1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,600 This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members 2 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,680 and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,320 to see is not a news broadcast. 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:25,040 Shortly after the death of his grandfather, Don Decker's life took on a disturbing almost 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:31,840 supernatural dimension. Suddenly, wherever Don was, rain mysteriously began to appear, 6 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:36,880 leaving his friends to wonder if he had somehow been possessed. But for Don Decker, the rain 7 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,800 was only the beginning. 8 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:45,840 February 24, 1992 was an unseasonably warm night in the San Francisco Bay area. For 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,960 Michael Hunter, it seemed a perfect evening for a motorcycle ride. He had no idea what 10 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,680 was waiting for him. When Irene Love was 16, she was startled to learn that she had been 11 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:02,560 adopted. That discovery led to a stunning revelation about Irene's long-lost best friend 12 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,560 from childhood. 13 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,880 We will also introduce you to a man who apparently made his living as a professional hospital 14 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:14,000 patient until one of his feigned illnesses turned fatal. It is one of the oddest scams 15 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:21,000 we have ever encountered. Perhaps you can help unravel it on Unsolved Mystery. 16 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:21,000 February 24, 1983, in Strausberg, Pennsylvania, a funeral of James Kishpaugh is in progress. 17 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,000 He had died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 63. His grandson, 21-year-old Don 18 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Decker, had been granted a furlough from a county jail to attend the funeral. Don was 19 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,720 serving a four to 12-month sentence for receiving stolen property. It was a capstone of a troubled 20 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:59,520 adolescence. But no one knew as that Don had been keeping a dark secret. He says at his 21 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:05,040 grandfather James, the man he was now obliged publicly to mourn, had abused him physically 22 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,960 from the time he was seven years old. 23 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:15,960 No other part of the family knew anything about what happened. It was like good fight 24 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:24,480 and evil. Basically, I put it. The evil was gone and I was hoping that everything would 25 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,400 change. 26 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:35,400 In fact, things would change, and drastically, but not in a way Don Decker could ever have 27 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,040 imagined. After the funeral, Don was completely on earth by the way his parents glorified 28 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:46,640 his grandfather's memory. He decided to spend the night with his friends, Bob and Jeannie 29 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:53,640 Kieffer, whom he had met a few months earlier. It was at the Kieffer's funeral that he was 30 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,320 home that all the uneasy feelings stirred up at his grandfather's funeral came back to 31 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:06,320 haunt Don. Suddenly, the air around him vibrated with a deep chill. Almost simultaneously, 32 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:17,040 water began to drip from the living room walls. Don fell into an eerie, trance-like state. 33 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:31,480 Jeannie, have you got water running back there? Come take a look at this. We've got a leak. 34 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:42,480 Oh my God, look at that. It's all over the wall. 35 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:49,480 At a total loss, they decided to notify the landlord, Ron Van Huay. Get some pots or a 36 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:57,040 bucket or something. I'm going to call Ron. 37 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:04,040 The phone rang, and I got a call from my tenant, Bob, and he said, you have to come down. We 38 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,520 have a problem. And I said, well, what's the problem? He says, well, I can't tell you, 39 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,520 he says, just come down. He says, but he says, you have to come down right away. 40 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,320 Hey, Bob, what's up? 41 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:23,320 When Ron arrived, he was just as puzzled as a keefer's about the cause of the problem. 42 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,800 Look, it's on the walls, too. Sure is. We decided that maybe, you know, some plumbing, 43 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:35,040 but there were no pipes in the front end of the house to leak. There was basically nothing 44 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:42,040 there that the water could have come from. After watching it for a while, I discovered 45 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:49,040 that it wasn't only coming from the ceiling down. It could come from the wall over or 46 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:55,040 from the floor up. There was no, you know, no basic direction that it was coming from. 47 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:00,040 You know, it could come from anywhere. 48 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:06,040 Ron Van Huay telephoned his wife, Romaine, and police officer John Bojan. Officer Bojan 49 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:11,040 didn't know what to make of the strange scene inside the keefer house. He brought in his 50 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,040 partner, patrolman Richard Wolbert. 51 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:21,040 At this point, he was telling me, I just want you to walk into the house. And I said, well, 52 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,040 I'm not walking into the house unless you explain to me what I'm walking into. He says, trust 53 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:30,040 me, trust me, just walk into the house. I walked in the door and he came right in behind me, 54 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:35,040 and I couldn't have got two steps inside the front door, and I was absolutely pelted. 55 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:43,040 We were standing just inside the front door, and then there's drop of water traveling horizontally, 56 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:48,040 and it's passed right between us and just traveled out into the next room. 57 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:53,040 Unbelievable. And this is only happening in this room. The rest of the house is dry. 58 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:59,040 I literally had a show going up my spine. It made me like make the hair stand up on 59 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,040 your neck. That's how I felt. This was a situation where things were happening that I never, 60 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,040 ever dreamed could possibly happen, and there was no way of explaining what was going on. 61 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,040 We're going to get you outside and we're going to take you from there. Let's just go outside. 62 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,040 I'd like to stick around. 63 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,040 At this point, officers Bojan and Wolbert left to report the incident to the police chief. 