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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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What you are about to see is not a news broadcast.

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Is it mother's instinct or just coincidence?

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Tonight, a fascinating look at the mysterious telepathic link

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between mothers and children.

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Carolyn Ebert was cleaning up after dinner

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when she suddenly sensed that her eight-month-old daughter

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was in grave danger.

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Carolyn rushed to the living room

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and saved the baby from choking.

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Elaine Emme was overcome by a strong inexplicable feeding

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of dread during an out-of-town trip.

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Later, she would learn that at that very moment,

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her son had been seriously injured in a fall.

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Both women attribute their experiences

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to a special kind of trauma.

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Both women attribute their experiences

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to a special six cents possessed only by mothers.

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Also tonight, in 1990, Anita Green

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was gunned down by an unidentified man

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in the parking lot of her husband's office.

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Two years later, a friend of Anita's, Michelle Semin,

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was writing a book on the case and found herself

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targeted by a vicious, unknown stalker,

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who she believes is the same man who murdered her friend.

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This tragic accident let one person dead and three injured.

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But in reality, it was no accident.

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It was a result of a deadly con game gone wrong,

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a con game springing up all over the country,

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and you could be a target.

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Finally, the intriguing mystery of this century-old edition

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of the Bible.

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It was found accidentally in a second-hand store

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as pages crumbling in its gold guilt long since faded.

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But as it turns out, there's a lot of life in this old book,

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the enigmatic secrets of a family whose

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theirs may be watching tonight.

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Join me.

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The seems little doubt that an almost magical bond exists

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between some mothers and their children.

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It is perhaps the most wonderful and heartwarming

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of all mysteries.

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January of 1974 was a blur of diapers and dishes

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for Carolyn E. Baer, a mother of two,

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that Carolyn will remember one day in particular

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for the rest of her life.

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It was in the evening.

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I was in the kitchen doing the dishes.

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My husband was down the hallway reading the newspaper.

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My daughter Monica was in there doing her homework.

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And Sarah, her little baby, was playing with her toys.

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And you know, your mind is not really usually very far away

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from your children.

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You think about them.

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And this night, I was thinking about Sarah,

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and suddenly I had a feeling that there was something wrong.

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It was a very focused feeling.

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And in my mind, I saw that she was choking on something.

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I didn't know what.

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Sarah?

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Sarah?

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She had in her mouth.

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Karenon says that she had inexplicably

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sensed her eight-month-old daughter

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silently choking on a balloon.

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Sarah, you've got to be careful.

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You would think about the what ifs,

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what if I hadn't listened, and just thought,

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well, I'll go in a few minutes.

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But this was not that sort of a feeling.

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This was get there, you're needed.

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Call it mother's instinct.

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Call it ESP.

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Call it simply the power of love.

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Accounts of the extraordinary intuition

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of mothers have been handed down for generations.

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Such a bond seems to defy the limits of time and space.

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And while it may never be scientifically proven,

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it is far too compelling to be denied.

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It's not like watching your child walk down

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the street and say, oh, I know they're

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going to trip over the sidewalk.

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It's not like that.

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It's so powerful and so strong.

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And it's very different feeling.

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Hi, how many?

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Two, please.

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In 1983, business had taken Elaine Emy and a neighbor Sharon

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Crocker to Palm Springs, 110 miles

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from their homes in Los Angeles.

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Here you go.

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They were just sitting down to eat

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when Elaine was seized by an overwhelming sense of dread

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about her four-year-old son.

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I hungry.

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It was like being hit by a wave.

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It was a very powerful feeling, both emotionally

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and physically.

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Sharon, something's wrong.

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What do you mean something's wrong?

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Something's happened to Matt.

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Elaine, stop worrying.

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I'm sure he's just.

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It's like someone flipping a switch.

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All of a sudden, you feel something.

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And two seconds before you didn't feel that,

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you weren't thinking about that at all.

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Elaine, everything looks so good.

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I knew something was wrong with Matt immediately.

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I mean, sometimes people get a strange sense

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that something's not right.

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It wasn't like that.

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It was a very definite feeling, something

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that you couldn't just shrug off.

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Sharon, Matthew has been hurt.

