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This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members

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and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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In 1977, outside Tucson, Arizona, a businessman was found shot in the back of the head. 13

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years later, a computer draftsman died in a similar manner in Phoenix. The only possible

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link between the two men was Don Devereaux, a freelance journalist who now believes a

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second bullet was meant for him.

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In Rochester, New York, a brazen gang of thieves made offered nearly $11 million in a daring

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daylight robbery. Perhaps you can help authorities identify three possible suspects.

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Martha Brown and her twin brother Bobby spent their formative years in foster homes. But

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when the twins were six, the authorities decided to separate them, and Martha embarked on a

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search which has now spanned more than three decades.

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Also tonight an important update. Thanks to our viewers, an alleged drunk driver wanted

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in the highway desks of an elderly couple is now in custody. Join me for another edition

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of Unsolved Mysteries.

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May 14, 1990. In Phoenix, Arizona, Doug Johnston, the computer draftsman, was found in a

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front seat of his car. He had been shot once behind the left ear from a distance of at

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least 12 inches.

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13 years earlier, June 18, 1977, the body of businessman Charles Morgan was found in the

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Arizona desert 40 miles southwest of Tucson. He had been shot once in the back of the head.

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Ironically, he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

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Two suspicious deaths, with no apparent connection.

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Except that the authorities continue to hold with the unlikely possibility that both men

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committed suicide, many disagree, citing in particular the case of Charles Morgan.

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It is not a very normal place to shoot oneself as a suicide. In bearing mind, he's wearing

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a bulletproof vest at the time. I've never seen in all my years as a journalist a fellow

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who took himself out in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest and shot himself in the

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back of the head.

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On a previous broadcast, Don Devereaux was a key interview in our segment about the Charles

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Morgan case. Devereaux was convinced that the deaths of Morgan and Doug Johnston were

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not suicides, not random killings. Devereaux believes both men were murdered and that both

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were targets of a contract hit. Now, on a dramatic twist, Don Devereaux has been warned

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that the bullet which killed Doug Johnston was meant for him.

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The complex saga began 15 years ago in Tucson, Arizona. On March 22, 1977, Charles Morgan,

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a devoted husband and father, disappeared, apparently abducted on the way to his escrow

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company.

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Three days later, he returned home just as suddenly at two in the morning. He was staggering,

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weak, and unable to talk.

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Morgan wrote notes to his wife, telling her an hallucinogenic drug had been painted on

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the back of his throat. He was afraid that dosage was lethal. Morgan wrote that if his

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wife tried to contact the police or even a physician, the entire family would be killed.

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For a week, Morgan's wife fed him with an eyedropper. He still could not speak, but

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began to allude to the fact that he was secretly working for the federal government. He wrote

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that his abductors had taken his treasury ID.

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On June 7, 1977, Charles Morgan vanished again. Eleven days later, his body was found.

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Three weeks later, two men, claiming to be government officials, showed up at Morgan's

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home. While his widows stood helplessly by, the two men ransacked the house. No one

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knows what they were looking for or what they found. The case remained mired in mystery

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until our broadcast. More than 600 calls came into the telecenter. Don Devereaux investigated

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every lead. What he learned was staggering.

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Morgan, it turns out, was extensively involved in money laundering activities through his

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escrow company in Tucson. We also ascertained that he was doing large transactions in gold

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and platinum, anywhere from weekly to monthly, for the several years between 1973 and when

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he was killed in 1977. He was doing well in excess of a billion with a B, a billion dollars

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a year in gold alone over that period, well in excess. And that much of it, in fact, seems

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to have been coming out of Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War.

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Charles Morgan.

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A lot of people seemed to have been involved, including renegade folks from the U.S. intelligence

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community, some CIA people who were doing stuff perhaps under cover of the agency,

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but probably most likely to line their own pockets. Also some indication that Vietnamese

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government officials that were going into exile were involved. People from the Department

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of Defense probably were involved, again, in a renegade rather than an official capacity.

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Devereaux has discovered that Charles Morgan kept a set of duplicate records of all the

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illicit transactions. Evidently, Morgan thought the duplicates would be his life insurance

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policy. Instead, they became his death warrant.

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He was clearly on the run the last few months of his life, literally on the run the last

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10 days of his life, and nevertheless, somebody caught up with him.

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Don Devereaux was convinced that Charles Morgan was killed because he knew too much. Somebody

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wanted Morgan's silence forever. It seemed an isolated incident, and three months after

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the unsolved mysteries broadcast, and 13 years after Charles Morgan died, another unusual

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death occurred, right across the street from Don Devereaux's home in Phoenix.