64 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:23,040 While the keefer and Don Decker, who'd gone hours without food, walked across the street 65 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,040 and had something to eat, Ron Van Huy and his wife remained behind. 66 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:36,040 They left, and everything else left too. The rain stopped. The house was normal. 67 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,040 Ron, look, it's stopping. 68 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:49,040 We were kind of thinking that maybe it was coming from them, and we weren't sure at that time which one, 69 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:55,040 but we kind of figured, you know, because when they left, it left, you know, 70 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,040 so we were sure it had something to do with one of them. 71 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,040 It had now been 23 hours since the mysterious rain began. Pam Scrofano, 72 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,040 who owned the restaurant opposite the keefer's house, had visited them earlier that day 73 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,040 and seen the rain firsthand. 74 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:16,040 Worse than this morning? 75 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:17,040 Yes. 76 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:22,040 Pam was convinced it was the devil's handiwork and that the devil was acting through Don Decker. 77 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:27,040 No, no, no, no, you should probably call the church. Have the priest come over and take a look at you. 78 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:31,040 You look, you know, Donny, and he was like in the trends, you know, he would look at you, 79 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:37,040 but not knowing that you were there. I said to Junior, I said, you know, he's got to be possessed. 80 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:38,040 Oh my God. 81 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,040 Oh my God. 82 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:41,040 Oh my God. 83 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,040 We sit in there. 84 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:44,040 This is what's going on. 85 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,040 A couple seconds later, there's water all over the pizzeria too. 86 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,040 You have a crucifix? 87 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,040 Hey. 88 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,040 You have a crucifix? 89 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,040 No, I have. 90 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,040 I've never seen anything like that happen in my life, so I went in the cash register, 91 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,040 I had a crucifix there, I took it out, put it on him, and the minute, you know, 92 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,040 I put it on him, touched the skin, and he got burned. 93 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:04,040 It burned. 94 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,040 It burned. 95 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,040 Of course, burned him, and it turned black. 96 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,040 This boy is possessed. You have to call, you have to call the church. 97 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:13,040 You have to have the priest come and look at him. 98 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,040 I'm going back to the house to wait for the police. 99 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:20,040 There's no way that anybody could have played a joke like that. 100 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:26,040 This was real. Donnie was doing it himself, and he was doing it without realizing it, 101 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,040 that he was doing it. 102 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,040 Take him to the church and have the priest come and look at him. 103 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,040 That's what you should do. 104 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,040 We'll call him. 105 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,040 We'll call him. 106 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:38,040 Even Don Decker had begun to believe that he was somehow responsible. 107 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,040 The rain in the restaurant was the final straw. 108 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,040 And now it's stopping. 109 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:47,040 It made me more sure that I had something to do with it, because it was following me. 110 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,040 And it didn't start raining in the house until I got there. 111 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,040 They were living there, nothing ever happened. 112 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,040 And that's when I started realizing that it was me. 113 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,040 It's not a coincidence. They think it's him. 114 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:00,040 I don't buy it. 115 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,040 This is horrible. 116 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,040 Back at the Kiefer's house, Romain Van Huy confronted Don Decker, 117 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,040 accusing him of somehow causing all the trouble on purpose. 118 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,040 This is your fault. You hate it rain in the living room. 119 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,040 You made it rain at Pepp's place. This is all your fault. 120 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,040 It's you, Donnie. You're the one that's doing this, and you have to make it stop. 121 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:22,040 You can't get quiet in town. 122 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,040 The pots and pans, they were over the stove. They started rattling. 123 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,040 So when I got levitated off the floor, it was just like floating. 124 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:36,040 Then it was like a push, but it wasn't like somebody taking your hand and pushing you. 125 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,040 It was like feeling it all over your body at one. 126 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,040 And I'm a big guy, you know? 127 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,040 I've always been assertive, and that made me feel like a newborn. 128 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:56,040 I'm scared right now. I'm just talking about it, really. 129 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:01,040 I believe that there was, I don't know if you call it an evil spirit, 130 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:07,040 but whatever a demon possessed his body and caused this, I, you know... 131 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,040 Well, this better be good, gentlemen. 132 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,040 Wake me up in the middle of the night. I'm out here out here. 133 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,040 A few hours after the strange incident in the kitchen, 134 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:19,040 officers Bo Jen and Wohlbert arrived with their chief, a hardened skeptic in tow. 135 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,040 I got a seven o'clock meeting with the mayor tomorrow morning. 136 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:29,040 When the chief got to the house, he was pelted with water, just as Rich and I was. 137 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:34,040 I got the impression that he was put on the spot, maybe a little bit embarrassed, 138 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,040 like we expected something out of him that he could answer. 