1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Next on Unsolved Mysteries, a young woman meets a handsome and charming fitness trainer, 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,640 and she is swept off her feet. 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:19,680 But before long, she discovers he is dangerous and violent. 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:25,320 Just hours after a wealthy businessman disappears, his wife sells all of his belongings at a 5 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:32,200 garage sale, and then she takes control of his multi-million dollar estate. 6 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:37,800 A college student goes missing, then his burnt out car turns up at a car wash. 7 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,320 Was he murdered by a mysterious hitchhiker? 8 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:48,400 And is it possible that this is an actual remnant of the legendary Holy Grail? 9 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,840 If so, it may have amazing healing powers. 10 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,320 These are stories you won't want to miss. 11 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,600 I'm Dennis Farina, and this is Unsolved Mysteries. 12 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:39,760 Las Vegas, Nevada 13 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:44,960 Amber and Brittany Albanese return to their mother's home after a weekend with their divorced 14 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:49,040 father. 15 00:01:49,040 --> 00:02:07,720 They are surprised to find that their mother, Joanne, is nowhere to be found. 16 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,680 Their mother hasn't returned by the next day, so the girls report her missing. 17 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:18,080 Las Vegas police detectives soon discover that Joanne's boyfriend of five months, John 18 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,560 Edwards, is also missing. 19 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,760 When Joanne and John failed to show up at work, contact their family, that's what we 20 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,560 figured, we had better take a closer look at it. 21 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:37,400 For over ten years, Joanne had not been lucky with love, so she was thrilled when she met 22 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,040 John Edwards. 23 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,280 He was handsome, charismatic, and very attentive. 24 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:50,280 Joanne soon found out that John Edwards was not who he seemed to be. 25 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:51,280 Joanne? 26 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,280 Yes. 27 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,280 Remember the guy I told you about? 28 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:55,280 Very charming. 29 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,280 No wife, no kids. 30 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,880 Well, he's back there training somebody. 31 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:06,040 A friend introduced 39-year-old Joanne to John, a fitness trainer. 32 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:07,880 Soon, they were dating. 33 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,400 Nice to meet you, Joanne. 34 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:15,120 Joanne, like most women, thought him to be very dynamic and very interesting and attractive 35 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,120 man. 36 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,320 For a while, the two seemed to be madly in love. 37 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,600 But then something changed. 38 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,320 Edwards paid for nothing and was living off Joanne's earnings. 39 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:29,840 This is strawberry. 40 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,680 It looks like it. 41 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,920 You brought the wrong drink. 42 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:40,960 And his charming personality turned into one that was jealous, possessive, and violent. 43 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,880 Will you shut up? 44 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,160 He makes sure that he's pretty much the only person she's with. 45 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,080 Obviously, she was with her children as well. 46 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,600 But he takes up most of her time. 47 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,120 He, from what we understand, even made sure that he was there when she would go to the 48 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,920 bathroom. 49 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:05,240 On the day she disappeared, Joanne left work at 4.30 in the afternoon. 50 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:12,000 She told family and friends that she planned to break up with John at dinner that night. 51 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:19,440 Joanne was never heard from again. 52 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:25,440 Four days later and 250 miles away, Joanne's car was found. 53 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,400 It was parked in a remote desert area. 54 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,280 There was no sign of Joanne or of John. 55 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:37,560 Fighting the car abandoned where it was, it pretty well confirmed our fears that we had 56 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,080 a foul play incident here. 57 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:47,440 Police discovered a truck parked outside Joanne's home that witnesses said belonged to John. 58 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,320 But when police checked the truck's registration. 59 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:56,120 We ran that license plate and it came back as absolutely no record, which is rather unusual. 60 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,200 The plate doesn't go to the vehicle or anyone in particular. 61 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,200 So there's a problem there. 62 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,560 Somebody's trying to cover something. 63 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:09,240 We started questioning whether or not John Edwards was who he claimed to be. 64 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,600 Hoping to find some answers, police searched Edwards' house. 65 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,600 We began looking through some of his belongings and we found a wallet that was duct taped, 66 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:19,600 closed. 67 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:20,600 Bingo. 68 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,360 And when I opened that wallet, I found identification with the person we knew as John Edwards. 69 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:31,000 But it was the name of John Addis. 70 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,560 Alaska driver's license, a certification card from the state of Alaska saying he is certified 71 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,840 in crime scene investigations. 72 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:40,840 What's checking out? 73 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:47,600 We realized at that point that the person we were told was John Edwards was in fact a 74 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,840 John Addis. 