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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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

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In Virginia, a woman is found dead on a lonely country road.

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Her husband claims it was a tragic accident,

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but the police believe it was murder.

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In Chicago and New York, over 5,000 people

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have been tricked into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars

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for worthless coins and a clever scam.

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Perhaps you can help catch these con artists.

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Mabel Woods loves dogs and has dedicated her life

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to providing shelter for homeless pets.

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For the last 18 months, someone has

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been waging a campaign of terror against Mabel

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and her helpless animals.

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I'll also tell you the story of five women

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and a fish who vanished without a trace

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during a tropical storm.

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Almost 10 years later, their tiny boat

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was discovered over 3,000 miles from where they were last seen.

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Beside the boat, one of the sailors

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had been carefully buried.

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What happened to the other members of a lost crew?

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On the night of September 30, 1987, a pickup truck

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was discovered on the side of a Virginia back road.

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The engine was running.

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The keys were still in the ignition.

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The transmission was in park.

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The boat was in the back road.

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The engine was running.

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The keys were still in the ignition.

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The transmission was in park.

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Beside the truck lay its owner, a 45-year-old woman

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named Kay Hall crushed to death.

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Whoever operated the vehicle appeared

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to have backed over the center of her torso,

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and probably on the bump from rolling over her

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with the left rear tire of the truck,

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then applied the brakes suddenly causing the vehicle

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to skid going backwards.

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The front tire, the left front tire, then caught her torso

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and pulled her backwards slightly

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and twisted her body on the roadway, which

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is how she was found with the vehicle in park,

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and the engine still running.

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After their preliminary investigation,

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authorities began to suspect that Kay's husband, Bob,

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had murdered her.

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They believe he had a possible motive for wanting Kay dead,

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as he stood to collect part of $50,000

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that she had inherited the same day she died.

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Bob Hall also had no alibi for the period of time

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when Kay was killed.

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All I perceive is that the investigation has focused only

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on me and that I don't see any effort on anyone's part

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to look into the other possibilities.

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The death of Kay Hall is surrounded by events

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that seem to simultaneously indict and exonerate

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the prime suspect.

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For this reason, Bob Hall remains a free man.

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The case against him rests on time, an approximately 20-minute

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window of opportunity when Bob Hall could have stalked

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and run down his wife.

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Bob Hall freely consented to appear in the story,

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hoping that through its telling, his innocence

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will finally be established.

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Kay and Bob Hall lived and worked on the shores

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of Virginia's Caradaman River, a tributary that

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empties near the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Kay was a successful insurance executive

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who left her career when she and Bob

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started an oyster farming business.

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They had been married since July of 1985,

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though Kay had known Bob for 12 years.

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The two became closer while Bob was serving two years

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in jail for selling drugs.

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She corresponded with him while he was in prison.

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And when he was released in January of 1982, Kay was waiting.

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It was quite an experience that Saturday morning.

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It was raining about 7.30.

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And Kay pulled up in her little fiesta.

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And I could see the car away off in the distance

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and her waving at me.

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And between us was a very large electrical fence.

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And she very laughingly said to me, hey, you, Robert,

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I finally got you at last.

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And that was a good feeling.

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It was nice to feel wanted by somebody.

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Six months after the couple started their business,

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it began to run into financial difficulty.

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By many accounts, this contributed

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to tensions in the marriage.

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Both began to drink heavily.

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As time went on, I'd ask her, how's the business going?

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And I can tell it wasn't going so well.

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And then I'd say, well, and how's Bob?

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And I could tell that wasn't so good.

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Honey, it's time to party.

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Are you down there?

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Well, it's about time, dear.

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According to friends, Kay and Bob's quarrels

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often began over trivial incidents.

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We're not taking the jeep.

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We're taking the truck.

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Why?

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Why can't we take the jeep?

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Because you've got the DWI in the jeep.

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Kay called me in the summer of 1986.

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And she started crying.

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And she said, Bob is abusing me physically.

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He's abusing me.

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He beats me up.

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And that's when she started to talk about going into therapy,

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trying to get into marriage, counseling with Bob.

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And if that didn't work, that she would definitely

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consider divorce.

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Conversation about divorce probably came up as frequently

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as it would in any couple's relationship

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where there were problems.

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And the problems were essentially money.

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They had to be paid for.

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The oyster business had not treated us with great kindness.

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We had lost an awful lot of money on it.

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On September 30, 1987, Kay's fortunes turned.

