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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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In 1977, a trip to Lake Champlain began as an ordinary

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summer vacation for sound romancey.

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It turned out to be anything but ordinary when some of the

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It turned out to be anything but ordinary when Sandra took

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this remarkable photograph along the shore of the lake.

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Some experts believe the picture may be evidence of

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Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster as an American cousin.

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Meet Pierre, a man without a past.

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In May of 1992, he wandered confused, disoriented and

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penniless into a homeless shelter in San Diego.

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He hopes that someone watching tonight can tell him who he

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is and where he came from.

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Todd Kelly and Christie Mutsfield were high school

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sweethearts until Christie went away to college and began

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dating another man.

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A few months later, Todd Kelly was found murdered,

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apparently the victim of a lethal lover's triangle.

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Also tonight, a woman has been reunited with her family

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after she watched her own story on unsolved mysteries.

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Join me.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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Yes!

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Hamilton, Indiana is a small lakeside resort town with just

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684 permanent residents.

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In the summer, the population swells into the thousands

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thanks to vacationers looking for a tranquil escape.

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But on August 9, 1989, the peace and serenity of Hamilton

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was shattered forever.

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At 7 AM, Christie Mutsfield arrived at the home of her

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boyfriend, 19-year-old Todd Kelly.

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Moments later, she fled in terror.

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As I'm laying on the floor and I screamed his name,

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I could just see just by looking at him that something

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was very wrong, wasn't right.

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Todd Kelly was dead, stabbed seven times in the chest,

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back, and wrist.

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His death hit horrifyingly close to home

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for Christie Mutsfield.

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Just hours earlier, the two lovers

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had been together in the same house where Todd was killed.

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The authorities immediately questioned Christie Mutsfield.

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And the story which unfolded would eventually

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place her at the center of an ongoing controversy.

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By the end of the interrogation,

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a primary suspect had emerged, another man

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whom Christie had been dating, a man who

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represented the third side of a lethal lover's triangle,

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built on the affections of Christie Mutsfield.

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Christie met Todd Kelly during their junior year

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in high school.

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But Todd especially, it was love at first sight.

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Todd was a very kind person, very sweet.

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He didn't hold any grudges against anyone.

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Todd really just cared about everybody, for who they were.

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After graduation, he asked me to marry him.

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And I guess I said no.

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I said I really wasn't ready.

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I thought there was other things I really wanted to do right now.

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And that's pretty much where we broke it off right there.

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The next fall, Christie enrolled at a small college

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just seven miles from Hamilton.

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She soon began dating Mahfouz Huck,

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a student whose parents had emigrated from Bangladesh

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when he was just an infant.

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He was very outgoing, very energetic.

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He was interested in what I had to say.

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And he was interested in what I thought and what I believed in.

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Despite outward appearances, Mahfouz Huck

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was not what he seemed to be.

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Shortly after he met Christie, Mahfouz and one of his friends

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were arrested for three separate robberies.

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In one of them, Mahfouz stole $100,000 worth of jewelry

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from his own aunt.

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He told me that it was all his friend.

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His friend was a pro at it.

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He'd been wanted in other states.

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And he pretty much laid it all off on his friend.

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After he was arrested and he had to go on house arrest,

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I guess, and be called, he became very possessive.

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He said that if he ever saw me with anybody else,

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then they would probably kill him and then kill me.

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A few months later, Christie rekindled her romance

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with Todd Kelly.

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But Mahfouz Huck, who lived nearby,

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remained very much in the picture.

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Two weeks before the murder, Mahfouz

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walked the 10 miles from his house to Christie's,

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only to discover that she was out with Todd Kelly.

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It's 100 more and it's mine.

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On August 7, the day before the murder,

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Todd was at the home of a friend, Mike Coon,

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when Mahfouz appeared unexpectedly.

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What can I do for you?

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I just want to talk to you about Christie a little bit.

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What would you like to know?

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Mahfouz asked Todd if he was going to quit seeing her.

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And that time, Todd had told him no.

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She told me she's in love with me.

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Their voices were never raised or nothing like that.

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They shook hands.

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I mean, and really, it just seemed like it was pretty much

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all over and done with.

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You know?

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36 hours later, Todd Kelly was dead

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and his house was swarming with police.

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Authorities were able to determine

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that Todd had died around 3.15 AM that same morning.

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Mike McClelland of the Stubin County Indiana Sheriff's

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Department took charge of the investigation.

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He immediately noticed that the crime scene had been

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tampered with.

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It was obvious that the body had been cleaned up

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and then moved into the living room

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from another part of the house.

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Upon further checking to the house,

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we noticed that there were no sheets in the bed,

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in the bedroom.

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We also discovered a spot where there was blood on the floor,

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in the bedroom, by the bathroom door.

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It was very hard to find this at first because it

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had been wiped clean.

