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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries.

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Socorro, New Mexico, 1964.

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It began as a routine police pursuit,

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just a wild teenager tooling through town,

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and ended with one of the most remarkable UFO episodes

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in history, a close encounter still impossible to ignore.

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Welcome to Valley Hill, Kentucky,

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where thousands of people from these teenage girls

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to skeptical adults say they have witnessed miraculous visions.

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A case of mass hallucination?

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Or is Valley Hill truly touched by God?

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In Dallas, Texas, an attorney named David Marafil

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schedules a pre-breakfast meeting

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with a mysterious new client.

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An hour later, two women make the horrifying discovery.

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Who murdered David Marafil?

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And you'll see how your calls reunited a family

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with a guardian angel who rescued them

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after a terrifying accident.

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Join me.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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April 24, 1964.

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The little town of Socorro, New Mexico was quiet.

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Police officer Lonnie Zamora was not surprised.

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During the five years he'd been on the force,

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Socorro had almost always been quiet.

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When Lonnie spotted a local teenager speeding through town,

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he figured riding him up might be the biggest

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excitement of the day.

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The chase proceeded to the edge of town and beyond,

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out into the desert.

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Lonnie Zamora had no warning.

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He was about to leave his safe, secure world

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and enter the realm of the unexplained.

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Might as well make do with her help,

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but Tohmma wouldn't pay me more than VanR continuity feed.

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Only she doesn't know the hopes.

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Roosevelt quickly thanked social media that

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was known for their efforts to choose

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volumes of the book featuring Burke's early and successful

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new features.

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�를ением, in the Boundary Museum

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To Palace Umber, Lake britain,

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another world.

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On that day in 1964, Lonnie Zamora

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had no idea that Socorro was about to become another landmark,

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a location of what some believe is one of the most significant

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UFO sightings ever made.

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Lonnie had no idea what was waiting for him just down

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the road.

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Socorro, too, Socorro?

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Well, going up to half ways, I could see a white object

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to my left there.

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I thought it was a turnover car.

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When I got up on top of the mesa there, I looked down,

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and I seen this big white object on the ground.

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I thought I could see something around the craft there.

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I could see some figures.

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It looked like they were walking around the craft.

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Socorro, too.

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Socorro?

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I couldn't see anything.

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According to Lonnie, he saw red markings on the hull,

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a vertical arrow with a horizontal line beneath it,

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and a crescent-shaped line above it.

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Lonnie made several attempts to contact police headquarters.

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He was never able to break through the heavy static.

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After he heard two metallic sounds like doors clanging shut,

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he realized the small figures had vanished.

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So this flame come from underneath it,

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and it ran back behind the car,

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and it went up to 20, 30 feet up in the air.

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So he just stayed there for a while,

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and then finally just took off slowly to the west.

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At first, you know, after I got to my senses, I said,

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did I see it or didn't I?

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Well, what happened, you know?

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And that's it.

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Lonnie radioed to an old friend, Sergeant Sam Chavez,

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about a year ago.

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He was a very young man.

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He was a very young man.

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He was a very young man.

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He radioed to an old friend, Sergeant Sam Chavez,

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of the New Mexico State Police.

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He told Sam to come fast and to come alone.

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What are you doing here? Are you OK?

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What happened out here?

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I saw it. I saw it, I saw it, I saw it.

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I could tell Lonnie was excited and probably scared.

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I lost my glasses.

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There they are. I'll get them for you, OK?

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Relax, take a deep breath.

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Lonnie Samora, he's a very dependable, honest type of person.

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He's not one to create or make stories or build things up

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to make it exciting or anything like that.

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He's a very well-liked type of a person.

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I saw two of them.

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Two of them what?

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People, the little ones, they were in the uniforms white.

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Let's go take a look, huh?

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No, no, no, I'm not going down there.

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Come on, come on. You don't have to be afraid of anything.

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Come on, Lonnie.

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I'll be right behind you.

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Come on.

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What the hell is this?

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We found some indentation on the ground

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where this thing had landed

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and the marks into the ground were 9 inches deep,

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8 inches long, and 9 inches wide.

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That's where the blaster caught.

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It's locked me right over the car.

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I started looking for tracks, human tracks.

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But the only thing I found was impressions on the ground.

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They were made by a perfect circle.

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But I found no human tracks, no shoe prints.

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Within 90 minutes, U.S. Army officials

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at nearby White Sands Missile Range

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sent Captain Richard T. Holder to investigate.

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This is the first time Holder has ever talked publicly

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about what he saw.

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Well, my first impression was that it was something

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from the range that needed possible help.

