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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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What you are about to see is not a news broadcast.

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Tonight, the season premiere of Unsolved Mysteries.

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But under hypnosis, Bruce Kelly was overwhelmed by vivid images

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about the events of the first season.

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The vivid images of an American sailor's death during World

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War II.

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Later, he was amazed to learn that his vision of the sinking

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of a submarine actually took place 50 years earlier.

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How could Bruce Kelly relive an accurate detail, events

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that took place before he was even born?

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After a killer tornado rips through Woodward, Oklahoma,

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the town's residents flee to a local hospital.

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The scene is chaos, and one of the survivors,

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a young girl named Joan Gay Croft,

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is carried off by two strangers.

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More than 40 years later, she is still missing.

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Pedro Santiago Jr. was his family's pride and joy, popular,

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athletic, a good student.

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Then on December 12, 1990, Pedro was struck by a car

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in front of his house.

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The driver callously fled the scene, leaving Pedro to die.

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Join me for our dramatic season premiere.

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Perhaps you will be able to help solve a mystery.

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What are you afraid of?

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The dark, flying, heights?

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Many of us harbor at least one secret irrational fear,

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a phobia.

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Sometimes when the phobia is serious enough

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to disrupt normal functioning, we will do almost anything

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to regain control of our lives.

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For a man named Bruce Kelly, the attempt

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to cure his phobias took him to places

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he could never have imagined.

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Bruce Kelly grew up in Glendora, California,

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a small town just outside Los Angeles.

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Bruce was a natural athlete who went to college

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on a full baseball scholarship.

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Bruce eventually became a sales manager

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for a medical supply firm.

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He married, divorced, and as a single parent

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raised his only daughter, through it all,

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Bruce had been plagued by overpowering phobias,

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a fear of flying in enclosed spaces

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which he believed hampered his career,

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and a fear of water which was just plain bothersome.

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Any time that I got around a swimming pool,

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I would be afraid to even go close to the edge of the pool.

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I would just walk way around it.

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It even was, to the point, bad enough

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where I couldn't sit in a bathtub.

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I didn't like the feeling of water coming up around me.

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I'm going to count from three down to one.

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When I get to the number one, you're going to be deep.

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Over the years, Bruce had sought help

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from several different medical professionals.

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Nothing worked.

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Finally in desperation, he went to Rick Brown,

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a hypnotherapist who specializes

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in an unusual and controversial technique

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known as past life regression.

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On the number three, you're going there now.

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On the next number two, you become a part of it.

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On one, you're there.

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MUSIC

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When I was seeing what I was seeing,

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and I said to him, this can't be real,

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his direction at the time was just go with it.

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Probably 99% of the people who come to me

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do not go into past lives.

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Probably only 1% of the people have spontaneous regressions

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when working with phobias.

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And Bruce did have a spontaneous regression

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to a past life.

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Where are you?

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I'm in a submarine.

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What's happening?

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I'm drowning.

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Bruce was writhing in the chair.

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He was actually moving around and going through the death scene.

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Tell me your name.

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Johnston.

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What is your full name?

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James Edward Johnston.

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James Edward Johnston.

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The hypnosis session had taken an intriguing turn.

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Bruce Kelly had apparently been thrust

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into the life of an American satyr named James Edward

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Johnston, recalling specific details that seemed astonishing.

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Bruce said that Johnston had drowned in a submarine,

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the USS Shark, during World War II.

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Bruce also said the shark had gone down near Borneo,

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just off an island called Salamis.

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Are you alone in this hallway?

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No, there's another man in the hallway.

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Bruce even came up with the name of a man trapped

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with Johnston in the submarine, Walter Pilgrim.

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Everything goes blank.

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And there's the sense that something's really wrong.

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There's water coming.

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Bruce told Rick Brown that Johnston and Pilgrim had both

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died at precisely 11.34 PM on February 11, 1942.

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Are there any survivors?

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No.

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The memories were just like it was something

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that happened yesterday.

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They were very close to the surface.

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They came up real easily.

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At first, it was like I was just making it up.

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Like this really can't be happening.

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This really can't be real.

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I have to be making this up.

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And I went to the library more to prove

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that it didn't happen than it did happen.

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The next day, armed with the names of two sailors,

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a submarine, and a date, Bruce began a crash course

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in World War II history.

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Bruce learned that during the war,

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52 American submarines carrying nearly 3,500 sailors

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were lost at sea.

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21 went down in battle, 10 in accidents,

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and 21 more simply seemed to disappear.

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No one knew exactly what had happened to them.

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Incredibly, Bruce found that the very first American sub

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lost in the war was a USS shark, a submarine Bruce had

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named under hypnosis.

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Bruce was also astounded that the shark had disappeared

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near an island called Celebus.

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Once again, Bruce's memories proved accurate.

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They also had a crew roster there.

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And on the crew roster was James E. Johnston,

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which was the name that I had come up with under hypnosis.

