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 --> 00:00:12,080 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,720 Judge John C. Fairbanks was a respected pillar of his 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:20,720 community. 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,000 The residents of Newport, New Hampshire regularly 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,560 turned to him whenever they needed help. 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,000 No one had any idea what he was doing. 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 The judge was quietly robbing them blind. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,640 In 1988, at a lonely roadside service center, 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,320 a young woman courageously fought off a brutal, 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,680 unknown assailant. 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,840 The surprise attack carried all the earmarks 15 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,560 of a serial killing. 16 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,800 Now, authorities have constructed a chilling, 17 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,760 psychological portrait of a man who may be responsible 18 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,160 for the murders of seven women. 19 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,400 When Sue Scribber was just 13, she learned that she was 20 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,640 an astonishing family secret. 21 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,280 In 1942, her mother gave birth to twins and then gave them away. 22 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,520 Perhaps you can help end Sue's search for her long-lost 23 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,960 brother and sister. 24 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:11,320 And the heartwarming updates, thanks to her broadcast, 25 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:13,760 a father and daughter who had never met have finally 26 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,320 found each other. 27 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:18,760 Join me for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries. 28 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:04,400 MUSIC 29 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:13,400 MUSIC 30 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,400 Claremont, New Hampshire, May 1984. 31 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,400 17-year-old Bernice Kodemash sets off for her boyfriend's house. 32 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,960 She is never heard from again. 33 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,320 This particular killer, I feel, does a lot of driving. 34 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,720 And I think that what he is doing is selecting sites 35 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,120 that are low risk for him. 36 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,120 Can you hang on just a minute? 37 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,120 There's this guy that keeps driving back and forth 38 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,520 and is making me a little nervous. 39 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,600 Two months later, 27-year-old Ellen Freed, 40 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,800 a registered nurse also of Claremont, 41 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,400 calls her sister from a pay phone. 42 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,440 She too is never heard from again. 43 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,920 Rather than stalking a particular victim, 44 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,080 I don't believe any of these women themselves 45 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,480 were pre-selected as victims, he selects sites. 46 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,120 And he goes from site to site. 47 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,920 18 months later, the skeletal remains of Ellen Freed 48 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:18,120 were found in an isolated area eight miles outside of Claremont. 49 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,960 Bernice Kodemash's decomposed body 50 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,960 would turn up in the same woods one mile away. 51 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,120 Then just over a year later, the body 52 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,480 of yet another young woman, Barbara Agnew, 53 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,960 was found on an isolated hillside in Heartland, Vermont. 54 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,120 It was becoming more and more difficult to ignore what 55 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:40,960 seemed to be a chilling pattern. 56 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,040 Police estimate there may be as many as one person 57 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,520 as one hundred serial killers living among us, 58 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,280 on our streets and in our neighborhoods. 59 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,440 They are cool in calculating, choosing victims indiscriminately, 60 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,640 with little or no remorse for their actions. 61 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,440 The overwhelming task for authorities 62 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,160 is to determine how the serial killer thinks and hopefully 63 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,200 learn where and when he might strike again. 64 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,320 One such investigation is currently underway in New England. 65 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,760 Since 1978, the bodies of seven young women 66 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,560 have been discovered within a 50-mile radius along the New 67 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,320 Hampshire, Vermont border. 68 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,280 Police believe that six of the seven women 69 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,080 were abducted and taken to remote wooded areas 70 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,960 where they were murdered. 71 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,880 All of the victims suffered similar stab wounds, 72 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,560 and police began to suspect that the killings were 73 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,320 the work of the same individual. 74 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,720 I'm wondering if you take a look through these reports 75 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,680 and give us your opinion on whether or not you feel one. 76 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,240 With no witnesses and little physical evidence, 77 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,720 investigators were to stand still. 78 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,320 As a last resort, the New Hampshire State Police 79 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,960 brought in criminal psychologist John Filpin 80 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,320 to develop a profile of the killer. 81 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,600 Look him over. 82 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,320 Give us your opinion of what you think. 83 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,320 My approach is to gather as much of the same information 84 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,320 that the police use in the very beginning, 85 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,760 police reports of crime scene, autopsy reports, 86 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,320 autopsy photographs. 87 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,320 Every bit of information that would be available typically 88 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,320 to the investigators, that's what I would begin with. 89 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,320 Profiling is something that you just, 90 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,320 from law enforcement standpoint, you have a belief that it works. 91 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,320 It's not so scientific that it is absolute. 92 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,320 It's not going to tell you this is the individual. 93 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,320 But it does give you the type of individual 94 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,320 that you can be looking for. 95 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,320 If you have a suspect, it can tell you whether or not 96 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,320 you're on the right avenue or the right approach. 97 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,320 In the beginning, I did make several trips 98 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,320 out to the locations where Bernice and Ellen were killed. 99 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,320 The first few times that I went 100 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,320 was simply to have something of a feel for the place. 101 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,320 When I was there, I was in the middle of a building 102 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,320 with a feel for the place. 103 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,320 When I was there, what could I hear? 104 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,320 What could I smell? 105 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,320 What was the place like? 106 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,320 What would it have felt like to be there? 