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

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

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, this peaceful suburban neighborhood in New Jersey concealed

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a violent and secretive Colombian cocaine gang. The vicious ringleader of this gang

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vanished in 1986, and the FBI wants your help in tracking him down. The sweetheart

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swindler is a charming but ruthless con man who prays on unsuspecting women by stealing

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their hearts and then their money. In an 11-hour period in March of 1988, a sadistic spree

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of violence left four people dead in two different states, and shockingly, the suspects are two

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teenage boys. Also, we will present a most unusual and poignant case of kidnapping. In 1944,

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two teenage girls told 10-week-old Lawrence Harding Jr. in front of his mother's Chicago

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apartment. For over 45 years, his brother Jeffrey has been trying to solve this case.

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He is convinced that Lawrence is still alive and may even be watching tonight.

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Join me. You may be able to help solve a mystery.

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Imagine watching television and suddenly learning you've been kidnapped as an infant and had a

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brother and two parents that you never thought existed. Well, somewhere in the United States,

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there is a man who in the next few minutes may make this shocking discovery. It all began 37

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years ago in 1953 when an eight-year-old boy named Jeffrey Harding was taught by schoolmates about

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a brother he never knew. That same day, Jeffrey's mother showed him some scrapbooks stored in the

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attic. She explained that he did indeed have a brother, but the boy was kidnapped before Jeffrey

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had been born. What was he like? Well, baby, mama really didn't know what he was like. You see,

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I didn't get to spend a lot of time with him like I spend with you. I just didn't know what to do.

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I felt so empty inside and I felt so so sad for my parents. I could just look in my mother's eyes

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and see the pain. These two girls came and they took them and they ran. You'll never see them again?

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No. And I also wanted to know what it was like to have a brother and I always felt cheated that I

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couldn't communicate with them. I couldn't play with them. I couldn't wrestle with them. Couldn't go

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to a ball game with them. I couldn't do anything like everybody else did with their own brother and sister.

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This is the article. FBI reported in search for kidnapped baby. The Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Jeffrey's mother brought on a baby book and read him clippings she had saved about the

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events of June 30th, 1944. The baby was kidnapped eight days ago by two Negro girls. Spends her

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date in the Chicago FBI Department decline comment. According to federal law however,

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that morning, with 10-week-old Lawrence Jr. in his carriage,

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Jeffrey's mother made her customary trip to the corner market.

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And while she was in the store, there were two girls there, the teenage girls that didn't look

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like they were up to anything bad. Oh, what a doll. You really have a cute baby. Oh, thank you. It's my first.

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Margaret didn't recognize the two girls from the neighborhood. They felt that their attention was innocent.

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As my mother was coming home from the market, the two girls were following her. But she didn't

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think a whole lot of it. She just thought that the two girls were walking down the street as she

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was going home. And when she pulled into the yard with the baby carriage, she saw a neighbor

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who lived upstairs. Can you mind a little Lawrence for me? Sure, I will. I'm just gonna run these inside.

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Okay. The lady who was supposed to be watching my brother didn't keep an eye on him long enough.

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She watched him for a little while and then she kind of turned away.

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Hey, you two, stop! Margaret! Hey! Come back! My baby! Stop! Wait!

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By the time my mother, who was running as fast as she could, got to the alley,

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and could run after the girls, could give chase to the girls, the girls were gone.

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Lawrence! Lawrence! Lawrence!

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Hello? Is this Mrs. Harding? After three agonizing days, the Hardings received a phone call.

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You have the baby? The girl on the other end of the line identified herself as one of the people

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that took the baby. And the girl said, we're going to bring the baby to you. And my mother said, when?

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Will you please bring him home? And as she was waiting for an answer, the girl hung up on her.

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She was never asked for ransom, and that was the last contact my mother had with the kidnappers.

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The FBI and the Chicago police searched for Lawrence Jr. to no avail.

