1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,280 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,800 Near Albany, New York, an elderly couple 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,600 was brutally murdered in their own home. 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,320 Incredibly, police solved the case only after they 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,320 enlisted the help of a psychic named 9 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:27,880 Noreen Reneer. 10 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,600 Does Noreen have remarkable powers 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,000 that enable her to actually experience a crime 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,080 from the victim's point of view? 13 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,160 Tonight, she'll see this unique detective in action. 14 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,920 Imagine that you wake up one day in a park in New Orleans, 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,280 unable to remember your name, your age, or where you came from. 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,160 Well, how did it feel to not know who you are? 17 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,520 That's horrible. 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,960 You don't expect things like that to happen to you. 19 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,320 She goes by the name Gigi. 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,440 No one knows what made her forget, 21 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,640 but perhaps someone watching can help her remember. 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,520 Alfredo and Cecilia Newball seemed the perfect couple 23 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,160 with a perfect life. 24 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,520 Until the night Alfredo came home from work 25 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,880 and made the sobering discovery that his wife had vanished, 26 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,320 did she leave her husband for another man? 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,240 Or was she the victim of foul play? 28 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,320 Also tonight, the poignant drama of a man 29 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,480 who needs your help to uncover his late father's secret life. 30 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,640 Join me. 31 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,080 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery. 32 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,200 We are in a police evidence warehouse in Los Angeles. 33 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,760 An unorthodox murder investigation is in progress. 34 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,440 What you are watching is real. 35 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,760 It is not a recreation. 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,360 Relax, breathe. 37 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:32,160 Relax. 38 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,160 Relax. 39 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,160 Relax. 40 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,160 Relax. 41 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,160 Relax. 42 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,160 Relax. 43 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:38,160 Relax. 44 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,160 Relax. 45 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,160 Relax. 46 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:41,160 Relax. 47 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,160 Relax. 48 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,160 Relax. 49 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,160 Relax. 50 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:45,160 Relax. 51 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:46,160 Relax. 52 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,160 Relax. 53 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,160 Relax. 54 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,000 Breathe. 55 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,400 Take a breath. 56 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,920 He hurt me. 57 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:55,400 In the argument he hurt you? 58 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:56,300 Yeah. 59 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,560 Earlier. 60 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,400 Noreen Renear is a psychic from Orlando, Florida 61 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,640 who works with the police. 62 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,640 He hit me. 63 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:07,640 He hit his hand. 64 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:08,640 Yes, his fist. 65 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:10,000 Among the psychics we have profiled, 66 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,320 she is unique, a true unsolved mystery. 67 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,320 It's a ruby. 68 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,320 It's a ruby. 69 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,320 It's a ruby. 70 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,800 Noreen Renear claims that she actually 71 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,400 becomes one with the victims. 72 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,080 She feels their pain, speaks their words, 73 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,840 and sees the faces of their killers. 74 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,080 It can be a dawning, painful, and exhausting way 75 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,920 to make a living. 76 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,160 However, the rewards for everyone involved 77 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,560 are usually substantial. 78 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,200 To date, Noreen has worked with the police 79 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,320 in 32 different states and four foreign countries 80 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,800 on some 385 different crimes. 81 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,120 Perhaps Noreen's most stunning success 82 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,360 was a case involving the deaths of Jake and Dora Cohn, 83 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,800 an elderly couple from Colony, New York, a suburb of Albany. 84 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,800 Yeah, sure. 85 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,280 Yeah, everything's great here. 86 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,560 I'm glad to hear that. 87 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:03,840 You know what I did today. 88 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,880 At 9 50 PM on May 15, 1986, Dora 89 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,400 was on the phone with a couple's only daughter who 90 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,400 lived nearby. 91 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,360 Hey, listen, how about dinner Friday night? 92 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,800 Yeah, I've been making some new recipes. 93 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,680 In an instant, tragedy struck. 94 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,200 Yeah, anytime's fine. 95 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,000 How about Jake? 96 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:23,920 Mom? 97 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:24,920 Jake? 98 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,920 Dora screamed out her husband's name twice. 99 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,160 Their daughter immediately called 911. 100 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,960 Then she telephoned her son, James Mariani, 101 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,320 and rushed to meet him at her parents' house. 102 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:36,560 Jake. 103 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,240 Mom. 104 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,520 They're not telling me anything and they're not letting me in. 105 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:41,520 Mom. 106 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:42,640 Ma'am, ma'am, I'm sorry. 107 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:43,640 What's going on in there? 108 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:44,640 What's going on? 109 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:45,640 Ma'am, you're doing great. 110 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:46,640 My parents are in there. 111 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:47,640 Ma'am, something's wrong. 112 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:48,640 Ma'am, listen to me. 113 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,640 Listen to me. 114 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,320 I hate to tell you this, but they've been killed. 115 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:53,320 I'm sorry. 116 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:54,320 I'm very sorry. 117 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,760 The elderly female was lying on the floor with the phone 118 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,760 still in her hand. 119 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,960 It appeared that she had fallen over while on the telephone. 120 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,200 She was shot in the top of the head 121 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,280 on a right to left angle. 