107 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:12,320 How could this crime, this very bizarre dance 108 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,320 between two people, how could it have been choreographed 109 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,320 in this space? How could it have happened? 110 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,320 When I get to the point where I'm beginning to develop 111 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,320 a feel for what is going on in the mind of a killer, 112 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,320 I'll go back to the scenes using what I have learned 113 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,320 and simply going through what might have happened 114 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,320 just as though I were him. 115 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,320 What am I hearing then? 116 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,320 Do I hear the noise of the river going by 117 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,320 or is that blocked out? Am I so focused? 118 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,320 Come on! 119 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,320 On the activity of killing, I don't hear that. 120 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:55,320 What does it tell me about this person's ability to perceive 121 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,320 in terms of sound, in terms of what I'm feeling, 122 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,320 in terms of what I'm able to see? 123 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,320 Come on! 124 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,320 Part of what goes on with this killer 125 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,320 is that he has a very strong need 126 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,320 to take these women away alive, 127 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:22,320 transport them to the site that he has pre-selected, 128 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,320 during which time clearly he owns them. 129 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,320 They are his to do with whatever he wishes. 130 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,320 And part of that, I think, is this process 131 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,320 of scaring the daylights out of him. 132 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:43,320 Midnight, August 8, 1988, Winchester, New Hampshire. 133 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,320 A 23-year-old woman named Jane was on her way home 134 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,320 from a county fair when she stopped for a soft drink. 135 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,320 It was a hot, muggy evening, 136 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,320 and Jane was seven months pregnant. 137 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,320 If there was a serial killer on the loose, 138 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,320 this was a perfect setting for him to find a victim. 139 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,320 Is that phone work? 140 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,320 I don't know. 141 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,320 Hey, hey, hey, come on, let me alone! No! 142 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,320 Come on, away! 143 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,320 No! 144 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,320 Stay! 145 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,320 Okay, if you want to be that way. 146 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,320 Come on. Okay. 147 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,320 Okay, okay. 148 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,320 Just don't hurt me, I'm pregnant, okay? 149 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,320 Please don't hurt me. 150 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,320 Come on! 151 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,320 I'm pregnant. 152 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,320 I'm pregnant. 153 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,320 Come on! 154 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,320 What do you want? 155 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,320 You hurt my girlfriend real bad. 156 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,320 I didn't hurt anybody. 157 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,320 It's a Massachusetts car, isn't it? 158 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,320 No, it's New Hampshire, it's New Hampshire. 159 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,320 At some point, Jane tried to break away, 160 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,320 and the killer's apparent plans to abduct her went awry. 161 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,320 He had parked all the way to his vehicle, 162 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,320 and by this time I was rolled over to my belly 163 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,320 and started getting up on my hands and knees, 164 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,320 and when he was driving by me, 165 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,320 he just looked right down at me. 166 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,320 He just looked at me and just kept driving. 167 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,320 He was driving, 168 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,320 and he was driving, 169 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,320 and he was driving. 170 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,320 I could feel the blood rushing out of me, 171 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,320 and I just thought I was going to die. 172 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,320 I kept telling myself, 173 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,320 Jane, you're going to die. 174 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,320 That's all I could think of. 175 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:01,320 And I just felt like I had to get to my friend's house 176 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,320 to get help. 177 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:09,320 Although Jane had been stabbed or slashed a total of 18 times, 178 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,320 she somehow managed to crawl back to her car 179 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,320 and drive to a friend's house two miles away. 180 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,320 When I left the parking lot, 181 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,320 I felt like I was going fast. 182 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,320 I was driving fast. 183 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,320 I was in shock, of course, 184 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,320 so I'm really not sure how fast I was driving, 185 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,320 but evidently pretty fast, 186 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,320 because before I knew it, I was right behind him. 187 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,320 And as I was behind him, 188 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,320 all I could think about was he was going to stop 189 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,320 or he was going to turn around and follow me. 190 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,320 He left me for dead. 191 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,320 I know he left me for dead. 192 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,320 No doubt about that. 193 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,320 When Jane reached her friend's house, 194 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,320 her attacker drove on. 195 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,320 Frank! 196 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,320 Frank! 197 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,320 Up the road, the attacker turned back. 198 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,320 He stopped momentarily in front of the house, 199 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,320 then disappeared into the night. 200 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,320 Fire signs at this time are BP 90 or 60. 201 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,320 We have a pulse of 8K. 202 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,320 Miraculously, none of the stab wounds hit vital organs 203 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,320 or Jane's seven-month-old fetus. 204 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,320 We're going to take you to the hospital. 205 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,320 Two months later, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. 206 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:46,320 If you feel more comfortable with your eyes closed, 207 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,320 if you choose to close your eyes... 208 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,320 Jane agreed to undergo hypnosis with John Philpin 209 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,320 and was able to provide a graphic eye-witness account 210 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,320 of her terrifying ordeal. 211 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,320 Very peaceful. 212 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,320 Very calm feeling. 213 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,320 From what Jane said during the hypnotic session, 214 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:11,320 it became clear to me that she was not stopped. 215 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,320 Her decision to go to the fair was a last-minute decision. 