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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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June 1968, a funeral train bearing the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy slowly made its

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way from New York to Washington, D.C.

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Along the route thousands mourned the loss of her favorite son.

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Three days early, Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet at the Ambassador

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Hotel in Los Angeles, California. For those who were there, the agonizing moments which

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followed the shooting will never be forgotten.

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By that time, the pandemonium had broken loose. I mean, everybody was screaming.

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There were people yelling, Kennedy was shot, Kennedy was shot, get an ambulance, get a

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doctor. Many people jumped on Sir Han and hitting him, yelling and screaming.

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Somebody was trying to get the gun, they couldn't get the gun out of his hand. It was like

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frozen in his hand. I was afraid somebody was going to snap his back because by that

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time Greer and Rayford Johnson had shown up and I thought they'd just snapped him like

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a matchstick. And Greer finally got possession of the gun and gave it to Rayford Johnson

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and it was agreed, you know, Johnson was to hold onto that gun, not give it to anyone

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until the police arrived.

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On April 17, 1969, Sir Han B. Sir Han was convicted of the first degree murder of Robert Kennedy.

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Sir Han never denied killing Kennedy, but has claimed on several occasions that he cannot

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remember the period of time of the shooting.

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The final report of the Los Angeles Police Department definitively states that Sir Han

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acted alone and fired the fatal shot.

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Throughout history, the shock waves of political assassination have almost inevitably given

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rise to questions of conspiracy. In that regard, the murder of Robert Kennedy is no exception.

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Despite the fact that Sir Han, Sir Han was apprehended at the scene after firing eight

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shots, it has denied that anyone else was involved. But in this instance, there are

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researchers and eyewitnesses who claim to have evidence which suggests that a second

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gun was fired in the Ambassador Hotel and that it may not have been Sir Han who fired

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the fatal shot.

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I don't think it's even possible that Sir Han could have shot Senator Kennedy four times

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at point blank range. It's not even possible.

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I at this point feel that there probably was a second gun there and that it was fired.

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The chief of detectives who supervise the investigation disagrees.

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There's no question in my mind that Sir Han had killed Kennedy and he acted alone.

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Was there more than one gun fired that night? Just this week, The Washington Post published

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an article by Dan Moldea detailing new evidence which addresses this disturbing question.

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We'll examine both sides of this most important and controversial case in one moment on Unsolved

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Mysteries.

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Under ordinary circumstances, we would not film a recreation of the murder of a United

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States Senator. But because some independent investigators claim that eyewitness accounts

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and other evidence contradict the official police report, we have carefully reenacted

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the event based on both crime scene evidence and eyewitness testimony.

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The evening of June 4, 1968 began as a celebration.

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I thank all of you who made this possible this evening.

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The victory in the California primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy became the favorite to win

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the Democratic presidential nomination.

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My thanks to all of you and now it's on to Chicago and let's win there.

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After concluding a speech, Senator Kennedy was scheduled to attend a press conference

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in the colonial room some 40 yards away. Kennedy exited from the rear of the stage, turned

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right, traveled down a hallway and entered the hotel's kitchen pantry.

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Kennedy was escorted by a hotel matriot D and paused to shake hands with the kitchen staff.

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Contrary to popular belief, there were no photographs or filmed footage taken at the

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exact moment of the shooting.

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Sirhan Sirhan fired a .22 caliber revolver with a cylinder capable of holding eight rounds.

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Despite being immediately restrained, he continued to fire until the gun was empty.

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Robert Kennedy was mortally wounded and would die 26 hours later.

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The high-speed bystanders were also seriously injured but all survived the attack.

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Sirhan Sirhan was taken into custody by the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Five days later, the LAPD organized a 40-member task force which was known as Special Unit

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Senator or SUS.

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The LAPD declined interview requests for this broadcast.

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A spokesman stated, quote,

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The reports speak for themselves and the right person was arrested and prosecuted, end quote.

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However, the former chief of detectives with overall responsibility for the investigation

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did agree to be interviewed.

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The SESS organization was created to not only to investigate the assassination but any ramification

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of that assassination that could possibly be a conspiracy.

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We didn't know that it wasn't the time that occurred.

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We had no idea what the exact facts were.

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Once the pantry area was secured, the LAPD's Scientific Investigation Division began the

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crime scene investigation.

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The team was headed by officer DeWayne Wolfer, a forensics expert.

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The morning after the shooting, the police discovered Sirhan's notebook at his apartment.

