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This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members

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and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, the story of an undercover cop who allegedly went wrong.

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On the day of his trial, he fled into the Louisiana Swaps and his fellow officers believe

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he is playing a lethal game of hide and seek. According to history and Hollywood legend,

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the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid was gunned down by his friend Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881.

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Recent evidence suggests that Garrett killed the wrong man. In 1987, Donald Smith, accompanied

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by a mysterious hitchhiker, had a tearful reunion with his long lost daughter. The next day,

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both men vanished. These intriguing stories all need one final clue, one final piece of information

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before they can be solved. Perhaps someone watching tonight can help. Perhaps it's you.

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May the 16th, 1987, Denver, Colorado, at two o'clock in the morning, two vehicles collided

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on a downtown street. One driver fled the scene, abandoning his pickup truck.

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A few minutes later, when police arrived to investigate the scene of the accident,

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they made a thorough search of the abandoned pickup truck.

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Inside, they found a bloody jack handle and a room key from a local motel.

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Police went to the motel and discovered that the driver of the abandoned vehicle

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was registered there under the name of Larry Monroe. In his room, they found a pair of pants

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and a sweatshirt, both covered with blood. Still fresh. Denver police tracked the abandoned pickup

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truck to a white man named Donald Smith from Hemet, California. Yet the driver who ramped

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the collision in Denver was black. Police could get no information at all about the man who'd

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registered at the motel under the name of Larry Monroe, but they were able to check out Don Smith.

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They found the Smith's wife had not heard from him for 12 days ever since he left home to begin a

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cross-country trip. What started out as a simple traffic accident would soon turn into a bizarre

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murder. A murder that police are still trying to solve. Don Smith, the owner of the abandoned

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vehicle, lived with his second wife in Hemet, a small town in Southern California. He'd been

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feeding despondent because he was not well enough to work. So he decided to drive cross-country to

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visit relatives. Smith left Hemet on May the 11th, 1987, driving the pickup truck and towing a trailer.

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He was accompanied only by his two Labrador Retrievers. Don was anxious to visit his daughter

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Brenda in Idaho. Brenda was the only child from Don's first marriage. For most of her life,

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she and her father had been kept apart. My mother kept me away from my father.

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They didn't get along real well after the divorce, and I think I only saw him like once,

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up until the time my mother died, and then I started searching for him. He was searching for me as well.

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When Brenda was 26 years old and herself a divorced mother of two,

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she and her father were finally and joyfully reunited.

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I was in a really good relationship. It was almost like we had always known each other. It was real

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close, I could tell him anything. He was very protective of me, and if anyone ever, if I ever

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had a problem, he said, just let me know, I'll take care of it for you. He was kind of a macho

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man, I guess. Basically, it was a real good relationship. With the exception of my father drank,

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which he didn't do very often. Thank God, he turned into kind of a different person when he was drunk.

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The day after Don Smith left Hammett, he and another man pulled up in front of the hospital

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where Brenda worked as a psychiatric nurse. Smith stayed in the truck, but his companion got out

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and walked into the hospital. Hi, I'm looking for Brenda Walker. She's not working today.

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I'd probably connect you with the supervisor if I can. The receptionist referred the man to

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Brenda's supervisor, John Slane. Yeah, this is John. Well, I'm looking for Brenda Walker.

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She's not here today. Who is this place? A friend of her father's, and I need to get in contact with her.

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I can't give you that information. I'll tell you what, why don't I meet you out in the parking lot?

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Slane went outside to talk to Don Smith. Hi, you're Brenda's dad? Yeah, where's my baby girl, Brenda?

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Yeah, he was obviously been drinking, and he said to, you know, where's Brenda at? And I said,

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well, she's some fishing with her girlfriend. The guy that was driving leaned over, you know,

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to get the directions. Once I explained to him how to get out to the one intersection,

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he seemed to know where that was.

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Just 15 miles away, Brenda and her friends had given up fishing and stopped by a saloon near the lake.

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The three of them were having a drink at the bar.

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We're sitting there at the bar near the window by the front door.

