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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries

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It rained down from the heavens like a plague.

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Tiny toxic blobs of goo that brought an outbreak of flu-like illnesses to Oakville, Washington,

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and left behind a perplexing mystery that may never be solved.

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Twenty years ago, a young doctor ventured into the Chinese wilderness

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seeking knowledge about the ancient and mysterious art of Qigong.

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Today, AIDS patient Salem Babak believes the teachings of master Hong Lu

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have given him a new lease on life.

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He's known as a ruthless operator with a hair-trigger temper.

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He's a reputed godfather of New England's Irish mafia,

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and now he's a fugitive.

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Have you seen James Whitey Balger?

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In California, a house is torched to cover up the murder of a young woman

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in the abduction of her infant son.

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Now the boy's father, rap music artist Leithon Young-Lay Williams,

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needs your help to solve this disturbing case.

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Join me for this intriguing edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

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It came from the skies to wreak havoc on the earth.

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Strange blob-like droplets that look something like this.

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It sounds like a bad science fiction movie,

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but for a small town in the Pacific Northwest,

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there was nothing entertaining or fictional about the scourge

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that befell them in 1994.

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Six times it rained down from above,

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leaving dozens of local residents ill

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and several pets and small animals dead.

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It all happened in Oakville, Washington, population 665.

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Here in Oakville, clouds fill the sky daily,

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bringing rain some 275 days a year.

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So when it began pouring on the morning of August 7th, 1994,

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no one was particularly concerned

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until they realized it wasn't raining rain.

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It was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous goo.

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It came down in torrents, blanketing 20 square miles,

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and brought with it something of a plague.

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I got sick.

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My wife got sick.

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My daughter.

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Everybody that lived here got sick.

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Everybody in the whole town came down with like a flu.

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Only it was a really hard flu.

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It didn't last like seven days.

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It lasted like seven weeks, two or three months.

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A local police was among the first to report

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the perplexing precipitation.

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Officer David Lacey was on patrol

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with a civilian friend at 3 a.m.

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But the downpour began.

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It's on the window there.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Is that inside the car?

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We turned our windshield wipers on,

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and it just started smearing to the point

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where we could almost not see.

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And we both looked at each other and we said,

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you know, Jesus isn't right.

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I mean, we're out in the middle of nowhere, basically,

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and where did this come from?

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Officer Lacey pulled into a gas station to de-go his windshield.

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As an added precaution, he put on a pair of latex gloves.

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The substance was very mushy.

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It's almost like if you had jello in your hand,

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and you know, you could pretty much squish it

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through your fingers.

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We knew it wasn't something that we would normally see

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because we had never experienced it before.

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that basically said that this isn't right.

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This isn't normal.

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Local resident Dotty Hearn was equally baffled.

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the storm had ended, but the blobs were everywhere.

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It looked like hail laying on top of the wood box

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and over our house.

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So I just went over and I touched it,

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and it wasn't hail.

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It was a gelatinous-like material.

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By mid-afternoon, Officer Lacey had inexplicably taken ill.

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it made me violently sick, you know, and ill,

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like I'd never had been before to the point where, you know,

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I started feeling dizzy.

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and it got worse, and as it did,

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found her sprawled on the bathroom floor.

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Dotty, she's sick.

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She was cold, drenched with perspiration, pale.

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My mom had been vomiting.

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Her vision was blurring.

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Dotty would spend the next three days in the hospital.

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A severe inner ear infection.

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it might have had some sort of an effect on her

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if it might have made her sick.

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So I opted at that moment to take a sample

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of this gelatinous material to the hospital.

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A lab technician found the first startling clue.

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The substance contained human white blood cells,

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but exactly what it was and why it fell from the sky

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could not be determined.

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The goo was promptly forwarded to the Washington State Department

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of Health for further analysis.

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It was very uniform.

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There was no structure that we could see visibly

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or with microscope.

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I set it up on various microbiological media

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and attempted to isolate bacteria.

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Mike McDowell discovered that the sample was literally

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teeming with two species of bacteria,

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one of which makes its home in the human digestive system.

