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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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What you are about to see is not a news broadcast.

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14-year-old Jeremy Bright disappeared

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at a county fair in Oregon.

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Some believe he was shot by local teenagers.

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Last November, a Virginia sheriff was brutally shot

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by a police officer.

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Last November, a Virginia sheriff

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was brutally shot while on patrol.

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Before he died, he described his attacker's car.

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In 1936, a Canadian gold prospector

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vanished, leaving an unclaimed fortune that

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may be worth $3 million.

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Racketeer Leo Croy has been charged with extortion, robbery,

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and murder.

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He has eluded the FBI for 10 years.

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In November, Mikayla Garrett was abducted

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outside a local store.

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Her friend gave police an eyewitness

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description of the kidnap.

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In Atlanta, Georgia, a peaceful retirement

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of an elderly couple has been shattered

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by unexplained noises and apparitions.

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Tonight, six cases on unsolved mysteries, each needing

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that one vital clue to close the file forever.

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Join me.

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You may be able to help solve a mystery.

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No pain can match the suffering of a person who

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crushed I can't believe the

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Trying to conceal my fantasies

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Even if there is no detentations I will never

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pain can match the suffering of a parent who's lost a child,

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and no frustration is greater than that of parents

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whose child is missing, their fate unknown.

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Our next story concerns a 14-year-old boy named Jeremy

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Bright, who went to a county fair in Myrtle Point, Oregon

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in mid-August, 1986.

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Jeremy was never seen again.

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Since that weekend, a number of clues and rumors have surfaced.

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Jeremy's parents and the police have come

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to one inescapable conclusion.

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Someone living in Myrtle Point, Oregon

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knows exactly what happened to Jeremy.

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They're not talking, but they know.

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To those who knew him, Jeremy was a popular sports-loving boy.

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He looked forward to beginning high school in the fall.

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He always had lots to do and places to go.

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He played basketball and baseball and football.

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And he knew everybody, and everybody knew him.

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He was always a real outgoing kid.

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Every August, the Coos County Fair rolls into Myrtle Point.

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This is the occasion of a week-long celebration.

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And to Jeremy Bright and his close friend, Johnny,

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it was one of the high points of the year.

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Normally, Jeremy lived 100 miles away in Grant's Pass

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where his mother lived.

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But during the week of the fair, he and his younger sister

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were staying with her stepfather, Oli in Myrtle Point.

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On Friday, August 15, Oli went to work before dawn

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and didn't see Jeremy leave for the fair.

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But that day, a handful of people

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saw Jeremy and Johnny enjoying the festivities.

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Around 4.45, that same Thursday, Jeremy

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placed a long-distance call to his mother, Diane.

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He told her he was having a terrific time at the fair.

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She told Jeremy she'd be back in Myrtle Point

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in two days to pick him up.

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I love you, Mom.

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Bye.

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Five hours later, at 9.40 PM, Jeremy

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went to a local tavern owned by his grandmother

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to meet his stepfather, now home from work.

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He asked to borrow some money from him.

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Take some of this.

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Thanks.

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This was the last time Jeremy was ever seen by his family.

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You behave yourself.

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Two days later, on Saturday, Diane arrived in Myrtle Point

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to meet Jeremy.

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He never showed up.

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I went and got my car, and I went to Oli's house,

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the kids' stepdad's house.

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And I went in, and on the TV set was his house keys

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from our grandpa's pass apartment and his wallet,

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and his new watch that he had told me he'd bought.

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I knew when I found that he had bought it.

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I knew when I found those things that he was around somewhere,

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because he wouldn't leave without them.

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As the carnival played on, Diane's fears began to escalate.

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On Saturday night, she contacted the police.

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At first, they believed her son had succumbed

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to the romantic lure of the carnival and had run away.

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He did like the fare.

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There was the thought that perhaps he was hiding out,

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intending to leave with the fare people.

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And I've explored that possibility in every way

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that I can think of.

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I can't lose sight of the fact that it is possible that he left

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with members of that fare troop.

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However, in this particular case, I've

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talked to family members and friends of his that knew him

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well.

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And he was just not from what I can learn,

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the type of a kid who would have struck out on his own.

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On Sunday, August 17, 1986, the fare folded up its tent.

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Myrtle Point returned to normal.

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Within days, ominous rumors concerning Jeremy's disappearance

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began to surface.

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Think I can get a beer?

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In Myrtle Point, the week of the fare

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was a time for party work.

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According to one rumor, Jeremy attended one of these parties

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and was offered a beer laced with a powerful illegal drug.

