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 --> 00:00:20,320 In the early 1930s, two amateur prospectors in Wyoming 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,960 chast upon a baffling curiosity. 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,360 The mummified remains of a tiny ancient human being 8 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,320 X-rays revealed what appeared to be a fully developed skeleton 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,600 just 17 inches tall, about the height of a coffee table. 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,800 Could the artifact be evidence that a mythological race 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,840 of supernatural beings known as the little people 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,440 actually existed? 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,640 In Mississippi, the tragic death of 18-year-old Andre Jones, 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,440 the son of civil rights activists, 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,520 is surrounded by a storm of controversy. 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,680 In 1992, Jones was arrested at a routine sobriety checkpoint. 17 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,360 At less than 36 hours later, he was dead. 18 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,920 Authorities say he hung himself with a shoelace 19 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,360 in the shower stall in his jail cell. 20 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,160 Andre's parents say he was murdered. 21 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,320 October 2, 1961, an 11-year-old Alan Betcher 22 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,400 told his parents that someone had left a baby in their car. 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,800 They thought he was joking. 24 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,440 Today, that baby is a grown woman searching for her birth 25 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,360 mother. 26 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,560 Also tonight, in a remarkable update, 27 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,520 a landlord watching Unsolved Mysteries 28 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,320 is shocked to discover that one of his former tenants 29 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:33,280 has wanted for murder. 30 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,360 Join me. 31 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,320 Perhaps you too may be able to help solve a mystery. 32 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:46,680 The American West, a magical land with a rich and colorful past. 33 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,640 For many, the frontier conjures up images of outlaws, cowboys, 34 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:52,960 and buried treasure. 35 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,200 But for Native Americans, this is ancient ground, 36 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,000 steeped in a history which defies 37 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 conventional beliefs and logic. 38 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,040 For generations, menace and men of the Crow, Shoshone, 39 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,400 and Arapaho tribes have told stories 40 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,360 of a mythic race of supernatural beings 41 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:20,680 able to perform feats of amazing physical strength. 42 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,720 Incredibly, according to legend, 43 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,600 these people stood less than two feet high. 44 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,680 For more than a century, the story of the little people 45 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,480 was just the kind of tall tale that the pioneers scoffed at. 46 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,320 But all of that would change in 1932, 47 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,720 when two men went prospecting in Wyoming. 48 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:49,720 Cecil Main and Frank Carr were two amateur gold prospectors. 49 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,160 And they were in the Pedro Mountains, 50 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,840 which is right along the shore of Pathfinder Reservoir 51 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,040 about the center of the state. 52 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,120 At the back of the cave, Cecil Main and Frank Carr 53 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,320 made an extraordinary discovery. 54 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:06,120 What's that? 55 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:06,920 What? 56 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:08,720 They're here. 57 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,440 Perched on a rocky ledge with a small figure, 58 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,000 just six inches high, mummified in a sitting position. 59 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,040 Some engine burial cave or something. 60 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,960 They'd never seen anything like that before 61 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,000 and would have no idea what it was, 62 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,520 except that they knew it was probably worth taking out. 63 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:36,080 Several days later, Cecil Main returned to the cave alone, 64 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,160 paying no heed to the notion that the cave was a sacred Indian 65 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:40,200 burial site. 66 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,320 Main snatched the mysterious mummy. 67 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,400 It has been an object of great controversy and mystery 68 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,040 ever since. 69 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,280 Over the years, the mummy has come 70 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:54,320 into the possession of a number of different people. 71 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,040 Unsubstantiated rumor has it that each of the owners 72 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,000 died under unusual circumstances. 73 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,320 As far as anyone knows, the most recent owner 74 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,040 disappeared without a trace nearly 20 years ago, 75 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,080 along with the mummy. 76 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,200 Those who believe in the legend of the little people 77 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,640 claim a curse as responsible. 78 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,000 Others maintain as all just a coincidence. 79 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,760 The discovery of the mummy in 1932 80 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,800 made headlines throughout Wyoming 81 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,240 and prompted speculation that it had been placed in the cave 82 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,800 by one of the Native American tribes. 83 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,320 Many Native American spiritual people 84 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,400 have told me that they have certain ways they 85 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,760 bury and in turn, they're dead. 86 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,560 And this mummy is in a different position than anything 87 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,440 they've ever seen. 88 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,400 So they don't know exactly. 89 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,320 From their own viewpoints, they don't know what it is. 90 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,840 However, Cecil Main did not really care what the mummy was. 91 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:54,480 He was looking to sell it. 92 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,680 And eventually, he found a willing buyer. 93 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,160 Here it is. 94 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:01,640 It's here for the money. 95 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,400 The six inch mummy man. 96 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,000 In 1934, an insurance salesman named Homer Sherrill 97 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,480 bought the mummy for $25 and took it on the road. 98 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,240 Wyoming, two bits. 99 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,120 One of the first people to hand over the price of admission 100 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,880 was a curious 10-year-old boy named Eugene Bashore. 101 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,440 You won't believe in mummies, of course. 102 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,320 You'll see it. 103 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,080 You will have a great mummy, too. 104 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,160 My dad didn't want me to see it. 105 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,240 What I remember most about that was what a hard time I had 106 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,400 talking to him into giving me $0.25 so I could see the mummy. 107 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,760 And when I went in, he went in one door 108 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,800 and then walked past a table where the mummy was sitting. 