1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,600 This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members 2 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,680 and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,000 to see is not a news broadcast. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:25,760 In Spokane, Washington, a popular teenager, Russell Evans, intervened in a fight. A few 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:32,760 hours later, he was found fatally injured on a lonely road, with it hit and run or murdered. 6 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:37,760 For over a century, fortune hunters have searched in vain for the legendary Lost Adams Diggings. 7 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,520 A secret mine in Arizona, over a coating to legend, a vast motherload of gold awaits some 8 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:50,320 lucky prospector. In 1976, State Department official Bradley Bishop disappeared from his 9 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:56,320 home outside Washington, D.C. Tragically, the next day, the bodies of his wife, his mother, 10 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:03,320 and his three young sons were found in a North Carolina coastal park. Brad Bishop is wanted for murder. 11 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:12,320 For every mystery there is someone, somewhere who knows the truth. Perhaps that someone is watching. Perhaps it's you. Join me. 12 00:01:50,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Spokane, Washington, June 4, 1989, 105 a.m. Two friends on their way home were startled when their headlights flashed on a body stretched out on the road. 13 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:21,320 13-year-old Russell Evans had apparently been struck by a car. He was barely alive. 14 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:26,320 Call 911. Brian, help me! 15 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:43,320 I kept trying to calm him down because he kept trying to move. And he squeezed my hand a couple times. Not very hard, but just because he hurt. And then he quit talking to me. 16 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:58,320 Russell was admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital at 1.30 a.m. As his parents stood by, doctors struggled through the night to stabilize his condition. 17 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:05,320 When I got there, I just wanted to see him. And so I went right to the trauma room. And he was unconscious. 18 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,320 Probably the best for you and him both if you went out to the waiting room for now. I promise we'll keep you posted, okay? 19 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,320 Okay, let's get the CT tech. 20 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,320 I just knew he wasn't gonna make it. 21 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,320 Okay, and the mask suit, legs are up, is that right? 22 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,320 At 9.10 a.m. Russell Evans died. 23 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:43,320 You know, I'm really grateful that I had those eight hours because even though he didn't talk to me, I knew he was, knew I was there. And that was really important to me. 24 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:53,320 What makes the Evans family's grief even more painful is that to this day they have no idea who was responsible for their son's death or why he was killed. 25 00:03:53,320 --> 00:04:03,320 The Spokane police have always maintained that Russell died as a result of a random hit-and-run accident. But a number of unanswered questions point to a more sinister scenario. 26 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,320 Russell's parents are convinced that their son was murdered. 27 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:20,320 Russell Evans was an active and popular eighth grader at Libby Middle School, as Spokane. By the age of 13, he was already 6 feet 3 inches tall. 28 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:32,320 Russell excelled at basketball and played pickup games every day after school with his friends. He dreamed of one day becoming a pro. 29 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:44,320 I did everything together. I was at my house every day and he was very well liked. I had a good sense of humor. And he got along with pretty much everybody. He had no problems. 30 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:59,320 Rusty had already made plans to go to UCLA and he wanted to be an electrical engineer, play pro ball. And I mean, he had it all, he had it all mapped out. He had it all, all put together, which amazed me. 31 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:17,320 June 3, 1989. In the hours before Russell died, he was with Aaron and other friends hanging out at a local park. It was a typical summer evening, until they were approached by two other teenagers. An argument ensued over Aaron's girlfriend. 32 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:22,320 Hey, make your meal real quick. And what's your name? Aaron. Aren't you supposed to be going out there? 33 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,320 I'm going to tell you something, man. 34 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,320 Hey, hey, you guys better take off before there's some real trouble. 35 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,320 And you don't even know what trouble is. 36 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:30,320 Oh, really? 37 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:45,320 He said, you better watch out because we get some of my homeboys on you. But I didn't really think much of it, you know. So I just turned around and we left and he got in his car with his friend and took off. 38 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:54,320 After leaving the park, Russell spent the remainder of the evening at a friend's house. Then he called his father to say that he was heading for home. 39 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,320 Around midnight, he ran into another friend, Sade Madison. 40 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,320 Hey Russ. 41 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,320 Hey, how's it going? 42 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:02,320 Pretty good. 43 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,320 Yeah. 44 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:04,320 What have you been up to tonight? 45 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,320 We were at the park and two guys came up to Aaron and started hassling him. 46 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:07,320 Really? 47 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:08,320 Yeah. 48 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:09,320 Didn't know they were? 49 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,320 No, no. We had him out and out, though they took off. 50 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:23,320 One of his friends almost had gotten into a fight that night and he was all psyched up about it and telling me how, if it would have happened, he would have been one to jump in and he would fight, you know. 51 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,320 I gotta get home. 52 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:25,320 Yeah, so do I. OK, man. 53 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:26,320 See you later. 54 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:33,320 I said goodbye and he hit off down the street jogging. And that's the last time I saw him. 55 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:45,320 It was now approximately 12.30 AM. Based on evidence found at the scene, the police constructed their version of what happened. 56 00:06:45,320 --> 00:07:12,320 On the impact with the vehicle, he was separated from his shoes. The shoelace is another debris. He finally came to rest about 75 feet from where we think he was struck. 57 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:24,320 From the bruises present on Russell and the other injuries, I think the most prominent possibility here is that we're dealing with a motor vehicle accident. The Russell was struck in the back by a bumper and an ornament. 