00:06:18,340 --> 00:06:21,340 According to the witnesses, they were both going anywhere 123 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:23,340 from 60 to 90 miles an hour. 124 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:26,340 And here you have a young man who is known by his friends, 125 00:06:26,340 --> 00:06:30,340 known by his family as a very peaceable man 126 00:06:30,340 --> 00:06:34,340 who purposely avoids fights, even when confronted. 127 00:06:34,340 --> 00:06:36,340 Even if he is physically harmed by someone, 128 00:06:36,340 --> 00:06:38,340 he'll turn and walk away. 129 00:06:38,340 --> 00:06:40,340 You have a man like that who's out riding his motorcycle 130 00:06:40,340 --> 00:06:43,340 having fun, and also he's in a situation where 131 00:06:43,340 --> 00:06:46,340 he's terrorized by someone in a car. 132 00:06:46,340 --> 00:06:48,340 He had to be in complete terror, and his terror lasted 133 00:06:48,340 --> 00:06:51,340 approximately about a five mile chase with this man 134 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:53,340 right on his rear end. 135 00:06:53,340 --> 00:06:55,340 According to the witnesses, he was right on him. 136 00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:58,340 And he chased him until the time he actually hit him 137 00:06:58,340 --> 00:07:01,340 and drove him into a telephone pole. 138 00:07:04,340 --> 00:07:09,340 Lee, when he flew through the air, he flew close to 180 feet 139 00:07:09,340 --> 00:07:11,340 before he came to arrest. 140 00:07:14,340 --> 00:07:16,340 This is a murder. It's a homicide. 141 00:07:16,340 --> 00:07:19,340 Someone intentionally took the life of another person. 142 00:07:19,340 --> 00:07:21,340 It's a homicide. 143 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:24,340 The massive skull fracture Lee received in the collision 144 00:07:24,340 --> 00:07:26,340 was a cause of his death. 145 00:07:26,340 --> 00:07:29,340 I received a call from Cedars. 146 00:07:29,340 --> 00:07:34,340 They said that he was in intensive care, 147 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:37,340 and I knew. I just knew. 148 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:42,340 But I don't believe it yet. 149 00:07:42,340 --> 00:07:45,340 It's real, but it isn't real. 150 00:07:45,340 --> 00:07:48,340 He was such a big part of my life. 151 00:07:48,340 --> 00:07:51,340 He was my buddy. He wasn't just my son. 152 00:07:51,340 --> 00:07:53,340 He was my buddy. 153 00:08:01,340 --> 00:08:05,340 At Lee's funeral, hundreds of his friends paid tribute to him. 154 00:08:05,340 --> 00:08:08,340 This music video with footage shot at the funeral 155 00:08:08,340 --> 00:08:12,340 was set to an original song dedicated to Lee's memory 156 00:08:12,340 --> 00:08:14,340 by the rock group Little Caesar. 157 00:08:22,340 --> 00:08:26,340 It was amazing to see all these people who really cared. 158 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:30,340 There's no way that that can be consolation enough. 159 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:33,340 There's a real tribute to who Lee was, 160 00:08:33,340 --> 00:08:36,340 by how many people were there and how many people 161 00:08:36,340 --> 00:08:39,340 really have shown how much they cared. 162 00:08:52,340 --> 00:08:55,340 Riding back to the beach. 163 00:09:00,340 --> 00:09:03,340 Lee's friends organized a rock concert in his honor, 164 00:09:03,340 --> 00:09:07,340 with special guest performances by Billy Idol and Julian Landon, among others. 165 00:09:10,340 --> 00:09:13,340 The proceeds from the concert went to a fund, 166 00:09:13,340 --> 00:09:17,340 offering a reward to anyone who could bring Lee's murder to justice. 167 00:09:18,340 --> 00:09:24,340 A lot of people take the opinion that these guys are motorcycle gang members. 168 00:09:24,340 --> 00:09:27,340 When in fact there were four guys out having a good time, 169 00:09:27,340 --> 00:09:30,340 they happened to like to ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. 170 00:09:30,340 --> 00:09:33,340 What really counts is who they are and what they're doing. 171 00:09:33,340 --> 00:09:35,340 These people weren't doing anything wrong that night. 172 00:09:35,340 --> 00:09:38,340 They had a right to be out there riding their motorcycles, 173 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:40,340 and dressed the way they were. 174 00:09:40,340 --> 00:09:43,340 Lee's cell phone wasn't even the man who gave him the problem. 175 00:09:43,340 --> 00:09:45,340 It was another one of the motorcycles, 176 00:09:45,340 --> 00:09:48,340 but this man was so bent on catching that person, 177 00:09:48,340 --> 00:09:50,340 it didn't matter to him who was on the motorcycle, 178 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:53,340 he had to catch that motorcycle and he had to run him over, 179 00:09:53,340 --> 00:09:55,340 and that's what he did. 180 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:03,340 It's incomprehensible to me to think that we could never find this man. 181 00:10:03,340 --> 00:10:08,340 I can't even imagine that I could live the rest of my life, 182 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:12,340 not knowing who did this. 183 00:10:13,340 --> 00:10:16,340 These killers drove a late model two-tone vehicle 184 00:10:16,340 --> 00:10:19,340 with a chrome luggage rack and tinted windows. 185 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:23,340 Most eyewitnesses agree that it was a Bronco II or a Chevy Blazer, 186 00:10:23,340 --> 00:10:26,340 and that its colors were red on white. 187 00:10:26,340 --> 00:10:30,340 Damage to the vehicle included a smashed outside rear view mirror, 188 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:34,340 a broken window, and a dented door all on the driver's side. 189 00:10:34,340 --> 00:10:37,340 The vehicle would probably have come into an auto body shop 190 00:10:37,340 --> 00:10:41,340 for repairs sometime after October 8th. 191 00:10:42,340 --> 00:10:45,340 The driver of the vehicle is described as Caucasian, 192 00:10:45,340 --> 00:10:50,340 aged 28 to 32 with green eyes and reddish brown hair and beard. 