122 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:09,920 The male victim was on the floor in a hallway. 123 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,400 He appeared to be shot in the nose. 124 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,360 The only evidence that we found was the entrance way door 125 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,560 had been kicked in. 126 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,520 Part of the door stopper was laying on the kitchen floor 127 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:26,320 and there was two empty shells also laying on the floor. 128 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,080 When James Mariani knew at a glance that the shells were 129 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,320 25 caliber, he became a suspect in his grandparents' murder. 130 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:34,440 Are you the grandson? 131 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,240 The police asked him to take a lie detector test, 132 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,520 even though they knew he had been at his own home 133 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,400 when the murders occurred. 134 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,560 Did you shoot Jake and Dora? 135 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,280 No. 136 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,160 The test results were inconclusive 137 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,640 and the police remained suspicious. 138 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,920 James had a criminal record and friends with criminal records. 139 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,600 I was with just a couple of friends, Larry, Larry and JJ. 140 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,880 The police interviewed two men James had done jail time with, 141 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,520 Keith Snare and Robert Skinner. 142 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,440 Both had alibis. 143 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,040 No, this is my girlfriend. 144 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,280 What's her name? 145 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:12,240 Sandy. 146 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,360 The investigation eventually bogged down. 147 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,160 Two years went by. 148 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,280 Then Jake and Dora's daughter heard about Noreen Renear 149 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,440 and asked the police to contact her. 150 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,440 Noreen knew absolutely nothing about the case, except the names 151 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:28,800 and ages of the victims. 152 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,480 Noreen, I sent you some articles that 153 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,600 were present at the crime scene. 154 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,920 It was November of 1988. 155 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,440 Noreen worked long distance by speakerphone. 156 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,560 I'm going to start with the glasses. 157 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,160 I'm going to start with Dora. 158 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,680 I'm going to try to tune in and see what she saw 159 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:52,960 just before she was killed. 160 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,240 Well, Jake doesn't have to bone that night. 161 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,040 We'd love to come. 162 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,720 When she was Dora, she described how 163 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,360 she was on a telephone with a female. 164 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,840 She hears a crashing sound. 165 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:11,240 Wonderful recipe for your telephone. 166 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,000 Oh, Jake. 167 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,400 Jake. 168 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,880 Oh, he's shooting me. 169 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,040 I'm being shot. 170 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,360 Noreen called out Jake's name twice, 171 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,720 just as Dora had before she was shot. 172 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,400 As she's Jake, she describes how she gets up 173 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:36,880 to form the couch. 174 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:37,880 Jake? 175 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,800 It goes down a narrow hallway, and she's 176 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,600 confronted with someone with a gun. 177 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,640 I know you. 178 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,480 What the hell are you doing here? 179 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,280 Noreen remembers as she felt pain in the center of her face, 180 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,760 just where Jake had been shot. 181 00:07:58,760 --> 00:07:59,680 My face. 182 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,160 I'm shot in my face. 183 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:02,280 Yes. 184 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,880 She had given a pretty accurate description of both Jake 185 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:15,400 and Dora, and a fairly accurate description of the crime scene. 186 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,040 This made me take notice and feel 187 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,800 that she was credible in what she was doing. 188 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,360 I'm going to count from five to zero. 189 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,040 As I count, your eyes will become heavier. 190 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,520 The police were beginning to feel that Noreen might 191 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,000 be able to help them crack the case. 192 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,120 They asked her to work with a forensic hypnotist. 193 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,000 One and zero, now going back. 194 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,880 Back in time to May 15, 1986. 195 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,840 Dora, tell me about the intruder. 196 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,480 We knew him. 197 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,040 He was a younger man. 198 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:55,920 What are you doing? 199 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,440 He was brown hair. 200 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,040 And he came to our house for dinner. 201 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,520 He did some work for my husband. 202 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,120 I know you. 203 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,200 What are you doing here? 204 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,200 I'm not playing, old man. 205 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,000 Where's the money? 206 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:15,800 What do you want? 207 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:16,640 Where's the money? 208 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,000 What are you talking about? 209 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,280 Where is the money? 210 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,080 I want you to tell me his name. 211 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:32,440 Focus, Prouse will take a letter. 212 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:33,560 At times, do you see a letter? 213 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,600 S. 214 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,080 OK, do you see another letter? 215 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,400 Follow me to hypnosis session. 216 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,800 We presented Noreen with a series of 10 photographs. 217 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,560 We had put three of them in there 218 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:53,560 who we felt were the suspects at this time. 219 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,600 The last couple of years. 220 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,000 So I'd like to show you the. 221 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,080 I don't want to see them. 222 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,320 Why don't you just lay them face down 223 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,240 and let me pick up the energies from them? 224 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,720 OK. 225 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,760 Noreen took the photographs. 226 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,240 Matter of fact, her eyes were closed. 227 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,160 And just shuffled through the photographs, 228 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,160 held them for a while, held each one. 229 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:20,480 And then kept placing one, two, three photographs down. 230 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:26,120 I feel the strongest energy from these three photographs. 