1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,360 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,400 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,200 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,080 What investigative reporter Dan Castellero 6 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:21,800 was found dead in a West Virginia hotel room, 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,800 his wrists had been slashed 12 times 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,200 and his confidential papers were missing. 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,440 Local police ruled his death a suicide, 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,240 but Castellero's family and friends 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,080 are convinced he was murdered because he had accumulated 12 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,560 compelling evidence of widespread government corruption. 13 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,760 In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a single mother and her daughter 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,720 are found dead in their home. 15 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,160 A neighbor, John Purvis, has convicted of murder 16 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,400 and sentenced to life in prison. 17 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,320 With the help of unsolved mysteries, 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,400 Purvis is now a free man. 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,280 And two other are behind bars awaiting trial 20 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,520 on charges of first degree murder. 21 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,480 Also, the authorities need your help. 22 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,080 They want to identify and capture 23 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,000 a man who attacked an elderly couple while they were on vacation. 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,200 Join me. 25 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,320 Perhaps you hold a crucial clue that will 26 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,240 solve one of tonight's unsolved mysteries. 27 00:01:52,400 --> 00:02:05,400 MUSIC 28 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:14,400 MUSIC 29 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,400 MUSIC 30 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,400 Housekeeping. 31 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,400 MUSIC 32 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,280 On what seemed like an ordinary Saturday afternoon 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,520 in the summer of 1991, a housekeeper at the Sheraton Hotel 34 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,880 opened room 517 for routine cleaning. 35 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,400 Nothing could prepare her for what she found inside. 36 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,480 Lying in a tub of bloody water was a guest registered 37 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:48,880 to the room. 38 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,920 Clearly, the man was dead. 39 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:55,240 The housekeeper discovered the body of Danny Castellaro, 40 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,680 a 44-year-old investigative journalist 41 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,160 from Fairfax, Virginia. 42 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:04,800 Within minutes, Martinsburg police 43 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,880 were called to investigate. 44 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,360 In the room, they found a brief suicide note which 45 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,320 read, to my loved ones, please forgive me, most 46 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,680 especially my son, and be understanding, 47 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,800 God will let me in. 48 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:19,600 Hi, Tom. 49 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:20,500 Lieutenant. 50 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:21,440 What do you got here? 51 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,000 It seems pretty clear it's a suicide. 52 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,720 We got a note here. 53 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,160 Got about a dozen slash marks on the wrist. 54 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,800 In the bathtub, police recovered a single razor blade. 55 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,520 Incredibly, Castellaro's wrists were slashed 12 times, 56 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,640 with eight cuts on his left wrist and four on his right. 57 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,120 One cut was deep enough to sever a tendon. 58 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,240 The reporter's wallet was found in his room 59 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,840 with cash and credit cards intact. 60 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,400 There appeared to be no evidence of a struggle. 61 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,440 Why don't you wrap it up here as quickly as you can, 62 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:52,760 and we'll get out of here. 63 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:53,360 Good job. 64 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:53,860 You got it. 65 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,640 Castellaro's body was delivered to a Martinsburg funeral 66 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,160 home later Saturday afternoon. 67 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,280 However, two days passed before Castellaro's family 68 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,600 was notified of his death. 69 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,520 My mother called me, and she said Danny's dead. 70 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,160 They've killed him. 71 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,360 And I called the police at that point. 72 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,240 She didn't really know any details, 73 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,320 and spoke with the sergeant doing the investigation. 74 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,080 This is Dr. Tony Castellaro. 75 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,160 I'm calling about Danny Castellaro. 76 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,320 Yes, I just spoke with my mother. 77 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,120 How can I help you? 78 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,480 Yes. 79 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:32,440 What happened? 80 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,120 And he said we found your brother, 81 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,040 and he committed suicide. 82 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,280 He committed suicide. 83 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:39,200 A hotel maid found his body when she went into cleanest room 84 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,720 on Saturday around 1 o'clock. 85 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:42,400 Saturday? 86 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,440 This is Monday. 87 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,320 I asked them why it had taken them two days to notify us, 88 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,240 and he at that moment didn't know. 89 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,480 He just said he thought we had already been notified. 90 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,040 Sir, no. 91 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,720 Look, what do you know about my brother? 92 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:54,920 I started asking him questions. 93 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,360 What about all the papers he had with him, 94 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,040 the investigation he was doing, and the sergeant was clearly, 95 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,640 it really didn't have any idea about this. 96 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,120 And at that point, told me they found no papers in his room. 97 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,760 The papers Castellaro had with him in Martinsburg 98 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,960 included hundreds of notes and documents 99 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,440 for more than a year of investigation. 100 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,920 Not one has ever been found. 101 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,080 From the moment we heard about his reported suicide, 102 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,160 we doubted it, questioned it, wondered about it. 103 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,960 It was not his nature to kill himself. 104 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,680 So we were suspicious from the first, 105 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,120 and in the deeper we dug into it, 106 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,480 the more suspicious we became. 107 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,920 Suspicious circumstances surrounding 108 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,600 the investigation of his alleged suicide. 109 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,800 Danny Castellaro's fear of blood tests, 110 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,600 and other minor medical procedures 111 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,520 was well known to his family. 112 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,640 They found it incomprehensible that he committed suicide 113 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,920 by slashing his wrists a dozen times. 114 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,560 Just days before his death, Danny Castellaro enthusiastically 115 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,940 told friends he was close to breaking the story that 116 00:05:58,940 --> 00:06:01,400 had consumed him the past year. 117 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,680 It is started as an inquiry in a computer software theft, 118 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,000 but soon mushroomed into a broad investigation 119 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,720 of government corruption that Castellaro believed 120 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,120 implicated US justice department officials. 121 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,600 Many suspect that Castellaro was silenced, 122 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,440 because he had found out too much. 123 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:25,960 Danny Castellaro's strange odyssey 124 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,480 began when he interviewed Bill and Nancy Hamilton, 125 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,280 the owners of a computer software company called Inzlaw. 126 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:35,080 First of all, when was the promise software developed 127 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,760 and what was it for? 128 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,880 Well, there's a big need for this kind of software. 