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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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To millions of devout Catholics,

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he was known as Padre Pio.

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When he was 31, this humble priest

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was said to have had an extraordinary vision of Jesus

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Christ, which meant he was going to be a Christian.

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He had an extraordinary vision of Jesus Christ,

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which many believe left him blessed with the power

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to heal the sick.

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Tonight, you will meet two people who

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are convinced that they were cured by miracles.

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Miracles they attribute to God through the intercession

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of Padre Pio.

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In a remote campground area, an off-road enthusiast

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had a surreal encounter with a beautiful blonde woman

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and three angry strangers.

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Little did he know that this curious episode would later

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make him a key witness in a murder mystery.

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During World War II, the Lazarus family of Baltimore,

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Maryland, was told that their eldest son, Sylvan,

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had died in a plane crash in North Africa.

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However, three months later, they

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identified him in this photograph

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of captured American airmen.

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Today, his relatives are still determined

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to find out what happened to Sylvan Lazarus.

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Join me for these intriguing and fascinating cases

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of tonight's edition of Unsaw Mysteries.

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In 1987, Pope John Paul II traveled to the Italian city

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of San Giovanni Rotondo to pay homage

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at the tomb of one of the most renowned

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and controversial figures in the history of the Catholic Church.

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To millions of devout followers around the world,

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he was known as Padre Pio.

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He had been born Francesco Forgione in 1887,

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the son of farmers.

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You're about to hear the uplifting stories

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of two people who believe their lives were saved

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by the miraculous powers of Padre Pio.

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This is Paul Walsh of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

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In 1983, during his senior year in high school,

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Paul was so badly injured in an automobile accident

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that doctors gave him almost no hope of survival.

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Today, Paul attends college and is recovered completely.

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When Vera Marie Calandra was two years old,

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her parents were told she only had a few weeks to live.

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26 years later, Vera Marie is perfectly healthy.

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And has no traces of the illness that almost killed her.

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Vera Marie Calandra and Paul Walsh believe

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they are alive today because they

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were each blessed by a miracle.

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Miracles they attribute to God through the intercession

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of Padre Pio.

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How did this unassuming priest become known worldwide

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as a great healer?

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The remarkable saga of Padre Pio

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begins in 1903 when he decided to enter the priesthood

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and dedicate his life to God.

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Seven years later, in 1910, Padre Pio

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was ordained at the age of 23.

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Even then, his extraordinary righteousness and piety

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distinguished him from the other priests in the friary.

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But no one anticipated the remarkable events that

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took place on September 20, 1918.

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That morning, Padre Pio was deep in prayer

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when he experienced what is known in the faith as an ecstasy,

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a profound vision that many believe

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left tangible evidence that Padre Pio had been touched

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by the hand of God.

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I'm trying to get your presence.

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Please, what do you want from me?

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I want to see you.

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I want to see you.

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When the ecstasy was ended, he noticed that his hands and feet

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inside were bleeding.

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I see blood.

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And he had to drag himself to his cell.

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And there, he cleaned his wounds.

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And he began to sing hymns of praise to God

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because of the vision.

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These are photographs of the wounds on Padre Pio's hands.

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Along with those on his feet and side,

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they are said to generally correspond

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to the wounds suffered by Jesus on the cross.

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They are commonly referred to as the stigmata.

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From the start, some church officials

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doubted the validity of Padre Pio's claim.

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They suspected that the wounds had been self-inflicted

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and called in doctors to examine them.

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One of the doctors decided to conduct an experiment.

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He directed that the friars bandage the wounds

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and seal them for eight days so that nobody could

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open the bandage without being detected.

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And he felt that after eight days,

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you would see the beginning of healing in the wounds.

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And after eight days, the wounds were undressed,

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and they were still the way they were before.

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There was no sign of healing.

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As words spread about Padre Pio's divine revelation,

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pilgrims began flocking to San Giovanni Rotondo,

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anxious to be blessed by Padre Pio's grace.

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Anxious to be blessed by Padre Pio,

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and bear witness to the miracle of the stigmata.

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You had almost like a carnival atmosphere there

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at San Giovanni Rotondo.

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People were hawking pictures of Padre Pio.

