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 --> 00:00:20,000 What happened to Amy Billig, a pretty 17-year-old who vanished 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,400 without a whisper in 1974, told that her daughter had been 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,400 abducted by a renegade motorist who had been killed 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,920 by a renegade motorcycle gang. 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,120 Amy's mother infiltrated the dangerous biker world, 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,720 only to come up empty-handed time and time again. 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,160 Then in 1992, new evidence surfaced 12 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:43,720 that Amy Billig was still alive more than 18 years 13 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,760 after she disappeared. 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,800 In life, Walter Rice was a reclusive loner. 15 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,240 In death, he became a beguiling mystery, 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,120 a man with no known heirs and an unclaimed estate 17 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,160 of more than $140,000. 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,400 Perhaps someone watching can solve the riddle of Walter Rice. 19 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,440 It was a car of his dreams, but Oliver Munson never 20 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,200 imagined when he bought it that he'd become a key witness 21 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,160 in the prosecution of a suspected auto thief. 22 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,600 However, Oliver never testified. 23 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,120 Just days before the trial, he disappeared 24 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,120 and his family fears he became the victim of foul play. 25 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,520 Also tonight, we'll take you to Syracuse, New York, 26 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,760 for a heartwarming reunion. 27 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,360 Thanks to our viewers, a woman's search for her past 28 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,600 has finally come to an end. 29 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:32,560 Join me. 30 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,360 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery. 31 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:31,080 Thousands of people are reported missing every year. 32 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,520 Most come home safely within a few days. 33 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,160 Those who do not are eventually presumed to be dead. 34 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,240 However, in the bizarre case of Amy Billig, 35 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,520 who vanished in 1974, the passing years 36 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,560 have produced a convincing chain of evidence 37 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,920 that she is still alive. 38 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:49,560 Tonight, we join her family in their search, 39 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,920 one of the strangest and most provocative cases 40 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:52,960 we have ever profiled. 41 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,760 Amy Billig was 17 years old when she disappeared from her home 42 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,920 in Coconut Grove, Florida. 43 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:04,320 Amy was an accomplished musician and singer 44 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,360 who also wrote poetry and adhered 45 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,080 to a strict vegetarian diet. 46 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,720 March 5, 1974. 47 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,400 Amy came home from school at around noon as usual. 48 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,160 She planned to meet friends downtown for lunch. 49 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,560 Before leaving, she called her father Ned at work. 50 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:26,440 Hi, Dad. 51 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:27,560 It's me. 52 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,920 I just got home from school. 53 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:31,920 I'm going to be curtain-taping for lunch. 54 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:33,960 Can I borrow $2? 55 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,600 Amy never did arrive at her father's business, 56 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,240 and she never showed up for her lunch date. 57 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:40,240 I'll see you soon. 58 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:41,140 Bye. 59 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,280 I started getting a little frantic when I hadn't 60 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,560 heard from Amy by dinnertime, and I 61 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,160 called the friend that she had said 62 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,840 she was going to be meeting. 63 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,240 And the girl was quite angry. 64 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,120 She said Amy never showed up. 65 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,600 We interviewed all of her family, all of her friends, 66 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,280 all of her acquaintances. 67 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,920 We did a lot of canvassing of the neighborhood 68 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,960 where she was last seen. 69 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,920 We did everything we could to try to find her. 70 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,520 You know, we checked with hospitals and morgues 71 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,560 and police departments all over the state 72 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,760 and all over the country. 73 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,680 I remember the house was like a flurry of activity 74 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,000 when people were coming around. 75 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,480 There was a lot of people around the house 76 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,640 trying to help out, manning the phones, 77 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,400 and there's so many telephone calls coming in. 78 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,840 The phones seem to be ringing off the hook. 79 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:28,720 Mom. 80 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,880 12 days after Amy's disappearance, 81 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,080 a frightened woman phoned with shocking news. 82 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,320 Hello? 83 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,120 The anonymous caller claimed to be a member of a motorcycle 84 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,040 gang known as the Outlaws. 85 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,640 And she claimed that the Outlaws had taken Amy. 86 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:44,540 Where? 87 00:04:44,540 --> 00:04:45,040 What? 88 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,360 What? 89 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,400 During the 1970s, renegade biker gang's 90 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,680 unnerved communities across the United States. 91 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,240 Susan Billig learned that a chapter of the Outlaws, 92 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,760 one of the most notorious gangs, had indeed 93 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,120 thundered through coconut grove about the time Amy disappeared. 94 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,040 We had to consider that maybe Amy was abducted, kidnapped, 95 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,080 taken away by these bikers. 96 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,160 But it was always controversial with the police 97 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,520 because these leads concerning the bikers were always vague 98 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,040 and usually ended up nowhere. 99 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,240 However, to the Billigs, the biker connection 100 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,840 offered a ray of hope, a family friend 101 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:29,880 who had done legal work for the Outlaws 102 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,280 arranged for Amy's parents to meet with two gang members. 103 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:33,780 Hi. 104 00:05:33,780 --> 00:05:34,680 Welcome to my house. 105 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:35,640 I'm Susan. 106 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,400 Pleasure. 107 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,000 Why don't you have a seat? 108 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,360 I was frightened because I had never seen people like this 109 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,400 before in my life. 110 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:43,520 Look, I thought you guys were the favorite of Joe. 111 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,840 And here they are, in my living room, 112 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:52,000 I got a feeling of revulsion and hate and love 113 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,720 at the same time. 114 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,880 I wanted them to give me information about my child, 115 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,920 and that was paramount. 116 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,800 I didn't care what they looked like. 117 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,920 These are pictures of my daughter. 