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Next on Unsolved Mysteries, a Michigan couple on a weekend

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outing interrupts a killer covering up his crime.

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12 people claim they saw a bizarre creature

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in the mountains of Colorado, his big foot, more than just

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a legend.

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In Miami, a drug bust gone bad exposes a conspiracy

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of police corruption.

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OK, OK, relax.

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In Atlantic City, a desperate father

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searches for answers after the vicious murder

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of his seven-year-old son.

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I want to see my son right in front of me.

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Five intriguing stories, stories that you won't want to miss.

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I'm Dennis Farina, and this is Unsolved Mysteries.

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CON pum 다음

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않고 Alors.

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Cold Water, Michigan.

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Michigan, a lonely road outside of town.

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Ray and Marie Thornton went for a drive in the country

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as they did every weekend.

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We were driving south on the Snow Perry Road,

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and all of a sudden a van just on us and passed.

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It's like coming around us.

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Geez, that's being a hurry.

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Several miles down the road, the Thornton

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spotted the van a second time.

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As we approached an old schoolhouse,

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I saw a man behind it, and he had what appeared to be

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a bloody sheep.

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We need that bloody sheep.

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As we continued passing the school,

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I saw the van parked between the building and a big tank.

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The van appeared behind them again.

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It tailgated their car for almost two miles.

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I'm going to start riding this guy down.

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Finally, Ray turned off the highway.

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When he did, the van pulled to the side of the road.

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We decided to turn around and come back, see if we

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could get a license plate number.

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We felt if we could get the license number,

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then we could turn into a police.

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The guy was acting very suspicious,

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and we just felt that the authority should be notified.

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He's in the back of the van.

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He looks like he's changed.

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He is.

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He's changed his plates.

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He was behind his van with the passenger front door open,

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and I saw that the passenger door was covered with blood.

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There's blood all over that door.

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What door?

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The passenger door.

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That guy has done something.

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He has.

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The Thornton suspected something awful.

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They went back to the schoolyard to search for the sheet.

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Well, I was beginning to get nervous when we

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got back to the schoolhouse.

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We tried to find what this white thing was

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that he had been carrying.

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It was a blood-soaked blanket.

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Definitely blood, all right.

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Let's go call a police.

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Ray and Marie Thornton had found evidence

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of a shocking crime.

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It was the result of a bitter conflict between a husband

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and a wife that ended in murder.

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Dennis and Marilyn DePue had a comfortable life.

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Dennis was a property assessor, and Marilyn

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was a high school counselor.

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Now you be careful.

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Together, they were raising three children.

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Beneath the surface, things were different.

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Dennis was angry and withdrawn.

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And he accused Marilyn of turning the children against him.

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It's not that they fought all the time,

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because they didn't.

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It was just, you know, they just didn't really talk.

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She would just say in general that she was unhappy.

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And when the lawyer or someone else would ask her why

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she wanted to get a divorce, she would say,

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because the marriage is broken up,

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and because there wasn't a longer a marriage there.

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You got to sign it on this page, sign it on the last page.

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After 18 years of marriage, Marilyn finally gave up.

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Thank you.

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Good job.

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You've got to keep your jacket on now.

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Dennis was granted limited visitation rights.

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Often, the children didn't want to spend time with him.

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Even after she changed the locks on the doors,

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there were some times when she would come home and unlock

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the house and go in.

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And there was Dennis sitting on the couch.

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She didn't know how he got in.

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And she seemed a little frightened about that.

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He sort of out of the blue just indicated to me one day

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that he was contemplating suicide and in murder.

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On Easter Sunday, Dennis came to pick up his kids.

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His youngest daughter, Julie, said she would not go with him.

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Now, let's go to the jacket.

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Get up.

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Come stop.

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No, look at her.

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Hold it up and make sure it's in here.

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Come on.

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Look at him.

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Hold on.

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Take it.

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Take it.

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Take it.

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No, no.

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Stop it.

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Stop it.

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Stop it.

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Stop it.

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Stop it.

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Stop it.

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Ready, Humper?

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Yeah.