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Are we looking for a beer?

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Hey, don't open another one.

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There's one already open right here.

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You mean I can have this?

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Sure.

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Knock yourself out.

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Thanks.

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I've identified at least two and perhaps three parties

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where Jeremy was present that the overdose theory could

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have occurred in.

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It was reported that Jeremy had a heart murmur

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and therefore a stimulant of some kind

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might have done some bodily damage to him just

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by his sheer taking it.

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An anonymous source told the police another story.

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He claimed that three local tufts had shown up and harassed

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Jeremy and his friends while they played in a swimming hole.

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Then things went terribly wrong.

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Is that a gun?

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What, this?

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It's a toy.

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It was at the jail where an inmate related to me.

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The information that he had heard where in one individual

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from the Myrtle Point area was target practicing or shooting

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indiscriminately in the water in the area where Jeremy was

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swimming.

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I'm just going to cite it.

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Show me what you made of now.

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That's better.

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Pierce is here.

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I bet you can.

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You think so?

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Yeah, but see if you can.

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All right, I'm going to try this.

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You look good in here.

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Yeah.

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They subsequently took him to a cabin, maybe within 10 miles

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of the Myrtle Point area, and attempted to nurse him back

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to health to no avail.

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That he died as a result of that injury,

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either from loss of blood or from infection or what have you.

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That same source through the jail

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indicated that his body would be found within 200 feet

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of this cabin in a shallow grave.

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Police searched the area surrounding the cabin

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and found nothing.

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All the rumors were hard to handle.

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All of them are hard to think about.

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Every time I'd hear a new one, I'd

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have nightmares for a week or so.

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The one that I hope is not what happened.

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It is the one where he suffered for two weeks before he died

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and they buried his body.

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Because the thought of him suffering for two weeks

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just makes me sick.

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There were two more strange clues.

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Jeremy was last seen by his family on Thursday night.

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The following night, the sister of Jeremy's friend, Johnny,

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had a disturbing encounter.

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It was Friday night of the fair,

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and it was between midnight and 1 when we were leaving

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my sister's apartment.

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And we came down the stairs, and we got to the last stair,

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and we almost ran into one of the neighborhood guys.

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And I jumped back because it startled me,

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because he was completely covered in blood.

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And I mean, it was just all over him,

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and it kind of scared me.

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What happened to you?

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For this?

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He goes, oh, this?

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This happened hours ago, and he just laughed,

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and then he went into one of the apartments.

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A half hour after this encounter,

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Johnny arrived at the same building

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where another sister lived.

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According to her, he was overwrought and terrified,

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but didn't want to explain.

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Whether it is just coincidence, or whether they're directly

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related to Jeremy's disappearance

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is another one of the mysteries that you still

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have to sort through to try to determine what indeed did happen.

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The three or four people whose names keep

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reappearing in all the rumors and all of the reports,

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they're not exactly what anybody would call pillars

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of society.

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But as long as these men are out on the street,

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they can hurt somebody else's child the same as they hurt mine.

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And if nobody comes forward, that's leaving them out there.

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And if they did, to my son, what people are saying they did,

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and what they've been heard themselves say that they did,

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they've got no business on the public streets.

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And we can't do nothing until we get the whole story

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and make them pay for what they did to my boy.

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I would just encourage anyone, especially those people

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who I feel have information that would help this investigation

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greatly, to just simply have the courage to say, yeah,

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I'm scared to death.

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But in a case like this, my being scared

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doesn't warrant this family's pain.

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If you've ever been stopped for a traffic ticket,

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you might have noticed that the officer approached cautiously.

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Imagine what's going through his mind.

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You know who he is because of his uniform,

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but he has no idea who you are.

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To him, it could be another routine traffic violation.

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Then again, it could be that one case

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with a person who's been in the car for a long time,

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a person who's been in the car for a long time,

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a person who's been in the car for a long time,

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a person who's been in the car for a long time,

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then it could be that one case with the unexpected happens

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and his life is on the line.

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Our next story is about just such a case.

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It happened in a rural county in Virginia

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where a police officer had not been killed for over 20 years

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until last November.

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In the early morning hours of Friday, November the 4th, 1988,

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patrolman John Martin, a 17-year veteran of the Lee County

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Virginia Sheriff's Department, was

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making his regular rounds when he noticed something unusual.

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604 to Jonesville.

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Go ahead, 604.

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I'll be checking the parking vehicle out at the Western Lee

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County Health Planning.

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10-4, 604.