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They were dipping pieces of cloth and chicken blood,

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or rabbit blood, and selling them as sandages soaked

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with the blood of the Padre Pio stigmata.

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That became a problem for the superiors.

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The church took drastic action.

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Padre Pio was sentenced to a sort of internal exile,

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forbidden to venture into public or conduct

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any of his priestly duties.

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The exile lasted three years.

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Ultimately, the Vatican relented,

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and Padre Pio was restored to his former position

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with one exception.

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He was prohibited from showing the stigmata in public.

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By his own choice, Padre Pio wore gloves

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to hide the wounds.

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As the years passed and Padre Pio's fame blossomed,

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he developed an international reputation

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as a man of miracles.

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The faithful turned to him in droves,

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seeking divine intervention for their earthly afflictions.

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Among them were Vera and Harry Calandra of Bartle, Pennsylvania.

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Their fifth child, Vera Marie, had been born in 1966

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with congenital defects of the kidneys and urinary tract.

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Two years and four operations later,

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the doctor delivered the worst possible news.

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Want my advice?

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Take your daughter home.

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Make her comfortable.

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What are you saying?

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You want us to just give up on Vera Marie?

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There comes a time.

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He came back to us immediately and said, she's in recovery,

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and we did remove her urinary bladder.

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I thought I would pass out.

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I said, but how will she live without a bladder?

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He said, she's not going to live.

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Vera Marie was fitted with a catheter,

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but her condition continued to deteriorate.

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Her parents sought comfort in the church.

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Mrs. Calandra sent a telegram to Padre Pio, then 80 years old,

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asking for his blessings.

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A few weeks later, she says she received a sign

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that her prayers had been heard.

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I was sitting in the living room of my home with Vera Marie

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sitting on the floor, and suddenly I

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experienced a most unusual fragrance of fresh roses,

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something I never experienced before.

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I had no flowers in my home, yet all around my head

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was an overwhelming, powerful fragrance of roses.

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And then suddenly Padre Pio spoke to me.

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He said, I want you to bring your little girl to me here

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in Italy, but do not delay.

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Come immediately.

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On September 1, 1968, with a railing daughter Vera Marie

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and a newborn infant in tow, Vera Calandra arrived in Italy

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and made her way to the church at San Giovanni Rotondo.

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Excuse me.

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Father, I need to see Padre Pio.

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Padre Pio is very weak and he's sick.

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Oh, please, I need to see him right now.

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What is the reason?

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What makes you special?

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Because my daughter is dying.

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He told me to come.

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I need to see him.

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I call it a visit.

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Actually, it was a fleeting moment.

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He was in a wheelchair.

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We were in the sacristy.

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He was brought forth in his wheelchair.

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We knelt before him as we were told to do.

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He touched my sick daughter on the top of the head,

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and he didn't even look at me.

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I was crushed because I thought, here is an expensive trip.

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Came a great distance.

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My daughter could die, and I have not the chance

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to speak with him and explain to him the problems that we have

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at this time and how we're asking him to help us.

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The next day, Vera returned.

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It was granted a rare private audience with Padre Pio.

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There he was, right in front of me, in the wheelchair.

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And he put out his hand and touched my sick daughter

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on the top of the head.

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I spoke to him through my heart.

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Please, God, make a miracle so that all the people will believe.

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Two weeks later, back in America,

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it began to appear that a miracle had indeed occurred.

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Is there anything we can hope for?

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This may have no significance whatsoever,

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but we found what appears to be the remains of a bladder here.

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Well, I hit the ceiling and said,

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but, Doctor, you've removed her bladder

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before we left on our trip.

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And he said, I'm going to take her to the hospital.

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I'm going to take her to the hospital.

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We left on our trip.

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And he said, well, it's there.

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I don't know what it is, but we'll leave it alone.

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I was very, very happy because I figured, well,

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something did happen, you know?

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And the doctor says, whatever you're doing, continue to do it.

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Hydrapio has affected my life in many different ways.

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He's brought me closer to God.

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He has made me survive when I should have been dead.

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And in a lot of ways, he's always there for me

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and my whole family.

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On September 23, 1968, just weeks

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after he blessed Vera Marie, Hydrapio passed away.

