1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,120 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,720 In the 1940s, Elizabeth Short arrived in Hollywood 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,600 with dreams of stardom. 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,200 But at the age of 22, her life was snuffed out 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,400 by a gruesome unknown killer. 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,840 Nearly 50 years later, the death of the Black Dahlia 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,800 remains one of the great unsolved murder 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,320 cases of the century. 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,560 When she was just 16, Brenda Merrill 13 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,840 was abruptly thrust into adulthood, 14 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,440 left alone to care for five younger brothers and sisters. 15 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,040 But after surviving a harsh cold winter, 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,840 Brenda could only watch helplessly 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,720 as the children were taken from her one by one. 18 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:52,720 And from Deadwood, South Dakota, 19 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:56,320 will bring you the bizarre tale of a ghostly alliance 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,840 between a psychic in England and the restless spirit 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,800 of a legendary lawman. 22 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,280 Join me for these intriguing stories 23 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,840 on another edition of Unsolved Mysteries. 24 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:57,720 The End 25 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,280 Her looks were unmistakable. 26 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,480 She had jet black hair and a pension 27 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,320 for wearing black dresses and lingerie. 28 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,640 Those who knew her best said she had a tattoo 29 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:21,720 of an exotic flower on her inner thigh. 30 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,840 Around Hollywood, she was known as the Black Dahlia. 31 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,680 And in 1947, she became the centerpiece 32 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,320 of one of the most celebrated murder 33 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,680 investigations in American history. 34 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,360 On a cool, crisp morning that January, 35 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,800 the nude, mutilated body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short 36 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,080 was discovered in a weed-infested lot 37 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,120 in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles. 38 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,920 What made the murder so unique was 39 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:49,480 the barbaric nature of the crime. 40 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,640 The Black Dahlia's body had been neatly severed in half, 41 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:54,880 gutted, and drained of blood. 42 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,560 You know, it looks like whoever did this 43 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,200 rubbed her down, cleaned her up, and then just dumped her. 44 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,440 I mean, there's no absolute drop of blood anywhere to be found. 45 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,200 As you can see, the cuts on the body 46 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,640 are incredibly clean and precise, 47 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:14,800 almost as if it were done professionally. 48 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,440 Her face had been very brutally cut from ear to ear. 49 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,320 And a grin like this, her throat had been cut, 50 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:30,320 and she had been mutilated sexually. 51 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:35,560 And basically, she was the worst case of a sex crime 52 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,720 in the history of Los Angeles County. 53 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,600 It was in a quiet, peaceful neighborhood, not far from here. 54 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,280 The body of Elizabeth Short was discovered nearly half 55 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,400 a century ago. 56 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,400 Ever since, the case has baffled law enforcement officials 57 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,920 and crime buffs alike. 58 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,920 Today, Lawrence Sherb claims to have evidence 59 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,120 which links the killer of the Black Dahlia 60 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,720 to another notorious murderer, Cleveland's infamous Torso 61 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,240 Slayer. 62 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,920 He is best remembered for having evaded one of the country's 63 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:10,080 most celebrated crime fighters, a man I came to know quite well, 64 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,040 Elliott Ness. 65 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,560 Between 1935 and 1942, Elliott Ness 66 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,000 served as public safety director in Cleveland, Ohio. 67 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,480 During his tenure, the city was terrorized 68 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,520 by a string of sadistic, unsolved murders, which Lawrence 69 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,560 Sherb believes are directly connected to the Black Dahlia 70 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,800 case. 71 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,040 How the life of the legendary lawman 72 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,360 and the death of an obscure aspiring actress 73 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,400 became intertwined is a story well worth exploring. 74 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,520 I just didn't have room for dessert. 75 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:43,480 Well, that's OK. 76 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,280 We can have dessert someplace else. 77 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:47,680 What did you have in mind? 78 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,960 Elizabeth Short's life was as sad as it was brief. 79 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,680 Like so many other young women, she 80 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,240 had been lured to Hollywood with dreams of becoming a star. 81 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,840 But she soon discovered that fame was an elusive fantasy. 82 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:03,000 With her career going nowhere and her money depleted, 83 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,520 Elizabeth eventually drifted into prostitution. 84 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,920 Can you take me home? 85 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:09,880 Yes, I will. 86 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,160 I need to ride all the way to Los Angeles. 87 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,600 Can you take me to Los Angeles? 88 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:14,400 Yes. 89 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,280 Oh, great. Thank you. 90 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:15,920 You're welcome. 91 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,280 Elizabeth Short's final days were shrouded in mystery. 92 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:21,360 She seemed to be constantly on the move 93 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,120 and was last seen leaving a diner in San Diego 94 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,600 with a man who has never been identified. 95 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,880 She called him red when she spoke to him in the diner. 96 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,800 And he did have reddish colored hair. 97 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,600 However, the police were never able to positively 98 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,400 identify him, although some people felt that he might have 99 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,040 been Robert Manley. 100 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,160 Robert Manley was a hardware salesman 101 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,440 who had dated Elizabeth Short. 102 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:46,960 Police brought him in for questioning, 103 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,840 but cleared him of the crime. 104 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:52,320 Other men who were involved with Adalia were also interrogated. 105 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,560 But each, like Manley, had an airtight alibi. 106 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,080 The authorities were completely stumped. 107 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,760 Then a mysterious package was mailed to a local newspaper, 108 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,240 a package from the killer. 109 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,880 Take a look at what I found in the mail. 110 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:12,320 Here's Dali's belongings, letter to follow. 111 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,280 Inside the envelope, they found Elizabeth Short's address 112 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:19,560 book, which was in reality her trick book. 113 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,480 One of the pages in that book is missing. 