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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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It was Christmas 45 years ago.

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Sympathetic deputies transformed the jail in Henry County,

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Illinois into a sanctuary for a destitute mother

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Hill and her son, John.

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The sanctuary for a destitute mother

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Hill de Cron and her family.

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But within weeks, the simple act of charity would backfire.

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On seven of Hill's nine children were separated

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and put up for adoption.

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Barbara Pasiak was thrilled when her daughter Paula brought

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her boyfriend home for a visit.

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Five days later, Paula was dead,

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and the boyfriend was on the run, suspected of murder.

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Also one of the most fascinating mysteries

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of this century, the story of Anastasia,

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youngest daughter of the last Tsar of Russia.

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History records that she was executed along

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with the rest of her family by Bolshevik revolutionaries

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in 1918.

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But evidence abounds that history may be wrong.

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In the 1920s, a mysterious woman turned up in Germany

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using the name Anna Anderson and claiming

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that she was Anastasia.

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For more than 70 years, the secret of Anna Anderson's

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true identity has provoked a tantalizing and often fiery

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debate.

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Join me as we journey to Russia on this very special edition

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of Unsolved Mysteries.

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Her name was Anastasia.

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She was more royal than a princess.

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She was an imperial grand duchess of Russia, daughter

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of Tsar Nicholas II, the wealthiest man in the world.

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Anastasia was born with her father's captivating

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azure blue eyes.

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But the Tsar already had three daughters.

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He, along with all of Russia, wanted a boy and heir

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to the throne.

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Anastasia must have sensed that she was a disappointment.

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She grew into an unrepentant tomboy, a jokester,

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the family clown.

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Even after her son was finally born,

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Anastasia remained the rebel of the imperial Romanov family.

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Her impish nature was irrepressible, whether she was

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roller skating on the decks of the imperial yacht

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or enduring the pomp and panoply of the Russian court.

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Then on July 17, 1918, Anastasia's fairy tale life came

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to a horrible end.

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She was just 17 when her entire family was executed,

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along with her physician and three servants.

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Their burial site remained a dark state secret,

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and the Russian court was the only one

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where the burial site remained a dark state secret.

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As far as history was concerned, that was the end of Anastasia

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and her family.

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19 months later, a young woman, nameless and alone,

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wandered the gloomy damp streets of Berlin, Germany.

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When she came to Bendler Bridge, spanning a murky city canal,

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the stage was set for one of the world's great mysteries.

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Nice! Nice! Nice! Stop!

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Eventually, the young woman would take the name Anna Anderson

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and shock the world by claiming that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

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The debate over her identity rages to this day.

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There is absolutely no question in my mind at all

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that the Grand Duchess Anastasia survived the assassination

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of the Romanovs in 1918, made it to the West,

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and died in the United States as Anna Anderson.

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No question at all.

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Despite adamant opinions on both sides,

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it seemed this was a mystery which would never be solved.

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Then on July 12, 1991, in this remote field

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near the Siberian city of Becateringburg, Russia,

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the remains of the Tsar's family were finally unearthed.

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To the astonishment of almost everyone,

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two bodies were missing from the grave,

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and one was Anastasia's.

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Now using sophisticated DNA technology,

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scientists may finally be able to answer once and for all

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the question that has haunted history for nearly 75 years

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was Anna Anderson, in fact, the Grand Duchess Anastasia,

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whose name means she who was reborn.

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Nicholas II faded to be the last Tsar of Russia.

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In the beginning, his life was the envy of the world,

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an adoring wife of royal blood, Alexandra,

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granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England,

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four beautiful daughters, the Grand Duchess's Olga,

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Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia,

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and finally a son Alexei, heir to the throne.

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Alexei, however, was a hemophiliac.

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His disease was kept a tightly held family secret,

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and the seven Romanovs drew more and more into themselves.

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Even their closest relatives saw little of them.

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But while the Romanovs lived in grand and increasingly

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isolated opulence, most of their subjects were starving.

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When Nicholas involved his country in World War I,

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hundreds of thousands of his soldiers had neither shoes nor rifles.

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More than a million men were killed or wounded.

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Finally, the people rebelled.

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In 1917, Nicholas abdicated to a provisional democratic government,

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but soon after, that government fell to the radical Bolsheviks.

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The Tsar's mother and sisters made it safely out of the country,

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but the Tsar, his wife and children,

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were virtual prisoners in their own palace.

