1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,720 The Exciting Season Premiere of Unsolved Mysteries. 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:18,000 Brandon Lee, handsome, charismatic, destined to be a star, 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,800 then something what horribly wronged 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,360 on a movie set in North Carolina. 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,040 Did Brandon Lee fall victim to an ancient curse 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,000 that some believe also killed his father Bruce Lee 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,560 20 years earlier? 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,680 Christy Carlson was a frightened and confused 16-year-old 9 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,160 when she gave her baby up for adoption. 10 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,960 More than two decades later, she and the child's father 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:44,600 are together again and searching for their long lost daughter. 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,480 Have you ever had a dream that just had to be real? 13 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:49,960 Tonight you'll meet a man whose nightmare of capture 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,920 and imprisonment during the Gulf War 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,680 was an astonishing psychic vision that came true. 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,920 In Northern California, a fugitive on the loose, 17 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:05,360 a standoff, a massive search, have you seen Tony Castro? 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,920 Join me for our dramatic season premiere. 19 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,680 Perhaps you hold the key. 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,240 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery. 21 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,920 Bruce and Brandon Lee, a father and son linked by legend. 22 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,400 Each was a rising star in the action-packed world 23 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,440 of martial arts films. 24 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,240 Some say Bruce and Brandon are also bound for eternity 25 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,240 by an ancient Chinese myth. 26 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,160 A few have called it a lethal family curse. 27 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,960 Supposedly, the first victim was Bruce Lee's older brother, 28 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,280 who died as an infant. 29 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,680 He was a very young man. 30 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,680 He was born in the 19th century. 31 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,680 He was born in the 19th century. 32 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,680 He was born in the 19th century. 33 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,280 This victim was Bruce Lee's older brother, who died as an infant. 34 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,800 Later when Bruce and his son Brandon met unexpected deaths, 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,760 many again devine the unstoppable hand of fate. 36 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,560 Be formless, shapeless, like water. 37 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,680 I mean, you've got to put the whole hip into it. 38 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,800 And snap it. 39 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:49,440 I don't want to. 40 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,640 Ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. 41 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,520 With his explosive power and fluid grace, 42 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,440 Bruce Lee was a one-of-a-kind movie hero. 43 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,840 Almost single-handedly, he created an audience 44 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,560 for martial arts films. 45 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,920 In the summer of 1973, Lee was 32 years old 46 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:16,200 on the brink of international stardom. 47 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,560 Then on July 20th, he took a prescription drug for a headache 48 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,600 and laid down for a nap. 49 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,760 Bruce Lee never got up. 50 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,120 I was at the hospital when they brought Bruce in. 51 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,240 It was just incredible. 52 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,880 I couldn't understand what was going on. 53 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,040 I kept thinking, he's going to snap out of this. 54 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,200 But I didn't know that he was already gone. 55 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,000 And they were trying heroic measures 56 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,360 to bring him back and all that. 57 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,440 The unthinkable had happened. 58 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:49,720 Bruce Lee was dead. 59 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,800 His funeral drew more than 25,000 mourners. 60 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,120 After an unprecedented nine-day inquest, 61 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,600 the coroner announced his findings. 62 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,480 Bruce Lee had died from a freak allergic reaction 63 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,480 to a pain remedy. 64 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,560 Here we have this paragon of fitness. 65 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:12,960 One of the most lethal human beings 66 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,200 with his hands or his feet taken out, 67 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,880 essentially by a headache tablet. 68 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,360 But it happens, and it only seems all the more unbelievable 69 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,240 when it happens to someone who is larger than life. 70 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,640 Fevered allegations sprang up overnight. 71 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,080 Lee had been murdered by a rival studio, 72 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:37,320 the disgruntled business partner, the Japanese mafia. 73 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,040 Others blame Bruce Lee's death on the family curse 74 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:44,560 and the mysterious forces of fengshi. 75 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,080 Among other things, this ancient Chinese belief, 76 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,520 mandais at a home be built in perfect harmony 77 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,680 with its environment. 78 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,360 Bruce Lee's house in Hong Kong was 79 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,760 said to be spiritually misaligned, 80 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,200 a virtual guarantee of ruinous bad luck. 81 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,080 The Chinese believe that unless this 82 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,480 is addressed through either a fengshi expert who comes in 83 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,360 to help you in some way deflect whatever evil omens there are, 84 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,280 or if you just tear down the building 85 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:16,920 and re-erect it properly, then you're OK. 86 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:18,840 Apparently, the previous owner of the house 87 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:22,140 had consulted a fengshi expert who placed a small mirror 88 00:05:22,140 --> 00:05:25,000 on the house to deflect the evil spirits. 89 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,200 It remained there until July 19, 1973, 90 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,320 when it was ripped away during a typhoon. 91 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,000 Bruce Lee died the next day. 92 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,160 Was it coincidence or a family curse, 93 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,120 one that could reach across the generations? 94 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,040 At the time, Bruce's son Brandon was just eight years old. 95 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,800 Already, he was following in his father's footsteps. 96 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,680 I started training with my dad really 97 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:51,880 as soon as I could walk. 98 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,120 I mean, my dad was a really diligent trainer, 99 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,760 and he always had people over at the house practicing. 