193 00:10:50,340 --> 00:10:52,340 Incredibly, four years went by 194 00:10:52,340 --> 00:10:56,340 before police finally got the tip they'd been waiting for. 195 00:10:56,340 --> 00:10:58,340 After a recent rebroadcast of the story, 196 00:10:58,340 --> 00:11:01,340 a viewer called our phone center and told one of the operators 197 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:03,340 that there was a man in prison in Georgia 198 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:08,340 who had often bragged about running down a biker in Los Angeles. 199 00:11:08,340 --> 00:11:11,340 The Los Angeles police obtained a mugshot of the suspect. 200 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:14,340 Lee's friends picked the man out of a photo lineup. 201 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:18,340 His name is Franklin LeGrand Perkins. 202 00:11:20,340 --> 00:11:26,340 On July 30th, 1993, just five days before Perkins was scheduled for parole, 203 00:11:26,340 --> 00:11:27,340 he was arrested. 204 00:11:27,340 --> 00:11:33,340 One week later, he was brought back to Los Angeles by detective Dan Andrews. 205 00:11:33,340 --> 00:11:37,340 Most murder victims know their attackers, know their killers, 206 00:11:37,340 --> 00:11:40,340 but this is a case that just wasn't that way. 207 00:11:40,340 --> 00:11:45,340 This was a random event of a person who was basically minding his own business 208 00:11:45,340 --> 00:11:49,340 and unfortunately, it was in the wrong place at the wrong time. 209 00:11:49,340 --> 00:11:52,340 And I think it's very unusual to identify somebody 210 00:11:52,340 --> 00:11:55,340 and be able to solve a case after five years. 211 00:11:55,340 --> 00:11:57,340 It's a very good feeling. 212 00:11:58,340 --> 00:12:01,340 Except for the most important fact, 213 00:12:01,340 --> 00:12:04,340 which is nothing can ever bring Lee back. 214 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:11,340 I hope this will bring some closure to this five years of uncertainty 215 00:12:11,340 --> 00:12:14,340 and the pain that goes along with it. 216 00:12:18,340 --> 00:12:21,340 Finally, justice can be served 217 00:12:21,340 --> 00:12:28,340 and also I'm grateful that this man is not out there committing other crimes 218 00:12:28,340 --> 00:12:32,340 and hurting other people and killing other people's loved ones. 219 00:12:34,340 --> 00:12:41,340 One portion of the grief will be closed or dealt with 220 00:12:41,340 --> 00:12:46,340 and I know that when I'm driving on the streets, I won't be looking in other cars. 221 00:12:53,340 --> 00:12:58,340 Wondering if that might be the guy. 222 00:13:05,340 --> 00:13:11,340 In an earlier broadcast, we presented the story of Stephen Cox, 223 00:13:11,340 --> 00:13:16,340 accused of defrauding his friends and neighbors in Medford, Oregon at three and a half million dollars. 224 00:13:16,340 --> 00:13:20,340 Thanks to our viewers, the four-year search for Cox has ended. 225 00:13:22,340 --> 00:13:25,340 In 1982, Stephen Cox formed an investment company, 226 00:13:25,340 --> 00:13:28,340 offering his clients a 25% return on their money. 227 00:13:28,340 --> 00:13:31,340 Cox was able to convince many people in Medford 228 00:13:31,340 --> 00:13:35,340 to invest their life savings, totaling three and a half million dollars. 229 00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:40,340 At first his business prospered, then in 1984 it began to sour. 230 00:13:40,340 --> 00:13:44,340 On September 22, 1984, Stephen Cox vanished 231 00:13:44,340 --> 00:13:51,340 and allegedly took with him over $200,000 in gold, silver, jewelry and cash. 232 00:13:51,340 --> 00:13:54,340 Within minutes of our broadcast in November, 233 00:13:54,340 --> 00:14:00,340 six viewers called our 800 number to report that Cox was living in Medford 234 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:04,340 under the assumed name Robert Bradley Davis. 235 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:08,340 However, just hours before the broadcast, Cox disappeared again, 236 00:14:08,340 --> 00:14:12,340 telling his wife he was going to Hawaii. 237 00:14:12,340 --> 00:14:19,340 Update, Stephen Cox has been arrested in Lake Mead, Nevada, 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas. 238 00:14:19,340 --> 00:14:25,340 Five days after he fled from Boise, Cox checked into the Lake Mead Lodge Motel. 239 00:14:26,340 --> 00:14:31,340 He registered under the name John Strauss and listed in Arizona address. 240 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:34,340 He was not the normal guest. 241 00:14:34,340 --> 00:14:36,340 He stayed in his room all day long. 242 00:14:36,340 --> 00:14:38,340 He would only leave at night. 243 00:14:38,340 --> 00:14:41,340 Very seldom did he leave in the daytime. 244 00:14:41,340 --> 00:14:48,340 And we noticed that the license plates were not the same as he had put down on his registration card. 245 00:14:48,340 --> 00:14:52,340 And that made us a little suspicious, but yet nothing we could put a finger on. 246 00:14:53,340 --> 00:14:58,340 Two weeks later, Edna Reed made a starting discovery. 247 00:14:58,340 --> 00:15:03,340 One day when I was out on the grounds, I saw the guest come out of his room. 248 00:15:03,340 --> 00:15:08,340 Instead of putting his trash in the bin in front of his room, he took it up to number 35, 249 00:15:08,340 --> 00:15:10,340 which was several doors away. 250 00:15:10,340 --> 00:15:15,340 And when I went to empty the trash out of that bin, I found the crumpled up letter. 251 00:15:15,340 --> 00:15:18,340 And like any curious female, I read the letter. 252 00:15:19,340 --> 00:15:25,340 When I read the letter, I saw the part that said something about the unsolved mystery show being a bombshell. 253 00:15:25,340 --> 00:15:31,340 I showed the letter to my husband, Harold, and between the two of us, we decided it was time, definitely, 254 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:34,340 to call the Rangers and tell them about the guest. 255 00:15:34,340 --> 00:15:42,340 Lake Mead Park Rangers immediately ran a computer check and discovered that the car belonged to someone other than John Strauss. 256 00:15:43,340 --> 00:15:47,340 On the morning of the 14th, we began to look for the person by going to the Lake Mead Lodge 257 00:15:47,340 --> 00:15:50,340 to see if we could identify, in fact, who he really was. 258 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:55,340 When we got there, the vehicle was gone and the person was gone and had been gone for 15 or 20 minutes. 259 00:15:56,340 --> 00:16:03,340 The next morning, Park Rangers spotted Cox's car and pulled him over in the parking lot of the Goldstrike Casino. 