139 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,040 This looks like a problem with your pipes. 140 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,040 There was no way to explain what happened, and I think he was put in a position 141 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,040 where he might have felt a little uncomfortable. 142 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,040 Dry as a bone on the other side of the house. 143 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:56,040 The Strasbourg, Pennsylvania chief of police would be one of the only eye witnesses 144 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,040 from that bizarre night who denied that anything out of the ordinary had happened. 145 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,040 You got me out of bed for this? 146 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:04,040 Hey, chief. 147 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,040 This isn't a police problem. This is a plumbing problem. 148 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,040 This is a police problem. These people are helpless. 149 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,040 These people are having a joke with you. They're having their way with you. 150 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,040 Look, nobody's being hurt here. Nobody's being threatened. 151 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,040 So we're out of here. We'll talk about it outside. 152 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,040 Okay. 153 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,040 All right, don't worry. We'll take care of it. 154 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,040 The police chief ordered his officers to leave the Kiefer house. 155 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,040 He instructed them not to file a report. 156 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,040 In fact, he directed them not to speak of the incident at all. 157 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:37,040 I think he just wanted out that he could not give us an explanation for it. 158 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:41,040 He couldn't help us. He couldn't provide us with anything more than what we had experienced 159 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,040 and what we had come up with. 160 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,040 Well, he just flat out denied it. It didn't happen, 161 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,040 and he tried to convince me that nothing happened, and he wasn't going to do that. 162 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:55,040 I saw it, and that's all there is to it. 163 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,040 The next day, acting against the specific orders of the police chief, 164 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,040 three of his veteran officers went to the Kiefer home 165 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,040 to try and figure out what was going on. 166 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,040 You're all right. All right. Nice and loose. 167 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,040 One of the officers was Bill Davies. 168 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,040 All right. All right. This will just take a second. 169 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:14,040 Bring your hands behind your back. 170 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,040 We're standing there, and I gave Mr. Dekker this gold cross to hold. 171 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,040 Just hold onto that for a minute. 172 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,040 The next thing is, it's burning my hands. 173 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,040 It burns. 174 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,040 And there's no explanation for it. 175 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:33,040 When you picked it up, when you grabbed it, not hot, hot, but it's hot. 176 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,040 And that's when I held onto it. 177 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,040 Hey, what's going on here? 178 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,040 Hey, guys. 179 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,040 All of a sudden, he lifted up off the ground, 180 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:50,040 and he flew across the room with the force of though a bust that hit him. 181 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,040 Oh, my God. Donny. 182 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,040 Look at him. 183 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,040 And there were three claw marks on the side of his neck. 184 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,040 It was due blood. 185 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,040 Oh, my God. Look at this. Now, come on. 186 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,040 I have no answer for it whatsoever. 187 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,040 And I just draw a blank, even to today. 188 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,040 Having to cut 40 years, and I never ran anything like this here, never. 189 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,040 There's always an explanation when something happens. 190 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,040 If you got investigated, you come up with something. 191 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,040 This is why it happened. 192 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,040 This case here, there is no explanation. 193 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,040 There's an evil upon this house. 194 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Finally on the third night, Ron Van Huy was able to convince an evangelical preacher, 195 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:32,040 who we will call Reverend Johnson, to come to the house and attempt an exorcism. 196 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,040 We all must kneel and pray. 197 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:39,040 Every Protestant minister and Catholic priest in Straussburg had turned Ron down. 198 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:44,040 The Van Huys and the Keefers kept vigil, while Reverend Johnson prayed for Don. 199 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,040 Oh, Father. 200 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,040 We want in heaven. 201 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:53,040 As she started to pray, Donny went into, like a convulsion. 202 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,040 He started to shake. 203 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,040 He pulled himself up into like a ball. 204 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:06,040 And the longer she prayed, he started to relax then. 205 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:10,040 His whole body seemed to quiet completely down. 206 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:17,040 And as you're standing there watching this, you could feel the house itself seemed to take on a total different feeling. 207 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,040 We know you trespass against us. 208 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,040 Lead us not into temptation. 209 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:27,040 And by the time she got done praying, the water was gone. 210 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:33,040 And that was the last that we saw of any water at the house at all. 211 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,040 Amazingly, the rain had stopped. 212 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,040 Don Decker appeared to return to his old self. 213 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:44,040 Some witnesses believe that Reverend Johnson had performed a miracle or an exorcism. 214 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:51,040 But whatever it was, the results had proved to be only fleeting. 215 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:56,040 After his furlough, Don Decker returned to the Monroe County Jail. 216 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:01,040 Within a few days, the mysterious rain had once again materialized. 