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

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

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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In Illinois, a lonely widow met a fortune teller who seemed to create money out of thin air.

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Joan was amazed, and within the next two years gave the fortune teller $80,000, most of her

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jewelry, brand new Cadillac. Then the fortune teller disappeared. On a lonely country road

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in North Carolina, a teenage girl was murdered by a single bullet fired through the trunk

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of her car. An eyewitness has now come forward and under hypnosis may have described Rhonda's

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unknown killer.

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77-year-old Howard Drummond was an eccentric who died as he lived, alone. Howard Drummond

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left behind 50 empty coffee jars, 80 pairs of white socks, and an unclaimed fortune of

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over $250,000. Someone watching may be his heir.

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Also tonight, a different kind of mystery in the world of medicine and science. Doctors

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are giving up nearly all hope for young Don Helen. He accidentally shot himself while

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hunting. Don lost more than half of his blood, had no blood pressure and virtually no brain

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activity. Yet Don's family never lost faith and never left his bedside. Incredibly, Don

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recovered. Modern medicine has no explanation, but perhaps there is one. A mirror.

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During the holiday season, office Christmas parties are a traditional way of easing into

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the festive spirit. On the night of December 22, 1981, marked the first company Christmas

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party for a 19-year-old girl named Rhonda Hinson, Rhonda had recently graduated from

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high school in Valdez, North Carolina, and was celebrating her first job as a clerical

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worker for a local steel company. At midnight, Rhonda left the party with two girlfriends.

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At approximately 12.30, after dropping off her companions, Rhonda would begin the 10-mile

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drive to her home, where she still lived with her parents. At exactly 1 a.m., Rhonda's mother

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awoke from a sound sleep with a strange premonition. I woke up feeling panicky, scared, because

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I felt like something had happened to Rhonda. I felt like Rhonda was dead. I felt like she

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had been in an automobile accident. I got up and I had a little sleepy scanner that you

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listen to, you know, accidents and all that stuff on it. And for some odd reason, I just

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turned it on, you know, thought maybe, you know, if it had been an accident out here

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on the scanner. And the minute I turned it on, it came over, which, you know, it had

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been a homicide. 120 glambar. 120 check, a vehicle in the ditch, good of mineral springs,

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mountain, and I-40. Complainant reports of blood in the front-sated side. Rhonda's car

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was discovered on mineral springs, mountain road, just a half a mile from her home. The

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driver's door was open, and just a few feet away, Rhonda was found dead. She was lying

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on her back, and her arms appeared to have been deliberately placed at her side. Tests

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show that Rhonda Hinson had been killed by a single bullet fired by a high-powered rifle.

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This bullet had passed through the trunk of her car, through her seat, and penetrated

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her heart. The hardest thing is living every day wondering who did this. Rhonda was the

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most loving, caring person that you've ever known. Rhonda was the type of doctor that

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everybody would like to have. The murder of Rhonda Hinson had first appeared to be

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a random act of violence, but as the investigation proceeded, disturbing clues began to surface,

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suggesting that Rhonda may have been murdered by someone who knew her closely. Eight years

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of pass since Rhonda's death, and police are still at a loss for an explanation or a suspect.

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In high school, Rhonda was a popular girl, an expert tennis player who had many close

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friends, but several weeks after her graduation, she began to behave strangely, though normally

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happy to drive along. Rhonda began to ask her father to accompany her on trips into town,

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and on one of these trips, she made a disturbing statement.

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Dan, I've got something to tell you, but I'm afraid to.

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I said, what is it, Rhonda? I said, no matter what it's good or bad, tell me.

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Now, what do you have to say? And she said, I'll think about it. And she never did explain,

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never did tell me why, what it was, you know, she's afraid to tell me.

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Well, you keep your mind on your job, okay? Her mother also recalled an uncharacteristic

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conversation shortly before Rhonda's death. I was wondering if it's ever okay to go with

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a married man. I said, Rhonda, there's never a time that it's alright to go with a married

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man. The only thing that comes from that is people getting hurt. I didn't ask her if

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she was asking for herself, if she's asking for somebody else. I don't know what she...

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Rhonda wanted to do, the things that pleased us.

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In the weeks prior to Rhonda's murder, her parents began to notice that she suffered from

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insomnia. Rhonda also began getting up in the middle of the night to take showers. According

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to authorities, such obsessive behavior is common in women who have been sexually abused.

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The shower would wake me up. It should turn the shower off and answer me and say, I just

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can't sleep, I feel dirty. I'm really angry at myself. I should have been angry.

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I should have talked to her. I should have asked her what was wrong. If I had asked enough,

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I would have gotten some answers.

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This unusual behavior suggested to police that Rhonda was under some kind of personal

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pressure. Could this pressure have resulted in her murder? The police investigation began

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to uncover evidence that someone may have been stalking Rhonda the night of her death.

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During 1215 and 1230 on the morning that Rhonda Henson was murdered, a witness drove under

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the Interstate 40 Bridge on Mental Springs Mountain Road. She observed a blue General

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Motor Chevrolet facing in a northerly direction with two white males in the vehicle.