100 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,520 In fact, I remember when I was a little kid, 101 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,720 a lot of my friends didn't want to come over to the house, 102 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,080 because there were always these men out in the backyard 103 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,760 screaming and breaking things, you know? 104 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,120 Like father, like son. 105 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,720 Brandon followed Bruce's path to the big screen 106 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,320 as a star of martial arts films. 107 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,360 Brandon was 28 years old when he was fatally shot 108 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,320 on the set of his fifth feature, The Crow, 109 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:29,240 an untimely death, one dogged by controversy, 110 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,040 like father, like son. 111 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,480 It was awful. 112 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,120 I mean, I didn't think no one ever thinks 113 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,480 that their child is going to pre-disease them, especially 114 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,920 one who is so vibrant and had so much life 115 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,760 and so much future and so much promise, 116 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,360 and everything was coming together for him, 117 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,840 and for one who had already suffered tragedies in his life 118 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:58,640 and then this. 119 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,720 Brandon leaves sudden death, renewed speculation 120 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,880 about a family curse. 121 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:08,720 But can this tragedy really be attributed 122 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,200 to supernatural forces? 123 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,560 Tonight in an exclusive television interview, 124 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,360 detectives in charge of the case set the record straight. 125 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,800 Nearly 50 eyewitnesses, more than a dozen ballistics tests. 126 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,240 This is the story pieced together by detectives Rodney Simmons 127 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,720 and Brian Parris of the Wilmington, North Carolina 128 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,440 Police Department. 129 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,880 The strange six-week journey of the bullet 130 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,160 destined to kill Brandon Lee. 131 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,680 After about five to six months, we 132 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,200 knew pretty much where the gun had gone, 133 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,640 where the bullets had gone, who had handled the bullets, 134 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,440 who had handled the guns, and at what level 135 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,480 responsibility everybody was. 136 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,480 They were filming a pawn shop scene, 137 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,360 and they needed items from our actual pawn shop. 138 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,120 So they went to one of the local pawn shops in Wilmington. 139 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,520 You can take any of the guitars you want, 140 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,320 except for the two red ones and the blue. 141 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,400 OK, what about accessories? 142 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,600 Oh, sure, no problem. 143 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,520 All right, cool. 144 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:10,800 Hey, listen, we know what that looks like. 145 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,360 We'll just go over the guitars, OK? 146 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,880 The stagehand gathered hundreds of props. 147 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,840 Among them was a box of live 44 magnum bullets. 148 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:24,040 The first link in the fatal chain of events was now in place. 149 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,600 They dressed the set up with all the items that they received. 150 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,600 They had placed the 44 rounds on a counter 151 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,560 that was used in the scene. 152 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:33,880 Where'd these come from? 153 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,080 I think those were the pawn shop earlier. 154 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,920 These are live. 155 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,000 Hey, listen up. 156 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,680 Stunt coordinator said when he found the live ammunition 157 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:44,520 on set, he was livid. 158 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,160 The bottom line rule is that you don't have 159 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,360 a live ammunition on the set. 160 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,200 The stunt coordinator locked the bullets 161 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,800 in the trunk of his car, where they would 162 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,040 remain for another two weeks. 163 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,280 Understanding the tragic events to come 164 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,800 requires some knowledge of bullets and blanks. 165 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,520 The business end of a bullet is a lead tip. 166 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,800 It sits snugly in the casing, packed inside 167 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,800 as a load of gunpowder. 168 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,720 This small disc is an explosive charge known as a primer. 169 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,360 Once the trigger is pulled, hammer hits primer. 170 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,960 Primer detonates, igniting powder. 171 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,880 The explosive force of burning powder 172 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:32,000 shoots lead tip towards target, simple, deadly. 173 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,680 A blank is a bullet with a harmless disc of cardboard 174 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:36,560 instead of a lead tip. 175 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,200 The gunpowder load can be varied to affect the amount 176 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,440 of flash visible when the blank is fired. 177 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,600 On the set of the crow, preparations 178 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,120 are underway for a scene that required quarter load blanks. 179 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,000 However, none were purchased. 180 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,640 To save time, the live shells were brought out 181 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,360 to be modified into blanks. 182 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,680 They removed the lead tip with a pair of pliers, 183 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:05,840 shook out the powder that was inside of it, 184 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,040 that left the cartridge in the primer. 185 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:10,960 The primer in itself, they decided 186 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:16,160 it was the equivalent of a quarter load manufactured blank. 187 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,880 The end result was a handful of empty casings, 188 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,760 each with a live primer. 189 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,840 And while they were making the quarter load blanks, 190 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,760 they realized they needed some dummy bullets also. 191 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,200 A dummy round is basically a bullet with no powder, 192 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,960 no primer, just a casing and a lead tip. 193 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:38,200 No way it could be fired. 194 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,400 That's a dummy round. 195 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,320 So what they did, they fired off some of the primers 196 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:48,400 from the blanks that they made and took those casings 197 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:53,560 and put the lead tips back in the casings. 198 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:57,160 But what they didn't do was check the primers 199 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,040 to see if they'd all been fired when they made the dummy 200 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,080 rounds. 201 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,720 So they got some mixed up. 202 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,760 So they made at least one dummy round that 203 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,040 had a primer still intact. 