1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,280 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,120 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, in honor of Halloween, 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,520 meet a family with an extraordinary tale 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,960 to tell about a haunted house and an uninvited otherworldly 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:26,460 guest. 9 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:30,220 In 1992, Agawam, Massachusetts, was 10 00:00:30,220 --> 00:00:33,300 shocked by the brutal murder of a popular school teacher. 11 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:35,900 Her students, her parents, and the entire town 12 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:39,740 are determined to bring her killer to justice. 13 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:42,340 During the tumultuous days of the London Blitz, 14 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:45,380 two schoolgirls, A. Dean Murphy and Eve Maisel, 15 00:00:45,380 --> 00:00:47,580 forged a heartfelt friendship. 16 00:00:47,580 --> 00:00:50,540 But as a teenager, A. Dean moved to America, 17 00:00:50,540 --> 00:00:52,580 and now she needs your help. 18 00:00:52,580 --> 00:00:53,980 Join me. 19 00:00:53,980 --> 00:00:57,380 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery. 20 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:56,740 If you happen to be in Lake Wales, Florida, on Halloween night, 21 00:01:56,740 --> 00:01:59,300 or any night for that matter, there's a house 22 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:01,420 you might want to avoid. 23 00:02:01,420 --> 00:02:03,700 It's a very ordinary looking house. 24 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:07,340 But as you probably suspect, appearance is deceived. 25 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:14,780 In the fall of 1991, 19-year-old Alan Mann 26 00:02:14,780 --> 00:02:16,620 lived in the house with his parents. 27 00:02:16,620 --> 00:02:18,140 He was a very old man. 28 00:02:18,140 --> 00:02:19,580 He was a very old man. 29 00:02:19,580 --> 00:02:22,180 In the fall of 1991, 19-year-old Alan Mann 30 00:02:22,180 --> 00:02:24,260 lived in the house with his parents. 31 00:02:24,260 --> 00:02:26,180 Alan worked nights, and during the day, 32 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:31,460 he was often home alone, or so he thought. 33 00:02:31,460 --> 00:02:33,500 I had the afternoon off. 34 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:35,460 I'd come home. 35 00:02:35,460 --> 00:02:38,660 And I guess it was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 36 00:02:38,660 --> 00:02:40,140 and I'd finally gotten some sleep. 37 00:02:45,140 --> 00:02:46,140 Alan. 38 00:02:47,140 --> 00:02:48,140 Alan. 39 00:02:57,140 --> 00:02:58,140 Wake up, Alan. 40 00:03:01,140 --> 00:03:02,140 Alan, get up. 41 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:15,140 The figure turned away from the door like it was leaving. 42 00:03:15,140 --> 00:03:20,140 And by the time I got up and walked three paces to the door, 43 00:03:20,140 --> 00:03:21,140 I don't know what happened. 44 00:03:21,140 --> 00:03:22,380 It just turned to corn and disappeared. 45 00:03:25,140 --> 00:03:27,380 When Alan Mann of Lake Wales, Florida, 46 00:03:27,380 --> 00:03:29,780 began claiming that he had a ghost in his bedroom, 47 00:03:29,780 --> 00:03:33,300 his parents poo-pooed the idea that their house was haunted. 48 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:35,900 That was that, until Alan got married, 49 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:38,940 and his 16-year-old bride, Linda, moved into the house. 50 00:03:39,940 --> 00:03:45,940 Shortly after the wedding, Alan's mother Sandra was watching TV 51 00:03:45,940 --> 00:03:47,940 with her new daughter-in-law. 52 00:03:47,940 --> 00:03:51,940 Sandra, the skeptic, was about to change her tune. 53 00:03:51,940 --> 00:03:53,940 I don't know why I watch these videos. 54 00:03:53,940 --> 00:03:55,940 I had my little dog, Prince, beside me. 55 00:03:55,940 --> 00:03:57,940 And he was laying on a pillow. 56 00:03:57,940 --> 00:03:58,940 Yeah. 57 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:08,940 And I looked down at the end of the couch, 58 00:04:08,940 --> 00:04:12,940 and I saw this white, smoky thing. 59 00:04:15,940 --> 00:04:17,940 And the first thing I thought was fire, 60 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:19,940 and by that time the dog had gotten up on his feet, 61 00:04:19,940 --> 00:04:21,940 and it just disappeared. 62 00:04:22,940 --> 00:04:24,940 Err! 63 00:04:24,940 --> 00:04:25,940 Err! 64 00:04:25,940 --> 00:04:28,940 You know, when Prince came back, I said, 65 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:31,940 Oh, Prince, you know, we've got company. 66 00:04:31,940 --> 00:04:34,940 You know, and this is when Linda snapped around, 67 00:04:34,940 --> 00:04:38,940 and, you know, you know, like, what's going on? 68 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:39,940 So you're ready to ask it? 69 00:04:39,940 --> 00:04:40,940 Yeah. 70 00:04:40,940 --> 00:04:41,940 Yes. 71 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:42,940 Is there a spirit present? 72 00:04:42,940 --> 00:04:44,940 Even though Alan's bride, Linda, 73 00:04:44,940 --> 00:04:45,940 hadn't seen the apparition, 74 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:48,940 she was convinced the house was haunted. 75 00:04:48,940 --> 00:04:50,940 Determined to get the scoop, 76 00:04:50,940 --> 00:04:53,940 Linda and Alan enlisted a friend with a Ouija board. 77 00:04:53,940 --> 00:04:55,940 Is it a matter of a woman? 78 00:04:59,940 --> 00:05:01,940 The board talked real good with me. 79 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:02,940 W. 80 00:05:02,940 --> 00:05:03,940 Oh, it's a woman. 81 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:04,940 It's a woman. 82 00:05:04,940 --> 00:05:05,940 I believed in it. 83 00:05:05,940 --> 00:05:09,940 I've just, I've believed in that kind of stuff for a while, 84 00:05:09,940 --> 00:05:12,940 but I never come across it until then. 85 00:05:12,940 --> 00:05:14,940 What's your name? 86 00:05:15,940 --> 00:05:17,940 According to Linda and Alan, 87 00:05:17,940 --> 00:05:20,940 the board spelled out the name Kramer. 88 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:22,940 That was all the proof they needed. 89 00:05:22,940 --> 00:05:25,940 They had a ghost, and her name was Kramer. 90 00:05:25,940 --> 00:05:28,940 Alan's father, David, was having none of it. 91 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:31,940 I thought I was living with a bunch of flakes. 92 00:05:31,940 --> 00:05:33,940 I really didn't want to be involved in it. 93 00:05:33,940 --> 00:05:36,940 I just kind of sloughed it off and didn't bother with it. 94 00:05:36,940 --> 00:05:40,940 And I just, I didn't want to have anything to do with it. 95 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:42,940 If it was a, if it was a prank, 96 00:05:42,940 --> 00:05:44,940 I wouldn't have to deal with it. 97 00:05:44,940 --> 00:05:47,940 If it was a, if it was a paranormal experience or something like that, 98 00:05:47,940 --> 00:05:49,940 I didn't want to have to worry about it. 99 00:05:49,940 --> 00:05:51,940 I just didn't want to admit it. 100 00:05:51,940 --> 00:05:53,940 Look, Linda, this is a baseball game on Channel 9. 101 00:05:53,940 --> 00:05:56,940 Linda and Alan knew there was a ghost. 102 00:05:56,940 --> 00:05:59,940 They didn't know she had an ambush planned. 