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I just know it.

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Elaine?

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I'm going to go call home.

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I'll be right back.

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Elaine had instant panic.

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but just her mannerisms gave me the impression

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that she was very concerned and knew

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that there was something very wrong.

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Elaine immediately called home.

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No answer.

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Convinced that something truly terrible had happened,

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she phone-shared husband Tom.

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Hello?

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Hi, Tom.

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It's Elaine.

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Elaine, where are you?

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Tom had not heard from Elaine's husband.

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Her seen anything unusual at their house

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just across the street.

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So I said, well, then why don't we just have lunch?

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She said, no, there's something wrong.

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We need to go home.

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And that's what we did.

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Elaine, are you still worried?

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I don't know.

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I just can't get rid of this feeling that something awful

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is happening to Matt.

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Elaine stopped to call home.

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Do you want me to drive?

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Still, no one answered.

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I'm OK.

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Sharon tried to reassure me that everything was probably

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all right, but the sense of urgency was still there.

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And there was nothing I could do to get rid of that feeling.

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It was the longest three hours of Elaine and Amy's life.

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When she and Sharon finally arrived home,

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Sharon's husband had stunning news.

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He had learned that Matt was in the hospital.

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Dr. Davis to emergency staff.

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Matt.

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Mom.

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I thank God.

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Oh, Matt.

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When Elaine arrived, Matt was being prepped for surgery

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to reattach severed tendons in his arm.

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He had fallen and crashed through a plate glass door.

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At the very moment, the sense of dread had swept over Elaine.

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I think Matt's going to do just fine, aren't you?

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I was feeling what Matt was going through.

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No doubt about it.

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I don't think I ever questioned that.

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I'm not sure why I was able to feel that,

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but I know without any doubt what I was feeling

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and what I was experiencing.

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It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck thinking,

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oh my god, she actually did know that something was happening

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when it happened.

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Again?

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Elaine and her son had been separated by more than 100 miles.

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And yet she had been as certain he was hurt

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as if she had seen the accident with her own eyes.

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Don't worry.

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Don't worry.

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It's going to be just fine, OK?

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I think that this connection starts in the womb.

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I think even in the womb, some children and some mothers

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are more connected than others.

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And if they are really connected, of course,

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then it will continue for the rest of their lives.

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It is a connection of love whereby the mother anticipates

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the child's needs, whether it's a small baby, a toddler,

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an adolescent, but she anticipates it not only

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on a physical level, which of course is part of the maternity,

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but on a level we might almost call telepathic, spiritual,

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so that the whole mother is in touch with the whole child.

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Sometimes it just happens once in a lifetime,

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and you may never be able to repeat it again.

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But it just happens.

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You have tuned in that one person who is sending out

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those signals because it's important to you.

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Mom and dad, you can come along with us.

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If Elaine Emi does have a psychic bond with her son,

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it seems logical that it originated in the womb.

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However, many adoptive mothers have also reported

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these astounding experiences.

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Simply the fact of having adopted a child

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doesn't mean the woman's divested of all her instincts.

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And I believe that women have instincts.

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A woman's intuition, whatever you want to call it.

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In March of 1987, Linda Bab and her husband, Dirk,

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already the parents of four, were

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looking to adopt for the second time.

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Linda says that around that time,

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she had a most incredible dream, unlike any she's

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had before or since.

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Push, push real hard.

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Go ahead and push, push.

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I had a dream.

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And in the dream I saw a young woman.

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And she was in labor, a lightheaded woman

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that was fair-complexed.

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And I didn't know who this person was.

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But I did see that she was in labor

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and at the point of giving birth.

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And as she pushed, I saw the baby's head crown

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and then be born.

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That's beautiful.

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Don't be made me born.

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He had lots of dark hair on his head.

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I remember that.

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And he was dark-complexed.

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And at the moment that he was born and began to cry,

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I woke up from the dream.

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I felt startled because it was a very vivid and realistic dream.

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I had never had a dream so vivid.

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And I looked at my clock on my bedside table,

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and it was 2.59 in the morning on March 8.

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I was so surprised.

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The next morning at breakfast, my wife said,

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sweetie, I've got the most incredible dream.