58 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:30,320 Dr. Lindholm's report determined that Russell's injuries were consistent with a hit and run accident. 59 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:43,320 We looked at him after he died and I thought he'd been in a fight. Later on, when the police started talking about hit and run, his mom and I just couldn't buy that. I mean, the injuries weren't there. 60 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:53,320 Russell was found next to the median strip on Thor Avenue, two blocks from his home. His shoes and shoelaces were downhill 86 feet away. 61 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:59,320 Three separate pools of blood were found, as far as 50 feet from where Russell lay. 62 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:18,320 John and Sue Evans obtained copies of the official police report. It contained photos of the pools of blood, the shoes and shoelaces. Oddly, the shoelaces had somehow become separated from the shoes. The police report failed to pinpoint the spot where Russell was found. 63 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:27,320 The Evans returned to the scene of the accident with Sandy Ferris, the woman who had found Russell. 64 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:45,320 A question of mine at the crime scene is when I saw those pools of blood over a 35 foot area. In my mind, if somebody was flying through the air after being hit by a vehicle, I don't see how you could leave that much blood. 65 00:08:46,320 --> 00:09:01,320 In one of the crime scene photos, where it shows a shoelace scraped off or broken away from the shoe, there is blood on the shoelace. Now tell me, how do you get blood on the shoelace if you're struck and driven out of your shoes and thrown 50 feet down the hill? 66 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,320 He was about right up there. 67 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:14,320 The Evans became convinced that Russell had been struck by something other than a motor vehicle. They brought in a second pathologist who agreed with the initial ruling, but concluded that Russell had been in a fight before he was killed. 68 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:24,320 This pathologist came back with the findings that Russell had been in a physical altercation prior to his death. If a body flies through the air, when that body hits the pavement, there would be some massive scraping. 69 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,320 The Evans was found in a car accident. 70 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,320 The Evans was found in a car accident. 71 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,320 The Evans was found in a car accident. 72 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,320 The Evans was found in a car accident. 73 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:43,320 If a body flies through the air, when that body hits the pavement, there would be some massive scraping. 74 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:59,320 If you're hit by a bumper, then the bruise is gonna be fairly symmetrical and even. The bruising along his back is not even. It's demarcated, showing an irregular pattern. 75 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:05,320 an irregular pattern rather than coming from one object. 76 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,320 We believe it came from repeated blows, 77 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,320 probably from a baseball bat or a 2x4. 78 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,320 Russell's parents came up with their own version of what happened that night. 79 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:39,320 I think it was a fight going back up the hill. 80 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,320 According to his hands, he got his licks in. 81 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:48,320 He had finger marks on his face, finger bruises, I should say, 82 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:54,320 on his face and the side of the nose, finger bruising on his upper arms 83 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,320 as though he were being held. 84 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:03,320 The people that were allegedly involved in the argument 85 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:08,320 with this friend of Russ's were polygraphed 86 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,320 because other people were making allegations about them. 87 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,320 They volunteered to take the polygraph because of these rumors 88 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,320 that were started by other kids. 89 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,320 They came in and took the polygraph, we interviewed them, 90 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,320 they passed the polygraph by flying cars. 91 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,320 John and Sue Evans are convinced that finding an eyewitness 92 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,320 will determine what really happened that night. 93 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,320 At the crime scene, Sandy Ferris believes that Russell himself 94 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,320 provided an important clue. 95 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,320 Russ, can you tell me what happened? 96 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,320 When I first got there, first thing I asked him was what happened 97 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,320 and he started calling for Brian. 98 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,320 Brian, help me up! Help me! 99 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,320 He said it more like a person was in listening distance, 100 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,320 that his friend should have been there. 101 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,320 Like he thought his friend was close by. 102 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:08,320 After the police had gotten there and they started to put Russell 103 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:12,320 in the ambulance, we saw a boy in white shorts, 104 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,320 up in the bushes and he was running up the hill. 105 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,320 And I tried to tell the policemen this a couple of times 106 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,320 and he kept telling me to get on the sidewalk. 107 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,320 I thought maybe that probably could have been the boy 108 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,320 that he was calling for Brian. 109 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,320 One of Russell's friends was named Brian 110 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,320 and I asked Brian what he was wearing that night 111 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,320 and he said, well, I was wearing white shorts and white t-shirt 112 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,320 but I was nowhere around. 113 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,320 Then later down the line, when the police questioned him, 114 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:51,320 he denied owning that kind of outfit. 115 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:56,320 We've asked for and talked with everyone that we could possibly think of 116 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,320 and our assumption is it was just somebody that was curious 117 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,320 that heard the commotion, that heard the sirens, 118 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,320 so we went out to take a look. 119 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,320 When Sue Evans arrived at the hospital, 120 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,320 the name Brian surfaced again. 