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Tonight on the season premiere of Unsolved Mysteries,

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we travel to San Francisco for a stunning special report.

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A generation ago, the Zodiac killer terrorized northern

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California, striking at Randall, taunting the police,

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taking at least five lives.

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But when the killing abruptly stopped, the memories faded,

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until this.

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The dramatic arrest of Theodore Kaczynski,

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the accused unabomber, changed everything.

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Two investigators soon challenged the authorities

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with a remarkable theory.

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They believe the unabomber and the Zodiac

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are the same man, Theodore Kaczynski.

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It may seem improbable, but the similarities are chilling.

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And even skeptics admit the evidence has worked the bait.

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Join me for this compelling investigation,

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as well as these intriguing mysteries.

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For 14-year-old Trish Zember, a fall from her horse

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marked the onset of a rare, often incurable nerve disease,

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the grim prognosis left her family

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with little to do but pray for a miracle.

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A heartless murder in Georgia leads to a dramatic shootout

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with police.

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Now a killer is on the run.

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And from the current case file, two young co-heads,

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two different universities, two baffling disappearances.

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Stay with us.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve the mystery.

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Ah.

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Here in the San Francisco Bay Area,

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the paths of two serial killers once crossed and recross,

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seemingly intertwined.

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Yet the two haunted different decades

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and had markedly different tastes and murder.

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An unmatched pair are merely different faces

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of the same matter.

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The Unabomber, psychopathic general

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in a one-man war against society.

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His targets, anyone even loosely connected to technology.

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University students, airline officials, computer salesmen.

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A decade earlier, the Zodiac, he was obsessive and particular.

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Young couples, moonlit nights, secluded roads.

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Zodiac had five known victims, though he claimed nearly 40.

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He was never arrested, never even identified.

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The Unabomber burst onto the scene in 1978.

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During an 18-year cross-country reign of terror,

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he killed three and injured 23.

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He taunted police with letters, all mailed from in

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and around the Bay Area.

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Frustrated officials said it was like chasing a ghost.

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The Unabomber was seen but once, a sighting that resulted

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in this notorious portrait.

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Then, April 1996, a suspect unmasked.

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FBI agents named Theodore Kozinski, a 55-year-old ex-mathematics

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professor as the elusive killer.

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The fingerprints were hardly drawn Kozinski's booking sheet

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when the case was spun in an entirely new direction

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by these two men, Mike Rusconi and Doug Oswell.

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Working independently at opposite ends of the country,

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then joining forces once their story hit the papers,

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Rusconi and Oswell had each come up

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with the same stunning theory.

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There's a more even point of similarity.

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I've concluded that there's a very good likelihood

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that the Unabomber suspect, Ted Kozinski, and Zodiac

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are one and the same.

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Was there a resemblance more than coincidence?

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Journalists wrote it off as unlikely.

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To detectives, it was doubtful.

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But nobody said it was impossible.

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At the age of 26, Theodore John Kozinski

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was a rising star in the world of higher mathematics,

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one of the youngest instructors ever hired

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by the University of California Berkeley.

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Kozinski began teaching there in September of 1967.

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The Zodiac crawled out of nowhere a little over a year later.

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It was a full moon, December 20, 1968.

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The Zodiac's first victims were two teenagers parked

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on a lover's lane near the Bay Area town of Vallejo.

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Are you going to talk to them?

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You're going to talk to them?

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Both victims died at the scene.

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To researchers Mike Rusconi and Doug Oswell,

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Kozinski's actions shortly after the murders

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were the first hint that he could be the Zodiac killer.

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One month later, on January 20, 1969,

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Kozinski tendered his resignation from Berkeley

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without any apparent motive.

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And this astounded the people who worked with him.

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It was just an inexplicable thing to do.

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Oswell and Rusconi find an even stronger link to Kozinski

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and the Zodiac's next murders some seven months later.

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Once again, it was a full moon.

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Once again, Zodiac targeted two lovers

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parked on a secluded road near Vallejo.

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This time, the Zodiac left an eyewitness,

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one of the intended victims, Mike McGough,

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survived the shooting and watched the killer drive away.

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Mike McGough claimed that the man who shot him

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drove a light tan Chevy.