75 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:56,400 Why did John Addis go to such lengths to conceal his identity? 76 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:01,640 As detectives dug into his past, they found a trail of battered women that began in the 77 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,520 Alaskan wilderness. 78 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:10,000 Addis had once been an officer with the Alaska state troopers. 79 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:16,440 He had quickly risen through the ranks to become a crime scene investigator. 80 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,120 John was a very intelligent man. 81 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:26,360 As an investigator, John really wasn't a people person as much as some others perhaps were. 82 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:32,440 But if you wanted good science at a crime scene, John Addis was the guy. 83 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:42,520 Addis and his wife Jody were active in the local law enforcement community. 84 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,400 Only Jody knew the truth about John Addis. 85 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,360 He was very controlling. 86 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:56,680 It started out by just pushes or shoving and then it was grabbing my hair, pushing me up 87 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,120 against the wall with his hand against my throat. 88 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:11,320 After 11 years of marriage and four children, Jody finally had enough. 89 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:18,000 I decided I can't live like this anymore, so I had to make a decision. 90 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:25,040 I decided I am not going to put up with this when I jumped from the vehicle. 91 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:36,560 Addis reportedly chased her down and threw her back into the truck. 92 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,920 Somehow Jody escaped. 93 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,880 A short time later, Jody divorced Addis. 94 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,600 Over the next few years, Addis quit his job as a state trooper and married wives number 95 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,480 two and number three. 96 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:58,240 I started to trace back all of his prior relationships. 97 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,600 What I saw was an escalation in violence. 98 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:07,080 It was extremely violent with his third wife who after just having a baby with her, he 99 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:12,720 was choking her so badly that her feet were off the ground. 100 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,960 While Addis was married to his third wife, he kidnapped the four children from his first 101 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,280 marriage. 102 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,800 He was arrested and served a year in prison before being paroled. 103 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:29,040 Then Addis violated his parole and disappeared. 104 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,320 Five years later, Addis showed up in Las Vegas. 105 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,160 It was there that he met Joanne Aldeniz. 106 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,160 By then, Addis was calling himself John Edwards. 107 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,840 The former wife beater would soon become a killer. 108 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,720 Joanne would be his first victim. 109 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,600 Our best guess was before they went to dinner, they got into a heated argument. 110 00:08:52,600 --> 00:09:00,520 And as a result of that argument, we firmly believe that John killed her. 111 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:06,840 But once she was dead, John panicked, packed her into her own car and ultimately disposed 112 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:15,560 of the body and the car outside of Prescott, Arizona. 113 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:17,320 Three years passed. 114 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:22,600 Then only one mile from where her car had been abandoned, a hunter found Joanne's skeletal 115 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:23,680 remains. 116 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:28,760 An arrest warrant was issued for John Addis. 117 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:30,440 This is not a stupid individual. 118 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,760 This is a homicide detective who taught crimes in investigation. 119 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,520 He's as sharp as they come. 120 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,080 And that's what makes him tougher to find. 121 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,880 John Addis won't be easy to catch and won't be easy to arrest. 122 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,400 I hope I'm wrong. 123 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,440 I hope he watches this segment and decides to do the honorable thing and give himself 124 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,320 up. 125 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:57,000 Update John Addis did not give himself up. 126 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:02,760 He managed to stay out of sight for 11 years, until the FBI received the tip that he was 127 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:04,760 in Mexico. 128 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:10,840 Addis, a Mexican woman and their two kids were living in Chiapas, Mexico. 129 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:16,360 The police closed in, but by the time they got there, Addis was gone. 130 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:26,800 The woman and two children he left behind were dead, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. 131 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:33,000 A few days later, the body of an American was found in a Guatemala hotel. 132 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,880 Fingerprints identified him as John Addis. 133 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,720 A local coroner ruled that he had died of a heart attack. 134 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,840 Addis was 56. 135 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,360 The case of Joanne Alvarez was officially closed. 136 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,120 However, a detective who has worked on the case for more than a decade doesn't rule 137 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:59,320 out the possibility that John Addis somehow staged his own death and has eluded authorities 138 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,320 once again. 139 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,720 Next, a millionaire vanishes. 140 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,720 Was he murdered? 141 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:20,560 San Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands. 142 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:26,680 A lush tropical getaway known as the American Paradise. 143 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,440 Jim Rice is a wealthy and successful contractor. 