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

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

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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Christmas Day 1985. Relaxed, joyful holiday for 28-year-old Debbie Wolfender family. Seven

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days later, Debbie's body was found submerged in an oil can in a pond behind her home. The

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police say she drowned accidentally. Her mother says it was murder.

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80 years ago, a young mother, Conradina Olson, boarded a train in Brookfield, Wisconsin and

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vanished. Now Conradina's grandmother has uncovered a string of bizarre clues leading

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to an unmarked grave and more unanswered questions.

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1959. Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba. Four years later, former Air Force pilot Jeffrey

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Sullivan undertakes a clandestine mission with anti-Castral forces and disappears somewhere

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over the Caribbean Sea. Sullivan's daughter has uncovered evidence that her father may

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have been imprisoned in Cuba.

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Also tonight, we will update our recent story of a daring prison escape. Thanks to our viewers,

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a female prison gardener, jailhouse lover, were tracked down to a motel in Canada and

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

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Debbie Wolfe, a 28-year-old nurse from Fayetteville, North Carolina, disappeared. Her family became

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understandably concerned. It began as a tragic but uncomplicated missing persons case, but

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a number of unanswered questions hinted at a darker secret. For Debbie's family and

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friends, a police investigation appeared flawed.

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Debbie thought that helping people was the best thing in the world she could do. She thought

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that if she could be a nurse and she could pay back some of the kindness and some of

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the consideration that had been given to her during her short lifetime, that maybe she

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would make her own mark. And I think she did.

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On Wednesday, December 25th, 1985, Debbie celebrated a typical family Christmas at her mother's

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home, a day devoted to close friends and goodwill.

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4 p.m., the day after Christmas. Upon completing her shift at the hospital, Debbie Wolfe left

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work, presumably heading home.

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The next morning, Debbie should have been at work. She had to be at work at 8. Debbie

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did not go to work. Debbie did not answer her telephone. It wasn't like Debbie at all.

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She never missed work. She would call in if she was even going to be a few minutes late.

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She would call in and let them know, but they had had no word from Debbie, and I had had

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no word from Debbie.

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December 27th, the day after Debbie disappeared, Jenny Edwards drove to Debbie's home with

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her husband, John, and a family friend, Kevin Gorton. Debbie lived in an isolated cabin

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seven miles outside of Fayetteville. Because Debbie was unusually neat and meticulous,

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they were surprised by what they found in and around the cabin.

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Debbie's car was not parked where she always parked. We looked around and we saw beer cans

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laying in the yard, and it was definitely a brand of beer that Debbie did not drink.

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Her dogs were running loose, as they normally did, but they had not been fed.

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Debbie! Debbie, are you home, honey?

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I'm here. There were small things that were out of place that Debbie would not have put

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where they were placed. There was a uniform laying on the floor in the kitchen, things

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thrown in the kitchen on the floor, like maybe she took them off. It's a uniform. John!

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Yeah. John!

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Kevin Gorton found Debbie's purse shoved back under her bed.

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Hey guys, I think I found Debbie's purse.

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Found what? Purs. Purs? It is.

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There's a way up underneath the bed.

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Who had missed you here at work today?

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There was also an odd message on Debbie's answering machine, recorded earlier that day, before Jenny arrived.

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You've been out a lot of days making me worry when you miss another one. Just want to make sure you're okay.

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What concerned me about his message was that he said that she had missed a lot of days at work, and she hadn't.

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In fact, she had only missed a few hours at work at the time that he put the message on the answering machine.

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Fifty feet from the cabin was a pond. They searched the entire area and found no trace of Debbie.

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Jenny Edwards called the Sheriff's office. She was told that law enforcement would become involved only after 72 hours had elapsed

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from the time of the disappearance. On Tuesday, December 31st, the Sheriff's Department finally conducted a full-scale search.

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Five days after Debbie had last been seen.

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They searched the cabin. Later that afternoon they brought the bloodhounds out, which they could find nothing at all.

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They then walked around the edge of the pond. I was there for that. And they looked across it.

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Granted, it's a small pond, but it's deep in some places and it's not that small.

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I asked if they were going to put a boat into the water and at least paddle across it.