103 00:05:59,940 --> 00:06:01,940 Okay, fine. 104 00:06:06,940 --> 00:06:08,940 Are you okay? 105 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:11,940 What? 106 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:14,940 She just snapped. 107 00:06:14,940 --> 00:06:16,940 Hi, honey. 108 00:06:16,940 --> 00:06:18,940 And she got this weird look. 109 00:06:18,940 --> 00:06:20,940 What? What has gotten you so... 110 00:06:20,940 --> 00:06:22,940 She pretty much attacked me. 111 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:28,940 What is with you tonight? 112 00:06:28,940 --> 00:06:30,940 She was laughing. She had some weird laugh I had never heard. 113 00:06:30,940 --> 00:06:32,940 You know, it didn't even sound like her. 114 00:06:32,940 --> 00:06:35,940 She has this squeaky little giggle. 115 00:06:35,940 --> 00:06:40,940 And this was a, almost an evil laugh. 116 00:06:42,940 --> 00:06:45,940 Aren't they a little more acting than evil? 117 00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:50,940 It's a power. 118 00:06:53,940 --> 00:06:55,940 Is that what... 119 00:06:55,940 --> 00:06:57,940 We remarked a few times, you know, 120 00:06:57,940 --> 00:07:01,940 what's going on and it just kept getting louder and louder and louder. 121 00:07:01,940 --> 00:07:03,940 There's something wrong with her. 122 00:07:03,940 --> 00:07:06,940 What do you do? I don't like the sound of this. 123 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:11,940 Linda! Let go of my wrist, Linda! 124 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:13,940 She was holding me down. 125 00:07:13,940 --> 00:07:17,940 And normally she can't hold one hand down with both her arms. 126 00:07:17,940 --> 00:07:19,940 Linda, what has gotten into you? 127 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:24,940 I tried to get away and it made her get more violent. 128 00:07:24,940 --> 00:07:29,940 And she started putting more force on my arms. 129 00:07:30,940 --> 00:07:32,940 So I pushed against her. 130 00:07:32,940 --> 00:07:34,940 Tell me! 131 00:07:34,940 --> 00:07:37,940 And I said it against the wall three times. 132 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:39,940 And she released me. 133 00:07:40,940 --> 00:07:42,940 Linda. 134 00:07:43,940 --> 00:07:45,940 No. 135 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:49,940 What? 136 00:07:49,940 --> 00:07:53,940 And she put her head on my shoulder again 137 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:56,940 and started talking 138 00:07:56,940 --> 00:07:59,940 and picked up the conversation exactly where she left off 139 00:07:59,940 --> 00:08:01,940 before she snapped. 140 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:05,940 I don't have any memory of what happened. 141 00:08:05,940 --> 00:08:08,940 That's not me. I don't have an evil laugh. 142 00:08:08,940 --> 00:08:10,940 I don't do the things that he says I do. 143 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:13,940 That's just not my type. I'm not that type of person. 144 00:08:13,940 --> 00:08:15,940 I just don't remember. 145 00:08:16,940 --> 00:08:20,940 Suddenly the innocuous ghost had taken on a whole new personality 146 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:22,940 difficult to ignore. 147 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:25,940 Even David Mann sat up and took notice. 148 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:30,940 The possibilities in my mind were endless as to what might be able to happen. 149 00:08:30,940 --> 00:08:32,940 And I really got concerned. 150 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:34,940 And so at that point I said, look, I'm going to go get some help. 151 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:37,940 Somebody somewhere can tell me what the heck is going on. 152 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:41,940 How's that? I think this is going to be all right. 153 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:45,940 A spiritualist told the man to pour salt all around the house. 154 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:49,940 A number of snails were sacrificed, but the ghost stayed on. 155 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:52,940 The man's kept bags of salt under their beds 156 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:55,940 and even tried a homegrown exorcism. 157 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:06,940 We were going to do anything anybody told us to get rid of this stuff. 158 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:08,940 And if you can't get rid of this stuff, 159 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:11,940 we will give you a little bit of a lesson. 160 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:13,940 And we will give you a lesson. 161 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:16,940 And we will give you some advice to stay on a daily basis. 162 00:09:16,940 --> 00:09:19,940 And forgive us our trespasses. 163 00:09:19,940 --> 00:09:21,940 It did work for a few days. 164 00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:26,940 It did things calm down, but after that everything came back stronger than ever. 165 00:09:26,940 --> 00:09:31,940 Every time we tried something, a couple days it would settle down 166 00:09:31,940 --> 00:09:33,940 and then it would be stronger. 167 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:38,940 At times like a burned out motor, all four of the man suffered from bad headaches. 168 00:09:38,940 --> 00:09:41,940 Some of the rooms took on a deathly chill. 169 00:09:41,940 --> 00:09:44,940 And then there were the voices. 170 00:09:47,940 --> 00:09:51,940 What we heard was like a whole mass of voices, 171 00:09:51,940 --> 00:09:55,940 dull, muttering, couldn't understand a thing. 172 00:09:55,940 --> 00:09:58,940 And one woman voice over the top of them. 173 00:09:58,940 --> 00:10:02,940 But yet you could not distinguish anything they were saying. 174 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:06,940 What time is it? 175 00:10:06,940 --> 00:10:07,940 9.30. 176 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:09,940 David and Sandra tried to act blasé, 177 00:10:09,940 --> 00:10:13,940 but the ghost wasn't about to let them off the hook. 178 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:15,940 Okay. 179 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:17,940 I stopped right in the middle of the hall. 180 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:19,940 I caught the smell again. 181 00:10:19,940 --> 00:10:22,940 Sandra tell Isabella to leave me alone. 182 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:24,940 I do not want to have anything to do with her. 183 00:10:24,940 --> 00:10:25,940 Nothing. 184 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:29,940 I am sick and tired of the smells, the voices, the bells, the noises. 185 00:10:29,940 --> 00:10:33,940 David, David, how do you know her name is Isabella? 186 00:10:33,940 --> 00:10:34,940 Isabella. 187 00:10:34,940 --> 00:10:37,940 And I didn't have any explanation for her. 188 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:39,940 It's like you get an idea. 189 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:42,940 Little voice inside your head like your conscience or whatever it is, 190 00:10:42,940 --> 00:10:44,940 that little voice that you listen to. 191 00:10:44,940 --> 00:10:47,940 And it tells you to do right and wrong. 192 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:50,940 It said, you know, this is Isabella. 193 00:10:50,940 --> 00:10:51,940 Honey. 194 00:10:51,940 --> 00:10:55,940 David and his family consulted a parapsychologist. 195 00:10:55,940 --> 00:10:57,940 He introduced them to a psychic. 196 00:10:57,940 --> 00:10:58,940 Joshua, this is David. 