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You know, first aid, attention, or at best security.

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The more I got into it, the less convinced I was

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that that was the case.

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Holder also noticed the unusual impressions left in the sand.

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On the edge of the landing area, he found a bush,

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burned to a crisp on only one side,

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as though seared by a blowtorch.

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Gentlemen, this area is now officially designated sensitive.

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This entire area needs to be quatered.

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Folks, if you just move right on back.

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Officers, if you please take charge of these folks.

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It's really neat to secure this gentleman with a camera, please.

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State Trooper Ted Jordan was taking pictures.

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His camera and film were confiscated on the spot.

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I do recall that they told me that they would develop them

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and send me copies of them.

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It never occurred.

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And when I asked later about it,

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they told me that the film was no good.

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It had been ruined by radiation.

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Gentlemen, what we're looking for is anything metallic.

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Talek could be shiny, could be dalled object.

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We'll do a magnetic scan later.

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We looked around to try to find out if we could see any evidence

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of anything that would make us think it was a hoax.

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We found nothing.

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Everything we saw seemed to support the story that Officer Zamora recounted.

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My impression of talking to him was that he was mystified.

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He wanted an explanation.

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Nothing that I heard of later gave me the slightest hint

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that he did this as a hoax or cooked it up for fame or fortune.

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Whatever Lonnie saw, he apparently was not the only one.

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Just a few minutes after Lonnie drove into the Iroyo,

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a motorist who has never been identified

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pulled into a gas station on the north side of Socorro.

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What's that do today?

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Okay, I guess.

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I'll tell you, your aircraft sure fly low around here.

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How's that?

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We were south of town, headed north, something flew right across the hood of the car

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doing about 150 miles an hour.

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A white oval shaped object scared us to death.

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Jimmy Grinder was only 13, but he remembers the incident vividly.

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Did you folks call the police?

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No, there was a cop who looked like he was chasing it,

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going the same way that Craft was headed west,

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with his lights on, his siren and everything.

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I believe Lonnie saw something same as the tourists saw,

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something that they have never seen or encountered before.

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You know, it did not meet a helicopter type scenario.

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Definitely wasn't an airplane type scenario.

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And so you drew those two things out.

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In 1964, what do you have?

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It definitely wasn't a weather balloon.

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By the next morning, newspapers and wire services all over the country

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had picked up the story.

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Around Socorro, rumors ran rampant.

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Wild stories of flying saucers and funny little people.

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Everyone wanted details.

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They stopped me all over town and wanted to know this,

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wanted to know that.

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And then I got phone calls from all over the world.

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I was getting, you know, disgusted with it.

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The Air Force followed up the Army investigation with its own team.

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After a cursory once over, the Air Force agreed that Lonnie saw something.

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They insisted, however, that it must have been a secret military test device.

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Are you getting anything?

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Of course not. Here.

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They never were able to find any such evidence,

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that any such thing was being tested at the time.

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And in fact, even today, not an iota of evidence has emerged to support that claim.

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Nonetheless, the Air Force lying on the case is that this is a credible witness.

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He clearly saw some kind of structured flying vehicle,

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and that it must have been something that we built, even if we can't find it anywhere.

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While the military investigated, the UFO fever continued unabated.

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Since the 1950s, the Air Force had been criticized by Congress

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for its handling of UFO reports.

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The Socorro sighting threatened to add more pressure.

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Finally, Air Force officials summoned Dr. J. Allen Heineck, a respected astronomer.

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Dr. Heineck was the most prestigious consultant on Project Blue Book,

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the official Air Force study of the UFO phenomenon.

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Dr. Heineck went to Socorro.

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He talked to Lonnie, studied the landing site, and examined the photographs.

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He found the physical evidence extremely compelling,

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but the most persuasive argument for a genuine UFO sighting was Lonnie Zamora himself.

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Okay, Lonnie, now these depressions, you said, were actually from the outriggers.

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Dr. Heineck was enormously impressed by Lonnie Zamora.

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He thought there was virtually no possibility of a hoax.

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And on May 20th, he wrote a private memorandum, which he kept in his files,

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in which I discovered years after his death,

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in which he expressed huge disdain for the Blue Book handling of the report.

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And he said that it was clear that the story that Blue Book had cooked up about this possibly being

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some kind of experimental aircraft was a story that even Blue Book knew to be untrue,

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but which was invented to keep Congress from harassing the Air Force.

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Today, some 30 years later, the question remains,

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how do we explain what Lonnie Zamora saw?

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No matter what others believe, Lonnie has no doubt that what he witnessed was not of this Earth.

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I still think it's something not from here.