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They said they didn't know. It was getting too late and that they would let me know the next day.

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Of course, some of the individuals there that were friends of the family had been there a couple of days prior, had done some searching on their own.

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And I think it was mentioned that they had already looked in the pond. There was no use for us to look in the pond.

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So I don't think we did a dive of the pond or a complete search of the pond on that day. No, we did not.

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At that time I asked him if it would be all right then if I got my own divers to go into the pond. And he said certainly.

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New Year's Day 1986. Debbie Wolf had now been missing for six days. Kevin Gorton and another friend, Gordon Childress, returned to the pond.

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Both men were familiar with rescue work. Gordon dragged the pond looking for evidence.

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He was in the water approximately two minutes when he called out to me and told me that he had found what looked like a set of foot prints in the drag mark.

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As he continued to zigzag back and forth across the pond, he continued to come over these tracks.

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Two sets of foot prints were found along with the drag marks. These prints remained in the mud for weeks.

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I went out and went under and following the trail was maybe six inches from the bottom and just kind of like coasting along the bottom after a good hard kick.

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I hit something and my mask flooded.

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Looks like a body down here. Are you sure? Let me double check.

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I went back down and confirmed the hole. Spent more time looking. Didn't touch or disturb anything.

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I couldn't see above mid-drift because it was inside of a, it looked like a burn barrel. It was a rusty 55 gallon oil drum type thing with holes in it.

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The police were called to the scene. The dead woman was identified as Debbie Wolf.

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An autopsy revealed no trace of drugs or alcohol in Debbie's system. There were no obvious signs of foul play.

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The corner ruled the cause of death is drowning but was unable to determine exactly when Debbie had died.

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A number of discrepancies soon surfaced which led Debbie's family and friends to believe Debbie had not drowned.

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Kevin.

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Why don't you come over here and identify the body?

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A typical co-order of drowning will be eyes open, mouth open, hands and arms in a very clawed state.

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You know, just a fight for life which was quite on contrary to the way that Debbie was.

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The eyes were closed, the mouth was closed, arms weren't a relaxed state, just her whole body was relaxed. She looked like she was asleep.

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We theorize that if it was an accidental drowning, that at that point she may have been out around the pond.

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Her dogs were running loose when the family members and the Sheriff's Department personnel were there.

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Possibly she was playing with the dogs and fell in.

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Another thing that struck me funny was the fact that Debbie was clean.

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The clothes were clean. You know, her face was not carrying a lot of silt.

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The day that me and Gordy went into the water and spent maybe 20 minutes, it took us both about three days to wash our dive suits out from just the accumulation of the silt and mud that was in the bottom of that pond.

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Police also began to deny that the body had been found inside of a barrel.

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After the body was retrieved and dispatched to a local hospital, I walked away from the pond up to the cabin.

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As I was walking away, they were discussing how to mark the barrel and how to bring it out.

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I thought surely they would do that.

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I walked back out of the cabin about 10 minutes later and saw all their cars leaving.

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And I asked one of our friends who were there, I said, what happened? Do they have the barrel?

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And they said, no, they decided to leave it there. They'll get it in the morning.

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The next day they went back to get the barrel. It seems that the barrel was gone.

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All of a sudden it didn't exist, the same barrel that had been there the night before.

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In my opinion, and the opinions of some of the investigators, what appeared to be a barrel to some of the divers

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could have been the field jacket, which may have ballooned out as she was laying at that angle at the bottom of the pond.

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There was never a barrel touched by any of the divers, according to their statements.

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Most definitely by none of our divers did we ever touch a barrel.

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There was no doubt, my mind, 100% positive that it was an old burn barrel or something of that nature.

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Metal rusted 55 gallon type drum that the body was in.

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I remembered the barrel that was sitting by Debbie's cabin. This is known here as an oil barrel.

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It's a big round metal drum. Farmers use it for burning trash. However, she didn't use it for that.

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Instead we used it for target practice when we were out there shooting pistols.

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When after I had called, law enforcement, that we had located a body, I went over to the spot where the barrel was

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and the barrel was gone. The indention of the barrel was still there on the ground, but the barrel was no longer there.

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A few months later, Jenny discovered another inconsistency.