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The initial speculation was that it might have been

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human waste from an airliner, and that would make sense.

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and human waste.

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human waste is dyed blue.

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The substance was not blue.

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It was crystal clear in color.

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All told, the blobs rained down upon Oakville

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six times over a three-week period.

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Dozens of people took ill.

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Several dogs and cats reportedly died after coming in contact

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with a toxic droplets, included in the death toll

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was Sonny Barcliffe's eight-week-old kitten.

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But the nature of the substance and any connection

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it may have had with the outbreak remained a mystery.

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Here we have sample number 12876.

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Nearly a year after Dottie Hearn's illness,

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she took a sample of the material she had stored

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in her freezer to a private research lab.

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I saw what I think was a eukaryotic cell,

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which was basically a cell that has a definable nucleus

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and is found present in by lottery.

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The most animals.

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Translation, the goo was alive.

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But how in the world did living matter

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make its way into the clouds?

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The explanations are as mind-boggling as a substance itself.

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Perhaps inevitably, the finger of suspicion

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was soon pointed directly at the military.

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Someone theorized that since the Navy had been conducting

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live bombing runs at sea,

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they might have blown up a school of jellyfish.

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and floated 50 miles inland,

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and over a period of three weeks fallen six times

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in the month of August 1994.

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I find that somewhat preposterous.

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Now, if that were jellyfish floating around up there for that long,

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they would have smelled a heaven.

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The Air Force confirms that practice bombing runs

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are being conducted over the Pacific in August of 1994.

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However, they deny any knowledge of the unknown substance

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or any involvement in creating or dispersing it.

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The locals don't buy it.

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We had a significant amount of military aircraft

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flying over the home prior to this happening.

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Every day almost, slow flying bombers, helicopters,

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all black in color.

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And we kind of thought maybe it might have come from them.

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They let off things in the air all the time here.

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Testing.

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There's testing done all over the place.

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There's a lot of places you can't go into.

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Maybe we were a biological experiment of some kind,

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a small one.

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Maybe just get people a little bit sick to find out,

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say if an enemy did come over here with a biological bomb

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or something and dropped it.

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Maybe just a test run to see how it would, what would happen.

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Translation, germ warfare.

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given the severe international restrictions

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regarding experiments with biological weapons

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in populated areas.

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At present, it's impossible to say what the strange goo was

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or where it came from.

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Unfortunately, all samples of the substance are gone,

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making further study impossible.

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Perhaps the answer will come someday soon,

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when the skies open up over another small community

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and the blobs once again fall to earth.

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Next, on a college campus in Texas,

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two brutal rapes, one unknown assailant.

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Now the suspect is identified and on the run,

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after a chance encounter with one of his accusers.

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Perhaps the most shocking of all crime statistics

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is that one out of every three women in the United States

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will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime.

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One of three.

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Occasionally, even the safety of a college campus

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can be violated by a sexual predator,

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as it was at Texas A&M University in January of 1995.

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The rapist hid his intentions behind a show of normalcy.

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He was just a jogger.

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He looked like any other student.

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When the jogger ran by the victim, he ran out of sight,

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then turned around and came back.

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She didn't feel at that time that that was really strange,

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because of the fact that there were a lot of joggers

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that, you know, go to a certain area,

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turn around and come back,

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and they may come back the same way,

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or they may continue a different route.

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A chilly evening tonight. Yeah.

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The suspect kept telling the victim

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to do what he told her to do.

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He also kept that night within her sight,

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and she had every indication at that point

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that he would use that knife on her.

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30 minutes later, the rapist disappeared into the shadows.

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University police soon released a composite drawing

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and character profile of the suspect.

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He was probably a college student.

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He would strike again.

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He would use that knife.

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We had to catch this guy.

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We had to identify him.

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We had to find out where he was,

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and we had to prevent him from performing

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another sexual assault.

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The profile was right on target.

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Three months later, a knife-wielding assailant

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attacked another Texas A&M student.

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She was very frustrated that she couldn't overpower him,

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but from nowhere she said a knife appeared

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and was placed against her throat.

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He threatened her.

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He told her that if she screamed, he was going to kill him,

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and therefore she complied with his instructions.