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Finally, after four weeks, the investigation was called off. Lawrence Harding Jr. had vanished into thin air.

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45 years ago, because the authorities couldn't help my parents,

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and because everyone was advising them that they should try to adjust to the fact that they would

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never see their son again, for the last 45 years they've had to do just that. They've had to try

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to live in a life, a full life, knowing that they would never see their son again. When one mother

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told me what had happened, and I think it was then that a seed was kind of planted inside of me,

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that because I love my parents, I wanted to make this right for them.

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Jeffrey searched for his missing brother and his one stone wall after another, until August of 1986.

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Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, he was able to secure the original FBI records

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pertaining to the case of his brother's disappearance. In these files, Jeffrey found a

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startling new lead, and he hired private investigator Paul Riggsby. Together, the two men learned that

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in 1944, the FBI had interviewed two railroad porters who told a curious tale.

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July 4, 1944, Chicago's main train station, four days after Lawrence Harding Jr.'s disappearance.

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The FBI file from Washington that we were able to get a copy of indicated one of the

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teenage girls showed up at the train station with a baby meeting the description of Lawrence.

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Excuse me, ma'am. Are you going to St. Louis? Yes, I am.

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Would you want to hold my baby for a moment? I don't know.

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I just have to run to the washroom, and there's really nowhere for me to put him down in there.

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Well, I've got to get that train. So you hurry up now. I don't want to be a standee.

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Okay, I'll be back in just a moment.

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More than likely, the woman was on the platform with the baby. The train is fixing to pull off,

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and she's not sure if the teenage girl is on the train or not on the train.

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And realized that it was her time to get on the train and was believing the teenage girl

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when she had told her not to worry. And more than likely, she got on the train with the child waiting

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for the teenage girl to find her.

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However, after the train took off, it became obvious that the teenage girl didn't make the train.

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When the older woman with the baby arrived at Union Station in St. Louis, she approached two

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porters, George Hill and a Charlie McCall, and explained to them how she came by the baby.

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Can you help me? Yes, ma'am. I was in the Chicago train station,

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and this teenage girl left this child for me to hold. She said she's going to the washroom,

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but she never came back out. Have you seen anybody around here looking for a child?

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No, ma'am. What was she wearing? I've got to get that child.

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She also told them that she was going to Magnolia, Arkansas, but told them that if that

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mother decided she wanted the child, she'd be in Magnolia and she could find her there.

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I got nine children of my own. I know one more won't hurt me.

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Well, I'll keep an eye out for her, ma'am. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

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When Paul first told me about the lady taking my brother all the way to Magnolia, Arkansas,

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it made me really feel good. I was really kind of hoping against hope that the lady

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had taken him to Magnolia, Arkansas, which is a very small town. Everybody knows each other,

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and it would be easy to locate my brother. Hi. Hi. My name is Paul Rigsby. I'm an

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independent man. Armed with this promising information, Rigsby immediately went to Magnolia.

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He conducted interviews and combed through the town's records, but unfortunately turned

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up no trace of the woman or her family. Thank you for your help. When Paul returned from Magnolia,

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Arkansas, and he basically came back empty-handed, it was a blow. But it wasn't one that I couldn't

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overcome or that Paul and I couldn't overcome. Then Paul theorized, and I do believe this is true,

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that more than likely because it was July 4th weekend that this lady returned from Magnolia,

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Arkansas, either to Chicago or maybe even to Detroit. And that may be where my brother is today.

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The woman at the train station probably thought that the girl didn't want this child.

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I believe that this woman was a good Samaritan.

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She took care of the child. She did everything she could to let the porters know where she was going,

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and in no way, shape, or form, did she have anything to do with the abduction.

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Jeffrey Harding will not give up his search until he finds out what happened to his brother.

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He is certain that he is alive and probably unaware of his strange past.

