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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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For more than 30 years, Joe and Maddie Harvey

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and their country store were an institution

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in the small town of Lewis Chapel Mountain, Tennessee.

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Then in March of 1921, the United States

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Then in March of 1991, Joe and Maddie were brutally murdered.

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A grieving community was shattered by the news

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that one of the primary suspects was a member of Harvey's own family.

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In 1941, Barney Dewey and his sister Angelin

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were taken from their parents, separated and placed

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for adoption by a deceitful preacher posing as a friend.

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A year later, Barney set out on a lonely journey

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to find his sister.

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Perhaps you can help bring his long search to an end.

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In Henderson, Nevada, two unknown bank

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members took a woman hostage and led police

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on a dangerous high-speed chase.

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Incredibly, as he escaped unfolding,

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an alert newspaper reporter snapped a picture of the bandits

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from her passing car.

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Also thanks to our viewers, nine brothers and sisters

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who were separated by the tragic death

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of their mother have found each other.

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Join me.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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According to official FBI files,

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on any given day an estimated 40 banks in the United States

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are robbed at gunpoint.

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On November 13, 1991, a bank in Henderson, Nevada

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was added to the list.

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It is a frightening, traumatic experience

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for the bank employees who, fearing retribution of asset

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their identities be concealed.

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It began an hour before opening.

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The bank manager was at his desk, alone, seemingly secure

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behind locked doors.

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Don't touch the alarm.

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Did you set off the alarm?

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No.

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This is a robbery.

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I want you to do everything I tell you to do.

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Now, is there anything you have to do now?

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I have to sign on my computer and have to check my daily mail.

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Let's do it.

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The first thing that I saw was the handguns that both of them

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had.

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They were like a stub-nosed large caliber weapon.

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I believe the individual was a professional bank robber,

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because he knew about banking procedures.

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All right, do what you have to do.

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He watched every move that I made, up and down the teleline,

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to make sure that I didn't reach down and set off any alarms.

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All right, I'm in.

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I just stand there.

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The robbers had apparently done their homework.

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Don't look at me.

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They seemed well aware that the bank's vault was

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equipped with a dual combination lock.

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The manager knew the first half of the six-digit sequence.

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The other three numbers were known only to the vault teller.

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At 8 AM, she arrived for work.

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When I was unlocking the door, I kind of

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felt that there was something wrong,

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but I went ahead and entered anyway.

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Don't touch the alarm.

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Do you know the other information open this vault?

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Yes, I do.

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Open it.

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Come on.

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The bank robber was pretty calm, I thought.

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He was just really precise on what he wanted us to do.

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So my manager and I, we opened the outer door,

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and we all went inside the vault,

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and we went to go to the inner vault where the cash was.

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Now, this is what I want you to do.

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You'll go across the lobby to my partner and stay there.

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Now, go.

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You go outside and stand by the vault door, and don't move.

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Hey!

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You!

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Get over here!

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Two tellers were also taken hostage by the second gunman

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when they arrived for work.

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Drop that purse!

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At some point during this phase of the heist,

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a silent secret alarm was activated.

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Police moved in cautiously and sent a message.

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Police moved in cautiously and staked out the bank.

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The robbery was very well planned out,

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but we were able to make it to the bank,

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we believed without their knowledge.

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Had they have known we were on our way to the bank,

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I believe they would have left the bank prior to our getting

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there to avoid the confrontation.

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Once officers were in position, the police dispatcher

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placed a call to the bank, trying

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to find out if a robbery was in fact in progress.

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I got to get the phone.

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Get it.

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[?].

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Valley Bank.

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This is the Henderson Police Department.

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We're receiving a silent holdup alarm from your business.

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Is everything OK there?

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My stomach was in my throat.

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I suppose.

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I didn't know really what I was going to say or how

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I was going to say, but I knew that I had to alert this person

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that there was a problem within my branch.

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And my normal procedures would be joyful and tell her

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that everything was OK.

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This time, I just told her that, yeah,

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I suppose everything's OK.

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That alerted the dispatcher that there was definitely

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something wrong within my branch.

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I suppose everything's all right.

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Set off the alarm, didn't you?

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No, I did not.

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Who were you just talking to?

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There's someone else here with me.

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OK.

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What I need you to do is I need you to go outside and speak

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with my officers.

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Can you do that for me?

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OK, very well.

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All right.

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That's the store across the street.

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They think there's something up here.

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They're going to call the authorities.

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I got to go.

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I have to straighten this out with them.

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Go outside and take care of it.

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The hardest thing that I had to do

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was to walk up my teleline and see my three employees tied up

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knowing that once I left that bank,

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that I couldn't get back in to do anything to help them.

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This is taking too much time.

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One Robert, he was really, really nervous.

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And he was mumbling to himself.

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Too much time.

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I was nervous, of course.

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But I wasn't freaked out, I guess,

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as some people would say.

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I kept my cool.

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I didn't say anything.

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I didn't make them nervous or jury,

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that I was going to cause them problems.

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No one knows if the gunman were aware

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that the police were outside.

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Let's go.

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Grab one of those women.

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Let's get out of here.

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You, come on.

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Stop.

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For reasons known only to himself,

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one of the holdup men removed his mask as he left the bank.

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What had begun as a robbery had suddenly escalated

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into a dangerous hostage situation.

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The escape route had obviously been planned well in advance.

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The robbers managed to confuse their pursuers

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as they entered the labyrinth of a large apartment complex.

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There were only three entries and exits

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from that apartment complex.

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And there were probably six to eight dead ends

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in that apartment complex.

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And they seemed to have known exactly which route

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to take through there.

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When I was in the car, I wasn't sure

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what was going to happen to me.

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I kept my eyes closed for the most part,

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so they wouldn't want to kill me since I can identify them.

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So I automatically laid down on the back seat.

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Police sealed off all possible exits

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in an attempt to trap the robbers.

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The bandits made good their escape.

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Incredibly, the bandits made good their escape.

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A short time later, they switched getaway cars

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and released their hostage unharmed.

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Authorities believe that the two men who robbed the Henderson

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Bank may be responsible for as many as 10 hold-ups

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during the past five years.

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In every case, their disguises successfully

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concealed their identities, leaving investigators

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with absolutely nothing to go on.