109 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,200 There was a guard there. 110 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,960 And then out another door. 111 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:43,960 And they moved you right by. 112 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,640 He didn't get to look at it very well. 113 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,800 It was about 6 and 1 half inches high seated. 114 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,720 And standing, it would have been about 17 inches high. 115 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,360 The mummy had brown skin and a flattened skull, 116 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,240 with wisps of gray hair protruding 117 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,080 from the back of the head. 118 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,240 Although the mummy was seen by hundreds of people 119 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,680 over the next 10 years, no serious scientific analysis 120 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,080 was undertaken until 1950. 121 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:15,840 Mr. Goodman? 122 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,080 Ivan Goodman. 123 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,160 By then, the mummy had fallen into the hands 124 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,760 of a used car dealer named Ivan Goodman. 125 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,560 Well, what do you have to show me? 126 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,000 Goodman took the relic to Dr. Paul Martin 127 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,360 at the Chicago Museum of Natural History for an analysis. 128 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,280 Some serious efforts were made in the early 1950s 129 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,720 to get this little mummy documented. 130 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,240 And it was done rather well, I think, for the times. 131 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,320 There were photographs taken, good photographs 132 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:48,640 that we can still look at. 133 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,240 There were x-rays taken. 134 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,480 Really, a surprising amount of very effective documentation 135 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:57,040 was made. 136 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,160 The x-rays revealed that the object had a complete skeletal 137 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,480 structure, as well as a full set of teeth. 138 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,040 Initially, it did appear to be the mummified remains 139 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,200 of a fully developed human being, which 140 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,080 happened to be 17 inches tall. 141 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,120 But after reviewing all of the material, 142 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,560 Dr. Martin reached an altogether different conclusion. 143 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,800 In his opinion, the mummy was not a mature adult, 144 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,000 but an infant who had suffered from a medical abnormality 145 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,480 known as anencephaly. 146 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,600 This is a condition in which infants are born without a brain 147 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,120 and lack a complete skull. 148 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,200 As a result, they may often take on 149 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,520 the physical appearance of an adult. 150 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,400 However, Eugene Bashor claims that other experts 151 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,080 believe the malformed skull could have been the result 152 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,240 of a severe blow to the head. 153 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,960 Some of the people I've interviewed 154 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,960 were experts, doctors, radiologists, 155 00:08:52,960 --> 00:09:00,040 said there are pieces of skull in the scalp that's hanging down 156 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:06,560 like it was beat down in its result of trauma, injury. 157 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:10,280 Eugene Bashor further states that the scientists he spoke with 158 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,640 believe the mummy had other adult characteristics. 159 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:20,480 It also has a full set of teeth, quite prominent teeth. 160 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:25,160 And infants would show two sets of undeveloped teeth still 161 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:26,440 up in the jaws. 162 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,440 These have descended in there's no other teeth above them, 163 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,160 like a baby or a young person would have. 164 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,920 Dr. George Gill still disagrees. 165 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,400 Yeah, all the physicians and physical anthropologists 166 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:41,920 that I know of who I've ever looked at, 167 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,560 that I've been able to verify to actually talk to them, 168 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:47,720 have said that it's some type of infant, 169 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,520 and it looks to them to be an anencephalic human infant. 170 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,200 Oh, I certainly am going to do everything I can to prove that. 171 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,120 In October of 1950, Ivan Goodman loaned 172 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,560 the fine to Dr. Leonard Wadler, curator of a New York museum. 173 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,440 I don't want to sound to that. 174 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:05,880 I'm going to trust him with you, Doc. 175 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,360 You take good care of him. 176 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:08,280 Oh, don't worry. 177 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,000 He's in good hands. 178 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,200 You take care, sir. 179 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,560 I shall. 180 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:15,640 Goodman felt there was a fortune to be made 181 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,240 if Wadler could prove that the mummy was a North American 182 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,360 relative of the pygmies, a race of people in Africa and Asia 183 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,720 who stand four to five feet in height. 184 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,920 Unfortunately, Ivan Goodman died of a sudden stroke 185 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,160 before the theory was proven, and Wadler kept the mummy. 186 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,160 What was the mysterious artifact uncovered 187 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:45,320 in the remote mountains of Wyoming more than 60 years ago? 188 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,160 Was it proof of the existence of a mythological race 189 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,720 known as the Little People, or was it 190 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,160 the tragedy of an anencephalic infant 191 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,360 born in primitive times? 192 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,960 So much more could be done today in the way of analysis 193 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,440 on this small mummy. 194 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,600 DNA analysis could be done. 195 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,000 We have methods now that could allow 196 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,040 dating to be done without being that destructive. 197 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,760 So it's really important that the scientific community 198 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:13,720 take another look at it. 199 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,560 The controversy exists. 200 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:20,000 It continues. 201 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,520 It could be settled if we had the mummy. 202 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,920 At this point in time, we don't know, and that's the mystery. 203 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,960 Dr. Leonard Wadler was last owned to be living in Florida. 204 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:37,680 However, no one has seen the doctor or the mummy since 1975. 205 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:39,280 While a scientific community would 206 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,520 like to find the mummy for analysis, 207 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,240 Native Americans hoped the relic will 208 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,960 be recovered for its spiritual value. 209 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,000 In their view, a sacred burial site was disturbed. 210 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,400 And ultimately, they would like to return the artifact 211 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,200 to an appropriate resting place. 