118 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,760 She's missing. 119 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,120 Thanks, Aner. 120 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,560 No. 121 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,760 Look, look, she's got brown eyes, long brown hair. 122 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,440 She's 17, and she's tall and thin. 123 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,720 They told me that these things do happen, 124 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,400 that the bikers will take girls and will sell them 125 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,280 to one another for very little, like a credit card, 126 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,160 takes very little to buy a girl. 127 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,120 I was told that you would help me. 128 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,560 We'll take the picture. 129 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,800 And if she's in the outlaw nation, 130 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,600 we'll let you know within two days. 131 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,320 Let you know. 132 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,760 The two bikers promised to ask other gang members about Amy, 133 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,360 but they were never able to provide any information. 134 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,160 Amy could have been abducted and then 135 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,120 sold from one individual to another. 136 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,440 The old lady is a way of making money. 137 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,000 They put her out, making the money, 138 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,480 either topless dancing, hooking, ripping off credit cards, 139 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,640 anything that she can do to bring home the money. 140 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,120 To many bikers, women, or as they call them old ladies, 141 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,080 were nothing more than property. 142 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,320 Susan was stunned to learn that if Amy had been abducted, 143 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,320 she wouldn't have been the gang's first victim. 144 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:27,680 Before I turned 13, I had been sold four times. 145 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,160 Gina Andrew was abducted by bikers at the age of 12. 146 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,640 She escaped five years later. 147 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,320 I mean, I was sold for money. 148 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,160 I was traded for a motorcycle. 149 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:45,280 I was traded for leather chaps. 150 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,880 And that was like all I was worth. 151 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,920 For Susan Billig, the thought of her daughter 152 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,560 in the hands of the bikers was unbearable. 153 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,280 But that was where the leads pointed, 154 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:58,600 and that was where she searched. 155 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,320 Three months after Amy's disappearance, 156 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,200 her mother Susan tracked the outlaws to Orlando, 160 miles 157 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,840 away. 158 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,520 There she questioned dozens of people. 159 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,640 Finally, the manager of a convenience store 160 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,760 told Susan that Amy had come in several times, always 161 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,520 escorted by at least two bikers. 162 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,240 How long ago? 163 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,400 Oh, I don't know, maybe month or so. 164 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,840 She came in here a couple of times with some guys. 165 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,960 Did she say anything to you? 166 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,240 No. 167 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,600 But I remember her because she was, each time she came in, 168 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,640 she bought vegetarian vegetable soup. 169 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:34,960 And that stuck out in my mind. 170 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:36,560 Vegetarian soup. 171 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:37,360 That's her. 172 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,800 A small but stunning detail. 173 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,040 This is very important to me. 174 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,080 Amy had been a committed vegetarian, 175 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,360 and Susan was now convinced that she had picked up Amy's trail. 176 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,640 I'll be in the police department. 177 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,720 Sure. 178 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:48,640 Thank you very much. 179 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:49,880 I'll do whatever if I see her again. 180 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:50,880 Thank you. 181 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,280 Hope you find her. 182 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,040 Thanks. 183 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:55,400 However, another year and a half 184 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,120 would slip by before Susan got another significant lead. 185 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,360 On January 9th, 1976, Amy's 19th birthday, 186 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,200 a biker whom we will call Dave, contacted Susan 187 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,080 after seeing this picture in a newspaper. 188 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,960 They've claimed that he had actually owned Amy at one time. 189 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,640 He agreed to talk to Susan, but only at his house 190 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,520 and only if he drove Susan there. 191 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,120 I thought I might never see my husband again 192 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:25,880 when I got on the back of the bike. 193 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,360 I thought I would never see Josh and never see Ned again. 194 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,320 But I put it back in my head and I got on the bike and I went. 195 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,120 Nobody better follow us back here, lady. 196 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,880 He was very nervous about it. 197 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,720 He kept looking out the window to see if I had been followed. 198 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,120 Just look at this picture and tell me if that's her. 199 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:46,440 Wow. 200 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:47,920 That's her. 201 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,320 That's her. 202 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Can you tell me about it? 203 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,320 Can you describe her so I'll know that you know her? 204 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,120 Yeah, she put her first spotter. 205 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,120 She had lumps and was all drugged out. 206 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,120 And didn't know what to do. 207 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,440 Drugged out and didn't talk. 208 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,120 He said she was quiet. 209 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,640 She didn't speak to anybody that she was afraid of everybody. 210 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,800 He said she was like mute. 211 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,000 And the word kept coming up in descriptions of her 212 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,120 through everything. 213 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,080 And there was a scar down here. 214 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,160 The most pertinent information that he gave me 215 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,440 was that Amy had a scar. 216 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,800 And it was a scar that was hidden on her body 217 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,480 that I had never divulged to the police or the press 218 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,760 or anyone. 219 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,240 You've got to help me find her. 220 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,720 You're my last hope. 221 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:36,620 All right. 222 00:10:36,620 --> 00:10:41,480 When I went into the joint, I left her and my bike with a bro. 223 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,320 I got to find him. 224 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,880 When you find them, I've got to see her. 225 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,840 I've got to talk to her. 226 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:48,760 We'll see. 227 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:49,660 No, no. 228 00:10:49,660 --> 00:10:50,760 I have to see her. 229 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,400 I said we'll see. 230 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,000 Let's go. 231 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,280 I wanted to kill him. 232 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:05,000 I wanted to tear pieces out of his skin, but I didn't. 233 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,760 Because it was important for me to relate to him 234 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:09,760 on a one-to-one level. 