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She had recently received a $50,000 inheritance.

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And the local post office, she mailed papers

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that officially transferred half of the money into her account.

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And the guns are giving it.

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You going to go?

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That morning was to be Kay Hall's last.

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Make sure we see.

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That evening, Kay and Bob went to a party

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at the local country club.

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Many of Kay's friends were there.

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And by all accounts, she was the life of the party.

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We got to the party probably around 20 after six.

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And Kay was, I know, was thoroughly enjoying herself.

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You could just see the magic.

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You know, Kay walked in, and all of these faces

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just seemed to turn back and forth.

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And Kay was like, hey, I'm going to get you.

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Kay walked in, and all of these faces just seemed to turn.

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There's Kay.

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And all of a sudden, things seemed to be complete.

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Hey, goodbye.

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Thank you.

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We have one for the road.

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Leave it, Melanie.

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As the evening progressed, Kay and Bob continued to drink.

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You ready to go home?

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Just a couple minutes.

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There we go.

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Having a good time?

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Not as good as you.

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Then Kay became upset.

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Some say by the amount that Bob tipped the bartender,

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Kay left the country club without her husband

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to give away in their pickup.

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A few minutes later, as he was left without a car,

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Bob was driven the 14 miles to his home by friends.

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At approximately 9.55 PM, two carloads of people

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leaving a different dinner party happened

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upon a shocking scene.

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There was a truck sitting there off to the side of the road

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with lights on.

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And there was a body underneath the front wheel.

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Kay, hold.

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Kay, hold.

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She hurt her.

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She hurt her head.

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We felt her pulse to see whether she had a pulse.

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We couldn't find one, but that was when

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we discovered that she was just as warm as you and I

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are right now.

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So what had happened had just happened very, very recently.

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By the time the paramedics arrived, it was too late.

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A little over two hours after leaving the country club,

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Kay Hall was pronounced dead.

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The reconstruction from witnesses at the scene

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was that she had been found under the left front

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tire of her own vehicle.

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Apparently, the vehicle had backed over her while she

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was lying on the road.

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There were some signs which we later found in the truck

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that indicated there was a scuffle inside the cab

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of the truck.

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But Kay's purse was still intact.

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It had all her money and credit cards and so forth in it.

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Also, it did not appear that there was any sign

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of a sexual assault.

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She was fully clothed.

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The autopsy result showed that she was intoxicated at the

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time of her death, a rather high level.

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She very well could have been disoriented, which would

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have caused her to have taken the wrong turn and might

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have put her in the area where she was found.

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Bob and Kay's domestic problems, coupled with a $50,000

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as she had just inherited, led to Bob Hall being

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considered a prime suspect.

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Bob Hall has no alibi for the approximate one hour period

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between the time friends dropped him off at home at about 845

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and the time that he placed a phone call from his house

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at 947.

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During this hour, Kay was killed.

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If Bob had murdered her, it only could have occurred

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within a narrow period of time.

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Shortly after 8 PM, Kay left the country club located here.

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Bob was dropped off at his home here, 15 miles from the club

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at 845 PM.

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Just over an hour later, at approximately 955 PM,

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Kay was found dead at this spot, just two miles from the club.

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Bob Hall would have had only one hour to drive to the murder

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site, somehow find his wife in the darkness, kill her,

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and then race back home in time to place his 947 PM phone call.

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Special Agent Riley retraced the drive from the Hall home

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to the death site several times.

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I measured the distance between the Hall residence

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and the spot where Kay was found.

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The distance is between 14 and 15 miles.

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I could drive it in as little as 17 minutes

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if I drove it in a pursuit fashion,

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and if I drove it alligially paced,

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it took as much as 24 minutes.

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If Bob had left home immediately at 845

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and driven directly to where Kay's body was found,

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he would have arrived at about 9.05.

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In order to make his 947 phone call,

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Hall would have had to have left the scene no later than 9.30 PM.

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This would have given him no more than 25 minutes

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to track down and murder his wife.

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It's terrible to have somebody taken from you in this way,

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and particularly when nobody has been able to do anything about it.

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So I really, I don't know that I can rest until we see justice served,

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and the murderer is apprehended and convicted.

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They apparently do not have anyone else to focus in on,

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and being put in that spotlight has been tough.

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I love Kay.

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I'm looking forward to this whole incident being resolved.

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I'd like to see Kay to literally be put at rest

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and have some peace in my life and her family's life.