212 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,480 Next, a series of mysterious hanging 213 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,520 deaths in jails across Mississippi 214 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,360 sparks a federal investigation. 215 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:14,800 Tonight, there is a scandal brewing in Mississippi, 216 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,240 a scandal which has prompted Attorney General Janet 217 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:21,840 Reno to order an investigation by the Justice Department. 218 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,240 Over the past five years, no fewer than 48 inmates 219 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,040 in Mississippi jails, half of them black, half of them 220 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:32,000 white, have died under mysterious circumstances. 221 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,360 Every single death was a hanging. 222 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,560 Every single death was ruled a suicide. 223 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:40,280 This is a story of one Mississippi hanging. 224 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,160 In the summer of 1992, Andre Jones 225 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,080 was 18 years old, about to start his freshman year of college. 226 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,080 His mother, Esther, was president of the Jackson Mississippi 227 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,560 branch of the NAACP, his stepfather, Charles X Quinn, 228 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:59,160 a nation of Islam minister. 229 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,640 1 AM, Saturday, August 22, Brandon, Mississippi. 230 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,200 Andre Jones and his girlfriend, Tanisha Love, 231 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,320 were stopped at a routine sobriety check point. 232 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,640 Andre was driving a friend's pickup truck. 233 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,120 Glory, Mr. Drivers license, please. 234 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,240 I don't have it. 235 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:25,360 130 AM, Jackson, Mississippi, 20 miles from Brandon. 236 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,320 Andre's parents were awakened when the phone rang. 237 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:30,280 Hello? 238 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:31,840 Hello, Mr. Quinn. 239 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,080 This is Tanisha. 240 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,560 I'm sorry to call you, but Andre's been arrested. 241 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:39,760 Arrested? 242 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:40,660 Andre's been arrested. 243 00:13:40,660 --> 00:13:41,560 Arrested? 244 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:43,640 What? 245 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,240 Yeah, Mom. 246 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:46,040 It's me. 247 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,560 2 AM, Andre called his parents from the Brandon police 248 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:50,760 station. 249 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:55,600 He said he did not know what he had been charged with. 250 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,080 4 AM, Andre telephoned again, this time 251 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,400 to say he had been transferred to the Simpson County 252 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,160 jail 40 miles south of Jackson. 253 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,040 According to his parents, he still did not know what 254 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,000 the charges against him were. 255 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,920 We were told that they could not tell us anything at that time. 256 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,240 And Simpson County just refused to even talk to us. 257 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,360 And they told us that we could not come to that jail. 258 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:21,720 Have you heard anything? 259 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,520 The Quinn say that they spoke with Andre at least five 260 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,360 different times on Saturday. 261 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,000 How can they keep me in here an extra day 262 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,480 and they haven't even charged me? 263 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,160 He was very much concerned about his charges. 264 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,000 And we could not tell him anything. 265 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,520 He was very much concerned about getting out immediately 266 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,240 and so that he could attend school the very next day. 267 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:48,560 About midnight that night, I heard a knock on the door. 268 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,600 It was a Jackson police officer. 269 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:52,920 Jackson Police Department? 270 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:53,840 OK. 271 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,560 I have a message here from Mrs. Esther Jones Quinn. 272 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:57,640 More husband I could take. 273 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,480 Sir, I really need to deliver this to her in person. 274 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,480 Charles, what is it? 275 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,320 This officer has a message for you. 276 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,640 Esther Jones Quinn? 277 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:06,560 Yes. 278 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,760 He gave me the piece of paper which only had a phone number 279 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,640 for the Simpson County jail. 280 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,160 I'm really not sure, ma'am. 281 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:15,120 There was not a note. 282 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,160 There was not a message. 283 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,280 It was only a number. 284 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,800 Yes, hello? 285 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,160 Yes, my name is Esther Jones Quinn. 286 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,200 Yes. 287 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:32,560 I was informed that Andre had committed suicide. 288 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,800 That I was casually informed that he had committed suicide 289 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,720 as if they could have been talking to someone that didn't 290 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:40,760 even know who he was. 291 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,360 According to Andre's parents, he had never 292 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,480 shown suicidal tendencies. 293 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,240 He had never even suffered from depression. 294 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,680 Andre had no previous arrest record. 295 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,240 So when Esther and Charles Quinn 296 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,760 started to look into his death, they naturally 297 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,160 began with the circumstances of his arrest. 298 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,760 Andre and Tanisha had stopped by the Quinn's house 299 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,000 in Jackson around 1145 Friday night. 300 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,680 They left and drove east toward Brandon where Tanisha lived. 301 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,720 Near the Brandon city limits, they came upon the checkpoint. 302 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,920 According to the Quinn's lawyers, 303 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,960 the police say that Andre Jones stopped 304 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,720 just short of the checkpoint. 305 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,480 They say Andre tossed an object out 306 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,760 of the window of the truck. 307 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,680 Sir, did you show something out of this vehicle? 308 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:32,480 No, I didn't. 309 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,440 Let me see your dryer's license. 310 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,360 Police identify the object as a 38 caliber handgun. 311 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:38,640 Is that an open beer can? 312 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,320 Inside the truck, they say there was an open can of beer. 313 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,600 And finally, the truck, which Andre had borrowed and driven 314 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,760 for more than a week, turned out to be stolen. 315 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:49,520 Put your hands on the roof. 316 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:50,880 Spread your legs. 317 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:55,480 I'm not sure if he knew or not if the truck was stolen. 318 00:16:55,480 --> 00:17:00,640 It would appear to me that if he knew the truck was stolen, 319 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:05,360 he would be skeptical in driving it so openly. 