114 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,280 And it is undoubtedly true that upon that page 115 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:30,040 was the name of the man who actually had killed her. 116 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,320 The package was the closest anyone ever 117 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,560 got to the Black Dalia's killer, 118 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,600 until Lawrence Scherb began to research the case in 1989 119 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,360 and connected it to the torso slangs in Cleveland. 120 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,080 That investigation was a great unsolved case 121 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,280 of Elliot Ness's career. 122 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:52,080 In 1935, after Ness left the renowned crime-busting team 123 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,760 the Untouchables, he was appointed public safety 124 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,080 director in Cleveland. 125 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,560 Can you throw any light on the Kingsbury run murders? 126 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:00,480 Not at this time. 127 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,380 That's enough questions. 128 00:07:01,380 --> 00:07:04,360 Have the victims been identified? 129 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,520 Mr. Ness, they found a body late this morning. 130 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,280 The arms and legs had been cut off. 131 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:12,440 The scene of the crime diminished the looking. 132 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:13,440 Intercapitated? 133 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,120 Yes, sir. 134 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,160 Between 1934 and 1938, no less than 13 mutilated bodies 135 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,400 were discovered in the Kingsbury run district 136 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,760 and surrounding areas of Cleveland. 137 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,640 The victims were all prostitutes or drifters. 138 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,780 The killer had dismembered and bisected most of the bodies 139 00:07:29,780 --> 00:07:33,320 with surgical precision, as would happen nine years later 140 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,840 in the case of the Black Dalia. 141 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,200 Let's go. 142 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,800 Pete, I want you and your foot men 143 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,400 to concentrate your surveillance in Kingsbury. 144 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,480 By the end of 1938, it had been several months 145 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,440 since the last Cleveland killing. 146 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,560 In December, the city police chief 147 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,200 received a letter which gave the first indication 148 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,440 that the torso slayer had moved west. 149 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,560 A letter from Los Angeles, and it's from the butcher Elliot, 150 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,680 says he's killed a woman there. 151 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,400 In that letter, the torso killer 152 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,600 describes the fact that he has left Cleveland 153 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,480 and has come to California, as he described at sunny California, 154 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,040 and is now performing medical experiments 155 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,880 upon his guinea pig victims here in Los Angeles. 156 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,120 Excuse me. 157 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,680 Can you direct me to Crenshaw and Fort? 158 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,480 Yeah, about three blocks down, straight ahead. 159 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,240 In the letter, the killer bragged 160 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,240 that he had already murdered one victim 161 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,960 buried their head in a gully in southwest Los Angeles. 162 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,880 The butchered body of the Black Dalia 163 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,040 would be found in that same area eight years later. 164 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:46,560 The last Cleveland torso murder was committed in 1938. 165 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:50,880 So when he describes coming to Los Angeles in late 1938, 166 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,840 that does correspond chronologically with the fact 167 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,200 that the torso killer had stopped killing 168 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,160 earlier that year in Cleveland. 169 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,400 In the letter, the killer referred to himself as a DC, 170 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,440 a doctor of chiropractic. 171 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,200 He said, quote, I felt bad operating on those people, 172 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,760 but science must advance. 173 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,040 However, the letter is just the beginning 174 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,200 of the torso slayer Black Dalia connection. 175 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,040 The killer apparently had a fetish for cleanliness 176 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,560 and cleaned the Dalia's body very carefully with water, 177 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:31,640 washed it very carefully, shampooed her hair, 178 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,880 and scrubbed her with a bristle brush so severely 179 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,520 that he left bristles embedded in her skin. 180 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,320 The Cleveland victims also indicate 181 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,600 that there were attempts to clean bodies, 182 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,240 and he was attempting to get rid of trace evidence. 183 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:54,840 A butcher knife was used to bisect the Dalia, 184 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,520 and a butcher knife was definitely 185 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,360 the weapon that was used to dismember, 186 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,840 decapitate, and bisect victims in Cleveland. 187 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,240 Police determined that Elizabeth 188 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,160 shot had been held captive and tortured for several hours 189 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,000 before being killed. 190 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,560 She had wounds on her neck, arms, and legs 191 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:16,480 that indicated she had been tied with ropes. 192 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,200 Several of the Cleveland victims had exactly the same type 193 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,760 of marks, suggesting that they had been tortured in exactly 194 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,720 the same manner. 195 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,680 Also, the Dalia's body had been arranged 196 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:29,360 in a sexually suggested position. 197 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,320 The same was true of some of the torso slayer's victims. 198 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,760 However, there was one significant difference. 199 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,280 The Dalia, unlike most of the torso slayer's victims, 200 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,480 was not decapitated. 201 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,640 The torso killer killed other victims in other places 202 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,800 in the 40s, and he did not decapitate some 203 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,320 of those victims either. 204 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,120 So it is not necessarily true that the mere fact 205 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,640 of decapitation sets all the victims of the torso killer 206 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,120 apart, and that if he didn't decapitate the Dalia, 207 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:05,560 that means she could not possibly 208 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:07,240 have been killed by the same man. 209 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,160 All he did was simply change his MO in a rather small way. 210 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,360 Many people believe that Elliot Ness actually 211 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,800 knew the slayer's identity, but never had enough evidence 212 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,960 to prove it in court. 213 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,400 In 1947, Elliot Ness retired from public life. 214 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,120 He later told his biographer, Oscar Freili, 215 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,800 that after he developed a profile of the killer, 216 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,040 he had been approached by a member of Cleveland's 217 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,160 high society. 218 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,920 This lady, socialite, who was working with him, 219 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,400 came to him and said, the member of one 220 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,320 of our influential families fits your profile. 