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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries.

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The images are now seared into the national conscience.

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The federal building in Oklahoma City

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ripped in half by a powerful homemade bomb.

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But even here, the terror was tempered

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by quiet acts of courage.

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Tonight, the harrowing account of one survivor

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who found himself trapped in the destruction

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face to face with death.

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But all seemed lost.

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Two anonymous heroes emerged from the rubble

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to carry him to safety.

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Today, all that remains of the federal building

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is a vacant lot behind me.

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We've come here today to pay tribute,

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both to those who died and to those who risked their own lives

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on the rescue effort.

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Join me for this moving profile, as well as

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these fascinating stories.

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Bestselling author James Ellroy

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is renowned for his brooding, seductive crime novels.

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But since childhood, Ellroy has been haunted

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by the dark memory of his own mother's brutal murder.

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Travel with Ellroy as he revisits the Los Angeles

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of his youth in a final attempt to solve

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this most personal mystery.

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In South Carolina, a brazen holdup

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leads to a standoff with the police

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and a vault of the police.

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Now the man convicted of killing him has escaped from prison.

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Since 1993, the apparent suicide of Vince Foster,

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one of President Clinton's most trusted advisors,

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has been a flashpoint of controversy.

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Some researchers believe that a suicide note found

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in Foster's briefcase is in fact a clever forgery.

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Stay with us for a dramatic video

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of the case of the murder of Vince Foster.

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Stay with us for a dramatic and compelling hour,

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highlighted by our special report from Oklahoma City.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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We've got a lot of people here.

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We need to get this note from here to go.

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I've got purpose here.

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We'll be right back.

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The smoke and sirens have faded.

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A part of Oklahoma City still has the feel of a war zone.

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The federal building, once humming with activity and purpose,

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stood at this very spot.

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It is hallowed ground, the scene of cruel tragedy

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and remarkable heroism.

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Tonight, perhaps you can help one survivor of the blast

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and the two men who risked everything to save his life.

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The morning of the bombing began as a picture of normalcy.

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Dwayne Miller, married in the father of three,

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pulled into a federal building parking lot at around 8.52.

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He planned a quick stop, just long enough to pick up

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some papers at the credit union.

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Hi, I'm Dwayne Miller.

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I called yesterday about some documents.

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Hello, Mr. Miller.

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9 a.m., business as usual,

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deposits, loan applications, paperwork.

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Debbie, could you check in the back for me for some documents?

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When I walked through the door into the credit union,

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I should not have been in that building more than five minutes.

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And I picked the wrong five minutes.

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Andrea, you might check at your desk, too.

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901, 80 feet away in front of the building,

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the bomb was in place, the detonator set.

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All of a sudden, I felt a huge blast of air

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come through the door that I was standing by.

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And it instantly just got, it got the blackest black you can imagine.

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And I'm flying through the air.

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I heard one lady scream.

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I could just hear her.

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She had to be in the credit union where I was.

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I just heard a scream that maybe lasted a second.

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I was here at home when it went off,

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and our house just shook.

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I mean, we actually heard it.

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It shook the windows.

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And the noise, I went outside.

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I thought a plane had crashed nearby.

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But I was not concerned about him until someone contacted me

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and said that he had been seen going into the building

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and getting on the elevator.

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Then I got scared.

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Most of those in the credit union with Dwayne

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were crushed by tons of concrete.

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Dwayne plummeted two floors and was thrown into a part of the building

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that was still standing.

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Dwayne found himself dangling some 10 feet above a sea of broken walls,

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twisted pipes and splittered furniture.

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His legs were trapped in a tangle of wires.

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I'm assuming they're electrical wire.

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And to tell you the truth, I thought if I grab that stuff,

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that could electrocute me.

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And I thought, you know, big deal, I'm going to die

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if I don't get out of here anyway.

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And so I just started grabbing the wire and took my chances.

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I realized that I couldn't see out of my right eye.

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And I actually reached up with my hand to see if my eyeball was still there.

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And it was. I just wiped my eye like that.

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And it was my whole side of my face was just covered with blood.

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And only because when I do that, I can see out of that eye.

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I want to get out of that building.

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And I look around and I see an opening in the wall.

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And that's the only opening I see.

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That's the only way I see out of that place.

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Safety was a mere 50 feet away.

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But Dwayne's legs were useless.

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Virtually every ligament in his knees had snapped.

