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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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What you are about to see is not a news broadcast.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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These outlaw legends were immortalized

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by the movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

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According to history, Butch and Sundance

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were gunned down by soldiers in Bolivia.

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But some experts now believe one of the famous bandits

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escaped to the United States and lived out

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his life as a prosperous Seattle businessman.

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For nearly seven years, Cindy James

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was a victim of more than 100 separate incidents

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of harassment, including five violent physical attacks.

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Police suspected that Cindy staged the incidents herself.

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Then in 1989, Cindy was found dead.

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Her hands and feet bound behind her back.

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On a desolate highway in Texas, two women and a young boy

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had a bizarre encounter with an unidentified object.

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Today, all three are plagued by mysterious illnesses,

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whose symptoms began to appear that very night.

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For every mystery, there is someone,

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somewhere who knows the truth.

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Perhaps that someone is watching.

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Perhaps it's you.

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Join me.

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The Body of the Blonde Woman was clothed in brown slacks of pink

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blouse and shoes.

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June 8, 1989, Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, British

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Columbia.

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The evening news carries a report

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that has become all too common, the discovery of a dead body,

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in this case lying in the yard of an abandoned house.

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The hands were behind her back, a strapped her feet,

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tied to her feet with a rope or a cord.

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The dead woman was 44-year-old pediatric nurse Cindy James.

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She lived less than two miles from the spot

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where her body was found.

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For seven years, Cindy had been reporting

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that she was a victim of more than 100 separate incidents

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of harassment, five of them violent physical attacks.

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The police first believed and disbelieved Cindy's stories.

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However, Cindy's parents are convinced

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that their daughter was murdered.

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Cindy James graduated from nursing school in 1966.

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Within a few years, she was named administrator

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of a preschool for children with behavioral

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and emotional disorders.

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Cindy was married but never had children of her own.

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In July of 1982, Cindy and her husband separated.

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Four months later, the phone calls began.

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Hello?

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Who is this?

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She said it was just a voice.

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Sometimes it would change the sound,

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and sometimes it was just whispering.

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Sometimes it was just nothing, just silence.

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As far as we know, she did not recognize the voice.

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Of course, she did not recognize the voice.

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She was a victim of a murder.

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As far as we know, she did not recognize the voice.

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Of course, I think we should add a qualifier there

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that she was very, very reluctant to talk about this

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right to the end.

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And our feeling was that she was withholding something

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extremely vital.

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Cindy reported the threatening calls

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to Vancouver police who began an investigation.

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Over the next three months, she said

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that the harassment escalated.

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At night, she heard prowlers.

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Her porch lights were smashed.

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Her phone lines severed.

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Bizarre cut and paced notes began to appear on her doorstep.

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She told me many times that he wanted to scare her to death.

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She said he doesn't want to kill me.

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He wants to scare me to death.

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On January 27, 1983, Agnes Woodcock

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dropped by Cindy's house for a visit.

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Cindy?

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I went up and knocked on the door.

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I assumed she was having her bath.

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She did every night.

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And I thought I heard something.

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I wasn't sure what it was.

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Cindy, what happened?

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I found her crunched down.

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I thought she was going to be fine.

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I thought she was going to be fine.

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I found her crunched down with a nylon tied tightly around her.

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Oh, are you all right?

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Cindy said she'd gone out to the garage to get a box.

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And just as she got to the garage,

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she turned and someone grabbed her from behind.

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She said, and all she saw was white sneakers.

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Cindy was thoroughly frightened.

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She moved to a new house.

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Later, she painted her car and eventually

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changed her last name.

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The police continued their investigation

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and questioned Cindy several times.

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She wouldn't tell them the entire story.

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She would be evasive.

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She would withhold information.

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And she simply would not act as a normal victim would act.

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And I can see where a police officer would

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have a tremendous amount of problem in believing her story.

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Do you live in the city of Vancouver?

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Yes.

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Cindy was asked to take a lie detector test.

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The results were inconclusive.

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Both times, the polygraph indicated

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that she was withholding information.

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On January 27, 1983, were you physically assaulted

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outside your home?

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Yes.

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Cindy told me that after she was attacked,

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the knife was held at her throat.

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And she was told that if you talk,

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your sister will be next and then your mother.

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So just keep quiet.

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Don't tell anything.

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On January 30, 1984, Ozzie Caban,

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a private investigator hired by Cindy,

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heard strange sounds coming over a two-way radio he had given her.

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He went straight to Cindy's house.

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I went around the house and the house was locked.

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I was able to look into the house through a window,

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and I found Cindy lying there.

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101 to base, get me the police.

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Cindy, Cindy, can you hear me?

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I took a look at her and I thought she was dead.