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Ted Kozinski's brother in a Washington Post interview

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at the time of the killings.

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that the Zodiac killings occur.

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We know both enjoyed taunting the police.

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However, there's many more differences than similarities.

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After the murders, Zodiac bombarded local newspapers

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with letters.

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As a unabomber would a decade later,

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Zodiac loaded the envelopes with far more postage than necessary.

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He teased that his identity would be revealed

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if authorities could only decipher a three-part coded message.

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Each section of the cryptogram consisted of letters

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and astrological symbols arranged according to an unknown formula.

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Robert Graysmith of the San Francisco Chronicles

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The genius of Zodiac's cryptograms,

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first of all, he laid them out like works of art,

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very perfectly arranged.

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He would use 16 different symbols for the letter E, for instance.

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And he would not repeat them.

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He'd go completely through the 16 before he began.

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Which made it very, very difficult.

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He kept them short, 360 symbols in the longest one we had.

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That made it difficult to break.

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To Oswone and Raskoni, the cryptograms forge yet another link

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between the Zodiac and Ted Kaczynski.

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Cryptograms are the toys of mathematicians.

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Kaczynski was a highly regarded mathematician.

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He wasn't just a garden variety mathematician.

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He was touted as one of the top mathematicians in the country.

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Ted Kaczynski was interested in very abstract mathematics.

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or the radiance, or local geography, or the full moon.

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but not the kind of numbers that Zodiac was interested in.

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When the Zodiac's message was finally deciphered,

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it proved to be a vile ode to the joys of murder.

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For the researchers, there was one more connection to Ted Kaczynski.

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The message was solved all except for the last 18 characters.

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Now, coincidentally enough, there happens to be 18 letters

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in the name Theodore J. Kaczynski.

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So this possibly could be his signature at the end of the letter.

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It was in these letters that Zodiac introduced his now infamous symbol.

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Within a few weeks, it would be seen again.

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Is that your pet game? More stuff in the basket?

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Yeah, I've got apples, bananas, bananas.

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September 29, 1969, just north of Berkeley.

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The Zodiac stalked another couple.

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Don't worry about it, Earl. You'll have a great birthday.

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Don't move. Don't make any noise, OK?

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The intruder wore an executioner's hood,

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emblazoned on his robe a sign of the Zodiac.

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What? Yeah, tie your up.

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Take my car keys, man.

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Once again, it was a young man who would survive.

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I'm an escaped convict from Dear Lodge, Montana.

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And I don't have much time.

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Dear Lodge, Montana, the Zodiac's mention of such an obscure town

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to fight explanation.

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Until the capture of Ted Kaczynski at his cabin,

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just an hour's drive from Dear Lodge, Montana.

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Kaczynski had owned the cabin for 25 years.

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After his arrest, FBI agents cataloged Kaczynski's every possession,

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buttons to bomb parts.

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in the investigation, at suspect Ted Kaczynski's cabin,

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something there that belonged to the Zodiac.

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But the suspect Ted Kaczynski kept everything.

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The hood, the sunglasses, bomb-making paraphernalia.

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He had a fetish for keeping these what we call souvenirs.

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linking him to, to Zodiac?

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You guys, come here, come here.

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Look at this.

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As for the Zodiac himself, teenage party goers in San Francisco

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were the next to catch a glimpse of the Fertive Killer.

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It was October 11, 1969, roughly two weeks after his last assault.

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It was a Zodiac's fifth known murder, an unarmed cab driver.

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However, a police dispatcher garbled the eyewitness' description.

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Hey, buddy.

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See if things suspicious around here in the last few minutes?

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less than a block from the murder scene.

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Don't miss to me.

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He was going east on Washington.

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Thanks a lot.

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The man walked off into the night.

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Soon after, he sent a letter to a local newspaper.

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Inside was a bloodstained slice of the cab driver's shirt

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and a mocking letter describing the encounter with police.

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It was signed, the Zodiac.

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Authorities released this sketch of the suspect.

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Researchers Oswell and Moscone maintain that without glasses,

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the face is familiar, the young Ted Kaczynski.

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They both had a strong lower jaw with a small cleft in the chin.

