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

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

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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It sounds unbelievable, but many people say that this man has uncanny psychic abilities

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which enable him to communicate with those who have passed away and comfort those who

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mourn them. His name is George Anderson and tonight we will examine his claims and witness

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an actual psychic session which has surprising results. In September of 1988, David and Cynthia

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DeWallaby were shocked by the brutal murder of their 7-year-old daughter, Jacqueline.

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Two months later, their nightmare became a descent into hell when authorities charged

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them with a crime. Also tonight a heartwarming update. Thanks to our viewers, a woman has

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finally found her long lost brother. Join me for their joyous reunion on another edition

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of Unsolved Mysteries.

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During the past five years, Unsolved Mysteries has broadcast several stories about people

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who seem to have uncanny psychic abilities. One of them was Dorothy Allison, a New Jersey

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housewife who had envisioned several clues which helped police locate the body of a young

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boy drowned when he fell into a rain-swollen creek. Later we hear the haunting tale of

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Teresita Bassa, a murdered woman who purportedly spoke through a friend to name her own killer.

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When police arrested the man, he confessed. And finally, there was a story of Carl Poles,

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a British woman who draws eerie portraits. Her clients say that Carl's drawings uncannily

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resemble their deceased loved ones, people whom Carl could never have met.

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What these stories have in common is that no one, not even the most hardened skeptic, has

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come up with a rational explanation of what appear to be genuine psychic episodes. That

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is also true of the man you're about to meet, George Anderson of Long Island, New York.

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He seems to have an uncanny ability to communicate with the spirits of those who have passed

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on. At times it does seem even for me that I am literally listening to them or listening

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to a conversation or feeling I'm listening. I don't want people to get the impression

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it's all like I'm hearing clearly as I'm hearing you right now. It's a feeling that

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you're seeing, a feeling that you're hearing, a sensation more. It's like getting an electrical

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charge all through yourself. I was hosting a popular late night radio talk show on a

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rock station on Long Island where I had been...

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Joel Martin, first heard of George Anderson in 1980.

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The station and the format, we dealt heavily with unexplained phenomena.

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Just answer me with yes or no. Don't add any more information than that. We'll let the spirits

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do the work. Martin called George in for a reading.

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According to both men, they had never met before, and George says he knew nothing about

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Martin's background. When George conducts readings, he sometimes makes random marks

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on a pad to enhance his concentration. George himself does not appear in our recreations

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of his readings, which are based on eyewitness accounts and transcripts.

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And he started to talk about Shirley. My late wife would have been killed the year before.

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In 1979, she was hit and killed by a car crossing a street in New York.

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Do you take the name of Shirley? Shirley? Does that name mean something to you?

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Yes.

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She says you know her. She's recently passed on suddenly. She points to her face and to

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her head, a pain. Maybe something happened that I'm feeling... The pain is coming through

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me. I'm feeling pain in the head and the face. Maybe a car accident? How do you know that?

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Well, she's standing right behind you. No, no, you can't see her. Only I can see her.

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She's a spirit. She's right there. Yes, stricter.

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Then he did something that made me realize something legitimate was going on that could

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not be explained by any way that I could reason.

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She's pointing her finger. She's waving it back and forth very quickly. Very quickly like that.

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Stop it. Stop it.

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Whenever she was annoyed at me, she would say, you're like a little boy. You're just like

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a little... But that was only a private thing that she and I knew. Nobody would have known

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that. So now I'm figuring out how the heck I could not have told that to anybody. There's

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no way he could have known this or should have known it. That's a very private thing.

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Also, there's another... You lose a mouth for...

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Paul Martin persuaded George Anderson to undergo tests with the acting chief of neurology at

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a New York City hospital. According to Martin, George's EEG was extremely unusual. While

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George conducted a session with an off-screen subject, half of his brain registered sleep,

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while half showed normal, waking patterns. The neurologist who conducted those tests,

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he said he had never seen anything like it before, and is it what we expect to see? No.

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Is it what's supposed to happen? No. Is something unusual going on? Yes.

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Joel Martin had always considered himself a skeptic at matters of the paranormal. After

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meeting George Anderson, he became a believer. Martin began to give George a significant

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block of time on his radio call-in show, and George Anderson became something of a celebrity

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in his hometown.

