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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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

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Nashville, Tennessee.

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In 1989, a young journalist covering the country music scene

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was gunned down to what seemed a shocking act of random violence.

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Some believe that the crime was a crime.

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Some believe it was a contract hit.

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Bray Hickingbotham was an army intelligence expert whose

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top secret assignment was breaking codes

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from behind the iron curtain.

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Suddenly, without warning, he vanished.

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Eastern Connecticut, a lonely country road.

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Last year, a young woman driving to work

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was harassed by a mysterious assailant.

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He then calmly and methodically shot her in the face.

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Also the poignant story of Patty Ingle,

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she was born partially deaf.

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Patty's childhood was a lonely and silent world,

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frightened only by occasional visits from her natural father.

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Now Patty would like your help in finding the father she has not

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seen in 17 years.

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Join me.

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Perhaps you can help solve a mystery.

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According to the Justice Department, nearly half

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of all violent crimes in the United States

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is committed by a perfect stranger.

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Our next story focuses on a young woman whose peaceful life was

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shattered forever when she was caught

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in a horrifying game of cat and mouse

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with an unknown assailant on a lonely road.

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Still haunted by what happened, she's asked to remain anonymous.

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We will call her Carol.

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Monday, August 22, 1988, Carol drove

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to work along Brayman Hollow Road,

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a quiet two-lane highway that passes through the rolling

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countryside of eastern Connecticut.

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Carol was employed as a social worker at a hospital

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in nearby Putnam, where she counseled

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depressed and mentally ill patients.

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She had been using Brayman Hollow Road

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as a shortcut for more than a year.

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This morning, Carol found herself running 30 minutes late.

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The road I took that morning was my normal road

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in the way that I always go to work.

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Sometimes I think I was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

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You know, why me?

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I didn't do anything wrong.

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As I was driving, I all of a sudden

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came upon a black truck that was in front of me.

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It was driving very slow, so I slowed up right behind it.

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As Carol followed the pickup, it began

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to behave in a bizarre fashion, speeding up

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and slowing down erratically, crossing the center line

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as if out of control.

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Oh, heck!

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Carol began to sense that something was clearly wrong.

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Shortly after that, he stopped the truck in front.

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I can see it all happening in slow motion.

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He just slid out of his truck, and I

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realized he had a gun in his hand.

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I can remember seconds after it happened that I was going to die.

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I just felt or heard a rushing in my ears.

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And then I heard the radio on.

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For this morning, we'll say Rudy Cheeks and Carolyn Flakes.

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And I knew that I wasn't going to die.

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So my next thought was, I'm paralyzed.

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But I moved my feet and kicked off my shoes.

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It was like it was in a dream that it wasn't really

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happening the way it was.

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Carol was semi-conscious.

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She could hear the few cars had passed by,

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but was unable to signal for help.

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Because she was slumped across the front seat,

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she was out of the view of the other drivers.

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A few minutes elapsed before a utility serviceman

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drove by.

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From his elevated cab, he was able to see in the Carol's car.

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The man immediately summoned medical assistance.

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Detectives also arrived within minutes.

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Carol was near death.

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She had already lost two pints of blood.

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From the beginning, police viewed this case

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as an impending homicide.

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They knew they were racing against time

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to get crucial information.

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Can you hear me?

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I'm Detective Turner.

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I'm with the state police.

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We want to find out what happened to you today.

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What I'd like you to do is I want you to blink your eyes

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once for yes and twice for no.

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Do you know the person who shot you?

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Was this person driving in a vehicle?

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Was the person driving in a car?

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Was it a truck?

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Slowly but carefully, police are

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able to piece together an accurate description

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of the suspect and his vehicle.

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Carol was barely clinging to life

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when she reached the emergency room.

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The bullet tore through her face about two inches

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below her left eye.

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Her carotid artery had been severed,

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paralyzing her left vocal cord.

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Police would later determine that the assailant was just

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10 feet away when he pulled the trigger.

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Immediately following the shooting,

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we had troopers and detectives on Bramon Hollow Road

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and all the major police officers.

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On Bramon Hollow Road and all the main intersections,

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looking for both the suspect vehicle

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and also a vehicle similar in style to the one driven

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by the victim.

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Two drivers told police that in the hour prior to the shooting,

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a black pickup truck had pulled on and off the highway

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repeatedly, taunting other motorists.

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It's entirely possible that all of the incidents are related.

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It was the same black pickup truck involved

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in all these incidents, interfering with the traffic.

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A careful check was run on Carol's background,

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including her current and former patients.

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Doing the background investigation on our victim,

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she had no enemies that she was aware of.

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We weren't able to find any either.

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It appears that it's a totally random shooting

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and the victim just happened to be the next motorist

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to encounter this fellow on Bramon Hollow Road.

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The investigation then focused on finding the black pickup

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truck.

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Police learned there were more than 300,000 trucks

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in Connecticut that fit the description of the suspect's

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vehicle.

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Investigators checked auto body shops, garages,

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and gas stations throughout the state.

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They found nothing.

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The vehicle is described as a well-maintained black stepside

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pickup truck.

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It had flared fenders, standard with blackwall tires

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and shiny plain wheel covers.

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It's the general feeling of investigators

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that the suspect is still out in the area,

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still going to work, still going to the same gas station.

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He's just your average citizen who, for whatever reason,

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on this particular Monday morning,

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either under the influence or angry,

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we just don't know what provoked him to do this.

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Three months later, Carol's condition

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had improved dramatically.

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But she was left with a grim physical reminder

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of the incident.

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The bullet that pierced Carol's cheek

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is still lies in the back of her neck, close to her spine.

