1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,600 This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members 2 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,680 and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:20,880 to see is not a news broadcast. 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,880 September 1989, Seattle, Washington. One of the largest fires in the city's history 5 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:32,240 erupts at a lumber warehouse. Authorities soon attribute the blaze to an elusive master 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:37,200 arsonist whose reign of destruction has resulted in millions of dollars in damage and left 7 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:44,700 at least two firefighters dead. Six decades ago, Senator Huey Long of Louisiana was one 8 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:50,200 of the most powerful politicians in America. A man many believed was destined to be president. 9 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:57,000 But in 1935, Long was felled by an assassin's bullet. Now some researchers believe that the 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,440 man thought to be Long's killer was in fact innocent and that this may have been the first 11 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,160 political assassination in America where the truth was concealed by a cover-up. 12 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:15,640 In 1947, a two-year-old girl was found badly beaten and abandoned in a field in Weed, California. 13 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:21,240 Today, that little girl is a successful businessman who is still searching for her 14 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:29,960 long-lost brother whom she met only once 45 years ago. Join me for these fascinating stories. 15 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:45,480 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery. 16 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:38,520 September 9th, 1989, Seattle, Washington. Just after 10 p.m., 20 engine companies responded to a 17 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:44,680 four-alarm blaze at the vacant black stock lumber warehouse. When the first company arrived, 18 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,760 the blaze appeared to be controllable, isolated in one wing of the building. 19 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,440 In a matter of minutes, however, it would become one of the largest fires in Seattle history. 20 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,040 Matt Johnson and Bill Meredith were two of the first firefighters to get inside. 21 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:13,960 We decided to explore what appeared to be a second story mezzanine type of area. While I was up there, 22 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,800 there was a tremendous release of heat from somewhere. 23 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,960 The roof had exploded into a 5,000-degree wall of flame. 24 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:31,320 Two stories below the inferno, Meredith and Johnson were overwhelmed by a burst of radiant 25 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:39,960 heat so strong they were in danger of being baked alive. The lack of oxygen and tremendous heat 26 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:46,040 left Matt Johnson unable to move. Bill Meredith went for help and became disoriented himself. 27 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:55,400 I've been hot before, but I've never experienced that. I've had my ears blistered, but this was 28 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,120 something else. It was like being x-rayed with heat. It was absolutely stunning. 29 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,640 Bill Meredith somehow survived, despite the fact that his body temperature had climbed to a point 30 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:14,920 which normally means certain death. The next day his partner Matt Johnson would be found dead in the 31 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:22,200 rubble. He was 32 years old, married, and the father of a 15-month-old son. 32 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:37,240 At first, police suspected that the fire had been started accidentally by a vagrant trying to keep 33 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,840 warm, but the burned-out warehouse had a different look to one veteran investigator with the Seattle 34 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:48,840 Fire Department. To Dennis Fowler, they'd carry the distinctive signature of an elusive criminal 35 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:54,840 he'd been tracking for years, a criminal who may be the world's most sophisticated and deadly 36 00:04:54,840 --> 00:05:03,880 arsonist. On a scale of 1 to 10, he's a 10 as far as his skills and his abilities go to bring a 37 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:11,400 building down. You can't put him out, and the reason you can't is because they generate so much 38 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:22,200 heat and energy that a host of water simply cannot overcome it. Fowler first encountered the work of 39 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:28,920 the arsonist in 1984, in Seattle's 40,000-square-foot carpet exchange warehouse burned to the ground 40 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:36,360 in an astounding 19-minus flat. The heat was so intense that it literally boiled concrete and vaporized 41 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:43,720 steel beams. The firefighters themselves said that it was hotter than they had ever experienced 42 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,960 before, and these guys were in state-of-the-art firefighting the protective clothing, and they're 43 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:56,200 still outside, and they've got hose lines, and they can't get near the fire. After the Black 44 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:01,640 Stock Lumber Fire, the Seattle Fire Department took the unusual step of investigating on a 45 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:07,880 national scale. They analyzed dozens of fires across the United States and Canada, and found at 46 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:12,920 least 20 which bore the hallmark of a person some call the King of Arsonists. 47 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,400 The Seattle Fire Department now believed they were dealing with the most sophisticated arsonist in 48 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:28,360 the history of the United States. For firefighters, it was our worst nightmare come true. The blazes 49 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,640 set by this arsonist defied logic, burning hotter and faster because of the oxygen in the water 50 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,920 from the fire hoses. In essence, these arson fires were death traps. 51 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:49,800 One factor above all others made the arsonist extremely difficult to track. He used a fuel 52 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:56,920 of unknown origin, an accelerant which left behind absolutely no residue, burned thousands of square 53 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:02,280 feet as little at time as three minutes, and generated temperatures which topped out between 54 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:06,920 five and seven thousand degrees, three times hotter than a normal fire. 55 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,520 Here you can see some silicates which have boiled up out of the concrete from the high 56 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:19,000 temperatures that we have with the thermite. As the data developed, it began to narrow the 57 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,840 field as to what type of accelerant it might be and actually what could be happening inside 58 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:27,880 these structures. And it was something that had never been tested before. And so we went through 59 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:34,120 a series of tests involving various types of exothermic fuels, high temperature fuels that 60 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:46,760 had never been burned in building tests. On March 25th, 1990, after a year of intensive research, 61 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:52,200 the Seattle Fire Department set a test fire at an empty shopping center in Puyallup, a Seattle 62 00:07:52,200 --> 00:08:00,760 suburb. The entire complex was destroyed in minutes. The fuel of test fire allowed us to 63 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:07,720 narrow the field of potential accelerants down tremendously. Although it did not exactly duplicate 64 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:12,840 what the arsonist is able to do, it reproduced close enough for us to know that this was the 65 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,120 type of fuel that the arsonist is using and this is what we were looking for. 66 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,800 The fuel, which the Seattle Fire Department has kept top secret, was an oddball mixture of 67 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:29,640 several common ingredients all readily available. But only someone with highly specialized knowledge 68 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:37,400 would know how to put those ingredients together. The sealant had some in those rafters. 