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The car was parked next to the same off-ramp that Rhonda would use to exit. It was spotted

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30 minutes before the fatal bullet was fired and just 200 yards from where her body was

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Later that evening, another witness traveling down the same road passed a similar blue vehicle

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with a single man at the wheel speeding away from the murder site. As he continued down

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the road, the witness saw Rhonda's vehicle parked at the same spot where her body would

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be found. A woman was slumped over the steering wheel and a man was standing at her car door.

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The witness was unable to get a close look at this man and assuming the couple were drunk

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and drove on.

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There were some latent prints on the driver's door, but these latent prints have not been

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identified as of this date.

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With so few clues to go on, police put their witness under hypnosis and asked him to recall

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more details about the murder scene. This is the actual audio tape from the hypnotized

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subject.

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That was Chabelle. It was blue.

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Seventy miles, I believe.

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Looks like the front end has been messed up.

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The witness also recalled seeing a second car parked down the road from Rhonda's vehicle.

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This car was a black or dark blue trans-am. Some believe that car may have been driven

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by the murder.

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There's so many unanswered questions. We have a very attractive young girl whose life was

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taken and as far as we know her character is unblemished. It's hard for me to understand

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why a young person like this would, life, be taken away and not have an answer for it.

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Who killed Rhonda Hinson and why? Authorities a certain issue would never have stopped

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for a stranger. Was she pulled over by someone who knew her? Someone who then fired the fatal

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shot?

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Who was a man seen at Rhonda's car? The murderer or a passerby who left the area when he discovered

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that Rhonda was dead? Police still have no idea.

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We have some different stories but to really be able to substantiate these stories we don't

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have that information. That's what we're looking for. Those little pieces of information that

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we can substantiate what happened.

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Eight years have passed since that Christmas party ended in tragedy. Rhonda's mother still

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keeps her daughter's room exactly the way it was when Rhonda was alive.

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I can almost imagine Rhonda still in there. We have a baby doll that she had years and

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years ago. We've kept that out. We've kept some of her trophies out.

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The grave marker I think says it all. On the grave marker there are the words always

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array of sunshine. That's the best description that we have of Rhonda. It's a perfect description.

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In a moment we'll see how viewers help capture and allege Conn would infiltrate at a nudist

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camp. He'll also tell you how you may be able to help authorities track down two Conn

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women posing as fortune tellers.

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Last September we examined the case of a Florida nudist resort whose members were allegedly

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victimized by a smooth talking Conn man calling himself Rusty. In February of 1988 Rusty arrived

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at the Sunny Sands Nudist Resort and quickly ingratiated himself with many of the club's

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members. He opened a video rental store at a nearby town and convinced some of Sunny

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Sands residents to invest thousands of dollars in his business. But just seven months after

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he arrived at Sunny Sands Rusty's upstanding reputation in the community began to crumble

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when a neighbor's 11 year old daughter accused him of molesting her. Rusty was arrested for

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sexual battery against a child under 12 in order to be held without bail. However many

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of Sunny Sands residents believed that Rusty was unjustly accused and convinced the judge

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to release him on $25,000 bail. Two days later Rusty disappeared allegedly taking with him

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more than $50,000 of investors money. No matter what happens we know we'll never get our

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money back. But right at this point the money is immaterial. Right now the big thing I want

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Rusty caught is what he did to that child. Police later learned that Rusty's true identity

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was William Eugene Hilliard and that he was wanted in both Florida and Texas for fraud.

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Within minutes of our broadcast several viewers from South Carolina called our telecenter

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to report that they recognized William Eugene Hilliard. The morning after our broadcast

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Hilliard was arrested by Georgetown County Sheriff's deputies at a convenience store

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in Murls and Litt, South Carolina, a small town just south of Myrtle Beach. He is living

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under the assumed name Ronald Edward Kent. On October 20th Hilliard was returned to Florida

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to face charges of fraud and sexual battery against a child under 12. If convicted of

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the sexual battery charge Hilliard could receive the death penalty.

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Fortunes told tarot cards and tea leaves sounds intriguing and many of us have wanted to

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know what goes on inside a fortune teller's potter after the doors closed. But let the

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buyer beware. The sad fact is that some of them are more interested in fortune taking

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and fortune telling. Across the United States each year tens of thousands of victims are

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built out of millions of dollars by fraudulent fortune tellers. Tonight we present the story

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of two of these victims who embarrassed by their own naivete have requested anonymity.

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Peoria, Illinois August 1987. A respected educator we will call Karen had been devastated

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mentally and physically by an automobile accident. Friends urged her to see Ann Corricelli, a

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fortune teller, who was reputed to have psychic powers.

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The last thought of my mind was to go see a psychic. But why thought? Well, if it doesn't

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work it doesn't work. It's ten bucks for a half an hour. What have I got to lose?

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I see that you've had family problems lately and you've been very depressed lately.

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Yes, I have.

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Have you considered suicide before?

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She told me that I had had suicidal thoughts and I hadn't ever told anyone. So I was convinced

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she was psychic and she had the answer to my problem.

