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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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

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The tiny village of Medjugorje in Yugoslavia

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is a mecca for countless thousands

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in search of physical and spiritual healing.

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In 1986, Jill Jensen and her family

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seemed hopelessly addicted to cocaine.

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Rita Klaus was suffering from the debilitating effects

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of multiple sclerosis.

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Today, both of them believe that they were cured

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by the miracle of Medjugorje.

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1974, Bullhead City, Arizona.

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Volunteer firefighters respond to a report

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of a small blaze at an abandoned minor shack.

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Inside, they are stunned to find the badly burned

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bodies of two young boys.

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The deaths are ruled accidental, but since then,

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at least three eyewitnesses have claimed the fire

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was deliberately set and the boys were murdered.

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In Missouri, the quiet tranquility of a small town

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is shattered by a dramatic car chase

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and the shocking abduction of a popular young woman.

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For every mystery, there is someone,

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somewhere who knows the truth.

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Perhaps, the truth is the truth.

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Perhaps, it's you.

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1986, Chicago, Illinois.

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Former model Jill Jensen is so strung out on cocaine,

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she has gouged open sores over her entire body.

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500 miles away, Rita Klaus, the mother of three,

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attempts to overcome the painful debilitating effects

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of multiple sclerosis.

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Rita Klaus and Jill Jensen, two women who have nothing in common,

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except a small village in Yugoslavia known as Medjugorje.

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Before civil war began to tear Yugoslavia apart,

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the church at Medjugorje had drawn more than 15 million pilgrims,

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many of them American.

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They came to meet six young people

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who call themselves visionaries.

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The six claim that in 1981,

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they spoke to the Virgin Mary on this hill outside the village.

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The following description by one of the visionaries

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has been translated verbatim.

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First, the light appears.

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Then after the light, our lady comes.

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She's dressed in gray with a veil.

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She has black hair and is supported on a cloud.

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Four of the young visionaries still claim to communicate

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with the Virgin at exactly 6.40 p.m. each day.

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Medjugorje has become a virtual mecca for Catholic pilgrims.

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To accommodate the crowds,

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makeshift confessionals have been set up

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both inside and outside the church.

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Ten years after the original epiphany,

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hundreds claimed they had been healed spontaneously at Medjugorje.

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This man, Joe Romano,

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swears that he was cured of abdominal cancer

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after he and his wife made three visits to Medjugorje.

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Kevin Giebel was seven years old

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when his parents took him on a pilgrimage to Yugoslavia.

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Since birth, Kevin had been plagued with digestive abnormalities,

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profoundly weak muscles, and an inadequate immune system.

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Today, at age nine, his symptoms have virtually disappeared.

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Charvance's right leg was shattered in a farm accident.

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She says her doctors told her it was the worst break they had ever seen,

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but she claims her leg healed miraculously at Medjugorje.

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To most of us, it seems far-fetched to think that physical healing

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can occur simply because one travels to the scene of a religious vision.

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Yet for those who've watched a loved one suffer pain,

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which modern medicine cannot alleviate,

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the hope of a miracle flickers persistently, if dimly,

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at the back of the logical mind.

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Jill Jensen grew up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood outside Chicago.

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As a teenager, she began to experiment with drugs.

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Before long, she was addicted to cocaine.

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I don't think that many days ever went by without me using cocaine.

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I carry it in my purse, I'd conceal it in my jackets, I'd hide it in my car.

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I would never go anywhere without it.

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And I was unable to do anything without using the drug.

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I had to have it eventually, it got to the point where I had to have it to wake up,

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I had to have it to go to sleep,

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I had to have it just to function on a daily basis, just to get going.

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I had to smoke some.

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By the time Jill was 26, she had a $500 a day habit.

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She had tried one drug rehab center after another to no avail.

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Jill now smoked cocaine in free-base form,

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because constant use had burned a hole through the lining of her nose.

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It got to the point where I began to hallucinate.

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I would start to see bugs all over me, or what I believed to be bugs.