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When I got a chance to examine the clothes that were on Debbie's body, I looked at them very carefully

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and realized that those were not Debbie's clothes. The pants were very, very much too long for Debbie.

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The field jacket, Debbie had owned a field jacket that had belonged to her brother, and that is a totally different field jacket

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than what was found on the body. The bra was cup size, three sizes too large for her.

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Around size, it would be two sizes too large for her. The shoes, Debbie wore a lady's size seven, and these were a men's size six,

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which winds up being about three sizes larger.

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I don't know why it's loading and belonging to Debbie or why it didn't belong to Debbie, of course.

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Her mother would probably know that information or have that information and know more about what belonged to her

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than we would, of course, investigators. All we can do is ask questions and try to get some answers.

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We do know, for a fact, through our investigation that the tennis shoes she had on were her tennis shoes.

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We have photographs of her with those tennis shoes on prior to her death, and that's as much as I want to comment on the clothing.

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Jenny Edwards became convinced that Debbie had been murdered.

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Hi, how are you today?

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Among her duties at work, Debbie was assigned to coordinating the hospital volunteers.

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Come on, I want to go out.

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I don't want to go out with you. I told you to go out.

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One volunteer in particular seemed to bother her quite a bit because he had a history of psychiatric illnesses.

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You wait here. Wait here.

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According to Jenny, the volunteer obtained Debbie's home phone number.

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Hello. Hello. It's me.

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Look, I told you I don't want you calling me here anymore.

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I want to come over.

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You don't even know where I live.

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Oh, yeah. I know where you live. I'm coming over now.

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Look, I wouldn't come over here without you.

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He was investigated by the insurance department the night that the body was brought to the surface.

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However, he provided an alibi and refused to take a polygraph.

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So he wasn't questioned any longer.

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He left several days after that to go out of state.

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The second man suspected by Jenny Edwards was also a hospital volunteer.

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There was another volunteer at the hospital at the same time that wanted to become romantically involved with Debbie.

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Debbie discussed this with everyone, including him and told him that she would be his friend but nothing else.

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She was interested in someone else totally away from the hospital.

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You know I've got a boyfriend.

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Jenny is convinced that this was the man who called Debbie the day after she disappeared,

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expressing concern that she'd been missing from work for days.

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You've been out a lot of days. You make me worried when you miss another one.

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The second suspect was also questioned by police.

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Anyone in the family requested that we talk to her in a view.

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We tried to interview.

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Of course, through the information we received, through these interviews,

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there was nothing there that we could use in any criminal prosecution

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or there was nothing there that would indicate to us that this was a homicide.

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What really happened to Debbie Wolfe?

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Her mother believes she was taken hostage by one of the two suspects,

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kept alive for several days and finally killed.

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Later she believes someone returned to the pond to remove the barrel

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so that a rooting of foul play would be dismissed.

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There are people out there who know what happened to Debbie.

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They know who's responsible and I'm hoping that they will come forward

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and finally say something.

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Debbie was a lovely person and she was loved by very, very many people

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and I think that she has a right to be put to rest finally

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and I'd like to do that.

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Next, how viewer tips in Canada led to the capture of a woman

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who allegedly helped her lover escape from prison.

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Last month we profiled the case of a corrections officer from Maryland

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whose secret love affair with a prison inmate

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changed her from a devoted mother into a wanted fugitive on the run.

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Tonight a dramatic update to the story.

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For ten years, 46-year-old Sandra K. Beeman worked as a prison matron

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at a maximum security facility in Cumberland, Maryland.

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Thirty-year-old Edgar Kearns was being held at the Cumberland prison

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while waiting sentencing on charges of check fraud.

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Come on Eddie, hurry up!

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On August 29, 1990, Edgar Kearns and another Indian, James Barnes,

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made a daring escape.

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It appeared that they had taken K. Beeman hostage.

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Authorities were shocked when they later learned

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that K. Beeman had actually helped with the escape

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and that she was in love with Edgar Kearns.

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Have you ever complained, have I?

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No, you're not really much of a complainer.

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I guess you maybe fall in love with somebody and you do some strange things

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but K's pretty well lost about everything that she ever had

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over this one incident.