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Curiously after half a century, the stigmata

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were said to have completely healed

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during the final days of his life.

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That same year, to honor their own personal miracle,

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the Calandra family established the National

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Center for Padre Pio.

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The center has worked with thousands

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who claim to have been healed by Padre Pio's miraculous powers

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even in the years after his death.

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One of the most dramatic cases is that of Paul Walsh.

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In December of 1983, Paul was rushed to the hospital

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after a serious car accident.

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He had crushed his skull and broken every bone in his face.

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Paul's mother, Betty, remembers vividly.

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Mrs. Walsh?

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Where are they taking him?

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Surgery.

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How long is that going to take?

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We have to prep him.

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There really wasn't anything I could do.

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And I think that there's shock in a case like that,

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where you kind of are in a daze, that you can't believe

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it's happening.

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All right.

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All they really said that night was

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massive facial and head injuries.

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And the outlook was not good.

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I frankly had basically written him off as possibly even living,

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let alone living normally.

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And my prognosis for Paul's normal survival

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was practically zero.

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Eventually, Paul developed hydrosephalos and spinal

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meningitis, lapsed into a deep column.

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At this time, Paul was totally unconscious,

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burning up with fever.

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The sweat was just pouring off him.

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A woman at church gave me a prayer to Padre Pio.

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When I came to the Padre Pio prayer,

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I started to say the prayer.

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Paul's hand came up from his side.

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Very shakily, he reached toward his forehead.

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I was shocked.

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I could not believe it.

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His hand didn't make his forehead all the way,

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but he had made the sign of the cross.

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With renewed hope, Betty contacted the Padre Pio center.

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Harry Calamity agreed to visit Paul in his hospital.

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There's been some improvement.

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Let's pray.

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Harry began reciting a prayer to Padre Pio

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and covered Paul's head with a glove that had actually

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been worn by Padre Pio to conceal the stigma.

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It was to me as if an electric shock went through Paul.

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I knew something happened.

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It was like a sudden jolt.

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He shook.

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It only lasted for a second, but he opened his eyes,

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and he looked at me with such clear eyes

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as he had not done for a long time.

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But I knew something had happened,

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even though it didn't seem outwardly.

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We left.

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He was still comatose.

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We left the room.

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The next day, I waited purposely until in the afternoon.

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But I knew something would be different.

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You're a good kid.

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Paul.

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Hey, Mom.

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Oh.

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Hey, Scroence.

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How you doing, buddy?

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This is our miracle.

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What are you doing?

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I'm just drawing.

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Where have you been?

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Have the doctors been here?

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No, the nurses gave me this to draw.

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I couldn't believe it.

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One of the nurses came running in through the room.

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She was so excited.

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She said he's been talking all day.

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I asked the one neurosurgery assistant who the day before

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had shown me all the dead brain cells on the CAT scan.

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What could have happened?

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I said, you know this was a miracle.

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And he said, yes, I know.

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Other patients I have had that had the same extent of injuries

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that Paul had are either still in rehabilitation homes

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or are dead.

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I have, frankly, not any scientific basis for explaining

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why he survived.

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When I did come out of the coma, I was wondering what everybody

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was making such fuss over me for.

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I guess at the beginning, before I was told what happened to me,

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I didn't understand what the big guy at the O was.

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For Betty Walsh, it was clear that Padre Pio

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was responsible for Paul's sudden improvement.

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Two weeks later, Paul told his doctor an odd story

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that seemed to confirm it.

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He described being having a visitor whom he thought

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was his uncle.

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But he stated that his uncle was dressed up in a brown robe.

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And I just thought this might be some kind of hallucination.

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But was it hallucination?

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Not only Paul, but also his roommate

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reported seeing the mysterious visitor.

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Uncle Charlie?

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Paul continued to believe the man was his uncle

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until his mother showed him a folded leaflet that

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featured a photograph of Padre Pio.

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And I brought the picture in and said to Paul,

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is this who visited you on Easter Sunday?

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And I said yes, it was.

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Had his uncle Charlie, right?

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And she had folded the paper down and showed me

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that it was Padre Pio.

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And at the time, I was laughing at how could it be Padre Pio?

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Padre Pio is dead.

