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This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members

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and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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Imagine the vast arid deserts of the American West flowering into a modern-day garden of

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a bee. Incredible as it seems, a former rocket scientist believes he has found a vast underground

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river in Nevada that could create just such a transformation. After World War II, a trusting

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Polish couple sent their only son off to America with friends. They had no idea that they

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would never see him again.

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In Los Angeles, Ted Loseff, a prominent surgeon, was found dead in his garage. The police ruled

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that he was a suicide, but Ted's mother, Zell, was not convinced. Disturbed by the odd behavior

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of Ted's wife, Zell began to suspect that her son had been targeted for murder.

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Zell Loseff embarked on her own investigation, an investigation that ultimately forced authorities

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to reclassify her son's death. Perhaps someone watching tonight will have that one vital

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clue that could help end Zell Loseff's odyssey. Join me. Perhaps you may be able to help

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solve a mystery.

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The doorbell rang at 10 o'clock at night, and my daughter and her husband were at the

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door. I was startled, company at 10, but my daughter and her husband were at the door.

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I knew I was going to hear something awful.

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Miss Moor, That guy, what's coming in粉?

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He's going to kill the kid?

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What is he going to do?

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He's the big guy, he's the big guy.

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The ....

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Miss Mordavi, Adonai, Roilo, Exxon.

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On February 25, 1974, Zell Losev of Los Angeles, California

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sat numbly through the funeral of her only son Ted.

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Two days earlier, the 40-year-old orthopedic surgeon

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had apparently taken his own life.

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Zell was devastated.

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In her grief, she could not have imagined what lay ahead.

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An all-consuming 19-year investigation

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into her son's death that would ultimately force

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authorities to back down from the official finding of suicide.

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Of all people in the world, Ted was not one to take his life.

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My son was murdered, definitely.

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The night Ted Losev died, police found a suicide note

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apparently written to his wife, Will de.

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The note said simply, all I ever asked for

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was one moment of compassion and understanding.

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Zell Losev now believes the note was a finishing touch

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in a plot to cover up the murder of her son.

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Congratulations, Ted.

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This is quite a set up.

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Well, thanks a lot, Bob.

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I'm very proud of it.

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Ted Losev was already a well-respected surgeon

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when he moved his practice in 1971.

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Come on back here.

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I'll give you the quarter tour.

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During a private reception at his new offices,

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Ted was introduced to a nurse named Will de.

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You know Dr. Ted Losev?

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No.

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No.

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He's Will de.

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Will de.

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How do you know?

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Ted and Will de.

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were married less than a year later.

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At Ted's insistence, Will decided

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to prenup shul agreement.

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She would get no property if the marriage ended in divorce.

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Within six months, that seemed increasingly likely.

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How many drinks have you had?

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What difference does it make?

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Oh, I know.

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100.

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200.

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She had problems with alcohol, and it wasn't good.

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I soon learned that the marriage was a marriage not of love.

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Will de would go into his tyrannics and scream and yell

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and carry on.

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The fighting was just awful.

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It's not fair to throw that in my face.

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I've got to go out of here.

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Apparently, the bitter arguing plagued the marriage up

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until the day Ted Losev died, February 23, 1974.

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Officer.

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Officer, you have to help me.

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My husband, he's got a gun.

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That evening, at around 8 PM, an anxious Will de Losev

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had called police, saying her husband was armed.

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Officer, officer.

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Let's go.

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Is there keys in the house?

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Yeah, I have the keys.

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Waiting with Will de were Edward J, a family friend,

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and the Losev's housekeeper.

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All right, all right.

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Let's close.

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All right.

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Now, did you see the gun?

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All right.

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So I'm going to put it right here.

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Ted?

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Ted didn't answer, and there was no sign of him anywhere

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in the house.

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Hello?

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Well, I don't know where he is, but he's definitely not here.

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Usually parks outside the gates out there.

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Yeah, we'll file a report.

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You hear that?

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It's coming out when we're ready to put lots of light on our

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son.

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Now, it's visible to me at some point,

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my pictures of his Valentine's Day coming up.

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Oh, no, Ted!

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Stand back.

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Call an ambulance.

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They found him in his car in the garage.

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It had to be suicide.

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It wasn't until a little later,

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when things began to become so suspicious,

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that I wondered about it.

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The car was running, the victim was behind the wheel,

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and this hose was in the tailpipe

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and fed in through the window.

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To authorities on the scene,

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the evidence of suicide was overwhelming,

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and there was no further investigation.

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No fingerprints were taken.

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No autopsy was performed.

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No questions were asked.

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I looked for Ted in the house.

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In the days following Ted's death,

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Zell and Wilda rarely spoke.

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When they did finally meet face to face,

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March of 1974, Zell was totally unprepared

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for Wilda's behavior.

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Zell had asked Wilda for a keepsake,

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a watch she had given her son as a wedding present.

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It must be hard to talk about.

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I know you're worried about this.

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I wasn't worried about this.

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I didn't care about Ted the way you did.

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I'm glad he's gone.