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There was a note that was pinned with a paring knife through her hand.

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I went to the telephone, called 911.

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I went in about two minutes, the medical people arrived,

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and she revived briefly, and then they took her to the hospital.

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When I interviewed Cindy, she told me that she noticed

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a man coming through the gate.

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The next thing she remembers is being hit on the side of head

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with a piece of wood or something of that nature.

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She then remembered being held down on the floor,

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and she remembered a needle going into her arm.

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Neil Hall of the Vancouver Sun has covered Cindy's case for two years.

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One and a half million dollars that's been estimated,

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police spent investigating Cindy James' complaints,

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more than a hundred incidents, and they could never find a suspect.

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They could never find a...

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There was no sighting of a suspect,

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there was never a fingerprint from a suspect,

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there was no independent cooperation.

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Cindy saw this person, or sometimes she said there was two,

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sometimes three people going on year after year after year.

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After one attack,

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police tape recorded their questioning of Cindy.

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This is an actual excerpt from that interview.

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All the time we had, I don't know where he came from.

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I don't know what I thought I was going to do,

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but I was trying to push his knife over here something.

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I don't think I would remember anything else.

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There were times I would talk with her and I would say,

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Cindy, please tell me what's going on.

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And she'd say, I can't, mother, I can't.

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I'd say, why not?

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Because she says I'm afraid for you.

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PHONE RINGS

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Hello?

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The threatening phone calls continued,

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but were too short to trace.

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Why are you doing this to me?

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Police began to formulate a disturbing theory,

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and they believed Cindy might have been staging

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the entire harassment campaign against herself.

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They had 24-hour surveillance in our house for days on end,

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with up to 14 officers.

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But never, when surveillance was on our house,

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never any event would happen.

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As soon as surveillance was taken off,

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of course then she'd get another incident that happened.

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When the police were watching the house,

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we would say to them, well, you know,

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if it's somebody doing that, sure as heck he knows you're there.

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And of course, nobody will do anything

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while you're sitting there and watching.

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On December 11th, 1985, Cindy was found

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dazed and semi-conscious, lying in this ditch,

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six miles from her home.

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She was wearing a man's work boot and glove,

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and suffering from hypothermia.

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Cuts and abrasions covered her body.

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Once again, a black nylon stocking had been tied

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tightly around her neck.

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Once again, Cindy said she had no memory of what happened.

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The police became more and more convinced

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that Cindy was somehow attacking herself.

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The police did not investigate the possibility of homicide,

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of somebody murdering her,

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but zeroed in on trying to prove that she committed suicide.

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And I'm very angry with the ineptitude,

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the bungling by those who are responsible

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to protect our citizens

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and to do something about, first of all,

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preventing a death like this,

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and secondly, when it does occur,

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not investigating it properly.

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Knock, knock, knock.

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Agnes, wake up.

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Several times, Cindy asked Agnes Woodcock

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and her husband, Tom, to spend the night with her.

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On one occasion, Cindy woke them well after midnight.

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Cindy came running to the door and said,

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Tom, I heard a noise downstairs, and Tom,

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he said, I heard it too.

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It was like a loud thump.

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Agnes and Tom went downstairs with Cindy.

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The basement was in flames.

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Cindy asked me to call the fire departments.

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I ran to the phone, and the phone was dead.

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So Tom went outside and called the neighbor

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and asked if he would call the fire department.

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And when he went out, there was a man standing on the curb,

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and Tom asked him, and he ran away down the street.

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The police suspected once again

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that Cindy had staged the incident.

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Further questions. Thank you.

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There was no duster fingerprints

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disturbed on the outside of the window sill,

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but somebody set the fires from inside the home,

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and it had declined through that window.

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Now, that should have been one sign

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that people should have realized.

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Also, she said she was out walking her dog

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late at night that night.

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Now, if somebody was attacked,

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why would they go out alone walking their dog

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at 3 o'clock in the morning? Does that make sense?

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Finally, Cindy's doctor committed her

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to a local psychiatric ward.

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He fully believes Cindy's accounts of harassment,

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but feared she was becoming suicidal.

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I think one of the things that she found most difficult

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was that people didn't believe her.

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She was always doubted.

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She knew she was doubted,

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and that was what slowly drove her crazy,

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the fact that she wasn't believed.

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Ten weeks later, Cindy left the hospital.

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She finally admitted to her family and friends

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that she had been withholding information.

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She told me for the first time

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she was convinced who the perpetrator was,

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and in her own words,

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if the police can't solve this, I'll solve it for them.

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She said, when it's all over,

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I'll explain everything to you, but I can't tell you no.

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On May 25th, 1989,

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six years and seven months after the first threatening phone call,

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Cindy James disappeared.