144 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:36,200 He and his wife, Astarte, have moved here to build their dream house and live a good 145 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,440 life. 146 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,880 Two years later, their marriage is crumbling. 147 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,400 I just don't think it's right for a man to have to go to California to get an operation 148 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:47,400 without his wife. 149 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,400 I've already told you I can't. 150 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:50,920 I've already made plans. 151 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:56,520 Jim has to fly to San Francisco for shoulder surgery. 152 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:02,320 But he's going alone because Astarte refuses to make the trip with him. 153 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:07,840 The police now believe he never made that trip at all. 154 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,240 He never showed up at my house, never called from the airport, or we just never heard from 155 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,040 him again. 156 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,360 When Jim first met Astarte, he was instantly captivated. 157 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,000 But their life together was not easy. 158 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:29,800 There were business failures, separations, reconciliations, and finally, Astarte's imprisonment 159 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,320 for fraud. 160 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:37,080 Yet despite it all, Jim remained loyal to his wife. 161 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:43,080 When Astarte first met Jim, she had three grown children from a previous marriage. 162 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,840 She was born Estabel White. 163 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:52,960 But as an adult, she changed her name to Astarte after a primitive goddess of love. 164 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:58,080 She seemed to make my dad happy, and I figured he saw something in her that I didn't see. 165 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,280 And as long as he was happy, then that was OK. 166 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,000 Jim and Astarte moved to Hawaii. 167 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:11,920 There, they started a charter fishing business. 168 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:19,720 Two years later, Astarte's son, Noble, was cleaning their boat when it exploded. 169 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,840 Noble was seriously injured but recovered. 170 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:28,080 Astarte just happened to be near the dock at the time. 171 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,280 Authorities became suspicious. 172 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:37,640 Well, there was a large debt on the yacht, and they carried insurance on the yacht. 173 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:42,640 Noble indicated that he was just aboard cleaning the ship, which is kind of strange because 174 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,120 it was like two or three o'clock in the morning of the strange time to be cleaning a boat 175 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,240 using gasoline. 176 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:54,040 And the yacht caught on fire, and he said it was just purely an accident. 177 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,960 But there was sufficient cause for the authorities back there in Hawaii to charge both Astarte 178 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,480 and Noble with the auction of the yacht. 179 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:08,040 Astarte and Noble were charged, but their trial date was postponed. 180 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:15,760 A year later, Astarte was sent to prison on another fraud charge, altering court documents. 181 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:21,840 After her release, Jim and Astarte moved to St. Croix and built a dream house on an isolated 182 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,920 bluff overlooking the Caribbean. 183 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,440 Three years later, Jim called his daughter and told her that he was coming to California 184 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,760 for shoulder surgery. 185 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,640 He never arrived. 186 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:41,440 Kathy kept trying to reach him by telephone and was totally unsuccessful for about two 187 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,200 weeks. 188 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,880 When she finally was able to reach his home in St. Croix, she talked to Astarte, and 189 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:53,040 at that time Astarte had told her that Jim had run off with a woman from Australia. 190 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:58,000 No, he went off fishing on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. 191 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,360 A few days later when she talked to Astarte, the story was that Jim had flown from St. 192 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:04,360 Croix to Miami. 193 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,160 So he had two completely different stories. 194 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,320 And later on, Astarte denied that either of these things had occurred. 195 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:16,560 So we know that right from the beginning, she lied about what had happened to Jim and 196 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,840 how he disappeared. 197 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:28,200 Kathy hired private investigator Dennis Chirot to look into her father's disappearance. 198 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:34,640 Dennis found a customs declaration form dated the day Jim was supposed to leave for California. 199 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:39,400 On the form, Jim's signature appeared to have been forged. 200 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:44,640 We noted that Jim supposedly had flown on an airplane from St. Croix to Miami. 201 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:50,640 And in fact, the people who actually flew on that flight were Astarte, Astarte's son 202 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,400 Noble and Noble's girlfriend. 203 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:00,760 Dennis also discovered that Astarte requested full control of Jim's financial estate worth 204 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,320 $2 million. 205 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:08,720 These documents were filed a week before he was scheduled to leave for California. 206 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,080 But Astarte pretended that he had already left. 207 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,840 We're meeting him in Miami very shortly and that's one of the reasons we're in kind of 208 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:16,840 a rush. 209 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:22,080 Probably the key document was a power of attorney in Astarte's name. 210 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,360 This original power of attorney was in the name of Jim's daughter, Kathy Clements. 