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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries

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A 14-year-old girl awakens, hog-tied in her own bedroom, with her entire home viciously ransacked.

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She tells police she has no memory of an attack or even of her own identity.

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What happened to Sarah Powell?

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For Harvey MacLeod, life as a cab driver was routine and uneventful.

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Until the day he was hijacked by one of his fares, turned into a human time bomb in order to rob a bank.

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And we'll take you to Egypt, an ancient land of mystery and intrigue.

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For centuries, the immense treasures of the pharaohs lay buried in the Valley of the Kings.

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But when the tomb of King Tut was opened in 1922,

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was a deadly curse unleashed on those who trespassed upon his grave.

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Join me for this intriguing and compelling edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

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Egypt, the cradle of long lost civilizations, home to the magnificent pyramids, the inscrutable great sphinx, giant statues of once powerful pharaohs.

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Truly a land of intrigue and mystery.

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Buried beneath the shifting sands in the Valley of the Kings lay secrets.

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The hidden tombs of ancient rulers, their bodies mummified and surrounded by the golden treasures meant to accompany them to the afterlife.

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Treasures that have proven irresistible.

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By the end of the 19th century, nearly every tomb in the Valley of the Kings had been picked clean.

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Riches carried away by both archaeologists and thieves.

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Nevertheless, Howard Carter, a self-taught British Egyptologist, was sure there was one more tomb.

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That of a little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun.

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He had no idea the discovery of King Tut's final resting place would unleash one of the most sensational legends of the 20th century, the legend of the mummy's curse.

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By the fall of 1922, Howard Carter had been searching for the tomb of King Tutankhamun for five years.

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His financial backer was George Herbert, the fifth thrill of Carnarbon, an abad amateur archaeologist.

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Lord Carnarbon had already spent the modern equivalent of half a million dollars and was about to give up.

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Carter begged him to give it one last chance.

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You and the workers are digging furiously.

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Carnarbon, a long-time devotee of the occult, sought the advice of a noted psychic.

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Who are deeply disturbed.

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I see a hurricane of lightning and you Lord Carnarbon are standing alone.

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Given what I have seen, I suggest you make your excuses to the public and cancel the dig.

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But that's impossible.

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Despite the warning, the dig continued with spectacular results.

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On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter, Lord Carnarbon and Lady Evelyn Herbert, Carnarbon's daughter,

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descended next-cavated staircase and stepped into history.

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They came to a doorway sealed by the priests of the dead, long before Christ was born, a room was built.

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The first thing is this unbelievable feeling of smelling and feeling in a whoosh.

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Out comes this air of what? How many thousands of years, right?

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And then he puts up this, the light.

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Can you see anything?

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My God, marvelous!

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Let me have a look. Move over. Move over.

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Who could possibly describe what he sees in this helter-skelter, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold?

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Fantastic.

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And one after the other look in and everybody's trying and there's no longer your Lordship.

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And you know, let me have a look. I pay for this. You know, get me in there.

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And then of course, they go in.

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They went, it's probably bananas. They're suddenly in a place where the last person had been in there was a 3,600 whatever years before, right?

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And spooky things went on. They began to feel, I mean, they were no different in thieves.

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It was the ultimate treasure trove, a jumble of King Tut's favorite and most precious possessions.

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The toys he had played with as a baby, the throne he had ruled from as a king, the golden jars that held his heart and lungs.

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Such fine workmanship.

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The Egyptians literally believed you could take it with you.

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Since the next world was going to be a continuation of this world, you would want your possessions.

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You would want a bed. You would want your utensils.

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You would want your game boards that you could play your games that you enjoyed.

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So the priests upon death and your family would prepare, it would be a group activity,

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would put whatever they thought you would need for the big journey.

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Word of the incredible fine flew around the world.

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Crowds watched in astonishment as Howard Carter brought each prize into the light.

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Dignitaries and reporters from dozens of countries converged on the valley of the kings, hungry for every detail.