121 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,320 How do you want to handle any calls that might be coming in? 122 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,320 Well, I don't want any information given out about him. 123 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,320 Now, if someone by the name of Brian's already called 124 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,320 concerning his condition, that's odd. 125 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,320 Who would have known about this? 126 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,320 Sure. 127 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,320 Unless somebody named Brian was at that scene 128 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,320 that he was calling for. 129 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:35,320 There may be one or two that know more than they're telling 130 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,320 and the reason they're probably not telling 131 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,320 is that they are afraid for their lives. 132 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,320 It's very hard for me to believe that anyone would want to kill my son. 133 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:52,320 I believe in my mind that it was a fight that got out of hand. 134 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,320 However, my child is dead 135 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,320 and I think that some justice should happen. 136 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,320 Next, the poignant reunion of a family 137 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,320 who had not seen each other for 17 years. 138 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,320 In the past year, unsolved mysteries 139 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,320 has helped to reunite nine people with missing relatives 140 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,320 or lost loved ones. 141 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,320 Tonight, we are pleased to add Leanne Robinson's name 142 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,320 to this growing list of happy endings. 143 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,320 How about Soup for a Life? 144 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,320 In 1972, at the age of 13, Leanne lived in Carson, California 145 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,320 with her three-year-old half-sister Tammy 146 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,320 and five-year-old half-brother Jim. 147 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,320 That year, their mother Doris lost her battle with cancer 148 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,320 and at her request, the three children moved in 149 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,320 with their neighbor, Ellen Morrill. 150 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,320 With six children in a two-bedroom house, 151 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,320 life at Ellen's home was hectic, 152 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,320 but the children were happy. 153 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,320 Nevertheless, a social worker assigned to the case 154 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,320 decided that Ellen could not provide an adequate home 155 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,320 for Leanne, Jim and Tammy. 156 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,320 The social worker felt that Leanne would be better off 157 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,320 living with her father in Texas 158 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,320 and that Jim and Tammy should be put up for adoption. 159 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,320 I remember feeling immediately that I was going to, you know, 160 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,320 run away or I was going to take Tammy and Jimmy. 161 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,320 There was just no way I was going to have us be separated. 162 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,320 No way for a while, OK? 163 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,320 I remember wanting to fight, but I thought if I just be good 164 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,320 and do what everybody tells me to do, 165 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,320 then I'll be able to, you know, reunite with them. 166 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,320 A few months later, Jim and Tammy were adopted 167 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,320 by a young couple chosen by the Department of Social Services. 168 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,320 Leanne never saw or heard from her brother or sister again 169 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,320 and has spent the last 17 years trying to find them. 170 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,320 I can't see any reason in this world 171 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,320 why we should be separated, why we shouldn't be together. 172 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,320 They are my brother and sister. 173 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:02,320 And I'm going to keep searching, you know, until I find them. 174 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,320 Just minutes after her story aired, 175 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,320 Leanne Robinson's search came to an end 176 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,320 when she received a call at our telecenter 177 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,320 from her 22-year-old sister, Tammy. 178 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,320 Tammy lives in Maine and has two children of her own. 179 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,320 Immediately put Leanne in contact with her brother Jim, 180 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,320 an Army Sergeant stationed near Monterey, California. 181 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,320 On December 10th, just four days after our show aired, 182 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,320 Jim and Tammy arrived at Leanne's home in Los Angeles, California 183 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,320 and met their older sister for the first time 184 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,320 in more than 17 years. 185 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,320 I can't even tell you. 186 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,320 I just had a really good feeling that they, 187 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,320 somebody was in a collie, I mean, they were, 188 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,320 or somebody that knew them. 189 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,320 And today when I first saw them, 190 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,320 I felt so close to them, it felt like the 17 years 191 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,320 just came together and then it was just a few days ago 192 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,320 that we last saw each other. 193 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,320 But Tammy, the biggest surprise came when she phoned our telecenter 194 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,320 and discovered that Leanne was there waiting for the call. 195 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 A lady came to the phone and she says, hello. 196 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:15,320 And I said, hello, I said, who's this? 197 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,320 And she goes, this is Leanne. 198 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,320 And I was too excited to cry, I was just too excited to do anything. 199 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,320 I said, oh my God, Leanne, I said, this is Tammy. 200 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,320 And I don't even remember what we said. 201 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,320 The first thing I think I remember her saying was that she loved me. 202 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,320 This is the happiest time of my life. 203 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,320 And I just feel like we're so young. 