1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,880 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,760 Tonight, a special edition of Unsolved Mysteries 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,360 from the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,920 In 1830, the police were arrested 8 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:34,960 In 1836, 189 brave men made a gallop last stand at the Alamo, 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,960 holding off 6,000 Mexican soldiers for nearly two weeks. 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,440 In the end, the defenders would all die. 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,960 But according to legend, they left behind an unclaimed 12 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,920 legacy, possibly a fortune in gold and silver buried 13 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,080 at the bottom of an old well. 14 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:56,680 Incredibly, some believe it was more than just a legend. 15 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,600 For almost a month, a team of archaeologists and researchers 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,200 have been excavating here in an attempt 17 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,200 to uncover the secrets of the Alamo. 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,720 What, if anything, will they find? 19 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,960 A legendary hidden treasure? 20 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,120 Or perhaps priceless artifacts from history 21 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,400 lost for nearly 160 years? 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,720 In the next hour, we'll bring you this fascinating story, 23 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,480 as well as these intriguing mysteries. 24 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,520 In South Africa, Louisiana, intruders 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,560 broke into a comfortable suburban home 26 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,520 and murdered a prominent young couple, Pam and Eric Allender. 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,680 Four years later, Pam's father, Huey Littleton, 28 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,520 is still searching for the truth behind the brutal deaths. 29 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,000 The investigation has taken Huey into the depths 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,760 of a bizarre ritualistic subculture 31 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,560 and led him to believe that his daughter and son-in-law were 32 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,920 killed by members of a satanic cult. 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,880 When Denise Williams was 17, she 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,120 fell in love with an older man named Randall Utterback. 35 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,080 She says she also fell victim to a terrifying spiral 36 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,280 of abuse, which allegedly culminated in a vicious attack. 37 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,120 Now the authorities need your help 38 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,360 to bring Randall Utterback to justice. 39 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,840 Join me for this special edition, 40 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,840 The Secrets of the Alamo and more on Unsolved Mysteries. 41 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:52,920 reputation, Sammy Kasich,onos secondly. 42 00:02:52,920 --> 00:03:03,920 The Last Inheritance 43 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:20,920 Remember the Alamo, the famous battle cry that echoes across the fields of time, a lasting 44 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:27,080 tribute to freedom, liberty and independence. But some believe a full story of the Alamo 45 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:33,560 has yet to be told. Legend has it that in the shadow of the old mission, an intriguing 46 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:44,880 secret remains buried, a secret which dates back to 1836, the year of the epic battle. 47 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,200 That January, a group of rugged frontiersmen made their way across the vast prairie of 48 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:55,440 southern Texas. By some accounts, they were loaded down with a fortune in silver and gold, 49 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:02,800 legendary San Sabah treasure said to be worth millions of dollars. The men were bound for 50 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:08,480 the Alamo. The treasure was intended to finance the Texas Revolution for independence from 51 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:15,800 Mexico. The leader of the expedition was a man named Jim Buie, a colonel in the Texas 52 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,880 Cavalry and renowned throughout the west for the hunting night which would later bear 53 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:27,800 his name. Two months later, Buie and 188 other men, including Davey Crockett, would make 54 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:34,160 a courageous stand against 6,000 well-trained Mexican soldiers at the Alamo. Not one of 55 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:42,800 the defenders would live to tell the tale, but the legend of the treasure would endure. 56 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,120 Say all that remains of the Alamo is the old hallowed chapel. Here on the grounds of the 57 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:54,400 plaza history comes alive. You can almost hear the cannon shot and the charge of cavalry. 58 00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:00,200 You can also feel the excitement of discovery. Just a few feet from where I'm standing, legend 59 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,560 and science have crossed paths with an unsolved mystery. 60 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:12,760 For the past three weeks, a team of archaeologists and researchers has been excavating the story 61 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:22,080 of the Alamo. What will they find? Perhaps nothing. Perhaps a legendary sand-saba treasure. 62 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:29,000 Or perhaps priceless artifacts from the battle untouched for nearly 160 years. The dig is 63 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,520 a culmination of a dream for Frank Buschbacher, a professional fortune-hunter and historical 64 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:45,400 researcher. Frank's quest began in 1986. On a trip to Colima, Mexico, he was introduced 65 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:52,360 to Maria Gomez, a respected museum curator who also had a reputation as a seer and prophetess. 66 00:05:52,360 --> 00:06:01,360 Did you know that there was a treasure buried at the Alamo? I never heard of any treasure 67 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,720 surrounding the battle of the Alamo. It was just a valiant battle that was lost. Then 68 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:15,080 she went on to describe it as gold coins, artifacts, silver artifacts, religious artifacts 69 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:22,040 is what she described them as. Frank was told that some of the treasure had been 70 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:27,240 removed by Mexican soldiers, but the bulk of the fortune still remained hidden at the 71 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:36,200 Alamo. She's going to draw you a map. This is the crude map sketched out by Maria Gomez. 72 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,520 She predicted that the treasure would be found here at the bottom of an old well. Even though 73 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,440 Maria said she had never been to the Alamo, she had approximated the spot where a well 74 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:54,440 was dug just prior to the siege. At the time, the Alamo grounds covered nearly three acres. 