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 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,160 Tonight, on a special edition of Unsolved Mysteries, 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,360 at a truck stop in Oklahoma, two hitchhikers, 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,960 unnerved by a man with whom they were traveling, 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,960 tried to get a ride on a truck. 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,760 By a man with whom they were traveling, 10 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,600 tried to report his strange behavior. 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,880 A few days later, authorities discovered 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,200 that the man's pickup truck was a stolen vehicle. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,920 The hitchhikers had unknowingly grabbed a ride 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:42,080 with a murder suspect. 15 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,320 In Naperville, Illinois, a 10-year-old girl 16 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,200 was abducted from her home and later brutally murdered. 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,200 Two men were convicted of the crime, and one of them, 18 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,280 Rolando Cruz, is scheduled to be executed on March 22. 19 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,400 But in this most controversial case, 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,800 another man has confessed that he alone killed the girl. 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,360 And some of the evidence supports his claim. 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,560 In Canada, they are known as the lost generation. 23 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,560 Thousands of Native American children 24 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,240 ripped away from their families and their ancestral homes 25 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,160 to be put up for adoption. 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,600 Tonight, you may be able to help two families and years 27 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,520 of painful forced separation. 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,560 Join me for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries. 29 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,800 February 25, 1983. 30 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:30,720 What do you think? 31 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,800 You think that'll match? 32 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,600 In Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, 33 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,360 Chris Nicarico and her friends came home from school 34 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,320 to a nightmarish discovery. 35 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:40,480 Oh, my God, you guys. 36 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,360 Someone had broken into the house, 37 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,440 and her little sister, Janine, was missing. 38 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,720 The police were called immediately. 39 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:50,960 What do we got, guys? 40 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,440 They found that the front door had been knocked in. 41 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,720 A visible footprint remained on the door, 42 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,520 and two more prints were found in the yard. 43 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,640 A sheet and a blanket were missing from one of the beds. 44 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,240 It appeared to me, and I'm sure a couple other guys, too. 45 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,480 It was like it was a burglary. 46 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,880 Maybe that went bad. 47 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,720 She wasn't supposed to be home. 48 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:13,960 Somebody kicks in the door. 49 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,280 Next thing you know, she's home, and they take her. 50 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,520 Two days later, the young girl's body 51 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,000 was discovered in the Illinois Prairie Path, 52 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,680 a park less than two miles from her home. 53 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,000 10-year-old Janine Nicarico had been brutally raped 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,000 and beaten to death. 55 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,960 Today, two men are in prison for the murder of Janine Nicarico, 56 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,160 one facing execution next March 22. 57 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,380 Both claim they are innocent, but there's 58 00:03:42,380 --> 00:03:44,320 a third man who says he is the killer, 59 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,000 and that he acted alone. 60 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,440 The prosecutors call him a liar. 61 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,120 But so far, three high-level law enforcement officials 62 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,680 have quit their jobs to protest the handling of the case. 63 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,840 They believe that the man currently scheduled to die 64 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,840 in five weeks is innocent. 65 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,480 In early 1983, an offer of a $10,000 reward 66 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,680 led investigators to a man named Alex Hernandez. 67 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,840 Hernandez had a reputation for trying to impress people 68 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,040 and told police he'd been driving around drinking 69 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,320 with several men who had talked about a murder. 70 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,280 Well, Rick was talking to the guys. 71 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:24,840 They were passing like a bottle around. 72 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:25,740 OK. 73 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:27,640 And he was talking to them, and he said something 74 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,560 about seeing that girl. 75 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:29,960 You got a last name, Alex? 76 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,240 No, I don't know his last name. 77 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,960 Hernandez had an IQ of 76 and was known around his neighborhood 78 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,040 as Crazy Alex. 79 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,920 His criminal record listed only one previous arrest 80 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:42,360 for misdemeanor theft. 81 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,260 He was crying. 82 00:04:43,260 --> 00:04:44,160 I seen him crying. 83 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,920 Hernandez named names, but only one 84 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,960 provided a possible link to the murder. 85 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,680 Steve Buckley owned a pair of boots 86 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,000 and closely approximated the boot print found 87 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,080 on the front door of the Nicarico home. 88 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,080 Buckley became a suspect, and police 89 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,840 began to think Alex Hernandez knew more than he was telling. 90 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,240 Here is somebody who told us about sitting in a car. 91 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,680 We figured maybe now he's just trying 92 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,160 to shift the guilt away from himself, 93 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,600 and maybe he's involved. 94 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,200 So he was a prime suspect. 95 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,800 So to see what we could find out, 96 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,080 we arranged for him to sit down with a person 97 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,640 that he would know of who was a burglar out of Aurora. 98 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,960 Police put Hernandez in a room with a man 99 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,360 he knew from his neighborhood nicknamed Panguirin. 100 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,440 Panguino was told to pretend he knew 101 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,120 who had murdered another child. 102 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,040 Police got Hernandez to cooperate 103 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,200 by telling him he was a junior deputy 104 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,520 and would get $10,000 in reward money 105 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,640 if he convinced Panguino to talk. 106 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:54,120 Right. 