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John Martin reported to our dispatcher in Jonesville

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at 2.58 AM on the morning of November 4th

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that he was checking a car parked behind the Lee County

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Health Clinic in Yeung, Virginia.

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604 to Jonesville.

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Go ahead.

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This vehicle just pulled out on him.

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And then he came back and said that the car was moving out

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on him, that he was stopping it about halfway down the driveway

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and that it was a large, light brown car, possibly a Cadillac.

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And he couldn't give the license number

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because it was on the inside of the car in the back window.

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That was a last transmission John Martin made to the dispatcher.

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Authorities believe that Martin left his patrol car

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and approached the driver to question it.

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See your operator glasses, please.

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Ah!

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Townsville, David, 604.

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Townsville, David, 604.

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Townsville, David, 604.

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seven miles away that we sent to check on him.

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When I arrived at his location, I found Officer Martin lying

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in the driveway of the clinic.

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At the time of arrival, I didn't know what had happened to him.

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When I got to him, he told me Doug, I've been shot and I've

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heard bad.

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I contacted the dispatcher and had the rescue squad dispatched.

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Rescue squad's on the way.

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You're going to be all right.

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You know, I knew he'd been seriously wounded.

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And of course, he was a good friend of mine,

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as well as a fellow officer.

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I knew at the point when I found him,

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he was probably critically injured.

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And it was very important that I be able to maintain the scene

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and to be able to get what information I could from him

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while he was conscious.

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And that was the most important thing to do at the time.

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And that's what I attempted to do.

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Did you see who did it?

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Or did you get a description of the vehicle?

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He was in his mid-20s.

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Had a mustache.

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I'd ask him about the automobile and about the tag.

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He advised me the tag was in the rear window

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that it was a dealer tag.

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However, he could not read the registration numbers

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from the tag.

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But he was able to give me a rough description of the vehicle

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as a Buick light brown or tan.

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And it was a Buick from the 1970 to 1977,

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perhaps one of the large Buicks.

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Martin was able to give Officer Parsons

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one final piece of information about the license plate.

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It read Land of Lincoln, which is the model

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for the state of Illinois.

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Did you shoot into the car or shoot anyone?

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Yes, I shot at the vehicle.

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He had advised me he had emptied his gun into the car.

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I checked his weapon, and it was empty.

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He hadn't fired all six rounds from his revolver.

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Martin was rushed to the nearest hospital

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22 miles away, suffering from three bullet wounds.

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Doctors removed a 44 caliber bullet from his body,

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but he lapsed into a coma.

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Three days later, John Martin died.

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On November the 10th, John Martin

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was laid to rest with full honors.

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Police officers from seven states and hundreds

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of area residents came to pay their final respects

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to the 39-year-old father of four.

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I just thought it wouldn't happen to him.

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And we had talked about it, but it don't feel real,

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because I just feel like an officer's job

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is to protect other people.

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And that's all he was doing.

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But we just, out of this, we're hoping

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that we can possibly catch whoever done it.

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That's our main priority right now.

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That's all we want.

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Two weeks ago, a man believed to be John Martin's murderer

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was arrested by sheriff's deputies in Illinois.

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On November 5th, Effingham, Illinois police

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impounded a stolen car burnt almost beyond recognition.

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Inside, they discovered evidence that this was the car that

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was used in John Martin's killing.

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The Lee County Sheriff's Office was immediately contacted.

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And their first question was, does your burnt car

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have a bullet hole in the door?

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And our answer was yes.

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And at which point, they decided to send a team

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of investigators to Effingham and continue the investigation.

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Police believe that the bullet holes were caused

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by John Martin's gun.

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During their investigation, authorities

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uncovered information that linked a 24-year-old man

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named David Wayne Mills to the car.

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During a search of the home where Mills was living,

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investigators found additional evidence connecting him

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to the murder of John Martin.

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When Mills arrived home, he was immediately arrested.

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Mills admitted being present when Officer Martin was killed,

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but claims that an accomplice fired the gun.

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This alleged accomplice has been questioned,

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but no formal charges have been made.

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On January 5, Mills was extradited back to Virginia,

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where he is currently being held without bail.

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During questioning, he gave authorities information

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which led them to a 44-caliber pistol.

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Malistics tests have confirmed this was the gun

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that killed John Martin.

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David Wayne Mills has been charged with first-degree murder.

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However, the prosecuting attorney

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may elevate the charge to capital murder, which

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carries a death penalty.

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In a moment, the story of a mysterious Canadian prospect

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who left a fortune that may be worth $3 million,

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someone watching tonight may be his heir.