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No, stop it.

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Stop it.

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Stop it.

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You're hurting her.

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The oldest daughter, Jennifer, ran to a neighbor's home

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to call the sheriff's office.

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She wasn't walking completely unhoned.

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He was like holding her up.

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We're going to the hospital.

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And when they were walking by, I just said ma, ma.

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She didn't even look at me.

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She was just like kind of like in a daze.

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The deputies never arrived at the hospital.

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Investigators immediately began searching for the missing

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couple.

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That same afternoon, Ray and Marie Thornton

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found the bloody blanket in the schoolyard.

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The area was quickly secured.

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Deputies found several fresh tire tracks

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and a large pool of blood.

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The tracks were later matched to Dennis's van.

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The blood was Marilyn's.

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The next day, a highway worker discovered Marilyn

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to pews body off a deserted road between the schoolhouse

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and her home.

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She had been shot once in the back of the head.

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We had a feeling that he had really done something terrible.

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It was so brutal and premeditated

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that it makes you so angry.

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If she'd been killed in an automobile accident,

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you could get over that, but not this.

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After the murder, Dennis sent a series of rambling letters

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to friends and relatives in which he tried to justify

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Marilyn's murder.

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To co-worker Jan Markowski, Dennis wrote,

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Marilyn had many, many opportunities

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to treat me fairly during this divorce.

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And she chose to string it out, trick me, lie to me.

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And when you lose your wife, children, and home,

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there's not much left.

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I was too old to start over.

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Dennis sent a total of 17 letters

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postmarked in Virginia, Iowa, and Oklahoma.

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It seemed as if Dennis was trying to say

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that those of us who were friends of Marilyn

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were the ones who caused her death.

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When, in effect, it was Dennis who pulled the trigger.

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At around 8.30 on the night of our broadcast,

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a woman will call Mary, returned home.

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Her boyfriend, Hank Queen, was already there.

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His van was parked in the driveway,

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which was out of the ordinary, because he usually

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kept it inside the garage.

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He told me that his mother was very ill,

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and then he needed to make an emergency trip home.

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I was sure that something else must really be going on,

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but I didn't know what.

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He was getting clothes out of the closet,

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clothes out of some drawers, gathering up

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some of his personal items.

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At the same time, giving me instructions

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on preparing some food for him to take on the long trip.

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Aren't you going to give me a hug?

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He just gave me a little peck of a kiss,

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and I gave him a big hug and said goodbye to him.

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I'd realized that something was troubling him,

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and I knew I would never see him again.

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Later that night, Mary was shocked

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to learn that Hank Queen was really Dennis DePew,

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and he had just been featured on Unsolved Mysteries.

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Looking back on it now, I think that he was deliberately

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keeping my attention distracted in the kitchen

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so that I wouldn't see the segment,

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and so that he could leave.

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After the broadcast, a viewer who knew Hank Queen and Mary

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gave authorities the license plate number of the van.

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Four hours later, Louisiana State Troopers

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tried to pull him over, but Dennis wouldn't stop.

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He led them on a 15-mile high-speed chase

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breaking through two police barricades.

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I told the debaters if the van refused to stop

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to shoot a tire off over the front tire,

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and they missed the front tire, but they got both back one.

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He traveled about half a mile, and he stopped.

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DePew fired two shots at deputies through his windshield

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and another through the open window.

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Then he turned the gun on himself

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and fired it for the last time.

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I think he intended to die whether he

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had to do it by his own hands or where he could get us

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to kill him.

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In one of the 17 letters DePew had written

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trying to justify murdering his ex-wife,

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he included these lines, an eye for an eye,

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a life for a life.

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At the time, Dennis DePew had no idea just how prophetic

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those words would be.

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Coming up, Miami police officers who try to get away with murder.

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On a previous broadcast, we told you

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about a family of fortune tellers in Peoria, Illinois,

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who conned their clients out of millions of dollars.

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Lena Marie Wilson, her daughter, and Cora Chelly,

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and their accomplice, Joe Marx, were arrested.

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All three jumped bail.

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Wilson and Marx were convicted in absentia.