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We believed that the sheets were used to move the body

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and to clean up the crime scene.

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Oddly, the bed sheets have never been found.

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In the yard, police came across several cigarette butts.

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They matched the brand smoked by Mafu's Huck.

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Authorities also discovered that Todd's car had been wiped

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clean of fingerprints and the keys were missing.

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They theorized the killer had planned

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to remove the body from the scene.

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We discovered that the headlights of the car didn't work.

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I believe that the suspect was going

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to try and use that vehicle to transport the body.

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I think his efforts were foiled by the fact

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that he didn't know that the car wasn't working.

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Police were convinced that the person who

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held the key to the investigation was Mafu's Huck,

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who had now disappeared.

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They began to track his movements

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around the time of the murder.

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Between 11 PM and 1 AM on the night of the murder,

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two eyewitnesses claimed to have seen Mafu's walking

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barefoot in the direction of Todd's house.

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At virtually that same moment, Christie Mutsfield and Todd

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Kelly were in bed at his house.

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I thought you wanted to.

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When we were in bed, I heard noises outside.

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What's that?

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What?

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I heard a noise.

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I really thought that something was outside.

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And Todd said it was probably just a dog,

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because he had a dog tied about back.

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He said there was nothing to worry about.

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I was getting kind of late, and I told him

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I had to go home, because I hadn't really been home, home,

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for quite a while.

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And I knew my father would be upset.

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So we left, and he said he was going to stay up all night,

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and he wanted to get something to drink.

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Christie says at 2 30 AM, she drove Todd into town.

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She believes Mafu's Huck entered the house

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while they were gone.

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I drove back to his house, and I said goodbye in the car,

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and I gave me a kiss.

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Don't forget to come back.

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I won't.

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Please don't open.

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Don't forget.

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Christie says she dropped Todd off at approximately 3 AM.

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The corner determined that Todd was

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murdered within 15 minutes.

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At 4 30 AM, Mafu's Huck called Christie from his parents' house

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10 miles away.

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Morning.

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Morning.

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What time is it?

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Two hours later, Mafu's showed up in her bedroom.

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According to Christie, she broke off the relationship for good.

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I've been thinking that maybe it would just

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be better if we didn't see each other anymore.

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Grace.

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Fus.

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You're happy.

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It kind of scared me the tone of voice to you,

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and I said, excuse me.

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It's as I hope you have a happy life,

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and then he walked out.

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At first glance, the case seemed open and shut.

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Mafu's Huck and an apparent fit of jealous rage

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had murdered Todd Kelly.

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The authorities dismissed Christie

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much fell as a possible suspect.

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But then this seemingly simple case took a surprising turn.

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Todd Kelly's family is convinced that there

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are inconsistencies in Christie's story.

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While they do not believe Christie was an active participant

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in the murder, they do question whether she

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has been completely honest.

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Christie's story is not the way that it happened.

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According to all the evidence that we have dug up

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and the evidence that the police have,

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there is no way that she was not there.

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She had to be there during the murder.

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When Todd and Christie returned home,

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and they probably started making love,

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and Mafu's waited in the bushes.

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When he saw what was happening, that's

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when his jealousy took over, and he could no longer control

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himself and decided to finish the act.

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What was that?

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When Christie said she heard the noise,

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it was Mafu's coming in the door.

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We do believe, also, at that point,

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that Christie did help move the body.

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There was no drag marks on the carpet whatsoever.

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Mafu's was not a large man.

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Todd was a good size fellow that would have

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took a lot of strength to pick him up bodily

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and carry him out to the other room by himself.

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I don't know why they wanna blame me.

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I mean, I know Todd and I had our hardships,

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and I hurt him, and he hurt me.

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And I know that upset them, but I don't know why they're

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blaming me.

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The possibility of an accomplice

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is pure speculation at this point in time.

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There's no hard evidence.

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And by the evidence given at the scene,

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it appears that he acted alone.

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Todd died approximately at 3.15 in the morning.

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It amazes me how a man could alone

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could clean up that entire room, clean up

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the entire mess he had made, move the body,

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entirely clean the body, and also walk all the way back home

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in the amount of time that they had reported

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to receiving another phone call.

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He had to have some help.

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It's our belief that there's a good possibility

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he could have made it to Hamilton and back walking.

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There's also the possibility, if it took him longer than what

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he thought at the crime scene, that he could have called someone

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to come and get him.

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The Kelly family believes that Christie is the person who

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gave Mafuza ride home.

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In addition, they question her statement

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about what happened when she returned to Todd's house

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at 7 in the morning.

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She claims she did not immediately notice Todd's body,

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even though it was lying right by the front door.

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A point which even Sheriff McClellan concedes is unlikely.

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We're not accusing Christie.

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The only problem is, is we feel that there's

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some inconsistencies in the things that she has told us.

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We've asked Christie for a polygraph examination,

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and she has refused to do that.