129 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,480 The Hamilton's have developed a powerful program called 130 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,720 Promise, that they claimed revolutionized information 131 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,080 management by law enforcement agencies. 132 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,560 In 1980, the US Justice Department 133 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,240 purchased the Inzlaw software to handle their millions 134 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,860 of case files. 135 00:06:55,860 --> 00:06:58,080 Initially, the program earned high praise 136 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,600 and handsome returns for Inzlaw. 137 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,960 Then the climate at justice suddenly changed. 138 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,440 What we'll do first is bring up a menu. 139 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,040 At the beginning of the second year of the three-year contract, 140 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,320 the Justice Department began to withhold payments from Inzlaw. 141 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,680 And they withheld a couple of million dollars from Inzlaw, 142 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,320 drove Inzlaw into chapter 11 bankruptcy. 143 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,240 The Hamilton's then discovered that the Canadian government 144 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,720 had acquired their software, despite the fact 145 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,640 that Inzlaw had never sold the program to Canada. 146 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,640 What sort of funny things started happening? 147 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,400 The Hamilton's told Casselaro that they were mistrified 148 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,600 by illegal sales of their software 149 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,360 until they spoke to a man named Michael Ricconasciuto. 150 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,400 He claimed to have worked for the CIA 151 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,000 on numerous top secret projects. 152 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,880 Ricconasciuto agreed to talk to unsolved mysteries 153 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,680 about the unauthorized use of Inzlaw's software 154 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,840 by clandestine agencies. 155 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,960 Well, the parties that were involved 156 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,960 in the distribution of this software 157 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,480 were involved in covert operations. 158 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,520 And they were involved in Nicaragua and Central America. 159 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,960 And they were involved in operations in the Middle East. 160 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,600 And yes, I have direct knowledge of funds 161 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,120 from the sale of this product being used 162 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:23,760 to finance those operations. 163 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,560 As early as August of 1989, the brewing Inzlaw scandal 164 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,480 had drawn the attention of Congress. 165 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,000 And the House Judiciary Committee 166 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,800 opened a formal inquest. 167 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,640 The report describes the committee's investigation 168 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,560 into serious allegations that high-level Department 169 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:46,080 of Justice officials were involved 170 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,920 in a criminal conspiracy to force Inzlaw, a small computer 171 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,680 company, out of business. 172 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,280 Michael Ricconasciuto began telling his story 173 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,560 to committee investigators. 174 00:08:57,560 --> 00:08:59,760 Within a week of submitting his sworn affidavit 175 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,360 to the committee, Ricconasciuto was arrested 176 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,000 on drug charges by agents of the Justice Department. 177 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,360 He is currently being held in federal custody 178 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,480 in Chicago, Illinois. 179 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,640 While the drug conviction taints Ricconasciuto's credibility, 180 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,400 the committee also heard from a witness 181 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,800 with impeccable credentials, Elliot Richardson. 182 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,880 Now legal counsel for the Hamilton's, 183 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,960 Richardson was attorney general under Richard Nixon. 184 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,280 In 1973, Richardson had resigned rather than participate 185 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,120 in the Watergate cover-up. 186 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,960 There is simply too much to be ignored. 187 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,920 In the case of Inzlaw, there's a spreading radius 188 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:49,160 of circumstantial evidence which, at its outer reaches, 189 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,320 entails a far more sinister kind of conspiracy 190 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,040 than anything revealed in Watergate. 191 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,200 Do you have any information as to whether or not 192 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,600 they acquired the promised software? 193 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,280 After months of investigation, Castellaro 194 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,840 believed yet uncovered an unsavory network of US officials, 195 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,040 organized crime members, and intelligence agents. 196 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,840 He called it the octopus. 197 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,840 Is that being used by their intelligence operations? 198 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,360 Castellaro claimed the octopus was at the root of not only 199 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:27,520 the Inzlaw affair, but the Iran Contra scandal, BCCI, BNL, 200 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,040 and even the now largely discredited October surprise. 201 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,240 In short, just about every major scandal of the 1980s. 202 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,000 Direct connections with some of the underworld crime figures. 203 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,880 The deeper Castellaro went in search of the octopus. 204 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,120 The more he found himself on intimate terms 205 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,880 with shadowy characters. 206 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,680 Danny Castellaro stepped into a world 207 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:52,680 that he didn't belong in. 208 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,160 The type of people that he became involved with 209 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,840 lie just as a matter of course. 210 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,920 I think after a while, some don't even know what the real truth 211 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:01,040 is. 212 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,400 They lie, they cheat. 213 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,160 There are people who have been involved in numerous murders, 214 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,520 dealing drugs, dealing arms. 215 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,280 And Danny Castellaro thought he could find his way 216 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,400 to the slabbings by himself. 217 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,120 That was a mistake. 218 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,280 Are they serious? 219 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,240 I don't know. 220 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:19,880 I don't think so. 221 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,040 A week before he died, Castellaro 222 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,200 told his brother he had been receiving frequent death threats. 223 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,160 Who are these guys? 224 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:27,840 Well, I don't know. 225 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:28,840 I mean, I know a couple of them. 226 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,800 They're the guys that I've been working with, my contacts. 227 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,200 And they're calling me and saying, look, Danny, 228 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,240 you're getting too close. 229 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,040 You're going to get hurt. 230 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,280 Back off. 231 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,040 And I'm getting calls in the middle of the night from guys 232 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:38,080 I've never heard of. 233 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,200 I don't recognize their voices. 234 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:40,480 I don't know why they're coming from. 235 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,360 They're just saying you are going to die. 236 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,440 I'll tell you this, though, when I go to Martinsburg, 237 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,960 if something happens to me or if I should get hurt, 238 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:50,960 I don't believe it's an accident. 239 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,120 With briefcases full of notes and documents, 240 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,800 Castellaro arrived in Martinsburg to meet with several 241 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,040 informants and conclude his investigation. 242 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,720 He had been tracking the finances of the octopus 243 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,560 and believed one of his new contacts 244 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,440 would deliver key evidence. 