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In a moment, we'll update the story of an injured Vietnam vet

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who for 21 years has been searching for the nurse

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who helped him learn to walk and talk again.

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Three weeks ago, he presented the poignant story of an Army helicopter pilot, Jim Mead,

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who was severely injured when he was shot down in Vietnam in 1967.

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Tonight, the heartwarming ending to Jim's story.

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Jim's war wounds left him in a coma from which doctors feared he would never recover.

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Jim eventually came out of his coma but had no memory of his first 19 years,

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yet even forgotten how to walk and talk.

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Then he met an Army physical therapist named Lieutenant Stevens.

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I know you're hurting, but you can't give up.

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Straighten it up.

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Come on, work hard, come on.

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For the next nine months with the help and encouragement of Lieutenant Stevens,

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Jim struggled to regain his speech and motor skills.

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There you go.

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I don't know if I would have learned to do these things without her.

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I always wanted to get better, learn things so I could show her how much it improved.

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It was always important to me.

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Nearly one year after Jim arrived at the hospital,

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Lieutenant Stevens left the Army.

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She never saw Jim again or had any idea that she set him on the path to recovery.

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If I saw her now, I don't know what I'd do.

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I just know it's always been important for me that she knows that I'm okay.

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The morning after our broadcast, Jim Mee's 15-year search came to an end

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when he received a phone call from one of our viewers.

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I was watching TV and I saw Jim at the beginning of the program.

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And I said to my family, I treated that fella when I was in the service.

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And the next remark was that they were looking for Lieutenant Stevens.

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And I thought, well, that was my maiden name.

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And at that point, I realized that this was going to be more than just a program to watch.

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On September 25th, nearly 21 years after they said goodbye,

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Jim and Karen reunited.

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When Karen came to the door, I went and, um,

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if somebody else saw her, they might say that Karen's changed 200%.

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And my heart to Karen hasn't changed a bit.

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And I'm glad to tell her thank you.

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The reunion today has been everything I expected it to be.

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It will stand out as one of the most exciting days of my life.

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It's thrilling to see someone that has come back so far and made a success of their life.

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But a lot of people had a lot to do with Jim Mee's recovery.

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I was just a small part.

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It would be very difficult for me to put into words what this day has meant to me.

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It just makes the future that much brighter because I do know that now the dreams do come true.

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New Yorkers have a reputation for being streetwise and sad.

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They can take care of themselves. No one is going to pull a fast one on them.

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Yet each year New Yorkers lose four times more money to scams and conmen than the bank robbers.

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Over the past 15 years, at least 5,000 people have fallen prey to a very clever, highly organized,

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and a very good-looking bank robber.

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I was at a telephone in midtown outside and as I finished up my call,

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the guy comes up to me and sounded kind of drunk.

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Excuse me, excuse me. I just found this bank envelope on the street and this was inside of it.

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I was wondering if you'd do me a favor. Could you call this guy up and tell me what happened?

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I was like, I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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I was wondering if you'd do me a favor. Could you call this guy up and tell him I found this?

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Because I want to give it back to him.

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And he's holding a bank deposit envelope and it's got Dr. Stone and the address.

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And in his other hand, he's got these coins. He couldn't make the telephone call himself.

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Okay, calm down, man.

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I finally get the doctor on the phone and I said, I don't know how to explain this to you.

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I got a guy here and he found an envelope that has your coins in it.

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You found my coins?

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Get this stuff back to him.

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No, no, no. I don't talk on the phone. I'm afraid of him.

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And I said, doctor, I don't know what to do here.

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And the doctor says, look, if you could give him $100, then, you know, I'll add that $100 onto...

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There's a $1,000 reward.

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I don't have a hundred dollars.

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You see, I'm a crime collector. I've lost those coins. They're very valuable.

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So I said, I don't know what to do here. You know, he won't come to you.

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Can you come down here? And the doctor says he can't come down here.

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OK, if I can do anything, I will.

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Well, I certainly would appreciate it. Thank you very much.

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As it turned out, the phone number Jerry dialed was not a doctor's office,

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but a pay phone and the man he spoke with was a con artist.

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What allowed me to be scammed was that it was totally non-threatening.

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It was always up to me. I could walk away or I could go that next step further.

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When he was really drunk at the telephone, I could have just said,

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look, I can't handle this. Dr. Stump, boom, I'm out of here.

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Joe. What?

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Look, how much do you want for those coins?