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This is a curse that someone's put on you.

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And I looked at her like you have got to be kidding.

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God loves you.

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But she said it so believably and she held my hand and she leaned forward and said we can do something about this.

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I'll help you and we can overcome this together. I'll help you.

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At the point she told me there was a curse on me, I think I would have been ready to believe anything.

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It was an answer to a problem.

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Ann told Karen that she must follow a strict regimen in order to lift the curse.

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I was taking ritual baths and scented oils. I was blessing the doors, the windows, the cars, people with holy water.

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But I couldn't let anyone know what was going on.

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Each time that I saw her she gave me more things to do, which was great. I loved it.

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I felt like I was beginning to get control back of my life.

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Ann told Karen to come with her to a nearby bridge and bring $4,000 wrapped in a white package.

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I brought the money. This money has taken all the evil from your body.

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She told me that we had to destroy the money because Satan was of the earth in what better way to control him but with his own dirty money.

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So we took the bundle of money and threw it off the bridge.

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Is it gone? It's gone. It's gone. The money is gone.

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Karen now believes that she was duped by Ann Coricelli, the daughter in a sophisticated mother-daughter fortune-telling team.

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Lena Marie Wilson, 53 years old, is Ann's mother, though she sometimes pretends to be her grandmother. Together they pray mainly on vulnerable women.

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Another victim of the fortune-telling scam in Peoria was a 69-year-old woman we will call Joan.

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On her second husband died, she was left with a considerable amount of money.

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Despite the financial security, Joan felt lost.

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I think at the time I was very vulnerable because I had lost my husband two years before.

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I was lonely. I was searching, maybe for answers in different places.

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And so it was only $10 to go and see her and I thought why not find out and see what she said about my future, my life and things in general.

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When Joan visited the fortune-tellers, they were operating under the name of Calvin. The first person she met was Ann Coricelli.

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Thank you.

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It was a regular house. There was a small room off the living room and there was an altar and many holy pictures all over the wall, many, many candles and many pictures of Jesus.

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I can tell that you've had a recent spiritual crisis in your life.

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I can also tell that you have a recent death in the family.

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Yes, my husband two years ago.

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Okay. I can also see that there's something evil in your charts. Something that I am going to have to ask my grandmother to help us with.

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And I'm going to go ahead and get her now, is that all right?

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That's fine.

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Hi. My granddaughter told me you need help.

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Yes.

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I can help you.

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Please. She told me there were zealots in those cars but I'm doubtful of that.

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Let's see.

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I have the power to rebuild your problems. Take this rat and tie three knots.

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Three knots?

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Yes.

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She told me that my life had had a curse on it for over 40 years. That was put on by a girlfriend of my first husband.

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And she actually named the person that my husband went with before he married me.

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She said, will you come back and bring with you a $1, $5, $10 and a $20 bill?

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Did you bring the money with you?

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Yes.

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Just as you asked me.

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Lena Marie had also instructed Joan to bring a sheet which she had tied around both of their necks.

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To multiply and restore this money.

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Rip this money and I will prove that I do have the power.

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She told me to tear these bills in half.

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And she said, if this money will go back together and become whole, then I can help you.

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Otherwise I can't.

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And then she wrapped them up in the white handkerchief and tied it all together.

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Our father who art in heaven, Halloween.

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Lena Marie held the torn money under the sheet and rubbed it over Joan's arms and legs.

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To restore the money.

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Yes, I believe you have the power.

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Do you believe in Jesus?

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Yes, I believe in Jesus.

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Do you believe I have the power?

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Yes, I do believe you have the power.

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When Lena Marie unwrapped the money, the bills appeared magically restored and indeed even multiplied.

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To Joan, it seemed like a miracle.

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Oh, you're afraid.

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I can't believe it.

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I deal down and thank God.

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And so I knelt down before the altar and kept saying over the our father.

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You tell anybody, the curse will be back on you.

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Do you understand?

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Oh, yes I do.

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They always associate their special powers with God or religion or the church.

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And more importantly with this particular type of trick, with making the money multiply,

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is to get in the victim's mind that money means nothing.

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The next step is to convince the victim that they are cursed.

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I don't have the power to take the devil's life.

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Lena Marie told Joan to fill a shoe box with dirt and leave it in her garage for three days.

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Now look at this, what I'm going to do.

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She had a pitcher of water and she said, now we will pour this over the box and see whether or not the devil is in there.

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She took a stick and moved the dirt around and then I saw this water turn to blood.

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You see this blood? The devil.

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She had put this fear into me that all this would happen if we didn't get rid of the devil in my life.

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And here it was in front of me in this box.

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She said, we've got to get rid of this devil.

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It is in your life and it is all around you.

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And she said she had to have money because this would give her more power

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and the more money I could give her the more power she would have to help me.

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Over the next year and a half, Joan gave Lena Marie more than $81,000 in cash.

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She also gave Lena Marie most of her jewelry and bought her a brand new Cadillac.

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Well this money will help to take the evil out of your body.

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Marie had the type of personality that made you feel that she was helping you.