245 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,800 Danny had a source there inside the IRS's computer 246 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:26,320 data center that was giving him hard copy printouts of IRS 247 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:32,000 information on certain specific targets that Danny was after. 248 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,320 William Turner. 249 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,120 And you are? 250 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,440 Danny Castellaro. 251 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:36,360 Get in. 252 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,000 The day before he died, Castellaro 253 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,240 met with another source, William Turner, 254 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,400 a former employee of a major defense contractor. 255 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,880 You have some documentation? 256 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:45,640 You have some for me? 257 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,880 Driver's license. 258 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,640 According to Turner, he handed over paperwork 259 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,280 documenting corruption that Castellaro believed 260 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,480 was tied to the octopus. 261 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:01,520 Housekeeping. 262 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,960 Within 24 hours, Castellaro would be found dead. 263 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,480 And Turner's documents would disappear, 264 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,640 along with the rest of Castellaro's papers. 265 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,680 In response to the conversation, he 266 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,400 In response to the controversy surrounding Castellaro's 267 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,880 death, authorities in West Virginia 268 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:25,040 convened a formal inquest, including a complete autopsy. 269 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,280 The assistant medical chamber for the state of West Virginia, 270 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,600 he said, well, you know, he's already been embalmed, 271 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,840 and that's going to make it a little difficult. 272 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,520 And I said, what are you talking about? 273 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,440 He's already been embalmed. 274 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:42,400 And he said, well, he was embalmed apparently already. 275 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,400 He said, you didn't know that? 276 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:44,480 I said, absolutely not. 277 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,560 I said, we didn't give any permission. 278 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:48,600 I said, is that how it's supposed to happen? 279 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,280 He said, no, that's not. 280 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,880 He said, but we'll just have to look into that. 281 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,800 I'm now going to cut the sutures to examine the wounds. 282 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,400 The autopsy confirmed that bleeding from the 12 razor 283 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,760 cuts had resulted in Danny Castellaro's death. 284 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,680 More importantly, the autopsy disclosed evidence 285 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,000 suggesting Castellaro may not have been alone in the hotel 286 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,160 room during the final moments of his life. 287 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,080 Six cuts on the flexor surface of the left wrist. 288 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,760 I was told there were no signs of any struggle. 289 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,280 There was on the actual autopsy report 290 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:25,960 described a bruise on the arm and a bruise on the head, which 291 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,000 were never accounted for. 292 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,320 Additionally, the tips of three fingernails 293 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,120 were missing from one hand. 294 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,160 You know, the other thing is the embalming, whatever. 295 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,240 You think, well, you know, things can happen, 296 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:39,680 and just accept things. 297 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,520 But this, they did not tell us the truth. 298 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,040 He had bruises on him. 299 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,320 Castellaro's hotel room had been cleaned the day 300 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,960 after his death by a professional cleaning crew, 301 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,920 and the workers inadvertently discarded important evidence. 302 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,800 The previous day, minutes after Castellaro's body 303 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,640 had been found, one of the Sheraton housekeepers 304 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,360 noticed two bloody towels in the bathroom. 305 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,440 They appeared to have been used to wipe blood 306 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,200 off the bathroom floor. 307 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,400 The question of who tried to clean up the floor with the towels 308 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:17,360 has never been addressed by West Virginia authorities. 309 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,800 The police reports of the investigation 310 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,880 are certainly not professional. 311 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,880 Fingerprints get lost, messed up. 312 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,240 They drain the tub without a strainer, sloppy work. 313 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,160 What were the towels doing underneath the sink? 314 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,840 The police did not check them. 315 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,440 Police have a rule in this country. 316 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,120 Government people have a rule. 317 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,520 When they screw up, they cover up. 318 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,240 Sad but true. 319 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:41,480 Do I think they cover it up here? 320 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,720 Yes, I do. 321 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,280 There is enough evidence that he was murdered 322 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,680 so that there should have been a much more intensive 323 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,880 investigation than there has been. 324 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,480 I don't know enough to know for sure, 325 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,560 but all that I do know makes me believe 326 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,920 that it was more likely that he was murdered 327 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,560 than that he committed suicide. 328 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,520 Our brother Danny Casalaro has gone to his rest 329 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,520 in the peace of Christ with faith and hope 330 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:14,720 in eternal life. 331 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,080 Even Casalaro's funeral was clouded by mystery. 332 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,320 As a ceremony was drawing to a close, 333 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,680 a highly decorated military officer 334 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:24,920 arrived in a limousine. 335 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,960 It was really unusual because I noticed this tall, 336 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,840 stoic-looking black man in full military dress. 337 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:42,200 Standing there with this like plain clothes type of guy. 338 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,400 Just before the casket was lowered into the ground, 339 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,120 the military man carefully placed a metal on the casket lid. 340 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,640 And we went back to Francis's house, Danny's mother's house. 341 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,280 And I said, Francis, who was the military man? 342 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,000 And she said, I thought you'd know. 343 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:10,800 Don't you know that guy? 344 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,160 And I said, no. 345 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:13,600 And we asked everyone there. 346 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,800 There had to be 50 people at Francis's house. 347 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,560 No one knew who they were. 348 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:17,960 No one. 349 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,680 The official inquiry into Casalaro's death 350 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,400 was concluded more than a year ago. 351 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,960 However, Casalaro's clothing, wallet, suicide note, 352 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,120 and other personal items have been retained with no explanation 353 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:34,240 by the investigators. 354 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:51,760 Meet the O'Neill children of Southern California, 355 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,640 six happy, well-adjusted adults. 356 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,240 To look at them, you would never guess 357 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,800 that their early years were wracked by trauma. 358 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,800 In 1958, the untimely death of their father, Paul O'Neill, 359 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,920 precipitated the first in a series of family secrets 360 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,520 that would haunt the children for years. 361 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:14,960 Within every family that harbors deep secrets, 362 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,400 it seems there was someone determined 363 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,320 to uncover the truth. 364 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,320 The O'Neill's are no different. 