320 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:08,080 I didn't know nothing about the truck. 321 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,400 But I knew there was no beer in the truck, 322 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,200 and he did not throw a gun out the truck, 323 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,760 because there was no gun in the truck. 324 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,600 Tanisha loves version of the events 325 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,920 is very different from the reported police version. 326 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,160 Can I see your license, please, sir? 327 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,760 I don't have it. 328 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,160 You don't have a license with you? 329 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,040 No, I forgot it. 330 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:26,960 What's your name? 331 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,040 Andre Jones. 332 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,360 Tanisha claims that as soon as the officers heard 333 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:33,160 Andre's name, their attitude immediately changed. 334 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,240 Thank you, sir. 335 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,960 After they asked him his name, they all went to, 336 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,640 I'd say, like a little hoodlum, like a football hoodlum. 337 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,280 And they was, I don't know what they was talking about, 338 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,280 because they was talking low. 339 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:46,760 And after that, that's when they came to the truck 340 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,240 and asked Andre again, did he have his license? 341 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,280 He said, no, sir, I don't have my license. 342 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,680 Step away. 343 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,120 Hands on the roof of the vehicle. 344 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:55,840 And they asked him to step out the truck, 345 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,680 and that's when they handcuffed him. 346 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,360 They shackled his feet, and they had him handcuffed. 347 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:03,880 At the same time, I didn't understand what was going on. 348 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,360 State Public Safety Commissioner Jim Ingram 349 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,120 believes Andre Jones was not shackled. 350 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:13,960 In fact, Ingram disagreed with Tanisha's entire account. 351 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,680 There was no confrontation whatsoever 352 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,520 with young Andre Jones. 353 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,480 In fact, the officers were very amazed 354 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,680 how cooperative he was. 355 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,920 This is two for one. 356 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,880 According to Commissioner Ingram, 357 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,960 Andre was so cooperative at the Brandon Police Department 358 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,120 that he admitted being in a gang and even showed the police 359 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:39,200 gang hand signals, which they photographed. 360 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,160 He posed for photographs with different sign signals, 361 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,640 indicating how gangs make statements by signs. 362 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,040 It was a very cooperative attitude on both sides. 363 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,960 The officers have indicated they really 364 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,000 were impressed with this young man. 365 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,440 My child was very independent and a very intelligent young man. 366 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,040 He was strong aspirations. 367 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:09,080 And he had no need or no desire to become involved 368 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,680 within a gang. 369 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,040 Despite repeated requests, copies 370 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,400 of the alleged photos of Andre illustrating gang signals 371 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,040 have not been made available to unsolved mysteries 372 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,680 or to Andre's family. 373 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,120 Andre was charged on four counts, 374 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:27,720 driving a truck whose vehicle identification number had 375 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,760 been altered, carrying a concealed weapon, 376 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,560 possession of stolen license plate tags, 377 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,800 and driving with an open container of alcohol. 378 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,200 Commissioner Ingram remains adamant that the arrest 379 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,240 was non-confrontational. 380 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,360 Charles Quinn, however, says that an inmate in Brandon 381 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:49,160 claims the police use racial epithets to intimidate Andre. 382 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,880 One of the inmates who were transferred with Andre 383 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,640 said that the officer said, do you 384 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:03,080 know what happened to niggers for stealing a white man's truck? 385 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,000 And of course, other statements were 386 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:12,040 said to put fear in Andre. 387 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,200 At approximately 4 AM on Saturday, 388 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,080 Andre was transferred from Brandon to the Simpson County 389 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,600 jail 35 miles away. 390 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,240 The Simpson County facility had a reputation 391 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,480 as a dangerous jail. 392 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,040 This is a rough diagram of the cell 393 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,920 into which Andre Jones was transferred. 394 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,480 12 other inmates were being held in the narrow L-shaped space. 395 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,840 A dimly lit corridor next to the cell led to a toilet, 396 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,640 and the shower stall where Andre's body was found. 397 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,680 One of the inmates came forward and said, hey, 398 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,200 this guy sure been in the shower for a long time. 399 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,320 One of the men walked back and said, 400 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:03,120 they found a young man hanging by a shoelace, 401 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:04,560 and the shower's still running. 402 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,200 And that's when they called for the guards 403 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:11,720 and immediately they unlocked the cell and took him down. 404 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,240 Authorities state that Andre Jones had hung himself 405 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,160 with his own shoelace. 406 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,480 They say Andre tied the shoelace to an iron 407 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,760 grate above the shower head. 408 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,800 When Charles Quinn was allowed to visit the cell, 409 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,080 he estimated the grate was approximately 8 feet above the 410 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,040 floor. 411 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:35,280 He would need someone to have held him up to do that. 412 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:42,120 And he would have needed some type of stew to stand on. 413 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:43,320 That's incorrect. 414 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,640 The point of attachment of the. 415 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,520 Dr. Stephen Hain, the state-approved pathologist 416 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,120 who performed the autopsy, said investigators 417 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,000 had demonstrated that it was possible for Andre 418 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,840 to have hung himself unaided. 419 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,560 Position was easily reached by a member of the sheriff's 420 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,080 office who was acting as the decedent. 421 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,680 Andre's parents also feel it is impossible 422 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,200 that their son's body weight could 423 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,800 have been supported simply by a lace from his running shoes. 