260 00:16:03,340 --> 00:16:09,340 After we made the traffic stop, he produced identification, a driver's license issued to a Robert Davis. 261 00:16:09,340 --> 00:16:14,340 And we checked that name and data birth through the NCIC computer 262 00:16:14,340 --> 00:16:19,340 and found that it was an alias used by one Stephen Cox and that there was a warrant for Mr. Cox. 263 00:16:19,340 --> 00:16:22,340 At that point, we placed him under arrest. 264 00:16:23,340 --> 00:16:28,340 During the search of Cox's car, Park Rangers uncovered a small fortune. 265 00:16:29,340 --> 00:16:37,340 When we looked in the passenger compartment of the vehicle and in the trunk, we found suitcases and other luggage-type bags 266 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:46,340 filled with jewelry, rings, necklaces, collector-type baseball cards, some gold coins, silver coins. 267 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:52,340 And I was really very curious to know why he had it in the vehicle 268 00:16:52,340 --> 00:16:56,340 and if, in fact, this was the stuff that he was wanted for taking in the first place. 269 00:17:08,340 --> 00:17:14,340 April 2, 1988. Baldwin Borough, Pennsylvania. A suburb of Greater Pittsburgh. 270 00:17:14,340 --> 00:17:20,340 30 volunteer firemen gather on a steep bluff overlooking the Monongahila River. 271 00:17:20,340 --> 00:17:22,340 Watch your head. 272 00:17:22,340 --> 00:17:24,340 Pay attention. 273 00:17:24,340 --> 00:17:28,340 The base is on the trees and on the level benches as we go down the hill. 274 00:17:28,340 --> 00:17:31,340 Look for anything that you find out of the order. 275 00:17:32,340 --> 00:17:37,340 At the suggestion of a psyche, they are here to search for the remains of Michael Rosenblum, 276 00:17:37,340 --> 00:17:42,340 a young Pittsburgh man who has been missing for over eight years. 277 00:17:42,340 --> 00:17:48,340 For Maurice Rosenblum, this search is his latest desperate attempt to determine the fate of his son, Michael, 278 00:17:48,340 --> 00:17:54,340 who disappeared on Valentine's Day in 1980 from a road that runs along the foot of the cliff. 279 00:17:55,340 --> 00:18:02,340 There is not the slightest possibility in my mind that he could be out there alive. 280 00:18:02,340 --> 00:18:11,340 I pray that that one in ten million chance would happen, but I just can't believe it. 281 00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:13,340 I just can't believe it. 282 00:18:13,340 --> 00:18:19,340 I guess you always have some hope. As long as I don't have a body, there's always hope. 283 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:25,340 Over the last eight years, Maurice Rosenblum has spent almost a quarter of a million dollars 284 00:18:25,340 --> 00:18:28,340 doggedly pursuing every lead to find his missing son. 285 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:33,340 Strangely, many of those leads suggested that the authorities interfered in the investigation. 286 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:39,340 Maurice's lonely quest has uncovered disturbing indications that an important document may have been forged, 287 00:18:39,340 --> 00:18:44,340 a questionable arrest warrant for his son was issued, and crucial evidence was ignored. 288 00:18:45,340 --> 00:18:51,340 The search for Michael has led to a scandal in which a police chief was fired and then reinstated after a hearing. 289 00:18:51,340 --> 00:18:57,340 Maurice Rosenblum is not satisfied with the investigation into his son's disappearance. 290 00:18:59,340 --> 00:19:03,340 Michael Rosenblum began experimenting with drugs during high school, 291 00:19:03,340 --> 00:19:09,340 and soon became a heavy user of a prescription painkiller that altered his moods and made him erratic and irritable. 292 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:17,340 Michael's life spun wildly out of control, but throughout, he retained the strong support and love of his family. 293 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:26,340 He was into drugs at the time that was a bad time for all the kids that were ever into drugs. 294 00:19:26,340 --> 00:19:32,340 There was a thing that just came out that I called tough love, and it was supposed to be. 295 00:19:32,340 --> 00:19:39,340 The thing to do was tell him you're through here, you can't live here, you're out. 296 00:19:39,340 --> 00:19:41,340 If you won't live according to my rules, you're out. 297 00:19:41,340 --> 00:19:49,340 I had never done that, and the one time that I listened, that I did that, I never saw him again. 298 00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:58,340 The night of February 13, 1980, a month after he was released from a drug rehab program, 299 00:19:58,340 --> 00:20:00,340 Michael began acting abnormally. 300 00:20:01,340 --> 00:20:05,340 Barbara Rosenblum found a bottle of painkillers in his bedroom. 301 00:20:05,340 --> 00:20:08,340 She banished Michael and his girlfriend, Lisa, from their home. 302 00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:10,340 They left in Lisa's car. 303 00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:20,340 I said to Michael, don't come back until you're completely off drugs, until you want to live your life the way you should. 304 00:20:20,340 --> 00:20:22,340 And that's the way it is. 305 00:20:23,340 --> 00:20:38,340 I've always faulted myself for that, and I probably will till I die, that I didn't say, OK, we'll try again. 306 00:20:38,340 --> 00:20:40,340 Maybe tomorrow we'll be different. 307 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:45,340 Michael, Michael, would you please stop and wait for me? 308 00:20:46,340 --> 00:20:47,340 Michael! 309 00:20:48,340 --> 00:20:52,340 The next morning, Michael awoke with a severe drug hangover. 310 00:20:53,340 --> 00:20:57,340 Lisa drove him to a local hospital, but he refused to be treated. 311 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:59,340 Wait for me, let me just walk beside you. 312 00:21:01,340 --> 00:21:03,340 Michael, just come with me, we'll go back to the hospital. 313 00:21:03,340 --> 00:21:05,340 I don't have to go to the hospital. 314 00:21:05,340 --> 00:21:06,340 Just listen to me. 315 00:21:06,340 --> 00:21:08,340 I don't have to go to the hospital, I'm fine. 316 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:12,340 According to Lisa, Michael became increasingly agitated. 