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I just want a place to stay, something to drink, something to eat.

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No, I understand that. I understand that. But exactly how much do you want for the coins?

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$100.

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$100. All right, look, here's what I'll do.

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I'll take you over to my bank machine and I'll get you $100

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and I'll take the coins over to the doctor.

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You do that for me?

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Yeah, sure.

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Oh, you're a saint.

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Come on.

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And I give him $160. I mean, it's worth it to give him the extra money.

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And I'd like to say that I'm really a good person and that there was no greed involved.

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But it was kind of like an illegal thing that was going on because I was going to take those coins.

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I'm giving him $160, but I'm going to make five times that.

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So yes, there was that illicit kind of feeling of, you know,

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I'm doing something a little weird here and, you know, and I'm going to get away with it.

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In this scam, the con man carefully selects people who appear to be affluent

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or who might be able to easily get cash from a bank teller machine.

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Once the fake transaction has gone down, he simply disappears into the crowd.

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I don't know anything about coins, so I thought I was doing a favor for the doctor.

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But in the cab, I looked at the coins and it said rare on the coins,

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but then it listed the amounts and one was $1350, one was $600, and one was like $300.

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And I'm going, why would he offer a $1,000 reward for coins that are only worth like $2,000?

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That seemed like a little weird to me, but I figured, well, they really mean something to this guy.

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Most of the people taken in by this scam are sent to the same apartment building on the Upper East Side,

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which they believe to be Dr. Stone's office.

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Hi. Hi, how are you?

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I'm looking for Dr. Stone.

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Well, I'm sorry. There's no Dr. Stone here.

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In the last few years, we've estimated that about 3,000 or 4,000 people have actually come here with this coin scam.

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A lot of the times when these victims come here, they believe that in some way,

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myself or whoever else is working here that's in the lobby is an accomplice to this.

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And, you know, I always try to explain to them, if I was running this scam, would I actually bring you back to me?

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I never thought that I was being scammed for one second, not even for a millisecond.

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I was just caught up in this.

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I really want to thank you for this, you know?

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I really felt like I was doing a good deed and making money at the same time.

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This simple, deplausible scam has suckered people in New York, Florida, Boston and Baltimore.

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In most cases, the coins are sold are like these, an English 25-pence worth about $0.35,

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a fake California gold rush coin which is totally worthless,

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and an Indian penny worth no more than $0.50.

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A total value of these three coins is no more than $1.

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If you're approached by one of these con audits for heaven's sake, don't buy these coins.

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Immediately contact your local law enforcement agency.

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Next, the story of a woman who provides shelter for homeless animals.

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She is being terrorized by an unknown assailant.

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The Humane Society of the United States estimates that last year alone,

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over 12 million stray and abandoned cats and dogs were taken in by animal shelters nationwide.

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Sadly, over 7.5 million of these animals were never placed in homes and had to be destroyed.

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In southern Missouri, 68-year-old Mabel Woods has dedicated the past 15 years of her life

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to running an animal sanctuary that provides a loving and caring shelter for homeless animals.

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Mabel Woods provides a loving and caring home for dogs that might otherwise be impounded.

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But in recent years, Mabel and the dog she cares for have been the target of a campaign of terror.

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How long have you been on the road?

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Four and a half years ago, Mabel moved to the small rural community of Bonn-Tare,

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located 60 miles south of St. Louis.

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Come on.

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I was raised on a farm and I always loved animals.

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My dream was always to have lots and lots of animals.

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Come to mama.

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Oh, you're beautiful. Where did you come from?

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You want to go home with me? Let's take you home. Give you something to eat. Hungry?

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Every time I would go to the store, I would see strays.

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It ruined the whole evening if I saw a dog that was obviously lost.

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All right, get in there.

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I fulfilled my dream of having a place I could keep them.

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And I can't take all the strays, of course, but I take a great many.

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Mabel bought a 110-acre farm and built a $60,000 kennel

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to house many of the 115 dogs she was caring for.

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The dogs were offered for adoption,

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but those that didn't find new homes lived out their lives on the sanctuary.

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Mabel felt the farm was an ideal location

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and nearest neighbors are over a mile away and would not be disturbed by the dogs.

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Let's go in there.

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There's a little bird.

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You don't know what to expect, do you?

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All right.

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All right, little bird is a good child.

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Little bird.

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Look here.

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You are okay. I love you. You're beautiful.