107 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,080 Just put it between you, or you can take it home. 108 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:57,680 I don't care. 109 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,120 Somebody come up with something today. 110 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,040 A detective listened in the hallway outside. 111 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,480 We figured that would be a perfect way if he knew anything. 112 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,720 Hopefully, all it was is to get out some information, 113 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:11,800 and he was holding back. 114 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,320 Hopefully, he would talk easier to his peer, somebody 115 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:16,800 that he knew. 116 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,880 The meeting, conducted partly in Spanish, 117 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,760 turned into a boasting contest. 118 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,240 Panguino claimed he knew about the murder of a young boy. 119 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,480 Hernandez claimed he knew about the Nicarico murder. 120 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,200 Hernandez even bragged he could show police the crime scene. 121 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,760 He said, I was there. 122 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,800 I didn't kill her, but I held her down. 123 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,160 Police would later drive throughout Naperville 124 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,280 with Hernandez, hoping he could identify the Nicarico 125 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:50,960 home or the crime scene. 126 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,280 If we didn't run out of gas, we'd probably still be riding. 127 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:57,960 We never found anything. 128 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,880 He never could take us any place. 129 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:03,200 He rode around and rode around looking at houses and places 130 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,000 that he hoped would be at, I think. 131 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,200 But he never could take us to that place. 132 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,600 Orlando. 133 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:12,120 Orlando? 134 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:12,620 Cruz? 135 00:07:12,620 --> 00:07:13,280 Yeah. 136 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,480 Police. 137 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:16,480 I do not. 138 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,760 Regardless, police followed the other leads 139 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,000 Hernandez had given them. 140 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,040 One led to a man named Rolando Cruz. 141 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,560 Cruz was 19 years old, unemployed, 142 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,480 and surviving on $75 a month in food stamps. 143 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,560 He had been arrested on two occasions, 144 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,520 once for trespassing, once for theft. 145 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:37,920 Alex Hernandez? 146 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,000 I know him, but I don't hang out with him. 147 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:40,900 Yeah? 148 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:41,800 When was the last time you saw him? 149 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,880 They asked me about Alex. 150 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,920 I told him that I knew what he looked like, his name. 151 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,480 But I didn't know him. 152 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,200 Pacificly, I didn't hang around with him or anything 153 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:50,680 like that. 154 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,440 Well, we have reason to suspect that Alex 155 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,680 was involved in the Nicarico murder. 156 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,400 Never heard of him. 157 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:57,920 So you don't know about the reward? 158 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,080 I ain't know about no reward, neither. 159 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,280 You hear about the reward? 160 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:02,400 I ain't hear about none, neither. 161 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:02,800 No. 162 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:03,320 No. 163 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,560 Tempted by the reward money, both Rolando Cruz and Alex 164 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,560 Hernandez began to feed police a series of titbits 165 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,520 in the murder of Janine Nicarico. 166 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,680 $10,000. 167 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,840 In the process, they implicated themselves. 168 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,360 They were arrested in conviction of the offenders. 169 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,320 One year passed from the date of Janine's death. 170 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,760 There was no, the investigation was going nowhere. 171 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,840 There was an election that was coming up. 172 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,640 And I just believe that the police took whoever 173 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,120 was convenient and whatever evidence, 174 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,480 no matter how implausible it was, 175 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,760 no matter how weak it was, and said, 176 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:41,920 let's bring a criminal prosecution against these people. 177 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,160 On March 8, 1984, a grand jury indicted Hernandez, Cruz, 178 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,840 and Steve Buckley on 36 counts, including murder, rape, 179 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,480 and deviant sexual assault. 180 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,600 Once the indictments were handed in, 181 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,360 John Sam expected the defendants to roll on each other. 182 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,960 To his surprise, it didn't happen. 183 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,520 It was kind of like the air was out of the balloon. 184 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:05,280 I mean, that was it. 185 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,360 It was like we threw our last trump card, 186 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,880 hoping that something was going to come from it and never did. 187 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,480 It felt like right then and there, 188 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,920 it's time to go on and find someone else. 189 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,720 It kind of like, at that point, put it in my mind 190 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,880 that these guys just weren't involved. 191 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:22,760 Yeah. 192 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,640 Yeah, I got to make sure in front of me. 193 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,880 Despite resistance from his superiors, 194 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,320 Sam continued investigating on his own. 195 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,480 Finally in December of 1984, one month 196 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,680 before the three men went on trial, 197 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:39,760 Sam handed in his resignation and cleaned out his desk. 198 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:40,640 Good luck, Sam. 199 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:43,680 See you, John. 200 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:46,200 The real killer was still out there, in my opinion. 201 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,440 And we, the police, weren't looking for him. 202 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,040 If we weren't looking for him, that meant nobody was looking 203 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:51,880 for him. 204 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,520 And therefore, he was still out there, 205 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,160 and he could either kill again or he just gets away with it. 206 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,400 And that, to me, was the worst part of this whole thing. 207 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,160 In January of 1985, Alex Hernandez and Rolando Cruz 208 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,080 were convicted of Janine Nicarico's murder. 