424 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,640 But Dr. Hain says the laces were tested by the manufacturer, 425 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,800 and their tensile strength was found sufficient. 426 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,960 Less than a week after Andre's death, 427 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,680 his parents hired an independent pathologist, Dr. James Bryant, 428 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,760 to examine the remains and review the case. 429 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,280 I think it's highly probable that he was strangled. 430 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,840 Someone did this to him. 431 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,640 In the usual case of a suicide by hanging, 432 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,320 the ligature mark is along the side of the neck 433 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,680 and doesn't go all the way around. 434 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,600 It's in this fashion. 435 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,760 Whereas in the case of Andre Jones, 436 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,640 the ligature marking went along the side of the neck 437 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:56,120 and all the way into the back and crisscrossed in this fashion. 438 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:00,280 This suggests to me that someone had 439 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:04,760 to come from behind and wrap the ligature around his neck. 440 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,520 And then furthermore, there's no knot mark. 441 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,200 The knot imprint area would be in the hairline, 442 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,960 and the hairline would act as a buffer, 443 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,320 no longer allowing for that imprint 444 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,400 to be present on the upper back surface of the neck. 445 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,000 No, Andre Jones' hair was cut short, 446 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,560 and the crisscross marking was not in the hairline. 447 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,560 And there were no knot marks anywhere else. 448 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,200 Dr. Haines' autopsy report listed no evidence of bruising 449 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,160 on Andre's neck or anywhere else on his body. 450 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,680 Dr. Bryant's observations were different. 451 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,640 He had some bruising under one of his eyes, 452 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,800 and also he had some bruising on the shoulder of the same side. 453 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,480 The bruising could have been right at the time that he died, 454 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,440 or it could have been sometime during the day, 455 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,680 but apparently he suffered some kind of blunt trauma 456 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,480 sometime during the time he was in the jail. 457 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,720 We were informed by one of the inmates 458 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:08,840 that Andre was taken off that cell block and out of that jail. 459 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,440 And when he was brought back in, 460 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,840 he was brought back in in a wheelchair, 461 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,080 and that he was laid on the shower floor, 462 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:23,800 and the hanging scene was staged. 463 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:29,360 My findings, based upon the evidence both at the scene 464 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:32,120 as well as from the post-mortem examination, 465 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,440 has been reviewed by many other authorities, 466 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,400 including the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 467 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,680 the Department of Justice, the US Attorney's Office, 468 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,240 as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 469 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,960 and by the Attorney General's Office 470 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,560 of the State of Mississippi. 471 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,080 And they are in concurrence with the findings that I made. 472 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,760 There was really no indication. 473 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,400 In March of 1993, a coalition of civil rights groups 474 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,160 conducted hearings in Jackson, Mississippi. 475 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,200 Both eyes was black. 476 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,320 The right side of his eyelid. 477 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,360 Those testifying included the families 478 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,360 of both black and white jail inmates 479 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,400 who had died under questionable circumstances. 480 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,200 And I have to sit and hold my four-year-old dog. 481 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,000 After two days of testimony, the US Commission on Civil Rights 482 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,920 recommended that the Justice Department open an investigation. 483 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,320 I have to go through that. 484 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,720 Five months later, Dr. Emily Ward, a specialist 485 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,520 in forensic pathology, was named Mississippi State 486 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,320 Medical Examiner. 487 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,760 Dr. Ward went over the autopsy report of Andre Jones, 488 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,200 as well as the autopsies of several other men 489 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,440 who have died by hanging in Mississippi jails. 490 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,240 I think that it's extremely unlikely that any of these deaths 491 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,680 are anything other than suicide. 492 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,320 All of the deaths have been investigated by not just one 493 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,520 agency, but one or two, or sometimes three. 494 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,440 And I think that although sometimes there may be questions 495 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,400 that need to be answered related to the death, 496 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,240 I don't think that it in any way affects whether or not 497 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,320 the death is suicide or homicide. 498 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,480 I would never believe that Andre committed suicide. 499 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,720 I know my son was murdered. 500 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:20,080 And the fact that his life was taken so cruel and so abruptly 501 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,040 makes me even more determined to see that he is vindicated. 502 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:57,480 When we return, a man wanted for the murder of his girlfriend 503 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,800 is captured thanks to an alert viewer. 504 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:15,480 In July of 1986, 22-year-old Paula Pasek and her boyfriend 505 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,280 Jerry Gervisoni arrived in Kissimmee, Florida from New Jersey 506 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:20,480 to visit Paula's mother. 507 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,480 I am so glad that you're here. 508 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,480 You remember Jerry. 509 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,480 They stayed there about one week. 510 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,480 No, I don't. 511 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,480 Come on, let's get the bag. 512 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,480 Paula was as happy as a log. 513 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:32,480 The two of them were. 514 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:38,480 I mean, they were very, together they were just happy go lucky. 515 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,480 So do you guys have any plans for tomorrow or what? 516 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,480 Paula and Jerry had arrived on a Wednesday. 517 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,480 On Sunday night, they said their goodbyes. 518 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,480 They told Barbara they would be leaving early the next day 519 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,480 to visit another part of Florida. 520 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,480 Well, we're getting kind of tired. 521 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,480 I got up the next morning. 522 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,480 OK, sweetie. 