216 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,320 She had no sense of anyone following her, 217 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,320 either going to the fair while she was at the fair 218 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,320 and leaving the fair. 219 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,320 She was able to supply very specific details 220 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,320 of this man getting out of the car 221 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,320 and coming up on the other side, 222 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,320 making some remark about the telephone. 223 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,320 That phone working? 224 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,320 Hey, leave me alone! 225 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,320 Leave me alone! Get away! 226 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,320 This man is very deliberate, very methodical, very calm. 227 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,320 We know especially from the graphic description 228 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,320 that Jane provided for us that he doesn't get rattled. 229 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,320 That he's very much in control. 230 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,320 Very patient about what it is he's doing. 231 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,320 You hurt my girlfriend real bad. 232 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,320 I didn't hurt anybody. 233 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,320 He seemed so calm and so cool about everything, 234 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,320 throughout the whole thing. 235 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,320 I mean, he never got mad. 236 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,320 He never showed nervousness. 237 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,320 He just was so calm. 238 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,320 And everything was just... 239 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,320 as if it didn't bother him. 240 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,320 What Jane described was a tremendous struggle, 241 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,320 a tremendous amount of resistance on her part, 242 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,320 the desire to protect her baby. 243 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,320 But that at some point during the assault, 244 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,320 it was as though she had done everything that she could do 245 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,320 and she couldn't do anymore. 246 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,320 And she stopped struggling. 247 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,320 And it was at that point that the assault stopped. 248 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,320 It seemed as though the great man 249 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,320 was the man who was going to be the first to leave the fair. 250 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,320 And as though the greater her resistance, 251 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,320 the more determined he was 252 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,320 that as soon as her resistance began to wane, 253 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,320 the attack ended. 254 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,320 As you begin to drive south on the highway, 255 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,320 Jane, what are you seeing? 256 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,320 Um... 257 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:18,320 I'm coming up behind another car and it's... 258 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,320 There he is. That's him. That's him. 259 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,320 The license plate, Jane. 260 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,320 Focus in on the license plate. 261 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,320 It's... it's dirty. 262 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,320 I... um... 263 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,320 Six... 264 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,320 six... 265 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,320 two... 266 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,320 um... 267 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,320 It's too dirty. I can't see it. 268 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,320 That's a picture that you can hold. 269 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,320 You can hold that picture. 270 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,320 After getting the description, 271 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,320 one of the things that we decided to do 272 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,320 was see if we could identify this Jeep. 273 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,320 In order to do that, we elicited the help of the state of Vermont, 274 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,320 the state of New Hampshire, obviously, 275 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,320 and the state of Massachusetts. 276 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,320 We generated a computer printout of all Jeep Wagonias 277 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,320 registered at that time in those three states 278 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,320 matching the description that Jane had given us. 279 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,320 Jane described it as between being a 75 to an 85. 280 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:22,320 Police narrowed the search to 1,350 Jeeps throughout New England. 281 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,320 Unfortunately, none of the leads pinpointed a suspect. 282 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,320 Once again, the investigation was stalled, 283 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,320 but with one crucial difference. 284 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,320 The police still do not know who the killer is, 285 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,320 but thanks to Jane's eyewitness description, 286 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,320 they do believe they know what he looks like and how he thinks. 287 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,320 I think he is a loner type of person. 288 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,320 He prefers his own thoughts, his own fantasies. 289 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,320 He doesn't like intrusion. 290 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,320 I think his view of women is extremely negative 291 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,320 to the point of hostility, 292 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:05,320 to the point of viewing them as arrogant, intrusive types of people. 293 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,320 So that I could see him making an adjustment 294 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:14,320 that we might call within the realm of the normal, 295 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,320 but it would require, I think, 296 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:24,320 some very limited exposure to groups of people. 297 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,320 I just feel really fortunate to be alive, 298 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:33,320 but I just wish he could be found. 299 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,320 So it wouldn't happen to somebody else. 300 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,320 Maybe they won't be so fortunate like I was to live. 301 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,320 disputes 302 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:10,240 Holland 303 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,200 Poignant update, a grown woman meets her father for the first time. 304 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:32,440 By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. 305 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:33,680 You may kiss the bride. 306 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,800 On November 11, 1958, 17-year-old Patsy Summers married 307 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,680 her high school sweetheart, Nalpaso, Texas. 308 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,000 At the time, only Patsy and her husband 309 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,240 knew that she was pregnant. 310 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:51,040 Seven months later, Patsy's daughter, Jeannie, was born. 311 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:55,200 From a very early age, I felt very different 312 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,360 and separated from my family. 313 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:02,040 And no one intentionally made me feel that way, I don't think. 314 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,040 But it was just a knowledge I had that was, I guess, 315 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,120 in my subconscious. 316 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,640 After her mother's death in 1983, 317 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,800 Jeannie learned of a shocking secret. 318 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,880 A passage in Patsy's diary revealed 319 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,280 that the man Jeannie had known as her father 320 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:20,680 was not her father at all. 321 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,840 The diary detailed how Patsy had gone to a local park 322 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,320 after an argument with her fiance. 323 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,400 There, she met a young enlisted man stationed 324 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,040 at nearby Fort Bliss. 325 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,760 His name was Duncan. 