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Both had a reddish tint to their hair, and they both were about 5'9".

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and 30 years of age.

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Theodore Kaczynski at that time was around 29 years old.

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After the cab driver murdered, Zodiac announced a new MO.

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Instead of guns and knives, he would now kill with bombs.

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He threatened to target a school bus filled with children

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and enclosed diagrams of complex triggering devices.

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Despite his threats, Zodiac did not bomb a single target.

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Indeed, he was never heard from again after his letter of April 1978.

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But one month later, the Unabomber attacks are underway.

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And the Zodiac reinvented himself as an anti-technology warrior.

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I think it would be quite unusual to change your MO like that,

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to go from different kinds of weapons to suddenly, bomb making.

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Zodiac is a confrontational killer, hands on.

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He enjoys looking at his victims.

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He enjoys stabbing, shooting.

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So there is a marked difference there.

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Serial bombers like suspect Ted Kaczynski tend to be nerdy, cerebral.

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They enjoy killing from afar.

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It is spent thought that Kaczynski was a mathematical nerd

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growing up that he spent all his time with his nose in a book, in a classroom.

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That is not true. He spent a great deal of time in the woods

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learning survival skills with his brother and his father.

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That has been brought out by the FBI and by interviews with his brother since.

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So we know that Kaczynski was familiar with weapons.

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He knew how to use them and he was comfortable with them.

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I do not believe a confrontational serial killer such as Zodiac

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later on would become a serial bomber.

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When he mellowed out, when he became better educated, settling back,

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now I am going to play a new game with law enforcement.

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We rarely see that.

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Ted Kaczynski was 36 when the first unabomber explosion occurred.

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would want to begin on a career of serial murder.

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Perhaps they did not dream that he had had an earlier, more violent period

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of murder and had mellowed out over the years as serial killers

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are said to do if they are not caught.

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Rusconi and Oswell's theory prompted police to review their Zodiac case files

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sifting for evidence against Theodore Kaczynski.

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Mr. Ted Kaczynski is not a viable suspect at this point as the Zodiac.

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We have not made any conclusions to who the Zodiac was or is.

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Both the record detectives specify one suspect, among the more than 2,000

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questioned in the case that they believe was a Zodiac.

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Is he still with us?

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that exposed him as a Zodiac killer.

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Or perhaps the truth about the Zodiac will remain forever just out of reach.

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Next, two young poets from opposite sides of the country mysteriously vanish.

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And later, do you believe in miracles?

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If you don't, Trish Zemba's recovery from a painful nerve disease might just convince you.

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Tim Harrell is a veteran journalist with a long list of credits.

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But one particular story had haunted him for years.

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His own, as told to him by his adoptive mother Helen Harrell.

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In 1946, Helen was working as a nurse at a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

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She told Tim that she had found him abandoned in a trash can.

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She took him home and raised him as her own.

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Tim was still a boy, when Helen told him that story.

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Because of that, Tim harbored a lifelong grudge against his birth mother,

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a woman he thought had thrown him away.

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By 1976, Tim was on staff at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner,

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when he got a call out of the blue.

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City desk.

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Can I speak to Tim Harrell?

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Speaking. Who's calling?

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This is your mother.

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Excuse me? What are you talking about? My mother's at home.

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This is your mother. Your real mother.

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All of a sudden, all the hatred just exploded.

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I said, how could you? How could you throw me away like I was a piece of garbage?

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How could you do that?

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And she said, well, you don't understand.

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I said, I don't want to understand.

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After Helen died, Tim began to reconsider.

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Tim tried to locate his birth mother through adoption records.

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Thanks to a helpful lawyer, Tim learned that everything Helen had told him had been a lie.

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His birth mother was Helen's own niece,

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and she had given Tim up because he needed medical care, care that Helen could provide.

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It threw me like a jolt of electricity.

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The only thought in my mind was, I really wanted to find her now.

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I really wanted to say, look, I didn't know, and I am so sorry.

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I am so sorry for what I said to you and how I acted to you.

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Tim Harrell called on all his skills as a reporter to track his birth mother,

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but it was not until the night of our broadcast that he got the help he needed.

