1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,280 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,720 17-year-old Tracy Kirkpatrick was an honor student 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,760 with a passion for poetry. 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:23,960 In 1989, Tracy was stabbed to death 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,000 from a clothing store where she worked. 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,000 Three months later, a man claiming to be the killer 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 made this bizarre telephone call. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 I know this is going to sound surprising, 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,480 but three months ago, I stabbed the call to kill him. 13 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:42,040 Perhaps you can help catch him. 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,920 Folsom Prison, California. 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,080 For years, it was thought to be virtually escape proof. 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,480 But in 1984, a convicted killer, Steve Wilson, 17 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:52,520 pulled off an ingenious jailbreak 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,320 and became a victim of the crime. 19 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,320 He was charged with an ingenious jailbreak 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,320 and became the first man to escape from Folsom in 15 years. 21 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,320 In 1943, 22-year-old Frankie Bloomer 22 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:07,560 was reported missing in action when the destroyer USS Rowan 23 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,320 was sunk in battle. 24 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,320 A few days later, Frankie's picture taken on a hospital ship 25 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:14,320 appeared in the newspaper. 26 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,320 For almost 50 years, his family has been asking, 27 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:20,320 what happened to Frankie Bloomer? 28 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:24,000 In 1965, 22-year-old Judith Himes vanished 29 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 from Carl Gable's Florida. 30 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 25 years later, in a bizarre turn of events, 31 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 a series of anonymous phone calls 32 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 claim that Judith is still alive. 33 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Also, we'll bring you an intriguing update 34 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 on our story of Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviator who 35 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 disappeared while flying around the world in 1937. 36 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Recently, an expedition found a piece of equipment 37 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 which may have been on her plane. 38 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Join me for this fascinating edition of Unsolved Mystery. 39 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 MUSIC 40 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 MUSIC 41 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Tracy Kirkpatrick was an introspective pretty teenager 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 from a small town near Frederick, Maryland. 43 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 The third of four children, Tracy, 44 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 was an honor student who loved reading and writing poetry. 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Early 1989, Tracy read her family a haunting poem 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 written by Christina Rossetti. 47 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Tracy seemed to be asking them not to grieve for her 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 when she was gone. 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Remember me when I am gone away, 50 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 gone far away into the silent land, 51 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 when you can no more hold me by the hand. 52 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Her and her boyfriend had just recently broke up, 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 and I guess she expressed her feelings through her writing. 54 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 She wrote a lot of lonely poems. 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 She's very intelligent. 56 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 She's a hard worker, and she loved people, 57 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 and she loved to be around people, 58 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 and she loved to have a lot of friends and everything. 59 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Now this is our new spring line. We have it in blue. 60 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 During Tracy's senior year in high school, 61 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 she held down two part-time jobs, 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 one of them a sales clerk and a woman's clothing store. 63 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 All over, I just got a new shipment in. 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 On the night of March 15, 1989, 65 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Tracy was assigned to close the store 66 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 and tally up the day's receipts. 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 15 minutes before closing time, Tracy was alone. 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 It was 8.45 p.m. 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Two hours later, a shopping mall security guard 70 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 noticed that the lights inside the women's clothing store 71 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 were still on. 72 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 The front door was unlocked. 73 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 The guard called out but received no response. 74 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 He walked toward the back of the store. 75 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 In a storage room, he found Tracy Kirkpatrick's 76 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 lifeless body. 77 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 The guard immediately notified the police. 78 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 You better send someone down right away, all right? 79 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 At almost the same moment, Billy and Diane Kirkpatrick, 80 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Tracy's parents were en route to the shopping mall. 81 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 It was nearly 11 p.m., more than an hour 82 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 after Tracy usually returned home. 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 I'm worried for nothing. 84 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 OK, I know everything's going to be fine. 85 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 What the hell is this? 86 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Look, there's police cars, Bill. 87 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Yeah, OK, all right. 88 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 I'm going to the store. 89 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 As soon as I seen it without the store, 90 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 I jumped out of the car and I went up to the door 91 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 and they didn't want to let us in at first 92 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 because they really didn't know who we were. 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 I'm going to trace the works here. 94 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 All right, hold on. 95 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Are you OK? 96 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Thank you. 97 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Is she OK? 98 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 I said, is she all right? 