523 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,480 Good night. 524 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,480 And I thought I heard them up. 525 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,480 And I didn't know whether they were or not, 526 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,480 so I didn't bother to say goodbye. 527 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,480 Maybe if I had, you know, things would have been different. 528 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,480 In the days that followed, an odd smell 529 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,480 would intermittently waft through Barbara's home. 530 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,480 She searched everywhere looking for a source, 531 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,480 finally checking her own bedroom. 532 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,480 Hidden under the bed, wrapped in a bamboo curtain, 533 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,480 was her daughter's body. 534 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,480 Paul Apeziak had been strangled to death 535 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,480 and left under the bed for nearly a week. 536 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,480 The prime suspect was Jerry Gervisoni, 537 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,480 but he had dropped from sight. 538 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,480 He successfully eluded authorities for more than seven years 539 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,480 until the night of our broadcast. 540 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,480 Update, British Columbia, Canada. 541 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,480 On October 21, 1993, Jerry Gervisoni 542 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,480 was arrested in the small community of Salt Springs Island, 543 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,480 where he had been living under the assumed name 544 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,480 Gordon McIntyre. 545 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,480 When our program aired in Canada, 546 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,480 Gervisoni's former landlord recognized him 547 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,480 and immediately called authorities. 548 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,480 I come home and sit down to dinner about 9.30, 549 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,480 quarter to 10, and I flip on the TV 550 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,480 and there was this black and white photo 551 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,480 of Gordon McIntyre, my tenant. 552 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,480 Once in custody, the suspect vehemently insisted 553 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,480 that he truly was Gordon McIntyre, 554 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,480 but fingerprints soon confirmed 555 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,480 that he was in fact Gerald Gervisoni. 556 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,480 At the local airport, Gervisoni tried to avoid photographer 557 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,480 as he was hustled onto a waiting airplane. 558 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,480 He was then flown to a deportation hearing 559 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,480 in Victoria, Canada. 560 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,480 Gervisoni will be held there pending extradition to Florida, 561 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,480 where you'll face charges in the murder of Paula Paisiak. 562 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,480 On the evening of October 2, 1961, 563 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,480 Mr. and Mrs. Earl Betcher and the youngest son, Alan, 564 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,480 were leaving Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. 565 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,480 The Betchers had been visiting one of their other sons 566 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,480 and could never have imagined a surprise that awaited them. 567 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,480 Mom, mom, there's a baby in the back of our car. 568 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,480 Alan, come on. 569 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,480 No, mom, I'm serious. 570 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,480 There's a baby in the back of our car. 571 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,480 I'm serious. There's a baby in the car. Come on. 572 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,480 God. 573 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,480 Did you see anybody around? 574 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,480 No. 575 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,480 Okay, let's take you into the hospital. Come on. 576 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,480 Is she gonna be all right? 577 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,480 The Betchers had found a healthy baby girl, 578 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:32,480 no more than 72 hours old, and weighing 8 1⁄2 pounds. 579 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,480 Local papers dubbed the foundling Baby Girl X. 580 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,480 She lived in foster homes for 5 1⁄2 months 581 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:44,480 before she was adopted by Mary Lou and William Christie of Tallahassee. 582 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,480 The Christie's named their new daughter, Terris, 583 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,480 Terry for short. 584 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,480 Terry grew up happily, doted upon by her parents 585 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,480 and her older brother and sister. 586 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,480 Terry always knew she was adopted, 587 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,480 but not until she was a teenager did she begin to ask the difficult questions. 588 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,480 Who was her birth mother? 589 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,480 Why had she given her up? 590 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,480 I kind of rebelled and wanted to know. 591 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,480 That's when we went to the library, looked it up, and then I got excited. 592 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,480 I was proud, you know. 593 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:25,480 When she pressured me about her parents, 594 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:34,480 I had the big problem about whether to tell her the truth as I knew it, 595 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,480 or whether to say I didn't know anything. 596 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,480 And I really wrestled with it. 597 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,480 And then I came out with that I'd be safe to be truthful. 598 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,480 Do you think that's it? 599 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,480 I think you're right, look. 600 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,480 At the local library, Terry and Mary Lou tracked down all the newspaper articles 601 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,480 about baby girl X. 602 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,480 Terry was surprised to learn that she had been left in the back seat of a car. 603 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:06,480 Nevertheless, she trusted her birth mother had her best interests at heart. 604 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,480 I don't know what put her name down. 605 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,480 She might have been a 15, 16-year-old, little scared girl that had a baby 606 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,480 and ran away from home. 607 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,480 I believe she had a heart. 608 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,480 She put me somewhere safe where I was going to be well taken care of, 609 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,480 and I appreciate that. 610 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,480 She was probably watching them when the little boy came and found me in the car. 611 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,480 She was probably standing there watching it. 612 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,480 Did you see anybody around? 613 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,480 It bothers me not knowing exactly what day I was born, the time, you know. 614 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,480 Where I was born, I don't even know if I was born in a hospital, midwife. 615 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,480 In the car, you know, I have no idea. 616 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,480 I just, I would like to find that out. 617 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,480 Today, Terry is 32 years old, the mother of a young son and daughter. 618 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,480 She wants her children to have a heritage, to know their roots. 619 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,480 I would like to find a beginning. 620 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,480 I just want to meet her and see how she is. 621 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:13,480 I don't know, I'm getting older and I look at my kids and see how they're growing 622 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,480 and I look in the mirror every day and I wonder. 623 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:25,480 Thanks to our broadcast, Terry Christie Derby now knows the answers to all of her questions. 