235 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,520 Otherwise, I would never find Amy. 236 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,480 Susan could do little but wait while Dave 237 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,640 made cautious inquiries. 238 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,220 Finally, he called with dramatic news. 239 00:11:23,220 --> 00:11:25,760 Amy was with the outlaws in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 240 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,400 some 1,200 miles away. 241 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,320 Susan agreed to meet him there to press the search for Amy. 242 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,640 We were concerned about her safety. 243 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,480 We were concerned about the investigation. 244 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,240 We didn't think it was a good idea, but it was impossible ever 245 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,160 to try to discourage her from following up every lead. 246 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,160 No matter how dangerous, she didn't care. 247 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,600 June 1976, Tulsa. 248 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,200 Amy had been absent now for more than two years 249 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:59,520 in the moment Susan had long dreamed of seemed to be at hand. 250 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,080 Dave told Susan that Amy would be delivered to the minute 251 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,680 tavern in the roughest part of town. 252 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:06,600 Amy's been there. 253 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:07,400 I wanted to see her. 254 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:08,520 I was extremely excited. 255 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,960 I called home, and I packed my bags at my hotel 256 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,080 because I thought I'd have to run to the airport with her. 257 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,800 And we went to this dark bar where 258 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,840 they were just bikers and people drinking, 259 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,880 drunk, and everything. 260 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:27,080 And he sat me down somewhere, and then he walked away from me. 261 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,040 Right back, we were talking some people. 262 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:38,480 A few minutes after he walked away from me 263 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,840 is when all hell broke loose in that bar. 264 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,440 Hey, what are you guys doing? 265 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,040 I was afraid that I was going to be killed. 266 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,720 Oh, yeah, the taxi! 267 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,480 Oh, yeah, the taxi! 268 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,200 Susan was hustled outside, whereas if by plan, 269 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,560 a taxi was waiting to whisk her back to the hotel. 270 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:03,560 Amy! 271 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:05,680 If Amy had been anywhere near the bar, 272 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:08,000 Susan never caught a glimpse of her. 273 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,560 And Susan never again saw Dave, although she 274 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:14,960 learned that both his knees had been broken during the brawl. 275 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,720 And of course, at this point, he didn't want to help me anymore. 276 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:23,000 But he did say to my attorney that the only information 277 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,560 that he would give me is that he has heard that Amy was 278 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:30,360 possibly in Seattle at this point. 279 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,640 In November of 1977, Susan went to Seattle, 280 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,120 even though she had suffered a heart attack just two months 281 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,840 earlier. 282 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,280 Susan began to frequent tawdry bars, tattoo parlors, 283 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,600 and motorcycle shops. 284 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,800 I showed lots of photos to street people, to shop owners, 285 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,800 to topless dancers. 286 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,880 And I said, look, there's no police involved. 287 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:54,800 It's just me. 288 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,640 I want my child back. 289 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,280 If you have any information, please help me. 290 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,480 And you have to understand these people all have mothers, 291 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,080 and that's how I affected them. 292 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,400 Several people recognized photos of Amy, 293 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,840 and they described her as always quiet as if she were mute. 294 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,240 But in the end, Susan returned home empty handed. 295 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,960 18 more months would pass before news of Amy surfaced again. 296 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,480 It was the dead of winter in 1979, 297 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,600 the fifth year of Amy's absence. 298 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,760 An anonymous mail caller claimed Amy 299 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,120 was at a remote truck stop just outside Reno, Nevada, 300 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,160 and that she desperately needed help. 301 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,000 The information was that I'm here now. 302 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,520 I know who Amy Billig is. 303 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:44,920 I know she's been beaten up. 304 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,000 She's been drugged. 305 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,280 And she's here now at this truck stop. 306 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,920 And if you want her, you come get her now, 307 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,960 because her life could be in danger. 308 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,040 Just respond. 309 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,920 You might be able to find her. 310 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,600 FBI agents learned that a biker gang had indeed 311 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,280 been at the truck stop briefly, but there was no way 312 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,400 to verify whether Amy had been with them. 313 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,680 Years passed, a decade, still no word of Amy Billig. 314 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:17,440 Then in 1992, a full 18 years after Amy disappeared, 315 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,120 Susan was contacted by Virginia Snyder, a private investigator 316 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:22,320 in Florida. 317 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:23,120 Tell me more. 318 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:24,120 I want to hear about this. 319 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:25,040 Play music? 320 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:25,920 Yes. 321 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:27,800 Snyder had stunning news from England, 322 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,960 halfway around the world, that stirred hopes Amy Billig 323 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,880 might still be alive. 324 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,360 A British investigator, who was a British journalist, 325 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,800 had been working with Snyder on an unrelated case. 326 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,600 According to Snyder, her colleague 327 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,520 was in a post office in Falmouth in the south of England, 328 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,800 when he was approached by an American biker. 329 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,760 Hey, Pops. 330 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,440 Yes? 331 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,240 You look like you could use a little companionship. 332 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,160 I'm afraid I don't quite understand you. 333 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,880 Look, I got a girl for you. 334 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,000 It won't cost you much. 335 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,440 What do you say? 336 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,240 The investigator, being a good investigator, 337 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,520 engaged the man in conversation as far 338 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,760 as I could gather to get as much information as he could 339 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,080 about the girl that was being offered to him. 340 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,880 Then, of course, he didn't buy her. 341 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,520 He wasn't interested. 342 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,880 And then he passed the information on to me. 343 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:18,720 It's very interesting. 