1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,560 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,160 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,160 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,560 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,320 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, an intriguing new story. 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,520 In 1988, in undercover San Francisco vice cop, 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,560 Lester Garnier, he was found shot to death 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,920 inside his late model Corvette. 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,800 Eyewitnesses saw two unidentified women with Garnier 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,840 within moments of his death. 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,080 Police are still investigating what connection these women had 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,600 to Garnier and his murder. 13 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,440 In Phoenix, Arizona, a 58-year-old businessman 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,560 named Angelo Desideri vanished from his home. 15 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,240 400 miles away, his car was found ablaze. 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,040 No trace of Angelo Desideri has ever been found. 17 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,480 In 1934, Bill Purinton was forcibly separated 18 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,000 from his five brothers and sisters 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,080 by well-meaning social workers. 20 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,560 50 years later, Bill is still searching for his lost sister 21 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,760 Jackie. 22 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,840 In Las Vegas, 16-year-old Kathy Hobbs disappeared. 23 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,560 Three months later, police received an anonymous call 24 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,120 from a man who may have seen her abduction. 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,320 They need to find this missing witness. 26 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:25,440 Tonight's cases feature ordinary people 27 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,360 thrust into a vortex of mystery, heartbreak, and intrigue. 28 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,120 Each one is searching for that vital clue to end a story that 29 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,400 so far has no ending. 30 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,240 Perhaps you can help. 31 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:37,400 Join me. 32 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,640 You may be able to help solve a mystery. 33 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:22,640 MUSIC 34 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:32,640 MUSIC 35 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:35,240 July 11, 1988. 36 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,160 It was a quiet morning in Walnut Creek, California, 37 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,120 an affluent suburb of San Francisco. 38 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,360 A groundskeeper noticed a corvette sitting 39 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,600 in a shopping center parking lot. 40 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,640 His attention was drawn by the car's driver, apparently 41 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:51,520 napping behind the wheel. 42 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,800 The man was not asleep. 43 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,640 He was dead. 44 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:01,000 The cause of death was determined to be two bullet wounds. 45 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,800 This was an extremely cold-blooded, deliberate 46 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:05,760 killing. 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,320 The sort of person that would do something like this 48 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,920 is extremely dangerous. 49 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:15,280 The victim was identified as Lester Garnier, 50 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,520 an undercover vice cop with the San Francisco Police Department 51 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:19,720 who lived in nearby Concord. 52 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,120 After the revelation that Lester was an undercover cop, 53 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,560 the investigation took on a new dimension. 54 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,800 For this reason, the search for Lester's killer 55 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,600 was undertaken by both the Walnut Creek and the San 56 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,640 Francisco Police Department. 57 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,320 There was very little evidence left at the crime scene 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,320 that would give us much help in identifying the criminal. 59 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,400 We do have a few fingerprints that have not been identified, 60 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,920 but we've been unable to find any motive at all 61 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,160 for the killing of Lester Garnier. 62 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:03,200 Lester Garnier's death touched off a firestorm of controversy 63 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,440 when the case became enmeshed in a local political scandal. 64 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,880 But through all of this, Lester Garnier's killer 65 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,080 remains at large. 66 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,120 To those who knew him best, Lester Garnier 67 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,760 was a walking contradiction. 68 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,240 To his parents, he was a devoted son who lived with him 69 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,400 in the home that he provided. 70 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,760 To his friends, Lester was a man who lived and loved 71 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,640 in the fast lane. 72 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,480 But to his partners in the police force, 73 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,400 Lester Garnier was first and foremost 74 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,000 a dedicated cop who went the distance for his job. 75 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,440 Somewhere between the lines of these contradictions 76 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:43,600 may lie the reason why Lester Garnier was murdered. 77 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,080 If you wanted to find Lester Garnier off duty, 78 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,680 the chances are he would be behind the wheel of his prized 79 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,640 1984 Corvette. 80 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,640 Lester enjoyed the good life, but he 81 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,480 was not blind to the responsibilities 82 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,200 of being a good son. 83 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,920 Lester was a wonderful son. 84 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,000 He always was there for us. 85 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:12,000 He gave us security, knowing that if anything happens, 86 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,680 he's always there for us. 87 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,680 But there was another side to Lester Garnier. 88 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,240 Off duty, he enjoyed a reputation as a ladies man. 89 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:27,200 Hi. 90 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,200 That's a beautiful car. 91 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,920 According to friends, this reputation was well deserved. 92 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,440 Lester used his charm on the job as well. 93 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,200 His beat was the Mission District, 94 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,680 once a quiet residential neighborhood. 95 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:48,160 Today, a low income area frequented by prostitutes. 96 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,440 Lester had worked vice for four and a half years 97 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,160 and was at home on the mean streets of the Mission, 98 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,880 where he would often do prostitutes 99 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,720 by posing as a customer. 100 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,160 We found that he had made numerous arrests for prostitution. 101 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,880 We certainly examined that aspect of his life, 102 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,800 and we weren't able to find any connection with our case. 103 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,800 We interviewed several of the prostitutes 104 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,800 that Lester had arrested and found that many of them 105 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,640 spoke highly of him, even though he had arrested them. 106 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:27,640 He wanted to do a good job, and the type of job that he had, 107 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,000 he had to make sure he made all the right moves. 