624 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,480 Sadly, Terry's birth mother, Edith Campbell, died on August 17, 1993, 625 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,480 just a few months before our segment aired. 626 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,480 But out of this sadness, a happy ending did emerge. 627 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,480 Terry was delighted to learn that she had a sister and three brothers. 628 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,480 They were delighted as well. 629 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,480 None of them had ever known that Terry existed. 630 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:54,480 On July 8, 1994, Terry went to a hotel in Miami, Florida to meet three of her siblings, 631 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,480 Phillip, Paul and Cecilia, face to face for the first time. 632 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,480 Hey! 633 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,480 Hi, Terry. 634 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,480 It was the neatest experience of my life. 635 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,480 I walked in and there was everybody I wanted to see. 636 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:21,480 Next to me giving birth to my own kids, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. 637 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,480 Best thing. 638 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,480 My experience is that there's more than just a biological thing in a family. 639 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:37,480 There's also a karmic sense of underlying destiny that lies underneath the whole thing. 640 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,480 And this, you know, you meet somebody, I meet Terry and it's like, she is my sister. 641 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,480 I knew it right away, you know? 642 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,480 There's no doubt. 643 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:52,480 At the reunion, Terry and her adoptive mother finally saw a picture of Terry's biological mother, 644 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,480 Edith Campbell. 645 00:35:54,480 --> 00:36:01,480 According to a family member, Edith had given Terry up only because of extreme financial desperation. 646 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:10,480 Knowing what a loving person she was, she cared about nothing but her children her whole life. 647 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:18,480 And I can only imagine the anguish that she went through when she decided to do this. 648 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:25,480 They make me feel wanted. They make me feel like I'm not an outcast. 649 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:34,480 I kind of felt like I was, you know, past, but I can feel their vibes, love, whatever, you know. 650 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,480 It's kind of cool. 651 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,480 Come on, let's go. Let's go. Come on. 652 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:47,480 The next day, Terry met her other brother, Chris, who had been called out of town on business on the day of the reunion. 653 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,480 That's why I snuggle out, brothers and sister. 654 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,480 At last, the family circle is complete. 655 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:15,480 In the fall of 1993, the entire country was touched when 12-year-old Polly Klass was abducted from her home in Northern California and savagely murdered. 656 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,480 Thousands of copies of this composite sketch were distributed by police. 657 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:27,480 In the end, its stunning accuracy helped confirm the identity of the prime suspect, Richard Allen Davis. 658 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:32,480 Davis is now in jail, charged with a kidnapping murder of Polly Klass. 659 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:41,480 Law enforcement secret weapon in the Klass case was this woman, suspect graphic artist Jeannie Boylan. 660 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,480 These days, the FBI and numerous local jurisdictions compete for her time. 661 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,480 Jeannie Boylan has come a long way from her first job in law enforcement. 662 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,480 In the mid-1970s, Jeannie worked at the Sheriff's Department in Multnomah County, Oregon. 663 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,480 The job gave her a close-up look at how suspect sketches were made. 664 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,480 In many cases, Jeannie didn't like what she saw. 665 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,480 I would hear the way that investigators would question witnesses or victims, 666 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,480 and I could hear that they weren't allowing them to answer. 667 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:26,480 They would cut the answers off. It was kind of just the facts, and that seemed to me to be wrong. 668 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:32,480 And then I would see the drawings that would be produced either through an identikit or through an artist, and I knew that they weren't right. 669 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,480 There was something in terms of the heart, really, that was sort of missing in those pictures. 670 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,480 Would you put any other shape around the eyes? 671 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:46,480 Jeannie was convinced that she could do better, and in 1980 she got her chance. 672 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,480 A supervisor gave Jeannie one of his most difficult cases, 673 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,480 an unsolved rape that had languished for months with virtually no leads. 674 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,480 I can't remember anymore. 675 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,480 It's okay. 676 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:03,480 I was trying a lot of different interview techniques, and I found that if I used sort of a diversionary system of interviewing, 677 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,480 where we would kind of circumvent the events of the crime and scenario of the crime, 678 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:14,480 and talk about other topics, and I could relax them, then periodically this information would surface. 679 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,480 You know, I just remembered something. 680 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:24,480 He had a scar, and it started on his forehead, and it leapt back into his hair. 681 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:29,480 It's like the tip of the tongue syndrome, where you have somebody's name that's right there, and you're trying to remember it. 682 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,480 You can't bring it up, and maybe two or three hours later you stop trying, and it just pops into your mind. 683 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,480 I just remembered something else, too. 684 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,480 He had a wide face. 685 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,480 I knew that the drawing that had been done on that case prior to the one that I was doing was wrong. 686 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,480 So what we came up with was so radically different that that was sort of fresh hope for that case. 687 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,480 Jeannie was right. 688 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:56,480 As a direct result of her composite, the suspect was arrested and later convicted. 689 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:02,480 More cases followed, and Jeannie's reputation grew. 690 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,480 I've seen a lot of the work Jeanne Boylan has done, and very impressed. 691 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:15,480 It's the best artist conceptions I've ever seen, and if we ever have a chance of catching the person we're looking for through an artist's conception, 692 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,480 I think Jeanne Boylan is going to give us that chance. 693 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:30,480 Most recently, the FBI turned to Jeannie Boylan in the troubling case of 16-year-old Jonathan Francia of Albuquerque, New Mexico. 694 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:40,480 On January 12, 1994, Jonathan was in his car behind this restaurant in Albuquerque when two strangers abducted him. 695 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:49,480 Five days later, a body believed to be Jonathan's was found, charred almost beyond recognition in the trunk of his burned-out car. 696 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:55,480 One of the killers, known only as Jason, is still at large. 697 00:40:55,480 --> 00:41:00,480 Investigators asked Jeannie to meet with a key witness, Scott Johnson. 698 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,480 Hi. Yeah, I'm Jeanne Boylan. Nice to meet you. 699 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:10,480 He had innocently spent several hours with the killers at his home in a Winslow, Arizona, trailer park. 700 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,480 This is a simple process. I want you to worry about it all. 701 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,480 He instinctively began to assess Scott's potential as an eyewitness. 