75 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:59,760 The chapel was located in the rear of the fortification. The well was in the plaza, 76 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:08,200 which was enclosed by stone walls up to 12 feet high. It was within those walls that 77 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:16,560 the Texans held out for a full 13 days. The defenders repulsed one advance after another, 78 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:25,600 but in the end, 189 men could not stave off 6,000 Mexican soldiers. Frank Buschbacher 79 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,480 believed that in a final act of desperation, Jim Bowie ordered that the treasure be hidden 80 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:38,600 at the bottom of the well, thus saving it to finance the war effort. The only way they 81 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:45,920 preserve it is to all stick together and fight the battle out to whatever outcome it had. 82 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:51,360 The first bank of Texas, the first catch of precious metals that would have bought them 83 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:59,400 their arms and uniforms they needed. The reason why it's remained there is because everybody died. 84 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:15,880 The Alamo is now preserved as an historic landmark in the heart of downtown San Antonio, Texas. 85 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:23,400 Frank believes that the treasure will be found beneath the road that fronts the chapel. To 86 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,600 many native Texans, however, Buschbacher's theory is little more than revisionist history. 87 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,560 But the people of the Alamo, I don't think they were guarding a treasure. When your life is on the 88 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:41,080 line like it was in the battle with General Santiana, I don't think you're thinking about silver or 89 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,120 gold bullion. I think you're thinking about your life, and I don't think you would be polluting 90 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,960 your water well because you don't know how long your siege is going to be. 91 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:59,240 Despite the controversy, Frank Buschbacher was determined to prove his point. In 1992, 92 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:06,440 he obtained permission to survey the area with ground penetrating radar. The test yielded intriguing 93 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:12,760 results. So we've got a nice little area there about three to four meters down. Looks to be maybe 94 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:18,120 a covered over cistern. That's all strictly conjectured, but this is a very good looking target. 95 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,920 Three separate disturbances or anomalies were found beneath the surface. The largest, 96 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:30,040 which Frank believes is a site of the well, is in the precise location where Maria Gomez 97 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:36,840 predicted the treasure would be found. Further tests revealed an object 18 to 24 inches in diameter 98 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:43,880 at a depth of approximately 13 feet. The object is metallic, but it is not a natural mineral deposit. 99 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:50,200 It was a chill that ran down my back. It kind of brought all my research to fruition at that 100 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:57,160 point because I knew with the map, her story, and then plugging it into Texas history that I was on 101 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:04,360 a hot trail and all any dissension that I had within my own mind about whether I should follow this 102 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:11,480 any further was gone. The anomalies could be caused by many things. I think it could be debris, 103 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:22,760 debris, equipment left by the Texans, either army. I think it could be something several years later 104 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:29,960 that was deposited there. You know, as time marches on, dust and dirt and silt and debris accumulate 105 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:36,040 in cover very gradually so that we do not know. And I think that probably that could be part of 106 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:44,280 what they're picking up out there. What did the ground radar detect? Is it possible that the legendary 107 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:50,760 San Saba treasure does exist? Or could the anomaly be some long lost artifact from the battle? 108 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:58,920 Whatever the case, Frank Buschbacher was determined to find out. Frank was spent three and a half 109 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:06,840 years acquiring the necessary permits and financial backing to excavate the site. In 1994, the archaeology 110 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:15,080 department at St. Mary's University in San Antonio agreed to oversee the digging. The project director 111 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,760 is Professor Thomas Gouderjan. He believes that no matter what lies at the bottom of the well, 112 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:24,200 it will have historical significance that you cannot put a price on. 113 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:32,920 There's a whole series of possibilities of what we may find, whether it's treasure as in gold and 114 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:39,400 silver and that sort of thing, or whether it is materials that were thrown into the well during 115 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:44,040 the battle, materials that were thrown into the well during the cleanup after the battle. It doesn't 116 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,920 make any difference to us while we're looking at it in a historical perspective. Whatever it is, 117 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:55,320 it's a time capsule. It's the only opportunity we have that we know of to find something related to 118 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,480 those few short months and the few short days of the battle itself. 119 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:09,400 On February 1st, 1995, the moment had finally arrived. The dig was set to begin. 120 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,480 Frank Buschbacher and two of his colleagues, Jim Rowe and Tim McClure, plotted last minute 121 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:22,920 changes to the schedule. The plans call for excavating a 15 by 15-foot area directly above the well. 122 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:31,560 A work crew must first remove three feet of flagstone in roadbed to reach the 1836 ground level, 123 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:37,240 the top of the filled-in well. Proceeding carefully with hand tools, the workers will then 124 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,920 remove decades of dirt and debris from the nine-foot deep shaft. 125 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:53,640 One thing for certain is that there's something down there. Whether there's gold or silver or 126 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,400 old rifles down there, that's not what's really important. What's really important is that we're 127 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:07,400 going to find out about what happened. I'm interested in what he finds and if it's a treasure, 128 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:14,600 that'll be very exciting. If it's a cannonball, part of a cannon, you know, metal like that, 129 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,400 that'll be interesting to know about. It'll be another part of history. What we do know about 130 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,280 that ground is it hasn't been disturbed since the battle and we have a time capsule down there no 131 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:31,720 matter what it is. It is a treasure no matter what it is. For the entire team and hundreds of 132 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:38,120 onlookers, it was a day of boundless joy and nervous anticipation. As layer after layer of 133 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:44,520 history was peeled away, the archaeologists traveled back through time to the final days of the animal. 134 00:13:54,280 --> 00:14:18,520 When we return, perhaps you can help track down this man accused of kidnapping his former girlfriend. 