99 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I see her and when he shook his head, no. 100 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I just blocked out everything. 101 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 I didn't want to hear the rest of what was going to be said to me. 102 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 All right. 103 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Bill? 104 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 OK, Diane, sit down. 105 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 What did someone have against her 106 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 that they would do something like that to her? 107 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 She never did anything to hurt anybody. 108 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Police could find no apparent motive or Tracy Kirkpatrick's 109 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 brutal murder. 110 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 There was no sign of sexual assault. 111 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 The day's cash receipts have been left untouched on the counter. 112 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Since there were no indications of a struggle, 113 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 police believe the murder must have been someone Tracy knew. 114 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 A thorough analysis of the crime scene turned up 115 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 late in fingerprints but no other physical evidence. 116 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 The case was stalled. 117 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Then three months later, police got their first real lead 118 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 when a mysterious telephone call was recorded 119 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 by a nationwide confession hotline in Las Vegas. 120 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 This is a tape recording of the actual phone call. 121 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 I know this is going to sound surprising, 122 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 but three months ago, I stabbed it all to death. 123 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And you might think that in making this tape, 124 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 I'm setting myself up to be caught, 125 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 but there are a lot of guys named John in front of me. 126 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 The hotline immediately notified the Frederick police. 127 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 The sincerity that I heard in that voice 128 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 and the knowledge that the person was displaying, 129 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 talking about what he had done, 130 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:28,000 at that point, convinced me that I probably was listening to the killer. 131 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Detective Honer thought the caller's knowledge of the case was convincing. 132 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 He took the tape to his chief. 133 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Yes, sir. 134 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Well, let's listen to it then. 135 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,000 The call I called was working. 136 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 A lady in sportswear store. 137 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000 I often teamed by and talked to her when she was working alone. 138 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 And one night, when she was in the store room, 139 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,000 and we were talking, our conversation turned into an argument. 140 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 And so I took out a knife that I had with me at all times. 141 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 And I killed her. 142 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,000 And a few days later, I realized that I had created a lot of sadness. 143 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 And I thought about turning myself into the police. 144 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 But whatever they do to me, that won't bring Tracy back. 145 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:23,000 So I decided that I better be free 146 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 because we have the testimony in Maryland. 147 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Thanks for listening. 148 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:34,000 I'm sorry about what I did, but nothing can change it's life. 149 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 It just sounds like we have our killer, doesn't it? 150 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Sounds very authentic. 151 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 They trace the call back to a supermarket in Walkersville, Maryland, 152 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,000 which is seven or eight miles just north of Frederick City. 153 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 If it was the killer, he wanted to be caught. 154 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 And he was seeking help through this hotline. 155 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:02,000 And it was a decision made by my chief of police and members of my division 156 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 to compose a letter to this individual 157 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,000 and address it to Don and ask Don to please come forward. 158 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 If he needed someone to talk to, I was available. 159 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 The letter was published in a local newspaper on October 10, 1989. 160 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Police received no response, but two weeks later, 161 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:29,000 another unlikely phone call provided them with a new lead. 162 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Hello. My name is Sean. 163 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 And I have rather an unusual request. 164 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 How can I help you, Sean? 165 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,000 On October 24, Martha Woodworth, a Massachusetts woman 166 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 with a reputation as a psychic, began to receive calls from a young man 167 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 who identified himself as Sean. 168 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Well, I don't usually take cases like that. 169 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Sean seemed obsessed with finding the person who had murdered Tracy Kurt Patrick. 170 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Martha told Sean she needed more information before she could help. 171 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Eventually, he agreed to send Martha newspaper clippings. 172 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 And when I received the envelope with his handwriting on the outside, 173 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 I thought this person has a much stronger involvement 174 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 than just being a friend who's interested. 175 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 I found the handwriting extremely disturbed. 176 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:26,000 So I felt it was my responsibility to alert the police that I had a potential suspect for them. 177 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Martha, do you think you've talked to Sean enough 178 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 that you could recognize his voice from a tape? 179 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Yes, I'm pretty sure. 180 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Let me play a little of this tape for you on the telephone. 181 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Chief Ashton played the confession tape for Martha Woodworth. 182 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 She believed the voice was Sean's. 183 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I knew it was Sean. In fact, my heart dropped. 184 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,000 It was very chilling to hear the voice of the person 185 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 I'd been speaking to for months, actually confessing to the crime. 