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Carter and Carnarvon became household names, international celebrities.

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Then slowly, a shadow began to eclipse their limelight.

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It began with Howard Carter's pet bird.

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In the days after the tomb was opened, a cobra, the royal symbol of the pharaohs, attacked and killed the bird.

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To some, the meaning was clear.

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The king's serpent had struck a blow of vengeance against the man who had desecrated Tutankhamun's grave.

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The natives said before winter was out, someone would die.

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Five months after the opening of the tomb, Carnarvon died of blood poisoning in Cairo.

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Legend has it that at that very moment in England, Carnarvon's dog howled in anguish and fell dead.

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In Cairo, all the lights went out, hunching the city into blackness as dark as the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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Then a newspaper broke word of a curse written in hieroglyphs in King Tut's tomb.

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They who enter the sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death.

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But if you went out of existence, that was the worst thing that could happen.

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that all the necessary parts would be there intact, ready to go again in the next world.

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I discovered here at Giza a tomb with the first curse inscription ever happened.

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And listen to what the man is saying in this tomb.

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If anyone will disturb my tomb, he will be eaten by crocodile, loin and the hippo.

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His wife lifted the same inscription and she added more and the scorpions and the snakes will eat you.

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Fear of the mummy's curse created a panic.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fueled the hysteria when he stated it was probable

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that Lord Cronarvon had been killed by a malevolent spirit.

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Hundreds of tourists who had bought Egyptian antiquities as souvenirs rushed to ship them back,

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including in one case a mummy's severed arm.

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The United States Congress even debated passing a law banning Egyptian antiquities from American museums.

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Nevertheless, Howard Carter continued clearing out the tomb of Tutankhamun, one exquisite piece after another.

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Even the boy king's mummified body was carried out. His wrappings removed. His bones laid bare.

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Some say King Tut took his revenge. Cronarvon's death was only the beginning.

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Over the next two decades, the mummy's curse was blamed for more than 20 deaths, including that of Howard Carter himself.

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Most Egyptologists, however, don't buy it.

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This whole curse thing is total bunkum.

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Lord Cronarvon gets this infection. He goes to the hospital. He dies.

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All the lights go out in Cairo.

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Today, in your modern hotels, is it candle in every bathroom?

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The lights go out in Cairo all the time, sporadically, right?

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And the fact that the dog howls at the moment, you know, distant in England of the death, give me a break.

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Historian Scoff, but the legend of the mummy's curse refuses to go away.

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Believe it or not, modern science has revealed that in fact, the curse may be real, though not supernatural.

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In his diary, Howard Carter noted that the tomb walls were covered with an odd pink film, perhaps a fungus.

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Though the ancient Egyptians probably didn't know it, their sealed tombs may have harbored a variety of bacteria and fungi.

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Toxic killers more deadly than any curse.

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History records as circumstances made Lord Cronarvon the perfect target for these mysterious mycotoxins.

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Not long after the tomb was opened, Cronarvon was bitten by a mosquito.

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The bite became infected, perhaps by the mycotoxins.

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When Cronarvon nicked himself shaving, the infection became worse.

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Cronarvon's fate was sealed.

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This is why I advise my assistants in my excavations.

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I tell them, do not shave while we are excavating.

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Because if you shave, you have an open, your beard is ready to take in a germ.

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And this is what happened in my opinion to most of the cases that's happened during the excavations and people said the curse of the first.

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The treasures of Tutankhamun have been exhibited and studied all over the world.

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To say Egypt is to think King Tut.

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If the Egyptians did in fact place a curse on their tombs, perhaps they were wrong in doing so.

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For King Tut at least, being discovered may have been the greatest possible blessing.

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A guarantee of eternal life.

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The Egyptians had a phrase to say the name of the dead is to make him live again.

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And through the discovery of his tomb, he is the most famous of all fears and everybody is saying his name.