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I witnessed the birth of a child.

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And I said, what child?

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She said, I don't know.

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Linda, jerk, I'm so glad you could make it.

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How are you?

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Oh, fine. Thank you.

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Six weeks later, we had a call from our adoption agency.

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We had applied to adopt, and they called and asked us

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if we would be interested in adopting a baby boy.

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Oh, here he is.

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And he is such a cutie boy.

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When they brought the baby in, he looked to me

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like the most beautiful baby I had ever seen.

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He had beautiful golden brown skin and a head full of dark hair.

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He looked very much like the infant in my dream.

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How old did you say he was?

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Six weeks.

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Yes, Sahai was born March 8.

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March 8? What time?

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Let's see.

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2.59 a.m.

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When she told me the baby had been born March 8,

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at 2.59 in the morning, I was stunned.

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For a moment, I was just speechless.

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And I turned to Dirk and I said,

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that's the same time and the date of that dream I had.

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I thought my wife really had seen the birth of this child

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with her mother.

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That was the dream.

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And it was confirmation to me at that time

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that this was meant to be, that this was a child for us.

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Linda and Dirk adopted the infant, whose very birth Linda

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feels certain she witnessed.

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Any remaining doubts vanished 18 months later,

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when Linda was shown a picture of her son's birth mother.

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My first thought was how beautiful she was

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and how much he looked like her.

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Then I realized that this was the light-haired, light-complexed

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woman of the dream, the mother that had the baby.

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An adoptive mother can feel this communication almost

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as a radar of love, because whether she has formally applied

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to adopt a child or not, she still has in her heart

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this intention.

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And it's almost as if the right child somehow contacts

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her psychically, sometimes even before the child is born.

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Those two vibrations somehow meet each other

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and it may happen once in 10,000 cases.

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And that's the one that we perhaps hear about.

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But that very special case just proves the fact that at least

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it can happen.

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I'm as skeptical as the next person, always looking for another

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explanation.

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It does seem a little far-fetched.

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All I can say is it was a gift.

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I don't know why it happened or why I would be given such a gift.

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I just know that it happened and that's the only explanation I have.

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There is no rational explanation for these things.

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But just because there's no rational explanation for these things

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doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

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It's going to be just fine.

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I don't understand the connections, but I think the connections are there.

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And a lot of it probably just has to do with survival.

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We want to make sure that the next generation grows up.

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Taking at face value, these three stories and countless others like them

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point to an apparent telepathic link between certain mothers

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and their children.

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While such a connection may never be fully explained,

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if you someday get the prickly feeling that your child is in danger,

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it might not hurt just to wander over and take a look.

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Next, a woman has gunned down in broad daylight,

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and the man who pulled the trigger is still on the loose.

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Anita!

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Anita!

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North Hollywood, California, October 25, 1990.

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A woman sitting in the driver's seat of her own car

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in the parking lot of her husband's accounting firm

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was shot once through the head.

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The woman's name was Anita Green.

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She never regained consciousness.

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After two days in a coma, she died,

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and the man who shot her is still at large.

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Now a woman named Michelle Samet believes the same man has targeted her.

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Michelle was Anita Green's friend.

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She has written a book called No Sanctuary About Anita's Murder.

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The knowledge that this guy's out there, out on the streets,

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terrifies me every day, whether it's the person I think did it or not,

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because any person who did it knows that I know a lot about this case,

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that they don't want me to know.

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This is a chilling story of two innocent women.

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One of them murdered, the other apparently stalked.

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It is a most bizarre and complex case,

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one of the highest-profile cases in recent Los Angeles history.

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The saga began in 1974 when Anita Green met her husband.

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At the time, Anita worked as a bookkeeper

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in Mel Green's accounting firm.

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Both were married to other people.

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After nearly seven years, they left their spouses to wed one another.

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Anita's friends were shocked,

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not only because Mel weighed more than 500 pounds,

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but also because he convinced Anita

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to sign an outrageous prenuptial agreement.

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Basically, there was a provision in it that he wore the pants in the family,

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and he was the supreme boss, the god, the absolute ruler,

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and if they ever had an argument or disagreement,

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he would automatically win just because of that rule.