204 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,320 You know, they're 22 and 23, I'm 32. 205 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,320 We have a whole life ahead of us and we're all healthy 206 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,320 and we're very fortunate that we could find each other. 207 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,320 Next, the disturbing story of a government official 208 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,320 suspected of murdering his entire family. 209 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,320 March 2, 1976, Columbia, North Carolina, 210 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,320 a State Park Ranger responded to an urgent report of a brush fire 211 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,320 in a remote wooded area. 212 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,320 As a Ranger brought the fire under control, 213 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,320 he found the disturbing calling cards of an arsonist, 214 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,320 an empty gas can and a shovel. 215 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,320 When the smoke cleared, the Ranger was shocked to discover 216 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,320 evidence of murder as well. 217 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:59,320 In a shallow grave, he found the remains of five partially 218 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,320 charred bodies, three young boys and two women. 219 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,320 A thorough investigation of the shocking crime turned to a few clues. 220 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,320 Two articles of the victim's clothing bore the labels 221 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,320 of expensive department stores in Bethesda, Maryland, 222 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,320 a suburb of Washington, D.C. 223 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,320 The shovel came from a hardware store in the same area. 224 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,320 The Bethesda police had no missing persons report 225 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,320 they got linked to the bodies until six days later. 226 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,320 Unit 12, base, go ahead. 227 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:41,320 March the 8th, 1976, I received a radio call to investigate 228 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,320 the absence of five persons from a residence in Bethesda. 229 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,320 Unit 12 direct, we're proceeding... 230 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,320 The call had come from a neighbor of William Bradford Bishop, 231 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,320 a respected economist with the State Department. 232 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,320 There was a common driveway to the neighbor's home 233 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,320 and to the Bishop's home, and I met the neighbor there 234 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,320 to investigate the whereabouts of the family. 235 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:07,320 This is Williams? 236 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:08,320 Yeah. 237 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:09,320 Hi. 238 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,320 I'm Joe Sarge. 239 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:11,320 Hi. 240 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:12,320 Thanks for coming. 241 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,320 You called in a missing person report? 242 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,320 Yeah, at the Bishop's. 243 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,320 I haven't seen them for at least a week, 244 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,320 and I'm getting very worried. 245 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,320 Is anything unusual that why you wouldn't see them 246 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,320 for a certain length of time? 247 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,320 Well, it's not unusual for them to go out of town, 248 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,320 but what's unusual is usually when they go out of town, 249 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,320 they let me know that they're going out of town 250 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,320 because I pick up their newspapers for them 251 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,320 and I water their plants, and this time, nothing. 252 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,320 I haven't heard anything. 253 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,320 You said you had the keys? 254 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Yes, I sure do. 255 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,320 May I have them, please? 256 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,320 Yes. 257 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,320 Okay, I don't see any reason why I can't go in 258 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,320 and look around and make sure everything is okay. 259 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,320 Yeah, I'd appreciate it if you did. 260 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Why don't you just wait right here? 261 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,320 Okay, thank you. 262 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,320 It was rather routine to do an investigation like this. 263 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:57,320 It's not unusual, and I wasn't overly concerned about it 264 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,320 until I reached the front step of the home, 265 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,320 and I noticed there were blood droplets on the front step. 266 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,320 Upon opening the front door, 267 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,320 I saw blood droplets bleeding from the doorway 268 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,320 through the foyer, 269 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:23,320 and to a set of stairs that led to the upper bedroom level of the home. 270 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:28,320 And going to the stairs, I observed blood splatterings on the wall, 271 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,320 and in one bedroom that I could see into 272 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,320 without going any farther into the scene, 273 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,320 almost the entire ceiling and wall. 274 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,320 The ceiling wall was completely splattered with blood. 275 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,320 Hardly a place you could put your hand there wasn't blood splatterings. 276 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,320 I'd been a police officer for approximately 12 years, 277 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:58,320 and this was the worst scene that I've ever observed. 278 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,320 Authorities were finally able to identify the five bodies 279 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,320 found the week before in North Carolina. 280 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,320 The victims were Brad Bishop's wife, Annette, 281 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,320 his three sons, and his mother. 282 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,320 There was no sign of Brad Bishop. 283 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,320 The Bishops, who had seemed to be such a perfect family, 284 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,320 had been ripped apart by unfathomable violence. 285 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,320 Brad Bishop grew up in Pasadena, California. 