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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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When a baby girl named Mariah was born three months early,

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with critical problems that are undeveloped lungs,

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her chances of survival seem grim.

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Then a nurse employed a colleague who

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had a controversial technique called therapeutic touch.

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While it doesn't have the blessings

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of the medical establishment, therapeutic touch

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may have helped save Mariah's life.

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The story of Mitchell Shigimoto and James Pearson

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is a moving saga of interracial friendship

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honed to its finest edge by the rigors of war.

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When Mitchell was cut down by enemy fire in Vietnam,

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James became his hero.

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Tonight, Mitchell needs your help

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to find a way to help his family.

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It's your help to find the man who saved his life.

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On the day David and Alice Vieira were married,

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no one imagined that their love and affection would someday

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disintegrate into violence.

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No one imagined that 14 years later,

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David would go into hiding as a fugitive accused

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of killing his wife.

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Join me for these fascinating cases.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve the mystery.

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You are witnessing a controversial healing technique

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called therapeutic touch, or TT.

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It's practitioners who must complete a comprehensive training

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program.

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Believe that by running their hands a few inches above the body,

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they can pinpoint areas of disease or injury.

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TT practitioners also claim that they can direct energy

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from their bodies to others in order to promote healing.

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To the layman, therapeutic touch sounds pretty wild.

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Although it is taught at major universities

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across the country and practiced by tens of thousands

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of nurses and doctors, its effectiveness

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has long been at the center of a heated debate.

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Does therapeutic touch really work?

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Just ask Janet Ziegler, a clinical nurse specialist

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and experienced TT practitioner from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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In November of 1984, Janet drove her three boys

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to the regular martial arts class.

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Besides his interest in sports, Janice's youngest son Michael

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was already an accomplished pianist.

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Michael, who was only seven, went in.

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And as he was slipping his shoes off,

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he put his hand up in the jam of the door.

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By that time, I'd gotten out of the car

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and Michael ran out of the school.

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And he was, I don't think he realized what happened.

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He wasn't crying or anything, but his finger

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was bleeding profusely.

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And he said, mom, I think I pinched my finger.

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And I looked down at his finger and it was gone.

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And I said, Michael, where is your finger?

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Michael, what's wrong?

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I think I'm my finger caught in the door.

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OK, stand very still.

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Janet did not panic.

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Almost instinctively, she began to treat Michael

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with therapeutic touch.

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This immediately calmed him.

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He didn't shed a single tear at all through the whole process.

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OK, sweetie, let's go wash it off.

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I looked in the door jam to find the finger, and I found it.

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It was actually unrecognizable.

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It was totally squashed.

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And of course, the nail was gone.

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It really didn't look like a finger,

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but it was the only thing in the door jam.

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So I assumed that's what it was.

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It was scary.

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I hadn't started to cry or anything,

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but the blood and the same, my finger

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gone and wondering what's going to happen.

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It was just a fear that went through me.

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How was I going to be able to keep going?

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A friend rushed Janet and Michael

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to a local emergency clinic.

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Along the way, Janet continued to perform therapeutic touch.

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Although the injury was not life threatening,

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Michael's promise as a pianist was now in jeopardy.

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Hey, big guy, what's your name, huh?

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What happened here?

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His finger was cut off in the door.

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I need you to sew it back on.

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I'm sorry, but this is never going to take.

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I don't think we can reattach this finger.

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Well, please try.

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He's a pianist.

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He's got to have this finger.

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Need to suit your kids and say, hey.

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The doctor, you know, with my insistence,

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agreed to do it.

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And he turned to me and he said, what are you doing to him?

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And I said, I'm doing therapeutic touch to keep him calm.

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So he said, well, I don't know anything about that.

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He said, but whatever it is you're doing,

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keep doing it because I've never seen a child so calm

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as such a situation.

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Despite his misgiving, the doctor

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reattached the fingertip.

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He recommended that Michael see a plastic surgeon

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as soon as possible.

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The very next day when I went to the plastic surgeon,

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he unwrapped it, looked at it, and said, I'm sorry.

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This is not going to take.

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He's going to lose his finger.

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And he just wrapped it up again, a dry dressing.

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Didn't do anything at all to the finger.

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And it went like that every week.

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Hello, doctor.

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This is Eagler.

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Well, Michael, let me see your hand.

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For eight weeks, Janet used therapeutic touch

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on Michael's finger.

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For eight weeks, the plastic surgeon

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warned that the reattachment would probably never work.

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Look, the scab's gone.

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It's great.

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They removed the bandage, the scab, and everything.

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And I saw almost a brand new finger with new skin and everything.

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I was totally overwhelmed.

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There's a good deal more color than I expected.

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I don't think there's any swelling.

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Well, appearances can be deceiving.

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Can you do this?

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Can you feel that?

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Yeah.

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Well, that may not mean anything.

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To be honest with you, Mrs. Eagler,

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I think the finger's going to fall off, probably before summer.

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So why don't you make an appointment with me then,

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and we'll see where we stand.

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All right, Michael?

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The plastic surgeon was wrong.