204 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:16,080 They needed a scene looking down the barrel of the gun. 205 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,640 The people that were doing to do this shot 206 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,520 was part of the second unit filming crew. 207 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,960 And they would pull the trigger, rotating one cylinder 208 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,240 at a time around, simulating someone firing a weapon. 209 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,920 Police say that at least two people on the set 210 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:38,920 heard a popping noise. 211 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,600 No one realized it had been the sound of a primer firing. 212 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:47,120 No one realized that the primer had exploded 213 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,440 with just enough force to dislodge the lead tip 214 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,640 from the bullet casing and wedge it into the gun barrel. 215 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,760 There it would remain undetected for another 14 days, 216 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,360 awaiting its fateful meeting with Brandon Lee. 217 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,800 About two weeks after the second unit filmed the gun, 218 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,280 the scene came up. 219 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,920 It was a death scene for Brandon's character. 220 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,040 And for this scene, the director 221 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,680 chose to use a full load blank. 222 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:22,920 They called for the 44 magnum, loaded it 223 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,600 with the full charge blanks. 224 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,680 At this time, the lead tip is still lodged inside the barrel. 225 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,320 He gives the gun to the actor. 226 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,560 OK, stand by. 227 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,360 And action. 228 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Oh! 229 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Oh! 230 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Oh! 231 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,360 That bullet being lodged in the barrel and that full load 232 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:05,240 blank, that was the equivalent of a live 44 round. 233 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,560 And it was projected out of the gun and into Brandon Lee. 234 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:15,720 North Carolina officials concluded 235 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,080 that the film company's biggest failures were not 236 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,200 having a gun expert on the set and taking shortcuts 237 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,360 to save time and money. 238 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:24,880 However, the chain of negligence 239 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,080 involved so many people that convicting any one of them 240 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:29,640 was unlikely. 241 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,200 No criminal charges were filed. 242 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,760 In the end, it seems that Brandon Lee was truly 243 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,080 a victim of circumstance. 244 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,400 Or was he, as some claim, the final casualty 245 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:41,560 of the family curse? 246 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,960 I think the family of Bruce Lee has been blessed, not cursed. 247 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,000 And we who are still here, myself and my daughter Shannon, 248 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,080 felt very fortunate that we were part of this family 249 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:02,080 and knew Bruce and Brandon intimately. 250 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,600 I think that Brandon and I think that Bruce 251 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,840 were two people who did try their best most of the time, 252 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,800 who wanted to produce quality work in their lives 253 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,600 and who did. 254 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,360 They were extraordinary young people. 255 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,440 Next, the mysterious case of a missing anchor woman. 256 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,280 What happened to Jody Hoosentrut? 257 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:48,520 Mason City, Iowa is a quintessential small town. 258 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,920 In fact, it was a model for the town immortalized 259 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,640 in the legendary Broadway show The Music Man. 260 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,640 But since June of 1995, this homespun hamlet has been in mourning. 261 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,080 Yellow ribbons everywhere symbolize the hope 262 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,640 that one of Mason City's most popular residents 263 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,520 will someday come home. 264 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,120 I'm John Shine from KIMT Television Mason City, Iowa. 265 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,360 We need your help. 266 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,280 One of our news anchors is missing. 267 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,280 Her name is Jody Hoosentrut. 268 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,280 Jody is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, and weighs 120 pounds. 269 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,360 She has blonde hair and was last heard from around 4 270 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,840 AM Tuesday, June the 27th. 271 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,880 In case you're counting, today marks the sixth consecutive day 272 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,680 of hitting 90 degrees or better. 273 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,320 Jody Hoosentrut moved to Mason City in late 1993 274 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,600 and quickly became an active member of the community. 275 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,400 As the anchor of a morning news show, 276 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,520 Jody was a local favorite, a woman with many friends 277 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:45,760 and no known enemies. 278 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,560 The day Jody vanished, she was scheduled 279 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,120 to work her regular shift on the morning show. 280 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,960 When she didn't arrive on time, producer Amy Coons 281 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,480 called her apartment. 282 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:00,880 Everything sounded normal, just like I 283 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,680 had just woken her up. 284 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:03,440 What time is it? 285 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:04,680 She asked the question, so I told her, 286 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,760 John, it's about 10 to 4. 287 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:06,960 You need to come into work. 288 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:08,520 How much time is left to produce on the show? 289 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,600 I mean, she was obviously thinking. 290 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,280 She was aware she just knew she had overslept 291 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,320 and she had to get into work. 292 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,680 I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary. 293 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,400 Nothing. 294 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,880 When Jody didn't show up by airtime, 295 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,320 Amy anchored the newscast, then sent the first available 296 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,480 person to check on Jody. 297 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,720 I was halfway mad because I had to do all of this stuff 298 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:31,960 all by myself. 299 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,520 Halfway worried because I thought, geez, 300 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,280 what if she's laying in her apartment bleeding 301 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,120 because she fell down, hit her head on the tub, you know, 302 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:37,880 things like that. 303 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,720 But never once did I think somebody nabbed her 304 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:41,600 outside of her apartment. 