1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Welcome to the renowned comedy store and sunset boulevard in Hollywood. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Many of America's most famous comedians got their start at this popular club. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 But some people say that on certain nights you're likely to catch a very different kind of show. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000 One guaranteed to create a lot more chills than chuckles. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Is a comedy store truly haunted from the basement to the rafters? 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Tonight we've come to the legendary night spot to see for ourselves. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Join me in this ghostly profile as well as these intriguing mysteries. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Keith Horn was a young man with everything to live for. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 So when the police announced that his sudden shocking death was a suicide, 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Keith's family began their own investigation. 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Today, eyewitness testimony and questionable evidence 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 is left for more convinced than ever that Keith was murdered. 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,000 When she was just 16, Wendy Radcliffe found herself all alone in a moment of terrible crisis. 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 But in the midst of Wendy's tragedy, a kindly stranger stepped forward to comfort and console her. 16 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Perhaps some on watching tonight knows the identity of Wendy's unknown good Samaritan. 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Also, Keely Shea Smith joins us from the phone center with a poignant update. 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:30,000 See how your calls reunited Fritz Vinken with a soldier who helped teach him the true meaning of Christmas. 19 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Stay with us for another fascinating hour of Unsolved Mysteries. 20 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:38,000 If America's Heartland is in the Midwest, its funny bone is here in Hollywood 21 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,000 at a sunset-stripped nightclub called The Comedy Store. 22 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,000 For more than 20 years, the club has played host to legendary comedians like Richard Pryor, 23 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:56,000 film and television stars Jim Carrey, Roseanne, Jay Leno, and Arsenio Hall 24 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,000 each got their big break in delivering knockout punchlines to the club's delighted fans. 25 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 This here right here, no, that's Don King. OK, where the one I'm at, I'm full to find. 26 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But some say the best show takes center stage when the crowd goes home 27 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 and there's hardly a living soul around. 28 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 According to many employees, past and present, The Comedy Store's hallowed halls are haunted. 29 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Author Laurie Jacobson, who once worked here as a waitress, 30 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 collected the stories for a book about ghosts in Hollywood. 31 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 This place is haunted from the basement to the rafters. 32 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 When I was a waitress here, the waitresses would have to set up the showroom 33 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 by putting tablecloths on the table and we would put an ashtray on every table 34 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:50,000 and we would set up an hour before the customers were due to arrive. 35 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,000 On occasion, girls would set up the room, leave for a moment, come back, 36 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,000 and everything would be put back. 37 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:09,000 The tablecloths would be refolded and stacked. The ashtrays would be stacked. 38 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 And we all knew exactly what we were dealing with here. 39 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 That what was happening in those rooms being set and unset was being done by ghosts. 40 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 It wasn't a figment of my imagination. I wasn't drunk. I wasn't high. 41 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,000 I didn't get hit in the head with something and, you know, 42 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 it's easy to know once you've seen it, you believe it. 43 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 When he was just starting out, Joey Gaynor worked as a doorman at the comedy store. 44 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Most nights he was the last one out of the building, or so he thought. 45 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 It's about three o'clock in the morning, everybody's out. 46 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I'm locking up and I go into the original room and get my coat 47 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:58,000 and there were two candles lit on the table. I blew them out. 48 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Turn around, they were lit again. 49 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I went back over and I said, man, I blew them out again. 50 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,000 I said, well, maybe they stayed a little lit when I blew them out. 51 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:22,000 And I started to go down the stairs and it was freezing all of a sudden in there. 52 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 And I turned around and candles were lit again. 53 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 So I said, okay, stay lit. Goodbye. And I just split. 54 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I didn't want to hang around to find out why. 55 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:40,000 It seems the comedy store spirits just love to play games with Joey Gaynor. 56 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 One night I was going to shut the lights in the building. 57 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:48,000 It takes four seconds, five seconds tops. 58 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Walk back out, chairs, all these chairs are just piled in the middle of the aisle piled up. 59 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,000 And I never heard anything. Nobody could have come in and done that in five seconds. 60 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Even if it had been ten seconds, if you compile eight, ten chairs in that amount of time, 61 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 you should be in Vegas because that's pretty amazing. 