1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,600
This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members

2
00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,680
and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about

3
00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,120
to see is not a news broadcast.

4
00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:26,880
On the eve of Halloween, two intriguing ghost stories on unsolved mysteries. In its heyday,

5
00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,640
the old St. James Hotel in New Mexico was host to a long list of legendary gunslingers

6
00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:38,000
and outlaws. Today, employees report different kinds of guests, unearthly visitors that never

7
00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,920
check out. For years, June Farris dreamed of a strange house that she had never seen

8
00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,960
or even been in. Later, she found herself living in that same house for years before

9
00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,680
the previous owner had been murdered. She and her family believe that his spirit is

10
00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,960
still there. We have also profiled the patling case of Mary Ann Perez, who vanished without

11
00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:06,640
a trace in 1976. Fifteen years later, an anonymous caller contacted her family, claiming

12
00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:13,160
that not only was Mary Ann still alive, but she was being held captive against her will.

13
00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,920
And authorities need your help to track down a clever and corpulent con man who masquerades

14
00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:23,360
as a bona fide physician and hoodwinks even the most sophisticated of victims. Call him

15
00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:30,640
Dr. Fraud. Join me. Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery, or perhaps you may

16
00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,880
encounter one that simply cannot be explained.

17
00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:28,960
Tomorrow brings a one night each year, which seems to bring out the wide-eyed child in all of us,

18
00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:35,760
Halloween. As darkness falls, our imaginations take flight. Houses begin to whisper in creek,

19
00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:42,240
shadows come to life, the sky fills with ghosts and goblins. But in Simeron, New Mexico, Halloween

20
00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:48,880
is an everyday occurrence at the old St. James Hotel, which some say is haunted by the spirits of the Wild West.

21
00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:59,200
When I bought the hotel, I didn't believe in ghosts at all. Now, after the convincing evidence of

22
00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:06,320
the last five years, I'm certain that there are ghosts here. They are indeed real to me.

23
00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,480
They are not something that I've made up. They are indeed in this hotel.

24
00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,720
The ghosts are here. Are they haunting it? No, I think they're just living here.

25
00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:25,760
There are places where the emotions have been very strong, and it's something like the energy gets

26
00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,120
captured or caught, and this hotel is certainly one of them.

27
00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:41,360
In its heyday, the St. James Hotel offered good food, attractive dancing girls, and comfortable

28
00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:49,520
beds for such wild and wooly guests as Jesse James, Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, Doc Holliday,

29
00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:56,800
and Wyatt Earp. But as the glory days of the Old West faded, the hotel fell into disrepair.

30
00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,440
In 1985, Ed Sitzberger and his wife Pat purchased the St. James.

31
00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,120
They plan to bring the Old Hotel back to life.

32
00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,320
The Sitzberger soon discovered that the St. James had a life of its own.

33
00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:33,360
I wanted to see how many leaks were in the Old Hotel, and so I got my friend to come with me and

34
00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:39,840
to go through the hotel with her flashlight. We finished doing all the checking and put out

35
00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:44,080
some buckets here and there because we did have some leaks, and then we turned the chandelier off,

36
00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:50,240
and then went downstairs and out the hotel, and for some reason I turned back up and looked back

37
00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:57,440
up to the second story, and the chandelier was on. I can't believe it. I gotta go back now.

38
00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:03,760
I'm sure I turned this off.

39
00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,920
When we got out and it locked the door, we looked back up again, and the light was again on.

40
00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:19,360
So we went through the hotel again and turned the chandelier off and came back down the stairs

41
00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,880
and out again, locked the door, looked back up, and it was on.

42
00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:29,680
The last time we went up, we went down the hall and I turned back to John and I said,

43
00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,320
well, the former owners had told us about some things that had happened previously in the hotel.

44
00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:39,680
Let me just try something. And so before I turned the chandelier off this time, I said,

45
00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:47,120
I don't know who you are or why you're here, but I'm tired and I really don't want to play tonight.

46
00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,080
I'm glad you're here, but could we please play another day?

47
00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:56,080
And at that point, I pulled the cord on the chandelier and heard a click and returned around

48
00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,080
and went back down the stairs, and I looked up and indeed the light had stayed off.

49
00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,080
Right.

50
00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,080
First, I thought maybe it was an electrical problem because it's an old hotel, but

51
00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:14,080
after doing it three or four times, it couldn't have been. And I could hear it shut off.

52
00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:24,080
And the three times that I shut off, the click of the switch. And so there was no reason for it coming back on.

53
00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,080
According to the Sitzburgers, the hotel is haunted top to bottom.

54
00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:42,080
Guests in Room 17 have reported a persistent eerie tapping noise whenever the window is open.