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So in a sense, the discovery by Carter and Cronarvon assures Tutankhamun's immortality,

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even in the Egyptian sense, in the ancient Egyptian sense of to say his name is to make him live again.

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When her home is ransacked by intruders, a young girl is stricken by a bizarre case of amnesia.

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But first, a cab driver is wired with explosives and forced to participate in a wild robbery scheme.

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65 year old Harvey McLeod has been driving a cab in Modesto, California for some 10 years.

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He's seen just about everything there is to see.

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So last January, Harvey wasn't the least bit surprised when a man in a turban with a phony looking beard and mustache flagged him down.

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It was just a normal fare.

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He did have a turban, but we have several cars.

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He did have a turban, but we have several of those in Modesto, so I never thought anything about it.

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Going up to Jamestown.

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Hey, that's a 50 minute ride.

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That'll run you 90 dollars.

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I'll have to get that up front.

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The passengers spoke in a coarse stage whisper.

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He only had about half the fare, but he said he could pick up the rest at his brother's house, which was along the way.

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I have to stop by my brother's place and pick up the rest.

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It's hard to find your brother's house, all right.

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Just keep driving east.

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Take a left right up here.

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Lit road?

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That's right.

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He said his brother lived on lit road, so I didn't think too much about it until he told me to stop after a couple of blocks.

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So I stopped the car and turned around and hear that gun was staring me right in the nose.

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Exactly what I tell you.

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I just cut the wires to the radio transmitter and get out that door.

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So I just basically thought it was a robbery.

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But this was no ordinary robbery.

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Harvey McLeod was about to be turned into a human time bomb.

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A gunman chained a black metal box with a numeric keypad onto Harvey's body.

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He ran a wire lead around Harvey's neck and clipped it shut.

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Then he activated the black box.

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You do exactly what I say, you'll be all right.

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You screw up at all.

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You'll die.

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The bomb is remote controlled.

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All I have to do is dial a number on my cell phone.

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You're gone.

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I was terrified.

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My mind was going 100 miles an hour and I was trying to figure out how am I going to get out of this.

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Ten minutes later Harvey was on his way back to Modesto.

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You're going to rob a bank.

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I want you to listen to me very carefully.

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There's a second bomb in this box.

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I want you to take this briefcase and the bomb into the bank.

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I want you to leave the bomb in the bank when you're done.

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You understand me?

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Yep.

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The gunman got out of the cab across the street from his intended target, Glendale Federal Bank.

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Well, he can't remind me that he could set this bomb off by his cell your telephone.

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And me, I don't know that much about electronics, but what you see, you know,

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on papers and TV, you can do about anything with electronics nowadays, so I believed him.

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May I see the bank manager?

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Sorry, sir, she's unavailable.

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I just have a seat.

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I need you to see the bank manager now.

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It's important.

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Sir, excuse me.

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Please, just have a seat.

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I need you to see the manager.

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You can't have waited.

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I understand that, of course.

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Is there a problem?

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I need you to see the manager.

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Are you the manager?

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I am.

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May I help you?

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I thought I was dealing with an IRA customer because he was agitated.

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I proceeded to read the letter and about midway through.

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It shocked me and it upset me.

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Did you read this?

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Look what he did to me.

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I'm just a poor cab driver.

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I looked around the lobby, saw how busy we were, saw how many customers were in the bank,

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and saw my staff just doing what they're supposed to be doing.

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And it was very scary that if I didn't do the right thing,

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that all of us could be blown up as a result of that.

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Denise Hutchison decided to comply with a gunman's orders.

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She and another bank employee filled the briefcase with the exact amount of money

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demanded in the letter.

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Ten.

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The robbery had gone according to plan.

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With one exception, Harvey performed a quiet act of heroism.

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I didn't want to see innocent people get killed.

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I couldn't do much about me, but I could at least take the bomb with me

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and to protect the other people in the bank and the bank itself, too.

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So I walked out the door with it.

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In the back of the cab, Harvey found a neatly typed set of instructions.