135 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:35,560 January 1994, an isolated country road just outside a small Missouri town with the unlikely name of 136 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:49,880 Mexico. The young woman under attack is Denise Williams. She is 19. The man with a gun is her 137 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:56,920 ex-boyfriend, 31-year-old Randall Utterback. They had met a year and a half earlier at a party after 138 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:03,880 Denise's senior prom. To the naive 17-year-old schoolgirl, Randall seemed exotic and dashing, 139 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:08,920 just dangerous enough to be exciting. So I'm glad you had a good time. I think my friend's really 140 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:15,640 liked you. I met Randall a week before graduation. I just thought he was the cutest thing and he 141 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,960 had been known around town for his motorcycles and he owned a mountain lion at the time. 142 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:27,640 And everyone had talked to a highly of him. He was really outgoing, really spontaneous, 143 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,920 for the moment, let's go do this. He would take me out to nice places and concerts. 144 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,200 And then after two weeks of Randall and I being together, it all changed. 145 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:45,480 It was gradual. He started out saying, don't wear makeup, don't wear hairspray, 146 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:51,000 don't wear perfume. And then it grew to don't hang out with this person, don't be friends with 147 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,680 her because she's a bad influence. We have to choose them or me. 148 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:03,080 Denise Williams had gotten in way over her head. According to Denise, Randall Utterback, 149 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:08,360 older and more worldly, quickly established an abusive pattern, denigrating her, 150 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,320 rejecting her, and then putting on a great show of forgiveness. For Randall it seemed 151 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:18,120 that love equaled possession. Once he had Denise, he was not about to let go. 152 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,760 When Denise went away to college three months after meeting Randall, she hoped the distance 153 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:31,160 would improve the relationship, but Randall only became more obsessive. 154 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,840 Oh Randall, you scared me. 155 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,200 Denise, I called you this morning. Where were you? 156 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,320 I had to go to class. I know what you said. You'd wait for my phone call. 157 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,480 Randall was very controlling and manipulative. I'd have to call Randall if I was going down 158 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:53,800 to the cafeteria. Just in case Randall called and I wasn't there to accept his phone call, 159 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:58,680 he'd think I'd be out with some other people or having friends doing something that I wasn't supposed 160 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:06,680 to do. Denise's family was shocked when Randall talked to her into leaving school. 161 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,720 She enrolled at a community college closer to home and closer to Randall. 162 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,600 He had me convinced he was the only one there for me, 163 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:25,160 because he had got me so isolated from my family and my friends to where he would tell me, 164 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,240 I'm the only one here for you. You know, you need me in your life. 165 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,480 And I got to the point where I started to believe that. 166 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,200 You're doing it wrong. It's backwards. You gotta flip it over. 167 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:37,800 No, I didn't. It looks fine. 168 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,840 Denise, I'm just trying to help you, all right? You want my help or not? 169 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:46,840 Several months passed. The abusive pattern continued. Finally, Denise reached her breaking point. 170 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,960 Are you calling me a liar, Denise? 171 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,400 I'm not calling you a liar. I'm just telling you this is the way it works. 172 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,880 You're an idiot. You know that? You stupid b— 173 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,760 Please call Randall if people watch it. 174 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,040 Yeah? Well, I don't really care. Randall. 175 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:08,440 I would be called names. I'd be tore down. I wasn't allowed to have an opinion with Randall. 176 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,360 It's it, Denise. It's it. I've had it. We're finished. 177 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,880 I was relieved. I wanted to get away from him. 178 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:29,720 I had just had enough. I told Randall we were through. 179 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:30,760 It's crazy. 180 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:32,360 Better than Fitzgerald was. Yeah, man. 181 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,160 Randall was stunned when Denise had not come crawling back. 182 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:38,840 He couldn't abide her newfound independence. 183 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,440 I just don't want to see you anymore, okay? 184 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,360 I've been upset. I can't sleep. 185 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:43,320 No, Randall, don't you get it. 186 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,440 Just give me five minutes, Denise. 187 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:44,840 Just leave me alone. 188 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,040 Please, just give me five minutes. I just need to talk to you. 189 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,000 Don't you get it. Just leave me alone. 190 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:47,560 Hey, just leave me alone. 191 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:48,920 Just get out of my way. Just leave me alone. 192 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,120 Hey, just leave me alone. 193 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,480 Randall let her back would not go peaceably. 194 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,920 Denise says he began to follow her, to stalk her, 195 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,800 waiting until she was alone and vulnerable. 196 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:04,840 What are you doing? 197 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,960 The Randall hit the back of my car when it ran me off the road. 198 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,680 He come over to my car and then he drug me over to his dad's truck to go with him. 199 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,520 And he told me that if I didn't take him back, 200 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,680 something bad would happen to someone I love. 201 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,200 He wanted me to marry him. I told Randall I wouldn't marry him. 202 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,080 Randall utter back was arrested for felonious restraint and aggravated stalking. 203 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,000 Listen, Sheriff said I could call my lawyer and let him down here. 204 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,040 He was in jail for a week before posting bond. 205 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,000 A restraining order was issued, barring him from seeing or talking to Denise. 206 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,200 For a month, Randall obeyed the order. 207 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,840 Denise finally began to remember what a normal life was like, 208 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,640 but she had let down her guard too soon. 209 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:23,400 I was driving home from school and I saw this black car behind me. 210 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,560 I didn't think it was him. I thought it was just some school kids driving home from school. 211 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:35,160 Next thing I know, that car pulls up beside me and it was Randall. 212 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:36,520 What are you doing? 213 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:42,280 A guinea is motioning me to pull over and I wouldn't. I sped up. 214 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,560 And as I sped up, he sped up and went beside me again. 