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George was born in Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York in 1952. When he was six, George was

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stricken with a severe case of chickenpox. He almost died, and immediately afterwards,

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he says he began to hear voices and see visions of people who had recently passed away.

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Eventually, George's parents, strict Roman Catholics,

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resigned themselves to their son's apparent abilities. George began to earn his living

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by conducting psychic readings. To date, he has held such readings for thousands of people.

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Barbara and John Licata contacted George Anderson in 1982, four months after the death of their

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16-year-old son, David. David had gone out to a party. If I'm quiet, I can still hear

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his footsteps going out, and the door slamming shut. He had to be in by 12.30. I went to bed,

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but I laid there awake because I don't sleep until my kids are in. And at 1.30, I got up

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because it was unlike David not to call.

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Mr. Licata? Yes?

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Mrs. Licata? I need to talk to you about your son.

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And then I knew. It was a night of hell. You know, if anybody wants to know what hell is like,

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that's what it's like.

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David Licata had been killed by a hit-and-run driver. John was troubled by Barbara's deep

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depression over David's death and by their oldest son's overriding bitterness toward

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the driver who had killed his brother. At Barbara's request, John reluctantly agreed

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to a session with George Anderson. George Anderson claims that with the Licata's, as

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with all his clients, he had no prior information about them. He only knew that the family was in

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mourning. Have you recently lost a son? Yes.

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Um, some sort of accident passed suddenly. I'm seeing, I keep seeing a vehicle of some kind.

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Yes. He's saying he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Is he 16? Was he about 16?

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Yeah, he was 16. He's telling me, it's very confusing because he's very restless. Was he

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very emotional? Yes. Very emotional. Because he's talking a mile a minute. I can recall

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their son David coming through very strongly, very high-spirited personality, no pun intended,

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and also very anxious to reach out to his parents to give them and his family the assurance that

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he was all right. There were a lot of things, very specific pieces of information that came

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forth in this reading that there was no way that George could have known because he didn't even

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know who I was, much less link me to this information. A lot of hostility. He's saying

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about this, his brother, yes sir. Yes. Very hostile, still holding bad feelings. Yes.

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He's saying forgive, gotta forgive. If he can forgive, everybody else should be able to forgive

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because he's the one over there. I felt this enormous relief when we made contact with David

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to George. It was a total relief because I felt like you arrived, you're in the other world,

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you're still alive, and I will see you again. And there's a reason for all of this. I don't know

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what the reason is, but I will see you again. Six years almost to the day after David Licata died,

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another boy, David Elliott of Rochester, New York, was killed in a snow skiing accident at the age of 17.

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Several weeks later, the deaths of the two boys would become oddly intertwined when John

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Elliott bought a book about George Anderson called We Don't Die. The book dealt with a case of David

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Licata. While John Elliott was reading it, he dreamed he had a session with George Anderson.

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In the dream, George said he saw John's son David standing with David Licata.

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You take the name David because I'm seeing David Licata with a soccer ball and he's telling me

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that your son's name is also David. The dream seemed so real that I decided I ought to pursue a

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reading with George. My background is in science and engineering. Circumstantial evidence doesn't

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prove anything to myself. I need the hard facts, and so I wanted a number of things out of any

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vision, any trip to George to convince myself that he was doing something like what's claimed in his book.

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A month and a half after John Elliott had his dream, he and two of his other sons,

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Mark and Jack, attended a reading with George Anderson. John Elliott sat at the back of the room

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and his son sat at the front. John claims that George Anderson had no idea who they were or

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that they were related. And I decided I would sit back and be the skeptic and give him no information.

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You prove it to me. The man in the back, uh, you've had a son pass recently?

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Uh, yes.

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Um, he's saying, uh, I'm sorry, I've lost the signal.

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I wanted to see that there was a signal involved. I wanted to know that he wasn't reading my mind

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and he goes, I have to stop now. I lose the signal, quote, signal, uh, when lightning storms arrive

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and I sat there like with my pen checking off number one. There's a signal involved.

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Uh, it's not real clear, but something about 17, 17. Does that mean anything?

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Yeah.

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Is age?

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Was 17 when he passed? Passed suddenly?

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George Anderson's attention then shifted to one of John Elliott's sons.

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Do you have, uh, does then, do you take the name Madeline?

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Madeline.

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Mother vibration, maybe grandmother?

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Grandfather, dad, Donald, married to Donald?

