1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,440 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,080 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,040 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,480 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,400 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, an intriguing new story. 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,580 On April 10, 1967, Ralph probes the Cook County Illinois 7 00:00:29,580 --> 00:00:31,860 Sheriff's Officer had the night off. 8 00:00:31,860 --> 00:00:33,820 While watching television with his wife, 9 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:38,700 Ralph went into the kitchen to make a phone call. 10 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:40,860 Ralph never regained consciousness. 11 00:00:40,860 --> 00:00:43,980 His killer is still at large. 12 00:00:43,980 --> 00:00:47,340 In tiny lion's Nebraska, an intriguing love triangle 13 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:52,180 left a woman murdered and the police chief on the run. 14 00:00:52,180 --> 00:00:54,740 Also tonight, the story of six Oklahoma children 15 00:00:54,740 --> 00:00:57,820 who were separated the day after their mother's funeral. 16 00:00:57,820 --> 00:00:59,980 30 years later, they are trying to reunite 17 00:00:59,980 --> 00:01:02,740 to put the pain and the past behind them. 18 00:01:02,740 --> 00:01:04,340 For every mystery, there is someone, 19 00:01:04,340 --> 00:01:06,780 somewhere who knows the truth. 20 00:01:06,780 --> 00:01:08,380 Perhaps it's you. 21 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:01,380 Lions Nebraska, a quiet farming town of 1,200 people, 22 00:02:01,380 --> 00:02:03,780 is located 60 miles from Omaha. 23 00:02:03,780 --> 00:02:08,500 In October of 1986, Annemarie Anton, a 34-year-old divorcee, 24 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:10,940 moved to this small, isolated community. 25 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:13,060 She was a stranger to town. 26 00:02:13,060 --> 00:02:16,260 There was no rational reason why she would move here. 27 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:18,540 People don't move to Lions Nebraska 28 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:21,100 unless they have a job or family or they're 29 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:23,220 returning to a small hometown. 30 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:26,300 And she didn't have any of those. 31 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:28,300 10 years before she settled in Lions, 32 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,460 Anna had severely injured her leg in a car accident. 33 00:02:31,460 --> 00:02:32,060 Good morning. 34 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:33,060 Good morning, Anna. 35 00:02:33,060 --> 00:02:34,660 How nice to see you. 36 00:02:34,660 --> 00:02:35,460 Thank you very much. 37 00:02:35,460 --> 00:02:35,960 God bless you. 38 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:37,860 Have a nice day now. 39 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:40,180 Anna's neighbors were happy to lend her a helping hand, 40 00:02:40,180 --> 00:02:42,060 and her fellow parishioners at St. Joseph's 41 00:02:42,060 --> 00:02:46,380 would take turns driving her to and from church. 42 00:02:46,380 --> 00:02:49,820 Anna appeared to be a very religious person. 43 00:02:49,820 --> 00:02:53,580 She had very high morals and did not drink. 44 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:57,740 She went to church daily. 45 00:02:57,740 --> 00:03:00,100 She could find a ride. 46 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:02,620 Shirley Edgecomb lived across the street from Anna 47 00:03:02,620 --> 00:03:05,260 would often take her grocery shopping. 48 00:03:05,260 --> 00:03:09,860 They became friends, and Anna began to confide in Shirley. 49 00:03:09,860 --> 00:03:11,780 Want me to put these away for you? 50 00:03:11,780 --> 00:03:13,540 That'd be great, sure. 51 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:16,700 She told me that her ex-husband had been involved 52 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:22,020 in some large drug ring, and that she had testified 53 00:03:22,020 --> 00:03:25,380 against him and other members of this drug ring. 54 00:03:25,380 --> 00:03:28,580 And she was afraid that he was going to harm her. 55 00:03:28,580 --> 00:03:30,860 Shirley, can I show you something? 56 00:03:30,860 --> 00:03:35,660 She had moved to Lions to get away from her ex-husband. 57 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:38,100 If anything should happen to me, 58 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:41,900 I want you to open this envelope and call the number that's 59 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:42,820 in it. 60 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:45,300 She did tell me that she'd chosen that apartment 61 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,620 because the police chief lived right above her, 62 00:03:49,620 --> 00:03:52,380 and she thought if her ex-husband ever did find her 63 00:03:52,380 --> 00:03:54,980 that he would be leery about bothering her because the police 64 00:03:54,980 --> 00:03:56,260 car parked out in front. 65 00:04:01,820 --> 00:04:05,220 On December 16, 1986, Shirley brought some groceries 66 00:04:05,220 --> 00:04:07,180 over to Anna's apartment. 67 00:04:07,180 --> 00:04:09,180 She was surprised to find the back door locked. 68 00:04:11,820 --> 00:04:12,660 Anna? 69 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:16,500 Shirley knocked on Anna's windows and called out her name. 70 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:17,500 There was no response. 71 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:22,900 Anna? 72 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:25,580 That evening, Shirley tried to deliver the grocery several 73 00:04:25,580 --> 00:04:28,660 times, but still there was no answer. 74 00:04:28,660 --> 00:04:30,940 Anna seemed to have disappeared as mysteriously 75 00:04:30,940 --> 00:04:33,060 as she arrived. 76 00:04:33,060 --> 00:04:34,580 I hope you don't mind letting me in. 77 00:04:34,580 --> 00:04:35,980 I'm really worried about her. 78 00:04:35,980 --> 00:04:38,260 It's not like her to just disappear. 79 00:04:38,260 --> 00:04:40,900 Police chief Greg Webb, who lived upstairs from Anna, 80 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:42,620 agreed to help. 81 00:04:42,620 --> 00:04:47,660 We went in thinking we'd probably find Anna had fallen, 82 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:49,220 and there was no sign of her. 83 00:04:49,220 --> 00:04:51,300 Looks like she hasn't been here for a couple of days. 84 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:52,460 She was supposed to meet me. 85 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:54,140 I can't imagine why she didn't call. 86 00:04:54,140 --> 00:04:55,540 Let's check the bedroom. 87 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:56,040 OK. 88 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:05,780 There was an outfit of clothes that was laid out on the bed 89 00:05:05,780 --> 00:05:09,580 from shirt and jeans all the way down to underwear. 90 00:05:09,580 --> 00:05:11,740 Here's the shoe she always wore. 91 00:05:11,740 --> 00:05:14,500 Where would she go without these this time of year? 92 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:17,540 And that seems strange, because this is in the winter time. 93 00:05:17,540 --> 00:05:21,980 And if you take your coat and your purse and your cane, 94 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:24,220 seems only reasonable, you would take your shoes. 95 00:05:27,540 --> 00:05:29,580 Here it is. 96 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:31,060 Call some of the people in this book. 97 00:05:31,060 --> 00:05:32,740 Maybe they've seen her. 98 00:05:32,740 --> 00:05:34,420 Why don't you let me do that? 99 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:35,980 It's my job. 100 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:36,900 OK. 101 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:39,580 A few hours later, he called me and said 102 00:05:39,580 --> 00:05:43,020 that he had called those numbers in the book, 103 00:05:43,020 --> 00:05:45,140 but she wasn't in any of those places. 104 00:05:48,460 --> 00:05:50,620 11 days after Anna disappeared, her body 105 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:52,940 was found in a remote field. 106 00:05:52,940 --> 00:05:56,620 She had 238 caliber bullet wounds in her torso. 