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 --> 00:00:19,200 In San Francisco, the murder of a wealthy businessman 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,760 has baffled police for over a year. 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,200 With the investigation stalled, the lead detective 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,000 tried a novel approach. 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,960 He opened his case files to a handful of volunteer sluice 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,360 and rolled in a course called Murder 101. 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,360 Tonight you'll see whether the students came up 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,280 with new clues that might actually help solve the case. 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,080 In Rhode Island, a fiery car crash leaves a young mother 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,000 paralyzed and unconscious. 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,600 Now she needs your help to find the two anonymous heroes who 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,800 saved her life. 17 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,720 In 1984, the police found a man who was a victim of a murder 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,000 seven-year-old Gary Grant Jr. The son of a police officer 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,080 was found murdered in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,680 Incredibly, the prime suspect was just a boy himself 21 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,440 who confessed to the crime and then recanted it. 22 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:11,920 Join me tonight. 23 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,240 You may be able to help solve a mystery. 24 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:02,720 San Francisco, California, December 1993. 25 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,440 A prosperous businessman who supplied noodles 26 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,720 to dozens of Chinatown restaurants is stabbed to death. 27 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,720 Case file number 931-8613. 28 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,720 The suspect was found in a car crash. 29 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,720 The suspect was found in a car crash. 30 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,720 The suspect was found in a car crash. 31 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,720 The suspect was found in a car crash. 32 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,720 File number 931-86131. 33 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,220 Current status, unsolved. 34 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,600 The Chinatown case has just won a thousands of unsolved murders 35 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,920 that plague police departments across the country. 36 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,920 With no immediate solution in sight, 37 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,480 the detective in charge tried an unconventional approach. 38 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,840 He opened his case files to a college class called 39 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,840 Murder We Solve. 40 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,480 Created by a woman named Brooke Stewart, 41 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,400 the class had already helped close one case, the slaying 42 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,520 of a taxi driver in 1992. 43 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,040 Tonight, we invite you to join another group of students 44 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,400 as they try to unravel the peculiar case of the murdered 45 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:03,800 Chinatown businessman. 46 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,760 How many of you ever thought that you 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,520 would be sitting here today solving an actual murder? 48 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,840 When Brooke Stewart's class met in December of 1994, 49 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,560 the would-be detectives included a ballet teacher, 50 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,200 a housewife, and several writers. 51 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,040 San Francisco police inspector, Prentice Sanders, 52 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,080 briefed the students on the case. 53 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,480 Good morning. 54 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,920 So you want to be homicide detectives, huh? 55 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,680 Well, first, you've got to buy yourself a hat like this. 56 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,040 I've been working on this case now almost a year. 57 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:43,440 And certainly, I have believed that once you've become stymied, 58 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,560 you take the case and look at it from an entirely different 59 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,920 angle, open it up and start all over again 60 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,160 and the class gave me an opportunity to do that. 61 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,560 Let me introduce you to your victim. 62 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,320 Jim Fang was a 42-year-old businessman, 63 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,600 owner of two noodle factories. 64 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,240 On December 18, 1993, he and an employee 65 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,600 were attacked by a pair of assailants. 66 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,280 Jim Fang was stabbed to death. 67 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:16,280 Inspector Sanders was called to the scene around 1.30 AM. 68 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:18,720 How do you have your room? 69 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,880 A rear window of Mr. Fang's van was broken. 70 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,400 The van's interior ransacked. 71 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,440 No fingerprints were found, but the murder weapon 72 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,800 had been left behind. 73 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,520 In the van, we found the knife. 74 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,880 The knife turned out to be a regular, cheap, kitchen, 75 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,840 steak knife. 76 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:47,440 It's one that you would pay $0.99 for at the $0.99 store. 77 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,840 And it was very worn, as if it had been washed 100 times 78 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,040 or more. 79 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,000 Authorities also recovered this BB gun. 80 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,840 However, they weren't certain it had been used in the assault 81 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,360 until they interviewed the only witness to the crime. 82 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:07,960 The evening of the murder, Jim Fang 83 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,720 had offered a ride home to one of his supervisors, 84 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,800 Mrs. Yi Sung. 85 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:19,000 Shortly after midnight, they exited the building, 86 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,720 left and went outside, just outside, 87 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,600 and got into Mr. Fang's van. 88 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,960 The window was broken out, and Mr. Fang did not 89 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,080 notice that his window was broken. 90 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,360 He and his passenger entered the van, 91 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,360 and he drove about 100 feet. 92 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,720 What are you doing? 93 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,000 Who are you? 94 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,520 Get out of the way. 95 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,800 What are you doing? 96 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,520 According to Mrs. Yi, the two young men 97 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,720 spoke in fluent Cantonese. 98 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,600 They demanded the money. 99 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,440 Where is the money? 100 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,440 The man with the gun struck Mrs. Yi 101 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,480 along the side of the head with the gun, 102 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,480 demanding that she not turn around nor look. 103 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,080 Mrs. Yi said the terrifying episode 104 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,160 lasted more than half an hour, far longer than most robberies. 105 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,800 During that time, the two men ripped apart the van's 106 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,960 interior, repeating over and over their demand 107 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,760 for the money, the money. 108 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,600 The killer struck with brutal accuracy. 109 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,800 A single plunge of the knife sliced directly 110 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,880 into Mr. Fang's heart. 111 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,120 Either this stabber is very lucky 112 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:01,160 to hit such a vital spot, or he is very experienced 113 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,240 in knowing where the vital spot is. 114 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,400 Before fleeing, the assailants threatened 115 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,160 to kill Mrs. Yi if she called for help. 116 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,400 She stayed there about two hours, 117 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,760 afraid to move because of the threat. 118 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,240 She didn't hear a car leave, and did she 119 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,280 didn't hear anyone running. 120 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,200 We're now open for questions. 121 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:29,560 Just before I go into the kitchen. 122 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,160 The case review provoked a number of insightful questions. 