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The door opened, and everyone in the bar turned around. There was a black man that had come in,

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and he closed the door, he had sunglasses on, took the sunglasses off,

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and looked around for a few minutes. I think he was probably allowing his eyes to adjust to the

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darkness. Then he walked into the restroom, and about probably a minute later, this man came in

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with wild hair, and his shirt was untucked. Hi, is there a friend to walk her in here?

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I want a dad, no. It took me a minute to really realize who he was. It was my father.

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Thank you so much. He looked so different from the last time I saw him, and he hugged me and

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sat at the bar with me for a minute, and I realized that he was drunk,

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and I went into the restroom. I was a little upset because he had showed up drunk, and it

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kind of embarrassed me in front of my friends. She's such a sweetheart, I sure missed her.

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I went into the restroom, I came back out. How about you? I want to be with you so much.

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He starts crying immediately, and he's babbling, and he's talking about how he doesn't want to be

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alive anymore, and how he's got cancer, and he was going to be with my mother in heaven, and

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then his companion came out of the restroom. Hey, they don't serve whiskey in here.

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The black man just kept on walking. You know, he kind of looked over at my father,

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and then just kept walking like he didn't really know who he was. Kind of ignored him a little

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bit, and went out and got into the truck, and got into the driver's seat of my father's truck.

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I kept looking out the window at him, you know, and he'd sit there, and he had his, you know,

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his head leaning on the steering wheel staring out at the lake, and I don't know, he looked real

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impatient, looked disgusted with being there. I'm just sorry. I've thought your life up for all these years.

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Yeah, I don't want to hear you cry. I don't want to hear this. Why don't you just go get a motel

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room, silver rat, and then come back and talk to me tomorrow about it.

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Anyone want to fight in here? Let's go. I can flip anyone in here.

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But her father became belligerent. Brenda walked out of the saloon.

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After a few minutes, Brenda's father followed her outside, but she left without speaking to him.

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I wish that I would have had more patience with him. I wish I would have understood

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his situation. I wish I would have, you know, tried to be more compassionate with him.

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It was the last of my son. He opened up the camper and let the dogs out and let them run around,

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and I just drove away.

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Two weeks later, in the high desert outside Twin Falls, Idaho, a couple out for their morning

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walk made a horrible discovery. A lease were called in to remove and

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identify the dead body.

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We observed a body that appeared to have been thrown over the guard rail laying down.

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The body was decaying for approximately two weeks. We could not recognize him at that point.

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There was no identification found around him or on him. At this time, we had no idea who we had.

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We just had another John Doe.

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An autopsy was done and we found bludgeon marks on the back of the head, indicating cause of death

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was by bludgeon. Also outside of the guard rail, where possibly the victim was thrown from,

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we found a sack with a bottle of wine in it. It was just taken as evidence. It wasn't until

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we had the body identified that it all started fitting in to the crime scene.

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The Twin Falls Sheriff's Department had no idea who the body was.

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It was only heard about the two-car collision in Denver, where the driver of the pickup truck

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had fled the scene. The Denver police discovered the abandoned vehicle belonged to Don Smith.

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They issued a possible homicide bulletin. Denver police had sent out a teletype,

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indicating that they had a vehicle involved in an accident that possibly was involved in a homicide.

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So I called the Denver Police Department and they gave me the name of a subject, Donald Smith.

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Fingerprints from the dead man in Twin Falls positively identified the body as Donald Smith.

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Police began to piece together the events that led up to Don Smith's murder.

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On May 11th, the very day Smith left home, he ran into trouble with the trailer he was towing.

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Just outside Las Vegas, he arranged to leave his trailer with a local man.

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One theory is that soon after Smith left Las Vegas, he picked up a hitchhiker.

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At some point along the way, Smith started drinking.

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The day after he saw his daughter, Brenda, Don Smith turned up in Park City, Utah.

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I need to have you send me some money so I can go to Vancouver.

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He called his sister in Vancouver, asking her to wire him money.

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That same day, Smith picked up $200. He was accompanied by a man who looked exactly like

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the one Brenda had seen with her father in the bar.

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Police theorize that the hitchhiker Smith had picked up murdered him when Smith stopped to

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let his dogs out for a run. The murder weapon was probably a jack handle

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grabbed from the rear of Smith's pickup truck.