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Even before the bandage came off,

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Michael was back at the keyboard.

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Less than a month later, he placed first

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in a piano competition.

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A decade later, music remains an important part

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of Michael's life.

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The experience of my accident and what my mom did for my finger

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most definitely changed my feelings

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about therapeutic touch.

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Before it happened, I would go to my mom,

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get the treatment from her, but it was a little skeptical.

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It looked sort of funny and we'd joke about it.

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After this experience, I was totally

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100% believing in her therapeutic touch,

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and that it definitely worked.

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Trained TT practitioners have been

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trained TT practitioners like Janet Ziegler

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believe that the human body is a complex field of interacting

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energies that can literally be felt

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and that can be disturbed by injury or illness.

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TT practitioners use their hands to reorder these disturbances.

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In Michael's case, his finger mended perfectly,

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although two physicians had predicted the opposite.

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Should therapeutic touch take credit for such successes,

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not everyone is convinced.

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I think the practitioners are good and honest and kind nurses.

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I think their therapy, which stresses energy fields emanating

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from people, which they seek to influence with their fingers,

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is baloney.

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The debate has raged since the 1970s,

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when a nurse named Dolores Krieger first

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developed therapeutic touch and defined

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what makes an effective healer.

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What you were moved by originally is a compassion,

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you see, a compassion to help another person.

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And it's the power of compassion that

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brings you across that bridge.

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The good effects are primarily placebo effects.

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That means that what the patient believes

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will happen will happen.

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A couple we will call George and Marie

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could care less about placebos.

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They learned about therapeutic touch first hand

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when they were a heartbeat away from a personal tragedy.

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In November of 1993, Marie was six and a half months

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pregnant when she was stricken with preeclampsia.

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Her body was releasing lethal toxins into her bloodstream,

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threatening her life and that of her unborn child.

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We can't wait any longer, George.

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We have to do with cesarean.

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Is my baby going to be OK?

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Baby's fine.

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She's very healthy.

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When was the last time I saw you?

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I remember going into the delivery room,

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and I felt myself slipping away.

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I did feel myself slipping away.

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It felt as if it would have been very easy to just let go,

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because things were just so drastic at that point.

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But I knew George was waiting for me and this baby

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that I wanted more than anything in the whole world.

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And I knew I had to live.

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I had to survive for that baby.

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Next thing I remember, it sounded like a little screach,

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like a little cat.

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My daughter was born.

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And I had mixed feelings and mixed emotions,

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because I was really worried about my wife.

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And I was worried about my daughter.

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Situation kept sea-sollying back and forth.

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My wife got a little better.

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My daughter got worse.

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George and Marie's daughter, Mariah,

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was born nearly three months premature.

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She weighed less than two pounds

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and soon developed critical problems in her immature lungs.

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I'm Father O'Brien.

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Hi, Father.

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I'm very sorry you're having such a rough time.

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Little Mariah continued to weaken,

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and hospital officials summoned a priest to baptizer.

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Shall we do it now?

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Yes.

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May God bless this water and this child

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and all of his children.

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Name this child.

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Mariah Eugenia.

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Mariah Eugenia, I baptize you in the name of the Father,

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and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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The nurse disconnected the wiring or the tubing

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from the baby and put the baby in my wife's arms.

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And my wife held the baby, and she started to cry.

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And I thought that was it.

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I thought the baby was dead.

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In a last-ditch effort to save Mariah,

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doctors put the tiny infant on a respirator.

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After the delicate procedure, one of the intensive care nurses

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began treating Mariah with therapeutic touch.

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She wasn't slipping drastically under,

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but she wasn't advancing either.

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I continued to take care of Mariah for the rest of my shift,

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and continued to work on her.

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Direct energy and a therapeutic touch

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amounted to her, and continued to do therapeutic touch

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throughout her process in the hospital.

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Basically, I'm a very logical, bottom line,

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shoot straight from the hip person.

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And for someone to talk to me about alternative medicines,

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they would have to prove it to me.

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Her oxygen numbers, the levels are going up.

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That's good, right?

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She's responding well.

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Look at her.

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I'm an accountant.

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I deal in numbers.

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And to see this, I can relate to it.

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Every time Joanne took care of the baby,

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every time Joanne had the baby, the baby got better.

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The baby's numbers, the baby's numbers,

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the baby's numbers, the saturation, the heart rate,

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the numbers got better.

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Marie was also in critical condition.

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Joanne began to use therapeutic touch with her.

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Joanne did basically the same thing for me

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as she had done for Mariah.

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And little by little, it worked.

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And the pain went away.

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And Joanne would not take credit for it.

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It was funny.

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She would just chuck it off like it, you know.

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It was just an everyday thing for her.

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It was part of her nursing technique.

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Oh, wish when you were a girl.

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Oh, you're a little girl once you're a girl.

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Today, Marie and Mariah are back home and healthy.

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The terrifying crisis of November 1993

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is fading into the past, replaced by the busy joy

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of caring for a baby.

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Still, George and Marie will never forget

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how close they came to tragedy.

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The bottom line is my baby's alive.

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And I have the doctors to thank.