286 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,320 In 1959, he graduated from Yale University. 287 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,320 Within a few months, Brad married Annette Weiss, 288 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,320 his high school sweetheart. 289 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,320 By the mid-1970s, Brad and Annette had three sons, 290 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,320 and Brad was a State Department's director 291 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,320 of commercial practices and trade. 292 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,320 To most of his co-workers, Brad Bishop seemed to be on the fast track 293 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,320 to a high-level State Department job, 294 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,320 but at least one co-worker saw a different side of Brad Bishop. 295 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,320 Brad Bishop had extensive experience overseas, 296 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,320 like the international scene from the time 297 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,320 he was in the Army in Italy. 298 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,320 Brad's career was very much on track, 299 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,320 although he was exceedingly despondent about 300 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,320 not getting a promotion. 301 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,320 Brad Bishop and Roy Harrell ran into one another 302 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,320 just outside the State Department, 303 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,320 on the day the annual promotion list had come out. 304 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,320 Oh, you haven't seen me for a while. 305 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,320 I've been kind of busy, Roy. What's the matter? 306 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,320 I didn't make the promotion list again. 307 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Did I? 308 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,320 Yeah, well, I'm more qualified than you are. 309 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,320 Brad, I think that's a subjective right after. 310 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,320 He readily apologized. He said, 311 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,320 I think I'm getting the flu. 312 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,320 I don't feel well at all, 313 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,320 and I have three sons and I'm leaving work now. 314 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,320 And look, when you come back, 315 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,320 we'll have lunch sometime next week and talk about it, OK? 316 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,320 OK. Let's go to Taxi. 317 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,320 So I helped him hail a taxi, 318 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,320 and I watched him drive out. 319 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,320 The next day, Brad Bishop's family would be found dead 320 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,320 in North Carolina. 321 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,320 Bishop himself would drop from sight. 322 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,320 Take care. See you Monday. 323 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,320 March 18th, almost three weeks after the murders, 324 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,320 a ranger with a great Smoky Mountains National Park 325 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,320 in Tennessee discovered an abandoned station wagon. 326 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,320 In the back, he found what appeared to be dried blood. 327 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:28,320 The car was registered to William Bradford Bishop. 328 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,320 Bishop now became the primary suspect 329 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,320 in the slaying of his own family. 330 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,320 The courts will have to determine whether Brad Bishop 331 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,320 is guilty of killing his family. 332 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,320 But there was enough evidence in March of 1976 333 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,320 for a warrant to be issued for his arrest for homicide 334 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,320 based on the fact that there appeared to be premeditation 335 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:56,320 in connection with the events that occurred on March 1st. 336 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,320 The FBI believes they have pieced together 337 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,320 Bishop's activities leading up to the murders. 338 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,320 On the day he left the State Department, 339 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,320 Bishop withdrew several hundred dollars from his bank account 340 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,320 and apparently went to a local hardware store. 341 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,320 Bradford Bishop went to a gas station in Bethesda 342 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:00,320 where he purchased the can full of gas. 343 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:06,320 And as far as we know, after that he returned to his home. 344 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,320 Probably around 7.30 to 8.00 o'clock at night 345 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,320 after the children were put to bed. 346 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,320 Our investigation shows that Mrs. Bishop was probably killed first. 347 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,320 She was found beside a book which she may have been reading 348 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,320 at the time that she was killed. 349 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,320 The children were probably killed next, 350 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,320 followed by Bishop's mother. 351 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,320 They were all killed with a blunt instrument 352 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:50,320 and none of the victims had an opportunity to defend themselves. 353 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,320 According to the FBI, 354 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,320 Bishop loaded the five bodies into the family station wagon 355 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,320 and left Bethesda, Maryland. 356 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,320 He headed 200 miles south to the sparsely populated countryside 357 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,320 near Columbia, North Carolina. 358 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,320 It's my belief, you know, murder being a crime of passion 359 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,320 that many, many people are capable of the same thing. 360 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:35,320 It's just sometimes certain people just flip out faster 361 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,320 and do these things. 362 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,320 Brad Bishop felt from the time I knew him 363 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,320 that there was something lacking in himself. 364 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,320 This feeling was nourished constantly by both his mother 365 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,320 and to some degree his wife, who constantly doted me. 366 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,320 He was inadequate and washed up 367 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,320 and wasn't going anywhere in his career. 