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And I believed in her. She had me so convinced. I believed everything.

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She had me so controlled that anything she would ask me to do, I would do.

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Sister, I'm so glad to see you, sister.

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Are you feeling fine with it?

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I'm just feeling good.

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Finally, Lena Marie had Joan hand over the last of her life savings.

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$40,000.

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She said, now we have to burn this money because money is evil.

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She put it in a garbage can and then put lighter fluid on it and burned it.

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She had me so convinced that all material things, all possessions, all money,

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was evil because the curse had been on me and everything that I owned and possessed.

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She had actually brainwashed me.

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The money that the individual thinks is going into the fire does not actually go into the fire.

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Kneel down and pray. Money is evil.

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And in order to purify you...

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There might be a $1 bill or a $100 bill wrapped around play money.

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And this is what actually goes into the fire and is actually burnt.

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Real money never goes into the fire.

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Did you see this?

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The crime that they're committing is they're taking valuables from people by the means of deception.

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But the majority of the people would just assume cut their losses and not come forward.

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They do not want to suffer the embarrassment of the community, of their peers, of their family.

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The embarrassment is a very hard thing to overcome.

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I gave her close to $150,000 in money, possessions, and jewelry.

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I look at myself and I say, how could I be so stupid?

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I'm a college educated person. I'm a professional.

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I've seen enough news reports.

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I've lived in the world long enough to know what real crime is and that people in any opportunity are very willing to steal your money.

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And I cannot believe that I was a victim of this crime.

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I feel like the stupidest person on the face of the earth.

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The evil from your body has gone into this money.

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The money that was in the bundle had been wrapped in a handkerchief and she had refolded it several times before it was ever thrown into the river.

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I never saw the actual $4,000.

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I had my eyes closed in prayer.

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Is it gone?

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It's gone. It's gone.

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Do you believe in the power?

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I do believe in the power.

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Every time she handled the money, she could have switched it.

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You believe in the power.

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What confirmed that a switch probably happened was that she took off.

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Yes, I did.

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Praise the lord.

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Based on the testimony of Karen, Joan, and 16 other victims, warrants were issued in Illinois for the arrest of Ann Corricelli and Lena Marie Wilson.

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The two women were nowhere to be found.

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Four days later, police in North Kansas City, Missouri, noticed some suspicious looking people in a motel parking lot.

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Boy, did you see them looking at us, Cal?

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I'll check those plates.

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They ran a license plate check and found that the car belonged to Lena Marie Wilson's daughter.

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Ann Corricelli was not in the car, but the Lena Marie was.

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Are you Lena Wilson?

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Yes, I am.

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You're under arrest.

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What's in the bag?

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Nothing.

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You have no right to do this to me.

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When police searched the car, they found over $250,000 worth of stolen jewelry.

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It's like a jewelry store here.

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You guys are wrong doing this.

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The police never found Ann Corricelli.

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Lena Marie Wilson jumped bail six days after she was apprehended.

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Lena Marie Wilson is 4'10'' tall and weighs 130 pounds.

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She's 53 years old and has a dark complexion, brown hair and brown eyes.

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She uses the aliases of Lena Calvin, Marie Marks and Lena Marks.

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Ann Corricelli is 5' tall and weighs between 140 and 170 pounds.

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She's 26 years old.

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Has a medium complexion, brown hair and brown eyes.

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She uses the aliases Lori Wilson, Lori Calvin and Ann Marks.

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The police are also searching for Joe Marks, a convicted male accomplice.

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He's 5'7'' tall and weighs 120 pounds.

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He's 39 years old.

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Has a dark complexion, brown hair and brown eyes.

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Update. Joe Marks has been captured.

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Within minutes of our broadcast, the Springfield, Missouri police department

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received a call from a viewer who recognized Joe Marks.

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On November 20, Green County, Missouri shares deputies

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arrested Marks at his parents' home,

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where his mother was operating a pawn-reading business.

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Four days later, Marks was extradited back to Illinois,

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where he is currently serving a six-year prison term for theft and murder.

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Qui is currently serving a six-year prison term for theft and conspiracy.

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In one moment, the fascinating story of an eccentric reckless

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lived in a tiny room at a YMCA,

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His friends were astounded when he left behind

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an unclaimed fortune of $250,000.

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Our next story is about one of the most frugal and unusual

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people we have ever encountered.

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He was reclusive, eccentric, a man

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who spent his time dreaming up the most peculiar ways

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to conserve money.

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When he died, he left the fortune valued at more than $250,000.

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This mysterious man devoted all his time and energy

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to saving money.

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Yet ironically, the fortune he amassed now sits unclaimed.

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Perhaps someone in our audience tonight is his heir.

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Howard Drummond moved to the Lansing, Michigan YMCA

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in 1985 when he was 74 years old.

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He rented a room for just $49 a week

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but chose not to pay an extra $5 a day

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for his own private bathroom.

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He always ordered the same breakfast, fried eggs, bacon,

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and rye toast for only $1.99.