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That same day, her car was found

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in a neighborhood parking lot.

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Inside were groceries and a wrap gift.

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There was blood on the driver's side door

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and items from Cindy's wallet were under the car.

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Two weeks later, Cindy's body was found at the abandoned house.

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Cindy James' death had all the earmarks

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of a sadistic murder.

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Her hands and feet were bound together behind her back.

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A black nylon stocking was tied tightly around her neck.

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Yet an autopsy would reveal that Cindy had died

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from an overdose of morphine and other drugs.

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Police believed Cindy had committed an elaborate suicide.

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There is no way that she could have been able,

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after ingesting that amount of drugs,

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to tie herself up.

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There was absolutely nothing at the crime scene

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to indicate that she had used any form of syringe

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or she had used any drinking device

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or anything of that nature.

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Morphine wouldn't have taken effect for, say, 15 minutes, half an hour.

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The knot specialist who came in

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and recreated the same type of knots

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in the way she was tied up, it took them three minutes.

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So basically, if she took the drugs at the same time,

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she would have had about 15 minutes in order to tie herself up.

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Cindy was the type of person, was a very proud person.

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If she wanted to commit suicide, she would take her dog,

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dress herself up properly, lay on the bed,

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and that's how she would commit suicide.

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Not the way she was found in that horrible place.

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At the coroner's inquest, the theory was raised

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that Cindy suffered from multiple personality disorder,

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and that one of her personalities was trying to destroy the other.

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There was no indication in all of the time that I saw her,

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and I saw her not just in conversational states,

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I saw her in deep hypnotic states as well.

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There was never any evidence that there was another,

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there are other personalities there,

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so the psychiatrist that were speculating about that

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were looking for an explanation for things that can't be explained

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and who can argue against multiple personality disorder.

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There was never any evidence whatsoever in our relations

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with our daughter that there was anything but the personality that we knew,

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and we saw her under many circumstances, many different times.

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There's just no question that she was not mentally ill.

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I think one of the defense mechanisms that people have is denial,

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and I think it must be very hard for them to believe

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that they were taken into the, drawn into this whole thing year after year after year,

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and that it was all delusional.

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And you can feel sympathy for the family and friends,

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and colleagues were all close to her and trying to help her and protect her,

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and they went through hell themselves.

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If we could only find out what really happened,

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I think it would be easier on us.

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Right now we just wonder, what happened, what happened?

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I can see her in front of me.

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I hear her laughter, the fun we had.

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I, you know, I still find it hard to believe she's not there.

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Is it possible that Cindy James had descended so far into mental illness

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that she could inflict terrible pain on herself,

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up to and including the point of death?

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Cindy's friends and family are convinced it is not possible.

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They believe there is someone in Vancouver, Canada,

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who is getting away with murder.

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December 29th, 1980.

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State Road, 1485 on the outskirts of Houston, Texas.

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At around 9 p.m., Betty Cash, Bickey Lambroum,

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and Bickey's 7-year-old grandson, Colby, were returning home after dinner.

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Mama, what's that light?

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What is that light?

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I don't know, it's off a bright, is that an airframe?

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We were just driving along, talking, and all of a sudden we seen this bright light.

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We didn't know what it was,

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but we knew that there was something that was lighting up the sky.

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It seems to be moving closer.

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I think you're right, Bickey, here.

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You could see it through the trees, you know, you'd lose it, and then you'd see it.

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You'd lose it and you'd see it.

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And we traveled about close to a mile, I guess,

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when it was, got, started to get real close.

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Then I knew it wasn't a plane.

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Mama, what are you doing?

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I don't know, I don't know, but I can promise you the truth.

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We had began to feel the heat, and all of a sudden, Bickey screamed for me to stop.

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And when I stopped, she went forward, and her handprint was embedded into the dash of the car.

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And I thought, well, I've got to see what this is.

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So I walked toward the front of the automobile, and I stood there looking up to try to figure out what this object was.

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It was a diamond shaped object, four points, but the one at the top was rounded, and so were the sides.

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Then at the bottom, flames were shooting out.

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The heat was tremendous.

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It just felt like I was burning from the inside out.

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Betty, let's get out of here!

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I was horrified.

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I was actually afraid, really, to move.

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When I reached for the door handle, the door handle was so hot, I couldn't even begin to hold on to it.

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I was more than scared.

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It's moving away!

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The only thing I was thinking was, are we going to get out of here alive?

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Just moments later, a large squadron of helicopters descended on the air.

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They were the large helicopters that had the double roguery on them.

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I counted twenty-two, and Kobe said there's another one, and I said that makes twenty-three.