62 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Born and raised in Georgia and I fought in Vietnam. 63 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 It's like being punished for the same thing twice. 64 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Like Joey Gaynor, comedian Blake Clark served a tour of duty as a comedy store dormant. 65 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Blake says he too was a target of a club's disembodied pranksters. 66 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 I was a person who did not believe in ghosts. 67 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Absolutely, only equivocally, undeniably did not believe in any sort of paranormal manifestation. 68 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I thought I started working here. 69 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:51,000 I was coming in to lock up the main room and heard a noise. 70 00:06:51,000 --> 00:07:01,000 It was moving just like somebody was just kind of dragging it across the stage except there was one over there. 71 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I'm not a scientist but it wasn't a earthquake, it wasn't wind, it wasn't a person. 72 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:18,000 It was some supernatural or as yet unexplained force. 73 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Let's get the chairs up, okay? 74 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Blake claims he also witnessed one of Joey Gaynor's misadventures with a supernatural. 75 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 A lot of strange stuff going on in this place this week. 76 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 I just quit entangling on him, Joey. 77 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:37,000 What, when I do this? Hey, come on out. Come on, ghost. Show yourself. Come on, where are you? 78 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000 I saw this ashtray just go across the room and burst onto the wall. 79 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:55,000 And so Joey's like, what, you throw that at me? And I went, no, came from over there. 80 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:05,000 It was like zoom, you know, to see it come up and take off is what was scary. 81 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I was always skeptical because we're talking about comedians telling stories. However, I did see it. 82 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Michael Becker currently handles a comedy store's business affairs. It took less than five minutes to turn him into a believer. 83 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Definitely. Yeah, 9 o'clock, MC spot. 84 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Becker says the phantom he saw dropped by in broad daylight in the middle of an important call, no less. 85 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Yeah, hi, it's Mike Becker. As I was standing there, I saw someone with a kind of a tweed 40s jacket just walk right into my office. 86 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Get that guy in my office. Can you hold the place? Thanks. 87 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Who was that guy? What guy? 88 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000 The guy that just came in here. There was nobody there except the guy that was on the phone originally. Nobody came in here. 89 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And to top it off, the guy that was on the phone didn't see anything. 90 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:11,000 So it was not a guy, but it was something that walked in my office. 91 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:17,000 That something has been prowling the premises for decades or so they say. 92 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Long before the comedy store moved in, these walls were home to the nightclub's Cirros. 93 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:34,000 In the 1940s and 50s, Cirros was a splashy, flashy playground of movie stars like Tyrone Pollard, Betty Davis, and Lucille Ball. 94 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Cirros was the most popular nightclub in Hollywood. And when a club is that popular, the mob is often involved. 95 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Mickey Cohen was the most notorious of the club's gangland regulars. It has long been rumored that a few unfortunate souls who had run-ins with Cohen ended up as ghosts at Cirros. 96 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:07,000 It kind of all fits together. That something happened back in the 40s perhaps because it's never like a hippie looking guy, or it's never somebody from the 80s or anything like that. 97 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 The clothing is always 40s. Every time I've ever heard a story. 98 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Once you rule out all the prosaic logical explanations such as the hoax, the fraud, misinterpretation of natural events, seismic transients, electrical transients, you're left with something that is totally inexplicable in terms of modern science. 99 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Modern science would have conniptions trying to explain what Blake Clark claims he and the co-worker saw late one night. 100 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 What the? 101 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Do you see that? 102 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Yeah. 103 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:52,000 I looked back and saw the gate and it just started just bending out into the hallway. 104 00:10:52,000 --> 00:11:05,000 They're making that kind of noise. And as I was looking at it, I thought this is certainly approaching the boundary of physical possibility. 105 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 And something can do that. 106 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Most of the ghosts at the comedy store are not dangerous at all. But there is something in the basement that is very terrifying. 107 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And you'll have a hard time convincing people to go down there at least alone. 108 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,000 It was a challenge Taylor made for Blake Clark and Joey Gaynor. 109 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:39,000 One time and one time only, they braved an after hours visit to the forbidden clutter of the comedy store basement. 110 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Hey, look at this Joey. 111 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Hmm? 112 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 My big man for me. 113 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Hey, what do you want? 114 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 What do you want? 115 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Stay back. Stay back. 116 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 What do you want? 117 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:21,000 I had no features. No features at all. I just moved and it started to snake upwards and down towards us. 118 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Spirit, demon, whatever. 