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Three weeks earlier, he had written, My determination to eliminate RFK is becoming more, the more

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of an unshakable obsession.

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Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated.

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The case seemed open and shut.

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The police had motive, opportunity and the smoking gun.

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The weapon taken from Sirhan was a .22 caliber Ivor Johnson revolver which held a maximum

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of eight rounds.

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The LAPD determined that eight bullets were fired in the pantry and that all eight came

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from Sirhan's gun.

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The official report concluded that the bullets which struck Kennedy were fired first from

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a distance of one to six inches.

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However, the exact sequence in which the shots were fired is unclear.

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This is a schematic diagram drawn up by officer Wolfer of the flight paths of the eight bullets

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fired by Sirhan.

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Its accuracy is central to the question of whether or not a second gun was fired.

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In the drawing, Sirhan is not shown.

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This is a computer generated simulation of the shooting based on the official diagram

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with Sirhan included.

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Sirhan is depicted by the red figure and Robert Kennedy by the white.

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The LAPD has positioned the senator with his right shoulder turned towards Sirhan.

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One bullet entered the back of Senator Kennedy's head just behind his right ear.

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This was the fatal shot and according to police was the first one fired.

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Another penetrated the senator's right rear shoulder and lodged near his spine.

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A third bullet entered Kennedy's back at an upward angle.

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It exited through his chest and was believed lost somewhere in the ceiling.

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A fourth pass through the right shoulder pad of Senator Kennedy's suit jacket.

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This bullet traveled at an upward angle and according to the LAPD then struck Paul Shraide

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in the forehead.

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Shraide was standing approximately four feet behind Kennedy at the time.

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I talked to Paul Shraide.

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Paul said that he had to be nine feet tall or have his head on Kennedy's shoulder in

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order to be hit with this bullet.

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But this is key for the LAPD that this is believed that that bullet hit Paul Shraide.

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Because if not, then there's another bullet in that room, which means there's a second

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gun.

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So literally people have to be contortionists in order to make the bullet flight pass of

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the LAPD work.

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According to the official version, four other bullets struck bystanders.

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One of these bullets ricocheted downward from the ceiling and hit campaign worker Elizabeth

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Evans in the head.

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But medical records show that the bullet would struck Evans, entered at an upward angle.

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If a bullet ricochets from the ceiling and comes down through another tile, it's going

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in a downward direction.

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You can't have a bullet going in a downward direction medically enter from any other direction

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than downward.

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Yet her bullet entered going upward.

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The autopsy of Senator Kennedy concluded that the fatal shot, as well as the two other

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bullets which injured Kennedy, were fired at an upward angle from point blank range,

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an inch to an inch and a half away.

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These findings have never been disputed.

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However, the eyewitnesses who testified at Sirhan's trial placed the gun muzzle a foot

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to three feet away from Kennedy.

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If that bullet which killed Kennedy, that was an inch away from his head, this bullet

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didn't come from Sirhan.

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It did not come from Sirhan because he never got that close.

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This Carl Uker was standing next to Sirhan when the first shot was fired.

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Uker was the matriot D who was leading Senator Kennedy through the pantry at the time of

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the shooting.

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Mr. Kennedy was shaking hands and I was holding his hand, his arm.

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I was trying to pull him, getting into the corlea.

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At that time Sirhan came behind me and he was trying to get for me, but I was pushing

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him back and then I saw the gun when he shot him twice, grabbed him, got him in a head

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like and pushed the gun away and I was holding Sirhan over the steam table and he kept shooting.

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And I said again and again and again that gun never got that close to Mr. Kennedy's

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head.

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At the trial, Uker testified that Sirhan fired only two shots before he was forced away

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from Kennedy.

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However, the official report stated that four shots were fired before Sirhan was restrained.

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The gun was, I'd say, approximately anywhere from one to two feet away from him at the

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time of the firing of the first two shots.

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He was not an inch away from Kennedy's head because he was across the room on this ice

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thing and the room, I don't know the dimensions of the room, but he was not an inch away.

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And I'm not a coroner, but he was not an inch away.

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It was more than inches, it was feet.

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None of the eyewitnesses who testified at the trial believed the gun could have been

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an inch and a half away from Kennedy.

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The LAPD determined that all the eyewitnesses were mistaken about what they had seen due

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to the panic and chaos of the moment.

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There is always the need for careful examination of the eyewitness account of what happened.

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These people are not in any sense making anything up.