217 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,040 Guard! Guard! Get me out of here! 218 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,040 What's the problem here? 219 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,040 Look at me. I'm soaking wet. It's all wet. Now get me out of here! 220 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,040 Drake, Drake, can you get him out of here? 221 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,040 They put me in a maximum security cell. 222 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,040 And I was in there with another mate. 223 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:25,040 And I was thinking, you know, I wish it would make it rain in here. 224 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:29,040 All of a sudden, water just started coming out of a concrete floor. 225 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:35,040 And at that point, I thought I could do stuff. 226 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:41,040 What are you doing? You throwing water into cell walls from the sink or from the toilet or something? 227 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,040 Huh? 228 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,040 I can control it. 229 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,040 This time it was different. This time Don felt powerful. 230 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,040 He realized he could manipulate the rain at will. 231 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,040 You can control the rain. 232 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:58,040 I tell you what, if you can control the rain, make it rain in the warden's office. 233 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,040 Make it rain in Dave Keenhold's office. 234 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,040 I was sitting at the desk and I was writing a report. 235 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,040 I was all by myself in administration area. Nobody else was around. 236 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,040 It was approximately eight o'clock in the evening. 237 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,040 At the time, I didn't feel anything. My shirt was drooping down. 238 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,040 Yeah, come in. 239 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,040 Excuse me, warden. I was just down talking to the director. 240 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:29,040 I didn't know what was going on and the officer told me to look at my shirt. 241 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,040 What did you do? 242 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,040 A brand new shirt. 243 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:39,040 And right here on about the center of my sternum, about four inches long, two inches wide, I was just saturated with water. 244 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,040 And he said he could make it rain. 245 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,040 I was startled. I was scared. 246 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:47,040 So was the officer. The officer was very frightened at that particular time. 247 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,040 And I just didn't have an explanation of why it happened. 248 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:58,040 All of a sudden, I received this frantic call from a sergeant in the jail. 249 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:05,040 His name is Keenhold. And he said, can you come over? We need you. We need your help. 250 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:10,040 Reverend Blackburn, nice to meet you. Sit down, please. Thank you, officer. We'll be fine. 251 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:16,040 So they brought this very meek, mild, mannered young man into their room. 252 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,040 And he was asking my help. 253 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,040 What is it here? What's going on? 254 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:26,040 I can make it rain. They put a cross around my neck and it burned. 255 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:27,040 Rosary in my hand and it burned. 256 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:33,040 Son, don't you think it would be a lot simpler if you just stopped all this nonsense right now? 257 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,040 You're making all this up, aren't you? 258 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:43,040 All of a sudden, like that demeanor changed. And the smell came into the room. 259 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:53,040 Nurses and doctors, medical people will tell you that when you walk into a room where someone is dying with a cancer or something, 260 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:58,040 usually there's this smell. You can tell when you walk in the room. 261 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:02,040 And I smelled a smell like that multiplied five times, at least. 262 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,040 Evil, verboding. 263 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,040 I have powers you don't. I can make it rain. 264 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:13,040 And at that point, he raised his hand and he rubbed his fingers together. 265 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:19,040 And all of a sudden, it started to rain. It was like the devil's rain was amissed. 266 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,040 I was in the presence of evil. 267 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,040 I'm going to pray for you. 268 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,040 I don't want you to pray for me. 269 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:30,040 I don't care whether you want me to or not. Prayer is my prerogative. 270 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:35,040 And I opened up the Bible and started reading to him. But the pages never got wet. 271 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,040 So help me. It was a frightening thing. 272 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:44,040 Your wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade, you were filled with violence. 273 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,040 I think it was praying more for me than it was for him. 274 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,040 I prayed and it was only a brief period and the rain stopped. 275 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,040 I bind you in the name of Jesus Christ. 276 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,040 He subsided and you could feel a peace. 277 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,040 He said, thank you. 278 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:05,040 He got tears in his eyes and we hugged and we prayed together. 279 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,040 He was possessed. There's no doubt in my mind. 280 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,040 There is no way that a human being could do what he did in that room. 281 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:18,040 There's no way that he did anything but what he did was spiritual. 282 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,040 And it wasn't of God. Guaranteed it was not of God. 283 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Well, it's over and it hasn't happened again. 284 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,040 So basically I'm just hoping that it never will. 285 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,040 And I just go day by day. 286 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:40,040 And as for my grandfather, I think what had happened was his doing. 287 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:46,040 Because he abused me when I was young. He got a chance to abuse me again. 288 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:52,040 I think what makes this case very unique is that all of the witnesses are so credible. 