69 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:42,760 He knows the fuel and how much he needs to use to take a building down. 70 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,520 He may not be an engineer, but he certainly knows a lot about building construction. 71 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:57,320 This person probably has no contact at all with the people who are going to burn the building or 72 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:03,720 who actually are going to, you know, have the building burned. Once the fuel is delivered, 73 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:11,640 anybody can light it. The only one of the arsonist's fires to generate eyewitnesses was one of the 74 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:19,160 largest, the Blackstock Lumber Fire in Seattle. I read about the Blackstock Lumber Fire in the 75 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:26,440 paper and I realized that I had been in the vicinity of the fire approximately 15 to 20 minutes 76 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:34,040 before the alarm was called in. I was driving along the road Blackstock Lumber Yard is located on. 77 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:44,520 I noticed a vehicle, probably a 1970s vintage, earlys, 80s, Mercedes coming out of a parking lot 78 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:50,040 and it just seemed out of place at the time and out of character for the neighborhood. It's 79 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:57,080 that area is an industrial area and at that time of night everything is closed down. 80 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:04,680 Another eyewitness said she saw a suspicious looking man after the Blackstock Fire was already in 81 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:11,720 progress. He paid absolutely no attention to this fire, basically just going about his business 82 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:21,560 and she found that to be unbelievable. It would appear that the fellow was possibly somebody 83 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:26,840 who had actually ignited the fire, waited for a crowd to gather so they could blend in and 84 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:35,000 make a casual exit from the area. Under hypnosis, the eyewitnesses described two very different men. 85 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,960 Neither one is considered a suspect, but authorities would like to question them both. 86 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:48,280 The man driving the Mercedes was between 35 and 45 years old with blonde, possibly graying hair 87 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:52,520 and fair skin. He had a mustache and beard and a receding hairline. 88 00:10:55,160 --> 00:11:01,640 The man seen leaving the fire was well dressed, six feet tall in his early or mid 30s. He had an 89 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:09,080 athletic build, a dark complexion and well groomed dark hair. There hasn't been a single one of these 90 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,680 fires where we haven't had a large number of firefighters who have suffered anything from 91 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:21,800 minor injuries to extensive injuries, very serious injuries. And in one of the Seattle fires, 92 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:28,600 we had a firefighter who died. That's a murder and that's why it's important to me. 93 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,600 To date, the arson fires have claimed the lives of at least two firefighters. 94 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,960 While a search continues for the arsonist himself, 95 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:50,520 authorities are analyzing insurance files from suspicious fires across the nation. 96 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:58,440 When we return, nearly 60 years after the death of Senator Huey Long, 97 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,320 his murder remains a subject of controversy. 98 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:18,680 President John F. Kennedy, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, 99 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,160 political assassinations that changed the course of recent history. 100 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,320 However, an entire generation may not be aware that three decades earlier, 101 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:32,680 another assassination rocked this country to its foundations. A man who was killed was named 102 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:38,520 Huey Pierce Long, Senator from the state of Louisiana, and a man who might very well have 103 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:45,400 become president. To many, he was a spirited visionary, but to others, Huey Long was a dangerous 104 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:53,320 radical. We will not destroy the profit system. We will not destroy the capitalistic system. 105 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,320 We won't destroy the Constitution of the United States. We won't destroy the 106 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:03,160 Declaration of Independence on the contrary. We'll make the Declaration of Independence 107 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,880 read in the words it was written in, instead of having an interpretation of all of it. 108 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:16,840 Huey Long, known as the Kingfish, came to prominence in the 1920s. His down-home style 109 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:22,920 contrasted sharply with a brilliant legal mind. He completed just one year of law school, 110 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:28,360 yet by the age of 29, he had already argued two cases successfully before the United 111 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:35,880 States Supreme Court. When he was 34, Long was elected Governor of Louisiana. He was swept into 112 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,360 office, thanks in part to his philosophy of redistributing American wealth. 113 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:46,520 No man must be allowed to have too much. No man must be allowed to have too little. 114 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:53,160 Unless you limit the size of the big, it necessarily means that the small people must become 115 00:13:53,160 --> 00:14:00,040 more and more impoverished as time goes on. At the age of 37, Huey Long was elected to the 116 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:07,080 U.S. Senate. He was clearly a national figure and there was serious talk of a run for president in 1936. 117 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:15,960 The very thought of Huey Long and the White House prompted opposition groups in Louisiana to arm 118 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:22,440 themselves, hoping to shatter Long's power base in his home state. To the rich and powerful, Long 119 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:28,760 was a devil incarnate, and many believed Huey Long was better dead than president. In fact, 120 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,720 a few were convinced it was the only way to stop him. 121 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:41,720 I was elected railroad commissioner of Louisiana in 1918, and they tried to impeach me in 1920. 122 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:50,040 When they failed to impeach me in 1920, they died in mid-1921. 123 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:59,880 And when I wiggled through that, I managed to become governor in 1928, 124 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,880 and they impeached me in 1929. 125 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:13,320 Huey Long had a great compassion for a lot of people, but that compassion did not extend to 126 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:19,720 people who crossed him. Once you crossed Huey Long, you had an enemy for life. People lost jobs, 127 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:25,800 they lost businesses, they lost lands, they lost everything because of the vindictiveness of Huey Long. 128 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:34,520 Judge Henry Pabby of St. Landry Parish was one of the many elected officials Long targeted 129 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:41,720 for political destruction. By contrast, Pabby's 29-year-old son-in-law, Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, 130 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:48,440 was known to be apolitical, but it was Dr. Weiss, a respected Baton Rouge physician whose name was to 131 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:55,320 become inextricably linked to Huey Long's. On September 8, 1935, the two men would meet for 132 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:00,040 the first and only time. It was a meeting that would change history. 133 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:11,800 Four days earlier, Huey Long had returned to Louisiana from Washington, DC for a special 134 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,320 state legislative session. 