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If I could find out what it actually was, okay, I'm satisfied.

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I just didn't want to go through it again, you know.

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If they want to believe me good, if they don't want to believe me, it's all right too.

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I believe Lonnie Zamora was a good policeman and an honest man

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who reported as he felt proper something well beyond his experience.

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Was it something terrestrial, an extraterrestrial?

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I have no idea.

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Coming up, A Grateful Family is reunited with the unknown Good Samaritans who save their lives.

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Recently, your phone calls brought about one of our most unusual and gratifying reunions ever.

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The people involved were not related, had never been formally introduced,

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and in fact only learned each other's names on the night of our broadcast.

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It began in December 1983.

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The Dover family of Atlanta, Georgia was traveling to Mexico to celebrate the holidays with relatives.

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On the second day out, just after crossing the border, the weather suddenly changed,

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and the Dovers found the land was not as beautiful as it seemed.

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The Dovers were very happy to see the land.

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On the second day out, just after crossing the border, the weather suddenly changed,

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and the Dovers found themselves caught in a freak snowstorm.

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We were trying to be extremely cautious because the road conditions were really getting pretty bad,

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and my father had just told me to even be extremely careful,

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and just moments after he had told me that, I suddenly lost control.

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Tragically all four people in the other car were killed,

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but miraculously the six members of the Dover party were still alive, if only barely.

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By some incredible stroke of fortune, an American couple, one of whom was a doctor,

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happened upon the crash scene.

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Thanks largely to their efforts, the Dovers were pulled from the wreckage

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and received urgent medical care.

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Linda Dover credits the two good Samaritans with saving the lives of her entire family.

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OK. How you doing? Hang on there.

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I feel like it was a miracle. Many times it's an accident, and you know,

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we just drive by an accident, and they could have done that that day,

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but they did, and they stopped, and through their stopping, they saved the lives of our family,

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and we just want to say thank you.

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On the night we heard this story, the Dovers waited nervously back in Georgia

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to hear whether the case would be solved. Let's go to Keely Shay Smith for more.

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Bob, one of our viewers in Houston, Texas, saw the story

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and realized that she heard that very same story from her friends,

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Dr. Nancy Neff-Hannon and her husband, John.

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Later that night, the Hannons called us here at our phone center

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and provided agents with a detailed description of the rescue.

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It was clear from the start that the Hannons were in fact the Dover's guardian angels.

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Later that evening, the Hannons spoke to Vance Dover,

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who immediately passed on the exciting news to the rest of his family.

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Vance said, well, we found them.

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That was it. We found them, they've calmed,

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and so it's like, you know, you could hear a pin drop on the floor,

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and we can hear, after 11 years, we found that these angels were real human beings, you know.

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A few weeks later, some 30 members of the Dover family gathered to meet the Hannons

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and compare memories of that fateful Christmas Eve.

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There was a lady in the front seat, which had turned sideways,

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so I had to lift her up,

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because the front seat had broken off its pedestal,

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sort of supported that, kind of wedged myself in there,

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supported that with my shoulder as I tried to get him, good David, out.

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I remember the pain of somebody pulling me out,

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because I guess that maybe it's where I woke up or whatever,

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but this, in my leg, hurt really bad.

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I guess it's a physician that was one of the most helpless feelings I've ever had,

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to have the knowledge and everything, but not the tools to do anything.

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It was just really frustrating coming.

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To us, you were like an angel from God, both of you,

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that you were right there at the time, and had you not been there,

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the whole family, you know, could have possibly died,

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and you were so instrumental, and so we just wanted to say thank you.

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For the Dovers, the gathering was a chance to finally close

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this dramatic chapter of their lives.

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Thanks, Keeley.

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Every Christmas from now on, when the Dovers make their annual pilgrimage to Mexico,

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they plan to stop in Houston to visit with their new lifelong friends,

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their guardian angels, the Hennens.

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When we return, incredible claims of miraculous visions on a hillside in Kentucky,

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hundreds of pilgrims believe. Do you?

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In the past unsolved mysteries has taken you around the world to visit sacred locales.

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Said to have been graced with miraculous visions of the Virgin Mary,

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Lourdes, France, Phantom of Portugal,

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Medjugorje, and what is now Bosnia.

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Tonight we feature what may be another such holy spot much closer to home.

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Twice a month, on the second and 23rd,

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people flocked to a small hillside in Kentucky,

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where visions of the blessed mother have been reported.

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We ask newscaster Jackie Hayes from our NBC affiliate, W-A-V-E-T-V in Louisville,

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to investigate this phenomenon.