305 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,320 Never once did that cross my mind. 306 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,440 The officer arriving at the scene 307 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,600 observed several Jody's personal items strung 308 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,600 about the ground around her car. 309 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,440 A quick check was done in and around the apartment complex 310 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,240 for Jody, but we were unable to find her. 311 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,560 Her personal items, which appear to be things 312 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,960 that she was bringing with her to work in preparation 313 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:09,600 for that morning's newscast, were scattered about her car, 314 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,400 trailing off away from the vehicle, which, to all 315 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:18,560 involved, is a good indicator that she was taken forcibly. 316 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,840 By that afternoon, the Mason City police 317 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,520 launched a massive search aided by the FBI 318 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:28,400 and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. 319 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,920 Rescue teams scoured the countryside. 320 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,560 Divers and police dogs covered the Winnebago River 321 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,640 and its banks. 322 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,600 But there was no trace of Jody who's in truth. 323 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,160 In fact, the only possible clue was a white 40 conaline van, 324 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,760 much like this one. 325 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,440 It was seen in the parking lot of Jody's apartment building 326 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,120 about the time she disappeared. 327 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:54,920 The most difficult aspect of this investigation to date 328 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:01,080 is really been the lack of apparent motive for an abduction, 329 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,440 the lack of physical evidence involved in the crime scene, 330 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:08,240 and the lack of any genuine eyewitnesses. 331 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:09,800 This is still very much an open case 332 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,360 and will remain an open case. 333 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:15,160 We are receiving still four to six leads a day on the case. 334 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,960 And all those leads will be followed out and worked. 335 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,400 It's been eight months since the people of this quiet community 336 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,760 hung the yellow ribbons and put up the missing posters. 337 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,760 The ribbons are now tattered, the posters faded, 338 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,440 and Mason City is still trying to make sense of what 339 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,440 happened to Jody who's in truth. 340 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:36,840 Good thinking. 341 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,040 Way to go, Kevin. 342 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:38,840 I'm getting there slowly. 343 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,080 Way to keep me in check. 344 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,440 We spent a lot of time and a lot of effort 345 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,680 talking to the people who knew Jody and spent time with Jody. 346 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,560 We located nothing in her private life 347 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,480 that would have put her at risk at all. 348 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,280 No dark side to Jody. 349 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,760 She was as real and all-American as she appeared 350 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,080 to those who knew her and to her viewers. 351 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,360 I think there's still hope. 352 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:07,240 I really feel that we might find her yet. 353 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:08,640 You can't give up hope. 354 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,760 That's what gets you up in the morning. 355 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,680 I can't imagine life without her because she is our joy. 356 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:16,680 She's our life. 357 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,360 I mean, we love her so much. 358 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:20,640 She's just everything to us. 359 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,640 Next, more than 20 years ago, a teenage girl reluctantly 360 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,760 gave her daughter up for adoption. 361 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,120 Can you help reunite them? 362 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,680 It is better to have loved and lost 363 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,120 than never to have loved at all, or so the poets say. 364 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:52,640 Better still to have a second chance at that lost love. 365 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,640 And so it would be for an Iowa teenager named Kristie Wismur. 366 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:02,480 In 1973, Kristie was 16. 367 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,920 Her boyfriend, Dave Carlson, was 18. 368 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,560 Their youthful romance burned briefly but brightly. 369 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,320 After six months together, they broke up, 370 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,040 only to discover that their love had consequences 371 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,520 that would last a lifetime. 372 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,840 Dave? 373 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:23,200 Hi, Kristie. 374 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,920 Hi. 375 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,040 I need to talk to you. 376 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:27,940 Sure. 377 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,760 How are you doing? 378 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,920 Not so good. 379 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,760 Sorry. 380 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:39,400 I'm pregnant. 381 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,840 We had broke up a week before. 382 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,600 I found out that I was pregnant. 383 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,360 And I could think of was, how's Dave going to handle this? 384 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:54,120 And what about my folks? 385 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:57,520 You know, I just thought it was the end of the world coming. 386 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,720 You embarrass me, and I'm not going to stand for it. 387 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,960 Come on in, Carlson. 388 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,000 Any parent would be upset and angry 389 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,560 to learn that their teenage daughter was pregnant. 390 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,920 Kristie says a confrontation with her father 391 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,200 came when she was four months pregnant and just 392 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,000 beginning to show. 393 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,400 I'll tell you what is going on around here. 394 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:25,200 You're 16 and pregnant, and you did it. 395 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,600 This isn't helping anything. 396 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,320 My father, he was taking it very hard 397 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,680 and told me that, you know, I was just 398 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,920 an embarrassment to the family, that you couldn't possibly 399 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,640 love me. 400 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,560 What are you going to do about this? 401 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,200 It seemed like the only thing to do 402 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,440 was put the child up for adoption. 403 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,720 Dave and Kristie talked about getting married, 404 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,360 but that was out of the question. 405 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:59,560 I was forbidden to see him, so we'd sneak and see each other. 406 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:04,600 But then we kind of grew apart during the pregnancy. 