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On August 13, 1917, the Romanovs were banished in the dead of night

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from the summer palace just outside St. Petersburg.

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Eleven months later, the entire family was executed,

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or so it was thought, until the mysterious young woman

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appeared in Germany on February 18, 1920.

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After her suicide attempt,

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police committed the young woman to Daldorf Asylum,

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a mental institution just outside Berlin.

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She gave no information about herself.

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And was dubbed Miss Unknown,

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only much later would she take the name Anna Anderson.

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At Daldorf, she underwent her first physical examination.

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Doctors discovered that her body was covered with scars,

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for which they could find no explanation.

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She began to reveal her own personality very slowly.

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For many, many months, she virtually never left her bed.

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James Blair Lovel, author of Anastasia, The Lost Princess,

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knew Anna Anderson personally.

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She was in her mind, in hiding,

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and the best place to hide was this asylum

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where no one would come looking for her

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or suspect that she was who she was.

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The patient hid her identity successfully,

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until a woman named Clara Putharth

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was admitted to the same ward at Daldorf in December of 1921.

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Clara, good morning. What is it?

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I know you. I don't understand.

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What are you talking about?

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Oh, it is all right, my daughter.

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You know, it's such a miracle that you are alive.

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Clara Putharth was a devotee,

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as were so many people think, of royalty magazines.

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Is that it? Yesterday.

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And she began to look at pictures of the Romanovs.

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Look at this picture.

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And she began to believe that Miss Unknown

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bore a striking uncanny resemblance

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to the grand Duchess Tatiana.

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And then it came to me that it was you.

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Miss Unknown either confirmed her identity

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or denied Clara Putharth's claim.

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I can see the resemblance.

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Soon Ward reached several members

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of the Russian nobility exiled in Paris.

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They sent an official representative,

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a Madame Tolstoy to Daldorf.

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We are just here to talk.

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There is someone I would like for you to meet.

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Please go away.

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I don't want to see anyone.

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Don't be afraid, child.

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It's just that I spoke with your friend Clara,

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and she has told me so much about you.

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I wanted to meet you for myself.

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Oh, my God.

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She has eyes of Nicholas.

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Later Tolstoy told people

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that when she saw those eyes

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in the context of the rest of the face,

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she knew she was looking at one of the daughters of the Tsar.

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Eventually Anna Anderson told several nurses

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she was actually Anastasia, the youngest grand Duchess.

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Indeed, she did resemble Anastasia facially

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and in height and age.

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Apparently several childhood scars and birthmarks

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were checked out and they two matched.

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Now the fresh scars seem to make sense.

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Perhaps they were remnants of Bolshevik bullets and bayonets.

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Four years later, in July of 1925,

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while the young woman was hospitalized for surgery,

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she received a visitor.

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Shura Giard, Anastasia's former nanny,

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had come to see for herself just who Miss Unknown was.

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Shura recognized the grand Duchess,

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both by her childhood scars

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and by a bone deformity on her right foot.

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Then the young woman beckoned to Shura

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to massage her forehead with cologne.

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It had been a favorite childhood ritual of Anastasia's,

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known only to the two of them.

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Later, Shura and her husband brought the Tsar's sister Olga

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to visit.

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Olga had last seen her niece when Anastasia

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was a plump, boisterous adolescent,

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more than a decade earlier.

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Isn't she beautiful?

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My child, you're so pale.

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Her aunt said that this young woman

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had lost so much weight that she was unable

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to make a positive visual identification of her,

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and so they talked.

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I am so happy, okay?

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After Anastasia, Olga then did say,

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you are my niece, I recognize you.

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The next day, in a private visit with Olga,

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Anastasia made a revelation about the Tsar's secret bank account,

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which would ultimately prove to be her undoing.

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You know, we lost every single one we escaped from Russia.

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I don't think you have to worry about me.

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Why not?

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Because all the money that Nicholas left for us.

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There was, she believed, in the Bank of England,

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$80 million.

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This was news to the family,

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and that one conversation, that incident,

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radically changed the life of Anna Anderson forever.

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Anastasia was betrayed.

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$80 million in 1925 was the equivalent of $5.6 billion

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in today's economy.

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It was ample motivation for Anastasia's aunt

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and the other surviving Romanovs to deny her identity

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and therefore her right to any of the money.

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In essence, she was once again, misunknown.