108 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,480 He enjoyed his job to a certain degree. 109 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,080 It was a challenge for him every day, different people, 110 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,360 different situations all the time. 111 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,040 Those were the streets that we grew up in, 112 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,400 and he felt that he wanted to make the city a better place. 113 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,440 And by being a police officer, he was doing that. 114 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,200 One of Lester's final assignments 115 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,960 would throw the murder investigation into turmoil. 116 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:04,440 In the fall of 1988, Roger Boaz, a local mayoral candidate, 117 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,400 pled guilty to charges of having sex 118 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,080 with underage prostitutes. 119 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,680 Lester had been on stakeout duty at one of the houses 120 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:16,000 in this prostitution ring just prior to his death. 121 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,040 The local media attempted to tie the two events together. 122 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,240 In addition, there were rumors that some San Francisco police 123 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,880 may have been involved in Lester's death. 124 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,800 But so far, these rumors are uncorroborated. 125 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,080 We did address those issues and did a very thorough investigation, 126 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,440 but we found no connection at all 127 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,480 between Lester Garnier's death and the Roger Boaz case 128 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,880 or any other matter for that matter. 129 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,880 July 10, 1988, approximately 12 hours before his body 130 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,680 would be discovered, Lester left his Concorde home 131 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,680 to meet friends in San Francisco. 132 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,400 Less than 20 minutes later, Lester 133 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,000 called from his car phone and canceled the evening. 134 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,400 He gave no explanation. 135 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,080 Yeah, Steve, this is Lester. 136 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,080 Listen, I'm not going to be able to make it to the movies tonight. 137 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,080 During this conversation, he canceled the meeting 138 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,960 with his friends saying it was getting late. 139 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,360 After that, we don't know what happened to him 140 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,400 until his vehicle showed up in the parking lot 141 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,200 shortly before 11, 30 PM. 142 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,800 That time period is very critical. 143 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,160 As a portion of our investigation, naturally, 144 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:33,760 we searched for witnesses. 145 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,080 And we discovered that there was a carpet layer working 146 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,560 in one of the stores late that evening. 147 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:45,680 As he went out to his truck, he heard what 148 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:49,880 sounded to him like firecrackers. 149 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,880 It was around the 4th of July, so he discounted those sounds 150 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,120 as firecrackers. 151 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,560 Shortly after, he looked up and saw two women walking 152 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:00,640 across the parking lot. 153 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:06,320 The women entered two different vehicles and left. 154 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,080 The workmen described one of the women 155 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,760 as being in her late 20s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, 156 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,320 and said that she weighed about 110 pounds. 157 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,680 The other was described as being in her mid 30s, 158 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:21,240 tall with a slender build. 159 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,160 We also located one witness who was actually 160 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:25,960 driving through the lot. 161 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,120 As he drove past the Corvette, he 162 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,680 saw a woman open the passenger door and exit the vehicle. 163 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:34,880 He saw her walk around the vehicle 164 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,680 and appeared a look in the driver's side of the Corvette. 165 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:44,220 It's possible that these were just two separate sightings 166 00:09:44,220 --> 00:09:46,480 not associated with each other. 167 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,440 However, it's also possible that they are somehow related. 168 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,360 Under hypnosis, the second witness 169 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,600 helped police to create a composite drawing of the woman. 170 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,040 Her appearance was similar to the other eye witness 171 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:00,680 description. 172 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:02,840 When we showed this to the carpet layer, 173 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,800 he felt that this sketch closely resembled 174 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,320 the shorter of the two women that he saw walking 175 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:09,320 across the parking lot. 176 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,560 Who was the blonde woman seen with Lester that night? 177 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:20,080 Could a casual pickup have turned into something deadly? 178 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,560 Or was Lester killed as a result of his undercover life? 179 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:31,100 había offic savoir 180 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,800 Next, the story of schoolgirl Kathy Hodgs 181 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,840 who vanished on her way back from the Las Vegas super market. 182 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,800 Anonymous tips too may have seen. 183 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:53,780 Her abductors. 184 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:54,280 kids. 185 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,500 And they killed my daughter. 186 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:03,060 And before they could kill someone else's daughter, 187 00:11:03,060 --> 00:11:03,860 I want the gun. 188 00:11:13,660 --> 00:11:15,340 On a recent broadcast, we examined 189 00:11:15,340 --> 00:11:18,540 the case of a Florida widow whom we called Mrs. K. 190 00:11:18,540 --> 00:11:21,140 She claims that she was romanced and then swindled 191 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:24,180 by a man named Arthur Frankford. 192 00:11:24,180 --> 00:11:26,340 After a four-week whirlwind romance, 193 00:11:26,340 --> 00:11:30,140 Arthur Frankford convinced Mrs. K. to let him move in with her. 194 00:11:30,140 --> 00:11:32,220 Never once was I suspicious of any move 195 00:11:32,220 --> 00:11:35,980 that he made as far as to question his character, 196 00:11:35,980 --> 00:11:40,820 who he was, and that he was a liar and a thief. 197 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:44,540 On July 29, 1988, while Mrs. K. was at work, 198 00:11:44,540 --> 00:11:47,260 Arthur Frankford disappeared after allegedly stealing 199 00:11:47,260 --> 00:11:51,060 jewelry worth over $4,000, as well as many personal items 200 00:11:51,060 --> 00:11:54,380 belonging to Mrs. K's late husband. 201 00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:56,500 Arthur Frankford is wanted by Florida police 202 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:59,980 for burglary, grand theft auto, and check forging. 203 00:11:59,980 --> 00:12:03,060 Authorities believe that he may have victimized over 40 women 204 00:12:03,060 --> 00:12:07,980 by stealing their hearts and then taking their cash. 205 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:10,700 Update, within minutes of our broadcast, 206 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:12,580 two viewers called our 800 number 207 00:12:12,580 --> 00:12:16,420 to report that they recognized Arthur Frankford. 