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But the Henderson hold-up would be different.

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That morning, newspaper reporter Catherine Scott

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heard of the robbery on her police scanner.

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I ran out of the office to my car with the camera in my scanner.

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As I was going, I heard my scanners

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say that there were three people tied up in the bank.

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There was a hostage in the car.

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The robbers had a semi-automatic handgun,

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a semi-automatic pistol, and they were heading my way

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on Sunset Road with the police behind them.

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I saw the car and decided that that had to be the car.

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And that's when I thought I can take a picture.

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But I was afraid to take the picture,

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because if I lifted up my camera and took the shot,

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then I knew that they had plenty of time

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to react by lifting their weapons and shooting me.

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That's when my heart started to pound.

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And I don't know how much time passed until I got there.

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And I don't know how much time passed.

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It couldn't have been very long.

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But I kept thinking, I can take this picture,

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but it'll shoot me.

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I can take this picture.

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I can take this.

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I want to take this picture.

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I have to take this picture, but it'll shoot me.

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And just as we passed, that was it, the moment of truth.

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And so I took it.

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This is the photograph that Catherine Scott took that morning.

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Authorities have enhanced it to make the unmasked driver

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more recognizable.

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From this image and eyewitness descriptions,

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the FBI created a composite drawing of the suspect.

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He is Caucasian or Hispanic, between 40 and 50 years old,

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6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighs approximately 220 pounds.

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No photographs exist of the other robber without a mask.

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He is believed to be in his late 30s,

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is 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs around 175 pounds.

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Next, a man's poignant search for the sister

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he hasn't seen in 50 years.

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More than 50 years ago, the United States

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began a brutal downward economic spiral

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that lasted just over a decade.

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Officially, the Great Depression ended in 1942.

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But for many, the cost and personal tragedy

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would continue for a lifetime.

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Such was a case for a young girl and her older brother,

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who lived in Haskell, Texas.

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In 1941, Barney Dewey was just 12 years old,

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but he had already been forced into manhood.

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And the charge was 63 cents.

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Now how much change do I have?

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37 cents.

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That's right.

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Here you go, sir.

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No, no.

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You keep that.

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That's yours.

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Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Will.

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You're welcome.

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Barney worked part-time at a gas station

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and looked after his little sister, Angeline.

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Their stepfather was hospitalized,

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and their mother tore long hours as a garment worker.

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Times were rough in those days.

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And we were concerned with living and trying

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to keep body and soul together.

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And so my mother was trying real hard.

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She was not a well-educated person,

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but she could read and write and what have you.

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But that was the only job that was available.

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Do you want to play game with me?

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OK.

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What do you want to play?

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Books.

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It was a bleak existence, but Barney and his family

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managed to scrape by and stay together

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until the day in the spring of 1941,

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when Barney and Angeline had a visitor, a kindly old man

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named Reverend Nicholas.

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OK, officer.

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Hello.

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You're Barney Dory, aren't you?

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Well, I'm Reverend Nicholas.

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Mostly, you'll call me Daddy Nicholas.

273
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Oh, Daddy Nicholas.

274
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Yeah.

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I'm a good friend of your mother's.

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He told us that my mother wanted us to go with him.

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She said it would be all right if I came over and took you.

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The way he put it and the way he expressed himself,

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well, there's nothing wrong.

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You know, just go with him.

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And my mother, I thought, well, you know,

282
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that perhaps my mother was sick.

283
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So you're sure she's going to be there later?

284
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Yeah, she could have been.

285
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Hello, your aunt is going to meet you.

286
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How would you like a piece of candy?

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He was a very personable person, and he was very nice.

288
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And he could quieten your fears real easy

289
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with just a few words and with his candy, which he always

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had in his pocket.

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Come along.

292
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There you go.

293
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There you are.

294
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What?

295
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Reverend Nicholas took Barney and Angeline

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to a fancy hotel, bought both of them new outfits,

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and fed them a sumptuous dinner.

298
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The next day, all dressed up in their new clothes,

299
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the children were formally photographed.

300
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There you go.

301
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Now, go on over here.

302
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We'll find the bus waiting for us.

303
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They said that something had happened to my mother

304
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and that we weren't able to see her.

305
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And so they took us to the bus station.

306
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And I questioned him, asking him, well, where are we going?

307
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He said, well, so we're going to take a little trip.

308
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And don't worry.

309
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Everything's going to be all right.

310
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Well, my sister balked, and she began to cry.

311
00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:04,540
On this bus?

312
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Barney, I don't want to get on this bus.

313
00:16:07,380 --> 00:16:08,060
It's all right.

314
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Don't worry.

315
00:16:08,660 --> 00:16:09,620
Don't worry.

316
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I talked to your mom.

317
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She said she'd meet us.

318
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Every time we would raise some objection,

319
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well, he would smooth our feelings down and say,

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well, everything's going to be all right.

321
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We'll go see your mother.

322
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I still had in my mind that we were going to see our mother,

323
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that all of this was taking place

324
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to get us transported to the place that she was.

325
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And so this is the way it happened.

326
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And it worked out for Reverend Nichols just real well.

327
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We kind of trusted him.

328
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And when we got to the foster home,

329
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we just felt like that that was a place that we

330
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was to stay until we met my mother.

331
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A few days later, Barney realized

332
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that his trust had been misplaced.

333
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Reverend Nicholas and his adopted son, Nick Crane,

334
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came to the orphanage to pick up Barney, but not Angeline.

335
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It's time for lunch.

336
00:17:02,620 --> 00:17:04,060
We're going to our house.

337
00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:05,380
You can't take him now.

338
00:17:05,380 --> 00:17:07,580
Oh, we're just taking him for some food.

339
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And of course, Angeline began to cry and sob and held on to me

340
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and followed me out.

341
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And she had to be restrained.

342
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Barney, you promised me we're going to find our mom.

343
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Only later did Barney understand

344
00:17:26,140 --> 00:17:28,740
that the fancy new clothes and the photograph

345
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had been nothing more than an advertisement

346
00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,540
to be shown to prospective foster parents.

347
00:17:33,540 --> 00:17:36,820
Barney was sent to live on a ranch outside Abilene, Texas.

348
00:17:36,820 --> 00:17:39,540
His foster parents are Reverend Nicholas's secretary

349
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and her husband, who conveniently needed a ranch hand.