135 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:24,840 Despite the threats against his life, Senator Long strode boldly between the State House 136 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:30,920 Chamber and Governor Oscar Allen's office, where history records at Dr. Carl Austin Weiss lay in 137 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:31,320 wait. 138 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:39,240 Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! They go boat first thing in the morning and this is the last time I'm going to do 139 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:45,400 your job for you. You understand me? He shot me! He shot me! 140 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:53,400 Huey! 141 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:03,480 Dr. Carl Austin Weiss was killed instantly, shot more than 60 times by Long's bodyguards. 142 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,120 His .32 caliber pistol was found beside him. 143 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:12,360 Huey Long died 30 hours later. He was just 42 years old. 144 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:21,960 Long's funeral drew 100,000 mourners, most of them working people. 145 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:29,880 No one could believe that a force of nature like the Senator had been forever silenced. 146 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,520 Five days after Huey Long's funeral, an inquest seemed to establish Dr. Carl Austin Weiss as 147 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:46,360 the assassin. Some speculated that his motive was to stop Huey Long from sabotaging the political 148 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:52,040 career of Weiss's father-in-law, Judge Henry Pave. Weiss's own family in a state of shock 149 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:57,800 had no choice but to accept the verdict. However, today, strong evidence has been amassed which 150 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:03,400 indicates that Huey Long may have been killed accidentally and that Dr. Weiss may have been innocent. 151 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,200 Well, did you enjoy the church service? 152 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,440 On the day Huey Long was shot, the Weiss family gathered as usual for 153 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,920 Sunday dinner at the home of Carl's father in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 154 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,440 And how was your father the judge? 155 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:19,240 He's fine too. 156 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:25,800 In 1933, Carl Weiss had married Henry Pave's daughter, Yvonne. At the special legislative 157 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:31,480 session, then in progress, Huey Long was trying to gerrymander Judge Pave's judicial district 158 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:32,360 out of existence. 159 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,960 That man is taking people's jobs away, their livelihoods away, and it's coming right in 160 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,120 your family. How can you not be upset? 161 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:41,720 Papa, you just don't understand. Long is cut from a different breed. 162 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,960 According to those present, it was Carl Weiss's father who was railing against Huey Long that day. 163 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:54,040 Ironically, Dr. Weiss himself minimized Long's actions and tried to calm his father down. 164 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:58,760 Lovely morning in church. We've got a delightful dinner here. Let's not let this destroy it. 165 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,360 You're right about that, son. 166 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,760 Before the day was over, Dr. Weiss would be dead and his name vilified. 167 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:11,720 He left behind his wife and a son, Carl Austin Weiss Jr., who was granted unsolved mysteries 168 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:12,760 a rare interview. 169 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:22,040 Naturally, most of what I know of my father is a very second hand, but understandably, it's been 170 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:27,400 one of my major life interests. Naturally, there's been a lot of interest focused on the 171 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:33,000 minute-by-minute detail of my father's day where he went, what he did, etc. 172 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:39,720 He spent the afternoon at home and then he left to visit the home of a man named Morgan, 173 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:45,240 who was a patient of his. And I believe my father made a phone call from the Morgan home 174 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,320 to make plans for the morning surgery. Thereafter, he left. 175 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:57,080 And for reasons that I don't believe we'll ever know, he didn't go directly home but stopped. 176 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,640 And the rest is, as they say, history. 177 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,000 At the state capitol that evening, the career of Yvonne Weiss's father, 178 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:13,080 Judge Henry Pobby, hung in the balance. House bill number one, the redistricting plan, 179 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:18,040 was Huey Long's top priority. How much longer am I after waiting for House bill number one to pass? 180 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,800 Oh, we just got started. I am tired of Henry Pobby sitting on that judge's bench. 181 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,240 Now I thought you all was going to get him out tonight. 182 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,160 We just started working on this last night. 183 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,520 You got resistance on this. 184 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,240 Oh, you get resistance every bill you pass. I ain't no excuse no more. 185 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:30,520 We just got to take our time. 186 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,000 Time? 187 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:31,960 You're pushing too hard. 188 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,160 I built this building fastening you boys are passing this bill. Now what's the deal here? 189 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,560 Huey Huey. I don't think you understand. 190 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,600 Look, we got a state constitution that tells us how to run things. 191 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,760 Tell you something about this state constitution. 192 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,560 I am this state constitution. You understand me? 193 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,800 Now do you have the votes to pass this bill or not? 194 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:48,280 No, I don't. 195 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,600 Well then get back down on the floor with your little constitution. 196 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,120 Never mind. I'll go back out on the floor. 197 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:52,200 That's fine. 198 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,200 You go right ahead. Don't you back talk me. 199 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,120 I'll break you as fast as I made you. 200 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,320 John. Sorry. 201 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,160 How you doing? 202 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,440 At 9 p.m. the special session was still going strong. 203 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,880 Huey Long trod his familiar territory oblivious to the arrival of Dr. Weiss. 204 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,240 Some people believe Carl Weiss went to the Capitol not to shoot Huey Long, 205 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,560 but to plead his father-in-law's case. 206 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,080 Carl Weiss took his position outside of the governor's office. 207 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,720 He was not hidden outside of the governor's office. 208 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,720 He was in plain view because he was approached by other people who knew him, 209 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,560 who saw him there, approached him, shook hands with him, talked with him. 210 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,040 Three times Weiss would approach Huey Long that night, 211 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,440 and three times he would be brushed aside. 212 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,600 On another pass, Weiss was a little bit more urgent, 213 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,640 and he told Long that he really had to talk with him, 214 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,040 and Long once again said he didn't have the time to talk to Weiss. 