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He also bought two extra breakfasts, packed them

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in his ever-present gym bag, and took them back to his room

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at the YMCA for lunch and dinner.

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Howard's daily expenditure on food was only $6.

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Howard was a pack rat.

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He saved money and everything else.

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In his room at the Y, he kept 50 coffee jars, all empty.

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He collected hundreds of magazines and countless rubber

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bands.

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Howard owned 80 pairs of white socks

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and eight identical suits and hats

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so he could wear the exact same outfit every day.

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Howard lived his life according to a rigid set of rules

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that only he fully understood.

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He seemed to have no friends and only a few acquaintances.

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Good morning. Good morning.

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Howard, how are you?

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Primarily, Howard had a very regimented lifestyle.

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He would pay his rent at a certain time every month,

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the same amount every month.

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His receipt, he would want stapled to a certain piece

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of paper a certain way every time it was done.

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However, there was another side to Howard

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that I found that people rarely saw.

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He was a very gentle person.

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He was very appreciative of all the small things

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that you did for him, and he was very willing to say thank you

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for everything that you did.

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Every day, Howard went to the downtown Lansing Post Office.

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He subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine,

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Psychology Today, Foreign Affairs, and Soviet Life.

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He regularly received envelopes from banks

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and sent out registered letters to banks.

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Howard never failed to stop for a visit with postal worker

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Francis Dodge.

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Good morning.

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He often presented her with unusual shopping

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written on the backs of old envelopes.

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Just in case you were to see.

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Howard always gave Francis money to cover the items he asked

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for, and she was usually able to find what he needed.

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Do you have any rubber bands?

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And I need some coffee.

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I've got some coffee.

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Oh, good.

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Yeah, I brought you some coffee, and I brought you some,

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uh, just a minute.

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Let me look.

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Oh, good.

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They also brought you some washcloths.

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Oh, I can use those.

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How are you today?

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Oh, I'm feeling fine.

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Good.

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Um, I'll see you tomorrow.

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OK.

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I thought he didn't have anything.

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Why would anyone go around in the same clothes all the time?

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He just looked really poor to me.

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I always asked him why he wore that same hat all the time.

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And he said, well, it's not worn out yet.

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After completing his daily routine in Lansing,

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Howard returned to his room at the YMCA.

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He never allowed anyone inside.

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He died on January 28, 1989.

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Two days later, Paul Rosenbaum, a county-appointed attorney,

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visited the YMCA.

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Since Howard had left no will, it was Rosenbaum's job

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to subtly estate and find Howard's heirs.

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Looking for clues, Rosenbaum spread the contents of Howard's

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room at the Y over the conference table at his law office.

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It took probably two and a half weeks to sort out everything.

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He had every single piece of paper from probably 25 years.

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He had a diary that was one of the most unbelievable things

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I have ever witnessed in my life in which he kept an hour by hour account

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of the headlines in news stations across the whole United States.

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He had three watches that wouldn't work.

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There were thousands of view shoelaces,

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unlimited amount of newspaper clippings,

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which a lot of it had to do with the royal family and Princess Di.

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He was infatuated with her.

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It was unique, to say the least.

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To the best of my knowledge, he had 11 separate bank accounts

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from coast to coast with a quarter of a million dollars in cash

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in the bank accounts, and that quarter of a million dollars

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is not even the tip of the iceberg.

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He has a whole lot more money out there.

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Strangely, the gym bag Howard always carried with him

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was not found in his room.

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Some say Howard kept his most important papers in that bag.

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Among Howard's possessions,

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Rosenbaum did find a key marked number 29.

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The key seems to open a standard locker,

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a type you might find in a bus station.

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Could Howard's missing gym bag be in the unknown locker?

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Could the papers inside lead the way to even more money?

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Authorities in Michigan are still searching for Howard's missing heirs.

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We have very little information about Howard Thomas Drummond.

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He was born in Houston, Texas in 1911,

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the only child of impoverished parents.

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He served in the Army from 1942 to 1945.

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He was fired from a job at a California bank for stealing Scotch tape,

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then became a postal employee in Pasadena.

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He lived at YMCA's in Pasadena, Denver and Dayton

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before moving to Lansing, Michigan.

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He died at the age of 77 and went to his grave

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holding the secret of his $250,000 fortune.

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In a moment a mystery with a happy ending,

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a mystery of a life saved when all hope was gone.

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The End

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June 10th, 1989.

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Don Hamilton and Donna Johnson are married in Maple Plain, Minnesota.

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This happy day is in a way a miracle.

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Punch, pull back, let's isolate that vein and artery, retraction.

458
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Just 20 months earlier, teams of specialists have been working

459
00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:06,820
around the clock to save Don's life.

460
00:38:06,820 --> 00:38:09,820
He was in a deep coma.

461
00:38:09,820 --> 00:38:12,820
Some of the doctors thought Don was already dead.

462
00:38:12,820 --> 00:38:14,820
Cut these holes.

463
00:38:14,820 --> 00:38:17,820
Don was not breathing, did not have an effective heartbeat.

464
00:38:17,820 --> 00:38:20,820
He had serious damage to body organs when he arrived.