197 00:10:58,940 --> 00:10:59,940 Nice to meet you. 198 00:10:59,940 --> 00:11:00,940 Nice to meet you, David. 199 00:11:00,940 --> 00:11:03,940 I've just been talking with your family here for a while. 200 00:11:03,940 --> 00:11:07,940 I get the sense that the name of the spirit in your house is Isabella. 201 00:11:07,940 --> 00:11:09,940 Did you talk to me about that? 202 00:11:09,940 --> 00:11:10,940 No. 203 00:11:10,940 --> 00:11:13,940 And I was taking it back and I would really surprise me. 204 00:11:13,940 --> 00:11:15,940 And I said, Joshua, there's no way that you could know 205 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,940 that the woman in my house is Isabella. 206 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:20,940 There is just no way. 207 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:22,940 Because there's only two people in the world at this time 208 00:11:22,940 --> 00:11:25,940 that know that name, and that's Sandra and I. 209 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:27,940 And we haven't known it that long. 210 00:11:27,940 --> 00:11:30,940 I've worked with hundreds of psychics and been around them 211 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,940 and I know what a psychic is. 212 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:36,940 And this thing really astounded me to see him come up with 213 00:11:36,940 --> 00:11:38,940 a name of that nature. 214 00:11:38,940 --> 00:11:41,940 I was very impressed with it. 215 00:11:41,940 --> 00:11:44,940 Can you come up with a last name? 216 00:11:44,940 --> 00:11:47,940 Um, I see the name Kramer. 217 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:49,940 Isabella Kramer. 218 00:11:49,940 --> 00:11:51,940 At that point, a light bulb goes off in my head 219 00:11:51,940 --> 00:11:53,940 because I says, in my paperwork at home, 220 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:56,940 I got that name Kramer written down. 221 00:11:56,940 --> 00:11:59,940 It came from the Ouija board. 222 00:11:59,940 --> 00:12:02,940 The man's were spooked, especially Linda. 223 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:06,940 She and Allen decided it was high time to get up. 224 00:12:06,940 --> 00:12:07,940 You said that a hundred times. 225 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:09,940 Just finish back and we'll be gone. 226 00:12:09,940 --> 00:12:10,940 Are you almost done over there? 227 00:12:10,940 --> 00:12:11,940 Not yet. 228 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:16,940 We had a couple of boxes left and she was defaming the ghost. 229 00:12:16,940 --> 00:12:18,940 It's causing it pretty bad. 230 00:12:18,940 --> 00:12:19,940 Ah! 231 00:12:23,940 --> 00:12:28,940 Evidently she upset it because right in the mid-sentence 232 00:12:28,940 --> 00:12:32,940 of cussing the ghost, the light bulb exploded. 233 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:37,940 It lasted maybe half a minute or so. 234 00:12:37,940 --> 00:12:40,940 Then the bulb just fizzed out and died. 235 00:12:49,940 --> 00:12:52,940 I upset the ghost. 236 00:12:52,940 --> 00:12:54,940 Very bad. 237 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:56,940 She made me mad. 238 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:58,940 I went through a lot when I lived there 239 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:00,940 and I just wanted to get out. 240 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:04,940 No one tell her how I felt about it before I left one last time. 241 00:13:06,940 --> 00:13:09,940 Before long, word of the man's plight reached the center 242 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:12,940 for paranormal studies in Silver Springs, Florida. 243 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:15,940 Armed with a trunk load of electronic equipment, 244 00:13:15,940 --> 00:13:18,940 the center's three founders showed up at the man's house 245 00:13:18,940 --> 00:13:21,940 on September 19, 1992. 246 00:13:21,940 --> 00:13:24,940 This is the living room area where Sandra had her experience. 247 00:13:24,940 --> 00:13:26,940 Right, this is where I had the apparition experience. 248 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:31,940 As we drove up to the house, I felt sort of an emptiness inside. 249 00:13:31,940 --> 00:13:35,940 And as I went into the house, the air seemed to get thicker 250 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:39,940 and it had an odor and it was uncomfortable. 251 00:13:39,940 --> 00:13:42,940 To me, the house, just looking at it, 252 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:47,940 it had a presence that was profoundly unpleasant. 253 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:50,940 An extremely foul smell. 254 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:55,940 I described it in my notes as kind of like rotting flesh. 255 00:13:55,940 --> 00:13:58,940 Things have happened all over the house, but particularly Alan's... 256 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:02,940 It definitely had an oppressive ambiance to it. 257 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:05,940 Almost a depressive type of feeling. 258 00:14:05,940 --> 00:14:07,940 After being in the house for several hours, 259 00:14:07,940 --> 00:14:10,940 we all began to experience headaches. 260 00:14:10,940 --> 00:14:12,940 Northeast corner of the house, bedroom B. 261 00:14:12,940 --> 00:14:14,940 In Linda and Alan's old bedroom, 262 00:14:14,940 --> 00:14:17,940 the electromagnetic equipment went haywire 263 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:20,940 as if there had been a power surge of some sort. 264 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:22,940 Getting some magnetic flux here, it's off the scale. 265 00:14:22,940 --> 00:14:24,940 You don't normally see this fluctuation. 266 00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:26,940 It was very, very high. 267 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:28,940 So I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a series 268 00:14:28,940 --> 00:14:32,940 of photographs at that point. 269 00:14:32,940 --> 00:14:36,940 Andrew Nichols took two Polaroid shots, one during and one after, 270 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:39,940 the electromagnetic flux. 271 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:44,940 The second photograph was normal, not so the first. 272 00:14:44,940 --> 00:14:47,940 I thought it was just a washed out photo, 273 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:54,940 but over the subsequent minutes, this image started forming. 274 00:14:54,940 --> 00:14:58,940 There was a vague humanoid shape in the forefront of the picture. 275 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:03,940 It may be a reflection of some unusual environmental effect. 276 00:15:03,940 --> 00:15:06,940 It may be a strange artifact of the human psyche, 277 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:10,940 or it may be a contact with a dimension of existence 278 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:12,940 that's beyond our imagination. 279 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:16,940 When I looked at it, I knew that that was what I had seen 280 00:15:16,940 --> 00:15:21,940 at the end of the couch, that that was Isabella. 281 00:15:21,940 --> 00:15:23,940 And I was real excited about it, 282 00:15:23,940 --> 00:15:27,940 to see that somebody else could see her too. 283 00:15:32,940 --> 00:15:35,940 Two months later, after a visit from a local minister, 284 00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:39,940 the hauntings appeared to stop, but the man's had had enough. 