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Wilda's harsh comments had awakened

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unfocused suspicions in Zell,

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and her grief was slowly overtaken by doubts.

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She began to feel as something was not quite right

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about the suicide scene.

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Incredibly, Zell says the discrepancies

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finally became clear to her in a dream.

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She recalled that Ted had never parked his car

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in the garage.

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I saw a garage filled with lots and lots

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of boat equipment, cartons of boxes,

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and I realized I was at Ted's garage.

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And I knew that to put his car there,

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he had to move the things that were in that garage.

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Ted had back surgery.

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It was impossible for him physically.

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And then I saw the gates, these great big double old iron

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gates.

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In her dream, Zell remembered that the driveway gates

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were damaged and difficult to open.

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Ted had always parked in front of the house.

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To Zell, the implications of the dream

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were simple but stunning.

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Someone had cleared out the garage

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and pried open the gates.

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The suicide had been staged.

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Her son murdered in cold blood.

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Zell's suspicions alone are not nearly enough

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to get the case reopened.

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Taking matters into her own hands,

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she tracked down her son's former housekeeper.

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Her account of Ted's last day would confirm

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Zell's worst fears.

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Hello, yes.

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I'm Zell Loseff, and I've been looking for the housekeeper

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who worked for my son Ted.

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Oh, Mrs. Loseff.

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To protect her identity, we will call the housekeeper Mary.

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The following recreations are based on her sworn testimony

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before a Los Angeles County coroner's inquest.

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Well, I was supposed to arrive at 8.30,

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but I didn't get there until around 10.

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And when I arrived, Dr. Loseff was in the kitchen.

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Duran gas lines.

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Oh, that's okay.

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I hope your wife isn't angry that I wasn't here earlier.

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She's not going to be around here anymore.

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We had a little misunderstanding,

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and, well, we're going to be getting a divorce.

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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

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But around 2 o'clock, she came in.

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She parked her car directly in front of the door,

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and then she went right upstairs.

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Mary!

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And then a few minutes later,

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I heard all this screaming and yelling.

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What in the world is going on?

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Dr. Loseff, let her go!

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I'm trying to go in my hands.

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You're giving out your money back.

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He's got a gun. I'm scared.

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Do you have a gun with Dr. Loseff?

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She's crazy.

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Will, doc!

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And I said, if you want me to continue to work with you,

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you'll have to talk to my husband.

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Well, he paid me for my work,

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and I got in my car, and I drove down the street,

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and there was Mrs. Loseff.

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Mrs. Loseff, what are you doing?

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Oh, my God, Mary, what am I going to do?

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I can't go back there.

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And then she asked me if she could go with me,

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and I said, well, yes.

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So I drove home.

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She kept insisting that Dr. Loseff had a gun,

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so I called the police.

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No, officer. No, I'm not the wife.

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Well, she said that he had a gun.

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He had a gun? I saw a gun.

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She insisted he has a gun.

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Why don't you come talk to him?

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They told me that they couldn't go over there

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if I hadn't seen a gun, and I hadn't seen it.

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Thank you, officer.

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I'm going to call Dr. Loseff.

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Mary says she tried to call Ted at least 20 times

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between 3 and 8 PM every time the line was busy.

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About 8 o'clock, I call Dr. Loseff again.

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It's ringing, finally.

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No one's answering.

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I'm going to call the police again.

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Within the hour, police had found Ted's body.

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Their initial belief that he killed himself

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was confirmed by the discovery of the note

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in an upstairs bedroom.

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However, to Mary, it was the first

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of several alarming discrepancies.

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I always thought that that note on the shirt cardboard

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was kind of strange, because I had been ironing

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Dr. Loseff's shirts for a long time,

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and I always used a hanger.

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I never used a shirt cardboard.

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What are you saying?

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As she stood with her husband and gazed at Dr. Loseff's body,

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Mary was jarred by another inconsistency.

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When I last saw him, he was wearing brown pants

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and a kind of a mustard shirt,

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and now he had on gray pants and a dress shirt.

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And do you know that whole time that I worked there,

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after Dr. Loseff died, I never once saw those brown pants

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and that mustard-colored shirt that he was wearing

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the last time I saw him.

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The discrepancies became impossible to ignore.

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In the kitchen, Mary found several empty beer cans

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and four dirty glasses.

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Ted Loseff rarely drank.

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Mrs. Loseff, can you come here, Mary, please?

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A week later, Mary found unusual stains

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on some bedspreads in the guest room.

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This looks like vomit.

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Oh, yes, this is the dog's vomit.

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They were sick last night.

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However, Mary remembers the dog's being in a kennel at that time.

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When she later washed the bedspreads,

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the vomit spots completely disintegrated.

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After hearing the housekeeper's many stories,

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I knew there was foul play

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and something terrible happened to Ted

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and that I had to find out.

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There is evidence of food fiber in the bronchi of the lungs.

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In 1978, four years after her son's death,

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Zell finally won a legal battle

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to have Ted's body exhumed for an autopsy.

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The pathologist found undeniable evidence

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that Ted had suffered a violent vomiting spell

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in the moments before his death.