55
00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:50,080
Music

56
00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,080
In the kitchen, the cook has witnessed several bizarre occurrences.

57
00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:08,080
And in May of 1988, Charlie Varela, a local high school student, was cleaning the bar at 5 a.m.

58
00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,080
Charlie thought he was alone.

59
00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:18,080
It was kind of dark in there, and I was going to the back to get some liners for the trash.

60
00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:26,080
And I was going back to it. I just glanced over to the bar, and I just, I seen a little boy sitting on the bar and spinning the glass.

61
00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:32,080
You can hear it on the table. Just spinning, just perfectly spinning.

62
00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:38,080
At first, you know, I thought it was a little boy from, you know, up and upstairs, and he was just down messing around, you know.

63
00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:44,080
Excuse me, you're not supposed to be in here. But when I went to make the move to tell him, he turned around.

64
00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:54,080
His face was hideous, and he just jumped off. He just scared me, and I just...

65
00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:02,080
I quit that morning, and I just, when I seen that, I scared me, and I didn't want to work here anymore.

66
00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:12,080
Dr. Kenneth Wright, a surgeon and amateur ghost hunter, heard about the spirits at the St. James and came to investigate.

67
00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,080
Let's go inside.

68
00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:28,080
When Dr. Wright asked me to go into room 18, I was a little skeptical, because I had been in there many times before, and had felt the chilliness and the negativeness in there.

69
00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:37,080
The room was cold, and when I looked up in the upper left-hand corner, there was a whirling that was going on in the corner.

70
00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,080
You couldn't see the corner of the room. It was like a white swirl.

71
00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:47,080
There was this anger and hatred, and instantly I was filled with terror.

72
00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:52,080
I was gasping for breath because I had not expected it, did not encounter it.

73
00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:57,080
I've never been that terrified in my life, and as this was happening to me,

74
00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,080
I heard Pat saying,

75
00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,080
You can go. You're free to go. You can go.

76
00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,080
I couldn't believe what was happening to me.

77
00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:18,080
I don't know what the swirling presence was. It was negative. It was cold. It felt like it was from the past.

78
00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,080
It didn't want me there. That was very obvious.

79
00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:28,080
He was angry at her because it was his place, and she was telling him that he was free to leave,

80
00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:35,080
and he was telling her, You don't tell me I am free. This is you, Aleve.

81
00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,080
Next, Ed Sitzberger contacted Jackie Littlejohn, a psychic from Albuquerque.

82
00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:49,080
Jackie claims to be able to communicate with the spirit world.

83
00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:58,080
I was able to sense physical violence, a gunshot. It was so strong, I stepped backwards.

84
00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:06,080
I could see and feel and smell, and the evidence of violence was so intense.

85
00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:13,080
During her tour of the hotel, Jackie claims she had a vision of a deadly poker game.

86
00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:24,080
The poker game had been going on for a long time, and it was a feeling that either the hotel was at stake or a very large herd.

87
00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:31,080
According to Jackie, one of the card players was a man whose ghost now inhabits room 18.

88
00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:51,080
He died of blood poisoning, very slow, very painful, very dreadful, desperate, desperate man, very fearful.

89
00:10:53,080 --> 00:11:01,080
Jackie says the dead man's name was T.J. Wright, and that he probably won the hotel in the poker game just before he was killed.

90
00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:11,080
We wanted to look back in the records and corroborate the story, so we went back and looked at the hotel register in 1881

91
00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,080
and found T.J. Wright registered three different days in 1881.

92
00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:25,080
It just is reasonable to me that he believes he owns the hotel still and wants to maintain possession, or at least live here.

93
00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:35,080
Ed Sitzberger keeps the old registry locked in a glass case, and he is certain that Jackie Little John never had access to it.

94
00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:45,080
There is, of course, no way to prove the ghost of T.J. Wright is now haunting room 18, but Ed Sitzberger is not taking any chances.

95
00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,080
There's no construction activity in that room or renovation work that's going to be done.

96
00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:55,080
That's his room, as far as I'm concerned, as a permanent resident for as long as I have the hotel.

97
00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:04,080
Is it truly possible that the St. James Hotel is haunted by the spirits of the Old West?

98
00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:16,080
The first-hand accounts you've just heard are definitely difficult to believe, but if you can offer a better explanation for what goes on in the Old Hotel,

99
00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,080
the folks at the St. James would certainly like to hear it.

100
00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:39,080
When we return, a family in Florida claims that the ghost of a murder victim has returned to haunt the scene of the crime.

101
00:12:39,080 --> 00:13:02,080
August 1968. In Richmond, Virginia, a woman named June Ferris is having a disturbing dream about a strange house she has never set foot in or even seen.