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They were the kind of helicopters that you just don't see, because I didn't know what kind they were.

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I knew I had to belong to the army.

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Betty Cash and Vicki Landrum had no idea that the events of that night would plague them the rest of their lives.

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Given the evidence, it seems little doubt that something incredible happened to Betty, Vicki and Kobe.

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Something that no one has been able to explain.

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For more than ten years, they've been embroiled in both a legal battle with the United States government,

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and a desperate fight against mysterious illnesses, whose symptoms began to appear just six hours after the bizarre encounter.

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Mama, I need a drink of water!

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Mama!

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Kobe?

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Mama, I'm sick.

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At one o'clock, Kobe woke me up crying, and he was begging me for water.

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Honey, you're burning up.

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He had a fever, and he had vomited all over the bed.

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I need some more water.

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I'll get you some right away.

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While I was saying to him, I got sick.

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Finally though, I got him back to sleep, and I went to sleep, and the next morning,

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I didn't dream that we had been hurt.

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When I got up, him and me both was yet sick.

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The next morning, Vicki and Kobe were still suffering from nausea, and what appeared to be severe cases of sunburn.

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Betty?

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Betty, it's Vicki!

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Concerned, Vicki went to Betty's house to check on her well-being.

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Betty?

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Vicki was shocked by Betty's condition.

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Her temperature was dangerously high, and large red welts had appeared on her face and hands.

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Oh, what you want? You want some water?

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I was so sick.

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All I wanted was water.

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My head was killing me.

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I could not get rid of the headache.

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I had an upset stomach.

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Just...

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I was just sick.

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I mean, completely.

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Hi, Betty.

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Over the next four days, Betty's condition grew more serious.

400
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How long has she been this way?

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Vicki finally convinced her to see a doctor in Houston.

402
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He immediately admitted Betty to Parkway Hospital.

403
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No.

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Records show that three weeks later, she underwent treatment for acute radiation poisoning.

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What I'd like to do is admit her to the hospital and run some more tests.

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During a six-week hospitalization, Betty lost more than 50% of her hair and patches of skin on her face.

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There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that Betty was exposed to high doses of radiation.

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As to what the source was, I can't exactly say.

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Dr. Brian McClelland has been Betty's physician since 1985.

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All I know is that she received high doses of radiation.

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After her release, Betty continued to suffer side effects.

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Extreme swelling of her face and arms, painful headaches and a dramatic loss of appetite.

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Vicki and Colby had similar symptoms. However, their conditions were less severe than Betty's.

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Betty Cash called me approximately six weeks after she got out of the hospital.

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Her case was very unusual. It was intriguing.

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It had situations involved that I hadn't heard about in the Texas area before, so I naturally became involved.

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John Schusler is an executive for a major aeronautics engineering firm and is a deputy director of the Mutual UFO Network.

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We had done several interviews with Betty and Vicki, and then we went out to the location of where this happened.

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They were very, very clear on where it happened and how it happened.

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Yes, sir. Came right over those trees, right there, sir.

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They were able to tell us exactly where along the road that they stopped because there were certain markers that identified the spot.

422
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They were able to point out exactly what they saw, the object coming down out of the sky over the road and hovering there.

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They were able to point out a spot on the road that indicated that it had been heated to an extreme level of heating.

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It was burned and it was very clear to the naked eye.

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Several weeks after we went to the spot and saw this burned area, someone came along, dug up the road and hauled it away and replaced it with new asphalt.

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Some of the witnesses that watched this happen said that people brought in unmarked trucks, dug up the road, put the material on the trucks, covered it with a tarpaulin and drove away.

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And what did it do when it hovered over the trees?

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In addition to taking Betty and Vicki's testimony, we went to every individual living within five miles of this area.

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At least ten other people had seen the object and seven or eight other people had seen the helicopters.

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And the descriptions were all very similar to what Betty and Vicki described.

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One eyewitness was Dayton, Texas police officer L. L. Walker.

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Walker was in the area on the night that Betty and Vicki encountered the object.

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A wife, Marie and I, was returning back from our mother and dads.

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And as we was coming out of some tree lines, I saw a helicopter.

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It was shining the spotlight at the ground.

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And then I heard other noise of other helicopters behind it.

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And about that time a helicopter started side slipping towards us with a beam hitting me in the eyes.

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And I stopped the car because I didn't know what was going on.

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The helicopters were military.

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They was all flying fairly low to the ground.

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And all of them had search beams on.

442
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I thought maybe there was an airplane down, but they didn't hesitate.

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They just kept on in the same direction they was going, which would probably intersect the area where Vicki said that her encounter was.

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They was headed in that general direction.

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Convinced that the military was somehow involved, Betty and Vicki wrote to Texas Senators John Tower and Lloyd Benson.