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After they had told me what had happened and all,

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I believe it was Padre Pio.

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Here was a man who lived in the 20th century,

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who did the same thing as the apostles did,

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whose ministry confirms the truth of the New Testament.

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If you asked him, he would say that he didn't believe in miracles.

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He would say that he didn't work miracles,

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because everything is a miracle.

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Everything is the work of God.

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Next, a strange encounter in the forest

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may have been a prelude to murder.

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The Angeles National Forest, nearly 700,000 acres

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of wilderness recreation area just 30 minutes

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outside Los Angeles.

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For city dwellers, the Angeles Forest

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is a perfect weekend getaway with plenty of space to be alone.

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On Saturday, February 29, 1992, a dedicated off-road enthusiast

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named Jeff was exploring a campground area,

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when his curiosity led him into a mystery.

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I've been back in there before, and it was the first time

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I'd noticed this one little road off to the side.

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And I was proceeding, got maybe 100 yards back if that.

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And I saw somebody had set up a camp there.

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As I pulled up, directly in front of me,

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there was a old panel van.

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To the left of that was a tent.

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To the left of the tent, there was a very attractive girl

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sitting there by herself.

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Her hair was done up.

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It was curly and long.

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She appeared to have makeup on.

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She was looking down, and she very slowly raised her head,

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and we had eye contact.

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What's your problem, man?

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What's your problem?

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Yeah, look at it, man.

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Jeff's side trip has suddenly taken a frightening turn.

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What's your problem, man?

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Get out of here!

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Get out of here!

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Please, please!

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Get out of here!

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I never thought about calling the police,

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nor did I think that these guys were really dangerous

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to anybody I thought they were being

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protective of their camp.

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March 3, 1993, just over a year later,

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the Los Angeles County Coroner was

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called to investigate a possible murder

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site in the Angeles Forest.

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The partial set of skeletal remains

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had been found approximately 50 yards from the spot where

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Jeff had seen the young blonde woman.

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When the coroner checked dental records of missing persons

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in the Los Angeles County Coroner,

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he found a match.

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The remains were identified as those of 20-year-old Kimberly

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Pandelios, who had disappeared a year before.

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It was a tragic end to a promising young life.

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Kimberly and her parents had immigrated from Cuba

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when she was eight.

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They settled in Pennsylvania, or at the age of 19,

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Kimberly married.

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In 1991, she and her husband, along with her real husband,

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moved to Northridge, California.

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Kimberly started taking business courses

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and worked part-time as a model.

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Kimberly was a beautiful human being.

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She was loved by everybody in the family,

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and she was so sweet, so kind.

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The very end of her life, I don't want even to think about it.

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After the remains were identified,

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Kimberly's story was covered extensively on the local news.

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By coincidence, Jeff, the off-road enthusiast, was watching.

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TV was on, and I said, that's the girl.

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That's the girl I saw sitting there.

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In my mind, there's no doubt that the girl on TV

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was the same I saw on the camp, same girl.

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Jeff immediately contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

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and accompanied two deputies to the spot where he had seen Kimberly.

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But far too much time had passed.

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There was not a single clue

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of the strange disappearance and death of Kimberly Pandelios.

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How would Kimberly come to be in that remote area of the Angeles National Forest?

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Who were the three men Jeff had seen with her?

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Even though the corner could not determine the exact cause of Kimberly's death,

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law enforcement now had no choice.

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What had begun a year earlier as a missing person's case

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had become a probable murder investigation.

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February 28, 1992.

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The day before Jeff saw Kimberly in the makeshift camp,

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a burned-out car was found near the Maudy Crystal Campground section

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of the Angeles National Forest.

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The fire was started in the passenger compartment

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on the passenger side of the front seat.

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We were able to determine that the front seat was pulled forward

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in a position that would be as if she drove to that location.

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Investigators found the charred remains of a spiral notebook in the car,

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but little else.

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They ran a DMV check on the plates

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but could not reach Kimberly's husband.

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By the time they did locate him, he had reported Kimberly missing,

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but a search of the area turned up no further clues.

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Three weeks later, however, a second notebook,

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this one, Kimberly's Dayrunner,

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was found under a bridge two miles away from the car.