231 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,800 And this one in particular, he might have been the one 232 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,400 that killed Jake and Dora. 233 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,160 The man in the first photo had nothing at all to do with the case. 234 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,320 But the second photo was Robert Skinner, 235 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,960 the friend of Jake and Dora's grandson, James Mariani. 236 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,200 The third photo was Mariani himself. 237 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,160 It was not lost on the police that Robert Skinner's last name 238 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,480 began with S, the one letter Noreen had visualized. 239 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,360 Where were you? 240 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:55,480 This is my girlfriend. 241 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:56,400 What's her name? 242 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,680 Sandy. 243 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,080 Armed with Noreen's information, the police 244 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,600 checked Robert Skinner's alibi again. 245 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,720 It did not hold up. 246 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,320 Eventually, the DA proved that James Mariani had conspired 247 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,880 with Robert Skinner and Keith Snare to rob his grandparents. 248 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,760 All three men are now serving lengthy prison sentences. 249 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:21,960 Noreen Renear had proved vital in solving the case. 250 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,360 When the skeptics ask me, how does it work, 251 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,080 my answer usually is you've been using 252 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,120 your logical rational mind for many years. 253 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,240 Explain to me how it works. 254 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,240 How does your memory? 255 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,120 How do you learn math? 256 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,240 How does a brain work when you spell? 257 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,360 How does a brain work when you spell? 258 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,520 You don't know, and neither do I, 259 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,920 but you can use your mind, and so can I. 260 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,720 If she can help me, I would welcome anything she can give me. 261 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,400 Detective Jim T. Ample of the LAPD 262 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,720 is currently working with Noreen on the case of 42-year-old 263 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,960 Rosemary Hum, co-owner of a Chinese bakery 264 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,240 near downtown Los Angeles. 265 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,480 She was kidnapped and stabbed to death on November 5, 1994. 266 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,440 The last person to see Rosemary alive was one of her employees. 267 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,720 Just before 9 AM, he noticed her van approaching the bakery. 268 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,480 Rosemary slowed down and waved on her way 269 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,920 into the parking garage across the street. 270 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,240 The employee next observed that an Asian man got out 271 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,240 of a parked car and entered the garage 272 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,240 just after Rosemary drove in. 273 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:38,600 He waited for about a half hour. 274 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,160 She never showed. 275 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,200 He didn't hear anything. 276 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:43,960 There wasn't anything suspicious. 277 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,400 But after a half hour of waiting, he noticed the garage door 278 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,040 come up again. 279 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,520 And at this time, he saw Mrs. Hum's car coming out 280 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,480 of the garage, but it was the male Asian driving the car. 281 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,280 Mrs. Hum was nowhere in sight. 282 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,480 11 hours later, Rosemary Hum's van was found. 283 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,360 Rosemary was lying dead on the back seat. 284 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,960 Although Noreen Reneer usually works by phone, 285 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,760 for this case, unsolved mysteries 286 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,200 brought her to Los Angeles. 287 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,000 The Rosemary Hum's van parked behind her, 288 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,440 and Rosemary's watch in her hand. 289 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,960 Noreen seemed to become the victim. 290 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,560 Yeah, I'm Rosemary. 291 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:25,040 My eyes are just slightly close-set, 292 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,840 a little close-setness in the eyes. 293 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,640 There was something wrong with her. 294 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,080 A little close-setness in the eyes. 295 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,080 There was some oval-shaped face. 296 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,480 For the police to make sure that my credibility becomes strong, 297 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,400 I describe what the victim looked like. 298 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,920 Before we start the case, I don't know anything about it, 299 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,480 so they have no way of thinking I checked 300 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,040 on who this person was. 301 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:51,760 I describe the person, what he looked like, 302 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,320 or she looked like, alive. 303 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,680 And then I become killed. 304 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:57,080 Stay with it. 305 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,480 Stay with it. 306 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,240 Just a little longer, stay with it. 307 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,440 Remember, what you are seeing is not a recreation. 308 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,560 Why is he mad at you? 309 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:10,560 Why is he doing this to you, Rosemary? 310 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,520 He's jealous. 311 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:12,920 He's jealous. 312 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,400 He's just with the others. 313 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,400 Oh, I just. 314 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:17,400 What's your jealous of? 315 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:18,400 My neck. 316 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,400 My neck. 317 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,400 I can't. 318 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,400 I can't fall into the water and do this. 319 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,400 OK, OK. 320 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,400 I can't get you. 321 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,800 Oh, my neck. 322 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:28,800 Come back for me. 323 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,360 Rosemary suffered, you know, countless wounds. 324 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,560 The point is, is she focused in on the one wound that really 325 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,960 caused her death, and it was extremely painful to her. 326 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,600 That surprised me, because that hasn't been in any report. 327 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,520 It hasn't been in any news articles. 328 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,120 It hasn't been on any press releases. 329 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,000 It would have very few lines, but the lines 330 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,840 would be very significant. 331 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,320 She talked about tattoos, marks on the person 332 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,640 that we're looking at. 333 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,520 It's not going to just be very complicated. 334 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:03,600 The tattoo she described is indicative of a group, a gang, 335 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,960 I guess you might say, that we have 336 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,840 charted for several years. 337 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,480 My face is more broad. 