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There should have been vomits on his clothing,

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his face, and perhaps on the inside of the car.

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Why wasn't it there?

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This certainly strongly suggests to me

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that this vomiting occurred someplace other than in the car.

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And there were a number of discrepancies

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that have never been explained,

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but that very strongly move away from the whole thought of suicide.

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This, until proven otherwise, is a homicide.

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Fueled by the autopsy findings,

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Zell pieced together a theory explaining her son's death,

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a scenario of premeditated murder.

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Zell believes Ted was assaulted

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soon after Wilda and Mary left the house.

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I believe that the people that killed my son

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were close to the wife

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because they knew that that back door would be open.

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The autopsy indicated Ted had been involved in a struggle.

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Zell believes he was overpowered by at least two men

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who forced poison down his throat.

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Ted was definitely fighting for his life according to the doctors.

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Somebody took the phone off after they made sure he was dead

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because it took a certain length of time for this to happen.

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It could be five, six, seven minutes.

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Then they cleaned him up

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and they put his gray dress shirt on him.

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Then they went to the garage, emptied out the garage

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to make room for the car.

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Then they had to open the gates to put his car into this garage,

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carry his dead body into that garage,

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close the door and then go out and close the gates.

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Then they went back into the house, I think again.

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Put the receiver back on lock.

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It's ringing finally.

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All afternoon Mary had been getting busy signals

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when she tried to call Ted.

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Now the phone was suddenly ringing.

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Zell believes that this was a prearranged message

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from the killers to Wilder that their job was done.

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In March of 1982, the Los Angeles County Coroner finally ordered an inquest.

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Zell's murder scenario, which many had dismissed

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as a grieving mother's fantasy, began to gain credibility.

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At the inquest, a witness who knew the family

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testified at the note.

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The alleged suicide note was indeed written by Ted.

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However, he had written it after an argument with Wilder

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more than two years before he died.

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The inquest ultimately ruled that Ted Loseff's death

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was a homicide.

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But the most critical witness in the subsequent investigation

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would soon be lost forever.

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On May 1, 1983, Wilder died from an overdose of drugs

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and alcohol.

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More than two years later, the police

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completed their inquiry.

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They ruled that the cause of Ted Loseff's death

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was undetermined.

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However, Zell Loseff is convinced that someone

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has gotten away with murder.

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She is still hopeful a witness will come forward

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with new information.

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If the case would open up and they'd really

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get the criminal, there'll be a peacefulness that'll come on me,

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I hope, a desire to walk, to sing, to laugh.

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I haven't been able to.

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If I can do that again, that's it.

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Next, controversy surrounds a modern day prospector,

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and his claim that he has found a vast, untapped water

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supply in the middle of the desert.

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Even in a good year, precious little rain

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will fall in the rugged deserts of the Western United States.

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What doesn't evaporate instantly is quickly

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soaked up by the few plants and animals evolution has

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sentenced to live here.

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However, numerous legends have sprouted

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in this otherwise infertile land,

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tales such as the lost Dutchman's mind,

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or the missing gold and pegged-leg Smith.

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In 1927, a prospector named Earl Doar

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drove deep into the Nevada desert,

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lured by an old Indian legend.

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He told of a secret cavern leading to an underground river

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that sparkled with nuggets of gold.

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Earl Doar was just crazy enough to believe he could find it.

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According to an affidavit, Doar later published,

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he and his sidekick eventually found

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the secret opening foretold in the legend

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and squeezed on through.

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The affidavit recounts a treacherous 3,500-foot descent

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into a murky, subterranean canyon.

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Earl claimed that at the bottom, they found the legendary river,

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running as promised far below the cactus and the scorpions.

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Earl said they explored for four days,

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following the river for eight long miles.

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Along every foot of it, nature had slowly concentrated

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vast amounts of gold.

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What he's describing is something like the world's

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largest natural underground sluice,

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where light rocks are carried away by the water,

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and the heavier minerals like your gold, your platinum,

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your group metals, rare earths, would be settling out

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and concentrating.

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So it's almost kind of a too good to be true thing.

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Earl claimed that the rich black sands assayed out

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at a phenomenal 100 ounces of gold per cubic yard.

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At today's prices, a bucket of this fancy dirt

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would be worth close to $1,500.

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It was the stuff dreams are made of.

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However, Earl Dorr had one very major problem.

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Someone else owned the land where the entrance to the cavern

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was located.

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Believing that he could find another way in,

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Dorr decided to dynamite the original opening.

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Earl Dorr was never able to find his treasure again.

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Over the next 50 years, others would follow in his path.

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But the location of the river, if it existed,

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seemed lost forever.

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Oddly, it was a space shuttle program of the 1980s

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to suddenly open the door to the rediscovery of what

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might be Earl Dorr's fantastic river.

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Successive missions brought back new and more remarkable

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photographs of our planet.

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Some of the pictures came to the attention

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of a scientist named Wally Spencer.

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For 30 years, Spencer had been involved

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in the development of solid rocket motors for NASA

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and other government agencies.