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I would feel things all over me and think that I had to get them off of me.

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No matter what I did, I just had to get these bugs off of me.

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So I would rip my skin open and rip out my head.

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And for years I had these sores all over me.

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She was scrawny, she was anorexic.

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She had circles under her eyes, she looked far beyond her ears.

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You know, one time Jill was beautiful and all heads would turn when they saw her,

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and she did modeling for a while.

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But all that left her.

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In 1988, Jill's aunt Dee Dee made a pilgrimage to Magigoria.

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When she returned to the States, she tried to convince Jill to make another pilgrimage with her.

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A year later, Jill agreed, even though she dreaded a 14-hour plane trip

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without access to her precious cocaine.

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I didn't know how I was going to handle the withdrawals.

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I've been through them before.

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Horrible headaches, severe injuries, and I was just so happy.

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Horrible headaches, sleeplessness sometimes.

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Terrible nightmares when I am able to sleep, cold sweats, hot flashes.

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Horrible things, especially being sick.

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I didn't know how I was going to make it, but I was willing to try.

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Something came over me that gave me the willingness to try.

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When Jill arrived in Magigoria, she met with an American priest

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and one of the makeshift confessionals.

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I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do here.

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You say, forgive me, Father, for I have sinned my last confession.

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Although nominally raised a Catholic,

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Jill never had more than a passing interest in religion.

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My last confession was when I was eight years old.

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For nearly an hour, lines backed up while Jill made her confession.

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Next thing I know, I couldn't go anywhere without the drugs.

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I couldn't do anything without the drugs.

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Right around then, that's when the bugs started.

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I'm really afraid of bugs.

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And I'll do anything to get them off me.

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It was evident to him that I was all torn up,

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and I had told him what had happened

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and how I had arrived at having all these things, these sores, these open wounds.

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And when I was through with my confession, he blessed my sores with holy water.

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Ennominate properties and feelings, spirit to sancti, amen.

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By that evening, all my sores were completely closing and healing.

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It was amazing. I've never, I didn't feel it happening,

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but every time I'd look down, I would notice that they were less and less open, the sores.

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And for years, they'd never, ever gone away.

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How are you feeling today?

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Within a few days, Jill sores had almost disappeared.

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She had yet to experience any of the symptoms of withdrawal.

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Her aunt had managed to arrange a meeting with one of the Medjugorje visionaries,

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who Jill says blessed her with a prayer to the Virgin Mary.

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She put her hands on both of our heads,

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and I felt this tremendous, almost like electricity going through me, and this warmth.

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I had such a tremendous sense of well-being, it was unreal.

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For the first time in my life, I felt like I had been freed,

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that I really was going to be able to have a life, that it was given back to me, it was a gift.

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Three years after her trip to Medjugorje, Jill is still drug-free.

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She speaks in school drug prevention programs and works as a cosmetologist.

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To this day, Jill claims that she has never suffered a single symptom of withdrawal.

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I think it's very rare for someone who is as severe and as late-stage as Jill,

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to just be able to quit.

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I'm certainly very unlikely that she could quit without experiencing some pretty severe withdrawal,

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both physical and psychological.

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I can't tell you exactly what it was that changed me completely,

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but I know that each and every bit of what I went through had part to do with it,

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because I just don't have an explanation for why I was able to get a second chance at life.

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It must be pointed out that thousands of people, none of whom have ever heard of Medjugorje,

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kick drug habits each year.

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Yet Jill Jensen is convinced that her pilgrimage was pivotal to her recovery.

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Rita Klaus, suffering from an incurable disease, also believes that the virgin of Medjugorje

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had her seated to heal her, even though Rita never left her own home.

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Rita Klaus had always devoted herself to God.

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At the age of 15, she had entered a convent in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Five years later, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative incurable disease.

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As her symptoms worsened, Rita felt she had no choice but to withdraw from the order.

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I was just heartbroken. This was my life.

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I had spent about 13 years of my 28 years there.