344 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:20,680 But what kind of a girl is she? 345 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,000 American girl or English? 346 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,760 American girl. 347 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,640 Oyster Bay. 348 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,760 Oyster Bay, New York, was the birthplace of Amy Billig. 349 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,960 What's her name? 350 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,160 Mew. 351 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,160 Once again, the word mute had surfaced in connection 352 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,080 with Amy. 353 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,240 Perhaps you have a photograph. 354 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:41,120 You could show me. 355 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,160 It sounded like Amy. 356 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:54,160 And the fact that they called her mute really affected me. 357 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,080 Because here, all these years of my search, 358 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:02,880 she had been mute, had not talked. 359 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,520 And here, I was faced with the same situation, 360 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,560 but in another country. 361 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,960 I didn't know what to do. 362 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,440 Tragically, one year after a strange encounter, 363 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,040 the British investigator passed away. 364 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:19,040 The tantalizing incident became just another painful near 365 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,400 miss in the endless search for Amy Billig. 366 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,720 Some people speculate that Amy Billig would be dead. 367 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,000 But she's a young woman. 368 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,280 She would be in her late 30s. 369 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,440 If she survived the first four years, 370 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,960 that would be the hardest. 371 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,560 And I think she survived. 372 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,760 That makes me believe she's still alive. 373 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,200 I also feel that the information that we have from over there 374 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,600 coincides so much with the information about Amy over here 375 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,920 that I believe she's still alive. 376 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,480 It's unlikely that she would be alive after all these years, 377 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,160 unless she is still making them good money. 378 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:58,920 She could still be doing something 379 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,800 with drugs or prosecution or dancing. 380 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,080 But again, I don't know the physical backbone of Amy 381 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:07,640 Billig. 382 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:12,880 If she's a strong individual and she has a strong will, 383 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,880 she could survive. 384 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:36,560 When we return, viewer tips bring about 385 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,200 an unexpected family reunion. 386 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,280 And the mystery of an enigmatic rectus 387 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,320 who left a substantial estate that is still unclaimed, 388 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,440 perhaps someone watching is as air. 389 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,800 In November of 1945, a young woman named Dorothy Johnson 390 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,680 and her 11-month-old daughter were on a cross-country train 391 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,880 heading to Utica, New York. 392 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,000 Hey, beautiful. 393 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,440 Dorothy was just 17, single and struggling to make ends meet. 394 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:16,320 On the train, she met a young sailor named Donald Caffrey. 395 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:17,800 When we get to Utica, I'm going to have 396 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,720 to put her in a foster home. 397 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,280 Donald, who was on his way to Omaha, Nebraska, 398 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,680 proved to be patient and sympathetic, 399 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,480 more than willing to listen to Dorothy's troubles. 400 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,800 I'm sorry. 401 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,920 I talk quite a bit to her. 402 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,040 And as we started getting closer to Omaha, 403 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,560 I asked her if she'd like to have me take the baby home 404 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,800 with me until she got settled and could send for the baby, 405 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,480 or maybe I could bring it to her. 406 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:49,520 And she agreed on that. 407 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,800 A few days later, Dorothy wrote to Donald 408 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,200 that she wanted her baby back. 409 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,480 However, when circumstances prevented Dorothy 410 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,000 from returning to Omaha, Donald and his wife 411 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,120 adopted the infant and named her Sandra. 412 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,480 When Sandra was a teenager, she learned the truth 413 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:12,680 about her background and began to look for her birth mother. 414 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,320 I think she got scared. 415 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,880 I think she wanted me. 416 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:26,120 But I don't think she had any help maybe from her family 417 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:30,960 to help her try to get back to me. 418 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,880 On the night of our broadcast, Sandra Lee Nelson's long search 419 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,080 came to a bittersweet end. 420 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,360 A viewer called our phone center with the sad news 421 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:47,040 that Dorothy Johnson had passed away in 1968. 422 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,840 However, Sandra was overjoyed to learn 423 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,520 that she had an uncle Mickey and two aunts, Jan and Alice, 424 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,320 who had always wondered about Sandra 425 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,640 and were anxious to meet her. 426 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,400 A month later, on December 28, 1993, Sandra and her husband, 427 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,480 Chet, arrived in Syracuse, New York 428 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,920 to receive a most remarkable Christmas gift, 429 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,880 a house full of relatives waiting to meet Sandra 430 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,200 for the very first time. 431 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,520 I didn't think I'd ever find anyone. 432 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,240 It just gave me chills. 433 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,400 It just made me feel real warm, like, oh gee, 434 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,120 what a nice family. 435 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:35,640 This is Dorothy and Harold. 436 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:36,440 That's them. 437 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,240 Oh, it's them. 438 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:38,160 That's Wayne. 439 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:38,960 That's her. 440 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,240 Sandra and her new family began to compare notes 441 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,440 on Dorothy Johnson's life. 442 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,000 Although Sandra was unable to learn 443 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,800 the identity of her birth father, 444 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,480 she did discover that in the early 1950s, 445 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,320 Dorothy had married a man named Wayne Rogers. 446 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,040 Sandra now would like to find Wayne Rogers in the hope 447 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,200 that she can fill in the remaining gaps in her past. 448 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,120 This is the only picture I have of me. 449 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:07,000 I'm getting little bits and pieces from friends 450 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,720 and relatives telling me a little bit about her, 451 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,480 and which, you know, these little things mean a great deal 452 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,400 to me. 453 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,720 I have found a family, a wonderful family, 454 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,720 that I never thought I'd ever have. 455 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,400 This is the best holiday. 