211 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:35,040 Astarte had done a cut and paste job on the document and inserted her name in its place. 212 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:41,680 Some would have known that his assets were beginning to be changed or taken away from 213 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,080 him. 214 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,280 Jim's disappearance had to happen in that 12-hour period from the time that he last 215 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:56,440 spoke to Kathy to the following morning when the documents were presented to the notaries. 216 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:03,240 Our investigation showed that just days after Jim's disappearance, all of his personal effects, 217 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:08,720 his tools, his truck, were all sold in a garage sale that was conducted at the house and sold 218 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,680 by Astarte and Noble Davis. 219 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:11,680 How you doing? 220 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:12,680 Noble Davis. 221 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,680 Appreciate it. 222 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:20,520 A few months later, Kathy received a type-written letter from Australia signed by Jim. 223 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:25,280 His signature, again, appeared to have been forged. 224 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,320 And there was something else. 225 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,720 The most important thing was the fact that the letter throughout contained the words 226 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,400 I am put together. 227 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,920 We know that from letters which we can attribute to Astarte that that was a grammatical error 228 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,600 that she frequently used. 229 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:50,560 Kathy Clements and Dennis Schirra are convinced that Jim Rice was murdered and that his body 230 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,320 lies somewhere beneath the blue waters of the Caribbean. 231 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:02,280 Although Astarte has never been charged, authorities still consider her a prime suspect. 232 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:08,040 Five years after Jim vanished, Astarte was arrested and convicted of fraud in connection 233 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,760 with Jim's estate. 234 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:20,520 She was serving time in a minimum security prison when she simply walked out and disappeared. 235 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:21,520 Update 236 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:28,320 When this story aired, an unsolved mysteries viewer called police and said that Astarte 237 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,960 was living in Spokane, Washington. 238 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:38,000 Police arrested her as she left for work and she was returned to prison to serve the remainder 239 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,040 of her 15 years sentence. 240 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,280 She has since been released. 241 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:51,400 The disappearance of Jim Rice has never been explained. 242 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:56,080 A young man picks up a hitchhiker and is later found. 243 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:57,080 Murdered. 244 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:05,400 You have your head in the air, sir. 245 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:11,600 Alaska, America's last frontier. 246 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:17,680 Highway 1 is its lifeline, a road that cuts through Canada's Yukon territory that connects 247 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,040 Alaska to the continental United States. 248 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:31,120 This would be the final road taken for 25-year-old Philip Frazier. 249 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,400 Philip was the son of two doctors. 250 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,800 When he left his home in Anchorage, he was headed towards Evergreen College in Washington 251 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,560 state to take pre-med classes. 252 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:50,720 Philip packed up everything he owned for the trip, including two handguns. 253 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,640 Three days after leaving home, Philip crossed the border into Canada. 254 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,040 Hi, where are you coming from? 255 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,040 Alaska. 256 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,040 Alaska, where are you headed? 257 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,040 Washington, Washington. 258 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,040 Going to the pool. 259 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:06,480 Philip did declare that he had two firearms of his own and at that point our Canada customs 260 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:13,040 people seized the firearms from him as it is illegal for Americans to enter Canada with 261 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:20,800 any kind of a firearm. 262 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:26,680 The next day, a hitchhiker was dropped off at a local cafe south of the border. 263 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:31,080 Cafe owner Gay Frockledge and her daughter Tina were working. 264 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,440 The individual that dropped him off didn't come in the cafe, just dropped him off and 265 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,440 left. 266 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,480 There was something wrong with him, you know, and the appearance wasn't comfortable. 267 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:45,320 I remember saying to my mom, you know, maybe he escaped from mental institution because 268 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:46,480 he was so strange. 269 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,000 I think we got a problem here. 270 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Yeah, you going to stick around? 271 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,440 Yeah, I think I better best not leave her alone. 272 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,360 I wouldn't leave her alone in the building with him as there was nobody else there at 273 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:58,360 the time. 274 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:04,760 I said to Tina, well, you go ahead and take care of him and I'll just hang around. 275 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:11,280 As I passed the side window, I seen a small black car pull up right to the side of the 276 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:16,440 cafe and the young man in the car proceeded to act like he was searching his car, like 277 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,120 he had misplaced something that he needed. 278 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:25,160 During this time, another vehicle pulled out to the service station. 279 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,840 Tina went to pump gas for another customer. 