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Joe Marx has been captured.

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Within minutes of our broadcast, police in Springfield,

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Missouri, received a call from a viewer who recognized Marx.

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Deputies arrested him at his parents' home,

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where his mother was operating a palm reading business.

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He was returned to Illinois to serve

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his sentence of six years in prison for conspiracy

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to commit theft.

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Following another tip, police tracked Lena Wilson

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to her home in Boston, Massachusetts.

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She was arrested and returned to Peoria.

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There, a judge ordered her to serve her original 10-year

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sentence, plus an additional year for jumping bail.

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And Cora Chelly is five feet tall and weighs between 140

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and 170 pounds.

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She has brown hair and brown eyes.

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She could be using the aliases Laurie Wilson, Laurie

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Kelvin, or Anne Marx.

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The statute of limitations has run out on this case.

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Investigators are no longer looking for Anne Cora Chelly.

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Miami, Florida.

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During the early 1980s, more than 120,000 refugees

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arrived from Cuba.

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30,000 are hardcore criminals released from Cuba's jails.

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At the same time, racial tensions

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lead to six days of rioting in the city.

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Miami quickly doubled the size of its police force

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to deal with these problems.

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And some say that questionable applicants

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slipped through the screening process.

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And soon Miami had another problem, corrupt officers

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in its own police department.

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It began slowly.

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The police were not able to find the person

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who was the victim of the crime.

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It began slowly.

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The early abuses were minor shakedowns.

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Their targets, small-time dope dealers.

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A number of the early ripoffs were simple car stops

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where the police officers would see small amounts of drugs

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and money and would proceed to take those drugs and money,

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believing that the people who they were stopping

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weren't going to report those incidents to the police

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department.

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They felt that they were invincible as long as they

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stood together.

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As long as no one talked, it was their word against common thugs

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on the street.

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These police officers succumbed to greed, and they would go out

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and say they were not harming law-abiding citizens.

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And that's how they rationalized and justified a lot of their

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crimes that they committed.

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Now, leave.

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Leave!

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Leave!

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Leave!

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One of the most notorious was Armando Garcia.

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In high school, he hung out with a group of drug users,

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a fact that he didn't mention when he joined the police force.

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Garcia was not satisfied with small-time shakedowns.

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He began confiscating large drug shipments in fake police

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operations that were totally off the books.

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The raids eventually became violent.

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Garcia learned that some 400 kilos of pure cocaine would soon

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be coming into Miami.

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He had intercepted a similar shipment just two weeks earlier.

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Miami Police!

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Drop and go!

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But this time, Garcia's plans fell apart.

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Follow the squad out there, D.

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Get out of here or they'll take the contact.

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Let's see.

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Six of the doper's jumped in the water to escape the police

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officer, thinking it was an official raid.

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Three of them drowned.

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The officers left for 400 kilos of cocaine.

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Metro Day Police Department began the investigation

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immediately after the three bodies were found,

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and they thought it was a routine homicide.

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I don't have the real plans.

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I need you to tell me exactly what it was you saw.

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Sure.

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I saw police cars come into the yard.

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How many?

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There were three of them.

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Detectives were stunned when a harbor security guard said

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the three men drowned while escaping a police raid.

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I am in police!

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There were no records of the raid in police logs.

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Further investigation exposed Armando Garcia's secret

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operations.

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He and 34 other Miami police officers were arrested

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on corruption charges.

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No tenemos otro remedio.

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We have no choice.

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Hay que eliminarlos.

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We must eliminate our problem.

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While in prison, Garcia came up with a plan to kill Keywin

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witnesses that were scheduled to testify at his trial.

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When Garcia and his associates were released on bail,

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they put their plan into action.

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They'd supply $50,000 to one hit man for that hit,

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but it did not take place.

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He took their money and did not commit the hit.

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And they attempted even themselves.

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They hid in the bushes waiting for one of the government

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witnesses but never could find him.

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In the end, however, none of the witnesses were hurt

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and they were able to testify against Garcia in court.

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But the corruption case ended in a mistrial.