123 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:34,560 One of the things that keeps bothering me 124 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,960 is the murder weapon. 125 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,520 It's a cheesy little kitchen knife that's all worn out. 126 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,360 And if I was going to go get serious with somebody, 127 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,320 I wouldn't take a beat up old kitchen knife. 128 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,720 Have you checked to see if that kind of cheap knife that 129 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,840 was used is used at any of the restaurants 130 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,320 where he has clients? 131 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:55,080 Mrs. Yi kept saying they kept asking where the money is. 132 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:55,560 Right. 133 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,040 They were looking for a large quantity of money. 134 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,240 They thought he had a large amount of money. 135 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,160 What do his personal and business bank records show? 136 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,560 Any recent large money that went in and out 137 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,240 that might be what the question where is the money 138 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,160 referred to? 139 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,280 That's an excellent question, and I tell you why. 140 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,120 Inspector Sanders told the class what he knew about Mr. 141 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,080 Fang's daily activities. 142 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:22,480 Hello, Tantai. 143 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:23,720 Hello, how are you? 144 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,400 In times accompanied by his wife, 145 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,680 Fang had personally collected money from his customers. 146 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,680 A typical day would net up to $1,000 in cash. 147 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:34,360 $300? 148 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:35,120 Good price. 149 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:36,040 Best price in the city. 150 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,200 Every time you come in, your price goes up. 151 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:39,120 Here's your $300. 152 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,800 I have a hard time with the thought 153 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,800 that Mr. Fang made the routes himself, 154 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,280 collecting the receipts and collecting the money. 155 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,680 There wasn't something else involved for him doing this 156 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:51,120 as a successful businessman. 157 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,240 Why wouldn't he have somebody else here? 158 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,160 Well, that's a good question. 159 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,880 But he routinely did it himself. 160 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,000 Now, you may be, I, that thought has crossed my mind. 161 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,160 Maybe he's frugal. 162 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:04,840 Is it that he is frugal? 163 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,040 Or is it that there is something else going on? 164 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:08,960 That's what we have to find out. 165 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,720 In fact, there was evidence that the case 166 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,880 had another dimension. 167 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,040 Three weeks after the slaying, Sanders 168 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,000 received a call from a mysterious tipster. 169 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,600 Who's this? 170 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:21,880 Oh, OK, OK. 171 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:22,920 No, I don't care who you are. 172 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:23,800 OK. 173 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:28,960 Inform and advise that I should look into the gambling angle 174 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,120 with Mr. Fang. 175 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,200 That Mr. Fang was, in fact, an avid gambler 176 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:40,760 and had connections in the Chinese community for gambling. 177 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,720 And that that was likely the motive for his murder 178 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,080 rather than petty robbery. 179 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,920 If the caller was to be believed, 180 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,640 Jin Fang had been a key figure in the shadowy world 181 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,000 of illegal gambling, both as a better and as a bookmaker. 182 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,360 This week should be even better. 183 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,200 I want to put $20,000 on the Dallas case. 184 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,520 That's four times what you did last week. 185 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,120 I know that. 186 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,320 I'm good for it, you know. 187 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,600 The informant claimed that on the day of his death, 188 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:11,760 Mr. Fang had collected an eye opening $25,000 in cash. 189 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,960 That $25,000? 190 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:14,920 How do you know that? 191 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,440 It was an extremely promising lead. 192 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,280 However, none of the information could be corroborated, 193 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,800 and Sanders found himself back at square one. 194 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,160 By the end of the class, each student 195 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,600 had heard the baffling mix of evidence, leads, and rumors 196 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,560 in the case of Jin Fang. 197 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:37,240 And each student came back with a theory. 198 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:42,520 My scenario of the thing was that somebody that on his route, 199 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,200 he had a bet with, he won the money 200 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,040 from the person on the route. 201 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,040 The person on the route was very ticked off 202 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,840 that he lost the money, sent somebody out there 203 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,360 to get the money back, and in the process, killed him. 204 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,640 I think maybe somebody overheard something. 205 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,120 It seems like maybe a crime of opportunity 206 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,680 or possibly it could have been planned 207 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:07,480 and made to look like a robbery. 208 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,400 I think there may be a link with Mrs. Yi, 209 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,720 because we don't have as much information from her. 210 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:19,720 So it looks to me like with them moving their arms and things 211 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,920 around to kill him in the front, that she would have been able 212 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,320 to identify something more about them. 213 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,720 I think what's real exciting for me with this class 214 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,760 is it was a completely unique idea. 215 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,840 It's never been tried anywhere to my knowledge. 216 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,560 And it's actually become successful. 217 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,240 We're finding that this class is actually 218 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,320 coming up with ideas, with leads, that are helping 219 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,800 to facilitate the investigation. 220 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,240 The students were given a week to submit a written analysis. 221 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,080 Some, like Nick Dalby, took their investigation 222 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,800 to the streets. 223 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,640 Another student, Carol Llewellyn, 224 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,360 questioned a friend of hers who had lived in Chinatown 225 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:04,200 for many years. 226 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,000 Kara and Nick later went to police headquarters 227 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,400 to try out their theories on Inspector Sanders. 228 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,200 I was thinking that this was more of an amateurish job. 229 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,560 I sort of think it's some gang wannabes 230 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:22,760 from new immigrants to the country. 231 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,320 Doesn't seem to fit to me the traditional sort of signature, 232 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,720 if you will, of the Chinese gangs in Chinatown. 233 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:31,720 Well, what about your dad? 234 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,360 Kara's friend had told her about a different network 235 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,800 of gangs that operated within the Chinese community. 236 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,520 I think the Vietnamese gangs are very different. 237 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:42,520 They're different. 238 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:47,240 They're ethnic Chinese, but they're more ruthless. 239 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,560 Kara learned that many Vietnamese immigrants 240 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:51,480 are well-versed in Cantonese. 