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I have the whole nursing staff to thank.

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And more so, I have Joanne to thank.

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Because I believe without Joanne,

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we wouldn't have this baby.

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If you ask George and Marie or the Zigglers,

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they will tell you that therapeutic touch definitely works.

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But we still wanted to find out for ourselves.

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A young woman named Vicki Ewald

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allowed unsolved mysteries to film her first session

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with a TT practitioner.

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When we began, no one knew how the treatment would turn out.

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In 1986, Vicki contracted a stubborn cold

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that escalated into bronchitis,

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and then a debilitating case of chronic asthma.

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Such breathing problems can be triggered

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by either physical or emotional stress,

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but a parade of specialists failed to help Vicki.

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Finally, I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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And I did, um, out of dress,

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just go see somebody that could possibly help me.

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Vicki went to see Joanne O'Reilly,

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the same nurse who attended Mariah in the hospital.

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Joanne had me close my eyes.

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I had no idea what she was doing to me.

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I mean, I sensed that something was going on around me,

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but she wasn't physically touching me.

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And I really felt, for the first time today, relaxed,

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and, I guess, for lack of a better word, centered.

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And as we've been around each other today,

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I was coughing and wheezing most of the day.

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And since Joanne has worked on me, I've coughed once.

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After the session, Vicki experienced a rush of unexpected emotions.

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Uh, well, from the onset, I think, of asthma

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when I first got to the city,

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I also did lose a sibling, a brother.

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That's, that kind of triggered the down, you know, the, um,

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the onset of asthma.

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Yeah, that's when I got very sick and couldn't get back up.

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And then two years ago, I lost my mother.

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Um, and the sister.

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So you've had a lot of grief related.

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Yes.

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In the month after her first session,

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Vicki Ewald went for three more treatments.

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Vicki reported that her breathing improved

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to the point where she felt comfortable

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reducing her asthma medication.

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Even the most dedicated proponents of therapeutic touch

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admit that it doesn't always work.

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Perhaps in the future, medical science

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will unravel the mystery of this intriguing technique.

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In closing, one note of caution.

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All the practitioners we talked to emphasize a therapeutic touch

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should never be performed by anyone without the proper training.

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The residents of the Lombardi family

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in the Columbus, Ohio suburb of Westerville,

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an ordinary townhouse on an ordinary street

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home to a typical middle-class family.

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But on August 30, 1990, Cheryl Lombardi,

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a housewife and mother, would make a tragic discovery,

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one that would forever rip the family

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from the tranquility of suburban life.

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Cheryl had come home at around midnight,

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and she assumed that her 22-year-old son, Tony,

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would also be home soon.

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She says that around 12.45,

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she heard a door closing in the sound of footsteps.

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Cheryl went to Tony's room to say good night.

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Son?

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Cheryl was horrified to find her son lifeless,

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a single gunshot to the head.

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Tony Lombardi was just a few months shy of his 23rd birthday.

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For Cheryl Lombardi, the familiar pattern of life was shattered.

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That morning, her home swarmed with detectives

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with her son's bedroom at the center of a crime investigation.

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In such cases, clues found at the scene

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will often read like a book,

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clearly revealing what took place

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in implicating any assailants.

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But to those investigating Tony's death,

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the clues seem to tell two conflicting stories,

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two scenarios that would pit Tony's family against the police.

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Our investigation has been concluded,

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and our investigation says that Tony committed suicide.

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I'm very upset with the fact that I know our son was killed.

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I know he did not commit suicide.

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And I don't think they have a right to rule

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someone's death a suicide when it was not a suicide,

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and just close the case and go on like it never happened.

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This home video, made a year before he died,

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shows Tony Lombardi just as his friends remember him,

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fun-loving and always ready with a smile.

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Tony was a hit with the ladies.

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In fact, at the time of his death,

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he was seeing three women,

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one of whom was already living with a man.

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Tony worked the swing shift at a baby food factory,

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setting up cans to be filled with formula.

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But on August 29, 1990, Tony didn't show up at the plant.

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Early the next morning,

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Cheryl found him in his bedroom, dead.

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Police arrived at around 1.15 a.m.

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They discovered Tony's car was missing from the garage,

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perhaps stolen by an assailant.

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According to the police,

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the investigation moved swiftly and by the book.

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Our normal procedure is to contact the detectives,

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have him come, and we treat all death scenes

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as a homicide until we prove it otherwise.

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Inside, on the floor near the body,

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police found a .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol.

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We'll tag us under 93748.

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On the bed was a single spent .38 shell.

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Then investigators found a drunk driving citation

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in Tony's pants pocket,

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which pushed the inquiry in an entirely new direction.

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Two days before his death,

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Tony had been arrested for driving while intoxicated.

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Detectives quickly solved the mystery of Tony's missing car.

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It had been impounded by Columbus police

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at the time of the arrest.

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OK, thanks for the info.

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In addition, Tony had faced fines

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and possible suspension of his driver's license.

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To investigators, a portrait had now emerged

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of a young man stripped of his freedom

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and despondent over impending legal problems.