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Up to just six hours after our broadcast,

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Sandra K. Beeman and Edgar Kearns were captured in Canada.

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On September 10, 12 days after the escape,

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Beeman and Kearns checked into the Beach Motor Motel in Hamilton, Canada.

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They registered as husband and wife

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under the assumed names Fred and Sandy Smith.

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I was watching TV and all of a sudden this lady's picture come on.

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So I called my wife and she was out in the kitchen ironing

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and I said, do you recognize this lady?

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And she said, yes, she's the lady that's living in room 12.

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And by this time, the gentleman come on and I said, uh-oh, he also lives in there.

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So I reached over immediately and picked up the phone and called the police.

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When we got to the Beach Motor Hotel,

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the information from the Mitchells was the effect that they hadn't left the room

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and it wasn't their policy to leave the room during the evening.

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We were convinced they were still inside the room.

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The officers at the emergency response unit, which is equivalent to a SWAT team,

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forced the door open and the room was found to be vacated.

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A witness later told authorities that he had seen the fugitive couple

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getting into a taxi cab earlier that evening.

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We were able to determine the name of the cab

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and a check with the cab company revealed the driver.

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I picked them up at the Beach Strip and that just up from the motel

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and I asked them where they were going and they said the Red Rose Motel.

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When we got to the motel, the cab driver said he had taken

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one of our officers was able to determine from the office register at that location

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that they had in fact booked in and that current's in fact that uses his right name.

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A few minutes later, the emergency response unit moved in.

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Three or four officers of the emergency response

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approached the front door of the motel room.

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It was at that point that someone from the inside of the room looked out through the drapes.

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The officers then forced open the door and heard the rum.

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Kerns, he was forced to the floor of the motel room and held in a position of safety.

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The female in the room was in the bed and her hands were handcuffed

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above her head to the headboard.

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At that point there, both persons were arrested.

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Kerns was removed by my partner and myself and transported to the Central Station.

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He wanted to know how we had learned of his whereabouts.

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We asked him if he had ever seen the program before.

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He said yes, he had.

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We told him that he was on it tonight and he was astounded.

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On October 30th, 1990, Sandra K. Beeman and Edgar Kerns were returned to Maryland.

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Next, a woman's search for her missing grandmother collides with a mysterious legend of murder.

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Amid the windswept prairie near the small town of Ellis, Missouri lays a lonely unmarked grave.

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Legend has it that this is a resting place of an unknown woman found murdered near the railroad tracks years ago.

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For as long as anyone can remember, the grave has been maintained by railroad workers,

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adorned with flowers every Memorial Day.

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In the past three years, we have featured many stories of lost loves.

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Our next story also concerns a missing loved one, but with an odd twist, the woman disappeared 80 years ago.

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This is a story of a granddaughter's relentless search that has brought her face to face with a mysterious legend of murder in a small town,

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and dark family secrets kept hushed for nearly a hundred years.

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Brookfield, Wisconsin, the early 1900s, 38-year-old Conradina Olson said goodbye to her four children.

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Now let me be good.

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And guess I'll see you tomorrow.

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She told them she was going to Milwaukee for a doctor's appointment and would return the following day.

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Are you sure you don't want to come along?

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No, I'd rather stay here.

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Goodbye, children.

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Conradina Olson's family never saw her again.

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For the rest of his life, Conradina's eldest son, Edwin, would regret not getting on the train that morning.

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He felt that if he had went with her, she would have been back.

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She would have come back to them.

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My father, he suffered for this all of his life.

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He couldn't accept why and how she went away.

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He never knew why she went away and didn't come back.

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In 1983, Geneva Foxer began investigating her grandmother's disappearance,

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hoping to find answers to the questions that haunted her father.

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She learned that in 1891, 20-year-old Conradina Hypeman married 30-year-old Carl Olson, a railroad coachman.

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By all accounts, Carl and Conradina's marriage was not a happy one.

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You listen to me when I'm talking to you.

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In all of my research, I found out that my grandfather was a young woman.

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He was a young woman.

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In all of my research, I found out that my grandfather was, I don't know if he was abusive physically to my grandmother,

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but I did understand that he was not good to her.

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Back in those days, when there was a bad marriage, people didn't get a divorce.