280 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,280 G and Philip Frazier said hello. 281 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,280 Is that everything? 282 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,520 Yeah. 283 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:39,280 When the hitchhiker finally finished eating, Gay and Tina noticed that he paid with Canadian 284 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,280 money. 285 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:47,280 I watched the hitchhiker go out and approach Frazier. 286 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,280 Good. 287 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:49,280 How about a ride? 288 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,280 Uh, I'm good to go in here yet. 289 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:52,280 You sure? 290 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,280 Yeah. 291 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:54,280 All right. 292 00:21:54,280 --> 00:22:04,200 The car sat for a few minutes and then he pulled ahead like he had second thoughts. 293 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,560 The hitchhiker just ran beside him and pulled the door open. 294 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,960 And the young man in the car proceeded to let him enter. 295 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:17,280 The strange thing was, as they left the yard, Tina made some remark about he's going to 296 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,680 live to regret this day he picked this man up. 297 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:37,160 It was like a sixth sense that this man was capable of anything. 298 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:44,080 Eight hours later, 200 miles south of the cafe, Eddie and Pauline Olsen pull over to 299 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,960 help a stranded motorist. 300 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:46,960 Oh, wow. 301 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,480 I'm glad to see you guys. 302 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,280 Hey, I think my car ran out of gas. 303 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,400 You could tell he was nervous, but I thought that we were just scared of being out here 304 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,240 this late at night. 305 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:05,200 At that point, I just said, well, I'll tow you home and we'll figure it out in the morning. 306 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,560 The Olsen's offered to let the hitchhiker sleep in their basement for the night. 307 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,560 There's some blankets right there. 308 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:13,560 OK. 309 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,560 Have a good sleep and we'll see you in the morning. 310 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:16,560 All right, thanks. 311 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:17,560 Sleep good. 312 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:25,600 He slept downstairs in our basement and I have about 12 or 15 guns and a gun case down 313 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:31,560 there and where he slept, the guns were just right beside him there. 314 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:39,720 The next morning, the young man told the Olsen's that both his parents were doctors 315 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,480 in Anchorage. 316 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,160 He said that he was on his way to college to study medicine. 317 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,040 I really wanted to thank you guys. 318 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,120 I got talking to him about his car and he told me that if I was interested, he would 319 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,320 sell it to me. 320 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,400 But I said, the only way I would buy it is if you waited until Monday and we went through 321 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,400 customs. 322 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,560 And he said that would be too late for him, eh? 323 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,040 I really can't wait. 324 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,120 I really need to get going. 325 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,560 Is there something I can do for your hospitality? 326 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,560 It's OK. 327 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:11,760 The Olsen's thought it odd when the hitchhiker pulled out two wallets and began to behave 328 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,680 secretively. 329 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:20,000 He gave the Olsen's 20 US dollars. 330 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:27,120 Within an hour, the young man had fixed his broken fan belt and was on the road again. 331 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:36,480 12 hours later, Philip's car was found at a car wash in Prince George, British Columbia. 332 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:44,120 The car was burned, almost totally gutted out due to the fire. 333 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,400 Nothing was found in the car of any significance. 334 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,360 In fact, none of Philip Fraser's belongings have ever been found. 335 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:56,640 The parents were contacted and there was a great deal of investigation done at that point 336 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:04,120 as Philip was considered a missing person and potentially a homicide victim. 337 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:11,240 Six weeks later, Philip's body was found 70 miles from the Olsen's home. 338 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,240 I felt angry, bitter. 339 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:20,320 I wondered what kind of a person would destroy someone who was so idealistic and so full 340 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,200 of life. 341 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:29,720 The Royal Canadian Monarch Police believe that the mysterious hitchhiker learned everything 342 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:35,600 he could about Philip so that he could assume his identity and then kill him. 343 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,640 In my mind, most definitely, he's a dangerous person. 344 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,640 He's taken one life. 345 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:51,400 He has the capability of taking more and I would consider him very dangerous. 346 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:56,600 These are composite drawings of the hitchhiker based on eyewitness descriptions. 347 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:04,200 He is Caucasian, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs approximately 225 pounds. 348 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,320 He has brown hair and brown eyes. 349 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:12,720 The authorities believe that the hitchhiker is familiar with Toronto and Seattle. 350 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,680 He may be using the name Philip in his frasier. 351 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:23,880 Among the items never recovered were Philip's birth certificate, visa, passport and checkbook. 