107 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:59,620 Since the crime scene was outside Lyons jurisdiction, 108 00:05:59,620 --> 00:06:02,620 state criminal investigator Jerry Krieger of the Nebraska State 109 00:06:02,620 --> 00:06:04,220 Patrol was called in on the case. 110 00:06:07,540 --> 00:06:10,180 Upon observing the surroundings around Anna, 111 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:13,820 it was very apparent that she did not 112 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:19,100 succumb her death there, that the body had been moved. 113 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:29,820 Somebody had left her out and was careful in reference 114 00:06:29,820 --> 00:06:32,180 to not leaving anything behind. 115 00:06:32,180 --> 00:06:34,340 She was in an unclad condition. 116 00:06:34,340 --> 00:06:38,540 It appeared as though the body had been cleaned. 117 00:06:38,540 --> 00:06:41,420 And it also appeared that it had been there for quite some time. 118 00:06:43,860 --> 00:06:45,700 I was seeing the area and see if anybody heard anything 119 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:46,980 or saw anything. 120 00:06:46,980 --> 00:06:47,860 OK. 121 00:06:47,860 --> 00:06:48,660 I'll get right on it. 122 00:06:48,660 --> 00:06:50,340 Surprisingly, the autopsy revealed 123 00:06:50,340 --> 00:06:53,220 that Anna's blood alcohol level was 0.22, 124 00:06:53,220 --> 00:06:57,700 extremely high for a woman who purportedly did not drink. 125 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,820 After they found the body, Jerry Krieger came over 126 00:07:01,820 --> 00:07:03,020 to our place. 127 00:07:03,020 --> 00:07:06,020 He wanted to know everything about Anna. 128 00:07:06,020 --> 00:07:07,620 This is the note that Anna gave me. 129 00:07:07,620 --> 00:07:10,580 She told me to open it if anything should ever happen to her. 130 00:07:10,580 --> 00:07:13,700 Shirley, do you know why Anna would leave you a note? 131 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:16,500 She told me she was afraid of her ex-husband. 132 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:20,740 Her feelings were that Anna's ex-husband had caused death. 133 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:23,100 She had related to me that her ex-husband had been 134 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:27,660 involved in narcotics, that he was a heavy drug dealer, 135 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:30,900 and that she was very fearful of her life. 136 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:32,460 Within a short period of time, we 137 00:07:32,460 --> 00:07:35,620 were able to determine that Anna's ex-husband did have 138 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:40,260 an alibi, and he was not involved in any drug activity. 139 00:07:40,260 --> 00:07:42,020 And I just couldn't understand why Anna 140 00:07:42,020 --> 00:07:43,660 would fabricate this information. 141 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:49,660 The police officers working on the case 142 00:07:49,660 --> 00:07:53,620 agreed to meet in Lyons at the highway cafe to compare notes. 143 00:07:53,620 --> 00:07:55,460 Chief Webb is among them. 144 00:07:55,460 --> 00:07:58,300 Knowing that Anna lived in the same building as the chief, 145 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:02,060 Jerry Krieger quizzed him about his neighbor. 146 00:08:02,060 --> 00:08:04,340 How long did you know Anna Anton? 147 00:08:04,340 --> 00:08:05,860 Two, two and a half months. 148 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:08,540 Where did you meet her? 149 00:08:08,540 --> 00:08:10,740 Arnold's Park. 150 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:13,900 Were you and she ever intimately involved? 151 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:14,400 No. 152 00:08:19,380 --> 00:08:20,900 Were you and she ever intimately involved? 153 00:08:23,980 --> 00:08:25,900 Yes. 154 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:28,340 On the night she moved in. 155 00:08:28,340 --> 00:08:30,140 Officer Webb, would you please excuse us? 156 00:08:30,140 --> 00:08:33,020 Do the fact that he had lied to me, 157 00:08:33,020 --> 00:08:34,700 being a police officer, especially 158 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:38,780 a chief of police during a major investigation like this, 159 00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:41,740 and also thinking back to the crime scene, 160 00:08:41,740 --> 00:08:43,820 my thoughts were thinking strongly 161 00:08:43,820 --> 00:08:47,340 to the fact that Greg was a suspect. 162 00:08:47,340 --> 00:08:50,420 OK, Reno, let's go over here by the chair and work our way back. 163 00:08:50,420 --> 00:08:51,300 OK. 164 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:53,380 Two days after Anna's body was found, 165 00:08:53,380 --> 00:08:55,940 Krieger and lab technicians performed a test in Anna's 166 00:08:55,940 --> 00:08:59,380 apartment to search for blood stains. 167 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:04,780 Throughout the test, Greg Webb was upstairs in his apartment. 168 00:09:04,780 --> 00:09:07,860 There were times that we would hear somebody walking 169 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:10,020 or moving upstairs. 170 00:09:10,020 --> 00:09:14,540 It did sound as though he might have been illicit. 171 00:09:14,540 --> 00:09:16,420 The police use a special chemical called 172 00:09:16,420 --> 00:09:19,380 Illumina, which makes drops of blood hemoglobin 173 00:09:19,380 --> 00:09:22,260 glow in the dark, even if they have been washed away 174 00:09:22,260 --> 00:09:24,300 or are small and faded. 175 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:27,860 We found traces of blood in the living room and dining room 176 00:09:27,860 --> 00:09:29,820 area of Anna Anton's apartment. 177 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:31,020 Oh, look at that. 178 00:09:31,020 --> 00:09:33,220 Look at that. 179 00:09:33,220 --> 00:09:36,900 The trail of blood just outside of Anna Anton's door 180 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:38,340 was quite heavy. 181 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:42,060 The trail then led up the stairs to Greg Webb's apartment. 182 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:42,940 Right here. 183 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:44,820 Right here at the top of the step. 184 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:46,780 OK. 185 00:09:46,780 --> 00:09:48,620 My main concern at that particular time 186 00:09:48,620 --> 00:09:53,020 was attempting to obtain a search warrant for Greg Webb's 187 00:09:53,020 --> 00:09:55,500 apartment. 188 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:57,100 During the police investigation, 189 00:09:57,100 --> 00:09:59,540 Greg Webb left his apartment. 190 00:09:59,540 --> 00:10:03,180 The next day, he withdrew $3,000 and then disappeared. 191 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:09,900 Five days later, armed with a warrant, 192 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:12,700 investigator Krieger searched the chief's apartment. 193 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:14,940 Why don't you go ahead and get the kitchen here? 194 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:16,540 OK. 195 00:10:16,540 --> 00:10:18,460 We did find a mop. 196 00:10:18,460 --> 00:10:21,100 It did have a trace of blood that was later 197 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:25,900 shown to be the same type as Anna Anton's. 198 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:27,780 Jerry, you want to take a look at this? 199 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:29,300 In the bedroom closet, the police 200 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:33,500 found a military-style coat with several spots of blood. 201 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,700 These stains proved to be the same blood type 202 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:37,340 as Anna Anton's. 203 00:10:37,340 --> 00:10:38,500 Package in legal. 204 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:40,700 OK. 205 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:43,380 Once I started checking into Anna Anton's background, 206 00:10:43,380 --> 00:10:45,900 I had learned that she had two separate lives. 207 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:48,700 One life down here in Lyons, Nebraska, 208 00:10:48,700 --> 00:10:50,540 where she was very religious. 209 00:10:50,540 --> 00:10:52,100 And then the other top of Arnold's Park, 210 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:56,060 where she would refer to as a bar foods. 