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All we want from her is the truth and the whole truth.

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And we do not believe we're getting that from her.

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We do feel that possibly she could help the case out

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by stepping forward and telling the whole story the way it

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should be told.

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Todd's family, they've been very hard on me

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from the beginning.

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They harassed me.

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They accused me.

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Unjustly accused me of everything.

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And when he let me go to his funeral,

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they'd just been very accusing.

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And I realized they're hurting.

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And I don't think that they realize that I'm hurting, too.

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And that everything that they say,

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and every time they accuse me of something,

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it just hurts more.

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I don't know why, but they're doing what they're doing.

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Next, the incredible tale of a primitive sea creature,

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America's owned Loch Ness Monster,

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said to live in the depths of Lake Champlain.

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Centuries ago, along the shores of what is now Lake Champlain,

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an upstate New York in Vermont, the Iroquois paid homage

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to the spirit of a great horned serpent,

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said to rule the murky depths of the lake.

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The fabled sea monster, which captivated the Iroquois,

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still fascinates people today.

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In fact, in the past 20 years, the Iroquois

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have been a great source of inspiration

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for the world, and it fascinates people today.

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In fact, in the past 25 years, no less than 100 eyewitnesses

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claim to have seen the Lake Champlain sea monster,

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known affectionately as Champ.

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Sandra Mansi, a successful antiques dealer,

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grew up near Lake Champlain when she was a child

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for grandfather Teaser with fearsome tales

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of the legendary creature.

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When I was a child, I was always worried about Champ,

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and when we would go fishing, he would say to us,

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if you don't sit down and behave in the boat,

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I'm going to throw you over, and Champ's going to eat you.

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Of course, we didn't believe the word of it.

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It wasn't anything that we really believed in.

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It was just a threat of grandfathers.

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And so I just really kind of dismissed it

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for years and years as just one of grandfather's big stories.

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Sandra took this remarkable photograph,

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which fueled worldwide speculation and not surprisingly,

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controversy.

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Sandra will never forget the day she saw Champ.

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That summer, Sandra, her two children, and her fiance,

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Tony, were on vacation near Lake Champlain.

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OK, just be careful.

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We stalked at this one place, and we went down over a bank.

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The children were down further on the beach,

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having a great time.

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And Tony decided to go back to the car and get the camera,

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because we hadn't taken any pictures of the children.

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They had their shoes off, and they're waiting down on the shore.

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And I'm sitting there by myself, and I'm looking out

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at the lake, and the lake started churning.

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My first thought was scuba divers.

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But then it's too much.

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It would be too big of a group of scuba divers.

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But then fish.

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There's some very large sturgeon and big walleyes in Champlain.

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So I thought, well, it's a very, very large school of fish.

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And then the head and the neck came up out of the water,

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and then the back.

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And I watched it turn its head and neck and look around.

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And when it first came up, its mouth was open.

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And I could see water coming out of the mouth.

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But I don't remember any eyes or any details like that.

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Just the head and the neck and the back.

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And it's really, really serene.

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And I'm feeling like I shouldn't be there.

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This is something I should not be witnessing,

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because to me, this thing should have

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been extinct 30 million years ago.

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And even then, I'm not frightened.

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I'm in total awe and very calm.

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And then Tony came back and he saw it.

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Heidi, get out of the water.

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Get out of the water right now.

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Come on.

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And he got all panicky screaming and harming.

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Get up here.

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I don't know.

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Come on.

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Get up there.

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Sandra, can you see that thing?

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And he screamed at me to get back there.

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So he helped me up the bank.

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And when he did, he handed me the camera.

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And I turned around.

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And it's still there.

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And I picked up the camera and took one shot.

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Come on.

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When Sandra had the film developed,

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she was certain she had taken a picture of Champ.

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She was equally certain that no one would believe

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that the photo was real.

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She threw away the negatives and fearing public ridicule

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kept the picture hidden for the next two years.

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I hope you don't think I'm crazy with all the stuff

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I've been telling you about.

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Finally, in the autumn of 1979, Sandra

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had the snapshot blown up into an 8 by 10 inch print.

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At the urging of friends, she contacted Joe Zarzinski, who

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spent more than a decade researching a book

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on the Lake Champlain sea creature.

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Yeah, well, here.

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Here's a photograph.

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And some other false scenes.

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Great.

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This is a great picture.

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When I opened it up, I thought it was too good to be true.

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After putting in so many years of researching field work,

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and then finally there was this color photograph that clearly

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depicted a head and neck sticking out of the water.

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And it was almost as if all my Christmases came to me at once.

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Can you point out on the map where you think this hiding was?

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Well, yeah.

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I know it was at the north end of the lake.

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Unfortunately, Sandra was unable to pinpoint

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the exact part of the lake where she had taken the photograph.

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Joe sent the print to the University of Arizona

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to be analyzed.

