1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 The End 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Dr. Michael Swango's career began with great promise 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,000 only to be derailed by allegations of poisoning and murder. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 What happened to Michael Swango? 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Did an angel of mercy choose to become an angel of death? 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Some 30 years have passed since a young woman from Texas 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 and a Jordanian airman fell in love 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 only to be torn apart by the uncertainties of war. 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Now a heartbroken father needs your help 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 to find the son he has never met. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Little Logan Carroll was born with no heartbeat 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 and no vital signs. 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Doctors could do nothing to save him. 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 But as Logan's family gathered to grieve, 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 something truly extraordinary happened. 17 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Something that can only be called a miracle. 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Join me. 19 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Perhaps you hold the key. 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Perhaps you may be able to solve one of tonight's unsolved mysteries. 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 The End 22 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,000 February 7th, 1984, Columbus, Ohio. 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 An intern at the State University Hospital 24 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 checked on a 69-year-old woman 25 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 recovering from routine back surgery. 26 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 No one knows why Dr. Michael Swango was in the room, 27 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 perhaps just to say hello. 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 When he left, Rena Cooper seemed to be doing fine. 29 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Nurse! 30 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Nurse! 31 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Nurse! 32 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Nurse! 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Nurse! 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Nurse! 35 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Nurse! 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Nurse! 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Nurse! 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Nurse! 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Nurse! 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 I've got a cold blue room 900 respiratory distress. 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Dr. Wavell, room 214, Code Blue. 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Static, repeat, neversist static. 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 All right, now we're going to call John. 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Pop back her. 45 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 We were just talking. 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 She was fine. 47 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Oh, my God. 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 She was a little bit swell. 49 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Did she check her rhythm? 50 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I don't know. 51 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 She was the IV, then she destroyed it. 52 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Yeah, it sounded like the baby. 53 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 But it sounds like all the time. 54 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 As she was being stabilized, 55 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Rena struggled to tell the doctors what happened. 56 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 I'll let you write a notice, OK? 57 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 She wrote, the doctor put something in my IV. 58 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 That was Dr. Swango, and I was over there. 59 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 I was taking some notes. 60 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 What was Dr. Swango doing? 61 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 While this is going on, we know that another nurse 62 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 decided to walk down the hall to calm the other patients 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 since there was a great deal of commotion. 64 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 And four rooms down within minutes, 65 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,000 sees Dr. Swango exiting another room with a very funny grin 66 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 on his face, and those are her words, not mine. 67 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 The nurse goes into that room and finds a large hypodermic needle 68 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 with the plunger down, sitting on the sink, 69 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 which is very unusual. 70 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 You wouldn't expect that in a hospital. 71 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Hypodermics aren't left lying around. 72 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Oh, Mike. 73 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Good. 74 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Glad you're here. 75 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 I need to talk to you for a second. 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Three different doctors confronted Michael Swango 77 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 about what had happened in Rena Cooper's room. 78 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Swango allegedly told three different stories. 79 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 At one point, he claimed he had never even been in the room. 80 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 She just got a surgery. 81 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 It's common for patients just out of surgery to be delusional. 82 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Most of us tend to hold doctors to a higher standard, 83 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 and perhaps that's fair. 84 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 After all, we are sometimes compelled to trust them implicitly, 85 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 depending on their knowledge and expertise to save our lives. 86 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Did Michael Swango betray that trust 87 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 for his own sadistic pleasure? 88 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 If you ask Swango, he'd probably tell you 89 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 he was a victim of bad luck and circumstance. 90 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 But unfortunately, the question cannot be posed. 91 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 No one can find Michael Swango. 92 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Michael Swango came to Ohio as a recent graduate 93 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 of the medical school at Southern Illinois University. 94 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 He projected charm and confidence 95 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 despite a lackluster med school record. 96 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Michael Swango became more and more withdrawn 97 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 as he proceeded through his college classes 98 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 and eventually got into medical school. 99 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 And though academically, he did very well. 100 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 The more the classes became advanced 101 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 and the more he needed to do hands-on patient work, 102 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 the more he pulled away from that 103 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 to the point where he was held back a year. 104 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Take a look at one of these appraisals 105 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 and you can see what I'm talking about. 106 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Swango's poor performance continued 107 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 through the first six months of his internship. 108 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Dr. Swango, the end result is, 109 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 unless you have a significant improvement, 110 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 you will not be allowed to take the next step. 111 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Are you saying you may not recommend me for residency? 112 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 I've been working my entire life to be a doctor. 113 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Swango's lifelong goal was now jeopardized. 