211 00:10:56,060 --> 00:10:56,980 Danny! 212 00:10:56,980 --> 00:10:57,780 Danny! 213 00:10:57,780 --> 00:10:58,780 Hi, how are you? 214 00:10:58,780 --> 00:11:00,100 Good, how are you? 215 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,460 She would carry on with men. 216 00:11:02,460 --> 00:11:03,700 Hi. 217 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:05,220 You get better looking every day. 218 00:11:05,940 --> 00:11:09,420 This is where Anna Anton and Greg Webb had met. 219 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:13,140 I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. 220 00:11:13,140 --> 00:11:14,100 This is Greg Webb. 221 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:17,340 He's the chief of police at Lyons, Nebraska. 222 00:11:17,340 --> 00:11:19,460 Greg and Anna became friends. 223 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:22,140 When Anna told him she was looking for a place to live, 224 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:25,060 Webb suggested that she move into an unoccupied apartment 225 00:11:25,060 --> 00:11:27,460 in his building. 226 00:11:27,460 --> 00:11:30,740 I think Anna Anton moved here with the anticipation 227 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:36,020 that her and Greg Webb may have something in common 228 00:11:36,020 --> 00:11:38,980 and possibly maybe even eventually getting together 229 00:11:38,980 --> 00:11:41,740 and maybe even marriage. 230 00:11:41,740 --> 00:11:43,420 You're on duty tomorrow. 231 00:11:43,420 --> 00:11:44,980 Monday off. 232 00:11:44,980 --> 00:11:47,500 Anna was infatuated with Webb, but she soon 233 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:50,260 learned that he had another girlfriend. 234 00:11:50,260 --> 00:11:54,140 Anna seemed to be preoccupied with the fact 235 00:11:54,140 --> 00:11:58,660 that Greg had this girlfriend and the fact 236 00:11:58,660 --> 00:12:01,620 that they were not married but evidently sleeping together. 237 00:12:05,220 --> 00:12:08,060 She talked about laying in bed at night 238 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:11,140 and hearing them upstairs making love. 239 00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:12,140 And it bothered her. 240 00:12:12,140 --> 00:12:13,500 She would turn the stereo on. 241 00:12:21,580 --> 00:12:24,700 She felt that it was a sin to the point 242 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:26,900 that she would get holy water and sprinkle it up 243 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:30,060 down the steps and on the door knobs. 244 00:12:33,020 --> 00:12:36,020 Investigator Krieger has learned that the night of Anna's death, 245 00:12:36,020 --> 00:12:38,540 Greg Webb was intoxicated. 246 00:12:38,540 --> 00:12:42,660 I believe Anna Anton's death could have resulted from a fight 247 00:12:42,660 --> 00:12:44,580 that might have occurred due to the fact 248 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:48,700 that Anna Anton had found out about this other woman 249 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:50,660 and confronted Greg Webb about this. 250 00:12:50,660 --> 00:12:51,420 Give me that key. 251 00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:52,540 I'm not going to leave. 252 00:12:55,020 --> 00:12:57,300 It was learned that during the following day, 253 00:12:57,300 --> 00:12:58,980 in the early morning hours, Greg Webb 254 00:12:58,980 --> 00:13:01,180 was seen carrying something from his house 255 00:13:01,180 --> 00:13:03,980 out to the trunk of his car. 256 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:06,860 And it was learned later that what he was carrying 257 00:13:06,860 --> 00:13:08,420 was actually Anna Anton. 258 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:14,900 The police believe Webb removed all of Anna's clothes 259 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:17,140 and carefully washed her body before she was carried 260 00:13:17,140 --> 00:13:17,940 from the apartment. 261 00:13:22,420 --> 00:13:24,020 It is possible that Anna's body was 262 00:13:24,020 --> 00:13:25,820 left in that particular farmer's field, 263 00:13:25,820 --> 00:13:28,860 because Webb knew the land was part of an Indian reservation, 264 00:13:28,860 --> 00:13:31,420 which would cause jurisdiction problems for the authorities. 265 00:13:40,980 --> 00:13:43,380 I feel that Greg Webb might have thought 266 00:13:43,380 --> 00:13:46,060 that he had committed the perfect crime in the way 267 00:13:46,060 --> 00:13:49,540 he had disposed of the body and also to the fact 268 00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:54,460 that he would have known about Anna Anton's ex-husband. 269 00:13:54,460 --> 00:13:58,660 On January 6, 1987, a warrant was issued for police chief Greg 270 00:13:58,660 --> 00:13:59,940 Webb's arrest. 271 00:13:59,940 --> 00:14:01,700 He was charged with first degree murder. 272 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:07,700 Update, Greg Webb is now in custody. 273 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:11,460 When this story was rerun in February of 1993, 274 00:14:11,460 --> 00:14:13,580 an alert viewer in Orlando, Florida, 275 00:14:13,580 --> 00:14:17,020 recognized Webb as a man he knew as Jim Weber, 276 00:14:17,060 --> 00:14:19,140 a construction worker. 277 00:14:19,140 --> 00:14:21,980 Well, when I was watching it and they showed Greg 278 00:14:21,980 --> 00:14:25,780 when he came on, they mentioned him as Greg Webb. 279 00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:28,980 And I mean, it looked just like the guy I knew as Jim. 280 00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:33,580 And again, they had said it was Greg and this Greg Webb. 281 00:14:33,580 --> 00:14:35,980 And I knew him as Gregory James Weber. 282 00:14:35,980 --> 00:14:37,660 And he went by Jim Weber. 283 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:39,260 So I just put the two together. 284 00:14:39,260 --> 00:14:40,980 Like I say, it just looked just like him. 285 00:14:40,980 --> 00:14:43,540 So it was quite a shock. 286 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:45,500 Florida had been charged with a crime 287 00:14:46,380 --> 00:14:49,820 Florida had faxed me photographs of the driver's 288 00:14:49,820 --> 00:14:52,900 license that was issued under Gregory James Weber. 289 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:54,740 And once I did see the photographs, 290 00:14:54,740 --> 00:14:59,020 I knew that that was Gregory John Webb. 291 00:14:59,020 --> 00:15:02,140 The arrest went very well. 292 00:15:02,140 --> 00:15:04,380 There wasn't any resistance whatsoever. 293 00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:06,300 We took him by surprise. 294 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:11,300 And he was arrested at an offsite construction site. 295 00:15:15,860 --> 00:15:21,220 Next, the story of two brothers who had a heartwarming reunion. 296 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:23,140 Deserted gas station in rural Oklahoma 297 00:15:23,140 --> 00:15:25,580 25 years after they were separated. 298 00:15:25,580 --> 00:15:27,660 They are looking for their lost siblings. 299 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:29,580 Perhaps you can help find them. 300 00:15:37,260 --> 00:15:40,260 Sadly, we were not able to find them. 301 00:15:40,260 --> 00:15:42,260 We were not able to find them. 302 00:15:42,620 --> 00:15:45,180 Sadly, one out of every 30 children in America 303 00:15:45,180 --> 00:15:47,180 suffers from child abuse. 304 00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:48,700 For these victims, healing the wounds 305 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:50,940 is a long, painful process. 306 00:15:50,940 --> 00:15:53,020 In our next story, five brothers and their sister 307 00:15:53,020 --> 00:15:55,820 were put up for adoption after particularly brutal and violent 308 00:15:55,820 --> 00:15:56,820 childhood. 309 00:15:56,820 --> 00:15:59,980 And for 23 years, never saw each other again. 310 00:15:59,980 --> 00:16:03,220 Now they want to purge the hate and bitterness from their past. 311 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:05,420 They are hoping that if they can be reunited, 312 00:16:05,420 --> 00:16:08,100 they will be able to exercise those terrible memories that 313 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,100 are still a part of their lives. 314 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,340 Locusts grew of Oklahoma. 315 00:16:13,340 --> 00:16:16,780 In 1959, Edith Rogers, her husband Top Rogers, 316 00:16:16,780 --> 00:16:20,260 and their six children all lived in this remote rural community. 