186 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:04,000 I certainly didn't encourage her to maintain contact with him. 187 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Because at that time, we thought it was a viable lead, 188 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 and it was the best lead that we had. 189 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And she was the conduit between Sean Don and the police department. 190 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,000 What if the killer commits suicide? 191 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Police checked out the return address on Sean's envelope. 192 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,000 It was in Walkersville, Maryland, the same town where the call-in confession had been made. 193 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:35,000 However, the young man living at the address was not named Sean or Don. 194 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Good morning. As requested by Frederick said... 195 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 At another dead end, the Frederick police turned to local radio stations for help. 196 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 The caller claims to have killed Tracy Lynn Kirkpatrick, 197 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 who was brutally murdered in Frederick one year ago today. 198 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Authorities encourage you to listen carefully. 199 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 There's a chance someone may recognize the caller's voice. 200 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 After the tape aired, three people claimed they thought they recognized the voice. 201 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Again, the man was not named Sean or Don, 202 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,000 but he was the young man who lived at the return address on the psychics' letter. 203 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Police searched his home the next day. 204 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Our hopes in serving the search in seizure weren't on his person 205 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 obtaining physical evidence from that suspect. 206 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,000 It was to send that material to our forensic lab and the state lab 207 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:38,000 and confirm our suspicions that he was, in fact, the person who committed this crime. 208 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Unfortunately, the evidence was examined and re-examined 209 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,000 and we were unable to confirm that he was either at the crime scene that night 210 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:57,000 or had any protector part in this criminal act. 211 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:03,000 In the search, police found many newspaper clippings about Tracy's murder 212 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,000 but could find no evidence that the young man knew Tracy Kirkpatrick personally. 213 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 He plugged the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions. 214 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,000 There has to be someone to see something, someone coming from that store, 215 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:24,000 running from that store, or leaving that store, or heard something. 216 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I just can't imagine something happening like that, no one knowing nothing about it. 217 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 The frustrating part is, you know, we obviously know somebody killed her 218 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,000 and we've never been able to nail it down to the suspect that definitely did it. 219 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,000 I mean, that has been our pledge to the community, to the family, 220 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000 that we're not going to give up until we do identify that person. 221 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:54,000 On March 20, 1989, Tracy Kirkpatrick was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 222 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:00,000 The poem she had once recited for her family was inscribed on her tombstone. 223 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land. 224 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 When you can no more hold me by the hand. 225 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Yet if you should forget me for a while and afterward remember, do not grieve. 226 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 For if the darkness and corruption leave a vestige of the thoughts that once I had, 227 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:33,000 better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. 228 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 The End 229 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Six decades ago, famed aviator Amelia Earhart captured the heart and spirit of an entire generation 230 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 with her courageous record-breaking flights. 231 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:06,000 But in 1937, Earhart became the subject of one of the most enduring and fascinating unsolved mysteries. 232 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:14,000 On May 20, 1937, Amelia and her navigator Fred Muenin began their attempt to circumnavigate the world 233 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 in a twin-engine Lockheed Electron. 234 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 They never returned. 235 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:27,000 On July 2nd, they disappeared en route to the small South Pacific island of Howland. 236 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:33,000 A massive search turned up no trace of Amelia, Fred or the airplane. 237 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Years later, rumors surfaced that Earhart and Muenin were taken prisoner by the Japanese 238 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,000 and held on the island of Saipan. 239 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:49,000 This woman was brought ashore by the Japanese. 240 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Neva Blas has lived on Saipan her entire life. 241 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,000 She claims that she witnessed Amelia Earhart's execution. 242 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Amelia Earhart and Fred Muenin were taken prisoner and executed on the island of Saipan 243 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:14,000 or did their plane in fact go down in the past and unforgiving waters of the South Pacific? 244 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Shortly after our broadcast, we learned of an intriguing discovery that may finally solve 245 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. 246 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:31,000 In October of 1989, a 17-member expedition spent three weeks on a tiny uninhabited island 247 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 called Nicumaroro. 248 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Nicumaroro is 420 miles from Amelia's destination Howland Island. 249 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:45,000 The operation was headed by aviation archaeologist Rick Gillespie. 250 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 No one ever really searched on that island for Amelia Earhart, 251 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 although the U.S. Navy flew over it one week after she disappeared. 252 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:59,000 The pilot, in charge of the flight, saw what he later described in his official report 253 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 as clear signs of recent human habitation. 254 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,000 What he could not have known at that time is there should have been no one on that island, 255 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 no sign of any human activity on that island. 256 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,000 The expedition found this aluminum aircraft part, 257 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,000 which may have been installed in the Lockheed Lecter by navigator Fred Muenin. 258 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:26,000 The number on the box positively identifies it as a navigator's bookcase. 