285 00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:42,940 David and Sandra, like Alan and Linda before them, 286 00:15:42,940 --> 00:15:47,940 felt that all things considered, they would rather be elsewhere. 287 00:15:47,940 --> 00:15:50,940 Everybody that has come in contact with this house 288 00:15:50,940 --> 00:15:56,940 have told us that what they do may or may not be permanent. 289 00:15:56,940 --> 00:15:58,940 They don't know. Nobody knows. 290 00:15:58,940 --> 00:16:03,940 And I felt that as a result of what we had done, 291 00:16:03,940 --> 00:16:05,940 we might have slowed it down, 292 00:16:05,940 --> 00:16:08,940 but I doubt very seriously if we had stopped it. 293 00:16:10,940 --> 00:16:12,940 Was the house in Lake Wales haunted 294 00:16:12,940 --> 00:16:16,940 by the spirit of someone named Isabella Cramer? 295 00:16:16,940 --> 00:16:19,940 Although there are no records of such a person 296 00:16:19,940 --> 00:16:24,940 ever lived in the area, the man's have all the proof they need. 297 00:16:26,940 --> 00:16:29,940 In March of 1993, this photograph, 298 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:31,940 taken in Alan Man's old bedroom, 299 00:16:31,940 --> 00:16:35,940 was sent to Polaroid headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 300 00:16:35,940 --> 00:16:37,940 Analysts there said the shape and the foreground 301 00:16:37,940 --> 00:16:41,940 had not been caused by a defect in the film or in the camera. 302 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:45,940 Could it be the ghostly image of Isabella Cramer? 303 00:16:45,940 --> 00:16:49,940 Not surprisingly, the experts have yet to provide an answer. 304 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:54,940 Next, a woman searches for the childhood friend 305 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:58,940 who helped her survive the horrors of World War II. 306 00:17:02,940 --> 00:17:06,940 World War II, 307 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:08,940 the treacherous seas of the North Atlantic 308 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:11,940 off the coast of England. 309 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:15,940 Hundreds of ships were attacked and sunk by German U-Bots. 310 00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:19,940 Thousands lost their lives, 311 00:17:19,940 --> 00:17:21,940 and for every man killed, 312 00:17:21,940 --> 00:17:24,940 a family was shattered and changed forever. 313 00:17:25,940 --> 00:17:26,940 That was the case for 314 00:17:26,940 --> 00:17:28,940 Merchant Marine William Murphy. 315 00:17:28,940 --> 00:17:30,940 In December of 1941, 316 00:17:30,940 --> 00:17:33,940 Murphy was aboard a supply ship when it was torpedoed. 317 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:37,940 He left behind a wife, a son, and three daughters. 318 00:17:40,940 --> 00:17:42,940 Within a month of her husband's death, 319 00:17:42,940 --> 00:17:45,940 Morna Murphy placed her son in a foster home 320 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:47,940 and took her three daughters to an orphanage 321 00:17:47,940 --> 00:17:49,940 on the outskirts of London, 322 00:17:49,940 --> 00:17:51,940 St. Helen's Convent of Mercy. 323 00:17:51,940 --> 00:17:54,940 Hello, Mrs. Murphy. Hello. 324 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:56,940 This is Aideen. 325 00:17:56,940 --> 00:17:58,940 And this is Filomena. 326 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:00,940 And this is Morna. 327 00:18:00,940 --> 00:18:03,940 Girls, just in time to join us. 328 00:18:03,940 --> 00:18:05,940 Come along. 329 00:18:07,940 --> 00:18:10,940 For Aideen, the oldest of the Murphy children, 330 00:18:10,940 --> 00:18:13,940 the pain of saying goodbye was a special one. 331 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:15,940 The first time she was in a nursing home 332 00:18:15,940 --> 00:18:17,940 was when she was a child. 333 00:18:17,940 --> 00:18:19,940 She was a nurse. 334 00:18:19,940 --> 00:18:22,940 The pain of saying goodbye was especially difficult. 335 00:18:24,940 --> 00:18:27,940 Don't fret, love. I'll see you on Sunday. 336 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:36,940 When my mother left, I just felt devastated, 337 00:18:36,940 --> 00:18:39,940 like suddenly the whole world had disappeared 338 00:18:39,940 --> 00:18:43,940 and left me in some strange place that I didn't belong in. 339 00:18:43,940 --> 00:18:45,940 And that was the feeling I always had 340 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:48,940 that I don't belong here. I'm not an orphan. 341 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:52,940 Conditions in the orphanage reflected 342 00:18:52,940 --> 00:18:54,940 the bleak reality of wartime England. 343 00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:57,940 There was little food, inadequate heating, 344 00:18:57,940 --> 00:18:59,940 and a strict code of rules. 345 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:03,940 The sisters were very harsh. 346 00:19:03,940 --> 00:19:05,940 They had a lot of little girls to take care of, 347 00:19:05,940 --> 00:19:08,940 so that you really didn't get any attention, 348 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:10,940 except when you did something wrong, 349 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:12,940 then you'd get a crack over the head 350 00:19:12,940 --> 00:19:14,940 or a hit in the backside or something. 351 00:19:20,940 --> 00:19:23,940 I especially remember at night, 352 00:19:23,940 --> 00:19:27,940 we'd lie in, we had a dormitory with rows of beds, 353 00:19:27,940 --> 00:19:31,940 and I'd just lie there and I would feel these little tears 354 00:19:31,940 --> 00:19:34,940 going down my face. 355 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:36,940 And I didn't know why I was crying. 356 00:19:43,940 --> 00:19:46,940 Aideen felt terribly lonely. 357 00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:48,940 The isolation was almost unbearable 358 00:19:48,940 --> 00:19:51,940 until another new girl arrived at the convent. 359 00:19:52,940 --> 00:19:54,940 Hello. 360 00:19:54,940 --> 00:19:56,940 Hello. 361 00:19:56,940 --> 00:19:57,940 Can I play? 362 00:19:57,940 --> 00:19:59,940 All right. 363 00:19:59,940 --> 00:20:02,940 Eve Meisel came from a prominent Jewish family in Austria. 364 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:06,940 Her father, a musician, had been captured by the Nazis. 365 00:20:06,940 --> 00:20:08,940 Like millions of others, 366 00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:10,940 he was sent to a concentration camp 367 00:20:10,940 --> 00:20:12,940 where he would eventually die. 368 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:15,940 Eve's mother had managed to escape to London, 369 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:17,940 but she lacked the means to support a family 370 00:20:17,940 --> 00:20:19,940 and Eve was sent to the orphanage. 371 00:20:19,940 --> 00:20:23,940 Her arrival would change Aideen's life. 372 00:20:23,940 --> 00:20:26,940 I'm not very good. 373 00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:30,940 The first thing I noticed about her was that she was in English, 374 00:20:30,940 --> 00:20:34,940 and she looked different, you know, to me she looked different. 375 00:20:34,940 --> 00:20:37,940 You know, she had very dark hair and dark eyes, 376 00:20:37,940 --> 00:20:41,940 and she was very bubbly and very funny. 377 00:20:41,940 --> 00:20:43,940 And she always had jokes about everything. 378 00:20:43,940 --> 00:20:45,940 We'd make jokes about the nuns, 379 00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:49,940 and we'd just sort of hung out together. 380 00:20:52,940 --> 00:20:55,940 The London Blitz was still in full force. 