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18 months after she moved to the farm, Mabel's peaceful life was shattered.

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On the night of December 11th, 1986, someone broke into Mabel's kennel.

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The intruder filed at least four rounds of a .22 caliber rifle,

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killing two dogs and seriously wounding two others.

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The next morning, when I went up to open the kennel, I found my dog's dead.

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In the beginning, I thought, oh, there's been a fight.

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They killed each other.

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But as I looked, I realized that they had been shot.

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And I rushed two of them, one of the big collies to the vet, and he was saved.

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He was shot right in the nose.

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It's a miracle that he's even living because he was laying in a pool of blood when I found him.

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I was upset about it, and I called the sheriff's office,

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but I knew there was nothing, really nothing that could be done at that point, probably.

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Police officially arrested Mabel.

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Police officials investigated the shooting,

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but because the killing of an animal is a misdemeanor, the case was given a low priority.

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After the shooting, Mabel hired Charlie Jacobs to help around the kennel.

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Charlie moved into the guest house and doubled as a hired hand and night watchman.

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Good night, girls.

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For two months, nothing unusual happened.

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Mabel and Charlie settled into a comfortable routine.

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Hi, girls. How you doing, huh? Good night.

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Hey, love.

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On the night of February 10th, 1987, Charlie made his final rounds as usual.

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I walked back down to stop at our barn, turned the light off there.

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Then we walked on down to the garage where I met Mabel.

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We talked for a few minutes and turned the lights off there again.

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Around 1 a.m., Charlie was in his kitchen when he noticed a bright orange glow through the window.

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What the hell?

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50 yards away, the kennel was in flames.

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Mabel!

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Mabel!

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Mabel!

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Call the fire department. Get out of the fire!

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By the time Charlie reached the kennel, it was completely engulfed in flames.

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Inside were 60 dogs. They had no way to escape.

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It was awful. The flames were real high.

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There were a few yipes, everyone was full on.

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The place was on fire. I mean, it was like a inferno.

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Charlie managed to pull one down from the flames, but could do nothing to save the other 59.

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Charlie managed to pull one down from the flames, but could do nothing to save the other 59.

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Charlie!

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There was no reason for the kennel to burn because the kennel was so new.

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A great deal of it was green lumber.

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The doghouses were burning from the inside, not outside, but from inside.

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I knew it had to be arson because the dogs were blazing, which they would not have been without something put on them.

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Fire officials told Mabel that the blaze had first been reported by a neighbor.

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The fire was so intense that it set off smoke alarms and homes over a mile away.

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Have you had any problems with anyone recently?

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No, I haven't.

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Have you noticed anybody around the property that shouldn't be around the property?

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All I could think of is...

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Why anyone would do such a thing?

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Also, the fact that the last thing I've always done is tell the dogs I'm glad I've got them.

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And that they're safe.

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As I watched the kennel come down to the ground, I realized that my dogs were all dead.

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I couldn't... I just couldn't realize why anyone would do that.

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There just wasn't anything left except a few scraps of metal in the concrete.

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Four days after the blaze, the local volunteer fire department began an investigation headed by investigator Charlie Gheeson.

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We went to interview the local people, and a lot of people were surprised that she even existed back on this farm.

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Nobody knew what was going on.

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The local fire department was in the middle of the forest.

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We went to interview the local people, and a lot of people were surprised that she even existed back on this farm.

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Nobody knew Mabel Woods was back there.

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Butch, charge your lines when we get this cleaned off.

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We wanted to clean off the debris of the barn to get a look at the floor.

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We started to see a pattern that's called spaulding developed.

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Spaulding occurs when a flammable substance is ignited on concrete.

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The extreme heat causes the concrete to crack or erode.

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This pattern is not normal in a fire.

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It led us to the assumption that the fire was set with a flammable liquid.

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We believe that night that the suspect entered the building through the door they used normally to get between the two rolls of pens.

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The suspect entered the building through the door they used normally to get between the two rolls of pens.

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He entered the building, poured a flammable liquid down the walls as he went in.

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The hallway led to a bigger open area at the far end.

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He continued pouring the wall at that point, that was probably when he lit it, and then he took off.

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Once it was determined that arson was the cause of the fire, police officials joined the investigation.

485
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:44,800
100 yards from where the kennel once stood, they found a tire track in the mud.

486
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,800
Somebody left out in a hurry.

487
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,800
They made a plaster mold of this track.