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Police suspect that the man dumped Smith's body in the high desert,

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where it was found over two weeks later.

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I want to know why he killed my father. I want to know why he took my

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father away from me and away from my children. My father was the only family I had.

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This composite of Don Smith's mysterious companion was compiled from various eyewitness

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accounts. He is black but with relatively light skin and probably in his 30s.

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He stands around six feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds.

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He may use the name Larry Monroe and may once have lived in the area of Blackfoot, Idaho.

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Next, the story of Billy the Kid, notorious outlaw and a legend of the West.

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Was he really killed by a Sheriff Pat Garrett or did he live to the ripe old age of 91?

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The legendary Billy the Kid, easily the most notorious desperado of the wild wild West.

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He killed 21 men, one for every year of his life.

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The one without the whiskers is Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid.

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In 1941, Buster Crab played the role in one of over 250 movies made about the famous outlaw.

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Hollywood had started legend. Traditional wisdom tells us that Billy the Kid was born William

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Boddy in New York City in 1859. He fought against the rich ranchers in the Lincoln County cattle war

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and was given a death sentence for killing Sheriff William Brady.

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According to history and the movies, in 1881 Billy the Kid was hunted down by Sheriff Pat Garrett

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who tracked him to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Billy was hiding in the home of a friend Pete Maxwell.

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Unaware of Garrett's arrival, he went out back to wash up.

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Garrett crept into Maxwell's house to ambush Billy. He was eager to collect the $500 reward

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that had been offered for Billy the Kid's death.

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Who is it?

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Who is it?

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History tells us that Billy was buried the following day in a simple grave, but history may be wrong.

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This whole legend of Billy the Kid was absolutely no truth. 90% of what we've heard and been taught

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as students in schools is not true.

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68 years later, the Hollywood legend was turned upside down.

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When in 1950, a 91-year-old man from Hyko, Texas named Brushy Bill Roberts came out of obscurity

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and alleged that he was Billy the Kid. Despite a massive controversy, his claim still stands.

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There is no doubt whatever in my mind about what Brushy Bill and Billy the Kid was one

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and the same person. Historian Donald Lavash disagrees.

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There is absolutely no comparison whatsoever between Brushy Bill Roberts, known as Oli Partridge

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Roberts, and William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid. While the rest of America believes the

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Hollywood legend of Billy the Kid, in Hyko, Texas, the tiny community of 1300, is absolutely certain

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The famous outlaw was really Brushy Bill Roberts. Many historians cough at Brushy Bill's story,

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but William Tunsel's belief that Brushy Bill really was Billy the Kid cannot be dismissed out of hand.

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There is evidence that supports this claim, and if that claim is true,

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then this chapter in the history of the American West may have to be rewritten.

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In 1948, a Florida attorney, William Morrison, first uncovered evidence that Billy the Kid did not die in 1881.

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A client told him that years ago he had actually fought Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County wars,

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and that the Kid was still alive. As my father was talking to the man, he referred to Lincoln County.

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My father said, oh, he said that's where Billy the Kid, he said he was killed up there at Pete Maxwell's

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house, and the man said, oh, no, no, he wasn't killed, he's still around.

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Fascinated, Morrison crisscrossed the West talking to other old timers about Billy the Kid.

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He discovered that many thought that Billy was indeed still alive, quietly living under the name

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Brushy Bill. Finally in 1949, Morrison made the trip to Hyko, Texas to confront

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Brushy in person and ask him if the rumors were true.

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Brushy Bill here.

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Nice to meet you in person.

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I am Billy the Kid. Come on in, we'll talk about this a little further.

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We must keep in mind that this man did not seek publicity, he did not seek to come out from

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seclusion, he was drawn out. Come on in.

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Brushy Bill wanted Morrison's help in finally getting the pardon that was promised to him in

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1879 by the governor of New Mexico for turning state's evidence.

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I expect a full pardon out of this. So when I die, why, much later it'll be clean.

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Well, I'll help you if I can, but you have to be able to prove to me you are who you say you are.

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I can do that. I still got the scars, and I didn't get these set around in no rocking chair.