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But by then, there was evidence of the assassination plots.

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The former officers were then indicted on a second set

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of charges including conspiracy to commit murder.

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Several of the officers after the indictment decided

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that they would cooperate.

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The other officers realized then that the case had reached

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a point where it was almost a sure conviction

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if they went to court.

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At that point, they made a decision to take flight.

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Update.

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Armando Garcia was finally arrested in Cali, Colombia.

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Also taken into custody was Garcia's father.

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A week later, Victor Zapata, one of Garcia's accomplices,

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gave himself up to the police in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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All three suspects were returned to Miami.

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Armando Garcia was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

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His father received 10 years and Victor Zapata

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was sentenced to 13 years.

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Next, footprints of a strange creature

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in the mountains of Colorado.

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Could it be Bigfoot?

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No.

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Pikes Peak, Colorado.

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100,000 acres of dense wilderness surround this mountain.

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Your average hiker might catch a glimpse of a mountain lion,

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a bobcat, or even a black bear.

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But recently, there have been reports of a different kind

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of animal living in the woods.

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Basically, it looked like a big man

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or a big shape coming toward us,

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and we turned around and started running.

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It had long hair hanging off its arms and its legs.

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It had a small torso, but long legs and long arm.

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Whatever these creatures are,

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I believe they're more human than ape.

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I believe that possibly there may be a group of

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anywhere between seven and possibly 10,

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a small band of these creatures

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living here in the Pikes Peak region.

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Bigfoot.

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Many think this ape-like creature is either a hoax

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or a misidentified common animal.

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But now new evidence suggests that perhaps Bigfoot

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really does exist.

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It was a cold morning in March

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when Dan Masiah's son discovered a set of mysterious tracks

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in the fresh snow.

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Hey, Dad, look at this.

388
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What do you got?

389
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What's up? Where are tracks?

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Tracks. What kind of tracks?

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Dan had spent lots of time in the outdoors,

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but he didn't recognize these tracks.

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Upon examination of the footprints,

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I determined that it was something very strange

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and related to the past footprints

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we had seen around our home.

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The next night, my son and I stayed up late downstairs.

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We watched television,

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and every 15 or 20 minutes, I kept going to my window.

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At quarter of 12, I could see two large creatures

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running down the road.

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One of them was a small one,

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which was about five foot six, five foot seven,

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and the other creature was about six foot,

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maybe six foot two.

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Other than the hair,

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which appeared to be covering their body,

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they looked just like human beings.

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Dan took pictures of the tracks.

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The large set was almost a foot long.

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The smaller set, eight inches.

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Dan Messiah is not the only one who says

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that he saw big foot.

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While hiking Pikes Peak,

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Jeremy Swisher and his friends

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also came face to face with a creature

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they had never seen.

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We came around the base of this big rock,

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and we saw this, it looked like an individual.

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It had turned around and it started to chase us.

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It looked like a fairly good size man.

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It was around six foot tall.

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That's the shape of it.

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The arms might have been a little bit longer than normal.

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The run was more or less like that of an athlete,

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a man of some sort.

427
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He was right across the road from us,

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and that scared us enough to take off the rest of the way home.

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The recent sightings in Colorado

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have all taken place near Pike National Forest.

431
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,680
I'm positive that I saw some type of creature

432
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,680
that was the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life.

433
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It wasn't a bear.

434
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,680
It wasn't like anything I've ever seen before.

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I had a fear in me.

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I got out of the truck and it passed me.

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I got behind it, but I got clear enough distance

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because I wasn't about to go tackle it.

439
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,680
But it seemed to have the figure of a human being.

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I didn't see the face at all,

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but it had hair covering its body.

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00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,680
Another witness claims that his cabin

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was broken into by a large creature.

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He rushed to the back porch,

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but the intruder had vanished.

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The cabin door was practically destroyed.

447
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The next morning, two boys found

448
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tufts of hair caught in the screen door.

449
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We sent this hair to a laboratory

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at the University of California in San Francisco.

451
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I've tested these hairs for all the major groups of mammals

452
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that have large specimens like, you know,

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deer, bear, and so forth,

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and it only reacts with the primates.