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When he studied the space shuttle photographs,

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Spencer was convinced they offered a down to earth

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opportunity.

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In one picture of Nevada, Wally spotted

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what he believed was an ancient river channel, bone drive

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for some 500 million years.

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But eons ago, plants would have flourished along such a river.

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In the millennia since, those plants

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would have slowly decomposed into black gold,

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Nevada's own crude oil.

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You ready to power up, then?

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Wally Jerry rigged a prospecting device

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from common laboratory instruments.

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He based his design on two simple facts.

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First, the earth naturally emits a low level of radiation.

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Second, a large subsurface pool of liquid, such as oil,

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will block this radiation.

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Wally believed that his invention could detect

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such a drop in radiation, thus revealing the location

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of a hidden reservoir.

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But Wally had no idea if his device actually worked.

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In June of 1989, with the help of his wife and son,

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Wally put it to the test.

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For three weeks, they bounced across the sands,

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waiting for the device to react.

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Whoa, Barry, stop, stop.

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Hold it.

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We went off scale.

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I don't know.

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Something happened.

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We went totally off scale.

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The wild response at first suggested

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a monumental deposit of oil.

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But further testing began to indicate to Wally

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that they had actually found an immense underground river,

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perhaps the same river Earl Doar had boasted about half

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a century before.

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It's got to be something huge.

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It was very disappointing when we found out it wasn't oil,

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because once we started mammoning, it looked like the river.

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Everybody says, hey, you found the river.

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You didn't find a pocket of oil.

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Very disappointing.

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But it was so large that it had to be exciting.

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Wally became convinced he had found a virtually inexhaustible

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water supply.

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He estimated the flow could be an incredible 17 billion

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gallons a day.

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In a perched region like Nevada, water is as precious as gold.

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Wally Spencer was certainly had found a priceless resource.

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There is enough water for 170 gallons a day

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for 100 million people.

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Now, that has got to be something

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that is extremely of interest to the Western United States,

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to Nevada, to our nation as a whole.

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The land I'm standing on here in Los Angeles

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is once a virtual desert.

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But with water piped from hundreds of miles away,

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it became a flourishing garden.

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Wally Spencer's River, if it does exist,

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could likewise transform Nevada.

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But for Wally, that remained just a pipe dream

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when he found himself mired down in a bureaucratic standoff

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with state officials.

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Nevada law required that anyone drilling for water

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first apply for a permit.

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And that meant breveting the river's location.

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Before doing so, Wally asked state officials

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to guarantee that he would receive a finder's fee,

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even though the state would own any water that he found.

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However, authorities insisted that Wally

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apply for a drilling permit, just like anybody else.

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No promises, no guarantees.

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If I filed for appropriations permit,

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then it could be denied on any kind of whimsical notion

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the state has, like not in the best interest of the people,

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or not in the best interest of the state.

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They would own it.

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I would have nothing.

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There's nobody, again, that tried

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to rob him of his water rights.

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There might be other speculators out here

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that try to might also claim that he has priority

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if he files the proper documentation.

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And a lawyer can help him do that.

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Wally and his wife, Beverly, were not convinced,

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and they weren't taking any chances.

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Concerned that others might try to steal

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the secret of their finds, the Spencer's asked

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two experts to scan their house for electronic bug.

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Oh, interesting books.

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At first, the sophisticated equipment

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failed to locate any hidden listening devices.

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But then one sensor picked up a bug on the phone line.

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You see?

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That's the kind of thing we're talking about.

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In addition, the investigators found a high-tech listening

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device secreted in the living room.

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Beverly was convinced that only one thing would

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motivate the electronic eavesdropping.

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They were trying to probably find out the location.

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We never discussed the location of the water.

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It's not in our vocabulary.

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So I don't know who did it.

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I don't know why they did it.

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But they haven't gained from it.

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However, there are those who question

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where the Wally Spencer has any information that

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is truly worth stealing.

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And they're trying to find out who did it.

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The Wally Spencer has any information

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that is truly worth stealing.

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He has never revealed his technology.

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He can't show where the water is coming from.

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He can't show where the water is going.

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And he won't reveal the location.

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So it's not a lot different than the guy

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that's walking around the desert with a willow stick

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or a peach branch and dousing for water

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or the guy that's walking around the crust of the earth

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with a turquoise bead on a gold chain, witching for water.

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I've known Wally for about 15 years

526
00:28:09,580 --> 00:28:11,900
and actually have worked professionally with him

527
00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,820
starting about 10 years ago.

528
00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:20,340
Wally is one of the true scientist problem solvers

529
00:28:20,340 --> 00:28:21,900
that you can run into.

530
00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,820
He's the type of guy that doesn't run to the textbook

531
00:28:24,820 --> 00:28:27,100
to pull out the equation to solve the problem.

532
00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,060
He takes Newton's equations and he

533
00:28:30,060 --> 00:28:32,860
derives what he needs out of them to solve the problem.

534
00:28:32,860 --> 00:28:34,940
So he's a true scientist.

535
00:28:34,940 --> 00:28:36,380
You know, I'd like it to be true.