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We'll review Kathy's report on Wednesday night.

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Anita threw herself into activities at her synagogue.

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Anita! Hello?

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According to Anita's friends,

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Mel attended services less and less often as Anita's involvement grew.

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8 p.m.

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Most of the time, Anita made excuses for her husband,

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but occasionally, she let down her guard.

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Let's go. I'm late.

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All right.

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She'd say she was afraid of her husband, but then she said,

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oh, you know, Mel, he's just a loudmouth.

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He likes to hear himself talk. He's a blowhard.

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He's not really going to do anything to me.

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She had all the classic symptoms of an abused woman,

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thinking they were in control,

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thinking that they knew what they were doing,

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but really frightened and scared.

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Anita took refuge from her marriage

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by becoming more and more involved in the synagogue.

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Eventually, she was elected president of the congregation.

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As a result, Anita and the rabbi

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saw one another more and more often.

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Allegedly, the two became entangled in a love affair.

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When Anita asked Mel for a divorce, he was infuriated.

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Anita is sad. She's immoral. She doesn't deserve to live.

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I absolutely demand that my property is handed over to me.

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I have an extensive stamp and coin...

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Curiously, despite his bitterness,

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Mel was adamant that Anita continued to work with them

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at the accounting firm.

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She has to work for me. The business depends upon it.

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Mel was inconsistent.

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One minute, I don't need you. You're not worth anything.

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But the next minute, he would absolutely be insistent.

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She had to work for him.

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And frankly, I think both Anita and Mel

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were indirectly acknowledging that Anita knew

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where the bodies were buried.

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Throughout the divorce proceedings,

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Mel bombarded Anita and her lawyer with threatening letters.

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Only after Anita was murdered

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were the letters turned over to the police.

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Melvin Green did send some letters

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where he threatened to kill Anita Green.

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In my mind, it just gave more credence

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to him being involved in her shooting.

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So let me see if I understand.

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You were working at your dad's...

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Detective Hernandez soon found three different witnesses

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who believe they saw Anita Green's killer.

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One was a man who worked across the street

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from Mel Green's accounting firm.

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He had observed Green emerge from the building

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minutes before Anita arrived in her red corvette.

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It's a door that is not used very often.

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So it was unusual to this witness across the street

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to see this.

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After he observed Melvin Green looking,

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he observed Anita Green turn the corner

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closely followed by a motorcycle.

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A second witness observed even more.

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He stated he was working on a roof

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directly across the street where Anita Green

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had parked her red corvette.

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And what brought his attention was

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he heard the motorcycle arrive,

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parked on the wrong side of the street.

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He observed the individual approaching Anita Green,

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fire one shot,

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immediately ran to his motorcycle,

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and at a high rate of speed,

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he went northbound on the street.

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Finally, a third witness helped police

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ought to come up with this composite.

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The witness had seen the motorcycle

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just after Anita's murder

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without his helmet and visor on.

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Investigators began to suspect that Mel Green

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had hired a hit man to kill his wife.

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Mel Green's behavior at his wife's bedside

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did nothing to alleviate police suspicions.

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Only moments after Anita died,

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with her body still in the room,

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Mel reportedly had a bizarre exchange

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with Anita's friend Phyllis Bolton.

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I look pretty good, don't I?

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It's the new liquid diet that I'm on.

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He was talking about how much weight he had lost

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and how good he had looked.

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It was absolutely nauseating.

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There was not one moment of remorse,

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not one tear shed.

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He was as talkative as if she was wide awake

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and sitting there watching us.

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The day after Anita was shot,

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Detective Hernandez went to Mel Green's office

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to interview him.

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Why do you need an attorney?

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I'm only here to speak to you about your wife.

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Talk to my attorney.

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He says I can't speak to anyone.

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Now the scenario of Anita Green's murder began to gel.

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We were able to piece together the fact that Mel Green

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specifically controlled the date and time

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Anita Green was supposed to be at his office.

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That would allow Mel Green to have somebody

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hired to follow her and shoot her.

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And that's how Anita Green was shot.

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Ultimately, Mel Green was arrested

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for conspiring to kill his wife,

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even though there was no direct evidence

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that he had hired someone to shoot her.