221 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,120 So Elliot said, that's fine. 222 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:49,760 Let's meet him. 223 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:58,720 Hello. 224 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,040 Hello. 225 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,360 Thanks for coming. 226 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,200 You're welcome. 227 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,120 May I ask what this is regarding? 228 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,120 Your officer would not tell me. 229 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,800 Brian, would you bring the gentleman a seat, please? 230 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,920 This man admitted that he had been to medical school. 231 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,360 So Elliot thought surely he had the guy. 232 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,120 Have you ever been to Kingsbury Run after sunset? 233 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:22,880 No. 234 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,120 Ness said he gave the man two lie detector tests. 235 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,440 Both times, the suspect failed. 236 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,400 Do you live in Cleveland? 237 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,480 Yes. 238 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,080 Ness then directly confronted the suspect and said to him, 239 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,240 I think you are the killer. 240 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,160 And the suspect said, well, think it. 241 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,840 You have to prove it. 242 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,560 Have you ever paid for the services of a prostitute? 243 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:49,880 No. 244 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,000 Soon after he took the lie detector test, 245 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,800 the suspect voluntarily committed himself to a hospital. 246 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,000 Lawrence sure believes this act was part of a complex deal 247 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 a killer made to keep his family name out of the newspapers. 248 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,440 Around that time, the torso slangs in Cleveland abruptly 249 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,040 stopped. 250 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,080 Ness believed that this would be the end of the case 251 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,960 because the suspect was so deranged 252 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,000 that he would probably remain in a mental institution 253 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,040 for the rest of his life. 254 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,400 But if the torso slayer was locked away in an Ohio hospital, 255 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,080 how could the murders have continued 256 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,920 in other parts of the Midwest and later Los Angeles? 257 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,400 Perhaps one crucial point was overlooked when 258 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,360 the killer entered the hospital. 259 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:35,360 Darling. 260 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,480 How are you? 261 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:41,280 I'm well. 262 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,640 Sorry I was late, sweetheart. 263 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,000 But we can leave now. 264 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,240 Come along. 265 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,240 If one is voluntarily in a mental hospital, 266 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,960 you are free to legally walk out any time you want. 267 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,680 And I think that's exactly what he did. 268 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:01,320 I think he used the mental health system most of his career. 269 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,200 When things got tough or investigations heated up, 270 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,080 he simply checked himself into a mental institution, 271 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,880 waited until they cooled down, and then checked himself out 272 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,760 again and departed and continued killing. 273 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,360 Elliott Ness never publicly identified the suspect 274 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,160 and took the name with him to the grave. 275 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,240 It bothered Ness a great deal that the mad butcher was 276 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,480 able to escape punishment. 277 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,520 Elizabeth Short was simply one of a number of victims 278 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,280 who were slain by the same killer. 279 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,080 He was the most prolific mass murderer 280 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,480 in the history of the United States. 281 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,000 And to this day, his true identity remains unknown. 282 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,720 Next, the poignant story of a woman 283 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,640 looking for her three youngest siblings 284 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,160 whom she hasn't seen in years. 285 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:14,040 On a September afternoon in 1961, outside Lawrenceville, 286 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,160 Pennsylvania, a woman named Betty Nickerson 287 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,920 made a decision that would forever alter the lives 288 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,640 of her six children. 289 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,600 Just leave that stuff right there. 290 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,400 Betty, who was twice divorced, had moved the children 291 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,280 to her remote farmhouse, leaving her teenage daughter, 292 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,840 Brenda Merrill, in charge. 293 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,600 I'm going to ride into town with the movers. 294 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,960 So you have to take care of your brothers and sisters. 295 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,000 Well, aren't you coming back up here tonight? 296 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,120 Betty herself planned to live in town, 297 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,360 where she had just bought a restaurant. 298 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,640 But, Mom, I can't take care of the kids all by myself. 299 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,160 Brenda, we've already discussed this. 300 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:48,600 I'm not going to argue. 301 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,040 Now, you go fix those children some dinner. 302 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:55,040 She said either the kids would have to go to a home, 303 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,040 or I could quit school and take care of them. 304 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,400 And I couldn't see the kids going, then, you know. 305 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,480 So I said I would quit school. 306 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,280 I never thought my mother would do things like that. 307 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,760 It was a deep hurt, you know, of the children. 308 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,280 A deep hurt, you know. 309 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,080 Like, what did I do to deserve this? 310 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,920 That day was the beginning of a frustrating, difficult year 311 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,640 for 16-year-old Brenda Merrill. 312 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,560 Still a child herself, Brenda was 313 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,360 forced to take on the burden of parenthood virtually alone, 314 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,960 to experience many of the traumas of raising young children, 315 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,480 but also to experience some of the precious joys. 316 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,400 Does that look nice in the dress? 317 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,760 Brenda took over her mother's role completely, 318 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,760 with all five of her siblings, Glinda, Keith, Butch, 319 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,320 Linda, and Eric. 320 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:54,240 Which one? 321 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,600 That looks really pretty. 322 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,080 The children ranged in age from two to nine. 323 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,720 The oldest boy, Butch, was deaf, and none of them, except Brenda, 324 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,520 had ever been to school. 325 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,000 God is great. 326 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 God is great. 327 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 God is great. 328 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,840 God is good. 329 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,600 Let us thank Him for our food. 330 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,600 The children's mother, Betty, never once visited the farmhouse, 331 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,400 even though her business was thriving. 332 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,400 Occasionally, Brenda's boyfriend brought up 333 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,640 food from Betty's restaurant. 