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The two hikers whose thumbled out had turned it into authorities,

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but the dayrunner yielded neither fingerprints nor other clues.

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Rita, did you talk to Kimberly on Thursday?

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Apparently, a third notebook is still unaccounted for him.

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The day after Kimberly was reported missing,

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her son's babysitter told investigators

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that a man named Paul had telephoned for Kimberly the day she disappeared.

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Do you know Paul?

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No, but this Paul called about two o'clock in the afternoon.

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He said he had an appointment with Kimberly and he wanted to confirm it.

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Did he leave a phone number with you?

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No.

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What happened after that?

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Well, this Paul called again about 7 p.m.

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Kimberly still wasn't home.

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He said she left her appointment book when she met with him.

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The notebook that Paul has is probably the most valuable notebook.

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That might have her appointments or contacts for later that day.

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There's a possibility that Kimberly went up into the mountains to meet someone,

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and that appointment might be in her book.

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Kimberly had told her husband that she was scheduled to do an outdoor photo shoot.

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Authorities believe she responded to an ad in a local newspaper.

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A theory is that she drove to that location by herself

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and met someone to do an outdoor shoot,

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and that once she was there, she was taken off the road back into the area

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that she was ultimately found.

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Hi, I'm Kimberly.

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Ready for a little walk?

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Come on, let's go!

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Come on!

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I think she was there for at least a day and a half.

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From Thursday late afternoon, all day Friday,

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and at least through noon on Saturday.

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It was just past noon on Saturday

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when Jeff happened upon the makeshift campsite.

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I'm sorry.

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In retrospect, she might have been drugged,

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but she just had no idea if she would have cried out,

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if she would have said something,

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if she would have given me an indication she was in trouble.

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Of course, I would have done something, but I didn't know.

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It just gets to me that I didn't do something right then and there to help her.

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This person basically died because of my inaction or my ignorance.

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You can't bring the girl back,

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but I would like justice to be done, of course.

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When we return, a rare behind the scenes look at the unsung heroes of law enforcement,

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coroner's investigators.

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This is a story about the unheralded heroes of law enforcement.

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When an accident or homicide victim goes unidentified,

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it falls to investigators from the coroner's office

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to find out who the John and Jane Doe's are and how they died.

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More often than not, these investigators are successful,

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solving unsolvable cases through a combination of medical expertise,

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ingenuity, and compassion.

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October 5, 1983, Seal Beach, California.

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At dawn, two lifeguards discovered the body of a young boy

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floating in a channel near the ocean.

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The body was so badly decomposed

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that it made identification impossible.

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Coroner's investigator Joe Lucky was dispatched to the scene.

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He found no evidence of the crime,

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in fact, an autopsy would later determine

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that the cause of death was accidental drowning.

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But who the boy was and where he had come from posed a baffling mystery.

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It looked like one of those cases that might never be solved.

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It takes a while sometimes to get over the fact

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that you can't identify these people.

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You tend to think about your life,

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you tend to think about your own families

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and know that there's somebody out there who's missing a relative,

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somebody, but we don't know who.

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Joe Lucky was used to long odds,

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and this case would challenge all of his skills.

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Joe sent a description of the boy

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to every law enforcement agency in the immediate area.

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Only one possible match turned up,

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a boy who had disappeared from Fullerton, California.

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But Fullerton was 16 miles from where the body was discovered.

522
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,240
The boy is missing here in Fullerton.

523
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,240
Joe Lucky met with the boy's parents.

524
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,240
They told him that their son had vanished

525
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,240
shortly after leaving for a neighborhood park.

526
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,240
I went over to the park and I found that there was a flood control channel

527
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,240
right adjacent to the park.

528
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:16,240
I also discovered that because of the rainfall the day he's missing,

529
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,240
that the flood control district had opened a local dam

530
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:25,240
which is above that area and allowed the overflow to come through that channel,

531
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,240
raising it approximately six feet higher than normal.

532
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,240
The mystery had been solved.

533
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,240
Tragically, the young boy had fallen into the flood channel

534
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,240
and swept 16 miles to the ocean.

535
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,240
Blood samples would later provide a positive identification.

536
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,240
A corner is probably a good mixture of being a surgeon,

537
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,240
a detective and an attorney.