456 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,040 One more hug. 457 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,320 OK. 458 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,440 Best time in my life. 459 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,120 You would think that a willing relative could always 460 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:43,200 be found a step forward in claiming inheritance, 461 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,480 but every now and then, even exhaustive research 462 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,480 will fail to turn up any errors whatsoever. 463 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,640 Tonight, the case of a mysterious man named Walter Rice, 464 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,040 who left a legacy of unanswered questions 465 00:22:54,040 --> 00:23:00,560 and an estate worth nearly $145,000. 466 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,600 Walter Rice lived alone in a modest trailer on Oak Street 467 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,960 in McCormick, South Carolina. 468 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,920 No one ever came calling, and Walter seemed to prefer it 469 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:10,320 that way. 470 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,360 Walter Rice was quite a mystery man. 471 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,440 Apparently, he was just a reclusive person. 472 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,360 He kept to himself. 473 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:23,440 He didn't have anything to do with his neighbors. 474 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,240 He never ventured out to meeting any of his neighbors. 475 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,240 It's January, man. 476 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,080 On January 25, 1992, Walter took a cab home 477 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,160 after his own car had been wrecked in a traffic accident. 478 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,280 Sometime during the next week, Walter 479 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,280 suffered a heart attack and died before he could summon help. 480 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,000 Incredibly, a full year would pass 481 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,640 before Walter's body was even noticed. 482 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,000 The power company and the cable TV company 483 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,240 turned off service to his trailer. 484 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,120 Eventually, the post office began to stamp his mail, 485 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,080 returned to sender. 486 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,320 In a bizarre improbable twist, it 487 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,280 was two strangers who finally made the discovery, two 488 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,640 strangers who weren't exactly on a social call. 489 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,240 Two people attempted to break into the trailer. 490 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,920 They broke in the front window and then went around 491 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,120 to the back door. 492 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,880 And his body was laying right at the back door. 493 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,320 They were frightened away after finding his body. 494 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,680 And sometime later, now this could be a month or two later, 495 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,320 they got a girlfriend of one of the people 496 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,480 who attempted to break in to call the police department 497 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,120 to notify them that there was a dead body in the trailer 498 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:41,040 on Oak Street. 499 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:46,000 Walter Rice was 73 years old when he passed away. 500 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,080 Judge Kidd took on the task of sorting 501 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,320 through Walter's possessions. 502 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,640 I started looking through his papers, 503 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,960 all of his effects in his trailer, 504 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,520 to hopefully find something that would lead me to a relative. 505 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,040 I spent some time on it every day. 506 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,880 I became almost obsessed with it. 507 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,600 It's been very frustrating not being 508 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,600 able to find a relative when at first I thought 509 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,440 it'd be so easy. 510 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,640 Initially, I didn't expect to find anything of value. 511 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,360 But after searching through Walter Rice's personal effects 512 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,120 papers, bank papers, I found him to have 513 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:26,600 in a state of approximately $140,000. 514 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,760 That includes his lot and trailer. 515 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,320 The judge began to piece together 516 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,760 the few known facts of Walter's life. 517 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,520 Paystub showed that from 1973 to 1983, 518 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,720 Walter worked as a cook at the Griswold Inn 519 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:43,840 near Essex, Connecticut. 520 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,320 Mr. Rice, you know what tonight is, don't you? 521 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,360 Yes, I know what tonight is. 522 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,120 Saturday night. 523 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,480 During those 10 years, Walter lived virtually 524 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,600 without expense in a dorm for hotel employees. 525 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,480 And authorities believe this arrangement 526 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,920 allowed him to amass a small fortune in spite 527 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:01,920 of his modest wage. 528 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,600 Surprisingly, none of Walter's coworkers 529 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,840 could tell Judge Kitt very much about it, 530 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,000 though they had worked side by side for a decade. 531 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,520 It was interesting. 532 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,160 I found in his personal effects indications 533 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,400 that he had been to two different hospitals, a hospital 534 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,080 in Augusta and also in Abbeville. 535 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,480 On the Augusta Hospital forms, Walter listed in East Jane 536 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,960 as next of kin. 537 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,920 However, the name Jane Rice appears 538 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,120 in no other official records. 539 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,520 OK, could you fill out this form, please? 540 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,280 At the Abbeville Hospital, Walter 541 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,040 listed a James Edwards. 542 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,840 But Edwards has proven to be a neighbor, not a relative. 543 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:53,160 Walter Rice was born July 6, 1920 in Abbeville, South Carolina, 544 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,240 to Edward and Amanda Rice. 545 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,520 He was the youngest of eight children. 546 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,600 There is no record that Walter ever married. 547 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,320 And if he had no children, any nieces and nephews 548 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,240 who survived him would inherit his $140,000 estate. 549 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,880 When we return, a school teacher is 550 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,680 asked to testify against an accused auto thief. 551 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,240 But just before the trial, he disappears without a trace. 552 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,800 Ah, that's good. 553 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:36,720 Yeah. 554 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:37,920 Let me show you the motor. 555 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:38,720 OK. 556 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,560 Buying cards, polishing them up, tinkering until they 557 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,920 run smooth and easy. 558 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,360 Cars with a passion of Oliver Munson, a school 559 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:51,720 teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. 560 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,720 In January of 1983, Oliver acquired 561 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,760 the car of his dreams, a fully loaded Datsun 240Z. 562 00:27:58,760 --> 00:27:59,480 Is it light? 563 00:27:59,480 --> 00:27:59,960 Yeah. 564 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,200 Yeah. 565 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,840 You have the title and registration? 