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The scars seemed to match the reported wounds received by the Kid during his short-lived

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outlaw career. This one here on my shoulder is from a knife wound down south of the border.

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I'm really not too proud of that. There were 17 points of identification of similarity between

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the two. Both men had small hands and large wrists protruding teeth, protruding ears, blue eyes,

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same head size, same boot size, and the weight. There's no record anywhere where there's anything

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having to do with a boot size of Billy the Kid, a waist size of Billy the Kid, or a hat size of

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Billy the Kid. Nothing, but it does tell us something about his eyes. This reporter states

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unequivocally, without question, that they were clear blue eyes. Brushy Bill had speckled eyes.

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Some of these spots are still fraysing. My memory, right over that hill there, we used to camp out.

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In 1950, Brushy Bill took Morrison on a guided tour of the Kid's former Haunson Lincoln County.

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Morrison died in 1976, but he told his daughter about the trip.

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Brushy Bill would give incidents that only someone that was actually involved in the

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Lincoln County War would have known. My father became convinced that this man was.

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Brushy Bill Roberts was actually Billy the Kid. Morrison then contacted five people who had known

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Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War. Each of them separately met Brushy Bill in person.

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All five witnesses signed sworn affidavits stating that Brushy Bill Roberts was indeed Billy the Kid.

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If Brushy Bill really was Billy the Kid, one nagging question remains. What really happened

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on July 14th, 1881, in Fort Sumner? According to Brushy Bill, on the night of the shooting,

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he was with his girlfriend, Celse, and his partner, Billy Barlow, at Jesus Silva's house.

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These are the precise words Brushy Bill used in his testimony to William Morrison

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to describe the events of that fateful night. Silva said if one of us would go next door and

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get beef, he would cook it for us. I sensed a trap. He started out after I refused to leave the house.

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I thought that Garrett might still be in town and I wanted to meet him in the daytime so I could

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beat him to it. Unknown to the Kid, Garrett and his posse had taken cover across the yard.

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One of their first shots had killed my partner. I ran out into the yard.

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I ran through the gate and started shooting at shadows along the house.

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The first shot struck me in the lower jaw.

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Another struck me in the shoulder and then another struck me across the top of my head.

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When I woke up, a Mexican woman was putting beef tallow on my head to stop the blood.

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I told her to reload my 44. Then Celse came running in and said they'd killed Barlow

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and were passing off his body, his mind. She begged me to leave town.

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Rushy claims that the next day, Billy Barlow was buried in his place.

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In a normal procedure, the sheriff would have brought the corpse to a place for anyone to witness.

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He would have demonstrated his guns, his clothing, his boots, his rifle.

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Pat Garrett did not follow that procedure. He took every precaution to conceal the identity of the corpse.

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He realized he had killed the raw man. Pat Garrett enlisted some 21 people that

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purportedly knew William Bonney and they assembled, passed by the casket and said yes,

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that's William Bonney, Billy the kid, in that casket.

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By 1950, Morrison felt he had gathered enough evidence to request a pardon from Governor

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Mavery of New Mexico. He agreed to meet them in person.

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Rushy Bill was very nervous.

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He saw some deputies standing there and they had guns in their holsters.

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This is a man 91 years old, did not want to hang and they were all saying if he is

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Billy the kid, he's an outlaw, he's a criminal, you don't pardon him, you're hanging.

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The interview turned into a press circus. 90-year-old Brushy was confused and scared by the

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reporters, historians and even Pat Garrett's relatives.

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Brushy, who's buried in that grave if Pat Garrett didn't kill Billy the kid?

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How many aliases have you had all these years?

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Governor Mavery, do you really intend to give this man a pardon?

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I am taking no action now or ever on this application for a pardon for Billy the kid

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because I do not believe this man to be Billy the kid.

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The governor never even gave him a chance to present the evidence by just flat

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loud telling him he wasn't even going to consider it.

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Morrison's legal arguments and affidavits were not even entered into evidence.

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Brushy Bill felt he had been humiliated, his claims ridiculed, his pardon was not granted.