241 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,680 And some of the newcomers might be eager to prove themselves 242 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:57,280 to longtime gang members. 243 00:12:58,240 --> 00:12:59,640 Hello, Chen Tai. 244 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,640 Hello, how are you? 245 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:02,840 We're OK. 246 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:07,360 Maybe some young wannabes thought this guy has money. 247 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,680 They noticed that he has jewelry. 248 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:11,080 He's kind of a high roller by the clothes that he wears, 249 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,720 and that they thought he would be a good mark. 250 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:15,720 Give me 100 pounds. 251 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:16,720 100 pounds? 252 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:17,720 Nick, why don't you jump in? 253 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,600 Nick Dalby proposed a scenario that was totally 254 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,120 at odds with Kara's. 255 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,960 I think Mr. Fang's assailants knew 256 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,160 Mr. Fang knew his routine. 257 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,800 I think Mr. Fang was into gambling in a very high level. 258 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,640 I think it was one of the fun things he liked to do. 259 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:44,440 They overheard Mr. Fang either taking or making a large bet. 260 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,040 They knew that he was going to collect a large sum of money. 261 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,960 They expected that he had that money that day. 262 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,400 And they were disappointed and surprised when they found out 263 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,040 that there was nothing in the van. 264 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,760 He didn't have it on him. 265 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,200 And I don't think they killed Mr. Fang deliberately. 266 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:07,480 When he started struggling, that's when they killed it. 267 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,320 So Nick, you feel that the robbers 268 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,360 expected to find more money than they actually found 269 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,680 on Mr. Fang's person. 270 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:19,400 Talking to Kara and Nick and the other students, too, 271 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:21,200 is very stimulating. 272 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,560 It caused me to think and rethink some ideas 273 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,880 that I had entertained during the course of the last year 274 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:30,320 that I've been working on this case. 275 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,120 So which scenario lies at the heart of Jim Fang's murder? 276 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,800 Soon after briefing the students, 277 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,720 Inspector Sanders was contacted by a second anonymous informant 278 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,400 who argued that the murder was tied to illicit betting. 279 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,280 Inspector Sanders believes a tip to be credible, 280 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,440 but only time and further investigation 281 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,080 will enable the police to close in 282 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,360 on the illusive killers of Jim Fang. 283 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,000 Next, an accident victim is searching for the two 284 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,440 men who saved her life. 285 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,400 Hi, Colleen. 286 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:16,440 Welcome to our class. 287 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,480 This is Colleen Frangione. 288 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,120 She is 41 years old, the mother of two grown sons. 289 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,200 She has been paralyzed since 1978. 290 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:29,960 Colleen is a very special woman, but a very simple message. 291 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:30,840 Buckle up. 292 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,440 I didn't. 293 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,480 It's my slogan, my motto. 294 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,600 Over the last 15 years, Colleen has 295 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,680 spoken to more than 10,000 high school and junior high school 296 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:39,960 students. 297 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,200 Working in both Rhode Island and Florida, 298 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,000 she has erected billboards and distributed pamphlets 299 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 on a tireless one woman crusade. 300 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,040 Colleen Frangione has earned high praise for her efforts 301 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,280 from several citizens groups, but seat belt safety 302 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,280 is not her only mission. 303 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,600 Colleen is also searching for two heroes, 304 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,680 the man who saved her life. 305 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,240 On the night she was paralyzed, they 306 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,520 snatched her from a burning car and from certain death. 307 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,480 Colleen herself remembers nothing. 308 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:16,120 In 1978, Colleen was 26 years old, recently divorced, 309 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,320 and struggling to support two young sons. 310 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,920 On September 23 of that year, Colleen 311 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,040 drove home from a rare night out, 312 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,040 dancing at the Naval Officers Club in Newport, Rhode Island. 313 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,720 Just before 1 AM, Colleen was turning on a Rogers road. 314 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,720 She came to a full stop, but tragically, 315 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,480 a carload of teenagers behind her did not. 316 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,520 The hit of that second car just twisted me beyond the normal 317 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,440 range, and that twist was so forceful 318 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:06,280 that it broke too low of vertebrae and severed my spinal cord. 319 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,360 And I'm glad I don't remember. 320 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,560 Colleen lay unconscious as flames engulfed her car. 321 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,520 Patty and Joe Tripharo, who lived across the street, 322 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,600 rushed to help. 323 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,680 No, the door's locked. 324 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:22,880 The door's down, Joe. 325 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:23,880 It won't open. 326 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:24,880 Joe, stop. 327 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:25,680 I am. 328 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:26,680 It's stuck. 329 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,680 I can't get this open. 330 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:28,680 We've got to get out. 331 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:30,600 The fire was spreading really fast. 332 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,040 The whole back of the car was on fire. 333 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,880 The back seat was on fire. 334 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,360 And as we were trying to pull open the doors, 335 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,280 they wouldn't open because of the crash. 336 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:40,440 They were jammed. 337 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,640 And I heard in the background, get a crowbar. 338 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,440 Get a crowbar! 339 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,720 I glanced over to my right, and there were two men standing there. 340 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,640 My wife and I ran to our garage to get a crowbar. 341 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,480 The time when we were gone, I believe, 342 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,280 either one or both of those gentlemen 343 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,320 pulled Colleen from the car and brought her up onto the sidewalk. 344 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:06,680 They were the only two I felt that were physically able to have 345 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,760 gotten her out of the car at that point. 346 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,880 By now, a third rescuer had appeared. 347 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,880 She apparently took charge of the situation. 348 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:17,080 She's in shock, guys. 349 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,520 Call 911 and get a blanket. 350 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:19,520 Hurry. 351 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,320 OK. 352 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,920 When we returned, there was a woman there. 353 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,560 Must have had some type of nursing back then. 354 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:30,680 Nursing background. 355 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,320 That said that she was in shock to get her feet up. 356 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,440 And shortly after that, the entire car was in flames. 357 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,080 Amazingly, no one else was seriously injured. 358 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,800 But during the intense effort to put out the fire, 359 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,120 both of the men who had pulled Colleen to safety vanished. 