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On May 14, 1990, at 11 p.m., Doug Johnston left for work as usual. He was assigned to

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the night shift at a local computer graphics company.

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An hour later, Doug Johnston was found dead in the company parking lot. He had been shot

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once behind his left ear from a distance of at least 12 inches. At first glance, it appeared

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to be suicide, yet oddly, Johnston was right-handed. In addition, there was no gun found at the

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scene, and there was no powder residue on Johnston's hands.

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As far as evidence, the only thing we found was a 25-caliber bullet casing. We did not

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find a weapon that fired that bullet. Our medical examiner determined that it was just as likely

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that the gunshot wound to the head could have been self-inflicted as it was as likely that

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another person had done that. So based on that, we can't classify it either a murder

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or a suicide, and it's being maintained in our homicide files.

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Doug would never commit suicide. He had just finished a year of computer-rated drafting.

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He graduated with honors. He was on his way up there, and when he graduated in March,

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got the job in April. Everything was going really great. We had a future starting all

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over again for us, and there's no way he would have committed suicide.

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Don Devereaux followed the investigation with great interest. He lived across the street

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from the parking lot where Doug Johnston had been killed. Johnston's car was an aging

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Toyota station wagon very much like Devereaux's.

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I contacted Phoenix PD within a few days of the Johnston shooting and told them that I

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was across the street, had a similar car, and was in fact working on a homicide case

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and some stuff that also involved some other substantial criminal activity at the time

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that Johnston was killed. The initial read I got from Phoenix PD was one of not really

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thinking that that had any bearing on the Johnston shooting. And so although I continued to track

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it for a while, over a period of time, I just sort of put it out of my mind.

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The year after Doug Johnston was shot, Don Devereaux was contacted by a writer from Washington,

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D.C. named Dan Castellaro. Devereaux agreed to share the information he had uncovered concerning

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Charles Morgan's illegal gold transactions. But before Devereaux could even mail his research,

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Dan Castellaro was dead.

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Castellaro was found in a hotel room with his wrist slashed deeply a dozen times. Police

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ruled the death of suicide, but to Don Devereaux and others, it seemed far more sinister.

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Dan Castellaro's brother is a doctor. The doctor tells us that Dan Castellaro was

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so squeamish that he was reluctant to allow his brother to prick his finger to do any

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kind of blood sample work on Dan over the years. I mean, that's squeamish about blood.

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Of all the ways that Dan Castellaro might have committed suicide, had he chosen to commit

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suicide, slashing his wrists a dozen times in a bathtub, and dying in that manner seems

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to me the least likely of anything he could possibly have done.

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These guys don't offer much. They don't volunteer information.

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Six months after Dan Castellaro's death, Devereaux had a shocking conversation with another journalist

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who said he had a warning from a highly placed source in the CIA.

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The word I got back was that they didn't think they were getting you when they got that guy.

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It was a boss job? Yes. And these are the exact words.

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There have been, and there still are, contracts out to kill you.

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Plural? That means contracts had been out there in the past.

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It's a shocker when somebody calls you up and says, you're about to be killed.

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That doesn't mean it's going to happen tomorrow.

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My colleague told me that it looked like I had a problem, that he understood from his

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CIA contact that whatever it was, it involved something I was looking at that had both CIA

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and organized crime dimensions, and that I could be in some real trouble and to get my head

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down, maybe even get out of there for a while until he could figure out what was happening.

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It's on the street. People know that somebody's after you.

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Later, two other sources, one from the CIA and one from Israeli intelligence confirmed

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the death threats. Has Don Devereaux been targeted for murder because of his investigation

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into the Charles Morgan case? If so, then Doug Johnston may very well have been the

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innocent victim of a contract hit meant for Devereaux himself.

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His parking lot is right across the street from my parking lot.

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There's a one-digit difference in our numbers. I've gotten mail fairly frequently for the

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building across the street. He was driving a car much like my car.

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Somebody evidently was waiting for him in the dark, must have known about where he would

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be pulling in and parking. And this was not just some random shooting.

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This was a shooting that had all the characteristics of a very professional killing.

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This was a single-shot, 25-caliber, back of the left ear.

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A very slick murder.

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I can't say for an absolute fact what happened to him. I wasn't there.

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I can simply say that on the basis of what I'm looking at and hearing, I think the odds

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on him having taken his own life are virtually nonexistent.