215 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:03,320 Senator Long, can I speak with you? 216 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:03,880 Please. 217 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,800 Just Ellen got Anderson to come over to our side. 218 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,640 Well, that's good, government. 219 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,240 Mr. Senator, can I just speak with you for a second? 220 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,080 I'm a little busy, son, but you just make self-couple. 221 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,120 But dang, just a few minutes. 222 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:15,000 Senator Long, Senator Long, this is very important. 223 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:15,640 Just a second. 224 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:21,640 History records the rest in some blue haze, really, 225 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,720 but we're uncertain as to what happened, 226 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,400 but that is how the scene was set for this particular moment. 227 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,080 You know your jobs, you know what you gotta do. 228 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,160 Why do I have to keep coming and tell you what to do? 229 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,760 No. 230 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,200 At 9.20 PM, Dr. Weiss would approach Huey Long 231 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,880 for the third and final time. 232 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,920 The revisionist historians who are convinced 233 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,640 that Carl Weiss did not kill Huey Long 234 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,320 believe it happened like this. 235 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,200 All right, they're gonna vote first thing in the morning, 236 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,040 and this is the last time I'm doing your job for you. 237 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:56,760 You understand me? 238 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:58,680 Mr. Long, I've got the talk. 239 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,840 Where are you seeing me alone, you little pissant? 240 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:04,040 He shot me. 241 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:05,400 He shot me. 242 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:13,480 Huey! 243 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:17,240 Huey! 244 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,000 Huey Long was taken to a nearby hospital. 245 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Despite his wounds, the kingfish remained very much in charge. 246 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 You boys, you staying in here by me? 247 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,600 Stick, okay, I won't fight you. 248 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:33,720 Let's go, right? 249 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:34,520 Come on. 250 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,800 Huey Long had been briefed as to who the man was 251 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,600 who was there, who they claimed had shot him. 252 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,840 He had been given a lot of information. 253 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,320 Somebody had to come up with a story 254 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,080 as to exactly what happened there, 255 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,520 and Huey Long was there. 256 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,360 No matter what happens in here, 257 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,360 you keep your mouth shut about the capital, you hear me? 258 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:53,880 I'll do all the talking about that. 259 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:54,920 Okay, all right. 260 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,520 And you tell him, other boys, 261 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,400 I said to shut the hell up, I'll do the talking about that. 262 00:23:59,400 --> 00:23:59,960 All right. 263 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,920 Huey Long was shot around 9.20. 264 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,360 He was operated on sometime around 11 o'clock. 265 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,560 They went inside, found out that the colon here 266 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,840 was shot by a man who had been shot by a man 267 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,440 who had been shot by a man who had been shot by a man 268 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,760 inside, found out that the colon had been 269 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,800 punctured in two places that was a transverse 270 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,920 colon that runs across the body. 271 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,120 They sutured the colon in both places. 272 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,280 They were cleaned up the spillage. 273 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,680 They sewed up Huey Long and then pronounced him cured. 274 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,760 Not really understanding what the consequences were, 275 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,440 but that was to dawn on them later on. 276 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,880 Too late, it was discovered that the sergen sand 277 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:47,360 looked a serious wound to the senator's kidney. 278 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:51,360 A day and a half later, on September 10, 1935, 279 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,520 Huey Long passed into history. 280 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,760 It was the end of an era. 281 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,440 Life in Louisiana and possibly in the United States 282 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,480 would never be the same again. 283 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:11,280 Huey Long, the Kingfish, was gone. 284 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,920 At the official inquest eight days later, 285 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:18,400 Dr. Carl Austin Weiss was named as Long's assassin. 286 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,120 However, some remain unconvinced. 287 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,520 Most assassins leave a paper trail. 288 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,480 They leave some hint as to what they did and why they did it. 289 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,600 There was nothing like this. 290 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,160 Carl Weiss was not a man who was 291 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,320 preparing to shoot anybody. 292 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,040 And at that dinner at noontime on September the 8th, 293 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,520 he was a model of propriety. 294 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,800 And really, he was in complete control of himself. 295 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,520 Carl Weiss was a father of a three month old son. 296 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,120 He was making provisions for the future. 297 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,680 He spent a very normal Sunday. 298 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,480 And there was nothing to incline anybody to believe 299 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,040 that he had this on his mind. 300 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,120 I think it was altogether incomprehensible 301 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:06,160 that he could have been the perpetrator of this crime. 302 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,840 No one disputes that Carl Weiss owned a gun, a .32 caliber 303 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,880 pistol which he kept in the glove compartment of his car. 304 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,000 However, Ed Reid believes that he has uncovered evidence 305 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,680 that Huey Long was not shot by Carl Weiss's gun. 306 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,640 The discrepancies can be traced back to the operating room. 307 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,160 The official version makes no mention of a bullet 308 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,920 being retrieved from Long's body. 309 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,280 But Ed Reid has heard a conflicting story 310 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,480 from a relative of one of the surgeons present. 