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On March 4, 1992,

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a jury convicted Green of first-degree murder

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and sentenced him to life in prison

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without the possibility of parole.

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But the case was far from over.

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Mel Green appealed claiming he was innocent,

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and the hitman, whoever he was, remained at large.

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In May of 1992, Michelle Samet visited Mel Green

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at the Los Angeles County Jail,

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where he was awaiting transfer to a state prison.

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Against his lawyer's advice,

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Green had agreed to be interviewed for Michelle's book.

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Hello, Mel.

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Hello, Michelle.

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How are you doing?

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I wanted to go in there with an open mind,

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and I started to listen to him,

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and for the first few weeks of our visits,

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I wasn't certain of anything anymore.

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If I didn't shoot her, there's no connection.

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So there's more than one road to reasonable doubt.

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But as our visits continued,

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Mel himself made me more certain of his guilt

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than ever before.

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Michelle continued her investigation,

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but one thing nagged at her,

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how and when had Mel paid the hitman?

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Michelle claims that in the course of her research,

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she finally uncovered evidence that Mel Green

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had sold off a $30,000 coin collection

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just three weeks before Anita was murdered.

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Michelle told the police about her discovery,

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but decided not to tell Mel Green.

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My innocence will come.

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Michelle claims that during one of their subsequent interviews,

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Mel made unusual comments when another visitor showed up.

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You have another visitor.

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00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,040
All right.

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This is a man I call my brother,

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because he'd do anything for me.

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In fact, he's a homeowner because of me.

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You can wait outside.

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Mel had visitors come every day during our visits.

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My visits were all day long.

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Mel had never asked me to leave during his visits before,

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and that alone, I thought, was unusual.

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And I went downstairs, and I went into my car and sat.

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I knew I'd have about a half hour until this guy came out.

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And my mind started to run away with me

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that this guy looked a lot like the police

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composite of Anita's shooter.

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According to Michelle, when the visitor left,

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he got on a motorcycle, which fit the description

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of the one driven by Anita's killer.

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00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:13,040
When I went back to the jail, I made a very stupid mistake.

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I said to Mel, I've got this theory.

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00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,040
Who paid for the murder with the money from the coins

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00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,040
you said Anita stole?

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00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,040
She didn't steal them.

523
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,040
You're not going to write that.

524
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,040
You can't write that.

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Michelle claims that when she told Mel her suspicions,

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he threatened her.

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00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,040
Nobody's going to put those lies about me

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if you end up dead after I make a call.

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You'll know who did it.

530
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,040
I knew Mel likes to talk like that.

531
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,040
You know, this is just a blow hard, just a man talking.

532
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,040
And I realized, God, how stupid can you be, Michelle?

533
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:50,040
That's exactly what Anita said, and she's dead.

534
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,040
The next day, June 17, 1992, Melvin Green

535
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,040
was transferred as schedule to Calipatria State Penitentiary

536
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,040
east of San Diego.

537
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:04,040
He peppered Michelle's sambit with angry letters.

538
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,040
He's threatened to harm my children.

539
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,040
He's threatened to hurt me.

540
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,040
Never before had I encountered this feeling of fear before

541
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:17,040
because I'd never been so involved in a story before

542
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,040
where it took on a life of its own.

543
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,040
But I couldn't stop because I knew I had the potential

544
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,040
to find the answer.

545
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,040
Michelle's sambit says that over the next few months,

546
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,040
someone began to stalk her.

547
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,040
The front gate to her house was ripped from its hinges.

548
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,040
The house itself was vandalized.

549
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,040
And finally, Michelle says it in the driveway of her own house,

550
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:48,040
an unidentified man hit her in the face, breaking her nose.

551
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,040
A lot of that has stopped now that the book has come out.

552
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,040
But of course, you always live your life

553
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,040
fearing that what you've uncovered might lead to some potential

554
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,040
danger for your family.

555
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,040
For me, I'm OK because I understand that's a risk

556
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,040
by taking this kind of story and by following through.

557
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,040
For my children, I'm worried every day.

558
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,040
Michelle's sambit believes the man she saw visiting

559
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,040
Melvin Green in prison was the same man

560
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,040
pictured on the police composite.