365 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,360 For Bill, the youngest son, this quest 366 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,640 would lead him through a tangled web of intrigue, 367 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,560 woven out of desperation by his mother. 368 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,480 Eventually, Bill would unravel the mysteries 369 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,240 of his family's past and begin a remarkable search, 370 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,240 first for this history thought was lost forever, 371 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,920 and now for his natural father. 372 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,680 Bill O'Neill's personal odyssey began in adolescence. 373 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,400 Throughout his childhood, he was plagued 374 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,480 by a nagging inexplicable loneliness. 375 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,960 I was pretty to myself as a kid. 376 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,120 I mean, I didn't have like a great deal of friends 377 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:58,680 or anything like that. 378 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,440 Pretty much just sat in front of the TV a lot of the time. 379 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:07,600 I was told from the earliest that I can remember 380 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:12,240 that Hugh O'Neill was my father, and I was the last child 381 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,160 born by him before he passed away. 382 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:21,120 I felt it inside, though, about feeling a little bit different. 383 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,640 You know, with the other kids growing up, 384 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,400 like I was the only one with haze of lies. 385 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,760 And everybody else had these bright blue eyes. 386 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,560 My skin was more like an olive skin, 387 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,800 where they were fairer skinned. 388 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,720 Not that anything was ever said to me or anything 389 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,400 like that that was different than anybody else, 390 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,400 like my mom didn't treat me any different. 391 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,160 Just a feeling inside, like something was lost. 392 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:51,960 Years passed. 393 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,480 The O'Neill children grew up and started their own families. 394 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,120 In 1983, Bill's older brother Tim 395 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,680 journeyed to Chicago with his wife and child 396 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,240 to visit his father's gravesite for the first time. 397 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:10,680 Hugh, that's his middle name, but mom always called him Paul. 398 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:16,880 When I got there, we found that the date of death on my father 399 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:24,440 was December 20th of 1958, which made it impossible for Bill 400 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,920 to be one of his children. 401 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,240 Tim was bewildered by the indisputable fact 402 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,480 that his father had died two full years 403 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,640 before his brother Bill was born. 404 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,720 When he returned to California, Tim 405 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,200 went to see the only person who could sort out 406 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,720 the baffling discrepancy. 407 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,400 I went to my mother's house, and she had told me 408 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:50,320 that she didn't want Bill to know about this or anybody else 409 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:54,360 in the family to know about it, and that she 410 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:55,920 would basically take it to her grave. 411 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,560 She didn't want anybody in the family 412 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:03,840 to know about the dates and what had transpired years ago. 413 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,160 Against his better judgment, Tim respected his mother's wishes 414 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,480 and kept her secret to himself. 415 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:09,880 What's up? 416 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,280 Nothing else in the neighborhood, 417 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:12,760 so I thought I'd drop by. 418 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:17,680 But by 1986, Tim had decided to tell his brother the truth. 419 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,960 He was stunned to discover that Bill had always suspected. 420 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,680 What happened with you and mom anyway? 421 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,920 I mean, I can't even mention your name 422 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,760 without her getting upset. 423 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,160 Yeah, well, that's because you don't know about the O'Neill 424 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,040 secret. 425 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,640 What are you talking about? 426 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,540 It's nothing. 427 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:35,440 No, tell me. 428 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,340 Ask her. 429 00:21:36,340 --> 00:21:38,920 No, I'm asking you. 430 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,680 I knew what he was going to say. 431 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,120 I had the feeling already inside. 432 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:45,200 Is it that I have a different father than you guys? 433 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,440 Yeah. 434 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,240 Just had a feeling. 435 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,960 I felt like all the years that I had been feeling the way 436 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,680 I felt was sort of just all confirmed. 437 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,680 And now, where do I go from here? 438 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,880 I remember just going into sort of like a shock mode, though. 439 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,360 You know, I'm feeling real empty. 440 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:11,920 Later on that night, when I confronted my mother, 441 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,040 she didn't deny it or anything like that. 442 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,400 She asked me how I had found out. 443 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,040 But she did not deny it. 444 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,440 And it went real well. 445 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:26,200 I mean, I didn't have any kind of animosities towards her at all. 446 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,800 Bill's mother told him that she had met Paul O'Neill in 1953. 447 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:33,960 He was 29. 448 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,040 She was only 20. 449 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:37,680 It was love at first sight. 450 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,280 And by the next summer, they were married. 451 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,280 Over the next four years, Paul and Lynn 452 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,560 had three children and bought a house in Chicago's South Side. 453 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,800 Their happiness, however, would not last. 454 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,840 Paul O'Neill was a World War II veteran 455 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,040 and suffered from a chronic kidney ailment. 456 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,640 Oh, honey, here's daddy. 457 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,360 By November of 1958, Lynn was eight months 458 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:04,280 pregnant with her fourth child. 459 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,320 Paul was spending most of his time in Chicago's VA hospital. 460 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,200 Hi, hi. 461 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,100 Hi. 462 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:11,000 Call the phone, please. 463 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,520 Dr. Tye. 464 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,080 How are you doing? 465 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,320 Oh, getting fine. 466 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,840 On one visit, Lynn O'Neill met another veteran named Jim Burke, 467 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,280 who was a good friend of Paul's. 468 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,440 So this must be the beautiful lady you've been keeping from me. 469 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,200 Sadly, within a month, Paul O'Neill would die. 470 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,240 It's my wife, Lynn. 471 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,240 Nice meeting you. 472 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,240 Nice to meet you. 473 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,240 Thanks so much about you. 474 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,640 Whoa. 475 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:38,540 Whoa. 476 00:23:38,540 --> 00:23:39,440 Help. 477 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,600 Oh, that was terrific. 478 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,160 It wasn't long before Jim Burke became a familiar presence 479 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,120 in the O'Neill household. 480 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:48,720 Hey, I'm Steve Jim. 481 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,560 Um, come on in. 482 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,240 Door's open. 483 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,560 I remember that there was a man that was around our house, 484 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,280 and he had dark, kind of wavy hair. 485 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,320 And he had dark eyes. 486 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,960 But I don't put a name with him. 487 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,400 I don't know what his name is. 488 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,920 But I'm comfortable that this man is there. 