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Last year on Unsolved Mysteries,

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we told you about George Marsh and Charlie Shield,

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who, when they died, left unclaimed fortunes.

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Both cases were solved.

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Legitimate heirs came forward to claim their inheritance.

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Tonight, we have another missing heir story.

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Dan Willens, a mysterious Canadian prospector,

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spent a lifetime finding gold.

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According to public records, he left an unclaimed estate

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of nearly $100,000.

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But Willens' wealth may be worth much, much more than that.

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Some say as much as $3 million.

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And his heirs may well be alive today in the United States.

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Dan Willens is one of thousands of men

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who poured into Canada wanting to strike at rich.

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They came from all walks of life.

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Between treks and the wilderness,

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they settled in rough mining towns like Haleybury

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in Ontario, Canada, where Dan Willens was well known by 1925.

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Oh, he's laughing.

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There we go, aces, twos, nines.

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Thrown together by fate and greed,

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these rough prospectors spent their nights playing poker

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and their days hoping to find that one strike that

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would make their fortune.

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Gentlemen, the game is yours.

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Dan Willens and his closest friends

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relied on each other to share information

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on stakes and claims.

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But even they didn't know who Dan Willens really was.

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Thanks a lot, Dan.

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He was very private.

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I don't know if I ever listened to him ever

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brag about himself.

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Never.

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Never.

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Or comment about his past.

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Never, never.

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I consider him as a gentleman, gentleman, always well dressed.

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And his walk and his stance, I would take it

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to be a military man.

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Good night.

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Really good.

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Dan Willens had a partner, Bill Kaushner.

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One night, another miner pulled out a map.

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He told Dan and Bill that there might be gold in Red Lake,

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850 miles to the west.

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You've heard of Red Lake?

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Heard of it?

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I've heard of it, yes.

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Well, here it is.

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Right here.

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I've stakes and claims on this point.

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And I've got some real good showings.

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I think we should go there.

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I think you're right.

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Dan Willens and Bill Kaushner journeyed for more than a month

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with a desolate outback.

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In the next year, Willens and his partner

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stake 12 claims around Red Lake.

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Finally, their hard work turned up

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tiny glints in the sand that meant gold.

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From that small beginning, one of Canada's most profitable

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gold mines sprang to life.

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And with it, the community of Red Lake.

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A Kaushner, Willens' mine drew $45 million worth of gold,

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worth a billion dollars in today's values.

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Running a lucrative mining company didn't interest Dan.

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His real love was panning for gold.

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Dan Willens continued his solitary prospecting.

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Often, he disappeared of the wilderness alone

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for months at a time, still staking claims

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and sifting through sand.

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There was another side to Dan Willens.

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The rough outdoorsman led a double life

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as a gentleman of culture and breeding.

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Every autumn, he'd take over an entire floor

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of the elegant King Edward Hotel in Toronto,

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wax his mustache, and entertain his friends

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with lavish amounts of champagne.

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He had a social life that very few people do anything about.

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And he loved life.

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There's no doubt about it.

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He loved life.

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He liked social ability.

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There was no doubt about this.

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From prospector to gentleman and back again,

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Dan Willens kept up this double life for years.

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In the autumn of 1936, Dan Willens mysteriously vanished

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while on one of his prospecting trips.

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Baffled by his partner's absence,

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Bill Kaushner began to search for Willens.

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He said he went to his cabin and found everything

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accurately in place.

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He got that eerie feeling that he had just left things in place,

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and was gone and wouldn't be found.

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When he disappeared, the story was

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that he'd taken a trip into the bush,

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and he was never heard of again.

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He was lost.

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He said he perished.

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Now, Dan was a good bushman.

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And he wasn't a weak man.

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He was a very strong man.

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And I don't think for one minute that he was lost.

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I think he went back to England and took

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his social place in life.

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I'm in for five.

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Five.

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Is that all?

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Some believe that Dan may have been killed after a poker game,

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and his body thrown down an abandoned mineshaft.

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I think I'm going to take a chance.

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If you go into poker game, it's just hard to say

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what might have happened.

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Money and losers don't work too well together,

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especially if they lose their money.

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I'll see you five, and I'll raise $20.

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He was a good poker player.

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The truth of Dan Willens' disappearance

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remains as elusive as his past.

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Only a handful of clues exist.

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He appeared to be from England.

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He was skilled as a horseman and at cards.

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He never married.

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One prospector believes he may have had a sister in England.

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His unclaimed estate was valued in 1936 as $71,000.