338 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,840 I have a police artist that I work with, 339 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,840 and I see the bad guy, and he draws the bad guy. 340 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,960 If the victim saw the bad guy, I can see how the victim saw him. 341 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,480 If for some reason the victim got shot in the back, 342 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,600 or was asleep when they were killed, 343 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,520 I can go there and observe as Noreen what he's doing 344 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,440 and what's going on. 345 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,560 So I can be several the victim, the suspect, 346 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,600 and Noreen can pop in and out. 347 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,920 I found the most impressive thing about Noreen 348 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,560 was going into it, not knowing anything about the crime. 349 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,680 She was able to describe to me the crime scene, 350 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,000 describe to me where their body was found. 351 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,800 She identified a spot as a dump site. 352 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,480 No one knows about that except us. 353 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,360 So we're going to look at everything she says 354 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,560 with a great deal of credibility. 355 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,920 This is the full face composite that Noreen 356 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,080 visualized for the police artist. 357 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,440 This is a profile view composite based on the description 358 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,960 given by the employee who last saw Rosemary Ham alive. 359 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Next, a husband becomes a potential suspect when 360 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,680 his wife and stepson mysteriously disappear. 361 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,320 She was beautiful, a devoted mother. 362 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,280 By all accounts, madly in love with her husband. 363 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,320 And now she is missing. 364 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,680 Seven months ago, Cecilia Newball mysteriously vanished 365 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,480 along with her six-year-old son. 366 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,960 At the time, Cecilia was eight and a half months pregnant. 367 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,320 Today, her husband, Alfredo Newball, 368 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,040 lives under a cloud of suspicion. 369 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,840 He says he had no involvement in his wife's disappearance. 370 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,120 And in fact, he claims to have an airtight alibi. 371 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:35,400 But both the police and Cecilia's friends 372 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,120 think Alfredo knows more than he is admitting. 373 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,600 Alfredo Newball and Cecilia Amaya met in 1991 374 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,840 after a passionate two-year courtship they married. 375 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,920 At the ceremony, Cecilia's son from a previous marriage, 376 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,600 Rene Perez, was the ring bearer. 377 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,440 The couple settled in Chatsworth, California. 378 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,280 And almost immediately, Cecilia became pregnant. 379 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,840 By September 20, 1994, Cecilia's due date 380 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,200 was only two weeks away. 381 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,800 That afternoon, she sat down to write thank you notes 382 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,040 for a recent baby shower. 383 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,440 What was your uncle's short sugar friend name, babe? 384 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,880 At around 2 30 PM, Alfredo left for work. 385 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,000 As he reached the front door, Alfredo 386 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,280 says he was stopped short by a strange, undefined yearning. 387 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,200 Being pregnant, she looked so beautiful. 388 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,320 And I went back and kissed her again. 389 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,240 I love you. 390 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,040 I left her sitting inside the apartment 391 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,920 writing the thank you notes. 392 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,040 And that was the last time that I saw my wife. 393 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,200 Alfredo worked as a nurse's assistant in a hospital 394 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,520 and retirement home for members of the film industry. 395 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,960 Two and a half hours after his shift began, 396 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,000 Alfredo phoned Cecilia. 397 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,720 I just had some kind of very weird feeling 398 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,320 that something was wrong. 399 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,680 She never answered the phone. 400 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,840 And I don't know for some reason, 401 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,000 as I thought that she could be visiting with some friends 402 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,720 or being at my mom's. 403 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,880 Alfredo called several times throughout the evening, 404 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,480 finally fearing the worst. 405 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:29,520 He left work early. 406 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:33,800 Even as he approached the apartment, 407 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,760 Alfredo knew that something was not quite right. 408 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,040 Cecilia's jeep was parked on the street 409 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,960 instead of in the building security lock. 410 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,120 Cecilia. 411 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,240 Inside the apartment, Alfredo says nothing was out of place. 412 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,680 There were no signs of a struggle or break in 413 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,880 and no signs of Cecilia and Renee. 414 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:03,640 But in Cecilia's jeep, Alfredo found a sentimental generic 415 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,000 goodbye card. 416 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,880 It was signed simply, Cecilia. 417 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,600 A moment later, Alfredo's concern turned to bewilderment. 418 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,680 Cecilia's wedding and engagement rings 419 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,480 have been left on the passenger seat of the jeep. 420 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,200 To Alfredo, the conclusion was obvious. 421 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,160 His wife must have left him. 422 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,560 The relationship was always good. 423 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,560 We never had any problems, fights. 424 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,080 Why would she do something like this? 425 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,240 Not to leave me a note like that and to leave the wedding rings. 426 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,960 I just, it was very confusing to me. 427 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,160 Desperate for answers, Alfredo found the one 428 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,960 person he thought might know his wife's whereabouts, 429 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,320 her closest friend at work, Kevin Annabel. 430 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,440 It was this phone call who would help cast suspicion 431 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,320 on Alfredo Nubal. 432 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:57,120 Hello? 433 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,520 Kevin, this is Al. 434 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:00,400 Yeah. 435 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,200 What time is it? 436 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:02,600 I don't know. 437 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:03,960 It's about midnight. 438 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,600 Is Cecilia there? 439 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:06,400 What? 440 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,400 No, Cece's not here. 441 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,640 What's going on? 442 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,240 I don't know. 443 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,360 I mean, she's got to be there. 