317 00:16:24,220 --> 00:16:26,220 Life was hard for the Rogers family. 318 00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:30,740 It was little money, even for the necessities of life. 319 00:16:30,740 --> 00:16:34,860 Bores, clothing, and food, we never ran out of them. 320 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:36,860 We were not able to find them. 321 00:16:37,220 --> 00:16:40,900 Bores, clothing, and food, we never had much clothing. 322 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:44,420 And I can remember we didn't ever wear shoes. 323 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:46,980 And there was one time there I can remember going out 324 00:16:46,980 --> 00:16:50,700 without food for several days. 325 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:51,300 And getting wet. 326 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:53,100 I got this week that I was in bed, 327 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:56,220 and it seemed like the people of the town of Locust Grove 328 00:16:56,220 --> 00:16:58,740 brought us some food out to eat. 329 00:16:58,740 --> 00:17:01,820 I think that's one of those times that mom and dad 330 00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:05,780 run off on one of their drunks. 331 00:17:05,780 --> 00:17:07,300 Hey, nobody in this house going to keep me from eating. 332 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:10,100 Top Rogers' frequent drinking led to regular beatings 333 00:17:10,100 --> 00:17:11,980 for his wife and children. 334 00:17:11,980 --> 00:17:15,260 One night, I grabbed a stick of wood out of the stove box 335 00:17:15,260 --> 00:17:16,020 and ran at him. 336 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:17,580 He hit me, knocked me across the floor, 337 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:21,220 and threw him a kitchen knife at me. 338 00:17:21,220 --> 00:17:22,500 Oh, you'll never find that. 339 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:23,980 And the twins beat the tar out of my arm. 340 00:17:23,980 --> 00:17:26,380 Come off and tell me where the bottle is. 341 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:29,820 I got memories of him being a good man. 342 00:17:29,820 --> 00:17:33,140 But 90% of the time, he seemed like he was drunk. 343 00:17:33,140 --> 00:17:34,260 And that's when he was mean. 344 00:17:36,060 --> 00:17:38,420 Thank you, Robert. 345 00:17:38,420 --> 00:17:41,540 By 1960, the family had only a little happiness 346 00:17:41,540 --> 00:17:42,820 and no real future. 347 00:17:46,220 --> 00:17:49,340 Well, mom came in the house, gave us a present, 348 00:17:49,340 --> 00:17:53,660 said this would be the last chance you'd get to give it to us. 349 00:17:53,660 --> 00:17:56,500 Said that you and your kids are going to have to go away. 350 00:18:01,540 --> 00:18:03,820 In the spring of 1960, the court ruled 351 00:18:03,860 --> 00:18:05,900 that Edith and Topper unfit parents 352 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:07,620 and in June, social workers arrived 353 00:18:07,620 --> 00:18:10,420 at the Rogers Log Cabin. 354 00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:13,460 The children were taken away to the local prior orphanage home. 355 00:18:17,260 --> 00:18:19,060 They said they was going to take us away, 356 00:18:19,060 --> 00:18:22,540 and we'd never get to come back again. 357 00:18:22,540 --> 00:18:24,860 It didn't really hit us right then what was happening. 358 00:18:24,860 --> 00:18:27,340 It was later on, it really took effect. 359 00:18:27,340 --> 00:18:30,060 We lost our mom and dad. 360 00:18:30,060 --> 00:18:32,140 She didn't even really have any family. 361 00:18:32,140 --> 00:18:35,700 She's dad and us kids. 362 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:38,500 There's just nothing else to live for except for the same 363 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:43,540 that she got from him, a few more beatings. 364 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:47,660 She missed us so bad, I know how that must have tore her heart 365 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:48,160 out. 366 00:18:54,140 --> 00:18:57,140 Six months later, Edith Rogers committed suicide 367 00:18:57,140 --> 00:19:00,060 by swallowing poison. 368 00:19:00,060 --> 00:19:02,220 I can't say that I would have done the same thing. 369 00:19:02,220 --> 00:19:07,660 I just wish she'd have been strong enough to endure it. 370 00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:09,860 We were all she had when we were gone. 371 00:19:09,860 --> 00:19:11,380 Her life was over. 372 00:19:11,380 --> 00:19:15,980 She probably died before she even died. 373 00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:17,660 The children's father, Top Rogers, 374 00:19:17,660 --> 00:19:19,380 had been arrested in Arkansas charged 375 00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:21,540 with killing a man in a fight. 376 00:19:21,540 --> 00:19:23,900 Handcuffed, he was escorted back to Oklahoma 377 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:27,180 to attend his wife's funeral. 378 00:19:27,180 --> 00:19:29,300 Here, with these few sad moments, 379 00:19:29,300 --> 00:19:32,060 Rogers children are reunited for the last time. 380 00:19:32,060 --> 00:19:35,780 For the memorial service of Edith Rogers. 381 00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:39,580 It has been requested that we close the service today 382 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:42,060 with singing the old hymn, Silent Night. 383 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:44,420 Would you please join me please? 384 00:19:44,420 --> 00:19:51,460 Silent night, holy night. 385 00:19:51,460 --> 00:19:54,420 All is calm. 386 00:19:54,420 --> 00:19:56,620 At the time, I thought that it was a strange song 387 00:19:56,620 --> 00:19:59,020 to be singing at a funeral. 388 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:02,220 It'd get me down every time I'd hear that song after. 389 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:09,180 It wasn't a Christmas treat over me. 390 00:20:09,180 --> 00:20:10,020 It was a death song. 391 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:26,500 Losing your mother and all your brothers, 392 00:20:26,540 --> 00:20:29,860 you might as well shot me in the heart. 393 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:31,220 It wouldn't have been any more painful. 394 00:20:36,260 --> 00:20:39,900 After the service, the children were once again separated. 395 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:42,500 They were subsequently adopted into six different homes 396 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,620 where they grew up isolated from each other. 397 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:56,580 23 years later, Ella May, who is now called Celia Wangler, 398 00:20:56,580 --> 00:20:58,420 wrote a letter to the Oklahoma Department 399 00:20:58,420 --> 00:21:00,660 of Human Services. 400 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:04,060 At the same time, Johnny Lee, whose name is now John Reager, 401 00:21:04,060 --> 00:21:07,460 also contacted the same authorities. 402 00:21:07,460 --> 00:21:10,420 On February 10, 1984, Celia and John 403 00:21:10,420 --> 00:21:12,700 were reunited in the suburb of Oklahoma City. 404 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:16,620 And right when irrigation started, 405 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:18,520 they looked for a way out. 406 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:27,100 And every 2021 The 407 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:31,040 West soybeans were buds of mind and foundation. 408 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,960 At the end of a let-on night, they 409 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,220 were together once again. 410 00:21:34,220 --> 00:21:38,560 Our young daughter and beloved son-in-law 411 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,660 had a son meeting at Sioux� Farmsology 412 00:21:40,660 --> 00:21:42,980 in a window in the North klimber Sanghe. 413 00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:45,860 on my life, and that was the strangest part. 414 00:21:45,860 --> 00:21:49,060 We sat and vested for hours. 415 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:54,140 And within three weeks of that, we found Robert. 416 00:21:54,140 --> 00:21:56,900 When they told me I'd never see my brother and sister, 417 00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:59,060 and again, I know better than that, 418 00:21:59,060 --> 00:22:01,180 because I knew I loved them, and they was my family, 419 00:22:01,180 --> 00:22:02,300 and I was going to find them. 420 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:05,220 And that never left my mind for 26 years. 