407 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:05,720 Kristie, you're almost done. 408 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,680 You're almost done. 409 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,520 Take a deep breath in now. 410 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:14,320 In June of 1974, Kristie Wismar gave birth to a baby girl. 411 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,040 It should have been a time of joy for Kristie, 412 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,560 a transition to life with a child and a family of her own. 413 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,120 Instead, the infant was to be adopted. 414 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,720 Giving birth was lonely labor, destined 415 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,120 to end in disappointment. 416 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:28,920 Oh, my God, Kristie. 417 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:29,920 That's the way. 418 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:30,420 Go. 419 00:22:30,420 --> 00:22:30,920 Go. 420 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:31,920 There you go. 421 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,920 There you go. 422 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:33,920 There you go. 423 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,920 There you go. 424 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,920 Oh, my God. 425 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,760 They took the baby way right away. 426 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,960 And after they wheeled me back to my room 427 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,520 and put me into the bed, my mother come up and talked to me 428 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:52,320 for a little while. 429 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,480 And she asked if I'd walk down and look at the baby. 430 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,040 I saw her earlier this evening. 431 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,360 She's beautiful. 432 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:00,440 She's the one down front. 433 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,080 She looks so sweet laying there. 434 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,040 She's beautiful. 435 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,040 You know, I knew that I loved her. 436 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,800 But I couldn't take her home. 437 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:27,120 Kristie, Bob Riley, I brought that paper for you to sign. 438 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:30,080 The adoption rolled forward, overwhelming any last minute 439 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,360 doubts Kristie might have harbored. 440 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:33,560 Sign right there on the X, OK? 441 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:34,640 Sure. 442 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,520 I just want you to know how proud we are. 443 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,840 Before the baby was 24 hours old, 444 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,360 she was on her way to a new family. 445 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:42,280 I'm very tired right now. 446 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,160 Do you think this could wait until a little bit later? 447 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:44,960 No. 448 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,320 Got to do it right now, just as we talked about. 449 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,440 There you go. 450 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,520 I knew that the adoption was going to take place. 451 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,640 But it hadn't really hit me at the time. 452 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,200 You know, I was just, I was pregnant. 453 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,600 I was in labor. 454 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,480 Bless you, Kristie. 455 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,360 Everything was just happening so fast. 456 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:11,200 Kristie Wismar never saw her daughter again. 457 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,840 She and Dave Carlson went their separate ways. 458 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,840 They each married, had children, divorced. 459 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,360 In 1995, Kristie returned to Iowa for her 20-year high school 460 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:21,720 reunion. 461 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,640 Friends told her that Dave Carlson had been asking about her. 462 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,600 Kristie called him up. 463 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,080 I was really nervous about contacting him. 464 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,960 And I was really glad when I did make the phone call, though, 465 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,320 because it seemed like we still, you know, 466 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,560 the feelings were still there. 467 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,760 And he asked if we could see each other the following night 468 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:42,400 for a date. 469 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,400 And we met. 470 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,160 And things were still clicking between us. 471 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,440 The romance that has unfolded for two decades reignited. 472 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:02,000 Kristie and Dave were married on June 22, 1996. 473 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,640 Now they feel that their happiness would be complete 474 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,720 if they could locate their daughter. 475 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,480 I'm not trying to take the place of her family. 476 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,240 I gave up all my rights back then. 477 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,200 And I would just like to make myself available for whatever 478 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,320 purpose she might have. 479 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,400 I've kept it inside for so many years 480 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,000 and not talked about it. 481 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,400 Dave? 482 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,280 Kristie? 483 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,400 What are you going to do about this? 484 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,280 After meeting Dave again, it's just surfaced. 485 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,520 And it's just something that I've got to do. 486 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,280 I've got to at least attempt and try to find her. 487 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,200 Let her know that I didn't give her up for adoption 488 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,320 because I didn't want her. 489 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,080 I gave her up because of the circumstances. 490 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,880 Maybe she never will forgive me for what I have done back 491 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,680 then, but I would like to just be able to see her and talk to her. 492 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:19,840 Next, an accused killer is on the run. 493 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,680 And the authorities need your help to track him down. 494 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:34,360 The New York Times 495 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,360 July 23, 1994. 496 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:45,360 A young man in a Chevy Suburban speeds southbound along 497 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:48,640 Interstate 5 in Shasta County, California. 498 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,800 On his tail is Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Benson. 499 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,200 He's outbound approaching Fowler-Clad, Washington, 500 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,320 Tom X-ray Sam, 726. 501 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,040 He's returning to the stolen vehicle out of Washington. 502 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,280 10-4 requesting backup. 503 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,480 Officer Benson has no idea that he 504 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,480 is following a very dangerous fugitive. 505 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,360 Tony Castro is a Mexican national with a long wrap 506 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,600 sheet for violent offenses. 507 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,040 Three days earlier, he had walked into an empty house 508 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,400 near Sacramento, California and allegedly 509 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,000 attacked a man who was repairing a heating system. 510 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:30,800 He stabbed me multiple times, kicked me, 511 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,440 and left me on the floor. 