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If Dwayne was to get out,

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he would have to drag himself every inch of the way.

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I could hear the building creaking.

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It was just creaking.

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There was dust and concrete that was flying off of the support pillars.

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And I thought the whole building was going to fall in.

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The building shifted and groaned.

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The sound of falling rubble was everywhere.

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I went as far as I could go.

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And when I stopped, I looked up at that hole in the wall.

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And I could see two men come through that hole.

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I think I see somebody.

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Don't move. We're coming over to you, okay? Stay there.

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When they came in that building, there were still things falling.

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That any one of them hit those guys and they're dead.

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And when I saw them, I knew I was coming out of there alive.

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And that's a fact.

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Dwayne's guardian angels lifted him from the wreckage

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and carried him towards the light.

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Real slow, real slow.

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There you go, there you go.

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You want to be okay?

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Yeah, yeah. I'm okay.

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They got me out of there.

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And when they got me out, they turned around and went right back in there.

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In the streets, pandemonium, victims far outnumbered ambulances.

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Only the most critically injured could be rushed from the scene.

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Dwayne and hundreds of others, bloodied but stable,

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were later evacuated en masse in buses.

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Dwayne, tell me if any of these areas are tender?

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Okay.

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Dwayne was in the hospital for two weeks.

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He still faces years of corrective surgery

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and a certain knowledge that he will never again walk without pain.

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What's the worst, chair getting out of a car?

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Well, okay.

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Alright, let me have you lie down and we'll...

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I feel like I'm real lucky.

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I think I'm so fortunate to have come out of that thing alive.

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Because there were so many that were there where I was

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and that building that aren't here to complain about the shape they're in, you know?

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When that bomb went off, there were people I could have reached out and touched

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that didn't survive.

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And I did.

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For nearly a year until we filmed his story,

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Dwayne Miller avoided the sight of the federal building.

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To him, this is a place of unmitigated horror.

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I think an evil thing happened there.

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He's so stupid.

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I just, you know, I can't, in my mind,

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comprehend why anybody would do that, would destroy so many people's lives

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for what reason I don't know.

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Because they've accomplished nothing other than caused here in Oklahoma City

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thousands and thousands of people to go through a horrible thing.

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And it's just crazy.

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If this barren patch of earth does have one saving grace for Dwayne Miller,

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it is a memory of the brave men who came to his rescue.

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They could have been killed really easily.

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But they saw me and they didn't hesitate one second.

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They came right over to me and got me out of there.

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When we return, a convicted cop killer engineers a daring prison break.

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Also, Keely Shea Smith joins us with the latest news from the phone center.

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And later, the death of Vince Foster,

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a trusted presidential adviser sparks political intrigue.

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And he's also a great leader in the police department.

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He's a great leader.

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He's a great leader.

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Foster, a trusted presidential adviser, sparks political intrigue.

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Through the years, your calls have helped solve more than 230 mysteries.

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Tonight's update features another case closed.

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Thanks to you, our viewers.

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This is Michelle Neal Arkin of Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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For more than a decade, Michelle has been searching for her birth mother.

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Michelle was raised by Laverne and Wilburne Neal.

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Though they loved her as their own, Michelle always suspected she was adopted.

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Michelle was 18 when she learned the truth about her past.

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Michelle's birth mother was a woman named Patricia Bonner.

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Michelle's father had died in 1965 before Michelle was even born.

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Patricia found herself unable to raise four children alone,

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so she reluctantly gave Michelle to the needs.

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I know you and Wilburne will give her a good home and care for her.

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Can I just hold her one more time please?

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Of course.

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I can understand what she did back then.

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I would just feel better just knowing where I came from,

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what my relatives, what, you know, just simple basic questions

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that any person would have.

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With the blessing of her adoptive parents, Michelle began the search

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a search that ended the very night of our broadcast.

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Here's Keely Shaysmith with the details.

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Bob, we were still on the air when Michelle's half-sister Sandra

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called us here at the phone center to tell us that Michelle's mother,

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Patricia Bonner, was alive well and living in Chicago.

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In fact, she lived just 10 miles from Michelle.

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Within an hour, mother and daughter were talking on the phone.

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It was a moment Patricia Bonner will never forget.

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I could not believe it until I heard her voice.

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And she told me she was Michelle.

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And it was just, you don't know the feeling I had.

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The following weekend at a hotel in Chicago,

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Patricia waited anxiously with her children for the arrival of Michelle

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and her family.