311 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,720 All right, got a bullet here. 312 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:41,760 Indeed. 313 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,560 It looks like about a .38 caliber. 314 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:44,720 Wouldn't you say Dr. Loring? 315 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:45,920 Yes, I would. 316 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,040 All right. 317 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,880 During the operation, there was a .38 caliber bullet removed 318 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,240 from Huey Long. 319 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,160 This is significant because Carl Weiss was 320 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,440 alleged to have been carrying a .32. 321 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,480 But the bodyguards were carrying .38 and .45s. 322 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,400 So therefore, if a .38 was removed, 323 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,560 and I believe it was, then that could not 324 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:10,440 have come from Carl Weiss or his gun, certainly. 325 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,640 According to Reid, a second bullet 326 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,760 was found while Huey Long's body was being prepared for burial. 327 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,760 The mortician in charge told Reid 328 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,760 he was visited by Dr. Clarence L'Oreal, a close friend of Long's 329 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,000 who was one of the surgeons who had operated on him. 330 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,840 Merle, I'm going to have to ask you to step aside for just a moment 331 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,080 while I interrupt your work here for just a moment. 332 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:33,040 What are you planning to do, Clarence? 333 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,760 Clarence, this is highly unethical. 334 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,160 Just bear with me for a moment, Merle. 335 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,060 Just bear with me. 336 00:27:41,060 --> 00:27:43,800 What are you looking for? 337 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,600 My god. 338 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,160 Is that a bullet? 339 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,840 As the mortician said, he rooted around and finally came up 340 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,840 with a spent slug. 341 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,000 And the slug was described to me by the mortician 342 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,640 as being about as big as the first joint on your index 343 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:01,640 finger. 344 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,880 And if you conclude that we're talking about 32s, 30h, 345 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,480 and 45s, that would have had to be a 45, which would have had 346 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,120 to come from a bodyguard's gun because that was the type of 347 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:17,960 bullet that a lot of the bodyguards were shooting. 348 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,120 To further support his conclusions, 349 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:23,400 Ed Reid believes it is highly unlikely that anybody other 350 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,080 than one of the bodyguards could have gotten into the state 351 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,880 capital with a gun that night. 352 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,320 Everybody who had a badge working for the state of Louisiana 353 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,240 was up at the capital that night to place just crawl with them. 354 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:42,080 How in the world could Carl Weiss come past 100 security 355 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,200 people and nobody would frisk him or somebody would notice 356 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:53,360 the outline of a 7.65 millimeter gun in a Palm Beach suit? 357 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,200 Within half an hour of the shooting, 358 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,480 Dr. Weiss had been tentatively identified 359 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,360 as long as silent. 360 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,080 Weiss's brother Tom Ed and cousin Jim heard the rumors 361 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,000 and proceeded to the capital. 362 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,600 They still had no idea that Dr. Weiss had been killed. 363 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,760 Is this Carl's car? 364 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,560 His bag's here. 365 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,880 You have the keys? 366 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,720 My dad's got a set at the house. 367 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,640 Let's go get him. 368 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,640 When Tom Ed and his cousin went back to the capital 369 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,520 to try and find the cars so that they could unlock it 370 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,360 and drive it back home, the car had been moved. 371 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,600 It was just here not a minute ago. 372 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,280 I'm not going crazy. 373 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,560 Let's go around back. 374 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,400 And they found the car on another side of the Capitol 375 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:46,280 building. 376 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,800 When my uncle Tom finally did open the car 377 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,160 and go through the interior, he found 378 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:58,240 that my father's instrument bag was open and in some disarray 379 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,240 whereas normally it would be packed in a very orderly fashion. 380 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,840 Somebody's gone through the bag. 381 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,680 Carl would never leave his stuff like this. 382 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,000 Weiss's brother and cousin also discovered 383 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,680 that the doctor's gun was missing from the glove compartment. 384 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,840 To this day, no one can be sure who removed the gun 385 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,480 from the car. 386 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,520 However, Eloise Sayuk, a security guard at the stake 387 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,840 cap on that night, told Ed Reid that it was someone 388 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,640 other than Carl Weiss. 389 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,560 One of the bodyguards who is now dead is all the rest of them 390 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:30,760 are dead. 391 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,960 He told me that he felt that that gun was a throwdown gun, 392 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,240 that one of the bodyguards had gone out to the car 393 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,560 that Carl Weiss had driven up in, had gotten that pistol, 394 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,000 and had thrown it next to the body. 395 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:43,800 Is that it, then? 396 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,560 Can I just have a moment? 397 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:45,440 Would you please? 398 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,400 Reid believes his theory is bolstered 399 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,600 by Weiss's own actions inside the Capitol. 400 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,440 If Carl Weiss was actually at the state Capitol 401 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,920 to kill Huey Long, he had a perfect opportunity that passed. 402 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,080 Huey Long had his back turned to Carl Weiss. 403 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,520 It would have been very easy for Carl Weiss 404 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,640 to shove his pistol up against Long's body, 405 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:12,760 emptied out the magazine, and then made his escape. 406 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,880 Because of the rumors that had been flying, 407 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,480 that there would be an attempt made on Huey Long's life 408 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,200 that night. 