119 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Whatever was down there in that basement is the one I can't. 120 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 What do you want? 121 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Apparently the feeling was mutual. 122 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 For sheer speed, Blake and Joey's sprint from the basement has yet to be equal. 123 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,000 A funny thing happened at the comedian of the comedy store. 124 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 When a ghost story begins like that, you're inclined to take it with a grain of salt. 125 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,000 But what if the waitresses and employees have little to gain by telling tall tales? 126 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,000 So far, Laurie Jacobson has documented 50 mysterious episodes here at the comedy store. 127 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Perhaps you should make it 51. 128 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Next, during a time of tragic sorrow, a young girl finds comfort in the arms of an unknown good Samaritan. 129 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:33,000 And later, a joyous reunion rekindles the spirit of a remarkable wartime Christmas. 130 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 It was a friendship that reached across the generations. 131 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 16-year Wendy Radcliffe, weathering her parents' stormy divorce, 132 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 found a best friend and confidant in her grandmother, Bernice Gardner. 133 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,000 There was really unconditional love between us and she accepted me. 134 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 It was total acceptance. 135 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Just spending time with my grandmother was safety. 136 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 It was kind of like my safety net. 137 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Whenever I had problems at home, I went and stayed with her. 138 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 How are things with your mom and stepdad? 139 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,000 In 1984, Wendy and her grandmother spent Christmas vacation together in Oregon. 140 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 On December 30th, they headed back home to Southern California. 141 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Light just came on. I think we better pull over. 142 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:47,000 No one could have foreseen that the minor car problem would trigger a catastrophic series of events. 143 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Within hours, Wendy would find herself all alone, facing unbearable sorrow. 144 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,000 More than a decade later, Wendy still wants to thank the total stranger, 145 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,000 who unexpectedly appeared at her side that tragic night in December of 1984. 146 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:06,000 The car repair had derailed Wendy and Bernice's plan to drive home in one day. 147 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Wendy called her mother from Monesto, California, to say she and her grandmother would be staying over. 148 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 That's it. I'm hungry. I'm starving. 149 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 The place across the street used to be pretty good. Want to go try it again? 150 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 OK, sure. Come on. 151 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Then we headed out to walk across the street to the restaurant. 152 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 We had a lot of fun. 153 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Then we headed out to walk across the street to the restaurant. 154 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:39,000 I was ahead of her. I ran out into traffic and went across the street. She decided to wait. 155 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:55,000 The feeling was just pure horror. I can't describe it any better than that. 156 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:04,000 It was just to see her and to see her looking at me when it happened. It was just pure horror. 157 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Wendy charged into the restaurant, screaming for help. 158 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:15,000 By the time she returned to her grandmother's side, a small crowd had gathered. 159 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,000 There was a man there and he kind of pushed me away. 160 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Wake up! Wake up! 161 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Let go of me! This is my grandmother! 162 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I got the impression that he didn't know who I was. He didn't know that we were related. 163 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 That he just thought that I was a bystander. 164 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 No! 165 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:43,000 As Wendy watched helplessly, a stranger stepped from the crowd. 166 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,000 This woman just grabbed me and held me and told me it was OK to cry. 167 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:55,000 And tried to tell me everything was going to be OK and, you know, comfort me. 168 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:04,000 She was there. I mean, she reached out to somebody she didn't know and tried to help. 169 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:11,000 At the hospital, Bernice was rushed to surgery. Wendy was alone again, adrift in a living nightmare. 170 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Dr. Rosa, to reception. Dr. Rosa, reception. 171 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Then, out of the blue, a stranger appeared once more. 172 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Hi. How are you doing? 173 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:29,000 I was very surprised to see her. You know, you just kind of expect people to go on about their life. 174 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 What are you doing here? 175 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I couldn't stand to think about you here all night in this hospital all alone. Have you gotten in touch with your family? 176 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Yeah, they're on their way. 177 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Well, how about if I stay with you? 178 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:51,000 She knew I didn't have any family there and so she wanted to be with me so that I had somebody there. 