215 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,040 Denise? Denise, get out of the car. 216 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:07,560 Denise? Denise? Denise? Denise? Denise, where are you? 217 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,120 Denise tried to spray Randall with mace. 218 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:16,440 In the struggle, Randall allegedly bitter hand and dropped his gun. 219 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:17,800 Shut up! 220 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,040 God! Randall, stop it! 221 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,000 Randall, would you free the police? I'm gonna get my feet in the car! 222 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,160 Randall, Randall, please, can I get my feet in the car? 223 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,560 I'm gonna decide my way inside. You scared me! 224 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,800 What is your problem? 225 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,520 I just needed to tell you, Denise, that I love you and I want you back in my life, okay? 226 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:45,960 That's all I'm asking for. 227 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,320 No, Randall, I can't. How can you expect me to do that after what you just did to me? 228 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,200 I just wanted to start over. I just want another chance and you just... 229 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,880 You're just not giving me another chance, right? 230 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:54,760 I'm not gonna give you another chance, Randall. 231 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:59,080 Derek, I need to start over. I need another chance. Now give it to me. 232 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:05,720 And then he said that if I wouldn't take him back, there was no need for him to live in and he asked 233 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:11,080 me to kill him. He asked me to stab him through the heart. 234 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,880 Of course, Denise refused. She pleaded with Randall to stop the car. 235 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,000 Denise, just...just eliminate my gun. 236 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:21,960 Look at all those people. 237 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,040 Oh, no, Denise. I know, Denise. I just... 238 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,280 Wait, Denise, Denise, Denise! Shut up, Denise! 239 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:29,080 God, I hate it when you do that. 240 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,280 All right, look, you just understand this. If you don't say exactly what I told you to say, 241 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,160 I'm gonna take you out of this state and you'll never see your family again. You understand that? 242 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,200 Yeah, I understand. 243 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,200 I love you. 244 00:22:56,360 --> 00:23:00,200 Denise's father and a sheriff's deputy, along with several other people, 245 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,440 had already gathered around Denise's car. 246 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,360 Oh, my God! Daddy! 247 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,000 Denise, honey, are you all right? Oh, my God! 248 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:07,720 Daddy! 249 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:08,680 Where's your roundup? 250 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,360 Even before he let her speak to her father, the deputy began to question Denise. 251 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:15,560 Randall, Daddy! 252 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,640 Please, Denise, we gotta come back to the back of your car. 253 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,320 He immediately drove Denise to the emergency room to have her checked out. 254 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,040 I need to go to see my dad. 255 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,880 He'll be over there. He'll be at the hospital when you get there. 256 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,400 What about you? 257 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,040 I'm right there. 258 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:28,600 That's Randall. 259 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,640 That's me. I'm right there. 260 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,120 All right, okay. 261 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,320 Just stay calm, Denise. Stay right there. 262 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,520 If you're going to be okay, you're going to be all right. You're fine. 263 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:47,560 What's your left hand? 264 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:48,840 Three shots. Open the door. 265 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,480 Give your hands in the air. Face away from me. 266 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,080 Randall utter back was charged with stalking, phelonious restraint, 267 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,160 and with three counts of armed criminal action. 268 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,200 He was imprisoned without bond for six months. 269 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,720 Then six months later, he was taken to the hospital 270 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,720 and in transit managed to escape. 271 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,120 Today, he remains at large. 272 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,600 As of today, I'm still living in fear. 273 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:19,800 I don't know when he'll come back, but I have a feeling he will. 274 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,400 I don't live with my parents anymore. 275 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,040 Because I have a feeling that would be the first place Randall checked for me. 276 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,000 I don't go anywhere by myself. 277 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,600 I'm just scared he's going to come back, 278 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,560 and I won't be able to convince him a third time to let me go. 279 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,600 Randall utter back's parents have issued statements asserting that their son 280 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,840 did not commit the acts of which he is accused. 281 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,720 They say that Denise and the local authorities 282 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,800 are out to assassinate Randall's character. 283 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,960 However, the Sheriff's Department and two different Missouri counties 284 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,200 stand firm in their position that utter back is a dangerous criminal. 285 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:21,640 Next, a father's desperate quest to find his daughter's killer. 286 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:37,080 In junior high and high school, Pam Littleton of Sulphur, Louisiana, 287 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,360 was voted most popular, friendliest and the prettiest girl. 288 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,880 She was a cheerleader. She was the homecoming queen. 289 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,640 After college, Pam married Eric Allender, a bright up and coming businessman. 290 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,200 The newlyweds bought a house near Pam's parents, 291 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,200 and Eric went to work for Pam's father. 292 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,560 A year later, Pam gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. 293 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,600 The family's circle was now complete. 294 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,360 Nearly every day, Pam walked over to her parents' house for a visit. 295 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,720 She didn't want her mother and father to miss a moment of their granddaughter's childhood. 296 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,920 Pam and I, I guess, would be... 297 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,680 She was the type of daughter that every father would dream of having, you know. 298 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,400 She had dreamed of being a housewife and a mother. 