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Here's Keely Shae Smith with the tales of a reunion long overdue.

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Bob, one of the people watching our broadcast that night

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was a private investigator from Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Alice Simon volunteered her expertise and resources for Tim's search.

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Within one week, she telephoned him with extraordinary news.

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She called and she said, I just talked to your mother,

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and you have a wonderful family of three sisters and a brother,

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and scads of cousins and nephews and nieces and everything,

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and I just broke down and cried.

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Tim's birth mother, Muriel Gartner, lives in Campbell, California.

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This past June, Muriel gathered her entire family

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to welcome Tim and his son, Adam, home at last.

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Do you?

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Come on, come on, come on.

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It feels right. It feels like finally everything has come to a circle.

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This is your grandson.

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There's always been the hole, an empty hole.

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Though I've had a lot of other kids in a wonderful life, great kids,

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but it feels like this hole is beginning to fill in now.

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It's just the most amazing feeling in the world

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to know that I've got this family and that I'm going to be a part of this family

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and that they're going to be a part of my life.

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I mean, I just can't tell you what the feeling is like.

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I was involved in it too.

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He's just one of us, and it felt that way from the very beginning

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when he called me, he said hello, Mom, and I said hello, son, and that was it.

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When we went to hang up, he said, can I call you again tomorrow, Mom?

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I've been wanting to call my Mom for a long time, and I cried, and he cried.

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At this time every year, a familiar ritual plays out all across America.

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Kids head off to college.

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The last thing any parent imagines is that their child will go to school

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and vanish without a trace.

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But recently, the unimaginable is exactly what happened

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to 18-year-old April Gregory and 19-year-old Kristen Smart.

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April and Kristen never met.

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Indeed, they were enrolled at different universities on opposite sides of the country.

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Yet within the same five-hour period, they were both suddenly gone.

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No warning, no explanation.

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April Gregory took her school work very seriously.

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She wrapped up freshman year at Syracuse University in New York

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and turned right around and enrolled in summer session.

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At 11.45 on May 24, 1996, April's brother Lamar

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dropped her off at her dorm Sadler Hall.

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I helped April with her bags to the front of the dormitory,

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and that was the last I saw her.

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The mystery begins.

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April walks up these steps,

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enters these doors under the watchful eyes of dorm officials,

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ascends to her seventh-floor room.

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These are the meager facts.

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Later, police examine April's room.

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She is not completely unpacked.

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Was she interrupted?

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In the closet, a clue, April is imploded.

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She's at a local restaurant, and her work uniform is missing.

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This is a path April takes to her job.

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Did she even get this far?

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All we know is that April never arrived at work.

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Really did she miss her work. Very really.

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I just knew something bad had happened to my baby.

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Whatever happened, happened between midnight and 5 a.m.

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During that same time, 3,000 miles away,

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another young woman mysteriously disappeared.

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Kristen Smart, 19 years old,

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the freshman at Cal Poly State University

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in San Luis Obispo, California.

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About the time April Gregory should have been heading to work in New York,

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Kristen was walking along this road in California.

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She was returning to her dorm after a party.

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She was not alone.

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Paul Flores, 19 years old,

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also a freshman at Cal Poly,

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he had offered to walk Kristen back to campus after the party.

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An eyewitness saw Paul and Kristen at this corner,

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roughly 200 yards from their dormitories.

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Paul told police that Kristen headed to her dorm,

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and he continued across the street alone to his.

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Kristen phoned home every Sunday, religiously.

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I knew something was wrong.

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Authorities agreed.

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100 sheriff's deputies and 300 volunteers

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searched the campus for any trace of Kristen Smart.

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Results, negative.

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Search dogs, specially trained to recognize the odor of a dead human body,

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were taken through campus dorms.

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Experts say the only possible false positive is a scent of menstrual blood.

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Those dogs hit on this room,

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run room 128 at the Cal Poly campus.

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And specifically came into this room and hit on this mattress,

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and the corner of this mattress,

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this room was occupied by,

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coincidentally, the male subject that was last seen

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with Kristen Smart on the day she was taken.

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And she became a missing person.

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That male subject was Paul Flores.

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Authorities began to question Flores' statement

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that he and Kristen had gone their separate ways

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once they arrived at the dorms.