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And of the primates, it only reacts with hominoids,

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and there are only five hominoids,

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human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon,

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and I've eliminated all of those except human and chimpanzee.

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So it's some large animal closely related to human and chimpanzee.

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Using four eyewitness accounts,

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a scientific illustrator drew a picture

462
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of what Bigfoot might look like.

463
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Is it possible that the shoe,

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hair, human-like creature might actually exist?

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Until concrete evidence appears,

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Bigfoot will remain a creature of mystery.

467
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Next, a police officer searched for answers

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in the murder of his seven-year-old son.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Morning, Gary.

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It was a midweek holiday for seven-year-old Gary Grant, Jr.

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Gary lived with his mother, May.

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She and Gary's father, an Atlantic City police detective,

474
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had been separated for about a year.

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And after breakfast,

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Gary and Mary were taken to the hospital.

477
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Gary was taken to the hospital

478
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and was treated by a doctor.

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Gary and Mary were separated for about a year.

480
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And after breakfast,

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are you going to go out and play with your friends?

482
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No, Mom.

483
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Why not?

484
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I was asking him with who and he said it was a secret.

485
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So I thought, you know, it's silly.

486
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,680
You know, he's a little boy,

487
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something to do maybe with his little girlfriend

488
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around the corner or something.

489
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So I kind of left it at that.

490
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,680
He wanted to go out and play, so he got dressed

491
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and he went out to play.

492
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After Gary went on about noon,

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he said he would be back by 4 p.m.

494
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before it got dark.

495
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It got to be 4.30,

496
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and he still hadn't showed up for dinner,

497
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and he liked his dinner. He never missed.

498
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,680
So I started getting worried,

499
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,680
and I went down to where two girls,

500
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they were friends of his,

501
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,680
and asked him if they had seen Gary.

502
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,680
Do you want to come in?

503
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,680
No, I'm just looking for Gary.

504
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,680
Well, he was here in the afternoon,

505
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,680
but he left around 4.30 to go home.

506
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,680
Oh. OK, well, if you see him,

507
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,680
will you please tell Gary to come home?

508
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,680
Thanks. Bye.

509
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,680
Another two hours passed with no sign of Gary.

510
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,680
May telephoned her husband.

511
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I searched until well after midnight,

512
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probably around 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning

513
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I walked around. As a matter of fact,

514
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I called out from work that night.

515
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,680
I was due to go into work at midnight,

516
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,680
and I called my sergeant and advised him

517
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,680
that I wouldn't be coming in.

518
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By the next morning, the Atlantic City Police Department

519
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,680
had started an all-out search.

520
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,680
Regulations prevented detective Grant

521
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,680
from taking part in the official investigation.

522
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But as a father, he could not stand by and do nothing.

523
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,680
I started searching every possible place.

524
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,680
I could think of, I started searching abandoned houses.

525
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,680
I started searching underneath the boardwalk.

526
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,680
I started searching arcades and questioning people

527
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,680
who were working in the arcades.

528
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,680
By Friday night, it started getting dark again

529
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,680
and still no signs or no word of Gary.

530
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,680
I started then looking in alleyways

531
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,680
and trash cans and dumpsters.

532
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,680
The streets can be pretty mean now,

533
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,680
you know, for an adult, let alone for a 7-year-old child.

534
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,680
And by that time, I was fearing the worst.

535
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,680
The next afternoon, the body of Gary Grant Jr.

536
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,680
was found in a vacant lot,

537
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,680
less than two blocks from his home.

538
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,680
He had been beaten to death.

539
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,680
A short length of heavy pipe lay nearby.

540
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,680
I didn't want to believe that it was him.

541
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,680
Being a father, you don't want to believe

542
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,680
that your kid is lying back there somewhere, you know,

543
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,680
and he's never going to get up again.

544
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,680
When they told me that Gary was dead,

545
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,680
I just went totally numb, my whole body.

546
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,680
I didn't want to believe it.

547
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,680
I just can't imagine why someone would do that

548
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,680
to a 7-year-old boy.