114 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 It could mean he would never become a full-fledged doctor. 115 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 It was shortly after Swango was put on probation 116 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 that Rena Cooper suffered her mysterious seizure. 117 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 It was one of a series of puzzling events 118 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 at the hospital that spring. 119 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Rena Cooper survived, but at least five other patients died. 120 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 The five mysterious respiratory arrests 121 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 in the last month of neurosurgery wing 122 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 has caused quite an alarm among all of us. 123 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 I'm aware of that. 124 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I've decided to see if there's some sort of pattern 125 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 to this situation and I've developed a chart. 126 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 The upshot of it is that whenever these incidents occurred, 127 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Swango is always there. 128 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 A black cloud seems to follow Michael Swango. 129 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Wherever Swango was, there was an unexplained respiratory arrest 130 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 and it didn't happen once or twice. 131 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 It happened five, six, seven times. 132 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Though some evidence appeared to point to Swango, 133 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 hospital officials chose not to call the police. 134 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 They decided to watch him closely 135 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 and quietly wait out the last months of his internship. 136 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I think the kid was great. 137 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 I think I was better, but I think the kid was great. 138 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Chicken! 139 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Thank you. 140 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Swango did not appear disturbed 141 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 by the hospital's decision to let him go 142 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 or the whispered allegations against him. 143 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 In fact, on several occasions during the last months 144 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 of his internship, he treated staff members 145 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 to what he called extra spicy chicken. 146 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Look at me. 147 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 You weren't kidding. 148 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 That really is spicy. 149 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 We know that from interviews with three doctors, 150 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 they became violently ill within hours 151 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 of eating this spicy chicken. 152 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 So ill, in fact, that they needed treatment for their eyes 153 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 from ruptured blood vessels from the vomiting. 154 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Michael Swango left OSU hospital in June of 1984 155 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 without being formally investigated. 156 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 No charges have ever been filed. 157 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 One month later, Swango had a new job, 158 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 not as a doctor, but as a paramedic. 159 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 On September 14th, he brought donuts for the whole crew. 160 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 I grabbed a donut, started eating the donut, 161 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 but I noticed there was something different about the donut. 162 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 It didn't spring back up like most donuts do. 163 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,000 45 minutes later, Brent and several others became very ill. 164 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 They wanted to test the leftover donuts, 165 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 but they had disappeared. 166 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Only an empty box remained. 167 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 No one had any suspicions of Mike at all at that time. 168 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 They figured that that was food poisoning. 169 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Since the donuts were gone and they couldn't analyze it, 170 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 they just more or less thought that that's what it was 171 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 and let it go by at that. 172 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 The next night I worked with Mike at a football game, 173 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 a local football game. 174 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 At half time, he offered to buy me a soda. 175 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I started sipping the soda at half time 176 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 and about the start of the third quarter, 177 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 I became deathly sick. 178 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Yet another mysterious illness 179 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 made Swango's coworkers increasingly suspicious. 180 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 They also couldn't help noticing 181 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Swango's grisly fascination with accidents and death. 182 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Brent! 183 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 The gory or the better. 184 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Is she breathing? 185 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 He would describe his ultimate cause as a paramedic. 186 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 And that would be a busload of children 187 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 hitting head on with a tanker truck and igniting. 188 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 And as he's approaching the scene, 189 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 he would see charred bodies out of the windows of the buses, 190 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 bodies that are up against the Bob Warfens, 191 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 caught in the Bob Warfens. 192 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 I mean, this is, to me, I thought it was really strange, 193 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 just, you know, to want to see death. 194 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 No, no, just stay calm, man. 195 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Finally, the paramedics decided to fake a call 196 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 to get Swango out of the building. 197 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 They wanted him away long enough to search his locker. 198 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 In Michael Swango's gym bag, 199 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 his coworkers found two bottles of amp poison, 200 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 one full, one empty. 201 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Poison. 202 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Michael Swango? 203 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Yes. 204 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 I am Detective Reynolds. 205 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 These are officers to witness Rogers. 206 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 We have a warrant, search premises. 207 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Well, why don't you start over here? 208 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,000 In Swango's apartment, police discovered more 209 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 incriminating evidence, dozens of bottles of poisons, 210 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 books on poisons, recipe cards for making poisons, 211 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 and an assortment of syringes. 212 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,000 One syringe was full of amp poison. 213 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 The evidence was overwhelming. 214 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Swango was convicted of six counts of aggravated battery 215 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. 216 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 After serving half his sentence, he was given time off 217 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 for good behavior. 218 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Amazingly, Swango again found work in the health care field. 