208 00:12:16,420 --> 00:12:19,740 The individual said, I know where Arthur Frankford is. 209 00:12:19,740 --> 00:12:21,780 I'm his ex-brother-in-law. 210 00:12:21,780 --> 00:12:24,100 My name's Floyd Meadows. 211 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:27,460 I asked him if he'd ever seen this Arthur Frankford do magic. 212 00:12:27,460 --> 00:12:30,620 He said, yes, he did, and he does it very well. 213 00:12:30,620 --> 00:12:32,220 This is one of the keys that I never 214 00:12:32,220 --> 00:12:35,660 released to the press or any other medium 215 00:12:35,660 --> 00:12:38,500 that Arthur Frankford does magic. 216 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:41,180 We received another call about 20 minutes later 217 00:12:41,180 --> 00:12:43,940 from a white female, since Arthur Frankford lives 218 00:12:43,940 --> 00:12:47,020 next door to me in Whitley, Kentucky. 219 00:12:47,020 --> 00:12:50,900 This was the confirmation call that I was looking for. 220 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:53,180 At that time, I knew we had our man. 221 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:59,100 Two hours later, Frankford was arrested at his home 222 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:01,300 in Kentucky by the McCreary County Sheriff 223 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:03,220 and Kentucky State Troopers. 224 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:06,180 He was living under the assumed name James Ferguson, 225 00:13:06,180 --> 00:13:08,860 with his new wife of two months. 226 00:13:08,860 --> 00:13:10,660 During a search of Frankford's house, 227 00:13:10,660 --> 00:13:13,100 police uncovered several identification and credit 228 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:15,220 cards with different aliases. 229 00:13:15,220 --> 00:13:17,500 They also found a handgun that may have been stolen 230 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:19,180 from Mrs. Kay's home. 231 00:13:19,180 --> 00:13:22,340 We got other calls from women that say, yes, 232 00:13:22,340 --> 00:13:23,860 I've been married to this man. 233 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:25,180 I've divorced him. 234 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:27,620 He's left me holding the bag. 235 00:13:27,620 --> 00:13:30,940 And what I need is for the people 236 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:36,260 that have been victimized by Arthur Frankford to come forward. 237 00:13:36,260 --> 00:13:38,380 It's time for the public to stand up and say, 238 00:13:38,380 --> 00:13:41,140 hey, we've had enough of Arthur Frankford. 239 00:13:41,140 --> 00:13:43,380 This man has prayed on the public long enough. 240 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:47,400 CBS, Musson Ericsson. 241 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,760 . 242 00:13:57,140 --> 00:14:00,320 Las Vegas, a glamorous capital of slot machines, 243 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,000 blackjack, and high stakes gambling, 244 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,380 an adult amusement park. 245 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:08,140 But just one mile off the Strip 246 00:14:08,140 --> 00:14:10,900 is another side of Las Vegas, the real world 247 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,660 that tourists never see, an ordinary part 248 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:15,140 of suburban America. 249 00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:19,300 On the evening of July 23rd, 1987, 16-year-old Kathy Hobbs 250 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,960 was reading a romance novel in her bedroom. 251 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:26,140 At 11 PM, she decided to walk to the local supermarket 252 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:31,640 to buy another book, just one and a half blocks away. 253 00:14:31,740 --> 00:14:33,180 She came out to me and she said, Mom, 254 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,440 I'm going down to the store and buy a book. 255 00:14:35,540 --> 00:14:38,580 And she said, give me a kiss before I go. 256 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,020 And I said, well, I'll be up when you get back. 257 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:42,820 And I said, OK, I'll be back. 258 00:14:42,820 --> 00:14:45,220 And I said, well, I'll be up when you get back. 259 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,320 And she says, well, she says, I probably 260 00:14:47,420 --> 00:14:49,260 will stop and talk to the kids. 261 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,520 So you might be in bed when I get back. 262 00:14:51,620 --> 00:14:58,040 So I gave her a kiss and that was the last I saw of her. 263 00:14:58,140 --> 00:15:00,980 Kathy had walked to the store late at night many times. 264 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,340 Usually, her friends were gathered 265 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,740 at the apartment complex swimming pool, chatting and gossiping. 266 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,180 So Kathy's mother wasn't concerned for her safety. 267 00:15:08,180 --> 00:15:13,080 One of the kids would walk down to the store with her. 268 00:15:13,180 --> 00:15:16,220 There was no one at the swimming pool that night. 269 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,620 So instead of coming home, she decided 270 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,760 to go on to the store by herself. 271 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,900 Assuming that Kathy would be with her friends, 272 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,200 Vivian went to sleep. 273 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:34,000 At 3 AM, she awoke from a strange dream 274 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,540 that at the time seemed innocent. 275 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,440 But would later come back to haunt her. 276 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:43,040 I woke up out of sound sleep. 277 00:15:43,140 --> 00:15:45,940 I felt like I had been hit on the head. 278 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,080 And all of a sudden, I got a very peaceful feeling. 279 00:15:49,180 --> 00:15:52,440 And it was, well, it's over now. 280 00:15:52,540 --> 00:15:55,380 And I fell back to sleep. 281 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,460 The next morning, Vivian discovered 282 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,260 that Kathy's bedroom was empty. 283 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,260 She still had not come home. 284 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,460 Well, then the first day, we had tracked down friends, 285 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:10,280 relatives, and done a very extensive media campaign 286 00:16:10,380 --> 00:16:15,320 on the television with Catherine's picture all day long. 287 00:16:15,420 --> 00:16:17,760 At the end of the second day, we were pretty much convinced 288 00:16:17,860 --> 00:16:20,760 that Catherine was probably abducted. 289 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:23,160 Kathy's disappearance was a culmination of years 290 00:16:23,260 --> 00:16:25,060 of worry for her family. 291 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,400 As a child, Kathy had eerie premonitions 292 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,600 that she would die at an early age. 293 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:32,300 She was an isolated, introverted girl. 294 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,940 When Kathy was eight, she began telling her friends 295 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,420 she would not live to the age of 16. 296 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,680 She did not have a happy childhood. 297 00:16:42,780 --> 00:16:44,220 Her father and I went through a divorce 298 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,360 when she was eight years old. 299 00:16:46,460 --> 00:16:49,100 She and her father were extremely close. 300 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,960 When she was in the seventh grade, 301 00:16:51,060 --> 00:16:55,040 a very good friend of hers died of a heart disease 302 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:57,800 that affected Kathy very much. 303 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:00,180 And that's one of the main reasons we moved to Las Vegas 304 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,680 was to give Kathy another chance to get away 305 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:09,120 from that atmosphere and the environment that she grew up in. 306 00:17:09,220 --> 00:17:11,020 At first, it seemed that the move to Las Vegas 307 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:13,320 had been the right decision. 308 00:17:13,420 --> 00:17:15,100 Even though Kathy remained withdrawn, 309 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,500 she did blossom and made some new friends. 310 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,300 However, as her 16th birthday drew closer, 311 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,800 Kathy's old fears of dying returned. 312 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:27,600 About two months before her 16th birthday, 313 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,340 she got very teary eyed one night and told me, 314 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,680 Mom, I don't want to get any older. 315 00:17:32,740 --> 00:17:35,740 I want to be a little girl. 316 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,820 And I told her, I said, Kathy, we all have to grow up. 317 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,520 And you know, it's not the easiest thing in the world to do, 318 00:17:41,620 --> 00:17:43,320 but we all do it. 319 00:17:43,420 --> 00:17:46,160 She told me, I'm not going to. 320 00:17:46,260 --> 00:17:47,920 She didn't think she'd make her 16th birthday. 