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And it also gave the approximate date

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of loss, which was February 11, 1942,

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which was also the date that I had come up with under hypnosis.

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Bruce was further amazed when on the crew list

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he found the second name he had remembered,

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Walter Pilgrim, chief electrician's mate.

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Hairies were standing up on the back of my neck

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when I saw it.

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It was like, oh, God, this is real.

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I was in total disbelief and total shock.

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And there was also an element of excitement

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that maybe there is something to this.

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Is your mother married?

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No.

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Is your mother living?

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No.

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Over the next six months, Bruce Kelly

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saw Rick Brown on average once a week.

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With each session, more details emerged.

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Details that appeared to come from the life of James Edward

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Johnston.

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I'm going to go now to your mother's death.

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Is that acceptable?

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Yes.

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In time, Rick Brown began to talk to Bruce Kelly,

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as if Bruce, in fact, were James Edward Johnston.

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You're there now.

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Are you at home or in the hospital?

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It's in the home.

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Are there many people there?

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Yes.

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Bruce saw himself as Johnston around age 12,

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keeping watch at the moment of his mother's death.

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A young cousin named Elizabeth stood with him.

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Other memories were far less dramatic, even mundane.

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Bruce vividly recalled that as Johnston,

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he always made it a point to eat the end pieces

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from every loaf of bread.

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In another session, Bruce remembered

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that Johnston was born in February of 1921.

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As a young man during the Great Depression,

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he was enrolled in a government work program called

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the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps.

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The year was 1938, the place California.

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Bruce remembered a young girl there named Molly Lasseter,

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James Johnston's first love.

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I'd like to move forward to a time when you're with Molly.

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Is that acceptable?

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Yes.

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Moving very quickly now, three, to a time when you're

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with Molly, two, you're there now, one.

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Where are you?

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We're on the bridge.

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What are you doing on the bridge?

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We're talking.

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What are you talking about?

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I'm asking her to run away with me.

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Is she afraid?

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Yes.

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What is she afraid of?

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Her father.

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And what is she afraid of her father about?

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Why is she afraid of him?

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Probably afraid for me.

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And what is she afraid that'll happen to you?

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That he might harm me or even kill me.

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Do you ever see Molly again?

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No.

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No.

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Bruce Kelly and Rick Brown began to research

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Johnston's life, and Bruce's memories checked out

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with remarkable accuracy.

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Johnston had been in the CCC in 1938 and 1939,

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stationed at Tule Lake near the California-Oregon border.

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In 1940, he enlisted in the Navy and served on board

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the USS Shark.

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CCC and Naval records listed James Edward Johnston's hometown

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of Jacksonville, Alabama.

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The date on Johnston's birth certificate

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confirmed another crucial fact.

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The month and year Bruce Kelly had remembered under hypnosis

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were correct, February 1921.

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Bruce came up with a significant amount of information

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that was well past being coincidental.

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There were too many lines of evidence

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that pointed to the fact that Bruce Kelly is the reincarnation

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of James Edward Johnston.

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I could be the reincarnation of James,

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or it just may be some information that somehow

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or another that I've tapped into,

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and it means it's something else that's happening.

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I don't know.

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Although Bruce's phobias were cured,

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his life had taken on a new and unexpected dimension.

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There seemed to be a mysterious synchronicity

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between Bruce Kelly and James Edward Johnston.

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Bruce's hypnotherapist, Rick Brown,

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made two trips to Johnson's hometown verifying facts

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before he finally persuaded Bruce to go there with him.

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Bruce's first visit was filmed as it happened,

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but you're about to see he is not a recreation.

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On April 17, 1993, Rick Brown and Bruce Kelly arrived

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in the town where James Edward Johnston was born and raised,

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Jacksonville, Alabama.

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At the house where Johnston and his mother had lived,

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Bruce Kelly experienced a sudden, strong reaction.

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Again, these events were filmed as they happened.

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The house was filled with people

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who were in the house, and they were taken to the hospital.

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There's a lot of stuff.

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Your back bedroom's right over here.

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You feel that?

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Yeah, that's the bedroom.

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That's the limited statement.

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There have been a lot of places, but this is...

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This is doing it, isn't it?

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Yeah, sure is.

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Yeah.

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So I remember you used to come in the back of the house

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and you'd be like,

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I remember you used to come in the back.

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There was an alley back here or a dirt road or something.

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Yeah?

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It was almost like he wasn't good enough

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to come in the front door.

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Moving to the side of the house when I could actually see

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the bedroom and I knew that was the bedroom,

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that's when the feelings really started hitting.

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Remembering that he used to have to come in on the back street

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and come through the back door, the back porch.

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I remember that.

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I remember the feelings of kind of feeling

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like a second-class citizen.

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They were poor.

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She was unmarried.

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I couldn't vocalize it myself

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and somebody off-camera said something to the effect of,

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you're... you've come home.

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And that's when I got real emotional

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because that's exactly what it was.