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First, he drove to a hardware store 15 minutes away.

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He parked the cab, leaving behind the cash and the car keys.

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Then Harvey walked half a mile to a pay phone.

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I was terrified because the note on the instruction was that don't try to flag down an office or anything

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because we've got people watching you all the time.

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Now, every step you make, we've got people watching you.

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The instructions have specified that the gunman would phone with directions for dismantling the bomb.

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When I waited about five, ten minutes and no call came in,

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so I went over and had to look at the telephone and it said no incoming calls.

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So then I knew that something was up.

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So then that's when I called my dispatcher and told her what happened.

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Within minutes, the police were on the scene and the area was being evacuated.

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Harvey McLeod sat alone in the eye of the storm.

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They say I looked calm, but I wasn't very calm inside.

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I was shaking, my stomach was rolling, and I had all these things going through my mind.

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I was wondering how long I was going to be there in this old world.

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Eventually, a county bomb squad arrived and released Harvey from the device.

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X-rays later determined that it was a fake, as was the second bomb.

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There's a package back here. Let's get this rubbed off.

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Robbery had been perfectly executed.

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The gunman got away undetected, almost.

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When the gunman was dropped off across the street from the bank,

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there were two witnesses that observed a male adult that was unusually dressed.

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They thought at first that since there was a bank in close proximity,

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that possibly someone was having a birthday party and they hired this person

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to do some type of gig for them inside of the bank.

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And the secondary thought that the male witness had was maybe this person had just robbed a bank.

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When this person reached the van, he took off a turban, as well as dark sunglasses

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and a fake beard and mustache, as well as his sweater, which contained padding

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to make this person look 25 to 30 pounds heavier.

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Next, a teenage girl has found Hogg tied and hysterical in her bedroom,

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the apparent victim of a horrifying home invasion.

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But the police wonder how much is truth and how much is fiction.

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November 16, 1993, a middle class home in Clear Lake, Texas, a suburb of Houston.

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Approximately 9.30 a.m.

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I remember this little dog was licking my face and that's what woke me up.

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I tried to move and I realized that I was tied up.

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I had no recollection of who I was or why I was tied up.

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I tried to remember things, but as soon as I started asking myself who I was

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and what I was doing, they right upset me more.

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I grabbed the phone cord with my teeth and pulled it off the bed

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and that knocked the phone off the hook.

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And then I thought, who am I going to call?

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I don't know anybody. I don't even know where I'm at.

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And then I looked down and I saw that there was a redial button.

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Hello? I need some help.

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When she hit the redial button with her tongue, the girl reached the local post office.

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One of the employees was a woman named Deborah Powell.

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They had a child on the phone.

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The child said that everything in the room was pink and there were teddy bears everywhere.

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And I knew at that point that there was no doubt in my mind it was Sarah.

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Sarah was Deborah's 14-year-old daughter. She has stayed home sick from school.

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By the time Deborah got to her house, police were already on the scene.

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What's going on? Is she all right?

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We don't know. We haven't gotten into the house yet.

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Sarah?

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When we went into the house and I saw it was ransacked, I knew she was in big trouble.

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Sarah?

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I was scared. I was frightened. I didn't know what I was going to find.

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Sarah?

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Sarah?

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Sarah?

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Don't hurt me!

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Sarah, honey, it's mommy. It's...what's wrong honey? It's mommy.

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Don't hurt me!

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Sarah, it's mommy. It's mommy.

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Don't hurt me. I don't know you. Don't hurt me.

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I didn't know what to think, what to do.

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The more I tried to go toward her and help her, she began to panic.

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Get out of the room. I'll take care of her. Calm her down.

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Sarah, honey, I'm going to be right here.

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Sarah?

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It's all right Sarah. I'm a policeman. Just let me get you out of this.

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Just take a minute or two.

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You know where you are?

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No, I don't. Where am I?

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You're at home and you're safe now.

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Can you give me a description of the people who did this to you?

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Were they friends of yours?