350
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I had the responsibility of driving the tractor and plowing

351
00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:53,820
and doing the chores on the ranch

352
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to keep the animals up and everything, keep them fed,

353
00:17:57,220 --> 00:17:59,180
and what have you.

354
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And I was very happy to have been able to find my mother.

355
00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:05,980
And I was pretty satisfied right at first there,

356
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because I had them on horse.

357
00:18:07,660 --> 00:18:11,660
And I could do whatever I wanted to do on the ranch.

358
00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:13,260
I was kind of in charge.

359
00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:14,420
Really felt good about it.

360
00:18:16,980 --> 00:18:19,940
Barney's memories of his foster parents are fond ones,

361
00:18:19,940 --> 00:18:22,900
even though he lived a solitary existence eight miles

362
00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:26,700
from the main ranch house and saw them rarely.

363
00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:29,820
As time passed, Barney yearned for his own family

364
00:18:29,820 --> 00:18:30,660
more and more.

365
00:18:32,820 --> 00:18:36,380
I began to get lonely and began to miss my mother

366
00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:37,980
and my sister.

367
00:18:37,980 --> 00:18:42,980
Well, I just got so upset that I began to think about,

368
00:18:42,980 --> 00:18:44,660
you know, maybe I ought to get away from here

369
00:18:44,660 --> 00:18:45,660
and go look for my mother.

370
00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:54,180
Well, I felt obligated to my foster mother and father.

371
00:18:54,180 --> 00:18:57,820
And so I took my clothes off, took my good clothes off,

372
00:18:57,820 --> 00:18:59,220
that they had bought me and everything.

373
00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:02,020
And I just laid them aside and put my old clothes on

374
00:19:02,020 --> 00:19:04,940
that I'd came to them with.

375
00:19:04,940 --> 00:19:07,580
And I made sure I had my money with me.

376
00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:11,420
I had 37 cents in my pocket.

377
00:19:11,420 --> 00:19:14,380
I decided I was going to go to Haskell and look for my mother.

378
00:19:19,060 --> 00:19:22,460
It was 97 miles from the ranch to Haskell.

379
00:19:22,460 --> 00:19:24,340
When Barney got there, he discovered

380
00:19:24,340 --> 00:19:27,420
that his mother and stepfather had moved away.

381
00:19:27,420 --> 00:19:30,780
Thus began a personal odyssey for Barney Dewey,

382
00:19:30,780 --> 00:19:34,060
one that would crisscross Texas and cover nearly 1,000 miles.

383
00:19:38,140 --> 00:19:41,020
Barney found his birth father in Cleburne.

384
00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:43,660
Together they traveled to Kilgore, Texas,

385
00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:47,420
then all to Humphill just outside Houston.

386
00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:50,340
There, Barney's father put him on a bus to Odessa,

387
00:19:50,340 --> 00:19:53,100
where he would be reunited with his mother and stepfather.

388
00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:04,780
What I got off of the bus in Odessa, Texas,

389
00:20:04,780 --> 00:20:07,260
I looked over and I saw my mother and I recognized her,

390
00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:08,780
of course, but she didn't know me.

391
00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:09,780
To me?

392
00:20:09,780 --> 00:20:10,780
Barney!

393
00:20:10,780 --> 00:20:11,780
Barney!

394
00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:15,780
I'd changed in the gear that had passed and had glasses on.

395
00:20:15,780 --> 00:20:18,780
And of course my dad had bought me some new clothes.

396
00:20:18,780 --> 00:20:21,780
You are so brave to go all this way.

397
00:20:21,780 --> 00:20:24,780
We had a wonderful time there and then she says, where's Angie?

398
00:20:24,780 --> 00:20:26,780
Have you heard from Angeline?

399
00:20:26,780 --> 00:20:27,780
No.

400
00:20:27,780 --> 00:20:29,780
But she's doing OK, though.

401
00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:33,780
We began to talk about the events that had taken place.

402
00:20:33,780 --> 00:20:36,780
And I asked her, I said, Mama, did you sign any kind of papers

403
00:20:36,780 --> 00:20:38,780
or anything to release us to these people?

404
00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:39,780
And she says, no.

405
00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:42,780
Honey says, I'd never do that.

406
00:20:42,780 --> 00:20:45,780
Barney lived happily with his mother and stepfather

407
00:20:45,780 --> 00:20:47,780
until he was 18 years old.

408
00:20:47,780 --> 00:20:50,780
In 1947, Barney married.

409
00:20:50,780 --> 00:20:53,780
Four years later, he and his wife traveled to Abilene

410
00:20:53,780 --> 00:20:55,780
trying to locate Reverend Nicholas.

411
00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:58,780
Barney asked around and discovered that Nick Crane,

412
00:20:58,780 --> 00:21:02,780
the Reverend's adopted son, owned a pharmacy in town.

413
00:21:02,780 --> 00:21:03,780
Hi, I'm Nick Crane.

414
00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:04,780
Can I help you?

415
00:21:04,780 --> 00:21:05,780
Yes, I'm Barney Dewey.

416
00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:06,780
This is my wife Stella.

417
00:21:06,780 --> 00:21:07,780
Hi, Barney.

418
00:21:07,780 --> 00:21:09,780
I don't know if you'll remember me or not.

419
00:21:09,780 --> 00:21:12,780
Nick Crane told Barney that Reverend Nicholas had died

420
00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:14,780
two years earlier and that his orphanage had been

421
00:21:14,780 --> 00:21:17,780
shut down by the state.

422
00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:19,780
Whatever records existed were stored haphazardly

423
00:21:19,780 --> 00:21:22,780
behind the pharmacy.

424
00:21:22,780 --> 00:21:24,780
Barney and his wife sifted to the dusty papers

425
00:21:24,780 --> 00:21:27,780
but found nothing that could lead them to Angeline.

426
00:21:31,780 --> 00:21:37,780
For the last 50 years, I have been searching for my sister.

427
00:21:37,780 --> 00:21:40,780
And I haven't been able to contact her.

428
00:21:40,780 --> 00:21:44,780
And I have nobody that knows anything about her.

429
00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:50,780
And it has been this long, 50 years, half a century,

430
00:21:50,780 --> 00:21:56,780
in my search for my sister, Angeline.