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However, Anastasia was not abandoned by everyone.

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In 1927, she took up residence in a German castle

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under the protection of a sympathetic Duke and Duchess.

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That spring, Gleb Botkin, a close childhood friend of Anastasia's,

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traveled from his home in the United States

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to see whether the grand duchess had somehow survived.

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Gleb was the youngest child of the Tsar's physician,

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Dr. Eugene Botkin.

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The doctor had been executed along with the imperial family,

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but Gleb was able to escape from Russia.

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One of the childhood games that he and Anastasia had played together was

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that Gleb would draw or would paint a watercolor painting

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of animals dressed in human clothing and in human-like situations.

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Give the picture to the young Anastasia,

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and she then would make up a story to explain the action in the picture.

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But I would like to see the pictures.

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Oh, yes.

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He recognized her immediately, and as she leafed through them,

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she remembered the stories that she had made up years earlier

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to accompany the pictures.

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Telling the rat that they were safe, because the cat was caught by a line.

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It was the most significant recognition of Anastasia in her lifetime.

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And Gleb Botkin became, as she called him, her lifelong champion.

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Friend with a lime.

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Only later would Anna recount for Gleb what she knew about

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the terrible night of July 17, 1918.

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How she had been horribly wounded and rendered unconscious during the execution.

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How she had been thrown on a truck with the dead bodies of her family.

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How the truck lumbered off into the night, heading to a secret grave site.

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At some point the truck overheated.

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A soldier named Alexander Chikovsky was one of those left to stand guard.

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He realized Anastasia was not dead.

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Aided by his brother, Chikovsky spirited her to safety.

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Alexander Chikovsky was later killed in Romania.

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Anastasia eventually made her way to Germany and Bendler Bridge.

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20 years after the Tsar's assassination, Gleb Botkin and Anna's lawyer were finally able to go to court.

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To claim Anastasia's inheritance and thereby prove Anna Anderson's identity.

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That Anna Anderson is the grand duchess Anastasia.

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During the course of this entire case, the Romanov family...

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None of the principals had ever heard of Anna Anderson.

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Anastasia, during the course of this entire case, the Romanov family...

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None of the principals had any idea that the case, including several appeals,

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would drag on literally from the rest of their lives.

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From the beginning, Anna's attorneys based their arguments on the numerous points of similarity

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between the grand duchess and Anna Anderson.

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Experts analyzed photographs of both women's ears.

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The match impressed even Anna's bitterest enemies.

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Various scars and birthmarks also matched.

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Handwriting samples were analyzed and found virtually identical.

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Anna was now 58 years old.

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She had become increasingly eccentric and was almost totally uncooperative,

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both with her own attorneys and with the courts.

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Anna lived in a remote German village near the Black Forest.

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Her modest cottage was overgrown with weeds

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and overrun by her four dogs and 30 cats.

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Good afternoon, Miss Anderson.

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What is it?

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Can I talk to you?

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In 1959, during an appeal of the case,

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a judge and two language experts came to ascertain whether Anna,

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who almost always spoke German or English, could also speak Russian.

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Who are these people?

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These are the experts that your attorney agreed upon.

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Anastasia refused to allow anyone into her house except the judge.

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I never agreed to any such meeting.

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And when he extended his hand to shake hers,

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she refused to do so, saying that she was afraid of germs.

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In fact, she considered it a breach of etiquette

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on the part of a lowly German Supreme Court judge

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to want to shake the hand of a Russian grand duchess.

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I have made my choices, and I am willing to live with them.

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She refused to speak Russian to him?

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I don't think he understands.

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Was totally social, as if this were just a little tea party.

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And at the end of 10 minutes, she dismissed him.

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But this meeting is over.

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Finally in 1967, the German High Court issued a decision.

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There was not enough evidence to prove Anna Anderson's claim.

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The court did state, however,

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that the death of grand duchess Anastasia

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could not be considered a verifiable historical fact.

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Despite that small victory,

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Anna had had enough of lawyers and courts.

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These home movies of Anna Anderson

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televised here for the first time

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were shot in Germany in 1967.

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The following year, Anna moved to Charlottesville, Virginia

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where her protector, Gleb Botkin,

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introduced her to one of his friends.

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On December 23, 1968, Anna married Jack Manahan,

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18 years her junior.

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One year later, Gleb Botkin died,

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never wavering in his belief

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that Anna Anderson was Anastasia.