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If Johnston was killed with a bullet that was intended for me, I feel terrible about it.

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And I feel very awful for his wife and family.

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There's so much evidence that these people were after Don instead of my husband.

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It wasn't a gang-related shooting or suicide or anything.

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It all kind of fits together that they were after Don.

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And my husband just happened to be in the wrong place.

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Thirty-some metric tons of deal, that's a hundred million dollar deals.

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That's an awful lot of stuff.

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I suspect that the same network of people, mob people, intelligence community people,

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that were involved in a lot of this 1970s activities that we're focusing on in terms of

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bullying, are probably still out there.

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I am not thrilled to think that there could be, quote, a high-level CIA official, close

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quote, who knows about this, who is not himself taking official actions to correct it.

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And clearly, if there are people in the U.S. government who know and disapprove of this

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sort of thing, then they damn well should get off their butts and do something about

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it.

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For those unfamiliar with the details, some of Don Devereaux' conspiracy theories about

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the mob, run-a-gate CIA agents, smuggle gold and contract hits may seem far-fetched.

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But the fact remains that Don Devereaux has tape recordings of a number of credible sources

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who warned him that he is the next target.

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In 1979, John Constable and his wife Virginia retired to Davenport, Florida.

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On March 3rd, 1991, a couple left their home to visit their only daughter Linda, who lived

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in Jacksonville, 200 miles north.

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That same morning, 12 miles away, a man named James White got behind the wheel of his pickup

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truck.

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A house painter and handyman had a long history of drunk driving arrests.

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John Constable was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife Virginia died an hour later

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from massive internal injuries.

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The Florida Highway Patrol officer said that there had been an automobile accident and

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there was a fatality. I just remember asking which one.

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I never dreamed it would have been both of them.

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James White was transported to a nearby hospital. He suffered a fractured jaw, a broken ankle,

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and three broken ribs. Tests later revealed that at the time of the crash, White's blood

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alcohol content was twice Florida's legal limit.

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James White was eventually charged with two counts of DUI manslaughter and one count of

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driving under the influence. But just three days after the crash, White, assisted by his

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relatives, left the hospital and disappeared. His whereabouts remained a mystery until the

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night of our broadcast.

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Update, Burlington, Vermont. James White has been arrested.

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Following the broadcast of Unsolved Mystery, we received some 200 phone calls about James

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White and his whereabouts. Two days after the Unsolved Mystery's broadcast, we got

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the phone call we were waiting on. James White was spotted by someone who had seen the program

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up in Burlington, Vermont. He was seen in a bar and he was arrested and taken into custody

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up there.

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I was very glad to get him off the road to think that he's not going to kill someone

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else. I think it's a terrible thing what he did. He should have stayed there and he

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should have faced the music.

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Two weeks after he was captured, James White was returned to Florida where he is scheduled

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to stand trial on all charges. White, who has two prior convictions for drunk driving,

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could receive a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

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Rochester, New York, June 26, 1990. At around 6.45 a.m., Armored Motor Services of America

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dispatched to transport for a scheduled delivery. Inside the truck was nearly $11 million in

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various denominations. The events you are about to see are based on an official police

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investigation.

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Once after 7 a.m., the armored truck made an unauthorized but not uncommon stop at a

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convenience store. A guard, whom we will call Mary Wilson, went inside the store while

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the driver, Albert Ranieri, waited in the truck.

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We stopped there about once or twice a week and usually get about the same thing. That

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morning, there was no one in there when I walked in. It was just me and then a lady came in

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later on. It was normal.

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While Mary Wilson was buying donuts and coffee, a daring assault was unfolding in full view

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just 100 feet away.

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Put your hands on the wheel. Look straight ahead. We'll all get home tonight.

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Don't move or I'll kill you. Don't turn around.

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Five minutes later, Mary Wilson returned to the truck, unaware that her partner was no

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longer in control.

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Having so fast, I didn't get a chance to get scared. He pushed me to the floor and tied

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my hands and my feet together with plastic handcuffs.

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When I say drive, you drive. When I say turn, you turn.

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Albert Ranieri was forced at gunpoint to drive to a secluded location, one and a half miles

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from the convenience store. The armored truck was followed by a gray Chevrolet van.

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One couldn't have picked a better location. It was about 75 to 100 yards off the road

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and it completely disappears from sight behind a small hill. And we know that the sight had

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been prepared prior to the robbery. There are several tree branches that had been freshly

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cut to make sure that this large vehicle would fit.