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If there's anything that I dream about as being the happy ending, it would be finding my brother,

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finding out that he was raised in a loving environment, finding out that he would be

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willing to accept me and accept my family, and that we could spend our lives together as friends.

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Next, the story of how FBI surveillance in a quiet New Jersey suburb revealed a vast

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money laundering and cocaine distribution crime ring.

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In the summer of 1986, a cat and mouse game between the FBI and the notorious drug dealer

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played out in an unusual setting, an affluent suburb of Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

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The FBI had managed to trace a money laundering ring to its lair,

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and they wanted to track these illegal millions to their source, cocaine.

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This quiet, wealthy neighborhood would seem to be an unlikely place to find a criminal gang,

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but its isolation and security was exactly what the mastermind of this money laundering ring was

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looking for. Pedro Uribe was a 38-year-old Colombian, direct ties to the infamous Medellin

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cartel, and he ran his criminal organization with a ruthless hand.

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Pedro Uribe ran this organization by fear. Informant information tells us that one of

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his couriers lost 75 kilos of cocaine. Uribe, on hearing this, had this individual as well as

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his family members' murder. It later turned out that the man was innocent.

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This only added to Uribe's reputation for viciousness.

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Surveillance site four is ready. Roger, standing by. In May of 1986, the FBI decided to set up

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round-the-clock surveillance of several of Uribe's properties. They soon learned that in order to

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keep the outward appearance of normalcy, people posing as families were trucked in on weekends.

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Ironically, the surveillance showed that these mock families changed from week to week.

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In the evenings, in order to make these homes look less suspicious, each was occupied by a

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live-in babysitter. Uribe was also careful in selecting the style of how he occupied.

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One of the primary features that they looked for when renting these houses was an attached

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garage with an automatic garage door opener. And if it didn't have it, they'd install one.

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This was done so they could get in and out with different individuals and less chance of being

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seen by the neighbors. Using these houses as a base, Uribe had developed a simple and seemingly

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foolproof money laundering scheme. Low-level operatives nicknamed smirks by the FBI were

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dispatched from the houses to banks throughout the New York metropolitan area. Yes, could I

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please have a money order for $1,980? These smirks would then use small amounts of the illicit

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cash to buy legitimate money orders from many different banks. At the height of the operation,

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there were seven smirks identified that were money laundering $50,000 a day. And during five

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working days, they could money launder up to $2 million a week. Though the FBI knew Uribe was a

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money launderer, they had yet to prove that he dealt cocaine. But one day, they got lucky.

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On September 3, 1986, outside of one of Uribe's safe houses, agents observed the

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surreptitious delivery of some mysterious boxes. Gamling that there was cocaine hidden inside

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those boxes, the FBI decided to try and catch Uribe red-handed. On the following night, they made

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their move. In the search of the house, the FBI found 307 kilos of 95% pure cocaine wrapped in

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plastic bags. The total amount of cocaine seized that night would have been worth $7 million on the

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street. FBI agents searched Uribe's other safe houses, and in one home, a specially trained dog

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led the FBI directly to a large potted plant. When the plant was examined, the agents got a surprise.

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They found $800,000 in cash, covered with enough traces of cocaine to have attracted the dog's

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attention. But unfortunately, Uribe and his henchmen had been tipped off and managed to escape,

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and today, he and his associates are wanted men. Pedro Uribe is believed to be regularly

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commuting between the United States and Colombia. He was last spotted in 1989 in New Jersey at a

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christening ceremony for a relative. Three of Uribe's partners in crime are also Colombian

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nationals. They have been identified as Hugo Balbín and two brothers Luis Nevano Arango.

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The three fled to Colombia, but the FBI have reason to believe that the Arango brothers are back in

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the New York area. Another Uribe henchman, Miguel Villegas, is believed to be in the Los Angeles area.

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Recently, law enforcement officials in Utah contacted us with an urgent request.

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Police believe they are very close to solving one of the most appalling crimes in the state's history.