102
00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,080
The dream has plagued her for months.

103
00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:20,080
In the dream, I was in an upstairs bedroom, and I would come out of the bedroom, go out into the hallway,

104
00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:31,080
and I would turn to the right and go down the narrow staircase.

105
00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:40,080
I knew the house had a front staircase, but I never used the front staircase in the dream. It was always the back.

106
00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:51,080
And I would turn to the left and go through the kitchen, around a refrigerator and stove that rolled the one wall.

107
00:13:52,080 --> 00:14:04,080
I had a feeling of anxiety, an anxious feeling that something was going to happen that I should know about,

108
00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:12,080
and I would go out the kitchen door onto the porch, and that's where I would wake up.

109
00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:23,080
And I suppose that this dream continued maybe once a month until we moved to Orlando four years later.

110
00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:35,080
June and her family moved to Florida in 1972. Two years later, she was driving through the small town of Claremont, Florida,

111
00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,080
when she came upon a house that enchanted her.

112
00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,080
I've always liked old Victorian houses. It was such a lovely home.

113
00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,080
So I called the realtor and asked if I could go through it.

114
00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,080
This is great.

115
00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,080
However did you find this place?

116
00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,080
I just drove by in the same place right up there.

117
00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:59,080
June returned with a friend for a closer look. Once inside, June began to experience an eerie sensation.

118
00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:11,080
We went through the downstairs first and went up the front staircase, and I had a feeling of, I guess you would say, deja vu.

119
00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,080
I had definitely been here before.

120
00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,080
Oh look, more stairs. I wonder where they go.

121
00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:25,080
I know where they go. They go down, through the kitchen, past the stove and onto the back porch.

122
00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,080
How do you know that?

123
00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:31,080
I've dreamed about this house.

124
00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:36,080
So as we walked through the house, it definitely was the same house as I have the dream.

125
00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:44,080
And I knew every room in the house, every closet, where everything was, it was just a real unusual experience.

126
00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:54,080
Not scary. I didn't feel spooked. It was just a good feeling. It was a feeling like I had come home.

127
00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:02,080
In March of 1978, June and her husband and three of their children moved into the old house.

128
00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:07,080
Almost immediately odd things began to happen.

129
00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:16,080
My father had brought the boat out on the trailer and the trailer hitch was on a saw horse type stand.

130
00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:24,080
And it looked as if someone had reached over, picked the trailer hitch up and just dropped it on the ground.

131
00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:33,080
There was nobody there. I mean, it was blank space. It wasn't like it jumped off.

132
00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,080
It was like someone had actually lifted it off of the stand and dropped it.

133
00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,080
And it happened several times again afterwards.

134
00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:49,080
It was so fast that you really wanted to think to yourself, did I really see that, did that really happen?

135
00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:53,080
But it was just shock. Absolute shock.

136
00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:02,080
Over the next few years, the Pharisees were to witness more and ever stranger occurrences.

137
00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:18,080
The extraordinary became the ordinary and the family began to suspect that they were not the only ones living in the house.

138
00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:27,080
It was about 20 or 21. It was when my husband, David and I were married and we were living in my mother's house.

139
00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,080
He woke me up in the middle of the night one night.

140
00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,080
Robert.

141
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,080
What's that?

142
00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,080
Listen.

143
00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,080
It sounds like my music box is...

144
00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,080
He knew that the house was haunted and he was just terrified.

145
00:17:54,080 --> 00:18:02,080
The switches were not on. They were just wound up and they were playing. All of them were playing.

146
00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:09,080
The music box is coming on really assured me that we definitely had a ghost in that house.

147
00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:17,080
And I felt like we did before then. But it just got...it wasn't scary to me anymore. It was kind of fascinating.

148
00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:23,080
In 1985, Bob Vitter began dating June's younger daughter, Lori.

149
00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:30,080
I was a firm disbeliever in ghosts, but after everything that's happened to me in that house, there is such a thing as ghosts.

150
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,080
And there is a ghost in that house.

151
00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:38,080
A couple of nights before Halloween, Lori and I were in the parlor on the couch.

152
00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,080
And we heard the back screen door slam.

153
00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,080
What was that?

154
00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,080
It's just my mom.

155
00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:54,080
We heard something with boots come through the kitchen and walked down the hallway and stopped in the opening going into the parlor.

156
00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,080
And I had a feeling that whatever it was was standing right there watching us.

157
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:07,080
And the sound of its boots continued down the hallway and I followed it.

158
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,080
And at that point I was really very, very scared.

159
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,080
I never encountered anything like that.

160
00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,080
I was just so terrified I couldn't even move.

161
00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:36,080
By now everyone was convinced that the house was haunted. But no one had actually seen a ghost. Yet.