488
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,800
It and the spaulding patterns burned into the kennel floor are the only evidence police have in this case.

489
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,800
Get somebody out here and get this thing folded right.

490
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:01,800
Ready?

491
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,800
We don't have any leads, don't have any suspects that haven't been eliminated.

492
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:13,800
Most of the people that you find in this part of the country are dog lovers.

493
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,800
We have dogs, we have hunting dogs, we care a lot about our dogs.

494
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,800
There's people in this county who would shoot you a whole lot quicker over their dog than they would the way.

495
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,800
Within ten months of the fire, Mabel had built a new kennel.

496
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:36,800
She is still haunted by the memory of that tragic night, and fears that whoever was responsible may strike again at any time.

497
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,800
When I rebuilt my kennel, I built it right onto my house.

498
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,800
So it's hard to tell where my territory ends and the dogs begin.

499
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:55,800
And then, to make them even safer, I built an eight-foot masonry wall all the way around.

500
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:04,800
I know someone could scale it, but also at night, or if I'm gone, I have a couple of big dogs that I let out.

501
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,800
And the dogs do not like people.

502
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,800
Our concern for Mabel's safety is an ongoing thing.

503
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,800
We keep an eye on that lady. We keep an eye on her property.

504
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Mabel's unknown enemies have continued to terrorize her.

505
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,800
In the two and a half years since the fire, 40 pounds of nails have been spread across her driveway.

506
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,800
She has received numerous death threats on the phone.

507
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:38,800
On two separate occasions, her house has been shot at, and just recently, graffiti with a sinister warning,

508
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,800
quiet or die, was painted across the entrance sign to her kennel.

509
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:53,800
Mabel's friends and family fear for her safety. They averaged her to move, but Mabel is determined to stay.

510
00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:02,800
I thought about it, and I decided this was a perfect farm. It's very pretty. I've got the creek, which I love.

511
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,800
I decided I am not going to leave. It is my farm. I bought it, paid for it, and I'm staying.

512
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,800
In a moment the story of five Hawaiian fishermen who vanished in a severe storm,

513
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:21,800
almost 10 years later, clues to their fate were found on remote Pacific Island, 3,000 miles away.

514
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,800
Did some of the crew survive?

515
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,800
The Hawaiian Island of Maui, one of the nation's most beautiful tourist centers.

516
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,800
But Maui is also dotted with tiny villages, dependent on the unpredictable Pacific for their livelihood.

517
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:54,800
One of these traditional fishing villages is Hana, a town of approximately 1,200 people located on Maui's southeast shore.

518
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,800
February 11, 1979. On the spur of the moment, five local men took the day off,

519
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,800
planning on a few hours' pleasure fishing in their 17-foot Boston whaler, the Sarah Joe.

520
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:14,800
When they left at about 10 in the morning, the water was very calm, and it was a nice clear day.

521
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,800
And they gathered their equipment together and prepared the boat.

522
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:27,800
The five friends who went fishing that morning were Benjamin Kalama, Ralph Malikini, Scott Mormon, Patrick Woosner, and Peter Hanschert.

523
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:36,800
Between them the men had over 50 years of sea-going experience, and Malikini earned his living as a professional fisherman.

524
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,800
The men were very happy to see that the fishing was going well.

525
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,800
After a few hours of sea-going experience, Malikini earned his living as a professional fisherman.

526
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,800
As the Sarah Joe left the harbor, the weather was fair.

527
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:04,800
But at 1 p.m., a freak wind swept in from the mountains, the first warning that a storm was about to strike.

528
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,800
A storm as dangerous as it was unexpected.

529
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:15,800
The wind switching around, and instead of coming from the normal direction, which is from the east, not the east,

530
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,800
it switched and came from the mountains, going out to sea.

531
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:26,800
And this concerned me a great deal, so I told Dave, say, we'd better get down the coast, see if we can spot those boys and wave them in.

532
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,800
Within hours, the storm arrived in all of its fury.

533
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:37,800
John Hanschert went out into the teeth of the gale to search for the Sarah Joe and his son Peter.

534
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:44,800
By this time it was really blowing a gale, and the rain was going to come down, and it was storming.

535
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,800
And we went out of Hanahaba about a half a mile and then down the coast, and still didn't see any sign of the boys.

536
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,800
But it was a very rough trip, and the oceans were fierce. I'd never seen them get that rough.

537
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,800
Hanschert continued his search the next day with the help of marine biologist John Norton.