209 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,400 Steve Buckley's trial ended in a hung jury 210 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,840 and the prosecution would eventually 211 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,520 decide not to retry him. 212 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,320 Alex Hernandez and Rolando Cruz were sentenced 213 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:24,400 to die for the murder of 10-year-old Janine Nicarico. 214 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,000 Six months later, Elise found the body of seven-year-old Melissa 215 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,120 Ackerman in a drainage ditch in Cane County, Illinois, 216 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,760 right next to DuPage County. 217 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,360 Like Janine, she had been abducted and raped. 218 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,040 Five days after Melissa was found dead, 219 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,720 a man under arrest for three other sexual assaults 220 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,720 was charged with her murder. 221 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,320 His name was Brian Dugan. 222 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,680 The arrest of Brian Dugan soon cast considerable doubt 223 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:56,200 on the convictions of Rolando Cruz and Alex Hernandez. 224 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,200 Dugan wanted to cut a deal, but refused to formally confess 225 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,160 without guaranteed immunity from the death penalty. 226 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,160 However, to his attorney, he admitted 227 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,840 raping and killing three people, Melissa Ackerman, 228 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:14,040 a 27-year-old nurse named Donna Schnorr and Janine Nicarico. 229 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:15,760 How did you leave the body? 230 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,120 In other words, like what position? 231 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:19,880 All right. 232 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,560 Dugan refused to talk directly to the authorities. 233 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,440 Commander Ed Sasowski of the Illinois State Police 234 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,440 came up with a list of questions about the Nicarico case 235 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:30,920 and gave them to Dugan's attorney. 236 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,040 How you doing? 237 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,480 We've got a couple of questions. 238 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:46,200 What kind of a car were you driving on February 25th of 83? 239 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,120 On 83, I was driving a green Velari. 240 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:50,720 Green? 241 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,620 Yeah. 242 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:56,720 According to Dugan, on the day Janine Nicarico was murdered, 243 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:58,680 he did not go to work. 244 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:01,520 His employer confirmed his absence. 245 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,480 Dugan said he prowled through Naperville, smoking marijuana. 246 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,480 Sometime in the early afternoon, he 247 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,760 knocked on the front door of the Nicarico home. 248 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:18,760 Hello, who is it? 249 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,960 I need to borrow a screwdriver. 250 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:21,960 Sorry. 251 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,360 The Nicaric's opened the door for strangers. 252 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:25,360 Try next door. 253 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,800 Sorry. 254 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:27,700 OK. 255 00:12:28,140 --> 00:12:37,540 In point after point, Dugan's description matches the evidence. 256 00:12:40,140 --> 00:12:43,300 Dugan claimed that he bound and gagged Janine. 257 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:45,620 He described the sheet in which he wrapped her. 258 00:12:45,620 --> 00:12:48,180 Remembered he had taken time to wipe his fingerprints 259 00:12:48,180 --> 00:12:50,100 from the doorknob. 260 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,580 He also said he was wearing the same brand of boots 261 00:12:52,580 --> 00:12:55,140 that matched the print found on the Nicarico door. 262 00:12:58,660 --> 00:13:02,660 Dugan described driving Janine to the Illinois Prairie Path. 263 00:13:02,660 --> 00:13:05,820 There, he claimed he raped her, beat her with a tire iron, 264 00:13:05,820 --> 00:13:06,420 and left her. 265 00:13:09,260 --> 00:13:11,380 Dugan's story also matched the testimony 266 00:13:11,380 --> 00:13:14,540 of two Tollway workers who had reported seeing a white man 267 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:18,700 driving a green car on the day of the murder. 268 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:20,780 Dugan remembered seeing the man and said 269 00:13:20,780 --> 00:13:22,260 that as he drove out of the park, 270 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:25,380 he almost got stuck trying to turn around. 271 00:13:25,380 --> 00:13:28,220 His car had tires that were consistent with the tire 272 00:13:28,220 --> 00:13:29,700 prints left at the crime scene. 273 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:32,660 What do you think he's going? 274 00:13:32,660 --> 00:13:37,140 He said, I did it, and here is how I did it. 275 00:13:37,140 --> 00:13:40,060 And here are the details of what I did. 276 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:43,660 And he said it in such a way as to permit the Illinois State 277 00:13:43,660 --> 00:13:48,540 Police to corroborate each and every of the 50 or so details 278 00:13:48,540 --> 00:13:52,860 he gave to Commander Szausky and prove that he and he 279 00:13:52,860 --> 00:13:54,220 alone did the crime. 280 00:13:56,380 --> 00:13:59,940 A polygraph test given by the Illinois State Police 281 00:13:59,940 --> 00:14:03,300 indicated that Dugan was telling the truth. 282 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:05,940 Nevertheless, the Page County prosecutors 283 00:14:05,940 --> 00:14:08,020 never charged him with Janine's murder 284 00:14:08,020 --> 00:14:11,540 and never offered him a plea bargain. 285 00:14:11,540 --> 00:14:13,900 This case is like a runaway train in the sense 286 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:17,820 that the prosecutors convicted two men 287 00:14:17,820 --> 00:14:22,980 and yet refused in light of overwhelming evidence, which 288 00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:25,900 showed that they had made a mistake to admit that mistake. 289 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:31,820 Then in January of 1988, the Supreme Court 290 00:14:31,820 --> 00:14:33,740 ruled that Cruz and Hernandez should not 291 00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:35,580 have been tried together and ordered 292 00:14:35,580 --> 00:14:38,700 new separate trials for each. 293 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:39,600 All rise. 294 00:14:42,380 --> 00:14:45,380 Two years later, on January 11, 1990, 295 00:14:45,380 --> 00:14:48,940 Rolando Cruz went on trial for the second time. 296 00:14:48,940 --> 00:14:51,820 The defense intended to prove that Brian Dugan alone 297 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:55,140 was responsible for Janine's murder. 298 00:14:55,140 --> 00:14:57,180 The prosecution, on the other hand, 299 00:14:57,180 --> 00:14:59,940 theorized that if Dugan had murdered Janine, 300 00:14:59,940 --> 00:15:03,420 Cruz and Hernandez were his accomplices. 301 00:15:03,420 --> 00:15:06,140 Officer Wilcoes, did you have occasion to participate? 302 00:15:06,140 --> 00:15:08,540 They presented testimony from a police officer 303 00:15:08,540 --> 00:15:11,220 who said the Cruz's cousin, Irma Rodriguez, 304 00:15:11,220 --> 00:15:14,820 had told him she had seen Dugan and Cruz together. 305 00:15:14,820 --> 00:15:17,260 When Rodriguez took the stand, she denied it. 306 00:15:17,260 --> 00:15:19,660 1989, yes, I did. 307 00:15:19,660 --> 00:15:22,940 Commander Sosowski. 308 00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:24,980 Without direct testimony from Dugan, 309 00:15:24,980 --> 00:15:27,420 the defense had to rely on what state police commander 310 00:15:27,420 --> 00:15:29,700 Sosowski had learned about Dugan's background 311 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:31,660 and criminal MO. 312 00:15:31,660 --> 00:15:34,500 Would you tell the ladies and gentlemen of this jury 313 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:36,700 what you learned about Brian Dugan's background? 314 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:38,620 The prosecution, however, objected. 315 00:15:38,620 --> 00:15:40,500 I'm going to object unless we are talking about this. 316 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:43,420 And the judge did not allow the line of questioning. 317 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:45,740 Objection sustained. 318 00:15:45,740 --> 00:15:46,460 Commander. 