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I loved it dearly, and I knew I wouldn't see it again.

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Rita moved to Pennsylvania, where she taught special education.

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She soon met Ron Klaus, an elementary school teacher.

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Three years later, they were married.

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Rita's MS symptoms had disappeared, and she came to believe she had been misdiagnosed.

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How is my daughter?

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Within five years, Ron and Rita had three daughters.

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After the birth of the youngest, Heidi, Rita began to experience symptoms of multiple sclerosis once again.

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She tried to ignore them until one day the muscles in her right arm weakened uncontrollably.

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Heidi!

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Thankfully, Heidi was alright.

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I think she had a bruise on her shoulder and went on her back side a little bit.

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But other than that, outside of being shaken up, she was alright, but I was not alright.

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I was so shaken inside and so afraid, just terribly afraid.

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This time, Rita's symptoms did not subside.

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By the end of 1984, her vision was chronically blurred.

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Her bladder did not function properly, and she had lost virtually all feeling in her feet and lower legs.

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Rita was restricted to a wheelchair and sometimes on good days, crutches.

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Life was a challenge at this point.

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It was impossible to get upstairs, do the things that people take for granted.

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And I was a strong, independent person.

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I didn't want to admit that I needed help.

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I didn't want anyone helping me.

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I wanted to be the one who helped.

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It was hard to see her going downhill, slowly at first, and then at times, it seemed as though it was quicker.

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And then there were times when it seemed to even off and some of the things, some of the functions of her body that she had lost would come back again.

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And it was always false hope because within time, that was gone again.

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In 1986, Rita heard about Medjugorje and began to study the phenomenon.

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Rita started praying to the Virgin Mary and fasted two days every week as a young visionary said they had been told to do.

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Often I would look at the books about Medjugorje and I would think I would love to be there.

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And then I would look at myself and say, but physically there's no way I could go.

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Financially there's no way I could go.

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And so I didn't go.

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Rita's prayers were always on behalf of others.

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Then one night, she claims she heard a voice.

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Why don't you ask?

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Why don't you ask?

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Dear Mary, my mother, Queen of Peace, my nose appearing to the children at Medjugorje.

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Please ask your son to heal me in any way I need to be healed.

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As soon as I finished the prayer, I felt this feeling through my body like electricity,

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but it was especially intense on the right side of my body where I had deformities in the right leg and I dropped ankles and so on.

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And I thought this isn't happening to me and I fell asleep.

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The next morning, Rita had no memory of the voice or the prayer.

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At the time, she was taking a class at the local college and Ron helped her into her specially rigged automobile, as he always did.

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Midway through the class, I felt this rush of heat through my body.

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And by the end of class, I could feel, I could feel there were wrinkles inside my shoes.

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I could move my toes.

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I had not been able to move my toes for years.

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I was dumbfounded.

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I remembered nothing from the night before, but I knew something was happening.

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I could feel that my legs were seen to be strong.

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I could lift them by myself.

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I got myself out of the car with no problem.

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Rita rushed home to tell her family.

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Ron! Girls!

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She had not walked on her own without help for more than four years.

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As I stood there looking at the steps, I had a flashback.

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And in that flashback, I heard the voice from the night before, the prayer that was given me to say.

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And I knew I was completely healed.

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I ran all the way up the steps.

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And I remember I was screaming at the top of the steps.

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And then I ran down the steps out the front door.

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I was screaming at the sky, oh thank you God, oh thank you Blessed Mother.

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Look, I can walk.

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You're really thinking that you're not seeing what you're actually seeing.

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You want to be happy, but you're almost afraid to be happy.

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Because every doctor that you've ever seen has said it's, it would never happen.

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See how that feels.

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Six months went by.

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Rita's symptoms did not return.

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After 15 agonizing years, she was at last able to function normally.

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Rita and Ron believed that she was healed by a miracle of faith.

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For this to clear instantly.

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Dr. Richard Kasdorf is an expert in so-called spontaneous healings.

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It is not the realm of medical practice.