489 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:06,820 Come on, boy. 490 00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:07,720 Let's go. 491 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,600 During the summer of 1959, Jim Burke 492 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,520 moved to Southern California. 493 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,960 Lynn and her children soon followed. 494 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,680 A year later, in September of 1960, 495 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,280 Lynn gave birth to Bill. 496 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,440 The next year, Lynn became pregnant again. 497 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,080 But her relationship with Jim Burke 498 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,040 had begun to deteriorate. 499 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,480 By the time the child, a daughter named Peggy, was born, 500 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,320 Jim was completely out of the picture. 501 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,120 I believe that they didn't get along well, 502 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:42,760 and they didn't see out of eye on a lot of things. 503 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,920 And it was a rough time. 504 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,600 But to my knowledge, Jim didn't leave 505 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:47,680 just because he wanted to leave. 506 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,520 He left because they mutually decided 507 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:50,600 that they should separate. 508 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,880 Lynn struggled to support all six children by herself. 509 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,600 Compounding the difficulties were Peggy's health problems. 510 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,560 She suffered from an ailment called failure to thrive 511 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,280 and was in constant need of medical attention. 512 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,400 When Peggy was 11 months old, Lynn 513 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,640 told the other children that she was sending her to the hospital. 514 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,400 But Peggy would never come home. 515 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,960 All of a sudden, one day, she said 516 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,840 she took her to the doctor and that they 517 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,000 were going to keep her for a while to observe her or something 518 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:26,920 like that. 519 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,200 So we just all accepted it. 520 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,920 And then later on, we were told that she had passed away. 521 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,000 In 1990, Bill's mother, Lynn, revealed another shocking family 522 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,320 secret. 523 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,040 Her youngest daughter, Peggy, had not died. 524 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,640 She had been given away. 525 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,800 I need to talk to you, Bill. 526 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,400 I need to tell you something. 527 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,240 Sure. 528 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,920 What is it? 529 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,520 Remember us talking about your little baby, Sister Peggy? 530 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,880 At Peggy's request, her adoptive parents 531 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,520 had contacted Lynn, who now felt compelled to tell Bill 532 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,520 the entire story. 533 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,720 Why? 534 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,520 Well, she's alive and she wants to meet you. 535 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,200 She laid this sort of bombshell on me that night. 536 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,120 And the only thing that went through my head 537 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,640 was, well, I want to go and meet her. 538 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,160 You know, I felt good inside. 539 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,120 Peggy had been adopted by Jerry and Richard Colvin 540 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,040 of Silmar, California. 541 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,480 They named her Karen and raised her in a stable and loving home. 542 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,880 I got her adoptive parents' phone number from my mom 543 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,240 because I wanted to find out, like, you know, what was she like? 544 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,840 What did she do growing up? 545 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,800 Different things like that? 546 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,920 Because we had already set up a meeting 547 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,840 to meet like a week and a half or so later, 548 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,040 but I couldn't wait to let. 549 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,480 With mounting anticipation, Bill called Peggy's parents. 550 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,760 He never expected his sister to answer the phone. 551 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,560 Hello? 552 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,640 I was calling her parents just to talk to her parents 553 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,400 and get a little insight on her. 554 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,480 So when she answered the phone and told me, 555 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,520 hi, this is Karen, your sister, I just went, 556 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,200 I'm not ready for you. 557 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,440 I'm not ready to talk to you. 558 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,560 I don't know what to say to you. 559 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,720 That's exactly what I said to her. 560 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:20,680 I think it was, I don't know. 561 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:26,080 I just finally put a voice to a person. 562 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,080 You know, I finally made the connection 563 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,200 that this person really does exist. 564 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,200 Yeah, there's so much. 565 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,000 There's so much. 566 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,800 There's Santa Claus. 567 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:33,700 Yeah. 568 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,360 And there I am as a little skinny. 569 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:39,400 Squirrel. 570 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,600 Yeah. 571 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,040 In the three years since Bill and Karen were reunited, 572 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,200 they have become as close as any brother and sister. 573 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,120 In fact, the entire O'Neill family 574 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,800 has welcomed Karen with open arms. 575 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,560 But now she and Bill have set their sights 576 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,640 on one final goal, finding their natural father, Jim Burke. 577 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,180 It just seems like a piece of the jigsaw puzzle 578 00:28:04,180 --> 00:28:08,040 that needs to be put into place. 579 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,320 I mean, now as a mother, I can't imagine being a parent 580 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,480 and not knowing where my child is. 581 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,920 I don't want to, you know, get into his life 582 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,480 to tear it apart or anything like that. 583 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,120 I just, I'd like to know him or meet him or anything. 584 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:35,880 And, you know, to have him know that I'm OK and Karen's OK. 585 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,800 On the night of our broadcast, a woman named Eileen 586 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,160 Essler of New Lenox, Illinois, called our phone center 587 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,040 and identified herself as one of Jim Burke's four children 588 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,240 from his previous marriage. 589 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,720 Bill and Karen were saddened to hear 590 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,760 that their father had passed away in 1988. 591 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,120 But they were overjoyed that Eileen and another half-sister, 592 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,840 Sheila Ann Haskins, were anxious to meet them. 593 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,920 A week later, Bill O'Neill, Karen Althouse, 594 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,080 and their families gathered at Karen's house 595 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,720 to await the arrival of Eileen and Sheila Ann. 596 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,000 Hello there. 597 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:15,900 Hi. 598 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:16,880 Hi. 599 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,880 Hi. 600 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,360 I'm so excited. 601 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,600 I didn't know I was going to do this. 602 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,640 I felt a connection, a definite connection, 603 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,200 like when I reached out to hug them. 604 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,200 I don't know. 605 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,120 I didn't. 606 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,400 I honestly, to be honest, I just, 607 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:42,360 I didn't feel like I was going to be as emotionally tied 608 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:43,280 as I felt. 609 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:43,780 Ditto. 610 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,920 For Sheila Ann and Eileen, the bond was just as strong. 611 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,480 As soon as I saw Bill, as soon as I saw his face, 612 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,360 there was absolutely no doubt in my mind 613 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:00,520 that he was a brother. 