421 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:10,300 Robert and John agreed to meet on a Sunday morning 422 00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:14,620 in April 1984 at a gas station only 20 miles from their childhood 423 00:22:14,620 --> 00:22:15,660 home in Locust Grove. 424 00:22:22,140 --> 00:22:23,780 Well, when he got out of his pickup, 425 00:22:23,780 --> 00:22:25,580 it just seemed like an empty spot, 426 00:22:25,580 --> 00:22:27,620 and my heart had been filled. 427 00:22:27,620 --> 00:22:28,660 Hello, big brother. 428 00:22:28,660 --> 00:22:31,660 Little brother, my foot, you're bigger than I am. 429 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:32,580 How are you? 430 00:22:32,580 --> 00:22:33,580 Just fine, are you? 431 00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:34,780 I'm good. 432 00:22:34,780 --> 00:22:37,260 I've waited all my life. 433 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:38,420 So have I. 434 00:22:38,420 --> 00:22:41,460 There was a great love there. 435 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:44,140 They could have sent 10 people to replace John, 436 00:22:44,140 --> 00:22:45,300 and I don't think I'd have felt it. 437 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:46,660 I think I'd have seen through it. 438 00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:47,740 And I can't explain it. 439 00:22:47,740 --> 00:22:48,860 That's just the way it was. 440 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:57,980 In the spring of 1984, a third brother, Vernon, was found. 441 00:22:57,980 --> 00:23:01,260 In April, John and Seaton agreed to meet Robert in Locust Grove, 442 00:23:01,260 --> 00:23:02,940 where they had all been born, and try 443 00:23:02,940 --> 00:23:04,940 to exercise the ghosts of their past. 444 00:23:08,980 --> 00:23:11,020 It would be the first time in 24 years 445 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:12,820 that they would be going home. 446 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:15,500 All three had mixed feelings about the trip. 447 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,540 They worried that seeing the log cabin again 448 00:23:17,540 --> 00:23:20,420 would awaken long-buried memories of a truly unhappy 449 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:21,420 child. 450 00:23:25,420 --> 00:23:30,340 I came to find answers to the questions of who I am, 451 00:23:30,340 --> 00:23:34,940 and my past, my roots. 452 00:23:34,940 --> 00:23:37,940 Parents teach their children to love when they're little, 453 00:23:37,940 --> 00:23:41,100 or they teach them to hate when they're taught me to hate. 454 00:23:47,100 --> 00:23:49,820 You pull up there to the log cabin, 455 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:53,420 and it's like you finally found your roots. 456 00:23:53,420 --> 00:23:54,860 It's like going home, you know? 457 00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:01,660 Yeah, it'll look like it's been lived in the wall. 458 00:24:01,660 --> 00:24:02,660 Sure does. 459 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:03,660 For something. 460 00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:09,740 Listen, for you, they'll be the baby. 461 00:24:22,980 --> 00:24:26,020 Well, kids, what do you think of this place? 462 00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:27,940 It's all. 463 00:24:27,940 --> 00:24:29,820 That's where we used to live. 464 00:24:29,820 --> 00:24:31,780 Check it out. 465 00:24:31,780 --> 00:24:33,700 You know, when mom and dad adopted me, 466 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:39,500 dad, he told me that I had scars on my back, 467 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:42,260 and on my legs, and way more scars 468 00:24:42,260 --> 00:24:46,740 than what most normal kids my age should have. 469 00:24:46,740 --> 00:24:48,500 We all got a lot of weapons, and they 470 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:51,660 was usually severe beatings. 471 00:24:51,660 --> 00:24:56,260 I didn't have any physical scars, but they were mental. 472 00:24:56,260 --> 00:24:59,580 You know, myself, I feel we're way better off getting 473 00:24:59,580 --> 00:25:01,540 adopted out. 474 00:25:01,540 --> 00:25:05,580 I imagine both of y'all feel the same way, don't you? 475 00:25:05,580 --> 00:25:06,580 Right. 476 00:25:09,380 --> 00:25:11,300 Later that day, they went to the cemetery 477 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,620 to find their mother's grave. 478 00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:18,060 They discovered their father had also died eight years before. 479 00:25:18,060 --> 00:25:19,020 Here it is. 480 00:25:19,020 --> 00:25:20,140 I found it over here. 481 00:25:28,380 --> 00:25:29,860 I hated my father very much. 482 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:32,940 I hated him at least 18 solid years. 483 00:25:32,940 --> 00:25:36,860 That's what lived in my mind. 484 00:25:36,860 --> 00:25:39,300 Some of the things that he done to me when I was a child, 485 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:42,980 I had full intentions of going back. 486 00:25:42,980 --> 00:25:48,580 When I got older and giving him a chance to do it again, 487 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:52,460 the day that I got to my father's grave, 488 00:25:52,460 --> 00:25:54,100 the hate kind of left me. 489 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:56,060 It died. 490 00:25:56,060 --> 00:25:58,980 And I wish then that he was still alive, 491 00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:00,340 so I could say I was sorry. 492 00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:01,980 And maybe he would tell me he was sorry. 493 00:26:09,220 --> 00:26:12,620 As much alike as the three of us are, 494 00:26:12,620 --> 00:26:17,300 I tend to believe that the other two are a lot similar 495 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:21,260 and probably have the same needs and pains 496 00:26:21,260 --> 00:26:22,660 that we went through. 497 00:26:22,660 --> 00:26:25,460 And I think finding the other two brothers, 498 00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:28,300 when that day comes, it will be the climax 499 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:32,220 of the whole story fresh, you know? 500 00:26:32,220 --> 00:26:34,100 Of the remaining two untraced brothers, 501 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:36,060 Billy is the youngest of the six children 502 00:26:36,060 --> 00:26:38,620 and was born in 1959. 503 00:26:38,620 --> 00:26:41,540 Billy would now be 30 years old. 504 00:26:41,540 --> 00:26:46,340 Joey was born in 1957 and is a brother between Robert and John. 505 00:26:46,340 --> 00:26:48,140 He would probably remember his brothers 506 00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:51,660 and would currently be 32 years old. 507 00:26:51,660 --> 00:26:53,740 The happy ending to this story to me 508 00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:57,260 is when I get a phone call from my other brothers 509 00:26:57,260 --> 00:27:02,180 that that'd be the truly happy ending to found him. 510 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:06,980 Thanks to our broadcast, John Rieger's dream 511 00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:09,460 of a happy ending became a reality. 512 00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:10,860 The morning after the story aired, 513 00:27:10,860 --> 00:27:13,180 John contacted his brothers Joey and Billy 514 00:27:13,180 --> 00:27:15,860 for the first time in almost 30 years. 515 00:27:15,860 --> 00:27:17,980 The Rogers children immediately made arrangements 516 00:27:17,980 --> 00:27:21,020 for a reunion. 517 00:27:21,020 --> 00:27:23,460 Joey was five and Billy just a year old 518 00:27:23,460 --> 00:27:24,700 when the family was separated. 519 00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:36,540 The morning of October 27, 34-year-old Joey, 520 00:27:36,540 --> 00:27:38,740 who's adopted name is Rusty Dunham, 521 00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:41,340 arrived at his sister Celia's home in Oklahoma City. 522 00:27:41,340 --> 00:27:42,240 Hi. 523 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:43,140 Rusty. 524 00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:44,540 Been waiting a long time, buddy. 