319 00:15:46,460 --> 00:15:48,580 It was utterly frustrating. 320 00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:53,540 The jury was not permitted to hear much of the statements 321 00:15:53,540 --> 00:15:57,980 made by Dugan confessing the crime of his soul 322 00:15:57,980 --> 00:16:02,580 and exclusive participation in the death of Janine Nicarico. 323 00:16:02,580 --> 00:16:06,100 Mr. Stonehouse told you that as he processed the outside 324 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:09,500 house, the prosecution argued that the footprints found 325 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:13,020 outside the Nicarico home prove several people, not just 326 00:16:13,020 --> 00:16:15,980 Dugan, were involved with Janine's murder. 327 00:16:15,980 --> 00:16:19,940 He found two different distinct shoe impressions. 328 00:16:19,940 --> 00:16:23,580 They argued that because there were two footprints 329 00:16:23,580 --> 00:16:26,380 underneath a dining room window and because there 330 00:16:26,380 --> 00:16:28,660 was a boot print on the front door 331 00:16:28,660 --> 00:16:30,580 and because the boot print on the front door 332 00:16:30,580 --> 00:16:33,900 was different from the two footprints by the window, 333 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:37,180 that therefore Dugan was a liar when he said 334 00:16:37,180 --> 00:16:39,060 he committed the crime alone. 335 00:16:39,060 --> 00:16:42,180 They said to our jury, there are three different sets 336 00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:42,900 of footprints. 337 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:44,540 It must have been three different people 338 00:16:44,540 --> 00:16:48,220 involved in the crime. 339 00:16:48,220 --> 00:16:50,940 Several months later, a crucial footprint evidence 340 00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:53,100 was found to be bogus. 341 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:55,460 Two of the prints were, in fact, a woman's size 342 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:59,300 5 and 1 half or six, but the jury never heard this. 343 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:01,580 The DuPage County prosecutors say that they were 344 00:17:01,580 --> 00:17:03,580 unaware of the discrepancy. 345 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:06,580 The defense attorneys disagree. 346 00:17:06,580 --> 00:17:10,220 The entire theory of the prosecution's case 347 00:17:10,220 --> 00:17:12,060 was that there were multiple intruders. 348 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:14,900 In order to prove that there were multiple intruders, 349 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,140 they had to show that there were footprints 350 00:17:17,140 --> 00:17:19,180 around the perimeter of the house that 351 00:17:19,180 --> 00:17:21,460 belonged to the two other people. 352 00:17:21,460 --> 00:17:25,940 And they knew that this wasn't a male's shoe 353 00:17:25,940 --> 00:17:27,420 and they didn't tell us. 354 00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:30,340 They knew that Rolando and Alex and Stephen Buckley 355 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:32,780 couldn't have made those footprints, 356 00:17:32,780 --> 00:17:34,660 and they lied about it. 357 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:36,460 Now that's misconduct. 358 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:38,300 And you shouldn't be afraid of the word 359 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:40,220 prosecutorial misconduct. 360 00:17:40,220 --> 00:17:45,820 You should point your finger and say, you were wrong. 361 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:48,940 The jury finds the defendant, Rolando Cruz, 362 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:52,580 guilty of the offense of aggravated kidnapping. 363 00:17:52,580 --> 00:17:58,100 On February 1, 1990, the jury returned his verdict. 364 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:01,660 The jury finds the defendant, Rolando Cruz, 365 00:18:01,660 --> 00:18:05,140 guilty of the offense of murder. 366 00:18:05,140 --> 00:18:06,180 I couldn't understand it. 367 00:18:06,180 --> 00:18:09,380 I couldn't understand how anybody could have said guilty 368 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:11,260 again. 369 00:18:11,260 --> 00:18:13,140 The first reaction was to look back behind me 370 00:18:13,140 --> 00:18:16,140 where my mother and my sister were sitting 371 00:18:16,140 --> 00:18:19,420 and to make sure that they were OK. 372 00:18:19,420 --> 00:18:24,340 And that's my main concern as my family. 373 00:18:24,340 --> 00:18:28,060 So I look back at them and I just thought as well, 374 00:18:28,060 --> 00:18:29,420 it's got to keep fighting these people. 375 00:18:29,420 --> 00:18:32,180 I mean, can't give up. 376 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:34,660 And after all these years, you don't give up. 377 00:18:34,660 --> 00:18:38,980 The jury finds the defendant, Alejandro Hernandez, 378 00:18:39,460 --> 00:18:40,660 guilty of the offense of aggravated kidnapping. 379 00:18:40,660 --> 00:18:43,900 The second trial of Alex Hernandez ended in a hung jury. 380 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:46,300 At his third trial, Hernandez was once again 381 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:49,820 found guilty of murder and kidnapping. 382 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:52,820 He was sentenced to 80 years in prison. 383 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:57,420 His conviction and sentence are currently under appeal. 384 00:18:57,420 --> 00:19:03,220 Rolando Cruz remains on death row awaiting execution. 385 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:07,340 How can you sit there and say, we're going to execute you 386 00:19:07,340 --> 00:19:09,660 and though this other person confessed, 387 00:19:09,660 --> 00:19:11,740 we think he's lying personally. 388 00:19:11,740 --> 00:19:14,060 So we're not putting him on a stand. 389 00:19:14,060 --> 00:19:16,460 Well, it's not my understanding is 390 00:19:16,460 --> 00:19:19,340 it's not for the state to decide whether I'm guilty. 391 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:20,660 It's for the jury. 392 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:23,020 So put Dugan on a stand, let the jury hear what Dugan's 393 00:19:23,020 --> 00:19:24,380 got to say. 394 00:19:24,380 --> 00:19:27,260 Let him either be totally discredited 395 00:19:27,260 --> 00:19:29,660 or let us prove he's telling the truth 396 00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:36,460 and let the jury determine what the outcome is. 397 00:19:36,460 --> 00:19:39,300 John Sam is not the only person to quit in protest 398 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:42,900 over the handling of Janina Carrico's murder investigation. 399 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:45,620 Phillip Gilman, director of the DuPage County Crime Lab, 400 00:19:45,620 --> 00:19:47,620 also left his job. 401 00:19:47,620 --> 00:19:51,100 In June of 1992, assistant attorney general Mary Bridget 402 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:54,900 Kenny turned in her letter of resignation saying, 403 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:58,380 I have come to believe Rolando Cruz is not guilty. 404 00:19:58,380 --> 00:20:00,780 I do not want to be partied to the execution 405 00:20:00,780 --> 00:20:02,580 of an innocent man. 406 00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:05,300 Rolando Cruz is scheduled to die by lethal injection 407 00:20:05,340 --> 00:20:09,620 in just over a month on March 22, 1993. 408 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:44,540 Recently, we featured a story that began in Madisonville, 409 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:46,060 Tennessee during the Great Depression. 410 00:20:48,060 --> 00:20:55,100 In the spring of 1939, Tom Underwood, an out-of-work single 411 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:58,580 father, left his two young daughters Madeline and Ada 412 00:20:58,580 --> 00:21:02,980 in the care of a kindly farmer named Charlie Best. 413 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:06,740 Times were hard, but he was willing to take them 414 00:21:06,740 --> 00:21:09,780 and give them a home and give them what we had to eat. 415 00:21:09,780 --> 00:21:11,180 It might not have been everything, 416 00:21:11,180 --> 00:21:13,260 but we never did go hungry. 417 00:21:13,260 --> 00:21:14,660 Thank you in Jesus' name. 418 00:21:14,660 --> 00:21:15,660 Amen. 419 00:21:15,660 --> 00:21:18,700 That's the word of the peace. 420 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:20,340 Madeline and Ada were immediately 421 00:21:20,340 --> 00:21:21,780 accepted as part of the family. 422 00:21:24,780 --> 00:21:27,500 Charlie treated them as if they were his own children. 423 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,860 Over the next two years, Tom Underwood 424 00:21:33,860 --> 00:21:36,940 visited his daughters on several occasions. 425 00:21:36,940 --> 00:21:40,740 Then in the spring of 1941, he returned to the farmhouse 426 00:21:40,740 --> 00:21:41,740 for the final time. 427 00:21:48,260 --> 00:21:50,620 Ian, Mr. Underwood. 428 00:21:50,620 --> 00:21:52,820 Zellamay, I come for the children. 429 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:54,500 It's coming on nightfall, and I need 430 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:55,500 to be on the road for dark. 431 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:56,900 If you'll just pack some things for me. 432 00:21:56,900 --> 00:22:00,700 That afternoon, Tom Underwood left with his daughters. 433 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,500 The Best family never saw Madeline or Ada again. 