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This is what they believe they saw.

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You put all these things together, it's difficult to discern.

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Under any circumstances, how Sirhan, who is on top of a steam table, at this point at

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least from three to six feet away from Kennedy, could have shot Senator Kennedy from behind.

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That's an impossibility.

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My opinion, and being close to the investigation during its entire life, was that the investigation

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was thorough, that the men who did the investigation were dedicated, and that the conclusions we

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drew from their investigations are accurate.

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The only way that you can jibe what the coroner said, what the LAPD said in its crime scene

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examination, what the eyewitnesses say they saw, the only way you can jibe all of that

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is that there was a second guy firing a gun in that pantry that night.

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Was there more than one gun in the pantry that night?

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Eyewitness Richard Luke claims that he saw a security gun, pulled his gun during the

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shooting and then leave the room.

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I noticed that there was a gentleman in some type of a uniform, and he has a gun out.

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That gun is in his hand, but that gun was not aimed at Sirhan, who had just fired.

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It was in his hand aimed down, not at Kennedy, but down toward the floor.

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The security guard has acknowledged that he unholstered his weapon that night, but denies

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that it was fired.

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He cooperated with police and was cleared by the LAPD of any involvement in the attack.

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We could not make any connection between Sirhan and this guard prior to that evening, none

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at all.

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That meant that it would be a phenomenal leap of logic to think they would both be in the

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kitchen at the same time unless there was a connection.

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So we did not, and do not, I do not in any way believe there's a second gun involved.

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I can't get a match.

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Here, take a look.

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In 1975, a lawsuit filed by one of the surviving victims resulted in a re-examination of the

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firearms evidence.

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A panel of experts compared the three intact bullets recovered from the victims, as well

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as test bullets fired from Sirhan's revolver.

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Their findings did not rule out the possibility of a second gunman.

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The three victim bullets were identified as having come from the same gun.

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The Sirhan gun has never been identified as firing those victim bullets, and that that

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in and of itself is not conclusive that the Sirhan gun didn't do the firing.

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So we're left with a dilemma that we have three victims struck by bullets from the

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same gun, but we don't know whose gun it was.

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The LAPD says that there were six victims who were hit by eight bullets.

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They say that Sirhan made good on all-age shots.

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They've accounted for all the bullets.

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You prove one more bullet.

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There's a second gun in that room.

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In a Dan Moldea, photographs taken of the pantry entrance add to the possibility that

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more than eight shots were fired.

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This FBI photograph identifies two bullet holes in the left-door jam, which are not

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accounted for in the official report.

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This is the FBI's photograph from the scene, and they're accompanying caption from the

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June 8, 1968 FBI report.

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E2, a close-up view of the two bullet holes of area described above.

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Here's E2, and these are the two bullet holes, as the FBI describes them, not alleged bullet

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holes, bullet holes.

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E3, close-up view of two bullet holes, which is located in center door frame inside kitchen

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serving area in the direction of the backstage area.

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This is photograph three, again, FBI, the bullet holes themselves, not reported bullet

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holes, bullet holes.

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That's not terribly unusual that anything that looks suspicious at that time would be

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recorded.

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That's not unusual at all.

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The fact that it turned not to be bullets is just the way it turned out.

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I saw two bullet holes in a center divider.

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I saw two bullets in the holes.

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I know what I saw, and the issue, obviously, is that others say that they weren't there.

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It's a supposition, in my part, that the door jams, whatever was in there that looked like

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bullets were extracted and found not to be bullets.

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I presume that was done, but I don't have personal knowledge of that.

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I have serious reservations whether or not any of Bobby's wounds were inflicted by Sierhan's

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gun.

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I, at this point, feel that there probably was a second gun there and that it was fired.

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Portions of wooden door frames were removed from the pantry and booked into evidence.

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These records state that they were destroyed on June 27, 1969, two months after Sierhan's

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conviction.

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They were bulky, and they asked me if they could destroy that, and I said yes.

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Somebody at one time asked me if I had anything to do over again, would I change anything?

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And I said, sure, I would not release those panels, door jams or whatever you call them,

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because of the problems that have come out of that.

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I think that the LAPD thought they had an open and shut case, and when extra bullets

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showed up and when other crime scene evidence didn't jibe with the official version, I

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think the question became one of, nothing's going to bring them back, so why confuse all

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of this with the facts?

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And I think that the case just rested there, and it's been resting there for the past 22

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years.