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I don't know.

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Can't remember anything?

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No.

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My first impression was she was a teenager that was up to something

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and probably did not want her parents to find out what had happened that day.

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The police had good reason to be suspicious.

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Crime scene experts combed every inch of the house

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but found no evidence of forced entry and no fingerprints.

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I'm going to get the couch here.

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Most puzzling of all, it was a rainy day

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and there was not a single wet or muddy footprint.

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Can you give me anything?

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And we later learned that nothing was taken.

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So these sort of things make us think that she's going to be able to tell us what went on

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and she will know who it is and will solve this as soon as Sarah is ready to deal with it.

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What about before you were tied up?

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Do you remember anything that happened earlier?

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No.

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Sarah, did you get yourself into some trouble here?

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Is that why you're afraid to say anything to me?

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I can't remember anything that happened.

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I just know that I woke up all tied up.

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I could tell that they thought I was holding something back.

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I was trying as hard as I could.

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They would show me pictures and ask me if I remembered my parents

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and I couldn't remember anything.

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My first impression was that she perhaps had been threatened

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and she was afraid to say anything.

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We had always been very close and I felt assured that when the police left

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that this child was going to tell me what really happened.

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However, even after the police left, Sarah's story did not change.

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I even tried to trick Sarah to prove that she really could remember

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and after three days of watching her, a mother knows her child, her movements, her characteristics,

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everything about her, after three days I knew something was wrong.

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How about this year, your first portrait?

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You remember that green dress?

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Deborah and her other daughter Helen tried to jog Sarah's memory with family photos.

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That's you and me in front of the house.

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That's me and you.

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It was after church.

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We changed clothes and we were gardening.

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I was extremely hurt that my child didn't remember me and didn't connect with me

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and I tried very hard not to take it personally.

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Good night, Sarah.

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You know, honey, it's okay if you don't feel like hugging me.

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You're obviously my mother.

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You have all my baby stuff.

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I mean, you've got to be my mother.

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But I have no feelings for you.

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It was like someone kidnapped my child.

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Her body was there, but she was not.

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Her mind was not there.

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I want you to write Sarah Powell for me.

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I'll spell it for you.

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S-A-R-A-H.

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At first Sarah couldn't remember how to write her name.

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Tie her shoes or even brush her teeth.

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After two months, however, she had relearned most basic skills.

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Sarah's school agreed to help set up a home study program.

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You know what, if we have any trouble with the math,

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well, I don't know, Helen can help you.

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Sarah, honey, what is it?

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Sarah, what is it?

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Sarah, what is it?

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Sarah, what is it?

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I need some help! Somebody help!

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I was scared to death. I didn't know what was happening.

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I thought, what in the world this looks like a seizure.

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Go get the school nurse.

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Would you help me hold her down and just pull her arms?

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Sarah, honey, what is it?

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Sarah, honey, what is it?

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It's okay. It's okay. I don't know.

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I didn't let them in.

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I didn't let them in.

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And the only words out of her mouth was,

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I didn't let them in.

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And I remember thinking, maybe this is the memory coming back,

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but I couldn't be sure.

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In fact, the memories had returned in a terrifying rush.

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It was 8.30 on the morning of the attack.

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Sarah had just taken her medicine

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and put her dog in the laundry room.

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I remembered walking up the stairs when I heard a loud noise.

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So I started running up the stairs and I heard a second loud boom.

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I had rounded the corner and I could see straight into my room.

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And that's when I saw people trying to break in the window.

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I saw the phone sitting on my bed,

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so I just dove onto my bed and called my mom at work.

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The front door was locked with a double deadbolt,

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and Sarah couldn't find her keys.

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Then suddenly, it was quiet.

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I started sneaking up the stairs and stood up slowly

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and I looked in my room and nobody was there.

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I was in the room, and I saw a door.

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Stop it!

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Don't look up!

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Stay right here!

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Don't look up!

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I promise I promise.

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Shut up!