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Hi.

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Say you made it back down this part of the country.

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Afterwards, Bruce Kelly went to meet several people

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who remembered James Edward Johnston as a boy.

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One of them probably knew Johnston better than anyone else,

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his cousin Betty.

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And we've heard all that too, haven't we?

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Betty's real name is Elizabeth.

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And Bruce believes she is the same Elizabeth

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he saw under hypnosis.

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The little girl who was with James Edward Johnston

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when his mother died.

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Betty remembers her aunt's death,

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but not the specifics of the scene.

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However, when she met Bruce,

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other memories of her cousin whom she called Edward flooded back.

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Betty began to press Bruce for details.

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I remember anything about bread.

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Yeah, one of the first sessions that Rick and I had,

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I talked to him about always liking to heal the bread.

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I wanted to get the end off the bread

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because the only thing,

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the only reason that many things to me was growing up,

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I was the same way.

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My mom would bring home a loaf of bread

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and the first thing I'd do was open that thing up

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and grab the heel out of there.

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Did you open both ends?

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Sometimes.

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And I'd get in trouble for it sometimes too.

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Oh, really?

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Yes, I did.

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Did you went to that house?

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Yeah.

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The second on the left.

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It was real difficult, real emotional.

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Do you feel that you are Edward reincarnated?

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I don't...

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I don't know. I don't know.

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You know, I've been asked that question so many times

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and all I know is for some reason or another,

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I have all this information about him.

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I don't know where it comes from.

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For me to stand here...

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I really don't know what to believe.

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I have doubts, but there are just certain things.

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Bruce said that Edward used the back door

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and this is true and not everyone would have that knowledge.

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The older you get, the more you are going to look

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at something like reincarnation or anything

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that offers an answer.

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And reincarnation, regardless of what this religion

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or that religion or anything else thinks of it,

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it offers a solution.

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At the Jacksonville Cemetery,

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a memorial stone has been erected

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in honor of James Edward Johnston.

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No one knows exactly how or when Johnston died,

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except perhaps, just perhaps, Bruce Kelly.

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I was in my bunk when the attack happened.

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And everybody was heading toward their stations.

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I'd gotten into the first hallway

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when there was a depth charge.

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The submarine was rolling and moving.

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James got to his feet and he'd gotten 5, 10 feet

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more down the hallway when there was a second depth charge.

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It was obviously a direct hit.

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The next memory I have is the area that I'm in

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filling up with water and filling up real fast.

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Kildra! Kildra, is that you?

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There was another man in the hallway

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and he was experiencing the same thing.

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I was knocked off his feet a couple of times

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and now trapped in this hallway that was filling up with water.

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The last real image that I had was the other man in the corridor.

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You know, that I wasn't alone in this corridor.

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There's somebody else here and they're going through the same thing.

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We are dying.

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I'm probably not as afraid of death

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as most people in the United States are

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or Western civilization are.

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Death isn't something that I think about every day.

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And I just try to live every day and enjoy every day

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the best that I can and when death comes, it comes.

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I think that there is something beyond

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and I don't think it's a final situation.

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I don't think it's just the end of...there's more.

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Although we know it seems far-fetched,

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there may actually be one person

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who can verify Bruce Kelly's extraordinary experience.

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Her name, if she exists, is Molly Lasseter.

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She would have lived near the California-Oregon border in 1938

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and would today be around 70 years old.

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If Molly is out there, perhaps a mystery of Bruce Kelly

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and James Edward Johnston will at last be solved.

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Next, thanks to you, our viewers,

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a fugitive cult leader accused of rape

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has finally been tracked down.

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This is Julie Cooper of Kansas City, Missouri.

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With her is Tim Sattie, the man who rescued Julie

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from a childhood that she says

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was nothing short of a living nightmare.

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When Julie Cooper was just six,

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her parents joined a religious cult in Missouri

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called the DeCloud family.

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The leader of the sect was a charismatic ex-police officer

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named Nelson DeCloud.

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Nelson thought that he was God's son,

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not really that he was Jesus Christ,

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but that he was one of God's sons

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and that he couldn't do any wrong.

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Okay, now I want you to stay out here for a little while.

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Julie says that by the time she was 10,

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DeCloud was demanding to have sex with her.

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Julie is what God wants you to do.

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You understand me?

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Yes.

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According to Julie, she initially refused,

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but eventually the pressure became so great that she gave in.

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Do you know how old she is?

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Anna, he says, well, are you ready now?

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Of course, you know, after all that had happened,

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I just said, yes, you know.

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Julie claims that over the next 12 years,

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she was subjected to constant humiliation

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and emotional torture by DeCloud,

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forced to serve as his unwilling sex partner.

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Finally in September of 1992,

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Julie Cooper made her escape,

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aided by Tim Santee in electronics repairmen.

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They had met when Tim visited the compound

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to work on DeCloud's satellite dish.

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Last Thursday, I called my friend Tim.