368 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,320 And I think that he conceived in his mind, 369 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:06,320 this was a way to, as he's often said many times about other people, 370 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,320 this would be a way of putting them in their place. 371 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,320 The FBI believes that Bishop, 372 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,320 after buying a pair of tennis shoes near the site of the fire, 373 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,320 drove 400 miles to the great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee 374 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,320 where his station wagon was found abandoned. 375 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,320 Bishop had the advantage. 376 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,320 The bodies were discovered on the second, 377 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,320 the car was discovered on the second, 378 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,320 the car was discovered on the 18th. 379 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:52,320 So Bishop had plenty of time in order to escape. 380 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,320 There was no indication of any suicide, 381 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,320 there was no indication of any accident, 382 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:02,320 and we have every reason to believe that he in fact disappeared 383 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,320 from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 384 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,320 after the car was abandoned there. 385 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,320 Brad Bishop successfully covered his tracks 386 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,320 and was not seen for two years. 387 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,320 In 1978, 5,000 miles away in a different continent, 388 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,320 a nearly unbelievable chance encounter took place. 389 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,320 Roy Harrell, the last man to see Bishop before the murders, 390 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,320 came face to face with him again in Sorrento, Italy. 391 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:39,320 I had gone to the Piazza's Tasso Square in Sorrento 392 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,320 to board a bus bound for Rome. 393 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:49,320 I decided to go to the man's room before starting that journey 394 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,320 and I was washing my hands 395 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:57,320 and this bearded, disheveled, wicking man came in. 396 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,320 In my mind's eye, I took the beard and this grubby clothes off of him 397 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,320 and I saw the Brad Bishop I had seen coming out of the State Department. 398 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,320 You're Brad Bishop aren't you? 399 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:14,320 Brad, why don't you get on the bus with me and come back to Rome? 400 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,320 Oh my God. No! 401 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,320 Brad! 402 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,320 Brad! Brad! Come back! Come back! 403 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,320 I followed him and watched him disappear down the cliffs 404 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,320 going toward the boat landing where boats go to Capri. 405 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,320 Did Brad Bishop brutally murder his own family? 406 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,320 If he did, we can only speculate about what could have possibly caused him 407 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,320 to commit such an unspeakable crime. 408 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,320 Unless Brad Bishop is found, the truth will remain unknown. 409 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,320 William Bradford Bishop is six feet one inch tall 410 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,320 with brown hair, brown eyes and a medium build. 411 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,320 He is fluent in French, Italian and Serbo-Croatian 412 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,320 and holds a diplomatic passport. 413 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,320 At the time of the murders, he was 40 years old. 414 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,320 The FBI has created this computer-aged photograph 415 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,320 to reflect how Bishop might look today at 54. 416 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,320 When we return, the legend of an Indian Massacre 417 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:35,320 and a fortune and gold still waiting to be found in the Arizona desert. 418 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,320 There's an old saying among fortune hunters. 419 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,320 As long as a man believes there's a treasure to be found, 420 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,320 he'll be spurred on by the belief that he'll be the one to find it. 421 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,320 It seems that people have been forever obsessed 422 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,320 with the prospect of uncovering legendary buried treasure. 423 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,320 This never-ending quest to strike it rich has fueled a million dreams, 424 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,320 each with a common goal of instant wealth. 425 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,320 The Arizona Territory, September 1864. 426 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,320 Troopers from Potapachi find two prospectors wandering in the desert. 427 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,320 By the time they reach the fourth, the men are barely alive. 428 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,320 We gotta go back. 429 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,320 One of the prospectors, known only as Adams, 430 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,320 tells the Army surgeon a remarkable tale. 431 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,320 You don't understand. There's mountains of gold up there. 432 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,320 There's a river full of gold up there. 433 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,320 There's gold up there the size of anacondas. 434 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,320 About two weeks ago, me and my men 435 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,320 go up the Gila River up into the mountains 436 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,320 looking for a zigzag canyon, 437 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,320 a canyon that was supposed to be full of gold. 438 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,320 Adams and his band of 20 miners 439 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,320 were led by a Mexican guide nicknamed Gachir. 440 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,320 Gachir, where's that canyon at? 441 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,320 Gachir had promised to take Adams to the gold, 442 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,320 return for two horses, a saddle, 443 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,320 $250 gold pieces and a red-silk bandana. 444 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,320 He even said the miners could shoot him if he couldn't find the gold. 445 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,320 This canyon don't go nowhere. 