566 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:03,880 Yeah, you got my money? 567 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,480 Yep. 568 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,120 Oliver had no idea that Dennis Watson, the man who sold him 569 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:12,920 the car, was the ringleader of a sophisticated car 570 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,720 theft operation. 571 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,240 Oliver's new 240Z had been stolen three months earlier. 572 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,240 You're my man on a proud oversea. 573 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,040 Thanks, Joy. 574 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:23,440 All right. 575 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,640 All right. 576 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,560 Listen, if you have any problem with it 577 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,320 over the next week or two, a couple of weeks, 578 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:28,920 you give me a call. 579 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:29,880 You bring it over to the shop. 580 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:30,800 I'll take care of it for you. 581 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:31,520 OK. 582 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,320 OK. 583 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,240 Watson's garage was just a cover for his chop shop, 584 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,120 where stolen cars were dismantled and sold for parts 585 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,920 or simply resold with faked ownership papers. 586 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,480 Man. 587 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,440 For weeks, authorities have been quietly gathering evidence 588 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,840 against Watson. 589 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,200 On March 16, 1983, they decided to put him out of business. 590 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,720 What's the sum of the money? 591 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,680 Play straight. 592 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:02,680 Oh. 593 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,920 No, what the hell is this? 594 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,520 Man, you can't just play straight. 595 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:07,480 I'm not a search warrant. 596 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,360 You're a drive. 597 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,240 Get out of here. 598 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,120 This is my place. 599 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:11,120 Get out of here. 600 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,120 Get out of here. 601 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,120 OK. 602 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,840 We're looking for registration plates, 603 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,760 VIN plates, and ownership documents, titles for vehicles. 604 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,840 Police recovered illegal titles, 605 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,760 partially dismantled autos, and stolen vehicle ID tags. 606 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,400 Everything they needed to make a case against Dennis Watson. 607 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,640 Five Maryland plates. 608 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:29,920 Five Maryland tags. 609 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,760 One of the names that popped up in the confiscated records 610 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,000 was Oliver Munson. 611 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,160 We continue to check paperwork. 612 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,400 We find that Oliver Munson has a Z-car. 613 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,880 We go out, and the Z-cars park there, 614 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,080 tempted to contact Mr. Munson, nobody home at the house. 615 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,400 Not knowing at that time whether or not 616 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,640 Oliver Munson had bought this car, 617 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,280 or if he was involved with Dennis Watson. 618 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,600 And as a result, we took the car as evidence 619 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,640 until such time as we could continue an investigation 620 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,080 to determine what exactly was his knowledge of the car. 621 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,680 Oliver Munson was notified, and later Detective Goodwin 622 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,080 questioned him in person. 623 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,320 Hi. You Oliver Munson? 624 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,220 Yeah. 625 00:30:17,220 --> 00:30:18,560 I'm Detective Goodwin with Baltimore Police 626 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:19,600 Hull of theft unit. 627 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,080 You guys took my car. 628 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,600 Wouldn't I take it to something? 629 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:23,500 No, sir. 630 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:24,400 The car was stolen. 631 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,640 It's a stolen vehicle. 632 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:26,540 Oh, no. 633 00:30:26,540 --> 00:30:27,680 No, I paid for the car. 634 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,480 How much did you pay for the car? 635 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,520 $12 million in some trades. 636 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,000 Who did you buy the car from? 637 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,040 Dennis Watson. 638 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:35,960 Dennis Watson? 639 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,360 Do you know this Dennis Watson, or have you 640 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,760 ever dealt with him before? 641 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,520 No, I've never met him before. 642 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,640 My feeling was at that time, and still is, 643 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:43,760 that he had bought the car. 644 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,600 He was thinking that the car was, in fact, a legitimate car. 645 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:48,720 So I have to go to court? 646 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:49,120 Yes, sir. 647 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,800 You will have to go to court and testify 648 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,760 as to the fact of how you got the car. 649 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,920 According to Detective Goodwin, Oliver 650 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,680 was nervous about testify, but agreed, 651 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,680 knowing that he really had no choice. 652 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,280 If you have any questions, you can call me, OK? 653 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,920 Nearly a year passed. 654 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,920 Dennis Watson's trial was looming, 655 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:17,240 and Oliver was scheduled to testify on February 16, 1984. 656 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,440 Three days before the trial, Oliver 657 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,320 was seen just before he left for work at around 8 AM. 658 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:31,480 Oliver turned onto Orpington Road and simply vanished. 659 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,400 Oliver would rarely miss school. 660 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,520 And on that particular Monday, when he didn't arrive, 661 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,080 some of the staff and the kids started 662 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,280 to worry that this is not a usual practice for Oliver, 663 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,240 and maybe something was occurring, 664 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,320 something was wrong with him. 665 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,320 Oliver's brother James telephoned through the night, 666 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,920 but got no answer. 667 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,160 Oliver, are you in here? 668 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,160 The next day, he was worried enough 669 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,520 to visit Oliver's house himself. 670 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,280 Oliver, this is me, James. 671 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,920 When I went over to the house, I didn't 672 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,360 have a sense of what was going on. 673 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,840 I just thought maybe that he was sick, 674 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,080 and I didn't know if he was unconscious or whatever 675 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:13,580 in the house. 676 00:32:13,580 --> 00:32:14,480 I didn't know. 677 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,720 Three days passed, with no word from Oliver Munson. 678 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,080 Then Oliver's car was found abandoned 679 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,120 just a few blocks from his home. 680 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,200 One tire was flat. 681 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,360 School papers and a bag lunch around the front seat, 682 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,080 but there was no evidence to indicate what had happened 683 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,000 to Oliver Munson. 