299 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,840 That was her ambition in life, and she was totally happy. 300 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:54,680 At 8.45 p.m., on February 11, 1991, Pam's husband, Eric, called her to say he was home from work. 301 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,920 Pam left her parents' house 30 minutes later. 302 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:07,000 By the next afternoon, no one in the family had heard from Pam or Eric, which was highly unusual. 303 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,240 Then, Huey Littleton got a phone call from his mother-in-law. 304 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:19,640 She says, Huey, I just left Pam and Eric's and something's wrong down there. 305 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,680 They're in their bed. 306 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,280 I have the baby and I'm back at your house. 307 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,120 Call the sheriff. 308 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,400 I told her, I said, I will call the sheriff and I will call an ambulance. 309 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,760 What appears to be the problem, she said, call the sheriff. 310 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:44,840 The sheriff's unit met us at the gate going into the yard and asked that we not go near the house. 311 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:57,720 And we learned that Pam and Eric were dead, that both of them had been brutally shot with a shotgun 312 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,160 and had the fatal wounds were to their head. 313 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:06,920 There was only one blessing amidst the horror. 314 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,400 Although traumatized, Pam and Eric's daughter was physically unharmed. 315 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,480 Still, the Littletons were left numb with grief. 316 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,880 Absolutely, total, complete shock. 317 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,800 Unbelief, I could not believe it. 318 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,920 I mean, how can you possibly believe your daughter's dead? 319 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,160 You totally immobilized me. 320 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,200 I couldn't cry. 321 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,320 All I could do was say why and who. 322 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,760 The day after the murders, 18-year-old Chris Prudin, a resident of Sulphur, 323 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,560 was arrested in Baton Rouge along with three friends. 324 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,120 They were in possession of Eric Allender's Toyota 4Runner. 325 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,720 Chris, where was the shotgun? 326 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,680 It was in a case. 327 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,680 Chris Prudin became the focus of the investigation. 328 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,640 Which gun did you use? 329 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,040 I thought a mag shotgun. 330 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,720 And did you load it? 331 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,240 No, it was loaded. 332 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,080 So what did you do after you got the gun and saw that it was loaded? 333 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,240 I went and shot him. 334 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,240 Who did you shoot first? 335 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:22,920 I shot the guy. 336 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:28,360 He confessed, under oath, that he had killed Pam and Eric, 337 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,800 that he had no remorse for doing so. 338 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,000 In fact, was glad that he did so. 339 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,360 17 days after the murders, Prudin was discovered hanging by the neck 340 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,640 in the jail's shower room. 341 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,480 He never regained consciousness and died in the hospital. 342 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,560 This suicide note was found in his cell. 343 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,200 In the note, Prudin took sole credit for the murders, saying, quote, 344 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,600 I enjoyed very much in the taking of those two individuals' lives. 345 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,400 As far as the sheriff's department was concerned, the case was closed. 346 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,400 They had made an arrest. 347 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,560 The suspect had confessed and hung himself. 348 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,480 But to Huey Littleton's experienced eye, loose ends were everywhere. 349 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,480 Huey is a licensed private detective and owns his own company. 350 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,040 Once he began to investigate, he came to believe that Chris Prudin 351 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,680 had belonged to a satanic cult called the Skaters, 352 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,920 an acronym for Satan's Kids Against the Establishment. 353 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,000 OK, Chris was alone. 354 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:35,480 OK. 355 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,240 He's by himself as long as we all understand that. 356 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:37,720 Yes. 357 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,920 Is he going to kill him? 358 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:39,720 No. 359 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:40,760 He's not going to kill him. 360 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:41,880 He's going to kill him. 361 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:42,840 As long as we all understand that. 362 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:43,400 Yes. 363 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:43,960 Is he going to talk? 364 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,240 Because I'm not going down for this. 365 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,360 I'm not either. 366 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:47,960 Look, he's not going to talk if he knows better. 367 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,440 The girlfriend of one of the skaters told Huey of a meeting 368 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,240 that took place the morning after Pam and Eric were killed. 369 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,560 So we got to come up with something. 370 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,640 Now we know he wasn't alone, but what about the cops? 371 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,400 OK, we've got to get it all straight now. 372 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,840 OK, so he's by himself. 373 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:03,800 He's on foot, right? 374 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:04,040 Right. 375 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:04,600 He's all high. 376 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,400 He doesn't know what he's doing. 377 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:05,480 Right? 378 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:05,960 Yeah. 379 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:06,360 And then what? 380 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,760 He's walking through this neighborhood and he sees this house. 381 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,320 Right. 382 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:09,720 OK. 383 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:10,600 So he busts in. 384 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,920 The witness said it appeared that the skaters were trying 385 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,360 to concoct an alibi for a person or persons who had been 386 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,240 with Chris Prudham when the murders occurred. 387 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,440 By himself, right? 