409 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,760 Because of that, fuses were very, very short. 410 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,360 Something that happened that night, perhaps Carl Weiss 411 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,200 hit Huey Long. 412 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,320 Perhaps he just moved too fast. 413 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,800 And I think the bodyguards, who were without any training, 414 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,080 whatsoever, in security, I think they overreacted. 415 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,520 I think the bullets that entered Huey Long's body 416 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,960 were the bullets that came from the bodyguards' guns. 417 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,800 Ed Reid offers up what he believes 418 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,160 is one final piece of evidence. 419 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,960 By all accounts, when Huey Long was admitted to the hospital, 420 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,280 his lip was bleeding. 421 00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,120 Your lip, Huey. 422 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,640 That's the way he hit me. 423 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,520 Was Senator Long referring to his encounter with Dr. Weiss? 424 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,920 According to an affidavit, sworn to by one of those present, 425 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,360 he most definitely was. 426 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,600 In hindsight, there seems considerable doubt 427 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,560 about who actually shot Huey Long. 428 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,760 But at the time, it was essentially an open and shut case. 429 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,080 Anyone who attempted to investigate further 430 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,880 was stymied because all the official records, 431 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,360 as well as Dr. Weiss's gun, disappeared a few years 432 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,320 after the inquest and remained missing 433 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,000 for more than half a century. 434 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:45,000 In 1987, Professor James Starr, a forensic expert 435 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,960 renowned for his ability to unearth missing evidence, 436 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,040 began researching the case. 437 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,600 In trying to find the gun and the state police files, 438 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,280 I decided that the police were the prime suspects 439 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,640 that should be looked at, starting from the top down. 440 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,120 And I literally made a laundry list 441 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:06,920 of the individuals with Lewis F. Geer at the top of that list. 442 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,520 Lewis F. Geer had been head of the Criminal Bureau 443 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:14,080 of Investigation in Louisiana at the time of Huey Long's death. 444 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,880 Geer died in 1966. 445 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,040 In 1987, an investigator engaged by Professor Starr's 446 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,000 began an extensive search for Geer's will. 447 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,160 When he found it, Dr. Starr's suspicions were confirmed. 448 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:34,040 There was a listing in the inventory of miscellaneous files 449 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,120 listed as no value. 450 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,760 Now, being a lawyer as well as a scientist, 451 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,080 I realized that inventories of estates 452 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,760 do not list items of no value. 453 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,920 They certainly don't list them in this kind of mysterious way 454 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,080 as miscellaneous files. 455 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,400 And I said to myself, those are the state police files. 456 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,760 Another item in the will was not nearly so vague. 457 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,880 Listed under Geer's personal effects 458 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,560 was Carl Austin Weiss's gun. 459 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,280 The investigations of Dr. Starr's 460 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:13,720 led to the discovery that my father's handgun was in fact 461 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,600 in existence, and its location was eventually 462 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,480 traced to a safe deposit box in downtown New Orleans, 463 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,880 where he had been in the possession of the daughter 464 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,400 of the then chief of police, Lieutenant Geer. 465 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,280 Acting on a court order, a New Orleans sheriff 466 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,920 opened the safe deposit box. 467 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:41,160 After more than half a century, Dr. Carl Weiss's gun, 468 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,880 a gun which allegedly killed Huey Long, had been located. 469 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,320 With the gun were several unused 32 caliber bullets, 470 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,920 and one spent 32 slug. 471 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,160 Initially, many people assumed this was 472 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,800 the bullet that killed Huey Long. 473 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,760 However, ballistics tests conducted by the Louisiana 474 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,080 State Police showed that the slug had not come from Dr. Weiss's 475 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,080 gun. 476 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,440 The discovery of the alleged murder weapon only served 477 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,560 to deepen the mystery. 478 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,120 If the 32 slug had not been fired by Weiss's gun, 479 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,280 then where did it come from, and why 480 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,000 had it been kept with a gun? 481 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,160 Some believed that the answer lay with the official state 482 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,080 files, which are also recovered. 483 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,080 However, the Louisiana State Police 484 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,040 have reviewed the files and determined 485 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,760 there is nothing in them that changes the verdict of history. 486 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,160 It's my opinion that Dr. Weiss was the assassin in this case. 487 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,760 We believe, from a law enforcement standpoint, 488 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,360 that he had motive. 489 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,560 And he had the motive to kill the man. 490 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,960 And he had the motive to kill the man. 491 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,200 At the same standpoint that he had motive, 492 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,600 we believe he had opportunity. 493 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,280 And we believe he had the means to do the job. 494 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,040 And we know that he was there. 495 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,240 The amount of time that may have elapsed since an occurrence 496 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,960 really doesn't change one's desire 497 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,920 to see the truth brought out. 498 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:19,560 And I care probably more today than I did when I was a youngster 499 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,360 about the truth concerning my father. 500 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,680 If I were asked whether my father shot Huey Long, 501 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,440 today I would say categorically, no, he didn't. 502 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,760 Perhaps we will never completely resolve the controversy. 