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This is a great picture.

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We digitized it and run all sorts of computer enhancement

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techniques.

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We were looking like for pulleys or ropes or anything

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like that, superimpositions.

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But we found no evidence of hoaxing.

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And we concluded that that object, whatever it is,

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was there in the lake at that estimated distance.

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It wasn't any sort of superimposition.

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When the photograph was released,

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it caused a media sensation.

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The New York Times and Life magazine carried the story.

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Many were reminded of another, far more well-known creature,

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the legendary Loch Ness Monster of Scotland.

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Some speculated that if such creatures did exist,

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perhaps they were prehistoric animals which had somehow

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managed to survive.

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Well, the object in the Mansi photograph

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resembled a plisiasaur, which is an aquatic reptile

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from the Cretaceous about 60, 70 million years ago,

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long neck and flippers.

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It resembles that.

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But that's a long time to have survived.

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Another theory maintains a champ might be a zougladon,

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a snake-like whale extinct for 20 million years.

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Or perhaps, champ was simply a lake sturgeon which

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had been known to reach seven feet in length.

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No matter the explanation, the fact

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remains that following the publication of the Mansi

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photograph, dozens of eyewitness sightings were reported.

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Near dusk on July 7, 1988, Walter Tappan,

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his wife Sandy and daughter Heidi,

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went out on Lake Champlain with a camcorder.

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The previous day, Walter and Heidi

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believed they had seen champ.

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The Tappans are probably 10 to 12 miles from the area

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where Sandra Mansi had taken her photograph 11 years earlier.

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It was a quiet night, just as still as glass,

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like the first night had been.

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And I was full of anticipation and excitement,

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but also not necessarily expecting anything.

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And for about 10 minutes, we saw nothing.

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And then Sandy, curiously enough, Sandy says,

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Walt, I think I see one.

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Get the camera.

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How do you get the camera?

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I was manning the camera all the time.

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And when you look through the viewfinder, you can't see much.

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And so we had quite a time there where my daughter

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and my wife were saying, there, there, look, look.

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And I'd say, where?

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I can't see anything.

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Where?

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Walter and his family believe that they saw not just

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one creature, but several.

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What he photographed is visible in the center portion

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of the screen.

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We saw frequently a series of small humps coming up,

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breaking the surface, gliding along, and then subsiding again.

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But we watched these creatures for 45 minutes.

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And at one particular moment, they spotted, Heidi,

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and I think spotted one not far from the boat,

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at the most 50 or 60 feet from the boat.

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And then began the footage for about 20 or 30 seconds

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of seeing these humps glide along, first two, then three,

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then four, and then suddenly five, all in a row,

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stretching out about 20 feet.

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Oh my god.

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At one time, I saw, I would say, five in the community.

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But throughout the night, I went on for about an hour.

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I had probably, I would say, seven different sightings of them.

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Oh my gosh, Heidi, do you see another one?

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And then I became very worried about it,

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because my husband had seen it the night before.

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And now we see it again.

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I thought maybe this is some sort of nesting site.

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But I didn't know what it was.

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And I kept trying to make sense out of it.

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It's bigger.

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It's even bigger.

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There are more humps.

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So I got, we have a sun deck on the back.

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So I decided to climb up and stand on the sun deck.

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And I just scanned the water like that, back and forth, scanning.

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And lo and behold, I saw one of those bramble humps coming along the water.

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And then all of a sudden, the neck and the head came up,

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and it looked right at me.

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I will never forget it.

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And so as I said, it just happened like that.

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All of a sudden, there's this lead hump, like the bramble hump.

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All of a sudden, just like this, just so gracefully,

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just like that, looked out, looked at me.

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And I was screaming with excitement, which I wish I wasn't doing,

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because it went down more rapidly, came back, and then very gracefully,

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very slowly, went back down into the water just like that.

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And this was the movement, just up and down.

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There was no time for me to get the camera and refocus.

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I'd give anything now to have that on footage,

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because what Sandy saw was, of course, an astounding thing.

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This creature looking at us and lifting its head out of the water.

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And what it did was to confirm absolutely for all of us

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that what we had seen was champ.

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Scientific opinion has varied, but at least one expert

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believes that what Walter Tappen photographed

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was nothing more than a school of fish.

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Perhaps he is right, but who can explain the Mansi photograph

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or the hundreds of eyewitness accounts

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recorded through the centuries?

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Do I believe champ exists?

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You'll never convince me of anything else.

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You can call it champ, you can call it a monster,

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you can call it a zoolodon, you can call it a plasiosaur,

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you can call it anything you want.

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I'm telling you, in that lake, there is something extraordinary.

523
00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:06,180
I think there's a good chance that there's something in Lake Champlain

524
00:27:06,180 --> 00:27:09,100
that still remains unknown to zoology.

525
00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:12,660
Something large, something unknown.