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Senator Lloyd Benson and Senator Tower had sent us the reply back that Berkstrom Air Force Base had been notified.

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And that they had been made well aware of what had happened to us.

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That they would be more than glad to help us in any way.

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On August 21st, 1981, Betty, Vicki and Colby arrived at Berkstrom, expecting to receive medical help they brought overnight bags.

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Colby, honey, come on.

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As they entered the room, Vicki noticed a large map.

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The exact spot where the encounter had occurred was clearly marked.

453
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I understand you hear about an incident that occurred on 29 December 1980.

454
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Can you tell us what happened?

455
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Well, so we were coming home from dinner and as we were going down this road, we saw this large object.

456
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According to Betty and Vicki, they were questioned for more than two hours.

457
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The interview was recorded by a military stenographer.

458
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It was as big as a water tower and it was kind of diamond shaped.

459
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What did you do after you spot these?

460
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It was a deposition they were taking from each one of us.

461
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Just general of everything that had happened to us.

462
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,640
And we were still blistered and had blisters on us.

463
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And at the time I was wearing a wig because my hair had already gone.

464
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They wanted me to take my wig off so they could see my head.

465
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About how long a period of time was this?

466
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10 or 12 minutes.

467
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,640
Then what happened?

468
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,640
Well, as I got in the car, then the helicopter started approaching.

469
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What helicopters?

470
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,640
The military helicopters.

471
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:52,640
You say military?

472
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,640
Yes.

473
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How do you know they were military?

474
00:29:54,640 --> 00:30:01,640
The two interviewers denied that any military or government operation was conducted on December 29, 1980.

475
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,640
Ladies, what would you like for us to do?

476
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,640
We want help. We're sick.

477
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,640
What do you want the Air Force to do?

478
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,640
I feel you're partly responsible and I would like some help.

479
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:18,640
None of the information that I have here indicates that the Air Force nor the government is responsible for any of the claims that you've made.

480
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:24,640
The women were told that they were entitled to file a claim that the Air Force would review the case.

481
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,640
Get them to your lawyers and get them back to us.

482
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:33,640
Four weeks later, Betty and Vicki's claim for medical damages was denied.

483
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,640
Come on, Colby.

484
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:41,640
In 1982, Betty and Vicki filed a lawsuit against the United States government.

485
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:47,640
The case was dismissed by a federal judge for lack of evidence.

486
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I thought there was no justice left in the United States at all.

487
00:30:51,640 --> 00:31:05,640
And to think that we had a federal judge that would not even give us a chance to speak up or to be heard.

488
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:15,640
What did Betty Cash, Vicki Lambroum and Colby Lambroum see in the Texas sky on that winter night over ten years ago?

489
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,640
There are two possible explanations in this case.

490
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,640
One is that with experimental crafts of some kind by probably our government.

491
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:28,640
The other, it was an unidentified flying object, possibly extraterrestrial.

492
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,640
I don't believe in the little green man.

493
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:44,640
And it had to be an object that could have been a spacecraft that the government was carrying, but our government was carrying it.

494
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:53,640
Today, Betty Cash, Vicki Lambroum and Colby Lambroum continue to battle illnesses which they believe are a result of massive radiation exposure.

495
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,640
Betty has been diagnosed with several types of cancer.

496
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:01,640
She, Vicki and Colby all have far below normal white blood cell counts.

497
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:07,640
Their immune systems now have difficulty fighting off even minor infections.

498
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:18,640
The child especially, he's going to have to make decisions about having children, about what he's going to do with his life and how long is he going to live, what's going to happen to him.

499
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:24,640
For Betty, she's just entering into the risk period for other cancers or other problems and Vicki is too.

500
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:33,640
Vicki's having visual problems and there are lots of suggestions that that may be related to radiation as well, but depends on the kind of exposure.

501
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,640
And someone needs to tell us what the exposure was so we can figure it out.

502
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:46,640
If it's a top secret object that's protecting the United States, then I could say I could forgive them for that.

503
00:32:46,640 --> 00:33:00,640
But at least they owe us to tell us exactly why we were burned and what type of radiation that we were exposed to and how much.

504
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:08,640
The United States Air Force declined our invitation to be interviewed for this story.

505
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:15,640
Their official position is that no military or government operation occurred near Dayton, Texas on December 29th, 1980.

506
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,640
Betty Cash and Vicki Landrum disagree.

507
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:25,640
They believe that the military knows exactly what happened that night and hope that someone will come forward with information.

508
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:46,640
When we return, a legend of Wild West Outlaws butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, did they really die in a shootout in South America?

509
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:59,640
Meet Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabao.