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In fact, Anna now called herself Anastasia Manahan.

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She and Jack were a quirky, eccentric couple,

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the bane of their neighbor's existence.

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Over the years, Jack's once beautiful house

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became overgrown and full of cats.

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Anastasia died in 1984.

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Jack in 1990.

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Sixteen months later, on July 12, 1991,

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the Imperial family skeletons were finally exhumed

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near a Katrinburg Russia.

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After the execution, the bodies had been buried hodgepodge.

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Still, everyone expected to find all seven Romanovs,

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as well as four members of the family's entourage.

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In the grave, there were supposed to be eleven bodies,

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but only nine were there.

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Two were missing.

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For a whole year, we looked for the two missing skeletons,

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but we could never find them.

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The middle face has been badly fractured.

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In an effort to determine which skeletons were missing,

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the Russians invited American forensic expert,

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Dr. William Maples, to examine the remains.

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It's a shame we don't have a good panoply.

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We looked at the remains, we photographed the remains,

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we measured the remains,

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and for each of the nine skeletons,

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we determined age, sex, race.

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We determined that the czar was most likely there.

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Bodies seven is the czarina.

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We had the family physician, Dr. Botkin,

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and we had three of the daughters.

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But I don't believe any of the three daughters

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could be young enough to be Anastasia,

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who was 17 years, one month at the time of the shooting.

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Also missing were the remains of Alexei,

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the czar's youngest child and only son.

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It was the absence of Anastasia's body, however,

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which once again fueled the controversy.

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Was it possible that Anastasia had somehow

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managed to escape the carnage?

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Whether she could have survived that night,

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I seriously doubt it.

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As a forensic scientist looking at the objective evidence

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that we have, we don't have any evidence

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that anyone would have survived.

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The damage to the remains was pretty profound.

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MUSIC

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The official Bolshevik account is as follows.

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The Romanovs were imprisoned in the former home

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of a wealthy Akaterinburg industrialist.

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The czar had been ordered by the Bolsheviks

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to awaken his family.

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There was unrest in the town, and supposedly,

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the Romanovs had to be moved for their own protection.

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The girls were given half an hour to dress.

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They carefully laced on their corsets.

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A fortune in precious stones and gems

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had been sewn into the linings.

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The Romanovs, along with Gleb Batkin's father

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and three servants, were led into the cellar.

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They had no way of knowing they were about to die.

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The Tsarina asked for chairs.

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Two were brought.

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Then abruptly, Yakov Yurovsky,

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the Bolshevik officer in charge,

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read the orders of execution.

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In the face of the fact that your relatives

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continue to attack the Soviet Russia,

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the Purall and the Colonel decided to shoot you.

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What?

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Nicolas, dumbfounded, asked him to repeat.

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In the face of the fact that your relatives

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continue to attack the Soviet Russia,

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the Purall and the Colonel decided to shoot you.

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When they began shooting,

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the bullets bounced off Grand Duchess

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and returned to them.

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They didn't know that in corsets of Grand Duchess,

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the Tsarina hid their jewels,

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and jewels protected them.

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They decided that God protected them,

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and they elitled, and they immediately became crazy.

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And disorder shooting began.

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In the first volley of shots,

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Anastasia was not hit.

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After everyone else was dead,

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even the Bolshevik accounts will tell you

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that Anastasia was alive.

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One account has her standing up and screaming.

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While one of the guards stuck a bayonet through one of her feet

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to pin her to the floor,

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and the other one clubbed her in the jaw with a rifle butt.

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Come on, come on, come on.

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Assuming Anastasia was now dead,

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Yorovsky's men loaded all the bodies onto a truck.

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However en route to the secret burial site,

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the truck would get bogged in the mud,

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and Yorovsky would decide to dispose of the bodies on the spot.

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Yorovsky reported that in order to confuse anyone

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who might locate the grave,

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he burned two of the bodies,

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and disposed of the charred remains right there.

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The other nine heroes were buried together a few meters away.

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Edward Rodzinski, author of The Last Tsar,

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The Life and Death of Nicholas II,

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believes that Yorovsky simply invented this scenario

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to cover up the fact that he could not account for all the bodies.

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They did not see two bodies

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when they buried the Romanov in this terrible grave.

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And Yorovsky had only one opportunity to explain it.

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He wrote,

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We burned two bodies.

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It was the end.