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At first, I thought about the bullet being in me every day.

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I have wanting it out and not being in me.

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I'm afraid that if I do go through an operation,

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that something may go wrong and it could be worse.

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So I will just leave the bullet in me

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until there's complications or pain.

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We have a motiveless crime at this point.

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We're not able to determine any particular reason why

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this gentleman would get out of his truck

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and, without any provocation, shoot the only other person

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around him in the face and do it so very quickly

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and leave the girl for dead.

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We don't have any idea why someone would do that.

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I think of it every day, especially

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when I look in the mirror and I see the scars

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and think about the incident that I am afraid and I'm

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also angry that this happened to me

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and that he's still out there and maybe leading

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his normal life without any cares to what happened to my life.

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The suspect is a white male between 26 and 32 years of age.

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He is approximately 5 feet 10 inches

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tall of medium build with brown curly hair covering his ears.

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Next, the story of Carol Solstine,

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an investigator who has reunited dozens of families

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with her lost loved ones.

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But Carol has been searching for her own father for over 40 years.

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Between May and September of 1945,

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a jubilant spirit reigned in the United States.

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American GIs justifiably hailed as conquering heroes

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and finally begun coming home from World War II.

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By the thousands they arrived, flushed

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with the optimism of victory, to a welcome of ticker-tape

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parades and open arms.

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Hold on.

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Hold on.

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The afterworld.

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One of the returning soldiers was Lieutenant Ray Hickingbothel,

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a decorated war hero.

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He was assigned to army intelligence

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and settled down with his wife Dorothy and three-year-old

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daughter Carol at the Vint Hill Farm Army

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station outside Arlington, Virginia.

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My memory was one of a kind of magical summer.

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It was the first time I had a dad at home and my mom there.

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There was just a lot of fun, a lot of time

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for the family to be together.

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Come back here.

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I got you.

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I got you.

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I'm back.

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In no time, the jubilant mood of victory

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faded and the nearer of fear and suspicion began.

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Stalin and communist Russia are valiant allies in 1945

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or are deadly enemies by 1947.

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The same year, the Vint Hill Farm Station

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served as headquarters for Ray Hickingbothel's army

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intelligence unit.

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The station housed a top secret radio operation.

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It is believed that Ray was part of a select group of expert

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code breakers who monitored radio communications

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from behind the newly created iron curtain.

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Cold war had begun.

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It's a good ulcer, Joe.

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You're sitting at a desk.

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You're not mobile.

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You can't get up.

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I've seen them scream sometimes and just

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physical frustration.

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And yeah, you know, it's just trying

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to ventilate the frustration while they continue

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plotting away with this boring but potentially incredibly

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fascinating job.

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Think I've got something.

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OK, here.

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Let me see that.

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This just came in over the China Lake.

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In less than a year, the Central Intelligence Agency

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would be created and the group at Vint Hill Farm

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would be absorbed into the CIA.

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Where's Daddy?

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Sweetie, Daddy's at work tonight.

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You know, he can't always be here,

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but that doesn't mean he doesn't love you.

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Ray found himself working long, hard hours.

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The work at Vint Hill Farm took more and more time away

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from his family.

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Be back to pick me up at 3.

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In late summer of 1947, Ray was transferred

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to another top secret group at the Arlington Hall

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Intelligence Station.

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He did not tell Dorothy about the new assignment.

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See?

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Say, watch what I can do.

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Watch what I can do.

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Yes, very good.

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Ray, can you give some attention to your daughter?

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My mother was worried because he seemed so tired and so uptight.

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He became very tense, and it became worse.

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It just got worse and worse.

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Ray?

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Dorothy, I don't want to drag you and Carolyn

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to my problems at work.

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Ray, that's what we're here for.

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We're a family.

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Ray, I just want to talk to you.

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Three weeks later, Dorothy took Carol to Long Island

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for a two-week visit with her grandparents.

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When Dorothy tried to phone Ray at their Vint Hill Farm

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apartment, she was given the surprising news

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that he had gone on leave.

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What?

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Then her former neighbor at the Army Station

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discovered that a moving crew had suddenly appeared

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at Dorothy and Ray's apartment.

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What's going on here?

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It's official Army business, ma'am.

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That's all I can tell you.

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OK, go ahead and get this chair and take it out to the truck.

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My mother received a phone call from the downstairs neighbor

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and other officer's wife.

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She said to my mother, there are movers upstairs,

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packers from the government, packing up your things

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and taking them out of your apartment.

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What is happening?

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And my mother was just frantic because she didn't know

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what to make of this.

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Indeed, military authorities had emptied Ray and Dorothy's

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apartment without a word of explanation.

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Two weeks later, a moving van showed up at Dorothy's parents'

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house on Long Island.

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In the boxes and trucks, there was not one single item

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belonging to Ray.

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No pictures, no letters, no writing, nothing.

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It was as though he had been purred from our lawns

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and though he was completely gone and wiped out.

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And my mother just didn't know what to make of it.

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A month went by, then a man claiming to be from the Army

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visited Dorothy on Long Island.

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He brought shocking news about Ray.

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Look, this is all I know.

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On October 14, 1947, he was listed as A-Wall.

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30 days later, he was dropped from the military roles

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and classified as a deserter.

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Captain, did you know my husband?

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Well, if you did, I think you would agree.

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He could never be classified as a deserter.

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I want to know what's really going on here.

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I'd like to be able to tell you.

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But I'm not at liberty to discuss the matter any further.

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Thanks for the coffee.

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Look, I don't want to have to be the one to tell you this.