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Finally after 30 years, she and Michelle came face to face.

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I was really happy that she was so happy to see me.

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Because that was one fear I had that she wouldn't care, you know.

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That I was doing this all for nothing.

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But the fact that she was looking for me and I was looking for her,

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just is unbelievable.

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Do you want to look at your older brother, John?

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Yes.

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You want to look at your talking to him?

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Yes.

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Well hello.

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Michelle was astonished to learn that in addition to her long lost brother

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and sisters, she also had two half brothers and a half sister.

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I had no clue that I would ever have so many brothers and sisters.

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And the resilience of my kids to them is unreal.

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It's shocking.

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Michelle's adoptive parents were also present,

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thrilled that their daughter's search was finally over

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and that the two families were now one.

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Greenville, South Carolina, the night before Thanksgiving, 1985.

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How's it look?

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We're going to do this one.

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Let's go.

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I can't believe you brought the kid.

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Don't worry about it, Rich.

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You know, Carrie is great.

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Most thieves might not consider a busy grocery store a good place to rob.

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But this night, throngs of holiday shoppers guaranteed an abundance of cash.

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The first man inside was Rusty Corvette, a convicted racketeer.

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The mastermind was Sam Wadke and armed robber out on parole.

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The young man, waiting nervously in the car, was Wadke's 19-year-old son, Richard.

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I don't like this in here right now.

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Forget it.

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It's your video section's still open.

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I've got to get it out of the tape.

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I turned around and I looked over and that's when I saw a man wearing a ski mask and holding a gun.

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Wait a minute.

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You're not going anywhere.

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Everybody at the floor!

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Do it!

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Face down now!

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I was close enough to see the color of his eyes and I thought,

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he doesn't care that I can recognize him.

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That was the scariest thing of all because I thought if he doesn't care, what's going to happen here?

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Come on, let's go!

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Move!

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Come on, come on, come on!

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Move to the back of the store!

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Go, go, go!

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Move!

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Very cool!

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All the way back to the store!

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All the way back!

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Everybody, move back to the store, everybody!

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I said back!

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What do you think we're cutting?

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Get it!

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Good pleasure!

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Bitch!

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He did it!

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The take was almost $8,000 but the robbers didn't get away clean.

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Two store employees caught the make and license plate number of the car.

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I'm behind a gray cutlass, it just turned off a Rutherford Road on the 291.

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There are at least two subjects in the car.

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I advise the other cars that were around me.

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A road block is what we were trying to do and you know,

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be able to stop him, get him out of the car and arrest him without hopefully any instance of injury occurring.

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Within minutes, other units were converging on the robbers.

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Charlie, 29, I'm heading north on Piney Mountain.

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Officer Dennis Eubanks and a volunteer constable, Veldin Keith,

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moved in from the opposite direction.

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Head right to us.

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Eubanks and Keith swung around, managing to get ahead of the chase.

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He's coming in right behind you.

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Before they could set up the road block, the robbers were on top of them.

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Hit it! Let's head around him!

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Sam, let's run!

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Sam, let's head out! Get around him!

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Back up arrived far too late.

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Volunteer Veldin Keith, 46 years old, a father of four, was dead.

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Within 48 hours, police had arrested all three suspects.

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Sam Wadke, charged with first degree murder, was facing the death penalty.

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I wrote it all down for you.

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Everything you need to say.

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Here, take it.

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Come on.

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Okay, together.

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In jail, Wadke talked Rusty Corvette into another cold-blooded scheme.

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They would both finger Wadke's son as the trigger man.

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We're going to make Rich look like one geared up cowboy.

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It was like it was a game to him.

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He acted like this ultimate story he was going to tell was the truth in the matter.

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You know, I mean, he was plotting to put his own son in the electric chair is what he was doing.

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Nevertheless, Sam Wadke paraded his innocent act to the media,

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sporting a dapper mustache and a cavalier attitude.

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What do you think of it so far?

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Fantastic.

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Yeah?

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So, to believe in the judicial system,

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it's really impressed me a lot the way things are going.

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In the end, Wadke was convicted of murder,

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primarily because his son and Rusty Corvette testified against him.

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Wadke had, however, created just enough doubt to get a life sentence instead of the death penalty.

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We were leaving the courthouse and he granded at me and he said, you know,

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he said life isn't nothing.

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He said, you know, I'm going to get out.