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At Tim's urging, Julie went to the police.

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They immediately issued a warrant for DeCloud's arrest,

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but before he could be apprehended,

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DeCloud and his followers disappeared.

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I want Nelson to get caught because it's not fair to anyone else

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that's up there.

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My mom and dad, they need to know that he isn't the Messiah.

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He's a criminal.

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What he was doing was wrong.

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After a broadcast, several viewers from San Angelo, Texas,

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a small town 500 miles from DeCloud's old headquarters in Missouri,

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called to say they had seen DeCloud's wife in the area.

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The cult had apparently settled in this farmhouse.

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One state and local agents converged on the scene.

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DeCloud kicked out the screen of the upstairs window

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in an attempt to escape.

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The deputies approached him and he tried to wrestle

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with a few of them briefly.

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There were so many law enforcement officers, though,

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that that didn't last very long.

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They put the handcuffs on him and escorted him out of the building.

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Nelson DeCloud was booked at the local county jail

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and later extradited to Liberty, Missouri

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to stand trial on four criminal accounts,

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including forcible rape and sodomy.

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Since the arrest of Nelson DeCloud,

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other former members of the group have come forward

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wanting to testify about things they witnessed

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when they were members of the group.

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Nelson DeCloud is currently out on bail

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thanks to $25,000 raised by followers,

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a trial scheduled for November 16, 1993.

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If convicted on all charges,

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Nelson DeCloud could spend the rest of his life in prison.

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I feel confident now that I can have a normal life.

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After seeing him caught knowing that it can be done.

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For Julie Cooper, her long ordeal is almost,

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but not quite over.

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She still has to testify to DeCloud's upcoming trial.

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However, this courageous young woman

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has already found a happy ending to her story.

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Last summer, Julie became engaged to Tim Sattie,

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the man who helped her escape.

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Next, perhaps you can help find a hit-and-run driver

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whose victim is an 11-year-old boy.

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Chicago's skyline rises majestically

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above the southwest tip of Lake Michigan.

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Yet the city's character is defined largely

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by the diverse communities which fan out from the shoreline.

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The Logan Square section of Chicago

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is a close-knit middle-class neighborhood.

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Pedro Santiago Jr. was born here,

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a new Logan Square like the back of his hand.

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It was a place where he always felt safe.

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Pedro, a fifth grader, was popular with his peers,

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a good student and a talented athlete.

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At the time he was 11 years old,

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he had already earned a black belt in karate.

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Hi, Mom. Just calling to let you know I'm going home.

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No, good. How did school go today?

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On December 12, 1990, Pedro came straight home from school

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and called his mother at work to fill her in

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on his plans for the afternoon.

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When I'm done with my homework,

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can I go over to Eric's and show him the ball blaster?

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Pedro left his house just after 3 p.m.

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At that exact moment,

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two neighborhood teenagers were walking back

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from the corner market.

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Well, I never seen anything like that happen,

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so I couldn't believe that it happened.

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I started walking towards the car.

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I know that, you know, I seen that it was real.

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I started running towards the car.

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The driver, he got out of his car.

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He started cursing. He started hitting his car.

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I guess he was upset with himself for doing it.

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Pedro was, uh, he was trying to talk.

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You heard him.

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But my friend was telling him, you know, not to waste his energy.

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Rick, I'm going to call an ambulance. Don't let him leave.

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Seconds later, the man jumped into his black Oldsmobile

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and took off.

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When I was on the phone talking to the man from the fire station,

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I seen him pass right by me.

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12 minutes later, Pedro was on his way to the emergency room.

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The hospital chaplain called Pedro's mother immediately.

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When I answered the phone and I heard a voice at the other end,

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I kind of got shocked.

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I said, what happened?

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And then this other person talked to me and said,

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it's an emergency. Your son, it's in the hospital.

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Pedro was unconscious and suffering from massive head injuries.

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Pedro, Edith, here it comes.

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His parents had only a few precious seconds to comfort him

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before he was taken into the operating room.

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When we got to the surgery room, they said, well, you could kiss him now.

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OK, you can touch him. Move forward. We don't have a lot of time.

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We can't look at him.

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OK, that's all the time we've got.

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And then they took him in.

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They said, surgery would be about an hour and a half or two hours.

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Then we went in the waiting room.

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And we kept on waiting and waiting.

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Pedro hung on for 10 agonizing days, but he never regained consciousness.

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He was buried on the day after Christmas in 1990.

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With Pedro's death, the hit-and-run incident escalated to a case of manslaughter.

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Police had put out an all-points bulletin for the car's owner,

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a Cuban immigrant known on the streets as Cachimba.

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When police efforts to find Cachimba failed,

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Pedro's father began to nose around on his own.

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I went to Lara, Barnes, Lara places in Chicago.

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And I asked everybody, did you know Cachimba?

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He said, yeah, but he left Chicago. It's not in here anymore.