334 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,120 Brenda supplemented their meals with vegetables 335 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,320 from the garden. 336 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,880 I was just like a normal family, because I 337 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:40,680 was like their mother, you know. 338 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:41,400 It just went. 339 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:42,920 You washed clothes. 340 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:43,880 You did the dishes. 341 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,720 You got their dinner, and you got their breakfast, 342 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:47,320 and you got their supper. 343 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,280 And you get them scrubbed up for bed, you know, 344 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,320 and you sing them songs before they go to sleep, 345 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,280 you know, like a normal household. 346 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,800 As cold weather came on, Brenda was forced 347 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,480 to hot small game to feed the children. 348 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,000 Memories of her old life began to haunter. 349 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,120 There was a time that you think, why can't I go out dancing? 350 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:17,360 Or why can't I go out bowling? 351 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:19,000 Or why can't I just go out with the kids 352 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,040 and have a good time? 353 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,440 But, you know, after you leave school and you quit, 354 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:23,800 you have no friends no more. 355 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,520 So I didn't have no friends after that, 356 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,760 because there was nobody up there to be friends with. 357 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,200 So the kids were my friends. 358 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,200 You know, they were my life. 359 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,240 Brenda and the children made it through the winter. 360 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,680 And just as a damp chili spring arrived, their fuel ran out. 361 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,680 In desperation, Brenda chopped the children's rubber 362 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,760 tire swing into pieces and fed the pieces 363 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,000 into the old wood stove. 364 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,240 I don't know where, how I even got it, or who told me 365 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,240 that if you put tires in with your wood, it'll burn good. 366 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,880 You know, you get good heat. 367 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,040 So that's what I did. 368 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,200 And boy, did I get good heat. 369 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,800 Brenda, there's something burning. 370 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,800 I thought, oh, my word. 371 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,000 You know, get the kids out. 372 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,800 That's all I could think of was get the kids out of here. 373 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:19,800 It's going to blow. 374 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,200 The second floor of the farmhouse 375 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,200 was completely destroyed. 376 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,520 But for Brenda, it was a blessing in disguise. 377 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:36,200 I really felt relieved that I would never 378 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:37,360 have to go back there again. 379 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:48,040 It was a great relief in my chest, you know. 380 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,080 Mom will have to take some responsibility for these kids 381 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,120 when I get them off the hill, you know. 382 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,120 Reluctantly, Betty took her children in. 383 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,840 The man Betty lived with assumed that the three youngest 384 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,080 were Brenda's. 385 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,040 A few weeks later, Brenda married her boyfriend. 386 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,920 They moved to Corning, New York, 28 miles away, 387 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,600 and took Eric with them. 388 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,520 Betty immediately began to farm the other children out. 389 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,320 Linda went to live with the family across the street. 390 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,120 Butch was enrolled in a state school for the deaf. 391 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:24,960 Linda and Keith were kept together 392 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,080 and sent to live with an acquaintance of Betty's. 393 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,240 A week later, Brenda and her new husband 394 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,120 took Eric to visit Linda and Keith. 395 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:46,240 Brenda was horrified by the children's living conditions. 396 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:47,840 There was just a blanket on the floor 397 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,320 with the kids laying on the floor. 398 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,360 And there was cockroaches crawling over. 399 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:54,680 I got furious. 400 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,000 Linda, Keith, get up. 401 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,240 I'm getting you out of here. 402 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,520 What do you think you're doing? 403 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,920 I'm taking the kids. 404 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:01,240 What the hell you are? 405 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,640 I'm calling the cops. 406 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,960 I said, that's just what I want you to do, call the cops, 407 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,920 because I know they want these kids laying this mess. 408 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,040 Well, go on. 409 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:09,880 Take them. 410 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,780 Get out of here. 411 00:21:10,780 --> 00:21:13,200 I don't want no trouble. 412 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,360 So that's what I did. 413 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:15,560 Come on, you two, get up. 414 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:16,480 I took the kids. 415 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,880 I'll get out of here. 416 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,720 BANGS ON DOOR 417 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,920 Brenda went straight to her mother's house. 418 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:25,960 What do you want? 419 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,600 What are blended Keith doing here? 420 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,200 I just took him out of that pig's die where you left him. 421 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,080 It's time he started taking care of them. 422 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,240 Brenda, take those kids right back there now. 423 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,400 I will not. 424 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,040 I wouldn't keep a dog in that place. 425 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,080 I can't do anything about that right now. 426 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,320 Right now? 427 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,040 You never took care of them. 428 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,560 Though he's been too busy catting around to take care of them. 429 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,360 Brenda, don't talk to your mother like that. 430 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:50,480 Why don't you mind your own business? 431 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,120 Her boyfriend brought back his hand 432 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,200 and was going to hit me for calling my mother names. 433 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,720 And I said, you better stop and listen before you strike, 434 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,320 because these are my mother's kids. 435 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,600 These are not my kids. 436 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,120 These are Betty's kids. 437 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:05,040 Betty, is that true? 438 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,480 Look, we're taking the kids with me tonight. 439 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,840 But you better tell mama to do something about him tomorrow. 440 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,000 I hated my mother for that. 441 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,480 I hated her bad right then. 442 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,640 I really felt like I'd like to hurt her. 443 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,520 You know, I really wanted to hurt her. 444 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,120 Because I felt she took a lot of my young life away. 445 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:36,120 You two are going to find the nice lady, aren't you? 446 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,480 Betty notified the child welfare department 447 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,960 and that Glendon Keith placed in foster care. 448 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,360 Brenda thought it was only a temporary measure, 449 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,120 but Glendon Keith never came back. 450 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:50,020 Bye-bye. 451 00:22:50,020 --> 00:22:54,860 The following week, Brenda was forced to turn Eric over 452 00:22:54,860 --> 00:22:58,620 to foster parents as well. 453 00:22:58,620 --> 00:23:00,660 I said, nobody's taking Eric. 454 00:23:00,660 --> 00:23:01,980 And she said, yes, they are. 455 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:03,060 They'll have legal papers. 