317 00:21:12,340 --> 00:21:18,340 15 minutes later, he left her stranded at a local gas station and drove off erratically. 318 00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:23,340 Michael Rosenbloom's last words were, go to my parents' house. 319 00:21:23,340 --> 00:21:25,340 I'll see you there in two hours. 320 00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:29,340 He has not been seen since. 321 00:21:33,340 --> 00:21:36,340 I figure well he took her car and he took off for a day or two. 322 00:21:36,340 --> 00:21:38,340 He'll be back or he'll call. 323 00:21:38,340 --> 00:21:40,340 We waited that night. 324 00:21:40,340 --> 00:21:42,340 There were no calls. 325 00:21:43,340 --> 00:21:45,340 I became seriously worried. 326 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:53,340 My wife felt immediately that it was a terminal situation, that he was dead. 327 00:21:53,340 --> 00:21:54,340 I didn't. 328 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:57,340 He would never have just left. 329 00:21:57,340 --> 00:22:00,340 When he left, there was money in his bank account. 330 00:22:00,340 --> 00:22:02,340 There was clothes in his closet. 331 00:22:04,340 --> 00:22:08,340 And if he were going to have gone anywhere, he would have said to us, 332 00:22:08,340 --> 00:22:12,340 I plan to do such and such and I'm going to take my money and go. 333 00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:15,340 But all of that, his money is still in his bank account. 334 00:22:15,340 --> 00:22:20,340 His clothes were in his closet since he had gotten there gone. 335 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:24,340 And that wasn't his style, it wasn't his way. 336 00:22:27,340 --> 00:22:32,340 The following day, the Rosenblooms found a missing persons report with the local authorities, 337 00:22:32,340 --> 00:22:37,340 the Pittsburgh Police Department, who began an immediate search for the car. 338 00:22:39,340 --> 00:22:43,340 Private investigator Steven Tursack was a detective for the Pittsburgh Police 339 00:22:43,340 --> 00:22:46,340 when Michael Rosenbloom vanished. 340 00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:48,340 You need a starting point. 341 00:22:48,340 --> 00:22:51,340 Any homicide case, your dead body is your starting point. 342 00:22:51,340 --> 00:22:53,340 In this case, the car would have been a starting point. 343 00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:57,340 So it's important that we find the car as quickly as possible 344 00:22:57,340 --> 00:23:00,340 and then take the steps to find the media for their help 345 00:23:00,340 --> 00:23:04,340 and asking the general public, if anybody saw the boy who was in the car, 346 00:23:04,340 --> 00:23:06,340 they know what happened to him. 347 00:23:09,340 --> 00:23:12,340 After the Pittsburgh Police had searched for two weeks, 348 00:23:12,340 --> 00:23:15,340 they found no car and no body. 349 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:18,340 So Michael's father began his own search. 350 00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:21,340 He offered a reward for information, posted flyers, 351 00:23:21,340 --> 00:23:24,340 and traveled as far away as California, 352 00:23:24,340 --> 00:23:27,340 visiting with friends Michael may have contacted. 353 00:23:31,340 --> 00:23:36,340 I launched the investigation myself because I was concerned about finding him. 354 00:23:37,340 --> 00:23:41,340 And seeing if I couldn't put him back on the right track again. 355 00:23:41,340 --> 00:23:48,340 So I was after him for myself to kind of soothe things over, 356 00:23:50,340 --> 00:23:52,340 put it back together again if I could. 357 00:23:54,340 --> 00:23:57,340 It was too late. It was too late. It was just too late. 358 00:24:06,340 --> 00:24:13,340 Three months later, on May 21, 1980, 359 00:24:13,340 --> 00:24:17,340 the police department in Baldwin Borough, the Pittsburgh suburb, 360 00:24:17,340 --> 00:24:20,340 notified Lisa that her car had been found. 361 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:22,340 According to official records, 362 00:24:22,340 --> 00:24:26,340 the car had been impounded on the day that Michael vanished. 363 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:31,340 Maurice Rosenblum wanted to know what happened during those three months. 364 00:24:32,340 --> 00:24:35,340 We couldn't believe that they had that car for 91 days. 365 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:37,340 Absolutely couldn't believe it. 366 00:24:37,340 --> 00:24:43,340 The Pittsburgh Police had contacted every police department in this area 367 00:24:43,340 --> 00:24:45,340 looking for that specific car. 368 00:24:45,340 --> 00:24:50,340 And here that car was discovered in the police bonded tow yard 369 00:24:50,340 --> 00:24:53,340 less than three miles from where we're sitting right now. 370 00:24:54,340 --> 00:24:57,340 I think everybody was quite upset. 371 00:24:57,340 --> 00:24:59,340 To say the least. 372 00:24:59,340 --> 00:25:03,340 There was a lot of discussion about it in the old terms of policemen. 373 00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:06,340 Can you believe this? Can you believe with Baldwin Dunn? 374 00:25:09,340 --> 00:25:11,340 River Road, where Lisa's car was found, 375 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:14,340 connects Baldwin Borough with Pittsburgh's south side. 376 00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:17,340 The Baldwin Police dispatcher was definitely contacted 377 00:25:17,340 --> 00:25:20,340 by the Pittsburgh police when they searched for the car. 378 00:25:20,340 --> 00:25:24,340 But no one can say whether the information was ever heard. 379 00:25:24,340 --> 00:25:29,340 But no one can say whether the information was ever officially circulated. 380 00:25:43,340 --> 00:25:46,340 Just two hours after Michael left Lisa, 381 00:25:46,340 --> 00:25:50,340 a Baldwin police unit found her car on River Road. 382 00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:53,340 Two of the tires were flat, the keys were gone, 383 00:25:53,340 --> 00:25:55,340 and the engine was cool. 384 00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:58,340 Michael had vanished into thin air. 385 00:26:04,340 --> 00:26:08,340 15 minutes later, the car was towed to the Baldwin Borough car pound 386 00:26:08,340 --> 00:26:14,340 where it would remain resting on its bent tire rims for the next three months. 