179 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Somebody that I could look to. 180 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Miss, you can go up and see your grandmother now. 181 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Is she going to be OK? 182 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:05,000 She's stable. The doctor will explain everything. 183 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,000 At last, the ordeal seemed to be ending. 184 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I was excited, you know. I thought that I was going to get to see my grandmother. 185 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,000 I thought she was alive and doing OK. 186 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Doctor, can you tell me which room is Bernice Gardner's? 187 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 The nurse said we could come in and see her now. 188 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Are you family? 189 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 She is. I'm her granddaughter. 190 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,000 I don't know what they told you downstairs, but I'm afraid you've been misinformed. 191 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:45,000 And then, the lecture, the speech, the one you never want to hear in your life, he told me that she died and I just fell apart. 192 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,000 I'm sorry, we did everything we could. I'm very sorry. 193 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,000 There must be something. 194 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 The nurse said she was stable. 195 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 I know, she did. I know. 196 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 I cried and she held me. 197 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,000 From that point on, I don't really remember much. 198 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 The unknown woman stayed until Wendy's family began to arrive. 199 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Then, without a word, she slipped away. 200 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:23,000 I've looked back on it so many times and I see over and over and over again how important it was that she was there. 201 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Because if she hadn't been there, I probably would have totally fallen apart. 202 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Today, a decade later, Wendy is a happily married mother of three. 203 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:41,000 But since that night, she has felt a debt of gratitude to the gentle stranger who extended a helping hand. 204 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,000 It was a real turning point for me. 205 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:55,000 She helped me to become a person who can be there for somebody else and I wanted to know that. 206 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:01,000 It means a lot to me to find her, to let her know that one person made a difference. 207 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:20,000 When we return, in 1944, a German boy in an American GI shared an unforgettable Christmas dinner. 208 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Some 50 years later, our viewers helped reunite them. 209 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Tonight we have a heartwarming update to one of our most poignant lost love cases. 210 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Perhaps you remember the story. 211 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 December 1944. 212 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Some of the most savage fighting of the Second World War took place in Belgium's Ardennes Forest. 213 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Thousands of American and German soldiers would lose their lives in the infamous Battle of the Bulge. 214 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Christmas Eve brought no end to the carnage. 215 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:14,000 In an isolated cabin with an earshot of the fighting, a young German boy named Fritz Winkern and his mother tried to make the best of the holiday. 216 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Father? 217 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:29,000 My mother blew out the candle and went to the door and I went with her. 218 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:36,000 She opened the door and there were these soldiers. 219 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:44,000 We're Americans and we're lost and our friend, our friend's been shot. 220 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Fritz's mother knew that harboring the enemy was punishable by death, but it was Christmas and she was willing to take the risk. 221 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:06,000 The G.R.s had just begun to relax in anticipation of an unexpected holiday meal when there was a knock at the door. 222 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Without automatic leaders, must be more Americans. 223 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000 And I went to the door and opened the door. 224 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:23,000 And there were four German soldiers. 225 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 No one could have foreseen what happened next. 226 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:35,000 In a remarkable display of courage and compassion, Fritz's mother bid the Germans welcome, provided they leave their weapons at the door. 227 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:43,000 That night, hostilities ceased in at least one corner of the forest. 228 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:50,000 American and German soldiers sat down together to honor the Christmas spirit. 229 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:58,000 By the time they were all crying, not profusely, but the tears were holding. 230 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 So even the German soldiers, I was very surprised. 231 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,000 And then we ate and the tears disappeared. 232 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:14,000 But from then on, there was a feeling of friendship that permeated the whole world. 233 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,000 It was wonderful. I never forget. 234 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Fritz never did forget the lessons he learned that night. 235 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:29,000 And he never stopped hoping that he would someday be reunited with one of the American GIs. 236 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Against all odds, it was a dream that came true. Here's Keely to tell you how it happened. 237 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Bob, after our most recent broadcast of Fritz's story, a man named Eldridge Ward called our phone center. 238 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000 He's a volunteer chaplain at a nursing home in Frederick, Maryland. 239 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Eldridge recognized the stories one often recounted by an elderly resident named Ralph Blank. 