219 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 He was apparently able to convince employers 220 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 that he had been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. 221 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 In Newport News, Virginia, he turned up 222 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 at a medical vocational school. 223 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 There, three of his colleagues reportedly fell ill. 224 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Swango then talked his way into the University 225 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 of South Dakota Hospital. 226 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Again, he was shadowed by his past and dismissed. 227 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Finally, in August of 1993, Swango resurfaced 228 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 to Stony Brook University in New York. 229 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 He was assigned to a Veterans Administration 230 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Hospital on Long Island. 231 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 While there, he changed his name to Michael Kirk. 232 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 He was accepted into the Stony Brook program, 233 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 and never bothered to check him with a central registry 234 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,000 for medical residents, which apparently had a file 235 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 that was an inch thick on him. 236 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 There were 180 people who applied for 12 slots, 237 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 and he managed to get one of those 12 slots, 238 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,000 despite these clouds of questionable activity 239 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 that followed him in at least four states. 240 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 On September 29, 1993, Michael Swango's path 241 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 crossed that of LC and Baron Harris. 242 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 He was a 60-year-old cabinet maker from Long Island. 243 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,000 He had a fever of 104 degrees and a slight case of pneumonia. 244 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,000 I'm going home tomorrow. 245 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Well, we'll see if we can't accommodate you. 246 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 My first impression of Dr. Kirk is he seemed very professional. 247 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 He seemed to be very concerned. 248 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 He seemed to know what he was doing, a very pleasant man. 249 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 OK, if you say so. 250 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 OK, all right. 251 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Yes, you will. 252 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 OK, thank you. 253 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000 See you in the morning. 254 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Swango told LC to go home. 255 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 There was nothing more she could do. 256 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I'll see you in the morning, sweetheart. 257 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Don't you forget to come back and get me. 258 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 No, you'll be all right. 259 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 I love you. 260 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Love you, too. 261 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 LC Harris claims that sometime during the night, 262 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Dr. Michael Swango, alias Michael Kirk, 263 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 gave her husband a sedative. 264 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 By the next morning, Baron had been moved to intensive care. 265 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 He had lapsed into a coma. 266 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 It doesn't make any sense to me. 267 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000 He was coughing. 268 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 He had a little fever. 269 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 I don't get it. 270 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I don't understand. 271 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Mrs. Harris, sometimes people have 272 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 allergic reactions to certain drugs. 273 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Now, that may have happened in your husband's case. 274 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Why a coma? 275 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I just hope it wasn't anything that we did. 276 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 He had a very smirky attitude, 277 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 like a half-cocked smile on his face, 278 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,000 like a little kid with his hands in the cookie jars. 279 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 This is what he reminded me of. 280 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Even though he had a terrific bedside manner, 281 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 there was just something sneaky about him. 282 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Once the story hit the wires, 283 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 and reporters started converging on the Northport VA hospital 284 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 and on his dorm room, 285 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:57,000 he very hastily packed up and disappeared. 286 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Before Michael Swango vanished, 287 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 LC Harris says he told her that Baron would never come out of his coma. 288 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Swango apparently knew what he was talking about. 289 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Baron Harris died on November 9, 1993. 290 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Wherever Michael Swango is today, 291 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 authorities believe that he is most likely working in the medical field. 292 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. 293 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Good afternoon. 294 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Do you want to see your driver's license, please, sir? 295 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Yeah, sure. 296 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:49,000 June 7, 1994, Richland Hills, Georgia, just south of Savannah. 297 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 The police are looking for a driver. 298 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 The driver is not here. 299 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 The driver is not here. 300 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 The driver is not here. 301 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 The driver is not here. 302 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 The driver is not here. 303 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 The driver is not here. 304 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Richland Hills, Georgia, just south of Savannah. 305 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Here you go. Thank you. 306 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 The license identified the stranded motorist as Moses Law, 307 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 but it was a lie. 308 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Moses Law was an importer and beater of exotic birds 309 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 who owned a ranch 400 miles away in Florida. 310 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 This man's real name was Harigo Ben, 311 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 and he worked for Moses Law. 312 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 In fact, he was on the run because of Moses Law. 313 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 That is correct. 314 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Who was Moses Law? 315 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Ask 10 people and you're likely to get 10 different answers. 316 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 On the surface, Law seemed to be a reputable businessman, 317 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 but sources say he also had a secret life 318 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 that involved international smuggling 319 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 and alleged ties to organized crime. 320 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Now Moses Law is missing. 321 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Police suspect that his secret life led him to a violent end 322 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,000 and put his aunt, an innocent bystander, in mortal jeopardy. 323 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Three days before Harigo Ben was seen in Georgia, 324 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 a feed company delivery man made a routine stop 325 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 at Moses Law's ranch near West Palm Beach, Florida. 