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Because Ray's been classified as a deserter,

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you and Carol have lost all your military benefits.

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Look, I have my PX card.

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Could I take you over to the post?

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Get some groceries.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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I'll be right back.

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Get some groceries, something.

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Thank you.

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But that won't be necessary.

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Goodbye.

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Dorothy later tried to get in touch with a mysterious visitor.

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The army said they had never heard of him.

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My mother was alone.

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She was frightened.

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And she was afraid something terrible had happened to my father.

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Perhaps he'd gone overseas and been killed in line of duty.

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She could not comprehend that he would just disappear.

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She really thought the government was withholding information from her.

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It is absolutely not total paranoia to wonder if the CIA or another intelligence branch

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had something to do with his disappearance.

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Just sitting right here in my own experience,

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which didn't include that wild era of intelligence,

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I can think of a half dozen cases where people, you know,

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there were weird things like that happened where the family was not told the truth

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and the loved one did disappear or died and they weren't told how they died.

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Ray Hickingbotham was considered a deserter and was in disgrace.

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Carol and her mother struggled to make ends meet.

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Carol grew up, married, and moved to Oklahoma where she lives today.

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Ironically, Carol's search for her father developed into a career.

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She is a private investigator specializing in reuniting lost families.

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Carol has hundreds of grateful clients.

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Most of the people I deal with are children looking for parents

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who have been either separated by divorce

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or who were never married to the other parent in the picture.

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And they want to create a family relationship.

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But I have found brothers and sisters.

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I have found grandparents. I have found boyfriends and girlfriends,

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even an old teacher.

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Good to see you.

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Long time.

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I knew it was you as soon as I got out of the plane.

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The most satisfying thing for me is when someone tells me,

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I feel good for the first time in many years.

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This pain that I felt from separation is relieved.

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And I feel like I've accomplished something

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and I've overcome situations that have built up over the years.

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But I also feel a sense of sadness because I can't do it for myself.

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Carol has never given up on her own search.

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She requested a copy of her father's military records

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under the 1971 Freedom of Information Act.

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In the summer of 1979, the documents finally arrived.

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As I look through the material that I received,

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I began to get a picture of someone very special,

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someone very highly trained,

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someone who had performed at the top level,

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and I came to believe that this was a man who would not just disappear.

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One of the documents revealed that there had been no investigation requested

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by the Army into my father's disappearance,

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that the FBI had never been brought into the act at all.

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And that appeared to be very strange to us,

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that a highly trained, highly cleared officer

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could disappear off the face of the earth and no one went looking for him.

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After 25 years of budding heads with a government bureaucracy,

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Carol finally went to the media.

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A newspaper article about Carol and her missing father

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appeared in the local Arlington newspaper.

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Three hours later, she received an intriguing telephone call.

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Hello?

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The caller identified himself by a code name, Archangel.

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He was using a car phone but would not reveal his exact location.

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He said that my article had really rattled cages at the CIA

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and that it had really shook people up.

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Those were his words.

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Now listen carefully. I've got to give you some background.

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There have been sensitive leaks in the atomic energy area

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and your dad was investigating those leaks.

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In August of 47, an attempt was made on his life.

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His superior decided to bury your father.

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It was easier to drop out 20 years ago.

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Things were different.

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The man calling himself Archangel told Carol

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that her father was not a deserter.

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Because Ray's life had been in danger,

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a paper trail had been created to cover his disappearance.

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The whole time it was a few miles from Arlington.

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Archangel revealed the astounding news that for nearly a year,

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Ray Hickingbotham had lived only three miles away from Carol and her mother,

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hidden by the government in the suburbs of Washington, DC.

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Where is he now?

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Your father is still alive.

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His name is Nelson.

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He lives in a NATO country where there are high mountains,

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crystal play lakes, and a long time democracy.

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That's all I can say.

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Look, I have to get off now.

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Goodbye.

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Bye.

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When I hung up the phone, I felt very drained.

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Maybe he was a jokester or a con artist.

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Maybe he was going to call back and want money.

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I just didn't know what to believe.

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But there was a part of me that kept saying, my dad's alive.

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There's a chance.

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Carol never heard from a mysterious caller again.

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But she and her son Ian have never stopped trying to decipher Archangel's clues.

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See, it's crystal clear lakes.

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It is possible that my father chose to follow his career

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and that that was what he wanted above all else, including myself and our family.

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And that's very painful.

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I have compassion for a young man who may have made a wrong choice.

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We all make wrong choices.

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And I want my father to know that we love him and that it's forgotten.

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We just want the pain of not having him to end.

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Tonight, an unusual update concerning a case featured last season on Unsolved Mysteries.

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Gary Goff, who's been charged with first-degree murder

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in the brutal shooting death of an Arkansas man,

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wants to make a personal plea to his former lover and alleged accomplice to turn herself in.

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Help!

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On the night of October 19, 1986,

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39-year-old Charlie Sigmund showed up at the home of his ex-wife,

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Anna, her boyfriend, Gary Goff.

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According to Ann, Charlie arrived in a drunken rage and forced his way into the house.

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Once inside, Ann claims that Charlie began to beat her severely.

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Then Gary Goff came to a rescue.

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Despite a broken arm, Gary fought with Charlie then shot him seven times.

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Charlie died before police arrived.

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During interrogation by the police, Ann and Gary claimed that the shooting was in self-defense.

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No charges were filed and they were released.

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Suspicious of Ann and Gary's story, authorities continued to investigate the shooting.

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They wired one of Ann's friends for sound.

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That much time. Fine.

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I will wait until tomorrow.

446
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I'll be there.

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Fine. I will wait until tomorrow and then I'll call.