240 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:58,000 We did a little research and found out that in 1944, Ralph Blank had in fact been a sergeant, 241 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000 serving with the U.S. Army in Belgium. 242 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Fritz immediately phoned Ralph, who confirmed that he was one of the soldiers who had celebrated Christmas with Fritz and his mother. 243 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Ralph was completely unaware that we had looked for him. 244 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:18,000 So right away, I asked him whether he remembered me from that night in the audience. 245 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Oh yes, I remember you. You must be Fritz. 246 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:32,000 On January 19, 1996, Fritz flew to Maryland to meet his long-lost friend, who is now 76 years old and in fragile health. 247 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 I was very excited. I could hardly wait. 248 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Fritz! 249 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Fritz! 250 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Fritz! 251 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Fritz! 252 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:53,000 I just had to look at his eyes and I knew this is him. 253 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:59,000 And he recognized me apparently, even though we changed so much in the time. 254 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 But it was a great experience. 255 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Well, I never thought I'd ever see Fritz together, but I left Germany. 256 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Day is a special day for me. 257 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,000 The emotional reunion took place just a day after another exciting event. 258 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Ralph Blank's 50th wedding anniversary. 259 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:29,000 To cap the joyous celebration, his daughter-in-law fixed the same meal Fritz's mother had served some 52 years ago. 260 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,000 A hearty bowl of chicken soup. 261 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,000 I can only tell you it was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. 262 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Something I had given up all hope to experience. 263 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Fritz Winken and Ralph Blank proved the true friendship and brotherhood can endure time, distance and the ravages of war. 264 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,000 I'll test all you, huh? 265 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 266 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000 I gave it to your mother. 267 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 That's right, or she took it from you. 268 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 She still got my pistol. 269 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Tonight, an urgent appeal to police departments across the country. 270 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,000 For nearly a decade, a cunning serial rapist has prowled Buffalo, New York in his suburbs. 271 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Local detectives now fear that the suspect may be targeting women outside the state. 272 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Perhaps investigators in other areas can help put an end to the growing list of victims. 273 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,000 I was 17 years old and I was walking to a summer school. 274 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,000 I was running a little bit late for school, so I decided it cut through the pass. 275 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:55,000 And I was almost at the end of the path and I heard something behind me. 276 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Hi, how you doing? 277 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,000 And I didn't think anything of it, so I turned around and I kept walking. 278 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,000 You know, I mean, he didn't look like someone I could, I had to fear. 279 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 He looked like a normal everyday guy. 280 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Shut up! 281 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Don't look at my face. 282 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:21,000 He started dragging me back into the woods and then he started strangling me. 283 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 And then I thought, that's it, I was gonna die. 284 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000 It was, I really thought I'd never see any of my family again. 285 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 And when he was finished, I asked him what's gonna happen. 286 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000 And he told me, he said nothing. 287 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 He almost sounded sorry. 288 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 And then he left. 289 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 The reign of terror had only begun. 290 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:53,000 In June of 1988, the rapist was lying in wait as a 16 year old girl walked to school 291 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 along an isolated railroad track. 292 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Once again, the assailant would double wrap a rope around his victim's neck 293 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 and tape her eyes shut. 294 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Almost a year later in May of 1989, another young girl was using this as a shortcut 295 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 on her way to school. 296 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000 The same individual passed here and immediately afterwards, 297 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 double wrapped a rope around her neck, gained control over, 298 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 and took her to the bush area behind me. 299 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,000 He forced her to place tape over her eyes, he bound her and sexually assaulted her. 300 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Now there were four. 301 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Two of the women said the rapist had worn a blue baseball cap. 302 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:38,000 Each victim described a short, stocky, mistachured man in his mid-30s. 303 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Four months passed, then a fifth attack. 304 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:49,000 A woman, alone in a secluded place, early morning. 305 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,000 He placed a rope around her neck, he wrapped it twice. 