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Right now, everything that we have,

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any evidence that we have,

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indicates Tony's death was a suicide.

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About the only fact not in dispute

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is the time of Tony's death several hours

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before Cheryl came home at around midnight.

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But Tony's family believes his death

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was nothing short of cold-blooded murder.

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I believe that there was a struggle

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because our son's watch was found broken

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off of his arm on the floor.

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He had an inch and a half of a gay shiver's left eye.

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He had a broken jaw.

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He had bruises.

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The fact that he was found nude,

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he would never let anyone see him nude.

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Those are all things that I think should have been looked into.

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Based on her observations that morning,

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Cheryl believes that not only was her son murdered,

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the killer was still in Tony's bedroom,

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even as she moved about the house.

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Cheryl's evidence is disarmingly simple.

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The light in Tony's bedroom.

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Going up and down the steps,

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you can see my son's room and the door was closed

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and there was no light on.

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Going up and down the steps as many times as I did,

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there is no way I could have missed the light being on.

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Cheryl assumed Tony hadn't yet arrived

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because the light in his bedroom was off.

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Cheryl says that 45 minutes later, she heard the noise.

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When she saw that the light in Tony's room was on,

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she assumed he had finally come home.

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Son?

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When I went to the room,

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I could immediately see the light was on underneath the door.

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It was obvious.

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Son?

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I opened the door and that's when I found my son dead.

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Who could have turned on the light?

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Cheryl now believes it was the killer,

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trapped in Tony's room by her arrival home.

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I believe in my mind that I came in on someone

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that had killed her son.

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I believed that I surprised him

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and then when I went to my bedroom to get ready for bed,

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they thought that was a good opportunity for them to leave

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and I believe that's when I heard was someone leaving.

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She was questioned by a detective there later on

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after she had composed herself a little bit.

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As to what the noise was she heard,

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he specifically asked her,

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was the noise, a house noise, say a door shutting,

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air conditioner kicking on, step creaking,

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and she said, I can't remember what it was.

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I really don't remember.

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They'll never change what I heard

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and what made me go to our son's room.

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I went to our son's room because I heard him come in in my mind.

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I heard the door shut.

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To me, my son had come home.

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To Tony's parents, there was further evidence pointing to murder.

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In the week before he died,

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Tony was the target of two different death threats.

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A woman who lived next door

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witnessed the driver of a white pickup truck screaming at Tony.

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You ever cut me off like that again?

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And I'll kill you.

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You hear me?

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I said, do you hear me?

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I hear you.

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Where do you live?

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I said, where do you live?

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Right here.

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Right here?

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Good.

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I got it.

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We called the police and told them the woman's name

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and where she lived, which was a next door neighbor.

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To my knowledge, as of yesterday,

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they have still never talked to this woman.

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Tony's father overheard the second death threat

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just a few days later.

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I was checking my messages,

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and I heard this threat on our voicemail of a gentleman,

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a young person telling Tony that he had a gun

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and was going to use it if Tony didn't stay away from his girlfriend.

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And at that point, I brought that up to Tony,

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and he said not to worry about it,

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that he had a friend of his called this person who knew him well

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and thought it could be worked out that way.

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Tony's best friend, Andy Royer, agreed to mediate.

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I told Tony that I talked to the guy

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and see what the deal was on it,

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and I called him up,

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and he said to me that his problem was not with me,

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it was with Tony, and that he would take care of it.

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Tony would get what was coming to him.

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Lead detective on the case contacted as many people as he could

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on the case, either by phone or in person,

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and attempted to question him about what they had said

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or somebody said they had said,

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and we found no evidence that Tony was under any immediate death threats.

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The police never contacted me about Tony's death at all.

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I never heard from anybody about anything.

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The Lombardies dispute the official conclusions

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drawn from some of the physical evidence.

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For example, a test that revealed Tony had recently handled a metal object.

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Any metal is going to give that trace metal detection,

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but the conclusion that we come to is that Tony was holding that gun in his hand,

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and part of that conclusion stems from the trace metal detection.

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He worked on a can line downtown at the Columbus plant.

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He handled cans daily.

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Naturally, you would have metal on your hands from working with that.

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The position of Tony's body and the trajectory of the fatal bullet

527
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:09,120
are also subjects of bitter controversy.

528
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:14,120
This was our son's bed that he was actually killed in,

529
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:19,120
and when I found him, he was laying on the bed,

530
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:25,120
and there was two pillows propped underneath his head,

531
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:29,120
or underneath his shoulders, I'm sorry, his head was above the pillows.

532
00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:32,120
He was laying on the edge of the bed.

533
00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,120
The pillows were under his shoulders.

534
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:39,120
His head was above, above the pillow.

535
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,120
Her son's head was on a couple of pillows,

536
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:49,120
and the detectives examined the angle,

537
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,120
removed that spent bullet from the headboard,

538
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,120
and had every indication there that that bullet,

539
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,120
the trajectory of that bullet was correct.

540
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,120
And the bullet hole in the headboard is behind the pillows,

541
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,120
and as you can see, it's down there,

542
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:13,120
and if you take a pencil and you insert that into the headboard,

543
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:19,120
you can see that the bullet hole is much lower than the way I found our son.