510
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:06,640
In the late 1800s, these two men became outlaw legends as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

511
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:17,640
Decades later, they were immortalized in a movie about their lives starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

512
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:25,640
In 1969, fact-based film chronicles the adventurous final days of the famed outlaw.

513
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:37,640
The movie like history has Butch and Sundance meeting their demise in a fiery gun battle in South America.

514
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:46,640
But some experts believe that Hollywood and history may be wrong.

515
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:56,640
Some say that Jesse James sang at his own funeral and fled to South America.

516
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:02,640
The Billy the Kid was not gunned down by Pat Garrett and lived to the ripe old age of 92.

517
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:08,640
The folklore of the American West is full of stories of famous outlaws who somehow outlived their own deaths.

518
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:19,640
But in the case of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, there is compelling evidence that at least one of the infamous criminals returned to the United States and died of natural causes.

519
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:34,640
Spokane, Washington, 1910. Two years after Butch and Sundance were reportedly gunned down, a mysterious man named William Thaddeus Phillips arrived in Spokane.

520
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:43,640
Phillips eventually opened a machine shop which became a success, earning him the reputation as a prominent businessman.

521
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:48,640
But oddly, William Phillips was a man without a past.

522
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:58,640
The first definitive record of William Phillips was his marriage certificate dated May 14, 1908.

523
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,640
There is no other previous record of William Phillips.

524
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:10,640
In the 1920s, about 1922, the first reports began circulating in the West that Butch Cassidy had returned.

525
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,640
People began to say that Butch Cassidy was William Phillips.

526
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:21,640
There does indeed seem to be an eerie resemblance between William Thaddeus Phillips and George Butch Cassidy.

527
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:26,640
But if Phillips was Cassidy, then how did the outlaws escape from Bolivia?

528
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:41,640
According to some historians, the story of Butch and Sundance's demise in Bolivia has been attributed to one man, Percy Sebert.

529
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:53,640
Sebert had worked with the outlaws at a tin mine in Bolivia and had become friends with them.

530
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:59,640
He allegedly identified them as the two men killed in the shootout.

531
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:14,640
I believe that Percy told the story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kids' death in Bolivia to pay back what he felt was a debt of loyalty and friendship.

532
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:21,640
To allow these outlaws to begin a life under amnesty without a past.

533
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:27,640
To bury the legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid forever.

534
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:37,640
Larry Pointer is convinced that Butch Cassidy assumed the identity of William Phillips, and that as Phillips he even returned to the mountains of Wyoming,

535
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:42,640
the same territory that Butch Cassidy and his outlaw gang had once roamed.

536
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:48,640
We know the man who went with Phillips to Wyoming in 1933.

537
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,640
This man died recently, but we have interviewed him.

538
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:58,640
He was there all summer with Phillips, and he met all the old timers that Phillips met.

539
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:03,640
And in almost every case, these old timers accepted Phillips as Cassidy.

540
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:09,640
Well, old timer stories are always the most interesting and the least reliable.

541
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,640
Author Dan Buck has researched the life and death of Butch Cassidy.

542
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,640
He is convinced that William Phillips was merely an imposter.

543
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,640
The William Phillips story is chock full of old timer tales.

544
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,640
People had claimed they were good friends with Cassidy and knew Phillips was Cassidy.

545
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,640
And usually it's when asked by someone, when prompted by someone,

546
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,640
well, you were a good friend of Butch Cassidy's, weren't you?

547
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,640
And of course the answer is yes. Who wants to say no?

548
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,640
In Wyoming, Phillips arranged to meet a woman named Mary Boyd Rhodes.

549
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,640
In 1934, Mary and her 16-year-old granddaughter, Ion,

550
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,640
rode out to Phillips campsite in the Wind River Mountains.

551
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:58,640
The man that my grandmother met that day was going by the name of William Phillips.

552
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:03,640
And she knew him by the name of Lee Roy George Parker,

553
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,640
who is known as Butch Cassidy.

554
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:10,640
Mary Boyd.

555
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:14,640
He recognized Kerry immediately and she recognized him.

556
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,640
George Parker.

557
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,640
I sensed that they had a relationship that I had never known much about.

558
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:29,640
So my grandmother had finally told me that he was her childhood sweetheart.

559
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,640
I don't see Mary before. She married them.

560
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,640
Three years after his meeting with Mary Boyd Rhodes in Wyoming,

561
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,640
William Phillips died of cancer.

562
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,640
But shortly before his death, Phillips mailed this ring to Mary.

563
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,640
It was engraved, George C. Mary B.

564
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,640
I believe William Phillips pretended to be Butch Cassidy because he was having fun.

565
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,640
He traveled out to the west. He met some people.