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They hope that someone watching tonight may be able to supply the final piece of evidence.

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They are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in this case.

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On August 26, 1982, three-year-old Rachel Running was abducted from a playground near her home in

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Sunset, Utah. 24 days later, Rachel's body was found, partially submerged in a small creek about 20

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miles from the playground. Eyewitnesses describe Rachel's abductor as a black male in his 20s

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or 30s, approximately six feet tall. Two and a half years later, police discovered a gruesome

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message scrawled across a bathroom wall of a local all-night laundry. It read,

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Beware, I'm still at large. I killed a little run. Remember, beware. The message was signed with

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an upside-down crucifix at the number 666. With the upside-down cross and the triple six,

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it indicates to us that there could very well be a satanic cult involved in the kidnapping of Rachel Running.

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In recent months, investigators have uncovered even more disturbing information in Rachel's case.

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The new information that we have received through an informant leads us to believe that the motive

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behind the kidnapping of Rachel Running was done for making a movie of her being tortured and her

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being sexually molested and exploited by these people that had kidnapped her and being murdered

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on what is commonly known as a snuff movie. In this photograph, Rachel is wearing the same dress

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that she had on the day she was abducted. Police speculate that she may also be wearing it in the

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film. Next, the story of a cunning Casanova who has used at least 15 different aliases to

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build lonely women of their savings. Our next story profiles a particularly devious con man.

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Police have nicknamed him the Sweetheart Swindler. He victimizes women, vulnerable divorcee and

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widows in their middle years. One of his victims, a woman from Missouri whom we will call Sarah,

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has agreed to describe a five-day ill-fated romance with the Sweetheart Swindler.

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It all began last August with a phone call.

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Hello? Oh, hi. This is Jerry Campbell calling. You remember me?

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No. We met last year in a restaurant. You were two friends.

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This gentleman called me and he said that he had met me and that he was calling to see if I

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would go out and have dinner with him. I was divorced at this time and I wasn't in the habit

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of dating. So it sounded kind of pleasant to be able to go out and have dinner at this particular time

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and this is one reason why I agreed to go have brunch the next morning.

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At brunch, Sarah quickly gave up her effort to remember where she had met Jerry before and

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simply enjoyed the conversation. Soon he had completely won her over. I didn't think you

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were interested at all. I'm glad we were finally able to get together. Well, I didn't know anything

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about you or who you were but I enjoyed the brunch. It was pleasant and we decided to kind of spend

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the day together. Jerry told Sarah he was in the jewelry business on the road constantly with a

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company car and driver. He said he had sent his driver to make a delivery in another town

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that was temporarily without a car. He told Sarah he was a widow and very lonely. He needed someone

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to share his life traveling from one luxury hotel to another dining at the best restaurants.

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He confessed to Sarah that she was just the type of woman he had been looking for.

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I wanted to believe him in all these bright beautiful pictures that he painted.

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Life really hasn't been easy for me. You know, it was really nice to think that I maybe would

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be able to relax, to travel, to have all these nice things and I wouldn't have to work. To me,

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this was appealing. Very appealing. One of the goals I made for myself before I died is to visit

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all 50 states. That same evening, Jerry took Sarah and her daughter, Ellen, out to dinner. Ellen was

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skeptical. Jerry soon ingratiated himself. He impressed both women when he brought out samples

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of the jewelry he said he sold city to city. Look at those rings. Those stones, aren't those gorgeous?

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Ellen, here, just try on that little cocktail ring.

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That's not so little, I'd say. Well, compared to some of the other stones I have it is.

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May I try one more? Sure. Go ahead. That's what Julie's for us to be warned.

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Look at that. That's a real diamond. You can't hurt it. It's indestructible. It's a diamond.

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Jerry did not make any sexual advances, but the day after he and Sarah met,

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he began to plan their wedding. He asked her to go with him on a road trip which would culminate

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in their marriage. He was the type of a man that took control. This was something that I liked.