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They're around you now.

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Um, now your grandparents are moving over behind this young man here.

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They're saying, protecting, are you two brothers?

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Uh-huh, yes.

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Yes, they're saying yes.

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Yes.

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Sport, very, I'm getting a lot of sports here. Do you play, uh, I'm seeing some sort of

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bass, a hoop, or a ball, maybe basketball?

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And then Mark spoke up at soccer.

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I play soccer.

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And George says, oh, this is really strange.

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And I'm listening to all this and saying, now what could be strange to a psychic?

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Net hoop.

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And what was really strange in my mind is if he's got this vision of a Lakata boy with a

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soccer ball, that would even be strange to a psychic.

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Oh, okay, now I understand, because I'm seeing, all of a sudden I'm seeing David Lakata is there,

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dressed in his soccer uniform.

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I'm seeing David Lakata.

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He's, he's wearing his soccer outfit.

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He's, he's, here is a clue.

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The name, the name David and, and soccer.

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Um, do you take the name of David?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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You're, you're David, your father of these two boys.

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Yes, I am.

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And you, you've lost us.

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Now it's, now he's coming through.

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You've lost a son named David.

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You've lost a brother named David.

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Finally, he's coming through.

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I didn't, boy, that was freak.

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I didn't know why David Lakata is there.

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He's saying, yes.

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Now, now your son is coming through.

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They're talking and almost laughing about.

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He used him as a very clever, but very freaky.

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Uh, your son is coming.

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I'm sitting there having George relive my dream and my parents identified.

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And I would call myself numb.

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I sat there and was amazed by just about everything I'd asked for happened.

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And I came away without being able to doubt him.

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I had definitely have changed my attitude towards a life after this.

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Over the years, I've learned to accept and believe that David,

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as well as all the rest of my relatives, are with us all the time.

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I constantly question it.

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I constantly say to myself, gee, if this is real,

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why doesn't it work like this?

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It should work like this.

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I should be able to do this.

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But I can't doubt it just because it doesn't work the way I feel it should work

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or the way you feel it should work.

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It's working the way it's supposed to work.

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And I guess it's easier just to accept it as it is.

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To satisfy her own curiosity about George Anderson's apparent ability to communicate

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with the dead, unsolved mysteries asked to bereave family from Queens,

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the Kenneth Silvermans, to meet with George.

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As far as we were able to ascertain, George Anderson and the Silvermans had never met.

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Nor did he know anything about them, or their son who had recently passed away.

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33-year-old Barry Silverman died last February,

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the victim of a virulent form of cancer which spread to his lungs.

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Barry's parents and his sister, Joy, agreed to a session with George.

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What you are seeing is an actual reading conducted by George Anderson, shot with multiple cameras.

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Well, there's definitely two male presences around you,

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and I'm sure there's two males close to you passed on someplace.

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So don't say anything. Let me just go with it.

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Someone also claims to be your dad. Your dad passed also?

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Yes. Because somebody's on your behind you.

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Does your father have a good sense of humor?

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Yes.

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Because he joked. He said, he doesn't want you to feel left out.

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He claims your boy is with him. So you obviously must have lost a son,

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because he keeps saying your boy is with me, and I'm sure he passed on as a young adult,

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but he's still your son, he's still your boy.

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I hear the name Barry. Does name Barry mean anything to you?

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Yes. That's our son.

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Barry says the message that I just gave you,

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this is how you'll know it's for real that it comes from Barry.

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Why do I feel as if I lose my air? Does that make sense?

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Yes.

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The injury I feel is in here, and he said, you lose your, I'm losing my air.

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So there's like pressure in my chest as if I'm injured in the chest,

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but I'm obviously feeling whatever the circumstances are.

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Were you concerned you let him down?

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Yes.

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Because he keeps saying you didn't let me down, you didn't let me down,

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you didn't let me down, but he directs it at you more specifically,

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because he pointed at you, and he keeps saying you didn't let me down.

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Very sensitive, warm guy, he sends his love to the three of you.

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Because he says to you specifically now when you leave, it's like he's giving orders.

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He says when you leave here, you leave here with peace.

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He says you didn't fail me, and he says now you stop feeling guilty.

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And he says you let that go and put your heart at rest.

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He says because he's all right, he's at peace, until we meet again,

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go on with your lives, try to be as happy as you can be,

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until we meet again, know that you'll be with me again.