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Not only Anastasia,

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but two of the other daughters as well were actually alive.

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Michael Medvedev,

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whose father was a member of the execution squad, disagrees.

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When the soldier began to move the body

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from the wall of execution onto some stretchers,

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the girls regained consciousness and moned in pain,

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including Anastasia.

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And one of the soldiers named Peter Yormakov

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killed Anastasia.

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And so the great riddle continues.

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Is the body of Grand Duchess Anastasia

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hidden in a shallow grave

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near the spot where the rest of her family was found?

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Or did Anastasia somehow survive the assassination,

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only to emerge years later as the eccentric Anna Anderson?

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Many of those who knew Anna best

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believe the truth is undeniable.

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Anna Anderson was Anastasia.

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All she wanted was for the world to leave her alone

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and for her surviving family members

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to publicly acknowledge what they privately acknowledged.

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And that was simply her identity.

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It was December of 1948.

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Christmas was just around the corner.

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Anna won Illinois seemed like a Norman Rockwell painting.

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Wholesome, peaceful, serene.

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But while most families were joyfully anticipating

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the arrival of the holiday season,

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one couple, Frank and Hilda Cron, were visited by disaster.

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The Cron's were dirt poor and lived with seven of their children

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in a small farmhouse in the outskirts of town.

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There was no plumbing or heating.

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And every night, the children all crammed into a single bed

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to keep warm.

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Yes?

463
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Hello, are you Mrs. Hilda Cron?

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Yes, I am.

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Is your husband home?

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No, I'm sorry. He had to leave early this morning.

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Why? Is something wrong?

468
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Well, yes, ma'am. I'm afraid there is.

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We have a, uh, an eviction notice here from your landlord.

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And I'm afraid we're gonna have to ask you and your family

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to vacate the premises.

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Hurry, you don't have to wait.

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The deputies learned that the Cron's had nowhere to go

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and took pity.

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They decided they could not let the family spend Christmas

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out in the cold.

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In the spirit of the season, they took Hilda and the children

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to the only available shelter in town, the Henry County Jail.

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Raymond Cron was eight years old at the time.

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OK, boys. Here we go.

481
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Yeah, they just put us all in the car.

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The jail we come with, it was just a place for us to be

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in out of the weather.

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It's what I kind of remember of as being,

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that there was no other place for us.

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Suddenly the jail was transformed.

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His cold cement walls were now home for a destitute mother

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and her seven young children.

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The boys and girls are free to roam throughout the jail.

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But in a mystery that is still troubling,

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their parents were forbidden to see one another.

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Well, Dad wasn't allowed to go in to the jail to see mother.

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And she wasn't allowed to go out.

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And I never understood that either.

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Like I say, they let us go wherever we wanted to

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and do whatever we wanted to.

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Can I open the cell?

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Sure you can.

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We used to be able to go outside whenever we wanted to.

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We used to get down and talk to other prisoners.

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We used to play with things that we weren't supposed to.

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But I remember the fun place.

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Because I was only eight.

504
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I didn't know what was really going on.

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Hey, is everybody clear?

506
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Yeah.

507
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Marie Kron was four years old in 1948.

508
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Her memories of jailhouse life are quite different

509
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from what was in her mother's brother's.

510
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One time my mother was giving me a bath

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and the police men were walking by.

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Good afternoon, ladies.

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Hello, Sarah.

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And I got really nervous.

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I didn't want to be in that tub.

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Every time then after that, it was time for me to take a bath.

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I didn't want to.

518
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,920
Because I was afraid these men would walk back by again

519
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,920
and see me in that tub.

520
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,920
A week went by, then two.

521
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,920
On December 17, 1948, the family's plight was publicized

522
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,920
in the local newspaper which carried this photograph,

523
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,920
the only family portrait known to exist.

524
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,920
In response, many community members offered assistance.

525
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,920
A well-intentioned social worker hoped to brighten the children's Christmas

526
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,920
by taking them out of jail

527
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,920
and placing them in foster homes for the holidays.

528
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:00,920
Hello.

529
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:01,920
Hi.

530
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,920
You must be Frances?

531
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,920
Yes.

532
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,920
And are you Marie?

533
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,920
You girls are going to come with me for a little ride.

534
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,920
I want to.

535
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,920
I remember that Frances and I, neither one wanted to go.

536
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,920
Now come on.

537
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,920
You'll have fun, no more.