614 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:01,600 No doubt. 615 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:02,640 I felt wonderful. 616 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,880 I mean, I wanted to touch him. 617 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,640 I just wanted to touch him to have a baby brother and baby 618 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,040 sister. 619 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,040 I know they're not. 620 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,560 There's so much to it than we are. 621 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:14,440 Thank you. 622 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,920 OK. 623 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,120 This is our father. 624 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,400 Later that afternoon, Bill and Karen 625 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,520 sat down with their new sisters to learn 626 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,280 about their father, Jim Burke. 627 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,200 And how was it related to her? 628 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,360 This is what I've wondered all my life. 629 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,480 Who are my parents? 630 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,360 Do I have more family? 631 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,120 Did I have brothers and sisters? 632 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,040 Things like that. 633 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:37,120 And it's exciting to finally see them, to touch them, 634 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,480 to get to know them. 635 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,640 The reunion was especially poignant for Bill O'Neill. 636 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,080 His lifelong feelings of isolation 637 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,200 were replaced with a new sense of belonging. 638 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:56,000 I just figured, hey, we'll get together with them and make 639 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,040 nice. 640 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,360 Yeah, you know, get some pictures, 641 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,560 get some more information about our dad. 642 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,600 But it wasn't like that. 643 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,280 It wasn't like that at all. 644 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:11,880 It was more, it was just an inside, warm feeling 645 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,720 that everything was now completed. 646 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,720 That's true. 647 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,720 Oh, my God. 648 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:17,720 Oh, great to hear. 649 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,800 For Bill, Karen, Eileen, and Sheila Ann, 650 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,080 this was just the first of many gatherings to come. 651 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,640 Bill and Karen have since met one of their half brothers. 652 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,240 And next March, they hope to meet another at a family wedding 653 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,720 in Illinois. 654 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,640 Also in attendance will be a grandmother, an aunt, 655 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:36,560 and 12 cousins. 656 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,600 When we return, a cold-blooded killer 657 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,800 strikes at a scenic restaurant in Canadian wilderness. 658 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,680 This police videotape was shot in Ontario, Canada 13 hours 659 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,720 after a brutal double murder. 660 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,200 The place, the Blind River Rest Stop, 661 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:10,640 just 85 miles from the US-Canadian border on Highway 17. 662 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,600 We were looking for a place to stop. 663 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,400 So we saw this rest area. 664 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:21,480 It was a nice, quiet river, ran along by this picnic area. 665 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,200 We went out and we walked around. 666 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:29,400 And we thought, gee, it's a nice, quiet little spot 667 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,880 we'll maybe spend the night here. 668 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,160 On the morning of June 28, 1991, 669 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,000 Gord and Jackie McAllister of Lindsay, Ontario 670 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,640 were the only two people in the Blind River Rest Stop. 671 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,320 The McAllisters, on the first leg of a vacation trip, 672 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,200 had decorated their new camper with family photographs 673 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,880 to make it as homey as possible. 674 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,400 The police, you gotta move this thing. 675 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:03,400 What? 676 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,400 Who is he? 677 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:06,400 We both got up. 678 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,400 And this guy was still banging on the side of it 679 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,400 and saying that he was a police officer 680 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,400 and he wanted us to open the door. 681 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,400 I'll get it, honey. 682 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,400 I'll get it. 683 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,400 We should be all right here, huh? 684 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,400 Oh, my God! 685 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,400 I'm going to rob you, then I'm going to kill you. 686 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:21,400 Oh, God. 687 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,400 Get your things. Get them in the purse. 688 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,400 Get your purse. We'll give him the money. 689 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,400 Please. 690 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,400 I'm so sorry. 691 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,400 I'm sorry. 692 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,400 I'm sorry. 693 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,400 Let me go. 694 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,400 Let me go. 695 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:39,400 I'm sorry. 696 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,400 I'm sorry. 697 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:41,400 I'm sorry. 698 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,400 Let me go. 699 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,400 Do you want my ring? 700 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,400 Anything that's valuable. Put it in there. 701 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,400 Okay. 702 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,400 Please don't hurt us. 703 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,400 We won't tell anybody. 704 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,400 Be calm. 705 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,400 It's all right. 706 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,400 It's all right. 707 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,400 I'll pick it up. 708 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,400 Please. 709 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,400 No, no, please. 710 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,400 Oh, no, please. 711 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,400 She... 712 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,400 She fell and... 713 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,400 I made a leap to get out. 714 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,400 I rolled underneath the motor home 715 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,400 and I noticed another car 716 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,400 had driven in to the rest area. 717 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,400 And this guy 718 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,400 got out and was standing beside the car. 719 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,400 And I was laying there just praying. 720 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,400 I was just praying to God 721 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,400 that he'd keep on running. 722 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,400 And he did. 723 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,400 He was screaming. 724 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,400 Soon as he went by, 725 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,400 I rolled back out and got up 726 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,400 into our motor home 727 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,400 and drove out onto the highway. 728 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,400 I knew I had to get out onto the highway 729 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,400 to get some help. 730 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,400 Gord knew that his wife was horribly wounded, 731 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,400 but only as he stumbled to the road 732 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,400 did he realize that he too had been shot. 733 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,400 It was a race against time. 734 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,400 Buddy, you all right? 735 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,400 You gotta help me. 736 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,400 My wife and I have been shot. 737 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400 Can you use your CV and call for help, please? 738 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,400 I'll get the next exit and call for help. 739 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,400 Okay, please. 740 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,400 Help did come, but it was too late. 741 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,400 Gord's wife, Jackie, was already dead. 742 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,400 We would have been married 39 years 743 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,400 in September of 1991. 744 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,400 I didn't care whether I lived or died. 745 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,400 I honestly didn't care. 746 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,400 I thought my life was over. 747 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,400 God lived that long with a person, 748 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,400 and then it's hard to carry on by myself. 