503 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,240 Did Dr. Carl Weiss acting alone murder Huey Long? 504 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,680 Or did Long's bodyguards go haywire killing the man 505 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:48,760 they should have protected? 506 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,360 Update. 507 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,280 A former superintendent of the Louisiana State Police 508 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,200 has come forward with a startling admission 509 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,400 that he believes Huey Long was killed by his own bodyguards. 510 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,640 Colonel Francis Grevenberg claims he was told by two eyewitness 511 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,440 state troopers that Dr. Carl Weiss was unarmed 512 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,320 when Long was shot. 513 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,840 The state troopers went on to tell a story that is nearly 514 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,640 identical to historian Ed Reeds, that Long was accidentally 515 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,480 killed by his own bodyguards who then planted a gun on Weiss. 516 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,200 Grevenberg says he waited 40 years to come forward 517 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,400 because the Louisiana legislature was packed 518 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,920 with prolonged politicians who would not believe him 519 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,960 nor support an inquiry. 520 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,800 The official position of the Louisiana State Police 521 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,880 is that Dr. Weiss killed Huey Long. 522 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:53,160 Next, the compelling story of a brother and sister separated 523 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:58,160 more than 40 years ago. 524 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,080 On a warm summer's morning in 1947, 525 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,280 a housewife in Weed, California took a shortcut home 526 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,360 from the store through an overgrown field. 527 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,400 Oh, my god. 528 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,800 Oh, you poor baby. 529 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,920 Hidden by the tall grass was a two-year-old girl 530 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,800 who had been severely beaten and apparently abandoned. 531 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,800 Look at the help. 532 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,440 The toddler was taken to the nearest hospital 533 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,640 and placed in intensive care. 534 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,960 She had contusions on her head and face 535 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,960 and lacerations all over her body. 536 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,960 Traumatized and suffering from shock, 537 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,760 she was unable to tell authorities what had happened to her 538 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,840 or even who she was. 539 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:04,680 The hospital staff began to call her Baby X. 540 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,720 Today, the two-year-old girl, known as Baby X, 541 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:10,080 is a successful businesswoman and mother of four 542 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,800 named Mary Jane Polk. 543 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,560 Mary Jane has courageously overcome 544 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,800 many of the hardships suffered during her childhood. 545 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,640 However, she feels that the wounds cannot be completely healed 546 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,120 until she finds her brother, whom she'd met only once 45 547 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,880 years ago. 548 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,600 Tonight, Mary Jane tells her tragic story 549 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,040 in the hope that someone in our audience can help. 550 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,640 How's she doing? 551 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,040 Well, physically, she'll recover, but emotionally, 552 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,480 I'm not so sure. 553 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,280 She's been through an awful trauma. 554 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,680 They kept me in the hospital because they 555 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,720 didn't know what to do with me. 556 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:53,360 I was not able to communicate with the doctors and nurses 557 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:57,200 anybody that I came in contact with. 558 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,560 I would assume that I was very afraid and very afraid 559 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,360 that if I did speak or do anything, 560 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,360 that I might be heard again. 561 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,200 Police had absolutely no idea who Mary Jane was. 562 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,160 They distributed her photograph to dozens of newspapers 563 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:18,160 throughout Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. 564 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,480 Two weeks later, a witness came forward 565 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,240 and identified Baby X as Mary Jane 566 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:25,880 and told authorities that Mary Jane's mother was 567 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,960 Lucille Medlin of Selma, Oregon. 568 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:34,760 Lucille Medlin was staying at a logging camp in Selma. 569 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,320 She had recently given birth to her third child 570 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,960 and was living with a new boyfriend. 571 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,560 I'm the sheriff of Siskiw County. 572 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,960 You live here? 573 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,360 Yes, I do, Sheriff. 574 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:46,760 How can I help you? 575 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:47,760 State you to ask me. 576 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,160 It's a couple of questions for me here. 577 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,360 First of all, have you ever seen this little girl before? 578 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,360 You recognize her? 579 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,360 No, I can't say I do. 580 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:55,360 Excuse me, ma'am. 581 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,360 Could I have you come over here and just take a look at her? 582 00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:58,960 Come over here and just take a look at this photograph for me, 583 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,160 please. 584 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,760 When confronted with a photograph of her badly beaten 585 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,560 daughter, Lucille Medlin could no longer hide the truth. 586 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,160 This is my baby. 587 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,560 We already have two children. 588 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,760 We have more than we need, sir. 589 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:15,960 But I didn't beat that child. 590 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,760 The boyfriend denied beating Mary Jane 591 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,360 but did admit that he had taken her to California 592 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,520 where he abandoned her. 593 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,840 Because there was going to be another child born, 594 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,440 they decided that they needed to get rid of one of their children. 595 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,440 That was their reasoning. 596 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:32,640 They couldn't body train me. 597 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,840 They couldn't, you know, I was an incorrigible child. 598 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,440 Deputy, please come over and count this gentleman. 