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They poured their dorms.

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When they got to approximately here,

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he says he continued into his dorm, which is up the hill,

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and she left and went up between the two dorms to her dorm.

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based on what we've learned from the search dogs,

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she actually continued into his dorm with him.

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At this time, no criminal charges have been filed in the case.

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Kristen Smart is still considered a missing person.

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We never give up hope that Kristen will be found.

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But as any parent can imagine, the longer that it goes on,

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the dimmer the light.

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And we can only hope.

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Coming up, authorities need your help

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to track down a convicted killer.

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But first, in a remarkable story of faith and resilience,

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a young girl overcomes a painful nerve disorder.

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It was a normal Christmas Eve western style.

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In Phoenix, Arizona, the sky was blue,

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the temperature of Bombay 75.

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14-year-old Trish Zamba saddled up her X-Race horse slide

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and headed out for a ride.

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When I fell, I hurt very much.

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But I was in shock.

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I had so much adrenaline rushing through my system

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that what had just happened did not register with me at the moment.

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I helped her into the house.

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She was lumping a little bit.

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And took her in and took everything off to look for broken bones.

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And she was in shock.

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And she was in shock.

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And she was in shock.

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And she was in shock.

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And she was in shock.

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And she had to look for broken bones.

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And she was scraped on the one side.

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Somewhat scraped.

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And it was red, like road rash and some bruising

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where you could tell there was going to be bruising.

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The injuries appeared superficial.

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Trish improved overnight.

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And the incident had little impact on the family's Christmas day plans.

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I got up, got myself dressed, came out.

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Basically, it's been all Christmas day on the couch.

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I was slourish, stiff, hobbled around some,

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but I was able to get around.

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The accident seemed like a thing of the past

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until Trish was bathing some 10 days later.

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I remember I went to get up.

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And when I was standing up, I started feeling dizzy.

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I heard a thump and I called out to her.

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And she didn't answer me.

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Trish?

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Trish?

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Trish?

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Don't!

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I was panicked when I saw Trisha passed out.

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I didn't know what had happened.

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I couldn't get a response out of her at first.

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I just didn't know what was going on.

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From there on, then her condition seemed to get worse.

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Pain increased.

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Her mobility started to be less.

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She had more trouble getting around and sitting.

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So that's when we started taking her to a round of doctors.

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The bathtub fault had triggered an avalanche of pain.

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Doctors could neither diagnose nor relieve.

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After five weeks of unrelenting agony, Trish was hospitalized.

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Can you tell me where it hurts?

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Does it hurt in your back?

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Does it hurt in your legs?

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No.

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It was in a lot of pain, so they started administering morphine.

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And they just kept giving it to her and giving it to her in large doses.

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It wouldn't affect the pain.

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It's not helped the pain at all.

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And five, they had given her so much,

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they couldn't give her any more without killing her.

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It was horrible seeing Trisha in this pain

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and not being able to do anything for her.

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And it was very, very scary until we would pray.

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Dear Jesus, we would just ask Father

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that you would reach the end of the world

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and we would pray for you.

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And we would pray for you.

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And we would pray for you.

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And we would pray for you.

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And we would pray for you.

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And we would pray for you.

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And we would pray for you.

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Trish was wracked by pain every waking hour.

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Her left leg alternately turned purple

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and then back to normal.

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Grew hot and feverish and icy cold.

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The diagnosis could hardly have been more frightening.

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Trish had a rare often incurable nerve disease

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called reflex sympathetic dystrophy or RSD.

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Dear Heavenly Father, we know that you are...

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This is by far the worst I had ever seen.

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And I was feeling pretty hopeless about it.

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I was feeling pretty hopeless about it.

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I was feeling pretty hopeless about it.

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I was feeling pretty hopeless about it.

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I was feeling pretty hopeless about it.

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Her chances of getting any kind of a good recovery here.

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And I remember her mother being so strong

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00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000
in their faith saying,

503
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,000
we're going to see a miracle here before this is over.

504
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
And I kept thinking, no, I don't think so.

505
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,000
This videotape of Trish was made at the hospital

506
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000
where she was treated for RSD.