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This money, held by the public trustee of Ontario,

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is now worth nearly $100,000.

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But we know that Willens owned half the shares

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in the Kaushner-Willens mine, and that his partner Bill

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brought back most of those shares seven years

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after Willens vanished.

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Those shares alone would have been worth at least $850,000

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in 1943.

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45 years later, it could be worth much more,

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yet no one can locate the money.

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Terry Howes, a Toronto-based tracer of missing heirs,

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has learned that Dan Willens may not be his true name.

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We have reason to think that his real name was Dalton Thomas

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Willens.

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And we feel that there are heirs either in Britain or the US,

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somewhere in the world.

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Today, if an heir turned up and we have every reason

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to think that their heirs are going to turn up,

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the estate could be worth in the vicinity of $3 million,

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depending upon the interest that's

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been paid over the years.

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Update, within days of our broadcast,

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Davey Willens, a New York businessman,

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called our 800 number, claiming he might be one of the heirs

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to Dan Willens' fortune.

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My grandfather, we have determined,

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came from the UK to Ontario in 1895.

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At that time, he was 11 years of age.

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We believe he traveled with another family member.

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And we also have been told that there was a cousin, some place

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up in the outback of Ontario.

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But there was never any contact with that individual

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through the years.

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So when this OnSolved Mysteries program aired,

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and this Dan Willens, a Bushman from Ontario, was disclosed,

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it certainly was an exciting possible link

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for our family tree searching.

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Davey Willens flew to Toronto to meet Joe Perkins, one

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of Dan Willens' last surviving friends.

527
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,760
He brought along photographs of his grandfather, Harold Willens,

528
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,600
and his great grandfather, John Willens,

529
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,320
to see if there was a family resemblance.

530
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,480
It was uncanny.

531
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,000
I couldn't believe it.

532
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:54,040
The similarity of the face, nose, spacing of the eyes,

533
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,080
forehead.

534
00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:01,480
And I think if you took the beard off the old man,

535
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,880
they'd look like twins.

536
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,840
Indeed, there does seem to be a strong resemblance.

537
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,560
Our great grandfather, John, grandfather Harold,

538
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,040
and prospector Dan Willens, all blood relatives,

539
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,800
is Davey an heir to Dan Willens' fortune?

540
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,080
Certainly money is important to everybody.

541
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,320
And if the Ontario government is holding considerable assets

542
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,000
that could rightfully be claimed by a Willens,

543
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,840
then I'd like to see that happen.

544
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,440
I don't know if it'll be me and my cousins or not,

545
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,160
but maybe now we can get some Willens's to come forward,

546
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,920
and maybe we do have a strong case to be made.

547
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,640
And certainly, we are going to take the next steps

548
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,160
to pursue that possibility.

549
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,000
Next, the story of Leo Curie, a volunteer softball

550
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,480
umpire active in his local church,

551
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,760
and a suspected murderer and arsonist

552
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,000
who has eluded the FBI for 10 years.

553
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,200
On March 19, 1975, in Richmond, Virginia,

554
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,040
a bodyguard named Chuck Kernigan was murdered,

555
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,760
and his body placed in a trunk.

556
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,560
Police were told the Kernigan's corpse

557
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,720
was driven to the Rappahannock River,

558
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,560
weighed down with a bumper from a 57 Chevrolet

559
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,240
and thrown overboard.

560
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,840
Kernigan's body has never been found.

561
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,600
The police believe that local businessman Leo Curie

562
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,840
was responsible for this contract killing.

563
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,600
In the mid-70s, the same Leo Curie

564
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,720
was a volunteer softball umpire and active in his local church.

565
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,680
Leo was married with four children

566
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,240
and a member of the American Legion.

567
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,560
Leo was a nice guy to many people.

568
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,480
There are people that are close to him

569
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,880
that characterize him as a caring, sensitive individual.

570
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,200
However, our investigation turned up another Leo Curie,

571
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,480
and that is the leader of a racketeering enterprise who

572
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,840
made a living committing crimes.

573
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,120
Then on April 20, 1979, Leo Curie

574
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,440
was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List as an accused

575
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,440
murderer.

576
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,720
He has eluded the authorities for 10 years.

577
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,960
Curie was a successful restaurant owner

578
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,360
who was fiercely competitive.

579
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,720
Reportedly, he tried to force his rivals out of business

580
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,720
by sending in thugs to terrorize a patrons.

581
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,600
On January 15, 1977, Curie's friends brutally

582
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,320
attacked innocent customers at the mailbox restaurant.

583
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,480
One person died, and several were injured.