526
00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:15,860
And for that reason, if for no other,

527
00:27:15,860 --> 00:27:18,740
we should continue trying to find out what it is.

528
00:27:21,980 --> 00:27:24,420
When we return, the story of a young man

529
00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:27,660
who claims that he has lost almost all memory of his past.

530
00:27:36,860 --> 00:27:40,220
Imagine waking up one day with no sense of who you are,

531
00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:43,220
where you are, or where you came from.

532
00:27:43,220 --> 00:27:45,820
That is exactly what happened to a mysterious young man named

533
00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:49,780
Pierre, who seems to be suffering from near total amnesia.

534
00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:52,860
His odyssey began when he awoke in the middle of nowhere,

535
00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:57,180
surrounded by the fog and mist of a forgotten past.

536
00:27:57,180 --> 00:28:01,260
Those first few minutes, you're literally nothing,

537
00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:06,660
and you feel so empty.

538
00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:09,380
It's very lonely and painful to be empty.

539
00:28:12,340 --> 00:28:15,260
Sorry if the voice shakes, and I stutter more than usual,

540
00:28:15,260 --> 00:28:17,380
but it's not nice to talk about these things.

541
00:28:21,060 --> 00:28:25,420
It was a chilly windswept morning in May of 1992.

542
00:28:25,420 --> 00:28:27,700
Pierre says he inexplicably found himself

543
00:28:27,740 --> 00:28:30,060
along a deserted stretch of coastline

544
00:28:30,060 --> 00:28:32,020
with a blue duffel bag beside him.

545
00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,500
Feeling weak, hungry, and terribly confused,

546
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:46,020
Pierre recalls that he made his way to the road,

547
00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:50,860
Highway 1 leading south from Big Sur, California.

548
00:28:50,860 --> 00:28:55,780
So I started walking, and as I came upon,

549
00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:57,420
well, you could call it a village if you were polite,

550
00:28:57,460 --> 00:28:58,980
but it's a very small, small place.

551
00:28:58,980 --> 00:29:00,020
It's called Gorgordo.

552
00:29:00,020 --> 00:29:02,100
I saw the sign.

553
00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:05,620
Pierre spotted a telephone, his first chance to obtain help.

554
00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:18,580
Only then did it dawn on him that he had no under call.

555
00:29:18,580 --> 00:29:21,300
Then I realized I couldn't phone anybody,

556
00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:26,100
and that's when I realized that I didn't know anybody,

557
00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:28,420
including me.

558
00:29:28,420 --> 00:29:32,180
Alone and distraught, Pierre searched through his belongings,

559
00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:35,220
tucked into one of his shirts was a crumpled piece of paper,

560
00:29:35,220 --> 00:29:38,660
a library card from the Boston Public Library.

561
00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:40,340
Handwritten on the back of the card

562
00:29:40,340 --> 00:29:44,020
was a name, April, comma, Pierre.

563
00:29:44,020 --> 00:29:47,780
Pierre says now that it was not his signature.

564
00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:52,540
Well, it struck me that, hey, that's

565
00:29:52,540 --> 00:29:55,020
the name of whoever owns that card, and that must be me.

566
00:29:55,020 --> 00:29:55,900
It's in my belongings.

567
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:56,660
It's with my socks.

568
00:29:56,660 --> 00:29:57,420
It's with my shirts.

569
00:29:57,420 --> 00:30:00,220
It's with my things.

570
00:30:00,220 --> 00:30:03,340
Pierre claims he was plagued by hazy memories of San Diego,

571
00:30:03,340 --> 00:30:06,900
California, 400 miles to the south.

572
00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:10,460
With just $17 in his pocket, he set out hitchhiking.

573
00:30:13,180 --> 00:30:16,940
Three days later, Pierre arrived in San Diego.

574
00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:18,980
He wandered through the streets of the city,

575
00:30:18,980 --> 00:30:22,780
searching for a recognizable landmark.

576
00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:28,780
I was not so much frightened anymore as angry,

577
00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:31,860
because I was so sure everything would come back.

578
00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:36,180
But I saw downtown and said nothing.

579
00:30:36,180 --> 00:30:38,340
I looked at the building and they meant nothing.

580
00:30:41,180 --> 00:30:43,820
I was so sure this city would bring everything back,

581
00:30:43,820 --> 00:30:46,140
and it did not.

582
00:30:46,140 --> 00:30:52,620
And I walked the streets of the city for a long time.

583
00:30:52,620 --> 00:30:55,780
Pierre felt he was hovering on the brink of madness.

584
00:30:55,780 --> 00:30:59,020
Finally, a sympathetic bus driver gave him a free ride

585
00:30:59,020 --> 00:31:03,180
to the St. Vincent de Paul homeless shelter.

586
00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:04,940
We've had cases of people pretending

587
00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:07,020
they didn't know who they were.