352 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:34,560 If you have any information about Philip, please log on to our website at unsolved.com. 353 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,800 Coming up, they call him the heart attacker. 354 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:50,280 So far he's stolen over a million dollars from his many, many wives. 355 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,960 We recently profiled the case of Louis Carlucci. 356 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:01,520 A smooth talking con man, Carlucci is suspected of marrying women, a lot of women and then 357 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,800 stealing their money. 358 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,240 All together he took more than one million dollars. 359 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,640 He also fathered over 30 children. 360 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:17,280 The problem in this kind of a case is that victims are embarrassed. 361 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,880 Nobody likes to admit they were taken for money. 362 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,200 They're more reluctant to admit they were taken for love. 363 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,560 I now pronounce you man and wife. 364 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,440 But finally one victim did come forward. 365 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:36,080 The woman will call Barbara, met Carlucci in New York and they were married soon after. 366 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,800 But only six months later he disappeared, leaving her penniless. 367 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,120 She decided to press charges. 368 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:48,840 When Barbara first came to us and gave us information about Carlucci, we started our 369 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,520 investigation and began to talk to quite a few people. 370 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,880 To speak to these women was an eye-opener for me. 371 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,840 Carlucci doesn't just leave physical and financial wreckage behind him. 372 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:04,080 It's kind of a psychological scarring that you see. 373 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,040 I would like to see this man get caught. 374 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,720 He doesn't belong out in society. 375 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,480 Shortly after this story aired, several viewers in Tennessee identified Carlucci as a local 376 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,400 restaurant manager they knew as Louis Cera. 377 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:27,640 The next day police arrested him at his home, where he was living with his pregnant wife. 378 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,160 Carlucci was extradited to New York where Barbara and several other victims brought 379 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,400 charges against him. 380 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:39,640 Carlucci pleaded not guilty and was released on a $1,000 bail. 381 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:45,200 When he disappeared again, police issued a new warrant. 382 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,000 Update Several months after jumping bail, Carlucci 383 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 was captured. 384 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,360 Police found them living with one of his former girlfriends in Los Angeles. 385 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:03,000 Carlucci was sent back to New York where authorities charged him with grand larceny, coercion, 386 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,720 fraud and bigamy. 387 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:15,840 He was convicted on all counts and served four years in prison. 388 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,960 Our research team recently heard from a woman named Ladonna Alfano. 389 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,160 She was just a child when her mother died in a horrific accident. 390 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,400 Ladonna told us that she had no memories of her mother and didn't know much about her 391 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,760 family. 392 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:36,720 She was hoping that we could help her find them. 393 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:43,680 Dallas, Texas Early one December afternoon, a train 394 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:52,520 left the city heading west towards Abilene. 395 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:58,520 At around the same time, two Army wives, Darlene Alfano and Pinkie Johnson, rounded up their 396 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:10,720 kids for a trip into town. 397 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:16,160 At around 2 p.m., Pinkie's car stopped in the middle of the train tracks. 398 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,720 No one knows how or why it happened. 399 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,040 What's wrong? 400 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,040 Pinkie, there's a train. 401 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,040 What's wrong? 402 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:31,040 You can't get into the starts. 403 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:38,280 You want slow down? 404 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:45,600 Pinkie! 405 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,040 The car was literally torn to shreds. 406 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,080 Its roof was sliced completely off. 407 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,440 Two of the children died immediately. 408 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,400 A third died in the hospital. 409 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,800 So did Darlene Alfano. 410 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,480 Her husband Fred was by her side. 411 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:08,440 I was sitting with her talking to her and I was holding her hand. 412 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:14,240 She took a very deep breath, held it for a few seconds and very slowly let it out and 413 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,680 I knew she had expired. 414 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,920 Fred found himself almost completely alone. 415 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,080 He had lost his wife and two of his children. 416 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:31,720 His other child, Ladonna, survived, but she was barely hanging on. 417 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:37,520 They were all almost universally sure that Ladonna would not survive because of facial 418 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:45,040 damage extended all the way down to the base of her brain. 419 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:51,600 Ladonna had suffered severe injuries to her face and her head, but amazingly, she began 420 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,600 to get better. 421 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:58,160 What happened to Mommy? 422 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,480 Mommy's an angel. 