306 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,000 She described him as a very powerful man. 307 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,000 He lifted her over this fence and took her into the wooded area over here, 308 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,000 where he bound her hands behind her back and he placed surgical tape over her eyes 309 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000 and at that point he raped her. 310 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Five five to five eight, stocky build, black hair, black mustache, 311 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000 quite possibly Hispanic. 312 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,000 It was a rapist and he was savaged two more victims than Amherst. 313 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:34,000 A 32 year old female was using this path early in the morning for exercise. 314 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,000 As she got to this point right here, a rope was placed around her neck 315 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 and she was immediately rendered unconscious. 316 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000 She was then dragged into these woods up this way, 317 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 which we think was a pre-selected site. 318 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000 The woman was found one hour later, still unconscious. 319 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Double rap marks on her neck told police who they were dealing with. 320 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 But this time was different. 321 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000 This time yet nearly killed his victim. 322 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:11,000 22 year old Linda Yellum was a student at the State University in Buffalo 323 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 when she crossed paths with a rapist. 324 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Linda was a seventh known victim. 325 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 She would be the first to die. 326 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Linda Yellum was left in the woods, her mouth and nose wrapped tight with duct tape. 327 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 It was pre-meditated murder. 328 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,000 He planned on killing her when he grabbed her that day. 329 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Once he put that tape over her nose and her mouth, there was no chance for survival. 330 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 An unexpected lull followed. 331 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Two, three, four years. 332 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Authorities wondered had the suspect moved, gone to prison, or even perhaps died. 333 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:07,000 Then in October of 1994, a 14 year old girl was raped in Buffalo, New York. 334 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 He was back. 335 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 This guy strikes so infrequently. 336 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000 He's very hard to profile, very, very difficult. 337 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:25,000 He's either got tremendous self-control or else he's hitting in other parts of the country that we're not aware of. 338 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:07,000 In this case of Keith Warren, did a killer cleverly arrange Keith's death scene to make it look like suicide? 339 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,000 The 9-1-1 Call 340 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,000 The 9-1-1 Call came in just before 2 p.m. on July 31st, 1986. 341 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000 A mother's quiet world was about to be shattered. 342 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000 Her only son was dead. 343 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000 Keith Warren was just one month from starting college. 344 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 He had lived with his sister and mother since his parents' divorce when he was 10. 345 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:51,000 By all accounts, a well-liked and dependable young man, Keith seemed destined for a promising future. 346 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000 Instead, he had come to an untimely end. 347 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000 Paramedics found Keith in a wooded area behind his family's townhouse. 348 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000 He was hanging by the neck from a small tree that was bent double with his weight. 349 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,000 The elaborate arrangement of the hanging rope would later be the source of bitter debate. 350 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000 The cord was anchored around the base of a large tree. 351 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,000 It extended some 25 feet to a small sapling. 352 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,000 It encircled the sapling's trunk and then arched up through a fork. 353 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000 The authorities, however, saw nothing suspicious about the scene. 354 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:39,000 After a brief visual inspection, the county's deputy medical examiner determined that Keith Warren had committed suicide. 355 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:45,000 No autopsy was ordered and the body was dispatched to a funeral home for embalming. 356 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,000 It was already dark when Keith's mother was informed. 357 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000 I didn't realize at the time that Keith's body was not an amoreque. 358 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:01,000 There had been no investigation and his body had been discovered maybe five or six hours earlier, about 12.30. 359 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 I didn't know at the time the officer had chosen a funeral home. 360 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,000 A few days later, Mary Cooey received her son's personal effects. 361 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Some audio tapes, a jacket and his trademark brown boots. 362 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000 I saw the boots and that's when I just got really... 363 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 I mean, it was just... and it was all over. 364 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000 To see the boots, that was Keith and... 365 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 That was it. 366 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Initially, Keith's mother accepted the finding of suicide. 367 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000 But over time, she found discrepancies too numerous to ignore. 368 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000 Today, Mary Cooey totally rejects the official explanation. 369 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,000 Her doubts began after she heard from a friend of Keith's named Rodney Kendall. 