289 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:59,040 We're dealing with very good well-seasoned police officers that were obviously rather frightened and shaken by this. 290 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,040 But also had the powers of observation. 291 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:09,040 Chip Decker, no relation to Don and Peter Jordan are the principal paranormal researchers on this case. 292 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:15,040 They believe that somewhere there is information as yet undiscovered which may help them unravel this mystery. 293 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:25,040 The Donal Decker case, the Rain Boy case, is by far the singularly most fascinating and important case I have ever personally been involved in. 294 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:32,040 That does not mean that I believe that it necessarily is proof positive to me of demonic infestation. 295 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:38,040 But is the case in my own personal experience up to this point that comes the closest to that hypothesis. 296 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,040 What happened to Don Decker? 297 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:57,040 You know, nine eyewitnesses, ten counting Don himself, are willing to go on public record claiming they saw, heard and felt phenomena apparently not of this world. 298 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:06,040 Is it possible that Don Decker, somehow mesmerized by the pain of a childhood trauma, stumbled into another world which none of us can fathom? 299 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:18,040 Or was Don Decker perhaps trapped in some murky region of his own psyche, his power to do good and his power to do evil, locked in combat with Don's own body as a battlefield? 300 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,040 After all, is John Milton Road in Paradise Lost? 301 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:29,040 The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 302 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:37,040 Next, a champion motorcycle racer is gunned down in an apparent robbery turned lethal. 303 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:53,040 The shimmering lights of San Francisco Bay can be seen from more than a dozen surrounding communities. 304 00:22:53,040 --> 00:23:01,040 On the evening of February 24, 1992, one of those communities became the scene of a tragic, unsolved murder. 305 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:11,040 At 8.33 p.m., a man slowly approached a gas station in Emeryville across the bay from San Francisco. 306 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:17,040 He was hunched over his motorcycle, weaving in a neurotic and perilous fashion. 307 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,040 Police and paramedics were dispatched to the scene and attempted to revive a stricken rider. 308 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,040 His pulse was feeble and he was barely alive. 309 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:41,040 The absence of any external injuries left the authorities mystified. 310 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,040 There was no bleeding at all at the site. 311 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:54,040 If it had been a reported motorcycle accident or some kind of an accident, you would expect to see some kind of blood. 312 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,040 But there was absolutely none. 313 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,040 The unknown motorcyclist was rushed to a nearby hospital. 314 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:11,040 It was later discovered that he had been shot three times by a small caliber weapon. 315 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,040 One of the bullets had shattered his knee. 316 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,040 A second had lodged in his abdomen. 317 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,040 The third and fatal bullet had punctured his aorta. 318 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:28,040 The wounds were nearly invisible but had resulted in massive internal bleeding. 319 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:34,040 The victim never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m. 320 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,040 The victim was later identified as 30-year-old Michael Hunter, 321 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:46,040 an avid motorcycle racer who had survived hundreds of dangerous competitions, 322 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,040 only to perish on a lonely bayfront road. 323 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:57,040 What happened to Michael Hunter is unfortunately an all too common occurrence in today's big cities. 324 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,040 An innocent person is murdered. 325 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,040 The killer walks away. 326 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,040 The police are left without a suspect or a motive. 327 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:09,040 Even in the highly competitive field of motorcycle racing, Michael Hunter was known as a man with no enemies. 328 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,040 He lived for one thing and one thing only, high-speed racing. 329 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:22,040 During the mid-1980s, Michael Hunter suited up for competitions throughout California, 330 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,040 earning a reputation as one of the area's top cyclists. 331 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:32,040 He said that racing gave him probably the highest high that he'd ever had in his whole life. 332 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:37,040 He said that there was nothing that beat this excitement and the thrill of the racing. 333 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:44,040 And I think the competition was maybe almost incidental to the thrill of the racing. 334 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,040 He was always sharing, always teaching. 335 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Mike took me in hand from the beginning and taught me how to ride, taught me how to ride safely. 336 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,040 He taught me how to ride clean. 337 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:09,040 The evening of February 24th began like many others for Michael Hunter. 338 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:18,040 At 7.45 p.m., he climbed aboard his red, white and blue sport bike, apparently just to go for a ride. 339 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,040 February 24th was a beautiful evening. 340 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,040 It was almost like a summer night. 341 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,040 Crystal clear, no breeze. 342 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,040 It was just, it was very pleasant to be out in. 343 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:44,040 A few minutes after Michael left home, he stopped off at an ATM half a mile away. 344 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:53,040 As he withdrew $20 mischecking account, a security camera in the ATM recorded the transaction. 345 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,040 From the photographs that we have, it would appear to be an uneventful withdrawal. 346 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:07,040 So we don't have any reason to think that he was robbed or shot at the ATM machine. 347 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,040 Michael next showed up at a liquor store half a block from the ATM. 348 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,040 There he purchased the Pied-a-Whiskey, which was later found in his jacket pocket. 349 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,040 What happened next is pure conjecture. 350 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:34,040 The police believe that Michael may have headed to a frontage road three miles from the gas station, 351 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,040 known for his breathtaking view of the Bay Bridge. 352 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:44,040 It was here while enjoying the fresh winter breeze that Michael Hunter may have encountered his killer, or killers. 