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She had been talking with Miss Sigmund and told her she was fixing to go to the police.

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Miss Sigmund ultimately told her not to go to the police or asked her not to go to the police

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and give her time to her and Mr. Goff time to leave town.

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She incriminated herself on the tape.

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Authorities issued a warrant for Ann and Gary's arrest,

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but before they could serve it, the couple disappeared.

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On May 22, 1989, Gary Goff voluntarily surrendered to Pemiscott County Sheriff's

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on the charge of first degree murder.

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Goff is currently being held at the Pemiscott County Jail,

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where tonight he wants to make a personal appeal to Ann Sigmund.

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I would like for Ann to turn herself in and try to get this straightened out.

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And all I have to do is come back and tell the truth.

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That's what's got to come out, the truth. Whatever it is.

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And I need some help because I don't know everything that went on that night.

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The only way I'll ever know is find Ann.

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Nashville, Tennessee. Country music capital of the world.

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Each year, millions of fans flock to the city to see and hear their favorite performance.

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The music business also attracts a host of aspiring stars

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looking for a foothold in the music world.

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Nashville is like dreamland. People have these big fantasies

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and every day people come here just to make their fantasy or their dream come true.

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And a lot of those people sacrifice their whole life savings.

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They'll spend their entire life savings, everything they've got on that dream.

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Like thousands before him, 23-year-old Kevin Hughes came to Nashville

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with dreams of making it big in the business side of the music industry.

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But just after Kevin began to establish himself in the Nashville music scene,

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his dreams came to a violent end.

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In 1986, Kevin left college to become the director of Cashbox Magazine's

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top 100 country and western chart.

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For Kevin, it was a chance of a lifetime.

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You got a couple hours.

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From the time he was late, great school.

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He started listening to music and started buying the magazines.

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00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:09,380
We'd have to go and pick up billboards about 40 miles away

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because we couldn't get them where we lived.

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And he always read the billboards and even would make up his own charts

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and that type of thing.

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As chart director, Kevin received playlist reports each week

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from radio stations across the country.

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00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:30,380
Based on these reports, he would rank records from one to 100

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according to their popularity.

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A high position in one of these charts can be very influential

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to the career of a new artist.

491
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It was a lot of work. It's a lot of work.

492
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And my tenure as a promoter, I've been through probably 12, 15,

493
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maybe even more chart directors.

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And he was probably, overall, not only the best but the most fair.

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Yeah, I'll just leave the front door unlocked.

496
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He was real rare for any kind of business, not just the music business.

497
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He was just very kind and very religious

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and just a Christian on the way around.

499
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He was very honest and trustworthy and loyal.

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And he loved his job.

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And so he'd put in dozens of hours after hours.

502
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After five o'clock, he was here several nights a week

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00:28:24,380 --> 00:28:27,380
working on the chart till nine or ten o'clock at night.

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On the night of Thursday, March 9th, after nearly a year on the job,

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Kevin was once again working late,

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making the final adjustments for that week's chart.

507
00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:43,380
Come on in, man. It's unlocked.

508
00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:46,380
That evening, Kevin's friend Sammy Sadler,

509
00:28:46,380 --> 00:28:50,380
an aspiring singer-songwriter, dropped by to say hello.

510
00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:53,380
Um, OK, how are you?

511
00:28:53,380 --> 00:28:55,380
Great. Working hard?

512
00:28:55,380 --> 00:28:57,380
Yeah. It's been a long day.

513
00:28:57,380 --> 00:28:59,380
How much longer do you think you'll be working?

514
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I can go. I can finish this up tomorrow.

515
00:29:03,380 --> 00:29:08,380
And Kevin suggested that two young men left the office at approximately 8.30 p.m.

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to go to a nearby restaurant for dinner.

517
00:29:13,380 --> 00:29:17,380
After dinner, Kevin and Sammy made an unplanned stop at Evergreen Records,

518
00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:21,380
a company where Sammy worked, so that he could use the phone.

519
00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:28,380
You know, we were just out having a good time.

520
00:29:28,380 --> 00:29:30,380
I mean, you know, we didn't know that we were going to eat.

521
00:29:30,380 --> 00:29:32,380
I didn't know I was going to eat when I got down there.

522
00:29:32,380 --> 00:29:34,380
We didn't know we was going to stop by Evergreen.

523
00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:36,380
It just popped in our head. You know, it popped in his head,

524
00:29:36,380 --> 00:29:39,380
let's go eat. And I just wanted to use the phone to call my parents.

525
00:29:44,380 --> 00:29:48,380
We come into Evergreen, and we was in here about, I would say,

526
00:29:48,380 --> 00:29:51,380
approximately 10 minutes.

527
00:29:51,380 --> 00:29:55,380
Mom, how you doing?

528
00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:57,380
I was using the phone, and while I was on the phone,

529
00:29:57,380 --> 00:29:59,380
I heard something rattle the door.

530
00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:06,380
What was that? I don't know. Check it out.

531
00:30:07,380 --> 00:30:10,380
So Kevin got up and walked out into the front.

532
00:30:10,380 --> 00:30:13,380
I don't know where they looked at the front door of the side window.

533
00:30:20,380 --> 00:30:23,380
And when he come back in, I just said, what was that?

534
00:30:23,380 --> 00:30:26,380
He said, well, it looked like a black guy, but I'm not for certain.

535
00:30:26,380 --> 00:30:28,380
He said, I really couldn't tell.

536
00:30:28,380 --> 00:30:30,380
And that's when I said, well, I told my mother.

537
00:30:30,380 --> 00:30:33,380
I said, we'll call you later. I said, we're going to go home.