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There was someone who has additional information that would indicate conspiracy of any kind,

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or that Sierhan did not shoot Kennedy.

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I want to know about it, and if there is, the case should be opened immediately.

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Four days ago, the Washington Post published an article by Dan Moldea containing additional

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information which supports a second gun hypothesis.

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We interviewed Moldea a second time about this new evidence.

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This last December, Moldea has conducted over 100 separate interviews with LAPD officers

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and officials, L.A. County Sheriff's deputies and city fire marshals.

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Some of them are now retired, but many were present at the crime scene investigation.

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These interviews are authentic, they are on the record, and many of them are on tape.

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And what I did was I basically asked these officers two questions, what did you do that

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night, and what did you see?

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These officers had no idea of the significance of what they were telling me.

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They were giving me direct responses to my direct questions, and about 20 of the people

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I talked to had clearly identified bullets, bullet fragments, or bullet holes at the crime

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scene itself in the kitchen pantry.

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According to Moldea, the bullet holes and fragments that were described by some interview

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subjects correspond with the FBI photographs taken at the crime scene.

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During his interview, Moldea referred to transcripts of his conversations with officials.

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I have a sheriff's deputy who says, quote, I remember one person trying to take a bullet

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out of the wall with a knife, a silver knife for a souvenir, end quote.

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I have one of the photographers saying, quote, I remember taking lots of pictures of bullet

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holes, six or seven, end quote.

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And when I asked him how sure he was that these were bullet holes, he was defiant with

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me and he said, quote, a bullet hole looks like a bullet hole if you photographed enough

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of them, end quote.

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A detective who was there told me that he had seen, quote, quite a few bullet holes

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and actually identified the location of one bullet in the wall which corresponded with

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an FBI photograph.

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Another detective who was there that night told me about a bullet hole he had seen in

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the center divider at the crime scene between two swinging doors.

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Another LAPD sergeant told me, quote, as I was making my rounds, some bullet holes were

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pointed out to me in a door frame, end quote.

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And then he added that during a subsequent tour through the pantry, quote, one of the

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investigators pointed to a hole in a door frame and said, quote, we just pulled a bullet

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out of here, end quote.

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And then one crime scene investigator told me that he'd observed one of his supervisors

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remove two 22 caliber bullets from the center divider itself.

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Now according to the Los Angeles Police Department's official reports, there should have been no

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bullet damage in the walls and the door frames at the crime scene that night.

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All of Sir Hans' bullets have been accounted for.

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Now what we have is a situation where the Los Angeles Police Department officers and

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top officials are now corroborating what the FBI indicated in its photographs in accompanying

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captions back in 1968 that there were additional bullets and bullet holes at the crime scene

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itself.

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Now if they are right, then there is a second gun in that room that was fired.

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And I think the only way to resolve these questions is to simply reopen the case.

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After publication of the Washington Post article, we contacted the Los Angeles Police Department

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for their response.

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Whatever that reporter says is irrelevant as far as we're concerned.

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We won't debate it.

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We won't discuss it.

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The investigation and its results reflect what our official position is and that is that

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the murderer of Senator Kennedy was arrested and successfully prosecuted and continues

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to serve time.

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No services for Robert Francis Kennedy were held on June 8, 1968 at St. Patrick's Cathedral

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in New York City and were televised live to the nation.

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My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life.

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To be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to write it, saw

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suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

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Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to

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us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world.

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Twenty-two years have passed since Senator Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.

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But the events surrounding his death are still at issue.

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Was there a second gun in the Ambassador Hotel that night?

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Did the authorities overlook crucial evidence in the understandable rush to convict Sir

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Han Sir Han?

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And finally, if a second gun was fired, who pulled the trigger?

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February 21, 1977, at approximately 9 p.m. on a cold winter night, Chicago firefighters

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responded to a call from a lakefront residential building.

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When the firemen arrived, they found that the blaze was confined to an upper floor apartment.

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Inside, a mattress in the middle of the living room floor was engulfed in flames. Initially

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the apartment seemed unoccupied, but soon the firemen made a grim discovery.

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Beneath the mattress, they found the body of a woman named Teresita Bassa. She had been

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stabbed in the chest. It also appeared that she had been raped, and the fire set in an

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attempt to cover up the murder.

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The police are bewildered by this brutal crime. The official autopsy revealed that Teresita

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Bassa had not been raped. There was no apparent motive and little physical evidence. The investigation

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quickly reached a dead end.