538
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,920
We really had never been away from our mother.

539
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,920
We had always been, our mother had always been there

540
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,920
and everything else.

541
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,920
But finally we had to go.

542
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,920
I mean, there was no way that we were going to get to stay there.

543
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,920
Frances!

544
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,920
I felt that she felt that if we went,

545
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,920
that we would have at least a nice Christmas,

546
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,920
one that we had never actually ever had in our life.

547
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,920
And then, like I say, that's the last time

548
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,920
either one of us saw our mother after that.

549
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,920
While her mother remained behind bars,

550
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,920
Marie and Frances replaced in separate homes

551
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920
and eventually adopted.

552
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,920
To this day, Marie wonders whether her mother

553
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,920
actually consented to give the children away.

554
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:09,920
Yes, well, come on.

555
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,920
We're going to have to go now.

556
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:13,920
Let's go this way.

557
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,920
Maybe she couldn't read and if she signed any papers

558
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,920
that was giving us away,

559
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,920
she didn't know what she was signing,

560
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,920
that she was maybe told that she was signing a release form

561
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,920
for us, giving her permission for us to go for over the holidays.

562
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,920
OK, dinner time boys.

563
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,920
Christmas Day finally arrived.

564
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,920
At the Henry County Jail,

565
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,920
it was a day without Santa Claus and stockings,

566
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,920
but not completely without Christmas spirit.

567
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,920
The reason why I know it was Christmas time

568
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,920
is because it was Christmas time

569
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,920
is because when we got our dinner tray,

570
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,920
there was candy bar on it.

571
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,920
It made a impression on me because I probably never had

572
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,920
anything like that for quite a while.

573
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,920
And, uh, or even, you know, anything for Christmas

574
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,920
for a while that I remembered of, you know,

575
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,920
and this, it did stick in my mind and it always will.

576
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,920
Within a month, Raymond and his brothers,

577
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,920
Clarence and Leonard, would be placed in children's homes,

578
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,920
but the fate of their parents,

579
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,920
Frank and Hilda Cron, remains a mystery to this day.

580
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,920
Marie recalls being told that they had been banished

581
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,920
from the state of Illinois.

582
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,920
My adopted mother told me that they were never to return,

583
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,920
that if they did, they would be arrested.

584
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,920
That I don't, but she never explained why or anything else.

585
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,920
The secrets about her mother and father

586
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,920
plagued Marie throughout childhood.

587
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,920
She and her sister, Frances, now named June,

588
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,920
had been adopted by neighboring families,

589
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,920
who for reasons unknown insisted on keeping

590
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,920
the young girls apart.

591
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,920
I remember that one time I went up to the store

592
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,920
and Frances was up there at the store.

593
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,920
So we walked home together and we talked.

594
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,920
She's a meanest teacher there.

595
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,920
And then her mother came and called her in.

596
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,920
That's nice.

597
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:17,920
I'll be right back.

598
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,920
OK.

599
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,920
And she told me she'd be back out.

600
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,920
And I waited and waited.

601
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,920
And then finally I went and knocked on the door

602
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,920
and her adopted mother came to the door and says,

603
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,920
she can't come out.

604
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:32,920
She has things to do.

605
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,920
And then she shut the door and I went home

606
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,920
and I was real upset about it.

607
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,920
Years passed.

608
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,920
Marie never stopped wondering about her brothers and sisters.

609
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,920
Finally in 1966, Marie learned through a mutual friend

610
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,920
that Raymond, whom she had not seen in 18 years,

611
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,920
was living in a nearby community.

612
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,920
I remember driving down the street looking for Raymond's house.

613
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,920
I remember seeing her in the back of the house.

614
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,920
I remember seeing her in the back of the house.

615
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,920
I remember seeing her in the back of the house.

616
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,920
And I keep looking for Raymond's house.

617
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,920
And then I saw this guy standing on the porch.

618
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,920
And I knew right away it was Raymond.

619
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,920
And I stopped the car and jumped out and ran up there.

620
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,920
And it was really wonderful to see him again

621
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,920
after all that time not being together.

622
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,920
Marie!

623
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:25,920
Raymond!

624
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,920
Oh my god!

625
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,920
The minute she got there, I knew she was my sister.

626
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,920
It's called a crime scene.

627
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,880
I knew it was her.

628
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,800
I hadn't seen her for 18 years.