381 00:20:55,940 --> 00:20:57,940 Every night, for months on end, 382 00:20:57,940 --> 00:21:00,940 the German Air Force bombarded the city, 383 00:21:00,940 --> 00:21:02,940 reducing much of it to rubble. 384 00:21:04,940 --> 00:21:07,940 Come along. Let's go. 385 00:21:07,940 --> 00:21:11,940 Most evenings would be pierced by the shrill sounds of air raid sirens. 386 00:21:11,940 --> 00:21:14,940 The girls in the orphanage were hustled into a downslash 387 00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:17,940 shelter to listen and wait. 388 00:21:23,940 --> 00:21:28,940 It was just terrifying, but she just lived with it day in, day out. 389 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:33,940 And I think one of the most terrifying things for both Eve and I 390 00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:37,940 was that we did not know from one week to another if our mothers were OK. 391 00:21:39,940 --> 00:21:42,940 We believed that we would live through the bombing, 392 00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:45,940 that at the same time we expected to die, you know, 393 00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:47,940 when you go to sleep at night, the nuns would say, 394 00:21:47,940 --> 00:21:49,940 make sure you say an act of contrition, 395 00:21:49,940 --> 00:21:52,940 because you may be dead in the morning, you see. 396 00:21:52,940 --> 00:21:54,940 But of course Eve wouldn't say that, because she's Jewish. 397 00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:56,940 She doesn't say acts of contrition, 398 00:21:56,940 --> 00:21:58,940 she just considered that total nonsense. 399 00:21:58,940 --> 00:22:01,940 And I wondered how she, sometimes how she found the strength 400 00:22:01,940 --> 00:22:04,940 without that to keep going and not be afraid. 401 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:09,940 Aideen and Eve became practically inseparable. 402 00:22:09,940 --> 00:22:13,940 They made an unwritten pact that they would survive the war together. 403 00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:16,940 Check with me in New York after you're out. 404 00:22:16,940 --> 00:22:19,940 They also shared a common dream, to one day 405 00:22:19,940 --> 00:22:21,940 cross the ocean to live in America. 406 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:25,940 Quite a layout, Bentley, but you've only been out a week. 407 00:22:25,940 --> 00:22:29,940 Eve and I didn't have a concept of what America actually was at first, 408 00:22:29,940 --> 00:22:33,940 other than a place where everybody was happy and there wasn't any war, 409 00:22:33,940 --> 00:22:35,940 and everybody had enough to eat. 410 00:22:35,940 --> 00:22:38,940 And that's the place where we're going to go. 411 00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:40,940 Even I think we'll grow up. 412 00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:42,940 Now, on you boys. 413 00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:49,940 As the war dragged on, Aideen and Eve grew from little girls into young women. 414 00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:52,940 When the conflict finally ended, they returned to their families, 415 00:22:52,940 --> 00:22:54,940 but remained as close as ever. 416 00:22:54,940 --> 00:22:57,940 They attended the same high school and took the same classes. 417 00:22:57,940 --> 00:23:02,940 By the time they graduated, Aideen and Eve had spent half their lives together. 418 00:23:03,940 --> 00:23:08,940 Shortly after graduation, Aideen's childhood dream came true. 419 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:11,940 Relatives offered to pay her way to America. 420 00:23:11,940 --> 00:23:14,940 I'm leaving tomorrow. 421 00:23:14,940 --> 00:23:19,940 I told Eve about it and she was very abrupt, almost not, 422 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,940 oh that's great or anything, she sort of pulled back, 423 00:23:22,940 --> 00:23:24,940 not like her usual self. 424 00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:26,940 You have a fabulous time. 425 00:23:26,940 --> 00:23:29,940 I'll write you, I'll tell you what it's like. 426 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:32,940 Just be here or so and then you'll be there. 427 00:23:32,940 --> 00:23:35,940 Oh yeah, what will be long? 428 00:23:35,940 --> 00:23:40,940 I was young, I was like 17, so I didn't understand how hurt she was. 429 00:23:40,940 --> 00:23:42,940 Bye bye Aideen. 430 00:23:42,940 --> 00:23:44,940 Bye bye. 431 00:23:44,940 --> 00:23:46,940 Because we had planned to go together. 432 00:23:46,940 --> 00:23:49,940 Be safe. You too. 433 00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:52,940 No. 434 00:23:58,940 --> 00:24:02,940 And I didn't understand too well myself at the time 435 00:24:02,940 --> 00:24:05,940 because I was so excited just to be going. 436 00:24:05,940 --> 00:24:08,940 And I never thought of it as final, 437 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:10,940 I never thought that would be the last time I'd see her 438 00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:13,940 because we've been so close for so long. 439 00:24:14,940 --> 00:24:18,940 Life in America was everything Aideen had hoped for. 440 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:22,940 She and Eve exchanged monthly letters for more than a year. 441 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:25,940 Both of them fell in love and married. 442 00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:29,940 However in the end, time and distance pulled the two friends apart 443 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:31,940 but Aideen never forgot. 444 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:36,940 Aideen hopes that she and her long lost friend 445 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:39,940 will one day be reunited here in America, 446 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:42,940 the land they dreamed of so many years ago. 447 00:24:42,940 --> 00:24:44,940 Step with me in New York after you're out. 448 00:24:44,940 --> 00:24:47,940 It feels like she's a part of me that I've carried around all these years 449 00:24:47,940 --> 00:24:50,940 and I just want to see her. 450 00:24:50,940 --> 00:24:52,940 She's in my dreams all the time. 451 00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:55,940 I just remember her eyes, the pretty they were, 452 00:24:55,940 --> 00:25:00,940 her voice and just as she was there for me, 453 00:25:00,940 --> 00:25:03,940 you know, when I needed someone. 454 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:19,940 Next, a small town is outraged by the death of a young school teacher. 455 00:25:20,940 --> 00:25:35,940 Agawam, Massachusetts near the western Connecticut border is a small town, 456 00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:38,940 and the people who live here like it that way. 457 00:25:38,940 --> 00:25:44,940 In 1989, Agawam voted overwhelmingly not to be known as a city 458 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:46,940 but to remain simply a town, 459 00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:51,940 a place where neighbors are friends and friends are family. 460 00:25:51,940 --> 00:25:55,940 At the Agawam Middle School, under a dogwood tree in the courtyard, 461 00:25:55,940 --> 00:25:59,940 there is a memorial to one of the town's most beloved daughters, 462 00:25:59,940 --> 00:26:04,940 Lisa Ziegert, whose untimely death changed Agawam forever. 463 00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:08,940 Lisa was a very special person. 464 00:26:08,940 --> 00:26:12,940 She was bubbly, outgoing, full of fun. 465 00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:16,940 The kids, she always had a special rapport. 