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Then nearly six months later, police were startled by a lead as mystifying as a crime

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itself. A Chicago couple claim that the victim, Teresita Bassa, had named her own killer after

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she was murdered, speaking to them from beyond the grave.

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Teresita Bassa had moved to the United States from the Philippines in the 1960s. She worked

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as a respiratory therapist at a Chicago hospital.

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Coworkers describe Teresita as a dedicated professional who gave all her time and energy

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to her patients. She seemed to have absolutely no enemies until the night of February 21st.

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Smok and fire damage had destroyed all fingerprints, and nothing seemed to be missing from Teresita's

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apartment. Better in Chicago detective Joce De Hula was totally baffled.

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The only real piece of evidence we found was a memo indicating that she was expecting

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to obtain some theater tickets for a subject by name of AS, who might have been expected

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at the apartment on that night.

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Joce De Hula desperately grasped at any straw that held out hope of solving the case. Five

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and a half months after the murder, he responded to a strange call that would take his investigation

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into the realm of the paranormal.

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Dr. Bordes?

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Yes.

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I'm Detective De Hula from the Chicago Police Department.

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A Filipino physician had heard about Teresita Bassa through his wife. The two women had

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worked together at the hospital. The doctor and his wife had requested anonymity. We

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would call them Enrico and Alicia Borda. They would tell Stahula an unbelievable but compelling

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story.

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Have you ever had any dealings with possession or the occult?

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Being a police officer, I run into a lot of strange things. I've always tried to keep

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an open mind about it.

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It was a funny situation. Being a policeman, you can tell when somebody's sincere and when

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they firmly believe they're giving you good information. I could tell it that he believed

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what he was telling me was the truth.

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What I'm about to tell you may sound bizarre.

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You see, I worked with the late Teresita. We were both respiratory therapists at the hospital.

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Alicia told Detective Stahula of a strange series of events that took place after Teresita's

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death. Late one night after working a long shift, Alicia had gone to a hospital lounge

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for a short nap. She said that seconds after she closed her eyes, she felt a ghostly presence

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in the room. It was Teresita Bassa.

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At first, I thought I was dreaming. I could not believe my eyes. But she is looking at

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me. I did not know what to do. I was so frightened. I pray.

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A couple of weeks after Alicia had seen Teresita, the borders went on to tell of a second experience

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two weeks later, this time at their home.

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Alicia.

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That night, Alicia had gone to bed early, complaining of extreme fatigue. Her husband

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had gone into the bedroom to check on her.

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Dr. Bordov said he asked her if she was all right, and he said her voice was different.

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And attempting to get his wife to talk more, he asked her, who are you?

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What is your name?

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Teresita Bassa.

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He was confused because he did not know Teresita Bassa at the time.

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You must go to the police. The police cannot find my killer. Tell them his name.

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It is Alan Showery. Tell them.

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Upon listening to this, I really picked up now, A.S.

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Finally, I know who A.S. and I asked him who, did he know who Alan Showery was. And he indicated

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from the voice, from Teresita Bassa, that Alan Showery was an orderly that worked at the

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hospital with both his wife and Teresita Bassa.

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He said the first session only lasted about 30 minutes, and then at the end his wife woke up.

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He asked her if she knew what happened. She said she didn't. And then he sort of put it in the back of his mind

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and didn't act on it.

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He said then there was a second session where the voice again possessed his wife.

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And at this time the voice became more insistent.

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Why did you not go to the police? Why?

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He said he could not do anything to really help her, and the police couldn't do anything that they would need evidence.

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I will give you proof.

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And at this point the voice indicated that she had some evidence for him that it was her jewelry.

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After he killed me, he took my jewelry.

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He gave it to his girlfriend.

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The first thought that came into mind is how can I put this on an official police report?

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But at this point we began a background check on Alan Showery.

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Besides knowing Teresita Bassa at the hospital, he lived a short distance from her.

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Do either of you recall Teresita Bassa ever mentioning that Alan Showery was going to go over to her apartment?

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We also learned from co-workers at the hospital that Alan Showery was expected over at Teresita's apartment that night to repair her televisions.

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The last time Alan was over at her place.

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This was probably the best clue that we had putting him on the scene at the approximate time of the murder.

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Detective Stahula brought Alan Showery in for questioning.

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Alan, when was the last time that you were at Teresita Bassa's apartment?

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Showery admitted he had gone to Teresita's apartment that night to repair her television.