536
00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:39,620
I mean, I don't think you'll find anybody in Nevada

537
00:28:39,620 --> 00:28:44,220
that wants to find water resources like Wally has described.

538
00:28:44,220 --> 00:28:46,300
But you have to be practical at the same time.

539
00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,780
And the way to be practical is just simple questions.

540
00:28:48,780 --> 00:28:51,220
Wally, what have you found with that technology?

541
00:28:51,220 --> 00:28:54,100
And the second thing is, let me see it.

542
00:28:54,100 --> 00:29:09,180
When we return, one of your tips

543
00:29:09,180 --> 00:29:11,100
leads to the arrest of a murder suspect.

544
00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:13,100
The Last Night.

545
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:27,100
October 8, 1988, Los Angeles, California.

546
00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,300
Four friends climbed on their motorcycles

547
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,660
to cruise the nearly deserted streets.

548
00:29:31,660 --> 00:29:34,340
It was a frequent weekend ritual.

549
00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:37,860
26-year-old Lee Selwyn, a popular local DJ,

550
00:29:37,860 --> 00:29:43,060
always looked forward to the freewheeling late night rides.

551
00:29:43,060 --> 00:29:44,460
But this night would be different.

552
00:29:47,740 --> 00:29:50,340
One of the cyclists became involved in an argument

553
00:29:50,340 --> 00:29:52,900
because he believed a vehicle was trying to run him down.

554
00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:53,900
What are you doing?

555
00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:54,900
What are you trying to do?

556
00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:55,900
Huh?

557
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:56,900
What?

558
00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:57,900
What?

559
00:29:57,900 --> 00:29:58,900
You want to kill me?

560
00:29:58,900 --> 00:29:59,900
You want to kill me?

561
00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:01,780
When the driver spit in the face of Lee's friend,

562
00:30:01,780 --> 00:30:03,220
the altercation turned ugly.

563
00:30:08,860 --> 00:30:11,860
The four riders scattered.

564
00:30:11,860 --> 00:30:15,860
Although Lee Selwyn had been a completely innocent bystander,

565
00:30:15,860 --> 00:30:16,860
he became the target.

566
00:30:22,860 --> 00:30:23,860
The chase went on.

567
00:30:23,860 --> 00:30:27,860
For nearly 30 city blocks, it speeds of up to 100 miles an hour.

568
00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:28,860
The chase went on.

569
00:30:36,860 --> 00:30:40,860
Lee Selwyn was thrown 180 feet and suffered a massive skull

570
00:30:40,860 --> 00:30:41,860
fracture.

571
00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:46,860
He was rushed to the hospital but died within hours.

572
00:30:46,860 --> 00:30:49,860
I received a call from the cedars.

573
00:30:49,860 --> 00:30:54,860
They said that he was in intensive care.

574
00:30:54,860 --> 00:30:55,860
I knew.

575
00:30:55,860 --> 00:30:56,860
I just knew.

576
00:30:59,860 --> 00:31:02,860
But I don't believe it yet.

577
00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:05,860
It's real, but it isn't real.

578
00:31:05,860 --> 00:31:08,860
He was such a big part of my life.

579
00:31:08,860 --> 00:31:09,860
He was my buddy.

580
00:31:09,860 --> 00:31:10,860
He wasn't just my son.

581
00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:13,860
He was my buddy.

582
00:31:13,860 --> 00:31:16,860
The Los Angeles police began a city-wide manhunt,

583
00:31:16,860 --> 00:31:20,860
but Lee Selwyn's killer had skipped town.

584
00:31:20,860 --> 00:31:23,860
Incredibly, four years went by before police finally

585
00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:25,860
got the tip they'd been waiting for.

586
00:31:25,860 --> 00:31:28,860
After a recent rebroadcast of the story,

587
00:31:28,860 --> 00:31:31,860
a viewer called our phone center and told one of the operators

588
00:31:31,860 --> 00:31:34,860
that there was a man in prison in Georgia who had often bragged

589
00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:38,860
about running down a biker in Los Angeles.

590
00:31:38,860 --> 00:31:42,860
The Los Angeles police obtained a mugshot of the suspect.

591
00:31:42,860 --> 00:31:45,860
Lee's friends picked the man out of a photo lineup.

592
00:31:45,860 --> 00:31:48,860
His name is Franklin LeGrand-Burkins.

593
00:31:49,860 --> 00:31:55,860
On July 30, 1993, just five days before Perkins

594
00:31:55,860 --> 00:31:58,860
was scheduled for parole, he was arrested.

595
00:31:58,860 --> 00:32:01,860
One week later, he was brought back to Los Angeles

596
00:32:01,860 --> 00:32:04,860
by Detective Dan Andrew.

597
00:32:04,860 --> 00:32:08,860
Most murder victims know their attackers, know their killers.

598
00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:11,860
But this is a case that just wasn't that way.