321 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:54,900 Just before her 16th birthday, Kathy became despondent again. 322 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,700 She spent all her time in her room 323 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,400 and would not leave the house. 324 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:00,000 On the morning of her birthday, though, 325 00:18:00,060 --> 00:18:04,300 Kathy was surprised and relieved to find she was still alive. 326 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,660 And she came out of her bedroom. 327 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,060 And she said, Mom, I did it. 328 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:08,960 I did it. 329 00:18:09,060 --> 00:18:10,100 I made it. 330 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,040 And I said, what? 331 00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:11,740 And she said, I made 16. 332 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,580 I didn't think I'd live to be 16. 333 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,980 Now Kathy had a new enthusiasm for life 334 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,840 and began making plans for her future. 335 00:18:20,940 --> 00:18:23,980 She began to go out again, wanted to continue her education, 336 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,320 and started to wear makeup. 337 00:18:26,420 --> 00:18:28,220 She planned to train as a hairstylist 338 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,720 and open her own beauty shop called Katz Kutz. 339 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:34,980 She was ecstatic. 340 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:36,720 She came out and she goes, I made it, Mom. 341 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:37,460 I made it. 342 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,260 I'm 16. 343 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:40,320 I did it. 344 00:18:40,420 --> 00:18:41,000 I'm alive. 345 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,740 After Kathy vanished, the authorities 346 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,200 assumed that she had been abducted 347 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:49,440 and issued photos to the entire police department. 348 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,380 The local media were encouraged to publicize 349 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,140 Kathy's disappearance, and volunteer organizations 350 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,060 were mobilized to search for the missing girl. 351 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,140 Eventually, one crucial clue surfaced. 352 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,640 A clerk remembered seeing Kathy in the supermarket 353 00:19:06,740 --> 00:19:08,280 the night she vanished. 354 00:19:08,380 --> 00:19:10,820 Store receipts confirmed that someone did purchase 355 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,540 a paperback novel at 1117 that night. 356 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,380 Apparently, Kathy had made it to the store on Desert In Road 357 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,320 in Maryland Parkway. 358 00:19:19,420 --> 00:19:20,660 But she never made it home. 359 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,700 It was late at night, but Las Vegas, as you well know, 360 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,320 is a 24-hour town. 361 00:19:28,420 --> 00:19:30,760 And people are coming and going to work constantly 362 00:19:30,860 --> 00:19:31,760 in this town. 363 00:19:31,860 --> 00:19:36,060 This intersection is a large intersection, widely traveled, 364 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,600 and the store is a 24-hour major store. 365 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:42,540 And to have people coming and going from the store 366 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,480 and nobody seeing anything was very, very surprising. 367 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,380 Nine days after Kathy vanished, 368 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,680 hiker Rick Pakout was searching for unusual rock crystals 369 00:19:55,740 --> 00:20:01,040 out in the desert near Lake Mead, about an hour from Las Vegas. 370 00:20:01,140 --> 00:20:03,440 I was walking back to the car, and was probably 371 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:06,440 150 feet, 200 feet from the road, 372 00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:10,080 and was stopped by a very strong odor, 373 00:20:10,180 --> 00:20:13,780 decided to see where it was coming from or what it was. 374 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,520 And that's when I found Katherine's body. 375 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:22,860 It was the most horrible thing I'd ever seen in my life. 376 00:20:22,940 --> 00:20:26,340 I had to sit down and gather my thoughts and make sure 377 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,140 that what I was looking at was real. 378 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,240 When I realized that it was a human body, 379 00:20:35,340 --> 00:20:38,380 went back to the car, back to Calville Bay Ranger Station 380 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,820 and got the Rangers and brought them back out to the site. 381 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,560 Within probably 20 minutes of our arrival, 382 00:20:45,660 --> 00:20:47,020 we knew it was Katherine. 383 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:48,320 There was no doubt in our own minds 384 00:20:48,420 --> 00:20:49,320 that it was going to be Katherine. 385 00:20:50,060 --> 00:20:54,660 And it does get very quiet, and you can't help but look at it 386 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,900 and see your own children and say, for the grace of God, 387 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,200 there goes one of mine. 388 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,400 Your immediate feeling at the time 389 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:11,140 is to want to run home, grab your daughter by the arm, 390 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,780 and bring her to the scene, and say, this is why I say no, 391 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,940 you can't go out late at night. 392 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,600 Investigators found tire imprints at the scene 393 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:22,340 showing where a vehicle had pulled in, turned around, 394 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:23,940 and left. 395 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,440 They also found two rocks spattered with blood 396 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:28,680 near Katherine's body. 397 00:21:28,780 --> 00:21:32,320 Tests established that the stains match Katherine's blood type. 398 00:21:32,420 --> 00:21:35,280 The corner concluded that Katherine Hobbs had died 399 00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:38,360 from repeated blows to the head. 400 00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:42,660 She was 16 years, three months, and three days old. 401 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,560 I don't know if she's ever been in a car, 402 00:21:44,620 --> 00:21:50,060 but she was 16 months and three days old when she was killed. 403 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,560 So she made it to 16. 404 00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:54,900 But not much after that. 405 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,300 But she was right. 406 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,000 She did have this premonition that she wasn't 407 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,840 going to live to be an adult. 408 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:07,740 After Katherine's death, letters were found in her room 409 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,280 addressed to each member of the family. 410 00:22:10,380 --> 00:22:14,280 The letters were dated one month before Katherine's 16th birthday. 411 00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:18,500 In event of my death, you shall get this letter. 412 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,040 I hope you live happily, and I don't want you or anyone else 413 00:22:23,140 --> 00:22:25,240 to dwell on my death. 414 00:22:25,340 --> 00:22:28,020 I love you all very dearly. 415 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,320 You are good to me, and nobody else 416 00:22:30,420 --> 00:22:32,720 could have been a better mother. 417 00:22:32,820 --> 00:22:36,420 Keep me alive in your heart, and don't ever forget me. 418 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:37,720 Love always, Kathy. 419 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,960 And she was a very good friend. 420 00:22:44,340 --> 00:22:47,900 As well as made by daughter. 421 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,180 The most direct route to where she was found 422 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,780 would be straight down Desert Inn. 423 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,020 On October 24, exactly three months after Kathy vanished, 424 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,560 an answering machine at the Las Vegas Police Department 425 00:23:00,660 --> 00:23:03,360 recorded a startling call from a man who may have been 426 00:23:03,460 --> 00:23:05,620 a witness to Kathy's abduction. 427 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,860 Grab this girl in front of the store 428 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,260 on Desert Inn in Maryland. 