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I liked someone to kind of take over, take charge.

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Jerry told Sarah that he would soon be receiving several checks and that one would be made out to

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her. He wanted her to deposit it in her account so that she could pay her bills before they left.

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What Sarah had no way of knowing was that Jerry had stolen the check from one of his former girlfriends

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and made it out to Sarah himself.

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Late the next afternoon, Jerry rushed Sarah to the bank telling her the check had just arrived.

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At the last moment, he asked her to take out cash for him.

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I'd like to deposit this and I'd like to withdraw $3,000.

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Ma'am, this is an out-of-state check. Yes. I'm going to have to get my supervisor's approval.

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Coming in at that time, East Coast banks are closed. I looked at the check,

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saw that it was made to Sarah. She was a good customer and she was insistent the check was

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good so I went ahead and okayed the check for her. You have a good day. Thank you. Thanks, Mike.

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I appreciate it. Nice meeting you. Okay. Bye. We were immediately going to start traveling.

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We were going to Nashville and he was going to get my engagement ring there and then we were going

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to go on for the East and when we met up with his daughter and son, then we were going to get married.

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He told me he was going to buy me a five carat diamond engagement ring.

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That was quite a large engagement ring.

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The same afternoon, just four days after they had met, Jerry and Sarah

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ran the road to Tennessee in Sarah's car. Jerry had invited Sarah's daughter, Ellen, to go with them.

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Mama were five minutes early. Don't worry about it. Okay, now this is the picture.

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It's exactly where he said to be. In Memphis, Jerry said he had a business meeting and asked

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Sarah and Ellen to meet him in the hotel lobby afterwards. He never showed up. He would be

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wonderful. I guess he should be coming. Yeah, right over there by the desk. We waited around the hotel

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and after a couple hours, I knew that he wasn't coming.

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And as time went along, I realized that we had been taken. I realized we were being made fools right there.

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I was angry.

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Truly, I was angry. I really didn't know what to do.

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Back in Missouri, Sarah found out that the check Jerry had given her was no good.

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She had been count out of $3,000. Sarah finally went to the local police to file a report.

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They discovered that Jerry had been practicing the same scam all over the country for at least two years.

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Since I started my case, I believe he's a suspect in at least 22 other cases in as many as 15 different states.

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Unfortunately, probably only a third of the cases get reported due to the victims being embarrassed.

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We think he locates victims primarily through newspaper, articles, or advertisements.

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We've known that on occasion he has accessed only Hearts Clubs or Mailers.

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You have to understand that that is all he does. He's very, very good at it. That's how he makes his living.

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And one shouldn't particularly be embarrassed by being pulled in by this type of scam.

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I mean a lot of women in my line of work, but I never know what they're interested in me or they're just after my jewelry.

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Well, I'm an attorney. I'd like to see him stopped. I'd like to see him pay for it.

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I mean, I know how I feel from all this. It's a very devastating feeling.

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Yeah, well, I can understand that. Well, maybe we can get together some other time then.

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The sweetheart swindler is still active. He has recently surfaced in Nevada, Colorado, California,

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and Washington state using the aliases Jerry Roberto Gamble, Robert J. Colpin, and 15 others.

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He left his latest victim in the lurch after she had invited 60 guests to their engagement party.

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Police believe he is almost certainly involved in another whirlwind romance at this very moment,

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and that the object of his affection should watch her checkbook very carefully.

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These are bank surveillance photos of the sweetheart swindler.

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He is between 5'5 and 5'8 in height, weighs 150 to 160 pounds, and is around 48 years old.

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He has a New York accent and is known to own a .22 revolver.

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Today he is made off with a total of $125,000, all in relatively small amounts.

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Update. The sweetheart swindler has been captured.

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On March 28, 1991, police in Kenosha, Wisconsin arrested a man calling himself Robert Cook

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after he allegedly romanced a woman and then swindled her out of $10,000.