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This is Springfield, Kentucky, Route 55, about an hour's drive southwest of Louisville.

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A sign proudly proclaims that the site is now dedicated to our Lady of Valley Hill.

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During the past year, thousands of people from teenagers to senior citizens

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have crossed this creek bed and headed up Valley Hill.

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Some of them have come here hoping to be healed of serious illnesses

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and others have sought spiritual healing.

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All of them have come here hoping to witness a miracle.

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To date, no fewer than a thousand people claim to have had visions,

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from random bursts of color to showers of golden flakes.

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The visions first appeared to this woman, Iona Wright,

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who owns the land on which Valley Hill is located.

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I've been seeing these visions for years and years, a long time.

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Just seeing as if I was looking at a movie.

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On the day we filmed at Valley Hill, I was one of 300 visitors.

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I saw nothing unusual.

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However, at least a third of those present, 100 people,

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claimed that they indeed had visions inspired by God.

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Look up in the clouds.

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It looks like mud.

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Oh my gosh, it's getting deeper.

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Look up right in the sun.

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I can't tell if it's Jesus or Mary.

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I don't see it up in the sun.

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See, there's like a little rosary right there.

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And then there's a gateway to heaven.

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There is gold on the old man down there.

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The man looking up at the sun, his whole face is gold.

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But you don't see it.

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Now, had you been looking at the sun?

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No, no, not as we thought that might be what was causing it.

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I said, you know, when you look at the sun,

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well, I'm going to have to place tricks on your eyes.

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But what we saw is away from the sun.

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I would never look at the sun.

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I mean, it started just pulsating, turning colors, everything.

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And then after a while, you can see colors around,

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different colors, primarily red, and they would kind of move.

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Many of the eyewitnesses say that the visions

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have had a profound effect upon their lives.

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Perhaps the most dramatic episode involved a Sunday school teacher

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and eight young girls who came to Valley Hill on April 6, 1995.

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The first girl to notice something unusual was Mandy Mattingly.

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I said, look, y'all, the sun is moving.

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It had like a little disk around it, like rings.

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We looked at the sun, there's like three rings around the sun.

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It was like shaking, spinning.

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It's like the outer part would change colors

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and the inner would change.

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There was just different colors at times.

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I was like freaking out.

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I was like, oh, my gosh, what's happening?

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Why is this happening to us?

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I turned around to take a picture of the sun.

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Because the girl said, look at the sun, the sun is pulsating.

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And I took my Polaroid and took pictures.

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Did you see the sun pulsating?

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Oh, yes.

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Yes, I saw it, too.

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And then when I turned around, well, everybody was saying,

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oh, look at the gold.

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Look at the gold on you.

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Look at here.

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I was like, oh, my gosh, look at me.

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It's like spots of gold all over me.

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And then she snapped a picture and I was like, like that.

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And then I looked at the picture and there was like angels on each side of me,

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like angels' wings.

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She took another picture of the sun.

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It's like come out.

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It was like real dark.

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And then there was like eyes.

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You could see eyes of Jesus and he had like his little crowns above him.

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And then like the side, it was like Mary.

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According to the girls, the Virgin Mary appears on the left wearing a veil.

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They believe that the blurred image on the right is Jesus.

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Another Polaroid was perhaps more unusual.

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And one of them had a tombstone it looked like and it had my cousin's name on it,

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Kate Ballot, when she died when she was born.

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And we haven't found any explanation for it, but I think it was her name.

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They were hugging each other.

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They were hugging me.

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There were tears.

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They were crying.

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To see that experience, I knew that these girls were deeply affected.

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It was a profound experience.

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I think they were most amazed.

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We asked paranormal investigator, Joe Nicol, to comment on the photographs.

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These angel wings or flame effects are due to light leakage into the cartridge.

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When you put the cartridge into the camera, if your thumb cracks that open just a little bit,

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and let's light leak in.

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Now what about this picture?

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We don't have angel wings, but we have some shape of a form at the bottom.

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The girls say they see the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

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It's possible to see faces and pictures in the clouds.

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It's a well-known phenomenon.

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The human mind wants to make pictures out of random patterns,

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and so we see pictures all the time.

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What would have caused this?

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Well, again, this cartridge has been mishandled.

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And this part of the film you can actually see is not in focus.

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You can see it's blurred.

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Tell me about this last picture.

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There seem to be words here.

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A couple of the girls were saying it rang a bell that there was a family member's name in that picture,

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and maybe this was a sign.

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What do you see?

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Right.

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When we put a film pack in, it automatically whirs and ejects this card,

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which is meant to keep the light away from the picture.

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And when I turned it over, I really had to laugh,

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because here is the chart with the wording on it.