429 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:12,600 This is a few months ago. 430 00:23:12,660 --> 00:23:14,020 I've been out of town for a few months, 431 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:15,720 and I wrote this down because she was screaming 432 00:23:15,820 --> 00:23:17,020 and they pulled her in the car. 433 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,500 She was a very young girl wearing a white jacket 434 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:21,960 and a pink pants. 435 00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:23,560 And the guy's name, he hollered to him, 436 00:23:23,660 --> 00:23:25,700 pushed her in the car, and his name was Robbie. 437 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:33,140 The theory that we have is that she was abducted 438 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,080 between the store and her apartment 439 00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:38,540 by one or more suspects. 440 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,980 We think she was driven to the lake that night. 441 00:23:42,060 --> 00:23:45,360 I believe that she was abducted and killed that evening. 442 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:50,660 The caller reported the license plate number of a car 443 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,260 he saw a girl being forced into, but he did not 444 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,660 leave his name or phone number. 445 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,360 The police checked the license number 446 00:23:57,460 --> 00:23:59,840 and discovered it did not exist. 447 00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:02,740 The crucial tip came over a year ago. 448 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,340 And despite repeated appeals, the witness 449 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,340 still hasn't called back. 450 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,820 And we need to find out if he possesses any more information. 451 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,860 And if he doesn't wish to give a name, that's fine, 452 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,960 but we do need to talk to him. 453 00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:19,500 Someone out there is walking the streets, killing kids. 454 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,740 And they killed my daughter. 455 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,380 And before they could kill someone else's daughter, 456 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:29,880 I want them caught. 457 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:45,960 The 458 00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:50,900 Today bill is 62 and has found all but one of his siblings. 459 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,200 Now he wants to find his lost sister Jackie. 460 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:02,220 Last December, we brought you a story 461 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,020 that began over 40 years ago in war-torn Eastern Europe. 462 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,180 In 1945, as Hitler's Third Reich crumbled, 463 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,320 refugees choked the high roads and rural roads. 464 00:25:12,420 --> 00:25:15,000 Carl Dente and his family fled their home in Budapest, 465 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:19,200 Hungary, across the border into Austria. 466 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:21,900 As winter fell and the weather turned bitter cold, 467 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,600 the Dente's were forced to live in a box car. 468 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:27,740 Life was particularly hard for Carl's five-year-old daughter, 469 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,580 Brigitta. 470 00:25:29,580 --> 00:25:31,540 A few days before Christmas, all that 471 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,820 changed when an American soldier known only as Philip 472 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,480 asked the daddies if he could take Brigitta to a Christmas 473 00:25:37,580 --> 00:25:40,960 party, given for the refugee children by the Americans. 474 00:25:41,060 --> 00:25:41,560 Yes. 475 00:25:41,660 --> 00:25:42,460 Yes. 476 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:43,360 Yes. 477 00:25:43,460 --> 00:25:44,160 Yes. 478 00:25:44,260 --> 00:25:44,960 Christmas. 479 00:25:45,060 --> 00:25:45,860 Yes. 480 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:46,960 She'll have fun. 481 00:25:47,060 --> 00:25:47,560 Though over 40 years have passed since that night, 482 00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:51,160 Brigitta remembers it as if it were yesterday. 483 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:54,340 Philip made me feel very, very special. 484 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,740 Aside of making me feel safe and happy, 485 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,380 he made me feel like a big girl. 486 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,240 Well, I felt like a princess. 487 00:26:02,340 --> 00:26:04,720 It's like someone opened a magic door. 488 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,920 I felt like I was in a dream. 489 00:26:11,020 --> 00:26:12,480 I never wanted the dream to end. 490 00:26:18,420 --> 00:26:21,100 Over the next few months, a deep and caring friendship 491 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,600 grew between Philip and the daddies. 492 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,940 Then one day, Philip came to the camp with bad news. 493 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,640 His unit had been recalled back to the United States, 494 00:26:30,740 --> 00:26:32,700 and would be leaving immediately. 495 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,440 He gave Carl a photograph to remember him by. 496 00:26:36,540 --> 00:26:38,580 Though the daddies never saw Philip again, 497 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,780 they will never forget the warmth and kindness 498 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,480 he brought their family on that Christmas day so long ago. 499 00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:49,420 He brought a big change in our life, a little happiness. 500 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:55,900 You know, give us a lot of confidence of the human race. 501 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,100 After 11 years of struggle and hardship, 502 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,360 the daddies finally made it to America. 503 00:27:01,460 --> 00:27:05,300 For 30 years, Carl and Brigitta searched for Philip. 504 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,980 Their only clue was the photograph he left them 43 years ago. 505 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,520 Within an hour of our broadcast, Mrs. Pauline Dofty 506 00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:19,620 of Augusta, Maine, called our 800 number 507 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,220 to say that the man named Philip in our story 508 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,420 was her cousin Philip Pelleteer. 509 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,580 He's a retired postal worker and lives in Hammond, Indiana. 510 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,180 We immediately called Carl and Brigitta Dentie 511 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,480 and helped to arrange a reunion. 512 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,220 On Wednesday, December 28, 1988, Carl and Brigitta's 30-year search 513 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,400 for Philip came to an emotional end. 514 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:42,360 Knock, knock, knock. 515 00:27:46,140 --> 00:27:46,940 Bridget? 516 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:47,900 Yeah, Philip? 517 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:48,700 Oh, yes. 518 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,100 Oh, hi. 519 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,000 Oh, I can't believe it. 520 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:51,900 Hi. 521 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,200 Hello, everyone. 522 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:54,100 Hi. 523 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,320 How are you feeling, Bridget? 524 00:27:55,420 --> 00:27:56,360 Just feeling my wife. 525 00:27:56,460 --> 00:27:57,560 Yeah, she's like a nobody. 526 00:27:57,660 --> 00:27:58,160 Hi. 527 00:27:58,260 --> 00:27:59,160 Oh, my god. 528 00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:00,160 Nice to see you. 529 00:28:00,260 --> 00:28:02,060 Well, it's really pretty hard to tell you 530 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,240 just how I feel after all so many years 531 00:28:04,340 --> 00:28:07,200 and trying to recollect everything 532 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,840 that we went through together. 533 00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:12,380 It's very hard. 534 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,380 It's very exciting. 535 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,580 It's almost unbelievable. 536 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:19,680 Oh, my god. 537 00:28:19,780 --> 00:28:20,880 Nice to see you. 538 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:23,520 It's something like a Christmas miracle 539 00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:26,140 because when he left, I was thinking about it. 540 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,920 I ever see him again. 541 00:28:28,020 --> 00:28:29,780 And here we go after 43 years. 