387 00:26:15,340 --> 00:26:18,340 One of the questions that throws your whole investigation off 388 00:26:18,340 --> 00:26:22,340 is if we start in the beginning and we knew that car was on River Road, 389 00:26:22,340 --> 00:26:25,340 the whole picture would have changed drastically. 390 00:26:25,340 --> 00:26:29,340 My personal feeling is, being a police officer for 28 years, 391 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:33,340 if we had known that car was found in Baldwin that morning within hours, 392 00:26:33,340 --> 00:26:37,340 I strongly believe we would have known by now what had happened to Michael. 393 00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:39,340 When they found the car, 394 00:26:42,340 --> 00:26:46,340 after 91 days, my immediate reaction was that he was gone. 395 00:26:46,340 --> 00:26:48,340 Dead. 396 00:26:53,340 --> 00:26:56,340 Maurice Rosenblum wanted an explanation, 397 00:26:56,340 --> 00:27:01,340 and the Pittsburgh Police Department went to Baldwin Borough to investigate the delay. 398 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:07,340 The Baldwin police claimed that they had mailed Lisa a letter the day after the car was found, 399 00:27:07,340 --> 00:27:09,340 saying they had impounded it. 400 00:27:09,340 --> 00:27:12,340 Lisa says she never got the letter. 401 00:27:12,340 --> 00:27:15,340 The police eventually produced a copy of the letter, 402 00:27:15,340 --> 00:27:19,340 but Lisa still insisted she never received it. 403 00:27:19,340 --> 00:27:24,340 In my opinion, they deliberately misled the Pittsburgh Police in the search, 404 00:27:24,340 --> 00:27:27,340 assuming that my son was never even involved. 405 00:27:27,340 --> 00:27:31,340 Why didn't they search for the young lady that owned the car? 406 00:27:33,340 --> 00:27:37,340 Because all this was done to cover a more sinister fact, that's why. 407 00:27:40,340 --> 00:27:45,340 Around the same time, Maurice claims he received two anonymous phone calls. 408 00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:53,340 The first one came in during the time that the car was gone. 409 00:27:56,340 --> 00:28:00,340 They said that he was arrested, and I wrote it off as a crackpot. 410 00:28:00,340 --> 00:28:03,340 Hello? Hello? 411 00:28:03,340 --> 00:28:08,340 After the car was found, I received a second telephone call, 412 00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:13,340 just simply said that your son was arrested by the Baldwin police. 413 00:28:15,340 --> 00:28:17,340 Click, they were gone. 414 00:28:19,340 --> 00:28:23,340 For six months, Maurice Rosenblum searched for his missing son, Michael. 415 00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:27,340 His offer of a big reward had borne no fruit. 416 00:28:27,340 --> 00:28:32,340 The only concrete clues were the discovery of the car that Michael had been driving, 417 00:28:32,340 --> 00:28:37,340 and the two mysterious phone calls alleging that Michael had been arrested. 418 00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:44,340 Then on July 15, 1980, the Baldwin police issued a warrant for Michael Rosenblum's arrest. 419 00:28:44,340 --> 00:28:48,340 He was wanted in connection with a robbery that had taken place in April, 420 00:28:48,340 --> 00:28:51,340 two and a half months after he had vanished. 421 00:28:52,340 --> 00:28:57,340 Now, the big twist in this whole thing was that everybody's talked to the people who were the victims of the robbery. 422 00:28:57,340 --> 00:29:01,340 They both told everybody from day one that the person to come in here was a white man, 423 00:29:01,340 --> 00:29:06,340 and he had aviator mirrored sunglasses on that covered high above his eyebrows, 424 00:29:06,340 --> 00:29:09,340 and down almost to the bridge of his nose. 425 00:29:09,340 --> 00:29:13,340 So the only part they actually could see would be the forehead and the chin line. 426 00:29:13,340 --> 00:29:17,340 But yet the composite was made without sunglasses, 427 00:29:17,340 --> 00:29:21,340 and I have been in police work for 30 years when I looked at the composite. 428 00:29:21,340 --> 00:29:26,340 There's no doubt in my mind that this composite was made from that first flyer 429 00:29:26,340 --> 00:29:29,340 put out on Michael Rosenblum back in February. 430 00:29:29,340 --> 00:29:31,340 It's just too perfect. 431 00:29:32,340 --> 00:29:35,340 A week later, the warrant was dismissed. 432 00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:39,340 Maurice Rosenblum was left with three disturbing questions. 433 00:29:40,340 --> 00:29:46,340 Why had the Baldwin Police Department failed to respond to the Pittsburgh Police Department's request for information 434 00:29:46,340 --> 00:29:50,340 when they had Lisa's car in their possession for three months? 435 00:29:50,340 --> 00:29:55,340 Why had the issued a warrant for Michael Rosenblum's arrest and the mysterious phone calls? 436 00:29:55,340 --> 00:30:01,340 Was there any truth to the accusation that the Baldwin Police Department arrested Michael the day he disappeared? 437 00:30:01,340 --> 00:30:06,340 Maurice took his suspicions to the office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General. 438 00:30:06,340 --> 00:30:11,340 The Baldwin Police Department was investigated and cleared of any wrongdoing, 439 00:30:11,340 --> 00:30:14,340 but the case would not die. 440 00:30:18,340 --> 00:30:21,340 Six and a half years after his son disappeared, 441 00:30:21,340 --> 00:30:26,340 Maurice received an anonymous letter urging him to talk to a woman named Jean Haslett, 442 00:30:26,340 --> 00:30:30,340 who had worked as a dispatcher with the Baldwin Police. 443 00:30:30,340 --> 00:30:36,340 The letter led to accusations of the department headed by police chief Aldo Gaburi 444 00:30:36,340 --> 00:30:38,340 had mishandled Michael's case. 445 00:30:38,340 --> 00:30:42,340 Mr. Rosenblum showed me an anonymous letter that he had received, 446 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:49,340 indicating that if he contacted me, I had information regarding the vehicle that the Baldwin Police towed. 447 00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:56,340 I then told him that approximately two or three months after the vehicle had been towed, 448 00:30:56,340 --> 00:31:05,340 the chief of police ordered his clerk Fred Capelli to type a letter notifying the owner of the vehicle that it had been towed. 