561
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,040
He would today be in his early 30s.

562
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,040
He has blonde hair, dark eyes, and a muscular build,

563
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,040
and may own a red or maroon Suzuki motorcycle.

564
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,040
Next, authorities need your help to stop a deadly insurance

565
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,040
fraud scheme responsible for dozens of accidents

566
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,040
on the nation's highways.

567
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:56,040
It is an all too familiar scene on our nation's highways.

568
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,040
Emergency workers struggle to free the occupants of a car

569
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,040
which has been rear-ended by a tractor trailer rig.

570
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,040
In this case, on Interstate 5 near downtown Los Angeles,

571
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,040
the driver of the car and two passengers will rescue him.

572
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:15,040
However, a third passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.

573
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,040
What made this tragedy over the last few years

574
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,040
was that it may not have been an accident at all.

575
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,040
Authorities believe it was part of a carefully

576
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,040
orchestrated insurance scam that backfired.

577
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,040
The police in Los Angeles call it the swoop and squat,

578
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,040
a scheme in which people intentionally create rear-end collisions

579
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,040
in order to collect on bogus insurance claims.

580
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,040
Authorities estimate that the swoop and squat

581
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,040
cost consumers millions of dollars every year,

582
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,040
even though the scam was a little bit more expensive

583
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,040
even though the scam originated in Southern California,

584
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,040
it is now popping up all over the country.

585
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,040
Watch closely.

586
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,040
You may find yourself involved in one of these situations.

587
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,040
Here's how the swoop and squat works.

588
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,040
A typical operation involves two or three cars.

589
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,040
They cruise the highway in tandem, searching for a victim.

590
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,040
Incredibly, the vehicles they most often choose to target

591
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,040
are the most dangerous, large tractor trailers.

592
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,040
Trucks are a favorite target among swoop and squat rings

593
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,040
because, one, they know that trucks will have a lot of insurance,

594
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,040
and two, that there'll be a lot of damage,

595
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,040
which is compensable by the insurance companies.

596
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,040
The scam unfolds quickly.

597
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,040
First, the squat car, normally filled with passengers,

598
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,040
positions itself directly in front of the targeted truck.

599
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,040
Then a second car pulls alongside the truck,

600
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,040
effectively boxing it in.

601
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,040
Over the next several miles, the driver of the squat car

602
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,040
may try to distract the truck driver.

603
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,040
Finally, the swoop car appears and makes a smooth,

604
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,040
forcing the other drivers to jam on their brakes.

605
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,040
Immediately afterwards, the people who are in the squat car

606
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,040
will then claim injury.

607
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,040
Injuries are almost always soft tissue injuries

608
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,040
because they're so difficult to disprove.

609
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,040
They'll exchange insurance information,

610
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,040
and then a couple of days later, the attorney makes the claim.

611
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,040
We've had one situation where two attorneys made over $9 million

612
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,040
from a two-year period of time from simply buying stage accidents.

613
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,040
The ringleaders of the swoop and squat are often well-to-do attorneys

614
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,040
who work out of the safety of their offices far removed from the accident scene.

615
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,040
Each accident can mean up to $20,000 in false insurance claims,

616
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,040
a large part of it pocketed by the attorney.

617
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,040
By contrast, those who risk the most in the con game are paid the least.

618
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,040
Usually a middleman called a capper seeks out people

619
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,040
who are willing to do almost anything for money.

620
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,040
People who are in the swoop and squat accidents as passengers or drivers

621
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:24,040
may be paid as little as $250 to $300 to risk their lives in that accident.

622
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:28,040
Cappers may get approximately $1,500.

623
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,040
All the money is made by the professionals who are corrupt,

624
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:35,040
the attorneys who are financing these stage accident activities.

625
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:44,040
The crash on Interstate 5 had all the earmarks of a classic swoop and squat.

626
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,040
But in this case, informants were willing to talk.

627
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,040
They led police to the man who had allegedly organized the operation,

628
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,040
Juan Filaman Santiago.

629
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,040
Santiago was a Mexican national who lived in West Hollywood, California.