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One of the people just walked away from the marriage.

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And this is actually what I had thought for many years that had happened to her.

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But now I don't.

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I feel she was taken.

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Something bad had to have happened to her.

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In September of 1985, while working at her gift shop in South Sioux City, Nebraska,

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Geneva had a bizarre encounter with one of her customers.

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From this chance meeting, a startling possibility began to emerge.

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This was a quiet day.

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And oh, I suppose around noon, this lady come into my store.

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I knew there was something different about her.

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But I couldn't grasp what it was.

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And she walked around a bit.

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I usually let people walk around my store so I don't, you know, I don't bug them.

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And so she come up around the counter and we got to talk.

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And she told me her name was Susanna.

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I'm looking for Pegasus.

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And she says, well, I'm a psychic.

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Well, no, I'm a psychic.

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And just out of a clear blue sky, she said, you want to ask me about your grandmother, don't you?

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And I was amazed.

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I said, yes.

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And she said, do you have anything of your grandmothers here?

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And I said, yes, I have a marriage license and I have their wedding picture.

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And she closed her eyes and she says, not on talk.

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I'm very quiet.

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And then all of a sudden she said, I can see her boarding a train.

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I can see children crying.

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I can see her being beaten.

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And I feel that your grandfather knows what happened to her.

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It just kind of sent shivers down my spine.

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I was flabbergasted.

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I thought, I don't believe this.

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How could she know?

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How could she know this about my grandmother?

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Later, Susanna's office, Geneva was given more possible clues about her grandmother.

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Susanna told Geneva that she would soon be receiving a packet of old letters.

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The letters would pinpoint the year the Geneva's grandmother disappeared.

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I want to bring up, Ellis has something to do about where she is at this point.

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She also told Geneva that the name Ellis was somehow connected to the disappearance

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and that her grandmother was buried in an unmarked grave.

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I do feel that she got on the train.

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And she says, also I see within a year or so, she says, you know,

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in the first time you will be getting a letter from an unknown source yet not heard from,

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somebody you don't even know of, that is going to tell you where this grave is.

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Incredibly, several weeks later, Susanna's first predictions seemed to come true.

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Thank you.

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Within two months time, I did get a packet of old letters and pictures also.

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There was many of them from 18 in the 1800s.

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And within these old letters, it states there was some dissension in the marriage

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and it also states that the last known from her was around 1910.

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Encouraged by this new information, Geneva sent a letter detailing her search to a Midwestern newspaper.

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The editors found the story interesting and printed the letter.

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I got in contact with Geneva when I read a piece in a monthly magazine that she was looking for her grandmother.

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Bill Carpenter wrote to Geneva and told her of the unmarked grave near Ellis, Missouri.

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He says there's quite a story about this death.

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And he says it is an unmarked grave and it's along the railroad right away.

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And when he said it's along the railroad right away, I couldn't believe it.

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I just tears come to my eyes. I just wanted to cry.

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Now this was another prediction of Susanna's that came true.

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At the turn of the century, Ellis, Missouri was a small farming town.

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According to local legend, a fashionably dressed woman got off the train at Ellis.

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How dare you!

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She was seen arguing with a man.

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Witnesses reported that it appeared to be a lover's quarrel with a couple storm east down the tracks.

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The man was later seen returning to the station alone.

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He boarded another train and left town.

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Three days later, the woman's body was discovered alongside the train tracks.

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She had been murdered.

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It was nothing to identify the woman or reveal where she had come from.

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According to the legend, railroad workers buried the woman in a field a few yards from where she was found.

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I want to think this is my grandmother's grave.

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In my heart, I think it is.

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And I don't know what else could have happened to my grandmother.

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I think with all my research, I would have found out something.

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Anything.

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But this is what it has led to.

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And all of these predictions have all come here.

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They've all... how could this not be my grandmother?

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I certainly wish her well in finding her grandmother, but I remain rather skeptical about the story

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because of the fact that we have newspaper articles about the unknown grave

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dating from before 1910 when her grandmother apparently disappeared.

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This newspaper article does seem to discount Geneva's conclusion.

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It was published in 1888, 22 years before Conradina Olsen disappeared.