449 00:31:05,340 --> 00:31:11,340 And the letter was backdated to February 15th, the day after the vehicle was towed. 450 00:31:11,340 --> 00:31:13,340 I didn't take this upon myself. 451 00:31:17,340 --> 00:31:19,340 I was instructed to do all this. 452 00:31:20,340 --> 00:31:26,340 Fred Capelli was Chief Gaburi's clerk. He corroborated Haslett's story. 453 00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:36,340 Approximately May 20th, the chief told me to type a letter in reference to the car that was towed from River Road. 454 00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:40,340 I never thought anything about it. I did what I was told to do. 455 00:31:40,340 --> 00:31:47,340 You know, he's my boss, so I did what he told me to do, and I didn't question it. 456 00:31:48,340 --> 00:31:55,340 Fred Capelli claims that after he typed the letter, the chief ordered him to sign the name of Chester Lombardi, 457 00:31:55,340 --> 00:31:59,340 the senior officer at the River Road scene that day. 458 00:31:59,340 --> 00:32:01,340 Lombardi has since died. 459 00:32:03,340 --> 00:32:10,340 He had asked Chester Lombardi to sign the letter, and Chester refused to sign it, because it was backdated. 460 00:32:11,340 --> 00:32:18,340 So the chief told me to go ahead and sign Chester Lombardi's name to it, but don't mail it. 461 00:32:21,340 --> 00:32:23,340 He said, put it in a file. 462 00:32:24,340 --> 00:32:26,340 And that's what I did. 463 00:32:27,340 --> 00:32:34,340 To backdate a letter and place it into the police files is an unusual thing. 464 00:32:35,340 --> 00:32:43,340 And in the nine years that I was involved in police departments, it was not something that I had ever witnessed before. 465 00:32:50,340 --> 00:32:55,340 Based on these new revelations, Maurice wrote an angry letter to the Baldwin Borough Council, 466 00:32:55,340 --> 00:32:59,340 demanding an investigation into what he thought was a cover-up. 467 00:33:00,340 --> 00:33:05,340 In October 1987, the Baldwin Borough Council held a hearing on the matter. 468 00:33:06,340 --> 00:33:12,340 They dismissed Chief Gaburi for interfering with the investigation into Michael's disappearance. 469 00:33:14,340 --> 00:33:26,340 When he was discharged, he appealed that to the Civil Service Commission, and their conclusion was that the chief was not guilty. 470 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:35,340 The Civil Service Commission voted to reinstate Gaburi as police chief, finding there was no misconduct. 471 00:33:36,340 --> 00:33:41,340 They have never published a transcript of their hearings, but clearly they didn't believe Fred Capelli. 472 00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:45,340 Why they didn't believe me? 473 00:33:46,340 --> 00:33:52,340 Because the chief had friends on that Civil Service Commission. 474 00:33:53,340 --> 00:33:56,340 And he wouldn't believe me no matter what I said. 475 00:33:57,340 --> 00:34:10,340 There's been some annual windows made about the way it was handled, and all I can say is this commission rendered his decision strictly on the evidence and the testimony that was presented at the hearing. 476 00:34:11,340 --> 00:34:18,340 This matter has never totally been resolved to satisfy anybody in law enforcement who knows what he's doing. 477 00:34:18,340 --> 00:34:22,340 The time that I'll let this go is when it ends. 478 00:34:24,340 --> 00:34:28,340 And it's not over yet. It's not over. We're getting close, but it's not over. 479 00:34:38,340 --> 00:34:41,340 Maurice Rosenblum's persistence may have paid off. 480 00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:47,340 During the search of the steep hillside last April, a six-inch fragment of what appears to be a human bone was discovered. 481 00:34:48,340 --> 00:34:50,340 You want to bring it up, Paul? 482 00:34:51,340 --> 00:35:02,340 I contended all along that something had happened to him, but the possibility that I might have proof in my pocket makes you kind of sick. 483 00:35:03,340 --> 00:35:06,340 The search also turned to patches of corduroy and a piece of shoe sole. 484 00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:12,340 Both items are consistent with the pants and boots Michael Rosenblum was wearing when last seen. 485 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:20,340 These objects were discovered above River Road, overlooking the spot where Lisa's car was abandoned over eight years ago. 486 00:35:32,340 --> 00:35:48,260 The 487 00:35:51,340 --> 00:35:58,340 Last month, we examined the strange disappearance of Roger St. Cain, a 62-year-old father of seven from Los Angeles, California. 488 00:35:58,340 --> 00:36:09,340 On February 19, 1986, Roger St. Cain told his sister that he was going to a local hardware store. His family never saw him again. 489 00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:21,340 A month after his disappearance, Roger's car was found. Inside were many of his important papers, including the deed to his property, as well as his glasses and false teeth. 490 00:36:21,340 --> 00:36:27,340 Roger's Cain's family believes he is alive and may be suffering from some form of amnesia. 491 00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:37,340 I don't give up. I still pray that I find him somewhere one day. I just feel everything in my heart. 492 00:36:37,340 --> 00:36:51,340 Update, Topeka, Kansas. The night after our broadcast, police received a car from a man who believed he recognized Roger's Cain as a local resident named Elmer Jackson. 493 00:36:52,340 --> 00:37:13,340 The caller said when he'd seen him on TV that he was positive it was him. And in questioning, that's when he came up with the mannerisms, the fact that he had no dentures at that time, a scar on his body, which I don't think anybody probably knew except maybe the Los Angeles police and the relatives. 494 00:37:14,340 --> 00:37:26,340 Acting on the caller's tip, police attempted to locate Elmer Jackson, only to discover he had disappeared. Within days, Roger's Cain's son, Lynn, flew to Topeka and joined the police search. 