434 00:22:07,980 --> 00:22:12,540 At the time we filmed the story, Charlie Best was 96 years old. 435 00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:16,300 Although he had not seen Madeline or Ada in more than 50 years, 436 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:18,900 they were never far from his thoughts. 437 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:21,740 Is he cold enough for you today? 438 00:22:21,740 --> 00:22:24,180 He don't look at him as being women. 439 00:22:24,180 --> 00:22:26,620 He calls them the little girls. 440 00:22:26,620 --> 00:22:28,220 This the other day, he said, have you 441 00:22:28,260 --> 00:22:31,340 heard any more about the little girls? 442 00:22:31,340 --> 00:22:34,140 And I said, no daddy, but they're coming. 443 00:22:34,140 --> 00:22:34,860 They're coming. 444 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:42,220 The night the story aired, Ada Underwood, now 59 years old, 445 00:22:42,220 --> 00:22:45,500 was watching our broadcast at her home in Indiana. 446 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:47,860 Ada was shocked to see herself and her older sister, 447 00:22:47,860 --> 00:22:49,700 Madeline, profiled. 448 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,900 Sadly, Madeline passed away several years ago. 449 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:55,300 But for Ada, Charlie and Zellamay 450 00:22:55,340 --> 00:22:57,460 story is their distant childhood memories. 451 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:03,700 10 days after our broadcast, Ada Underwood 452 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:05,860 traveled to Madisonville, Tennessee 453 00:23:05,860 --> 00:23:08,500 for a very special reunion with Charlie Best 454 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:11,580 and his two children, Zellamay and Carl. 455 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:15,900 Well, I was anxious to see her. 456 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:19,500 It was exciting to know she was coming. 457 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:23,700 Well, you still look like you said, old blood oldie. 458 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:26,420 When you got to come, it is. 459 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:30,420 It's the day I have been waiting for, for up, 460 00:23:30,420 --> 00:23:32,380 really for 50 more years. 461 00:23:32,380 --> 00:23:34,300 Yeah. 462 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:35,820 How was your father? 463 00:23:35,820 --> 00:23:39,100 Well, getting that kind of old. 464 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:42,700 I was very excited when I heard that they were looking for me 465 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:44,780 because somebody cared enough about me 466 00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:45,900 to hump over me that long. 467 00:23:50,420 --> 00:23:52,540 Although only eight years old when she last 468 00:23:52,580 --> 00:23:56,220 saw Charlie, Ada never forgot the warmth and kindness 469 00:23:56,220 --> 00:23:58,300 he and his family brought into her life. 470 00:24:01,780 --> 00:24:05,420 Well, this year is eight of that, as you remember. 471 00:24:05,420 --> 00:24:08,140 Charlie had to be very good to my sister and I 472 00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:11,700 for him to take us in and take care of us when we had no blood. 473 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,180 He also take care of us. 474 00:24:14,180 --> 00:24:18,700 So I think he had to be a really great man. 475 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:19,660 You're pretty. 476 00:24:19,660 --> 00:24:21,100 Thank you. 477 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:22,100 You're pretty. 478 00:24:22,740 --> 00:24:23,900 You look like you used to be. 479 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:25,940 It just meant a lot to daddy. 480 00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:31,420 And I feel that in his own mind, a dream has come true. 481 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:46,420 Sadly, eight weeks after we filmed this update, 482 00:24:46,420 --> 00:24:48,860 Charlie best passed away. 483 00:24:48,860 --> 00:24:51,340 According to his family, the reunion with Ada 484 00:24:51,340 --> 00:24:54,140 brought Charlie great comfort in his final days. 485 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:07,620 All right. 486 00:25:07,620 --> 00:25:08,420 It's crowding. 487 00:25:08,420 --> 00:25:09,300 I can see the head. 488 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:10,300 Come on. 489 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:11,300 One more big push. 490 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:12,300 Come on. 491 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:13,780 Come on. 492 00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:17,260 February 4, 1969. 493 00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:19,860 In Manitoba, Canada, Dorothy Meaches, 494 00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:22,340 a member of the Plains Ojibwe Indian Nation, 495 00:25:22,340 --> 00:25:23,500 gave birth to a daughter. 496 00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:28,060 She named the baby Priscilla. 497 00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:31,100 But Dorothy's joy will be all too brief. 498 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:33,780 Even though she was unmarried and living with her parents, 499 00:25:33,780 --> 00:25:35,660 she already had five children. 500 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:42,180 You need to sign here. 501 00:25:42,180 --> 00:25:45,220 Within days, a social worker convinced Dorothy 502 00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:48,780 to give up her new baby. 503 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:52,340 What I thought, me, when I was signing those papers, 504 00:25:52,340 --> 00:25:54,460 I thought they were going to place her in a home for a few 505 00:25:54,460 --> 00:25:57,060 months until I got back on my feet 506 00:25:57,060 --> 00:25:59,980 to get a place of my own so I can get her back. 507 00:25:59,980 --> 00:26:04,140 But all this time, those were adoption papers I was signing. 508 00:26:04,140 --> 00:26:08,460 People were in difficulty, as in all communities. 509 00:26:08,460 --> 00:26:10,020 Difficulties occur. 510 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:14,700 And rather than any rehabilitative work, 511 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,260 any type of counseling, any type of resources being placed, 512 00:26:18,260 --> 00:26:20,700 and those homes or in those communities, 513 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:21,940 children were taken out. 514 00:26:24,740 --> 00:26:27,740 You're doing the right thing, Dorothy. 515 00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:30,180 It should be well taken care of. 516 00:26:30,180 --> 00:26:32,740 Two decades ago, what happened to Dorothy Meaches 517 00:26:32,740 --> 00:26:34,940 was not uncommon on Indian reservations 518 00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:36,780 throughout Canada. 519 00:26:36,780 --> 00:26:40,220 Families torn apart by a well-meaning but misguided 520 00:26:40,220 --> 00:26:41,700 social welfare system. 521 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:48,140 However, Dorothy and Priscilla were more fortunate than most. 522 00:26:48,180 --> 00:26:51,740 In 1987, they would be reunited through the Native Adoption 523 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:53,860 Registry and win a peg Manitola. 524 00:26:56,980 --> 00:27:01,020 I feel hurt sometimes because she wasn't raised up with us. 525 00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:03,900 I didn't see her since she was small. 526 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:10,180 Like, it's nice to have her back with the family. 527 00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:11,580 I am happy that I did this. 528 00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:14,300 I'm glad that I found my family. 529 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,420 And if there are, there are other children out there 530 00:27:17,420 --> 00:27:18,780 that are looking for their parents, 531 00:27:18,780 --> 00:27:20,380 I would advise them to do it. 532 00:27:20,380 --> 00:27:22,780 Because it's something that they would like. 533 00:27:22,780 --> 00:27:24,700 If they'd like to know about their family, 534 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:25,980 they may as well give it a chance, 535 00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:27,460 because their families are probably 536 00:27:27,460 --> 00:27:28,420 looking for them right now. 537 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:35,140 During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of Native American 538 00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:38,060 children were removed from their tribal homelands in Canada 539 00:27:38,060 --> 00:27:40,460 and placed with adoptive parents. 540 00:27:40,460 --> 00:27:43,860 Many of them white, many of them in the United States. 541 00:27:43,860 --> 00:27:46,580 It was a system born of cultural misunderstanding, 542 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:49,860 which has since proven to be a colossal mistake. 543 00:27:49,860 --> 00:27:53,500 This forced exodus of children has created a lost generation, 544 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:56,180 which can never fully be replaced. 545 00:27:56,180 --> 00:27:58,860 Perhaps some in our audience will be able to fulfill 546 00:27:58,860 --> 00:28:00,940 two families' dreams of reunion. 547 00:28:06,180 --> 00:28:10,820 When her mother died in 1972, 14-year-old Glenda Key-Wayton 548 00:28:10,820 --> 00:28:14,100 Capo stood with her father at the funeral. 