538
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:21,800
It made quite an impression on me to see, to think that this man was out all day yesterday in 30 to 40 knot winds and 20 to 25 foot seas in this channel, looking for his son.

539
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,800
You're hoping coming in that someone had seen something during the day and they'd have some encouraging news,

540
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:35,800
but they had the same news that we brought in that was there was no sign of the boys, no sign of the boat, no sign of anything.

541
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,800
The next day, the Coast Guard continued the search for the Sarah Joe.

542
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,800
The initial place where you start searching was very ill-defined because we weren't really sure exactly where the Sarah Joe had gone fishing.

543
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:57,800
So it encompassed a relatively large area initially that first day, and then the area gets bigger and bigger and bigger.

544
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,800
When the conditions are rough out, it's very difficult whether you're in the air or on the water.

545
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:11,800
And combine that with the fact that the Sarah Joe was a turquoise blue color with white trim in an ocean that's turquoise blue with white white caps.

546
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:13,800
It would have been very, very difficult.

547
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,800
When the search was finally suspended, five days later we had searched 73,000 square miles.

548
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:31,800
During the following weeks, the residents of Hana combed the nearby beaches, looking for the wreckage of the Sarah Joe.

549
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,800
Finally, they gave up the search, but they never gave up hope.

550
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:52,800
These people are going to become obsessed with impossibilities, but on the other hand, they don't forget.

551
00:38:53,800 --> 00:39:00,800
Heavenly Father, we ask thee to be amongst us this time as we unify our love.

552
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:10,800
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sarah Joe's disappearance, the family and friends of the missing sailors gathered on the pier where the five men departed.

553
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,800
Help us to understand what we have all been through.

554
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:21,800
As time passed, it seemed that memories were all that were left of the missing men and the Sarah Joe.

555
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,800
And for all that we share today, always amen.

556
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,800
On September the 9th, 1988, the story of the Sarah Joe took a bizarre turn.

557
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:35,800
Captain, come take a look at this.

558
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:46,800
Ten years after the tiny boat disappeared and 2,000 miles west of Maui in the Marshall Islands, a wrecked boat was spotted on a tiny island atoll of Tiangui.

559
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:55,800
Incredibly, the man who first saw it was John Norton, the marine biologist who had searched for the Sarah Joe back in 1979.

560
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:09,800
At first we thought it was a boat moored offshore, so we approached closer and then we saw that it was a, what looked to be, a battered small boat on the island itself.

561
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,800
Norton and his crew landed to examine the wreckage.

562
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:28,800
As we rounded a bend on the island on the windward side there, we could see the white hull of the boat and on the starboard bow, there were still a few letters and numbers from the registration number.

563
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:37,800
And immediately I saw the, it started with an HA, which indicates that the boat was registered in the Hawaiian Islands, which of course is over 2,000 miles away.

564
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:44,800
Approximately 60 yards away from the wreckage, Norton's companions discovered a makeshift grave.

565
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:54,800
We walked over there and they were standing over a pile of coral rocks with a crude wooden cross sticking out of it.

566
00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:03,800
And so when we got up there we could see immediately that there was a human jaw bone protruding out of the pile of rocks.

567
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:14,800
At that time we had no way of knowing that the grave site was associated with the wrecked whaler, although we had a fairly good, we had a feeling that it may be because it wasn't such close proximity.

568
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,800
Somebody obviously had to bury the guy and they may still be on the island here.

569
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,800
The men found no evidence that the island was inhabited.

570
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,800
Norton recorded the registration numbers of the whaler and left the site undisturbed.

571
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,800
The Coast Guard ran a check of these numbers and made a positive identification.

572
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,800
The whaler was Sarah Joe.

573
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:42,800
It was so amazing that Norton would end up finding the boat and the grave and things like that.

574
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,800
I hadn't seen him in the meantime.

575
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:54,800
After the Coast Guard identification of the wreckage, the grave was excavated and a partial human skeleton was uncovered.

576
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:02,800
Dental records revealed that the remains were those of one of the five missing men, Scott Mormon.

577
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,800
Another strange clue surfaced when unusual pieces of paper were discovered in the grave.

578
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,800
These papers had been buried deliberately.

579
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,800
It was a sheaf of paper and I'd say a book except it was not bound.

580
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,800
Probably three inches by three inches by maybe three-quarters of an inch thick.

581
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:29,800
But between each one of these pieces of paper there was a very small square piece of tinfoil material.