584
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,480
It became apparent after a few months of investigation

585
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,480
that Leo Curie was the very center

586
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,600
of a racketeering enterprise, and that means

587
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,600
that he ran an organization that their primary income was

588
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,600
through illegal purposes, be it frauds, extortion, murder,

589
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,480
whatever.

590
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,360
But their income was from crime.

591
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,120
While the FBI suspected Curie was responsible,

592
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,480
they could not indict him because his inner circle

593
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,120
was extremely loyal.

594
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,760
They often picked vulnerable groups

595
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,560
like the local gay community as victims for his scams

596
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:40,920
and extortions.

597
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,480
I want you to kill a man for me.

598
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:45,600
I'll do it.

599
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,240
On October 1977, Curie asked Eddie Lohr

600
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,760
to make a hit on restaurant owner Jim Hillier.

601
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,120
A few days later, Curie's scheme backfired,

602
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,000
Eddie Lohr was found hiding outside Jim Hillier's home.

603
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,040
Johnson, get him up.

604
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:09,940
I'll do it.

605
00:32:18,820 --> 00:32:21,520
This arrest was a turning point for the FBI

606
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,920
and directly led to Curie's indictment.

607
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,520
We later learned that he was there allegedly

608
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,400
at Leo Curie's behest to kill Hillier,

609
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,640
to eliminate Hillier as competition

610
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,280
in the restaurant business.

611
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,320
What are your options?

612
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,880
Lohr agreed to work with the FBI.

613
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,680
He was equipped with a hidden microphone,

614
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,840
and the FBI secretly recorded a conversation with Curie

615
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,840
for their investigation.

616
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,200
This is the actual recording of Leo Curie's voice in the car.

617
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,960
I can't understand you telling me

618
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,560
about the exact evidence.

619
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,000
Don't say anything on the phone.

620
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,240
I don't care if you believe.

621
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,040
Exactly.

622
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,360
But don't say anything.

623
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,360
Based on the surveillance tapes,

624
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,840
on October 31, 1978, Leo Curie was

625
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,720
indicted by a federal grand jury.

626
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,480
He was charged with murder, attempted murder,

627
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:20,720
extortion, assault, racketeering, fraud, and arson.

628
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,320
But the day before the charges came down,

629
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,960
Leo Curie disappeared from Richmond, Virginia.

630
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,200
Leo Curie is a very competitive person,

631
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,320
and it would not surprise me.

632
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,640
And it's been done in the past with Top 10 fugitives,

633
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,800
where they pick up the phone and call the agent who's

634
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,120
looking for them simply to tweak their nose.

635
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,560
That would be an interesting call.

636
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,480
I'd just like to know he's alive.

637
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,280
Over the last 10 years, the FBI have recorded

638
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,240
165 sightings of Curie, mostly on the East Coast,

639
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,640
but also in Brazil in the Middle East.

640
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,520
The FBI are offering a $25,000 reward in this case,

641
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,680
and have even put up billboards around the country

642
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,520
with Leo Curie's face on them.

643
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,640
His FBI file is now 38 volumes thick.

644
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:14,720
What we come up with is the most logical location

645
00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:16,600
for Leo Curie, and what he's doing

646
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:21,040
is probably Florida drugs.

647
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,240
And we believe he's still closely associated

648
00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:25,400
with the gay community.

649
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,400
The New York Times

650
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,400
The New York Times

651
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:40,400
The New York Times

652
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,400
The New York Times

653
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,400
The New York Times

654
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,400
November 19, 1988, a nine-year-old girl named

655
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,400
Michaela Joy Gevry and her best friend were given $5

656
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400
by the friend's father who spent at a local market

657
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,400
in Hayward, California, a suburb of Oakland.

658
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,400
The two girls rolled from Michaela's house to the market

659
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,400
on their scooters.

660
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,400
Michaela came and asked if she could go,

661
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,400
and I said yes, and she jumped up and down

662
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,400
and said, oh, goody-goody, they went to the market,

663
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,400
and that's the last time we've seen her.

664
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,400
Although Michaela's house was only four blocks from the market,

665
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,400
her parents insisted she be accompanied by a friend.

666
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,400
She usually made us attract to the store at least once a day

667
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,400
or every other day or so.

668
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,400
She'd get a friend and go up there on her scooters.

669
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,400
We never let her go to the store by herself.

670
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,400
She always had to be with somebody.

671
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,400
When they came out of the store, Michaela's scooter was gone.

672
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400
Over there.

673
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,400
It was over by a car.