431
00:21:56,780 --> 00:21:58,780
The night of our broadcast, Barney Dewey's prayers

432
00:21:58,780 --> 00:22:01,780
were answered when Neal Smith of Cedar Hills, Texas,

433
00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:05,780
recognized Angeline as his adopted sister, Martha Jean.

434
00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:07,780
Martha Jean is mentally handicapped

435
00:22:07,780 --> 00:22:10,780
and lives at a group home for the disabled in Arizona.

436
00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:12,780
Barney immediately made arrangements

437
00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:14,780
to reunite with his sister at his daughter's home

438
00:22:14,780 --> 00:22:16,780
in Chandler, Arizona.

439
00:22:17,780 --> 00:22:22,780
On March 23, 1992, the moment Barney had waited

440
00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:26,780
more than 51 years for, finally arrived.

441
00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:29,780
Barney's here.

442
00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:31,780
Up on the door.

443
00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:33,780
Hello, Angie.

444
00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:35,780
Can you get out of there all right now?

445
00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:36,780
No.

446
00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:38,780
Well, it's good to see you.

447
00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:40,780
After all this time.

448
00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:41,780
Yeah.

449
00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:42,780
Goodness.

450
00:22:42,780 --> 00:22:43,780
Look at me.

451
00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:44,780
I know.

452
00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:46,780
Oh, look at me.

453
00:22:46,780 --> 00:22:47,780
Oh, no.

454
00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:48,780
Goodness.

455
00:22:48,780 --> 00:22:49,780
It's good to see you.

456
00:22:49,780 --> 00:22:51,780
I'm telling you.

457
00:22:51,780 --> 00:22:54,780
Hey, I'm telling you, it was a real thrill.

458
00:22:54,780 --> 00:22:57,780
You know, I mean, it's hard to describe,

459
00:22:57,780 --> 00:23:02,780
but you know, and there she was, and my search is ending.

460
00:23:02,780 --> 00:23:06,780
I found who I was looking for all of these years.

461
00:23:06,780 --> 00:23:09,780
And the only thing that I, the only regret I have

462
00:23:09,780 --> 00:23:13,780
is that my mother was not there to greet her.

463
00:23:13,780 --> 00:23:14,780
My little sister.

464
00:23:14,780 --> 00:23:17,780
Yeah, this is why we were standing when we took that picture.

465
00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:18,780
Yeah.

466
00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:22,780
Back there in Abilene, just before we were separated.

467
00:23:22,780 --> 00:23:23,780
Separated.

468
00:23:23,780 --> 00:23:24,780
Yeah, that's right.

469
00:23:24,780 --> 00:23:28,780
It's joy that I found Barney and all his family.

470
00:23:28,780 --> 00:23:34,780
I'm happy that I found, that I've got two families now.

471
00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:37,780
Instead of one, I've got two.

472
00:23:37,780 --> 00:23:39,780
And I'm really happy.

473
00:23:39,780 --> 00:23:41,780
Yeah.

474
00:23:41,780 --> 00:23:44,780
This is your sister, Opal Faye.

475
00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:47,780
She really was thrilled when you were born.

476
00:23:47,780 --> 00:23:48,780
I look like her.

477
00:23:48,780 --> 00:23:50,780
And there's Barney doing, your brother.

478
00:23:50,780 --> 00:23:54,780
That afternoon, Barney and Martha Jean began to fill in

479
00:23:54,780 --> 00:23:57,780
the details of the years they had spent apart.

480
00:23:57,780 --> 00:23:59,780
Yeah, and this is your mother.

481
00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:00,780
My mom.

482
00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:01,780
Yeah, that's your mom.

483
00:24:01,780 --> 00:24:03,780
And she was 51 years old there.

484
00:24:03,780 --> 00:24:04,780
51.

485
00:24:04,780 --> 00:24:05,780
Yeah.

486
00:24:05,780 --> 00:24:07,780
I got the information that she was treated right

487
00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:10,780
and had been raised properly and had gotten an education

488
00:24:10,780 --> 00:24:12,780
and had been loved.

489
00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:17,780
And so that really was the ultimate as far as I was concerned.

490
00:24:17,780 --> 00:24:22,780
When I got back to Odessa, I really feel good.

491
00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:26,780
I mean, really, this is an exciting, high point in my life.

492
00:24:26,780 --> 00:24:30,780
And I'm really glad that everything turned out like it did.

493
00:24:30,780 --> 00:24:32,780
And our dream has really come true.

494
00:24:32,780 --> 00:24:34,780
Mr. Nichols.

495
00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:45,780
The Lord is my shepherd.

496
00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:48,780
I shall not want him.

497
00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:53,780
On May 31, 1974, funeral services were held for 34-year-old Wanda

498
00:24:53,780 --> 00:24:55,780
Vass in Toledo, Ohio.

499
00:24:55,780 --> 00:24:57,780
Wanda left behind nine children.

500
00:24:57,780 --> 00:25:00,780
The oldest was 16, the youngest was 17.

501
00:25:00,780 --> 00:25:02,780
The oldest was 18.

502
00:25:02,780 --> 00:25:04,780
The oldest was 18.

503
00:25:04,780 --> 00:25:06,780
The oldest was 18.

504
00:25:06,780 --> 00:25:08,780
The oldest was 18.

505
00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:13,780
The oldest was 16, the youngest just 10 months.

506
00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:16,780
The children's father, James Vass, did not attend the funeral.

507
00:25:16,780 --> 00:25:20,780
He was in jail, charged with the murder of his wife.

508
00:25:20,780 --> 00:25:26,780
Three days earlier, James Vass brutally gunned down Wanda

509
00:25:26,780 --> 00:25:29,780
at a tavern where she worked.

510
00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:31,780
He later pled guilty to first-degree murder

511
00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:37,780
and was sentenced to life in prison where he died in 1983.

512
00:25:37,780 --> 00:25:39,780
In one senseless and violent moment,

513
00:25:39,780 --> 00:25:43,780
James Vass had shattered his entire family.

514
00:25:43,780 --> 00:25:45,780
Within days of their mother's funeral,

515
00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:50,780
the nine Vass children were sent to live in separate homes.