549 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:16,940 Glenda had no way of knowing that she and her six brothers 550 00:28:16,940 --> 00:28:20,820 and sisters would soon become part of Canada's lost generation. 551 00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:24,780 God have mercy on her soul. 552 00:28:24,780 --> 00:28:27,500 Just hours after the funeral, a social worker 553 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:29,820 arrived, unannounced, at their home. 554 00:28:29,820 --> 00:28:31,220 I'm going to get younger children today. 555 00:28:31,220 --> 00:28:32,220 That's some. 556 00:28:32,220 --> 00:28:33,300 I'm Gail and Maureen. 557 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:34,580 Yeah, Gail and Maureen. 558 00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:35,780 And then I'll be back later in the week 559 00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:38,100 for the rest of the children, OK? 560 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:41,620 I think my father was in shock still. 561 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:47,100 Because when I look back now, I remember my dad. 562 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:53,500 When you talk to him, he'd just say, yeah, 563 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,620 just agreeing with everything. 564 00:28:55,620 --> 00:28:57,500 He'd have come down to the office sometime 565 00:28:57,500 --> 00:28:58,820 to sign some documents. 566 00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:00,860 He was real quiet. 567 00:29:00,860 --> 00:29:03,860 So could you call over Maureen and Gail? 568 00:29:03,860 --> 00:29:07,700 Gail, Maureen, come here. 569 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:11,580 Within a week, all seven children will be taken away. 570 00:29:11,620 --> 00:29:14,420 Maureen and Gail adopted the older sister's 571 00:29:14,420 --> 00:29:16,140 center relatives. 572 00:29:16,140 --> 00:29:18,020 Glenda and her three brothers placed 573 00:29:18,020 --> 00:29:20,580 in separate foster homes. 574 00:29:20,580 --> 00:29:22,420 Are you taking me to Mommy? 575 00:29:27,620 --> 00:29:32,620 I think my dad was really, really hurt. 576 00:29:32,620 --> 00:29:35,100 But I think at the time too, my dad 577 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:37,700 felt like he was doing what was best. 578 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:44,780 My girls. 579 00:29:44,780 --> 00:29:45,940 Come on, let's go. 580 00:29:45,940 --> 00:29:48,420 There's a lot of fear and not only 581 00:29:48,420 --> 00:29:52,060 like what was going to happen to the rest of us. 582 00:29:52,060 --> 00:29:54,340 And I get somehow feeling like we weren't 583 00:29:54,340 --> 00:29:55,540 going to see each other again. 584 00:29:58,940 --> 00:30:01,500 Fortunately, Glenda was wrong. 585 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,340 Over the last few years, all the Kiwet and Kapo children 586 00:30:04,340 --> 00:30:07,220 have been reunited, except one. 587 00:30:07,220 --> 00:30:10,260 There is no existing photograph of Maureen Francis Kiwet 588 00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:11,580 and Kapo. 589 00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:15,580 She was born on June 29, 1968, and was adopted by a family 590 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:17,660 in Brandon, Manitoba. 591 00:30:17,660 --> 00:30:19,860 Like many of Canada's lost generation, 592 00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:22,260 Maureen is the youngest in her family. 593 00:30:22,260 --> 00:30:25,380 Sadly, it seems the little ones are hardest to find. 594 00:30:28,420 --> 00:30:30,620 When Sandra Seton was just nine years old, 595 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,700 her family was broken apart. 596 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,460 She is still searching for her two youngest brothers. 597 00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:41,140 Hi, Dad. 598 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:46,940 Where are you going? 599 00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:48,340 Mom! 600 00:30:48,340 --> 00:30:52,100 Sandra's father was an alcoholic who often beat her mother. 601 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:56,820 In 1969, he was barred from the house by court order. 602 00:30:56,820 --> 00:30:59,740 Sandra's mother was forced to take work as a food vendor 603 00:30:59,740 --> 00:31:03,100 with a traveling carnival. 604 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:04,900 Sandra, I have something to tell you. 605 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:05,860 What? 606 00:31:05,860 --> 00:31:08,460 I'm going to be going away for a few weeks. 607 00:31:08,460 --> 00:31:09,980 Why? 608 00:31:09,980 --> 00:31:13,820 I'm just not making enough money looking after houses here. 609 00:31:13,820 --> 00:31:15,860 Who's going to be watching us? 610 00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:17,260 You see that lady over there? 611 00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:17,860 Yeah. 612 00:31:17,860 --> 00:31:18,660 Her name is Eleanor. 613 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:19,340 She's my friend. 614 00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:22,140 She'll be looking after you. 615 00:31:22,140 --> 00:31:24,060 When are you coming back home? 616 00:31:24,060 --> 00:31:25,300 I'll be back in three weeks. 617 00:31:27,740 --> 00:31:32,540 The babysitter stayed with us for a while, and then she left. 618 00:31:32,540 --> 00:31:36,380 And so it was just us kids that were home. 619 00:31:36,380 --> 00:31:39,620 We were very careful that we didn't want anybody 620 00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:40,540 to know we were alone. 621 00:31:40,540 --> 00:31:43,820 We were kind of waiting and hoping mom would be back. 622 00:31:50,020 --> 00:31:51,180 Hi. 623 00:31:51,180 --> 00:31:54,060 Is your mom and your daddy home? 624 00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:56,140 Have they been gone a long time? 625 00:31:56,140 --> 00:31:57,140 Yes. 626 00:31:57,140 --> 00:31:59,900 I'm Mary Williamson from the Welfare Department, 627 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:02,380 and we've come to take you away to somewhere where someone 628 00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:05,260 can take care of you, all right? 629 00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:06,940 It was just, it happened so fast. 630 00:32:06,940 --> 00:32:08,460 They just, you know, come in. 631 00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:10,860 They don't really explain anything. 632 00:32:10,860 --> 00:32:13,340 You know, they just picked up the kids 633 00:32:13,340 --> 00:32:17,260 and then put them in the car. 634 00:32:17,260 --> 00:32:19,020 What about us? 635 00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:22,020 We're coming back for you. 636 00:32:22,020 --> 00:32:26,860 It was real scary, you know, not knowing 637 00:32:26,860 --> 00:32:29,300 where they were going to be taken. 638 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:34,140 Kind of go a little dead inside or something. 639 00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:38,420 You know, because you just, we were all 640 00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:39,180 just kids. 641 00:32:44,420 --> 00:32:47,540 Your Honor, a representative of the Children's Aid Society 642 00:32:47,540 --> 00:32:50,260 arrived on October 25, 1969. 643 00:32:50,260 --> 00:32:53,660 Sandra's mother was summoned before a Winnipeg court. 644 00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:55,420 The director of the Children's Aid Society 645 00:32:55,420 --> 00:32:57,380 is petitioning the court at this time 646 00:32:57,380 --> 00:33:01,460 for custody of Mississeton's six children. 647 00:33:01,460 --> 00:33:04,500 I read the material. 648 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:11,020 Are you the mother of Sandra, Wanda, Brenda, Chesley? 649 00:33:11,020 --> 00:33:11,980 Could you please stand? 650 00:33:14,860 --> 00:33:16,980 A lot of our people showed up in court, 651 00:33:16,980 --> 00:33:20,220 but they were so intimidated by that whole process 652 00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:23,420 that with the social worker sitting up there and giving 653 00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:27,460 evidence and saying, how bad these people are. 654 00:33:27,460 --> 00:33:31,020 Most cases, the parents just kind of snuck out the back door 655 00:33:31,020 --> 00:33:33,100 and just went away, because they were so 656 00:33:33,140 --> 00:33:34,940 intimidated by the whole process. 657 00:33:34,940 --> 00:33:37,940 And they were so ashamed of what the social worker 658 00:33:37,940 --> 00:33:40,300 was saying about them. 659 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:43,980 Having reviewed the material, and there's no opposition 660 00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:48,740 by the mother, the order will go as applied for. 661 00:33:48,740 --> 00:33:51,580 And the children placed in the custody 662 00:33:51,580 --> 00:33:55,620 of the director of child welfare. 663 00:33:55,620 --> 00:33:58,580 They were sort of just in there and out of there again. 664 00:33:58,580 --> 00:34:05,580 I'm really not understanding too much. 665 00:34:05,580 --> 00:34:09,860 I always prayed for my mom and my dad, 666 00:34:09,860 --> 00:34:15,860 and wherever my brothers and sisters were, every day, 667 00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:18,940 hoping that we'd all get back together again, 668 00:34:18,940 --> 00:34:24,780 and somehow make things work. 669 00:34:24,780 --> 00:34:28,500 In 1971, Sandra was reunited with her two sisters, 670 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:30,340 Wanda and Brenda. 671 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:32,340 In 1988, they found their brother, 672 00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:35,740 Chesley, who'd been adopted in the United States. 