370 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Rodney reported that a parade of suspicious characters had been looking for Keith shortly before his death. 371 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Hey, yo, dude. Seeing Keith warring around? You know him? 372 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000 No. What's up? 373 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Nothing much, man. Just some friends looking for him. See him around? 374 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:12,000 The first incident occurred in front of the townhouse a week before Keith's body was found. 375 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Wow. What are you looking for? 376 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000 It was mainly black males that were in the car. 377 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:23,000 And Keith did not associate much with black males. Most of his friends were white males. 378 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000 So I thought that was pretty strange. And after I told them that I hadn't seen Keith, they left. 379 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000 It means that they weren't from the neighborhood or our school area. 380 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000 So I kind of... kind of figured, why would they be looking for Keith? 381 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000 But, you know, no one had an answer for me. 382 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Several days later, Rodney had another rod encounter. 383 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 This time with a high school acquaintance of Keith's named Mark Finley. 384 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Rodney, have you seen Keith? 385 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Ah, man, what's up? 386 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 I need to find him. When was the last time you saw him? 387 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000 I don't know. We were out last night. 388 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,000 What time? 389 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000 When? 390 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:59,000 He seemed pretty urgent. I thought it was pretty strange because he acted like he needed to find Keith very quickly. 391 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000 And I told him I couldn't... I didn't know where Keith was and he left. 392 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:11,000 And that puzzled me because I said, you know, in the past eight, seven, eight years we lived in Maryland, Mark never came by, nor did he ever call for Keith. 393 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,000 I never saw him in-house. I don't recall him. 394 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:20,000 And my last recollection of Mark was when we were in eighth grade and they got into a fight. Keith and Mark did. 395 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:32,000 A couple of weeks after that, my mom came to visit me and I've never gone to the site that the tree was found and she wanted to go to the tree. 396 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Rodney Kendall, who had earlier identified Keith's body for the police, led the way. 397 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:49,000 When we got there, I looked around and couldn't find the tree, but I was sure I was in the right spot. 398 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:57,000 And we looked down and the tree had been cut down. It was just the stump left. 399 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000 I panicked and I called the police and they're very rude. 400 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000 They really told me that, well, what do you want us to do? 401 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000 Yeah, we cut it down. What do you want us to do about it? 402 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:15,000 Mary Betters and a multiracial community group known as Clams are helping Keith's mother with a case. 403 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,000 The police had cut down the tree and they were saving it as evidence. 404 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Now, this was a big surprise to us because, here before they had said that the case was closed. 405 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:33,000 And we were surprised that they would be still collecting and saving evidence. 406 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Keith's mother no longer trusted the police or their explanations. 407 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000 She launched a letter writing campaign targeting state and federal officials. 408 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,000 But for six long years, Mary Cooey hit a stone wall every way she turned. 409 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:55,000 Then came April 9, 1992, her son's birthday. Keith would have been 25. 410 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:02,000 That afternoon, Mary found a plain Manila envelope at her doorstep. 411 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,000 The stunning contents would sweep her back to the day of her son's death. 412 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000 Oh, Sherry! Oh my God! 413 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000 And Sherry came up and she saw the pictures scattered and she picked them up. 414 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,000 And of course, she panicked. And then she says, oh my God, this is Keith. 415 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,000 There were five pictures at all. They looked official and each showed a different view of Keith Warren hanging by his neck. 416 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:43,000 Mary forced herself to look and in the process she found a glaring discrepancy. 417 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:51,000 His clothing, he didn't fit him. That's when we started to realize he was wearing somebody else's clothing. 418 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:59,000 He's got a long sleeve shirt on, looks fairly new. He's got like, quarter-war jeans on that he didn't own. 419 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:05,000 But the real eye catcher was that he was wearing white sneakers. 420 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:13,000 And those white tennis shoes, he did not own. He did not own a pair of white tennis shoes. 421 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:20,000 For Mary Cooie, it was a nightmarish inconsistency. Yes, that was her son in the photographs. 422 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:26,000 But whose clothes was he wearing? Whose white tennis shoes? And why was he wearing them? 423 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:33,000 The only items of clothing a police returned to the family had been Keith's jacket and brown boots. 424 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:39,000 Neither was shown in the photographs, although authorities said that they had been found near Keith's body. 425 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:46,000 My brain started to just really go into a tailspin because I didn't feel that the police were my friends at all. 426 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:58,000 I started to talk around to legal people and I was advised to go to a local investigator and find out the source of the photos. 