456 00:23:03,060 --> 00:23:03,860 They'll show you. 457 00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:08,380 You take good care of him, OK? 458 00:23:08,380 --> 00:23:09,300 Don't worry, honey. 459 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:10,260 We'll take care of him. 460 00:23:10,260 --> 00:23:11,180 OK? 461 00:23:11,180 --> 00:23:12,180 I'll take care of him. 462 00:23:12,180 --> 00:23:13,080 OK? 463 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:13,980 I'll take care of him. 464 00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:14,780 OK? 465 00:23:14,780 --> 00:23:15,780 I'll take care of him. 466 00:23:15,780 --> 00:23:16,680 OK? 467 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:17,580 OK. 468 00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:18,480 OK. 469 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:19,940 Don't worry, honey. 470 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,880 We'll take good care of him. 471 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,720 Let me give you this, too. 472 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,880 I just had that feeling, you know, a mother's instinct, 473 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,040 let's say, that you're not going to see your child again. 474 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:31,940 You know? 475 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,600 And I never did. 476 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,520 Two years later, the house was torn down. 477 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,160 Eric and his foster family disappeared. 478 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,560 What? 479 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,360 That's it. 480 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,760 That's right. 481 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:52,800 I was about 16. 482 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,640 30 years have passed. 483 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,600 Brenda has been reunited with her sister 484 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,240 Linda and her brother, Butch. 485 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,000 Austin Burd. 486 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Their mother, Betty, is now 78 and in a nursing home. 487 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Yeah, he was. 488 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,680 He was, but he was low. 489 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,580 Who's that? 490 00:24:06,580 --> 00:24:07,480 Me, yeah. 491 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,600 But Brenda, Butch, and Linda, the search 492 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,640 for their younger siblings has deep and varied meaning. 493 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,560 Yep, OK. 494 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,280 Yep. 495 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,880 It's hard to explain missing somebody 496 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,080 and not being able to see them. 497 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,400 It takes, when you love somebody and you lose them, 498 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,880 it's like losing your whole life. 499 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,760 You have nothing more to go. 500 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,200 You have no place to go without them. 501 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,360 Butch Erskine also has a message for his lost sister 502 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:39,120 and brothers. 503 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:43,040 I love you. 504 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,400 And I miss you. 505 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:47,920 I do. 506 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:51,000 I do. 507 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,480 Brenda hopes that when Eric, Linda, and Keith are found, 508 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,200 she can finally make peace with her mother. 509 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,880 I feel if they can forgive her, then I can forgive her. 510 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,960 Because I'm still here and they're gone. 511 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,920 And I feel if they can forgive her, I can do. 512 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,120 On the evening of our broadcast, Brenda Merrill's 513 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:23,280 single-minded determination to bring her family back together 514 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,520 finally began to pay off. 515 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,640 An hour after Brenda's story aired, 516 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,000 a man named Keith Robinson of Hornel, New York 517 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,520 contacted our telecenter and said that he was Brenda's 518 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,760 long lost brother. 519 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,360 Brenda called me that same name like five minutes later. 520 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,320 And we was talking. 521 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,520 And I mentioned about having a photograph 522 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,080 that she had aired on the program. 523 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,160 And I basically told her in detail for detail 524 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,800 what was in the photo so she knew that I was her brother. 525 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,800 On December 19, 1992, just in time for Christmas, 526 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,800 Keith Robinson and his wife and children 527 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,720 traveled to Montur Falls, New York 528 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,120 for an emotional reunion with his sisters, Brenda and Linda, 529 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:05,960 and his brother, Butch. 530 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,480 He had not seen them in more than 30 years. 531 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,320 I thought a lot about what they were going to be like. 532 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,840 If they were going to love me for just being their brother 533 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,920 or love me for what I am now today, 534 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,160 if they were going to accept my family under their hurt. 535 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,320 Because it's over a 30-year period of waiting and looking. 536 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,120 It's a great Christmas present you don't know. 537 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:33,880 He is the greatest Christmas present, 538 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,160 especially his wife and kids too. 539 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,880 He has a nice wife and kids. 540 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,120 For everyone involved, the reunion was bittersweet. 541 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:45,800 Their joy tempered by the knowledge 542 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,520 that one brother was still missing. 543 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,320 Eric Nickerson was still a toddler 544 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,760 when his family was split apart. 545 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,320 Just five weeks after we filmed this update, 546 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,360 he too was found. 547 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,200 Eric's name is now Richard Moore, 548 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,800 and he lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife and two children. 549 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,520 In February of 1993, he was reunited with his sisters, 550 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,200 Brenda and Linda, after more than 30 years of separation. 551 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,800 Brenda Miller's long search to find all her brothers 552 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,640 and sisters was finally over. 553 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:25,760 When we return, a ghostly tale of the Wild West. 554 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,400 Some ghost stories, no matter how unbelievable, 555 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,200 are just too good to pass up. 556 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,480 We next have the unusual tale of a legendary lawman, 557 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,120 a psychic in England, and a small town of South Dakota, 558 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,560 where fact, fantasy, and history have come together 559 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,960 to tease the imagination. 560 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,080 It all began more than a century ago. 561 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,200 In the late 1870s, South Dakota was booming with gold fever, 562 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,480 attracting outlaws, gamblers, and swindlers. 563 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,040 Mining towns dotted the landscape, 564 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,480 perhaps the most infamous was Deadwood. 565 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,120 It was here that Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death, 566 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,440 and Calamity Jane practiced her trade 567 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,880 in a house of ill repute. 