360 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,480 But 10 days, Colleen hovered between life and death. 361 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,880 She awoke to the terrifying reality 362 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,440 that she was paralyzed from the waist down. 363 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,000 Once I had to deal with not being able to walk, 364 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:10,760 I was hurt. 365 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,480 It was like I was heartbroken. 366 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,920 That was my first feeling inside. 367 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,160 And then it went from that to how am I 368 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,560 going to do everything that I never even thought about, 369 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:28,640 sitting up, putting a shoe on, getting dressed. 370 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,160 But Colleen's spirit was indomitable. 371 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,680 She was discharged from the hospital after four months. 372 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,840 Colleen went on to raise her two sons as a single parent. 373 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,840 And in 1985, she married again. 374 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,120 Yet not a day goes by that Colleen doesn't 375 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:46,640 think about the accident and the two men who saved her life. 376 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,840 How lucky only to be paralyzed. 377 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,840 And now I'm saving lives because they pulled me from the car. 378 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,440 I just believe we're all meant to meet. 379 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,840 I would have been killed if it wasn't for you guys. 380 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,560 And I want to thank you both, or just one of you, whichever 381 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,040 won. 382 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,920 So even if you can just give me a call, 383 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,640 I would really appreciate it. 384 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,400 When Colleen's appeal aired, luck was with her. 385 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,720 Both men called her a phone center. 386 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,680 Their names are Ray Myers and Mike Cain. 387 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,400 Though they both live in the Providence, Rhode Island area, 388 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,000 they had seen each other only once 389 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,680 in the aftermath of Colleen's accident. 390 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,040 Colleen was thrilled to learn that her rescuers had been 391 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,960 found after more than 15 years. 392 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:46,720 What Anselmistries did was the tip 393 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,480 lady called me, told me that she had heard from one of them, 394 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:51,880 and gave me his number. 395 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,480 Because of course, they didn't want to give out my number. 396 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,520 So I called him. 397 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,520 I said who I was. 398 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,240 And it was just so nice. 399 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:00,760 In fact, we talked so long that night, 400 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,280 my husband fell asleep. 401 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,040 We were in bed, and my husband fell sound asleep. 402 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,960 While him and I were just talking about, 403 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:11,160 he was telling me things that I had no idea. 404 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,520 On December 27, 1993, Colleen finally 405 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,280 was able to meet her heroes in person. 406 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,120 Ray Myers was the first to arrive. 407 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:21,600 Oh, my God. 408 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:22,600 Oh, my God. 409 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:23,600 Oh, my God. 410 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:24,600 Oh, my God. 411 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,600 I can't believe I could really touch you. 412 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:33,600 I really didn't think that you exist as any human. 413 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,600 Oh, my God. 414 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:35,600 I was in shock. 415 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:36,600 What's it up? 416 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,360 I couldn't believe it was me. 417 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:39,840 You know, I mean, I knew it was me, 418 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:44,080 but it's like, it's incredible. 419 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,480 That's how I feel about this whole thing. 420 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,880 I think it's incredible. 421 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,480 Half an hour later, it was Mike Kane's turn. 422 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,480 Hi. 423 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:54,480 Hi. 424 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:55,480 Mike. 425 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:56,480 Oh, gosh. 426 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,480 How nice to meet you. 427 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,480 Thank you so much. 428 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,120 Oh, gosh. 429 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,280 You know, I tried to imagine what you looked like, 430 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,920 and I can't do that when I don't know a person. 431 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:07,920 No surprise. 432 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,760 You know, why 15 years later? 433 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,000 Oh, I just can't tell you much. 434 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I appreciate it. 435 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Why? 436 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000 You know, why? 437 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 So important. 438 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,040 But when she said she wanted to thank the people, 439 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,160 after I spoke to her on the phone, it was like, 440 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,400 this lady is really sincere, you know? 441 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:24,400 And that's what she wanted. 442 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:25,400 She wanted to thank us. 443 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,400 It's your name. 444 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,400 Right. 445 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,920 I feel the whole circle, it's all completed. 446 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:36,080 All the pieces of the puzzle are all put together now. 447 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,160 And it's a real peaceful feeling inside. 448 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,800 That's, to me, in fact, how many times have I said in the last 449 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,440 six weeks, how many people get to meet their guardian angels? 450 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,640 And this is how I feel. 451 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:56,360 When we return, a police officer's painful search 452 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,720 for answers in the murder of his own seven-year-old son. 453 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:15,720 Thursday, January 12, 1984, Atlantic City, New Jersey. 454 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:16,720 Morning, Gary. 455 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,720 You must have been really tired last night. 456 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:19,720 You slept. 457 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,280 It was a rare midweek holiday for seven-year-old Gary Grant 458 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,640 Jr. There was no school because of a teacher's conference. 459 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,800 Gary lived with his mother, May. 460 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,160 She and Gary's father, an Atlantic City police detective, 461 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,520 had been separated for nearly a year. 462 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,320 And after breakfast, are you going to go out and play 463 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,320 with your friends? 464 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:41,880 No, Mom. 465 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:42,720 Not tonight. 466 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,400 Why not? 467 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,280 I have an appointment this afternoon at 2.30. 468 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,560 Wow, sounds important. 469 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,280 What kind of appointment is it? 470 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,800 Nothing, just an appointment. 471 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:53,680 Who's this appointment with? 472 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,360 I was asking him with who, and he said it was a secret. 473 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,880 So I thought, you know, it's silly. 474 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,840 You know, he's a little boy, something 475 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,880 to do maybe with his little girlfriend around the corner 476 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,480 or something. 477 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,560 So I kind of left it at that. 478 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,120 And he wanted to go out and play, so he got dressed, 479 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,000 and he went out to play. 480 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,560 Around noon, Gary left home. 481 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,840 He said he would be back by 4 PM before it got dark. 482 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,760 It got to be like 4.30, and he still 483 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,000 hadn't showed up for dinner, and he liked his dinner. 