444 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:12,400 Put her on. 445 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,320 I came home, she's not here. 446 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,040 And I was like, you know, Al, she's not here. 447 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,440 And you're really starting to scare me. 448 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:20,800 What's going on? 449 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,720 And he was unusually calm. 450 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,120 Like, if it were me, I would have been screaming at the person 451 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:28,080 I thought where my wife was. 452 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:34,080 But he was, I was more nervous and excited than he was. 453 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,320 I felt like she needed to be away for a few days or something. 454 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:40,680 I don't know. 455 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,040 It was very strange. 456 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:47,400 But like, I believe that she was coming back soon. 457 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,920 It appeared that nothing was taken by Cecilia or her son, 458 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:52,480 Renee. 459 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,880 All these toys were left there. 460 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,200 Clothing was left there. 461 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,080 Not so much as a toothbrush. 462 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:57,360 Hello? 463 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:58,960 Is this Alfredo Nubal? 464 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,840 The day after Cecilia disappeared, 465 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,760 the police called Alfredo. 466 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,640 They had been contacted by one of Cecilia's relatives. 467 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,760 Can you tell me, Mr. Nubal, when was the last time 468 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,720 you saw her wife, Cecilia? 469 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,040 Yesterday afternoon. 470 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,000 I was getting ready to go to work. 471 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,840 Then I gave her a kiss and that was it. 472 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,880 Mr. Nubal didn't appear to be that concerned. 473 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,920 And here he has a eight and a half month pregnant wife, 474 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,320 a six-year-old stepson that, according to everyone, 475 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:36,240 including Mr. Nubal, they all got along fine. 476 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:41,360 Mr. Nubal just didn't appear to be the grieving husband 477 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:42,680 soon to be new father. 478 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,120 The suspicions mounted three days later 479 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,160 when Alfredo received a letter postmarked 480 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,160 in nearby Van Nuys, California. 481 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,320 Inside the envelope was a card identical to the one 482 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,720 found in the Jeep and a typewritten note. 483 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,560 Alfredo, I have gone to Honduras with a man I met nine months 484 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,320 ago by the name of Farturo. 485 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,640 He's a doctor. 486 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,440 I don't know if this baby is yours or his. 487 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,440 I love you with all my heart, but you will not 488 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,120 amount to anything. 489 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:17,680 And I want only the best for my baby. 490 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,320 Alfredo, you can't give us that. 491 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,160 Adios, Cecilia and René. 492 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760 My first impression after opening the letter 493 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,160 was that she had left. 494 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,240 But then after reviewing the letter several times, 495 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,240 some parts, it don't sound like Cecilia. 496 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:42,320 It doesn't strike me as a Cecilia at all. 497 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,160 Kevin Annabelle also found the letter out of character. 498 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,280 So he was. 499 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,360 I would say she was almost obsessed with Al. 500 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,560 And when you're that in love with a person, 501 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,280 you don't just meet a doctor and say, well, 502 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,840 I think I'm going to Honduras. 503 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,960 Let me just write my husband a note. 504 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,160 That doesn't happen. 505 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,520 I took a look at the letter, spoke to friends and family 506 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,920 of Cecilia later on. 507 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:11,760 And I am convinced that that letter is not from Cecilia. 508 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,760 Whoever typed this letter knew more about Alfredo's 509 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,280 side of the family rather than knowing very much about Cecilia's 510 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,640 side of the family. 511 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:30,000 My best guess on this is that Cecilia's disappearance 512 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,240 is not by her will. 513 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,360 I believe there's a third party involved in this. 514 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,240 Cecilia speaking. 515 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,040 Was there a third party? 516 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,080 And if so, was there a connection to Alfredo? 517 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,040 Six months before she disappeared, 518 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,840 Cecilia received a phone call from a still unidentified woman 519 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,560 who may have been that third party. 520 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,640 What? 521 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,080 She had gotten a call that a woman had a videotape of Al 522 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,160 kissing another woman at a baby shower 523 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,360 and that the woman wanted Cecilia to see the tape. 524 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,320 And Cecilia had agreed to see the tape. 525 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,680 OK, yes, I know what is that. 526 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,960 At eight o'clock? 527 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,040 The woman said she would phone again to arrange a meeting. 528 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,800 That call never came. 529 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,520 And the matter was apparently forgotten. 530 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,960 Then just a few weeks before Cecilia disappeared, 531 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,240 a second mysterious call. 532 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,760 This one from a woman who claimed 533 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,640 to be a co-worker of Alfredo's. 534 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,760 A woman had called and said that she was giving Al, 535 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,560 they were going to give Al a baby shower at work 536 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,360 and that she had some baby furniture 537 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:55,320 and she wanted Cecilia to pick out a piece of that furniture 538 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,040 but to keep it a secret because the shower was 539 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,280 going to be a surprise. 540 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,640 On the 20th? 541 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,520 Yeah, that's fine. 542 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,120 Police later determined that the call had not been made 543 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:09,880 by Alfredo's co-worker and that no shower had been planned. 544 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,520 But by then, it was too late. 545 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:12,440 Thank you very much. 546 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,640 Bye. 547 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,000 She disappeared on Tuesday the day 548 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,920 she was supposed to get together with this lady 549 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,200 to pick out a piece of furniture for that baby shower. 