162
00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,080
I was walking up the stairway in the foyer of the house.

163
00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:47,080
I felt a cold chill. It's almost like when you open your freezer in the hot summertime.

164
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,080
It was very definitely a person.

165
00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:58,080
And he was very early middle age or late 30s.

166
00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:05,080
And it was just like a vapor, just like a cloud of smoke kind of, you know, it's there and then it's gone.

167
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,080
But it was very definite. It was very definitely a person.

168
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:14,080
Three months later Bob Vitter had his own ghostly encounter.

169
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:21,080
I was upstairs preparing to paint. I opened the attic door and there in front of me was a white vapor almost in the shape of a human.

170
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:27,080
And as I took another step forward this vapor came at me and it went right through me.

171
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:34,080
And I felt a cold blast of air and the musty smell that always accompanied the ghost.

172
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:39,080
And it's just as quickly as it went through me it was over.

173
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,080
In October 1985 Bob Vitter began to paint.

174
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,080
I was a little bit scared.

175
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,080
I was a little bit scared.

176
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,080
I was a little bit scared.

177
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,080
I was a little bit scared.

178
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,080
I was a little bit scared.

179
00:20:54,080 --> 00:21:00,080
In October 1985 Bob Vitter began looking into the history of the Old Mansion.

180
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:11,080
In a local library he found volumes of old newspapers and was startled to discover an account of a brutal murder in which the owner of the house was gunned down in his own backyard.

181
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,080
The victim's name was John Harden.

182
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:20,080
Bob began to believe that if there were a ghost in the house perhaps it was the ghost of John Harden.

183
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:30,080
Harden grew up in South Florida and at 18 married his high school sweetheart Rita.

184
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,080
Together they raised four children in Jacksonville Florida.

185
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,080
Every moment with him was wonderful.

186
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,080
He was a good person.

187
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,080
He was always caring not only about his family but his friends.

188
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:49,080
You know everybody he was always concerned about everyone around him everyone that touched his life.

189
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:57,080
But after 14 years of marriage John Harden dropped a bombshell on his wife.

190
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,080
He came in from work one afternoon.

191
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:00,080
I love you you know that.

192
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,080
Put his arms around me.

193
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,080
I do.

194
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,080
He said I love you.

195
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,080
I have to go away.

196
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,080
What do you mean?

197
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,080
I have to leave for a while.

198
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,080
He said I have some problems.

199
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,080
I want to get myself together I'll be home.

200
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,080
They never came home.

201
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,080
Good morning.

202
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,080
Good morning.

203
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,080
Are you the owner?

204
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,080
Yes I am.

205
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,080
About a year and a half later Harden remarried.

206
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:34,080
He and his second wife moved to Claremont where they purchased the old Victorian mansion.

207
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:42,080
Nine months later John Harden awoke to a disturbance outside of his bedroom window.

208
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,080
Harden's pickup truck was engulfed in flames.

209
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:02,080
It was later determined that the fire had been deliberately set.

210
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,080
Harden lay mortally wounded.

211
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,080
Shot once in the chest with a single barrel shotgun.

212
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,080
He died less than an hour later.

213
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,080
No one was ever arrested in connection with the shooting.

214
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:32,080
Had there been a motive you know we could have proceeded with the case investigation a lot better.

215
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:40,080
There was several things that was brought to our attention but they was never a firm motive established.

216
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:49,080
We had absolutely nothing after three and a half months of a great deal of travel and interviewing literally hundreds of witnesses.

217
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,080
We didn't have any more at the end of the three and a half months and we hadn't only started.

218
00:23:53,080 --> 00:24:01,080
On a scale of one to ten difficulty of solving a crime this is probably about as close to a ten as I've ever seen.

219
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,080
Could John Harden's spirit possibly be haunting his former residents?

220
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,080
There do seem to be amazing similarities between the ghost and the man himself.

221
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:19,080
According to his first wife Harden was a loving and overly protective parent.

222
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:24,080
When our children were little Johnny would be very concerned about them.

223
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:35,080
Always going to the other room to check them just to be sure they were okay, to be sure they weren't you know wrapped up in the covers or you know always wanting to be sure that they were all right.

224
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:41,080
Very concerned about them always even as they got older was always concerned.

225
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:50,080
The Pharisees believe that the spirit in their house has this same nurturing attitude.

226
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:57,080
Apparently he was very fond of children and babies because my grandson had an experience with him.

227
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:05,080
He would wake up and see this man standing over his bed and of course that would scare the bejeebers out of me and I'm sure it did him.

228
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,080
Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!

229
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:23,080
And it happened several times until Robin went into the room one night before Raymond went to sleep and she spoke to the ghost and she said please do not come back in this room anymore and please leave Raymond alone.