542 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,620 We back together again. 543 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,480 It's just like a dream came too hard to believe it. 544 00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,660 Sometimes I had a feeling I was going to wake up. 545 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,500 You were five, right, at the time at the Christmas party? 546 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,900 The minute that I saw him, I could see the warmth. 547 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:52,700 And the happy look on his face, smiling. 548 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,360 Like we really never had lost touch in a way. 549 00:28:58,060 --> 00:29:00,460 Carl, Brigida, and Philip spent the afternoon 550 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,740 looking through photographs that brought back 551 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,780 memories of that special time they spent together. 552 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,140 We're going to stay with touch. 553 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,380 We're going to try to visit each other as much as possible. 554 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,580 We're going to renew the friendship what we had before. 555 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,420 You know, it's a friendship forever. 556 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:29,700 Bill Purinton, a 62-year-old retired New Hampshire businessman, 557 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,900 was separated from his family in 1934 558 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,800 when he was eight years old. 559 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:37,400 Back then, his last name was Harrington, 560 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:40,540 and his family was struggling to survive the depression. 561 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,580 Bill was one of six children who stayed at home 562 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,880 while his parents were away working. 563 00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:48,740 On August the 3rd, 1934, the Harrington children 564 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,140 were preparing a birthday party for Bill 565 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,540 and his little sister Jackie. 566 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,780 The children were unaware that four of them 567 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,380 would soon be torn from their family. 568 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,120 In the space of a few moments, all of their lives 569 00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:04,120 would change forever. 570 00:30:08,220 --> 00:30:10,800 The Harrington family lived in the small apartment 571 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:12,260 in the middle of the city. 572 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,060 The Harrington family lived in the small upstate town 573 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,360 of Hartwick, New York. 574 00:30:18,460 --> 00:30:20,560 Their neighbors felt that the four youngest children 575 00:30:20,660 --> 00:30:22,800 were being neglected. 576 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:24,900 They reported the Harrington's to the Society 577 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,840 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. 578 00:30:28,940 --> 00:30:32,380 The Society took action on the very day of Bill and Jackie's 579 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:33,480 birthday celebration. 580 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,620 The social workers arrived when both parents are out working. 581 00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:45,880 Despite their parents' absence, the Harrington children's 582 00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:48,660 modest birthday celebration was already in progress. 583 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,720 Happy birthday, dear Bill and Jackie. 584 00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:58,000 Happy birthday to you. 585 00:30:58,100 --> 00:30:59,000 Blow the candles out. 586 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,540 As soon as a party was finished, 587 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,240 the social workers took the four youngest children away. 588 00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:17,620 Bill, at eight years of age, was the oldest of the four. 589 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,720 I didn't know who they were. 590 00:31:19,820 --> 00:31:22,820 And they told me that I was going to take a trip. 591 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,160 And I was excited. 592 00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:26,600 I was going to go on a train. 593 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,300 I was going to go in a car. 594 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,600 I was going to see things that I hadn't seen before. 595 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,840 And it was exciting until I realized that I wasn't going home. 596 00:31:35,940 --> 00:31:37,040 Then I became angry. 597 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,240 I was upset. 598 00:31:39,340 --> 00:31:41,940 And that's when I realized that I was not 599 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,440 going to see my family again. 600 00:31:58,740 --> 00:32:00,340 Bill and his three younger siblings 601 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,040 were put up for adoption. 602 00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:03,840 They went to four different families 603 00:32:03,940 --> 00:32:05,440 in the state of New York. 604 00:32:05,940 --> 00:32:08,940 They would not see one another again for nearly 50 years. 605 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,540 In 1948, when Bill was 22 and just out of the army, 606 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,140 he began the search for his lost brothers and sisters. 607 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,740 He made no headway at all until 1976, 608 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,640 when he wrote to the records clerk in Hartwig, New York. 609 00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:31,040 Just as the clerk was replying to Bill's letter, 610 00:32:31,140 --> 00:32:32,640 a chance visitor dropped by. 611 00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:33,640 I know her. 612 00:32:33,740 --> 00:32:34,740 I know his mother. 613 00:32:35,140 --> 00:32:36,840 She moved out in San Francisco. 614 00:32:36,940 --> 00:32:38,640 She's living right near her daughter. 615 00:32:38,740 --> 00:32:39,940 Would you have an address for her? 616 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:40,740 I'd do it with mom. 617 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:41,640 You want her? 618 00:32:41,740 --> 00:32:42,740 Oh, that would be great. 619 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,740 Bill immediately wrote to the San Francisco address 620 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,040 and received a cautious reply from Wanda, his older sister. 621 00:32:49,140 --> 00:32:53,440 Wanda just said, I'm Wanda Harrington. 622 00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:56,640 And if you want any information about the family, 623 00:32:56,740 --> 00:32:57,640 just call me. 624 00:32:57,740 --> 00:32:59,740 And she gave me a phone number. 625 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,340 And I called her. 626 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,040 And she answered the phone. 627 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,940 And I said, hi, Wanda. 628 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,040 And she said, yes, are you Ed or are you Bill? 629 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:11,640 And I said, I'm Bill. 630 00:33:11,740 --> 00:33:14,340 And she started to cry. 631 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,140 By 1976, Bill had tracked down all of his brothers and sisters 632 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:20,640 except two. 633 00:33:20,740 --> 00:33:23,440 Jackie, the sister who had shared his birthday, 634 00:33:23,540 --> 00:33:26,440 and Ed, his baby brother. 635 00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:30,540 The feeling of knowing that you have a brother or a sister 636 00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:35,940 somewhere that you can't locate is the driving force. 637 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,040 It just makes you want to keep on looking. 638 00:33:40,140 --> 00:33:40,940 You don't give up. 639 00:33:44,540 --> 00:33:48,940 In 1980, Bill's search got another unexpected boost. 640 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,140 Helen Steinman of the New York Children's Aid Society 641 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,940 found a phone number for Ed. 642 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,340 On Christmas Eve, Bill spoke to his brother Ed 643 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,840 for the first time in 47 years. 644 00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:03,140 You sound just like what I thought you would. 645 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,840 When I got the call from my brother, 646 00:34:04,940 --> 00:34:07,340 I just couldn't believe that it actually happened. 647 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,340 And it's just been a great experience 648 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,340 to have all of a sudden with one phone call, 649 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,340 I have 42 new relatives. 