582
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,800
We have not been able to determine who placed that there or what purpose it serves.

583
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:44,800
Experts agree that the Sarah Joe could have drifted the 2,000 miles to the Marshall Islands, a chain of tiny islands in the western Pacific.

584
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,800
This voyage should have taken three months.

585
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:55,800
But according to the brother of one of the missing men, a U.S. government survey of Teongi in 1985 found no trace of the Sarah Joe.

586
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:06,800
If this is true, then where was a Sarah Joe during the six years between his 1979 disappearance and this 1985 survey?

587
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,800
In 1985 he said there was no Sarah Joe.

588
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,800
No Sarah Joe on the Teongi Island. Where was the Sarah Joe?

589
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,800
What happened to the Sarah Joe during these six lost years?

590
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,800
Where were the five missing men? Who buried Scott Mormon and why?

591
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,800
And perhaps most importantly, could any of the men still be alive?

592
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,800
Every time I look at the ocean, my thoughts go to him.

593
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:48,800
I see him way out in the island someplace alive and waiting.

594
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:57,800
We want to know what happened to the other boys. Were they on that island with the boat and with Scott?

595
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:04,800
Or what, maybe someone around has some information that can enlighten us on that.

596
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:11,800
Finally tonight, another edition of FBI Alert.

597
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:17,800
The FBI hopes that someone in our audience can help solve a particularly shocking crime committed just last month.

598
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,800
The kidnapping of a baby boy only three days old.

599
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:29,800
Avery James Norris was born last September 18th at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

600
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:35,800
At 11.30 on the morning of September 21st, a woman disguised as a nurse entered the maternity ward

601
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,800
and encountered Avery with his mother Linda Norris in her hospital room.

602
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,800
Apparently familiar with hospital routines, she instructed Linda to hand her the baby

603
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,800
and to return to bed for a physical examination.

604
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,800
After pulling the privacy curtain around the bed, the woman and Avery disappeared.

605
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:58,800
This has really been, I guess, one of the hardest things I've ever had to face in my life.

606
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,800
I can't imagine going on from day to day without having him back.

607
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:11,800
Avery weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces at birth, is circumcised and has an oval birthmark on the inside at the top of his right leg.

608
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:17,800
His alleged kidnapper has been described as a light-skinned black female and maybe Pakistani or Indian.

609
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:24,800
She is 30 to 35 years old, 125 pounds with a stocky build and shoulder-length black hair.

610
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,800
We believe that the individual who abducted Avery Norris is a person who has an emotional need.

611
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:36,800
The individual may change the appearance of the child, but she's still going to be proud of this child

612
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,800
and she's going to want to let individuals know that she does have it.

613
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:47,800
Tonight we're happy to report that Avery James Norris is back in the loving arms of his parents.

614
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,800
That his alleged abductor is behind bars.

615
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:58,800
On November 15th, the Maryland State Division of Vital Records received a call from a woman

616
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,800
who claimed that she had given birth to a baby boy at her home two months earlier.

617
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:11,800
The caller, 33-year-old Carleen Victoria Wilkinson, said she wished to obtain a birth certificate for her son Tavon Anthony Wilkinson.

618
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,800
Authorities immediately became suspicious and began an investigation.

619
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:24,800
A DNA test later confirmed that Tavon Anthony Wilkinson was actually Avery James Norris.

620
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:33,800
On November 16th, two-month-old Avery James Norris went home with his parents for the first time.

621
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,800
We're very happy. This is day one. We start our life right from today.

622
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:48,800
I'd just like to thank all the people who called and all the people who sent letters and cards and who prayed for us.

623
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,800
And I thank you from my husband and myself and for our baby.

624
00:46:55,800 --> 00:47:00,760
This series features膝y and elegantansen footage on Hollywood television With Dr. Calamity and said

625
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:07,800
Before we say goodnight, a piece of good news. Last week we told you about cesmveda,

626
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,800
The End

627
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,720
Before we say goodnight, a piece of good news.

628
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:24,480
Last week, we told you of a con man

629
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,360
who infiltrated a Florida nudist camp

630
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,640
and fled after being charged with fraud and child molesting.

631
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,680
Just 12 hours after our broadcast,

632
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,600
he was arrested, thanks to information

633
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,360
called in by our viewers.

634
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,920
We will have a complete story of his dramatic arrest

635
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,400
on one of our next editions of Unsolved Mysteries.