599 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:39,440 Lucille, I didn't do nothing. 600 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:40,440 I'm going to go come with this, please. 601 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,840 You over here in the automobile. 602 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,840 Lucille, you've got to believe me, honey. 603 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:44,840 I didn't do nothing. 604 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,440 The couple was arrested on charges of child abandonment 605 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,840 and assault to commit murder. 606 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:54,840 Lucille was allowed one visit with Mary Jane in the hospital. 607 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,840 Mary Jane? 608 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,840 Hi, honey, it's me. 609 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,840 She brought along her newborn son, Jimmy. 610 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,840 It was a first and last time that Mary Jane would see her brother. 611 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,840 Two weeks later, Lucille and her boyfriend pleaded guilty to all charges 612 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,840 and were sentenced to 20 years in prison. 613 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,840 Mary Jane, her three-year-old sister Leoma 614 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,840 and her four-week-old brother Jimmy became wards of the state 615 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,840 and were eventually separated. 616 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,840 Mary Jane initially went to live with her biological father 617 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,840 but spent most of her childhood in foster homes. 618 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,840 She married at 16, and today she and her husband 619 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,840 own a successful restaurant in Placerville, California. 620 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,840 They have four children and 10 grandchildren. 621 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,840 Several years ago, Mary Jane began to live in a house 622 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,840 where she lived with her mother and sister. 623 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,840 Mary Jane began searching for her missing brother and sister. 624 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,840 In 1991, she finally found her older sister Leoma, 625 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,840 but after more than 40 years apart, 626 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,840 Mary Jane was unsure if she would be accepted. 627 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,840 I worried that she was going to reject me, 628 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,840 and I was ready for that, and I was willing to accept it. 629 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,840 It hasn't happened. 630 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,840 It's good. It feels good. 631 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,840 I'm proud of her. She's beautiful. 632 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,840 She's got a good life. 633 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:28,840 She's a good, nice person, real nice. 634 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,840 I have two brothers by my adoptive parents, 635 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,840 but it never had a sister, 636 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,840 and so it was wonderful to meet with Mary. 637 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,840 To know that she's there and know that I can pick up the telephone 638 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,840 and talk to her if I need to or want to is wonderful. 639 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,840 Mary Jane and Leoma have joined forces 640 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,840 in the search for their missing brother. 641 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,840 He was born James Gilreith on June 14, 1947, 642 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,840 in either Selma or Grants Pass, Oregon. 643 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,840 They believe that Jimmy was adopted 644 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,840 out of the Wai-Rika County, California hospital 645 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,840 by a family from Oregon, 646 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,840 and that his first name may have been changed to Donald. 647 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:15,840 I feel that the missing link is Jimmy to make our family complete, 648 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,840 and I would like to know where he is, 649 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,840 what happened to him, what kind of a life he has, 650 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,840 and like him to know that we're here, 651 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,840 and that we're his sisters. 652 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,840 The night of our broadcast, 653 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,840 Jimmy was not watching Unsolved Mysteries, 654 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,840 but his adopted sister was. 655 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,840 She immediately called her mother, 656 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,840 who then contacted Jimmy. 657 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,840 His name is now Donald Barrow, 658 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,840 and he was just as anxious to meet his sisters 659 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,840 as they were to meet him. 660 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,840 Two weeks after our broadcast, 661 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,840 Donald and his family drove from their home in Fresno, California 662 00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,840 to Mary's home in Placerville. 663 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:02,840 Donald, Mary, and Leoma had not seen each other in 45 years. 664 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,840 You must be Donald. 665 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,840 I am. 666 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,840 Oh, you think you're gonna make it? 667 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,840 Oh, we're... 668 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,840 The one thing that I was concerned about 669 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,840 is, was it gonna be okay? 670 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,840 God, you look so good. 671 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,840 There is resemblance. 672 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,840 And I knew when I met him out of the car that it is okay. 673 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,840 And I am so happy. 674 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,840 We just, we just, we didn't think, we didn't think good, 675 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,840 because we just thought of that this morning. 676 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,840 I just think that seeing him 677 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,840 and knowing that he's had a good life, 678 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,840 that was something that Mary and I both were concerned with, 679 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,840 that we wanted to make sure that he'd had a good life, 680 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,840 and knowing that he did makes us very happy. 681 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,840 I'm not very good at emotions, 682 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,840 so I don't know how to explain all of them 683 00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,840 that were going through my mind, 684 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,840 but there were a lot of them. 685 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,840 Mary? 686 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,840 And they're still are. 687 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,840 Oh, Mary. 688 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,840 Mary. 689 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,840 Now I'm gonna find out what it's like to be a baby brother. 690 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,840 When I still get to be the oldest sister. 691 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,840 And we all know I'm the middle child. 692 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,840 And in a jail cell just 90 minutes later, 693 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:57,840 his family and friends are convinced he was murdered. 694 00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,840 Join me next time for this intriguing case 695 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,840 and three other fascinating stories 696 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,840 on another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.