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Only it's backwards.

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And so the light has gone in there and bounced off of that white card

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and left a reverse imprint as a sort of technically a double exposure.

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Rational explanations may satisfy some people,

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but not the mothers of two of the girls who came to Valley Hill to see for themselves.

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I was skeptical at first.

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I thought, you know, maybe this did happen, but I was kind of scared.

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And then about that time, I started looking at the tree with words to show how to say the rosary.

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Which tree?

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It's right over in behind the grotto.

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Okay.

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And I looked behind there, and then I started seeing the spots.

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They were just the kelp flickering like they were flickering on that one place.

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I yelled out at Trees.

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Trees, my God, you've got gold all over you.

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It was like a gold dust.

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You would sit on her feet, and it was just going up her body,

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and then just leaving, and here would come more of her body and leave.

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Had you been looking at the sun for a long time?

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No, I never even looked at the sun.

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I thought if you look at the sun long enough, it could, you know, do something to your eyes.

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So you did not look at the sun?

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I did not look at the sun.

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But you saw?

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I saw the gold spots.

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How does that make you feel?

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When others are really singing, is that sort of confirmed to you all that what you saw was real?

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Yeah, it was real.

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Well, we knew it was real.

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Yeah, we knew it was real.

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Whether or not anybody else sees it.

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Yeah, we've seen it, and that's all that counts.

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Is Valley Hill a sacred spot?

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Destined to join Lourdes and Fatima as a holy shrine?

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Only time will tell.

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But for now, there is no denying that this remote Kentucky hillside has become a house of worship,

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a church in the woods for the faithful.

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Are the miraculous visions in Kentucky real?

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Those who've experienced the sightings are convinced of their authenticity.

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How are there interesting to note that the local Catholic church has declined to recognize

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Valley Hill as anything out of the ordinary?

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The rest of us will have to decide for ourselves.

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Next, when a loving family is split apart, a young girl embarks on a 20-year search.

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For orphaned or abandoned children, foster homes are often a temporary salvation.

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Sometimes, unfortunately, they turn out to be impersonal places

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that only a bureaucrat could call home.

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To the four children in our next story, however,

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a foster home became the first chance to be part of a real family.

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Hi, Hamil!

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Hi, Hamil!

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Hi, Hamil!

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Hi, Hamil!

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Hi, Hamil!

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Hi, I'm Mark.

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Hello, Mark!

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In December 1968, Dorothy and Robert Reese of Napa, California

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welcomed two five-year-olds into their home as foster children.

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Oh, you're so beautiful!

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Mark and Tammy Gardner were fraternal twins who'd been severely abused,

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emotionally and physically.

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Both were developmentally disabled.

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Tammy had trouble walking and talking normally.

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Debbie, honey?

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For the Reese's five-year-old daughter, Deborah, none of that mattered.

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She had a new brother and sister.

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Tammy!

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I like your daughter.

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When they came to us, I remember feeling wonderful

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that there was someone my age I can finally have someone that I can relate to.

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Sure.

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There were people, too little people, like me, and I thought it was fabulous.

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You will find, Tammy and Mark, that Mom makes the best fried chicken you've ever had.

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Tammy was very, very scared, had a very frightful look, and Mark was the total opposite.

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In fact, he spoke for Tammy every time my parents would ask her a question.

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She would like some.

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Now, Tammy, if you want some butter for your corn, you're going to have to ask for it.

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So, would you like some butter for your corn?

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Is that the best you can do?

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All right, then.

495
00:30:49,780 --> 00:30:53,780
In the supportive atmosphere of the Reese's home, Tammy and Mark began to heal.

496
00:30:53,780 --> 00:30:57,780
A year later, the family grew to include two more foster children,

497
00:30:57,780 --> 00:31:01,780
six-year-old Kelly Clay and his four-year-old sister, Terry.

498
00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:05,780
Before long, it seemed as if none of them had ever known another home.

499
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:09,780
There was a kinship far beyond blood.

500
00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:13,780
We were our best friends.

501
00:31:13,780 --> 00:31:19,780
Most of the time, it was the five of us kids swimming, or the five of us kids picking apples,

502
00:31:19,780 --> 00:31:23,780
or the five of us kids getting into trouble.

503
00:31:23,780 --> 00:31:29,780
Because of the abuse Tammy and Mark had experienced, they were placed in special education classes.

504
00:31:29,780 --> 00:31:33,780
That made them a frequent target for cruel teasing.

505
00:31:33,780 --> 00:31:37,780
As the oldest, Deborah was a natural leader.