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All right, get back here. Crawl through that window.

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Okay, just take it.

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Shut up. Don't talk to me. Crawl through that window. I'll kill you.

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The authorities believed that the two robbers were met at the location by at least one other

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accomplice.

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Albert Ranieri was bound and gagged and forced on top of Mary Wilson.

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At that point in time, the vehicle is unloaded and there's approximately 2,000 pounds of

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money there.

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One train in particular was full of $100 bills. There was a million dollars in hundreds.

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There was almost $8 million in 20s and the rest was in a variety of other denominations.

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According to Wilson and Ranieri, there was little dialogue between the robbers. The

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money was transferred with brisk efficiency.

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This was a lot of money, so we believe that it took probably in the neighborhood of five,

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maybe ten minutes to offload that amount of bulk.

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I sat there quiet and made sure I didn't hear any more voices.

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I was scared for my life. I kept thinking about my son and I just thought I was going

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to die. That's why I broke loose because I wasn't going to sit there and wait for somebody

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to come back and kill me.

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It took Mary Wilson 15 painful minutes to rip through the plastic handcuffs. Unable to

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free her partner from his restraints, she drove the armored truck to company headquarters

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and reported the robbery.

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In less than an hour, the thieves had made off with nearly $11 million. The next day,

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the getaway van was discovered five miles away.

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The interior was littered with over $13,000 in small bills. The leftovers of what authorities

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determined is the largest on-the-road armored car robbery in United States history. Everything

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seemed to indicate that the heist was an inside job.

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A conveniently broken porthole allowed one robber to hold the driver at gunpoint while

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the other allegedly used a key to gain entry through the truck's side door.

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Both gunmen wore clothing which was nearly identical to the uniforms worn by company

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employees.

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Finally, only a limited number of people were aware of the enormous amount of untraceable

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cash being transported that day.

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When we return, a woman needs your help to find her long-lost twin brother.

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The Dust Bowl, one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history. During

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the 1930s, years of relentless drought transformed the lush farmlands of Oakland, where the

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Texas and the Midwest into a barren wasteland. Thousands of families were forced to abandon

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their ancestral homes, desperately searching for work.

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Uprooted and impoverished, many made their way west to California's fertile San Joaquin

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Valley. 15 years later, many still remained in the area as migrant farm workers.

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Following the fruit and vegetable harvest from town to town, Ira and Dora Brown were typical

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Dust Bowl refugees. They had lost their farm in Oklahoma and never returned.

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The last time they were in the area, they were in the area of the West Coast. They

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had lost their farm in Oklahoma and never returned. By 1951, they had four children,

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and Dora was pregnant again. On July 27, 1951, Dora Brown gave birth to twins, a girl and

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a boy. The children were named Martha and Robert. With six miles to feed, the Browns

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felt they had no choice but to put the twins up for adoption.

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I think my parents gave me up out of their best interests, and they really couldn't afford

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us. I had a heart condition. I think my father finally reluctantly gave us up for adoption

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so I could get good medical treatment and get an education.

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Martha and Bobby were placed in California's foster care system. They were shuttled from

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one family to another, never knowing what it was like to live in a secure home. Finally

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in 1956, when they were five years old, Martha and Bobby came to live with Alice and Arnold

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Breitler in Reedley, California. My name is Alice, and this is Arnold, and we're very

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happy to have you here. And in the house we have some presents for you. Would you like

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to go inside and see them? Alright, let's do that.

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I can see Martha and Bobby as they came to my door. They were so pretty and so cute,

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my first time to see them. And I really fell in love with them right away.

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And this is your room, and there's your doll, and there's your truck.

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I went right to the bedroom and grabbed the doll and just hugged it. And I thought that

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was very sweet of her. I didn't at the time realize that they hadn't had toys before.

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One more brush, one more brush, is that okay?

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The social worker told us that they had been mistreated. And it took me two and a half

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hours to get the dirt off of their bodies. They were so hungry, and they just ate for

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a week. It seemed like we couldn't fill them up. As time went by, Martha would tell me

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things, that the home that they had been in, the foster home, that they had been in, they

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had to stand on the outside while the family ate their dinner. And then they would bring

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them in and give them beans. We were hungry when we got to the Brightlers,

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very malnourished. I have memories of Bobby and I going to the kitchen and sneaking out

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what food we could find. It seemed to be a nightly ritual. We were so afraid of going

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hungry again. Bobby and I were very close to each other at that time. It was like we

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were the only kids in the whole world that loved each other, and nobody else loved us.