630
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,040
A search of his apartment turned up documents linking him to a Beverly Hills attorney

631
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,040
named Gary Miller.

632
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:30,040
Music

633
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,040
In a moment, the intriguing mystery of an old family Bible.

634
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,040
Perhaps you can help locate the rightful owners.

635
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,040
In a place like this, time stands still.

636
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,040
Random moments of other people's lives are frozen, caught as if an amber.

637
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:59,040
And behind every captured moment, every object is an untold story.

638
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,040
When you collect antiques, you never know when one of those stories

639
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:08,040
might intersect with your life and draw you into a small, unsolved mystery of your own.

640
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:18,040
Jonathan Grady, a Los Angeles collector, understands that all too well.

641
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:24,040
In 1980, Jonathan was out browsing when he spied a box of sundry items.

642
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,040
Excuse me.

643
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,040
Yes, how much for your Bunsen burners?

644
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,040
Let me see. I'll tell you what.

645
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,040
I'll give you the whole box for $75. How's that?

646
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,040
That's too high. I'll give you $50.

647
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,040
Okay, you can have the whole thing. I'll write it up.

648
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,040
After buying the box, I noticed there were several other things in the box.

649
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:50,040
Things that I could use. There were some oil cans there and old scrub brushes.

650
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,040
And there was this Bible. It was a very large Bible, very old.

651
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:59,040
And the binding was torn, but yet it was part of the purchase price.

652
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,040
So I took it home.

653
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,040
The Bible was more than a century old.

654
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,040
So old it was literally falling apart.

655
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,040
Its embossed cover was cracked, its pages crumbling.

656
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:21,040
I thought something like this would be nice to display in my living room.

657
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,040
But I had to have it repaired.

658
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,040
After checking with several bookstores in the area,

659
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,040
I was told it would cost between $2 and $300.

660
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,040
So I put it into the garage and I stored it away.

661
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:38,040
The Bible lay forgotten in Jonathan Grady's garage,

662
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,040
gathering dust and guarding its memories for more than a decade.

663
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,040
In the meantime, Jonathan embarked on a writing career.

664
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,040
One day he found himself in need of a coat from the Book of Job.

665
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,040
As he leafed through the old Bible,

666
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,040
Jonathan was caught short by a presentation page

667
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,040
which he had not noticed before.

668
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,040
Everything stopped right there. I was completely surprised.

669
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,040
I never found a character of Job.

670
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,040
Instead I found Lazarus.

671
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,040
The Bible had apparently been given to a Mr. Charles Lazarus

672
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:27,040
and his bride Fanny Bertman on their wedding day, March 25, 1874.

673
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,040
They were married in Cincinnati, Ohio.

674
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,040
When Jonathan turned the page, the history of a family unfolded.

675
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,040
Charles and Fanny Lazarus had recorded the birth of two sons,

676
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,040
Joshua and Samuel, and three daughters, Bluma, May and Reina.

677
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,040
Joshua had married Dora Fleishman of America's Georgia,

678
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,040
Samuel, Ada Hassett of Posen, Michigan,

679
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,040
and Bluma, a German immigrant named Michael Michelson.

680
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,040
On the facing page, Charles and Fanny recorded the birth of one grandchild,

681
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:10,040
Bluma's daughter Helen May Michelson, born in Denver, Colorado, on May 2, 1895.

682
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,040
I looked at this Bible for several days after that.

683
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,040
I would refer to this page back and forth.

684
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,040
I watched his kids grow.

685
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:25,040
Someone known source pulled me into this man's life, and I have not quit.

686
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,040
I have not quit trying to locate another man's family.

687
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,040
This is Jonathan Grady in Los Angeles.

688
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,040
I'm calling you regarding the Lazarus Family Bible.

689
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:38,040
Jonathan became obsessed with returning the treasured family heirloom to its rightful owners.

690
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:43,040
Thanks to his efforts, several newspaper articles were published, and he actually got a lead.

691
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,040
This letter from 81-year-old Bernard Fleishman of South Carolina.

692
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:54,040
Mr. Fleishman had an Aunt Dora long since dead from the town of America's Georgia.

693
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:58,040
He felt she might be the same Dora Fleishman who married Joshua Lazarus.