599
00:32:11,860 --> 00:32:15,860
This was a random event of a person who was basically

600
00:32:15,860 --> 00:32:18,860
minding his own business and unfortunately,

601
00:32:18,860 --> 00:32:21,860
was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

602
00:32:21,860 --> 00:32:23,860
I think it's very unusual to identify somebody

603
00:32:23,860 --> 00:32:26,860
and be able to solve a case after five years.

604
00:32:26,860 --> 00:32:29,860
It's a very good feeling.

605
00:32:29,860 --> 00:32:32,860
Except for the most important fact,

606
00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:35,860
which is nothing can ever bring Lee back,

607
00:32:35,860 --> 00:32:40,860
I hope this will bring some closure to this five years

608
00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:44,860
of uncertainty and the pain that goes along with it.

609
00:32:48,860 --> 00:32:51,860
Finally, justice can be served.

610
00:32:51,860 --> 00:32:57,860
And also, I'm grateful that this man is not out there

611
00:32:57,860 --> 00:33:00,860
committing other crimes and hurting other people

612
00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:03,860
and killing other people's loved ones.

613
00:33:04,860 --> 00:33:11,860
One portion of the grief will be closed or dealt with.

614
00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:14,860
And I know that when I'm driving on the streets,

615
00:33:14,860 --> 00:33:17,860
I won't be looking in other cars.

616
00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:29,860
Wondering if that might be the guy.

617
00:33:33,860 --> 00:33:43,860
Next, a young boy is lost to his family

618
00:33:43,860 --> 00:33:46,860
in the aftermath of World War II.

619
00:33:55,860 --> 00:33:58,860
Plymouth, England, 1952.

620
00:33:58,860 --> 00:34:02,860
Even though seven years have passed since the end of World War II,

621
00:34:02,860 --> 00:34:06,860
this British port city is still surrounded by refugee camps

622
00:34:06,860 --> 00:34:11,860
for families displaced by the ravages of war in Eastern Europe.

623
00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:15,860
Helena and Napoleonary Karowski, a Polish couple,

624
00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:18,860
are sending their son Christopher off to America

625
00:34:18,860 --> 00:34:20,860
with another family.

626
00:34:20,860 --> 00:34:24,860
The tearful farewell would prove sadly prophetic.

627
00:34:24,860 --> 00:34:27,860
Though Christopher Karowski was only five years old,

628
00:34:27,860 --> 00:34:30,860
he would never see his parents again.

629
00:34:32,860 --> 00:34:35,860
For Helena Karowski, the loss of her son

630
00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:38,860
was a heavy blow in a life already marred by tragedy.

631
00:34:38,860 --> 00:34:42,860
In 1928, Helena had married a dashing infantry officer

632
00:34:42,860 --> 00:34:44,860
in the Polish Army.

633
00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:48,860
After the Nazis invaded in 1939, he was executed.

634
00:34:48,860 --> 00:34:51,860
Helena was taken prisoner and forced to serve as a nurse

635
00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:55,860
in a German prisoner of war camp for six harrowing years.

636
00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:00,860
Shortly before the end of the war,

637
00:35:00,860 --> 00:35:03,860
a German officer helped Helena escape.

638
00:35:03,860 --> 00:35:06,860
Alone, she crossed the border to Austria,

639
00:35:06,860 --> 00:35:08,860
then occupied by the Allies.

640
00:35:08,860 --> 00:35:10,860
It was a dramatic story,

641
00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:14,860
which Helena would tell her daughter Michelle time and time again.

642
00:35:16,860 --> 00:35:18,860
My mother was walking down the road,

643
00:35:18,860 --> 00:35:22,860
and then here comes this Polish Red Cross Army truck,

644
00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:26,860
and all of a sudden, the truck stops.

645
00:35:26,860 --> 00:35:28,860
Would you like a ride to the town?

646
00:35:29,860 --> 00:35:31,860
You look very tired.

647
00:35:31,860 --> 00:35:33,860
Yeah, yeah.

648
00:35:33,860 --> 00:35:35,860
I helped her.

649
00:35:35,860 --> 00:35:38,860
She decided that she would let this man help her,

650
00:35:38,860 --> 00:35:42,860
and he took her to where all the Polish people were,

651
00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:45,860
looked after her, did things for her

652
00:35:45,860 --> 00:35:49,860
that nobody had done for her since the war had been going on.

653
00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:51,860
Now you're right.

654
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:54,860
Her heart was beginning to come alive again,

655
00:35:54,860 --> 00:35:57,860
something it hadn't done since the war had happened.

656
00:35:59,860 --> 00:36:01,860
I am a Polona.

657
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:03,860
Helena.

658
00:36:03,860 --> 00:36:06,860
And he asked her to marry him, and so she said yes.

659
00:36:09,860 --> 00:36:13,860
Helena began a new life with a Polonary Kourowski.

660
00:36:13,860 --> 00:36:17,860
They stayed on in Austria even after the war was over.

661
00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:22,860
In October of 1946, they adopted an infant and named him Christopher.

662
00:36:23,860 --> 00:36:28,860
Within a month, the Kourowskis joined thousands of war survivors

663
00:36:28,860 --> 00:36:31,860
flooding into England and into refugee camps.