674
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,400
When she went over to get the scooter,

675
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,400
a man stepped out of the car and grabbed her from behind

676
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,400
and threw her into the car.

677
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,400
Michaela!

678
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,400
Michaela!

679
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,400
Michaela's friend went back into the store,

680
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,400
advised the clerk in the store that her friend had been kidnapped,

681
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,400
and then they called the police.

682
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,400
The biggest thing that makes this one a little different

683
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,400
than most is that we do have a suspect description.

684
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,400
We do have a suspect vehicle description,

685
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,400
and we do have a witness that saw this take place.

686
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400
Look at the pictures.

687
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,400
Michaela's friend was shown mugshots of possible suspects,

688
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,400
but was unable to identify any of them.

689
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,400
She was, however, able to assist police artists

690
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,400
in creating a composite of the suspect.

691
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,400
She described a white male age 18 to early 20s,

692
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,400
approximately six feet in height with dirty,

693
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,400
blonde, shoulder-length hair.

694
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,400
The man had a slender build and a pockmark complexion.

695
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,400
The car he was driving was a large American model,

696
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,400
a few years old, in poor condition.

697
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,400
It appeared to be brown or tan in color.

698
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:10,400
Right now, what we need to know, if anybody was to call,

699
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,400
is we need a name, a place where we could find Michaela

700
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,400
or the kidnapper.

701
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,400
Nobody has to leave a name.

702
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,400
All they have to do is just give us that tip that we need to act.

703
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,400
Life just is not the same,

704
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,400
and it won't be the same again until Michaela comes home.

705
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:50,400
MUSIC

706
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,400
In our next story, we will meet a retired couple, Jim and Kay Tatum,

707
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,400
who are sober, reliable people.

708
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,400
Jim was a career army officer, Kay an accountant,

709
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,400
but in their new home, they've experienced unexplained sounds

710
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,400
and objects that move for no apparent reason.

711
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,400
Experts call this poltergeist activity.

712
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,400
Some believe that such activity is not caused by ghosts,

713
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,400
but rather by psychokinesis,

714
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,400
a hidden psychic power in the mind of an individual

715
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,400
which unconsciously moves objects through space.

716
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:34,400
Could it be that Jim and Kay Tatum caused their own hauntings?

717
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,400
This is a quiet suburb near Ladder, Georgia,

718
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,400
where Jim and Kay Tatum build a new home.

719
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,400
There they plan to retire,

720
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,400
but five months after they moved in,

721
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,400
the Tatums began to experience unusual events

722
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,400
that forced them to put their house up for sale.

723
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,400
For this reason, they requested we not show it,

724
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,400
but they did allow us to film inside.

725
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,400
One night in January of 1986,

726
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,400
Kay Tatum woke from a restless sleep,

727
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,400
not wanting to disturb her husband,

728
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,400
she left their bedroom.

729
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,400
She sensed a strange presence.

730
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,400
Jim, I'm in here.

731
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,400
Jim, I'm in here.

732
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,400
Kay had seen a glimpse of a man walking past the open doorway.

733
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,400
Jim!

734
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,400
At first I thought it was my husband,

735
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,400
and I went into the bedroom,

736
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,400
and there my husband was in the bed,

737
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400
so I thought we had a burglar.

738
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,400
Jim searched the house.

739
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,400
It was definitely a man,

740
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,400
and he was swinging his arm slightly,

741
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,400
and his head was slightly bent,

742
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,400
and he won't briskly pass me.

743
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,400
There was nothing that you could see through.

744
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,400
There's no evidence of any entry,

745
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,400
there's no evidence of anyone having been in the house,

746
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,400
and I thought perhaps Kay had been using

747
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,400
an overactive imagination.

748
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,400
As the night passed into dawn,

749
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,400
Kay Tatum lay awake and wondered.

750
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,400
I had fear, and I was perplexed about what happened.

751
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,400
And while I was tossing and turning,

752
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:26,400
I suddenly remembered that I didn't hear any sound as he passed me,

753
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,400
and I still am unable to figure out why it happened.

754
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,400
After Kay's first experience,

755
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,400
two months passed by without incident.

756
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,400
Then one night, Jim was repairing a ladder that led up to the attic.

757
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,400
His work was interrupted when Kay called him for dinner.

758
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,400
I specifically unplugged the drill,

759
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,400
because it's a very old drill.

760
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,400
I thought it might be dangerous to leave it plugged.

761
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,400
As the evening wore on, he wanted to watch a movie,

762
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,400
and I decided to go upstairs and read.