538
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,240
Every day is a challenge.

539
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,240
It's new.

540
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,240
It's a little bit of detective work all the time.

541
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,240
Colin Ellenberg has worked on literally thousands of cases.

542
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,240
Some take months of painstaking research and legwork.

543
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,240
Others are solved solely on the basis of one small piece of evidence.

544
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:14,240
That was a case with an unidentified murder victim in 1985.

545
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,240
Checking his clothing items for possibly a name inside,

546
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,240
we came upon a buckle that was unique and had the name of a company

547
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,240
that manufactures drill bits in Alaska for oil wells on this buckle.

548
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,240
Yes, the phone number for the Anchorage drill bit company.

549
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,240
We were able to call this company,

550
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,240
determine that the buckle in fact was an award given to the employee of the year,

551
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,240
only given out for about five years.

552
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,240
And with that information, we were able to identify the deceased individual.

553
00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:01,240
But some cases remain unsung even after years of investigation.

554
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,240
One in particular has haunted Colin Ellenberg since May 18th, 1987.

555
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,240
That morning, the body of a woman in her early twenties

556
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,240
was found at the base of a steep cliff in Dana Point, California.

557
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,240
What do you got?

558
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,240
Got a girl apparently fell off the cliff.

559
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,240
Any ID on her?

560
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,240
Got a unit up top, but we don't have much more than that.

561
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,240
The woman had apparently plunged to her death sometime during the night.

562
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,240
We weren't sure at that point if it was an accident or intentional

563
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,240
or if she had been pushed.

564
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:43,240
I went to the top of the cliff and there I found a small purse,

565
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,240
a half consumed soda and a map of Southern California.

566
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,240
Hardly the purse had no other contents,

567
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,240
but the map held a clue which would lead Colin to the person

568
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,240
who may have last seen the young woman alive.

569
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,240
There was a phone number on the map.

570
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,240
The phone number was that of a cab company,

571
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:10,240
and the cab company was contacted and they indicated they had a fare

572
00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:15,240
picked up from the area and dropped off at the area of the Dana Point Cliffs

573
00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:18,240
at about three or four that morning.

574
00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:25,240
When Colin interviewed the cab driver,

575
00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:29,240
he described a woman who fit the Dana Point Jane Doe to a T.

576
00:34:31,240 --> 00:34:33,240
You the lady called for a cab?

577
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:35,240
Yeah.

578
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:39,240
Can you take me to Ross Towers and Laguna Beach?

579
00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:40,240
Sure, no problem.

580
00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:42,240
Can you tell me how much that's going to be?

581
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:45,240
That'll be twenty bucks.

582
00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,240
I only have eighteen.

583
00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:52,240
Can you take me as far as that'll go?

584
00:34:52,240 --> 00:34:54,240
Yeah, sure, get in the back.

585
00:34:55,240 --> 00:35:00,240
The only thing the taxi driver said was that she had very little to say other than that.

586
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:05,240
She was very quiet and he didn't notice anything really unusual about her.

587
00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:14,240
The meter says eighteen bucks, man.

588
00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:16,240
That's the best I can do.

589
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,240
Thank you.

590
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,240
Good night.

591
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:24,240
Goodbye.

592
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:38,240
The next morning, the young woman's body would be found at the base of the cliff.

593
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:43,240
She was five feet eight inches tall and weighed one hundred and twenty-seven pounds.

594
00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:45,240
She had light brown eyes,

595
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:49,240
and was wearing what appeared to be secondhand clothing.

596
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:52,240
At the time of her death in 1987,

597
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,240
she would have been approximately twenty years old.

598
00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:01,240
This is the first Jane Doe that I've had that I was unable to identify.

599
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:06,240
And I've continued to work this case to today and occasionally a new lead will come in

600
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,240
and I'll follow up, but all to this date have been unsuccessful.

601
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:15,240
There isn't a week that I don't go by the point without thinking about this lady.

602
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:20,240
I want to identify her and find out who she is and who she belongs to.

603
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:46,240
Despite the sophisticated missing persons computer systems available today,

604
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:51,240
thousands of John and Jane Doe's across the country remain unidentified.

605
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:53,240
Here are three of them.