650 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,440 And being a Christmas time, I was the greatest Christmas 651 00:34:17,540 --> 00:34:18,340 gift I could get. 652 00:34:19,340 --> 00:34:23,240 Finally, two months ago, the Harrington family reunited. 653 00:34:23,340 --> 00:34:26,040 The first time all five of them had been together 654 00:34:26,140 --> 00:34:27,540 for more than 50 years. 655 00:34:48,340 --> 00:35:12,140 Ed's wife played photographer, and the brothers and sisters 656 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:14,340 posed for their first family picture since night 657 00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:17,340 1933. 658 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,640 The Harrington children treasure their reborn family, 659 00:35:20,740 --> 00:35:22,240 but their joy is temporary. 660 00:35:22,340 --> 00:35:24,240 Their sister Jackie remains missing. 661 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,040 When we find Jackie, it'll be a completed circle. 662 00:35:30,140 --> 00:35:32,240 Everything will be in its place. 663 00:35:32,340 --> 00:35:35,740 Everybody will be where they belong. 664 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,740 I've been looking for my sister for the last 40 years, 665 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,740 and I intend to find her. 666 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,740 I'm not going to stop until I find her. 667 00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:44,140 I'm not going to stop until I do. 668 00:35:57,140 --> 00:35:59,440 One Sunday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, 669 00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:03,540 a businessman named Angelo Desideri prepared a solitary lunch. 670 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,740 Before he could sit down to enjoy it, he vanished. 671 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,740 30 hours later and 400 miles away, 672 00:36:10,740 --> 00:36:12,740 his burned-out car was discovered. 673 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,740 No other trace of Angelo Desideri has ever been found. 674 00:36:24,740 --> 00:36:27,240 On the afternoon of June the 5th, 1988, 675 00:36:27,340 --> 00:36:30,240 a prosperous businessman named Angelo Desideri vanished 676 00:36:30,340 --> 00:36:32,240 from his Phoenix home. 677 00:36:32,340 --> 00:36:35,440 Nobody knows why or to where he disappeared. 678 00:36:35,540 --> 00:36:38,340 His friends and family believe he met with foul play. 679 00:36:38,340 --> 00:36:41,640 Some investigators think Angelo wanted to disappear. 680 00:36:41,740 --> 00:36:44,240 There's no conclusive evidence either way. 681 00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:45,740 Only questions. 682 00:36:51,740 --> 00:36:54,840 57-year-old Angelo Desideri was a devout Catholic 683 00:36:54,940 --> 00:36:56,940 who had once studied for the priesthood. 684 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,940 He lived a quiet routine existence 685 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,240 with his parents and a Phoenix suburb. 686 00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:05,740 Angelo was a very ordered, neat individual. 687 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:11,240 Very, very meticulous and very, very neat individual. 688 00:37:11,340 --> 00:37:12,740 A perfectionist. 689 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,740 In its true sense of the word, a perfectionist. 690 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,740 Angelo built a small fortune out of hard work. 691 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,740 He had several close friends but never married. 692 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,240 Angelo loved the finer things in life 693 00:37:25,340 --> 00:37:27,240 and he supported this affluent lifestyle 694 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:30,240 by owning a shopping center and an import store. 695 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:34,740 On the morning of Monday, June 6th, 696 00:37:34,740 --> 00:37:36,340 a neighboring shop owner discovered 697 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,540 that Angelo's store was closed and no one was inside. 698 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,640 One of Angelo's friends drove out to his home 699 00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:47,240 to see if anything was wrong. 700 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,540 After seeing certain things that disturbed me 701 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:59,440 like an alarm that was not on and other things of that nature, 702 00:37:59,540 --> 00:38:04,240 he went next door and made the decision to phone 911 703 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,740 and bring out a police officer as we get out of the house. 704 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:24,840 Inside, Angelo was nowhere to be found. 705 00:38:24,940 --> 00:38:28,040 The house was undisturbed. 706 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,540 Apparently, he had been interrupted while preparing lunch. 707 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:41,740 On the kitchen table, Angelo had laid out piles of bills 708 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,240 as if preparing to pay them. 709 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:49,640 In the living room, two new pairs of pants 710 00:38:49,740 --> 00:38:51,640 were found near a shopping bag. 711 00:38:51,740 --> 00:38:54,440 A receipt inside the bag showed Angelo had bought the pants 712 00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:56,740 at 12.47 the previous afternoon. 713 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,240 When my brother disappeared on that Sunday afternoon, 714 00:39:08,340 --> 00:39:10,240 he left the house with absolutely nothing. 715 00:39:10,340 --> 00:39:13,240 He didn't take a toothbrush, a pair of slippers, nothing, 716 00:39:13,340 --> 00:39:14,240 absolutely nothing. 717 00:39:14,340 --> 00:39:16,240 The only thing that we discovered that was missing 718 00:39:16,340 --> 00:39:18,740 was his attaché case, some jewelry, 719 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,240 and money was missing from the home. 720 00:39:21,340 --> 00:39:23,240 But as far as any other personal items, 721 00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:24,740 everything was left behind. 722 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,740 If we could find out why he left in that hurry, 723 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,740 it might give us a clue as to where Angelo is. 724 00:39:34,740 --> 00:39:38,740 In the garage, investigators discovered a telling clue. 725 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,040 Angelo's car cover lay crumpled on the floor. 726 00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:45,640 Angelo was compulsively neat and always folded the cover 727 00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:48,740 after removing it. 728 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,740 A neighbor fueled police suspicion 729 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,540 when he said he had seen Angelo's Cadillac speed off 730 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,840 the Sunday he disappeared. 731 00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:58,840 It was very difficult to see. 732 00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:01,240 Of course, I couldn't see any facial characteristics, 733 00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:05,740 and it just appeared to be a person taller than Angelo. 734 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,740 It wasn't like Angelo to pull out without acknowledging me. 735 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,240 He'd returned from out of town just a few days before. 736 00:40:13,340 --> 00:40:16,740 I'd given him his mail and we spoke briefly Friday night, 737 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,740 which was prior to this was on a Sunday. 738 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,040 And it just, all kinds of questions, you wonder why. 739 00:40:24,140 --> 00:40:26,540 There's a missing link, and I wish I knew what it was, 740 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,740 and I'm sure a lot of other people do too. 741 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:37,240 At 6.32 on Monday evening, only 30 hours after Angelo disappeared, 742 00:40:37,340 --> 00:40:41,740 about 400 miles from Phoenix, a 1985 Cadillac was found 743 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,240 a blaze in a San Diego parking lot. 744 00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:48,240 An accelerant had been used to set the fire. 745 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:50,740 Investigators traced the order. 746 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,240 It was registered to Angelo Desideri. 747 00:40:56,940 --> 00:41:00,940 When San Diego authorities accused Angelo of stealing 748 00:41:00,940 --> 00:41:02,640 the car, the authorities examined the car. 749 00:41:02,740 --> 00:41:05,740 There were no personal belongings inside. 750 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,740 They found no signs of forcible entry. 751 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,740 The ignition was untampered with. 752 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,340 There were no signs or indications of any hot wiring of any type. 753 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,940 The vehicle was very, very, meticulously cleaned. 754 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,640 No bugs, no dirt anywhere on the front of the vehicle 755 00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:23,340 as if it had just come from a long journey from another state. 756 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,140 Washing a car and then burning it is something 757 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:28,640 that is the first for me in my career. 