749 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400 I was a little bit worried. 750 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,400 It's hard to carry on by yourself. 751 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,400 The gunman's other victim, Brian Major, 752 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,400 also died at the scene, 753 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,400 less than half an hour's drive from his home. 754 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,400 Brian Major was 29 years old. 755 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,400 He left behind a wife and a young son. 756 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,400 Five days after the murders, 757 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,400 Ontario papers published a police artist's drawing 758 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,400 of the gunman based on 759 00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,400 Gord McAllister's description. 760 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,400 Shortly thereafter, a witness came forward. 761 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,400 The witness said that a few minutes after 1 a.m. 762 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,400 on the night of the murders, 763 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,400 a blue late model van 764 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,400 peeled out of the Blind River Rest Area 765 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,400 and headed straight toward his car. 766 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,400 The van continued 767 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,400 dead east toward Sudbury, Ontario. 768 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,400 The witness' timing of what he saw 769 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,400 and the account of 770 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,400 Gord McAllister 771 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,400 certainly leads me to believe 772 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,400 that either that van was a suspects van 773 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,400 or it was perhaps somebody 774 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,400 in the rest area that had seen something 775 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,400 that they had left quickly. 776 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,400 The witness had not seen whether the van 777 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,400 had Canadian or U.S. license plates. 778 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,400 Police checked out more than 779 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,400 3,500 blue vans on both sides of the border. 780 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,400 Nothing. 781 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,400 The fortunate 782 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,400 situation here is that we do have a survivor. 783 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,400 Gord McAllister survived 784 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,400 his wounds and hopefully 785 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,400 he can point out the killer someday. 786 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,400 After Gord looked through hundreds of mugshots 787 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,400 to no avail, the police 788 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,400 turned to a sophisticated new technology 789 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,400 hoping to improve on the 790 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,400 original rough sketch of the killer. 791 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,400 That's close. 792 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,400 That's close. 793 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,400 No. 794 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,400 For five long hours, 795 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,400 Gord painstakingly matched 796 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,400 features from the computer's files 797 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,400 against his indelible memories. 798 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,400 No. 799 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,400 Slowly but inexorably, 800 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,400 the face of his wife's killer 801 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,400 emerged. 802 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,400 Yeah, that's it. 803 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,400 I'll never forget his face. 804 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,400 It wasn't a robbery gone bad. 805 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,400 There was no resistance to this guy. 806 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,400 He just simply was going 807 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,400 to kill somebody 808 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,400 for no reason. 809 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,400 I thought he was going to come after me 810 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,400 because I'm sure that he knows 811 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,400 I'm the only one that can identify him. 812 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,400 And I was under police protection. 813 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,400 For a long time, 814 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,400 they were watching me pretty closely. 815 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,400 And I thanked them for that. 816 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,400 But I'm 817 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,400 at the point now and then, 818 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,400 I was even at the point then where 819 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,400 I didn't care if he came after me. 820 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,400 Maybe if he killed me, 821 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,400 then maybe he'd get caught this time. 822 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,400 I don't know if he's going to kill me 823 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400 or if he's going to kill me. 824 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,400 I don't know. 825 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,400 The murder of Jackie McAllister 826 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,400 and Brian Major is believed to be 827 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,400 approximately 30 years old, 828 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,400 about 5 feet 10 inches tall 829 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,400 with a slight build. 830 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,400 He has long, stringy, blonde hair 831 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,400 and a receding hairline. 832 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,400 Next, a man wrongfully 833 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,400 accused of murder is set free, 834 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,400 thanks in part to unsolved mysteries. 835 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,400 You're about to see the story 836 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,400 of a man who suffers from schizophrenia. 837 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,400 Nearly a decade ago, 838 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,400 he became the victim of the judicial system, 839 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,400 unjustly accused of a heinous crime 840 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,400 and imprisoned, 841 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,400 while the real perpetrators 842 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,400 walked the streets scot-free. 843 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,400 On November 8th, 1983, 844 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,400 police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 845 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,400 converged on the home of Susan Hamley. 846 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,400 They were responding to a fratty call 847 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,400 from one of Susan's friends, 848 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,400 who said Susan had not answered her phone for days. 849 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,400 Susan was 38 years old, 850 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,400 divorced and the mother of an 18-month-old 851 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,400 daughter, Shane. 852 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,400 Susan Hamley was found dead 853 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,400 on her kitchen floor. 854 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,400 She had been sexually molested, 855 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,400 strangled with a telephone cord 856 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,400 and finally stabbed through the heart 857 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,400 with a carving knife. 858 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,400 Susan had been dead for several days, 859 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,400 during which time a second, 860 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,400 nearly unspeakable tragedy had occurred. 861 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,400 Susan's daughter, Shane, 862 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,400 had died from dehydration. 863 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,400 Police recovered two crucial pieces 864 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,400 of evidence at the scene. 865 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,400 A bloody carving knife 866 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,400 with no fingerprints on it 867 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,400 and red human hair. 868 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,400 Statement? How can I state that? 869 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,400 The next day, detectives canvassed Susan's neighborhood. 870 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,400 Two doors away, they questioned 871 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,400 the 66-year-old Emma Jo Bartlett 872 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,400 and her 42-year-old red-haired son, John Purvis. 873 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,400 Well, I knew her a little bit. 874 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,400 Oh, good. Would you like to come down to the station 875 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,400 and give a statement? 876 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,400 Well, if my mama can come with me, 877 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,400 would you come with me, mama? 878 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,400 Chad, you know where we're here. 879 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,400 John's mother went with him to the station, 880 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,400 but was not allowed in the interrogation room. 881 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,400 The detectives who questioned John 882 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,400 were unaware that he suffered from schizophrenia, 883 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,400 a physical disease of the brain 884 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,400 over which the patient has no control. 