525 00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:46,260 I haven't seen you in a long time. 526 00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:49,500 Rusty lives only 36 miles from his brother John. 527 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,380 Amazingly, they have mutual friends 528 00:27:51,380 --> 00:27:53,740 and have even met socially on a number of occasions. 529 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:54,640 Right. 530 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,540 You're a kid. 531 00:27:55,540 --> 00:27:56,340 Coffee. 532 00:27:56,340 --> 00:27:58,620 We brush shoulders several times. 533 00:27:58,620 --> 00:28:01,020 We've been to several places. 534 00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:03,580 We were within speaking distance of each other. 535 00:28:03,580 --> 00:28:04,820 And I've seen him out of eye. 536 00:28:04,820 --> 00:28:09,820 And I never would have known he was my brother. 537 00:28:09,820 --> 00:28:12,780 Later that day, the youngest of the Rogers children, Billy, 538 00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:15,660 whose name is now Chuck Young, arrived at the airport 539 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:17,540 and was greeted by his brothers and sister. 540 00:28:27,340 --> 00:28:28,140 Yeah. 541 00:28:28,140 --> 00:28:30,220 Chuck, who lives in Tennessee, watched our broadcast 542 00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:32,340 and was shocked when he realized that he was 543 00:28:32,340 --> 00:28:34,820 one of the missing brothers. 544 00:28:34,820 --> 00:28:37,940 At the end of the show, they put the family picture together. 545 00:28:37,940 --> 00:28:39,900 Well, I seen me sitting there. 546 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:43,140 And I just got up out of the chair and I said, that's me. 547 00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:44,040 That's me. 548 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:44,740 They're looking for me. 549 00:28:47,380 --> 00:28:49,380 The Rogers family, this reunion 550 00:28:49,380 --> 00:28:54,340 marks the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. 551 00:28:54,340 --> 00:28:56,140 I think what we were all looking for 552 00:28:56,140 --> 00:29:00,940 was the part of our hearts that was torn out years ago. 553 00:29:00,940 --> 00:29:03,820 And now, you know, I don't hurt anymore 554 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:07,780 because that part of my heart's been replaced. 555 00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:09,020 It's back again. 556 00:29:09,020 --> 00:29:11,780 And it feels good. 557 00:29:11,780 --> 00:29:13,420 This is a toast to us. 558 00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:15,540 And I want you all to know I love all of you. 559 00:29:15,540 --> 00:29:16,380 We love you too. 560 00:29:16,380 --> 00:29:17,260 I love you all too. 561 00:29:17,260 --> 00:29:20,140 I'm glad to be here today. 562 00:29:24,340 --> 00:29:34,700 Two-thirds of the fugitives profiled on unsolved mysteries 563 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:36,700 have been captured because of vital information 564 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:38,660 received from our viewers. 565 00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:40,660 One of those fugitives was John Mooney, 566 00:29:40,660 --> 00:29:42,940 who eight years ago escaped from a Georgia prison 567 00:29:42,940 --> 00:29:45,140 where he was serving a life sentence for murder. 568 00:29:48,460 --> 00:29:51,820 In the early morning hours of August 30, 1977, 569 00:29:51,820 --> 00:29:54,700 an Athens, Georgia restaurant owner named T.K. Hardy 570 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:57,020 was murdered while reading in his study at home. 571 00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:04,620 The prime suspect in the case was John Mooney, 572 00:30:04,620 --> 00:30:07,860 a rival restaurant owner who had a long running feud with Hardy. 573 00:30:10,980 --> 00:30:14,340 Four weeks later, police got their first break in the case. 574 00:30:14,340 --> 00:30:16,300 A local restaurant manager told them 575 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:18,780 that an Atlanta electrician named Elmo Florence 576 00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:20,940 had bragged that he killed T.K. Hardy 577 00:30:20,940 --> 00:30:22,820 and that John Mooney had paid him to do it. 578 00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:28,740 On June 20, 1978, Elmo Florence was 579 00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:31,980 convicted of first-degree murder. 580 00:30:31,980 --> 00:30:34,740 John Mooney was also convicted of first-degree murder 581 00:30:34,740 --> 00:30:38,060 and was sentenced to life in a maximum security prison. 582 00:30:38,060 --> 00:30:39,980 But three months later, he was transferred 583 00:30:39,980 --> 00:30:42,220 to a minimum security facility. 584 00:30:42,220 --> 00:30:44,980 On March 16, 1980, he escaped. 585 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:50,740 Update, Scottsdale, Arizona. 586 00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:53,100 Within minutes of our broadcast, two viewers 587 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:56,100 called our telecenter to report that John Mooney was 588 00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:59,260 living in this house under the assumed name Robert J. Kelly. 589 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:04,900 On August 8, John Mooney, alias Robert Kelly, 590 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,700 was arrested at his home by the Mesa police. 591 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,940 Mooney had been living in Arizona since 1982. 592 00:31:10,940 --> 00:31:13,660 He was enrolled at Arizona State University. 593 00:31:13,660 --> 00:31:16,220 For the past several years, he's been working as an accountant 594 00:31:16,220 --> 00:31:19,100 for various companies in the Scottsdale area. 595 00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:21,980 Mooney married six years ago and has a one-year-old child. 596 00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:29,340 On September 16, 1989, over nine years after he escaped, 597 00:31:29,340 --> 00:31:31,100 John Mooney was returned to Georgia. 598 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:48,660 Outside the Academy Theater, the atmosphere is electric, 599 00:31:48,660 --> 00:31:51,660 even though I have attended 15 other ceremonies. 600 00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:56,660 April 10, 1967, the night of the Oscars. 601 00:31:56,660 --> 00:31:59,340 Like millions of Americans, Ralph Probst and his wife, 602 00:31:59,340 --> 00:32:01,660 Marlene, settle down in front of the television 603 00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:04,660 to watch the ceremony. 604 00:32:04,660 --> 00:32:08,660 Well, we were watching the Academy Awards on TV that night. 605 00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:10,660 And I must have dozed off. 606 00:32:10,660 --> 00:32:13,660 And the next thing I knew, there was this loud explosion 607 00:32:13,660 --> 00:32:14,660 that woke me up. 608 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:20,660 I saw this cloud of smoke from behind the television set. 609 00:32:20,660 --> 00:32:24,660 When I went in the kitchen, Ralph was laying on the kitchen floor. 610 00:32:24,660 --> 00:32:29,660 Ralph Probst had been shot once in the back of the head. 611 00:32:29,660 --> 00:32:34,660 By the time Marlene was able to summon help, her husband was dead. 612 00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:36,660 He never regained consciousness. 613 00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:40,660 Ralph Probst was a 30-year-old Cook County, Illinois, 614 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:42,660 sheriff's officer. 615 00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:45,660 In addition to Marlene, Ralph left behind three small children 616 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:49,660 and a series of baffling questions that over 23 years later 617 00:32:49,660 --> 00:32:51,660 remain unanswered. 618 00:32:54,660 --> 00:32:56,660 Four days after his murder, 619 00:32:56,660 --> 00:32:58,660 Officer Probst was laid to rest. 620 00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:03,660 Among the mourners was a young man, 621 00:33:04,660 --> 00:33:07,660 among the mourners was a fellow officer, Bob Borowski. 622 00:33:07,660 --> 00:33:11,660 On that afternoon, he made a silent pledge. 