466 00:26:16,940 --> 00:26:23,940 They knew that she really liked them and that she treated them like people. 467 00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:27,940 Now this happens to be a model of an apple blossom. 468 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:29,940 Lisa Ziegert had grown up in Agawam. 469 00:26:29,940 --> 00:26:34,940 After college, she returned home to teach special needs students at the middle school. 470 00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:37,940 The petals would dry up and this would become an apple. 471 00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:40,940 I think of Lisa as a gifted teacher. 472 00:26:40,940 --> 00:26:47,940 The gifted teacher is the one into whose eyes a child can walk and see a reflection of value. 473 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:49,940 And you can't fake it. 474 00:26:49,940 --> 00:26:51,940 You either have it or you don't. It's a gift. 475 00:26:51,940 --> 00:26:54,940 And I think Lisa had it. 476 00:26:54,940 --> 00:26:57,940 Well, what would you do if it was all black in your house? 477 00:26:57,940 --> 00:26:58,940 Turn on the lights. 478 00:26:58,940 --> 00:27:01,940 That's a good idea. Is there a light switch there anywhere? 479 00:27:01,940 --> 00:27:06,940 If you had a problem, she'd try to help you solve it and she would never yell at you. 480 00:27:06,940 --> 00:27:10,940 She would always try to figure out what the problem is in a nice way. 481 00:27:10,940 --> 00:27:14,940 If you had a question, she'd answer it. 482 00:27:14,940 --> 00:27:18,940 She was like the best teacher out of the whole school. 483 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:21,940 What are you guys supposed to read for biology? Do you remember? 484 00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:28,940 On Wednesday, April 15, 1992, Lisa left school around 4.30. 485 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:33,940 She drove directly to a card and gift shop where she worked weekdays from 5 to 9 p.m. 486 00:27:33,940 --> 00:27:36,940 At 5.30, Lisa's sister dropped by. 487 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:38,940 Ann's gonna love that picture. 488 00:27:38,940 --> 00:27:39,940 Do you think? 489 00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:42,940 Oh yeah, she likes everything you do. Are you gonna frame this one? 490 00:27:42,940 --> 00:27:45,940 Lisa was working on a sketch for my best friend, Ann. 491 00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:46,940 She took this one seriously. 492 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:48,940 I know who that is. 493 00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:50,940 It was easy talk. It was sister talk. 494 00:27:50,940 --> 00:27:51,940 Did she go to the gym tonight? 495 00:27:51,940 --> 00:27:52,940 No, I was stuck. 496 00:27:52,940 --> 00:27:55,940 It was a little after 6 o'clock when I left. 497 00:27:55,940 --> 00:28:01,940 Then I went home and she was fine when I left. 498 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:09,940 The next morning at 8.45, Sophia Maynard arrived as usual to open up the store. 499 00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:13,940 She was surprised Lisa was there on a school day. 500 00:28:13,940 --> 00:28:16,940 I saw her car. The lights were on in the store. 501 00:28:16,940 --> 00:28:21,940 The open flag was out. It was strange. 502 00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:23,940 I couldn't imagine why she'd be there. 503 00:28:23,940 --> 00:28:26,940 And then I remembered that it was Easter weekend coming up. 504 00:28:26,940 --> 00:28:30,940 We had planned to stuff some balloons and that's what she was doing there. 505 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:37,940 So I really didn't think much of anything until I walked inside the store, you know. 506 00:28:37,940 --> 00:28:39,940 Lisa? 507 00:28:39,940 --> 00:28:40,940 Lisa! 508 00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:47,940 I called her name a couple of times and she didn't, you know, I figured she'd just pop her head out. She didn't. 509 00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:50,940 I came behind the counter. All of her things were there. 510 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:55,940 Her drawings and her pocketbook, her car keys. 511 00:28:55,940 --> 00:28:59,940 And then I just kind of freaked out. 512 00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:09,940 I knew that something was wrong. So I ran out, ran across the street to the restaurant across the street and asked them to call the police. 513 00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:11,940 Watch your step in here. 514 00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:16,940 Police found signs of a struggle in the back store room and a few scattered traces of blood. 515 00:29:16,940 --> 00:29:21,940 Otherwise, there was no physical evidence at the card shop. 516 00:29:21,940 --> 00:29:31,940 That very day, the Aga Wom Police Department, aided by the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police, launched a massive search. 517 00:29:31,940 --> 00:29:42,940 You wait to hear something good, but at that point you start feeling that, you know, possibly it isn't going to be a good answer to what's going on. 518 00:29:42,940 --> 00:29:52,940 I couldn't let myself believe that everything wasn't going to be okay. That she would be found. 519 00:29:52,940 --> 00:30:01,940 And no matter what had happened, that we would be able to have her back. 520 00:30:01,940 --> 00:30:09,940 On Easter Sunday, four days after Lisa disappeared, her body was found in a wooded area on the edge of town. 521 00:30:09,940 --> 00:30:15,940 She had multiple knife wounds around her shoulders and throat. 522 00:30:15,940 --> 00:30:26,940 And later on, an examination by the county medical examiner indicated that she had been sexually assaulted. 523 00:30:26,940 --> 00:30:32,940 Never before in the history of Aga Wom had there been such an outpouring of love, such shared grief. 524 00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:42,940 At Lisa's Eagerts Wake, more than a thousand people stood for five hours in a spring rain to pay her tribute. 525 00:30:42,940 --> 00:30:52,940 It was just beyond anything I ever experienced. It just again showed us what kind of a person Lisa was. 526 00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:59,940 We're not a political family or anything, so there would be no reason they would come out for us. It was for her. 527 00:30:59,940 --> 00:31:09,940 I miss the way she teaches and the way she was such a friend to everyone. 528 00:31:09,940 --> 00:31:15,940 And I wish that there were more people in the world that would like her. 529 00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:25,940 As Aga Wom mourned, the authorities pressed their investigation. Three critical phone tips came in, which helped establish a time frame. 530 00:31:25,940 --> 00:31:32,940 The first call was from a person who had been in the store at 8.20 and had made a purchase and actually had a time stamp receipt. 531 00:31:32,940 --> 00:31:35,940 Excuse me? Do you know the price on this? 532 00:31:35,940 --> 00:31:37,940 Oh, it should be marked. 533 00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:40,940 There was nothing that was unusual. There was nothing that was out of line. 534 00:31:40,940 --> 00:31:45,940 Nothing that perked their attention to say that they should call a police. 535 00:31:45,940 --> 00:31:46,940 Would you like it wrapped? 536 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:51,940 The second person was a customer of the store who had gone in at 9 o'clock. 