465
00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:25,820
Statistically, Don's likelihood of surviving was very, very low, maybe zero.

466
00:38:25,820 --> 00:38:28,820
And that night I stood by his bedside most of the night

467
00:38:28,820 --> 00:38:31,820
and just wiped the blood because he said this probably would be his last night

468
00:38:31,820 --> 00:38:34,820
and he was bleeding from his eyes, nose and mouth again.

469
00:38:34,820 --> 00:38:38,820
And it was just like it was the last thing I could do for my son.

470
00:38:38,820 --> 00:38:43,820
Don Hamilton's recovery is a shining example of happy endings do occur.

471
00:38:43,820 --> 00:38:47,820
His story is one of those unexplained events in the field of science and medicine

472
00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:51,820
which proves that medical science and simple faith can turn out to be

473
00:38:51,820 --> 00:38:54,820
wondrous and mysterious partners.

474
00:38:59,820 --> 00:39:04,820
November 8th, 1987, just before Don, Don Hamilton and a group of friends

475
00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:09,820
set out deer hunting 175 miles north of their hometown, Maple Plain, Minnesota.

476
00:39:09,820 --> 00:39:12,820
I'll go way off to the right here, down to the end.

477
00:39:12,820 --> 00:39:14,820
OK, I think we're going to take off over here.

478
00:39:14,820 --> 00:39:16,820
All right, we'll see you guys.

479
00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:20,820
We all got rid of the deer and I took my ATV and drove out through the field,

480
00:39:20,820 --> 00:39:24,820
parked at the edge of the woods, and then walked into the woods to the tree

481
00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:28,820
that I had previously planned out that I would be in.

482
00:39:28,820 --> 00:39:34,820
And with my climbing harness and straps, I got myself strapped into the tree

483
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:42,820
and then I pulled the gun up to me and loaded it and just sort of sat back, relaxed on a branch.

484
00:39:42,820 --> 00:39:45,820
And I just loosened up on the gun.

485
00:39:45,820 --> 00:39:48,820
I had a balance on my legs and currently I shifted enough

486
00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:52,820
so I got off balance and when I loosened my grip, it slid off.

487
00:39:57,820 --> 00:39:58,820
Glenn!

488
00:39:58,820 --> 00:39:59,820
Steve!

489
00:39:59,820 --> 00:40:01,820
Sounds like somebody's been shot!

490
00:40:01,820 --> 00:40:03,820
Danny!

491
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:09,820
For 25 agonizing minutes, Don Hamilton's friends searched the dark woods.

492
00:40:09,820 --> 00:40:10,820
There he is, Glenn.

493
00:40:10,820 --> 00:40:13,820
Finally, they found Don in the tree.

494
00:40:13,820 --> 00:40:17,820
A bullet from his own rifle had severed crucial veins in his leg,

495
00:40:17,820 --> 00:40:19,820
Don seeming completely lifeless.

496
00:40:25,820 --> 00:40:29,820
20 minutes later, an ambulance rushed down to the nearest hospital.

497
00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:31,820
OK, is he breathing?

498
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:32,820
No.

499
00:40:32,820 --> 00:40:36,820
Technically, he was alive, but he had no blood pressure at all.

500
00:40:36,820 --> 00:40:38,820
Bag him deep.

501
00:40:38,820 --> 00:40:39,820
Got to watch the main bill.

502
00:40:39,820 --> 00:40:40,820
Yeah.

503
00:40:40,820 --> 00:40:42,820
Get those blood pumps on.

504
00:40:42,820 --> 00:40:44,820
This guy has nothing circulating.

505
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:45,820
I'm going to call the lab.

506
00:40:45,820 --> 00:40:46,820
Let's get another...

507
00:40:46,820 --> 00:40:49,820
When we started to work on Don, he was not breathing.

508
00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:50,820
He was not moving.

509
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:53,820
He was comatose and his heart was not pumping blood.

510
00:40:53,820 --> 00:40:55,820
There was no blood to pump.

511
00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:57,820
Stop CPR. OK, check that pulse.

512
00:40:57,820 --> 00:40:58,820
No carotid pulse.

513
00:40:58,820 --> 00:41:00,820
OK, he's in electromechanical dissociation.

514
00:41:00,820 --> 00:41:01,820
Let's go.

515
00:41:01,820 --> 00:41:02,820
Continue CPR.

516
00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:06,820
He'd lost more than half of his total blood volume

517
00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:09,820
and maybe close to two thirds or more.

518
00:41:09,820 --> 00:41:11,820
Continue CPR.

519
00:41:11,820 --> 00:41:14,820
I was afraid through the whole process of working on Don.

520
00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:18,820
I was afraid simply because I knew it would take everything

521
00:41:18,820 --> 00:41:20,820
our team could do to pull him through.

522
00:41:20,820 --> 00:41:24,820
The farther along we went, the more afraid I became in a different way.

523
00:41:24,820 --> 00:41:28,820
I was afraid that we as a team, doctors, nurses, anesthetists,

524
00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:31,820
respiratory therapists, lab personnel,

525
00:41:31,820 --> 00:41:34,820
would have saved a body, but not a brain.