512 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:39,240 Went through my pockets for the car keys, took my car, and left. 513 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,440 Two days later, the burned-out shell of William Goulart's car 514 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,120 was found in Washington State 800 miles away. 515 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:48,200 The day before, just down the road, 516 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,800 72-year-old Mike Fedeff had been murdered in his farmhouse. 517 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,400 The prime suspect is now Tony Castro. 518 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,360 Mr. Fedeff was beaten badly, shot twice. 519 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:05,520 One of the worst cases our pathologist has ever seen. 520 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,360 I just don't understand how he could do it, 521 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,360 how he could have beat on my uncle the way that he did, 522 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,520 and then to shoot him. 523 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,120 Why was Mike Fedeff murdered, apparently 524 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,840 for his gun collection and his truck? 525 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,040 Officer Benson kept Castro in his sights for about 10 miles. 526 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:33,600 Our A.C.A. 5261, be advised he's exiting at Pollard Flat. 527 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,960 He may have just been hoping that the patrolman just 528 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,120 continued on south on I-5, and he would make his escape 529 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,960 that way. 530 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,960 But the escape route led straight to a cul-de-sac. 531 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,200 Tony Castro was trapped, or so it seemed. 532 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,720 Get your hands up. 533 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,360 Got a problem, officer? 534 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,800 Keep your hands up. 535 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,960 Get out of the car. 536 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,120 Get it out, OK? 537 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,160 Get it out. 538 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,060 Keep your hands up. 539 00:29:02,060 --> 00:29:03,360 That's the one we were hoping for, huh? 540 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,360 I didn't do nothing, man. 541 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,260 Get your hands up. 542 00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:06,160 OK, hey, wait, wait, wait. 543 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,060 They're up. 544 00:29:07,060 --> 00:29:09,320 Don't move. 545 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:14,040 In the blink of an eye, Castro disappeared. 546 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,040 Within an hour, state and local law enforcement agents 547 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,800 had converged on the Sacramento River Canyon, 548 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,400 a wilderness area that covers thousands of acres 549 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,320 of rugged, dense terrain. 550 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,680 Hey, contact Dean Simpson and Byer. 551 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,440 I went back at the command center in 1300. 552 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:29,240 Get right on. 553 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,140 What do you got? 554 00:29:30,140 --> 00:29:31,320 Not a trace, not yet. 555 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,680 The whole situation was dealt with as an emergency 556 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,920 in progress. 557 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,120 Tell me what you've got in this guy. 558 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,020 He's dangerous. 559 00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:38,680 He's smart. 560 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,400 There was nothing that led us to believe 561 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,840 that he wouldn't commit the same acts, 562 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,600 and his attempt to flee the area. 563 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,000 40 units were dispatched immediately. 564 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,040 The highway patrol put extra squad cars on the interstate. 565 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,560 Trackers fanned out up and down the Sacramento River. 566 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,400 SWAT teams checked the freight trains 567 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,040 that ran through the canyon. 568 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,240 But there was no sign of Tony Castro. 569 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,520 Because a canyon is boarded by steep terrain 570 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,360 to the east and west, authorities 571 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,760 speculated that Castro would stick to the river. 572 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,760 An hour later, confirmation. 573 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:18,680 I've got a print over here. 574 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,880 Yeah, that's our guy. 575 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,680 Better call it in. 576 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,400 He's going northbound. 577 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:26,760 Command post, 2224. 578 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,360 He's going to hold up a lap-tick ID. 579 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:29,160 They've got a footprint. 580 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,040 Let's see if that matches up. 581 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,520 We're going to get this guy. 582 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,760 There wasn't anything rational about him. 583 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,360 It was difficult to pinpoint what he would do next. 584 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,560 This guy had no feelings towards taking human life 585 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,400 to just get an automobile, just to provide himself 586 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,200 transportation to kill another human being. 587 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,000 In the early afternoon and a mile upstream, 588 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,840 a news reporter was lost along the frontage road. 589 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,560 Castro darted back into the woods 590 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,480 and apparently changed direction. 591 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,280 He headed south, downstream. 592 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,520 This is an extremely rugged canyon. 593 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,080 We could have had an army of officers out there, 594 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,160 and he still would have slipped by us, 595 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,520 just because of the natural terrain and the concealment 596 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,200 opportunities he had made available to him. 597 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,600 Castro is a survivalist. 598 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,960 This man has the skills to survive in elements 599 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,880 that the average person wouldn't. 600 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,600 He was a strong individual. 601 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,760 He could probably go for days in the elements 602 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,160 without food or water and survive. 603 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:43,960 Call in the teams. 604 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,440 We'll just pick it up tomorrow. 605 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,400 He's got the advantage, and I don't want to jeopardize 606 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,160 our trackers. 607 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,120 As Night Phone approached, Captain Richardson 608 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,000 was forced to pull the trackers out of the canyon. 609 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,800 He could only hope that Castro would still 610 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,560 be around the next day. 611 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,480 Our fear level kept rising because we hadn't 612 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,280 had any reports on the movement. 613 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,280 We hadn't been able to confirm whether we were still 614 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,720 in the area or not, and it became our concern 615 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,120 that he had taken refuge in somebody's home, 616 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,040 holding them hostage, or doing them harm. 617 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,360 But Tony Castro continued to confound authorities, 618 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:24,120 as far as anyone knows, he did not bother his soul that night. 