550 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,560 It too much of a coincidence for her 551 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,680 to disappear on the same day. 552 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,320 It appears that someone is trying 553 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,360 to lure her away from safety, away from her family, 554 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,640 away from her friends, trying to get her alone. 555 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,360 If she's somewhere, she doesn't want to come back to me. 556 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,480 But I just want to know what happened to them 557 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,360 and that's what I really need the public's help finding 558 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:57,880 something about this case. 559 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,640 It's my opinion that Mr. Newball is not 560 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,600 telling me everything that he knows. 561 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,640 As far as Cecilia's disappearance, 562 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:15,800 he may not have been there when she disappeared. 563 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,840 But it's my opinion that he knows something now. 564 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,640 What happened to Cecilia Newball and her son Rene Perez? 565 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,040 Were they abducted and perhaps murdered? 566 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,640 Or did Cecilia run away to be with another man? 567 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,440 If Cecilia is alive, as Alfredo believes, 568 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,520 she is now the mother of her seven-month-old child. 569 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,480 And Alfredo is concerned both for her and the baby. 570 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,160 I want to tell Cecilia if she happens to be this, 571 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,680 please get in touch. 572 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,560 If she doesn't want to ride me or talk to me on the phone 573 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,720 to at least call her dad. 574 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,320 He's not well and I just want to tell her 575 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,680 that there's a lot of people suffering right now. 576 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,680 And still, because of this. 577 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:29,920 In a moment, the strange case of a young woman suffering 578 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,280 from amnesia. 579 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,840 Perhaps someone watching knows her true identity. 580 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:51,280 Imagine suddenly finding yourself in a strange and alien place. 581 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,400 You scan your surroundings for clues. 582 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,440 Even your own possessions are unrecognizable. 583 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,240 Finally, the terrifying realization. 584 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,200 You don't know where you are. 585 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,880 You don't know who you are. 586 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,120 You're suffering from amnesia. 587 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:11,920 It's horrible. 588 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,760 And it's so sudden, like you're not prepared for it. 589 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,560 You don't expect things like that to happen to you. 590 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,440 I didn't know what to do. 591 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,120 I know how to go get help somewhere. 592 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,680 The mystery woman of Audubon Park 593 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,120 had the vague notion that her name might be Gigi. 594 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,320 Other than that, she knew nothing of her past. 595 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,920 Tonight, she is still asking herself 596 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,240 the one fundamental question we all take for granted. 597 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,960 Who am I? 598 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,920 To help Gigi find the answer, we turn out a reporter 599 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:50,040 Susan Rosgen, the NBC affiliate WDSU TV New Orleans. 600 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,480 I met with Gigi in Audubon Park, where her peculiar odyssey began 601 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,280 six months ago. 602 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,840 Gigi struck me as articulate and well-educated. 603 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,600 What's it like to not have any past? 604 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,840 What is it like to be a person living without a past 605 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,840 and not knowing how you got here? 606 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,280 It's strange. 607 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,200 I feel like I would blank on my head on nothing 608 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,800 to base anything on. 609 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:27,800 So I have to just go day by day what I realize day by day. 610 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,360 Gigi, these are the things that you had when you woke up here 611 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,240 at Audubon Park. 612 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,520 Did you recognize them right away as your things? 613 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,520 No, I just assumed they were mine because they were with me. 614 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,080 There wasn't anyone else close to me, 615 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,520 so I just assumed they were mine. 616 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,960 I couldn't help puzzling over the odd assortment 617 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:50,080 of belongings that sum up Gigi's life. 618 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,760 Layed out for display, they painted a disjointed picture, 619 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,800 four pairs of scissors, a gold-plated table setting, 620 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,640 UPS notices that only company personnel should have, 621 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,080 and deposit envelopes specific to banks 622 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,120 in the Northeastern United States. 623 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,440 And finally, there was the makeup. 624 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,720 Gigi was carrying no less than 26 tubes of lipstick, 625 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:18,320 24 lip liner pencils, and dozens of other cosmetics. 626 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,680 Presumably, some of these things are clues 627 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:26,280 to Gigi's real identity, but so far, they haven't helped a bit. 628 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,400 To date, police have reviewed hundreds 629 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,280 of missing persons files. 630 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,960 Doctors have probed and tested. 631 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,080 Even Sodium Amatol, a so-called truth serum, 632 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,320 couldn't pierce the fog of Gigi's amnesia. 633 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,240 Now, a hospital official named Doyle McGee 634 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,120 has voluntarily assumed the job of uncovering Gigi's past. 635 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,680 Which is totally confusing. 636 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,920 Do you believe that Gigi sincerely 637 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,400 does not remember her past? 638 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,360 I do. 639 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:58,440 She has made a conscious effort to assist me 640 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,080 on every phase of trying to find out 641 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,000 who she is through the law enforcement agencies, 642 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,680 through the media. 643 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:10,880 If she was, in fact, trying to conceal her identity, 644 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,080 she would not have signed the releases that 645 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,600 allow us to do this. 646 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,800 Doyle McGee is especially mystified 647 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,400 by the total absence of anything personal in Gigi's wallet 648 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,640 or handbag. 649 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,000 He fears that this omission is no accident. 650 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,800 Somebody has gone to great pains to make sure 651 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,760 that we don't know who she is. 652 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,040 The wallets are fairly new. 653 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,320 They had absolutely nothing personal in them. 654 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:40,360 No personal photos, no credit cards, no checks. 