506
00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:39,780
You pushed my little sister.

507
00:31:39,780 --> 00:31:43,780
At school, she often confronted the bullies who tormented Mark and Tammy.

508
00:31:43,780 --> 00:31:45,780
I don't like being pushed.

509
00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:47,780
I don't like it at all, and I don't like you pushing my little sister.

510
00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:51,780
Tammy, I think, thrived on the fact that she had brothers and sisters

511
00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:57,780
that would really stick up for her no matter what, accepted her for who she was.

512
00:31:57,780 --> 00:31:59,780
Kids, could you come in for a second?

513
00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:01,780
One minute.

514
00:32:01,780 --> 00:32:07,780
By 1974, the Reese clan had been together for six years.

515
00:32:07,780 --> 00:32:11,780
Dorothy and Robert planned to adopt all four foster children.

516
00:32:11,780 --> 00:32:15,780
Then the Reese's got into a nasty dispute with the adoption agency.

517
00:32:15,780 --> 00:32:19,780
As a result, the children would have to leave.

518
00:32:19,780 --> 00:32:23,780
To ease the blow, Robert Reese blamed the bad news on his heart condition.

519
00:32:23,780 --> 00:32:27,780
Your mom would be all alone.

520
00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:35,780
The folks from Child Protective Services are going to have to split us up.

521
00:32:35,780 --> 00:32:37,780
Where are we going to go?

522
00:32:37,780 --> 00:32:39,780
They will probably put you with another foster family.

523
00:32:39,780 --> 00:32:43,780
We're family, and we have to stay together.

524
00:32:43,780 --> 00:32:47,780
I just figured they'd never leave. They're my brothers and sisters forever.

525
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:49,780
Are we ever going to see you again?

526
00:32:49,780 --> 00:32:55,780
A few weeks later, the reality hit when they weren't around.

527
00:32:55,780 --> 00:33:05,780
There was a big empty house, and there wasn't Mark and Kelly talking,

528
00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:09,780
and my mom saying, quiet boys, go to sleep.

529
00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:19,780
And there wasn't me yakking with Tammy and Terry, and it was just silence.

530
00:33:19,780 --> 00:33:21,780
A year passed.

531
00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:24,780
Deborah didn't see her foster sisters or brothers at all.

532
00:33:24,780 --> 00:33:29,780
She began to think she would never see them again.

533
00:33:29,780 --> 00:33:37,780
Then out of the blue, Mark surprised Deborah at the stable where she boarded her horse.

534
00:33:37,780 --> 00:33:39,780
Mark!

535
00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:42,780
Seeing him, we were overwhelmed with each other.

536
00:33:42,780 --> 00:33:49,780
We cried, but what he had to tell me hurt terribly.

537
00:33:49,780 --> 00:33:51,780
Our foster parents, they hit us a lot.

538
00:33:51,780 --> 00:33:56,780
A shaken Mark made some disturbing allegations.

539
00:33:56,780 --> 00:33:59,780
My mother and father did try to find out what was going on,

540
00:33:59,780 --> 00:34:10,780
but they ran into people who told them, never mind, it's none of your business, they're not your children.

541
00:34:10,780 --> 00:34:14,780
That day in 1975 was the last time Deborah saw Mark.

542
00:34:14,780 --> 00:34:19,780
Bye, Mark.

543
00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:26,780
Ever since, her heart has ached for the loss of Mark, Tammy, Kelly and Terry.

544
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:33,780
I felt like someone came in the middle of the night and stole them out of my room.

545
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:41,780
My four best friends, they stole out of my room, and they...

546
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:45,780
and I don't know what happened to them.

547
00:34:45,780 --> 00:34:49,780
As soon as she was old enough, Deborah started searching.

548
00:34:49,780 --> 00:34:54,780
Twenty years went by, but she never gave up.

549
00:34:54,780 --> 00:35:06,780
Finally, just last September, she walked into the open arms of Terry and Kelly Clay, reunited at last.

550
00:35:06,780 --> 00:35:08,780
But Deborah's quest is not over.

551
00:35:08,780 --> 00:35:13,780
Unfortunately, she has yet to find any trace of Tammy or Mark.

552
00:35:38,780 --> 00:35:50,780
Dottis, Texas, Thursday, February 9, 1995.

553
00:35:50,780 --> 00:35:55,780
At 7 a.m., Attorney Clint Blackman arrived at his office building.

554
00:35:55,780 --> 00:36:00,780
He bypassed the notoriously slow elevator and took the stairs to the third floor.

555
00:36:00,780 --> 00:36:04,780
At 7.30 a.m., Juanita Lackey arrived.