326 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 When no one came to meet him at the gate, 327 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Darrell crew hopped the fence. 328 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Darrell had never before found the ranch deserted. 329 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 The ranch was a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, 330 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, 331 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, 332 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 National Bureau of우�ö Baltimore has found 333 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 a wealthy man laid his hands. 334 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 The ranch came in from a sells-out shop 335 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 or warehouse. 336 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Their habitat islets. 337 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,200 or the ranch hands Hariko Bin and Roland Felix Eum. 338 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,120 Lila. 339 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:02,280 Lila. 340 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:03,120 It wasn't right. 341 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,960 Nobody being around in the birds were too noisy. 342 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,040 You know birds are noisy, but when they're hungry for a couple 343 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:08,400 of days, they're real noisy. 344 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,640 So I knew something was up, and then I just 345 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,400 decided I'd better leave the feed in case. 346 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,680 Maybe they did go out for the day, but nobody ever did there. 347 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,000 There was always somebody there. 348 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,720 So then I just climbed back over the gate, 349 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,400 threw the feed down and left. 350 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,000 The next day, Darrell would return 351 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,520 to find the feed still there and the birds even louder. 352 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,720 The authorities were notified, but a bureaucratic snafu 353 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,960 delayed any investigation for 10 days. 354 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,920 This is actual video footage of what Palm Beach County Sheriff's 355 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,640 deputies found when they arrived. 356 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,720 It was worse than you can imagine. 357 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,400 The smell was really, really bad, 358 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,560 and the site was even worse than that 359 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,080 to see all those beautiful birds laying dead 360 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,920 in the bottom of the cages, literally hundreds of them. 361 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,240 Some cages had up to 30 and 40 exotic birds dead 362 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,160 in the bottom of the cages. 363 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,520 The birds that had survived were in desperate condition. 364 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,720 Bird expert Howard Voron was among those working to revive them. 365 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,400 We started force feeding those that were too weak to eat, 366 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,000 injecting them with fluids in order 367 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,920 to combat the dehydration they suffered, 368 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,560 and of course, filling all the cages with food and water 369 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,760 if there were birds left alive in them. 370 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,320 It was tough, but it was worthwhile. 371 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,040 I think a very small percentage of the birds 372 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,280 died after that. 373 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,000 Hopefully we can save this one. 374 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,880 While animal control experts took charge of the birds, 375 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,440 Sheriff's deputies began trying to understand 376 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:48,160 the puzzling disappearance of the caretakers. 377 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,320 Moses Lawn and Lila Birritan came from a family of bird 378 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,320 importers based in Guiana, South America. 379 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,240 In 1993, federal restrictions on importing wild birds 380 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,560 prompted them to concentrate instead on breeding birds. 381 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,280 That was Lila's job. 382 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:05,360 She was the caregiver. 383 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:06,400 She was the bird lady. 384 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,720 She was the one that looked after all their needs, 385 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,320 drove them to the hospital when they needed hospitalization 386 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:17,200 or care, and she was the one that was the professional bird 387 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,080 worry person. 388 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:24,200 Lila was very quiet, very dedicated to the birds. 389 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,840 You could tell from going into the house 390 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,400 the amount of care that this woman took. 391 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:31,680 She fed them. 392 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:32,840 She weaned them. 393 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,160 She took care of them when they were in the incubator. 394 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,800 Basically, she took care of the entire thing. 395 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:42,000 Moses generally handled the business end. 396 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,200 He delegated most of the daily chores to Harigou Bin, also 397 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,840 from Guiana. 398 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,400 Harigou had worked for Moses and Lila 399 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,720 since they started the ranch in 1992. 400 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,520 The other missing ranch hand, Roland Felix Eum, 401 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,040 was from Africa. 402 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,920 He was a brother of one of Moses Lawn's business contacts. 403 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,720 Moses had made him some good money 404 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,880 from these pancake cortices from Africa 405 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,280 to come into rewere. 406 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,240 Around the time the ranch was abandoned, 407 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,240 Moses was working with Eum on a plan 408 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,720 to import reptiles from Africa. 409 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,880 Moses had apparently hit a cash crunch 410 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,920 and decided to diversify. 411 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,360 Rumor has it that to finance the scheme, 412 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:24,960 Moses borrowed money from shady underworld figures. 413 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,600 Two days after Sheriff's deputies 414 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,200 discovered the dying birds, they tracked Roland Felix Eum 415 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,040 to New York City. 416 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,000 Sir, I'm investigating Moses and Lila's death 417 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,200 and I'm investigating the death of Moses and Lila's 418 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,400 disappearance. 419 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,560 Would you be willing to go to a New York City police 420 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,360 detective and give a statement to them? 421 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:45,600 Eum had a solid alibi. 422 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,360 He was able to prove he had been in New York 423 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:50,440 since before Moses and Lila disappeared. 424 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,720 Then Eum told Detective Westcott a bizarre story, 425 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,680 told to him by his co-worker Harigou Bin. 426 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,160 During our conversation on the phone, 427 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,960 he told me a story that he had been contacted by Harry. 