694
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,040
Unfortunately, Mr. Fleishman had lost touch with his Aunt Dora's family,

695
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:09,040
but the letter only strengthened Jonathan Grady's resolve to find an heir to the Lazarus Family Bible.

696
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:16,040
There are family members. There were four siblings, living siblings of his man, all married.

697
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:21,040
There has to be a granddaughter, a great-granddaughter, a great-great-granddaughter.

698
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,040
There's a relative there, I know.

699
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:30,040
The original owner of the Bible, Charles Lazarus, died on the 4th of July, 1913

700
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,040
and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in New York.

701
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:39,040
Any direct descendant of Charles and his wife Fanny would have a legitimate claim to the Family Bible.

702
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:51,040
Next, a respected physician is now on the run, charged with sexual assault.

703
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,040
We will call the young woman you are about to meet Patricia.

704
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,040
She is the daughter of a military chaplain.

705
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,040
Really awful.

706
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:05,040
On January 7th, 1992, when she was 19, Patricia went to a clinic in San Diego, California,

707
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,040
complaining of flu symptoms.

708
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,040
Okay, thank you.

709
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,040
Patricia had a very long life.

710
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,040
She was a nurse.

711
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,040
Okay, thank you.

712
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:24,040
Patricia had no way of knowing that the doctor who had examined her that day

713
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:28,040
had recently been forced to resign from the staff of another clinic.

714
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:32,040
Four different complaints of sexual misconduct had been filed against him,

715
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,040
each by a young woman in her 20s.

716
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:41,040
The doctor's name was Arvin Sinha, a California state medical board

717
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:48,040
who chose not to revoke his license, stating that all four complaints were cases of the patient's word against the doctors.

718
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,040
You definitely are a good doctor.

719
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,040
I know, that's what I thought.

720
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,040
Dr. Sinha right now.

721
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:02,040
He kept asking me questions about family, about having a boyfriend.

722
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,040
I was really sick.

723
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:07,040
I had a fever, I wasn't feeling well.

724
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:12,040
This combined with all the questioning, it really just threw me off, you know.

725
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,040
I just figured that he was just trying to be more helpful and caring.

726
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,040
Yeah, yeah.

727
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,040
You have a boyfriend?

728
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:25,040
Patricia says that with a nurse gone, Dr. Sinha's examination became a criminal assault.

729
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:31,040
He manipulated me into a position where I couldn't even see what he was doing.

730
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:39,040
And I didn't even know what he was doing or trying to do until I finally realized that he had raped me.

731
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:47,040
After he had left the room, I just started crying.

732
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,040
I knew what had happened, but I just could not believe that had happened to me.

733
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,040
I'm okay, yeah.

734
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,040
Patricia was afraid to let anyone at the clinic know what had happened.

735
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,040
She telephoned her mother.

736
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:05,040
A short time later, Patricia's parents took her to another hospital.

737
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,040
She was examined and the authorities duly notified.

738
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:18,040
After a week-long investigation, Dr. Arvin Sinha was arrested by Detective Christine Gregg of the San Diego Police Department.

739
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,040
He had no reaction.

740
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,040
He kept repeating after I told him what she was alleging.

741
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,040
He said, oh, how interesting.

742
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,040
And throughout the interview, he repeated how interesting.

743
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,040
No emotion, no reaction, just...

744
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:40,040
He said he didn't do it, that he might have been framed, but I would have expected a little reaction out of an innocent person.

745
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:48,040
The next day, Dr. Sinha posted his own $175,000 bail.

746
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,040
Within a month, he had disappeared.

747
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,040
Later, his medical license was revoked by the State of California.

748
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,040
Every woman he's around is in danger.

749
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,040
He's not gonna stop.

750
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,040
He had four warnings and lost a job and then he came back and raped Patricia.

751
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,040
He's not gonna stop.

752
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:12,040
The only two places I really felt safe was at church or at the doctor's office, you know.

753
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:19,040
And now, you know, I don't have that trust for anybody anywhere.

754
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,040
The End

755
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:36,040
Join me next time for another intriguing edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

756
00:42:55,040 --> 00:43:00,040
The End

757
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,040
The End