556
00:36:04,780 --> 00:36:08,780
The man-leader and a secretary let Juanita into the building.

557
00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:10,780
I'm sorry I had to get you down.

558
00:36:10,780 --> 00:36:12,780
That's okay. I knew it earlier.

559
00:36:12,780 --> 00:36:14,780
No, no, I've got a lot of work to do.

560
00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:16,780
Thanks. No, don't worry about it.

561
00:36:16,780 --> 00:36:20,780
Roxanne and Juanita were about to receive the shock of their lives.

562
00:36:20,780 --> 00:36:22,780
Presentation, you know.

563
00:36:22,780 --> 00:36:25,780
Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Are you ready?

564
00:36:25,780 --> 00:36:27,780
What? Yeah.

565
00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:29,780
Thanks.

566
00:36:30,780 --> 00:36:32,780
Oh, my God.

567
00:36:32,780 --> 00:36:35,780
Oh, come on, Teresa!

568
00:36:35,780 --> 00:36:39,780
I heard a lot of screaming and hollering.

569
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:41,780
It was Roxanne and Juanita.

570
00:36:41,780 --> 00:36:45,780
Juanita said that she thought that there was a man in the elevator,

571
00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:50,780
but all they'd really seen was legs and weren't really sure what was there.

572
00:36:50,780 --> 00:36:54,780
So I told her, okay, I will go down and check this out.

573
00:37:00,780 --> 00:37:03,780
Oh, my God. It's David.

574
00:37:05,780 --> 00:37:07,780
It's David Marifield.

575
00:37:07,780 --> 00:37:09,780
Oh, no, it couldn't be.

576
00:37:09,780 --> 00:37:11,780
David Marifield was one of Clint Blackman's colleagues

577
00:37:11,780 --> 00:37:14,780
in the law firm of Smith Marifield and Richards.

578
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:18,780
He had been shot in the back of the head, execution style.

579
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:22,780
He left behind two children and a new bride of only three months.

580
00:37:25,780 --> 00:37:27,780
The murder of David Marifield is a kind of bizarre case

581
00:37:27,780 --> 00:37:29,780
at every cop dreads.

582
00:37:29,780 --> 00:37:31,780
There was no obvious motive.

583
00:37:31,780 --> 00:37:35,780
A 42-year-old attorney specialized in real estate law.

584
00:37:35,780 --> 00:37:38,780
Over the years, he had built a profitable but prosaic practice.

585
00:37:38,780 --> 00:37:41,780
His clients were not at all the criminal type.

586
00:37:41,780 --> 00:37:46,780
David Marifield seemed to be the last person anyone would want a murder.

587
00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:48,780
Ladies, what time did you get to work?

588
00:37:48,780 --> 00:37:50,780
Well, I got here about...

589
00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:52,780
The most likely scenario was robbery,

590
00:37:52,780 --> 00:37:54,780
but Dallas police quickly ruled that out.

591
00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:56,780
No, no, no.

592
00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:01,780
Mr. Marifield's wallet was recovered a few miles from the crime location.

593
00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:05,780
And in the wallet was still a small amount of money and all of his credit cards.

594
00:38:05,780 --> 00:38:07,780
So I believe had robbery been a motive,

595
00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:09,780
that stuff would not have been recovered.

596
00:38:10,780 --> 00:38:14,780
Police next turned their attention to David Marifield himself,

597
00:38:14,780 --> 00:38:17,780
piecing together the details of his last hours.

598
00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:19,780
The day before he was murdered,

599
00:38:19,780 --> 00:38:23,780
David received four phone calls from a mysterious stranger

600
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:26,780
who identified himself as Sam Jones.

601
00:38:26,780 --> 00:38:28,780
May I ask what this is regarding?

602
00:38:31,780 --> 00:38:34,780
He's on the other line right now. Can I take a message?

603
00:38:34,780 --> 00:38:36,780
He asked if he could hold on.

604
00:38:36,780 --> 00:38:38,780
He told me his name was Sam Jones,

605
00:38:38,780 --> 00:38:42,780
but he wouldn't tell me who he was with or what it was concerning.

606
00:38:42,780 --> 00:38:46,780
And so I took that to be kind of a solicitation type call,

607
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:49,780
because that's usually what solicitors would say.

608
00:38:49,780 --> 00:38:52,780
Hi, David. I have a Mr. Sam Jones on the other line.

609
00:38:52,780 --> 00:38:55,780
Very insistent. He wants to talk to you right now.

610
00:38:55,780 --> 00:38:57,780
I'll put him through.

611
00:38:57,780 --> 00:39:01,780
This is David. Hi, Mr. Jones.