259 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:36,000 We know there was a structure of this box's size and shape installed aboard the Earhart aircraft. 260 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Tests performed by the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C. 261 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 conclude that the bookcase came from a civilian aircraft 262 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 and was manufactured in the years just prior to Earhart's disappearance. 263 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 What the FBI has told us doesn't constitute proof. 264 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:00,000 What it does is constitute sufficient evidence to merit a return to Nico Morro 265 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:05,000 to find and photograph the ultimate proof, the airplane itself. 266 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Rick Gillespie and the archaeological team plan to return to Nico Morro, 267 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 using sonar and computer tracking devices. 268 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 They will try to locate Amelia Earhart's plane in the waters just off the island. 269 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Perhaps, just perhaps, the mystery of the legendary Amelia Earhart will finally be solved. 270 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 In 1976, a 30-year-old jack-of-all-trades named Steve Wilson 271 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 showed up in Elanche, California. 272 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,000 He was a licensed pilot in the certified electrician. 273 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 He said he had come from San Diego but never revealed much else about his past. 274 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:55,000 With his rugged good looks and smooth-talking charm, Wilson soon made friends with the local residents. 275 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 People liked Steve Wilson. 276 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,000 He could tell you anything you wanted to hear and make you believe it. 277 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 He was very much involved with the college. 278 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 He liked to lift weights. He liked to weld. 279 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 And when he was around a group of people that he enjoyed, 280 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,000 he was very friendly and very fun to be around. 281 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Wilson did occasion-alot jobs on the Cabin Bar Ranch, 282 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,000 a 900,000-acre spread 100 miles west of Death Valley. 283 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 The ranch was owned by Bill Thornberg, a prominent horseman. 284 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Twenty-two-year-old Callie Thornberg lived at home and worked right alongside her father. 285 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 When Steve Wilson met Callie, he took an immediate interest in her. 286 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,000 They courted for nine months, and the Bill Thornberg's blessings ran off to Reno to get married. 287 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Dad wanted me to get married because he felt that I needed to have something other than him in the ranch. 288 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,000 As we were driving to Reno or even the day before we left, 289 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:09,000 I was wishing there was some way that I could get out of it or not get married, 290 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:18,000 but I felt as though I had made that commitment, and there was no way to get out of that. 291 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 The marriage was an immediate disaster. Wilson was abusive and threatened Callie. 292 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Just two months after the wedding, Callie left her husband and moved back in with her father. 293 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Wilson was no longer welcomed on the cabin bar ranch. 294 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 How are you, hon? 295 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,000 A few days later, Callie told her father that Wilson had been making threatening phone calls. 296 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 I didn't realize that guy was so crazy. 297 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 I'm really afraid. I don't know what to do. 298 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,000 The threats sparked a feud between Bill Thornberg and Steve Wilson. 299 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Well, I don't like to say this at all, Callie, but I really fear for your life, the guys are nuts. 300 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Wilson would call on the phone and harass us, and he would say things like, 301 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 I will hurt you worse than you've ever been hurt before. 302 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:14,000 I will take everything you love away from you. You will pay. You will learn to love me. 303 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 You will learn that loving me is easier than being away from me. 304 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,000 About three weeks after the break-up, Steve Wilson showed up at the ranch to get Callie back. 305 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Callie! 306 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Callie, come out here. Callie, I want to talk to you right now. Come out here. 307 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 What do you want, Wilson? 308 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 I want to talk to Callie. 309 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 She'd want to talk to you. 310 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Callie, I love you. 311 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 If she don't love you, it's over with. 312 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 This between me and Callie. 313 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Get off the ranch. 314 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Why are you doing this to me? Just go away. 315 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 I love you, Callie. 316 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Callie, Wilson, get off your ranch. You hear what I'm saying? 317 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 You hear what I'm saying? 318 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 I grabbed my dad and grabbed the gun and said, 319 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 no, don't shoot him. It's not worth it. 320 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:13,000 You know, I didn't want my father and Wilson to get into any kind of a confrontation with each other 321 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000 because I was afraid that Wilson would hurt my dad. 322 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000 May 29, 1979. 323 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:26,000 At 6 a.m., Bill Thornberg left the ranch house to do his morning chores and never returned. 324 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 When I got there, he wasn't there. 325 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:35,000 And so I waited for about, oh, 15 to 20 minutes and he never showed. 326 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,000 I thought something was wrong because he was always on time. 327 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Dad? 328 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:47,000 And so I walked out to the water lines and I found his truck with his 329 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,000 every morning cup of coffee sitting on the dashboard and it was still hot. 330 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Dad? Dad? 331 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Bill Thornberg was never seen again. 332 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Steve Wilson had also disappeared. 333 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Seven months passed. 334 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Then on Christmas Eve, 1979, a teenager riding his dirt bike through the desert, 335 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,000 45 miles south of the ranch house, made a grisly discovery. 