684 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,480 At that time, I felt that there was something wrong. 685 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,800 Then the decision was made here that we were looking 686 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,920 at a kidnapping or a homicide. 687 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,880 Dennis Watson became a focal point 688 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,320 of the ensuing investigation. 689 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,800 Only then did police discover that this wasn't the first time 690 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,200 something had happened to a witness in a case 691 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,280 against Dennis Watson. 692 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,960 In 1973, a man named Clinton Glenn burned a death 693 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,880 in a vehicle that was registered to Watson. 694 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,840 Glenn had been scheduled to testify against Watson 695 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,880 in an armed robbery trial the very next day. 696 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,000 Based on the testimony of another witness, 697 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,640 Watson was indicted for Glenn's murder. 698 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,600 However, this key witness suddenly 699 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,960 died of a suspicious drug overdose, 700 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,920 and the murder charges were dropped. 701 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,600 Now Oliver Munson had vanished, but there 702 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,080 was no evidence to implicate Dennis Watson, 703 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,280 and he was never charged with a crime in connection 704 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,120 with the disappearance. 705 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,240 The Munson investigation stalled until police heard 706 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,280 from a man named Hilton Solomon. 707 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,840 Officer, can you help me? 708 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,480 I was just driving along, and all of a sudden, I see my car 709 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,160 reported it stolen. 710 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,480 Solomon's car had been stolen just hours 711 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,640 before Oliver Munson disappeared. 712 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,920 Inside the car, Solomon had found a hat that would later 713 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:04,120 be identified as similar to one owned by Oliver Munson. 714 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,600 Hilton Solomon took his car home after it was released 715 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,080 by Baltimore City, and several days later, 716 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,720 he decided to clean the car. 717 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:14,560 While he was cleaning, he found several receipts 718 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,960 from a video store. 719 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,400 One of these receipts was the name Oliver Munson. 720 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,600 We went down and looked at the car. 721 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:31,000 There was a brownish stain on the carpet front right 722 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,680 hand side of the vehicle. 723 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,080 Looked underneath of the seat, right by the track 724 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:42,480 of the right hand front seat, I found a spent cartridge case. 725 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,840 Red smudges were also found on one of the receipts. 726 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,160 Tests revealed that the stains were human blood type O 727 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,280 positive. 728 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,720 This finding strongly suggested that Oliver had 729 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,200 met with foul play, but with no records showing Oliver's 730 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,520 blood type and no other hard evidence, 731 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,240 the official investigation ground to a halt. 732 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,400 As it turned out, Oliver's disappearance 733 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,560 had no apparent effect on the outcome of the trial. 734 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,240 Watson pled guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. 735 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:17,200 He was paroled in 1989 after serving half his term. 736 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,200 Meanwhile, Oliver's friends and family 737 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,600 have spent year after painful year without him. 738 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,640 It's been nearly 10 years since Oliver disappeared. 739 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,320 And the kids at school, the ones who I keep in contact with, 740 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,320 they'll always ask. 741 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,400 That's one of the first things. 742 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,600 And I just, I don't know. 743 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,360 I don't have any answer to give to them. 744 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,120 In the last 10 years of my brother's disappearance, 745 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,600 it's been a burden on the whole family. 746 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,120 Today, my mother's doc is gone. 747 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,800 She wear it every day, every night she prayed and cried, 748 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,580 wondering about where her first son is. 749 00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:57,060 If anyone know or seen anything that day, 750 00:35:57,060 --> 00:35:59,260 please, please help the family to get 751 00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:00,420 the burden off their chest. 752 00:36:05,940 --> 00:36:08,620 Next, a woman who was given up for adoption 753 00:36:08,620 --> 00:36:12,020 more than 50 years ago needs your help to find her birth 754 00:36:12,020 --> 00:36:12,420 mother. 755 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:24,860 During the Great Depression, Drow transformed 756 00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:29,180 the fertile plains of America's heartland into a desert. 757 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:30,740 Thousands of families were forced 758 00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:35,580 to abandon their homes and roam the country in search of jobs. 759 00:36:35,580 --> 00:36:39,100 This is a story of a young woman named Rosemary Ledbetter. 760 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:41,500 In the mid-1930s, she and her family 761 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,380 apparently left Texas and joined the Faithless Army 762 00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:46,460 of migrant farm workers. 763 00:36:46,460 --> 00:36:49,580 Sure, it's over there. 764 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:53,820 In 1938, Rosemary found herself in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma, 765 00:36:53,820 --> 00:36:55,460 for the cotton harvest. 766 00:36:55,460 --> 00:36:58,740 She was unmarried and working up to 14 hours a day 767 00:36:58,740 --> 00:37:00,940 when she learned that she was pregnant. 768 00:37:00,940 --> 00:37:02,860 Now, you're sure you're going to be OK? 769 00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:04,860 Yes, I just think I need to sit here for a little bit. 770 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,500 When Rosemary could no longer work in the fields, 771 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,420 she packed her meager belongings into a single suitcase 772 00:37:13,420 --> 00:37:15,260 and hitched a ride to Oklahoma City. 773 00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:20,300 Alone and with nowhere else to turn, 774 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:23,380 she sought refuge in a shelter for unwed mothers called 775 00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:24,780 the home of redeeming love. 776 00:37:28,420 --> 00:37:32,740 On July 16, 1938, Rosemary gave birth to a daughter 777 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:33,780 and placed her for adoption. 778 00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:39,300 Today, that daughter is a grown woman 779 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:42,220 who can sympathize with a difficult decision Rosemary 780 00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:45,980 made more than 50 years ago. 781 00:37:45,980 --> 00:37:49,340 I don't think she had any choices. 782 00:37:49,340 --> 00:37:53,540 And I thank her for thinking of me. 783 00:37:53,540 --> 00:38:00,340 And I had parents that adopted me that I know they also 784 00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:01,340 thanked her. 785 00:38:04,820 --> 00:38:08,300 In August of 1991, Meredith Atkinson, a company 786 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:10,980 by her husband, returned to the place of her birth 787 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:16,220 looking for information about her biological mother. 788 00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:19,180 I have many relatives that say, why 789 00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:22,260 are you trying to find out your parents loved you? 790 00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:24,980 And I said, I know this, but it has nothing 791 00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:28,700 to do with them loving me. 792 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:33,140 I need to find out for my own sake. 793 00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:35,660 Meredith had grown up in Oklahoma and Kansas. 