763
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,400
One hour later, Kay heard the sound of the drill outside her room.

764
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,400
She thought that Jim was teasing her about having seen a ghost,

765
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,400
and she tried to ignore the noise.

766
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,400
Eventually, she went into the hallway.

767
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,400
It was empty, and the drill was unplugged.

768
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,400
I was really frightened, and I reached down and it felt out of...

769
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,400
and it was ice cold.

770
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,400
It had not been turned on.

771
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,400
I was very confused.

772
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,400
I knew very well that something was happening,

773
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,400
because Kay was very level-headed,

774
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,400
and she was truly frightened.

775
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,400
These incidents continued.

776
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,400
One night Kay heard the sound of coins falling in a bowl.

777
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,400
But she was alone in the room.

778
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:54,400
Another time, while cooking, Kay felt two sharp tugs on her blouse.

779
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,400
After that incident, I decided we have a problem in this house.

780
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,400
There's something going on.

781
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,400
It's not something that we can understand or explain,

782
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,400
but there's something definitely going on.

783
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,400
This is where most of the things have been happening.

784
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,400
These occurrences seemed to center around Kay.

785
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:19,400
Parapsychologist William Rohl visited the house to try to interpret these events.

786
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,400
The question comes up, why is this family having these experiences?

787
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:28,400
Is there a ghost that has come back to haunt them for some unknown reason?

788
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,400
What's taking place?

789
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,400
A lot of people have these experiences.

790
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:38,400
It's part of who we are as humans to have so-called psychic experiences.

791
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,400
But the pop was up here on the wall.

792
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:46,400
Rohl believes that memories can actually be transferred to physical objects,

793
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:52,400
and these residual memories may be triggered by ordinary people.

794
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:58,400
The nature of his presence seems to be a teasing type of thing,

795
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,400
as though it's teasing us.

796
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,400
In February, Jim finally had his first experience.

797
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,400
It started with this small bell located in the guest room.

798
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,400
Jim had a habit of waking hours before his wife.

799
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:18,400
When Kay woke, she would ring the bell if she needed him upstairs.

800
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:22,400
I'd grown used to climbing the stairs after hearing the bell,

801
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:28,400
and so I did so, and it wasn't Kay. She was asleep.

802
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,400
So I went in and looked at the bell, and it was there.

803
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,400
I thought, obviously I heard something else other than the bell.

804
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:41,400
After the third time this happened, the couple decided to make up a code

805
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,400
in order to outwit the entity.

806
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:47,400
If it rings three times, I'll come on up the stairs.

807
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,400
All right, we'll do that.

808
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,400
So the next time it rang three times, I knew this was Kay,

809
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,400
because this was our signal, but Kay was sound asleep.

810
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,400
And the bell was in the other bedroom where it stays.

811
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,400
I went in and looked at it.

812
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,400
I turned around and walked out the door, and the thing rang again.

813
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,400
Then I began to see how Kay felt.

814
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,400
I mean, I was frightened. The hair stood up on my neck.

815
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,400
I told Kay, then, I said, no more bell.

816
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,400
I'm not going to answer that bell anymore.

817
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,400
And that bell has not rung since.

818
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,400
I've never seen him like that before.

819
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:43,400
There are a number of haunting cases that are not very striking, not very strong,

820
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,400
but where the phenomena, nevertheless, are disturbing to the family.

821
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:52,400
It might be a bell ringing, a fleeting glimpse of an aberration.

822
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,400
The events are trivial, but they're deeply upsetting to the family

823
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:02,400
because they don't fit into the picture that most of us have of the world.

824
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:07,400
And that image of the physical world, particularly of our home,

825
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:12,400
is intricately related to who we picture ourselves as being.

826
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,400
The story about the bell gets me emotional,

827
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,400
because this is a real turning point in my life.

828
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,400
I knew then that there are things that are unexplained.

829
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,400
The Tatums feel that their home is no longer their own.

830
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,400
They have decided to move, leaving the entity, if that indeed is what it is,

831
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,400
to live in the house alone.

832
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,400
For every mystery there is someone, somewhere who knows the truth.

833
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,400
Perhaps that someone is watching, perhaps it's you.

834
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,400
The Tatum is a very important part of the story.

835
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,400
It's a very important part of the story.

836
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,400
It's a very important part of the story.

837
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,400
It's a very important part of the story.

838
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,400
It's a very important part of the story.

839
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,400
It's a very important part of the story.

840
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,400
It's a very important part of the story.

841
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:32,400
Music

842
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:40,400
Music

843
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,400
Music