566
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:02,640
He probably got some free beers. He certainly got a lot of adventures out of it.

567
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,640
He definitely looked like Butch Cassidy.

568
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:16,640
But some people have recently done some photo comparisons of the two and established that they have different heads and different faces.

569
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:20,640
Cassidy basically had small features on a big head with a lantern jaw.

570
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:25,640
And Phillips had more normal features with a more or less pointed chin.

571
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:32,640
And his head was basically an inch or more lower than Butch Cassidy's.

572
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,640
Several other clues, however, suggest that Butch and Phillips were one and the same man.

573
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,640
William Phillips wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled The Bandit Invincible,

574
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,640
the story of Butch Cassidy.

575
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,640
It contains specific details about Cassidy's outlaw adventures.

576
00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:00,640
Well, there's material in that manuscript that no one else knew that had never been published.

577
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:08,640
Either the man who wrote it had to have intimate knowledge of Cassidy, or he was Cassidy.

578
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:16,640
Phillips owned a six-shot cointre revolver, carved into the pistol's grip as a unique brand.

579
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:23,640
That brand was the Reverse E-Box E. To most people in Spokane, that would be meaningless.

580
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:30,640
But to a researcher from Wyoming, that was exciting because that was Butch Cassidy's brand in the 1890s.

581
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:37,640
Another piece of evidence that seems to connect the two men is their handwriting.

582
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:47,640
Unsolved mysteries contacted certified graphologists Sheila Lowe, who has been used as an expert witness by the California Judicial Court System.

583
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:54,640
Sheila compared five handwritten letters, four penned by Butch Cassidy, the other written by William Phillips.

584
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,640
She concluded that all five letters were written by the same man.

585
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:06,640
I found that some of the letter forms were identical, and especially when I laid one transparency over the other,

586
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:11,640
they were, it was as if they were written at the same moment. They were so similar.

587
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:27,640
I believe that without doubt, the man known to Wyoming residents in the 1890s as George Butch Cassidy was William T. Phillips, who died in Spokane in 1937.

588
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:36,640
Was William Phillips indeed Butch Cassidy? If so, then what became of his fame partner, the Sundance Kid?

589
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,640
There are some who believe that he too returned to the U.S. and died of old age.

590
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:54,640
There is perhaps little chance that this mystery will ever be solved, but one thing is certain. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were legends.

591
00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:00,640
Destin and Liv long passed their own deaths, regardless of when or where that may have been.

592
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:08,640
Next, a woman's heart-wombing search for the brothers and sisters she hasn't seen in more than 20 years.

593
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,640
Lakewood, Colorado, 1960.

594
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:32,640
Another day begins for the Smith family. Once again, five-year-old Alitha is left alone to care for her younger brothers and sister.

595
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:39,640
Wake up, Alitha. We're hungry. Is mommy and daddy home? Nope.

596
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:51,640
We'd wake up in the morning and be alone. And Richard and I would go in and get Marty and Noreen out of bed.

597
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:57,640
Richard was four. Marty was around three, and Noreen was just about two.

598
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,640
Sometimes she'd halfway fall, but we got her out.

599
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:12,640
Go in the kitchen, get the bread out, and put it in the toaster. Put peanut butter on it. Oh, that was breakfast.

600
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,640
Marty, stop sucking his thumb.

601
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:30,640
I remember giving Noreen bottles. I remember asking Marty to stop sucking his thumb. It was empty. We were afraid. I know I was.

602
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:40,640
Alitha's Smith parents were married as teenagers, still unprepared for the challenges of raising a family.

603
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:50,640
Sadly, both were often absent from the home. Five-year-old Alitha assumed the role of mother, father, and protector for her brothers Richard and Marty and her sister Noreen.

604
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,640
When their parents separated, the children were placed in the state's foster care system.

605
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:10,640
July 1960. The Smith children went to live with foster parents, Frank and Mary Ann Wiley. For the first time, they knew the comfort and security of a stable home.

606
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,640
Hi, guys.

607
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,640
This is Noreen and Alitha.

608
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:27,640
They were cute little kids. A little Noreen, you know, just a baby. Marty was a mild-mannered. Richard was a little more of a free spirit.

609
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:35,640
And Alitha was just a sweet little girl. They were nice little kids to have.

610
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,640
Let's go. We got a food.

611
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:46,640
The Wiley's small farm opened up a whole new world for the children, particularly Alitha, who got her first real taste of childhood.

612
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:55,640
We played a lot outdoors. They had farm animals. You'd feed them or gather eggs.

613
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,640
Good job.

614
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:13,640
Living at the Wiley's was warm and caring. She took care of the males in the clothes. And that felt good and secure.