568 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,600 It was a wild and woolly town. 569 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,760 The miners just absolutely were raising hell in this town. 570 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,720 Most towns are 95% solid citizens and 5% characters, 571 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,560 and Deadwood the reverse is true. 572 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,280 Finally in the summer of 1876, 573 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,760 a call went out for a man who could bring law and order 574 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,360 to the community. 575 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,600 The call was answered by Seth Bullock, 576 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,880 who had come into town from Montana a few months earlier. 577 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,240 He became Deadwood's first sheriff. 578 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,320 From what I have read, he didn't have to use a gun, actually. 579 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:04,080 The story is that one look from his very penetrating gauge 580 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,480 was enough to quit almost law breakers. 581 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,880 Take your hands off me! 582 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:11,720 Yeah! 583 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,800 Yeah, I did have to work! 584 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,560 All right, boys, what's going on? 585 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,560 I don't need this. 586 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,000 Sheriff Bullock took his cleanup campaign 587 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,520 throughout the territory. 588 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,120 One afternoon in 1887, he encountered three men 589 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,960 whom he took at first glance to beat cattle rustlers. 590 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,640 What the hell's going on here? 591 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,320 What are you boys doing in these parts? 592 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:45,960 We're looking for a horse, Steve. 593 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,240 What's your name? 594 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,440 My name's Theodore Roosevelt, 595 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,120 and I'm the deputy sheriff of Billings County. 596 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,560 Who are these other fellas you got with you? 597 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,840 Sheriff Bullock and Theodore Roosevelt 598 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,320 went on to become the best of friends. 599 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,800 When Roosevelt formed the Rough Riders, Seth joined up. 600 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,400 Teddy, of course, would later be elected president, 601 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,320 and in 1905, Seth was an honored guest at the inauguration. 602 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,800 But even in Deadwood, not many people knew 603 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,760 that when President Roosevelt died in 1919, 604 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,920 the sheriff arranged to have this memorial 605 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,520 called the Friendship Tower, erected just outside of town. 606 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,880 Nine months later, Seth Bullock himself passed away 607 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,680 and was buried at a gravesite overlooking the monument. 608 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,760 Today, Deadwood is once again a boom town 609 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,920 thanks to the passage of the law legalizing 610 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,800 low stakes gambling. 611 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,160 The Bullock Hotel, founded by Seth in 1895, 612 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,440 has been revitalized, and according to some, 613 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,240 the spirit of Seth Bullock can occasionally be seen 614 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,320 meandering through the hallways. 615 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,520 At this point, over 30 employees 616 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,680 and a handful of hotel guests have had experiences here. 617 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,800 To the point where it's commonplace, 618 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,480 to the point where we laugh about it and just take 619 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,800 kind of a lot of fun in the fact that we feel 620 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,400 that we're not alone here. 621 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,920 Norm Stevens, a slot machine supervisor at the hotel, 622 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,400 says that one morning he was working in the basement 623 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,480 when a mysterious shadow fell across the wall. 624 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,880 It was a figure of a man, but when Norm turned, 625 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:26,960 the shadow vanished. 626 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,160 A few weeks later, operations manager Joey George 627 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,440 had his own ghostly encounter. 628 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,480 He claims that when he walked by the bar, 629 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,960 after closing time, all of the stools were lined up in a row. 630 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,080 Joey stepped into the office, then heard 631 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:45,880 unusual noises behind him. 632 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,880 He returned to the bar. 633 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,840 All of the stools had been moved to the building 634 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,080 All of the stools had been moved. 635 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,640 But both of these mysterious incidents 636 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,320 paled in comparison with another hotel worker's 637 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,520 experience in 1989. 638 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,000 We had a young employee who was, I think, about 18 639 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,520 at the time, and he was working in the back, which 640 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,080 is the restaurant now. 641 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,520 And he came flying out of the back room, 642 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,120 and he was just ghost white and said 643 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,800 that he saw a figure in Western attire 644 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,520 with jeans tucked into the boots. 645 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,880 And what he had seen scared him because he 646 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,840 felt that it wasn't real. 647 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,520 And he was very, very much afraid, 648 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,720 and he would never go back into the kitchen by himself 649 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,520 after that, and thereafter quit. 650 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,160 The people of Edward always assumed 651 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,880 it was a ghost of Seth Bullock who was haunting the hotel. 652 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,480 Then in April of 1991, a pair of confirmation 653 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,600 came from a most unlikely source. 654 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,280 5,000 miles away, in Dorset, England, 655 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,960 a man who claimed to be a psychic 656 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,520 said he began receiving messages from beyond the grave. 657 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:10,120 By pure coincidence, the psychic's name was Sandy Bullock. 658 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,200 Occasionally, various people pop through, 659 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,320 and the name Seth Bullock, I thought, 660 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,440 perhaps it was an ancestor that was coming through to say hello 661 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,360 or something like that. 662 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,360 And I rather dismissed it. 663 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,560 But the spirit of Seth Bullock did not go away. 664 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,760 Sandy claims that Seth communicated with him 665 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,560 through a Native American guide who 666 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,360 issued a warning to the people of Edward, 667 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,880 a period of lawlessness loomed on the horizon. 668 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,240 It may happen in 1993. 669 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,040 It could happen again in Edward in 1993. 670 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,760 Beware, Edward. 671 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,880 The psychic warning seemed so urgent, 672 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,080 that Sandy immediately wrote an open letter 673 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,120 to the proprietors of the Bullock Hotel. 