655 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,800 Perse had no receipts. 656 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,840 And I don't know of any lady who 657 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,760 doesn't accidentally drop a receipt or something in her purse. 658 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,840 What could have triggered Gigi's amnesia? 659 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,720 Experts believe she may have seen or experienced 660 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,560 something so horrible that in defense, 661 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,920 her memory simply shut down. 662 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:09,240 If someone watching helps you find out who you were, 663 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,040 are you a little afraid to find out who you were? 664 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,400 I want to know, even then. 665 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,520 Because it's been so long that I'm not knowing that. 666 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:22,840 It doesn't match me with a scooter bag. 667 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,040 I just want to know. 668 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:31,560 What do the terms past, present, and future mean to you now? 669 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,120 Well, the past is, to me, is the past unknown. 670 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,440 The present is just day-to-day life here. 671 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:42,640 And the future is very uncertain for me now, at this point. 672 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,080 Gigi has been trapped in the limbo of amnesia 673 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,760 since February 1995. 674 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,360 With luck, she will soon discover her true identity. 675 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,320 Otherwise, she has no choice but to close the door on her past, 676 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,720 assemble a new legal identity, and begin her life 677 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,760 again from scratch. 678 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,080 Next, a man needs your help to find the truth about his father's 679 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,280 mysterious past. 680 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,000 It is a sorrowful event that we must all face someday, 681 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,080 the death of a parent. 682 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,440 For an 11-year-old boy named Bob Coleman, 683 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,360 it was a time to reflect on everything 684 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,640 he had ever known about his father, 685 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,480 or at least everything his father had wanted him to know. 686 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,840 By all accounts, Richard Coleman was an ordinary man 687 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,760 who lived a fairly uneventful life. 688 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,440 Richard worked as a vending machine 689 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,920 mechanic in Washington, DC. 690 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,120 He had served in the military and married in 1947. 691 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,240 Bob was born two years later. 692 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,440 And today, Bob's strongest memory of childhood 693 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,720 is a love of baseball he shared with his father. 694 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,120 He had a passion to play ball, and we'd 695 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,760 go out to the yard, the side yard, and the front yard, 696 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,320 and he pitched the ball to me, and I'd hit it. 697 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,000 And it was something that I enjoyed all the lot. 698 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,480 And I loved being outside with him and playing ball 699 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,280 whenever we could. 700 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:48,760 Richard Coleman passed away in 1961. 701 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,560 A short time later, Bob received the first hint 702 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,000 that his father had been a man with many deeply held secrets. 703 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,440 Curiosity drew Bob to an old trunk 704 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,000 at the foot of his parents' bed. 705 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,240 Inside was a tantalizing collection 706 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:07,960 of his father's military mementos. 707 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:12,880 What are you doing, Bobby? 708 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,360 Just looking at dad's old stuff. 709 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,360 Was dad in the army? 710 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,480 Yes, he was, but your dad didn't really 711 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,480 like to talk about it, honey. 712 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,200 He did something in the army that he wasn't proud of. 713 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,560 Why don't you just close it up? 714 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,400 I remember many, many times asking my mom about my dad 715 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,520 and specifically honing in on the items in the foot locker. 716 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,120 And she didn't have too many explanations other than that 717 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,320 she believed that my dad had done something he wasn't 718 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:47,440 real proud of and that his words were it's over and done with. 719 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,720 14 years passed. 720 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:57,960 Finally in 1975, Bob's own experiences in the military 721 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,560 drew him back to the forbidden contents of the trunk. 722 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,280 Bob was flooded with emotion as he once again 723 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,600 held the uniform, which had so fascinated him as a child. 724 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,240 It had the silver bars of a first lieutenant still on it. 725 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:17,520 It had the insignia, interestingly enough, 726 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,160 of medical corps, a plain caduceus, 727 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,000 which would indicate that the person who wore that uniform 728 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,160 was a medical doctor in the army. 729 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,920 Was it possible that Richard Coleman, 730 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,280 vending machine mechanic, had been a doctor in the army? 731 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,920 For Bob, the very possibility triggered 732 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,480 a vivid childhood memory. 733 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,640 Ow! 734 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:45,640 Oh! 735 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:46,640 Oh my god! 736 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:47,640 I'm bleeding! 737 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:48,640 Richard! 738 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:49,640 Richard! 739 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,800 My mom had cut her hand up very, very badly 740 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,000 and there was a lot of blood she was bleeding profusely. 741 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,440 Mommy Sharon, come in here please. 742 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,200 And I remember my dad taking control of the situation, 743 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,960 sizing up the emergency. 744 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,320 He applied the pressure to the cut 745 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,160 and actually knew about pressure points 746 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,840 and did something that I don't remember because I was small, 747 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,040 but he did something that he actually 748 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,560 was able to stop the bleeding pretty quickly. 749 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,560 And he took control of the situation in a way 750 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,440 that would lead me to believe that he knew more 751 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:25,320 about the medical field than somebody who was not trained. 752 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,720 I had a boy. 753 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:28,520 See, everything is fine. 754 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,640 Why would Richard Coleman abandon medicine 755 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,720 to become a vending machine mechanic? 