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Okay, go downstairs and get the job done.

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Stop it!

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Shut up!

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He just pushed my head down on the bed and put a pillow on my head.

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I believe he was trying to kill me.

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Shut up!

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I was at the point where I just couldn't hold my breath anymore.

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So I just went limp and pretended like I was either passed out or dead.

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When he realized that I had seen them, he got mad.

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You just had to get a look, didn't you?

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What are you doing?

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That's the last thing I remembered, the last thing I remember passing out.

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And that's what I remembered in my first seizure.

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And I thought that was all at the time, but it turned out that it wasn't.

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I was angry, I was shocked.

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I couldn't believe that she had suffered such an ordeal.

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And I had no idea at that time that I hadn't even heard the worst of it.

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Those memories broke through during a second flashback.

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I remembered waking up and nobody was in the room except for the smaller guy.

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Why are you doing this to me?

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You just gotta be quiet, okay?

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I'm gonna tie you up, but you'll be alright.

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Bigger guy, that's when he walked in and saw us talking.

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Oh, we're friends now.

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You're not gonna get that gun.

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The bigger guy, he had the gun.

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If we're such good friends now, I'm sure you're gonna love this.

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He had it to my head.

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Shut up! Shut up!

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Man, calm down!

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Shut up, I know what I'm doing.

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You tie her up, you do a good job, because I'll be back to check on it.

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I know that they were downstairs right in the second house because I could hear things fall into the floor.

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I knew that they were girls because they were talking to each other.

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I'm sorry.

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The smaller guy unraveled the phone cord once and plugged the phone back in and set it on the bed.

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I think he felt sorry for me.

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Sarah was literally in a life-threatening situation, and then two things happened that probably insulted her brain.

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One was that she got hit in the head, and the other one was that she was suffocated,

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so that the combination of terror and a psychological amnesia component and then the physical insults,

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I think, combined to result in this unique amnesia presentation.

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We're all here for you. We're all here and we're not gonna leave.

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To date, Sarah has had nine apparent seizures, including this one documented on videotape at her grandparents' house.

435
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With each episode, she appeared to recover more shards of her shattered memory.

436
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Sarah, we're all here for you.

437
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Can you describe those people to me?

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00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:15,000
The police, however, were still skeptical. They put Sarah under hypnosis to see if her story would hold up.

439
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There's a big guy with muscles.

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She told the same story that she had always told, and at that time, the hypnotist has told me, in his opinion, she was being truthful.

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But the police are still not sure. Too many questions remain. Who were the intruders?

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Why did they ransack the house yet steal nothing? Why did they leave no evidence behind,

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not even a fingerprint or a footprint? And finally, does Sarah have any of the crucial answers?

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We're not saying that she's being untruthful.

445
00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,000
We're saying we believe that she believes she's telling the truth, but we're searching for more facts.

446
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We want to verify details, and we want to see if she's still repressing something.

447
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I believe that I remember D-Tech accurately. I don't think there's anything else to remember.

448
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It's always possible, but I really feel like everything is here, and I'm ready to maybe see if I can get some answers

449
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and find out why this all happened.

450
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Over the last three years, Sarah has gradually recovered the precious memories that connect her to her family.

451
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Once again, Sarah knows and loves her mother, her father and her sister, but she will never be the same.

452
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I think I'm completely recovered, but there are still a few things, just like having nightmares and still have nightmares.

453
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There are a few things like that, but I think I'm to where I can at least handle it now.

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Based on Sarah's description, a police sketch artist created a composite of the taller male intruder as he might appear without the stocking mask.

455
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As Sarah remembers, he was Caucasian, approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall and very muscular.

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He had a tattoo of a cobra inked in blue on his right bicep or shoulder.

457
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In a moment, the sabotage of an Amtrak passenger train last October evokes haunting memories of a similar tragedy that occurred nearly 60 years ago.

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October 9, 1995. By now, the disturbing images are familiar.