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It describes a dead woman as being less than 20 years old.

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Conradina Olsen was 38 when she vanished.

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40 years ago, I talked to an 85-year-old man that had worked for the railroad all of his life.

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And he said that the lady that they found along the tracks was approximately in her 30s.

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I feel that it is her grandmother.

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That's my feeling.

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If a woman found murdered alongside the railroad tracks was Conradina Olsen,

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then who was the man seen arguing with her at the Ellis train station?

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At the time, my grandmother disappeared.

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I've always heard the story that my grandfather also went away for a period of time.

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I don't want to believe that my grandfather did anything with her.

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I don't believe he did. I don't want to believe it.

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But the way this is all coming about, I don't know what to think about it.

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Until I find for sure this is my grandmother, I will always have that doubt of not knowing and I want to know.

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Not only for myself, but for my father.

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I'm going to find her.

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I feel that there's somebody out there that knows what happened to her and I just want to know.

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When we return, the disappearance of an American pilot, apparently on an anti-Castro mission in Latin America,

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one eyewitness claims he was imprisoned in Cuba.

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September 23, 1963, Waterbury, Connecticut.

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28-year-old Jeffrey Sullivan, a former Air Force pilot,

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prepared to depart on a mysterious covert mission.

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The way my mom relates it.

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My father was supposed to come back in five days.

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Get it all packed.

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Give you a call as soon as I get a chance to.

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I don't know if he was nervous, but he gave her his St. Christopher Medal, which he wore all the time.

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He explained to her that this would be his last trip.

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I'm going to miss you.

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Miss you too.

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And not because he wasn't coming back, but because he didn't want to be involved in this type of operation anymore.

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He took off that morning and that was the last time she ever saw me.

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He never came back.

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Four days later, Jeffrey Sullivan disappeared over the Caribbean.

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The mystery of what happened during those four days still haunts his daughter.

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Sherry Sullivan was seven years old when she lost her father.

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Today, Sherry is a private investigator living in Bangor, Maine.

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For the past six years, she has sifted through a labyrinth of bureaucratic red tape and false leaves,

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hoping to uncover the truth of her father's fate.

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No one wanted to say he wasn't coming back.

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As it rolled into the years, it was the kind of thing that just wasn't talked about.

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I mean, no one knew what to say.

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And none of us were ever allowed to go through a grieving process

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because as far as we were concerned, he wasn't dead.

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Jeffrey Sullivan enlisted in the Air Force when he was 18.

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In 1957, he earned his wings.

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Two years later, Sullivan received an honorable discharge

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and became a freelance commercial pilot.

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Last same year, the Del Castro's revolution tramped in Cuba.

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The communist threat was now only 90 miles from American shores.

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Almost overnight, both U.S. government-backed and independent covert operations

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were launched to undermine Castro's regime.

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One of the men involved in these operations was 37-year-old Alex Rourke,

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a journalist and photographer from New York.

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By writing a series of articles about Cuban exiles,

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Rourke became active in the campaign to overthrow Castro's new government.

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Jeffrey?

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Hi, Alex. Nice to meet you.

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In 1961, Jeffrey Sullivan and Alex Rourke met.

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Rourke soon hired Sullivan as a pilot for his clandestine anti-Castro activities.

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When Jeffrey Sullivan shook hands with Alex Rourke, he sealed his own fate.

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After the Cuban Revolution, a staggering array of anti-Castro operations

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sprung up in the United States.

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Many of them were organized by shadowy characters.

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It was a murky underworld of these clandestine operations

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in which Jeffrey Sullivan became caught up.

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March 1961.

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March 1961.

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U.S.-backed Cuban exiles prepared to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

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On April 17, they were defeated in less than a day

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because the U.S. government failed to supply air support.

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In October of 1962, Soviet missile silos were discovered in Cuba.

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For seven days, the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

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After the missile crisis, operations against Cuba were still carried on by the U.S. government.

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But they were trying to be more discreet about it,

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and they did shed some of the more loose cannon operations,

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and I think Alex Rourke could have been classified as such.

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There was a public order to men like Alexander Rourke and Jeffrey Sullivan

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to stop their operations against Cuba altogether.