885 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,400 Schizophrenics often cannot tell the difference 886 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,400 between the real world and the delusions that plague them. 887 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,400 Well, they asked me if I knew Susan, 888 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,400 and I said I just barely knew the girl at all. 889 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,400 Then my mother came up and she busted in the door, 890 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,400 and she said, you have no right 891 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,400 to interrogate my son like this. 892 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,400 She said, my son did not kill the girl. 893 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,400 We don't know who killed the girl. 894 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,400 I alright you, will continue looking for 895 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,400 the real victim, real killer and everything. 896 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,400 That's what she told him when she busted in everything. 897 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,400 Yeah, you get your hand on him, 898 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,400 if you've got something on him and lock him up. 899 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,400 We don't have anything on him. 900 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,400 Well then, let him go. Come on, get up. 901 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,400 That's a good question. 902 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,400 John's mother took him in tow and stormed out 903 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,400 but the police were determined to question 904 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,400 John Purvis alone. 905 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,400 Four weeks later, they got their chance. 906 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,400 A psychiatrist, Dr. Joel Clazz 907 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,000 was brought to the station to administer a personality 908 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,800 test using TAT cards. 909 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,960 These cards feature ambiguous drawings 910 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,200 which require interpretation. 911 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:19,440 One of the cards elicited a most unusual reaction. 912 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,000 There's nothing on there. 913 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,160 There's nothing there. 914 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,640 There's just people. 915 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,440 Will I have to go to jail or can I go to hospital? 916 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,080 I remember even feeling intimidated 917 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,280 because he showed such a strong reaction. 918 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,840 Do you think I did it? 919 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,600 And after saying several times, do you think I did it? 920 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:39,920 Do you think I did it? 921 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,040 And I said, I don't know because I didn't 922 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,960 want to use any leading comments. 923 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,120 And he said, I killed her. 924 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,640 I liked her. 925 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,000 And then implied that she did not respond to him 926 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,160 in a favorable way. 927 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,880 Subsequently, Purvis also confessed to the police. 928 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,480 Those detectives down there at the police department 929 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,280 told me that if you'll confess that you killed Susan, 930 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,640 we'll let you go home. 931 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,240 So I had to say something in order to get out of there. 932 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:07,280 So I just said something. 933 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:08,240 I just said, I killed her. 934 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,920 That was all. 935 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,840 I had to make something up to him. 936 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,600 At any time did you notice the difference? 937 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,480 At the trial, only the confession to Dr. Klass 938 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,120 was allowed into evidence. 939 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,920 Yes, he became very tense. 940 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,480 Even though that confession did not 941 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,880 match the details of the crime, and even though John Purvis's 942 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,920 hair did not match the hair found at the scene, 943 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,040 he was convicted of murdering Susan Hamley and her daughter 944 00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:33,540 Shane. 945 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,480 For eight and a half years, John Purvis languished in prison 946 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,120 as appeals exhausted, his case apparently hopeless. 947 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,240 In 1987, the new defense attorney 948 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:48,120 was assigned to the case. 949 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,280 Last spring, he contacted unsolved mysteries. 950 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,200 We filmed John Purvis's story. 951 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,680 An interest in the case was renewed. 952 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,120 The Fort Lauderdale police reopened their investigation 953 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,160 with stunning results. 954 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,720 The new investigation focused on Susan Hamley's ex-husband Paul, 955 00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:10,200 a wealthy real estate developer in Aspen, Colorado. 956 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,080 At the time of the murder, Paul Hamley 957 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,920 was in Aspen suffering from a broken leg. 958 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,160 Last summer, following up on a tip they had received in 1985, 959 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,440 the Fort Lauderdale police came to believe John Purvis had not 960 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,480 killed Susan Hamley. 961 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,280 In return for immunity, a man named Robert Beckett 962 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,400 confessed that he and an accomplice, Paul Cereo, 963 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,200 had been paid $14,000 to murder Susan. 964 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,840 The man who hired them was Paul Hamley, 965 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:44,440 his motive to avoid paying nearly $180,000 in alimony. 966 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:50,440 In January of 1993, Paul Hamley and Paul Cereo were arrested. 967 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,000 The same week after nine years spent in prison for a crime 968 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,080 he did not commit, John Purvis was released. 969 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,520 It was so good about him, everything was so good. 970 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,280 You say, Mom, you're not going to ever go home again. 971 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,680 I said, you're going to go home, John, and I know you are. 972 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,520 The excitement of this whole case 973 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,840 was John Purvis being let out. 974 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,640 That it's one of the most circumstantial cases 975 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,640 we at Fort Lauderdale have ever probably had anybody convicted 976 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,360 on it. 977 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,040 I can't sit here and think of any other crime 978 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,960 that a man was convicted on such circumstantials of evidence. 979 00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,120 But the problem is everybody believed it. 980 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,760 I can't blame anybody. 981 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,280 It was just on a very, very unfortunate mistake. 982 00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,600 On February 24, 1993, John Purvis 983 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,560 was officially exonerated in a formal hearing. 984 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,080 He is now back at home with his mother. 985 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,480 Paul Hamley and Paul Cereo have been charged 986 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,760 with two counts of first degree murder. 987 00:46:48,760 --> 00:47:07,680 On our next Unsolved Mysteries, for centuries, 988 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,200 religious pilgrims have journeyed to Mexico City 989 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,720 to offer prayer and thanks to our Lady of Guadalupe, 990 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:16,200 a remarkable depiction of the Virgin Mary 991 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:19,400 imprinted on a piece of rough cactus cloth. 992 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,920 Believers claim that the striking image is truly a miracle. 993 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,840 Created in 1531, when a vision of Mary 994 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,720 appeared to a peasant named Juan Diego, 995 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,080 skeptics say that while our Lady of Guadalupe 996 00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,760 has an impressive work of art, it is hardly miraculous. 997 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,400 Join me next time for the celebration of the Easter 998 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,720 season and other intriguing cases 999 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:43,040 on another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.