538
00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:37,380
You know, maybe if I'd have been alone down here,

539
00:30:37,380 --> 00:30:41,380
maybe something would have sparked in my head that something was wrong,

540
00:30:41,380 --> 00:30:44,380
or that something wasn't right.

541
00:30:44,380 --> 00:30:49,380
But I was with somebody, and I mean,

542
00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:52,380
never in a million years do you think you're going to get shot.

543
00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:55,380
How's it look?

544
00:30:56,380 --> 00:30:59,380
Man, that guy, he went away. He's gone.

545
00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:02,380
You know, you kind of used to get a feeling inside you

546
00:31:02,380 --> 00:31:05,380
if somebody's behind you or walking up to you or something.

547
00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:07,380
And I never got that feeling.

548
00:31:07,380 --> 00:31:09,380
We are. Yeah, we're out.

549
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:11,380
But it ain't strange.

550
00:31:11,380 --> 00:31:13,380
And even when we was walking across the street,

551
00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:16,380
I turned around and looked behind us, and I didn't see anything.

552
00:31:18,380 --> 00:31:21,380
So I walked in front of Kevin's car and opened the door and sat down.

553
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:24,380
And as soon as I sat down, it started to reach for the door

554
00:31:24,380 --> 00:31:26,380
that was a guy out on the sidewalk.

555
00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:28,380
And that's when he shot me.

556
00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:30,380
Help! Help!

557
00:31:35,380 --> 00:31:48,380
Music

558
00:31:49,380 --> 00:31:52,380
Sammy Sadler survived the brutal attack,

559
00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:55,380
despite a bullet that severed a major artery in his arm.

560
00:31:56,380 --> 00:31:59,380
Kevin Hughes was shot three times.

561
00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:01,380
Two of the bullets entered the back of his head.

562
00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:04,380
He was dead when police arrived at the scene.

563
00:32:06,380 --> 00:32:09,380
We have no motive. We have no suspect.

564
00:32:09,380 --> 00:32:12,380
We have no, uh, no solid witnesses.

565
00:32:12,380 --> 00:32:15,380
Even though we have five people that witness this,

566
00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:19,380
we have none that can tell us what the suspect looked like.

567
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:24,380
The next day, rumors began to circulate through Nashville

568
00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:27,380
that Kevin's murder was a professional hit.

569
00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:29,380
Some people in the music industry and media

570
00:32:29,380 --> 00:32:32,380
speculated that Kevin had either been mixed up in

571
00:32:32,380 --> 00:32:36,380
or had refused to participate in a chart manipulation scheme.

572
00:32:38,380 --> 00:32:40,380
On the surface, it looks like a pretty good theory

573
00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:42,380
that Kevin was in a position to make a number 100 song,

574
00:32:42,380 --> 00:32:44,380
so he could make it number five.

575
00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:46,380
Well, the charts could be padded,

576
00:32:46,380 --> 00:32:49,380
and Kevin, if he was taking money from somebody,

577
00:32:49,380 --> 00:32:52,380
from a promoter or whoever, from a singer, he could,

578
00:32:52,380 --> 00:32:55,380
in theory, push this person's record up.

579
00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:58,380
But we found no evidence of that. Kevin was not involved in that.

580
00:32:58,380 --> 00:33:00,380
He was not the type of person to be involved in that.

581
00:33:00,380 --> 00:33:03,380
If he was involved in something that he didn't want to participate,

582
00:33:03,380 --> 00:33:06,380
a phone call could be made and he could be fired,

583
00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:09,380
or he could be terminated for it, but why kill him?

584
00:33:09,380 --> 00:33:11,380
His job wasn't that important to be killed for.

585
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:13,380
That's what we've determined.

586
00:33:13,380 --> 00:33:17,380
If it was a professional hit, why do it with a witness there

587
00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:19,380
with Sammy Sander there?

588
00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:22,380
If Sammy wasn't the target, why even include Sammy?

589
00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:24,380
Why not wait until Kevin was alone?

590
00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:29,380
A second theory is that Sammy and Kevin were the tragic victims

591
00:33:29,380 --> 00:33:31,380
of a robbery gone wrong.

592
00:33:31,380 --> 00:33:34,380
How can it be a robbery when nothing is ever spoken

593
00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:37,380
and the shooter chased Kevin down and killed

594
00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:40,380
and made it a point to make sure he was dead?

595
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:42,380
Even after he had shot Kevin twice in the head,

596
00:33:42,380 --> 00:33:45,380
he never once made any attempt to take any money from Kevin.

597
00:33:45,380 --> 00:33:47,380
He ran away as soon as he fired the shots.

598
00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:49,380
You're up to three.

599
00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:51,380
But you're going to lose your bullet this week.

600
00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:53,380
Another theory connected to Kevin's work

601
00:33:53,380 --> 00:33:56,380
is that he may have been the target of an angry manager

602
00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,380
or performer with a misguided grudge.

603
00:33:58,380 --> 00:34:01,380
I just do what radio tells me to do.

604
00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:03,380
I got no control over it.

605
00:34:03,380 --> 00:34:06,380
That might be a person that didn't understand

606
00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:09,380
that maybe blamed Kevin for the failure

607
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,380
because he wrote a song and it didn't become successful

608
00:34:12,380 --> 00:34:14,380
and he needed something to do with it.

609
00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:16,380
And that's what he did.

610
00:34:16,380 --> 00:34:18,380
I could say that could be a theory,

611
00:34:18,380 --> 00:34:20,380
but that's the only way that I would ever believe

612
00:34:20,380 --> 00:34:22,380
that it was music related.