353 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:50,040 The police theorize that someone may have robbed Michael of his wallet at gunpoint, 354 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:56,040 and then demanded his motorcycle, a customized Honda VFR Interceptor Sportbike. 355 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:04,040 Probably Mike's love of his motorcycle would cause him to be reluctant to turn it over. 356 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,040 Michael apparently tried to outrun the bullets. 357 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,040 It was a race he had no chance of winning. 358 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,040 I think that he was probably pretty scared, and I like to think, 359 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,040 I really like to believe that he didn't know what was going on. 360 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,040 It would have taken him a long time to get to that station. 361 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,040 That's not a short stint to ride when you're hurt. 362 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,040 Michael had very few bullets, 363 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,040 Michael had very few minutes to live after he was shot. 364 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:50,040 The bullet that shattered his leg would have caused him to be in a great deal of pain. 365 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:59,040 And it was his past experience and training that enabled Michael to make the ride into the gas station, 366 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,040 where he knew there would be some kind of help there. 367 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:12,040 An hour later, Michael Hunter was dead, leaving his family to wonder who killed him and why. 368 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:19,040 I think all the time he raced, I knew that something could happen to him, 369 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:27,040 because he was living beyond what most people do as far as what he chose to do for his recreation. 370 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,040 Had he died that way, it was a choice he would have made, 371 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,040 and a conscious choice he'd made. 372 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:37,040 And I think that it would have been a lot easier to accept. 373 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,040 There's just no information coming our way. 374 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:47,040 About a person that was on a red, white and blue motorcycle, 375 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,040 dressed the same kind of way, obviously very noticeable. 376 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,040 I believe that somebody saw Michael Hunter in the last 40 minutes of his life. 377 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:04,040 And we need those people to come forward to tell us that little piece of information 378 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:08,040 that will identify the killers of Michael Hunter. 379 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:18,040 Michael Hunter's friends and family have raised a $10,000 reward for information which may help solve this case. 380 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,040 When We Return 381 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:30,040 A nationwide search for the true identity of a hospital-hopping con man. 382 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,040 The Man 383 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,040 Just before 9 a.m. on February 11, 1992, 384 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,040 the emergency team in a Danbury, Connecticut hospital springs into action. 385 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:57,040 The patient, a man registered as Tom Hughes, is in the grip of a severe cardiac arrest. 386 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,040 For 90 minutes, doctors and nurses labor to revive him. 387 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,040 However, all the efforts are in vain. 388 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,040 At 10.20, the man known as Tom Hughes is pronounced dead. 389 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,040 When the hospital dutifully attempted to contact the man's wife, 390 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,040 they discovered that her name and phone number were bogus. 391 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:28,040 So were the patient's social security number, address, occupation and employer. 392 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,040 Tom Hughes simply did not exist. 393 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,040 Among the man's possessions were a receipt from a hospital in California 394 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,040 and a bus ticket stub from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. 395 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:45,040 Starting with these meager clues, the authorities soon uncovered a peculiar fraud scheme. 396 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:51,040 Until he died, a man known as Tom Hughes had essentially been a professional hospital patient. 397 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,040 It was a scam that may have killed him. 398 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,040 Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. 399 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,040 Did you say this happened while you were working? 400 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,040 Yes, I was helping my brother do some work on the house he's buying over in Ridgefield. 401 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,040 The con man would stay in a hospital for three to seven days 402 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,040 before sneaking out and leaving his bills unpaid. 403 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,040 Wait, and the next thing I know... 404 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:20,040 It appears that Tom would check into a hospital with some sort of small self-inflicted wound 405 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,040 and have a complaint of a lower back pain. 406 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,040 We think that he was checking himself into the hospitals to obtain the pain pills. 407 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,040 Okay, well I'm going to prescribe something a bit stronger 408 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,040 and I'd like to suggest that you check yourself in for observation for a few days. 409 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,040 Any objection? 410 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,040 Well, whatever you say, you're the doctor. 411 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,040 Okay. 412 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:43,040 We were able to determine that Tom had essentially been traveling across the country 413 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,040 and staying in one hospital after another 414 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,040 and taking a bus from one destination to another. 415 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,040 We were able to track him from California all the way to Rhode Island 416 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,040 and points in between. 417 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,040 Yes, my name is Thomas Hughes. 418 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,040 I need to speak with someone about a personal injury case. 419 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,040 The con man had made 16 calls before he died. 420 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,040 I'm a civil engineer. 421 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,040 Yeah, a firm and wedged... 422 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,040 Investigators traced them hoping to locate frowns or family members. 423 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,040 Instead they uncovered yet another facet of his unusual scheme. 