516
00:25:50,780 --> 00:25:52,780
I think for some reason, I felt we had enough family

517
00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:55,780
that some kind of way we would all be kept together,

518
00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:57,780
but I was wrong.

519
00:25:57,780 --> 00:25:58,780
It was like nobody wanted us.

520
00:25:58,780 --> 00:26:00,780
We were taboo, you know.

521
00:26:00,780 --> 00:26:02,780
To be around us would be to remember what happened,

522
00:26:02,780 --> 00:26:05,780
to have to accept it, and they didn't want that.

523
00:26:05,780 --> 00:26:09,780
So to me, we were punished for what my father did

524
00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:13,780
because we weren't even allowed to have each other.

525
00:26:13,780 --> 00:26:16,780
In 1986, with a love and encouragement

526
00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:18,780
of her husband and two daughters,

527
00:26:18,780 --> 00:26:21,780
Cherine began searching for her missing brothers and sisters

528
00:26:21,780 --> 00:26:25,780
whom she had not seen in 11 years.

529
00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:28,780
Incredibly, it took Cherine only two months

530
00:26:28,780 --> 00:26:30,780
to find four of her brothers.

531
00:26:30,780 --> 00:26:33,780
Within the next two years, she managed to locate

532
00:26:33,780 --> 00:26:36,780
two of her sisters and another brother.

533
00:26:36,780 --> 00:26:39,780
But one of the Vass children still remained unaccounted for,

534
00:26:39,780 --> 00:26:41,780
Cherine's brother Heath, who was six years old

535
00:26:41,780 --> 00:26:43,780
when they were separated.

536
00:26:46,780 --> 00:26:49,780
I actually had a dream one night

537
00:26:49,780 --> 00:26:51,780
that there was all nine of us in a room,

538
00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:57,780
and I just know that I'm going to get them all together.

539
00:26:57,780 --> 00:26:59,780
The night of our broadcast,

540
00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:01,780
Cherine's dream of finding her brother Heath came true

541
00:27:01,780 --> 00:27:03,780
when he called our telecenter.

542
00:27:03,780 --> 00:27:05,780
Heath, who was now married and living in Ohio,

543
00:27:05,780 --> 00:27:08,780
was shocked to learn he'd been featured on national television.

544
00:27:08,780 --> 00:27:11,780
The next day, Heath spoke with his sister

545
00:27:11,780 --> 00:27:14,780
for the first time in more than 17 years.

546
00:27:17,780 --> 00:27:20,780
Four weeks later, Heath, accompanied by his wife, Robin,

547
00:27:20,780 --> 00:27:23,780
arrived in Los Angeles for a special reunion

548
00:27:23,780 --> 00:27:26,780
with five of his brothers and sisters.

549
00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:34,780
I was really excited.

550
00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:36,780
I just wanted to get out of the car.

551
00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:38,780
I was thinking, who am I going to hug first?

552
00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:41,780
And I didn't want anybody to start bawling or anything.

553
00:27:41,780 --> 00:27:45,780
I just wanted to get out and hug everybody at once, basically.

554
00:27:47,780 --> 00:27:51,780
When I heard Heath was found, I was actually kind of numb.

555
00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:55,780
I thought it would take months.

556
00:27:55,780 --> 00:27:57,780
I didn't know that people would just call in,

557
00:27:57,780 --> 00:27:59,780
and it would be that easy.

558
00:28:00,780 --> 00:28:04,780
I'm glad it was, because I spent a long wait.

559
00:28:07,780 --> 00:28:10,780
Meeting everybody, it's changed my attitude a lot.

560
00:28:10,780 --> 00:28:13,780
It's picked up my attitude because, you know,

561
00:28:13,780 --> 00:28:15,780
I had a lot of feelings.

562
00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:19,780
I had that unwanted feeling, and I never really knew why.

563
00:28:19,780 --> 00:28:22,780
But now, since they've found me,

564
00:28:22,780 --> 00:28:24,780
I have that wanted feeling now.

565
00:28:29,780 --> 00:28:33,780
It's a good feeling, because I never really knew.

566
00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:39,780
Finding Heath and this reunion is the first day of a new beginning.

567
00:28:41,780 --> 00:28:44,780
I know when we all leave here, that we're all going to leave her differently.

568
00:28:44,780 --> 00:28:46,780
It's going to be better for all of us.

569
00:28:46,780 --> 00:28:50,780
The picturesque forests of the Appalachian Mountains

570
00:28:50,780 --> 00:28:53,780
are dotted with small, tranquil communities,

571
00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:55,780
where everyone knows their neighbor,

572
00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:58,780
and families take root for generations.

573
00:29:00,780 --> 00:29:03,780
Joe Harvey and his wife, Maddie, called Teet by Friends,

574
00:29:03,780 --> 00:29:06,780
exemplify the unique character of the area.

575
00:29:06,780 --> 00:29:09,780
The area is a small, tranquil, and beautiful place.

576
00:29:09,780 --> 00:29:12,780
The area is a small, tranquil, and beautiful place.

577
00:29:12,780 --> 00:29:14,780
They're called Teet by Friends,

578
00:29:14,780 --> 00:29:17,780
exemplify the unique character of the area.

579
00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:21,780
For 35 years, the Harbies ran a combination convenience store

580
00:29:21,780 --> 00:29:25,780
and automobile repair shop in Lewis Chapel Mountain, Tennessee,

581
00:29:25,780 --> 00:29:27,780
just northwest of Chattanooga.

582
00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:31,780
It was the only place to buy gas or groceries for miles around,

583
00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:34,780
and served as a gathering place for the community.

584
00:29:35,780 --> 00:29:39,780
Teet liked to talk a lot, and Joe was quieter than Teet was,

585
00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:41,780
but Teet liked to talk a lot.

586
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:44,780
That was kind of like the community newspaper,

587
00:29:44,780 --> 00:29:46,780
in other words, right there.

588
00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:50,780
You ever bought in?

589
00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:52,780
Anybody needed help, they would help.

590
00:29:52,780 --> 00:29:54,780
It was pretty well common knowledge

591
00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:57,780
that they kept cash receipts from the store.

592
00:29:57,780 --> 00:29:59,780
Hey, Patty, how are you doing?