495 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:49,340 I want to know he's been in an area of about a year, a year and a half, and a truck driver picked him up, decided to name him Elmer, and gave him his last name, which was Jackson. So he goes by Elmer Jackson. He's been working several jobs, there's side jobs here and there, laying bricks and things like that. 496 00:37:50,340 --> 00:38:00,340 Lynn Cain and the Topeka police canvassed the neighborhood where Elmer Jackson was last seen. They passed out flyers in Roger's Cain's picture, but were unable to locate him. 497 00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:12,340 It's been the best lead so far, the only lead for us at this point, and we're unsuccessful today, but maybe tomorrow are days to come. 498 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:43,340 On July the 29th, 1988, a brazen daylight robbery took place in a suburb of Palm Beach, Florida. The thief had a key to the house. He was highly selective and seemed to know just what he wanted. 499 00:38:44,340 --> 00:38:58,340 Not one fingerprint was left behind. It was a quintessential inside job. At the door, the thief paused long enough to leave a note for his victim. He signed it El. 500 00:38:59,340 --> 00:39:17,340 The act of social life in the warm, healthy climate of Florida, make it a welcome new home for retiring senior citizens. Many of them are widows and divorcees who often hope to remarry, and in fact, love does bloom frequently in the warm Florida sunshine. 501 00:39:17,340 --> 00:39:28,340 But sometimes his widows and divorcees become easy marks for a particularly sleazy type of con man, a con man who moves in on their emotions and makes off with their cash. 502 00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:33,340 OK, we're going to speed it up for you with a little shuffle. Let's all get up and dance. 503 00:39:34,340 --> 00:39:51,340 On May the 20th, 1988, a widow who was asked that her identity not be revealed went to a Friday night singles dance at St. Mary's Church in West Palm Beach. We will call her Mrs. K. 504 00:39:52,340 --> 00:40:01,340 Eligible men were not plentiful at these dances, so when a good-looking man named Arthur Frankford approached Mrs. K. and asked her to dance, she was flattered. 505 00:40:02,340 --> 00:40:12,340 Good evening. My name is Arthur Frankford. Hello. And yours? Emily. Nice to meet you, Emily. Would you like to have this dance? I'd be delighted. 506 00:40:13,340 --> 00:40:24,340 When I first saw him sitting up against the wall, I thought he was too old. You know, it is a singles dance and you do look him over. After he'd asked me to dance, I realized he wasn't as old as I thought he'd first appear. 507 00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:35,340 Mrs. K. and Arthur Frankford danced every dance that Friday evening at St. Mary's Church. It was the beginning of a two-month whirlwind romance. 508 00:40:36,340 --> 00:40:48,340 From the day that I met him to the time that he left, never once was I suspicious of any move that he made as far as to question his character or who he was and that he was a liar and a thief. 509 00:40:49,340 --> 00:41:07,340 Frankford told Mrs. K. he was a geologist. He said he had worked for the government, primarily in Alaska, and had just retired after 21 years of service. He told her he owned a house and several other rental properties in nearby towns and lived off that income in addition to his retirement pay. 510 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:25,340 So one night he'd come home and he said that instead of renting another place for himself, he thought it would be better if he lived here. Once he moved in, it was great. I would come home from work, he'd have my dinner ready. He would do the grocery shopping, he would make dinner, he would clean the house, vacuum the house. 511 00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:29,340 There was no reason to have anticipated what he did. 512 00:41:37,340 --> 00:41:50,340 He came to the house one day with money. It was wrapped in a plastic grocery bag and he said that he'd sold the house, that he'd rented it out with the option to buy. He asked me if I would put it away for safekeeping. 513 00:41:51,340 --> 00:41:53,340 I'd like to ask you to put it in the safe. 514 00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:56,340 It's a lot of money, but I'd like to give you the combination so you can... 515 00:41:56,340 --> 00:41:59,340 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't worry about the combination, please. 516 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:06,340 I offered him the safe combination because it was his money and he refused the combination. He said he didn't really want it. 517 00:42:06,340 --> 00:42:07,340 Can you...? 518 00:42:07,340 --> 00:42:08,340 All right. 519 00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:09,340 Thank you. 520 00:42:12,340 --> 00:42:17,340 Eventually, Arthur Frankford did allow Mrs. Kay to give him the combination to her safe. 521 00:42:17,340 --> 00:42:19,340 You know, Art, I'm getting very excited about it. 522 00:42:19,340 --> 00:42:26,340 By the end of July, Mrs. Kay and Frankford had lived together for one month and had settled into a comfortable domestic routine. 523 00:42:26,340 --> 00:42:31,340 When I came home from work that night, we started to play gin and during the course of the gin game, 524 00:42:31,340 --> 00:42:35,340 he stopped what he was doing and he said to me, 525 00:42:35,340 --> 00:42:38,340 Emily, yes? 526 00:42:38,340 --> 00:42:40,340 You really love me. 527 00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:44,340 Yes, I do. Very much. 528 00:42:47,340 --> 00:42:49,340 I guess that means I can get away with anything. 529 00:42:49,340 --> 00:42:55,340 At that time, I thought he meant the gin game because he would like to try to cheat. He had to win. 530 00:42:56,340 --> 00:43:02,340 The day after their card game, Mrs. Kay arrived home to find the bed she shared with Arthur, unmade. 531 00:43:02,340 --> 00:43:07,340 My bed's always made. Either Art made it or I made it, whoever was last up. 532 00:43:07,340 --> 00:43:11,340 Even then, it did not appear out of the ordinary to me. 533 00:43:11,340 --> 00:43:17,340 Until the time that I walked into my closet to change my clothes and discovered all the clothes from the closet missing. 534 00:43:17,340 --> 00:43:19,340 I was so excited. 535 00:43:19,340 --> 00:43:25,340 Until the time that I walked into my closet to change my clothes and discovered all the clothes from the closet missing. 536 00:43:28,340 --> 00:43:31,340 And then I realized that he had left. 537 00:43:34,340 --> 00:43:37,340 Mrs. Kay was heartbroken. 