388 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,960 She went on to say that Prudham and one accomplice 389 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,840 had broken into the Elendor's house only to burglarize it. 390 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,480 But they were high on LSD and ended up murdering Pam 391 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,120 and Eric. 392 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,200 Using one of Eric's shotguns. 393 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:55,360 I was at a bar that night and I was drinking. 394 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,920 Huey Littleton felt that many of the crucial facts 395 00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,600 were still unknown. 396 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,760 He continued to interview witnesses, well over 100 in all. 397 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,880 And they mentioned something about a party, 398 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,280 a party that was just right up the road. 399 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,160 Huey was stunned when a girl named Nikki Alderson 400 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,160 told him that in the early morning hours, 401 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,200 just after the murders, the skaters 402 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,960 had hosted a party at the crime scene. 403 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,680 Jeez, they were doing a whole bunch of stuff. 404 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,720 When we got out of this house, I saw some people kind of 405 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:27,960 in a distance. 406 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,760 And when we walked up to him, I realized I knew some of them. 407 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,520 Nikki said one of the first people she saw at the party 408 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,440 was Chris Prudham. 409 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,120 Hey, what's up? 410 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:40,620 I'm Mike. 411 00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:41,880 Whose place is this? 412 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:42,520 I don't know. 413 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,040 I don't know right now. 414 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,240 They were all just standing around drinking and talking 415 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:52,760 and making different remarks about God and things like that. 416 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,800 And we went in. 417 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,200 There's people standing around. 418 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,440 There's people sitting down. 419 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,800 You can kind of feel from the vibes of people. 420 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,560 Something was kind of weird because everybody was in there, 421 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,560 like I said, in their own little world. 422 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,800 Let me see if I can get a lot. 423 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,400 Some were doing some drugs on the table. 424 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,320 Had enough drugs on there where I could see from a distance 425 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,840 of what they were snorting. 426 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,400 Hey, thanks. 427 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,160 That's what I want. 428 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,680 Nikki claims she had no idea at the time 429 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,800 that two dead bodies were in the house, 430 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,360 only the next day while watching television, 431 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,960 which she absorbed the full impact of the party. 432 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,680 I was watching the news and I saw this house. 433 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,440 I was like, oh my god, I was at that house. 434 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,720 And so I just kind of kept quiet and just watched. 435 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,920 And then when I saw the gentlemen that were on TV, 436 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,440 that were the suspects, then I knew 437 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:58,720 that was the guys that was there. 438 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,320 That was the people I'd seen. 439 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,120 And I just come to the realization that I was there. 440 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,520 I don't know. 441 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,760 We were asked by Mr. Littleton to re-look at the case 442 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,240 and we did and everything that he let us know about, 443 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:17,880 we checked into and found out it was not reliable information 444 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:23,120 or it didn't have factual information enough 445 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,320 to bring to the disc attorneys office. 446 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,160 Also, everything that we reviewed, the disc attorney 447 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,680 reviewed, and so has the attorney general of the state 448 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,320 Louisiana reviewed. 449 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,840 And it facts speak for itself. 450 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,840 The Sheriff's Department says they saw no evidence 451 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,480 that a party had been held in the house. 452 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,160 However, Huey Littleton found one other person 453 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,320 who confirmed Nikki Alderson's account. 454 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,840 This witness added sickening details, 455 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,360 claiming that the dead bodies of Pam and Eric 456 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:01,560 were molested sexually by more than one person. 457 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,640 Those claims are verified by this man, Chip Richard. 458 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,200 Chip told Huey that although he was not at the Elender House, 459 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,040 he had seen videotapes which were made that night. 460 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:20,280 I've seen one and I've talked to a couple of other people 461 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:20,960 that seen them. 462 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,640 To me, every one of them, the people I've talked to 463 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,200 to seen them, it's all the same. 464 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,880 They show on the video, what I saw on the video 465 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,440 was the people killing the Elenders, 466 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,840 having sexual contact with them. 467 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,080 You know, just basically everything that really goes on. 468 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:55,800 This is about as low as humanity can crawl or dig or furrow. 469 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,480 Where is their soul? 470 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:03,600 Where is their spirit? 471 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,640 Huey was now convinced that the truth behind the murder 472 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,680 of his daughter and son-in-law was far more sinister 473 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,200 than he ever imagined. 474 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,520 With Chris Prudham dead, 18-year-old Robert Atkins 475 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,280 emerges as a key figure in the case. 476 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,240 Atkins was one of the three young men 477 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:27,920 arrested with Prudham and Baton Rouge. 478 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,280 Bobby took me in the backyard. 479 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,520 He told me that he wanted to tell me what had happened 480 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,560 because he needed to get off of his chest. 