673 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:38,220 Along the way, they also found their mother, 674 00:34:38,220 --> 00:34:40,780 who was joined in the search for the two youngest boys, 675 00:34:40,780 --> 00:34:43,860 Calvin and Bernard. 676 00:34:43,860 --> 00:34:47,900 It's very hard, because I think about them all the time. 677 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:51,220 In anything I do, I pray for them every night 678 00:34:51,220 --> 00:34:54,860 that someday we'll all be a family again. 679 00:34:54,860 --> 00:34:57,140 I believe that they're out there, 680 00:34:57,140 --> 00:35:01,580 and they're wondering too about us. 681 00:35:01,580 --> 00:35:06,780 I just feel it, and somewhere, I'm 682 00:35:06,780 --> 00:35:09,700 going to find Calvin and Bernie. 683 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:13,140 I just think it's going to be real soon too. 684 00:35:16,220 --> 00:35:18,540 On the night this story aired in Canada, 685 00:35:18,540 --> 00:35:21,540 Bernie's adoptive parents and one of Calvin's former foster 686 00:35:21,540 --> 00:35:23,780 mothers were watching the show. 687 00:35:23,780 --> 00:35:25,620 Through their efforts in cooperation, 688 00:35:25,620 --> 00:35:27,620 the two brothers were put in touch with their sister, 689 00:35:27,620 --> 00:35:30,860 Sandra, three weeks after our broadcast, 690 00:35:30,860 --> 00:35:32,620 everything was arranged. 691 00:35:32,620 --> 00:35:38,060 March 4, 1993 would be a day of reunions, joy, and tears. 692 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,000 At 10 30 AM, Sandra and her mother, 693 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,100 Myrna, were at the Winnipeg Airport, 694 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:49,660 awaiting the arrival of Bernie. 695 00:35:49,660 --> 00:35:53,580 I had such an anxious feeling, just looking and wondering, 696 00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:55,380 because we hadn't seen Bernie at all. 697 00:35:55,380 --> 00:35:57,260 We just didn't see no picture. 698 00:35:57,260 --> 00:36:02,340 And I was, oh, I just, and all of a sudden, his face just, 699 00:36:02,340 --> 00:36:04,060 you know, sort of just was right there. 700 00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:06,660 And I thought, oh, that's him. 701 00:36:06,660 --> 00:36:07,660 Oh, and then. 702 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:08,720 Oh. 703 00:36:24,220 --> 00:36:28,060 With Bernie back in the fold, the group headed to Myrna's house, 704 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:29,740 or they knew Calvin would be waiting. 705 00:36:38,660 --> 00:36:39,660 Oh, my God. 706 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:44,580 In his youth, Calvin had been shunted 707 00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:47,740 about to 14 different foster families. 708 00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:51,500 Now he was finally home again after nearly 25 years. 709 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:52,400 Bernie? 710 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,380 Bernie. 711 00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:55,860 Hey, hey, you know what's so little. 712 00:36:55,860 --> 00:36:57,900 It feels really good to be taken in instead 713 00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:00,220 of being pushed away. 714 00:37:00,220 --> 00:37:02,260 Hey, like this is a big switch for me. 715 00:37:02,260 --> 00:37:04,140 And I'm happy. 716 00:37:08,020 --> 00:37:10,300 If I knew bigger words, I probably 717 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:12,900 could say some big word that would describe how I feel right 718 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:13,140 now. 719 00:37:13,140 --> 00:37:18,140 But there's no words that I can think of that describes this. 720 00:37:18,140 --> 00:37:22,260 Just, you know, it's the beginning. 721 00:37:22,260 --> 00:37:25,980 I just think it's the beginning of a good thing. 722 00:37:25,980 --> 00:37:26,740 It's all good. 723 00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:27,980 It feels great. 724 00:37:27,980 --> 00:37:31,540 Just great that there's a piece of my life put together, 725 00:37:31,540 --> 00:37:35,380 which I think all my friends knew that there was a piece missing. 726 00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:38,260 Maybe this is just the part to my life that was missing. 727 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:46,220 It's got so much to talk about, you know? 728 00:37:46,220 --> 00:37:46,820 So much. 729 00:37:46,820 --> 00:37:49,060 It's just a really great feeling. 730 00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:50,220 There is a piece, you know? 731 00:37:50,220 --> 00:37:58,660 There's always that piece of my heart somehow just needed 732 00:37:58,660 --> 00:38:03,220 to know that they were OK. 733 00:38:03,220 --> 00:38:05,180 Each one of us has our own lives, 734 00:38:05,180 --> 00:38:08,660 but it's so good to know that we have family. 735 00:38:24,860 --> 00:38:29,300 On May 20, 1991, the Henderson family of Washburn, Texas 736 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:33,460 gathered to bid farewell to one of its members. 737 00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:36,820 66-year-old Bill Henderson, a retired banker, 738 00:38:36,820 --> 00:38:40,340 had been plagued by heart and lung problems for years. 739 00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:42,620 But the grief his family felt was compounded 740 00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:45,020 by anguish and anger. 741 00:38:45,020 --> 00:38:48,100 For Bill Henderson to not succumb to illness, 742 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:52,020 he had been murdered in his own bedroom. 743 00:38:52,020 --> 00:38:56,260 I'm mad about what happened to my dad. 744 00:38:56,260 --> 00:38:57,700 I felt like he was cheated. 745 00:39:03,860 --> 00:39:08,020 I felt like my whole family was cheated, 746 00:39:08,020 --> 00:39:10,780 and it was very brutal. 747 00:39:18,380 --> 00:39:19,780 Others plenty meeting the freezer, 748 00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:21,740 and that'll take care of you until Saturday 749 00:39:21,740 --> 00:39:23,340 when I see you again, OK? 750 00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:24,860 I'll be fine. 751 00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:29,180 On May 12, 1991, Bill Henderson said goodbye to his wife, 752 00:39:29,180 --> 00:39:32,500 granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. 753 00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:35,100 They were off to visit relatives in Austin, Texas, 754 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,100 more than 400 miles away. 755 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,580 Bill's failing health prevented him from leaving home 756 00:39:40,580 --> 00:39:43,180 for long periods. 757 00:39:43,180 --> 00:39:45,780 Over the next three days, Bill stayed in touch 758 00:39:45,780 --> 00:39:48,340 with other family members. 759 00:39:48,340 --> 00:39:51,140 Then for an entire day, no one heard from him. 760 00:39:52,140 --> 00:39:57,820 Finally, on May 16, Bill's son, Gary, 761 00:39:57,820 --> 00:40:01,060 tried to reach him by phone. 762 00:40:01,060 --> 00:40:05,140 Started calling my dad about 1 o'clock, I guess. 763 00:40:05,140 --> 00:40:09,020 And every time I called, it was just a busy signal. 764 00:40:09,020 --> 00:40:14,020 So I didn't really know if the phones were just off the hook 765 00:40:14,020 --> 00:40:16,220 or what happened. 766 00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:18,740 We're as afraid that maybe you may have had a heart attack 767 00:40:18,740 --> 00:40:22,100 or some health problem and was sick in the house 768 00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:23,660 and couldn't get to the telephone, 769 00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:26,500 or maybe had been trying to call for help 770 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:28,460 and dropped the telephone or something like that. 771 00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:29,420 That's what we're as afraid of. 772 00:40:32,460 --> 00:40:35,740 Concerned, Gary, Frank, and Frank's stepdaughter, Sherry, 773 00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:38,020 went to Bill's house to investigate. 774 00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:38,940 This truck's not up front. 775 00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:39,820 I don't know where he is. 776 00:40:39,820 --> 00:40:41,780 The concern turned to alarm when they 777 00:40:41,780 --> 00:40:43,940 noticed that Bill's pickup truck was gone. 778 00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:50,260 Dad? 779 00:40:50,260 --> 00:40:52,340 When we arrived at my dad's house, 780 00:40:52,340 --> 00:40:56,020 that phone in the kitchen was off the hook. 781 00:40:56,020 --> 00:40:59,500 My brother-in-law, Frank, went over and hung that phone up. 782 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:03,020 And then I decided to go on through the house 783 00:41:03,020 --> 00:41:04,180 and check the other phone. 784 00:41:04,180 --> 00:41:10,100 So I was walking down the hall, saw my dad's glasses, 785 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,300 broken glasses laying in the floor. 786 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:16,340 Really, I still didn't think a whole lot about it 787 00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:18,740 until we got on down to the hall, 788 00:41:18,740 --> 00:41:21,740 and there was a picture laying in the floor. 789 00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:25,940 And that's when I saw my father laying in the floor 790 00:41:25,940 --> 00:41:28,340 and we all tore up. 791 00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:29,340 Frank? 