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This certainly could be called a miraculous event if you want to use that term.

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Because we just don't see 20 years of disability clear instantly.

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It's so good.

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It's so exciting.

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Isn't it beautiful?

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It has now been six years since Rita threw away her crutches.

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She has never felt another symptom of multiple sclerosis.

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Is Rita Klaus' cure a miracle that can be ascribed to the virgin at Medjugorje?

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The Catholic Church is publicly skeptical, but continues to investigate.

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On the other hand, Webster's dictionary defines a miracle,

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not only in standard religious terms, but also simply as a wonderful thing.

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By this definition, Jill Jensen drug free and Rita Klaus ice skating,

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our miracles even non-believers can celebrate.

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Bullhead City, Arizona is a small, quiet community nestled along the banks of the Colorado River.

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Sue Johnson moved there from California in 1973.

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She and her husband felt it was an ideal place to raise their children,

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eight-year-old angel and seven-year-old Scott.

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They loved it.

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Scott was a natural born fisherman.

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He loved to fish and go out in the desert, catch lizards, catch a snake, whatever.

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He was just, he was a desert rat. He just fell in love with it.

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Fifty-yard's Majansse's Lou Holm stood an abandoned shack,

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a powder magazine once used by copper miners to store supplies.

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Scott and his friends soon adopted the rundown shed as their headquarters.

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Well, they just played there and played cops and robbers and Indians and cowboys and whatever else little boys do.

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I never felt any apprehension towards that building at all.

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And it was within sight of the house.

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It wasn't anything to worry about.

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It was a typical thing that children would pick to use for a ford or a clubhouse.

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At 3.45 p.m. on April 3, 1974,

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the Bullhead City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a call.

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The shack was on fire.

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18 years later, former Fire Chief Larry Adams vividly remembers the details.

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What I could see through the smoke and the steam is what appeared to be upholstery on the floor.

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When I got the pike pole, I stooped down to look under the smoke

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to hook this material and drag it out to extinguish it.

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Oh my God.

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Inside the shack lay the badly burned bodies of Scott Johnson and one of his friends.

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Seven weeks later, the official coroner's report was released.

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It stated that Scott Johnson and his friend had died accidentally.

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Investigators concluded that the boys had probably been playing with matches and gasoline.

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I was shocked. I was very shocked.

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My child was certainly smarter than to just lay in the back of a building

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and wait to be asphyxiated by smoke or burned by fire.

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It's kind of an obvious thing. I always knew it was a murder. Always.

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Sue Johnson was not alone in her opinions.

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From the onset, Larry Adams also believed that Scott and his friend were victims of foul play.

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In particular, he noticed that the door of the shack had not been locked or obstructed in any way.

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All anybody had to do to escape that building was push on the door.

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In this case, in buildings six by six in that panic situation,

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they would hit that door and escape the building. Have they been able to?

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A few feet from the door, Adams found a two by 12 inch wooden plank.

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Curiously, the board had a circle burned into one side.

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It indicated to me that somebody had prevented their escape through that door.

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They may have initially tried to hold the door, but it's metal.

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It got hot. They can't hold the door any longer. They need something to insulate them from the heat.

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They picked up the two by 12, one on each end or more,

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and held the two by 12 against the door with one person on each end of it.

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Angel, dinner.

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Despite Larry Adams' findings, the police closed the criminal investigation.

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As a weeks went by, Sue Johnson was haunted by the burned out shack where her son died,

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where she believed her son had been murdered.

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For four long years, she struggled in vain to have the case reopened.

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Then in 1978, a convicted felon came forward with shocking new information.

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Dale Gordon Meader was incarcerated at a county jail in New Mexico.

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At the time of the fire, he lived in Bullhead City.

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Dale, why don't you tell us in your own words what you saw on the 3rd of April, 1974, at the powder magazine?

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In the time you talk to a prisoner that wants to give you information,

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he's trying to cut himself a deal.

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The man just did not seem like he was really telling us all the truth.