446 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,320 If you been lying to me, you gonna pay for it. 447 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,320 Eventually they reached what appeared to be a dead end, 448 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,320 but Gachir led the party through a hidden portal 449 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,320 into a narrow zigzag canyon. 450 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,320 I think Gachir played the major role 451 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,320 in getting them to the site. 452 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,320 And the reason he was able to do this 453 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,320 was the fact that he was raised by the Apaches 454 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,320 and he knew the area, 455 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,320 and he was familiar with the fact that gold was important to the white man, 456 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,320 not so important to the Apache. 457 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,320 Inside the canyon, the men found a stream 458 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,320 fed by a 20-foot high waterfall. 459 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,320 The stream was brimming with what they had come for. 460 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,320 Go! Go! 461 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,320 Go! 462 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,320 Go! Go! 463 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,320 There was a waterfall there and there was sufficient water, 464 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,320 but the amazing thing, and according to a story again, 465 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,320 the gold was visible right on the ground. 466 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,320 Realizing that gold is heavy, that it settles down, 467 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,320 you'd have to think how much gold was there 468 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,320 if there was still gold visibly on the ground. 469 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,320 That means every flash flood that brought water over that waterfall 470 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,320 has brought more gold from above. 471 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,320 Adams and his men agreed to pool the fortune and share it equally. 472 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,320 They set up camp in the prospecting commenced. 473 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,320 Several days later, unexpected visitors arrived. 474 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,320 A local Apache chief named Nana and 20 of his warriors. 475 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,320 Adams, we've got company. 476 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,320 The Apache, there were several things that were sacred to them. 477 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,320 One thing, mountains, all mountains. 478 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,320 The zigzag canyon probably undoubtedly was 479 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,320 sacred maybe in some way because it was part of the mountain. 480 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,320 The Paches believed that gold was the tears of the sun. 481 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,320 Nobody touched the tears of the sun 482 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,320 because the sun was the almighty thing to most Indian cultures. 483 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,320 I mean, the source of all life. 484 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,320 Hand me that rifle. 485 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,320 A gift. 486 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,320 They met with Chief Nana and Nana had set down these rules 487 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,320 that they do not include above the waterfall 488 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,320 for whatever reason, probably because he knew there was more gold up there 489 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,320 and he knew it would attract more white men to the area. 490 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,320 He hoped they would fill their pokes and leave and not come back. 491 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,320 Adams struck a deal with Chief Nana. 492 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,320 Any miner found above the waterfalls 493 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,320 would die at the hands of the Indians. 494 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,320 But one morning, a miner chasing a stray horse ventured above the falls. 495 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,320 He came across a gold nugget the size of a hen egg. 496 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,320 Ain't that the biggest nugget you ever seen? 497 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,320 No, it's your... Where'd you get this, that son? 498 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,320 Up yonder. 499 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,320 Above the falls? 500 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,320 Adams, he didn't mean no harm. 501 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,320 My horse got away, Adams. 502 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,320 I don't care. I promised Chief we wouldn't go up there. 503 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,320 You're going to get us all killed. You understand me? 504 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,320 Take this and get back to work. 505 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,320 No, you keep it. 506 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,320 Get out of here, go on. 507 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,320 All of y'all, go on. Get out of here. 508 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,320 A discovery fueled gold fever in the camp. 509 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,320 Unbeknownst to Adams, the other miners began accumulating gold 510 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,320 from both above and below the falls. 511 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,320 Some of the gold was stored in a coffee pot 512 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,320 hidden beneath the flagstone of the camp fireplace. 513 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,320 According to legend, the miners amassed as much as 300 pounds of gold 514 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,320 worth nearly one and a half million dollars. 515 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,320 One morning, Adams and his partner, Davidson, were a mile out of camp 516 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,320 when they heard the sound of dwindling gunfire. 517 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,320 Chief Nana had been true to his word. 518 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:44,320 From a lookout above camp, Adams and Davidson stared down helplessly. 519 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,320 I can take this one. 520 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,320 No, it ain't going to do us no good now. 521 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,320 Just wait until things settle down, then we'll hit them up the canyon. 522 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,320 Get out of here. 523 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,320 We waited until the sun went down, then we snuck up the canyon. 524 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,320 You don't believe any of this, do you? 525 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,320 We're about to go. 526 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,320 Look at this. 527 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,320 Well, Adams, like many prospectors, 528 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,320 spent the rest of his life searching for that zigzag canyon 529 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,320 and never could find it. 530 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,320 I think that once a person sees that much gold in a place like Adams had, 531 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,320 he couldn't give up that dream. 