623 00:33:12,660 --> 00:33:15,660 As I stood beside the casket and looked on at Ralph, 624 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:19,660 I made a vow to him that I would find his killer 625 00:33:19,660 --> 00:33:22,660 and I would not rest until I get him. 626 00:33:23,660 --> 00:33:26,660 I figured it would be solved quickly, 627 00:33:26,660 --> 00:33:29,660 but it didn't turn out that way. 628 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:34,660 Bob Borowski is still trying to keep his promise. 629 00:33:37,660 --> 00:33:40,660 It is said that there is no such thing as the perfect crime, 630 00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:42,660 but for more than two decades, 631 00:33:42,660 --> 00:33:45,660 the murder of Ralph Probst has come uncomfortably close. 632 00:33:45,660 --> 00:33:48,660 Evidence left at the scene pointed to a carefully planned 633 00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:50,660 and premeditated crime, 634 00:33:50,660 --> 00:33:52,660 but to date, no motive has been established. 635 00:33:52,660 --> 00:33:54,660 Today, 23 years later, 636 00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:57,660 Bob Borowski carries on the search for his partner, 637 00:33:57,660 --> 00:33:59,660 his killer. 638 00:33:59,660 --> 00:34:03,660 Bob Borowski and Ralph Probst met for the first time in 1964, 639 00:34:03,660 --> 00:34:06,660 shortly after Ralph graduated from the police academy. 640 00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:12,660 The two men were both assigned to an elite unit 641 00:34:12,660 --> 00:34:14,660 called the Tactical Squad. 642 00:34:14,660 --> 00:34:17,660 Ralph had originally been a chemical engineer, 643 00:34:17,660 --> 00:34:20,660 but then decided to pursue a career in law enforcement. 644 00:34:20,660 --> 00:34:22,660 Looking good. 645 00:34:22,660 --> 00:34:25,660 Probst and Borowski, you've got stick to your head. 646 00:34:25,660 --> 00:34:28,660 We had a lot of problems out there last night. 647 00:34:28,660 --> 00:34:31,660 Everybody else in the department looked up to the attack unit. 648 00:34:31,660 --> 00:34:33,660 We were a very elite unit. 649 00:34:33,660 --> 00:34:36,660 We were all spit and polish, and we were a very proud bunch. 650 00:34:36,660 --> 00:34:39,660 Ralph was not only a partner, but he was also a friend, 651 00:34:39,660 --> 00:34:41,660 and it was that sort of relationship. 652 00:34:41,660 --> 00:34:44,660 You could depend on him, and he could depend on you. 653 00:34:46,660 --> 00:34:50,660 Ralph soon earned the reputation as a man who played strictly by the rules. 654 00:34:50,660 --> 00:34:53,660 This inflexibility earned him at least one. 655 00:34:53,660 --> 00:34:57,660 A few months before his death, Ralph and Bob were two of the officers 656 00:34:57,660 --> 00:35:01,660 assigned a guard duty in a notorious mobster, Sam Di Stefano. 657 00:35:01,660 --> 00:35:05,660 Di Stefano had been convicted and sentenced on charges of conspiracy, 658 00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:08,660 but had been transferred from prison to a local hospital 659 00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:10,660 after complaining of stomach trouble. 660 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:12,660 You two lackeys are going to guard me. 661 00:35:12,660 --> 00:35:14,660 Sam, you can't have any visitors here. 662 00:35:14,660 --> 00:35:16,660 You folks are going to have to go. Come on. 663 00:35:16,660 --> 00:35:18,660 You're my doctor? 664 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:20,660 Call the doctor. 665 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,660 Take this. 666 00:35:23,660 --> 00:35:25,660 Don't steal my apples, copper. 667 00:35:25,660 --> 00:35:27,660 Man, you're going to have to go too. 668 00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:30,660 Get your hands off of her. Call my lawyer. 669 00:35:30,660 --> 00:35:33,660 You're also going to have to eat the regular hospital food 670 00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:35,660 just like everyone else in the hospital. 671 00:35:35,660 --> 00:35:37,660 No way, Ann. 672 00:35:37,660 --> 00:35:39,660 As a matter of fact, I do. That's why you're here. 673 00:35:39,660 --> 00:35:41,660 Now, lie down on the bed. 674 00:35:41,660 --> 00:35:43,660 Hey, what are you doing? 675 00:35:43,660 --> 00:35:45,660 When Ralph handcuffed Di Stefano to the bed, 676 00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,660 he became very irate and threatened to kill him. 677 00:35:48,660 --> 00:35:51,660 Better grow eyes in the back of your head. 678 00:35:51,660 --> 00:35:53,660 If you need us, we'll be outside. 679 00:35:53,660 --> 00:35:55,660 Get out. Get out of here. 680 00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:58,660 We really didn't take it very serious. 681 00:35:58,660 --> 00:36:01,660 We felt that he was just a big bag of wind 682 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:04,660 and just brushed it off. 683 00:36:04,660 --> 00:36:07,660 I don't think that the risk ever entered Ralph's mind. 684 00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:10,660 I really don't. I think it to him it was a job he enjoyed it. 685 00:36:10,660 --> 00:36:14,660 And I don't think he was ever afraid. 686 00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:18,660 I imagine in the back of anyone's mind something could happen. 687 00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:21,660 But I don't think he dwelled on it. 688 00:36:22,660 --> 00:36:24,660 On the night of Ralph's death, 689 00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:26,660 police were confronted by an unusual pattern 690 00:36:26,660 --> 00:36:29,660 of circumstantial evidence. 691 00:36:29,660 --> 00:36:34,660 It appeared as if Ralph had been shot through the kitchen window. 692 00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:36,660 Okay, now secure the house. 693 00:36:36,660 --> 00:36:38,660 Make sure nobody gets into it or doesn't belong. 694 00:36:38,660 --> 00:36:40,660 I don't care who it is. 695 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:42,660 Police canvassed the neighborhood looking for witnesses. 696 00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:45,660 Though the killer was allegedly standing outside the house, 697 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:47,660 nobody saw the gunman. 698 00:36:47,660 --> 00:36:49,660 But a few people did hear a shot. 699 00:36:49,660 --> 00:36:51,660 We want a good, clear shot of this ricochet mark. 700 00:36:51,660 --> 00:36:53,660 The bullet that killed Ralph 701 00:36:53,660 --> 00:36:55,660 had ricocheted off a kitchen cabinet 702 00:36:55,660 --> 00:36:57,660 and then fallen onto the stove. 703 00:36:57,660 --> 00:37:00,660 This bullet had been fired from a rare 41 caliber magnum, 704 00:37:00,660 --> 00:37:04,660 a gun that had only recently been manufactured. 705 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:08,660 Keep your eyes and ears working as what's going on on the street. 706 00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:10,660 See if there's any talk. 707 00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:11,660 Contact all your informants. 708 00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:14,660 Though there were only 2,000 of these guns in the United States, 709 00:37:14,660 --> 00:37:17,660 police were unable to locate the murder weapon. 710 00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:19,660 And in spite of a huge manhunt, 711 00:37:19,660 --> 00:37:22,660 there were no suspects and no other leads. 712 00:37:22,660 --> 00:37:24,660 Okay, we don't have a motive on this one yet. 713 00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:27,660 It could be some nut who just doesn't like police officers. 714 00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:29,660 So when you're out there, be very careful. 715 00:37:29,660 --> 00:37:31,660 One likely suspect, Sam DiStefano, 716 00:37:31,660 --> 00:37:34,660 was immediately cleared of complicity in the murder. 717 00:37:34,660 --> 00:37:39,660 There were no other suspects, save one, Ralph's wife, Marlene. 718 00:37:40,660 --> 00:37:42,660 I know from the beginning of the investigation, 719 00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:47,660 I think what puzzled everybody is how I had seen smoke inside the house. 720 00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:50,660 But if the gunman had been outside, there wasn't any smoke inside. 721 00:37:50,660 --> 00:37:53,660 And yet when I woke up, that's the first thing I saw 722 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:56,660 was this small cloud of smoke coming up 723 00:37:56,660 --> 00:37:59,660 from like in back of my television set. 724 00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:05,660 This telltale puff of smoke led police to suspect 725 00:38:05,660 --> 00:38:08,660 that the shot had been fired from inside the house. 