507
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Doctors believe the disease is produced

508
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000
by the disease of the disease of the disease of the disease.

509
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Doctors believe the disease is produced

510
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000
by malfunctioning nerve circuits.

511
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
The nerves endlessly amplify

512
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,000
and re-amplify pain sensations,

513
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
making even a minor injury unremitting torture.

514
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
She was literally writhing in pain,

515
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
unable to have anybody touch or move her leg,

516
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000
her hip.

517
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,000
If you even breathed on it

518
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,000
or put a blanket over the skin,

519
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000
she would just jump.

520
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,000
She was just so nervous.

521
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,000
She was so nervous.

522
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,000
She was so nervous.

523
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000
We continually gave her medication

524
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
to try and basically numb her legs.

525
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
The idea being that if we break the cycle,

526
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000
kill the pain, stop the cycle of pain

527
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,000
from renegotiating itself,

528
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000
that the condition itself would disappear.

529
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Doctors injected the most potent pain-killing drugs

530
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000
available directly into Trish's spinal column.

531
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000
But Trish hardly ever did.

532
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000
She was always in pain.

533
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,000
She was directly into Trish's spinal column.

534
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000
But Trish hardly noticed.

535
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
The RSD continued to worsen,

536
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
and Trish's muscles began to weaken from disuse.

537
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,000
They started telling us

538
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
that they were going to have to institutionalize her.

539
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Most patients with RSD this bad

540
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000
either die from it or commit suicide

541
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000
or they literally go crazy

542
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
because they cannot live with this type of pain.

543
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Even in the face of such bleak predictions,

544
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Trish's parents say they never lost faith.

545
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Countless times, each and every day,

546
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,000
they turn to prayer.

547
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Grant her some peace and take away this pain

548
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000
so that she can rest.

549
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,000
We would pray,

550
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000
and again, that sense that things would be all right

551
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000
would come over us.

552
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
And though Trish would still be moaning

553
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000
and our circumstances didn't change,

554
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,000
it was like things were all right.

555
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Trish's doctors were less optimistic.

556
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
They proposed an operation usually reserved

557
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
for terminal cancer patients,

558
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
implanting a morphine pump into Trish's body.

559
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,000
If it sufficiently dulled her pain,

560
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000
they could at least attempt physical therapy

561
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000
to slow the deterioration of Trish's leg muscles.

562
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,000
That was our next step.

563
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000
That was really all that we had left to offer.

564
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000
And quite frankly, what I foresaw

565
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
was a long, painful route in rehab

566
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000
and with a very uncertain outcome.

567
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,000
As to whether this would ever resolve.

568
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000
Surgery loomed.

569
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Then early on the morning of March 11, 1994,

570
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000
the family's prayers were answered,

571
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000
suddenly and dramatically.

572
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
I felt the pain in my body move down.

573
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,000
As it was moving down my ribs,

574
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000
I remember feeling what my ribs felt like.

575
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,000
I felt a cape on moving down and moving down.

576
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,000
And then finally I felt it move all the way down my leg

577
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000
and I felt it exit through my toes.

578
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000
I felt it leave my body.

579
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000
And I heard very, very quietly almost

580
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000
the point where I couldn't hear it, get up.

581
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000
And I remember thinking, I can't get up.

582
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000
I'm physically unable to get up.

583
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000
And I heard, again, clear and more emotional.

584
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,000
And I remember feeling like I was in a state

585
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,000
of depression.

586
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
And again, clear and much more authoritative.

587
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Get up.

588
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000
And I remember grabbing onto the side of the bed rail

589
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000
and beginning to sit up.

590
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000
And I was able to sit up like I would have in the past.

591
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
I sat up and I was sitting on the edge of the bed.

592
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000
And the second I sat my feet on the ground,

593
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
I didn't have any pain anywhere in my whole body.

594
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000
I stood up and I remember I was standing there like,

595
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000
well, what now?

596
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
And I started walking.

597
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
It was unbelievable to walk into her hospital room

598
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000
and see her standing there.

599
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
She hadn't stood for two and a half months on her own.

600
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Tremendous relief and gratitude to God

601
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000
who never let us down.

602
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000
He didn't ever let us down.