792 00:41:29,340 --> 00:41:30,980 Frank! 793 00:41:30,980 --> 00:41:35,180 Frank come into the room, and he fell to my dad. 794 00:41:35,180 --> 00:41:38,380 And my dad had been, he was cold. 795 00:41:38,380 --> 00:41:39,660 He'd been there for a while. 796 00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:48,020 And I remember telling Frank that I think it's too late 797 00:41:48,020 --> 00:41:49,380 or something like that. 798 00:41:49,380 --> 00:41:53,580 And Frank told me that he didn't think my dad died 799 00:41:53,580 --> 00:41:55,940 of a heart attack, that it looked like he was murdered. 800 00:41:58,740 --> 00:42:01,100 Bill Henderson had been strangled and beaten 801 00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:04,380 to death with an electric iron, a full eight to 10 hours 802 00:42:04,380 --> 00:42:07,140 before he was found. 803 00:42:07,180 --> 00:42:10,220 This was an extremely violent murder. 804 00:42:10,220 --> 00:42:13,700 The man was beaten time and time again. 805 00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:18,260 And it was extremely obvious to us also 806 00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:23,740 that Mr. Henderson had put up a fight for his life. 807 00:42:23,740 --> 00:42:26,220 Police were puzzled by the lack of an apparent motive 808 00:42:26,220 --> 00:42:28,340 for such a brutal killing. 809 00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:31,300 The only item missing other than Bill's pickup truck 810 00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:32,020 was his wallet. 811 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:39,700 Then five days later, a man walking along Interstate 40, 812 00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:44,860 90 miles east of Amarillo, made a curious discovery. 813 00:42:44,860 --> 00:42:46,180 Bill Henderson's wallet. 814 00:42:50,420 --> 00:42:52,900 The next day, Bill Henderson's pickup truck 815 00:42:52,900 --> 00:42:56,260 was discovered abandoned just outside of Chicago, Illinois, 816 00:42:56,260 --> 00:42:59,300 more than 1,000 miles from Amarillo. 817 00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:00,900 Police searched the vehicle, but found 818 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:03,580 no clues it should lead them to a suspect. 819 00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:06,060 But they did learn of two eyewitnesses who not only 820 00:43:06,060 --> 00:43:09,060 saw the killer, but actually spent the day with them 821 00:43:09,060 --> 00:43:10,980 riding in Bill Henderson's truck. 822 00:43:16,660 --> 00:43:21,060 On the day of the murder, some 265 miles east of Washburn, 823 00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:25,980 three young men arrived at a truck stop near Oklahoma City. 824 00:43:25,980 --> 00:43:29,260 It was immediately obvious that something was not quite right. 825 00:43:31,420 --> 00:43:35,300 The truck stop attendant told us that he had two young men come 826 00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:38,980 into the truck stop, and they were extremely nervous. 827 00:43:38,980 --> 00:43:39,940 Excuse me. 828 00:43:39,940 --> 00:43:40,980 You got to do something. 829 00:43:40,980 --> 00:43:42,420 That guy stole a pickup truck. 830 00:43:42,420 --> 00:43:43,420 What? 831 00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:44,420 That guy picked something. 832 00:43:44,420 --> 00:43:46,820 They started telling him that the truck they were in, 833 00:43:46,820 --> 00:43:47,820 that the man had stolen one. 834 00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:48,820 What pickup truck? 835 00:43:48,820 --> 00:43:49,820 Out there, the brown one. 836 00:43:49,820 --> 00:43:51,300 You got to do something. 837 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:55,980 The two hitchhikers started requesting 838 00:43:55,980 --> 00:43:58,580 that he call the police department. 839 00:43:58,620 --> 00:44:02,500 8861, Texas. 840 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:04,820 The driver of the truck used the telephone, 841 00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:06,780 then went to the restroom. 842 00:44:06,780 --> 00:44:09,340 The truck stop attendant took the opportunity 843 00:44:09,340 --> 00:44:10,740 to call the police. 844 00:44:10,740 --> 00:44:12,980 Yeah. 845 00:44:12,980 --> 00:44:15,420 OK, it's not reported stolen. 846 00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:18,660 OK, thanks. 847 00:44:18,660 --> 00:44:20,820 He got the license number off the truck. 848 00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:23,820 He called it in to the local authorities. 849 00:44:23,820 --> 00:44:25,700 They run it. 850 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:27,260 And called him back. 851 00:44:27,260 --> 00:44:28,780 He said it's not stolen. 852 00:44:28,780 --> 00:44:30,260 It's got to be stolen. 853 00:44:30,260 --> 00:44:31,580 They said no. 854 00:44:31,580 --> 00:44:38,220 The problem we had was that when they ran the license plate 855 00:44:38,220 --> 00:44:42,300 number on the truck, we had yet to find Mr. Henderson's body. 856 00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:49,060 15 minutes later, the driver of the pickup truck left. 857 00:44:49,060 --> 00:44:52,380 The hitchhikers refused to accompany him any further. 858 00:44:53,140 --> 00:44:55,780 After the suspect drove off, they 859 00:44:55,780 --> 00:44:59,820 were still so insistent on trying to get this man picked up, 860 00:44:59,820 --> 00:45:03,740 so scared of him, that they went and dial 911 861 00:45:03,740 --> 00:45:06,100 themselves trying to get someone to stop 862 00:45:06,100 --> 00:45:08,020 the suspect in the truck. 863 00:45:08,020 --> 00:45:10,660 Yeah, I'd like to report a stolen vehicle. 864 00:45:10,660 --> 00:45:12,820 Again, sheriff's deputies maintained 865 00:45:12,820 --> 00:45:16,980 that no such vehicle had been reported missing. 866 00:45:16,980 --> 00:45:19,220 According to the attendant, the two hitchhikers 867 00:45:19,380 --> 00:45:21,100 then headed towards the highway. 868 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:23,740 They never gave authorities their names or addresses. 869 00:45:26,780 --> 00:45:29,780 Unhampered in his flight, the suspect continued north 870 00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:32,820 along Interstate 287. 871 00:45:32,820 --> 00:45:34,620 According to police calculations, 872 00:45:34,620 --> 00:45:37,420 he would have required at least one stop for refueling 873 00:45:37,420 --> 00:45:39,900 before reaching Hazelcrest, Illinois, 874 00:45:39,900 --> 00:45:42,460 where he abandoned the pickup truck less than 24 hours later. 875 00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:48,100 I think he was a little bit too late. 876 00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:53,700 I think it's extremely important that we catch this man. 877 00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:58,260 Anybody that will attack an elderly man that is 878 00:45:58,260 --> 00:46:03,420 nearly defenseless because of natural disease and illnesses 879 00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:05,020 will attack and kill anybody. 880 00:46:09,180 --> 00:46:13,740 It hurts to know what Bill had to go through pain and suffering. 881 00:46:13,740 --> 00:46:17,020 He had to go through out there before he took 882 00:46:17,060 --> 00:46:18,180 his lath breath. 883 00:46:18,180 --> 00:46:25,820 And I would just like to see this person caught and tried, 884 00:46:25,820 --> 00:46:30,060 convicted, and sentenced. 885 00:46:30,060 --> 00:46:31,860 I don't feel like my dad should have 886 00:46:31,860 --> 00:46:37,380 had to see something like that leaning over him, you know, 887 00:46:37,380 --> 00:46:39,100 as the last thing he ever saw. 888 00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:44,700 It just wasn't fair. 889 00:46:48,020 --> 00:46:50,580 Who murdered Bill Henderson? 890 00:46:50,580 --> 00:46:53,740 Police have but one solitary clue that may ultimately 891 00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:56,460 give them an answer. 892 00:46:56,460 --> 00:47:00,860 There was a palm print in blood inside the room. 893 00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:06,060 It was on an art-type tablet. 894 00:47:06,060 --> 00:47:11,140 If we can find the person that matches up 895 00:47:11,140 --> 00:47:15,460 to that bloody palm print, then we have our murder suspect. 896 00:47:47,620 --> 00:47:51,900 Tomorrow Night on Unsolved Mysteries. 897 00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:54,060 Shortly after the death of his grandfather, 898 00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:55,900 Donnie Decker's friends and family 899 00:47:55,900 --> 00:47:59,300 noticed a change had come over him and his surroundings. 900 00:47:59,300 --> 00:48:03,140 Rain appeared everywhere and no one, not even the police, 901 00:48:03,140 --> 00:48:04,740 could find its source. 902 00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:06,140 But that was only the beginning. 903 00:48:09,140 --> 00:48:11,820 San Francisco, the city of shimmering lights. 904 00:48:11,820 --> 00:48:13,820 But on February 24, the police were 905 00:48:13,820 --> 00:48:15,660 the city of shimmering lights. 906 00:48:15,660 --> 00:48:19,220 But on February 24, 1992, across the bay, 907 00:48:19,220 --> 00:48:21,580 a bizarre senseless death. 908 00:48:21,580 --> 00:48:23,460 Miraculously, Michael Hunter managed 909 00:48:23,460 --> 00:48:25,980 to guide his motorcycle into a gas station 910 00:48:25,980 --> 00:48:28,300 despite being shot through the heart. 911 00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:30,260 Almost later, he was dead. 912 00:48:30,260 --> 00:48:34,580 And police would like your help to catch his killer. 913 00:48:34,580 --> 00:48:36,620 Join me tomorrow night. 914 00:48:36,620 --> 00:48:40,540 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.