619 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,240 In the morning, he showed up in the small town of Lakehead, 620 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,120 eight miles south of where the chase had begun. 621 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,960 Excuse me. 622 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:32,960 Can I help you? 623 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,000 Excuse me. 624 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,040 Can I help you with something? 625 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,920 Get you by your car. 626 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,160 It runs good. 627 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,920 Yeah, it runs. 628 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,240 Get you by it for my wife, uh, 200 bucks, right? 629 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,960 Yeah, if you've got the cash. 630 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,960 I got cash. 631 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:49,640 I'll get the key. 632 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,880 Little wait, uh, hope you don't mind. 633 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,200 Just wait right there. 634 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,520 I'll be right back. 635 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,920 I'll swim with some friends. 636 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,240 A few minutes later, Tony Castro was on the road again, 637 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,080 having bought himself a new set of wheels. 638 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,840 He next showed his face in Orange County, California, 639 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,360 where he has family. 640 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,840 But within a few days, Castro disappeared again. 641 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,040 He had eluded one of the largest manhunts 642 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,040 in Northern California history. 643 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,240 The authorities feel very fortunate that no one was 644 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,600 hurt during Castro's flight through the Sacramento River 645 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,000 Canyon. 646 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,720 But they also fear that the next time Castro was cornered, 647 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:36,680 he may lash out. 648 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:44,000 Tony Castro is 28 years old, 5 feet 7 with a muscular build. 649 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,520 He has two distinctive physical features. 650 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,080 His right index finger is cut off at the knuckle, 651 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,720 and his upper front teeth have gold etching at the gum line. 652 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,560 When we return, a man's strange dream 653 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,400 of capture and imprisonment apparently 654 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,640 comes true for one of his friends. 655 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,520 At one time or another, most of us 656 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,160 have had a dream so intense, so vivid, 657 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,880 that we felt it had to be real. 658 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,520 Few though have ever discovered the dream actually was real. 659 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,800 Few have had the spine-tingling experience 660 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,320 of the man you're about to meet. 661 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,240 January 1991, the onslaught by the United States 662 00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:43,400 and its allies known as Desert Storm 663 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,960 burst across Iraq and Iraqi-held Kuwait. 664 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:57,320 The conflict was instantly uplinked to television sets 665 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,000 all over the world. 666 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,800 I would like to see a peaceful solution to this question. 667 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,920 I think Saddam Hussein should fully, 668 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,040 without condition, comply to the UN. 669 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,160 The first night Baghdad was bombed, 670 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,400 Joe O'Brien of Crestline, California 671 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,800 watched with special interest. 672 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,760 One of the Kuwaiti jet pilots fighting 673 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,680 with the Allied forces was his longtime friend Mohamed 674 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,320 Mubarak, nicknamed Sammy. 675 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,560 They had met 16 years before when Sammy was in the US 676 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,560 on a training mission, and had remained close ever since. 677 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:33,560 During the hours of darkness, Baghdad 678 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,840 was bombed by Allied warplanes. 679 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,440 Wait, hold on. 680 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,920 Joe had no doubt Sammy would be in the thick of the fighting. 681 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,080 I'm going to have to call you back. 682 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,840 But he was stunned to see his friends' face staring out 683 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:45,960 at him from the TV. 684 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,320 The Iraqis have shot down Sammy's plane 685 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,000 and taken him prisoner. 686 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,080 I had a feeling it was like my blood turned lead. 687 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,560 I think my biggest concern when he was shot down 688 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,400 was that Saddam Hussein would make an example out of him. 689 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,840 Iraq's issue was with Kuwait, so we have a Kuwaiti pilot. 690 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,880 We will, if they were to torture or kill him, 691 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,480 that was my main concern. 692 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,240 Joe was consumed with worry. 693 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,360 When he finally fell into a fitful sleep, 694 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,360 he had a dream without question one of the most bizarre 695 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,200 he had ever had. 696 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,880 In my dream, I was very much aware 697 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,600 that I was Sammy. 698 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,840 I was in his cell. 699 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,840 And I was seeing things through his eyes. 700 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,520 It was a fairly small cell with a high ceiling. 701 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,520 The floor was very cold. 702 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,600 I was very cold in this dream. 703 00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:02,840 And I noticed the color was almost like a dark, flat porcelain. 704 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,720 It had on a maroon, it took on a maroon or a purplish color. 705 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:08,120 When the light was on, when it was off, 706 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,960 it just looked gray or black. 707 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,480 I remember being very uncomfortable. 708 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,480 But the pain I had in my hands almost 709 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,600 overrode everything else about my captivity. 710 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,320 It was so painful. 711 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,360 My hands were on fire. 712 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,120 In his dream, Joe had a surprisingly strong feeling 713 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,360 about what appeared to be an ordinary striped blanket. 714 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,640 There's something about this blanket or material 715 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,240 that I was very happy to have it. 716 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:40,040 And I don't know what the significance was, 717 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,760 but I remember studying the material and the design. 718 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,360 And it was shortly after that when 719 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,800 I woke up in a cold sweat. 720 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,120 I never had a dream like that. 721 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,360 And I've never woken up like that before. 