544
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,120
The bullet hole does not make sense to me,

545
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,120
unless there was some pressure on top of Tony holding him down,

546
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,120
the bullet would have been much higher in the headboard.

547
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,120
Finally, Cheryl says the county coroner found bruises on Tony's chest

548
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,120
directly under his clenched hands.

549
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,120
To Cheryl, proof her son was forcibly held down by an assailant.

550
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:49,120
The last minutes of Tony Lombardi's life remain clouded by controversy.

551
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,120
As far as a police are concerned,

552
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,120
the 22-year-old took his own life,

553
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,120
a conclusion supported by the county coroner,

554
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,120
the sheriff's department, and the district attorney.

555
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,120
The West River Police sure have sympathy for the family.

556
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,120
I mean, anybody would have sympathy for the family,

557
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:14,120
and it's a very sad situation, and they've suffered a lot of trauma.

558
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,120
But, you know, we have to deal in the facts,

559
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,120
and the facts of this investigation reveal what happened was a suicide.

560
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:29,120
Until they open our son's case back up and change the cause of his death,

561
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:33,120
I will not stop until the last breath is taken from my body.

562
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,120
And if I do not exceed to be able to get that done,

563
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,120
till the day I die, then I'll fight him from eternity.

564
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:51,120
Next, the next GI searches for the unsung hero who saved his life in Vietnam.

565
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,120
The Exotic

566
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,120
To natives of Oahu in Hawaii, the exotic is commonplace.

567
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,120
Most of them would probably drive right by the farm

568
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,120
that Mitchell Shigemoto and his wife Connie run

569
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,120
and never give it a second look.

570
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,120
I've got all the chickens, I think you overfed them.

571
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,120
Thank you.

572
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,120
A passerby would never guess that Mitchell Shigemoto has a story to tell.

573
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:27,120
In fact, has an unsolved mystery that he hopes our viewers can help solve.

574
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:34,120
Back in 1963, Mitchell was a 17-year-old volunteer in the United States Army.

575
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,120
He was 5'4 inches tall and weighed 110 pounds.

576
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,120
Nevertheless, he signed up for the demanding 173rd Airborne Division.

577
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:49,120
Since you ladies don't know how to march, we're going to take a little run.

578
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,120
Mitchell was the smallest man in basic training

579
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,120
and the only Asian American in his company.

580
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,120
From the start, he faced an uphill battle.

581
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,120
Due to my size, I was told that I could never make it, being a paratrooper.

582
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,120
So that in itself gave me the incentive to try harder.

583
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,120
We started maybe with about 800 men

584
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,120
and the graduating class was maybe less than 300.

585
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,120
So it was quite an accomplishment just to get through it.

586
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,120
It was tough being a part of the 173rd.

587
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,120
It was clearly an elite airborne unit with its own special spree decor

588
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,120
created specially to go to Vietnam.

589
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,120
First to be deployed by helicopters in combat

590
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:42,120
and the only combat unit to make a parachute combat jump in Vietnam.

591
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:52,120
In February of 1964, Mitchell Shigemoto became a full-fledged member of the 173rd.

592
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,120
The unit was stationed in Okinawa before transfer to Vietnam.

593
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,120
Mitchell was all too aware of his physical resemblance to the enemy.

594
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,120
That's where I initially started getting some problems

595
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:11,120
because at that time in the Army, we got paid once a month

596
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:16,120
and we got paid in cash and I put the money away

597
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,120
and somehow one way or another it got stolen from me.

598
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,120
It was common knowledge around the barracks that Mitchell was being victimized.

599
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,120
Only one soldier stepped forward to befriend him.

600
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,120
Hey man, we're going out tonight. Do you want to come with us?

601
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,120
Oh, I don't feel like it, eh?

602
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,120
It's going to be me and a couple of other soldiers. Come on.

603
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,120
Maybe next time.

604
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,120
He knew that I didn't have any money.

605
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:57,120
On his way out, he dropped a 20 on my bunk and just left the barracks.

606
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,120
It really caught me by surprise.

607
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:05,120
I was thinking like, he must be quite a person to even be generous enough

608
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,120
to help out a person who's basically a stranger yet, you know,

609
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,120
because I was fairly new there.

610
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,120
I didn't get to know very many people yet.

611
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,120
In time, Mitchell became a regular

612
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,120
and James Pearson's going to be a part of the Army.

613
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,120
Mitchell became a regular and James Pearson's group of friends.

614
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,120
They went everywhere together.

615
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,120
You know, you know, there's this black section of town called Four Corners.

616
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,120
And I used to go down there with him and feel comfortable.

617
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,120
And we could sit down and listen to the music.

618
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:50,120
And as long as they knew that James was my friend, I had no worries at all.

619
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:57,120
In May of 1965, the 173rd Airborne shipped out to Vietnam.

620
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,120
At the front, Mitchell's Asian heritage became a major problem

621
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,120
and his friendship with James was more important than ever.