549
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,680
Any 7-year-old boy.

550
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,680
The investigation began like all others,

551
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,680
detectives chasing the victim's final hours

552
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,680
and talking to those who knew him best.

553
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,680
Do you know Gary Grant?

554
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,680
Sure, he lived around here, over in Arctic.

555
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,680
When was the last time you saw him?

556
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,680
A couple days ago.

557
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Who was he with?

558
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,680
He was with Boo.

559
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,680
Would that be Boo Mason?

560
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,680
Carl Mason, nicknamed Boo,

561
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,680
was a mentally challenged 12-year-old

562
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,680
with an IQ of 65.

563
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,680
He was smaller in height and weight than Gary,

564
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,680
even though he was five years older.

565
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,680
The two boys were good friends and often played together.

566
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,680
We're with the Atlantic City Police Department.

567
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,680
We need to ask you a few questions.

568
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,680
Did you know this Gary Grant kid?

569
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,680
Sure, I knew Gary.

570
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,680
When did you last see him?

571
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:23,680
Wednesday.

572
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,680
You sure? You didn't see him on Thursday?

573
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,680
Yeah, we were supposed to meet on Thursday,

574
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,680
but Gary never showed up.

575
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,680
Boo said he hadn't been with Gary,

576
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,680
but detectives canvassing the neighborhood

577
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,680
kept coming back with stories that he had, in fact, been with Gary.

578
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,680
So they didn't know what to do.

579
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,680
There was this conflict.

580
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,680
Boo seemed like such a harmless character.

581
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,680
He was known as a scaredy cat in the neighborhood,

582
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,680
but they just couldn't reconcile the conflict.

583
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,680
No, I've seen him the day before and that was it.

584
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,680
The name is...

585
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,680
He said, OK, and they were asking me some other questions,

586
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,680
but I don't remember.

587
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,680
Then later on that night, they came back and they took me.

588
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,680
That night, Boo was driven to police headquarters

589
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,680
with his grandmother.

590
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,680
He was then taken into a room for questioning.

591
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,680
His grandmother did not go in with him.

592
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:23,680
He just tells the truth and we can all go home.

593
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,680
What happened when you and Gary left the school gym?

594
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:32,680
We went to the park over on Texas, but that was on Wednesday.

595
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,680
What did you do at the park?

596
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,680
I didn't see Gary on Thursday. He didn't show up.

597
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,680
In questioning, Boo, his stories were inconsistent,

598
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,680
and the detectives wrestled around with it

599
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,680
until finally around 3 o'clock, one version of the story,

600
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,680
he acknowledged being with the victim at the crime scene

601
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,680
and that he, in fact, hit him with the pipe.

602
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:01,680
I hit him with a leg, but he threw a rock at me.

603
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,680
And what did you do after you hit him?

604
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:09,680
Well, once he fell and he didn't get up, so I just left.

605
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,680
He was telling police what they felt

606
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,680
were details that only the killer could have known,

607
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,680
and that got everything into high gear

608
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,680
because they realized that Boo was now the suspect.

609
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,680
Everybody knew what happened to him.

610
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:25,680
They found the body.

611
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,680
Then, like, that day, they found the weapon.

612
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,680
There was all different stories that happened to him,

613
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,680
I guess, as Mars would say.

614
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,680
Bringing your grandma in will just be another minute.

615
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,680
After three long hours, police believe they had a confession.

616
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,680
What we did is had your confession typed up.

617
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,680
We need you to read it and sign it with you.

618
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,680
Boo signed a document, but insisted

619
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,680
he had not murdered his friend.

620
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,680
Have you told us the truth now?

621
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,680
Yes, but I didn't do it.

622
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,680
Boo Mason was charged with murder

623
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,680
and sent to a juvenile detention center.

624
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,680
I did not have anything to do with his murder.

625
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,680
The one cop said, if you admit that you did it,

626
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,680
we'll let you go home.

627
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,680
So me at the age of 12, I was so tired, I said,

628
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:13,680
if you say so, but I didn't.