326 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,720 Patsy was immediately smitten by the handsome young soldier, 327 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,560 and they soon began dating. 328 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,000 She never told Duncan about her fiance 329 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,120 or her fiance about Duncan. 330 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:51,200 My mother, she thought of Duncan as a very kind person 331 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,360 and even stated that of all the people that she had known, 332 00:18:55,360 --> 00:19:02,800 that he was the kindest person she had ever met. 333 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,880 Six months later, Patsy Summers was pregnant. 334 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,040 She was sure that Duncan was a father, 335 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,920 but fearing her family's reaction, 336 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,160 decided to marry her fiance as planned. 337 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,200 There's something I want to talk to you about. 338 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:19,600 Patsy, what is it? 339 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,960 Patsy told Duncan that she never wanted to see him again. 340 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:27,840 He never knew that he was the father of her child. 341 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:32,040 My firm belief is that secrets only cause people harm. 342 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,400 And cause a lot of suffering. 343 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,800 And that's why, for me, the truth has to come out. 344 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,120 And I have to know who Duncan is. 345 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,560 The night the genie story aired, a woman named Suzanne Gilmore 346 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,000 was watching our broadcast at her home in Lake Wiley, 347 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,640 South Carolina. 348 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,000 At the time, Susan's husband, Duncan, was fast asleep. 349 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,480 Genie's mother had written in her diary 350 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,360 that he was the sweetest, kindest person 351 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:02,400 that she had ever met. 352 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,360 I just said, that's my Duncan. 353 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,240 I knew that it was my Duncan. 354 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,720 And the next thing I knew, my wife woke me up. 355 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:15,160 And she said, were you ever stationed in Al Paso, Texas 356 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,720 at Fort Bliss when you were in the Army? 357 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:18,640 And I said, yeah. 358 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,680 She said, were you there in 1958? 359 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,800 And I said, yeah, I was there in 1958. 360 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,440 And she said, did you ever know Patsy Summers? 361 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,560 And I said, yeah, I knew Patsy Summers. 362 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,360 Did you sleep with her? 363 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:35,080 And he said, what, what, what? 364 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,280 He just kind of came awake. 365 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:38,840 And I said, it's very important. 366 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:39,920 Did you sleep with her? 367 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,640 And he said, well, yeah. 368 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,240 She said, congratulations. 369 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,080 You have a daughter. 370 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,840 And she's looking for you. 371 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,480 And he just came awake like a shot. 372 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,200 It was like, she's looking for me? 373 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,600 And I said, yes. 374 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,480 As soon as I heard some of the details, 375 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,160 I knew immediately she was my daughter. 376 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,960 And I don't want to say it was a matter of fact, 377 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,400 but I just knew that she was my daughter. 378 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,120 And we had to be together. 379 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:08,280 And I had to see her. 380 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,320 And I had to respond. 381 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,840 Nine days and dozens of phone calls later, 382 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,840 Duncan Gilmore and his wife, Suzanne, 383 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,000 arrived in Houston, Texas. 384 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,160 On May 3, 1991, father and daughter 385 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,360 met for the first time in their lives. 386 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:28,240 Hi. 387 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,240 Hi. 388 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,800 When I hugged my dad, it was a combination 389 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,280 of being really, really happy. 390 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:42,320 But also, there was a little sadness there 391 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:47,400 that so many years have gone by and that we've missed out 392 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,120 on each other's lives. 393 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:50,000 I love you. 394 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,960 I love you too. 395 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,280 I will always remember Jenny coming to the door 396 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:02,400 and for the first time seeing my daughter and holding her. 397 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,200 The day was made even more special 398 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,520 when Duncan met his only grandchildren, Joshua and Justin, 399 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,440 for the first time. 400 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,240 When I saw my boys playing catch with their grandpa, 401 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,480 it just felt right. 402 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,720 They needed a grandpa. 403 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,040 And I can't think of a better grandpa for them to have. 404 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,640 That's a good wish, right? 405 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,360 Never could I have hoped in a million years 406 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:39,440 our parade, 1,000 prayers for this to turn out as well as it has. 407 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,560 And he's turned out to be everything 408 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,160 that I thought he was going to be. 409 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:43,960 Yeah, he did. 410 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,520 And tomorrow and the day after, I'll now 411 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,720 have a dad who loves me and wants to be a part of my life. 412 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,880 When we return, a respected judge 413 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,720 has been accused of stealing more than $10 million 414 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,120 from his friends and neighbors. 415 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,560 Newport, New Hampshire, population 7,000 416 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,240 reflects the values that America was built upon. 417 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,520 A small town where successive generations are born and grow 418 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,760 old, where everyone knows everyone else, 419 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,960 where relationships are founded on honesty and trust. 420 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,840 But on a quiet morning in May of 1989, 421 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,600 a crack appeared in that foundation. 422 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,560 Judge John Fairbanks, a lifelong resident, 423 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,680 asked his court clerk to find a replacement for him and left 424 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,960 town. 425 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,520 At the time, no one imagined that Newport would never 426 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,520 be the same again. 427 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,640 Judge John C. Fairbanks was a respected jurist 428 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,280 and successful attorney whose family had lived in the Newport, 429 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,320 New Hampshire area for three generations. 430 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,800 On June 6, 1989, residents were astonished by the news 431 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,760 that Fairbanks had resigned his judgeship 432 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,960 and abandoned his law practice. 433 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,960 A few days later, their shock turned to outrage. 