588
00:31:07,020 --> 00:31:12,660
But Pierre was very unique in that sometimes in the other cases,

589
00:31:12,660 --> 00:31:14,100
the residents are after something.

590
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:19,260
They want to kind of use staff to get some needs met of theirs.

591
00:31:19,260 --> 00:31:20,860
And that wasn't Pierre's case at all.

592
00:31:20,860 --> 00:31:22,540
He didn't ask for anything.

593
00:31:22,580 --> 00:31:24,740
He didn't even ask for help.

594
00:31:24,740 --> 00:31:27,260
And hold your breath.

595
00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:28,940
In the past six months, Pierre has

596
00:31:28,940 --> 00:31:33,100
undergone a battery of physical and psychological examinations.

597
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:35,340
Doctors theorize he may be suffering

598
00:31:35,340 --> 00:31:39,460
from trauma-induced amnesia.

599
00:31:39,460 --> 00:31:42,500
The doctor here at the facility did scream Pierre

600
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:48,140
and found no obvious physical causes or reasons for the amnesia.

601
00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:52,060
And he did say that the case was very unique from his perspective

602
00:31:52,060 --> 00:31:55,460
in that it's very rare to have somebody lose their long-term

603
00:31:55,460 --> 00:32:00,460
memory for as long as Pierre has.

604
00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:03,580
While at St. Vincent's, Pierre began the painstaking search

605
00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:05,620
for clues to his past.

606
00:32:05,620 --> 00:32:10,020
Soon, fragments of his former self began to emerge.

607
00:32:10,020 --> 00:32:12,020
Pierre apparently has considerable knowledge

608
00:32:12,020 --> 00:32:14,980
of physics, advanced math, and computers,

609
00:32:14,980 --> 00:32:18,660
and even claims he knows how to fly an airplane.

610
00:32:18,660 --> 00:32:22,620
Pierre also discovered that he possesses some artistic ability.

611
00:32:22,620 --> 00:32:26,020
But other clues only served a deep in the mystery.

612
00:32:26,020 --> 00:32:28,540
In the blue duffel bag was a neck brace.

613
00:32:28,540 --> 00:32:31,900
Pierre believes that he may have been injured while playing hockey.

614
00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:34,900
He also claims that he can type 85 words a minute.

615
00:32:39,380 --> 00:32:42,180
Pierre also found that he has a talent for music

616
00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:45,100
and learned how to play the guitar in just a few hours.

617
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:52,260
Now every morning, Pierre travels to Balboa Park in San Diego,

618
00:32:52,260 --> 00:32:56,460
where he earns spending money as a street entertainer.

619
00:32:56,460 --> 00:33:00,700
Well, it gives me an identity for one thing.

620
00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:01,980
I'm a musician.

621
00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:04,420
Now I'm something.

622
00:33:04,420 --> 00:33:07,700
I don't feel empty now because I keep myself very, very busy.

623
00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:11,380
I could do more than play.

624
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:14,060
Tell me something about Curly and how you.

625
00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:17,060
Hoping to add detail to Pierre's fragmented memories,

626
00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:20,220
unsolved mysteries arranged for him to consult with a police sketch

627
00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:21,460
artist.

628
00:33:21,460 --> 00:33:24,980
In the session, two portraits were created, portraits

629
00:33:24,980 --> 00:33:29,220
of people who may have been significant in Pierre's past.

630
00:33:29,220 --> 00:33:31,180
The first was a man who Pierre believes

631
00:33:31,180 --> 00:33:35,140
is his cousin, Luke, nicknamed Curly.

632
00:33:35,140 --> 00:33:38,020
According to Pierre, Luke is an auto mechanic

633
00:33:38,020 --> 00:33:40,660
who once fixed the tour bus of a well-known group

634
00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:45,860
of Louisiana musicians, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

635
00:33:45,860 --> 00:33:48,420
The second drawing was a woman who Pierre believes

636
00:33:48,420 --> 00:33:50,140
is once his employer.

637
00:33:50,140 --> 00:33:51,900
Her name is Carol.

638
00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:55,900
Pierre recalls that they work together in a business office.

639
00:33:55,900 --> 00:33:58,140
But for every memory which returns,

640
00:33:58,140 --> 00:34:00,700
Pierre says there are literally thousands which remain

641
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:03,180
buried and forgotten.

642
00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:08,940
I just want to find out what the past is if I can.

643
00:34:08,940 --> 00:34:12,100
If I try to remember something too hard,

644
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,620
I get a beautiful headache that I wouldn't want to inflict

645
00:34:14,620 --> 00:34:16,860
on my worst enemy.

646
00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:19,540
And most recently, like those last few days,

647
00:34:19,540 --> 00:34:22,660
if I try not to remember something that's coming back,

648
00:34:22,660 --> 00:34:25,900
I get the same thing.

649
00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:29,300
Like some lumps of things come back

650
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:30,620
that are not especially pleasant.