336 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,000 A teenage boy on a dirt bike had been over in the sand canyon area 337 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,000 and had come across the skeletal remains of a body. 338 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,000 The boy knew his parents wouldn't believe him if he told him, 339 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 so he actually took the head and rode back to his house. 340 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,000 And at that time, his parents called the sheriff's office and they went out and investigated. 341 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 With the evidence at the scene, the clothing, and different articles, 342 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,000 it was immediately known that it was Bill Thornberg's body. 343 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,000 And all the evidence led to Steve Wilson. 344 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:54,000 I believe he vented a lot of his rage at Bill up to the point where he took him out and murdered him. 345 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Another year and a half passed and Steve Wilson was still on the run. 346 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Then in 1981, he was spotted by a game warden in Kodiak, Alaska 347 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 and was subsequently arrested in Las Vegas. 348 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,000 He pled guilty to first-degree murder and received a sentence of 25 years to life 349 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 at Folsom Prison in California. 350 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Folsom Prison is a maximum security facility housing many violent killers. 351 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,000 When Steve Wilson arrived, there had not been an escape in 15 years. 352 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Wilson immediately went to work, 353 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 engraciating himself to the officers and administrators. 354 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Mr. Martin, good morning to you, sir. 355 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Good morning, Steve. 356 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Listen, a little favor I'd like to ask if you could help me out. 357 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:44,000 He joined the in-house work program and used his charm on those who could help him. 358 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 I could be a big help to you in the office. 359 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 I mean, much more than out here sweeping up and stuff. 360 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Steve was a model prisoner. 361 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,000 I have 30 years in his career of mine. 362 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,000 And I wouldn't have to say that this guy is the greatest clerk I've ever had. 363 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Before long, Wilson became the clerk in charge of shipping. 364 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 It is one of the most coveted inmate jobs in the prison 365 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,000 with a lease supervision and the most freedom of movement. 366 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Hey, Larry. 367 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Hey, Steve. 368 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 How you doing? 369 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Hey, look, an invoice 1403. 370 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 The only city clerk I've ever met. 371 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 When he became a clerk in the warehouse 372 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 adjacent to the metal factory and the license plate factory, 373 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:27,000 but his job would entail him being in all different areas of the warehouse, 374 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000 picking up inventories, picking up invoices, work orders. 375 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,000 So for him to be in a certain area at any time would not be unusual, 376 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 would not be significant, 377 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 and if he wasn't there, would not be significant either. 378 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Two years passed. 379 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Prison officials had no idea that during that entire time, 380 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Wilson was plotting a way out. 381 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 At 8.30 a.m. on August 3rd, 1984, 382 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 while Wilson was working near the loading dock, 383 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 he put his escape plan into effect. 384 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Hey! 385 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,000 What? 386 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000 It's your problem. 387 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000 He ran into me. 388 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Listen, I told you about this safety last week. 389 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 It was his fault. 390 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Watch it! 391 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000 When the truck was fully loaded, the officers sealed the door shut, 392 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 unaware that Wilson had enlisted other inmates 393 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 to create a diversion and help him make his escape. 394 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Wilson's meticulous planning had worked. 395 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Nobody noticed that he'd left the loading dock. 396 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 It's my opinion that Steve Wilson was looking for the weakest link 397 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 in our security to get out. 398 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,000 I think he was planning this at least well over a year ahead of time. 399 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 He was an intelligent individual, 400 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,000 and when you have vehicles going in and out of a secure area, 401 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 that's your weakest link. 402 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 The escape plan was modeled almost exactly after the last successful escape 403 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000 from Folsom in 1969, 15 years earlier. 404 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Authorities believed that as soon as a truck left the prison grounds, 405 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Wilson cut a hole in the roof using tin snips 406 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 he had stolen from the prison metal shop. 407 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Just minutes later, the truck pulled into the local building. 408 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000 When the truck's driver went inside for a cup of coffee, 409 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Wilson squeezed through the hole he'd cut and disappeared. 410 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Having Wilson on the loose is very hard for me 411 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 because I can never really relax. 412 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,000 I don't like being alone, 413 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 and I'm always looking around all the corners. 414 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,000 I'm constantly in fear. 415 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Before Steve Wilson was sent to Folsom prison, 416 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 he was interviewed on videotape by a psychiatrist. 417 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 I can't say that I was planning to kill him, 418 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 that I wasn't planning to kill him or anything. 419 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000 I just turned in and drove straight to the grave. 420 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Who was driving at that time? 421 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Next, the poignant mystery of an American sailor 422 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 whose ship was sunk by the Nazis. 