481 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,840 While out on bail, Atkins allegedly 482 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,880 told Sean Moody that he was present when Chris Prudham 483 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,800 killed the Elenders. 484 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,280 When we get in, we just head to street. 485 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,920 He told me they were looking around for valuables, him 486 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,760 and Chris, and they had found a gun, a shotgun. 487 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,480 And when they entered the master bedroom, the wife woke up. 488 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,240 Chris shot the wife first, and then the husband had woken, 489 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:03,480 and Chris shot him. 490 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,600 But according to Chip Reeshar, Atkins 491 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,680 said that Chris Prudham had not murdered anyone. 492 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,120 Instead, he had volunteered to take the fall 493 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,160 for his fellow skaters. 494 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,040 Yeah. 495 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,440 Yeah, I was there. 496 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:19,440 What happened? 497 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,920 Well, Chris, he just told me that, you know, 498 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:28,000 Chris was taking the rat form because Chris was becoming 499 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,720 the leader in the cult. 500 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:34,080 And just basically everybody that was with him worshipped him 501 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,840 and would do anything for him. 502 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,640 And in return, he had to do for them 503 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:42,960 the same that they would do for him. 504 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,600 Kim came to me about one or two days after the murders. 505 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,640 And she told me that she was there. 506 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,640 Finally, Huey Littleton found a key witness, Pearl Fruget. 507 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:03,280 Yeah, she went into a lot of detail about everything, 508 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,840 about Pam and about Eric and about the baby. 509 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,440 Pearl claimed that her cousin Kim 510 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,080 Manuel was in the house when the murders took place. 511 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:17,120 She was definitely there. 512 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,280 Do you think we can get her to talk about it on tape? 513 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,600 I'm not sure, but Kim's my friend. 514 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,360 She's my cousin. 515 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,520 I mean, I don't want to do anything to her behind her back. 516 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:38,400 Chris, one other girl and another guy were in the house. 517 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,280 The next day, Pearl did record a conversation 518 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,200 with Kim's permission. 519 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,360 Kim described the murders in detail, 520 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:50,560 but never admitted on the tape to being in the house herself. 521 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,160 Chris bumped something and Eric woke up. 522 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:59,800 I guess he went to grab for the gun and Chris shot him. 523 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,400 Then Pam woke up and the other guy shot her. 524 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,080 Chris was going to kill the baby, too, 525 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,120 but the girl told him no. 526 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:14,400 She took the baby and brought it into Pam and Eric's room 527 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,720 and laid it down with him. 528 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:20,360 And then she went outside. 529 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:24,080 I've been getting threats about this, Pearl. 530 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,560 What am I supposed to do? 531 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,360 Pearl thought the best thing she could do 532 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,000 was present the tape before a grand jury. 533 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,400 And now, the actual tape. 534 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,400 Kim, what really happened that night? 535 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,960 You know, he's been calling me and threatening me. 536 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,160 I'm really scared. 537 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:54,760 This to us was a pinnacle point in the investigation. 538 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,640 After hearing a lot of testimony, 539 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,640 I mean from many witnesses. 540 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,080 The grand jury returned an indictment 541 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:10,640 of two counts of second degree murder against Kim manual. 542 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,560 They went into the baby's room and I guess they could. 543 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,960 Some believe the indictment was a legal maneuver 544 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,280 to pressure Kim manual into identifying 545 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,600 other possible suspects. 546 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,960 If so, the ploy failed. 547 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,160 Kim manual's court appointed public defender John Laverne 548 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,200 called a press conference. 549 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,560 He claimed the pearl fruget was lying, 550 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,120 that the tape had been scripted and rehearsed. 551 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:41,880 She and Kim then concocted this story 552 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,960 that they wanted to hear. 553 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,200 And then she produced the tape recorder openly 554 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,840 and showed it to Kim. 555 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,400 And they sat there with a scripted conversation 556 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,160 and recorded it and brought it back and gave it to these people, 557 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,040 that being what they wanted to hear. 558 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,480 Pearl Fruget stands by her story. 559 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,120 We never made up the tape. 560 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,520 I never lied. 561 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,480 What I told them was the truth. 562 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,040 And Kim knows is the truth. 563 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,320 I can't change what she told me. 564 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,200 And I'm not going to make up another story 565 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,440 just to make her look good. 566 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,040 One year later, the charges against Kim manual 567 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,280 were dropped without prejudice, which means 568 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,800 that she could be indicted again later on. 569 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,200 Huey Littleton was bitterly disappointed. 570 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,560 And today, he has apparently lost almost all credibility 571 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,520 with the authorities. 