651
00:34:33,620 --> 00:34:39,420
And if I try to block them out, I get the same kind of headache.

652
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:45,060
It's a hazy, piercing pain that engulfs the whole head.

653
00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:46,900
It's not something nice.

654
00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:49,460
It's just something I can do without.

655
00:34:53,820 --> 00:34:55,100
Update.

656
00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:57,660
On the night of our broadcast, the viewer in Canada

657
00:34:57,660 --> 00:35:00,500
called our telecenter to say that the young man had once

658
00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:02,500
worked for his wife, and that his name is in fact, Pierre

659
00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:03,500
April.

660
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:08,500
Pierre soon learned that he has two sisters

661
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:10,500
and that his parents live in Lachine, Canada,

662
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:13,500
where his father practices medicine.

663
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,100
The next day, they spoke on the phone for the first time

664
00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:18,500
in more than five months.

665
00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:20,500
It was a very emotional moment.

666
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,500
And then I even had to tell him that I couldn't even

667
00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:26,500
trust him 100% that I wanted the package.

668
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,500
With family pictures in it and with my birth certificate in it

669
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:33,500
and anything else he could think of.

670
00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,500
He said, OK, we'll send that to you.

671
00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:38,500
And then he said, do you remember your mom?

672
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,500
And I said, no.

673
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:42,500
And she was listening on the extension.

674
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,500
And she burst into tears.

675
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:48,500
A few days later, the packet arrived.

676
00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:51,500
Pierre sat down with his fiance, whom he met in San Diego

677
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:54,500
and he said, OK, I'm going to send that to you.

678
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:57,500
And Pierre's fiance, whom he met in San Diego and a friend,

679
00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:00,500
to get reacquainted with his past.

680
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:06,500
It is strange to be told who you are and what you did.

681
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,500
I'm someone again.

682
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:14,500
And for quite a few months, I was nobody and nothing.

683
00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:26,500
Next, the heartwarming reunion of a woman and her family.

684
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:39,500
On a previous broadcast, we profiled the case of a woman

685
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:43,500
named Loreen Roberts, who mysteriously vanished in 1962.

686
00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:46,500
And had no idea that she was one of the heirs to a million

687
00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:47,500
dollar estate.

688
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,500
In a happy turn of events, Loreen herself

689
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:53,500
was watching television on the night of our broadcast

690
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:58,500
and saw her own story on Unsolved Mysteries.

691
00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:00,500
I'll be with you in just a minute, OK?

692
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:03,500
In 1951, Loreen Roberts was 16 years old

693
00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:06,500
and working as a waitress in Austin, Texas,

694
00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:07,500
when she fell in love.

695
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:12,500
Coffee, pie, how about I take you for a whirl?

696
00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:15,500
Loreen and the young service man were married just 10 days

697
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:16,500
after they met.

698
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,500
By 1956, the couple had two sons and a daughter,

699
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:24,500
but the marriage was on the rocks.

700
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:26,500
When her husband filed for divorce,

701
00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:29,500
Loreen was left to raise the children on her own.

702
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:31,500
Will you be in charge for mommy?

703
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:32,500
Will you do that for me?

704
00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:33,500
All right, I got to go now.

705
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:34,500
I got to go.

706
00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,500
Will you watch after them for me, OK?

707
00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:38,500
Loreen tried.

708
00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:41,500
She worked, and she tried to handle, you know, her situation.

709
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:45,500
And she loved her children very much.

710
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,500
But that was just something she couldn't handle,

711
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:51,500
and she's seen she couldn't handle it.

712
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:57,500
And she tried to get help from her husband, but no help.

713
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,500
Finally, Loreen felt she had no choice

714
00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:04,500
but to give her children up for adoption.

715
00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,500
The decision left Loreen shattered,

716
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:10,500
and her emotional state grew increasingly fragile.

717
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:15,500
Finally, in 1957, the stress became too great,

718
00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:19,500
and Loreen was admitted to a state mental facility.

719
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:20,500
Take care now.

720
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:22,500
OK, you too.

721
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:25,500
Two years later, while on furlough from the facility,

722
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,500
Loreen paid a short visit to her sister Ruby.

723
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:31,500
No one in the family ever heard from her again.

724
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:36,500
In 1988, Loreen became one of the heirs

725
00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,500
to a million-dollar estate after the death of her mother.

726
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,500
An extensive search was launched,

727
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,500
but there was no sign of Loreen Roberts.

728
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:48,500
When we aired this story, we never imagined

729
00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:50,500
that Loreen would call our telecenter

730
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:52,500
and solve her own mystery.

731
00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:54,500
Loreen's family was overjoyed to learn

732
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:56,500
that she was alive and well.

733
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:59,500
Her sister Ruby immediately flew to Little Rock, Arkansas,

734
00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:01,500
where Loreen had been working as a housekeeper

735
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:03,500
for just room and board.