606
00:36:55,240 --> 00:37:00,240
This is a composite drawing of a young woman who in 1990 was struck by a car

607
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:04,240
and killed along the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California.

608
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,240
She was in her early twenties,

609
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:11,240
five feet four inches tall and weighed approximately 125 pounds.

610
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:16,240
She had dark brown hair, brown eyes, and severe acne scars.

611
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:20,240
Among the objects found in the woman's possession were a hotel key

612
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:23,240
and a ring made of human hair.

613
00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:41,240
In 1976, a young couple was found shot to death

614
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:45,240
on a remote road in Sumter County, South Carolina.

615
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:51,240
The man was approximately 20 years old, six feet tall, and weighed around 150 pounds.

616
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:56,240
He had extensive dental work which included bridges and crowns.

617
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:59,240
He was wearing an expensive boulevard acutron watch

618
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:03,240
and a ring inscribed on a black and white shirt.

619
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,240
He had an expensive boulevard acutron watch

620
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:10,240
and a ring inscribed with the initials J-P-F.

621
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,240
The woman appeared to be in her late teens.

622
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:17,240
She was five feet five inches tall, approximately 100 pounds,

623
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:20,240
with two distinct moles on the left side of her face.

624
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:24,240
She was wearing three handmade Mexican or Indian style rings.

625
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:40,240
Next, the family's 50-year search for a young airman lost during World War II.

626
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:54,240
In 1943, at the height of World War II, an American B-24 bomber

627
00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:57,240
in a non-combat mission went down over North Africa.

628
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,240
The entire crew was lost.

629
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,240
Among the victims were these three men,

630
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:08,240
Sylvan Lazarus, Carl Cobb, and Bernard Brady.

631
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:13,240
For some 50 years, they have been the focus of a perplexing, unsolved mystery.

632
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,240
Three months after the crash,

633
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:19,240
a Baltimore newspaper ran this photograph

634
00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:24,240
of four American prisoners of war being interrogated by a German officer.

635
00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,240
Inexplicably, three of the prisoners were positively identified

636
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:31,240
by their families as Lazarus, Cobb, and Brady.

637
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,240
Perhaps someone watching can help the families of these men

638
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:37,240
finally put their sons to rest.

639
00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:42,240
Christmas of 1943 was a time of sorrow

640
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:45,240
for the Lazarus family of Baltimore, Maryland.

641
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,240
On December 14, they learned that their eldest son, Sylvan,

642
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,240
an American airman, was missing in action.

643
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:56,240
Three weeks later, the family's worst nightmare was the death of a man

644
00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:00,240
who was missing in the family's worst nightmare came true.

645
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,240
Dad?

646
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,240
It's your brother.

647
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,240
His dad.

648
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:15,240
Sylvan's brother Arnold was 17 years old at the time.

649
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,240
I didn't say.

650
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:21,240
We were devastated, absolutely devastated.

651
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:24,240
I mean, my brother was such a great guy.

652
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:28,240
Everybody, very, very outgoing, family-oriented.

653
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:32,240
And to lose somebody like that is devastating.

654
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:35,240
There's no other word I could use.

655
00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:41,240
According to government records, on December 8, 1943,

656
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:45,240
Sylvan and 13 other men boarded a B-24 Liberator bomber

657
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,240
in the eastern coast of Africa.

658
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:50,240
The plane was bound for Casablanca, Morocco

659
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:54,240
and reportedly crashed in the Atlas Mountains near the city of Taroudan.

660
00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:00,240
Military officials reported that Sylvan Lazarus and the other victims

661
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,240
were later buried in a mass grave.

662
00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:07,240
Three months passed.

663
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:10,240
The Lazarus family tried to cope with the loss of Sylvan.

664
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:14,240
They never received any of his personal effects, not even his dog tags.

665
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:17,240
Then on March 17, 1944,

666
00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:21,240
the mysterious photograph appeared in the Baltimore Mirror.

667
00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:29,240
The family's grief turned first to confusion, then to hope.

668
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,240
Oh my, Samuel. What does it say?

669
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:36,240
The prisoners of Germany captured after their planes were shot down

670
00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:40,240
over the Third Reich during recent obliteration bombing raids.