722 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,320 And I immediately got out of bed. 723 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:57,480 It was about 6 o'clock. 724 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,920 And I went right into the bathroom 725 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,360 and turned on the cold water to run some water on my wrists, 726 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,720 which were very, very sore. 727 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,840 That same morning, Joe met a friend, John Goff, for breakfast. 728 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,040 Hey, Joe, how's it going? 729 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,040 OK, how are you? 730 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,040 All right. 731 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:20,840 Big night. 732 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,920 Yeah, sure. 733 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,560 When he showed up, I noticed that his hands were kind of red. 734 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,680 And he had a tough time picking his coffee cup up. 735 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,000 And he said, the darnest thing happened to me last night. 736 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,200 I had this strange dream. 737 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,320 And in the process of my dream, my hands started hurting. 738 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,320 And so then he told me about the dream. 739 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,120 Your friend is a Kuwaiti pilot? 740 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:42,920 Yeah. 741 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,840 I dreamed I was him in his cell. 742 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,640 Joe Bryan is not a person to just fabricate stories. 743 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,840 He's a very honest person. 744 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,760 And when he told me about this story, 745 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,520 I really did think that it was something really unusual 746 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:59,000 because of the fact that he explained in detail 747 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,680 about a prisoner of war. 748 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:06,640 And the pain of his hands didn't go away for five days. 749 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:07,840 You know someone's captive. 750 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,400 You're going to picture a cell. 751 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,320 But why the pain? 752 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,760 And why in my wrists? 753 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,560 You know, I used to be a mason. 754 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,400 I have strong hands. 755 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:17,960 I've never had problems with my hands. 756 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,520 And here I can't even hold a coffee cup. 757 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,360 Finally, 42 days after the war began, Iraq surrendered. 758 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,240 Saddam Hussein agreed to a ceasefire and an exchange 759 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:33,440 of prisoners. 760 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,200 Joe again saw Sammy on television. 761 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,200 This time he was on his way to freedom. 762 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,360 When I saw Sammy actually being released, 763 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,280 I couldn't believe it. 764 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:46,320 I was just so happy. 765 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:47,240 And I called him. 766 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:52,120 I called him right after that night he was in the hospital. 767 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,320 And I guess he had just walked into his room. 768 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,720 I walked into his room and I called him 769 00:39:56,720 --> 00:39:58,720 and had a wonderful conversation with him. 770 00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,720 And I was very happy. 771 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,480 It was a good day. 772 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:04,400 Sammy. 773 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:05,920 Joseph, my friends. 774 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:09,000 The following Christmas was a true celebration. 775 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,520 Sammy and his sister visited Joe in California for a reunion. 776 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,600 That night, Joe finally decided to tell Sammy 777 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,680 about his extraordinary dream. 778 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:20,640 Well, of course. 779 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,000 Well, I dreamed that I was you and a cell. 780 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,720 It was a dark, black, and burgundy tile 781 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:29,160 with this little window way up high. 782 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:30,040 It was cold. 783 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,440 Sammy was struck dumb. 784 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,760 Joe's words thrust him back, back 785 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,440 into the horror of captivity. 786 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,640 While the Iraqis were taking Sammy to a POW camp, 787 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,480 they kept him handcuffed so tightly 788 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,160 that his wrists were cut and bleeding. 789 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,520 You're first to make glass. 790 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:56,440 The pain of the hands, I hardly can move my wrists around. 791 00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:02,200 I had the handcuffs for five long days, very tight 792 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,280 and they were hurting my wrists badly. 793 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,040 And then also he had the pain for five days, exactly. 794 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,080 So very strange, you know? 795 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,120 I had this beige and green striped cloth, 796 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,360 which was really important to me. 797 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,400 The detail was astonishing. 798 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:28,160 Joe was describing Sammy's blanket, the only comfort he had. 799 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,560 It was very cold. 800 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,040 And to keep myself warm, so I usually just have 801 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,320 the blanket around me. 802 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,120 And that was somehow my favorite because, you know, 803 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,440 it was keeping me warm. 804 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,120 You've described myself exactly. 805 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,960 Joe and Sammy compared notes for hours. 806 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,160 On point after point, Joe's dream 807 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,920 matched Sammy's experience precisely. 808 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,280 I was totally amazed, surprised. 809 00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:01,160 His dream matched the cell and the reality almost, 810 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:02,760 let me say, 100%. 811 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,720 100%. 812 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:09,880 The feeling, the description, the colors, how I felt. 813 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:10,780 Everything. 814 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,600 There is no accepted explanation for this particular unsolved 815 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,080 mystery. 816 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,800 Perhaps it was just an eerie coincidence. 817 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,480 Or perhaps it is proof that true friendship cannot be bound 818 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,520 by time, distance, or dimension. 819 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,320 As renowned psychiatrist and dream analyst Carl Jung once 820 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:34,280 said, the unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. 821 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,840 Only then is life whole. 822 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:47,200 For every mystery, there is someone, 823 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,440 somewhere who knows the truth. 824 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,480 Perhaps it's you. 825 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,120 Join me again next Friday and every Friday 826 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,520 for unsolved mysteries.