428 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,680 He told me that he had been on June 4th or June 5th. 429 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,720 He wasn't exactly sure. 430 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,800 And that Harry had told him that two men in a white van 431 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:20,400 came and took Moses and Lila and some birds away at gunpoint. 432 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,800 Could Harigou's story be true? 433 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,240 Had Lila and Moses been kidnapped? 434 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,320 If so, what was the motive? 435 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,840 It may not have started out to be an abduction. 436 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,560 It may have started out as a collection 437 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,680 if those stories are true. 438 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,920 But I think it's a huge change for some of the other business 439 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,680 dealings that he's reportedly been involved in that 440 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,720 weren't exactly on the up and up. 441 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,120 The problem is we don't know. 442 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,600 We're hearing stories about all these things, 443 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,160 and none of them are substantiated. 444 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,000 What they needed for substantiation 445 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,760 was Harigou Bin's eyewitness account. 446 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,840 But Goubin had disappeared after his run 447 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,040 in with the police in Georgia. 448 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,200 They assumed Goubin was Moses' law and sent him on his way. 449 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,200 My speculation is that the story that he told to Roland Felix 450 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,280 at Yume scared him so bad that he knew that he had to get out 451 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,080 of town somehow. 452 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,480 I believe that Harry used Moses' driver's license 453 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,720 and took his van so he could get away and have 454 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,920 some type of collateral. 455 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:25,520 Get down here. 456 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:26,520 I'm calling that b. 457 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:27,920 You, pick up the birds. 458 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:28,920 She has nothing to do with him. 459 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:29,920 Let her go. 460 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,280 What happened to Moses' law and Lila Biratani? 461 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,520 Did Moses' law's questionable business dealings 462 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,040 come back to haunt him, or was someone 463 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:43,160 after the rare expensive birds? 464 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:48,320 If someone had in fact killed them for birds, 465 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,360 the birds that were missing were not the right birds. 466 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:56,600 Birds that were worth $2,000 in adjoining cages 467 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,480 were left behind. 468 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,800 If they met with foul play because people 469 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:05,520 wanted to take the birds, they took the wrong birds. 470 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,160 The question remains who and why, 471 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,680 because it seemed that Moses had several people 472 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:15,240 that he was involved with in things that were either legal, 473 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,480 illegal, or borderline. 474 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,720 And Lila is not explained because nobody 475 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,360 seems to have anything bad to say about her whatsoever. 476 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:29,040 Lila doesn't seem to have any involvement with anyone 477 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,920 that is in any way unusual. 478 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,040 She seemed to be very happy in her solitude. 479 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,680 The birds were her world. 480 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,680 She didn't much care for anything outside of that world. 481 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,160 My gut feeling is she's dead. 482 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,080 To me, that's the only way Lila would leave her birds, 483 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,960 is if she was dead or so afraid for her life, 484 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,520 that that's the only way she would leave that place. 485 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,480 Police believe that Harry Gobin is crucial to solving this case. 486 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,440 If he indeed witnessed a kidnapping, 487 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,400 he undoubtedly knows vital details that could help the police. 488 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,760 In a moment, the tragic death of an infant 489 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,960 is followed by a miraculous rebirth. 490 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,480 Perhaps the only time we welcome a visit to the hospital 491 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,920 is for the birth of a child. 492 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,640 But even this special moment can be marred by sudden disaster. 493 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,440 Just ask an Indiana couple named Todd and Tammy Carroll. 494 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,240 Their second child, Megan, was still 495 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,920 born after an eight-month pregnancy. 496 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,160 Naturally, Megan was very much on their minds 497 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:47,880 when the Carrolls arrived at the hospital 498 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,480 for the birth of their third child, a son named Logan. 499 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,280 They had no idea how close they would come to another tragedy. 500 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,080 Hi, Dr. O'Conn. 501 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,040 Hi, Tammy. 502 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,320 Oh, this is my sister, Ruthie. 503 00:23:58,320 --> 00:23:59,400 She's going to be with us today. 504 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,720 Hi, Ruthie. Nice to meet you. 505 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,120 Nice to meet you. 506 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,360 Well, Tammy, everything looks great. 507 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,720 After we lost Megan, I was real anxious. 508 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,560 It was real stressful. 509 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,480 I was worried, is anything going to be wrong with this baby? 510 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,520 Is everything going to be all right? 511 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,360 And after the ultrasound, and everything looked good on it, 512 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:19,920 and then we ran some other tests that looked fine. 513 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:20,840 That eased my mind. 514 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,680 I really tried to look at it as a separate incident. 515 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,480 OK, here comes the next one. 516 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,040 Tammy's obstetrician, Dr. Diana O'Conn, 517 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,440 induced labor at around 8.45 AM. 518 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,400 The contractions grew stronger and more frequent through the day. 519 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,520 The baby's vital signs were consistently 520 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:40,880 stable and positive. 521 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,440 4.30 PM, birth was imminent. 522 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,520 Tammy's sister, Ruthie, stationed herself 523 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,120 near the fetal heartbeat monitor. 524 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,200 The red numbers showed a normal rate, 525 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,440 120 to 140 beats per minute. 