424 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:21,040 Every single calling had been made to an attorney. 425 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:26,040 We think he called the attorneys with a story that he wanted to have a lawsuit 426 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,040 because of his injuries at work. 427 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:34,040 But I think the real reason he called the attorneys was to, again, tell a story to someone 428 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,040 and borrow some money. 429 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,040 He needed travel money and he would obtain this by borrowing small amounts from the attorneys. 430 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,040 Oh, listen, I hate to ask you this. 431 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,040 Would you do me a favor? 432 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,040 Sure. 433 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,040 Well, I'm expecting a package from my wife today. 434 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,040 It's come on COD. 435 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,040 Could I borrow $40 until tomorrow? 436 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,040 Yeah, I guess I could do that. 437 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,040 I'll just add it to my bill. 438 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,040 Okay. 439 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,040 $40? 440 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,040 We know that Tom had been traveling from hospital to hospital for a year, two years, 441 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:10,040 or possibly longer, and each time taking excessive amounts of painkillers. 442 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:15,040 And we believe that could be a contributing cause of his death. 443 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:21,040 This photograph of the unidentified man was taken just hours before his death. 444 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:27,040 He weighed 277 pounds, although authorities cautioned that he may have put on much of the weight 445 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,040 since he began living in hospital beds. 446 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:56,040 Next, a woman needs your help to find a childhood friend. 447 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:08,040 It turned out to be much more than just a friend. 448 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:13,040 Most of us have read Alice in Wonderland and pondered what it might feel like to fall through the looking glass 449 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,040 into a place where nothing was quite as it seemed. 450 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,040 For a Los Angeles woman named Irene Love, looking glass was an old strongbox 451 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,040 harboring her mother Minnie's private papers. 452 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:36,040 Once Irene opened it, her parents and her best friend turned out not to be at all what they seemed. 453 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:42,040 1962, Mid-City Los Angeles. 454 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:48,040 16-year-old Irene Love was killing a Saturday afternoon in her mother's bedroom. 455 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,040 I used to play music a lot, my records. 456 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,040 I would sometimes even go through my mother's drawers and just being nosy. 457 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,040 I've always been nosy. 458 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,040 I looked around and there was a metal box. 459 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:04,040 I opened it up and there were some papers that were dating in 1942. 460 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,040 And I thought, God, mom keeps this. 461 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,040 Then there was another piece of paper folded up and it was a birth certificate. 462 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,040 And it had Irene win on it. 463 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:20,040 And I go, hmm, same first name as mine. 464 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:29,040 Then I noticed the father's name was Glenn, mother's name was Ramona, County General Hospital, the date. 465 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,040 I said, well, the date that was what caught me, the date was the same date as my birth. 466 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:38,040 And by that time, a little bit later on, my mother came home. 467 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,040 Hi honey, I'm home. What are you doing in here? 468 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,040 Look what I found. 469 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,040 What's that? 470 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,040 And I showed her the paper. 471 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:51,040 Where'd you find this? 472 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,040 Over there. 473 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,040 What are you doing snooping through my things? You know those are private papers. 474 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,040 Are you my real mother? 475 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,040 Irene, I love you so much. 476 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:13,040 And it came to life that I was adopted and she and my dad had adopted me three days after I was born. 477 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:21,040 And she was fearful that I was going to, at that point, leave and go and search for my real parents. 478 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:26,040 And I told her no, I just wanted to know what was the story about it. 479 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:33,040 Many in Forest love had brought Irene home on June 3, 1946. 480 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,040 Oh, we're home Irene. 481 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,040 We're really home. 482 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,040 Honey, why is she crying? 483 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,040 She's fine honey. 484 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:47,040 They could not have children of their own, so many in Forest were especially thrilled with their new daughter. 485 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,040 Look at that baby. 486 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:53,040 They provided her with everything, even a best friend. 487 00:37:53,040 --> 00:38:03,040 Dolores Ford, just one year older than Irene, was the only child of many in Forest's best friends. 488 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:08,040 They would bring her over every day or every weekend. 489 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,040 We went on camping trips. 490 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,040 We went to the park. 491 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,040 We went everywhere to the lakes. 492 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,040 We never really argued. 493 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,040 It was like we knew each other, we connected. 494 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:26,040 If one wanted something, the other one knew about it and it was always there. 495 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:34,040 We were just connected so close that there was like a great friendship there. 496 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:42,040 Every holiday they would come over and bring the gifts and we exchanged gifts there in the living room. 497 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:48,040 It was basically, we got the same toys, so they didn't deny us anything. 