593
00:29:59,780 --> 00:30:00,780
I asked them time and time again

594
00:30:00,780 --> 00:30:02,780
not to keep that kind of money around,

595
00:30:02,780 --> 00:30:04,780
but they needed a bank account.

596
00:30:04,780 --> 00:30:07,780
And Joe, I tried to get him to even get a gun

597
00:30:07,780 --> 00:30:10,780
and put in a garage and station there for his ad,

598
00:30:10,780 --> 00:30:12,780
and he wouldn't even do that.

599
00:30:12,780 --> 00:30:14,780
Trusted people too much.

600
00:30:15,780 --> 00:30:17,780
Let's go get some supper before you fall asleep

601
00:30:17,780 --> 00:30:18,780
around the TV.

602
00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:20,780
Joe and Maddie were such a fixture

603
00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:23,780
that everyone figured they would be there forever.

604
00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:31,780
Then came March the 4th, 1991.

605
00:30:31,780 --> 00:30:33,780
The local sheriff was called to the Harbies' house

606
00:30:33,780 --> 00:30:35,780
by a concerned neighbor.

607
00:30:35,780 --> 00:30:37,780
For the first time in memory,

608
00:30:37,780 --> 00:30:40,780
the store was not open at 9 a.m. on a Monday morning.

609
00:30:45,780 --> 00:30:50,780
I walked up a little steps, like we go up to the back door

610
00:30:50,780 --> 00:30:54,780
and reached the handle of the door,

611
00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:57,780
and it was unlocked so well it just pushed the door open.

612
00:30:58,780 --> 00:31:00,780
Joe, Teet.

613
00:31:06,780 --> 00:31:09,780
The inside of the house was completely gutted.

614
00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:12,780
Joe and Maddie were nowhere to be found.

615
00:31:14,780 --> 00:31:18,780
And I just turned and come back out onto the porch.

616
00:31:18,780 --> 00:31:25,780
I discovered blood spots with some higher fragment and flesh.

617
00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:29,780
So that gave me a funny feeling that something

618
00:31:29,780 --> 00:31:32,780
had really happened at that point.

619
00:31:32,780 --> 00:31:35,780
Agents from the TBI, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation,

620
00:31:35,780 --> 00:31:37,780
arrived on the scene.

621
00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:41,780
State arson investigators soon found a 2-gallon gasoline can

622
00:31:41,780 --> 00:31:43,780
on the kitchen table.

623
00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:48,780
The investigators found various blood spots throughout the house

624
00:31:48,780 --> 00:31:51,780
and on porch and steps leading from the house.

625
00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:53,780
The conclusion is obvious.

626
00:31:53,780 --> 00:31:57,780
The arson was set for an attempt to cover up a crime scene.

627
00:31:57,780 --> 00:32:00,780
The investigation was carried out in the first place.

628
00:32:00,780 --> 00:32:04,780
The arson attempted to cover up a crime that had been committed there.

629
00:32:04,780 --> 00:32:08,780
And so with the idea that we had been informed that they did keep

630
00:32:08,780 --> 00:32:12,780
large sums of money, first reaction is there had been a robbery.

631
00:32:12,780 --> 00:32:15,780
I didn't think maybe they might have been kidnapped.

632
00:32:15,780 --> 00:32:19,780
I thought maybe they'd went on the smokies or something like that.

633
00:32:19,780 --> 00:32:23,780
But when I got to the mountain and they told me they'd found blood

634
00:32:23,780 --> 00:32:26,780
and the house had been burned inside.

635
00:32:26,780 --> 00:32:29,780
I didn't know what to think at that point.

636
00:32:29,780 --> 00:32:33,780
All I could think about was hoping that they were still alive.

637
00:32:35,780 --> 00:32:39,780
A large-scale search of the area yielded absolutely nothing.

638
00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:43,780
The disappearance of Joe and Maddie Harvey left their family and friends stunned.

639
00:32:43,780 --> 00:32:47,780
That sort of thing just did not happen in Lewis Chapel Mountain.

640
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:50,780
But soon the community would be rocked again.

641
00:32:50,780 --> 00:32:54,780
Another member of the Harvey family would mysteriously vanish.

642
00:32:55,780 --> 00:32:58,780
Joe and Maddie had no children of their own,

643
00:32:58,780 --> 00:33:01,780
but were extremely close to their extended family,

644
00:33:01,780 --> 00:33:06,780
especially their niece, 27-year-old Cheryl Holland and her young daughter.

645
00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:09,780
Hey Cheryl, hey child.

646
00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:11,780
Hi Cheryl.

647
00:33:11,780 --> 00:33:15,780
Tate could not have loved Cheryl any more if she hadn't been her own daughter.

648
00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:23,780
That's where she felt about her and she felt that way about the little girl of Cheryl.

649
00:33:23,780 --> 00:33:28,780
She loved that little girl today. I mean she thought that little girl was all they were.

650
00:33:28,780 --> 00:33:32,780
One week after Joe and Maddie disappeared,

651
00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:37,780
Cheryl's pickup was found abandoned at a truck stop two hours from home.

652
00:33:37,780 --> 00:33:41,780
Investigators found the truck unlocked.

653
00:33:41,780 --> 00:33:47,780
They found keys in the truck and they found a necklace that has later been identified as hers laying beside the truck.

654
00:33:47,780 --> 00:33:51,780
Also her pocket boot was still in the truck.

655
00:33:51,780 --> 00:33:57,780
The evidence they found on the scene would lead a reasonable person to assume there had been an abduction.

656
00:33:57,780 --> 00:34:00,780
What time do you leave Ross, lady?

657
00:34:00,780 --> 00:34:03,780
It's about the middle of the morning on Wednesday.

658
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:08,780
TBI agents soon questioned Cheryl's common law husband, Eddie Wooten.

659
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:13,780
He tells about her taking him to Newport News, Virginia.

660
00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:18,780
He tells about stopping at a place where they slept,

661
00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:21,780
but he can't remember where they stopped.

662
00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:26,780
So we kept finding many, many inconsistencies such as that.

663
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:31,780
We have two missing people now we have three all out of a very close immediate family,

664
00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:36,780
even as I say living next door and many times in her life.

665
00:34:36,780 --> 00:34:38,780
The favorite niece is missing.

666
00:34:38,780 --> 00:34:41,780
There's no money in the house, the arson, the blood.