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He was very confident about it.

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It took almost eight years and several Bosch's escape attempts,

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but Wadke eventually made good on his boast.

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On January 8, 1994, Wadke and another inmate, Danny Lale,

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were assigned to an unsupervised landscaping detail on the prison grounds.

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Because it was Saturday, there would be no midday headcount.

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Let's do it.

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The convicts used a stolen hacksaw blade with a homemade handle

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to gain access to an underground maintenance tunnel.

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Wadke and Lale had a slice through three wire gates, a steel door,

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and the rebar sandwiched between two wire mesh gates.

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Twenty-two hard cuts and all, and only eight hours before the evening headcount.

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I imagine the adrenaline was pumping, nervous.

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Every sound they hear, they figured there's going to be a guard coming to get them.

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By 4.30, Wadke and Lale had made it to the boiler room.

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Hey, there!

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What are you doing down here?

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I'm going to get me the keys to that truck, and I'm going to have to get them myself.

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I told you not to come down here doing my shift, Wadke.

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The trustees working there didn't want to get caught helping the escapees.

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Sam, we got 15 minutes.

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But they weren't about to get in the way.

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Get some rope so we can hog time ourselves.

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With barely 15 minutes to spare, Wadke and Lale drove a prison truck through the main gate and disappeared.

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Police caught up with Lale less than a month later.

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Wadke, however, is still at large.

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Sam Wadke is in the category by himself.

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He is, I believe, very psychopathic, but it's not that he enjoys killing,

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but he'll do it in an instant.

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He will do anything it takes to preserve him, and he won't hesitate.

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Coming up, bestselling crime novelist James Ellroy

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embarks on a painful personal investigation to unravel the mystery of his mother's murder.

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But first, a team of handwriting experts reaches a stunning and controversial conclusion

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about the suicide note of White House adviser Vince Foster.

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Our next story concerns the controversial suicide of a high-powered Washington attorney.

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It threatens to become one of the biggest political scandals of our time.

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It began with a somber announcement and remains for many an unsolved mystery.

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I have just met with the White House staff

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to basically talk with them a little bit about the death of my friend of 42 years, Vince Foster.

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On July 20, 1993, the country was shocked by the unexpected death of 48-year-old Vincent W. Foster,

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White House deputy counsel and close personal confidant of the Clintons.

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Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park across a Potomac River from Washington.

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He had been shot once in the head. The wound was apparently self-inflicted.

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At the time of his death, Vince Foster had become a central figure in the growing White Water scandal.

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Two separate investigations by the United States Park Police

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and by the FBI for Independent Counsel Robert Fisk concluded that Foster had indeed taken his own life.

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Perhaps inevitably, in a case with serious political ramifications, there were serious doubts concerning Foster's suicide.

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Some of the most controversial reports were published in the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

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Vince Foster was the highest federal official to die under suspicious circumstances since the death of President Kennedy.

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I don't push a non-suicide theory. I have never said Vince Foster was murdered.

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I have said that police are trained to treat every suicide no matter how apparently as a homicide, as a murder first,

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until the facts prove otherwise. What is clear in this case is that police procedure was never followed.

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For Christopher Ruddy and many others, one of the keys to this case is an unsigned suicide note, allegedly written by Vince Foster.

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This is a copy of the reconstructed note, which when found had been ripped into 28 pieces.

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It read in part.

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I made mistakes from ignorance and experience and overwork. I did not knowingly violate any law or standard of conduct.

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No one in the White House, to my knowledge, violated any law or standard of conduct.

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I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here, a ruining people is considered sport.

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The shredded note was found in Foster's briefcase four days after his death.

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Curiously, White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum had earlier inspected the contents of the briefcase but didn't find the note.

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This led to widespread skepticism concerning the document's authenticity.

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On October 25, 1995, a team of well-known handwriting experts held a press conference in Washington.

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They had been hired by the editor of an independent financial newsletter.

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Each of the experts had examined a photocopy of the alleged suicide note and concluded that it was a forgery.

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The death of Vince Foster was suddenly cast in a whole new light.

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If the note was forged, was it part of a cover-up by the Clinton administration, or was it evidence that Vince Foster had been murdered?

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Is there any substance to the claim that the suicide note was forged?

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The experts believe that the forger studied an existing document handwritten by Vince Foster and then copied his writing style letter by letter.

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To examine this remarkable claim, we invited the experts to meet with us in Boston.