230
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:29,080
And after that he didn't come back or at least if he did Raymond didn't wake up.

231
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:40,080
When June Ferris learned the details of John Harden's life and death she recognized a startling connection with a dream which had plagued her for years.

232
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:57,080
When I first learned that John Harden came down the back stairs into the kitchen and out the back door which was the same path that I took in my dreams I felt like there was something there that I should know.

233
00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:09,080
Maybe if the dream had continued I would have learned something that there was a link and in some way he's trying to tell us what happened to him and even help us find the killer.

234
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:20,080
I think that he haunts to try to make a point to people that hey I'm here and I can't go anywhere until this is taken care of.

235
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:36,080
In 1990 the Ferris has moved out of the old mansion. The new owners also tell haunting tales of a restless spirit roaming the hallways each night.

236
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:50,080
Curiously when we filmed at the old Victorian house in Claremont a production crew encountered a number of unusual difficulties. Lights flickered on and off for no apparent reason.

237
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:59,080
Equipment failed. Doors opened on their own. And a window in the attic shattered. The cause unknown.

238
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Perhaps it was just coincidence. Perhaps it was the spirit of John Harden unable to rest until justice is served.

239
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:15,080
And the final footnote to this story is up to give anyone pause. The investigation into the murder of John Harden has now been reopened.

240
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:25,080
Next an anonymous phone call rekindles a case of a woman who disappeared in 1976.

241
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:38,080
Donna. I gotta get going, Dolan.

242
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:47,080
On March 25th, 1976 Mary Ann Perez and Chalmet Louisiana said goodbye to her teenage daughter Donna.

243
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,080
And would you put everything in the fridge when you're done?

244
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:57,080
Donna had agreed to babysit her younger brothers and sisters so Mary Ann could go out with one of her girlfriends.

245
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,080
I love you. I'm gonna call and check up on y'all. Lock the doors.

246
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:06,080
She told Donna that she would be calling to check on us about 10, 11 o'clock.

247
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:15,080
And Donna said she got a phone call from Mama first. State Mama said that she was okay. She'd be home shortly.

248
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:23,080
And then about 1.30 in the morning Donna said she got a phone call from a woman by the name of Dorothy.

249
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,080
Hello?

250
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:32,080
Hi, my name's Dorothy and I'm a friend of your mama's. I'm calling to let you know she's having car trouble so she'll be a little late getting home tonight.

251
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,080
Is she okay?

252
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,080
She'll be fine. She'll be home soon. Bye.

253
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,080
Hello? Hello?

254
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:51,080
When I heard about the call and heard the name Dorothy, I couldn't imagine who in the world that could have been.

255
00:28:51,080 --> 00:29:01,080
I knew there was something wrong somewhere. The car being practically new and no reason for car trouble.

256
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,080
Mary Ann Perez never called and never came home.

257
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:11,080
Her family soon discovered that she had gone to meet her friend at a country western club in the outskirts of New Orleans.

258
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,080
Cold beer.

259
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:18,080
The next morning Mary Ann's car was found parked in front of the club.

260
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:23,080
When the New Orleans police suspected the vehicle they saw no evidence of car trouble.

261
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:29,080
The automobile was in perfect running condition.

262
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:36,080
Three days later Mary Ann's purse, weighted down with a brick, was found on Lake Poncha train 10 miles away.

263
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:42,080
There was no trace of Mary Ann Perez.

264
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:47,080
Nine years passed and Mary Ann's family waited not knowing whether she was dead or alive.

265
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:55,080
Then in 1985 the New Orleans police department dispatched a detective to Wichita, Kansas to question a man named David Courtney.

266
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,080
Courtney along with his wife had confessed to a multi-state killing spree.

267
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:05,080
One of their victims seemed to have a lot in common with Mary Ann Perez.

268
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:12,080
I was going to this bar for a drink and I saw this woman and she was heading for her car in the parking lot.

269
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,080
She looked a little tipsy.

270
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:19,080
When I went up to Kansas to interview David Courtney, he told me about the female he abducted in New Orleans.

271
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:25,080
He stated that he was driving down the highway and pulling a parking lot on the country western bar.

272
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,080
Whoa.

273
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,080
Hey, you okay?

274
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,080
Yeah, I'm okay. Thank you.

275
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:40,080
Um, yeah, I drive that car, are you?

276
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,080
I got it. I got to get home to my kids.

277
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:47,080
Well, look, why don't you let my wife and I take you home? She's right up the road here and picking up from work.

278
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,080
I can't. I can't ask you to do that. I'll live all the way in Chalmette.