427 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:06,000 The police department conceded that there were copies of original police photos, but they had no idea where they came from. 428 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000 None whatsoever. They were questioned numerous times. 429 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,000 When Joe Alershia examined the pictures, he noticed leaves on the back of Keith's shirt. 430 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:21,000 To Alershia, this suggested Keith had been lying on the ground and was hoisted into a hanging position by someone else. 431 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Alershia says that his theory is bolstered by the complex path of the rope found at the scene. 432 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:40,000 Apparently, the perpetrators noticed that the tree was small and wouldn't hold the body, therefore they needed some security by tying around a big tree here. 433 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:52,000 When you talk to police, off the record you get. This was a travesty of errors. On the record you get a lot of, there are logical explanations for everything, and yet no logical explanations have ever been given. 434 00:40:52,000 --> 00:41:02,000 The fact of the matter is, no one seems to know whose clothing Keith Warren is wearing in those photographs and whether or not Keith Warren was hanged or whether or not he committed suicide. 435 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Finally, Keith's family had his body exhumed. At long last there was an autopsy and the results were shocking. 436 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:18,000 I believe that Keith Warren's death being listed as suicide is medically not supportable. 437 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Toxicology tests have revealed the presence of potent chemicals, most importantly trichloroethane or TCE. They are usually found in glue and solvents. The levels found in Keith Warren were more than enough to kill him. 438 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:47,000 These substances can get in there by inhalation or they can be actually taken in by mouth. The other possibility of course is injection as part of an embalming solution. 439 00:41:48,000 --> 00:42:01,000 The embalming process is exactly how Maryland's chief medical examiner explained away the toxic chemicals when he reviewed the autopsy report. Dr. Mahalekis disagrees. 440 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:22,000 The substances found in Keith Warren's body could not have been introduced by the embalming fluid because one, the embalmer in his report never mentioned using any of those substances. Secondly, the distribution of the key substance trichloroethane is more consistent with inhalation. 441 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:29,000 And third, they were found at two additional substances which are totally unrelated to any embalming solution. 442 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:40,000 He could have been at a party where there were some drugs involved and he accidentally killed himself and they were afraid and then they decided to take him and make him look like a suicide. 443 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:49,000 Or he could have been attacked from the back and that particular chemical was so potent that one chemist said that he was dead before he hit the ground. 444 00:42:50,000 --> 00:43:00,000 He couldn't have done this and placed himself on the tree. That's the bottom line. He could not have taken these chemicals and then hung himself. 445 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:14,000 If Keith Warren didn't hang himself, then who did hang him? In a final disturbing twist, the one person who might have answered that question has also turned up dead under suspicious circumstances. 446 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:20,000 Mark Finley was one of those who came looking for Keith around the time he died. 447 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:26,000 Six years later, when Mary Cooey received the photographs, Finley again figured prominently. 448 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:32,000 A fix to one of the pictures was a threatening note which appeared to target Finley and another man. 449 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,000 The note read in part, don't worry, Mark Finley will be next. 450 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Two months after Mark learned he had been singled out, he contacted Mary Cooey. 451 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:54,000 Mark called my residence, left a message on my answer machine to the fact of something that said, Miss Warren, this is Mark Finley. 452 00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:03,000 I got your message and I will be by to see you. I do remember the specific words, I need to unload. 453 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:15,000 One month later, Mark Finley was dead. According to the Montgomery County police, Finley died accidentally when he struck a curb and was thrown from his bike. 454 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:28,000 That was a strange death. The original ambulance crew said the damage to Mr. Finley didn't fit the accident itself. 455 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:36,000 The damage in his face, it looked like somebody either hit him with a car or was waiting for him with a baseball bat and hit him with a baseball bat. 456 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:42,000 Mark Finley made his statement at a party saying that Keith didn't kill himself, I helped hang him in the tree. 457 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:47,000 It just seemed kind of strange that he happened to expire when he had made that statement. 458 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:55,000 Why was Mark Finley targeted in the threatening note? Did he truly have information about Keith Warren's death? 459 00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:02,000 As with all the other nagging questions, the authorities have a standard answer. This case is closed. 460 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:10,000 We're still being stormwalled and we're still being fought and that's incredible. I can't understand that. 461 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:18,000 What is it that the system does not want me to know about my child's life or death? 462 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:27,000 Despite repeated requests, officials in Montgomery County, Maryland declined to comment on the case or participate in this broadcast. 463 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:35,000 Mary Cooey vows that she will continue to press her own investigation until each and every question about her son's death has been answered. 464 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,000 The End 465 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:52,000 Join me again next Friday. Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.