484 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,360 He never missed. 485 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:33,080 And he still hadn't showed up, so I started getting worried. 486 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,840 And I went down to where two girls that Gary played with. 487 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,720 There were friends of his. 488 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,440 And he asked them if they had seen Gary. 489 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,760 No, I'm just looking for Gary. 490 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,280 Well, he was here in the afternoon, 491 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,120 but he left around 4.30 to go home. 492 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:53,200 OK, well, if you see him, will you please tell Gary to come home? 493 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,600 OK, Mrs. Grant, I'll tell him. 494 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:55,360 Thanks. 495 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,040 Bye. 496 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,000 When another two hours passed with no sign of Gary, 497 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,600 May telephoned her husband. 498 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,400 I searched until well after midnight, probably 499 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,840 around 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning, 500 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,840 I walked around. 501 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,560 As a matter of fact, I called out from work that night. 502 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,760 I was due to go into work at midnight. 503 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,560 And I had called my sergeant and advised him 504 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:18,640 that I wouldn't be coming in. 505 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,520 By the next morning, Friday, the Atlantic City Police 506 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,200 Department was engaged in an all-out search. 507 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,280 Regulations prevented Detective Grant 508 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,040 from taking part in the official investigation. 509 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:38,120 But as a father, he was unwilling to stand by and do nothing. 510 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,600 I started searching every possible place I could think of. 511 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,440 I started searching abandoned houses. 512 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,560 I started searching underneath the boardwalk. 513 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,120 I started searching arcades and questioning people 514 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:49,520 who were working in the arcades. 515 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,760 Officer Gary Grant, have you seen this boy's been missing? 516 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,240 Take a good look, please. 517 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,280 There was a couple of people that worked in one of the arcades 518 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,320 that said that they had seen him on Friday, 519 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,400 or early on Friday. 520 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,000 So I'm thinking, well, he's still somewhere around 521 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:07,800 on the streets. 522 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,400 By Friday night, it started getting dark again, 523 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,400 and still no signs or no word of Gary. 524 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,240 I started then looking up in alleyways and trash cans 525 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,480 and dumpsters. 526 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,360 The streets can be pretty mean now for an adult, let alone 527 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,440 for a seven-year-old child. 528 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,920 And by that time, I was fearing the worst. 529 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,520 At 3.30 the next afternoon, the body of Gary Grant Jr. 530 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,160 was found in a vacant weed-infested lot, 531 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,440 less than two blocks from his home. 532 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,280 He had to go to the hospital. 533 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:55,240 In two blocks from his home, he had been bludgeoned to death. 534 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,120 Nearby lay a short length of heavy pipe, probably 535 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,040 the murder weapon. 536 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,680 The police immediately imposed a radio silence 537 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,760 until the boy's family could be notified. 538 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,680 At virtually that same moment, Detective Grant, exhausted, 539 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,560 and on the verge of collapse, happened upon the scene. 540 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,280 So I really didn't know what was going on. 541 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,800 But I got a knot in my stomach, and then 542 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,640 something just told me that it's a very good possibility 543 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:26,640 that they found Gary. 544 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:27,540 Hey, Sergeant. 545 00:27:27,540 --> 00:27:28,440 What's happening? 546 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:29,340 Hey, Gary. 547 00:27:29,340 --> 00:27:30,160 Did you get a radio call? 548 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,240 No, I saw the patrol cars. 549 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,400 I wanted to see what's happening. 550 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,280 Where'd you find out? 551 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,160 Gary, you don't want to know. 552 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,160 Driving around for three days, no sleep, looking for my son. 553 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,080 I want to know something. 554 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,960 Gary, we found your son. 555 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,960 He's dead. 556 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,960 I want to see my son. 557 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:47,960 I want to see my son. 558 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:48,960 I don't want to. 559 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:49,960 I want to help him. 560 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:50,960 I don't want to help him. 561 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,960 I didn't want to believe that it was him. 562 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,960 In my mind, I knew that they were on him. 563 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,440 Why would they lie to me about something like that? 564 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,120 But at the same time, being a father, 565 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:03,680 you don't want to believe it. 566 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,960 You don't want to believe that your kid is lying back there 567 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,800 somewhere, and he's never going to get up again. 568 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:16,360 When they told me that Gary was dead, 569 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:19,360 I just went totally numb, my whole body. 570 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,280 I didn't want to believe it. 571 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:23,960 I just can't imagine why would someone 572 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,280 would do that to a seven-year-old boy, any seven-year-old boy. 573 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,000 The investigation began like all others, 574 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,880 with detectives tracing the victim's final hours 575 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,960 and talking to those who knew him best. 576 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,600 Do you know Gary Grant? 577 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,500 Sure. 578 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,160 He lived around here, over an Arctic. 579 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,560 When was the last time you saw him? 580 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,320 Couple days ago. 581 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:50,960 That would be Thursday. 582 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,680 Where was that? 583 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,120 He was down by the junior high. 584 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,880 Who was he with? 585 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,480 He was with Boo. 586 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,920 Would that be Boo Mason? 587 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,920 Carl Mason, nicknamed Boo, was a mildly retarded 12-year-old 588 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,320 with an IQ of 65. 589 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,440 Though Boo is five years older than Gary, 590 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,600 he was smaller in height and weight. 591 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,600 The two boys were good friends and often played together. 592 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,520 Hello, young man. 593 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,960 We're with the Atlantic City Police Department. 594 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,120 We need to ask you a few questions. 595 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,080 Did you know this Gary Grant kid? 596 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,800 Sure, I knew Gary. 597 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,240 When did you last see him? 598 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:29,880 Wednesday, after school. 599 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,560 What did you two do? 600 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,760 We were at the park, over on Texas. 601 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,000 You sure you didn't see him on Thursday? 602 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,080 Nope. 603 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,600 You're sure it was Wednesday? 