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Shortly after the meeting with Governor Mavery, Brushy Bill suffered a heart attack

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and died on a street in Hyko, Texas.

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All he wanted was to have his name cleared. That's all he was trying to do, giving back

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his dignity. I have no doubts in my mind at all and the more, the more I get into my father's

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papers, the more I get into his records, the more I read, no one would ever convince me the man was

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not, Brushy Bill was not Billy the kid.

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Brushy Bill's friends and neighbors have erected a memorial to Brushy Bill Roberts which reads

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he spent the last days of his life trying to prove to the world his true identity.

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We believe his story and pray to God for the forgiveness he solemnly asked for.

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On a previous broadcast, we examine the strange disappearance of Angelo Desideri,

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a 58-year-old businessman who lived in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona.

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On the morning of Monday, June 6, 1988, Angelo failed to open his gift shop.

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Concerned, his friends called the police.

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They arrived at Angelo's house and discovered it undisturbed.

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It appeared that Angelo had been interrupted while preparing a mid-afternoon meal.

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A neighbor fueled police suspicion when he said he had seen Angelo's catalac speed off

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the Sunday he disappeared. It was very difficult to see, of course, I couldn't see any facial

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characteristics and it just appeared to be a person taller than Angelo.

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It wasn't like Angelo to pull out without acknowledging me.

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At 6.32 on Monday evening, 30 hours after Angelo disappeared and 400 miles away from Phoenix,

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a 1985 catalac was found ablaze in the San Diego parking lot.

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Gasson had been used to set the fire. Investigators traced the owner of the car.

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It belonged to Angelo Desideri.

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We looked in the trunk and found absolutely nothing in that trunk that would have been there

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other than the jack. No carpet, no padding, no spare tire. Basically, this tells us that there

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could have been something in the vehicle that was transported in the vehicle and when it was

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taken out, they took the carpet and the padding and wrapped it all in one unit and took everything

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out of the vehicle, including the spare tire. For over eight months, investigators and friends

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were baffled as to the motive for Angelo's disappearance. Update. On March 16th, Phoenix

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Police charged a local resident, Joe Callow, with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and burglary

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on Angelo Desideri. They learned that Callow was a friend and business associate of Angelo

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and had detailed information concerning his disappearance. Joe Callow told us that all the

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information he had was told to him by James Majors. James Majors had worked with Callow in

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construction. He is currently in a California jail facing several counts of murder.

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During the interview of Joe Callow, he stated that Majors went to the house,

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got into the house by ringing the doorbell and asking for a glass of water,

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then took Angelo at gunpoint and robbed the house.

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He was taken out of the house at that time by Majors and driven out into the desert.

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Callow claims that somewhere between Phoenix and San Diego, Majors murdered Angelo

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and then placed the body in the trunk of the Cadillac and continued on towards San Diego.

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The following morning, Majors goes to a hardware store. We're not sure where,

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we believe it's in some small town between here in California,

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where he purchased a pick and a shovel.

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Callow claims that after buying the tools, Majors told him that he had driven down a

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desert back road to an area adjacent to a rundown house. He then buried Angelo near a large tree.

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According to Callow, Majors did a real unique thing.

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And that is, as he's leaving the gravesite, he stopped and gave the shovel and the pick

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to the poor people that lived in that shed.

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And then he exited under the highway and drove into California.

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Joe Callow also told investigators that Majors had a storage locker.

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Police searched the locker and recovered property belonging to Angelo.

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These items were traced back to the desidery home.

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Next, the story of Charles Muley, a model policeman,

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her source partners thought, in reality, Charles Muley is an accused child molester of Waded Fugitive.

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Surrounded by swamps and bayous, Slidell, Louisiana, lies on the outskirts of New Orleans.

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Slidell is a conservative community, an unlikely setting for a shocking series of crimes that

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ended in a local motel room over four years ago. On the evening of March 1st in 1985,

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36-year-old Charles Muley escorted a 12-year-old girl to his rented room.

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Moments later, police arrested Muley. They charged him with a sexual molestation of a minor.

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The authorities knew the suspect well. Charles Muley was a fellow police officer.

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In fact, he was a sergeant in charge of sexual offenses at the Slidell Police Department.