664
00:36:31,860 --> 00:36:34,860
A Polonary found work as a mechanic.

665
00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:37,860
In 1950, Michelle was born.

666
00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:41,860
Christopher finally had a sister to play with.

667
00:36:41,860 --> 00:36:46,860
My only memory of Christopher is a real happy memory.

668
00:36:46,860 --> 00:36:49,860
He would run around me, hide behind me,

669
00:36:50,860 --> 00:36:53,860
and all of a sudden he'd come around to the front and he'd go,

670
00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:57,860
boo! And I'd laugh and I'd laugh, and I can still remember to this day

671
00:36:57,860 --> 00:37:01,860
the giggles. The giggles I was giggling so hard.

672
00:37:01,860 --> 00:37:04,860
It felt so good, so good.

673
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:07,860
Next, please.

674
00:37:07,860 --> 00:37:11,860
Like so many other refugees, Helena and the Polonary

675
00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:14,860
dreamed of a better life for themselves and their children.

676
00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:17,860
Take a seat. Thank you.

677
00:37:17,860 --> 00:37:20,860
How can I help you?

678
00:37:20,860 --> 00:37:23,860
We want to go to America to make a visa.

679
00:37:23,860 --> 00:37:26,860
Just to tell you? No, no. We have also two children.

680
00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:30,860
As it turned out, the Kourowskis would wait months for permission to emigrate.

681
00:37:30,860 --> 00:37:33,860
We will try.

682
00:37:33,860 --> 00:37:37,860
Another Polish family living in the camp had better luck.

683
00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:40,860
Oh, young, come, right.

684
00:37:40,860 --> 00:37:44,860
Good afternoon, Helena, Polonary. Listen, I have news for you.

685
00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:47,860
Today I got the visa. Now we will be going to America!

686
00:37:47,860 --> 00:37:50,860
We're going to America? Duck!

687
00:37:50,860 --> 00:37:53,860
Congratulations, my friend.

688
00:37:53,860 --> 00:37:56,860
We'll have a toast for you.

689
00:37:56,860 --> 00:37:59,860
When do we get to go to America?

690
00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:02,860
Christopher, you must be patient. We will go soon.

691
00:38:02,860 --> 00:38:05,860
You want to go to America too, huh?

692
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:10,860
I have an idea. Why don't you let me Christopher come with me and my family to America?

693
00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:13,860
He will play with my children and he will go to school

694
00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:16,860
and soon you will be going to America yourselves.

695
00:38:16,860 --> 00:38:19,860
I don't want you to get sick, huh?

696
00:38:19,860 --> 00:38:21,860
The decision was made.

697
00:38:21,860 --> 00:38:24,860
Christopher would go on before the rest of his family

698
00:38:24,860 --> 00:38:27,860
so he could start first grade in the United States.

699
00:38:27,860 --> 00:38:29,860
I'll miss you, Mama.

700
00:38:29,860 --> 00:38:31,860
I'll miss you too, Christopher.

701
00:38:31,860 --> 00:38:34,860
My mother didn't really want to send him with somebody else.

702
00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:38,860
But my father kept saying, you know, education.

703
00:38:38,860 --> 00:38:41,860
Education. He's going to get a good education.

704
00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:44,860
He's going to be able to start school.

705
00:38:44,860 --> 00:38:47,860
So it was easier for him.

706
00:38:47,860 --> 00:38:52,860
But my mother, I guess, being a woman, it just tore at her heart.

707
00:38:56,860 --> 00:38:59,860
Oh, Paula, sit down.

708
00:38:59,860 --> 00:39:01,860
Weeks went by.

709
00:39:01,860 --> 00:39:05,860
Helena and the Polonary continued to wait for their visas.

710
00:39:05,860 --> 00:39:07,860
They talked of little else but America,

711
00:39:07,860 --> 00:39:10,860
and outlandish rumors about life in that unknown land

712
00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:12,860
circulated throughout the camp.

713
00:39:12,860 --> 00:39:14,860
I don't want to worry you, but you know,

714
00:39:14,860 --> 00:39:16,860
I got this letter from my friend.

715
00:39:16,860 --> 00:39:18,860
She went to America.

716
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:21,860
Well, she says that in California,

717
00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:26,860
if you leave your baby outside, it could get kidnapped.

718
00:39:26,860 --> 00:39:28,860
Kidnapped?

719
00:39:28,860 --> 00:39:30,860
By monkeys.

720
00:39:30,860 --> 00:39:32,860
No.

721
00:39:33,860 --> 00:39:35,860
Did you hear this?

722
00:39:35,860 --> 00:39:37,860
Mother got scared.

723
00:39:37,860 --> 00:39:41,860
She had gone through so much during the war,

724
00:39:41,860 --> 00:39:45,860
and the things that she had seen had made her so scared

725
00:39:45,860 --> 00:39:49,860
that this was another unknown to her,

726
00:39:49,860 --> 00:39:52,860
and she didn't know whether she could really make it.