613
00:34:22,380 --> 00:34:25,380
If you want to call that music related, I don't.

614
00:34:28,380 --> 00:34:30,380
For Sammy Sandler, the nightmare that began

615
00:34:30,380 --> 00:34:33,380
on that cold spring night continues.

616
00:34:37,380 --> 00:34:39,380
He has undergone surgery on his right arm

617
00:34:39,380 --> 00:34:41,380
and may need more to repair nerve damage.

618
00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:43,380
He's been doing it for a long time.

619
00:34:43,380 --> 00:34:45,380
He's undergone surgery on his right arm

620
00:34:45,380 --> 00:34:47,380
and may need more to repair nerve damage

621
00:34:47,380 --> 00:34:49,380
caused by the assailant's bullet.

622
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:53,380
Although he continues to pursue his singing career,

623
00:34:53,380 --> 00:34:56,380
he has been unable to play the guitar since being shot.

624
00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:02,380
You know, I would like to know why,

625
00:35:02,380 --> 00:35:04,380
because I don't know why.

626
00:35:04,380 --> 00:35:06,380
I don't know who or why.

627
00:35:06,380 --> 00:35:08,380
I mean, I can sit here and talk about it now.

628
00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:10,380
You know, then, you know, I couldn't.

629
00:35:10,380 --> 00:35:12,380
But it still hurts.

630
00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:17,380
You know, you can't bring him back.

631
00:35:17,380 --> 00:35:20,380
I just hope, you know,

632
00:35:20,380 --> 00:35:22,380
I hope that this helps solve the case,

633
00:35:22,380 --> 00:35:25,380
because nobody knows, nobody understands why.

634
00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:30,380
One possible clue to the gunman's identity

635
00:35:30,380 --> 00:35:32,380
is a baseball cap found near Kevin Hughes' body

636
00:35:32,380 --> 00:35:34,380
the night of his murder.

637
00:35:34,380 --> 00:35:36,380
It bears the inscription,

638
00:35:36,380 --> 00:35:38,380
World War II veteran and damn proud of it,

639
00:35:38,380 --> 00:35:41,380
as well as a drawing of a combat infantryman.

640
00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:44,380
Police theorize that it may have fallen from the killer's coat

641
00:35:44,380 --> 00:35:47,380
as he leaned over Kevin and fired the fatal shots.

642
00:35:47,380 --> 00:35:50,380
They have been unable to locate the owner or manufacturer.

643
00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:09,380
Next, the story of a woman

644
00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:11,380
who has been partially deaf since birth

645
00:36:11,380 --> 00:36:13,380
and who wants to reunite her with her father

646
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:16,380
she has not seen for 17 years.

647
00:36:25,380 --> 00:36:28,380
Unsolved mysteries is broadcast in a closed captioned version

648
00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:31,380
so that the hearing impaired may also participate.

649
00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:33,380
Recently, we received this letter

650
00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:35,380
from a woman named Patty English.

651
00:36:35,380 --> 00:36:37,380
Partially deaf since birth,

652
00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:39,380
Patty asked for our help in locating her father,

653
00:36:39,380 --> 00:36:41,380
whom she'd not seen for 17 years.

654
00:36:41,380 --> 00:36:44,380
In her touching letter, Patty writes,

655
00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:47,380
I want to hold my dad so much,

656
00:36:47,380 --> 00:36:50,380
I remember his feeling, love and kindness.

657
00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:52,380
With your help tonight,

658
00:36:52,380 --> 00:36:55,380
Patty's wish may come true.

659
00:36:58,380 --> 00:37:01,380
When Patty's mother brought her new baby girl home from the hospital

660
00:37:01,380 --> 00:37:03,380
on Christmas day of 1958,

661
00:37:03,380 --> 00:37:06,380
Patty was already a victim of circumstance.

662
00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:10,380
Her mother, Helen, was just 17 years old and pregnant

663
00:37:10,380 --> 00:37:13,380
when she married 21-year-old Robert Wilson Miller.

664
00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:16,380
The couple separated before Patty was born.

665
00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:20,380
Patty's premature birth was responsible for her deafness.

666
00:37:20,380 --> 00:37:23,380
I was a tiny baby.

667
00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:25,380
My mother carried me only six months,

668
00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:28,380
but they thought I'll never make it,

669
00:37:28,380 --> 00:37:31,380
and but I make it.

670
00:37:34,380 --> 00:37:36,380
The day Patty was brought home,

671
00:37:36,380 --> 00:37:40,380
her father had reappeared with a crib and a beautiful white dress.

672
00:37:40,380 --> 00:37:42,380
Hi, Helen. How you doing?

673
00:37:42,380 --> 00:37:44,380
Hello, Robert.

674
00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:46,380
I got some presents for the baby.

675
00:37:46,380 --> 00:37:48,380
That was good of you.

676
00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:50,380
Hey.

677
00:37:50,380 --> 00:37:52,380
Can I hold her?

678
00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:54,380
She's your daughter.

679
00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:03,380
Sadly, the marriage was doomed

680
00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:06,380
and a couple divorced within weeks of Patty's birth.

681
00:38:06,380 --> 00:38:08,380
Beautiful.

682
00:38:08,380 --> 00:38:11,380
Patty's mother eventually remarried,

683
00:38:11,380 --> 00:38:13,380
and Patty spent her early childhood

684
00:38:13,380 --> 00:38:16,380
assuming that her mother's new husband was her real father.

685
00:38:20,380 --> 00:38:22,380
Patty!

686
00:38:22,380 --> 00:38:24,380
One day when she was five years old,

687
00:38:24,380 --> 00:38:26,380
Patty saw a strange man at her door.