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And I keep asking everybody on the one day I went to this restaurant.

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I asked the man.

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He left town a long time ago.

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When?

528
00:29:44,420 --> 00:29:48,420
Last time I saw him was around Christmas.

529
00:29:48,420 --> 00:29:52,420
He wanted me to lend him some money so he could move to New York.

530
00:29:52,420 --> 00:29:55,420
Did he say why he was moving?

531
00:29:55,420 --> 00:29:58,420
I think he was in some trouble with the police.

532
00:29:58,420 --> 00:30:02,420
He had to get out of town, so I gave him a hundred bucks.

533
00:30:02,420 --> 00:30:09,420
He told me maybe he's in New York now, or Florida,

534
00:30:09,420 --> 00:30:12,420
he gave me a lot of places where he meant to be,

535
00:30:12,420 --> 00:30:15,420
so I gave it to the police, all those places.

536
00:30:16,420 --> 00:30:20,420
Nearly two years have passed with no further leads.

537
00:30:20,420 --> 00:30:24,420
For the Santiago's, nothing will ever be the same.

538
00:30:26,420 --> 00:30:30,420
To me, it's like it happened just the other day.

539
00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:33,420
It's very hard to let go.

540
00:30:33,420 --> 00:30:36,420
I tried and just...

541
00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:44,420
the happy times that we spent with Pedro and...

542
00:30:45,420 --> 00:30:48,420
all I see is his smiling face.

543
00:30:50,420 --> 00:30:52,420
Yeah, no.

544
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:57,420
We just miss him a lot.

545
00:30:57,420 --> 00:31:00,420
I know I won't give my son back,

546
00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:05,420
but I would like to see him get caught and be in locked up.

547
00:31:09,420 --> 00:31:12,420
Gachimba's real name is Gerardo Gonzalez.

548
00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:14,420
He has not been charged with any crime,

549
00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:17,420
however police would like to question him.

550
00:31:17,420 --> 00:31:20,420
Gachimba's Cuban stands five feet eight inches tall

551
00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:23,420
and weighs around 160 pounds.

552
00:31:23,420 --> 00:31:28,420
He may be living in New York, Florida, Michigan, or Illinois.

553
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,420
When we return, a four-year-old girl

554
00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:34,420
survives a devastating tornado

555
00:31:34,420 --> 00:31:37,420
and then mysteriously disappears.

556
00:31:43,420 --> 00:31:46,420
The Woodward, Oklahoma, 50 years ago

557
00:31:46,420 --> 00:31:49,420
belonged to a simpler, quieter age.

558
00:31:49,420 --> 00:31:54,420
On April 9, 1947, two events were the talk of the town.

559
00:31:54,420 --> 00:31:57,420
A popular Ingrid Bergman film had finally arrived

560
00:31:57,420 --> 00:31:59,420
at the town's only movie theater.

561
00:31:59,420 --> 00:32:02,420
More importantly, a telephone operator's strike

562
00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:04,420
had left Woodward's 5,500 residents

563
00:32:04,420 --> 00:32:07,420
virtually cut off from the outside world.

564
00:32:07,420 --> 00:32:09,420
Had the phones been turned off,

565
00:32:09,420 --> 00:32:13,420
would Woodward have gotten news of an impending disaster,

566
00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:16,420
a monstrous tornado that had shone its way across Texas

567
00:32:16,420 --> 00:32:19,420
and was headed directly towards them?

568
00:32:21,420 --> 00:32:25,420
As darkness fell, the giant twister slammed into the town,

569
00:32:25,420 --> 00:32:27,420
reducing it to rubble.

570
00:32:27,420 --> 00:32:29,420
More than 1,000 people were injured,

571
00:32:29,420 --> 00:32:33,420
more than 100 killed, all in a matter of minutes.

572
00:32:40,420 --> 00:32:43,420
Nearly half a century has passed since the disaster,

573
00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:48,420
but incredibly one survivor still remains unaccounted for today.

574
00:32:48,420 --> 00:32:51,420
Joan Gay Croft was only four years old

575
00:32:51,420 --> 00:32:53,420
when she mysteriously disappeared

576
00:32:53,420 --> 00:32:55,420
during the chaotic aftermath of the tornado.

577
00:32:55,420 --> 00:32:59,420
Although Joan Gay was last seen more than 46 years ago,

578
00:32:59,420 --> 00:33:02,420
some members of her family are convinced she is still alive.

579
00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:05,420
Perhaps with your help, she will be found tonight.

580
00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:08,420
Perhaps she will even be watching.

581
00:33:10,420 --> 00:33:15,420
Joan Gay Croft grew up in one of Woodward's most prominent families.

582
00:33:15,420 --> 00:33:18,420
God is great, God is good,

583
00:33:18,420 --> 00:33:21,420
God is thank you for our food.

584
00:33:21,420 --> 00:33:24,420
Her father, Olan, was a successful sheep rancher.