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There was knowledge there.

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It was parked about, say, 50, 75 yards away from the powder magazine, and seeing these two guys all...

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Meader advised us that he saw two men holding these two young kids and pushing them in the powder magazine.

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One of the kids looked like he was heavily drugged, and the other one was fighting.

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But then he saw one of the men with a gas can.

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Did you actually see him take the gas can into the shack?

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I didn't see him throw any gas into the shack, but after about five or ten minutes, I noticed both of those.

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I was standing up right next to the house, and I heard a whining coming from the two kids.

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What do you want?

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They said that they were afraid the kids were going to tell them for smoking pot.

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Then I saw flames and smoke coming out of the magazine, and I said, hey man, I just want to know what's going on.

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I can't do what you've got to do.

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Just take a walk.

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One of them told him in street terms to get lost, and we just burned up two kids.

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Have you seen either one of these men since that time?

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This is the last time I saw either of them till...

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Meader told investigators that he encountered one of the men while serving time at a prison in Nevada two years after the fire.

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Sheriff's deputies questioned the man Meader identified as the killer of Scott Johnson and his friend, but no charges were ever filed.

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It was just an open and closed case, and that's not really what happened.

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Tina Riemann and John Kalos reported the fire on the day Scott Johnson and his friend died.

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And I wish that I could do more.

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They too were convinced boys were murdered.

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I can't.

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At the time, Tina and John were teenagers.

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Their eyewitness accounts seemed to corroborate Dale Meader's chilling version of events.

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There was two men.

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One was standing on the side of the hill facing the door of the shack, and the other one, well, he didn't like the idea that we were there.

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And he took off and went running.

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The other man was standing there, and he looked over at John and I.

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He just stayed there.

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That was what was so eerie.

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He just stared at us like, well, what are you going to do?

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You know?

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And that's when I said, you know, to Tina, I said, I think we should go call the fire department on this.

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You know, because I think them guys sit this place on fire.

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You know, and that's when we left.

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John and Tina told investigators about the two men they had seen.

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However, they believed their statements were ignored due to their own previous scrapes with the law.

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It didn't seem like they took it seriously at all.

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You know, it seemed like they didn't believe my story and, you know, from a past reputation.

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You know, they seemed to me like they just disregarded it, and I never heard nothing no more about it.

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With a passage of time, the tragedy slowly faded from public memory.

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A number of the original investigators retired or moved away.

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But Sue Johnson continued her relentless quest for the truth.

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You wonder, was there someone who wanted this just tucked away quickly and for good?

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Or was it just sloppy investigation or just circumstances?

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I honestly feel that it was a combination of a lot of things.

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I've talked with Sue on the phone and in person many times.

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In 1989, newly appointed chief of detectives,

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she understands how I feel that I have a complete torture, and I understand how she feels.

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And I told her in the beginning when I started out that there may not be an answer to this.

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But we're going to keep looking.

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Were Scott Johnson and his friends savagely murdered?

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If so, why would someone kill two young boys who were not yet ten years old?

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The answers to these haunting questions may lie in a surprising discovery Scott made near the shack three weeks before he died.

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Look at what I found!

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What is it?

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It's a hundred dollar bill.

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I think that it's possible that there could have been someone that used that area possibly for a drug transaction or something.

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And maybe the people that they saw doing this thought that the kids would run and block away to the sheriff's substation and report them.

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And therefore they felt like they had to do something to stop it.

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If we could establish a motive, a reason that these boys were killed certainly would help the case.

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But the motive is strictly a matter of speculation on anybody's part as far as I know.

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It's very hard to live every day of your life and wonder why your son was murdered and why no one's ever done anything about it in all these many years.

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I hope that whoever did it gets to pay for what they did someday.

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I don't care how long it takes.

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I've been patient this long. I can wait longer. That's what it takes.

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Even in her victory to have the investigation reopened, Sue Johnson has met with defeat.

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Many of the case files and much of the physical evidence has been misplaced or long since discarded.