674 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,080 I thought if I write to someone in this place called 675 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,800 Edward, they would just think I'm a nutty old Englishman 676 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,720 and forget it, you know, throw it away. 677 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,760 A few weeks later, Sandy's letter 678 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,280 arrived at the Bullock Hotel, which at the time 679 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,400 was undergoing extensive renovations. 680 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,080 All information at the time, as I read it, I thought to myself, 681 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,120 well, he found a book someplace on Edward, read it, 682 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,480 and wrote to me. 683 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,160 But at the very bottom of the letter, 684 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,400 it mentioned that Seth says he can't haunt the hotel right 685 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,280 now because of all the banging that's going on. 686 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,520 And I thought to myself, what's driving me crazy too. 687 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:37,000 So but he also said that he'll be back 688 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,920 and you'll know it's old Seth quote unquote. 689 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,440 And that is when, again, the hair stood up 690 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,680 on the back of my neck because that was my aunt's pet 691 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,240 name for Seth. 692 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:50,680 Anytime something strange would happen, 693 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,960 Jerry would say, old Seth is up to his tricks again. 694 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,960 Local journalist Rena Webb was intrigued and decided 695 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,800 to write back to Sandy Bullock. 696 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,360 And in this letter, I said to him, I am categorized, 697 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,440 I suppose, neither as a believer or a non-believer. 698 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,800 I will treat your story with the utmost respect. 699 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,280 However, I have a lot of readers who 700 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,760 will be totally skeptical about your story. 701 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,040 Because of the skepticism, I would 702 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:26,520 like to pose to you a test question. 703 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:31,920 Who was the well-known person who was a close friend of Seth 704 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,440 Bullock's? 705 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,120 And how is Bullock's grave positioned 706 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,120 in relation to that friendship? 707 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,720 When I got his letter in response to my test question, 708 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:53,000 he said, tall trees block the view from his old bones. 709 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,520 But Teddy and he still meet in the afterlife. 710 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,960 And I said, whoa. 711 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,520 And I still get goose pimples when I think about that. 712 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,760 Rena believes the message referred 713 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,760 to a stand of pine trees, which now 714 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,440 obstructs the view of Theodore Roosevelt's monument 715 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,080 from Seth Bullock's grave site. 716 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,400 It was a story that was not well known. 717 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,840 And there was no way Sandy Bullock sitting in Dorset, England, 718 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,960 could have researched this. 719 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,560 I mean, it's just not possible. 720 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,800 There's just too much evidence of Seth's presence 721 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,200 in this town, and particularly at the Bullock Hotel, 722 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,160 to discount it. 723 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,680 Perhaps other people might feel differently. 724 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,000 All I know is the evidence seems to point very strongly 725 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,920 in the direction of Sheriff Seth Bullock still 726 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,800 being on the job in Deadwoods after Dakota today. 727 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,720 Now, about Seth Bullock's dire prediction, 728 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,400 we just have to wait and see. 729 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,840 Curiously, in 1993, there are plans 730 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,480 to raise a gambling stakes from the present $5 limit. 731 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,840 Now, some fear this will introduce 732 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,320 a new criminal element in Deadwood. 733 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,560 Perhaps that is what prompted Old Seth's urgent warnings. 734 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,160 Friday, March 1, 1991. 735 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,520 For most of the patrons at a biker bar in central New Jersey, 736 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,200 it seemed like the start of an ordinary weekend. 737 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,240 However, Gloria Brown, a friend of the owners, 738 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:42,840 would soon become a key witness in a bizarre missing 739 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,440 person's case. 740 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,440 She was helping out behind the bar 741 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:52,280 when a young woman, a stranger, drifted in at about 3.45 PM. 742 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,080 Can I get you something, honey? 743 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,120 No thanks. 744 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,560 I'm sorry if you're going to sit here 745 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,120 if you have to order something. 746 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,000 I don't have any money. 747 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,160 Do you want a soda? 748 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,000 She seemed very depressed. 749 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,680 She didn't smile. 750 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,560 She didn't hardly speak. 751 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,840 And very strange, very strange. 752 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,040 Several days later, Gloria Brown saw this flyer. 753 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,360 She was startled to realize that the sad young woman strongly 754 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,160 resembled Dee Dee Rosenthal, who had vanished 755 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,880 under peculiar circumstances the week before. 756 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,520 Gloria Brown's account was a first indication 757 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,800 that Dee Dee might still be alive. 758 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,760 But before police could talk to the stranger in the bar, 759 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,320 she too had disappeared. 760 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,680 The uncertain fate of Dee Dee Rosenthal 761 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,400 has left her family heartbroken and authorities baffled. 762 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,080 Dee Dee's trail is obscured by conflicting clues, 763 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,320 unexplained phone calls, and not one but two alleged sightings. 764 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,280 Nothing about the case makes any sense. 765 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,440 Dee Dee Rosenthal hardly seemed the type 766 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,000 to be at the center of an unsolved mystery. 767 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,200 32-year-old Dee Dee Rosenthal was a highly regarded therapist 768 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,520 who worked with autistic children. 769 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:20,280 When she failed to show up at her clinic on Monday, February 25, 1991, 770 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,280 her colleagues naturally became concerned. 771 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,000 One of Dee Dee's coworkers notified police 772 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,480 and met them at Dee Dee's apartment. 773 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,480 Immediately, it was clear that something was wrong. 774 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,320 The front door was unlocked, and the Sunday paper 775 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:42,480 was still untouched. 776 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,120 Inside everything seemed to be in order, 777 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,560 without signs of ransacking or a struggle. 778 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,080 However, investigators discovered that Dee Dee was 779 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,320 being evicted from her apartment. 780 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,240 She apparently spent money freely 781 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,680 and occasionally went into debt. 782 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,560 The missing girl had been having 783 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,480 some financial difficulties. 