538 00:43:41,340 --> 00:43:44,340 On the hall table, she found a note. 539 00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:55,340 The note Arthur Frankford left said, sorry, things too possessive. 540 00:43:55,340 --> 00:43:58,340 L, which was their code for love. 541 00:43:58,340 --> 00:44:03,340 Then Mrs. Kay remembered giving him the combination to her safe. 542 00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:12,340 I didn't realize until the time that I read the note and went back and opened the safe. 543 00:44:12,340 --> 00:44:15,340 And then I discovered that I was robbed. 544 00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:20,340 Her most expensive jewelry valued at $4,500 was gone. 545 00:44:20,340 --> 00:44:24,340 Also missing were several items that had belonged to her late husband. 546 00:44:24,340 --> 00:44:30,340 His wedding ring, handgun, work ID card, and driver's license renewal form. 547 00:44:30,340 --> 00:44:33,340 Mrs. Kay notified the authorities. 548 00:44:33,340 --> 00:44:37,340 Took a lot of courage to call the police. I wasn't in a hurry. 549 00:44:37,340 --> 00:44:41,340 I didn't want to say it out loud to myself that Art was who he was. 550 00:44:42,340 --> 00:44:48,340 Detective David Hoyt came up with sorted background information on this senior citizen, Don Juan. 551 00:44:48,340 --> 00:44:53,340 Arthur Frankford was wanted for check forgery. 552 00:44:53,340 --> 00:44:57,340 Also burglary to a condominium. 553 00:44:57,340 --> 00:45:03,340 He was using a, a K.A., or also known as James Ferguson. 554 00:45:04,340 --> 00:45:09,340 Police also learned that Mrs. Kay was not Arthur Frankford's only victim. 555 00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:13,340 The president of a senior Olympic center where Frankford worked for a short time 556 00:45:13,340 --> 00:45:18,340 remembers receiving telephone calls from three women who had been conned by Arthur Frankford. 557 00:45:18,340 --> 00:45:25,340 And they took me into their confidence admitting that they had invited him to live with them. 558 00:45:25,340 --> 00:45:28,340 They were sexually involved with him. 559 00:45:28,340 --> 00:45:32,340 And it made them very, very vulnerable, of course. 560 00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:36,340 And of course he stole everything he would lay his hands on when he was in their home. 561 00:45:40,340 --> 00:45:46,340 Arthur, feeling Frankford, praise on the emotions of women in their late 50s, early 60s. 562 00:45:46,340 --> 00:45:50,340 Often passes himself off at 65 years of age. 563 00:45:50,340 --> 00:45:53,340 In reality, he is 77. 564 00:45:53,340 --> 00:45:55,340 This is sort of a game to him. 565 00:45:55,340 --> 00:45:59,340 And I know he's probably somewhere else in the United States 566 00:45:59,340 --> 00:46:03,340 preying on other women the same way. 567 00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:08,340 Arthur Frankford is six feet tall, weighs about 165 pounds, 568 00:46:08,340 --> 00:46:10,340 and has gray hair and blue eyes. 569 00:46:10,340 --> 00:46:13,340 He has been known to use the alias of James Ferguson 570 00:46:13,340 --> 00:46:16,340 and may now be using the alias of Andrew Kearns, 571 00:46:16,340 --> 00:46:20,340 posing as a widower from West Palm Beach. 572 00:46:20,340 --> 00:46:23,340 He would have the identification papers and wedding rings 573 00:46:24,340 --> 00:46:27,340 to substantiate this false identity. 574 00:46:27,340 --> 00:46:29,340 Update. 575 00:46:29,340 --> 00:46:32,340 Within minutes of our broadcast, two viewers called our 800 number 576 00:46:32,340 --> 00:46:36,340 to report that they recognized Arthur Frankford. 577 00:46:36,340 --> 00:46:39,340 The individual said, I know where Arthur Frankford is. 578 00:46:39,340 --> 00:46:41,340 I'm his ex-brother-in-law. 579 00:46:41,340 --> 00:46:43,340 My name's Floyd Meadows. 580 00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:47,340 I asked him if he'd ever seen this Arthur Frankford do magic. 581 00:46:47,340 --> 00:46:49,340 He said yes, he did. 582 00:46:49,340 --> 00:46:51,340 And he does it very well. 583 00:46:51,340 --> 00:46:54,340 This is one of the keys that I never released to the press 584 00:46:54,340 --> 00:46:59,340 or any other medium that Arthur Frankford does magic. 585 00:46:59,340 --> 00:47:02,340 We received another call about 20 minutes later 586 00:47:02,340 --> 00:47:05,340 from a white female, says Arthur Frankford lives next door 587 00:47:05,340 --> 00:47:08,340 to me in Whitley, Kentucky. 588 00:47:08,340 --> 00:47:12,340 This was the confirmation call that I was looking for. 589 00:47:12,340 --> 00:47:15,340 At that time, I knew we had our man. 590 00:47:17,340 --> 00:47:20,340 Two hours later, Frankford was arrested at his home in Kentucky 591 00:47:20,340 --> 00:47:23,340 by the McCreary County Sheriff and Kentucky State Troopers. 592 00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:26,340 He was living under the assumed name James Ferguson 593 00:47:26,340 --> 00:47:29,340 with his new wife of two months. 594 00:47:29,340 --> 00:47:32,340 During a search of Frankford's house, police uncovered several 595 00:47:32,340 --> 00:47:35,340 identification and credit cards with different aliases. 596 00:47:35,340 --> 00:47:38,340 They also found a handgun that may have been stolen 597 00:47:38,340 --> 00:47:40,340 from Mrs. K's home. 598 00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:43,340 We got other calls from women that say, yes, 599 00:47:43,340 --> 00:47:45,340 I've been married to this man. 600 00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:47,340 I've divorced him. 601 00:47:47,340 --> 00:47:49,340 He's left me holding the bag. 602 00:47:49,340 --> 00:47:53,340 And what I need is for the people that have been victimized 603 00:47:53,340 --> 00:47:57,340 by Arthur Frankford to come forward. 604 00:47:57,340 --> 00:48:00,340 It's time for the public to stand up and say, hey, 605 00:48:00,340 --> 00:48:02,340 we've had enough of Arthur Frankford. 606 00:48:02,340 --> 00:48:05,340 This man has preyed on the public long enough. 607 00:48:14,340 --> 00:48:17,340 For every mystery, there is someone somewhere 608 00:48:17,340 --> 00:48:19,340 who knows the truth. 609 00:48:19,340 --> 00:48:21,340 Perhaps that someone is watching. 610 00:48:21,340 --> 00:48:23,340 Perhaps it's you.