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Years of severe neglect had taken a tremendous emotional toll on the twins, especially Bobby.

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Almost immediately, there was evidence of serious behavioral problems.

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One day they were playing out there in the backyard. I went out and here Bobby was holding

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Martha's face right down in the water, and he wouldn't let her up. I think Bobby loved

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his sister very much, but he also resented her. He'd be real sweet, and then he'd build

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himself up into these little fits like, and then they'd pass away, and then he'd be sweet

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again. It seemed to be something in him.

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Bobby's violent temper was a constant worry for both the Brightlers and the Child Welfare

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Office. In 1957, the Welfare Board, fearing for Martha's safety, decided it would be

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best to separate the twins. Bobby was sent to yet another foster home.

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I remember very well the day my twin brother left. We were sitting out on the steps, and

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I didn't know he was going to leave, and I don't know if he knew he was going to leave.

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Now be a good boy, Bobby. I'm going to miss you. Give me a hug. Now say goodbye to your

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sister. And at the last minute, Bobby gave me his

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clown outfit that we had wore that Halloween. And that was the one thing he could give me

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that was very special to him.

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I miss my twin very, very much, because it seemed like he was the only person in the

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whole world that really loved me, and he was the only person in the whole world that I

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loved. So when he left, I really missed him.

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I felt so bad, and even to this day, I feel like I wish I hadn't sent him away, but I

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mean, I'm sorry that they had me send him away.

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When the twins were eleven, Bobby and his foster family moved out of the area. Martha and the

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Breitlers never heard from him again. In 1962, Martha was legally adopted by the Breitlers.

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After the death of her adoptive father, she and her mother moved to Ashland, Oregon. But

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Martha never forgot her twin brother. When she was eighteen, Martha made a special trip

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to the welfare office in Fresno, California. She learned that Bobby had been adopted and

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eventually obtained his address.

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I wrote my twin brother to ask him if he could come to my high school graduation, and I remember

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waiting excitedly each day for the postman to bring me a letter from him.

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A few weeks later, Martha's letter was returned, unopened.

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I think I thought at that time that I had lost my twin for good, that I would never be

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able to find him again.

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Twenty years would pass before Martha was able to uncover any additional information about

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her brother. In 1989, Martha obtained copies of Bobby's birth certificate and driver's

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license. She also found that he had an address in Los Angeles.

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I was so excited. I was jumping up and down and clapping and yelling and the whole bit.

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What Martha did not realize was that the address belonged to a shelter for the homeless. But

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according to the records of the midnight mission, Bobby had not been seen there for more than

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two years.

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I think my twin brother and I, while we were little, had a special bond. I still think

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he, in his own little way, still remembers me and loves me as he did when I was a child.

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It's just very important for me to find him. It would mean the world to me if I could find him.

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Next, a murder investigation is complicated by the victim's religious beliefs.

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America's God's Crucible, the Great Melting Pot. These words, written nearly a century

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ago, are as true today as they were during the great European migration. However, woven

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into the colorful fabric of American society, a few subcultures are so self-contained and

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tradition-bound that they are shrouded in mystery for those in the mainstream and are

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all too often misunderstood.

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Orthodox Jews comprise only about one-tenth of one percent of our population. Their roots

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may be traced back 5,000 years to the time of Moses. Observant Orthodox Jews live according

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to strict codes of social and moral conduct, which have remained unchanged for centuries.

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Hours of daily prayer and a rigid dietary regime are among the ancient rituals which guide

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the Orthodox Jew through birth, marriage and death.

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To ensure the continuation of the tradition, many communities have established Yeshivas,

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schools which include an emphasis on the religious and ethical principles of Orthodox Judaism.

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On Saturday, November 1st, 1986, Don Daly, a veteran Nassau County New York police detective,

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was unexpectedly thrust into this uncommon environment. At 8 a.m., Daly was dispatched

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to Yeshiva and Long Beach, New York to investigate the murder of one of its students.

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The victim was 15-year-old Hayam Weiss of New York City. A single blow to his skull

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with a sharp object had severed his spinal column.

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Investigators found no murder weapon. There was no evidence of a robbery or signs of a

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struggle. Almost immediately, Detective Daly realized that this would be a unique investigation,

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unlike any other in his 25-year career.