585
00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:27,420
He was able to provide a comfortable life for the family,

586
00:33:27,420 --> 00:33:31,420
his wife, Clita, her 12-year-old daughter from a previous marriage

587
00:33:31,420 --> 00:33:33,420
and, of course, 4-year-old Joan Gay,

588
00:33:33,420 --> 00:33:37,420
who was remembered fondly by her great-aunt Ruth Bond.

589
00:33:38,420 --> 00:33:41,420
She's the most prettiest little girl I've ever seen.

590
00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:43,420
She was just perfect.

591
00:33:43,420 --> 00:33:45,420
Her little teeth was white as pearls,

592
00:33:45,420 --> 00:33:48,420
and she was real bashful.

593
00:33:48,420 --> 00:33:51,420
When someone had come in while she'd get hold of her mother's dress tail

594
00:33:51,420 --> 00:33:53,420
and kind of hide around behind her,

595
00:33:53,420 --> 00:33:56,420
she was a mama's girl.

596
00:34:03,420 --> 00:34:06,420
April 9, 1947 had dawned ominously

597
00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:09,420
and the sky tinted a reddish cast.

598
00:34:09,420 --> 00:34:12,420
That afternoon, Ruth Bond was visiting her sister

599
00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:15,420
when the day suddenly grew dark and threatening.

600
00:34:15,420 --> 00:34:17,420
Ruth, do you feel that?

601
00:34:17,420 --> 00:34:22,420
I looked up, and it was just so still that it was really odd.

602
00:34:22,420 --> 00:34:25,420
It's been so windy all day, and it's really calm now.

603
00:34:25,420 --> 00:34:27,420
The sky's an odd color.

604
00:34:27,420 --> 00:34:30,420
There wasn't no noise, any kind of birds wasn't singing.

605
00:34:30,420 --> 00:34:32,420
It was just quiet.

606
00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:39,420
The time we got home, that thing had hit.

607
00:34:41,420 --> 00:34:44,420
We'd hear boards and tin and stuff hit the house,

608
00:34:44,420 --> 00:34:48,420
and I just knew that we've never had nothing like this.

609
00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:52,420
When the tornado hit, I stepped out on the front porch

610
00:34:52,420 --> 00:34:55,420
and I saw this car come down the street with all four wheels locked up,

611
00:34:55,420 --> 00:34:57,420
and the wind was pushing it down the street,

612
00:34:57,420 --> 00:34:59,420
and I knew we were in trouble then.

613
00:34:59,420 --> 00:35:01,420
Wind began to blow.

614
00:35:01,420 --> 00:35:03,420
It became quite fierce,

615
00:35:03,420 --> 00:35:06,420
and we huddled back in the corner of the room

616
00:35:06,420 --> 00:35:09,420
to watch the windows blow out,

617
00:35:09,420 --> 00:35:13,420
and the electric light lines bounced down the street.

618
00:35:13,420 --> 00:35:17,420
It was just a horrible, horrible experience.

619
00:35:18,420 --> 00:35:20,420
I was very scared.

620
00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:25,420
It lasted four to five minutes,

621
00:35:26,420 --> 00:35:29,420
which seemed like an eternity.

622
00:35:33,420 --> 00:35:35,420
We were very lucky.

623
00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:38,420
We had broken windows, minor damage,

624
00:35:38,420 --> 00:35:43,420
and then Mother and I went to search for our relatives.

625
00:35:47,420 --> 00:35:50,420
Marvella and her mother Ruth joined the survivors

626
00:35:50,420 --> 00:35:52,420
streaming to the town's only hospital.

627
00:35:53,420 --> 00:35:56,420
Ruth had been unable to find her mother or brother,

628
00:35:56,420 --> 00:35:59,420
nor had she heard from Olin Croft and his family.

629
00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:01,420
Marvella, over here.

630
00:36:01,420 --> 00:36:05,420
A woman and a mom had settled over an unforgettable scene.

631
00:36:05,420 --> 00:36:08,420
Mama, where are you?

632
00:36:08,420 --> 00:36:10,420
We stepped over bodies.

633
00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:13,420
Some of them had their skull all cut off,

634
00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:15,420
and some of them had their throats cut.

635
00:36:15,420 --> 00:36:17,420
Some of them was dead.

636
00:36:17,420 --> 00:36:19,420
Clean them up.

637
00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:21,420
It was just like war time if they dropped a bomb.

638
00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:23,420
That's just about what it looked like.

639
00:36:23,420 --> 00:36:25,420
It was just terrible.

640
00:36:25,420 --> 00:36:27,420
There's Betty Irwin. Betty?

641
00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:29,420
Betty?

642
00:36:29,420 --> 00:36:31,420
Mama, have you seen my family?

643
00:36:31,420 --> 00:36:33,420
No, I haven't seen your mama, but Joan Gay and Jerry

644
00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:35,420
are in the basement.

645
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:37,420
Ruth learned that her nieces had made it through the tornado.