603
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
As a medical physician,

604
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,000
I have to go by the medical treatment.

605
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000
I have to go by the medical treatment.

606
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,000
I have to go by the medical data.

607
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
And the medical data has no explanation for this.

608
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000
On a purely personal basis

609
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000
and based on my own religious beliefs,

610
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,000
I feel that yes, she did have a miraculous healing.

611
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,000
We work in the world of science,

612
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
but that does not mean it necessarily has to be mutually exclusive

613
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,000
of the realm, if you will,

614
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,000
of the spirit or of religion.

615
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000
And I think we work together

616
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,000
to create a successful end

617
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000
when the ends are successful.

618
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000
That same morning,

619
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Trish was released from the hospital.

620
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Trish's parents made this videotape

621
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000
soon after she arrived home.

622
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000
I know it was a miracle.

623
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,000
The pain just left my body

624
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,000
and one fell swoop.

625
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000
I felt like God was going to heal me

626
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000
and I was standing there right there,

627
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,000
just taking this pain for me and saying,

628
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000
you know, I love you so much.

629
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000
I just want to set you free.

630
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Spontaneous remission is virtually

631
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000
without precedent and acute cases of RSD.

632
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Medical science still cannot explain

633
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Trish Zemba's stunning turnaround.

634
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000
However, to Trish and her family,

635
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,000
there's no mystery at all.

636
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Just further evidence of the infinite power of faith.

637
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,000
When we return,

638
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,000
an abduction and murder

639
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000
leads to a wild shootout with the police.

640
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,000
For most of us,

641
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,000
22 years seems like a long time.

642
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,000
But when it comes to tracking down

643
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000
a ruthless killer whose escape punishment,

644
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000
time doesn't matter.

645
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000
42 years ago might just as well be yesterday.

646
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Take it right at the next light.

647
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,000
March 6, 1974,

648
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Soani, Georgia,

649
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000
30 miles northeast of Atlanta.

650
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000
I just got my,

651
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,000
my check cashed.

652
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000
I got $200 in my wallet.

653
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000
It just, just reached in the back.

654
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,000
James Rouse Jr.,

655
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,000
a teacher, husband and father of two young children,

656
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,000
is abducted at gunpoint by two fugitives,

657
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
William Jordan and Anthony Prevat.

658
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Jordan and Prevat were wanted in North Carolina

659
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
for a series of burglaries.

660
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Make another right up here.

661
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Look, guys, you've got my,

662
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,000
turn around, turn around, that way.

663
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000
You've got my money.

664
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,000
The ride ended at the edge of a remote forest.

665
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
The kidnappers forced Rouse to go barefoot

666
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000
and marched him into the woods.

667
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000
I didn't even know who you were.

668
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,000
When they reached the shore of a deserted lake,

669
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,000
they stopped.

670
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Good guy.

671
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,000
James Rouse died instantly,

672
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
shot at point black range with a sawed off shotgun.

673
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,000
The next day,

674
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Waysboro, North Carolina,

675
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,000
240 miles from Soani.

676
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000
That's it over there, 421.

677
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,000
Police got an anonymous tip

678
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000
that Jordan and Prevat were back in town,

679
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,000
hiding at the home of a friend.

680
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,000
You recognize that car?

681
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,000
Nah, it doesn't look familiar to me.

682
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000
We knew who we were looking for.

683
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,000
We were looking for two guys,

684
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000
last name was Prevat and Jordan.

685
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
They had a reputation of being bad guys,

686
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
predominantly in the property theft,

687
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000
house break-in, those type of things.

688
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:31,000
We didn't really suspect that they were involved in anything serious,

689
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
other than that.

690
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,000
The officers approached the house,

691
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,000
fully expecting to make an arrest,

692
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,000
but Jordan and Prevat were one step ahead.

693
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000
Sheriff's Office 107 in pursuit of suspects

694
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,000
traveling east on Highway 117.

695
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Suspects are firing upon us, requesting backup.

696
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Everything was happening so fast,

697
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
but it seemed extreme that these guys

698
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000
were using this much excessive force

699
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
to get away from us,

700
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000
just because we wanted to talk to them

701
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,000
about some house break-in.