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Well, I think initially we were dealing with a Saturday, which is a Sabbath. When we arrived

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at the scene sometime around 8 o'clock in the morning, it was difficult to talk to anybody

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at that particular time because, number one, the people we're dealing with, being Orthodox

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Jews, they're not able to write. We couldn't take statements from anybody. We got the impression

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a lot of the students at that time were afraid to talk to us or were a little shy.

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In the victim's room, Daly found a series of clues which indicated that the killer might

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have been familiar with the Yeshiva and the customs of Orthodox Judaism. It appeared that

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Hayam had been killed as he slept. His body was then moved, not once, but twice, first

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from the bed to the floor and later to another spot, two feet away. It also seemed strange

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that Hayam's window had been left wide open on a chilly October evening.

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We've spoken to several people about this who are involved in the Orthodox religion.

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It would be customary in the religion to open a window or a door where the dead person would

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be to let the spirit out. It would also be customary for the body to be taken off the

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bed because the body should be at the lowest point and the coolest point, the coolest point

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being the floor compared to the bed. Another ritual would result in a third peculiarity.

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One of the rabbis asked to leave a memorial candle in the room which would burn for seven

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days. The crime scene was then sealed. However, two days later, another candle mysteriously

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appeared. No one in the school ever admitted to having placed it in the room.

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If they lit that candle as a gesture of sympathy or love for Hayam, why wouldn't they come forward

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and say that? That's certainly a good thing to do. Nobody came forward with that.

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With little else to go on, Detective Daly set about piecing together the final hours of Hayam

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Weis's life. He learned that Hayam was an outgoing likable teenager who was at the top

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of his class. He had been attending the Yeshiva in Long Beach for two and a half years.

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The Hayam was loving, joyous, bright. As far as I know, the Yeshiva Hayam had no problems

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I can think of. He felt comfortable. Maybe there was some things going on which is normal

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among kids. Now go students, go. Good job, it's near. Don't forget it's Halloween.

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In 1986, Halloween fell on a Friday night, the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath. In the

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late afternoon, Hayam left class with his friends to attend services. Afterwards, he would return

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to the dormitory. Several hours later, two classmates saw Hayam reading in the hallway.

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Many of the students do that because of their religion, they don't put lights on and off at

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that time on the Sabbath. It was dark, so the lights are left on in the main hallway. The

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students sit out in the hallway and read. Hayam Weis was last seen alive at 1 a.m.

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Police speculate that the killer might have known the layout of the dormitory

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and was probably aware that Hayam was one of only two students without a roommate.

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If somebody came up through that stairwell, those rooms were all occupied by students.

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Nobody heard anything unusual, no yelling or screaming. However, we did have one student who

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felt that he heard his door open up sometime during the night and then close again, but he

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assumed it was his roommate. There are a lot of questions that we haven't been able to answer.

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We have some things that we have to put behind us here.

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A few days after the murder, Detective Daly called a meeting with the students,

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teachers and rabbis. Daly was desperate for information and implored them to come forward.

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But if anybody knows anything, we need the help.

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But almost every question he asked was answered by Stoney Silence.

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Do you feel it's really, you know, do you understand how important this is?

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We learned at one point that in their particular Orthodox religion, unless you have proof or

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another witness, mere suspicion alone is not enough to go and say anything or to accuse somebody.

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So they wouldn't talk about other students or who they might suspect or what their feelings

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were because they didn't want to put any blame on anyone without more than mere suspicion.

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Do you know if you're sure who killed Kym Weiss? No.

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Police eventually polygraphed 40 students and several of the school's teachers and rabbis.

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Did you kill Kym Weiss? God forbid. Just an answer with the answer, no answer, please. No.

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However, Detective Daly obtained no useful information from the polygraph exams.

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It seemed as if he would never find a suspect or a motive. No. We'd like to see

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anybody with any information at all, whether at that time they didn't want to tell us because

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it was mere suspicion, maybe they have a different feeling now and maybe mere suspicion would be

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helpful to us and give us those suspicions so we can go out and investigate them.

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The not knowing makes it much more difficult for me to cope. Certain things

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I accept.

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My son's dead but the murder is still loose.

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All these unanswered questions

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makes me feel very, very uneasy.

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One question above all others continues to haunt this case.

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Why would anyone brutally murder a 15-year-old boy with no known enemies?

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Police have uncovered only one significant clue.

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A jogger has stated that he saw a young man who could have been a Yeshiva student a few

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blocks from the school at 7 a.m. on the day Hyam's body was found.

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All attempts to identify the student have been unsuccessful.

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Join me next time. Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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you