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Detectives have little to go on.

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Save the faint hope that a new eyewitness will come forward.

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Next, a young woman is apparently abducted and her family fears for her life.

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CLINTON MISSOURI

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Clinton, Missouri, population 9000, is an idyllic farming community in the heart of small town America.

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The type of place where everyone knows each other and feels insulated from big city crime.

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But today, a cloud of uncertainty hovers over Clinton.

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A popular young woman has been abducted and quite possibly murdered.

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Angela Hammond was an active outgoing 20-year-old, known to everyone as Angie.

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Her family had lived in Clinton for three generations.

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Her fiancee Rob Schaeffer was a star athlete in high school who looked forward to a career in the military.

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In January of 1991, Rob gave Angie a diamond ring and promised that he would always take care of her.

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HANJI

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I had a great time tonight.

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I'm going to go see Kylin now, so I'll give you a call later.

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April 4th, 1991.

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At around 10 p.m., Angie dropped Rob off at his house after a barbecue.

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She promised that she would phone him a few hours later.

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That was about 10 o'clock.

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I was going to meet her back uptown as soon as my mom got home.

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I was watching my little brother at the time.

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And she called later on that night.

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Hello?

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Hi, Rob. It's Angie.

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Hi.

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At 11.15, Angie called Rob from a payphone in the center of town, approximately seven blocks from his house.

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Over talking on the phone, she mentioned to me about a truck circling around the block, an older model, green Ford pickup truck.

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Pick up truck. They keep circling around the block.

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Do you recognize the truck?

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No.

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He's probably not from around here.

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Maybe he's just lost.

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I guess so.

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Anyway, do you still want to go to the lake this week?

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Angie remained unconcerned until the truck parked next to the phone booth.

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Uh, Rob, he's pulling up next to the phones.

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What's the driver looking at?

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He's kind of dirty looking. He's got a mustache, beard and glasses, and he's wearing overalls.

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And he's coming to the phones.

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The truck is a light model, green pickup truck with one of those decals that cover the whole back window.

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It looks like a leg seen with a fish jumping out of water.

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What's he doing now, Angie?

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He used the phone next to her, got back in his truck and looked at something with a flashlight.

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She described the flashlight to me on the phone. He was looking for something.

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I had her turn around and ask him if he needed to use the phone.

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Maybe the other phone was broke. And he said no. He was just going to try again in a minute.

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No.

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Maybe I should come down there.

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Oh, Rob, no. I'm sure it's okay.

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Um, so anyway...

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We just talked about other things we weren't sure about.

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And that's when I heard her scream on the phone.

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Waaaaaah!

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When I heard her scream, the only thing that went through my mind is getting up there and finding out what the hell's going on.

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I ran out of the house, just dropped the phone. I didn't hang the phone back up.

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Uh, just headed out there.

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I saw a pickup truck going past me and then somebody yelled out the window, Robby.

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That's how I knew it was them.

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Angie!

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All right.

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Rob pursued the pickup straight through the downtown business district.

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He had no idea when he threw his car into reverse, he had severely damaged the transmission.

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When the pickup made a sharp right turn, Rob's car finally gave out.

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I chased him about two miles. The transmission failed.

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It started dying as I was making my turn to the right.

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This guy turned off the right, although I saw it was brake lights and dust.

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Rob blamed himself for it because he always told her he'd be there to take care of her.

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And he tried, he did everything that could be done. Nobody blames him, but I think he thinks the people blame him.

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He's been trying to get his car out of the way, but he's not letting it go.

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He's been trying to get his car out of the way, but he's not letting it go.

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He's trying to get his car out of the way, but he's not letting it go.

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He thinks the people blame him.

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The beginning is the hardest, because you know you were close enough to get him, but she just didn't get the job done.

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And you still wake up at night wondering where she's at, wondering what happened, wondering if anybody's still looking.

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You just wonder all the time.

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The news of Angie's disappearance sent shockwaves through Clinton.