646
00:36:37,420 --> 00:36:39,420
Their father, Olin, was seriously injured.

647
00:36:39,420 --> 00:36:42,420
Tragically, their mother, Cleta, was dead.

648
00:36:42,420 --> 00:36:46,420
I thought, oh, no, Lord, it can't be this.

649
00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:49,420
It just can't be this. That's all.

650
00:36:49,420 --> 00:36:52,420
She was a perfect mother to those kids,

651
00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,420
and then kids loved her.

652
00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:57,420
And that was hard.

653
00:36:57,420 --> 00:37:00,420
It was hard. It was real hard.

654
00:37:00,420 --> 00:37:03,420
Joan Gay?

655
00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:05,420
Jerry?

656
00:37:05,420 --> 00:37:07,420
Ruth picked her way through the dead and wounded

657
00:37:07,420 --> 00:37:10,420
in the hospital basement until she finally found her nieces.

658
00:37:10,420 --> 00:37:13,420
Joan Gay's leg had been pierced clear through

659
00:37:13,420 --> 00:37:15,420
with a finger-sized splitter of wood.

660
00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:19,420
Her sister was bruised from the flying debris.

661
00:37:19,420 --> 00:37:23,420
Well, I thought, my God saved them both.

662
00:37:23,420 --> 00:37:25,420
They're going to be all right,

663
00:37:25,420 --> 00:37:28,420
but one of them has hurt very bad.

664
00:37:28,420 --> 00:37:31,420
You just think of it as a big old splitter, OK?

665
00:37:31,420 --> 00:37:35,420
I want my mommy and my daddy.

666
00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:37,420
I know where your daddy is.

667
00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:39,420
I'm going to see if I can find your mama.

668
00:37:39,420 --> 00:37:41,420
They're poor kids.

669
00:37:41,420 --> 00:37:43,420
I got to tell them mama's gone,

670
00:37:43,420 --> 00:37:46,420
and that was just heartbreaking.

671
00:37:46,420 --> 00:37:48,420
So I didn't let on like I even knew,

672
00:37:48,420 --> 00:37:50,420
because that wouldn't help those girls at all.

673
00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:52,420
They just went hysterical.

674
00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:54,420
I'm sure they would have.

675
00:37:54,420 --> 00:37:56,420
Relieved that her nieces were safe,

676
00:37:56,420 --> 00:37:58,420
Ruth hurried back outside.

677
00:37:58,420 --> 00:38:01,420
There she finally found her mother and brother.

678
00:38:01,420 --> 00:38:03,420
Mama, Carl, is she going to be all right?

679
00:38:03,420 --> 00:38:04,420
No, Ruth, she's bad.

680
00:38:04,420 --> 00:38:06,420
We got to get her to Moreland Hospital.

681
00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:08,420
Mama, can you stand?

682
00:38:08,420 --> 00:38:10,420
When she got to the other hospital,

683
00:38:10,420 --> 00:38:12,420
Ruth was pressed into service

684
00:38:12,420 --> 00:38:15,420
helping the overburdened doctors and nurses.

685
00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:21,420
The next morning, she finally returned to her nieces.

686
00:38:21,420 --> 00:38:23,420
Aunt Ruth.

687
00:38:23,420 --> 00:38:25,420
Where's Joan Gay?

688
00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:27,420
Some men took her.

689
00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:29,420
Some men took her?

690
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:30,420
Did you know them?

691
00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:31,420
No.

692
00:38:31,420 --> 00:38:33,420
Betty? Betty?

693
00:38:33,420 --> 00:38:35,420
What is it, Ruth?

694
00:38:35,420 --> 00:38:36,420
Where's Joan Gay?

695
00:38:36,420 --> 00:38:38,420
Well, two men came by last night.

696
00:38:38,420 --> 00:38:40,420
The two men had claimed they were taking the little girl

697
00:38:40,420 --> 00:38:42,420
to a hospital in Oklahoma City,

698
00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:44,420
some 120 miles distant.

699
00:38:44,420 --> 00:38:45,420
Dr. Jacobson.

700
00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:47,420
But calls to all the hospitals in that area

701
00:38:47,420 --> 00:38:51,420
turned up absolutely no trace of Joan Gay Croft.

702
00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:56,420
Less than a week after the tornado,

703
00:38:56,420 --> 00:38:59,420
Ruth received the phone call she had been dreading,

704
00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:02,420
a call from the local mortician.

705
00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:04,420
Franklin?

706
00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:07,420
When the bodies were laid out in the chapel area,

707
00:39:07,420 --> 00:39:10,420
their relatives would come in and look at them.

708
00:39:10,420 --> 00:39:12,420
Well, when you finally got down,

709
00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:18,420
we had two left over that nobody had identified.

710
00:39:18,420 --> 00:39:21,420
Franklin? Franklin?

711
00:39:21,420 --> 00:39:24,420
One of the unclaimed bodies was a young blonde-haired girl

712
00:39:24,420 --> 00:39:27,420
who bore a striking resemblance to Joan Gay Croft.