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At the time of Cook's arrest, police recovered a dozen false identification cards,

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all issued in different aliases from various states.

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They also found black checks apparently stolen from previous victims.

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Next, the shocking story of a brutal crime scene that left four people dead in less than 24 hours.

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Last March, the FBI asked Unsolved Mist to help them unravel one of the bloodiest and

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cruelest crime sprees in the history of Texas and Arkansas. Perhaps the most frightening

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thing is that the FBI believes the killers are two teenage boys who on the surface appear innocent

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and harmless. Gainesville, Texas, a small bedroom community 30 miles north of Dallas,

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close to the Arkansas-Oklahoma border. 10 a.m. March 7, 1988.

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Just outside Gainesville, Tommy Matthews and Kenny Davis local electricians

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see two teenagers poking around their father-in-law's Lincoln Continental.

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When we first seen him, one, the blonde suspect was looking into the white Lincoln like he was

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looking for a set of keys or something. We made a U-turn and come back out the drive and we stopped

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him in the driveway in front of his house. Is there a problem? Yeah, there's a problem. I

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just want to know what you're doing here. Uh, well, we uh, we needed to use a phone and...

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Well, there's not a phone in that car. And there's not anyone home, so I think y'all need to get

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out of here. Um, okay, no problem. Uh, we'll just use the phone down by the store. Sorry.

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They didn't act violent or look violent, you know. They just look like two

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kids running around getting in to mischief, you know.

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1015. The two boys walked toward the intersection of County Road 131 and Route 6.

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Around 11 a.m., just 200 feet away from the intersection,

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23-year-old Dina Woodard and her one-year-old son, Cory, return home to their trailer.

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Hello? Is there somebody here?

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Hello?

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Hello?

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Is somebody here?

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Hello? Hello?

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1.10 p.m., Dina Woodard is found dead, brutally stabbed and nearly decapitated with an axe.

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Miraculously, her baby is unharmed.

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and, uh, they killed her. And then stole her two guns and left in her 1981 fever.

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Dina Woodard's killers head toward State Highway 82.

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They drive 60 miles southeast to the small rural community of Farmersville, Texas.

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When you have a situation start developing like this, where the first victim is killed,

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then it's panic time. They run to get away, and then it doesn't get any better.

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Further down the highway they go, the more involved they become and the more killings that take place.

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Mid-afternoon. The killers approach the farmhouse of 85-year-old Cecil Morrison and his 62-year-old

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son Cecil Leonard Morrison.

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The killers stay in the house for between one and three hours, savagely torturing and beating

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the two old men with a weapon stolen from Dina Woodard's car.

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They kill both men with a .22 rifle, then leave.

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5 p.m. A neighbor sees two teenagers getting into the Morrison's beige 1984 Chevrolet pickup truck.

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Shortly after, the boys drive off. Mysteriously, Dina Woodard's blue thunderbird seems to have

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disappeared.

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It was not just a quick murder. It was over some period of time.

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Quite a battle going on in that house. Now why they felt necessary to beat the old men and

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torture them like they did? We do not know. 9 p.m. Saratoga, Arkansas. 200 miles away from the

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Morrison's farm, the boys drive the stolen pickup truck into the shallow water of a lake,

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then throw in Dina Woodard's guns.

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9 45 p.m. An eyewitness clearly sees the teenagers three different times as he drives his own

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truck back and forth through Saratoga. 10 p.m. The boys walk to the trailer of their fourth victim,

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29-year-old Kenneth Older. He is inside with his girlfriend, Brenda Gibson.

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Oh, I'll go check that right quick.

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May I help you? Uh, yeah. My truck broke down. Do you think you could give us a hand?

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Yeah, come on in. Okay, thanks. Kennedy didn't think they was dangerous. He thought they was

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really sincere, else he would have never attempted to help them. And when they went out through the

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kitchen door, I looked out the window.