615
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:15,640
Right up there?

616
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,640
Right up here?

617
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,640
Okay.

618
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:22,640
Hello.

619
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,640
In December 1962, the dream ended.

620
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:26,640
Yes?

621
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,640
Alitha's father had arranged to take the children back for Christmas.

622
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,640
I really don't think this is a very good time for the kids to have to go with you.

623
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:38,640
I told them, or that I felt that they should be able to have their Christmas where they had it planned.

624
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,640
That disrupting them at that point was going to be difficult for them.

625
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:52,640
And so they did agree to let us have our Christmas morning and our Christmas dinner, and then they would come after that and take the children over there, which they did.

626
00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:02,640
Regrettably, the children found life with their father unchanged. Alitha was once again left to care for her brothers and sister.

627
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,640
But the situation did not go unnoticed.

628
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:14,640
Hi, honey.

629
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:15,640
Hi.

630
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:16,640
Is your mommy home?

631
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:17,640
No.

632
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:18,640
How about your daddy?

633
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:23,640
Concerned neighbors had alerted the police to the dilemma of the Smith children.

634
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,640
They were once again taken from their home and returned to the foster care system.

635
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,640
Eventually, the children were placed with separate families and lost touch with one another.

636
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,640
Alitha was shuttled from foster home to foster home.

637
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,640
Until four years later, she was sent back to live with the Wiley.

638
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,640
I remember it, like it was yesterday.

639
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,640
I received a phone call from social services and she asked me if I remembered Alitha Smith.

640
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,640
And I said, I sure do.

641
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,640
And she said, how would you like to have her back?

642
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,640
And I said, yes.

643
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,640
In a matter of 40 minutes, she was walking in the front door.

644
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:13,640
But it took her a while to loosen up and it was, you know, I think I expected her to be all warm and wonderful.

645
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:17,640
And she had had a lot of bad times and it was going to take a while.

646
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,640
Alitha's years in foster care had left her a bitter, temperamental adolescent.

647
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,640
She'd longed to find her natural parents and eventually ran away from the Wiley.

648
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:40,640
I had saved my allowances and I got, I believe it's $21.

649
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,640
My plan was to go to Oklahoma.

650
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,640
I was going to go to the Wiley.

651
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,640
I had a plan for $21.

652
00:48:52,640 --> 00:49:00,640
My plan was to go to Oklahoma, San Springs, Oklahoma, to find my parents.

653
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,640
I had an idea that my grandmother would live there.

654
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:16,640
With my allowance money, I bought my ticket for the bus trip to Oklahoma.

655
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:24,640
I remember while I was riding along, flashing back on memories of when I was little.

656
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:29,640
And that's all I thought about was getting there.

657
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,640
Alitha journeyed more than 600 miles to San Springs, Oklahoma.

658
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:42,640
Alone, with nowhere else to turn, she sought refuge in a local church.

659
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:48,640
I went to a church and talked to a minister.

660
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:58,640
He agreed to take me around and we drive to try to find this farm that I remembered.

661
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,640
Do you remember what the house looked like?

662
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,640
I think it was white or gray.

663
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,640
White or gray. Anything else?

664
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,640
Alitha and the minister spent several hours searching for her grandmother's farm.

665
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:13,640
To no avail.

666
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,640
Late that afternoon, he dropped Alitha off at the local police station.

667
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:25,640
They identified her as a runaway and returned her to the foster care system once again.

668
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:30,640
It would be years before Alitha was reunited with her natural parents.

669
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,640
She never did find her brothers, Richard and Marty, or her sister Nori.

670
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,640
It's like reading a good book.

671
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,640
And you get a phone call, you have to rush off to work.

672
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:46,640
You have to put that book down.

673
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:49,640
Most people know they can come back to that book.

674
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,640
I've never gone back. Now I want to know.

675
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:57,640
I want to know.

676
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:25,640
On the next Unsolved Mysteries, in 1987 Michael Frankie was hired to reform the prison system in Oregon.

677
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,640
Two years later, he was found stabbed to death just outside his office.

678
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:32,640
His family believes he was assassinated.

679
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,640
Chicago, the 1930s.

680
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:42,640
Elliott Ness, a 26-year-old treasury agent, organized the immortal crime-busting unit The Untouchables

681
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,640
and helped bring down the empire of Al Capone.

682
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:51,640
Later in Cleveland, Ohio, Elliott Ness finally encountered the one criminal he could not bring to justice.

683
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,640
A serial killer who may have left behind more than 30 victims.

684
00:51:55,640 --> 00:52:04,640
Join me next time for the special segment as we illuminate a side of Elliott Ness few people have ever known.

685
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,640
The Untouchables

686
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:56,640
.