604 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,800 Yeah, we were supposed to meet on Thursday, 605 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,320 but Gary never showed up. 606 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,440 OK, kid, thanks. 607 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,040 Boo said he hadn't been with Gary. 608 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,800 But detectives canvassing the neighborhood 609 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,520 kept coming back with stories that he had in fact 610 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,200 been with Gary. 611 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,600 So they didn't know what to do. 612 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,400 There was this conflict. 613 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,000 Boo seemed like such a harmless character. 614 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,360 He was edgably retarded. 615 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,120 He was known as a scaredy cat in the neighborhood. 616 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:15,720 But they just couldn't reconcile the conflict. 617 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,720 They were like, we'd like to ask you some questions. 618 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:18,720 And I came outside. 619 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,000 Carl Mason is now 21 years old. 620 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,480 These questions, like have I seen Gary at all today? 621 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,360 I said, no, I've seen him the day before. 622 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:27,800 And that was it. 623 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,160 The name is. 624 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,640 Said, OK, and they were asking me some other questions. 625 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:32,720 But I don't remember. 626 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,920 Then later on that night, they came back and they took me. 627 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,640 At midnight on Saturday, Boo, accompanied by his grandmother, 628 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,040 was driven to police headquarters. 629 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,480 Once there, Boo was separated from his grandmother 630 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,640 and led into a small room. 631 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,640 Look, just tell us the truth and we can all go home. 632 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,200 What happened when you and Gary left the school gym? 633 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,720 We went to the park over on Texas. 634 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,960 But that was on Wednesday. 635 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,800 What did you do at the park? 636 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,880 We played on the swings. 637 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,880 Wait, those swings were taken down for cleaning last week? 638 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,160 I didn't see Gary on Thursday. 639 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,880 He didn't show up. 640 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,480 In questioning, Boo, his stories were inconsistent. 641 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,040 And the detectives wrestled around with it 642 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:31,640 until finally around 3 o'clock, one version of the story 643 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,200 he acknowledged being with the victim at the crime scene. 644 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,160 And that he, in fact, hit him with the pipe. 645 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,800 I hit him with a leg, but he threw a rock at me. 646 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,560 This was in the playground on Thursday. 647 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,400 I didn't see him on Thursday. 648 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,440 And what did you do after you hit him? 649 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:58,560 Well, once he fell and he didn't get up, so I just left. 650 00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,560 He was in the car. 651 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,440 I just left. 652 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,640 He was telling police what they felt were details that only 653 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,200 the killer could have known. 654 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,600 And that sort of got everything into high gear, 655 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,320 because they realized that Boo was now the suspect. 656 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,720 Everybody knew what happened to him. 657 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,000 They found the body. 658 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,640 Then, like, that day, they found the weapon. 659 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,560 Those are all different stories, what happened to him, 660 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,400 I guess, you might as well say. 661 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,000 We're bringing your grandma in. 662 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,480 We'll just be another minute. 663 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,600 After three grueling hours, police 664 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,520 believe they had an admission of guilt. 665 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,920 What we did is had your confession typed up. 666 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,920 We need you to read it and sign it with you and your grandma. 667 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,520 A confession was drawn up based on the interrogation. 668 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,240 Boo signed the document. 669 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,720 Even as he was insisting, he had not murdered his friend. 670 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,440 Have you told us the truth now? 671 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,800 Yes, but I didn't do it. 672 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,880 Boo Mason was charged with murder 673 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,360 and remanded to a juvenile detention center. 674 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,960 I was not with Gary Grant the day when he was missing. 675 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,360 And I did not have anything to do with his murder. 676 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,840 The one cop said, if you admit that you did it, 677 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,760 we'll let you go home. 678 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,880 So me at the age of 12, I was so tired, I said, 679 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,120 if you say so, but I didn't. 680 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:28,800 And then the next thing I knew, I winded up in the home. 681 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,360 Do you live in Atlantic City? 682 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,480 Yes. 683 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,640 On Sunday, January 15th, Boo was given a polygraph exam. 684 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,960 The results were inconclusive. 685 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,200 Three days later, a second test was administered. 686 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,040 Did you hurt Gary Grant? 687 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:44,920 No. 688 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,320 In both the first and second lie detector tests, 689 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,720 it was determined that Boo had answered truthfully when 690 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,920 he said that he did not kill Gary Grant. 691 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,640 Did you see Gary Grant get killed? 692 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,400 There was some doubt as to whether he had been 693 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:02,440 at the scene, however. 694 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,120 You now told the entire truth about Gary Grant's murder. 695 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,520 Yes. 696 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,360 I feel that he very easily could have been intimidated 697 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,920 by the person who did it or who was there when it was done. 698 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,160 Could have told him, hey, if you say anything 699 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,400 to anybody, you're next. 700 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,520 Now, I have completed three and a half days of testimony. 701 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,760 A month after Boo Mason was arrested, 702 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,800 a hearing was held to determine whether his confession was 703 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,920 admissible in court. 704 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,560 And this court cannot find beyond a reasonable doubt 705 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,040 that any of the statements made by the juvenile 706 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,360 were voluntary statements. 707 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,520 The charges against Boo Mason were dropped, 708 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,080 and police never came up with another viable suspect. 709 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,360 But two years later, it became obvious 710 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:51,760 that someone had not forgotten Gary Grant, Jr. 711 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,720 At approximately 3 AM on January 4, 1986, 712 00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:57,640 a vandal painted a chilling message 713 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,960 on the side of an Atlantic City patrol car. 714 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,600 Gary Grant's dead. 715 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,000 I am living. 716 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,080 Another will die on the 1,1286 if all goes right. 717 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,960 January 12 would have been the second anniversary 718 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,960 of Gary Grant's murder. 719 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,480 I was called via police radio to come over here 720 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,240 and take a look at the car. 721 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:20,040 And I did. 722 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,920 And from what I observed on the car, 723 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,880 it appeared to me that it was written on there by an adult. 