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When you're about him, he's honest.

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You hear from him, you'll know it's for real.

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And with that, he withdraws with the others, pray for us until we meet again, and there they go.

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Okay, you can relax the way they went.

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I feel a lot better, I really do.

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I feel that Barry's really with us, and you know, we'll be together someday, and you know,

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don't that doubt is, you know, human beings are funny.

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I guess you'll never get rid of it completely, but I feel much more convinced.

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I am just so relieved to hear that he's not suffering and that he's happy,

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and I do believe he spoke with George Anderson, and there's so many things that he has told us

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that were so true that I feel so much better.

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I feel very relieved.

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I'm still skeptical.

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I still have my days where I'll walk upstairs and I'll call my best friend in New York City,

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and I'll say to him, ah, this stuff's all a bunch of bull.

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I don't know why I keep doing this, but then that's few and far between.

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Then there are the times where you know something is happening that you cannot explain,

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plus when you see the effect it has on the people in a positive way, where it helps them.

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I guess it's my job to mind my own business and stay out of it and just continue to be the instrument

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and let the person receive what comfort comes from it, and that's what I try to do.

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As much as you might want to believe in George Anderson's abilities,

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our rational, logical minds tend to discount them.

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Still, after seeing George Anderson in action, one might speculate to paraphrase Shakespeare

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that there are more things in heaven than earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies.

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Next, the tragic story of a couple charged with the murder of their own daughter,

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plus an update in which our viewers help close a case.

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The Story of George Anderson

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1947, a small California town near the Oregon border,

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a woman walking home from the grocery store found an abandoned two-year-old girl who had

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been severely beaten.

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Through newspaper articles, the little girl was identified as Mary Jane Medlin of Selma, Oregon.

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Police arrested Mary's mother and her boyfriend on charges of child abandonment

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and assault with attempt to commit murder. Both were sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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Mary, her older sister Leoma, and her baby brother Jimmy eventually became wards of the state

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and were placed with different families.

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In 1991, Mary finally found her sister Leoma. They immediately joined forces to find the

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younger brother Jimmy, who Mary had only seen once when he was just an infant.

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I feel that the missing link is Jimmy to make our family complete. And I would like to know

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where he is, what happened to him, what kind of a life he has, and like him to know that we're here,

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and that we're his sisters.

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The night of our broadcast, Jimmy was not watching Unsolved Mysteries, but his adopted

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sister was. She immediately called her mother, who then contacted Jimmy. His name is now Donald

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Barrow, and he was just as anxious to meet his sisters as they were to meet him.

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Two weeks after our broadcast, Donald and his family drove from their home in Fresno,

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California to Mary's home in Placerville. Donald, Mary, and Leoma had not seen each other in 45 years.

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Oh, you think you're gonna make it?

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The one thing that I was concerned about is, was it gonna be okay?

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And I knew when I met him out of the car that it is okay. And I am so happy.

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I'm so happy.

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We just, we just, we didn't think, we didn't think good, because we just thought of that this morning.

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I just think that seeing him and knowing that he's had a good life, that was something that Mary and I

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both were concerned with, that we wanted to make sure that he'd had a good life, and knowing that he

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did makes us very happy. I'm not very good at, at emotions, so I don't know how to explain all of

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them that were going through my mind, but there were, there were a lot of them.

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And they're still are.

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Now I'm gonna find out what it's like to be a baby brother.

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And I still get to be the oldest sister. And we all know I'm the middle child.

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September 10th, 1988 began as an ordinary Saturday morning in Midlothian, Illinois.

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David DeWallaby and his son, Davey, were up early. They were careful not to wake the rest of the family,

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including David's mother, who lived in a basement apartment.

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At around 7.15, David DeWallaby noticed that the front door was partially open.

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My first reaction was that my mother must have come home and left it open.

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I went into the kitchen, I looked in the driveway for her car, and her car wasn't there.

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And, you know, again, the first reaction was that she must have came home in the middle

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night, went back out and left it open.

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Two hours later, David's wife, Cynthia, got up and went in to wake their 7-year-old daughter,

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Jacqueline. Hey, Dave, have you seen Jacqueline?

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Dave, have you seen Jacqueline? No, has she in a room? No, is she with your mom?