279
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,080
Chalmette's no problem for us. We live in Chalmette. It's on the way there.

280
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,080
You don't mind?

281
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,080
No problem at all, you know. I feel guilty if I left you here in the shape you're in. Come on in.

282
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,080
Probably should.

283
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,080
So what's your name?

284
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,080
Mary Ann.

285
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,080
I'm David.

286
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,080
Did you pick your wife up?

287
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:13,080
Yeah, and we took her straight to our trailer.

288
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,080
After you got to the trailer, did y'all have sexual advances toward this one?

289
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:26,080
He stated that this female fell asleep on a chair in the trailer and there were some sexual advancements by David Courtney's wife,

290
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:31,080
which woke this female up and she became disturbed and irate and upset about what was going on.

291
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,080
And they agreed to give her a ride home at that time.

292
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:43,080
David Courtney stated that his wife drove and he sat in the back seat with her intended victim.

293
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:48,080
You know, we're just taking your back and it's all over here. That's all.

294
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,080
No problem at all.

295
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,080
This is your road, right?

296
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,080
Well, you can see it.

297
00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:01,080
Courtney said he had already killed once and he and his wife were afraid that this woman would go to the police if they let her live.

298
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,080
This is not his place.

299
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,080
This is it?

300
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,080
You know, hey baby, we're going on a ride home.

301
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,080
This is not the way to home.

302
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,080
Come on.

303
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:27,080
According to David Courtney, he and his wife dumped their victim near the Louisiana, Mississippi state line.

304
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,080
Come on.

305
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,080
They made absolutely no attempt to hide the body.

306
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,080
I got her.

307
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:40,080
Detective Lambert was becoming more and more certain that the Courtney's victim had indeed been Mary Ann Perez.

308
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,080
Come on, let's get out of here.

309
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:49,080
I'm going to show you a photograph and I want you to take a look at it and see whether or not you can identify this person.

310
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:55,080
Um, could be. Yeah, it kind of looks like her. A little bit heavy, but I can't be 100% sure of it.

311
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,080
Yeah, I think so, maybe.

312
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,080
I'm going to show you a smaller photograph and I want you to look at it and see if you recognize anything in that photograph.

313
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,080
Well, yeah, that's her car. It's green. Definitely.

314
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,080
Uh-huh.

315
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,080
Yeah, that's her car.

316
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:19,080
Detective Lambert next question Courtney's wife, specifically about Mary Ann's purse.

317
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,080
I spoke with your attorney last night, to my understanding that you don't wish to...

318
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:32,080
...if the female abducted had a purse and she said yes, that she threw it over the side of a bridge that they were crossing at the time.

319
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:42,080
My daddy came into the room and he got us all together and he said, um, he said to us, he said, Mama is dead.

320
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:48,080
He said they found the people that did it and she's dead, she's gone.

321
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:56,080
And it just tore us up because we had a lot of hope until that.

322
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,080
Get her out quick. I've got it.

323
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,080
Based on Courtney's statement, an extensive search was conducted.

324
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:10,080
A body was not recovered, even though all of Courtney's other victims had been found where he said they would be.

325
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:16,080
Courtney's were never charged with Mary Ann's murder.

326
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:22,080
The slim hope that she was alive continued to flicker.

327
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:28,080
Then in 1990, the case of Mary Ann Perez was resurrected once more.

328
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:39,080
15 years after Mary Ann's disappearance, the wife of her oldest son, Elwood, received a phone call from a woman who claimed to be Mary Ann's best friend.

329
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:47,080
She asked to speak with Elwood and he wasn't home and I didn't want to tell the stranger that my husband wasn't home.

330
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:52,080
She asked to speak with Elwood again and I said, well, if you're not going to tell me who you are, I'm not going to let you speak with him.

331
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:57,080
And she said, well, it's about Mary Ann and I said, what about Miss Mary Ann?

332
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,080
And she said, well, Miss Mary Ann is still alive.

333
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:07,080
I'm calling for Mary Ann because they won't let her call. Mary Ann can't remember the look. Do you have Donna's number?

334
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,080
No, I don't know Donna's number but I'm sure she'll remember Donna's number.

335
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:15,080
The caller was emphatic. She would not be able to telephone again. Like Mary Ann, she was not allowed.

336
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:20,080
I'm telling you Mary Ann is still alive. I don't understand why you don't want to help her.

337
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:27,080
That caused me to think, you know, more positive that she was alive.

338
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:32,080
And of course, there was a statement made that it's possibly a prank call. I don't know.

339
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:37,080
But I do know that if she is alive, I'd like to see her, you know, and I'd like to find her.

340
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:42,080
And I feel that I'm speaking for my family and her family, her children, her husband.

341
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,080
We'd all like to have her come home.