667
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:42,780
It all bills.

668
00:34:42,780 --> 00:34:45,780
And then the question is, is she really missing?

669
00:34:45,780 --> 00:34:50,780
Is she an abductee or is she part and parcel of a crime?

670
00:34:50,780 --> 00:34:55,780
As far as thinking that Cheryl was involved in anything, the TBI asked me,

671
00:34:55,780 --> 00:34:58,780
I was telling him that we'd had about all the grief we could take

672
00:34:58,780 --> 00:35:02,780
because we'd lost a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law, you know.

673
00:35:02,780 --> 00:35:05,780
And he wouldn't know what was connected.

674
00:35:05,780 --> 00:35:08,780
I think it was connected and I said, no, there ain't no way.

675
00:35:08,780 --> 00:35:11,780
I mean, you know, Cheryl was a Christian girl and she was living Christian life

676
00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:14,780
and there's no way that Cheryl's involved in this.

677
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:16,780
This is all together a different story.

678
00:35:16,780 --> 00:35:19,780
Eddie, when was the last time you saw Cheryl?

679
00:35:19,780 --> 00:35:22,780
It's like I said, when she dropped me off at Newport News.

680
00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:25,780
OK, where was Cheryl the week...

681
00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:28,780
On March 10th, Eddie Wooten was questioned again.

682
00:35:28,780 --> 00:35:33,780
He told authorities that in late February he took Cheryl to a hospital in Knoxville

683
00:35:33,780 --> 00:35:35,780
for a week-long treatment of stomach cancer.

684
00:35:35,780 --> 00:35:37,780
What was the name of the hospital?

685
00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:39,780
I don't remember.

686
00:35:39,780 --> 00:35:41,780
You don't remember the name of the hospital?

687
00:35:41,780 --> 00:35:45,780
We had been told by the family that she had borrowed money

688
00:35:45,780 --> 00:35:52,780
and gone to other institutions for supposed treatment of a cancerous condition

689
00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:55,780
and we found that not to be true.

690
00:35:55,780 --> 00:36:00,780
On the day in question that he claimed that he left her in Knoxville for treatments.

691
00:36:00,780 --> 00:36:03,780
She, in fact, was working in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

692
00:36:03,780 --> 00:36:06,780
How could she be in Knoxville at the hospital

693
00:36:06,780 --> 00:36:11,780
and here in Chattanooga working at the truck stop at the same time, Eddie?

694
00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:14,780
If I tell you what happened, what's going to happen to me?

695
00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:19,780
Finally Wooten broke down and a tale of heartless betrayal began to unravel.

696
00:36:19,780 --> 00:36:23,780
In all, Wooten would tell his story three different times.

697
00:36:23,780 --> 00:36:27,780
What follows is based on the court records of Eddie Wooten's confessions.

698
00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:32,780
That whole week Cheryl worked at the truck stop and I stayed at home

699
00:36:32,780 --> 00:36:37,780
on Saturday, I guess March 2nd.

700
00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:43,780
Cheryl came home from work and she started telling me that she needed more money.

701
00:36:43,780 --> 00:36:50,780
So that night we were going to go up to her mother's so Cheryl could pick up a paycheck.

702
00:36:50,780 --> 00:36:55,780
On the day or in question and towards the evening hours,

703
00:36:55,780 --> 00:37:01,780
they stopped by a service station and purchased a gas can and filled it up with gasoline.

704
00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:07,780
They then went up on the mountain where her parents lived, where she went in to talk to her mother.

705
00:37:07,780 --> 00:37:12,780
And there they drove to the residence of Joe and Maddie Harvick.

706
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:16,780
We got to do it. We need the money.

707
00:37:16,780 --> 00:37:18,780
You don't need it that bad.

708
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:22,780
We need it. They got more than they need and I know where they got it.

709
00:37:23,780 --> 00:37:26,780
Eddie, are you going to help me do this or not?

710
00:37:27,780 --> 00:37:34,780
According to Wooten, he and Cheryl were not alone that night.

711
00:37:34,780 --> 00:37:41,780
When they went into Joe and Maddie's house, they left their six week old son and Cheryl's five year old daughter in the cab of their truck.

712
00:37:44,780 --> 00:37:45,780
You got the gun?

713
00:37:45,780 --> 00:37:47,780
What do we need a gun for?

714
00:37:47,780 --> 00:37:49,780
Because we're going to have to kill them.

715
00:37:49,780 --> 00:37:51,780
Kill them? Kill Joe and T?

716
00:37:51,780 --> 00:37:53,780
Do you think they're just going to hand over the money?

717
00:37:53,780 --> 00:37:56,780
Look Eddie, we got no choice. Now come on.

718
00:37:56,780 --> 00:38:03,780
And I said that I didn't want to kill them, but she said that I was going to have to help her to do it.

719
00:38:03,780 --> 00:38:05,780
And so I said I would.

720
00:38:06,780 --> 00:38:07,780
Hey Joe.

721
00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:10,780
Oh, hi Cheryl. How are you doing?

722
00:38:10,780 --> 00:38:11,780
Where's T?

723
00:38:11,780 --> 00:38:13,780
Oh, she's in the back bedroom.

724
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:24,780
Thank you.

725
00:38:36,780 --> 00:38:43,780
She came out of the back bedroom and I shot her in the head.

726
00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:59,780
Cheryl, she told me to go out into the driveway and tell the kids to get down onto the floorboard of the truck.

727
00:38:59,780 --> 00:39:12,780
According to Wooten, he and Cheryl stuffed the bodies into the trunk of Joe and Maddie's own car.

728
00:39:12,780 --> 00:39:19,780
Next, Wooten followed Cheryl as she drove the Harvey's car across the Alabama state line.

729
00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:23,780
They stopped at the Bridgeport ferry on the Tennessee River.

730
00:39:29,780 --> 00:39:54,780
According to Wooten, Cheryl later returned alone to Joe and Maddie's house.

731
00:39:54,780 --> 00:40:06,780
She stole an estimated $150,000 in cash and then tried to cover up the crime.

732
00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:14,780
Two days later, Cheryl brazenly returned to the crime scene again, even as investigators were searching for evidence.

733
00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:20,780
She had tended, obviously, for the house to burn completely and the house did not burn.