724 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,840 However, as far as ever finding out who did that, 725 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,880 no one ever, we've never found that out. 726 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,160 A few weeks later, a second cryptic message 727 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,400 was scratched on a sidewalk. 728 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,480 Gary Grant, Jr. lives. 729 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,000 I still killed him. 730 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,080 Son of a pig officer. 731 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:49,280 Payback is a MF. This second message 732 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,200 led to speculation that Gary had been 733 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,280 murdered as retribution, possibly for an arrest 734 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,600 his father had made. 735 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,520 Well, that thought has gone through my mind 1,000 736 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,480 million times. 737 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,720 But there's not one thing that stands out 738 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:04,480 that I could think of because I've never 739 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,960 had anybody look at me in the face and say to me, 740 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,480 I'm going to get even with you for this. 741 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,880 Nine years have passed since Gary Grant, Jr. was murdered. 742 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,200 His father is still looking for information, 743 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,680 still passing out flyers, and still 744 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,960 barred from officially working on the case. 745 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,640 Somebody knows something. 746 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,720 There's no doubt in my mind. 747 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,800 It's just not possible something like that 748 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,880 could happen without somebody seeing or hearing something. 749 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,520 Or even within the last nine years, 750 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,920 somebody saying something to somebody about it. 751 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:46,520 I would like to see the person or persons who are out there 752 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,640 and they know who they are to come forward. 753 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,800 So I could have a little peace too in my mind and my heart. 754 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,360 Morrill Bay, California is a kind of small town 755 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,280 Alfred Hitchcock might have loved. 756 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,080 On the surface of picture postcard seaside fishing 757 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,680 village, peeled back a layer, though, 758 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,160 and a quirky cast of characters emerges. 759 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,680 So does a murder mystery, or maybe two. 760 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,200 Fishing is Morrill Bay's main industry. 761 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,680 In the 70s and 80s, work was irregular at best. 762 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,920 That suited Hugh Harlan just fine. 763 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,560 He had pared his life down to the basics. 764 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,520 Hugh thought you should work for the sheer joy of working, 765 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,480 if and when the spirit moved you. 766 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,240 That made 16,000. 767 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,800 There were a number of times that he 768 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,920 would stop by our business. 769 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,880 And we'd be unloading fish, and we'd 770 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,560 have been at it for quite a while. 771 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,760 And he'd roll up his sleeves and pitch in. 772 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,800 And six or seven to 10 hours later, when we're finally done, 773 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,920 Hugh wouldn't take any money for his help. 774 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,800 He wasn't just a weirdo. 775 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,840 He might have been weird at times, but he wasn't a weirdo. 776 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,600 Hugh Harlan's high-minded notions about work and money 777 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,120 were all well and good. 778 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:26,240 But he hit a roadblock when it came to his wife, Diane. 779 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,960 Diane Harlan was generous to a fault. 780 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,120 She squandered what little money Hugh gave her 781 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,600 on beggars, on her friends, and on her dogs. 782 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,200 Well, I'm going down to the docks. 783 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:37,240 Yeah, leave me some money, Hugh. 784 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,640 It led to more than one bitter argument. 785 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:40,880 Groceries, food. 786 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,040 What'd you do with the money I gave you yesterday? 787 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,400 I spent it, OK? 788 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,040 They weren't getting along very well. 789 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,880 And Diane would do bizarre things, 790 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,600 including opening a can of dog food 791 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,280 and serving it to Hugh for dinner. 792 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,400 Lisa, Jimmy, the dogs, I can't support the entire county. 793 00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,560 Hugh, you want dinner or not? 794 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:00,920 It's as simple as that, OK? 795 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,720 Don't walk away. 796 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,600 Hey, don't you touch me. 797 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,120 Brumer had it that Diane not only served dog food in the can, 798 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,840 but that once she even baked it into a casserole 799 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,200 for her unsuspecting husband. 800 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,800 It seemed Diane cared more for her dogs than she did for Hugh. 801 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,520 In fact, around Morro Bay, Diane was known as the dog lady. 802 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:34,000 October 13, 1982, a badly decomposed body of a woman 803 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,520 was found just off the beach at Morro Bay. 804 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,560 A jade bracelet and a silver bracelet lay nearby. 805 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,640 Police could not identify the woman, 806 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,320 but they could identify the murder weapon. 807 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,920 The victim had been strangled with a dog leash. 808 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:55,160 The investigators immediately put out a news media release 809 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,120 with a description asking for the public's assistance 810 00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,840 identifying this individual. 811 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,080 Later in the evening, the department 812 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,960 was contacted by Hugh Harlan. 813 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:07,760 Hugh, you recognize this? 814 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,800 Hugh Harlan was shown several pieces of jewelry, 815 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:15,400 and he identified that jewelry as belonging to his wife, Diane. 816 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,840 Yeah, that silver one was hers. 817 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,240 That was hers for sure, yeah. 818 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,800 When was the last time you saw Diane, Hugh? 819 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,640 Hugh Harlan told police that Diane had been away from home 820 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,040 for 12 days. 821 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,720 He said he wanted to be seen. 822 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,040 He said he wasn't worried until he heard about the body. 823 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,920 I came home about 7 o'clock. 824 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,480 She wasn't home. 825 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,840 Why'd you wait almost two weeks to report her missing? 826 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,800 Didn't seem unusual to me for her not to come home. 827 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,360 She'd done it occasionally. 828 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,920 She's done this before? 829 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,680 Very now, man, yeah. 830 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,640 You remember what time the dogs came home that night? 831 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,920 Yeah, it was about 1130. 832 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,520 Can you remember if they were wearing their leashes or not? 833 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,680 Yeah, they had their leashes on that night. 834 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,880 What's this, Hugh? 835 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,560 I don't know. What is it? 836 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,800 Found it's tied around Diane's neck. 837 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,080 Looks like a dog leash, doesn't it? 838 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,640 That's right. 839 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,280 Dogs came home. 840 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,040 They didn't have their leashes. 