671
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:42,240
We were shocked.

672
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:46,240
I mean, there was no question about it that one of the airmen was definitely

673
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:50,240
my brother. His eyes, his posture,

674
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:54,240
the way he stood in a certain way

675
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:58,240
was definitely him, definitely.

676
00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:03,240
Was it possible the Sylvan Lazarus had survived?

677
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:08,240
If so, it made no sense for him to be interrogated by a Nazi officer in North Africa.

678
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:13,240
The Germans had been driven from the area more than seven months before the crash.

679
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:20,240
Sylvan's father was convinced that there was much more to the story.

680
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:24,240
He obtained the names of the 13 other crewmen killed in the accident

681
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:28,240
and sent each of their families a copy of the photograph.

682
00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:34,240
Incredibly, Bernard Brady of New York and Carl Cobb of Cynthia, Kentucky

683
00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:36,240
were identified.

684
00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:39,240
My father wanted more answers,

685
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:44,240
and he, uh, he wrote back and forth to the government.

686
00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:49,240
My father even contacted the Red Cross

687
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,240
trying to get answers.

688
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:54,240
But it was all in vain.

689
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:56,240
Anything?

690
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:59,240
No, nothing.

691
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:04,240
They were first told that the crewmen were all buried

692
00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:09,240
in a common grave at the Casablanca European Cemetery.

693
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:14,240
Later on, they were told that the men, their remains were dug up

694
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:20,240
and reburied in Al Anan Cemetery in, I believe, Algeria.

695
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:26,240
There was never any explanation given to my knowledge as to why the government did this.

696
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:34,240
I am not really sure whether the government or the military knows exactly what happened.

697
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:38,240
I have my own theories.

698
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:42,240
Unfortunately, I don't have proof.

699
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:50,240
The Lazarus family now believes a Sylvan's plane may have been shot down

700
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:54,240
during a secret mission behind German lines in Europe, not in Africa.

701
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:58,240
They also believe that some of the crewmen managed to parachute to safety,

702
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:01,240
only to be taken prisoner by the Nazis.

703
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:07,240
Sylvan and the others are most likely photographed

704
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:10,240
while being interrogated about their mission.

705
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:15,240
The Lazarus is fear that Sylvan may have been singled out because of his religion.

706
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:28,240
My theory is great possibility that the Germans found out that my brother was Jewish.

707
00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:35,240
And I believe that they violated the Geneva Convention.

708
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:43,240
By rights, he should have been put into a POW camp.

709
00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:46,240
But I don't believe that that happened.

710
00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:50,240
I believe that he was put into a concentration camp instead.

711
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:56,240
This is from the War Department, the Adjutant General's Office,

712
00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:59,240
dated January 24, 1944.

713
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:03,240
Although it has been 50 years since Sylvan Lazarus was last seen alive,

714
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:07,240
his family continues a search for clues to his fate.

715
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:10,240
In 1990, under the Freedom of Information Act,

716
00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:15,240
the Lazarus has obtained the original crew list from the National Archives.

717
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:18,240
There were 14 names.

718
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:24,240
My uncle Sylvan, Carl Cobb and Bernard Brady were among those names.

719
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:29,240
And next to those three names were check marks and the numbers 1, 2 and 3.

720
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:34,240
I've never gotten an explanation as to what those check marks and numbers meant.

721
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:40,240
I feel very, very sad about one thing.

722
00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:48,240
That my parents went to their graves without knowing exactly what happened to my brother.

723
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:56,240
Having seen the photograph, we cannot help but wonder what really happened to him.

724
00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:59,240
Couldn't have been killed in a crash.

725
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,240
So what happened to him?

726
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,240
That's what we want to find out.

727
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:38,240
To our minds possess untapped psychic powers,

728
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:41,240
can we move objects without touching them?

729
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:44,240
Can we communicate clairvoyantly with the dead?

730
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:47,240
New premonitions come true.

731
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:52,240
Join me two weeks from tonight as we explore these intriguing questions

732
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:58,240
on a special unsolved mysteries report, Mysteries of the Psychic Mind.

733
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:13,240
Mysteries of the Psychic Mind

734
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:42,240
Mysteries of the Psychic Mind