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Blobs of both the suicide note and several random known samples of Foster's writing were provided.

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Then we asked the experts to show us exactly what led them to their conclusions.

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For purposes of the demonstration, the suicide note is labeled Q1 and referred to as the questioned document.

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The known samples are labeled K1 through K12.

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Ronald Rice, a handwriting examiner who has worked for the state of Massachusetts, is convinced that the note was forged.

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If we compare the formation of the cursive capital I here on the questioned document to the formation of the capital I here on the known document authored by Mr. Foster,

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we can plainly see it is not the same. It's an entirely different letter formation.

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Rice went on to describe other discrepancies.

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For example, in the suicide note, the letter O is open.

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By contrast, in the known samples, it is closed.

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In addition, Rice claims that the letter B in the note was made with at least four strokes of the pen.

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In the known sample, he says the letter was written with one continuous stroke.

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Rice says he discovered numerous discrepancies, which proved to him that the suicide note was not written by Vince Foster.

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My studying examination in excess of 40 hours I had spent in this concluded that this was a document that was very skeptical,

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and it was my opinion that it was a forgery.

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Many handwriting analysts would say that Foster's writing was typified by U-shaped strokes known as swags.

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Reginald Alton of Oxford University in England believes a forger had a difficult time imitating Foster's graceful style.

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When Foster writes Quintons, the I-N is an elegant double swag.

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When the forger writes Quintons, we find the strokes are not easy and elegant and not really on form at all.

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There were an inordinate amount of hesitation dots found in the document.

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Hesitation dots are small blobs of ink left where the pen starts or stops.

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Anthony Ion Tosco believes the presence of so many dots indicates that the suicide note was deliberately and painstakingly copied rather than written in a normal hand.

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If we take a look at the capital letter N, you'll see four distinct hesitation dots starting at the top where the pen comes in contact with the paper.

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It stops, he comes down, and it stops at the bottom.

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He comes back up and retraces.

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He comes back down again. You'll see a third hesitation dot.

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He stops, he comes back up, and you'll see a heavy concentration of ink right here for the fourth hesitation dot.

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Retired homicide investigator Vincent Scalise is a certified document examiner.

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He points to the fact that the words beginning with the letters TH, whether the T is capitalized or lower case, are much more crudely written in the suicide note than in the known samples.

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But can the differences be explained? Perhaps by stress, the stress of a man about to kill himself.

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These experts give no credence to the argument.

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Your handwriting would not change because you were under that type of stress.

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It might get a little sloppy here, it might get a little less clear, but your style of writing normally would not change.

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Is it possible that the experts are right? Could the suicide note have on a President Clinton's most trusted advisers have been forged?

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The implications are staggering, but only if these particular experts are correct, and at least one other expert says they are not.

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There's nothing in the question document that would support any finding of forgery, and the things that are brought forth, the apparent fragmentation in those things are explained by the fact that we have a deuterated copy, and the fact that the man was under some emotional stress at the time.

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Marcel Matley is convinced that the other experts are wrong, and has provided his own demonstration to prove it.

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Again, Q1 on the left side represents the suicide note. K1 through K11 on the right side represent the known samples.

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The first is the word the. We have three thes from the suicide note, three from the first known sample.

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You cannot tell the difference in these words. The only thing that might be a difference is here where it's deteriorated. This is from the photocopy that's been copied too often.

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The loop is gone and the stem is gone. The second word, two, we have four of them in the question document, one of which is where the tear is so we can ignore it.

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But you notice these three twos have differences among them. We go to K9 and K10, we get three more words, TO. We have the same difference.

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The word Clinton was mentioned. First we do have the tear at the end of the word, which we have to ignore.

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But otherwise, the only notable difference is the final S. But that doesn't make any difference because in the suicide note, Foster used two styles of S.

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In his known sample, he uses the same two styles of S. So from comparing these words, the conclusion is the same person wrote both writings.

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Did Vince Foster write the suicide note? Were these the final thoughts of a man overwhelmed by the cold realities of politics in Washington?

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Or as critics of the Clinton administration contend, is the note part of an elaborate cover-up?

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In the end, there's still many, many questions to be answered. The ongoing investigations into both the Whitewater scandal and Vince Foster's suicide will in all likelihood continue for some time to come.

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Given the explosive political nature of the case, it is quite possible that we will never know the entire story behind the death of Vince Foster.