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The twisted wreckage of Amtrak's sunset-limited passenger train strewn across the Arizona desert.

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The train had jumped the track 60 miles southwest of Phelps.

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Four cars plunge more than 30 feet off a trestle into a dry riverbed.

462
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One person was killed, scores were injured, the cause of the tragedy, sabotage.

463
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When we arrived at the scene, it was apparent that someone had tampered with the rails.

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The investigation determined that 29 spikes were removed, purposely removed.

465
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And not only were the spikes removed, but someone had pushed the rail inside so that the two rails were not connected.

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The tampering was simple but deadly. In a typical section of track, the rails are connected at a joint.

467
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With the spikes removed, one rail was shifted a mere 4 inches, just enough to cause the crash.

468
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Another piece of evidence convinced authorities that the saboteurs or saboteurs had a working knowledge of railroads.

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Despite the break in the rails, the signal circuits, electrical wires that run through the track remained intact.

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Consequently, the train crew had no warning.

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The FBI believes that they picked that particular spot in order to create the most damage, and possibly the most injuries or death.

472
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The train was going about 50 miles an hour, it's on a curve, and it occurred right before trestle.

473
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Who derailed a sunset limit? Was it a violent political statement by domestic terrorists?

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Or an isolated act of revenge by a disgruntled railroad employee?

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Investigators soon discovered frightening parallels to another act of sabotage more than a half century ago.

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In 1939, 24 people were killed and 117 injured in a suspicious train wreck in the Nevada desert.

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The most mysterious connection between both accidents, the 1939 wreck and the sunset limit of the wreck of last year,

478
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is the fact that the sabotage was done ahead of a bridge in a desert country of remote location.

479
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There was definitely care in advance that the wires were intact at all times.

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Merely moving one piece of metal, in this case one rail, a matter of less than four inches,

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allowed both trains to careen off on the curve as they crossed the river, and the damage occurred.

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Curiously, the 1939 crash had been profiled in a journal for railroad buffs shortly before the Amtrak accident.

483
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The author, John Signor, rejects the notion that his article may have inspired the would-be saboteur.

484
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I see absolutely no connection. My magazine was released only the week of the derailment.

485
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It was still being distributed. I didn't even receive mine until five days after the derailment in the mail.

486
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There's been a whole book published on it. There's been numerous articles on that over the years.

487
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It's widely known.

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The Railroad Journal has a short subscriber list. Federal authorities have questioned many of the readers

489
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and come up empty-handed, leaving investigators with just one other concrete clue.

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In the immediate vicinity of the accident site, FBI agents found four copies of a computer-written

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diatribe against the United States government. It was signed, Sons of the Gestapo.

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We have not been able to determine the existence of such a group, but we're still trying to investigate

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to determine whether or not that is a red herring to try to throw us off the investigation

494
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or whether or not that particular group exists.

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The note was entitled, Indictment of the ATF and the FBI, and seemed to espouse an extreme right-wing viewpoint.

496
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It denounced the federal sieges at Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

497
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It also posed the question, who is policing the ATF, FBI, state troopers, county sheriffs and local police?

498
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But the note's specific reference to the shooting of a police officer's wife, who, quote,

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knows too much about drug kickbacks, may ultimately hold the key to the author's identity.

500
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Based upon that particular statement, if we can pinpoint that police officer or that police department,

501
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,000
that might give us an investigative leave to help us solve this sabotage in Arizona.

502
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People have to feel safe when they take public transportation, and it's important to solve this case

503
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:59,000
so that we can show the motive behind this particular sabotage, that this person is going to jail

504
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:06,000
as a result of this sabotage for an extremely long time, and that'll send a message to anybody who might think about

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committing sabotage in our rail system.

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The one person killed in the crash of the Sunset Limited was a sleeping car attendant named Mitchell Bates.

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Because of his death, the individual or individuals responsible will be charged with murder as well as sabotage.

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Join me next Friday for the dramatic season finale of Unsolved Mysteries.