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The young girl was a child he was counseling.

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One of the most wrenching things that can face law enforcement officers is when one of their

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own goes bad. Charles Muley's arrest outraged his former partners. They found it hard to believe

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that one of their own could have betrayed the public trust in such a shocking fashion.

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But the evidence was all too convincing. Because of the nature of these offenses,

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we've used actors to portray the 12-year-old victim and her family. We've also changed their names.

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Sergeant Muley was a highly regarded undercover officer at Slidell's Police Department.

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In 1983, he was chosen as Slidell's police officer of the year. Muley was so adept in his

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undercover disguises that he once arrested the same felon three different times without being

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recognized. After his transfer to the sexual molestation to Taylor in 1981, he was assigned

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to the case of a 12-year-old girl who had been upset by the advances of an older boy.

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My daughter and a friend of hers in the neighborhood had come to me complaining about a boy who had

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been harassing him very badly in the neighborhood. And I talked to the other girl's mother,

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and we both decided it might be a good idea to call the police station to report this boy.

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So all you're really going to be doing is talking to Sergeant Muley. He's probably going to ask you

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a few questions. Now I did appear at the police station. That was the first encounter we had

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with Sergeant Muley. We're the Josephs. Oh, Sergeant Muley. How are you doing, folks? He must be Claire.

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Well, come on in. I had no reason not to trust him. I never regarded him as anything but a policeman.

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Sergeant Muley, a policeman. A few folks on mine. You can sit out here.

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Muley not only deceived the parents, but his fellow officers had no idea of his activities.

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In, I worked most of the sex crime cases that were reported to the Slido Police Department at that

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time, adult and juvenile. We saw each other, of course, every day. We worked cases together.

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I thought he handled himself very professionally. When I worked with him, I thought Charlie was

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a pretty good policeman. Well, folks, I think I've got this figured out. And we may have a problem.

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I don't want you to be too concerned. I'm going to have to interview your daughter. I'm going to have

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to interview the boy again. Later on, when he would call the house about her, he would say,

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why don't you bring her down here? And you don't need to wait. It's ridiculous for you to sit there

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and wait. And I said, OK. No sooner had I turned the block, he was leaving the police station

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with her walking past other policemen, put her in the car, and they would leave.

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The police officer took the young girl to a motel room that he had reserved for undercover work.

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Our daughter, she started changing. I knew that something was bothering my daughter because

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she would say, daddy, don't look at me. The girl stated that Mule had been seeing her for four months.

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Finally, she could no longer take the emotional strain. She told her parents what had been occurring.

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And all I could keep saying was over and over in my mind was, I can't believe that he did this.

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I remember her telling me how relieved she was to get it all out.

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In order to gather more incriminating evidence, police in consultation with a reluctant Joseph

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family asked the 12-year-old girl to make one more rendezvous with Mule. This time,

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the motel room would be used as a trap with a hidden video camera to secure just enough evidence for prosecution.

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Sheriff's office, freeze. You're under arrest.

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Before the girl could be compromised, Mule was arrested by his fellow officers and booked for child molestation.

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I received a phone call that Charlie had been arrested and charged with molestation of a juvenile.

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And I was flabbergasted. I didn't know how to act. I really didn't. I was sick on my stomach.

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I thought it was somehow a mistake because I'd known him for a long time and this was

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nothing in his personality that I ever saw.

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Having to investigate another policeman, especially one that I had been

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partners with, was the hardest thing I've ever done.

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I don't know what else to say. It was the hardest thing that I've ever done.

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I was mad.

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I was unhappy. I'm mad now.

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We're going to record our conversation and then I'm going to ask you

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some questions about Charlie Mule. One of those questions will be how did you come to meet him?

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My mom and dad brought me to the police station and that's how I met him.

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He was probably the hardest statement I ever took.

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It was hard for me to sit there and listen to that child say some of the things she said.

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Yes.

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Would he talk to you or to your mom?

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To me.

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And what would he say when he called?

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He would say to make up a story to my mom or dad and then he would meet me somewhere.

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Officer Porter began to go through Mule's personal files.

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She was hoping that the alleged molestation of the girl was an isolated incident.