434 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,920 This pillar of the community was apparently 435 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,360 the worst kind of thief, a man who's stolen more than $10 436 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:26,920 million from his friends and neighbors. 437 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,680 You understand that you have a right 438 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,920 to present evidence on your behalf? 439 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,480 For 33 years, Judge Fairbanks presided over the district 440 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,440 court of Newport. 441 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,640 I'll get to that later. 442 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,760 Because Newport is a small community, 443 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,800 Fairbanks court duties were limited, 444 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,480 and he was able to maintain a lucrative law practice, 445 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,280 specializing in probate law. 446 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,280 John was a nice guy. 447 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,440 Everybody in the community liked him. 448 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,680 Nobody had a bad word for him. 449 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,200 He just loved his family. 450 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,160 I love his children, his grandchildren. 451 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,920 Just a great guy. 452 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,680 Fairbanks was honest. 453 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,680 I mean, that was his reputation. 454 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,640 You might knock him for other things, 455 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,120 but the one thing everybody always said about John 456 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:14,920 Fairbanks was he was honest. 457 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,920 So these people had complete faith and trust 458 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:18,800 and confidence in him. 459 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,480 When a client died, Judge Fairbanks 460 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,680 would visit his widow, not just to offer condolences, 461 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,040 but to relieve her of her financial worries. 462 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:37,800 Good morning. 463 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,800 Good morning. 464 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:39,800 Hello, Jane. 465 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,120 Nice of you to see me. 466 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,960 My husband grew up with Judge Fairbanks here in town. 467 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,400 The families were very friendly. 468 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,440 And through the years, anything pertaining to law, 469 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,960 he would go to Judge Fairbanks. 470 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,440 John Fairbanks was settling my uncle's estate. 471 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,280 And then, of course, I had the estate 472 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,280 and I had an income tax to do. 473 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,960 I knew him, so I went back to him for income taxes. 474 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,040 And I went to him every year for doing my income tax. 475 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:12,280 Patricia Sawyer had been coming to the judge for advice 476 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,320 since 1958. 477 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,000 In August of 1987, she agreed to turn over her stock 478 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:23,320 certificates to Fairbanks so he could inventory her holdings. 479 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,320 He called me on the phone and asked about my getting. 480 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,120 Could I get the stocks that day? 481 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:31,440 I'll take that, Patricia. 482 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,440 Judge Fairbanks and I had talked about doing an estate plan 483 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,440 and changing my will, so many people had doubted. 484 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,840 Have you just laid all that out on my desk? 485 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,440 When we got to Judge Fairbanks' office, 486 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,080 he said he would inventory them, and he would let me know 487 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,160 how much they were worth, and we would get together and make 488 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,560 the will. 489 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,520 Now, let's see what we have here. 490 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:56,800 Is this everything, Patricia? 491 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:57,960 This is everything. 492 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:58,860 You're sure? 493 00:26:58,860 --> 00:26:59,760 Yes. 494 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,360 Your uncle didn't have any deposits in any other banks. 495 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:03,360 No. 496 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:09,360 But he never got back to me, and I prodded John a few times, 497 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,320 but he was awful busy, and he hadn't got to it. 498 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,760 And then we'll be able to plan the estate. 499 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,360 Patricia, you don't have any idea how much this is worth. 500 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:19,360 I have no idea. 501 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:20,360 All right. 502 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,320 There. 503 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,320 October 12, 1987, Black Monday, August 19, 1987. 504 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,120 Black Monday on Wall Street. 505 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,320 The repercussions were felt worldwide, even in Judge 506 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,560 Fairbanks' courtroom. 507 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,960 How fast were you going? 508 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,400 60. 509 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,720 How do you know you were going 60? 510 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,720 Well, I almost never could. 511 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,520 We'll take a brief recess. 512 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,000 All rise, please. 513 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,800 The stock market crash, I remember very, very well. 514 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,760 It was the judge's 65th birthday. 515 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,120 He made a couple comments about turning 65 516 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:04,640 as just wonderful stock market crashes on your 65th birthday. 517 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,520 The secret of a stock market crash is not to panic. 518 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,440 Hello, Ed. 519 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,440 Now, what's the problem? 520 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,000 He said if he panicked, that he would lose over $3 million 521 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:19,900 in the crash. 522 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:20,960 Well, the transfer is on one of the other accounts. 523 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,720 But that he wasn't going to panic. 524 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,560 He made it through court real quick. 525 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:26,440 And left the building. 526 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,600 But I was real concerned about him. 527 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,200 His mannerisms were different. 528 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,440 He was very, very withdrawn that day. 529 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,480 John, when am I going to be getting some dividends? 530 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,760 Within a month, the effects of the crash 531 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,000 had trickled down to Patricia Sawyer. 532 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,560 I asked him why I wasn't getting dividend checks. 533 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,440 And he said that due to the stock market crash, 534 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,040 my stocks had gone down. 535 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,920 And he was turning the dividends back 536 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,520 in to bring the stocks up to where they were before the crash. 537 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,920 Before the drop in the stock market. 538 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:02,000 And I believed that. 539 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,200 I called Fairbanks in the spring of 88 540 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,360 because I had not been receiving accountings. 541 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,920 And it was at that time that he told me 542 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,800 that he had been spending my brother's principal. 