622
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:14,120
I remember one particular incident when we came back off of an operation to our 10th city.

623
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,120
And that's our chance to get hot meals.

624
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,120
One of the guys who was serving, he didn't want to serve me.

625
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:26,120
So when I got in front of him, he... I just stood there and he just looked at me and said...

626
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,120
Move on, Jeff. Hey, you got a problem?

627
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,120
Yeah, I don't serve zipper heads.

628
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,120
Let's go.

629
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,120
You want to go?

630
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,120
Come on! Come on!

631
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,120
What's the problem?

632
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,120
Why don't you just do your job and serve the soldier?

633
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,120
Right, just relax, okay?

634
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,120
No, no, no, no, no. You relax. I was going to be me and you.

635
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,120
All right?

636
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:53,120
The business of being an Asian-American in combat in Southeast Asia

637
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:58,120
is probably beyond my capacity to really understand it.

638
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,120
We were killing people who looked just like Mitch.

639
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,120
And I don't know how he dealt with that.

640
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,120
It must have been extremely difficult for him.

641
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,120
It's a burden that many of us didn't have to deal with.

642
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:15,120
Over and above the burdens of, am I going to be killed, maimed?

643
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,120
What's going to happen to me today?

644
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:25,120
By the end of 1965, the war has significantly escalated.

645
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,120
Nine months after the 173rd Airborne arrived in Vietnam,

646
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:35,120
they found themselves facing Viet Cong guerrillas on an almost daily basis.

647
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:40,120
The enemy was very good at picking the times and places that they engaged you.

648
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:47,120
So often we were in open positions and having to confront them in concealed positions.

649
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,120
It was dangerous work.

650
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:06,120
January 2, 1966, Viet Cong bullet tore through Mitchell Shigemoto's thigh.

651
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,120
James was immediately by my side.

652
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,120
There was one sniper that was keying in on us.

653
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:19,120
James took a position right in front of me, just like he was trying to block off the shots.

654
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,120
James actually saved my life.

655
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:28,120
There was another guy, Salazar, they pulled me to cover.

656
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,120
And then a medic came by.

657
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:37,120
He asked me what kind of pain I was in and he gave me a shot of medication to try to take the pain away.

658
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:42,120
And then he moved on to catch up with the company.

659
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:48,120
That's when I guess James and Salazar decided to take me back to the evacuation point.

660
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,120
James Pearson feared that Mitchell would succumb to shock.

661
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:59,120
He and the GI named Salazar defied regulations and carried Mitchell to safety.

662
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:05,120
Maybe in the military textbooks, you're supposed to continue with your mission.

663
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:09,120
And the fulfillment of that mission actually protects you all.

664
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,120
But, you know, that was his best buddy there.

665
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:18,120
And I'll never, I could never fault him for what he did.

666
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:24,120
If they didn't stop, James didn't stop to give me aid.

667
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:32,120
I probably wouldn't be oriented enough to know which way to go to get to an evacuation point by myself.

668
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,120
So, you could really see that James actually saved my life.

669
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,120
Is he going to be alright? He'll be fine, he'll be fine. Get back to unit.

670
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,120
Alright, man. Hang in there.

671
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,120
Alright, he'll be alright.

672
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,120
I'll see you later.

673
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:53,120
Mitchell had no idea that he would not return to the 173rd Airborne.

674
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,120
That he would never serve beside James Pearson again.

675
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,120
A few weeks later, Mitchell was sent home to Hawaii.

676
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:10,120
He never saw James Pearson again and never had the opportunity to properly thank the man who saved his life.

677
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:16,120
After our broadcast, all that would change in a most remarkable way.

678
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:21,120
A viewer in San Bernardino, California, retired Lieutenant Colonel Truman Plants

679
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,120
took it upon himself to track down James Pearson.

680
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,120
One week later, Lieutenant Colonel Plants found him in Chicago.

681
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:33,120
And before long, James, his fiance and his two grown daughters

682
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:37,120
were on their way to Hawaii to visit Mitchell Shigimoto and his family.

683
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,120
As Mitchell's relatives gathered to welcome James,

684
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:49,120
the two old comrades caught their first glimpse of one another in nearly 30 years.

685
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,120
Mitchell!

686
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,120
How are you doing, pal?

687
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,120
Great.

688
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,120
It's great to see you.

689
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:05,120
Great to see you.

690
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,120
You still look the same.

691
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,120
It was complete joy.

692
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,120
Happiness.

693
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,120
It's just great to see you.

694
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:20,120
I had to compose myself, you know.

695
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,120
It was just complete overwhelming and unbelievable.

696
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:32,120
Mitchell's wife Connie greeted James in traditional Hawaiian fashion.

697
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,120
After all, this was the man who saved her husband's life.

698
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,120
And who is this one?

699
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:45,120
The bottom line, I wasn't going to leave him out there alone under those conditions.

700
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,120
I couldn't have did it.

701
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,120
Were regulations permitted, rules permitted?

702
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,120
No, I just couldn't have did it.

703
00:40:54,120 --> 00:41:00,120
It took a lot from a real special person to do something like that.