629
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,680
And then the next thing I knew, I winded up at home.

630
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,680
Do you live in Atlantic City?

631
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,680
Yes.

632
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,680
Boo was given two polygraph tests.

633
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,680
Did you hurt Gary Grant?

634
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,680
No.

635
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,680
In both the first and second lie detector tests,

636
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,680
it was determined that Boo had answered truthfully

637
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,680
when he said that he did not kill Gary Grant.

638
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,680
You now told the entire truth about Gary Grant's murder.

639
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:41,680
Yes.

640
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,680
I feel that he very easily could have been intimidated

641
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,680
by the person who did it or who was there when it was done,

642
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,680
could have told him, hey, if you say anything to anybody,

643
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,680
you're next.

644
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,680
I have completed three and a half days of testimony.

645
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,680
With respect to the admissions...

646
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,680
A hearing was held to determine whether Boo's confession

647
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,680
was admissible in court.

648
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,680
This court cannot find beyond a reasonable doubt that any

649
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,680
of the statements made by the juvenile

650
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,680
were voluntary statements.

651
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,680
The charges against Boo Mason were dropped.

652
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,680
The police never found another suspect.

653
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,680
But two years later, it became obvious that someone

654
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:26,680
had not forgotten Gary Grant Jr.

655
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,680
Early one morning, a chilling message was found

656
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,680
on the side of an Atlantic City patrol car.

657
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,680
Gary Grant's dead.

658
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,680
I am living.

659
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:43,680
Another will die on January 12th, if all goes right.

660
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,680
January 12th was the second anniversary

661
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,680
of Gary Grant Jr.'s murder.

662
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,680
From what I observed on the car, it appeared to me

663
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,680
that it was written on there by an adult.

664
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,680
However, as far as ever finding out who did that,

665
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,680
we've never found that out.

666
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,680
January 12th came and went without incident.

667
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,680
But a few weeks later, another message was scratched

668
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,680
on a sidewalk.

669
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,680
Gary Grant Jr. lives.

670
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,680
I still killed him, son of a pig officer.

671
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,680
Payback is a MF.

672
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,680
The second message caused some to believe that Gary's murder

673
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,680
was revenge for an arrest that his father made.

674
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,680
That thought has gone through my mind a thousand million times,

675
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,680
but there's not one thing that stands out that I could think of

676
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,680
because I've never had anybody look at me in the face and say

677
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,680
to me, I'm going to get even with you for this.

678
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,680
No further messages were received, but whoever wrote them

679
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,680
is still out there.

680
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,680
Somebody knows something.

681
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,680
There's no doubt in my mind.

682
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,680
It's just not possible that something like that could happen

683
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,680
without somebody seeing or hearing something

684
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,680
or somebody saying something to somebody about it.

685
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:04,680
I would like to see the person or persons who are out there

686
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,680
and they know who they are to come forward.

687
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:13,680
So I could have a little peace too in my mind and my heart.

688
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,680
If you have any information about the murder of Gary Grant Jr.,

689
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:23,680
please log on to our website at unsolved.com.

690
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:31,680
Coming up, a slippery con artist who steals the hearts of his victims,

691
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,680
vendor cash and jewelry.

692
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,680
Palm Beach, Florida.

693
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,680
The robbery takes place in broad daylight.

694
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,680
The thief has a key to the house.

695
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,680
He is selective and seems to know what he wants.

696
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,680
No fingerprints are left behind.

697
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,680
It is obviously an inside job.

698
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,680
At the door, the thief leaves a note for his victim.

699
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,680
He signs it L.

700
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,680
Many of Florida's retirees are widows or divorcees.

701
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,680
They can be easy targets for a sleazy kind of con man

702
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:29,680
who preys on their emotions and then takes off with their cash.

703
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,680
Okay, we're going to speed it up for you with a little shuffle.

704
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,680
Let's all get up and dance.

705
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,680
It was a Friday night in West Palm Beach.

706
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:48,680
A widow who will call Mrs. K went to a singles dance at St. Mary's Church.

707
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,680
A good looking man named Arthur Frankford asked her to dance.