629
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:43,320
And it was a real exciting reunion.

630
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,880
You know, I got a little lost on my way here,

631
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,760
but as soon as I saw you on the porch, I knew it was you.

632
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,720
Marie and Raymond spent hours reminiscing and catching up

633
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:54,840
on the years he had spent apart.

634
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,440
Together, they vowed to find out what had happened

635
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,600
to the rest of their family.

636
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,720
For 18 years, Marie and Raymond suffered

637
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:07,480
through a series of near misses and false leads.

638
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,760
Finally in 1993, they did locate one sister, Carol.

639
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,000
Then their story aired on Unsolved Mysteries.

640
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,560
Incredibly, within a few hours, two more sisters

641
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,160
and three brothers had been found.

642
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,560
On July 9, 1994, we were at Raymond's house in Houston,

643
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,920
Texas, as the Cron family gathered for their first reunion

644
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,400
in more than 45 years.

645
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,600
Marie's dream had finally come true.

646
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,080
I've been looking forward to this for a long time,

647
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,480
because I didn't know if I would ever

648
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,680
get to really meet him in person or not.

649
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,120
I feel that the love is still there.

650
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,400
It's never went away.

651
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,120
It's always been there, and I always wondered about him.

652
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,040
And now I'll finally get to find out

653
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,600
what's been going on with their life and everything

654
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,320
and get reacquainted.

655
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,080
For the oldest sister, Betty Jane,

656
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,440
the reunion was particularly emotional.

657
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,120
I knew that was Marie right away.

658
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,560
Just by looking at her, I knew that was Marie.

659
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,360
And that's when the first one I embraced.

660
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,160
I was very happy to see them all.

661
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,720
They all start coming to me, and I

662
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,680
start going to them, hugging them and everything.

663
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,120
So I was very happy, and I feel good.

664
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,040
I really do.

665
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,920
For Raymond, the end of the search meant a new beginning.

666
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,600
I know you're going to be tired real soon.

667
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:47,080
Yeah.

668
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,560
Oh, we're on.

669
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,000
We got a lot of catching up.

670
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,680
Yeah, we're on.

671
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,680
I always knew that their names and everything,

672
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:02,560
but I just as I didn't know how to go about finding them

673
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,480
or anything we hunted, and we just got turned down every place

674
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,520
we turned to try to find them.

675
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,120
And then till this came along, it worked.

676
00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,000
When we return, authorities need your help

677
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,800
to find a man suspected of killing his girlfriend.

678
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,560
Kissimmee, Florida is a lakeside resort town

679
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,200
about 10 miles south of Orlando.

680
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:43,080
Paula.

681
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,600
Oh, honey.

682
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,960
Oh, it is so good to see you.

683
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,080
I am so glad that you're here.

684
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,320
On July 9, 1986, 22-year-old Paula Pasek

685
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,400
and her boyfriend, Jerry Gervasoni,

686
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,160
arrived from New Jersey to visit Paula's mother Barbara.

687
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,120
They stayed there about one week.

688
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,560
We all had a good time together.

689
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,640
Paula was as happy as a lot.

690
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:11,640
The two of them were.

691
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,920
I mean, they were very together.

692
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,320
They were just happy-go-lucky.

693
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,280
Thanks for dinner.

694
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,880
It was really good, wasn't it, Jerry?

695
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:22,780
Thank you.

696
00:40:22,780 --> 00:40:23,920
During the visit, Paula and Jerry

697
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,200
slept in Barbara's bedroom while she slept on a couch.

698
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,800
So do you guys have any plans for tomorrow or what?

699
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,080
Well, I was thinking maybe go visit my relatives down

700
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,280
in Miami.

701
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,880
On Sunday, four nights after they arrived,

702
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,520
Paula and Jerry told Barbara they

703
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,200
would be leaving the next morning for a short excursion

704
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,600
to another part of Florida.

705
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,440
I'm kind of tired, so I think I'll just

706
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,600
go home and rest a little bit.

707
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,520
I got up the next morning.

708
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,520
Good night.

709
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,560
And I thought I heard them up.

710
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,840
I didn't know whether they were or not,

711
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,000
so I didn't bother to say goodbye.

712
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:10,240
Maybe if I had, things would have been different.

713
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,160
How long have you been this way?

714
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,880
For a couple of days.

715
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,200
Over the next five days, an odd smell

716
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,160
began to woth through Barbara's mobile home.