526 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,760 Another deep breath and push. 527 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,280 While Tammy was pushing, trying to push the baby out, 528 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,200 I noticed that the heart monitor would drop way down. 529 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,040 And that really kind of alarmed me. 530 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,240 And the header takes some slow breaths, 531 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,160 and it recovered back up. 532 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,720 One more push, deep breath and push. 533 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,600 4.42 PM, at the moment Logan Carroll was born, 534 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:26,800 his heart rate plunged to zero, a fragile life in mortal danger. 535 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,120 I knew something was wrong as soon as he 536 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,120 delivered because he didn't have any tone. 537 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:35,120 When I felt his umbilical cord, I didn't feel any pulse at all. 538 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,880 And that's when we started CPR. 539 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,760 Why is he crying? 540 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:40,640 Why is he crying? 541 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,120 Relax, it's all right. 542 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:45,120 Oh, it's all right, man. 543 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:46,360 Quiet. 544 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:47,280 Call and code. 545 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,180 No! 546 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,480 Dr. Stam, we're under your order. 547 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,960 Please contact us for the H201. 548 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,080 We have an emergency covlo. 549 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,160 For 15 minutes, the emergency team 550 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,000 tried desperately to revive Logan. 551 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,120 457, Dr. Mary Valentine, the Carroll's pediatrician, 552 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:16,520 joined the emergency team. 553 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,600 What's the history here? 554 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,640 An eventful pregnancy. 555 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,040 We lost the heart rate immediately before delivery. 556 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,680 Logan still had no vital signs, no heartbeat, no breathing. 557 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,720 No heart rate flat line. 558 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,320 Stop compression. 559 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,880 No heart rate flat line. 560 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,040 Continue resuscitation? 561 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,800 We continued doing CPR throughout that time, 562 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,600 again with no response for approximately another 15 minutes 563 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,920 after my arrival. 564 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,640 And I began inserting a line into his umbilical cord 565 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,840 to try to administer some drugs to help revive him. 566 00:26:54,840 --> 00:27:00,120 They had put EKG monitor on him, and the tracing was not 567 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:01,600 showing any electrical activity. 568 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,760 So I knew it didn't look good at all. 569 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,760 Time away! 570 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,880 Well, I was still hoping, but they was there so long. 571 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,960 I don't know how many five or six doctors 572 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,480 they were working on him at one time, 573 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,560 trying to get him revived. 574 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,360 And they still ain't doing nothing. 575 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:23,040 I just couldn't lose this baby. 576 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,920 I just could not believe this could happen again. 577 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,880 At some point, you always have to just say, 578 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,000 we've done what we can do. 579 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,280 This baby is not going to respond. 580 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,280 And we finally called it and pronounced him dead at that time. 581 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,280 I'm sorry. 582 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,280 No! 583 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,280 No! 584 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,280 No! 585 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,280 No! 586 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:43,280 No! 587 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,280 No! 588 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,160 I don't think there's any lower feeling 589 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,400 than holding your dead child. 590 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:57,080 It's supposed to be such a time of joy and renewed life giving 591 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:02,840 birth that when they hand you this child that's no longer living. 592 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,600 I just can't begin to tell you how low that feeling is. 593 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,920 No. 594 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,760 Seeing they're holding him and looking in his face, 595 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,320 I just wanted him to be alive so bad. 596 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,000 Logan James Carroll was officially pronounced dead at 5.15 597 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,440 PM. 598 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,160 He was 33 minutes old. 599 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,640 In accordance with hospital policy, 600 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,000 the Carroll's were allowed time to say their goodbyes. 601 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,120 Swaddle in a blanket, Logan was cradled 602 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,720 by each grieving family member. 603 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,760 In the midst of their anguish, Tammy and Todd 604 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,920 agreed to an autopsy hoping for some explanation. 605 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,640 Tammy, Todd, I don't mean to sound crass or anything, 606 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,840 but we usually take pictures of the baby for the family. 607 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,160 You never know how people are going 608 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,480 to take that when you come in and say, 609 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,680 I'd like to take pictures of you and the baby. 610 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,240 But they were very receptive because they 611 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,680 said they didn't get enough pictures the last time 612 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,840 that this had happened to them. 613 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,520 These photos were taken that afternoon. 614 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,760 Stark portraits meant to commemorate the end of a young life. 615 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,720 Instead, they would mark the beginning of a miracle. 616 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,120 What was that? 617 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,040 What was what? 618 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,360 I just made a noise. 619 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,600 That was just a reflex action, Tammy. 620 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:37,720 Are you sure? 621 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:38,640 I'm sorry. 622 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,240 While I was holding Logan, he made the gasping sound. 623 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,280 It was a very eerie feeling, but we had been told 624 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,320 that that was normal. 625 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,960 It is called agonogasping, and it can happen 626 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,000 because of the medication. 627 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,280 It can go on for quite a while. 628 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,800 So I wanted to let them know because every time he would do 629 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,800 that, he did it a couple of times for Tammy, 630 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,320 they would just, their eyes would light up, 631 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,160 and then they would be really let down 632 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,280 when he wouldn't do it again. 