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On September 23, 1963, eight days after the official warning was issued,

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Jeffrey Sullivan left Waterbury, Connecticut.

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The next day, he resurfaced in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with Alex Rourke.

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In Fort Lauderdale, Sullivan and Rourke met with two men.

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One of them was Frank Sturges, who had also been named in the public warning.

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Years later, Sturges had become well-known for his role in the Watergate scandal.

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Rourke told me he did buy a B-25 bomber,

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and he wanted to take the B-25 to Nicaragua.

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He wanted to sit down and talk with General Samosa

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in order to have a base of operations in Nicaragua

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and to ask the general to fit out the B-25 for bombing missions inside of Cuba.

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Sturges convinced Rourke that they should first meet personally with Nicaraguan officials.

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The four men rented an airplane and agreed to depart for Nicaragua the following morning.

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The next day, Rourke's wife drove him to Opalaca Airport in Fort Lauderdale.

442
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How you doing? How come what time?

443
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,360
Nice to see you, guys.

444
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,360
On the way, they picked up another man.

445
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,360
This is my wife, Jackie.

446
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,360
Hi, Jackie.

447
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,360
This is Kiki.

448
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,360
Mrs. Rourke didn't know who this gentleman was.

449
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:31,360
I spoke to the pilot today.

450
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,360
She spoke broken English,

451
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,360
but she drove the both of them to the airport where my father was

452
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,360
and dropped them off.

453
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:45,360
At approximately 8 a.m., a travel-air twin-engine plane took off from Fort Lauderdale.

454
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,360
On board were Jeffrey Sullivan, Alex Rourke and the stranger.

455
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,360
Curiously, Frank Sturges and his associate were left behind.

456
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,360
What transpired during the next 48 hours remains a jumbled maze of unanswered questions.

457
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:10,360
According to the official FAA report, Sullivan's flight activities were highly unusual.

458
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,360
He returned to Fort Lauderdale three times with very little explanation.

459
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,360
On his third return to the airport, the plane's landing gear remained retracted.

460
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,360
Your landing gear appeared to be up.

461
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,360
Side step to the right and go around.

462
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,360
Sullivan did not attempt to land at Fort Lauderdale again.

463
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,360
Five hours later, he arrived at North Perry Airport just 30 miles away.

464
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,360
The plane made a short puddle hop over to Hollywood, Florida,

465
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,360
which is a very short distance away,

466
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:51,360
and told the people there to refuel.

467
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,360
It's a pull-null.

468
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,360
All right.

469
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:58,360
And the operator of the flying service said that it hardly took any gasoline

470
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,360
to refuel it.

471
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,360
What should have been a 20-minute flight had taken nearly five hours.

472
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,360
No one knows where the plane was during that time.

473
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,360
At 1.30 p.m., Sullivan and his companions departed North Perry.

474
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:23,360
The official flight plan listed to go seek out Bahamdurus as their final destination.

475
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,360
Sullivan next contacted the tower at Miami International Airport.

476
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:40,360
At 3.43 p.m., he filed a revised flight plan listing Tukum and Panama as his destination.

477
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,360
Sullivan attempted to file a flight plan for a destination

478
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:51,360
that was some two hours beyond the normal range of his aircraft.

479
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,360
When he was informed of this by the air traffic controller on duty,

480
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,360
he then changed his destination.

481
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:06,360
However, this destination was also well beyond the range of the aircraft he was flying.

482
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,360
Seven hours passed, again with no accounting for the plane's whereabouts.

483
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,360
At 10.22 p.m., Sullivan contacted the Miami Tower once more.

484
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:22,360
This time, he filed a flight plan for Belize British Honduras.

485
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:29,360
The official FAA report states that he refueled just after midnight in Cozumel, Mexico.

486
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,360
This was the last official sighting of the plane.

487
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,360
Jeffrey Sullivan and his companions were assumed lost at sea.

488
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:47,360
Despite a massive search, no trace of Jeffrey Sullivan or Alex Rourke was ever found.

489
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,360
23 years later,

490
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,360
Sherri Sullivan and her attorney, Carl McHugh,

491
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,360
petitioned the United States government for information concerning Sherri's father.