736
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:07,500
A few days later, Ruby brought Loreen back home

737
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:09,500
to Austin, Texas for a poignant reunion

738
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:11,500
with the rest of her family.

739
00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:23,500
It was unbelievable.

740
00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:27,500
I could hardly believe it, because I guess

741
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:30,500
for so long we have searched and searched for her.

742
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:32,500
And we couldn't find a lead.

743
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:34,500
I was so enthused.

744
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,500
I just cried.

745
00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:38,500
I laughed.

746
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:40,500
I did everything.

747
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:48,500
Yes, it's getting nice to be back.

748
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:49,500
They're real nice.

749
00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:51,500
They've always been.

750
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:54,500
They're original people that are very darlicious

751
00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:56,500
and they're very kind.

752
00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:58,500
They're very kind.

753
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,500
They're very kind people that are very darlicious people.

754
00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:07,500
After we filmed this reunion,

755
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:09,500
Loreen remained in Austin for three months.

756
00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:12,500
She received her $105,000 inheritance

757
00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:15,500
and has since returned to her home in Arkansas.

758
00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:24,500
This is the wonderful person we looked for for 30 years.

759
00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:26,500
We're going to try to be happy

760
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:28,500
and just do all the things we can

761
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,500
to be together and love each other

762
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:36,500
and include her children and her grandchildren.

763
00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,500
In which I think will be real good for Loreen

764
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:41,500
and all of us.

765
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:50,500
From time to time, the authorities contact us

766
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:52,500
with fast-breaking cases,

767
00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:54,500
hoping that an urgent appeal to our viewers

768
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:56,500
will not absolve them.

769
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,500
Our first special alert tonight is a tragic story

770
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,500
of a woman who was kidnapped

771
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:03,500
and later murdered by her husband.

772
00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:06,500
Joseph and Lois Krantz of Kalamazoo, Michigan

773
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,500
had been married for 14 years, none of them easy.

774
00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:11,500
Joseph had been in and out of prison

775
00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:13,500
since the mid-1970s

776
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:17,500
for offenses ranging from burglary to fraud to forgery.

777
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:21,500
On July 31, 1992, he was released from jail

778
00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:23,500
after serving two and a half months

779
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:26,500
of embezzlement and parole violation.

780
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,500
At the time, his wife Lois was pregnant

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with a couple's third child,

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but she had recently contacted legal aid

783
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about seeking a divorce.

784
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On August 5th, less than a week after his release,

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Joseph Krantz showed up at Lois' apartment,

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brandishing a gun.

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A friend, Janice McCray, was with Lois that morning.

788
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She went into the bedrooms to get some stuff.

789
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We went into the living room.

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Me and the kids.

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While we were sitting there, Lois came running out of the bedroom

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yelling, oh no, oh no, you know, just screaming.

793
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Krantz forced his wife into a car and sped away.

794
00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:08,500
That night, he called his mother and told her

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that he had killed Lois and dumped her body near a lake

796
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about 30 miles from Kalamazoo.

797
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Three days later, Lois Krantz's body was found

798
00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:20,500
in the general area her husband had described.

799
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She had been shot once in the head.

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On August 12th, 1992, Lois Krantz was laid to rest.

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Her two daughters are now with relatives

802
00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:34,500
in a place where they'll be safe from their father.

803
00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:38,500
Joseph Krantz has not been seen since he kidnapped his wife,

804
00:42:38,500 --> 00:42:42,500
and authorities believe he may now be in Florida.

805
00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:56,500
In our second special alert case, another family has been

806
00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:58,500
shattered by a kidnapping.

807
00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:02,500
The victim is a 65-year-old woman who suffers from severe asthma

808
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:06,500
and must have daily medication.

809
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,500
Martha Doe Roberts and her husband, Alan,

810
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:12,500
lived in Eads, Tennessee, 25 miles from Memphis.

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Alan last saw his wife when he left for work at 9.30 a.m.

812
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on August 7th, 1992.

813
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:22,500
When he returned later in the afternoon, his wife was gone.

814
00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:26,500
That night, Alan Roberts received a ransom call.

815
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A muffled male voice demanded $100,000

816
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or threatened he would split open Martha's head.

817
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The kidnapper has made no further contact.

818
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If Doe is released unharmed, I will meet any demand.

819
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I will do whatever is necessary to obtain her release.

820
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Next week on Unsolved Mysteries, Senator Huey Long of Louisiana

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in his day the most fascinating character in American politics.

822
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But in 1935, Long died in a flurry of gunfire in his own state capital.

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History records that his assassin, Dr. Carl Weiss,

824
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was killed almost instantly by the senator's bodyguards.

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Today there is mounting evidence that Dr. Weiss may have been innocent

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and that the truth may have been shrouded by a cover-up.

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Join me next time.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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you