688
00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:28,380
I'm Robert Wilson Miller.

689
00:38:28,380 --> 00:38:30,380
Yeah?

690
00:38:31,380 --> 00:38:33,380
Helen, home?

691
00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:35,380
Nope.

692
00:38:35,380 --> 00:38:37,380
Can I see Patty?

693
00:38:37,380 --> 00:38:39,380
Nope.

694
00:38:39,380 --> 00:38:41,380
Patty was unable to hear what they said,

695
00:38:41,380 --> 00:38:43,380
but through lip reading,

696
00:38:43,380 --> 00:38:45,380
she was able to get the gist of their conversation.

697
00:38:45,380 --> 00:38:47,380
She's my kid.

698
00:38:47,380 --> 00:38:49,380
I watched you three live what he is saying,

699
00:38:49,380 --> 00:38:52,380
and it's hard for me understanding what he's talking about.

700
00:38:52,380 --> 00:38:54,380
Please.

701
00:38:54,380 --> 00:38:56,380
A couple of minutes.

702
00:38:56,380 --> 00:38:58,380
Betty, he said,

703
00:38:58,380 --> 00:39:03,380
I have the right to see her because she's my daughter.

704
00:39:03,380 --> 00:39:07,380
And he talked real nice and real friendly,

705
00:39:07,380 --> 00:39:09,380
and I really like this man.

706
00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:11,380
You're such a big girl.

707
00:39:13,380 --> 00:39:15,380
You know the last time I held you?

708
00:39:15,380 --> 00:39:17,380
You're just a baby.

709
00:39:18,380 --> 00:39:20,380
You may not understand this, okay?

710
00:39:22,380 --> 00:39:24,380
I'm your daddy.

711
00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:27,380
Time's up, pal.

712
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:30,380
By the timeless stranger left,

713
00:39:30,380 --> 00:39:32,380
Patty was bewildered.

714
00:39:32,380 --> 00:39:35,380
My stepfather said,

715
00:39:35,380 --> 00:39:37,380
he is not your father,

716
00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:39,380
and I'm your father.

717
00:39:39,380 --> 00:39:42,380
And I didn't know what's happening then, that time.

718
00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:46,380
As the years went by,

719
00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:49,380
Patty remembers enduring the pain of separation

720
00:39:49,380 --> 00:39:52,380
and the loneliness of growing up unloved.

721
00:39:52,380 --> 00:39:54,380
Hi. Can I help you?

722
00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:56,380
I'm Robert Wilson Miller.

723
00:39:56,380 --> 00:39:58,380
We spoke earlier about this.

724
00:39:58,380 --> 00:40:00,380
This is my wife.

725
00:40:00,380 --> 00:40:03,380
But in 1971, when Patty was 12, her father found her again.

726
00:40:03,380 --> 00:40:07,380
Her junior high school allowed him into the classroom to see his child.

727
00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:14,380
Hi, Patty. How are you?

728
00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:20,380
Do you remember me?

729
00:40:21,380 --> 00:40:24,380
Patty's father had hoped that his daughter would recognize him,

730
00:40:24,380 --> 00:40:26,380
but Patty was confused.

731
00:40:30,380 --> 00:40:32,380
I'll see you again someday.

732
00:40:34,380 --> 00:40:36,380
I have a strange feeling.

733
00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:40,380
He's so good to me, he hugged me and kissed my forehead.

734
00:40:40,380 --> 00:40:43,380
And he started crying.

735
00:40:43,380 --> 00:40:46,380
And his wife started comfort, put his arm around him.

736
00:40:46,380 --> 00:40:49,380
And I feel that he cares.

737
00:40:49,380 --> 00:40:53,380
My mother and my stepfather never give me a hug.

738
00:40:53,380 --> 00:40:56,380
And I want their tation, their love,

739
00:40:56,380 --> 00:40:59,380
but never have one from them, one of the kids.

740
00:41:00,380 --> 00:41:03,380
Patty, he is your real father.

741
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:09,380
When Patty finally realized who the man was, she ran after him.

742
00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:12,380
I found out that he's my real father.

743
00:41:12,380 --> 00:41:16,380
Because I had the feeling, warm feeling, from him.

744
00:41:16,380 --> 00:41:18,380
And I know then he's my dad.

745
00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:21,380
Patty!

746
00:41:22,380 --> 00:41:26,380
And I come out and I saw his car going out of the parking lot.

747
00:41:26,380 --> 00:41:30,380
And I thought, way that, and I said, Dad, don't go.

748
00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:33,380
And too late, he left.

749
00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:39,380
I want my daddy.

750
00:41:44,380 --> 00:41:47,380
I cry in the pain.

751
00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:51,380
And all this nightmare I ever had.

752
00:41:51,380 --> 00:41:54,380
And I really want my dad.

753
00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:58,380
Patty remembers enduring a traumatic adolescence.

754
00:41:58,380 --> 00:42:02,380
And finally at the age of 14, ran away from home and ended up in a shelter.

755
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:06,380
I was sitting by the window, looks out.

756
00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:13,380
And I was thinking about my past life, terrible things in my mind.

757
00:42:14,380 --> 00:42:18,380
At the shelter, a social worker took an interest in Patty's case.

758
00:42:18,380 --> 00:42:21,380
And after calling every Robert Miller in the phone book,

759
00:42:21,380 --> 00:42:23,380
finally located Patty's father.

760
00:42:24,380 --> 00:42:27,380
He arrived and heard his daughter's sad story.

761
00:42:28,380 --> 00:42:30,380
I don't want to go back there.