704
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,120
And my wife, when she heard that story,

705
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:11,120
she made it a point to try to locate him with no success until we find you guys.

706
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,120
That's my next objective.

707
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,120
James spent a full week in Hawaii with Mitchell.

708
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,120
The two of them never stopped talking about the past and the future,

709
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,120
planning the time when they would see each other again.

710
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,120
So how does it feel to be back together?

711
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,120
They haven't come over their word yet.

712
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,120
When they come over their word, I'll write you and let you know.

713
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:43,120
There is no word for the feeling, you know, for right now.

714
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,120
They have come over their word.

715
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:00,120
When we return from childhood sweethearts to murder,

716
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,120
a tragedy of David and Alice Vieira.

717
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,120
June 29, 1974.

718
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,120
In the main church on the Portuguese island of St. Michael,

719
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,120
twin sisters Alice and Georgina Aruda married their sweethearts.

720
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,120
Alice was 17 and her new husband David Vieira was just 16.

721
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,120
David and Alice were first cousins,

722
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,120
but such unions are common among traditional Portuguese families.

723
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,120
On that festive day, no one could have imagined

724
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,120
that 14 years later and 5,000 miles away in America,

725
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,120
Alice would be the victim of a vicious murder

726
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,120
and some of the same family members would gather again

727
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,120
to mourn at Alice's grave.

728
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,120
Alice Vieira's life and death seemed to have been shaped

729
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,120
by age-old Portuguese traditions.

730
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,120
She grew up in a society where marriages were arranged,

731
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,120
where a daughter was brought up to obey first her father

732
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,120
and later her husband.

733
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:17,120
It was a devoutly Catholic world where only death could truly end a marriage.

734
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,120
Alice and David were born on St. Michael,

735
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,120
one of a group of islands west of Portugal known as the Azores.

736
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:32,120
When Alice was 9, her family emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts,

737
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,120
35 miles south of Boston.

738
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,120
Even in America, Alice's father was determined

739
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,120
that his children would be brought up in accordance with the old ways.

740
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,120
My dad was very strict with the girls.

741
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,120
We weren't allowed to wear makeup, we couldn't wear shorts,

742
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,120
and definitely we couldn't have boyfriends.

743
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:55,120
You know, it was a go to school, come home, do housework and stay in the house.

744
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,120
We were not allowed to even sit out in the porch.

745
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,120
That's how strict he was.

746
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:07,120
Alice was 12 when an unexpected letter arrived from Portugal.

747
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,120
It was from her cousin David, then 11 years old.

748
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,120
To Alice's surprise, David was proposing that they be engaged.

749
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:26,120
What some might have regarded as no more than a child's infatuation

750
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:31,120
was taken very seriously by a traditional family like the Arutas.

751
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,120
At first my mom says, oh, you know, you're kind of young,

752
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,120
and my father right away insisted that she should start writing to him

753
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,120
because that was his family,

754
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:45,120
and knowing that, you know, that'd be nice being married into the family,

755
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,120
so he gave the okay on Alice.

756
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,120
And she wrote back to David stating that they would be going out by writing.

757
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,120
The letters continued for five years.

758
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,120
David and Alice never once talked on the phone.

759
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:03,120
They didn't see each other until the summer of 1974,

760
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:07,120
when Alice and her family returned to St. Michael for the wedding.

761
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:13,120
At the time that David asked Alice for marriage,

762
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,120
Alice insisted also on marrying him

763
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,120
because she thought it would be better if she would have a little bit of freedom,

764
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,120
which we never had.

765
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,120
David and Alice eventually settled near her parents in New Bedford.

766
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,120
Although David spoke little English,

767
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,120
he found work in a textbook plant.

768
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,120
Within a year, Alice was pregnant.

769
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,120
The marriage went off pretty good,

770
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,120
like maybe I'd say about the first couple of months,

771
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,120
and then, you know, already he was already starting with her,

772
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,120
you know, she couldn't wear makeup, she couldn't do anything,

773
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,120
you know, he was very jealous, very possessive of my sister.

774
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:54,120
By 1981, Alice and David had three children.

775
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,120
Fautema says that as the years went by,

776
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:02,120
David rarely lost an opportunity to snarl at Alice or the children.

777
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,120
David, let's go and get some coffee.

778
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,120
Come on, Dad.

779
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,120
David, let's go and get some coffee.

780
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,120
Sit down.

781
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,120
What are you doing here in this house?

782
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,120
David, let's go and get some coffee.

783
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,120
She stayed with him because she figured, you know,

784
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,120
he's the father of the kids, and that's how she was brought up, you know,

785
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:29,120
you've got to be with your husband, and that's the way it is, you know.

786
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,120
According to Fautema, David's anger seemed to erupt without cause

787
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,120
and continue without end.

788
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,120
He used to always say, if you ever leave me, I'm going to kill you.

789
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,120
There's no other woman in my, you know, for my life like you are,

790
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,120
you know, you're a good mother, you have a good cook,

791
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,120
and he always had threatened her that if she ever decided to leave him

792
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,120
for anybody, that he would kill her.