543 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,840 John Tweedy had engaged Fairbanks as legal guardian 544 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,840 for his brother Richard after their mother died. 545 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,800 Richard Tweedy is a schizophrenic 546 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,040 who has been institutionalized in a New Hampshire 547 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,240 hospital for more than 40 years. 548 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,280 In November of 1988, John Tweedy insisted 549 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,320 that Fairbanks meet him face to face 550 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,920 to discuss concerns about his brother's holdings. 551 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,560 John, how are you? 552 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,480 How are you, John? 553 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:43,360 Good to see you. 554 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,260 I like you on it. 555 00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:45,160 I brought the account. 556 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:45,960 Well, very good. 557 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:46,960 I'm glad you did. 558 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,040 I had certain questions to ask him about the estate. 559 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,920 I mean, there was retoric in his response, 560 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,200 but he didn't answer the questions. 561 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,800 Don't worry about that, John. 562 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,880 Here, I want you to take a look at this. 563 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,160 I will. 564 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,080 Maybe you can answer something else. 565 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,160 When did my brother's estate go into the red? 566 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,880 Well, John, I haven't got all those figures up here in my head. 567 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,920 But you come back to my office later in the week, 568 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,680 and I'll lay it all out for you. 569 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,840 It was at that time I found out that 75% of my brother's money 570 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,320 was gone. 571 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,120 Why didn't you inform me when his estate went into the red? 572 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,000 Oh, John, I tried to, but you're a hard man to find. 573 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,600 Now, look, I've got another appointment. 574 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,040 You come in later in the week, and we'll take care of everything. 575 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:28,920 See you later, John. 576 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:29,920 OK, John. 577 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:30,820 Take care. 578 00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:34,840 Well, if my brother's estate was in the red, 579 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,280 and he knew my brother's equity in the real estate, 580 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,880 if he was going to really take care of my brother's affairs, 581 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,280 he would have notified me at that time and said, 582 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,160 we have to sell some land. 583 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,800 But he didn't. 584 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,480 Why didn't he? 585 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,280 Well, of course, I was to find out why he didn't. 586 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,160 John Tweedy refused to accept the judge's explanations 587 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,000 about his brother's estate and began his own investigation. 588 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,440 I found that he had sold stock, and he had underreported 589 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,760 what he had gotten for the stock. 590 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,720 He had underreported what he had gotten for dividends. 591 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,800 And after a couple of weeks of this, 592 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,440 I came up with $20,000 that was missing. 593 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,400 It turned out that was only a part of what was missing, 594 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,880 but that was all I could determine from public records. 595 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,560 And it was at that point I realized that, well, 596 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,520 he was embezzling. 597 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,800 And I've been raised to believe that when 598 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,200 you see a crime committed, you call the cops. 599 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,800 So I called the cops. 600 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:40,120 We drove over to look at Fairbanks' house here in Newport. 601 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,640 And we saw the house, and we felt, gee, 602 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,200 that's got to be $500,000. 603 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,120 We were aware that he had a home in a gunquit main, which 604 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,080 is a pretty expensive area to live. 605 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,680 Right on the ocean, it was worth $600,000 to $700,000. 606 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,360 And we looked at each other and said, this guy's a thief. 607 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,600 Judge Fairbanks' house of cards was tumbling down. 608 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,720 On June 6, 1989, he resigned from the bench 609 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,720 and retreated to his summer home in Maine. 610 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,160 When John Tweedy's charges were made public, 611 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,640 other disgruntled clients began to come forward 612 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,760 with their suspicions. 613 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,480 I had no idea that he was doing anything 614 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:25,680 underhandedly until all this came out that morning. 615 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,280 Judge Fairbanks had taken several other people, 616 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,640 not only my account, but others in town. 617 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,000 I wasn't the only one. 618 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,720 He put these stocks into this stock mortgage firm 619 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,000 as my agent. 620 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,360 And I had never signed any papers, given him any authority. 621 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,400 I had never signed my name on the certificates. 622 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,280 He had done that illegally. 623 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,600 Fairbanks had, in my opinion, had been doing this for so long 624 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,200 that he had sort of milked dry most of the accounts 625 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,360 that he had been stealing from. 626 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,640 And along came Patricia Soria, who 627 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:11,320 had almost $1 million in assets that he got in his hands. 628 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,120 And it was like a gold mine. 629 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,560 And he pounced on it. 630 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,680 Authorities now suspect that over a 20-year period, 631 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,280 Fairbanks may have stolen more than $10 million. 632 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,600 As the investigation reached its climax, 633 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,760 Judge Fairbanks spoke with Tom Hannigan 634 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,800 from his home in Maine. 635 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,320 I told him that all I wanted to do 636 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,680 was to have him produce documents which 637 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:43,480 would show that his accounting was true and correct. 638 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,240 Look, let's keep this as quiet as possible. 639 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,920 I don't want this to become a big thing. 640 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,880 We agreed to a meeting. 641 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,440 And then he called me maybe a week before the meeting 642 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,720 and said that he had a postponement. 643 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,120 And I said, OK. 644 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,360 And we set another date. 645 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,920 And then when the next date came up, 646 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,840 I came over to Newport, New Hampshire 647 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,560 to interview Fairbanks. 648 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,600 And he wasn't there. 