492
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:05,360
To date, they have received over 5,000 pages of documentation from 14 federal agencies,

493
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,360
including the FBI and the CIA.

494
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,360
Okay, that's the national security.

495
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:16,360
Very shortly after we initiated our Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI,

496
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:23,360
my attorney spoke with an FBI agent on the phone who wanted to question him about

497
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,360
whether he really wanted to get involved in this type of thing.

498
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,360
It's suggesting that maybe we'd be better off if we didn't.

499
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:35,360
He indicated that we were opening a can of worms as he put it.

500
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,360
More than a third of the 800 pages received from the FBI were censored.

501
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,360
According to Sherri Sullivan, information found in these documents

502
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,360
indicated at least another 400 pages exist,

503
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,360
but were withheld for national security reasons.

504
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,360
It made me more curious.

505
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:05,360
It was almost really the confirmation we were looking for in a way, saying there is something here.

506
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:12,360
In the FBI documents, Sherri found the name Floyd Park.

507
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,360
When she reached Park by telephone, he told Sherri he had seen her father

508
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,360
two days after he reportedly disappeared.

509
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:31,360
Floyd Park indicated that he had seen my father and Alex and the Spanish fellow in Belize.

510
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:38,360
We have not been able to verify the identity of Floyd Park, who he is really,

511
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:43,360
what he was involved in in the 60s, and how my father would have known him,

512
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,360
why they would have stopped to see him.

513
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,360
We weren't really able to get those answers from him.

514
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,360
Sherri Sullivan only talked to Floyd Park once.

515
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,360
She's been unable to locate him since,

516
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:02,360
but Park did tell Sherri that her father and Alex Rourke might have been taken prisoner in Cuba.

517
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,360
I think it's a very good chance that they ended up in Cuba.

518
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,360
I mean, they have been involved in clandestine operations in and out of Cuba.

519
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:17,360
Fidel Castro, from what I've heard, had a bounty out on my father and Alex,

520
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,360
because he knew what they were involved in.

521
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,360
He knew they were going in and out of his country.

522
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:26,360
So this very good possibility that they could have ended up in Cuba.

523
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:31,360
Probably some way they landed in Cuba.

524
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:38,360
In 1986, Sherri spoke with Marty Casey, who had been in Cuba two years after her father disappeared.

525
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:46,360
I was with two Cuban exiles from Miami, and they met a fellow that they knew from the area.

526
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,360
He was working in the compound.

527
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,360
He recognized my American accent. I was speaking Spanish, and he asked me,

528
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,360
you know, Rourke? And I said, what do you mean, O'Rourke?

529
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,360
No, Rourke. The pilot.

530
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,360
No, el piloto es Suleyman.

531
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:10,360
No, no, the other guy was the pilot, Suleyman, which would be the way to pronounce it in Spanish.

532
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,360
And I said, well, how do you know them?

533
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,360
And he said, I was in jail here with him two years ago.

534
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,360
I have no reason whatsoever to doubt it,

535
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:27,360
because I was the one that thought that Rourke was O'Rourke.

536
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,360
And I thought that Rourke was a pilot, and he was the one who corrected me.

537
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,360
He knew I didn't.

538
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:41,360
Another name Sherri found in the FBI documents was Enrique Molina Garcia,

539
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,360
allegedly a double agent for Castro's government.

540
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:50,360
Sherri believes Garcia was a mysterious third man on the plane,

541
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,360
and that he tricked her father and Alex Rourke into flying to Cuba.

542
00:45:54,360 --> 00:46:01,360
Unconfirmed reports do place Garcia in Havana years after Sherri's father disappeared.

543
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:19,360
When I was little, I used to go over to my grandmother's house and wind up his watch all the time.

544
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:24,360
And that was my way of keeping him alive, I think.

545
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,360
He was in that watch.

546
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,360
If I kept the watch going, he'd still be living, you know?

547
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:35,880
And of course, I'm not little anymore, but the little girl inside me, the little seven-year-old

548
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,400
girl that never gave up hoping thinks he's alive.

549
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:12,080
For every mystery there is someone, somewhere who knows the truth.

550
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,120
Perhaps that someone is watching.

551
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:14,480
Perhaps it's you.