717
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,800
However, she and a friend were unable to determine

718
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,640
where it was coming from.

719
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,920
Well, on Saturday morning, I got up,

720
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:34,080
and by now the odor had really become strong to the point

721
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:39,600
where I had to search around to see what was causing this.

722
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,560
Barbara searched the entire trailer and found nothing.

723
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,520
The last place she looked was in her own bedroom.

724
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,080
Hidden under the bed, wrapped in a bamboo curtain,

725
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,560
was Paula's body.

726
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,760
At first, I wasn't sure of what I seen.

727
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,400
And we just didn't expect it.

728
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:16,920
I had to stop and think, is this real, or am I seeing things?

729
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,280
Paula Paseac had been strangled to death and left under the bed

730
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,800
for nearly a week.

731
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,480
The prime suspect was Jerry Gervasone,

732
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,480
but he had dropped from sight.

733
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,240
Less than a month later, authorities

734
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:36,920
got their first break when they questioned a friend of Jerry's.

735
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,880
Just three days after the murder,

736
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,040
he had picked Jerry up at the Newark, New Jersey airport.

737
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,920
He claimed that Jerry virtually confessed to killing Paula.

738
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,480
What would you say if I told you I killed someone?

739
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:51,920
I don't know what happened.

740
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:52,920
I just freaked out.

741
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,920
I lost it.

742
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:54,920
Over what?

743
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:55,920
I don't know.

744
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:56,920
I don't know what happened.

745
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:57,920
I just freaked out.

746
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:58,920
I lost it.

747
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,720
Over what?

748
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:06,200
I need some quick cash, so I swiped the old lady's paycheck.

749
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,100
What are you doing?

750
00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:08,520
Nothing.

751
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,280
Why are you in my mother's storage?

752
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,080
I'm just looking for a lighter.

753
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,080
Wait, wait, wait.

754
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:15,080
Dave, wait.

755
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:19,000
These are her papers, and I saw you put something in your pocket.

756
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,200
Are you trying to rip her off?

757
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,100
No.

758
00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:22,280
Then let me see what's in your pocket.

759
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:23,180
No.

760
00:43:23,180 --> 00:43:24,080
Don't touch me.

761
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,920
Get out of my place.

762
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:26,920
You liar!

763
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,320
Shut up!

764
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:30,520
I need to hurt her.

765
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:31,520
Broke her neck.

766
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,960
Look, man, if you've done something like that,

767
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,080
you're not getting in my car, and you're not

768
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,080
coming back to my place.

769
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,680
Got it?

770
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:41,680
I scared you.

771
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,680
I'm just kidding.

772
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,120
The witness was very surprised when he learned that Paula had

773
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,120
been murdered.

774
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,560
You should have seen your face.

775
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,480
After seven years, I believe that Jerry has decided

776
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,240
he's no longer wanted, or that we're no longer looking for him,

777
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,480
and he's able to roam the streets freely

778
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,880
without a worry of being arrested.

779
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,560
But the seven years since Paula Paseyac's murder

780
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,640
have been filled with pain for her mother, Barbara.

781
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:17,520
In that time, Barbara has seen her own life gradually unravel.

782
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,040
I've become a very angry, very hateful person.

783
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,480
All your life is never the same.

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Party dies.

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Update, British Columbia, Canada.

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On October 21, 1993, Jerry Gervisoni

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was arrested in a small community of Salt Springs Island,

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where he had been living under the assumed name Gordon McIntyre.

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When our program aired in Canada, Gervisoni's former landlord

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recognized him and immediately called authorities.

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I come home and sit down to dinner about 9.30,

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quarter to 10, and flip on the TV,

793
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and there was this black and white photo

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of Gordon McIntyre, my tenant.

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Once in custody, the suspect vehemently insisted

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that he truly was Gordon McIntyre,

797
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but fingerprints soon confirmed that he was, in fact,

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Gerald Gervisoni.

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At the local airport, Gervisoni tried to avoid photographer

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as he was hustled onto a waiting airplane.

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He was then flown to a deportation

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hearing in Victoria, Canada.

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Gervisoni will be held there pending extradition to Florida,

804
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where he will face charges in the murder of Paula Paisiac.

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Join me next time.

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Perhaps you may be able to help me find my 완전 ничего.

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나는.)

808
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musimy

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Jennifer Huber,

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John Greenshot,

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you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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you