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Next, crime writer James Alroy tackles his most haunting case, the unsolved murder of his own mother.

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It was the 19th century poet Lord Byron who observed the truth is stranger than fiction.

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170 years later, a best-selling crime novelist has pushed that notion to the limit. He has turned an unflinching eye to his own past and to the unnamed killer who shaped his life.

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He knew the area and he knew that access road. It was dark and quiet and semi-secluded. It probably went bad right then, right there.

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He was living in that split second that separates lust from rage. He was thinking about sex. He probably wasn't thinking about murder.

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This brooding scenario was penned by writer James Alroy. His fitful tales of sexual obsession and explosive violence consistently topped the best-seller list.

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In 1995, Alroy's book, American Tabloid, was named Novel of the Year by Time Magazine. But few of Alroy's readers know how much truth there is just below the surface.

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The spark point could have been words or a simple gesture. The combustion occurred. It flared out of control. He hit her and hit her and hit her and strangled her.

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When James Alroy was 10 years old, his mother was beaten, raped and strangled. Her semi-clothed body was left in a bed of ivy, a strand of pearls laid pale and scattered in the street.

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My mother's crime scene to me is all crime scenes. The crime scene to me is, it's primal. It's almost edible.

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The moment of the discovery of her body is in many ways the moment of my birth. Because it's the genesis of my detective's obsessions with the murders that they ultimately become consumed by.

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Like a character in one of his own novels, James Alroy has become entangled in his mother's unsolved murder, obsessed with tracking down her killer.

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A widely sought-eye witness known as the blonde woman was never found. Almost 40 years later, Alroy believes the elusive blonde is very likely still alive.

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Perhaps she is watching tonight. Perhaps she will finally come forward and reveal the name of the killer who lashed out in the summer of 1958.

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James? James, I'm home.

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Gene Alroy divorced early 40s. She was a staff nurse at a Los Angeles factory and lived in the nearby town of Elmadi.

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Would you come in the kitchen?

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Gene had custody of 10-year-old James during the week.

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There you are. How was school today?

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Every Saturday, James would take the bus to stay with his father. Sundays, James would return by cab.

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The custody ritual ran like clockwork until the afternoon of June 22, 1958.

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The yard was full of policemen and uniforms and plain clothesmen.

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00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:58,160
I wasn't afraid, but I was anxious. I was apprehensive.

464
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,160
Are you James Alroy?

465
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,160
Yeah.

466
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:08,160
Son, your mother's been killed. Where's your father?

467
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,160
What?

468
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,160
Where's your father, son?

469
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:19,160
I think people were surprised that I wasn't more overtly emotional in the moment right after I got the news that my mother had been murdered.

470
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:31,160
I think they expected me to cry or carry on or display some kind of overt histrionics, but I took the news internally.

471
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:38,160
This picture of Alroy was snapped by a press photographer that day.

472
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,160
The die was cast for me on June 22, 1958.

473
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:58,160
After my mother's murder, all I wanted to read were crime novels, novels of detection, true crime books, and anything pertaining to violent crime and psychosexual aberrance.

474
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:07,160
At age 17, my father died. I went from bad to worse. I was no choir boy before that time, but boy, oh boy, things got worse.

475
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:20,160
I drank, used drugs, broke into houses and stole things, drove around and stole in cars, shoplifted, and did spurts of county jail time from 1965 to 1977.

476
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:27,160
My life was going nowhere, and I wanted a real life. I hadn't been with a woman in years, and I wanted to write.

477
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:38,160
I wanted to write dark, evil, well-defined, perverted, powerful, compelling crime fiction, and I knew I wouldn't be able to do it as long as I drank and used drugs.

478
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:48,160
Alroy sobered up, and the words tumbled out. His first novel was published in 1982. Ten more followed.

479
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:57,160
The gaping between the lines was a dark legacy of his own mother's rape and murder. It bubbled to the surface in the Black Dahlia.

480
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:09,160
Alroy's take on the infamous sex slaying of Elizabeth Short, one of the most provocative, unsolved murders of the century, Alroy dedicated the book to his mother.

481
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:20,160
It's as if Elizabeth Short became a stand-in for my mother. I wanted to feel the horror of my mother's death, and I used Elizabeth Short as a substitute.

482
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:32,160
By 1994, James Alroy was ready for the real thing. Detective William Stoner of the LA County Sheriff's Department arranged for Alroy to examine the official case file.