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Apparently it was not.

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If you're on a please, considering the serious gravity of these offenses.

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On September 27th, 1985, Charles Mule was indicted on over 25 counts relating to the molestation and rape of six young girls.

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The fact that the defendant has no prior record in his service to the community in the past.

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Mule was released on $150,000 bail. He adamantly denied all of the charges.

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Eight months later, on May 11th, 1986, Mule was reported missing.

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It was a morning of his trial.

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Two days later, his pickup truck was found abandoned on the Pass Manchuk Bridge.

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The initial assumption was that he had taken his life rather than face the ordeal of a public trial.

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I was one of the first officers to show up at the scene of when the truck was located.

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It was my gut feeling at that time that no, he had not jumped, had not committed suicide.

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Of course, you have to go on more than gut feeling so we had to drag the lake.

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The Sheriff's Department spent several days searching the Bayou Manchuk Lake in the hopes of finding Mule's body.

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Tributaries and backwaters were also searched as there was a chance the body might have washed ashore. Nothing was found.

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Two days later, an anonymous phone call was made to the Sheriff's Department.

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A person told them that a suicide note signed by Mule had been left in a service station restroom

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five miles away from where the pickup had been found.

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The letter read, in part, I was not guilty of any of these charges.

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They have persecuted me for no reason.

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Please forgive me for my wrongdoings.

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There is no way you can convince me that Charlie Mule committed suicide.

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I do not believe that at all.

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I did not believe it the day the note was found.

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I did not believe the note at all.

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I believe that the note was part of the game that Charlie Mule had been involved in.

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I do not believe the note at all.

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I believe that the note was part of the game that Charlie was playing.

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And that he has been playing since he left here, whatever the rest of it is.

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The day after the discovery of the suicide note, a fisherman believed he saw Mule emerging from the swamp.

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This was closely followed by another sighting.

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In this case, the witness was fired upon by a man dressed in hospital clothes.

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A favorite outfit of Mule.

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Hey, how are you doing?

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Later when he made his report to the police, he picked out Charles Mule as the person who shot him.

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That's him right there.

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Number five, we were convinced more than ever that Charles was alive.

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That he was in this area and he had not moved far from this area.

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Almost two years after Mule's disappearance, another anonymous tip-budd police to a trailer near a local swamp.

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They had been told that Mule was inside.

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Clear. Clear on us in.

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Okay, he ain't gonna be here. We missed him.

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Authorities believe that Mule was tipped off by some of his former police associates.

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I think somebody told him we were coming in the law enforcement community.

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I think they notified him that we were looking at him, that we were close to him and that he ran.

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Of course, Charlie was a policeman too.

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So he is aware of the way policemen handle a case, surveillance and so forth and so on.

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Charlie did a lot of surveillance.

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Looking back at it now, I think that he enjoyed working undercover so much that right now he's just playing an undercover game.

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But now it's real for him before he was playing the police officer working undercover.

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But now he has to go undercover. So I think he's enjoying it.

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Almost three years have passed since Mule disappeared.

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Police believe he may be hiding in the swamp land near Slidel, living a solitary ramble-like existence.

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I think Charlie enjoys the thrill of the chase. He enjoys the game.

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And Charlie always needs to win the game.

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I don't want him to win this time. He doesn't have the right to win this time.

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Charles Mule has been captured.

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Within minutes of our July broadcast, the FBI received several calls from viewers who reported that Mule was living in Ocala, Florida, 30 miles south of Gainesville,

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under the assumed name Joseph John Trancina.

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Mule had seen our broadcast and left the Ocala area for approximately three weeks.

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When he returned on August 3rd, he was arrested by FBI agents and Marion County, Florida Sheriff's deputies.

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For every mystery there is someone, somewhere who knows the truth. Perhaps that someone is watching. Perhaps it's you.

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The FBI is looking for a way to get Mule to escape the crime.

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The FBI is looking for a way to get Mule to escape the crime.

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The FBI is looking for a way to get Mule to escape the crime.

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The FBI is looking for a way to get Mule to escape the crime.

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The FBI is looking for a way to get Mule to escape the crime.