702
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Get a shot, get a shot at him.

703
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Suspects is throwing out what looks like to be a weapon,

704
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000
just past Oliver Church.

705
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000
I'll get up alongside of him.

706
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Freeze! Get your hands up!

707
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Let's go! Get them up! Get them up!

708
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Freeze, get out of the car!

709
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Get out of the car!

710
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Get your hands! Come on! Come on!

711
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
24-year-old Anthony Prevat and 31-year-old William Jordan

712
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,000
were booked on charges of breaking and entering,

713
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
larceny and assaulting officers with a firearm.

714
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Police in North Carolina still didn't know

715
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000
that the two men were killers.

716
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
48 hours later, the body of James Ross Jr.

717
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,000
was discovered in Georgia.

718
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,000
It was his stolen car that Jordan and Prevat

719
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000
had crashed in Waysborough.

720
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
It didn't take long to piece together the rest.

721
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000
A shotgun shell found at the murder scene

722
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,000
further damned Jordan and Prevat.

723
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
Ballistics tests reveal Ross had been killed

724
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,000
with a blast from the shotgun dumped during the chase.

725
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Finally, and most chilling of all,

726
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
police in North Carolina found arrogant trophies of murder

727
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,000
inside the wreck car.

728
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Photographs of Jordan and Prevat leaning against Ross's car

729
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000
and posing proudly with a shotgun that killed him.

730
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000
They were both eventually extradited back to Georgia.

731
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,000
They were both tried, both found guilty of first-degree murder,

732
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
both given death, given the death sentence.

733
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000
However, neither Jordan nor Prevat stayed long on death row.

734
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
Upon review by the Georgia Supreme Court,

735
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,000
they felt there were some prejudicial comments

736
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,000
made by the district attorney in his closing argument

737
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000
that lifted the burden of the decision from the jury

738
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
and it was reversed and their sentences commuted to life.

739
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000
In 1991, Prevat was paroled,

740
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000
but was returned to prison after he murdered his girlfriend.

741
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Prevat is currently on death row in North Carolina.

742
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,000
The story of William Jordan, however, has yet to end.

743
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Jordan, you and Green take the truck on back to the house,

744
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,000
gas it up, make yourself useful.

745
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,000
Yes, sir.

746
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000
After ten years of good behavior,

747
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Jordan had been assigned to a minimum security work farm

748
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,000
in Odom, Georgia,

749
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
but his image as the model prisoner proved false.

750
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000
William Jordan just kept driving.

751
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,000
A month later, police caught the inmate who escaped with him,

752
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000
but Jordan has eluded capture ever since.

753
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Jordan was possibly seen in 1992 in Virginia.

754
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
He possibly works in Virginia, West Virginia,

755
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,000
as a heavy equipment operator.

756
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
He also possibly has a family in West Virginia.

757
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,000
He was a member of the Virginia Department of Defense

758
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000
and he was a member of the Virginia Department of Defense.

759
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
He was a member of the Virginia Department of Defense

760
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,000
and he possibly has a family in West Virginia.

761
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000
He uses the name William Bill Jordan or William Junior Jordan.

762
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000
It's been more than 20 years since Jordan

763
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000
and Prevat heartlessly murdered James Rouse Jr.

764
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000
but the Rouse family still feels the pain.

765
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,000
The hardest part has been not only the way it happened

766
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,000
but also the fact that he has not been with us

767
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,000
and been able to enjoy his own family.

768
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,000
We have lived through years of anger

769
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,000
for what Jordan did to my brother-in-law Jim

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and what it has done to the children as well as to his wife.

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This is how William Jordan looked in 1974,

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the year he murdered James Rouse.

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This photograph, the last known taken of Jordan,

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shows how he looked in 1979.

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Computer aging shows how he might look today at the age of 54.

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William Jordan is 6 feet 2 inches tall,

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has brown, graying hair and probably wears glasses.

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Jordan has several distinctive tattoos,

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a skeleton on his right forearm,

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a spider on his right upper arm,

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a cross with a name Sybil on his left forearm

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and the name Louise on his left leg.

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Join me next time for another intriguing edition

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of Unsolved Mysteries.