483
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,160
First of all is the Sheriff's, what we call, murder book.

484
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:47,160
This was the first time I'd ever been asked by a member of the family of the victim to actually see the crime scene photographs, and I was very hesitant to show those to him because they're very graphic, and so I warned him.

485
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,160
And if you wish, I'll go through there and pull out the ones that I think you may not want to see.

486
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,160
No, thank you. I'd like to see them all.

487
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:05,160
Physical evidence from the murder scene had been preserved in a paper bag, locked away for more than three decades.

488
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:18,160
James Alroy found himself in a nightmarish scene, just the kind he might have dreamed up for a novel. He held the nylon stocking used to strangle his mother.

489
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:26,160
He touched her silk dress, the one she was wearing, the night she was raped and murdered.

490
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:47,160
I started sweating. I started shaking. It was locked down, revved in, right on the edge of shell shock, exploding. It was truly an awe-inspiring moment.

491
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:54,160
Then, there was a face staring back at Alroy from the file, the suspected killer.

492
00:42:54,160 --> 00:43:04,160
Because he was dark-haired and olive-complexed, he'd become known as a swarthy man. Several eyewitnesses saw him with Gene Alroy just hours before she was slain.

493
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,160
I'll be right with you.

494
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:19,160
Around 10 p.m., Gene and the swarthy man pulled into a local drive-in. With Detective Stoner's help, Alroy tracked down the waitress who served the couple.

495
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,160
Do you like a menu tonight?

496
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:37,160
She had on this beautiful dress and pearls around her neck. Her hair was done beautifully. That's what made me remember her so well, because she was a beautiful woman, and then she had this dress on that I had one like.

497
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:41,160
I mean, she looked very prim and proper. She was very pleasant.

498
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,160
And anything for you, sir?

499
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:46,160
Just coffee.

500
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:56,160
He had no accent. He didn't talk with any, even a southern drawl. He just talked very normally, like you'd expect an average Californian to talk.

501
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:04,160
Gene and the swarthy man were next seen at Nell-Monday Bar called the Desert Inn. But now they had company.

502
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:17,160
She was a dishwater blonde mid to late 30s. No one knows her name or how she fit into the evening's plans. She apparently knew both Gene Alroy and the suspect and left the bar with them at around midnight.

503
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:29,160
By 2.15 a.m., the blonde was out of the picture. Gene Alroy and the swarthy man returned to the drive-in.

504
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:47,160
This time, she was not as neat and prim as she was when I waited on her the first time. She looked like she had been necking her, you know, full and round some because her dress and her hair was kind of messed up.

505
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,160
But they didn't seem overly friendly together.

506
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,160
Coffee.

507
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,160
And he wasn't saying anything. He was just too quiet.

508
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,160
Coffee.

509
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:13,160
Shortly before 3 a.m., Gene and the suspect left the drive-in. Time was running out for Gene Alroy.

510
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:27,160
I think the swarthy man decided that the evening wasn't over for him. He either knew about a secluded location or came upon it and stopped and forced himself on Mrs. Alroy.

511
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,160
Listen, I had a good time. Just take me home.

512
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,160
I bought you drinks. I bought you dinner. You owe me.

513
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,160
I don't owe you anything!

514
00:45:44,160 --> 00:46:00,160
The most important person from that evening, if we could locate her, would be the blonde headed lady that joined Gene and the swarthy man at the desert inn.

515
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,160
Feel like dancing?

516
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,160
Sure.

517
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:19,160
The blonde woman knows who killed my mother. The blonde woman knows the identity of the swarthy man. The blonde has told people. There are people out there who know elements of this case, who know names, who've heard the story, and it's just a question of tapping into those people.

518
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:41,160
The elusive blonde woman, who would now be in her early 70s, is considered a material witness in this case. She is not in any way a suspect. Gene Alroy's former co-workers at Air Tech Dynamics in Los Angeles may also be able to provide useful leads or even point the way to the swarthy man.

519
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:58,160
If the swarthy man is alive, I would like to bring him to justice. If we identify the man and learn that he's dead, I want to go back and trace this man's roots back to his crib to find out why this event happened.

520
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:21,160
On our next Unsolved Mysteries, when a violent storm swept over Mary Clamser's house, she never guessed that the turbulent skies would deliver a miracle, one that has apparently cured Mary of a debilitating disease.

521
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:28,160
Join me next time for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.