649 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,760 Finally, in December 28, 1989, the judge 650 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,600 was indicted on four counts of theft. 651 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,960 The indictments listed more than 100 checks 652 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,400 written by Fairbanks, which transferred money 653 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,440 from client accounts to Fairbanks' personal accounts. 654 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:25,600 Keep our change. 655 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,000 Keep our change. 656 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,400 The next day, Fairbanks' pickup truck 657 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,480 was found abandoned near his house in Maine. 658 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,800 The judge had disappeared and has not been seen since. 659 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,360 This has affected my life to the fact 660 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,120 that I wonder what I'm going to do. 661 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,400 And I'm going to have to sell land, maybe sell the farm. 662 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,640 And the farm has been in my family 663 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,200 since the original settlers came from Massachusetts 664 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,600 with the Roth steams. 665 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,280 Well, I was in total shock. 666 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,920 Still don't think I've come out of it. 667 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,360 I just can't believe anyone could do such a thing. 668 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,720 He had a double life. 669 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:08,240 He had two totally separated lives. 670 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:10,080 And one of them was fine. 671 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,160 You know, one of them was a man of great integrity, 672 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,400 respected by the community. 673 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,880 And the other one was, well, classical. 674 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,400 You know, he was into all sorts of things, 675 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,640 which are very shaky, very shady, and quite immoral. 676 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:30,720 And very few, if anybody, knew the two existed. 677 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:53,640 Next, the search for a set of twins 678 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,160 who were separated from their family 679 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,360 just after they were born. 680 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:10,920 Growing up in the 50s in Red Hill, Alabama, 681 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,840 life was slow and easy. 682 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,400 Every day seemed pretty much like another. 683 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,920 But when Sue Scribner, the fifth of 10 children, 684 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:24,560 was 13 years old, one day held an extraordinary surprise. 685 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,120 I'll never forget the day I came home from church. 686 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:32,280 It was January 1957. 687 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,400 My mother was alone in the house, which was unusual, 688 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,120 because the kids usually were all around. 689 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:48,760 She had written two names all over the newspaper. 690 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:53,040 So I asked her about that. 691 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,920 She just said she had seen the names, 692 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,160 and she was writing it. 693 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,320 Yeah, just a little. 694 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,520 When I asked her why she had been crying, 695 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,680 she told me about having a boy and a girl twin 696 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:08,880 that had been adopted. 697 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,120 It's time I told you. 698 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:11,680 Tell me what? 699 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,920 I was really surprised, because I was 13. 700 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,880 And it's a shock to find out that you have a brother 701 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,920 and sister that you didn't know about, 702 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:25,120 especially when you already have so many brothers and sisters. 703 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:32,120 Two years before you were born, I gave premature birth 704 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:36,120 to two twins, boy and a girl. 705 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:40,120 Sue's mother, Callista, began to unburden herself. 706 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,120 It had all begun in Winter Garden, Florida, 707 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,120 at Orange County General Hospital. 708 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,120 Slim, hurry. 709 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,120 OK, OK, honey. 710 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,120 Hurry, Slim. 711 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,120 In January 1942, Callista went into labor 712 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,120 nearly two months early. 713 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,120 She and Sue's father, Slim Scribner, 714 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,120 were frantic when they arrived at the emergency room. 715 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,120 I love the doctor with the ingestimate. 716 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,120 Excuse me, but could somebody please help me? 717 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,120 My wife's going into premature labor. 718 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,120 Oh, your doctor's name? 719 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,120 Dr. Harder. 720 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,120 Dr. Harder. 721 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,120 Orderly, we need a wheelchair here right away. 722 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,120 Please take her to delivery. 723 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,120 Let me call Dr. Harder. 724 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,120 The twins were born a short time later. 725 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,120 Callista and Slim named them Paul and Paula 726 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,120 after their doctor, Paul Harder. 727 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,120 But they're so small and premature. 728 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,120 We have some serious health problems. 729 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,120 We have a heart condition and a blood disorder. 730 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,120 Are they going to be OK, doctor? 731 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,120 Well, we think so. 732 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:38,120 But they will require a great deal of medical attention. 733 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,120 I asked my mother why they were adopted, 734 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,120 and she said that they needed some sort of surgery 735 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:50,120 for a congenital heart disease or a heart problem, 736 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:55,120 and that they couldn't afford that. 737 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,120 I know it's a difficult decision, 738 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,120 but it's the best choice for everyone. 739 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:05,120 She said that Dr. Harder knew someone perfect 740 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,120 to adopt the twins, 741 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:14,120 and that they would be able to pay for the medical expenses. 742 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,120 Thank you so much. 743 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,120 You're welcome. 744 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,120 I really appreciate everything. 745 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,120 The twins being adopted, it just stayed with her forever. 746 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,120 She never got over it. 747 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,120 Before Callista's criminal left the hospital, 748 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,120 she made a solemn promise to Dr. Harder 749 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,120 that she would never search for the twins. 750 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,120 In 1944, she and Slim were divorced. 751 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,120 Callista remarried, with her new husband 752 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,120 eventually raised 10 children. 753 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,120 After Callista's death in 1979, 754 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,120 her daughter Sue enlisted the entire family 755 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,120 to look for the twins. 756 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,120 But the search went nowhere. 