794 00:38:35,660 --> 00:38:39,020 An only child doted upon by warm and loving parents. 795 00:38:41,820 --> 00:38:43,580 She never got the slightest hint that there 796 00:38:43,580 --> 00:38:47,420 was anything unusual about her background until 1990 797 00:38:47,420 --> 00:38:50,420 when a relative revealed that Meredith had been adopted. 798 00:38:53,660 --> 00:38:57,140 Meredith immediately tracked down her original birth certificate. 799 00:38:57,140 --> 00:38:59,140 She learned that the name given to her at birth 800 00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:01,660 was Mary Ann Ledbetter. 801 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:04,620 Her father was listed as unknown. 802 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:08,740 Her mother's name was Rosemary Ledbetter. 803 00:39:08,740 --> 00:39:10,340 Meredith, I'd like for you to keep in mind 804 00:39:10,340 --> 00:39:12,260 that with adoption, confidentiality 805 00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:14,420 is always very important. 806 00:39:14,420 --> 00:39:16,940 In Oklahoma, Meredith was told the state 807 00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:19,460 laws prevented the opening of adoption files. 808 00:39:19,460 --> 00:39:21,180 I'm an old adoptee. 809 00:39:21,180 --> 00:39:21,900 So today, I'm on the A-biz-er. 810 00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:23,940 But a social worker did provide Meredith 811 00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:25,900 with limited information. 812 00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:29,060 I believe it can give you a good feel for your birth mother. 813 00:39:29,060 --> 00:39:34,460 I found out that my mother was of Irish and German. 814 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:40,300 I found out that she had one sister and four brothers. 815 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:45,300 They were field workers. 816 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:50,300 They had to move and follow crops, just trying to get by. 817 00:39:52,660 --> 00:39:54,900 And I thought about this. 818 00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:59,900 I could see her life and how rough it was. 819 00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:07,900 And it hurt me to think that she maybe had a life like this. 820 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:11,900 You may need it after you see the surprise we got 821 00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:14,900 from Oklahoma today. 822 00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:17,380 Meredith and her husband returned to their home in Arizona 823 00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:19,700 to continue the search. 824 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:23,180 Several months later, Meredith was elated when the home mailed 825 00:40:23,180 --> 00:40:25,620 her a copy of a letter Rosemary had sent there 826 00:40:25,620 --> 00:40:29,500 a half a century earlier. 827 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:35,100 Sunday, August the 25th, 1940, dear madams, 828 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:40,100 I am been wanting to ride sooner, but have never got around to it. 829 00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:42,100 I'm injured as a myself. 830 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,100 I'm Rose Marie Ledbetter. 831 00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:46,900 I was with you all in 1938. 832 00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:51,700 My baby girl, Mary Ann, was born July 16th, 1938. 833 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:53,700 I wondered if I need a chance if you could send me 834 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:56,300 a picture of my baby girl. 835 00:40:56,300 --> 00:40:59,300 I would not ask or wish for anything more. 836 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:02,100 I would appreciate it very much. 837 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:05,100 Thank you, Miss Rose Marie Ledbetter. 838 00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:13,100 I knew then that my mother was interested in me. 839 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:19,100 She had been thinking of me even after I was born. 840 00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:26,100 I would like to be able to look at her and tell her, 841 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,900 mother, I understand. 842 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:32,900 I know you had to do what was best for you. 843 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:35,500 And that I'd like to know you. 844 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:37,500 I'd like to get to know you. 845 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:42,300 As a direct result of our broadcast, 846 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:44,500 a private investigator named Glenda Allen 847 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:48,300 contacted Meredith and volunteered to take on the search. 848 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:52,200 Just one month later, Meredith received the exciting news. 849 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,400 Her mother, 78-year-old Rose Marie Luckmer, had been found. 850 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,000 Though she's been in failing health for several years, 851 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,000 Rose Marie was anxious to see her long-lost daughter. 852 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:10,000 In September of 1994, Meredith and her two children 853 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,700 traveled from Arizona to Canute, Oklahoma 854 00:42:12,700 --> 00:42:15,700 for the much-anticipated reunion. 855 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:20,400 Hi there, Walter. 856 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,400 Glad to know you, Walter. 857 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,000 Meredith's uncle, Walter, Rose Marie's brother, 858 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000 answered the door. 859 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000 And I'm at this, this is Rose. 860 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000 Hi, Rose. 861 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,200 You? 862 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,600 Yes. 863 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,600 I'm Mary Ann. 864 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,100 Little Mary Ann. 865 00:42:43,100 --> 00:42:44,900 I'm so tickled. 866 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:48,800 I think that finding my mother and seeing her 867 00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:54,300 and her family has brought closure to my life. 868 00:42:54,300 --> 00:43:01,300 I needed, I needed this. 869 00:43:01,300 --> 00:43:04,300 You were even, you were even a great-grandma. 870 00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:06,300 Do you know that? 871 00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:08,300 Sure. 872 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:10,300 We have. 873 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:13,300 I'm just tickled to death she's here. 874 00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:15,300 Yeah, I just wish we was closer together. 875 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:17,300 We could visit a little more often, you know, 876 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,800 but I plan to go through there and visit her in Arizona 877 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,800 when I go see my brothers, you know, that way. 878 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,800 We kind of on our way up there. 879 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,800 Might be a little out of the way, but it'd be worth it. 880 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,800 It's like gaining a new family and, you know, 881 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,800 it's like gaining new friends too. 882 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,800 Well, Albert, I think you and I look alike too. 883 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:46,800 I absolutely am going to be overjoyed to write to them 884 00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:52,300 and talk to them and get to know them. 885 00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:54,300 Do you care if I call you mother? 886 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:57,300 No. 887 00:43:57,300 --> 00:43:58,300 No? 888 00:43:58,300 --> 00:43:59,300 No. 889 00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:12,300 Next week on Unsolved Mysteries, 890 00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:15,300 in 1992, 18-year-old Andre Jones, 891 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,800 the son of a local civil rights worker, 892 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,800 was arrested at a routine police checkpoint 893 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,800 in Brandon, Mississippi. 894 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,800 Within 36 hours, Andre's parents were informed 895 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,800 that he had been found hung in the shower stall 896 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,800 of his jail cell. 897 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,800 The death was ruled a suicide, 898 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,800 but Andre Jones' family believes he was murdered. 899 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,800 More than 60 years ago, a pair of prospectors in Wyoming 900 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,800 happened upon the mummified remains 901 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,800 of a tiny human being. 902 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,800 X-rays later revealed what appears to be 903 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,300 a newly developed skeleton just 17 inches tall. 904 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:50,300 For some, a mummy was proof that a legendary race 905 00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:52,300 of supernatural beings known as the little people 906 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:54,300 actually existed. 907 00:44:54,300 --> 00:44:58,300 The skeptics, however, are far from convinced. 908 00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:01,300 Join me next time for another intriguing edition 909 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:03,300 of Unsolved Mysteries.