793
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,120
But we never took it seriously, you know.

794
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,120
Sometimes she'd go up to my parents and tell my mom and dad,

795
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,120
Ma, I can't take him anymore, he's always beaten me up

796
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,120
for any little reason, and he's always beaten up the kids,

797
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,120
and my parents would always, like, tell her,

798
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,120
you've got to stay with him, he's your husband, you know,

799
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,120
it's going to be a shame to the family if you divorce him.

800
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,120
We don't believe in divorce, so they kept shoving it back to him.

801
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,120
You got a bunch of feet.

802
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,120
You got a bunch of feet.

803
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,120
You got a bunch of feet.

804
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,120
You got a bunch of feet.

805
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,120
You got a bunch of feet.

806
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:35,120
Finally after 14 years of abuse, Alice found the courage

807
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,120
to defy her parents and her husband.

808
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,120
She finally felt strong enough to say,

809
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:45,120
I can't take it anymore, and she decided to get him out of the house.

810
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:49,120
She finally sat down and says, David, I can't take it anymore,

811
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,120
I want you to leave.

812
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,120
David moved out in the summer of 1988,

813
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,120
and Alice began to build a new life for herself.

814
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:01,120
She enrolled in nursing school, fulfilling a lifelong dream,

815
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,120
and she began to see another man.

816
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,120
But David Vieira would not let go.

817
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,120
He began to stalk Alice at work and at home, night and day.

818
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,120
Let me talk to you.

819
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,120
With my mom.

820
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:20,120
OK.

821
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,120
David, talk to me.

822
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,120
You're going to the shower?

823
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,120
Yes, to the shower.

824
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:33,120
Her boyfriend went by the house to see her that morning,

825
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,120
and David drove up and down,

826
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:39,120
and I think he spotted the boyfriend's car at the house,

827
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,120
and my brother-in-law couldn't take that.

828
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,120
Alice's boyfriend witnessed the attack

829
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,120
and ran a mile to the nearest police station to get help.

830
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,120
Alice had been bludgeoned with a tire jack,

831
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,120
then stabbed 24 times with a butcher knife.

832
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,120
She was a real killer.

833
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,120
She was a real killer.

834
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,120
She was a real killer.

835
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,120
She was a real killer.

836
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,120
She was a real killer.

837
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,120
She was a real killer.

838
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,120
David was stabbed 24 times with a butcher knife.

839
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,120
By the time authorities arrived at the scene,

840
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,120
the young mother of three was dead.

841
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,120
David Vieira was nowhere to be found.

842
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,120
We learned that he in fact had taken a bus

843
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,120
from far river Massachusetts to Boston, Massachusetts,

844
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,120
and then from Boston to Canada.

845
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,120
Someone matching his description didn't in fact

846
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,120
get off a bus in Canada near Hamilton, Ontario.

847
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:39,120
And from that point on, we were unable to find out where he went.

848
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,120
Update. David Vieira had vanished,

849
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,120
and for nearly six years he could not be found

850
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,120
until the night of our broadcast.

851
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:55,120
Our particular segment on that show aired

852
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,120
Our Time here in New Bedford, Massachusetts

853
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,120
at approximately 8.50 p.m.

854
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,120
By 9.03 p.m., I was receiving telephone calls

855
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,120
from Canada right here into my office

856
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,120
with very good leads as to his whereabouts.

857
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,120
The first phone call that I received

858
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,120
saying that they knew where he was,

859
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,120
I just jumped up with joy and told my husband,

860
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,120
I think we got him, you know, and I couldn't believe it.

861
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,120
It took less than 48 hours to apprehend him.

862
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,120
Vieira had lived in Montreal for at least two years

863
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,120
and was well known in the Portuguese community.

864
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,120
He belonged to a neighborhood soccer team

865
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,120
and was employed at a local fish market.

866
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:37,120
Vieira's coworkers were stunned to learn about his secret past.

867
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,120
For me it's a dream. I don't believe the guy do that.

868
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:41,120
I don't believe.

869
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,120
That guy is so nice.

870
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,120
It's true because we see the pictures.

871
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:49,120
If we don't see the picture, it's exactly the man.

872
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,120
If we don't see, we never trust.

873
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,120
I've seen him apprehended and with handcuffs,

874
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,120
and to me that was a sign of saying thank God I can rest

875
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:04,120
and my sister can also be at peace now that he's caught.

876
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,120
On our next Unsolved Mysteries,

877
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,120
the fascinating saga of the infamous gangster Dutch Schultz

878
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,120
and his lost treasure.

879
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,120
Legend has it that in 1933, Schultz buried cash,

880
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:40,120
gems and bonds were $7 million near a creek in upstate New York.

881
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:44,120
Less than two years later, Schultz was gunned down by rival mobsters,

882
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:48,120
and as far as anyone knows, his hidden fortune was never recovered.

883
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,120
Join me next Wednesday

884
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,120
for another intriguing edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

885
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,120
We'll be back with another episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

886
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:32,120
Unolved Mysteries

887
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:37,120
Unolved Mysteries

888
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:42,120
Unolved Mysteries