757 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,120 Both Dr. Harder and Sue's father were dead, 758 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,120 and the hospital records sealed. 759 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:04,120 Then a rusty trunk in an attic finally yielded a clue. 760 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,120 In 1987, one of Sue's cousins found a letter 761 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,120 which Callista's scraper had written to her mother 762 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,120 a short time after the twins were born. 763 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,120 Sue's cousin was surprised that the letter 764 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,120 never mentioned adoption. 765 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,120 In fact, it seemed that Callista had every intention 766 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,120 of bringing the twins home. 767 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,120 The babies are still improving. 768 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,120 The first time they weighed them at the Orange General, 769 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,120 Paula weighed two and three-fourths pounds 770 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,120 and Paul two and a half pounds. 771 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,120 They told us three days before yesterday 772 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,120 that they weighed three pounds, 14 ounces, 773 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,120 and three pounds, 11 ounces. 774 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,120 So they're gaining right along, 775 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,120 and also said they might be able to bring them home 776 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,120 by the first of next week. 777 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,120 When I read the letter that mother wrote, 778 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:56,120 it was almost exactly like she had told me in 1957. 779 00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:01,120 The only thing that the letter didn't clear up 780 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,120 was why the twins were adopted. 781 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,120 Because she, from the letter, 782 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,120 you can tell that she did not intend for them to be adopted. 783 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,120 The discovery of Callista's letter 784 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,120 sparked new interest in the twins. 785 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,120 Several newspaper articles followed, 786 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,120 and one of them paid off. 787 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,120 Hello? 788 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,120 In May of 1990, one of Sue's nieces, 789 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,120 who lives in Mobile, Alabama, 790 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,120 received an anonymous phone call. 791 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,120 Okay. 792 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,120 The twins are fine. 793 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,120 I know the family. 794 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,120 They don't know they're adopted. 795 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,120 The callers seemed elderly and very emotional. 796 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,120 She said she knew her Paul and Paula were. 797 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,120 The caller refused to divulge a relationship with the twins, 798 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,120 but did say that she planned to tell them 799 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,120 they were adopted on Mother's Day. 800 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,120 Mother's Day? 801 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,120 I'm going to try and tell them the whole truth. 802 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,120 You'll be hearing from me in a couple of weeks, 803 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,120 or else the twins will contact you directly. 804 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,120 That's all. 805 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,120 I called everybody in the family, 806 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:10,120 and this is it. 807 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,120 We found the twins. 808 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,120 You know, we're going to hear from them, 809 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,120 or, you know, whoever the lady was, that called. 810 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,120 And counting the days, 811 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,120 and when the day came Sunday, 812 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,120 counting the hour, when, and I would not leave home. 813 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,120 But nothing ever happened. 814 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,120 As a last resort, Sue wrote an open letter to the twins, 815 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,120 which was published both in Florida 816 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,120 and in Louisiana newspapers. 817 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,120 And so elusive twins, I still search. 818 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,120 I write letters. 819 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,120 I stare at strangers with hazel eyes and fair skin. 820 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,120 Yet should my efforts end in emptiness, 821 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,120 my voice in oblivion, I must tell you this. 822 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,120 I have not failed so completely, 823 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,120 for I've already found you once, years ago, 824 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,120 chasmed in that deep indelible well, 825 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,120 that safe place, our Mother's Heart. 826 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,120 Ten days after we featured this story, 827 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,120 Sue Scribner received an anonymous call 828 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,120 from one of our viewers, 829 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,120 who told her that the twins were living in Orlando, Florida. 830 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,120 Sue immediately contacted her brother and sister, 831 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,120 whose names are Bruce and Barbara. 832 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,120 The twins had no idea that they had been adopted, 833 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,120 and were shocked to learn about a sight of their family 834 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,120 they never knew existed. 835 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,120 On March 15, 1992, 836 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,120 Sue Scribner met her brother and sister 837 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,120 for the first time in her life. 838 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,120 The joyous reunion brought together 839 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,120 six of the Scribner children and their families. 840 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,120 The very first time I met them, 841 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,120 I think all of our knees were shaking. 842 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,120 It is emotional, 843 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,120 but I think we've all cried enough tears 844 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,120 and we didn't need a lot today. 845 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,120 I think that my newfound family is wonderful. 846 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,120 I think they're absolutely adorable. 847 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,120 It's like we've known each other all of our lives, 848 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,120 even though we haven't been around each other more than five hours. 849 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,120 I can't wait to get to know them. 850 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,120 I'm really very excited about it. 851 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,120 You have all these questions in your mind. 852 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,120 Gee, what did I miss out on all these years? 853 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,120 What they really like is kids. 854 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,120 I think everybody's going to get to know each other 855 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,120 on both sides of the family. 856 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,120 And for country bunkers like we are, 857 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,120 it's like a blessing. 858 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,120 It doesn't really matter now 859 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,120 what kind of life any of us had, 860 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,120 because it's what's left that counts. 861 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,120 We know where all of the children are now. 862 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:15,120 == 863 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,120 Join me next time 864 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,120 for another edition 865 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,120 Unsolved Mysteries...