612
00:39:01,780 --> 00:39:05,780
David spoke to him for, I guess, a little under ten minutes.

613
00:39:05,780 --> 00:39:08,780
I went up and kind of joked with David, and I said,

614
00:39:08,780 --> 00:39:09,780
well, what's he trying to sell you?

615
00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:12,780
And David says, well, he's not trying to sell me anything yet.

616
00:39:12,780 --> 00:39:16,780
He says he wants to do something for me.

617
00:39:16,780 --> 00:39:19,780
David Marifield, we discovered during the investigation,

618
00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:23,780
he had a note pad on his desk, which had a calendar on it.

619
00:39:23,780 --> 00:39:26,780
And on February the night, he had a marking there for a name

620
00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:31,780
and an appointment that he had at 6.30 AM with Sam Jones.

621
00:39:31,780 --> 00:39:33,780
Due to the common nature of the name,

622
00:39:33,780 --> 00:39:37,780
it's my guess it's possibly a fictitious name.

623
00:39:37,780 --> 00:39:41,780
Police also keyed in on the unusual hour set for the appointment.

624
00:39:41,780 --> 00:39:46,780
By all accounts, David would never have suggested such an early meeting.

625
00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:51,780
I had known David and worked with him for years and know David's habit,

626
00:39:51,780 --> 00:39:54,780
and that was he never liked to get to work early.

627
00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:57,780
In fact, to see him at work before 9 was just unusual.

628
00:39:57,780 --> 00:40:01,780
He was not an early riser. He used to like to work later.

629
00:40:01,780 --> 00:40:03,780
For him to make a meeting that early in the morning,

630
00:40:03,780 --> 00:40:07,780
I mean, he would do it for someone if someone really needed it.

631
00:40:07,780 --> 00:40:11,780
I've since heard that apparently the guys told him he was leaving on a flight

632
00:40:11,780 --> 00:40:13,780
and absolutely had to see him.

633
00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:17,780
David would do it in a case like that if it was something he felt was really important.

634
00:40:17,780 --> 00:40:24,780
So, but otherwise, it was not like David to be anywhere at 6.30 in the morning except asleep.

635
00:40:24,780 --> 00:40:30,780
Police theorize that the killer insisted on an early meeting in order to get David alone.

636
00:40:30,780 --> 00:40:31,780
I'm going to finally meet you.

637
00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:33,780
That's coming up to the office.

638
00:40:33,780 --> 00:40:35,780
Put your flight, OK?

639
00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:37,780
That's good.

640
00:40:37,780 --> 00:40:40,780
Get a cup of coffee and we'll go over the papers.

641
00:40:40,780 --> 00:40:44,780
We think that Mr. Maryfield, he entered the elevator with another person.

642
00:40:44,780 --> 00:40:47,780
Whoever Sam Jones is, it's obvious from our investigation,

643
00:40:47,780 --> 00:40:52,780
lured him through this location to do exactly what he did to take his life on the elevator that morning.

644
00:40:57,780 --> 00:41:01,780
No one ever heard from this man again, the Sam Jones.

645
00:41:01,780 --> 00:41:07,780
We all kind of felt like if the man had really come to try to meet David,

646
00:41:07,780 --> 00:41:12,780
then he would have probably found him, would have called later to say,

647
00:41:12,780 --> 00:41:15,780
I wasn't able to get in the building and Mr. Maryfield never showed up.

648
00:41:15,780 --> 00:41:17,780
I mean, this man just disappeared.

649
00:41:17,780 --> 00:41:21,780
What we need in this case is an independent witness to come forward.

650
00:41:21,780 --> 00:41:26,780
If that person has heard any person boasting about being involved in this crime,

651
00:41:26,780 --> 00:41:31,780
if that person happened to be in this location or near this location at the morning of the crime

652
00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:35,780
and might have seen suspicious activity, that's the type of information we need.

653
00:41:35,780 --> 00:41:38,780
We need to know who Sam Jones is.

654
00:41:38,780 --> 00:41:42,780
I think the thing that's most disturbing to me is the loss of David Maryfield.

655
00:41:42,780 --> 00:41:49,780
He was a very fine attorney and everyone here liked and enjoyed working with him.

656
00:41:49,780 --> 00:41:52,780
So that's probably the most upsetting thing.

657
00:41:52,780 --> 00:42:01,780
It's also very upsetting that there is a criminal out there who knows he's out there, he or she,

658
00:42:01,780 --> 00:42:06,780
and knows that they committed this crime and has not been brought to justice.

659
00:43:01,780 --> 00:43:04,780
you