537 00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:52,940 Is anybody here? 538 00:31:52,940 --> 00:31:55,940 She found it open, lights on, but nobody was around. 539 00:31:55,940 --> 00:31:58,940 Hello? 540 00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:02,940 This person told us that they did hear some noise in the back room. 541 00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:04,940 Hello? 542 00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:11,940 She described it as a banging noise. She waited a minute and nobody came out, so she left. 543 00:32:12,940 --> 00:32:30,940 This suggested to us that Lisa was in the store around 9 o'clock, and in the back room, further investigation revealed that she had been horizontal on the floor, and there were two kick marks from her shoes on the bottom of the door. 544 00:32:30,940 --> 00:32:40,940 The third tip came from a woman who worked near the card shop. At 9.15 on the night Lisa was murdered, the woman was on her way home. 545 00:32:40,940 --> 00:32:59,940 She was stopped at the stop sign at the intersection of Route 75 in Adams Street, and while stopped at that intersection, she observed a Bronco or Blazer type vehicle full size pull off the road into a piece of property that led into the area where Lisa Ziegert's body was found. 546 00:32:59,940 --> 00:33:15,940 She said that there was an operator in the front, and in the back seat she believed there was two people, one male and one female, and she saw the person whom she believed to be the female see her head go up and down a couple of times as the vehicle drove off into the woods. 547 00:33:18,940 --> 00:33:25,940 At the time, the woman thought it was just a carload of teenagers. She drove on. There have been no further clues. 548 00:33:29,940 --> 00:33:39,940 Today the students at Agawam Middle School cherish the memorial, the establishment honor of Lisa Ziegert, who in her own brief life touched so many of their lives. 549 00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:57,940 I think children always feel that nothing can happen to them, and when something happens to someone that so many of them knew, it brought it home that life isn't always fair and that you have to be extra careful, and even sometimes when you're extra careful, it doesn't matter. 550 00:33:59,940 --> 00:34:12,940 This cannot go unpunished. It can't be something where this person gets away, and the children have got to know this. If it's important for us, it's even more important for them. 551 00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:34,940 There is a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Lisa Ziegert's killer or killers. Police have taken plaster molds of tire tracks left at the murder scene. The vehicle sighted by the witness was a late model full size Bronco or Blazer, either dark red or dark blue. 552 00:34:42,940 --> 00:35:00,940 When we return, a heartwarming reunion, and police need your help to find an unknown gunman. 553 00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:20,940 December 7th, 1941. The United States was plunged into World War II. Among the millions of Americans eager to enlist was 30-year-old Harry Young of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 554 00:35:20,940 --> 00:35:23,940 I can't stay here while there's a war going on. I need you to sign this paper. 555 00:35:24,940 --> 00:35:29,940 Harry, I think it's a terrible idea for you to leave right now. I need you. We all need you. 556 00:35:29,940 --> 00:35:35,940 Because he had a family to support, Harry needed his wife's permission in order to enlist. 557 00:35:35,940 --> 00:35:38,940 Look, two years. I'll be back. Just sign the paper. 558 00:35:38,940 --> 00:35:40,940 No. 559 00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:42,940 Laura. 560 00:35:42,940 --> 00:36:01,940 Harry Young walked out on his wife, Laura, never to return. He had no idea that she was then pregnant with her second son. Later, Laura would learn that Harry had enlisted in the army using forged documents and was serving overseas. 561 00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:11,940 On October 24th, 1943, Laura Young received the news every soldier's wife fears. Her husband had been killed in action. 562 00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:21,940 Thirty-seven years later, Harry's oldest son, Albert, was researching the family tree when he found a newspaper article about his father's death. 563 00:36:21,940 --> 00:36:28,940 Incredibly, the obituary made mention of a daughter, but not of Albert or his brother, Jim. 564 00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:42,940 Well, at first I thought that the paper made a mistake, which wasn't common, you know, papers do make mistakes, and I thought maybe today I had got the information wrong, and I had a copy made so I could go into it further. 565 00:36:43,940 --> 00:36:54,940 Albert was shocked to discover that after Harry walked out on his marriage, he had become involved with another woman. They had a daughter, Kathleen Mary Young, born while Harry was overseas. 566 00:36:55,940 --> 00:37:02,940 Just after Harry's death, the woman had taken Kathleen to Harry's parents, but they wanted nothing to do with either of them. 567 00:37:03,940 --> 00:37:06,940 I have some of Harry's things. Would you like me to bring them over to you? 568 00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:08,940 No, just send them. 569 00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:21,940 Kathleen Mary Young grew up knowing next to nothing about her two half-brothers, Albert and Jim, until the night of our broadcast. 570 00:37:24,940 --> 00:37:32,940 That evening, Kathleen couldn't have been more surprised when she heard her name on television. By the next morning, she had talked to both Albert and Jim. 571 00:37:32,940 --> 00:37:41,940 Kathleen had heard that Harry's parents rejected her mother, and she knew about one of her brothers, but she never imagined that anyone was looking for her. 572 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:51,940 It makes me feel, I don't know, it makes me feel good, it makes me feel like special in a way that they took the time and all those years that now that I know that they were looking for me. 573 00:37:52,940 --> 00:38:04,940 On September 19, 1993, the long separation came to an end when Kathleen Young, accompanied by her family, came to Stratford, New Jersey to meet her half-brothers for the first time. 574 00:38:04,940 --> 00:38:20,940 When I hugged her, it was just so flabbergasted. It felt wonderful. I knew it was her. Since she stepped out of the car, that's a young. 575 00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:23,940 That's a young. 576 00:38:23,940 --> 00:38:25,860 For the three children of Harry Young, 577 00:38:25,860 --> 00:38:28,020 the reunion met a new beginning. 578 00:38:28,020 --> 00:38:31,100 After 50 years apart, they were finally a family. 579 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,000 Thank you. 580 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:32,900 Nice to meet you both. 581 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,420 On January 5, 1991, random violent crime 582 00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:45,900 struck the city of Orange, California. 583 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:47,900 The crime was just one of many that day, 584 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,340 warning less than a minute on the evening news in Los Angeles. 585 00:38:51,340 --> 00:38:54,340 But a young man was shot and left paralyzed. 586 00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:56,460 Tonight, authorities want your help 587 00:38:56,460 --> 00:38:58,220 in bringing the assailant to justice. 