526
00:41:34,820 --> 00:41:35,820
One more.

527
00:41:35,820 --> 00:41:36,820
That's it.

528
00:41:36,820 --> 00:41:39,820
One more, Kelly, please.

529
00:41:39,820 --> 00:41:41,820
Hold these, Jan.

530
00:41:41,820 --> 00:41:45,820
We ran out of options for Don in our hospital very quickly.

531
00:41:45,820 --> 00:41:47,820
We resuscitated him.

532
00:41:47,820 --> 00:41:52,820
Our surgeon operated to repair massive damage to the veins in his left leg.

533
00:41:52,820 --> 00:41:55,820
We gave Don all the blood and blood products we had,

534
00:41:55,820 --> 00:41:57,820
and he needed more.

535
00:41:57,820 --> 00:42:00,820
Hold and I'll cauterize and we'll come off with him.

536
00:42:00,820 --> 00:42:01,820
Off.

537
00:42:02,820 --> 00:42:04,820
The only thing we could do is transfer Don.

538
00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:10,820
Don was helicoptered to the North Memorial Medical Center

539
00:42:10,820 --> 00:42:12,820
in Minneapolis, 200 miles away.

540
00:42:12,820 --> 00:42:15,820
There a team of specialists waited for him.

541
00:42:15,820 --> 00:42:18,820
They stabilized Don's physical condition,

542
00:42:18,820 --> 00:42:21,820
but his brain showed no sign of life.

543
00:42:21,820 --> 00:42:25,820
First thing I'm going to do is open your eye and shine a light in.

544
00:42:25,820 --> 00:42:29,820
When I did the initial evaluation on Don,

545
00:42:29,820 --> 00:42:31,820
he failed all the tests.

546
00:42:31,820 --> 00:42:35,820
In essence, he basically did not have any breathing,

547
00:42:35,820 --> 00:42:40,820
any response to pain, any basic deep-seated reflexes

548
00:42:40,820 --> 00:42:42,820
that are very well protected in the brain.

549
00:42:42,820 --> 00:42:46,820
I'm sorry to tell you this, but your son has brain debt.

550
00:42:46,820 --> 00:42:48,820
I can't accept that.

551
00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:52,820
Dr. Norbach said that it's the same as if someone has been underwater for an hour.

552
00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:55,820
He said, have you ever heard anybody underwater for an hour

553
00:42:55,820 --> 00:42:57,820
and has lived and had a brain?

554
00:42:57,820 --> 00:42:59,820
And I still told him that I couldn't believe it.

555
00:42:59,820 --> 00:43:01,820
I just couldn't accept that yet.

556
00:43:01,820 --> 00:43:04,820
She had that feeling in her eye that said,

557
00:43:04,820 --> 00:43:06,820
okay, I've heard your side of the story.

558
00:43:06,820 --> 00:43:08,820
Well, let's just see.

559
00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:10,820
I have my own side of the story.

560
00:43:10,820 --> 00:43:14,820
Oh God, our Heavenly Father, we earnestly pray for Don's recovery.

561
00:43:14,820 --> 00:43:17,820
We knew that our church was praying for him.

562
00:43:17,820 --> 00:43:20,820
And they were of support the whole time.

563
00:43:20,820 --> 00:43:23,820
We pray that you will be the great physician.

564
00:43:23,820 --> 00:43:25,820
From 7 o'clock in the morning to 11 o'clock at night,

565
00:43:25,820 --> 00:43:26,820
we were never alone.

566
00:43:26,820 --> 00:43:28,820
There was someone with us.

567
00:43:28,820 --> 00:43:33,820
And they even had a schedule made up so that we wouldn't be alone when he died.

568
00:43:33,820 --> 00:43:36,820
Tragically, Don's body began to fail.

569
00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:40,820
First his kidney stopped functioning, then his lungs.

570
00:43:40,820 --> 00:43:43,820
Once he even suffered a cardiac arrest.

571
00:43:43,820 --> 00:43:47,820
Don, it's really going to be nice to get you out there again.

572
00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:49,820
Nevertheless, Don's family talked to him

573
00:43:49,820 --> 00:43:52,820
so he could hear every word they said.

574
00:43:52,820 --> 00:43:56,820
They prayed and searched in vain for a glimmer of response.

575
00:43:58,820 --> 00:44:02,820
Doctors offered them the option of turning off Don's life support systems.

576
00:44:02,820 --> 00:44:04,820
They refused.

577
00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:08,820
And despite the overwhelming odds, never gave up.

578
00:44:08,820 --> 00:44:12,820
They kept up the hope of survival

579
00:44:12,820 --> 00:44:15,820
even when it seemed like it would never occur.

580
00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:19,820
And lots of times when we would bring bleak news,

581
00:44:19,820 --> 00:44:23,820
they would accept it because they had to accept it.

582
00:44:23,820 --> 00:44:26,820
But you could tell that they were going to rise above that

583
00:44:26,820 --> 00:44:28,820
and somehow Donny was going to make it.