784 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,000 So it kind of gave rise to the belief 785 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,960 that maybe it became overwhelming, 786 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,480 and she left of her own volition. 787 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,720 Dee Dee just would not be the person just to take off. 788 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:22,000 If she was going to take off or was going to go away, 789 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,160 she would either call her mom or she would call me. 790 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:30,160 Disquieting evidence hinted that Dee Dee had met with foul play. 791 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:34,000 Her purse had been left behind with her keys, identification, 792 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,920 and credit cards inside. 793 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,240 One discovery in particular suggested 794 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:41,440 that Dee Dee might have been abducted. 795 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:42,920 There's a cat out here, John. 796 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,920 Dee Dee would not have left her cat, her most loved possession. 797 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,440 She took her cat everywhere where she went. 798 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,280 She would never have let alone alone in the apartment, 799 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,240 but let alone sitting out on a balcony. 800 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,280 She would not have put it out the door and say, all right, 801 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,800 goodbye, I'm leaving. 802 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,000 That's not, that's totally out of Dee Dee's character. 803 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,080 Police found Dee Dee's car parked in this usual spot, 804 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,320 but oddly, her briefcase with all her client records 805 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,560 had been left in the car. 806 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,720 If Dee Dee were to take her car, 807 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:25,000 if she were to take off on her own, 808 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,200 why wouldn't she take her car? 809 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:34,800 I knew something was horribly wrong with this scenario. 810 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,760 The evidence of foul play was mounting. 811 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,400 The investigation raised the distinct possibility 812 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,280 that Dee Dee Rosenthal had been kidnapped and perhaps 813 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,120 murdered sometime between 10 PM Friday and dawn Sunday. 814 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,840 That conclusion was bolstered by an account 815 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,800 from one of Dee Dee's neighbors. 816 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,760 The woman was awakened around 3 45 AM 817 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,880 Sunday morning by strange sounds coming from Dee Dee's 818 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:03,800 apartment. 819 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,960 She heard what sounded like a scream followed by a thud, 820 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:17,360 and she likened it to someone falling out of bed 821 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:18,600 and being startled. 822 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:28,880 Five hours later, at around 8 30, 823 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,240 the same neighbor heard the balcony door open 824 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,880 and assumed Dee Dee was at home. 825 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,640 However, no one can be certain whether it was Dee Dee 826 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,480 or an assailant in the apartment. 827 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,360 But unexpected evidence of Dee Dee 828 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,120 might still be alive surfaced a week later 829 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,160 when the woman who resembled her wandered into the New Jersey 830 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,800 biker hangout. 831 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,440 If it was, in fact, Dee Dee, she was pitifully 832 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,120 confused about her identity. 833 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:00,560 I do believe it was her. 834 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,120 I really do. 835 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,520 She looked so much like the picture. 836 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:10,200 If she had only smiled, I would have known definitely. 837 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,240 But it looked like her. 838 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:14,800 Hi. 839 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,320 Hi. 840 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,640 You're not from around here, right? 841 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,600 The young woman said her name was Lori 842 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,000 and that she was trying to get to Florida. 843 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,320 She left with one of the bikers who is not a suspect. 844 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,520 He told police he dropped her off the next day 845 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,400 at a liquor store near a major highway. 846 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,000 Just one week later, Dee Dee's aunt Celia 847 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,760 was startled by a mysterious phone call. 848 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,080 Mama? 849 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,360 Who is this? 850 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,360 Mama? 851 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:47,800 Mama? 852 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,080 Dee Dee? 853 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,400 OK. 854 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,200 Dee Dee, is that you? 855 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,280 Celia called me. 856 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,440 She was very excited. 857 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,640 She told me that she just received a phone call 858 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,360 from someone that she swore was my sister Dee Dee. 859 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,800 Five weeks went by with no more news. 860 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,880 Then Dee Dee's brother received a tip 861 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,800 that his sister was in Florida. 862 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,640 Approximately April 15, I received a phone call 863 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,360 from a male party who asked me if I was Blaine Rosenberg. 864 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,960 I was her brother, which I said yes. 865 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,040 They said we've seen Dee Dee or we spotted Dee Dee 866 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:35,040 in the Fort Lauderdale area. 867 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,520 As I started talking, the phone disconnected. 868 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,240 A year passed and Dee Dee's family 869 00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:47,960 still had no idea whether she was dead or alive. 870 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,800 Then on September 5, 1992, the woman who called herself 871 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,240 Laurie returned to the biker bar. 872 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:56,440 She had dyed her hair blonde and claimed 873 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,480 to have been in Florida. 874 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,360 My impression was that she had had a nervous breakdown. 875 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,360 Excuse me. 876 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,400 Is your name Dee Dee? 877 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,440 No, it's Laurie. 878 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,400 Well, if you are Dee Dee, you better 879 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:12,400 get in touch with your mother. 880 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:13,400 She's pretty upset. 881 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,680 I believe that she just turned away from me 882 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,800 because she didn't want to have anything 883 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:27,560 to do with what I was saying because I knew. 884 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:28,720 And she knew that I knew. 885 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,360 The woman known as Laurie was last seen at a Lakehurst New 886 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,440 Jersey Tavern, where she was dropped off 887 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,280 by a patron of the bar. 888 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,000 Once again, she disappeared before she could be interviewed 889 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,240 by police who were skeptical that Dee Dee and Laurie are 890 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:49,360 one and the same person. 891 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,040 Today, investigators still lack sufficient evidence 892 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,360 to determine whether Dee Dee was murdered 893 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:59,000 or is wandering the streets uncertain of her own identity. 894 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:31,160 Join me next time. 895 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,880 Perhaps you may be able to solve a mystery.