423 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000 He was later photographed on a hospital ship 424 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000 and never seen again. 425 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Most of us are familiar with the heartbreaking stories 426 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 of American soldiers still missing in action in Vietnam, 427 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000 and the anguish and uncertainty their families face. 428 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,000 It's astonishing to think that there are other families 429 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 who've been carrying that same terrible burden 430 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 ever since World War II. 431 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Yet along with that burden of despair comes a miracle of hope. 432 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 This is a story of one American sailor's family, 433 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000 and their steadfast journey to the end of the war. 434 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 The American soldiers are still missing in Vietnam, 435 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000 but this is a story of one American sailor's family, 436 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 and their steadfast dream of reunion. 437 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Frank Joseph Bloomer was born on October 12, 1921 438 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 in Ziegler, Illinois. 439 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000 The younger of two sons, he loved the outdoors, 440 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000 especially swimming and fishing. 441 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 When World War II broke out, 442 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,000 Franky enlisted in the Navy against his parents' wishes. 443 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Franky Bloomer served as a radio technician 444 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 aboard the USS Rowan, 445 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 a destroyer operating in the Mediterranean Sea. 446 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000 On September 11, 1943, just off the coast of Italy, 447 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000 a German U-boat targeted the Rowan. 448 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 His torpedo hit home, and the Rowan sank in less than a minute. 449 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000 202 American sailors were killed. 450 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Reported missing in action was 22-year-old 451 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000 Radio Man 3rd Class Franky Bloomer. 452 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,000 His parents heard that the Rowan was sunk on their car radio. 453 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 In a short time, they were notified that it was missing in action. 454 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Incredibly, less than a week later, 455 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Mrs. Jane Bloomer saw a newspaper article 456 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000 with this photograph of three survivors of the USS Rowan. 457 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 She recognized the man in the middle as her son, Franky. 458 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000 I know this is him. Look. Look at that. 459 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000 She immediately contacted her other son's wife, Dorothy. 460 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 The two women compared the newspaper photograph 461 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 with pictures of Franky. 462 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Yes, see? I noticed that too. 463 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 I still don't know what is him. 464 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 When I first saw the newspaper picture of the three survivors, 465 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,000 I was positive. The one was Franky. 466 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 It had characteristics. It had features. 467 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,000 And I knew it was Franky. 468 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Jane Bloomer took the photographs to a local mortician 469 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 who was an expert at photo identification. 470 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000 See how he's holding his arm there? 471 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Did he ever break his arm, maybe as a child? 472 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Yes, he did. 473 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,000 I would say that these two men are absolutely the same. 474 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Are you sure? 475 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000 From my observation of this evidence, 476 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,000 I definitely would conclude they're one and the same. 477 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Thank you. 478 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:51,000 When the mortician told my mother-in-law that he felt this picture was of Franky, 479 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000 it gave her a lot more hope. 480 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000 She wrote to the American Red Cross to see if they could help her, 481 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,000 and they said they got all their information from the war department, 482 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:08,000 and that they could not find any information that she did not already have. 483 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000 Franky's mother never stopped believing that her son was alive. 484 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000 When Mrs. Bloomer died in 1971, 485 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,000 she passed her hope to a new generation, her granddaughter, Janey. 486 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,000 As a very small girl, the first time I can remember hearing 487 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 or finding out about my Uncle Franky was at my grandma's house. 488 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,000 I noticed the picture sitting on the mantle. 489 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,000 I went over and I asked my grandma, I said, well, who is this? 490 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000 And she said, this is your Uncle Franky. 491 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000 Why haven't I ever met him? 492 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,000 Well, he went into the Navy a long time ago. 493 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 He just hasn't come back yet, and I'm sure he will. 494 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:59,000 I would say that my grandmother and grandfather lived with this haunting feeling 495 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,000 of never knowing if he was alive or dead until the day they died. 496 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000 I think my grandparents would commemorate Franky's birthday in different ways 497 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 from year to year. 498 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 It never went forgotten. 499 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,000 I can recall a time when we were over at my grandmother's house to eat dinner, 500 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,000 and there happened to be a cake on the table, and I asked why there was a cake there, 501 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000 and she told me that it was because it was Franky's birthday. 502 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Where is he? 503 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000 He's away just now. 504 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 When is he going to be back? 505 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000 I don't know, Janey. I don't know. 506 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:52,000 I'm searching to find the answer, whether he is alive or dead, 507 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,000 so that I don't end up the same way that my grandparents did, 508 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000 because they both died not knowing the real truth of whether he was alive or dead. 509 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000 12 years ago, Janey's parents erected a memorial headstone for Franky. 