702 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,480 Scott is a very interesting man. Visual things are very important to him. 703 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,480 You can tell in the way that he dresses and he combs his hair. 704 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:34,480 He takes some care in the way that he looks, which was the first cue to me that I would be able to work in a visual context with him. 705 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:45,480 So one thing that I did was I got out some play-doh, something to anchor him in the present and gave it to him, for him to actually work on, or to play with and sort of feel, to keep him in the moment. 706 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,480 I'll shave it more in the longer. 707 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:54,480 As Scott told his story, Jeannie began to sketch the fugitive killer named Jason. 708 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,480 Scott had met Jason on January 13, 1994. 709 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:05,480 That day, a friend of Scott's named Trina Richardson was staying at the trailer along with her three children. 710 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,480 They were awaiting the arrival of Trina's husband, Paul, who had gone to Alabama. 711 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:14,480 He pulled in at around 6 a.m., accompanied by a stranger. 712 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:19,480 Scott, what's happening? 713 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,480 What's happening, actually? 714 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,480 This is Jason. 715 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:30,480 My first impression of Jason was, oh boy, this guy dressed like a cowboy. 716 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:36,480 You know, the long slender, kind of attracted the girls, would be attracted to him. 717 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:47,480 He had the velvet hat, the long hair, and the jacket, and the jeans, and kind of worn out tinnies. 718 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:55,480 Scott noticed something else about Jason, something he would not truly understand until much later. 719 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,480 I looked down and I noticed his hand. 720 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,480 It was kind of like red, kind of clay type. 721 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:06,480 I thought it was just, you know, dirt, but apparently it was blood. 722 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,480 Soon after he arrived, Jason took a shower. 723 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:13,480 The only time Scott saw him without a hat. 724 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:14,480 Trink? 725 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,480 Tell me a little bit about how you would put the placement of the hair. 726 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:26,480 I had no idea that anything was, you know, wrong, like any crime has been committed. 727 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:35,480 I was just going along just like my everyday, you know, normal routine, and they were too. 728 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:44,480 Scott told Jeannie that he and Trina were out to run errands around 9 a.m., leaving Paul and Jason at the trailer. 729 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:49,480 We came back, pulled up, and that's when they were washing the car. 730 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:54,480 So as we pulled up, they saw us and they shot the trunk. 731 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:59,480 And they actually liked it, they wanted us to see what was in it. 732 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:05,480 At the time, Scott had no idea that the body of Jonathan Francia was in the trunk. 733 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,480 Scott, you got a gas can. 734 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,480 No, but I can go borrow one, OK? 735 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:17,480 So I went next door, got the gas can, came back, and that's when Trina, Paul, and Jason were outside talking. 736 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:25,480 An hour later, Trina and Paul said they were leaving to escort Jason to the main highway. 737 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,480 That was the last time I saw Jason. 738 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:36,480 I thought that he went back to where we was, you know, maybe to Dallas or maybe somewhere else where he was, you know, which home he was from. 739 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:44,480 Four days later, local police followed night witness report to a remote corner of the desert, some 30 miles from Scott's trailer. 740 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:51,480 There they found the burned-out automobile, and the charge remains believed to be Jonathan Francia. 741 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,480 He said he was from Dallas. 742 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,480 Paul Richardson was arrested just over two weeks later. 743 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:04,480 Under questioning by the FBI, Paul admitted that he and Jason had abducted and then murdered Jonathan Francia. 744 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,480 I was a kid in a car behind a restaurant. 745 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,480 We took him. 746 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:18,480 Two days after his confession, Paul Richardson committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell. 747 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,480 Finding the remaining killer is now up to Jeannie Boylan. 748 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,480 Would you create a division between the brows? Would you have it connected? 749 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,480 I would have it kind of... 750 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:37,480 Authorities are counting on Jeannie's unique interviewing skills and artistic talent to help them flush out the mysterious drifter Jason. 751 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,480 I'll compress it a little bit today. 752 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:49,480 When I first saw the composite, it looked pretty much like the same person I've seen in the trailer. 753 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,480 Pretty, pretty close. 754 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,480 I was amazed at how well it turned out. 755 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:01,480 I never thought I could remember that much. That's him. 756 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,480 Okay. Is there anything else you'd add to it? 757 00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:13,480 I believe that Ms. Boylan has a magician's touch in dealing with witnesses who... 758 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:22,480 and has a way of just extracting a photo from their mind, if you will. 759 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:28,480 These are Jeannie's sketches of Jason based on Scott Johnston's description. 760 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:33,480 When I first saw the composite drawing, I felt a lot of anger. 761 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:38,480 Because all this time there's not really been a picture. 762 00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,480 And now there's a face. 763 00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:49,480 And there's a real person up there who killed my son and who might kill somebody else's. 764 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,480 It would set our hearts a little... 765 00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,480 It would give us a little ease in our heart. 766 00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:03,480 That's the fact that it can't bring her some bad, but it'll put him where he belongs. 767 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:08,480 And that's what we need. That's what we need. 768 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:15,480 I think, you know, if there's some way that this contribution can help bring some peace to them, 769 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,480 then I would be delighted. 770 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:24,480 You know, you just want to do whatever you can do and this is all I can do. 771 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,480 In all, Jeannie drew three portraits of the man known as Jason. 772 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:35,480 Authorities believe he has relatives in Pine Top or Payson, Arizona and Dallas, Texas. 773 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:40,480 Jason is described as 5'10", mid-20s, medium-build. 774 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:47,480 He smokes, chews tobacco and wears western-style clothes including a horsehair belt. 775 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:51,480 The man calling himself Jason has also used other first names. 776 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,480 He supposedly frequents Las Vegas and homeless shelters in Lachlan, Nevada. 777 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,480 Jason should be regarded as extremely dangerous. 778 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:13,480 On our next Unsolved Mysteries, in Chicago, a mysterious young woman has charmed eligible bachelors, 779 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,480 bewitched cab drivers and haunted taverns and dance halls for decades. 780 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,480 But there is something very different about this pale alluring beauty. 781 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,480 Can you guess what it is? 782 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,480 Also one of our most poignant updates. 783 00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,480 Years ago, two strangers rescued a young mother from a fiery car crash. 784 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:36,480 Your calls led to their heartwarming reunion. 785 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:41,480 Join me next time for another hour of fascinating and intriguing mysteries.