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No, I don't think mom came home last night. Well, we should probably find her. I'll just...

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David and Cynthia initially assumed that Jacqueline was out playing with friends in the neighborhood.

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Jacqueline was Cynthia's daughter from a previous marriage.

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After Cynthia and David married, he felt so close to Jacqueline that he legally adopted her.

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After thoroughly searching the house, David took his son with him to look around the neighborhood.

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Hey, Paula, you haven't seen Jacqueline around here, have you?

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No, not this morning, I haven't. I had checked two or three homes, and then we went out in my

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truck, and we drove around the neighborhood going to friends who lived a little further down and just,

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you know, driving around the blocks and getting out of the truck, looking in backyards with her

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swing sets. Jacqueline! Jacqueline! Jacqueline! Jacqueline! I started to get more nervous.

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I started to walk quicker and call louder. When I went back into Jacqueline's room,

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I noticed that her comforter was missing and that it was very unusual for her comforter

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to be missing because she doesn't play with it.

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Did you find her? No, we've been every house in the neighborhood. No one's seen her. I've been

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through the whole house. She's not there. Her nerve quilt's gone. Do you know where that is?

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Oh. All right, well, I'm going to go check the morgans. Okay. I was cutting through my yard

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to look into my neighbor's backyard, and that's where I noticed the window.

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The window to the basement apartment had been broken into. It appeared that an intruder had used

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it to gain access to the house. Dave, call the police! Is this a picture of Jacqueline?

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Within hours, the DiWallaby household was swarming with police and FBI agents who assumed that

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Jacqueline had been kidnapped. They set up wiretapping equipment to record any calls which

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might come in with ransom demands, but a kidnapper never called. Four days later, Jacqueline's body

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was discovered in a vacant field in the adjacent community of Blue Island, Illinois.

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Found at the scene with a comforter from her bed, her nightgown, and a 26-foot length of rope,

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which had been wrapped around her throat. It is difficult to imagine a pair's agony upon losing

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a child, but imagine the additional horror of being accused of killing your own daughter.

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That is exactly what happened to David and Cynthia DiWallaby. Indeed, to this day,

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some investigators are still convinced that David and Cynthia murdered Jacqueline,

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despite the long-standing claims of innocence. Four years later, the authorities continue to

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ask the same question. If the DiWallabies did not kill their daughter, then who did?

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What time did you get up this morning?

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From the moment they were notified, the police investigation into Jacqueline's

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disappearance was too pronged. While they pursued the possibility of a kidnapping,

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they began a detailed questioning of both Cynthia and David.

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It was hard answering their questions, because telling the police that you woke up around

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eight isn't good enough, they wanted us to get it as close as possible. And so we were forced to

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try to get really close to times when really all that was on our mind was Jacqueline.

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I didn't want them to ask any questions, although you answer them as you walk in

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past them and pacing, but it was just totally chaotic. And the repeated questions of what did

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you do in the morning seemed so senseless because I said, you know, where's my daughter? Just find

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Jacqueline. That's all I wanted them to do. Yes, we did all this.

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I know they'll tell you that they felt as though they were being harassed and being accused.

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I think any reasonable individuals got to understand that you're in the house,

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your daughter's missing, you're a suspect.

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Investigators naturally directed their attention to the basement window.

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The window.

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Initially, they believed that the window had been smashed by someone on the inside to suggest

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that an intruder had broken it to gain entry.

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People call you David. Yes.

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Are you over 21 years old? Yes.

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On Sunday, September 11th, the day after Jacqueline disappeared, David agreed to take a

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polygraph test at FBI headquarters in Chicago.

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Did you help or plan with anyone to cause Jacqueline's disappearance?

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No. Please remain facing the front.

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Did you help or plan with anyone to cause Jacqueline's disappearance?

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No. Are you withholding any information?

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As I left, I asked the agent next to me if I passed and he said I pass with flying colors.

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Three days went by. The police still had no leads to Jacqueline's whereabouts.

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They requested that David and Cynthia sit and wait.

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Yeah, I remember the days were very long. You know, the days seemed like weeks.

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And then the night we would, Cynthia and I would be in the room,

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trying to imagine where she might be. You know, I just remember that's all that was on our minds,

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is trying to figure out where she could be.

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On the very day Jacqueline's body would be found, David DeWallaby was asked to take a

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second lie detector test. Of course, I wanted to know why and what was wrong with the first one.