342
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:53,080
The authorities believe it is almost impossible that Mary Ann Perez might still be alive.

343
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:59,080
However, Mary Ann's family clings to the fragile hope that David Courtney, who admits he was drunk at the time,

344
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,080
did not succeed in his attempt to strike her.

345
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:13,080
He murdered several other people and their bodies were found.

346
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:23,080
So that gives us some hope that maybe he might have strangled her unconscious, thinking that she was dead and threw her out.

347
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:30,080
Maybe she had amnesia or something like that, or maybe some of the brain cells were, you know, destroyed.

348
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:38,080
And she can't remember who she is or what she was and coming to sometime after the court and is left and just wondered out.

349
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:49,080
Maybe she got up several hours later. Maybe there's a possibility, a slight possibility that she is somewhere out there.

350
00:36:54,080 --> 00:37:01,080
Did Mary Ann Perez miraculously survive the victim of amnesia? Or did David Courtney kill her?

351
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:07,080
Courtney is currently serving a life sentence for the confessed murder of one of his other victims.

352
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:14,080
One day I think that he did do it, and another day I think I don't know what happened to her.

353
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:20,080
The fact is she's gone and has been gone for 15 years. Whether she's dead or alive, I don't know.

354
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:28,080
We love her. We miss her and we want her back. That's all we want.

355
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:36,080
And if she's gone, we still want a graveside to go put flowers on.

356
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,080
For 15 long years, Mary Ann Perez's family has watched and waited.

357
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:49,080
They are anxious for any news of Mary Ann, but they especially hope the woman who telephoned Sean Perez will call again.

358
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,080
Mary Ann's family members want the caller to know how eager they are to cooperate.

359
00:37:54,080 --> 00:38:01,080
Each of them holds onto the hope, however illusory, that one day Mary Ann will come home.

360
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:12,080
Mary Ann Perez has reddish brown hair and blue eyes. She's 5'4'' tall and at the time of her disappearance weighed 108 pounds.

361
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:18,080
This is a computer age photograph to show how Mary Ann might look today at the age of 48.

362
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:35,080
When we return, authorities need your help to track down a clever con man who operates as a doctor.

363
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:56,080
Since in Adio, Ohio, November 1986, a smooth talking con artist lays the intricate groundwork for his latest scam.

364
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,080
Mike Wills? Yes.

365
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,080
Dr. John Anderson, how are you doing?

366
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,080
Well nice to meet you, doctor.

367
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:10,080
The target is Mike Wills, a veteran coin dealer. Like most of us, Mike thinks he would never fall prey to a con man.

368
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:21,080
He came across as a very polite, articulate man and I had no reason at that time to doubt that he was anything other than what he told me he was, indeed a doctor.

369
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:28,080
The corpulent con man who called himself Dr. John Anderson was interested in buying gold coins.

370
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:34,080
He suggested that Wills visit him at Children's Hospital and speak to his physician's investment group.

371
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,080
I've got to be rushing on over to the hospital.

372
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,080
The trap was now in place.

373
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:49,080
Two days later, Dr. Anderson ordered $30,000 worth of gold coins.

374
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:55,080
Mike Wills agreed to bring the coins to the hospital when he addressed Anderson's investment group.

375
00:39:55,080 --> 00:40:03,080
At 8 a.m. on November 26, 1986, Mike Wills arrived at Children's Hospital.

376
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:12,080
Dr. Anderson had arranged to meet with Mike privately before Mike spoke to the physician's group.

377
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,080
The elevator door opens up and is in the elevator.

378
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,080
Mike, how are you doing?

379
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,080
How are you doing this morning?

380
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,080
Pretty good. How was yourself?

381
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,080
Good, good. Go ahead and press G for me, okay?

382
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,080
Thank you.

383
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,080
Careful with your eyes.

384
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,080
Yes.

385
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,080
We'll take care of our business as soon as we get downstairs.

386
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,080
That's fine.

387
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:31,080
There were two other doctors on the elevator. He was not having conversation with the gentleman.

388
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,080
See you later.

389
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,080
But as we got off, he acknowledged them.

390
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:42,080
There was nobody at all in the hall, which didn't strike me as being odd because we're so early in the morning.

391
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,080
Okay, let's see what we have here.

392
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:49,080
I have two tubes of gold each. I have 25 pieces in there.

393
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,080
Okay.

394
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:57,080
Dr. Anderson told Mike Wills he had access to a safe upstairs where he wanted to store the gold.

395
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,080
He would return momentarily.

396
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:06,080
Business? You might want to have a seat and I'll be back with a check, okay?

397
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:25,080
I sit there thinking back on it. What seems to be an eternity was most probably more like five to six minutes.