762
00:42:30,380 --> 00:42:32,380
I want to go home this year.

763
00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:35,380
He explained that he would call a lawyer.

764
00:42:35,380 --> 00:42:39,380
But a few days later, Patty was sent back home to her mother and stepfather.

765
00:42:44,380 --> 00:42:47,380
Her father had promised to visit Patty.

766
00:42:47,380 --> 00:42:50,380
And for an agonizing week after coming home from the shelter,

767
00:42:50,380 --> 00:42:52,380
Patty waited for him to arrive.

768
00:42:55,380 --> 00:42:58,380
What's going on? Get in there.

769
00:43:01,380 --> 00:43:03,380
My stepfather had the hammer with him.

770
00:43:03,380 --> 00:43:06,380
And he'd come up to my natural father.

771
00:43:06,380 --> 00:43:09,380
And I thought, oh no, please don't go.

772
00:43:09,380 --> 00:43:11,380
Please don't go.

773
00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:13,380
You want Patty to come with us?

774
00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:14,380
She's not going anywhere.

775
00:43:14,380 --> 00:43:17,380
Look, I don't want any trouble, but we talked to her at the shelter

776
00:43:17,380 --> 00:43:18,380
and we spoke to a lawyer.

777
00:43:18,380 --> 00:43:19,380
Get out of here.

778
00:43:19,380 --> 00:43:21,380
And he left.

779
00:43:21,380 --> 00:43:24,380
I mean, he looked at me at the storm door.

780
00:43:24,380 --> 00:43:28,380
And then it was sad it was.

781
00:43:28,380 --> 00:43:29,380
And he left.

782
00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:35,380
Get upstairs.

783
00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:39,380
So I ran in my bedroom, cried and cried and cried.

784
00:43:40,380 --> 00:43:44,380
Then I went up to the window and I looked to say my prayer.

785
00:43:44,380 --> 00:43:48,380
I said, God, please break him back.

786
00:43:48,380 --> 00:43:49,380
I need him.

787
00:43:49,380 --> 00:43:51,380
I love him.

788
00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:53,380
Patty never saw her father again.

789
00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:56,380
She believes that he was blocked from visiting by legal action

790
00:43:56,380 --> 00:43:59,380
and feels certain that he would have taken her if it was possible.

791
00:44:03,380 --> 00:44:07,380
Fortunately, as Patty grew into an adult, her life began to improve.

792
00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:12,380
After meeting her husband, James, in 1977,

793
00:44:12,380 --> 00:44:15,380
she soon began to raise her own family.

794
00:44:15,380 --> 00:44:19,380
Though her husband is also deaf, their two children can hear perfectly

795
00:44:19,380 --> 00:44:23,380
and they have grown up in an atmosphere of love and affection.

796
00:44:25,380 --> 00:44:28,380
Today, Patty wants to find her real father

797
00:44:28,380 --> 00:44:30,380
and introduce him to the husband she loves

798
00:44:30,380 --> 00:44:35,380
and the grandchildren she is so proud to have brought into the world.

799
00:44:35,380 --> 00:44:37,380
I'm happy with my marriage.

800
00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:40,380
I'm happy with my children.

801
00:44:40,380 --> 00:44:43,380
And I really want my dad.

802
00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:46,380
And I hope I can see him again.

803
00:44:46,380 --> 00:44:49,380
It'd be rejoicing.

804
00:44:49,380 --> 00:44:51,380
Just minutes after her story aired,

805
00:44:51,380 --> 00:44:54,380
Patty received a surprise phone call from one of our viewers,

806
00:44:54,380 --> 00:44:57,380
her half-sister who's also named Patty.

807
00:44:57,380 --> 00:45:00,380
Two days later, Patty and her father met for the first time

808
00:45:00,380 --> 00:45:02,380
in more than 17 years.

809
00:45:02,380 --> 00:45:04,380
I love you, Patty.

810
00:45:04,380 --> 00:45:06,380
Yeah, I love you too.

811
00:45:10,380 --> 00:45:12,380
I first met dad.

812
00:45:12,380 --> 00:45:14,380
I was really crying.

813
00:45:14,380 --> 00:45:16,380
And we were hugging.

814
00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:18,380
We were crying.

815
00:45:18,380 --> 00:45:20,380
And it was good.

816
00:45:22,380 --> 00:45:26,380
It was just a beautiful feeling, you know.

817
00:45:26,380 --> 00:45:28,380
Just it's sad, but it's beautiful.

818
00:45:28,380 --> 00:45:30,380
You know, just...

819
00:45:30,380 --> 00:45:33,380
Just you know, you hurt me inside and everything.

820
00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:36,380
It was just wonderful.

821
00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:38,380
Yeah, that's a lot of years.

822
00:45:38,380 --> 00:45:41,380
We got a lot of catching up to do.

823
00:45:41,380 --> 00:45:44,380
Patty, the reunion with her father,

824
00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:47,380
marked the beginning of a new chapter in her life,

825
00:45:47,380 --> 00:45:50,380
one of love, fulfillment and family.

826
00:45:50,380 --> 00:45:56,380
All these years, in my heart, I feel that I'm still his daughter.

827
00:45:56,380 --> 00:45:59,380
And I know I'm still his daughter.

828
00:45:59,380 --> 00:46:02,380
And I want to have a second chance of life,

829
00:46:02,380 --> 00:46:04,380
a second chance of family.

830
00:46:04,380 --> 00:46:06,380
And I'm very excited.

831
00:46:06,380 --> 00:46:08,380
I'm very grateful.

832
00:46:59,380 --> 00:47:01,380
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