532 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,320 There's no way he knew it was there. 533 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,320 He had to continue to search for it until he found it. 534 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,320 Adams never did find his motherhood. 535 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,320 Years later, he died drunk and penniless, 536 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,320 and the story of the lost gold grew into legend. 537 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,320 In the 1920s, a railroad man named John Mitchell 538 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,320 began an extensive search for the treasure. 539 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,320 His writings are the basis for today's ongoing quest 540 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,320 for the lost Adams' digging. 541 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,320 Ron Feldman is a camping guide 542 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,320 who has studied Mitchell's accounts for years. 543 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,320 I've always been hooked on the lost Adams, 544 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,320 and it was John Mitchell's story that intrigued me. 545 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,320 And I kind of reread that several times, 546 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,320 and if you pay attention to what John Mitchell says, 547 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,320 he tells you basically where the lost Adams' digging is. 548 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,320 By comparing Mitchell's references with modern-day maps, 549 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,320 Feldman discovered that many rivers and landmarks 550 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,320 had gone under different names in previous years. 551 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,320 He determined that Adams' canyon lay on Eagle Creek 552 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,320 near the tiny town of Clifton, Arizona, 553 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,320 200 miles north of Tucson. 554 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,320 In January of 1990, 555 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,320 Ron Feldman and geologist Mick McPherson 556 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,320 journeyed to Eagle Creek 557 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,320 hoping to find the lost Adams fortune. 558 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,320 When Ron and I walked into the canyon 559 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,320 and discovered the little hidden portal 560 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,320 that led into a zigzag canyon, 561 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,320 my feeling immediately was that this was the spot. 562 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,320 This is where Adams had been. 563 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,320 This fits the stories that I've read. 564 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,320 It has the right appearance, 565 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,320 and it is an appropriate place where gold 566 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,320 could have been concentrated in great quantities 567 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,320 as a placer deposit. 568 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,320 Everything about the canyon seemed to fit Adams' descriptions. 569 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,320 That's got to be the waterfall. 570 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,320 It's got to be it. 571 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,320 Feldman and McPherson even found a trickle 572 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,320 along the canyon wall where a waterfall had once flowed. 573 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,320 If you put more water into the system, 574 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,320 as there was when Adams was there, 575 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,320 you would have a beautiful cascading waterfall 576 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,320 into an open pool at the base of the fall. 577 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,320 It's very hard to explain the feeling that rushed through me. 578 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,320 It was very exciting. 579 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,320 And of course, we both knew the legend of the coffee pot full of gold 580 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,320 buried in the floor of the cabin. 581 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,320 We soon discovered the ruins of a cabin, 582 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,320 started digging in the floor. 583 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,320 We found some relics, but no pot full of gold. 584 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,320 Look at that, huh? Old gold pan. 585 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,320 I've seen one that old for a long time. 586 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,320 I don't know if there's anything else here. 587 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,320 I don't know. 588 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,320 Feldman and McPherson also found the tools 589 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:23,320 needed for making horseshoes and a section of railroad track. 590 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,320 In the early days, John D. Mitchell, the author, 591 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,320 was actually a railroad man. 592 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,320 He worked on the railroads. 593 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:34,320 And we thought of Mitchell when we found those items. 594 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,320 We thought of Mitchell when we didn't find the pot of gold. 595 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,320 Could John Mitchell have found the coffee pot of gold 596 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,320 and perhaps written his history of the legend 597 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,320 in a way to mislead others? 598 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,320 Ron Feldman and Mick McPherson are convinced 599 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,320 they have unlocked the secret of the treasure's location, 600 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,320 and the mother load of gold is still waiting to be found. 601 00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,320 However, other fortune hunters feel that Feldman and McPherson are wrong, 602 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:06,320 and the lost Adams diggings may actually be in another part of the state. 603 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,320 On our next Unsolved Mysteries, 604 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,320 the many faces of Patrick Michael Mitchell, 605 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,320 the ladies man who may cook, the notorious bank robber, 606 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,320 is ingenious and daring heist, 607 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,320 and netted close to $3 million, 608 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,320 and earned him a prominent place on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. 609 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,320 Join me next time. 610 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,320 Perhaps you hold the key. 611 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,320 Perhaps you can help solve a mystery.