398
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:31,080
And my gold is gone and Dr. Anderson is gone and I have nothing to show for it.

399
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,080
That was about all I could take, I guess, at that moment.

400
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:38,080
I got up and I walked out of this blind door and now everybody is there.

401
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,080
There's five or six parents in the waiting room.

402
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,080
Now there's a nurse at the nurse's station.

403
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,080
Can I help you?

404
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,080
Yes, I'm Mike Wills from a coin store here in Cincinnati.

405
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,080
I need you to page a Dr. John Anderson for me.

406
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,080
I just gave him a large amount of gold.

407
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,080
There's no Dr. Anderson at this hospital.

408
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,080
There was a Dr. Anderson right down in the room down the hall five minutes ago.

409
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,080
Well, I'm sorry. I don't know of any Dr. Anderson on staff here. You may want to try upstairs.

410
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,080
You can't page from me from this.

411
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:14,080
It made me feel extremely gullible that I could be duped so easily out of $30,000.

412
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,080
I trusted a name tag. I trusted what this man told me.

413
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,080
When he mentioned Dr. maybe checks that I could have made, I didn't make

414
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,080
because this made everything seem right.

415
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,080
Here you go. Ten gold maple leaves.

416
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,080
Three years later, a Dr. Alfred Evans, notable for his girth,

417
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,080
showed up at a coin shop in Albany, New York.

418
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:39,080
The doctor made several small purchases from coin dealer Wendell Williams.

419
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,080
Then a new twist.

420
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:47,080
Williams received a $45,000 gold coin order from Dr. Evans via Federal Express.

421
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:52,080
I decided that I wouldn't buy any gold, but I would see what he did when he came in.

422
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:57,080
That Saturday, which was November the 4th, when I was waiting on other customers,

423
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,080
he came in in his jovial way and said hello to me.

424
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,080
The first words out of his mouth was, did you get my gold?

425
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:04,080
I told him no.

426
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:08,080
Seemed a little alarmed, but turned around and said, well, then what do you have for me?

427
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,080
And he said, what about that Rolex wristwatch that you had?

428
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,080
And I said, well, I've got that for somebody else.

429
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,080
But I'll get you some gold.

430
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,080
OK, here you go, doc.

431
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,080
80 ounces of gold maple leaves.

432
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,080
How much is this?

433
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,080
Well, they'll be $385.75 each.

434
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,080
All right, I'll make you out of check for it.

435
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,080
You know I'm going to have to hold the gold of that check, Clarison.

436
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,080
You know my checks are good.

437
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,080
That might be, but I'll see if I can get out of here.

438
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,080
When plan A didn't work, the bogus MD switched strategies.

439
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,080
Look, I'll tell you what I'm going to do, Wendell.

440
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,080
Just so this doesn't happen again, I'm going to go ahead and make out a blank check.

441
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:43,080
You hold onto this, and that way next time, we won't have to go through this.

442
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,080
Sounds good.

443
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,080
After Evans wrote the check, he started to chat with another customer

444
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,080
and waited patiently for a new opportunity.

445
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,080
Excuse me, fellas, I've got to take care of your customers.

446
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,080
Sure.

447
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,080
Can I help you?

448
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,080
With Wendell Williams occupied, the coast was clear.

449
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,080
Plan B went off without a hitch.

450
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,080
All right, I'll tell you what, if you can give me a favor,

451
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,080
I've got to get running off to the hospital.

452
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,080
So I'm going to leave these checks here.

453
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,080
And if you can just do me a favor and make sure that he gets them.

454
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,080
Sure.

455
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,080
Take care of those for me.

456
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,080
All right, thank you very much.

457
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:29,080
As one might expect, Dr. Evans skipped town.

458
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:35,080
His check for more than $30,000 was, of course, no good.

459
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,080
In trying to track the activities of Dr. Evans,

460
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,080
we've noticed that he'll be in town for a couple of months

461
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,080
to pull his scam, and then he'll be disappeared for a couple months.

462
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,080
We can't seem to find out what he's been doing during that period of time.

463
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,080
There'll be gaps of anywhere from two to five months between cities.

464
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,080
He could be doing anything from having a legitimate business,

465
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:58,080
pulling another scam, or just plain vacationing somewhere.

466
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:03,080
Authorities have uncovered these photographs of the elusive pseudo doctor.

467
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:07,080
They were taken in 1990 at a bank in Massachusetts.

468
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,080
The authorities do not know the con man doctor's real name,

469
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,080
but in addition to Anderson and Evans,

470
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,080
he has also used the aliases Dr. John Miller,

471
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,080
Dr. Michael Baker, and Dr. Brown.

472
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:54,080
Join me next time for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.