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And that was the last I saw in a life. 10 15 p.m. The two teenagers drive away with Kenneth Older

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in his 1983 Mustang. Unfortunately, Brenda Gibson does not get a look at the boys' faces.

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Some time later, they arrive at Millwood Dam, five miles from Olden's trailer.

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The truck should be right over there. I think the cables are in the back. Okay, I'll go ahead and give them.

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Hey, man. There ain't no truck around here. What's going on?

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The two teenagers make their getaway in Kenneth Olden's Mustang, leaving him dead.

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9 a.m. The next day, 200 miles west of the spot where Kenneth Olden lies dead,

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Oklahoma farmer Bud Sprouse finds Olden's Mustang. He also notices two sets of footprints.

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They've done a lot of walking, but the side of the road there, one of them had 11 or 12

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tennis shoes. The other one would be about a eight, eight and a half tennis shoe.

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In less than 24 hours, the killers have come full circle,

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starting in Gainesville, Texas, going southeast to Farmersville, then northeast to Saratoga,

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Arkansas. Finally, they return west to Brown Springs, Oklahoma, less than five miles from

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where their bloody path started. The big question is, why would they have returned to within five

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miles of where they committed the first murder? We felt like we were dealing with something

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here in our own neighborhood. After the two killers completed their deadly circle by dumping

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Olden's Mustang in the lake, they seem to disappear without a trace.

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Four months into the investigation, another important clue turned up. Cecil Morrison's

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grandson found an earring that the FBI believes the killers left behind in his grandfather's

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pickup truck. This earring picked a skull being carried by a bat, and that was another

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key break in this case, the finding of that earring in that truck. We later ran a photograph of that

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earring in the Gainesville local paper, and a young man came forward and identified that earring as

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belonging to him. Where did you get the earring? I was located a couple of years ago. Okay,

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do you still have the earring? No, sir, I don't. What happened to it? I laid it to a friend of mine

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a couple of months ago. The boy, Lee Renfrow, was a 16-year-old from Gainesville. He later told

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police he had given the earring to another boy named Calwell, who at the time lived in a house

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less than 200 yards from Dina Woodard's trailer. A Calwell family had moved out of state one month

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before Dina Woodard was murdered. Lee had given me a lot of earrings, and I would borrow or take

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some from him every once in a while, like whenever I didn't have one. But as far as that

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earring in particular, I have no idea. Just can't remember. On the morning of the murder spree,

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witnesses had seen two teenage boys who matched the description of the killers walking away from

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the Calwell house. This case has got to be solved. As long as it goes unsolved, there's still that

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concern that we in the citizeness community have that there's still some killers out there

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walking the streets, and who's to say when they might decide to strike again and go on another crime spree.

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Last season, we profiled a bank robber whose clumsy behavior during hold ups her name

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an unusual nickname. Authorities call the robber fumbles and believe that he may be

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responsible for as many as 33 bank robberies throughout Florida since 1984. They estimate

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that fumbles is stolen in excess of $100,000 in the past five years alone.

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Update. The fumbles robber has been captured. Within minutes of our broadcast, the Clearwater

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Florida Police Department received a call from one of our viewers who recognized fumbles as

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Ross James Preston, a 23 year old student living in Clearwater. On May 24th, 1989, FBI agents,

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Clearwater police officers and Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies arrested Preston while he

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was test driving a pickup truck. His search by warrant was made of the vehicle Mr. Preston was

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driving when he was arrested. Inside the vehicle were found a ball cap with the letters cat on the

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cap. Also found were a pair of gardening gloves and a pair of sunglasses and a jacket. These were

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very similar to items which were observed being worn by the bank robber we called fumbles.

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On August 2nd, Ross James Preston admitted to committing 33 armed bank robberies,

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but as part of a plea bargain was charged with only seven of the holdups. He has since been sentenced

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to 25 years in prison.

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Join me next week for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

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you