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And their answer was something to the fact that the state likes to use their own.

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The results from the second test were inconclusive. The report cited David as an

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uncooperative subject. However, he believes the results stem from a disagreement he had

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with a state agent administering the test. At one point, he asked me to answer yes to all of his

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questions. In other words, he wanted me to lie so he could see how his tests would result in me lying.

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And I said, okay. And the second question he asked me was, did you kill your daughter?

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And he wanted me to answer yes to that. And I told him I can't do it. And he

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got into a little argument where he was turning red in the face and he said, we have to do it this

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way. You have to, you know, lie. I don't mind telling him my name is not Dave DeWallaby. And

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I don't mind some things, but I told him I can't say yes to a question like that. And it upset him.

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After the second test, David was interrogated for another five hours. Finally, an officer interrupted.

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We think we found Jacqueline. Is she okay? I'm sorry. She's dead.

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I was convinced that these police were lying to me about my daughter's death

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as a last ditch effort to try to get me to confess to something.

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You liars. Because the way the interrogation was going, they were getting frustrated.

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David Jacqueline is dead. No, I didn't believe it. I probably didn't want to believe it.

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When David returned home and saw his wife and mother, he knew the police had told him the truth.

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Cindy was on the couch crying. And I ran up to her and I asked her if it was true. And she said,

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yes, you know, we lost our daughter. The feeling was, well, it can't be like it's impossible.

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It's just too much of a bizarre nightmare, you know, to be real. And you feel like it must be a dream.

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It was hard to accept, very hard. The first thing I said was, who did it? Who would do this?

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I can't explain how I felt because I think I went into shock because I just laid on the couch crying.

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An autopsy was unable to determine when Jacqueline had been murdered.

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On September 17, 1988, she was laid to rest.

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The joint investigation now included the Illinois State Police, the Midlothian Police,

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and the police in Blue Island where Jacqueline's body had been found.

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For two months, they collected evidence and built a case against the Duwallabies.

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Finally, in November of 1988, David and Cynthia Duwallabie were charged with Jacqueline's murder.

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Cynthia was two months pregnant.

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In April of 1990, David and Cynthia Duwallabie went on trial for the murder of their daughter, Jacqueline.

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The prosecution built its case largely on circumstantial evidence.

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Could you tell us what the car looked like, sir?

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It appeared to be a dark color.

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One prosecution witness, a transit worker named Everett Mann, picked David Duwallabie out of a photo lineup.

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He claimed that on the night of the murder, he saw a man with a prominent nose like David's

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in a parked car near the site where Jacqueline's body was discovered.

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Did you make out any features of that person?

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Yes, it was the nose structure.

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Could you tell whether it was a man or a woman?

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Everett Mann's claim was that from 75 yards away,

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three-quarters of the length of a football field,

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on a moonless night in a dark parking lot,

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he saw a profile of a nose structure that resembled David Duwallabie's nose structure.

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I've been there, the police have been there,

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every rational person knows that that's a physical impossibility.

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The photo spread that Everett Mann was shown was of five photographs, all of white males,

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all frontal.

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He saw the man in the parking lot from a side view.

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Also, David Duwallabie's photograph was 30% larger than the other four photographs in the

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spread, so therefore by definition, David Duwallabie's nose was the largest.

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If he saw a very large nose, he picked out David Duwallabie's photograph

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because that was the largest nose in the photo spread.

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Didn't mean that he saw David Duwallabie.

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You remember what time of day it was?

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Before the trial, two other eyewitnesses had been found.

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Two other eyewitnesses had claimed they saw Cynthia Duwallabie's car in the same area

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shortly after the murder.

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However, those sightings were later discredited.

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At the exact time the car was allegedly seen, it was actually parked in front of the Duwallabie's house.

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Another central issue in the prosecution's case was a broken window which led into the

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basement apartment.

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The entire law enforcement investigation in this case was based on a faulty assumption,

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namely that the basement window had been broken from inside as part of an effort by the Duwallabies

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to cover up a crime that they had committed.

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Well, it turned out that they had already arrested and indicted the Duwallabies before

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the official forensic report came back on the window which conclusively showed that they had

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been wrong and that the basement window had indeed been broken from the outside.

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But by that point, there was no turning back.