726 00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:11,660 In addition, glass was found in the yard, 727 00:38:11,660 --> 00:38:13,660 not on the kitchen floor. 728 00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:17,660 When you have a murder investigation, 729 00:38:17,660 --> 00:38:22,660 one of the first places you start with is with the family. 730 00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:27,660 And it's just normal, unless you have immediate evidence 731 00:38:27,660 --> 00:38:30,660 to lead you away from the family. 732 00:38:30,660 --> 00:38:32,660 Are you set inside? Yeah. 733 00:38:32,660 --> 00:38:34,660 The investigators conducted an experiment 734 00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:37,660 to see if Marlene was telling the truth. 735 00:38:38,660 --> 00:38:41,660 First they fired from 15 feet away. 736 00:38:41,660 --> 00:38:45,660 There was no smoke and the glass fell inside. 737 00:38:45,660 --> 00:38:49,660 But then they fired two inches away from the window. 738 00:38:51,660 --> 00:38:56,660 There it was, the puff of smoke inside the house. 739 00:38:56,660 --> 00:39:01,660 We found the glass came out, back onto the shooter 740 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:03,660 and fell to the ground, 741 00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:06,660 and we had the puff of smoke inside the house. 742 00:39:06,660 --> 00:39:11,660 From that point on, we knew that Marlene was telling the truth. 743 00:39:13,660 --> 00:39:16,660 We determined that the shooter would have half 744 00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:19,660 to have been five foot eleven or taller 745 00:39:19,660 --> 00:39:24,660 in order for that projectile to follow the path to where it struck Ralph. 746 00:39:26,660 --> 00:39:29,660 To strike the center of the back of the head, 747 00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:33,660 where the entry point was, took one terrific shot. 748 00:39:33,660 --> 00:39:37,660 He could have been a professional hit man. 749 00:39:37,660 --> 00:39:41,660 And he could always have been a law enforcement person. 750 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:46,660 There was another baffling facet to this case. 751 00:39:46,660 --> 00:39:51,660 How was a killer able to know that Ralph would be standing by the kitchen window? 752 00:39:51,660 --> 00:39:54,660 If anyone had been watching the house, 753 00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:58,660 they wouldn't have been able to know even what room we were sitting in 754 00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:01,660 unless they were standing by that kitchen window. 755 00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:03,660 There was no other window in our house 756 00:40:03,660 --> 00:40:06,660 that they could have seen through but the kitchen window. 757 00:40:06,660 --> 00:40:09,660 Every other window was covered. 758 00:40:09,660 --> 00:40:17,660 My theory on Ralph's murder is that somebody knew Ralph was going to be in that position at that certain time. 759 00:40:17,660 --> 00:40:19,660 There was too much light in the driveway 760 00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:25,660 and that person did not stay there and wait for hours for Ralph to get in that certain position. 761 00:40:25,660 --> 00:40:29,660 Whoever did it knew Ralph was going to be there at that time 762 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:31,660 and that person was there at that time. 763 00:40:31,660 --> 00:40:33,660 It wasn't somebody that was laying for him. 764 00:40:33,660 --> 00:40:37,660 Ralph was set up to be in that position. 765 00:40:37,660 --> 00:40:43,660 I believe that possibly he was going to receive a phone call or he was going to make a phone call. 766 00:40:47,660 --> 00:40:54,660 We have information that prior to coming home and watching TV with his wife, 767 00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:58,660 that Ralph went to a gas station and made a phone call. 768 00:40:58,660 --> 00:41:03,660 That could have been where he received information that he was going to receive a phone call 769 00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:05,660 or to make a phone call. 770 00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:10,660 Therefore, put him in that position by the window at that certain time. 771 00:41:15,660 --> 00:41:21,660 The biggest question I think in my mind is why he was killed. 772 00:41:21,660 --> 00:41:24,660 Who did it and why? 773 00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:31,660 I can remember a conversation with Ralph where he made a statement that I'm working on something 774 00:41:31,660 --> 00:41:34,660 and when I saw that they're going to make me a sergeant. 775 00:41:34,660 --> 00:41:36,660 You're going to be a sergeant. 776 00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:38,660 I'm telling you, I'm going to make a sergeant. 777 00:41:38,660 --> 00:41:41,660 And of course my reaction was, yeah, sure, Ralph, okay, you know, 778 00:41:41,660 --> 00:41:43,660 and they're going to make me the President of the United States. 779 00:41:43,660 --> 00:41:47,660 And it was just laughed off and he said no more on it. 780 00:41:47,660 --> 00:41:49,660 And apparently he was serious. 781 00:41:49,660 --> 00:41:52,660 You're going to be sorry, huh? 782 00:41:56,660 --> 00:42:00,660 Borowski believes that Ralph may have been working on his own secretly 783 00:42:00,660 --> 00:42:02,660 in order to bring down a vice ring. 784 00:42:02,660 --> 00:42:07,660 Support for this theory came when it was discovered that several days before his death, 785 00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:11,660 Ralph had been seen at the home of ex-convict Frank Calvese. 786 00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:16,660 Ralph had spoken with Calvese's wife and then left. 787 00:42:16,660 --> 00:42:18,660 Come on in, I'll show you around. I think you'll like it. 788 00:42:18,660 --> 00:42:22,660 One week before the murder, a man closely resembling Calvese 789 00:42:22,660 --> 00:42:26,660 paid a visit to a house for sale across the street from Ralph's home. 790 00:42:26,660 --> 00:42:32,660 As they toured the house, the visitor asked if the floor plan was similar to the probes' residence. 791 00:42:32,660 --> 00:42:33,660 It was. 792 00:42:33,660 --> 00:42:35,660 And we just put in new cabinets. 793 00:42:35,660 --> 00:42:40,660 Hey, I just was wondering, all the houses on this block have the same floor plan? 794 00:42:40,660 --> 00:42:44,660 Most of the houses in this area were built about the same time, yeah. 795 00:42:44,660 --> 00:42:49,660 However, after identifying Calvese in a police lineup, the neighbor changed his story. 796 00:42:49,660 --> 00:42:53,660 Some believe he was frightened into retracting his testimony. 797 00:42:53,660 --> 00:42:54,660 Not bad. Not bad. 798 00:42:54,660 --> 00:42:56,660 How been touch? 799 00:42:56,660 --> 00:42:59,660 He stated to one of the investigators, 800 00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:04,660 you realize that if they shot Ralph probes across the street, 801 00:43:04,660 --> 00:43:08,660 they wouldn't hesitate to kill me too. 802 00:43:08,660 --> 00:43:13,660 So that left us at a dead end on Frank Calvese. 803 00:43:13,660 --> 00:43:16,660 That house over there is the same as yours? 804 00:43:16,660 --> 00:43:19,660 Frank Calvese died in 1974. 805 00:43:19,660 --> 00:43:23,660 No charges were ever filed in connection with Ralph's death. 806 00:43:23,660 --> 00:43:31,660 Ralph had information on something, whether it be vice pornography, fencing operation, 807 00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:37,660 and whoever killed him knew that he was going to talk about it, 808 00:43:37,660 --> 00:43:41,660 and they killed him before he could. 809 00:43:41,660 --> 00:43:47,660 Immediately after Ralph probes murdered, 30 officers were assigned to the investigation. 810 00:43:47,660 --> 00:43:51,660 Today, only two Cook County officers are on the case. 811 00:43:51,660 --> 00:43:55,660 Bob Boroski works on his own. 812 00:43:55,660 --> 00:43:59,660 At this time, I am unofficially still working on a case, 813 00:43:59,660 --> 00:44:05,660 and whoever did it, I've been making him awful nervous because he knows that I'm not giving up. 814 00:44:05,660 --> 00:44:10,660 That somehow, someway, somebody's going to say something and he's going to get caught. 815 00:44:10,660 --> 00:44:15,660 So somewhere, somebody's awful nervous, and I'm going to keep him that way. 816 00:44:40,660 --> 00:44:44,660 A week for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.