727
00:39:54,860 --> 00:39:58,860
In the end, Helena and the Polonary made the agonizing decision

728
00:39:58,860 --> 00:40:01,860
to withdraw their visa application.

729
00:40:01,860 --> 00:40:04,860
They wrote to the family who had taken Christopher,

730
00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:07,860
asking them to send him back to England.

731
00:40:07,860 --> 00:40:09,860
Helena, Helena!

732
00:40:09,860 --> 00:40:11,860
I've received a letter from America.

733
00:40:11,860 --> 00:40:14,860
Yes, they don't send Christopher back.

734
00:40:14,860 --> 00:40:17,860
They don't send Christopher back.

735
00:40:17,860 --> 00:40:21,860
My parents got a letter back from the family in the United States

736
00:40:21,860 --> 00:40:25,860
saying that Christopher had already settled in school,

737
00:40:25,860 --> 00:40:28,860
had made friends, and they weren't going to send him back.

738
00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:29,860
I'm sorry to interrupt you.

739
00:40:29,860 --> 00:40:30,860
I have a very big problem.

740
00:40:30,860 --> 00:40:32,860
The camp awaits.

741
00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:34,860
Helena and the Polonary immediately went

742
00:40:34,860 --> 00:40:36,860
to the refugee camp's Polish consul.

743
00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:38,860
They cannot do this to us.

744
00:40:38,860 --> 00:40:41,860
He was sympathetic, but all of Christopher's adoption records

745
00:40:41,860 --> 00:40:45,860
had gone to the United States, making it nearly impossible

746
00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:48,860
to bring the boy back.

747
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:50,860
The Kourowskis eventually left the camp

748
00:40:50,860 --> 00:40:52,860
and settled near Nottingham.

749
00:40:52,860 --> 00:40:54,860
They continued to write to the family

750
00:40:54,860 --> 00:40:57,860
who had taken Christopher, but received no response.

751
00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:01,860
In 1966, when Michelle turned 16,

752
00:41:01,860 --> 00:41:05,860
she decided it was time to find her brother.

753
00:41:05,860 --> 00:41:07,860
It was hard to look for him.

754
00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:09,860
I really didn't know where to start,

755
00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:12,860
so I had to ask people where to look.

756
00:41:12,860 --> 00:41:16,860
And one person told me to write to the American Embassy

757
00:41:16,860 --> 00:41:19,860
and then put a letter inside there for Christopher

758
00:41:19,860 --> 00:41:22,860
just in case they found Christopher.

759
00:41:22,860 --> 00:41:26,860
And that's what I did.

760
00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:30,860
Two months later, Michelle received a reply.

761
00:41:30,860 --> 00:41:32,860
Mama!

762
00:41:32,860 --> 00:41:34,860
Mama!

763
00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:36,860
I never thought in a million years

764
00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:39,860
that I would actually find him.

765
00:41:39,860 --> 00:41:41,860
I was jumping up and down.

766
00:41:41,860 --> 00:41:43,860
I was running around.

767
00:41:43,860 --> 00:41:45,860
It was one of the happiest moments of my life.

768
00:41:45,860 --> 00:41:51,860
Okay, he says he's in the army in Vietnam.

769
00:41:51,860 --> 00:41:55,860
And he's changed his name to...

770
00:41:55,860 --> 00:41:57,860
He's changed his name to Stan Smith.

771
00:41:57,860 --> 00:41:58,860
Smith? Yeah?

772
00:41:58,860 --> 00:41:59,860
Yeah.

773
00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:00,860
I wrote back right away,

774
00:42:00,860 --> 00:42:02,860
but I didn't get an answer.

775
00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:05,860
I waited and I waited.

776
00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:07,860
Checked the postman.

777
00:42:07,860 --> 00:42:09,860
Always stopped the postman.

778
00:42:09,860 --> 00:42:11,860
Asked him if he had any letters for me

779
00:42:11,860 --> 00:42:13,860
that were coming from America.

780
00:42:13,860 --> 00:42:14,860
Nothing.

781
00:42:14,860 --> 00:42:15,860
I didn't get anything back.

782
00:42:15,860 --> 00:42:16,860
No letter.

783
00:42:16,860 --> 00:42:17,860
Returned to sender.

784
00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:20,860
Nothing.

785
00:42:20,860 --> 00:42:24,860
The Karowski's were crushed by the lack of further news.

786
00:42:24,860 --> 00:42:28,860
In 1973, Michelle moved to the United States.

787
00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:30,860
After a pulmonary die,

788
00:42:30,860 --> 00:42:33,860
Helena finally came to America herself.

789
00:42:33,860 --> 00:42:35,860
Last April, she passed away.

790
00:42:35,860 --> 00:42:38,860
Helena's dying wish was that her children

791
00:42:38,860 --> 00:42:40,860
would someday be reunited.

792
00:42:41,860 --> 00:42:52,860
raising thisく

793
00:42:52,860 --> 00:42:57,860
to shirk the truth

794
00:42:57,860 --> 00:43:01,860
in the yeti land of America.

795
00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:03,860
Until next year.

796
00:43:03,860 --> 00:43:05,860
Join me next time