758 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,140 I cannot conceive that he would burn the car. 759 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:35,440 It just seems incredible that this is possible of my brother. 760 00:41:35,540 --> 00:41:38,940 He's just, it just doesn't seem possible to me. 761 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,040 I just can't, I can't comprehend something like this. 762 00:41:42,140 --> 00:41:43,940 We looked into the trunk and found absolutely nothing 763 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,740 in that trunk that would have been there other than the jack. 764 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,940 No carpet, no padding, no spare tire. 765 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,540 We processed that vehicle. 766 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,040 There were no fibers or no hairs. 767 00:41:53,140 --> 00:41:55,740 There was nothing in that trunk or anything that we could discover 768 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,240 that had been in that trunk. 769 00:41:57,240 --> 00:41:59,540 Basically this tells us that there could have been something 770 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,040 in the vehicle that was transported in the vehicle 771 00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:04,940 and when it was taken out they took the carpet and the padding 772 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,040 and wrapped it all in one unit and took everything out 773 00:42:07,140 --> 00:42:09,140 of the vehicle including the spare tire. 774 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,140 Phoenix police retraced the drive to San Diego 775 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:17,140 stopping at gas stations along the way. 776 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:20,140 Nobody matching Angelo's description had been seen. 777 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,640 Anonymous credit cards had been used. 778 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,040 In San Diego, car washes were checked on the slim chance 779 00:42:27,140 --> 00:42:29,540 that someone would remember having seen Angelo. 780 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:30,540 No one had. 781 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,940 But authorities did find two witnesses 782 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,540 who had seen the car minutes before it was torched. 783 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,540 One saw a man resembling Angelo in front of the Cadillac. 784 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:46,540 At the same time a woman passing by also saw the man. 785 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:51,540 However, neither witness could conclusively identify him as Angelo. 786 00:42:51,540 --> 00:42:57,440 We can narrow that down to about five minutes prior to the fire. 787 00:42:57,540 --> 00:43:02,440 The results of our case rest on who that person was. 788 00:43:02,540 --> 00:43:09,440 It could possibly close our case if it was Angelo standing by that car. 789 00:43:09,540 --> 00:43:12,440 In the disappearance of Angelo Desideri, 790 00:43:12,540 --> 00:43:14,940 there are still many perplexing questions. 791 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,440 Why would Angelo leave his home in such a hurry 792 00:43:17,540 --> 00:43:19,440 without a visible struggle? 793 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,840 Who was it standing next to Angelo's car in San Diego? 794 00:43:22,940 --> 00:43:24,840 And why was it set on fire? 795 00:43:24,940 --> 00:43:26,840 And perhaps most importantly, 796 00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:30,340 what was the motive for his disappearance? 797 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,340 There is no way, knowing this man like I did, 798 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:41,340 that I can even remotely tie him into any illegal activity 799 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,340 with any underworld or anything criminal. 800 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,340 Any being involved, anything of this nature, 801 00:43:47,340 --> 00:43:52,240 they would cause him to have to possibly leave or disappear. 802 00:43:52,340 --> 00:43:54,240 There is no way at all. 803 00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:59,240 There is another life or there is another dimension to Angelo 804 00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:01,240 that we have never been able to find. 805 00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:05,240 We have a gentleman who would go out of his way for people, 806 00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:08,240 someone who was devoted to his family. 807 00:44:08,340 --> 00:44:12,240 And yet we have this whole case 808 00:44:12,340 --> 00:44:15,240 and all the pieces that we have. 809 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:20,140 And all the pieces, they just don't fit. 810 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:22,140 There is a piece missing somewhere. 811 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:26,140 And I think that if I could ever find that piece, 812 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:29,140 I'd find Angelo. 813 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:32,140 For over eight months, investigators and friends 814 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:36,140 were baffled as to the motive for Angelo's disappearance. 815 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:38,140 Update. 816 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:42,140 On March 16th, Phoenix police charge a local resident, 817 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:45,140 Joe Callow, with conspiracy to commit armed robbery 818 00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,140 on Angelo Desideri. 819 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,140 They learned that Callow was a friend and business associate 820 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:53,140 of Angelo and had detailed information 821 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:56,140 concerning his disappearance. 822 00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:00,140 Joe Callow told us that all the information he had 823 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:04,140 was told to him by James Majors. 824 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:07,140 James Majors had worked with Callow in construction. 825 00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:09,140 He is currently in a California jail 826 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:12,140 facing several counts of murder. 827 00:45:12,140 --> 00:45:15,040 During the interview of Joe Callow, 828 00:45:15,140 --> 00:45:19,040 he stated that Majors went to the house, 829 00:45:19,140 --> 00:45:21,040 got into the house by ringing the doorbell 830 00:45:21,140 --> 00:45:25,040 and asking for a glass of water. 831 00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:29,040 Then took Angelo at gunpoint 832 00:45:29,140 --> 00:45:33,040 and robbed the house. 833 00:45:33,140 --> 00:45:37,040 He was taken out of the house at that time by Majors 834 00:45:37,140 --> 00:45:42,040 and driven out into the desert. 835 00:45:42,140 --> 00:45:45,040 Callow claims that somewhere between Phoenix and San Diego, 836 00:45:45,140 --> 00:45:48,040 Majors murdered Angelo and then placed the body 837 00:45:48,140 --> 00:45:50,040 in the trunk of the Cadillac and continued on 838 00:45:50,140 --> 00:45:54,040 towards San Diego. 839 00:45:54,140 --> 00:46:01,040 The following morning, Majors goes to a hardware store. 840 00:46:01,140 --> 00:46:03,040 We're not sure where. 841 00:46:03,140 --> 00:46:05,040 We believe it's in some small town 842 00:46:05,140 --> 00:46:08,040 between here and California, 843 00:46:08,140 --> 00:46:12,040 where he purchased a pick and a shovel. 844 00:46:12,140 --> 00:46:17,040 Callow claims that after buying the tools, 845 00:46:17,140 --> 00:46:20,040 Majors told him that he had driven down a desert back road 846 00:46:20,140 --> 00:46:23,040 to an area adjacent to a rundown house. 847 00:46:23,140 --> 00:46:28,040 He then buried Angelo near a large tree. 848 00:46:28,140 --> 00:46:34,040 According to Callow, Majors did a real unique thing. 849 00:46:34,140 --> 00:46:37,040 And that is, as he's leaving the gravesite, 850 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,940 he stopped and gave the shovel in the pick 851 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:47,940 to the poor people that lived in that shack. 852 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,940 And then he exited under the highway 853 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,940 and drove him to California. 854 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,940 Joe Callow also told investigators 855 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,940 that Majors had a storage locker. 856 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,940 Police searched the locker and recovered property 857 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,940 belonging to Angelo. 858 00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,940 These items were traced back to the Desideri home. 859 00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,940 No account. 860 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,840 Page 12 features at which the office is located. 861 00:47:11,940 --> 00:47:12,840 Its你知道. 862 00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:13,120 The Cosper Village and also a 863 00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:15,020 Pueschen Ryu Houselaya. 864 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,520 These things signal high-wyge property 865 00:47:18,620 --> 00:47:21,820 that its building characters their最 high emissions. 866 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,980 We want to avoid such protection with just promise inside 867 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