734
00:40:20,780 --> 00:40:26,780
As a result of that, the gas can was left basically intact on the kitchen table.

735
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:28,780
You're not going to believe what's on the bottom of this can.

736
00:40:28,780 --> 00:40:29,780
What's that?

737
00:40:29,780 --> 00:40:30,780
Bloody fingerprint.

738
00:40:30,780 --> 00:40:32,780
That ain't Mike.

739
00:40:32,780 --> 00:40:33,780
Come here.

740
00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:35,780
Cute print.

741
00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:52,780
And from that gas can, we were able to obtain a latent print, which definitely matched up to the known thumbprint of Cheryl Holland.

742
00:40:52,780 --> 00:40:54,780
I was mad.

743
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:57,780
I was hurt because I couldn't believe that she would do anything like that.

744
00:40:57,780 --> 00:40:58,780
Not at all.

745
00:40:58,780 --> 00:41:01,780
Cheryl just, Cheryl would not have had that in her.

746
00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:05,780
I've done hurt so much on Cheryl that it didn't shock me anymore.

747
00:41:05,780 --> 00:41:14,780
I mean, it was, I just felt like it, it was, it was Sherri and Eddie and at this time I felt like she was much involved as Eddie was.

748
00:41:16,780 --> 00:41:19,780
Searchers began dragging near the Bridgeport ferry.

749
00:41:19,780 --> 00:41:23,780
On Wednesday, April 17th, they found the Harvey's car.

750
00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:28,780
Joe and Maddie had both been shot in the head, just as Eddie Wooten described.

751
00:41:29,780 --> 00:41:35,780
The hardest part is when I had to identify the bodies.

752
00:41:35,780 --> 00:41:41,780
I just identified them and walked off her for a few minutes I had to.

753
00:41:41,780 --> 00:41:45,780
That was a bad thing to, to look at them.

754
00:41:45,780 --> 00:41:52,780
The way I'd always seen them at the store and everything and to see them in the trunk of this car.

755
00:41:52,780 --> 00:41:54,780
It was bad.

756
00:41:54,780 --> 00:41:56,780
Really bad.

757
00:41:59,780 --> 00:42:02,780
Eddie Wooten was arraigned on charges of first degree murder.

758
00:42:02,780 --> 00:42:07,780
A warrant was immediately issued for Cheryl Holland's arrest on the same charges.

759
00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:12,780
Investigators began to track her movements in the days just after the killings.

760
00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:16,780
She seemed to be traveling alone, having left her children with her mother.

761
00:42:16,780 --> 00:42:22,780
But authorities soon learned of a mysterious man who had apparently been following her.

762
00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:33,780
On March 7th at 9.30 p.m., five days after the murder, Cheryl was seen by a service station attendant in Greenville, Tennessee.

763
00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:35,780
Hi, can I help you?

764
00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:38,780
I was going to get some gas, but I got a good one.

765
00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:48,780
We have a witness that saw Miss Holland talking to a male with a, with a beard and a black leather jacket driving a red and white pickup truck.

766
00:42:48,780 --> 00:42:53,780
Miss Holland didn't seem to have any desire to talk to the bearded man.

767
00:42:53,780 --> 00:43:00,780
She left the scene in the truck of the, the male and it followed behind her in the same direction.

768
00:43:03,780 --> 00:43:10,780
About an hour later, Cheryl was spotted using a payphone at a truck stop, 12 miles from the service station.

769
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She called her family and said she was two hours from home.

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Later, another witness spotted two people talking inside Cheryl's pickup truck.

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A man meeting the same description of the bearded person seen in the Greenville area had come to Cheryl Holland's place of business on the day before the murders.

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And she was seen writing this man a check.

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Now, whether or not that is the same man, whether or not a bearded man has any involvement in this at all, of course, would be idle speculation on our part.

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And we have no factual basis to conclude that he is.

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Cheryl was last seen at the truck stop around 11.30 p.m. that same evening.

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Whether or not she planned this disappearance prior to the homicide or whether or not the disappearance was impulsive, I don't know.

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But we as prosecutors and investigators do feel that she is alive and has assumed a new identity somewhere.

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You're innocent and to prove and guilty. And I don't think they're giving her the benefit of the doubt as much as I would like for her to be.

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I think that Eddie went berserk and Cheryl was just there and she didn't know what to do.

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If she did burn the house, it was the only way that she could figure that she could get away from Eddie.

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Until she could see that it was safe for her and her babies, she's just going to have to go in and try to help him as far as we're having this year off.

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I think Eddie or someone that he knows has done something to her, has killed her.

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Eddie's first place not got that much education. Second place, Eddie did not know.

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Eddie and Cheryl had been together about a year and Eddie had no way of knowing Joe and them had a lot of money in the house.

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A year has passed since the murders of Joe and Maddie Harvey, yet a number of questions remain.

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Did Cheryl Holland mastermind the murders? If so, what could drive a woman to kill the aunt and uncle who loved her so much?

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Did Cheryl stage her own disappearance to escape justice? Or did she simply fall prey to an unknown assailant, possibly the mysterious bearded man?

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No one will ever know exactly what transpired on the night of the murders until Cheryl Holland is found.

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Authorities believe she is still alive in his fled Tennessee. Her common law husband Eddie Wooten remains behind bars awaiting trial.

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Update, Austin, Texas. Less than an hour after our broadcast, Cheryl Holland was captured thanks to a viewer's tip.

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Holland was arrested at this convenience store where she'd been working for six months under the assumed name Amy Forrester.

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I asked her if she was Cheryl Holland and she said yes and that was about it. We put her in handcuffs at that point and placed her under arrest.

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Employees of the store were shocked to learn of their co-workers' double life.

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The first thing I got to my mind, no, that can't be her. Not Amy. The only thing she said last night, she said, I'm sorry. I got myself into a mess and I won't get myself out of it.

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Four days later, Cheryl Holland was returned to Tennessee to face charges of first degree murder.

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Plenty of time that you apprehended someone that's a fugitive. In a case like this, a case of double homicide, you're relieved and yes, we're relieved. We're relieved from that stand-up.

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If convicted of the charges against her, Cheryl Holland could receive the death penalty.

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Join me next time for another fascinating edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

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