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The police and hundreds of citizens launched an extensive air and land search,

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but there was no sign of Angela Hammond, her abductor, or the pickup truck.

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We had some assistance from the Missouri State Highway Patrol that did a computer search on all registered vehicles with MAKE in the approximate year.

461
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To their help, we had like 1600 possibilities that we had to look after, checking wherever these trucks are at on as far as color,

462
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:36,200
and if they had any mural in the back window with no success.

463
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,200
The police based their investigation on Rob Schaeffer's testimony,

464
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:47,200
but when no witnesses could be found to corroborate his statement, Rob became a suspect himself.

465
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I think you know it was natural that people wondered, you know, did the boyfriend do it type thing,

466
00:36:53,200 --> 00:37:02,200
but my feeling, I've known the kid all his life, and I never doubted for a minute that he had anything to do with it.

467
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:08,200
Within a week, Rob Schaeffer was cleared of any involvement in Angie's disappearance.

468
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:16,200
Two days later, the police connected the abduction in Clinton to two other unsolved cases within a 100-mile radius.

469
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:21,200
The first occurred near Max Creek, Missouri on January 19, 1991.

470
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:27,200
I'm not gonna close up, but there's a man that's been hanging around outside for a while now, and I'm really starting to get nervous.

471
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,200
42-year-old Trudy Darby was working alone in a convenience store.

472
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:37,200
Around 10 p.m., she called her son to report a suspicious man lurking outside.

473
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:43,200
Less than 10 minutes later, Trudy's son arrived at the store and found it completely deserted.

474
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:50,200
Two days later, the body of Trudy Darby was found on a riverbank, 10 miles from the store.

475
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,200
She had been shot twice in the head.

476
00:37:54,200 --> 00:38:02,200
Then on February 28, 30-year-old Sheryl Ann Kenney was reported missing in Nevada, Missouri, 70 miles from Max Creek.

477
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,200
She vanished shortly after closing up the convenience store where she worked.

478
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:15,200
That night, Sheryl's car was found in the store parking lot. She has not been seen since.

479
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,200
Less than one month later, Angela Hammond would be abducted.

480
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:30,200
If Angela's found, it might provide that link if they are related to, for example, Trudy Darby.

481
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:37,200
Or if Sheryl's found, it may be that connection to Trudy Darby, how she was murdered.

482
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:43,200
Authorities now fear that a serial killer may be on the loose in West Central Missouri.

483
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:50,200
Even though they hold out little hope that either Sheryl Ann Kenney or Angela Hammond are still alive,

484
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:55,200
there have been unconfirmed sightings of Angela in several states and most recently, Canada.

485
00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:12,200
If anybody out there sees anything, you know, if they could put their selves in our place and know how we feel,

486
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:18,200
you know, how heart-wrenching it is that she was taken, even if the guy that took her sees this,

487
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,200
if he would just call and let him know what he did with her.

488
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,200
There's one final chilling detail, the abduction of Angela Hammond.

489
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:32,200
After she screamed into the phone, Rob Schaeffer heard another person speak, most likely her abductor.

490
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:37,200
All he said was, I didn't need to use the phone anyway.

491
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:45,200
Before she disappeared, Angie described the suspect as a filthy, bearded man who wore glasses and was dressed in overalls.

492
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:55,200
The suspect was driving a late 1960s, early 1970s, two-tone green Ford pickup truck.

493
00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:02,200
The back window was completely covered by an opaque decal of a fish jumping out of water, which may look like this.

494
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,200
When we return, a bank fraud investigator disappears in the Arizona desert.

495
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:39,200
May 5, 1997, in the middle of the desolate Arizona desert, 100 miles southeast of Phoenix, a crime is committed,

496
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,200
far from the eyes of potential witnesses.

497
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:50,200
The suspect is a man who was taken to the hospital.

498
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,200
Less than half an hour later, a deputy sheriff finds the burning car.

499
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:20,200
Authorities believe the arsonist was covering up a bigger crime, murder.