510 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000 I do go to the grave occasionally, 511 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000 and our family is all buried in the same proximity. 512 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000 It's kind of strange, though, when I look at my Uncle Franky's grave marker 513 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000 and know that he's not in there, 514 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,000 and think of the possibility that he could be walking a street somewhere, 515 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000 yet there's a marker here with his name on it. 516 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:47,000 The End 517 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000 A young woman to be pregnant and unmarried 518 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000 is nearly always a disturbing and unsettling prospect. 519 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:07,000 In 1965, Judith Hayams, a 22-year-old medical technician from Coral Gables, Florida, 520 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000 found herself in that difficult predicament. 521 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000 With nowhere else to turn, Judith Hayams apparently decided to have an illegal abortion. 522 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,000 It was a decision that probably led to her disappearance, and quite possibly her death. 523 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,000 Judith Hayams learned she was pregnant in August of 1965. 524 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000 The name she gave her her pregnancy test was B. Kenny, 525 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,000 evidence that she may have been trying to keep her condition a secret. 526 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Judy never said anything to me about the fact that she might have been pregnant. 527 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:56,000 She never even told me that she went to have a test, a pregnancy test. 528 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:02,000 She called me, I guess, the day that she was going to have the abortion, 529 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:07,000 if that is what happened, to tell me that she was going shopping. 530 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000 She was leaving work early and going shopping. 531 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 The day she disappeared, Judith went to her bank and withdrew $300. 532 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000 She told her friends that she was going to buy a watch. 533 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Police believe that instead, Judith used the money for an illegal abortion. 534 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000 We were able to determine that she contacted a close friend of hers 535 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000 who helped arrange an abortion through the suspect, Dr. George Haji. 536 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:43,000 And through that, a date and time and a price were set for it. 537 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Judith made the arrangements to get the money, 538 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,000 and the last time she was seen, we feel that she was on her way to get this abortion. 539 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000 Get plenty of rest. You'll be fine in no time, huh? 540 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 George Haji was a Hungarian immigrant who poses an accredited physician. 541 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:04,000 According to police, Haji operated an illegal abortion clinic in Coral Gables. 542 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Judy? 543 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:15,000 Having an abortion, I don't think she really had any other choice 544 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 because nobody in those days had a choice. 545 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Not in the group that she was friendly with. 546 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000 Judy? 547 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000 Judy. 548 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Right through here, huh? 549 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,000 A lot of people have said that what happened to her 550 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 was that she died having an abortion. 551 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Judy was a medical organist. 552 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 She was a doctor. 553 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000 She was a doctor. 554 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 She was a doctor. 555 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Judy was a lab technician. 556 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000 She had a lot of medical knowledge. 557 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,000 I find it hard to believe that she could have died having an abortion. 558 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:02,000 I mean, surely she would have known she was intelligent enough to know to go for help someplace. 559 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Judith Hines disappeared on September 14, 1965. 560 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Three weeks later, a rental car registered in her name 561 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 was found 650 miles away in Atlanta, Georgia. 562 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000 On the back seat were traces of blood. 563 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Unfortunately, the car had sat there for two or three days before it was found. 564 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000 And then by the time we were able to conduct any crime scene on it, 565 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000 the car had been handled by other people or the police agencies. 566 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000 And by the time it got back to Dade County to be processed, 567 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000 whatever crime scene existed was totally ruined. 568 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 A local resident had spotted a man in his 30s parking the vehicle. 569 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,000 He removed what appeared to be a duffel bag from the trunk and then left the area. 570 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000 This man has never been identified. 571 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Three months later, George Haji was arrested for impersonating a physician. 572 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000 George Haji? Yes. 573 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 Coral Gibbons, police, are you under arrest? 574 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 He jumped bail and has not been seen since. 575 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 The surgery charges against him are still in the books, 576 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 and police speculate he may know what happened to Judith Himes. 577 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:18,000 Shortly after Haji's escape, police ended their investigation into Judith's disappearance. 578 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,000 The Judith Himes case soon faded from local memory. 579 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,000 But 25 years later, the investigation would be reopened 580 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:31,000 thanks to a bizarre series of events that began with a police narcotics lecture in Nebraska. 581 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,000 Captain Chuck Shear, the Coral Gables Police Department, was unfamiliar with the Himes case. 582 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:42,000 In 1990, Shear had a speaking engagement at the police academy 200 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska. 583 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000 The lecture itself was uneventful and Shear returned home. 584 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,000 It was then that he received a phone call from the past. 585 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Two days after the Nebraska lecture, Captain Shear received a long-distance phone call 586 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 at his office in Coral Gables. 