633 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,320 As the minutes went by, I was slowly becoming unaware 634 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,600 of what even was going on in the room. 635 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,640 I just wanted to completely detach myself 636 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,800 and float away somewhere and be somewhere 637 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,440 where it wasn't hurting so bad. 638 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,080 I wanted to get away from the pain. 639 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,880 Some 40 minutes had passed since Logan was pronounced dead. 640 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,200 The time for his autopsy was close at hand. 641 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,720 However, as Tammy stepped mother, healthy infant, 642 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,240 she was beginning to think that an autopsy would not 643 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,720 be such a good idea. 644 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,480 His color looks so good. 645 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,440 Ruthie is getting warmer. 646 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,340 Feel. 647 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:46,920 Feel it. 648 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,320 I'll get the nurse. 649 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:55,440 Shh. 650 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,340 Just look. 651 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,440 I'll be right back. 652 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:14,840 What's going on, Ruthie? 653 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,200 There's no reason for this to happen, Dr. O'Conn. 654 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,600 I understand about agonal breathing, 655 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,800 but is there such a thing as an agonal heart rate? 656 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:23,700 Susan. 657 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:27,700 Does a heart rate please come and take a look at him? 658 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:28,940 I thought she was nuts. 659 00:31:28,940 --> 00:31:30,060 You know, if you keep this up, you're 660 00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:31,540 going to give me a heart attack. 661 00:31:31,540 --> 00:31:36,220 I was just, I think I was afraid that she was reacting 662 00:31:36,220 --> 00:31:38,500 in a way that was going to upset the family even more, 663 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,420 because, I mean, the baby was dead. 664 00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:41,320 I'm sorry. 665 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,820 This baby's alive. 666 00:31:53,820 --> 00:31:55,300 Let's get her to the nursery. 667 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:56,860 What? 668 00:31:56,860 --> 00:32:00,460 It was total unbelief, and I wanted to touch him. 669 00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:01,980 I had an uncontrollable urge. 670 00:32:01,980 --> 00:32:03,860 I needed to touch him. 671 00:32:03,860 --> 00:32:06,740 And I don't know how soon it was, 672 00:32:06,740 --> 00:32:09,940 but it was real soon they came in, took my IV out, 673 00:32:09,940 --> 00:32:12,900 and I had monitors on me, and I had a blood pressure cuff. 674 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:16,180 I mean, they were taking wires and just pulling them off of me 675 00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:19,980 and put me in a wheelchair and willed me into the nursery. 676 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:22,620 And I reached in, and I held his arm. 677 00:32:22,620 --> 00:32:24,860 And I was talking to him, telling him 678 00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:27,940 that he had to hang in there, and that I loved him, 679 00:32:27,940 --> 00:32:32,180 and that I was proud of him for being so strong. 680 00:32:32,180 --> 00:32:35,980 I was still in a different type of shock, 681 00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:37,460 because it was so unbelievable. 682 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:41,980 Unbelievable indeed. 683 00:32:41,980 --> 00:32:44,780 At least six physicians and eight registered nurses, 684 00:32:44,780 --> 00:32:47,860 all certain that Logan Carroll had died. 685 00:32:47,860 --> 00:32:52,380 High-tech meters and monitors had confirmed that judgment. 686 00:32:52,380 --> 00:32:54,620 I figured God's hand had to been in it, 687 00:32:54,620 --> 00:32:58,900 but that's not in the medical literature 688 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:01,980 to account for the miraculous as an explanation. 689 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:04,980 But it's amazing. 690 00:33:04,980 --> 00:33:08,700 I mean, we're all trained to do something as doctors, 691 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:10,940 and here we did nothing, and he came back. 692 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,060 Word spread through the hospital very quickly. 693 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:19,140 You know, people from the lab, people from other nursing units 694 00:33:19,140 --> 00:33:21,620 came up just to look at him to say 695 00:33:21,620 --> 00:33:23,580 that they could have seen this miracle baby. 696 00:33:23,580 --> 00:33:25,860 It was incredible. 697 00:33:25,860 --> 00:33:30,380 The emergency room doctor came up and was totally amazed. 698 00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:33,980 It was something. 699 00:33:33,980 --> 00:33:34,900 It was something. 700 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:39,140 Logan's metamorphosis. 701 00:33:39,140 --> 00:33:41,420 From a lifeless infant in this photo, 702 00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:44,420 the squirming, marble videotape just one day later 703 00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:46,900 was simply astonishing. 704 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:49,780 He would remain in the hospital for the next five weeks. 705 00:33:49,780 --> 00:33:53,740 His vital signs never faltered. 706 00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:56,380 Though Logan remains healthy, doctors fear 707 00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:59,740 he may have sustained some degree of permanent neurological 708 00:33:59,740 --> 00:34:02,980 damage during the time he had no oxygen. 709 00:34:02,980 --> 00:34:06,460 Only time will tell. 710 00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:08,700 My feelings for him will stay the same, 711 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:11,740 whether he has an IQ of 180 or 50. 712 00:34:11,740 --> 00:34:12,860 He's here. 713 00:34:12,860 --> 00:34:14,980 He's alive. 714 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:16,940 I've held the alternative. 715 00:34:16,940 --> 00:34:20,980 And holding him, no matter how he's 716 00:34:20,980 --> 00:34:25,060 going to develop in the future, we try to live for today. 717 00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:26,820 And we'll keep him. 718 00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:32,940 It is impossible for most of us to fully appreciate 719 00:34:32,940 --> 00:34:35,380 the Carroll family's experience. 720 00:34:35,380 --> 00:34:37,500 Today, Logan's extraordinary revival 721 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:41,340 continues to baffle any expert who studies the case. 722 00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:44,100 However, those who were in the delivery room that day 723 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:46,380 when despair turned to wonder are 724 00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:48,180 certain that they witnessed nothing less 725 00:34:48,180 --> 00:34:49,580 than a modern day miracle. 726 00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:56,260 Next, a poignant tale of loved and eyed 727 00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:57,380 and a son lost. 728 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:13,860 You're about to meet a man named Fauzi Mamoud. 729 00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:17,820 Almost 30 years ago, a single moment changed his life forever. 730 00:35:17,820 --> 00:35:21,540 It was the spring of 1967 in San Antonio, Texas. 731 00:35:21,540 --> 00:35:24,700 The event, nothing less than love at first sight. 732 00:35:27,260 --> 00:35:30,660 Fauzi Mamoud was a trainee in the Jordanian Air Force. 733 00:35:30,660 --> 00:35:32,260 He was in the United States to learn 734 00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:34,060 American flying techniques. 735 00:35:34,060 --> 00:35:38,140 He was not interested in anything else, or so he thought. 736 00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:40,260 Fauzi, how are you doing? 737 00:35:40,260 --> 00:35:41,700 Do you remember Barbara? 738 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:42,700 Hi. 739 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:43,700 And Zoila. 740 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:44,700 Hi. 741 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:45,700 Hello. 742 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,900 Her name was Zoila Maldonado. 743 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:49,940 She was just 20 years old. 744 00:35:49,940 --> 00:35:52,740 In Fauzi's eyes, she was dazzling. 745 00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:53,740 What? 746 00:35:53,740 --> 00:35:55,740 I mean, she looked like a man. 747 00:35:55,740 --> 00:35:57,740 She looked so beautiful to me. 748 00:35:57,740 --> 00:36:00,620 And she got this green dress. 