500
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:27,200
The car was burned to the ground, and the fact is that had there been any evidence in the car, such as blood,

501
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,200
we weren't able to tell because of the burning.

502
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:38,200
The car's owner was 56-year-old Lee Young, a bank fraud investigator from Scottsdale, Arizona.

503
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,200
He was nowhere to be found.

504
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:52,200
When they gave me the information the car was burned and Lee wasn't there, then my wildest fears just became a reality.

505
00:41:52,200 --> 00:42:00,200
Because you live with that every day that something could happen, but you just don't really believe it ever will.

506
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:06,200
Police feared the worst, that Lee Young had been murdered. The most obvious motive? Robbery.

507
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:16,200
Young always wore a distinctive $25,000 Rolex watch and carried large amounts of cash so he could buy jewelry which he sold in his spare time.

508
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:23,200
When police searched the car, they were surprised to find thousands of dollars worth of jewelry still in the trunk.

509
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:29,200
Young's family suspected a scenario far more sinister than simple robbery.

510
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:38,200
The only thing missing out of that trunk of the car that I am aware of is the briefcase that carried his files.

511
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:47,200
So that makes me believe that it wasn't robbery motive, it was case-related of some sort.

512
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:55,200
Several months before he disappeared, Lee Young had contacted federal agents who dealt with drug smuggling.

513
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,200
Young suspected that his bank was being used by a money laundering ring.

514
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:05,200
During the week before he disappeared, Young tried to reach the agents a number of times without success.

515
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:15,200
We was involved in one particular case investigating a major drug cartel in Columbia.

516
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:21,200
And he had been involved in this investigation within six months prior to his disappearance.

517
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:26,200
And the case was still ongoing as a matter of fact at the time of his disappearance.

518
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:36,200
On May 4th, 1990, Lee Young left a restaurant in Scottsdale around 12.30 p.m. He was never seen again.

519
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:43,200
That afternoon, a single call came in over his car phone and three calls went out.

520
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:50,200
One to a phone booth and the others to a woman who denied ever having talked to Lee Young on the telephone.

521
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,200
I don't know for a fact that Lee made these calls.

522
00:43:53,200 --> 00:44:00,200
In fact, it's possible that Lee was taken down prior to 2 o'clock Friday afternoon

523
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:07,200
and that the three calls made after 2 o'clock were made by somebody else.

524
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:15,200
Lee Young's family believes that he was kidnapped by someone who wanted to destroy his bank fraud investigation records.

525
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:20,200
They think that person, not Lee Young, made the phone calls.

526
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:27,200
Everything points to the fact that Lee's not alive.

527
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,200
My heart still says he's out there somewhere.

528
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:35,200
But logic tells me he's not.

529
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,200
What happened to Lee Young?

530
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,200
Was he killed in a robbery attempt?

531
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,200
Or did he inadvertently become the victim of one of his own bank fraud investigations?

532
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:53,200
Connie Young clings to the slim hope that someone saw her husband's plum-colored 1985 Lincoln Town car.

533
00:44:53,200 --> 00:45:00,200
Between the time he left the restaurant on May 4, 1990 and the time the car was found in flames the next day,

534
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:05,200
she also hopes someone might have information about his copper-faced Rolex watch,

535
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,200
which has diamonds encircling the face and studying the band.

536
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:18,200
On our next Unsolved Mysteries, for years, legendary tales have circulated about the abominable snowman.

537
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:23,200
A frightening human-like creature said to roam the high plateaus of the Himalayas.

538
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:30,200
The story of the man who was killed in the first night of the war was told by a man who was killed in the first night of the war.

539
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:34,200
The man was killed in the first night of the war.

540
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:41,200
The abominable snowman, a frightening human-like creature said to roam the high plateaus of the Himalayas.

541
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,200
But for the natives of this isolated land, the snowman is all too real.

542
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:53,200
A half-man, half-ape known as Yeti, is he a mythological monster or a distant relative of man?

543
00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:00,200
Join us next time for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.