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The prosecution also questioned whether it was possible for someone to enter the house

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without disturbing the items which were perched beneath the window.

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I found it very difficult to believe the theory that someone would break in a window

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in the middle of the night and traverse over a nightstand, a towel rack, a TV tray,

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makeup and nail polish, not disturb anything.

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It's incredible to imagine someone even kicking in the window

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and making that kind of racket in the middle of the night, knowing there's a people in the home.

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To prove that such an entry was possible,

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David Duwallabies shot this videotape of a neighbor crawling through the window.

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The prosecution was telling the judge in the media that if someone were to come in,

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they would have to step on this towel rack and bend it.

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So we put the towel rack under the window and we had my neighbor crawl in while we were shooting

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it with a camera. And what happened is he slid on his belly and right before he got to the towel

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rack, he wedged his foot on the wall and held himself out hanging off the window ledge.

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So we proved it to ourselves and we tape recorded it so that if there was a chance,

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we could prove it to others. I asked that the indictments against David and Cynthia Duwallabies

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be set aside for a while. The Duwallies never testified on their own behalf.

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Before closing arguments, the judge addressed attorneys from both sides without the jury present.

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It's my position that there is sufficient evidence for David Duwallabies' case to go to the jury.

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As to Cynthia Duwallabies and as a legal matter, I'm ruling that there is insufficient evidence

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for her case to go to the jury. The court was adjourned for a while and

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we just kept telling David in the hall that he was next and he was next. This is obviously where

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the jurors heading also. Have you reached a verdict in this case? Yes, Your Honor, we have.

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The jury deliberated for three days on the fate of David Duwallabies.

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I was really up. I felt for sure we were going to get a not guilty verdict. Will the defendant

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please rise? You know, of course, I'm so anxious. I was trying to read into the judge's eyes and to

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his reaction of what it could be, but I was getting nothing.

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We the jury find the defendant David Duwallabies guilty of murder in the first degree.

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We the jury find the defendant David Duwallabies guilty of concealment of a homicidal death.

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I think I wanted to shack. I wasn't even conscious of anything around me. It was unbelievable.

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It didn't matter what happened to me at that point because I really wasn't there even though I was.

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David Duwallabies was sentenced to 45 years in the Stateville maximum security prison in

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Joliet, Illinois. But even as he began serving his sentence, a grassroots movement was being

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organized by Cynthia and Friends of the Family to reverse the decision. Their efforts caught the

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attention of Chicago journalist David Protess. In a series of newspaper articles, he criticized the

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official investigation. Well, Carol, the Duwallabies trial ended in a split decision because it was

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a circumstantial case. Later television reporter Paul Hogan collaborated with Protess in a series

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of investigative reports. Our expert says state police evidence technician whose primary job was

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to seek out and collect all physical evidence should have immediately collected and inventoryed the

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glass. Instead, he waited three days and then had to retrieve it from a trash basket. The news

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reports and shifting public sentiment brought about a stunning turn of events.

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In October of 1991, the Illinois Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the verdict and dismissed

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David Duwallabies' case. He was released from prison after serving 18 months.

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Today's not a day to be bitter or to look back. I'm just looking forward to seeing my family. So

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maybe in a few weeks or so once it's sunk in, I might look back and decide what to do next.

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But what are you going to say to the kids? In the appellate court, in my mind,

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did not find David Duwallabie innocent. They released him for lack of evidence.

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Someone in that home was responsible for Jack Olin's death, and I still believe that. I haven't

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discovered any evidence from been told any other, given any other facts that would lead me to believe

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any differently. We're left with the mystery of what happened to Jacqueline, and we wonder all

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the time what could have happened to her, who could have hurt her. We just want the ability to

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try to go on, but we want to find out what happened to Jacqueline. We want justice.

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What it all boils down to is we lost a precious little girl.

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Nothing beyond that is as bad as losing Jacqueline. Going to prison, being accused of this crime,

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it's all bad, but it doesn't compare to losing Jacqueline. So that was the hardest part of

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it all, and we keep falling back on the same, on Jacqueline.

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Update. After we heard this story, two viewers called our telecenter with crucial information,

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which refuted the alibi of one of the original suspects in the case. As a result of the new

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revelations, the state attorney's office reopened the investigation of Jacqueline Duwallabie's murder.

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However, at this time, there are no plans to file new charges in the case.

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The case is closed.

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