749 00:36:00,620 --> 00:36:05,780 And she was a knockout, and I was knocked out. 750 00:36:05,780 --> 00:36:07,180 I fell in love with her. 751 00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:09,500 I mean, I fell madly in love with her. 752 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,260 This is beautiful. 753 00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:13,020 It is pretty. 754 00:36:13,020 --> 00:36:13,820 I like it. 755 00:36:13,820 --> 00:36:14,820 Like you. 756 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:16,420 Very beautiful. 757 00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:19,020 For both Fauzi and Zoila, this was her first taste 758 00:36:19,020 --> 00:36:20,500 of true love. 759 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:22,820 But for Fauzi, it was also much more. 760 00:36:25,820 --> 00:36:28,140 Actually, Zoila was not only the first love. 761 00:36:28,140 --> 00:36:31,020 It was the first woman I ever talked to in my life. 762 00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:33,700 Because we came from a very, very strict family 763 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:36,700 and strict people and a strict government. 764 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:39,820 But she was my first everything. 765 00:36:39,820 --> 00:36:41,500 Oh, mom, he's waiting. 766 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:42,500 He's not coming. 767 00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:44,100 Zoila's parents were very conservative, 768 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:46,420 and she was her only child. 769 00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:49,580 They did not like the idea of Zoila dating anyone. 770 00:36:49,580 --> 00:36:52,500 The fact that Fauzi was a foreigner who spoke little English 771 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:53,580 did not help. 772 00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:54,860 He's a nice boy. 773 00:36:55,820 --> 00:37:22,540 Well, what does the matter, 774 00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:26,300 to Zoila's great relief, Fauzi was ecstatic. 775 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:27,340 You are? 776 00:37:27,340 --> 00:37:29,380 Yes. 777 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:30,340 I want to marry you. 778 00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:43,140 But the marriage would never take place. 779 00:37:43,140 --> 00:37:45,260 Several months earlier, the Six Day War 780 00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:47,900 had erupted between Jordan and Israel. 781 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:51,020 Tension between the two countries remained high. 782 00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:55,860 In late November 1967, Fauzi was ordered home. 783 00:37:55,860 --> 00:37:56,780 I will come back. 784 00:37:56,780 --> 00:37:58,700 I promise. 785 00:37:58,700 --> 00:37:59,620 Fauzi, I. 786 00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:01,780 We talked, and we promised, and we vowed 787 00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:06,540 that we would always be together no matter what happens. 788 00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:08,260 When I come back. 789 00:38:08,260 --> 00:38:10,940 I can't raise a baby by myself. 790 00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:11,820 I can't. 791 00:38:11,820 --> 00:38:13,260 You and baby come to Jordan. 792 00:38:13,260 --> 00:38:15,540 I just felt so helpless. 793 00:38:15,540 --> 00:38:17,740 I come back very soon. 794 00:38:17,740 --> 00:38:18,260 Come on, kids. 795 00:38:18,260 --> 00:38:19,140 We need to get going. 796 00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:23,260 I felt why love should be like that. 797 00:38:23,260 --> 00:38:25,860 I mean, we're having so good time together. 798 00:38:25,860 --> 00:38:26,460 We are happy. 799 00:38:26,460 --> 00:38:26,900 Why? 800 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:28,260 The happiness have to go. 801 00:38:43,860 --> 00:38:45,700 Sometimes I miss you so much. 802 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:47,140 I think I'll go crazy. 803 00:38:47,140 --> 00:38:50,900 But then I receive your letters, and I feel better. 804 00:38:50,940 --> 00:38:54,100 Zoila and Fauzi continue their love affair by letter. 805 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:56,940 The Jordanian Air Force refused to release Fauzi, 806 00:38:56,940 --> 00:38:59,300 so Zoila planned to go to Jordan. 807 00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:02,540 Please take care of yourself and stay safe. 808 00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:04,340 I will close now. 809 00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:07,180 I'm tired, but the baby's fine. 810 00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:08,900 It still kicks all the time. 811 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:13,180 If he's a boy, he'll probably be a football player. 812 00:39:13,180 --> 00:39:18,180 In late June 1968, Zoila gave birth to a healthy baby boy. 813 00:39:18,180 --> 00:39:21,900 She named him Amadeo Marcello. 814 00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:23,180 I mean, I was thrilled. 815 00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:24,060 I was very happy. 816 00:39:24,060 --> 00:39:25,380 I was jumping. 817 00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:30,460 But I also was very unpleased because of the fact 818 00:39:30,460 --> 00:39:33,380 that I cannot be there to see him and be with her 819 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:36,260 and be of help to her. 820 00:39:36,260 --> 00:39:39,740 I was very frustrated. 821 00:39:39,740 --> 00:39:42,340 Even on duty, Fauzi's thoughts were with Zoila 822 00:39:42,340 --> 00:39:43,860 and his infant son. 823 00:39:43,860 --> 00:39:46,540 He could not wait to bring his new family to Jordan. 824 00:39:49,180 --> 00:39:52,660 Zoila kept writing to Fauzi, but the tone of her letters 825 00:39:52,660 --> 00:39:55,060 soon changed. 826 00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:59,420 Fauzi, I'm writing to say I'm sorry to hear of your problem. 827 00:39:59,420 --> 00:40:01,460 I want us together more than ever. 828 00:40:01,460 --> 00:40:04,500 I will always believe my love is strong. 829 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:10,100 But the war, I refuse to take that chance with Marcello's life. 830 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:12,340 Zoila made a difficult decision. 831 00:40:12,340 --> 00:40:14,660 She needed a father for her baby. 832 00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:17,140 She wrote Fauzi that she had married someone else. 833 00:40:20,860 --> 00:40:23,940 Fauzi could not bring himself to write to Zoila again, 834 00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:25,740 but he could never forget his son. 835 00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:32,100 In 1970, Fauzi returned to the United States. 836 00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:34,340 He claims he tried to call Zoila by phone, 837 00:40:34,340 --> 00:40:38,260 but her mother hung up on him, then had the number changed. 838 00:40:38,260 --> 00:40:40,420 She apparently blamed Fauzi for her daughter's 839 00:40:40,420 --> 00:40:43,780 out of wedlock child and was understandably upset to hear 840 00:40:43,780 --> 00:40:45,220 from him again. 841 00:40:45,220 --> 00:40:50,340 In desperation, Fauzi went to Zoila's house. 842 00:40:50,340 --> 00:40:51,540 Hello. 843 00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:53,260 I'd like to see Zoila, please. 844 00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:55,340 Nobody wants to talk to you. 845 00:40:55,340 --> 00:40:56,260 My son. 846 00:40:56,260 --> 00:40:58,220 I'd like to see my son. 847 00:40:58,220 --> 00:41:00,820 You ruined my daughter's life. 848 00:41:00,820 --> 00:41:01,500 No, no. 849 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:02,860 I love your daughter. 850 00:41:02,860 --> 00:41:05,140 You know what? 851 00:41:05,140 --> 00:41:06,580 You are three years too late. 852 00:41:14,780 --> 00:41:17,500 If you don't get out of here, I'm going to call the police. 853 00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:19,900 No, please, wait. 854 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:21,700 I just want to see my son. 855 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:23,380 Please, wait. 856 00:41:26,380 --> 00:41:27,940 Fauzi had no choice. 857 00:41:27,940 --> 00:41:33,300 He could not risk being arrested and possibly deported. 858 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:36,260 That moment was as close as Fauzi Mahmoud has ever 859 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:37,900 gotten to meeting his son. 860 00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:42,780 Today, Fauzi lives in Edet, Oklahoma 861 00:41:42,780 --> 00:41:44,340 with his wife, Robin. 862 00:41:44,340 --> 00:41:47,460 They have a young son, and Fauzi has three grown children 863 00:41:47,460 --> 00:41:50,420 from a previous marriage, but thoughts of his first 864 00:41:50,420 --> 00:41:53,540 born still haunt him. 865 00:41:53,540 --> 00:41:55,980 There is one thing missing all the time. 866 00:41:55,980 --> 00:41:57,860 I would like to see my son. 867 00:41:57,860 --> 00:41:59,340 I would like to see how he looks like. 868 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:00,140 I want to hug him. 869 00:42:00,140 --> 00:42:02,980 I want to tell him I love him. 870 00:42:02,980 --> 00:42:05,460 I mean, there's a lot of things that we did not do together. 871 00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:08,060 Maybe we can do it now, even at this age. 872 00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:13,680 OK. 873 00:42:39,180 --> 00:42:41,080 Join me again next week. 874 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,640 Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.