423 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,880 When my father told me that my mother and my sisters had died, I thought, oh, the angels 424 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,520 had come down and gotten them. 425 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,720 I was happy that they were angels. 426 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,080 Well, I used to think, why did I live? 427 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,560 Why was I the one that survived? 428 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,840 I believed that when I was a child that I lived for my father, that my father wouldn't 429 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,040 have survived it. 430 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:29,240 Her strength gave me strength and my only direction in life then was to take care of 431 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:34,800 Ladonna and make sure she survived and had a normal childhood. 432 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:41,120 Over the years, Ladonna had many reconstructive surgeries on her face, but there was one thing 433 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,880 the operations couldn't correct, the loss of her mother. 434 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,080 I have no memories of my mother at all. 435 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,520 I look at pictures of her and I try to remember something. 436 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,440 It's like looking at a magazine article of a woman. 437 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,800 I have recollections of my twin and my father and my little sister. 438 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:05,560 My father has told me stories about us as children with my mom, and it doesn't bring 439 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,800 back any memories whatsoever. 440 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,600 Ladonna wanted to change all of that, but the only clues she had was a letter from her 441 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:18,800 mother's father that she'd received when she was just 13 years old. 442 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:25,280 It contained a photograph of her mother's sister, Patricia Ann Hintz. 443 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,760 I think finding my aunt Pat will definitely fill my emptiness. 444 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,920 Just being able to touch her and knowing that she was a part of my mother is the only thing 445 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:38,280 that I have of my mother, and just knowing her and meeting her and hugging her would 446 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,480 be really even enough for me right now. 447 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,120 Update 448 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:52,880 On the night we profiled this story, Ladonna finally found her aunt Patricia and her mother's 449 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,200 parents as well. 450 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,840 A few weeks later, Ladonna was driving up to her aunt Pat's house. 451 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:00,840 Oh, you're good. 452 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:01,840 Oh, you're just quaking. 453 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:02,840 Don't cry. 454 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:03,840 I'm happy. 455 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:04,840 Thank you. 456 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:05,840 So do you. 457 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:06,840 Thank you. 458 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,840 It's totally changed my life. 459 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:09,840 Do you believe it? 460 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:10,840 Yeah, I believe it. 461 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,840 Yeah. 462 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,600 It's just finding them, then they're great people and they're beautiful. 463 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:21,800 I just feel totally that whole, the empty hole is totally filled. 464 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:22,800 She lost her mother. 465 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,960 I lost my sister. 466 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:32,440 And it's just like she found another mother and I found a new sister. 467 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,560 I just feel like we're just connected. 468 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,000 I really do. 469 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,000 I know. 470 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,200 Ladonna's first visit with her grandparents made the reunion complete. 471 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,440 I can't even express it. 472 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,160 I just really cannot express how I feel. 473 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:50,480 There's just too many emotions going on here and it's just a wonderful, wonderful feeling. 474 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,080 It's just, it's great. 475 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:59,160 I just feel like I'm, I just feel really like I'm at home. 476 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:05,760 Next, some say that water from a chalice called the Nantius Cup has the miraculous power 477 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,160 to heal. 478 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,520 Could it be the Holy Grail? 479 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:25,200 The legendary chalice that Jesus is said to have used at the Last Supper. 480 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:31,560 It's called the Holy Grail, the cup which many believe Jesus Christ drank from at the 481 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,440 Last Supper. 482 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:42,520 The cup is a unique symbol which brings God and man together. 483 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:48,840 Many people regard the Holy Grail and Jesus Christ as one and the same. 484 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:53,680 It is considered the most sacred object of the Middle Ages. 485 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,960 Some say it is a beautiful golden chalice. 486 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:05,760 Others believe that this small broken piece of olive wood is all that's left of the Holy 487 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,760 Grail. 488 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:16,460 Hundreds claim that the fragment of a cup called the Nantius Cup has healing powers. 489 00:36:16,460 --> 00:36:21,880 They say the water from the cup has cured them of arthritis, heart disease, blindness, 490 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,640 leprosy and even cancer. 491 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:31,440 As the Nantius Cup truly have the power to heal. 492 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:37,800 For more than 2,000 years, every object associated with the Last Supper and the crucifixion 493 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:45,480 has taken on a mystical significance, none more so than the Holy Grail. 494 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,840 For the historian, the Grail is legend, pure and simple, but legend is an amazing thing. 495 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:55,040 It can enable people to do heroic things under the worst circumstances. 