713
00:39:27,420 --> 00:39:30,420
The mortician asked Ruth to bring some of her nieces

714
00:39:30,420 --> 00:39:32,420
clothes to the mortuary.

715
00:39:32,420 --> 00:39:34,420
Ruth, these are too big.

716
00:39:34,420 --> 00:39:36,420
It's not your niece.

717
00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:38,420
Pray to God you're right, Franklin.

718
00:39:38,420 --> 00:39:41,420
Ruth insisted on viewing the little girl,

719
00:39:41,420 --> 00:39:44,420
just to be sure she was not Joan Gay.

720
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:49,420
I was really relieved it wasn't our little Joan Gay.

721
00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:54,420
I just, that was one burden off my heart right there.

722
00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:56,420
You will find her, Ruth.

723
00:39:56,420 --> 00:39:58,420
I hope so.

724
00:39:58,420 --> 00:40:00,420
With Joan Gay still unaccounted for her,

725
00:40:00,420 --> 00:40:03,420
her family launched an all-out search.

726
00:40:03,420 --> 00:40:09,420
They listed her missing with all of the law enforcement.

727
00:40:09,420 --> 00:40:14,420
FBI, they went to all extremes to look for her.

728
00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:18,420
And there was never, ever a trace of her.

729
00:40:23,420 --> 00:40:26,420
After nearly 50 years, the identity of the two men

730
00:40:26,420 --> 00:40:32,420
who carried off Joan Gay is a source of lingering speculation.

731
00:40:32,420 --> 00:40:35,420
According to Ruth, they asked the nurse very specifically

732
00:40:35,420 --> 00:40:38,420
for the Croft children.

733
00:40:38,420 --> 00:40:40,420
Had the men known the family?

734
00:40:40,420 --> 00:40:42,420
Were they even rescue workers?

735
00:40:42,420 --> 00:40:46,420
And where did they take Joan Gay?

736
00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:49,420
Whatever the answers, many of Joan Gay's relatives

737
00:40:49,420 --> 00:40:53,420
believe she is still alive.

738
00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:55,420
It's a possibility she could be out there alive.

739
00:40:55,420 --> 00:40:58,420
I have no idea.

740
00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:00,420
I think maybe she might be.

741
00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:02,420
Because she wouldn't really hurt that bad.

742
00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:06,420
Until somebody can prove to me otherwise,

743
00:41:06,420 --> 00:41:09,420
I will always believe, I'll firmly believe

744
00:41:09,420 --> 00:41:11,420
she's out there somewhere.

745
00:41:11,420 --> 00:41:16,420
And we want to find her and bring her back home.

746
00:41:16,420 --> 00:41:19,420
We'd just have a great big reunion.

747
00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:22,420
That's what we'd do, we'd celebrate.

748
00:41:22,420 --> 00:41:26,420
Yeah, all of us would.

749
00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:30,420
Very few pictures of Joan Gay Croft survived the tornado.

750
00:41:30,420 --> 00:41:32,420
Joan Gay had blue eyes, blond hair,

751
00:41:32,420 --> 00:41:35,420
and at the time spoke with a mild lisp.

752
00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:37,420
She would probably still have scars on her left cap

753
00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:40,420
from the tornado injury.

754
00:41:40,420 --> 00:41:42,420
Joan Gay Croft was four years old

755
00:41:42,420 --> 00:41:45,420
when she disappeared April 9, 1947.

756
00:41:58,420 --> 00:42:00,420
On our next Unsolved Mysteries,

757
00:42:00,420 --> 00:42:04,420
in Australia, a panicky young pilot radios

758
00:42:04,420 --> 00:42:07,420
that he's being tailed by a bizarre light source.

759
00:42:07,420 --> 00:42:09,420
Seconds later, the pilot and his plane

760
00:42:09,420 --> 00:42:11,420
literally vanished from the sky.

761
00:42:11,420 --> 00:42:14,420
Some believe it was a close encounter

762
00:42:14,420 --> 00:42:17,420
of the most sinister kind.

763
00:42:17,420 --> 00:42:20,420
Also the curious saga of a convicted bank robber

764
00:42:20,420 --> 00:42:24,420
who refuses to tell authorities his real name.

765
00:42:24,420 --> 00:42:28,420
The more we kept digging into this gentleman's background,

766
00:42:28,420 --> 00:42:33,420
the more mystery surrounded him.

767
00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:37,420
Everyone that surrounded him eventually disappeared.

768
00:42:37,420 --> 00:42:41,420
Perhaps someone watching will know his identity

769
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:44,420
and what, if anything, he is trying to conceal.

770
00:42:44,420 --> 00:42:48,420
Join me next time for another fascinating edition

771
00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:51,420
of Unsolved Mysteries.

772
00:43:33,420 --> 00:43:38,420
Unolved Mysteries