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I was there, but I was just there to fix the television.

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And I didn't have my tools, I didn't have the right tools.

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He claimed he was unable to fix the set and returned to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend.

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Alan, that's not true. He went back.

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We decided to contact the girlfriend and ask her if Alan had given her any jewelry recently within the last several months or weeks.

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So when we contacted her, she indicated yes he had.

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Alan Showery's girlfriend agreed to let Teresita Bassa's relatives and friends inspect the jewelry Alan had given her.

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You can look at it and see if there's anything you can recognize or looks familiar to you.

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The family members immediately recognized a large green piece of jade and several other distinctive pieces of jewelry.

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Is there any other piece here look familiar?

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The ring. That's Teresita's ring.

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The ring on her finger?

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Yeah, she was wearing it the last time I saw it.

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Did Alan give you that ring?

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Yes, he did.

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How long ago did he give it to you?

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I don't know, it was about three months ago.

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It's all over Alan. Teresita Bassa's family just identified the jewelry. Now I want to know what happened.

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Confronted with this evidence, Showery made a full confession.

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The name went a left for her apartment.

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Alan said that yes he had gone over there to work on Teresita Bassa's television set.

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However, he returned home and on the way back formulated this plan to murder and rob Teresita.

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I'm coming.

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Alan returned to the apartment and when Teresita let him in and she turned her back to lock the door,

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he said he quickly moved up behind her and placed a choke hole on her neck, holding it until she stopped struggling.

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He then dragged her body into the living room where he disrobed her to make it look like it was a rape robbery type of scene.

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And then went into the bedroom and obtained the mattress off her bed placing it over the body and setting the top of the mattress on fire.

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While it defies belief, is it somehow possible that Teresita Bassa could have spoken through Alicia Borda to catch her own killer?

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One thing is certain. Without the information Alicia provided, police would never have known the jewelry was missing and Alan Showery would never have been arrested.

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To this day, I'm not quite sure if Teresita came back.

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It's one of those bizarre incidents that you don't know is true or not true.

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Despite his confession, Alan Showery pled not guilty to a charge of murder.

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But when a mistrial was declared because of a hung jury, Showery suddenly reversed himself and admitted his guilt.

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He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

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In the summer of 1967, Jim Bacowski married his high school sweetheart Dolores.

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A week later, he was shipped to Vietnam.

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On August 29, 1968, four months into his tour of duty, Jim's platoon was overrun by a large contingent of North Vietnamese troops.

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They blew us to smithereens. I went flying through the air. I landed 30 feet down the hill.

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I picked up my leg that was blown off and I crawled back up the hill.

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I don't know, he keeps coming in and out.

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My first conscious memory was looking up and seeing this blonde lady helping me.

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We need a doctor back over here!

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Captain Lind Sharp.

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Hi Jim, how you doing?

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With Captain Sharp's help, Jim began to recover from his physical wounds, but the emotional trauma still tormented him.

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So you're gonna write your wife about your leg?

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Can I know how?

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You were not allowed to leave the MASH unit until you wrote a letter to your wife.

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I didn't have the courage to write it. She forced me to do it.

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And then, I didn't know she had sent a letter and a picture to my wife with it.

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I don't think that I would have came back to my wife without Captain Sharp.

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I would very much like to thank her for what she did for me.

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And all the other guys.

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Before the segment even aired, Lindy Sharp saw a promotional announcement for Jim's story on Unsolved Mysteries.

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She immediately called our telecenter. Two weeks later, she and Jim were reunited.

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Hi, how are you?

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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You look so good.

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00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,560
You look really good.

448
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:26,560
When I opened the door, I was late and all I wanted to do was give her a great big hug and just hug her and thank her and kiss her on the cheek and just try to show my appreciation.

449
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:36,560
I feel very blessed to be here, to actually see him and talk with him and hear his versions of what went on.

450
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:43,560
Because sometimes what nurses don't realize that we have an impact on patients' lives.

451
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:48,560
And I certainly didn't realize the impact I had on his life at all.

452
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,560
Hello. How are you?

453
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:58,560
Over the years, I've thought about Jim and Dolores and wondered how they were doing and if they were still together.

454
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:06,560
And seeing the show on TV and seeing them in the segment was just the best news that just made it all worthwhile.

455
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:13,560
It really pulled things together for me and it reinforced that what I did over there was important.

456
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,560
Linda is my son, Cory.