841 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,320 Well, which way is it, Hugh? 842 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:22,880 Did they come home with their leashes 843 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,640 or without their leashes? 844 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,400 When Hugh Harlan changed his story, 845 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,200 the investigators began to look more closely at him 846 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:31,560 as a possible suspect. 847 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,400 Can I go now? 848 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:39,560 I asked him, I said, Hugh, a lot of people suspect you. 849 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,160 Did you kill her? 850 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,320 I know she's bizarre, and I know she tried to push your buttons. 851 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,480 Did you do it? 852 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,720 And I knew when he answered that question, 853 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:53,360 he was telling the truth, that he didn't do it. 854 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,560 I mean, he said he didn't do it. 855 00:41:54,920 --> 00:42:00,760 Diane Harlan was 43 years old when she was murdered. 856 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,760 No charges against Hugh or anyone else were ever filed. 857 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,240 To this day, the case remains unsolved. 858 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,000 Four years passed. 859 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,800 Hugh Harlan's life went on much as it 860 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:22,200 had before Diane's death, until November 1st, 1986. 861 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:24,600 That day, Hugh went to a friend's house 862 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,040 to borrow some tools for a two-day construction 863 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,680 job up the road in San Simeon. 864 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,280 You probably need these hand tools. 865 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,080 Yeah, throw them up in there. 866 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,360 Let me get the gate for you. 867 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:35,360 Yeah, thanks. 868 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,320 Hugh Harlan set off for San Simeon, 27 miles 869 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,920 north of Morrill Bay before dark. 870 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,600 You're all set, you ready? 871 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:43,760 What it is, bro? 872 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,280 What in word? 873 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,240 Have a good one. 874 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,120 But soon the mystery would take yet another twist 875 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,280 near the town of Cambria. 876 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,400 The next thing we knew, I'd gotten 877 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,960 a call from a mutual friend in Cambria, 878 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,200 wondering why Hugh's truck was setting off the side of the road 879 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,880 and had been for a day or so. 880 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,440 Steve Matthew and a friend, Eddie Grimes, 881 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,320 drove to Cambria to check out Hugh's abandoned truck. 882 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,080 What a wheelbarrow there. 883 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,160 No keys in the truck. 884 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,120 I got curious as to what was going on. 885 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,680 I took a look inside. 886 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,440 I saw Hugh's glasses on the dash. 887 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,280 I saw a couple of tins on the dash. 888 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,480 One with tobacco and one with some ragweed pot 889 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,480 that he smoked quite regularly. 890 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,080 All of these things weren't really adding up to me 891 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,760 since three days or so had transpired 892 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,840 since the last time I'd seen him. 893 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,240 And this is basically the way he had left. 894 00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,360 The mystery did not end there. 895 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,840 Before Steve and Eddie left to look for Hugh, 896 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,080 Steve walked over to make a pit stop at the edge of the woods. 897 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,560 Hey, Eddie. 898 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,240 Here's the keys. 899 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:12,880 What the hell are they doing there? 900 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,840 It was at that point that I decided 901 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,320 that there were just too many elements involved here 902 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,480 to be a straight up situation. 903 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,800 I think we ought to call cops. 904 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:22,680 I think you're right. 905 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,240 Let me lock it up. 906 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:26,480 What could have happened to Hugh Harlan? 907 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,320 Did he meet with foul play, or did he simply 908 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,480 decide to disappear? 909 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,440 There are several possibilities as to what 910 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,160 could have happened to Mr. Harlan. 911 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,080 Number one, he simply could have possibly 912 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,640 staged his disappearance. 913 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,080 He knows he had been at one time questioned 914 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,280 regarding the homicide of his wife. 915 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:56,000 I totally believe that Hugh was smart enough and crafty enough 916 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,560 to engineer his own disappearance. 917 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:05,160 And just in exactly this manner, if he so wanted to, 918 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,320 the thing that I've never been able to decide 919 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,880 is if that's actually what he did, 920 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,920 or if there was some foul play here. 921 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,720 If he wanted to disappear, Hugh's the kind of person 922 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,640 that would have left his truck with somebody 923 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,480 he wanted to have it. 924 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:27,360 He wouldn't have left it by the side of the road like that. 925 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,720 Indeed, why would Hugh Harlan want to disappear? 926 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:33,640 After four years, police no longer considered him 927 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,320 a suspect in his wife's murder. 928 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,480 Authorities now fear that Hugh might have had a deadly encounter 929 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,360 with the same person or persons who killed Diane. 930 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,560 Hugh Harlan knew, I believe, and I 931 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,880 think the investigators of the time 932 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:56,760 believe, knew more about the case than he was telling them. 933 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,600 And my concern is, possibly, he was harmed by some individual 934 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,000 who may very well have harmed Diane Harlan. 935 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,200 The case of Diane and Hugh Harlan is multilayered. 936 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,840 Mystery on top of mystery. 937 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,920 Disappearance on top of death. 938 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,880 Years after the fact, people around Morrill Bay 939 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,120 still talk about Diane's murder and Hugh's disappearance 940 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,160 as if they happened only yesterday. 941 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,400 The key to the mystery lies in finding Hugh Harlan 942 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:29,400 if he is alive. 943 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,800 At the time of his disappearance in 1986, 944 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:40,880 Hugh was 51 years old and weighed between 130 and 150 pounds. 945 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,760 He is 5 feet 6 inches tall and is missing the thumb and forefinger 946 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:45,680 on his left hand. 947 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,000 Next week on Unsolved Mysteries, 948 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,760 a controversial story of two American servicemen 949 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:06,000 whose untimely deaths are under investigation by Congress. 950 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,920 Army Sergeant Billy Ray Hartrow and Mike Carmichael 951 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,120 were the best of friends and both wanted to spend the rest 952 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,120 of their lives in the military. 953 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,200 But in 1992, just six weeks apart, 954 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,840 Hargrove and Carmichael were both found hung to death. 955 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,920 The army ruled that the two men had committed suicide, 956 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,600 but their families are convinced they were murdered. 957 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,440 Join me next time for this intriguing case and more 958 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:32,920 on Unsolved Mysteries.