588 00:39:03,820 --> 00:39:07,940 1991 had promised to be a good year for Rory Weigel. 589 00:39:07,940 --> 00:39:09,260 Rory was 25. 590 00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:12,300 I was all set to ask his girlfriend to marry him. 591 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:15,100 He had just graduated from a technical training school, 592 00:39:15,100 --> 00:39:17,540 and he planned to open his own auto repair shop. 593 00:39:22,940 --> 00:39:26,780 But on January 5, Rory's life would change forever. 594 00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:28,900 He had spent the day with his girlfriend. 595 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:35,220 That night, Rory made a quick stop at his house around 9.30. 596 00:39:35,220 --> 00:39:37,980 I parked my car, turned the headlights off, 597 00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:39,900 left the parking lights on. 598 00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:43,140 I left the car running. 599 00:39:43,260 --> 00:39:45,620 It wasn't uncommon for me to do that. 600 00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:47,060 People know who want to be there, 601 00:39:47,060 --> 00:39:49,260 and who want to be not, just by the sound of the car. 602 00:39:55,340 --> 00:39:58,300 On his way out, Rory went into the garage 603 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:00,660 to find an extra set of stereo speakers 604 00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:02,100 for his girlfriend's sister. 605 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:08,820 I'm looking underneath the bench, 606 00:40:08,820 --> 00:40:10,980 some boxes for those speakers, because I 607 00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:12,860 knew I just saw it recently. 608 00:40:12,860 --> 00:40:16,020 And I wasn't in there for more than a couple, maybe 30, 609 00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:19,540 40 seconds, maybe in a minute, the longest. 610 00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:21,940 And I heard the car, my car ran out. 611 00:40:37,580 --> 00:40:40,020 Hey, no, don't move. 612 00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:41,020 What are you doing? 613 00:40:41,980 --> 00:40:43,140 What are you doing with my car? 614 00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:45,860 Get out of my car. 615 00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:47,140 I said, get out of my car. 616 00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:48,940 Get out of here, OK? 617 00:40:48,940 --> 00:40:50,940 What are you doing with my car? 618 00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:52,900 You get it, eh? 619 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:53,620 Eh? 620 00:40:53,620 --> 00:40:56,620 I was in my living room watching television, 621 00:40:56,620 --> 00:40:59,220 and I heard an engine revving on the street, 622 00:40:59,220 --> 00:41:01,780 which is unusual at that time of night. 623 00:41:01,780 --> 00:41:03,700 And I got up to look out the window, 624 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:05,460 and there were shots fired. 625 00:41:05,460 --> 00:41:11,660 I don't know what was going on. 626 00:41:11,660 --> 00:41:14,660 All I remember is that I'm falling backwards, 627 00:41:14,660 --> 00:41:16,140 and for some reason I know I'm not 628 00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:17,540 going to be able to get back up. 629 00:41:17,540 --> 00:41:18,140 I have no idea. 630 00:41:18,140 --> 00:41:19,540 I don't feel anything. 631 00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:20,500 I don't hear anything. 632 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,060 All I do is just see him right away. 633 00:41:23,060 --> 00:41:25,140 And then I lost my memory. 634 00:41:25,140 --> 00:41:26,420 I don't remember what happened then. 635 00:41:30,620 --> 00:41:34,060 I immediately went onto the front of my house, 636 00:41:34,060 --> 00:41:37,340 and almost instantly a car sped by with what 637 00:41:37,340 --> 00:41:40,900 turned out to be the suspects. 638 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:43,060 As he hit the end of the street, I saw him turn, 639 00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:44,900 and then they were gone. 640 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:45,700 Hang in there, man. 641 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:46,300 You can make it. 642 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:47,220 Come on, you can make it. 643 00:41:47,220 --> 00:41:47,660 Come on. 644 00:41:47,660 --> 00:41:50,220 Two other neighbors, Mark Kodis and Jim Morris, 645 00:41:50,220 --> 00:41:51,820 rushed to help. 646 00:41:51,820 --> 00:41:55,620 Rory had been shot twice, once in the leg and once in the neck. 647 00:41:55,620 --> 00:42:01,580 Fortunately, both Mark and Jim had emergency medical training. 648 00:42:01,580 --> 00:42:03,220 I should be dead. 649 00:42:03,220 --> 00:42:06,700 I lost my, at least, twice going to the hospital. 650 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:07,620 We're going to blanket around here. 651 00:42:07,620 --> 00:42:08,900 Somebody get a blanket? 652 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:13,060 They didn't think I was going to make it through the surgery, 653 00:42:13,060 --> 00:42:15,660 but I did. 654 00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:18,420 So I have a lot of gratitude. 655 00:42:18,420 --> 00:42:20,340 More than I can really express. 656 00:42:20,340 --> 00:42:22,860 It kind of looks like a pre-card. 657 00:42:22,860 --> 00:42:23,460 Yeah. 658 00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:24,900 The fire-pig-bust body. 659 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:28,420 Two and a half years have passed since Rory Weigel was shot. 660 00:42:28,420 --> 00:42:30,260 He cannot move his legs or hands 661 00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:31,900 and has limited use of his arms. 662 00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:38,740 The man suspected of shooting Rory is in his early 20s, 663 00:42:38,740 --> 00:42:41,780 between 5 feet 8 and 5 feet 10 inches tall, 664 00:42:41,780 --> 00:42:44,620 and weighs around 165 pounds. 665 00:42:44,620 --> 00:42:46,660 He has dark hair potted on the right, 666 00:42:46,660 --> 00:42:48,620 and is probably Hispanic. 667 00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:54,060 There is no composite of the man who drove the getaway car. 668 00:42:54,060 --> 00:42:56,940 That vehicle was described as a dark GM car, 669 00:42:56,980 --> 00:43:00,780 possibly a Monte Carlo, late 70s or early 80s model, 670 00:43:00,780 --> 00:43:02,820 with chrome wheels and a final roof. 671 00:43:11,540 --> 00:43:15,500 On our next Unsolved Mysteries, in May of 1917, 672 00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:17,780 near Fatima, Portugal, three children 673 00:43:17,780 --> 00:43:20,860 witness what many believe was truly a miracle. 674 00:43:20,860 --> 00:43:24,660 The first of six appearances of a vision of the Virgin Mary 675 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:28,100 at the final appearance, many of the 70,000 eyewitnesses 676 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:31,580 on hand, would claim to see the sun spin and dip 677 00:43:31,580 --> 00:43:36,100 in a spectacular celestial display. 678 00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:38,900 To this day, the advanced Fatima have intrigued 679 00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:41,420 skeptics and believers alike. 680 00:43:41,420 --> 00:43:45,020 Join me next time for this remarkable saga and more 681 00:43:45,020 --> 00:43:46,220 on Unsolved Mysteries.