457
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:16,560
Hi, Cory.

458
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:24,560
Moments after arriving, Linda received an unexpected gift, a portrait of a Vietnam nurse which Jim had framed for her.

459
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,560
I wish so much I think of you. I had this made up for you.

460
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,560
And I thought you'd like to have this.

461
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:37,560
When he gave me the plaque, it was just such a special moment.

462
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,560
It's made this day very, very special.

463
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:45,560
Something that is like the culmination of a nursing career.

464
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,560
Thank you.

465
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:53,560
To be thanked in such a special way is very memorable. Something I'll never forget.

466
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:04,560
This meeting with Linda represents in my healing the final step.

467
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:12,560
Knowing that I, in my own mind, mentally, physically, and the way I feel right now, am alright.

468
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,560
I've finally beat the battle.

469
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,560
We lost a few battles but I've won the war. Let me rephrase that. I have won the war.

470
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,560
February 10th, 1990, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

471
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,560
8 a.m., an hour before opening time at a local bowling alley.

472
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,560
Ida the cook was in the kitchen, preparing for the lunch hour rush.

473
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:53,560
The day manager, Stephanie, was in the office adding up the previous night's receipts.

474
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:59,560
With Stephanie were her 12-year-old daughter, Melissa, and Amy, a friend of Melissa's.

475
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,560
Just take a coat, the next five.

476
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,560
This is a hold down. Come with me.

477
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:13,560
At approximately 8.20, Ida was surprised in the kitchen by a stranger wielding a pistol.

478
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:20,560
He forced her at gunpoint towards the office, where Stephanie and the young girls were being held by a second gunman.

479
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:27,560
As I went in the office, I saw Stephanie and Melissa and Amy.

480
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,560
Where's the rest of the money?

481
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,560
It's in there.

482
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:32,560
Show me.

483
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,560
I just thought they're gonna get money and take off.

484
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,560
Especially when they told us, all of you put your heads down.

485
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:45,560
The second gunman took $4,000 from the safe.

486
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,560
Put your heads down. Put your heads down.

487
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,560
When he said that, I thought, you know, these guys are leaving, you know?

488
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:52,560
So we did.

489
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,560
And that's when I felt they had shot me in the head.

490
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,560
Get inside. Get in the corner.

491
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:04,560
Second slayer, Steve Teran, is two and a half year old daughter Valerie

492
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,560
and his stepdaughter, Pa, at age seven, stumbled onto the scene.

493
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:15,560
We were just both shot.

494
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:16,560
No.

495
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,560
Hold up. Please help me.

496
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:19,560
Hold up. We're all floating out.

497
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,560
All of us are hurt. I think I'm nearly one-conscious.

498
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,560
Okay. We'll get an Amy slowly.

499
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,560
All seven witnesses have been shot in the head.

500
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,560
Stephen Teran, his stepdaughter, Pa, and Melissa's friend, Amy, were dead at the scene.

501
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,560
Valerie Teran died at the hospital that day.

502
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:42,560
Incredibly, Stephanie, Melissa, and Ida survived the vicious attack.

503
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,560
We assessed the scene immediately.

504
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:52,560
We cambered to the neighborhood and thanked God that we were able to come up with a couple of witnesses.

505
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,560
They were able to give us some pretty decent composites.

506
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:06,560
At around 8.15 that morning, Stephanie's brother, Steve, had stopped by the bowling alley for a few minutes on his way to school.

507
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:12,560
I saw two Hispanic gentlemen walking from the back of the building towards the front.

508
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,560
The older gentleman handed the younger gentleman a small case.

509
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:21,560
The older gentleman squats down and looks right at me as I'm driving towards them.

510
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:28,560
I took notice of what they were wearing, their descriptions, hair color, skin, eyes.

511
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:36,560
Based on Steve's testimony and that of other witnesses, the police drew up these composites of the killers.

512
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:44,560
Suspect number one is approximately 29 to 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds.

513
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,560
He has dark, wavy hair and a dark complexion with light colored eyes.

514
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,560
He speaks excellent English with no Spanish accent.

515
00:44:54,560 --> 00:45:01,560
The second suspect is 40 to 50 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs approximately 140 pounds.

516
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,560
He has thinning, salt and pepper hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion.

517
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,560
He speaks with a slight Spanish accent.

518
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:22,560
For every mystery, there is someone somewhere who knows the truth.

519
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,560
Perhaps that someone was watching. Perhaps it's you.