587 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Hello? 588 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Yes, it is. What can I do for you? 589 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,000 The caller identified himself as Steve Brown, the host of a popular radio talk show in Omaha. 590 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000 He said an anonymous caller had given him information on the disappearance of Judith Himes. 591 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:25,000 I told Mr. Brown that I wasn't familiar with the case and I'd have to research and get back to him. 592 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I asked him for his phone number, and if he knew what he was talking about, 593 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,000 he said he didn't know how to get back to him, and he gave me two phone numbers. 594 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000 A day later, Captain Shear called Steve Brown in Nebraska. 595 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:48,000 He said, well, regarding your call to me, I have dug up the information that you needed, and I have it for you. 596 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,000 And I said, excuse me, because this is a call out of the blue. 597 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:57,000 I didn't know who the man was or could not imagine what he was talking about. 598 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,000 He was totally surprised, never heard of me, never knew anything about it, 599 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 and denied adamantly that he was the one that made the phone calls. 600 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000 No, no. 601 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,000 That's right. That's my home number. It's my private, unlisted number. Who gave you that? 602 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000 When he gave me my own unlisted home phone number, 603 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:24,000 I began to think through the people that come to mind who have that telephone number. 604 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Thinking they could have called, and no one has yet come to mind who would make such a phone call, 605 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000 without telling me about it, claiming to be me. 606 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000 Well, now I'm confused. I don't know what to think. 607 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:44,000 Why would a 25-year-old case surface all of a sudden out of Omaha, Nebraska, 608 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000 when, in fact, I've never been to Omaha, Nebraska in my life prior to this time, 609 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000 and had no knowledge or anything about the case. 610 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000 I never mentioned the case whatsoever the whole time we were out there, 611 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000 for the simple reason I really didn't even know about the case, 612 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,000 to give anybody any information or anything. 613 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Good evening. Paul gave us Police Department. Captain Shearer, one moment. 614 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000 Two days later, Captain Shearer received another unusual phone call. 615 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000 Hello, Captain Shearer. 616 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000 Judy Heimes is alive, and she lives in Omaha. 617 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Who is this, please? 618 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Judy Heimes is alive. 619 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000 Judy Heimes is alive, and she lives in Omaha. 620 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Who is this? 621 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,000 Hello, who is this? 622 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000 My gut feeling is that something is going on to bring this case back up 25 years later, 623 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000 and it very possibly is that Judy is, in fact, living in the Omaha area. 624 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:56,000 In the fall of 1989, an article on The Heimes case appeared in a local newspaper. 625 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,000 Captain Shearer then received yet another anonymous phone call. 626 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000 Hello, Captain Shearer. 627 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:11,000 The third phone call that I received was from a man that identified himself as an informant for the FBI. 628 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000 Would you give me your name, please? 629 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,000 He refused to give me his name at that time, 630 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:22,000 but he said that he had just spent several weeks with Haju over in Budapest, Hungary, 631 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000 and he gave me the phone number. 632 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:31,000 I contacted Interpol, and Interpol, our Interpol through their Budapest Interpol, 633 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,000 determined that the phone number that he gave me indeed comes back to the same name of the suspect 634 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,000 at that time, the doctor, that supposedly performed the abortion. 635 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Police have yet to locate George Haju in Hungary, 636 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,000 but they feel it is highly unlikely that he was responsible for the phone calls. 637 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,000 The only real evidence that Judith is still alive has come from the mysterious phone calls. 638 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000 Police have searched the Omaha area, but have found no trace of her whereabouts. 639 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,000 Who placed the anonymous phone calls? 640 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,000 If they are telling the truth, where is Judith Himes today? 641 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:17,000 Did she have an abortion and die as a result, or did she just disappear? 642 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:26,000 The only possible scenario that I could see is that if in fact she is, 643 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000 she didn't want the family to know about the supposed abortion at the time, 644 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000 and she just disappeared and in fact has been missing for 25 years, 645 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,000 not wanting her family to know about it. 646 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:42,000 I'd like to believe that she's someplace, and that she could be found, 647 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,000 or that she'd come back, or that we'd know that she's alright. 648 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,000 I guess my personal theory is it's hard to believe that she would be dead, 649 00:44:51,000 --> 00:45:00,000 but I can't understand if she's alive, why she wouldn't contact somebody after all this time. 650 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,000 After all, there's no more stigmas left, why wouldn't she come back? 651 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:28,000 In 1980, two women in Texas had a strange encounter with an unidentified object 652 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000 on a desolate highway outside of Houston. 653 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:36,000 Within hours, it was stricken with mysterious illnesses which continue to plague them today. 654 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:41,000 A judge, who was in the hospital, said that the woman was a woman, 655 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,000 and that she was a woman, and that she was a woman, 656 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000 and that she was a woman, and that she was a woman, 657 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,000 then present with mysterious illnesses which continue to plague them today, 658 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:57,000 a genuine UFO, a military operation, or something new and unexplained. 659 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:05,000 Join me next time for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.