584
00:44:28,820 --> 00:44:31,820
My feeling was very positive all the time.

585
00:44:31,820 --> 00:44:34,820
I just knew that he was going to be okay.

586
00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:36,820
I just couldn't help but know that.

587
00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:42,820
After five weeks, his friend Karen Speeder and I went in to see him.

588
00:44:42,820 --> 00:44:45,820
Hi, Don. How are you doing?

589
00:44:45,820 --> 00:44:48,820
Don, Karen Speeder is here to see you.

590
00:44:51,820 --> 00:44:52,820
He nodded.

591
00:44:52,820 --> 00:44:55,820
You do know Karen Speeder, don't you, Don?

592
00:44:55,820 --> 00:44:58,820
To me, this was the breaking point.

593
00:44:58,820 --> 00:45:01,820
And I said, isn't that nice of Karen to come and see you

594
00:45:01,820 --> 00:45:03,820
and those three same short nods.

595
00:45:03,820 --> 00:45:06,820
So we knew because it was answers to questions.

596
00:45:06,820 --> 00:45:09,820
And he was nodding yes three times.

597
00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:11,820
So we knew that he was hearing us.

598
00:45:11,820 --> 00:45:14,820
By that time, of course, we'd been dealing on a day-to-day basis

599
00:45:14,820 --> 00:45:19,820
with the family and kept giving this news that was always couched with,

600
00:45:19,820 --> 00:45:23,820
well, I don't think things are still going to go well long range.

601
00:45:23,820 --> 00:45:27,820
And then all of a sudden to see just like a flower opening

602
00:45:27,820 --> 00:45:32,820
that he started to get markedly better over a period of just a day or two

603
00:45:32,820 --> 00:45:35,820
was just a great feeling all the way around.

604
00:45:37,820 --> 00:45:40,820
In four weeks, Don Hamilton made the miraculous journey

605
00:45:40,820 --> 00:45:44,820
from brain death to walking away from the hospital on crutches.

606
00:45:44,820 --> 00:45:47,820
Within six months, he threw the crutches away.

607
00:45:47,820 --> 00:45:50,820
The doctors and Don's family were united in the awesome feeling

608
00:45:50,820 --> 00:45:54,820
that they had witnessed a wonderful and mysterious event.

609
00:45:56,820 --> 00:45:59,820
This was a very memorable case.

610
00:45:59,820 --> 00:46:02,820
We loved being wrong in situations like this.

611
00:46:02,820 --> 00:46:06,820
It sort of balances the leisure, shall we say,

612
00:46:06,820 --> 00:46:10,820
a little bit for all those other ones where things don't quite go as well.

613
00:46:10,820 --> 00:46:15,820
If you believe in God, you'll call Don Hamilton's survival a miracle.

614
00:46:15,820 --> 00:46:17,820
I happen to believe in God.

615
00:46:17,820 --> 00:46:20,820
The doctors don't know why I lived,

616
00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:23,820
and I think God had a reason why I'm supposed to be here,

617
00:46:23,820 --> 00:46:25,820
and he pulled me through.

618
00:46:26,820 --> 00:46:30,820
Twenty months after his accident, Don married Donna Johnson.

619
00:46:30,820 --> 00:46:33,820
Every day, Don Hamilton feels awe.

620
00:46:33,820 --> 00:46:38,820
He no longer takes life's joys or life itself for granted.

621
00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:52,820
Next week on Unsolved Mysteries,

622
00:46:52,820 --> 00:46:55,820
in 1962, Sonny Liston was the toughest man on earth,

623
00:46:55,820 --> 00:46:57,820
the heavyweight champion of the world.

624
00:46:57,820 --> 00:46:59,820
Nine years later, he was dead.

625
00:46:59,820 --> 00:47:01,820
Police say he killed himself,

626
00:47:01,820 --> 00:47:04,820
his friends and family say Sonny Liston was murdered.

627
00:47:04,820 --> 00:47:07,820
Also the story of Sharon Stevens,

628
00:47:07,820 --> 00:47:10,820
a woman whose life has been haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child.

629
00:47:10,820 --> 00:47:13,820
But Sharon does have one happy memory,

630
00:47:13,820 --> 00:47:15,820
a couple who briefly were her foster parents

631
00:47:15,820 --> 00:47:18,820
and taught her the true meaning of the word love.

632
00:47:18,820 --> 00:47:20,820
I know that had been for them,

633
00:47:20,820 --> 00:47:25,820
I probably would have been a child abuser,

634
00:47:25,820 --> 00:47:29,820
drug addict, a prostitute,

635
00:47:29,820 --> 00:47:32,820
a very active alcoholic.

636
00:47:32,820 --> 00:47:38,820
I feel I would have turned out very bad if it hadn't been for them.

637
00:47:38,820 --> 00:47:41,820
Sharon was to reunite with his couple

638
00:47:41,820 --> 00:47:44,820
and thank them for literally saving her life.

639
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:49,820
Join me next week for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

640
00:48:29,820 --> 00:48:34,820
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