756 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:35,720 Bob could no longer ignore the fact 757 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,440 that his father was not the man he thought he knew. 758 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,160 The trunk yielded other perplexing clues. 759 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,840 Though the uniform was from the Second World War, 760 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,080 Bob discovered several prestigious medals 761 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:55,560 from the First World War, almost 30 years earlier. 762 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,200 The awards included a Legion of Honor ribbon 763 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:03,480 and a Croix de Guerre, the French Cross of War. 764 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,040 Another item from the First World War 765 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,280 raised still more questions. 766 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,040 It was a World War I certificate. 767 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,200 And as I looked at it, I remember 768 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,880 noticing that items had been written over. 769 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,400 Someone had gone back after it was issued 770 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,240 and put my father's name, Richard Coleman, 771 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:26,600 in a service number. 772 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,840 And other information were written 773 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,680 over the original inscriptions. 774 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,480 The same envelope which contained the certificate 775 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,040 held a piece of paper which appeared to be a crib sheet. 776 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,000 On it, Richard Coleman had practiced 777 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,880 writing the same words and numbers that had been forged 778 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,240 on the certificate. 779 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:48,920 Bob checked with the Veterans Administration. 780 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,880 He wasn't really surprised to learn 781 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,480 that the discharge certificate had belonged to another man. 782 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,280 But a second discovery left Bob truly stunned. 783 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,640 There was no record of a Richard Coleman ever 784 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,040 having served in the Army Medical Corps, 785 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,360 either in the First or Second World War. 786 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,200 That's his room right there. 787 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,880 The sudden developments once again thrust Bob back 788 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,200 to his childhood and the final days of his father's life. 789 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,360 Hi, Sharon. 790 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:21,280 Hi, honey. 791 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:21,680 Hi. 792 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,600 Glad to see you. 793 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:23,920 How are you feeling today? 794 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,120 I feel a little better. 795 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,240 Good. 796 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,360 Has anybody came to visit you? 797 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,240 No, you're the first one. 798 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:34,960 What about your brothers and sisters and your family? 799 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,360 We're daddy's family, honey. 800 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:37,800 Yes, you are. 801 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:42,120 I remember asking several times, well, my dad's sick. 802 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,000 He's probably going to pass away. 803 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,080 Where's his family? 804 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:50,640 And why hasn't anyone appeared to see how he is or to visit him? 805 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:51,760 What a beautiful dress you have. 806 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,840 And my mom really wouldn't answer it. 807 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,240 She didn't have an answer, I guess. 808 00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:01,200 And I never got any satisfactory explanation for that. 809 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:09,960 Who was Richard Coleman and just what secrets was he hiding? 810 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,680 The trunk held one other important clue, 811 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,840 a roster supplement from a New York City gun club. 812 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,840 It listed Richard as a member in 1944 813 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,600 and gave his occupation special patrolman. 814 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,880 From tax records, Bob learned that his father had been employed 815 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:34,400 as a security guard at a bank in Manhattan from 1943 to 1945. 816 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,640 However, the bank had no employment records 817 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:37,920 for a Richard Coleman. 818 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,760 When Bob researched his father's address from 1944, 819 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,000 he had another startling detail surfaced. 820 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,680 My father may have lived with an Alice Coleman, 821 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,480 and I don't know what her maiden name was. 822 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,280 But voting records indicate that they were married 823 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,080 and that she was a housewife and that she lived with Richard 824 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:01,840 Coleman. 825 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,960 I've never been able to confirm their marriage 826 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,360 because there's no record that I can find. 827 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,640 And indeed, I don't know where Alice Coleman went to 828 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:16,320 because after 1967, she does not appear in the Manhattan 829 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:16,880 phone books. 830 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,560 Was there something in Richard Coleman's past 831 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,960 that made him change his identity? 832 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,520 Why did he keep his apparent marriage to Alice Coleman's 833 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,560 secret? 834 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,680 And why, despite a trunk filled with mementos, 835 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,040 did the military have no record of his serving in either world 836 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,120 war? 837 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,640 Bob's mother passed away in 1983 without giving him 838 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:43,480 any clues. 839 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,360 Today, Bob Coleman is determined to find the answers, 840 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,640 whatever they may be. 841 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,880 I'm not trying to judge my father. 842 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,480 I'm trying to learn about him. 843 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,200 And I'm perfectly aware that there may be something 844 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:06,960 that he did 50, 60 years ago that was pretty bad, perhaps. 845 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,760 And it would have prompted him to change his identity 846 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,600 and to obscure his past. 847 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,560 But it's also something that's very important to me 848 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,120 because it's my father. 849 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,560 And it may be the only way that I ultimately 850 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,720 end up really knowing who he was and what he did. 851 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:23,480 And I'm very passionate and very committed to doing that. 852 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,520 Faith work hand in hand with modern medicine. 853 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,280 On our next Unsolved Mysteries, we'll 854 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,120 bring you the inspirational stories of a woman and a young boy 855 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,360 who battle serious illnesses and fully recovered. 856 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:10,960 Some believe that the power of prayer helps save their lives. 857 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,200 Join me next time for another intriguing edition 858 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,400 of Unsolved Mysteries.