498 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,040 They made sure that we were happy kids. 499 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,040 Merry Christmas baby. 500 00:38:54,040 --> 00:39:00,040 I don't think a child in this world has had a better childhood than I have because I had my mom, my dad, 501 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,040 I had Billy and Ford that were just like my mother and father. 502 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,040 I had Dolores. 503 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,040 We just had a fun time. 504 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:16,040 They occupied every minute of our lives when we were children together and that was fun times. 505 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,040 Is there anything else you should tell me? 506 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,040 Well honey, you remember... 507 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:26,040 That day in 1962, Minnie asked Irene to think back to her happy childhood. 508 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:33,040 She asked her to recall a restaurant, Clifton's, where Minnie and Forrest had taken Irene every Sunday. 509 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,040 Now Minnie explained why they had always gone to the same place. 510 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,040 Where she started, through the Baptist. 511 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:45,040 Irene's birth mother Ramona, who was Hispanic, worked at the cafeteria. 512 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:51,040 This was her only opportunity to watch Irene grow up. 513 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,040 Don't look at me. 514 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,040 Dad. 515 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:06,040 At some point, Irene's birth father Glenn began to work at Clifton's too. 516 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,040 Minnie and Forrest would alternate their seating locations in the restaurant, 517 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:15,040 so both Glenn and Ramona could see the daughter and they had been too poverty-stricken to raise themselves. 518 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,040 What's the name of this plate? 519 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,040 It's called the Butterfly. 520 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,040 And she's Madame Butterfly. 521 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,040 I never faulted them for what they did. 522 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:31,040 They had to do what they had to do and I'm thankful that they gave me to the family that they did give me to. 523 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,040 So that's, you know, I was lucky in that way. 524 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:40,040 Irene and Dolores and their parents lived happily until 1956. 525 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:44,040 Then Dolores's mother Billy died of a kidney disease. 526 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,040 Suddenly Dolores seemed to vanish into thin air. 527 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,040 Irene never saw her again. 528 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:55,040 Only years later, when Irene's mother finally told her the truth, 529 00:40:55,040 --> 00:41:00,040 did Irene learn what had happened to her friend. 530 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,040 Okay, come on. 531 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,040 Shortly after Dolores's mother died, her father came to the sad conclusion 532 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,040 that he could no longer raise her alone, that she needed a mother. 533 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,040 Dolores, this is Ramona. 534 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,040 Hi, Dolores. 535 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,040 He took Dolores to live with Glen and Ramona, the couple who worked at Clifton's cafeteria. 536 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,040 I'll take that. 537 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,040 But why? 538 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,040 Finally the shocking news came out. 539 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:31,040 Dolores was also the child of Glen and Ramona when Dolores and Irene were sisters. 540 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,040 Irene was thunderstrike. 541 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,040 Her mother explained apologetically that she had been afraid that Irene 542 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:45,040 would continue seeing Dolores after Dolores moved in with Ramona and Glen. 543 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:50,040 I was afraid if I told you the truth, that I would lose you. 544 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:58,040 No matter what, you'll always be my mother. 545 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,040 In 1989, after both of her parents passed away, 546 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,040 Irene found herself irresistibly drawn back to the old neighborhood, 547 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:12,040 reliving her happy childhood with Dolores. 548 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,040 In my mind, I can see us playing together. 549 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,040 Hey, Choteak, get on this. 550 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,040 Here we go now. 551 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:26,040 Budge, budge, tell that judge, mama's got a newborn baby. 552 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:32,040 We were like twins, you know, but not knowing that we were sisters, you know. 553 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,040 And so that's what I want real bad to meet with her. 554 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,040 She's a part of my early life. She's a part of me. 555 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,040 I feel things that I don't think anybody else could feel right now 556 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:50,040 because it's like an emptiness that's going on inside of me due to the fact I don't know where she's at. 557 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:57,040 And I hope one day soon that we can come together and be the silly little girls that we were when we were growing up. 558 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:04,040 Because I'm still a silly little girl in heart, and I want to be with her as soon as possible. 559 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:09,040 Irene also has a message for her birth parents, Glenn and Ramona Nguyen, 560 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,040 who watch so lovingly from a distance while she grew up. 561 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:20,040 Ramona and Glenn, I want to get to know you also and bring you back into my life. 562 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:25,040 I don't have any anger. I believe you did what you had to do. 563 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:31,040 And I love you. Just if you're out there listening, please call me. 564 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,040 I want to hear from you also. 565 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,040 Today Glenn and Ramona Nguyen will be 72 and 67 years old respectively. 566 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:45,040 They divorced in the 50s, and Ramona, whose maiden name was Via, married a man named Richards or Richardson, 567 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,040 with whom she also had children. 568 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,040 These are two of the last known photographs of Dolores Ford. 569 00:43:53,040 --> 00:44:00,040 In 1956, when she was 10, Dolores moved to 2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles to live with Glenn and Ramona Nguyen. 570 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,040 This July, Dolores will be 48 years old. 571 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,040 Her last known address was also in the Los Angeles area. 572 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:24,040 Join me again next week. 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