496 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,200 And that's why the Grail story is one of the greatest stories in the entire history 497 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,000 of the world and always will be. 498 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,360 The legend says that Joseph of Arimathea caught a few drops of Christ's blood in the 499 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:11,360 Grail as Christ was being prepared for burial. 500 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,640 Joseph was then sent to prison for allegedly stealing the body of Christ. 501 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:22,400 Joseph wasn't given any food or water, but an angel kept him alive by placing a wafer 502 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,120 in the Grail every day. 503 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:30,480 Finally, Joseph escaped from prison, taking the Grail with him. 504 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:37,880 He traveled to Glastonbury in the British Isles and founded the Church of the Holy Grail, 505 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:42,600 where the cup remained hidden for the next 1,000 years. 506 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:47,720 Over the centuries, the Grail was taken from one hiding place to another as wars broke 507 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:49,840 out and churches were destroyed. 508 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:57,400 Finally, in the 18th century, it ended up at the Nantius House, a mansion that was owned 509 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:02,600 by an aristocratic family named the Powels. 510 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:08,200 For 400 years, the Powels guarded the Grail, handing it down from one generation to the 511 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,200 next. 512 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,400 It became known as the Nantius Cup. 513 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,160 What began to transpire was that the Chalice had healing properties. 514 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:24,400 How they discovered this is not known, but at some point in time, the healing properties 515 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,200 became more apparent. 516 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,480 For many years, very little was known about the Nantius Cup. 517 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,800 That all changed one night in 1988. 518 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:40,600 This particular day, I was traveling to North Wales early in the morning. 519 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,400 I said I'd set a time of rising at 6 a.m. 520 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,120 But at 4 a.m., I was awakened by a voice. 521 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:54,800 The first time it didn't register, and I heard a second time the voice say, 522 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,800 you will find the Holy Chalice. 523 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,120 Before dawn that same morning, a friend called. 524 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:09,760 He suggested that the Reverend include the Nantius Cup in a coming exhibition of Christian 525 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:10,920 artifacts. 526 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:16,920 He told Griffiths he might learn more about the Cup at the ruined abbey of Strata, Florida. 527 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:23,920 When I gave the curator the details, I was amazed to find that he was convinced of my 528 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,840 experience, and he was more than willing to help. 529 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,920 But he made it to understand that he was breaking the rule because he had promised the family 530 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:38,520 that he would never redirect anyone to their present location. 531 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,360 The current owner of the Cup is a member of the Powell family. 532 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:48,840 She lives in seclusion, and she protects her privacy as strongly as she protects the Nantius 533 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,840 Cup. 534 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:55,320 As the guardian of the Holy Grail, my duty to safeguard the Cup at all times, but to 535 00:39:55,320 --> 00:40:02,320 allow people to drink from it, to have water from it, and to send water to people if they're 536 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,440 ill. 537 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:08,240 When I first set eyes on the chalice, I was a little disappointed because it was only 538 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:09,240 fragmentary. 539 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:15,240 Perhaps it was only a third of the original vessel left, but when I handled it, I can't 540 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:24,120 describe in human language the effect it had upon me as if I was already in paradise. 541 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:32,520 It's precisely that feeling of holiness that has led many to believe the Cup has healing 542 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,120 powers. 543 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:39,600 The Cup's guardian gives Reverend Griffiths water that has been poured over the Cup. 544 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,440 He pats the holy water on small prayer mats and then sends them to the people who are 545 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,560 sick and crippled. 546 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,880 The Reverend says that in some cases the results are miraculous. 547 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:57,880 I have a regular meal with a young man who was once totally blind, and today he has perfect 548 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:00,240 sight. 549 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:05,400 I sight one case of a young man who had a leprous condition for 11 years, but the following 550 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:11,640 day his skin was perfectly clean from every trace of leprosy. 551 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:17,540 When Marlene Checkley found a lump in her left breast, her doctors believed it was cancer. 552 00:41:17,540 --> 00:41:21,960 She wore one of the prayer cloths beneath her clothes. 553 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:27,480 And then by the time I went for the mammogram, everything was clear. The lump was still there, 554 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:33,080 there was nothing cancerous. The doctors did say that the lump would still stay there, 555 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:38,600 but after a week or two the lump went and I've had no further problem since with that. 556 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:45,600 The results and the testimonies were so amazing that I had no doubts whatsoever about the 557 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:51,720 authenticity of the chalice being the holy grail that Jesus used at the last supper. 558 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:59,720 Could the Nanteos Cup be the holy grail? The cup has not been carbon dated or scientifically 559 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:06,960 tested in any way. Its guardian fears that any testing might damage it, but to those 560 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:13,960 who claim they have been touched by its power, this simple wooden cup is indeed holy.