572 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,880 We felt sorry for him at first, but it's 573 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,800 got to a point that he's gone way beyond the bounds. 574 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,320 We got to deal with facts. 575 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,840 When you go before a judge and a jury, 576 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,920 he won't be able to bring all these accusations. 577 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,880 He'll have to deal with facts. 578 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,280 And I think any grand jury, any district attorney, 579 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,040 any attorney general will agree with that. 580 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,280 I'm at peace with what I'm doing, 581 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,560 because we're doing the right thing. 582 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:04,880 There's a lot of people out there that 583 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,240 don't have the resources and the knowledge 584 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:10,920 to do what I've done had they lost their child. 585 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,160 So I represent those people. 586 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:14,880 I represent my daughter. 587 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,920 I represent my son-in-law and their child. 588 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,880 We just want to see those that participated 589 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:27,800 in the murders of Eric and Pam and the cover-up 590 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:35,160 and the destruction of evidence brought to justice, justice 591 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,160 and under the law. 592 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,520 Next, a woman is reunited with her birth mother 593 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,640 after more than half a century apart. 594 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,640 Recently, we brought you the story of Meredith Atkinson, who 595 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,360 is looking for her birth mother, Rosemary Lutmer. 596 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:29,000 In 1938, Rosemary found herself pregnant and unmarried. 597 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,720 She sought refuge at the home of redeeming love, 598 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:34,680 a shelter for unwed mothers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 599 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:42,160 It was there that Meredith was born. 600 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,480 Meredith, I'd like for you to keep in mind that with the doctor. 601 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:49,520 53 years later, 1991, Meredith returned to her birthplace 602 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,840 to search for clues about her past. 603 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,280 And open up their file to the adult adoptee. 604 00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:00,960 I found out that my mother was of Irish and German descent. 605 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:09,040 I found out that she had one sister and four brothers. 606 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,640 They were field workers. 607 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:19,440 I would like to be able to look at her and tell her, 608 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,760 mother, I understand. 609 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,960 I know you had to do what was best for you. 610 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,440 And that I'd like to know you. 611 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:29,680 I'd like to get to know you. 612 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:34,720 As a direct result of our broadcast, 613 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:36,920 a private investigator named Glenda Allen 614 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,680 contacted Meredith and volunteered 615 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,720 to take on the search. 616 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:44,640 Just one month later, Meredith received the exciting news. 617 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:48,800 Her mother, 78-year-old Rosemary Lutmer, had been found. 618 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,480 Though she's been in failing health for several years, 619 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,320 Rosemary was anxious to see her long-lost daughter. 620 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,520 In September of 1994, Meredith and her two children 621 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,080 traveled from Arizona to Canute, Oklahoma 622 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,320 for the much-anticipated reunion. 623 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:08,920 Hi there, Walter. 624 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,720 Glad to know you, Walter. 625 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:14,360 Meredith's uncle, Walter, Rosemary's brother, 626 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,320 answered the door. 627 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,120 And I read this. 628 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,320 All right, this is Rose. 629 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:21,320 Hi, Rose. 630 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:25,320 You? 631 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,320 Yes. 632 00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:28,320 I'm Mary Ann. 633 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:29,320 Yeah. 634 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:30,320 Little Mary Ann. 635 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:31,320 Yeah. 636 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,320 I'm so tickled. 637 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:39,320 I think that finding my mother and seeing her and her family 638 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,320 has brought closure to my life. 639 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,320 I needed to be with my mother. 640 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:54,320 I needed this. 641 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,320 You were even a great-grandma. 642 00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,320 Do you know that? 643 00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:59,320 Sure. 644 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,320 Yes. 645 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:01,320 We have. 646 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:06,320 Yeah, I'm just tickled to death she's here. 647 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,320 Yeah, I just wish we was closer together. 648 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,320 We could visit a little more often, you know, 649 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,320 but I plan to go through there and visit her in Arizona 650 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,320 when I go see my brothers, you know, that way. 651 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,320 We kind of on our way up there. 652 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:24,320 Might be a little out of the way, but it'd be worth it. 653 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,320 It's like gaining a new family, and, you know, 654 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,320 it's like gaining new friends, too. 655 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,320 Well, Albert, I think you and I look alike, too. 656 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:39,320 I absolutely am going to be overjoyed to write to them 657 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:44,320 and talk to them and get to know them. 658 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,320 Do you care if I call you mother? 659 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,320 No. 660 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:49,320 No? 661 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:50,320 No? 662 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,320 Ha ha ha ha. 663 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:52,320 Ha ha ha ha. 664 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,320 Yeah. 665 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,320 Thanks for watching. 666 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,320 Join me next time for another fascinating edition 667 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,320 of Unsolved Mysteries.