708
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,680
She was flattered.

709
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,680
My name is Art Frankford.

710
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:58,680
Hello.

711
00:37:58,680 --> 00:37:59,680
Yours?

712
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:00,680
Emily.

713
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:01,680
Nice to meet you.

714
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,680
When I first saw him sitting up against the wall, I thought he was too old.

715
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,680
You know, it is a singles dance and you do look him over.

716
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:13,680
After he'd asked me to dance, I realized he wasn't as old as I thought he'd first appeared.

717
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,680
That night, Mrs. K and Arthur danced every dance.

718
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,680
From the day that I met him till the time that he left,

719
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:26,680
never once was I suspicious of any move that he made as far as to question his character,

720
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,680
who he was, that he was a liar and a thief.

721
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:41,680
Frankford told Mrs. K that he was a geologist and had recently retired from a government job.

722
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:47,680
He also said he owned a house and several other rental properties in nearby towns

723
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:52,680
and lived off the income in addition to his retirement pay.

724
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:57,680
So one night, he'd come home and he said that instead of renting another place for himself,

725
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,680
he thought it would be better if he lived here.

726
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,680
Once he moved in, it was great.

727
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:02,680
I would come home from work.

728
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,680
He'd have my dinner ready.

729
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,680
He would do the grocery shopping.

730
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:06,680
He would make dinner.

731
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,680
He would clean the house, vacuum the house.

732
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,680
There was no reason to have anticipated what he did.

733
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,680
Mrs. K and Frankford settled into a comfortable routine.

734
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:26,680
We started to play gin and during the course of the gin game, he stopped what he was doing.

735
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,680
Do you really love me?

736
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,680
Yes, I do. Very much.

737
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,680
I guess that means I can get away with anything.

738
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,680
At that time, I thought he meant the gin game because he would like to try to cheat.

739
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,680
He had to win.

740
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:47,680
One day, Mrs. K came home and found the bed she shared with Arthur unmade.

741
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,680
My bed's always made.

742
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,680
Either Art made it or I made it wherever it was last up.

743
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,680
Even then, it did not appear out of the ordinary to me.

744
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,680
Until the time that I walked into my closet to change my clothes

745
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,680
and discovered all the clothes from the closet missing.

746
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,680
And then I realized that he had left.

747
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,680
Mrs. K was heartbroken.

748
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,680
On the hall table, she found a note.

749
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,680
It said, sorry, things too possessive.

750
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,680
L, which was their word for love.

751
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:31,680
Then Mrs. K remembered giving him the combination to her safe.

752
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:37,680
I didn't realize until the time that I read the note and went back and opened the safe.

753
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,680
And then I discovered that I was robbed.

754
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,680
$4,500 worth of jewelry was gone.

755
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:52,680
So were her late husband's wedding ring, handgun, work ID card, and driver's license renewal form.

756
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,680
Took a lot of courage to call the police.

757
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,680
I didn't want to say it out loud to myself that Art was who he was.

758
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,680
Update

759
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:11,680
Within minutes of our broadcast, two viewers called to report that they recognized Arthur Frankford.

760
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,680
The individual said, I know where Arthur Frankford is.

761
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,680
I'm his ex-brother-in-law.

762
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,680
We received another call about 20 minutes later from a white female.

763
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:26,680
It says Arthur Frankford lives next door to me in Whitley, Kentucky.

764
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,680
This was the confirmation call that I was looking for.

765
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,680
At that time, I knew we had our man.

766
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,680
Two hours later, Frankford was arrested in his home in Kentucky.

767
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:44,680
He was living under the assumed name James Ferguson with his new wife of two months.

768
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:51,680
During his search of Frankford's house, police found several identification and credit cards with different names.

769
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,680
They also found a handgun that may have been stolen from Mrs. K's home.

770
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,680
Police learned that Frankford's real name is Harry Ville-Ling Donaldson.

771
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,680
He was tried and found guilty of fraud.

772
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:08,680
He served two years in a Florida prison and was released.

773
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,680
He died six months later.

774
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,680
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