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He then took her to a nearby field.

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There was about five foot tall grass,

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and he was trying to get her to go through the hole.

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He was trying to get her to go through the hole,

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but there was about five foot tall grass,

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and he had already matted down a six foot diameter area

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so that the grass was real low,

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which is where he then sexually assaulted her.

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The site was chosen, but not necessarily the victim.

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He just waited for the right one to come by

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and then took her to the location that he was,

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he had already prepared.

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This composite is based on the second victim's description.

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When compared with the first drawing,

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it bolstered investigators' fears

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that a serial rapist was stalking the campus.

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Upon reviewing the information that we had,

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we became very concerned that if it was indeed the same person,

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if he had committed one and committed a second,

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there was most likely going to be a third and a fourth

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and so on until he was stopped.

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Authorities walled papered the campus community with posters.

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However, the sketches could only deal in generalities.

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The suspect had straight hair, not curly.

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He was young, not old, white, not black.

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A lot of people end up saying,

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yep, looks like just any regular person.

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Even the second victim that I had interviewed in doubt,

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she made the comment too,

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just looked like a clean cut student.

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In November of 1995, ten months after the assault,

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she stopped for groceries at a local market.

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Have a good day. Thanks.

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Howdy. How you doing?

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Hey.

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Hi, Dave.

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This is a knife.

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Do what I say, and I won't hurt you.

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We're going to go for a little walk.

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Okay?

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Okay.

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That'll be $42.57, please.

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Can I write you a check?

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Sure.

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Let go of me! This is a knife!

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Can I see your driver's license, please?

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Driver's license?

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Thank you.

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The young woman was convinced.

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She was face to face with a man who raped her.

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Excuse me?

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Hey!

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You forgot something.

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Police would soon learn that the clerk was named

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Don Richard Davis Jr.

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He was scheduled to graduate in three weeks

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from Texas A&M.

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Detective Bill Rial, this is Detective Lin Holm,

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the Texas A&M University police department.

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Hi.

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We're in bed.

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We're investigating the two rapes that took place

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on the campus last year.

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Your name came to us as a little lookalike.

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Yeah.

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Now, this is just routine, and we've already interviewed

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more than 70 people, but I'd like to get your picture

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for a photo, Lina.

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Sure.

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His demeanor, his posture, even his physical

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continence was very timid, very sheepish.

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But interesting enough, we started to really study

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that picture and look at him.

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And he started to really look in those eyes.

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They didn't match the sheepish look.

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They didn't match the sheepish behavior we had seen.

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The eyes ended up reflecting in a very thoughtful,

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aware, focused individual.

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When this photograph of Davis was shown to the second victim,

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she, too, identified him as the rapist.

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DNA was the clincher.

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Police say that preliminary tests showed with 90% certainty

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that Davis and the rapists were one and the same.

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In January of 1996, Don Davis, Jr. was arrested

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and charged with aggravated sexual assault.

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Those who knew him were incredulous.

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Teachers praised his abilities and his works.

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His peers liked him very much.

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He had lady friends, both within the university

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and outside the university environment.

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Some described him as a very handsome young man

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with good manners.

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There's a lot of people that think very highly of him

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and can't even perceive of him ever committing

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these type of offenses.

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When I heard these charges, I was in disbelief.

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I thought, there's got to be some mistake.

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Don's not that type of person.

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There's nothing aggressive about his personality.

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And I thought it was a case.

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I still think it is a case of mistaken identity.

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However, investigators say that the final DNA test results

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have left little margin for such an error.

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The evidence was pretty overwhelming and conclusive

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that out of all the white males in the world,

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he was a one in five million on one incident

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and a one in five billion in the other.

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Don Davis, Jr. was released on bail of $150,000.

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The court ordered him to stay with his parents

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and observe a 10 p.m. curfew.

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Davis did not come home.

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Coming up, the authorities say Whitey Bulger ruled

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the Boston underworld for more than 20 years.

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Now they need your help to track him down.

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But first, the mysterious art of Qigong.

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Can this ancient Chinese practice

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harness a body's natural energy to help heal the sick?

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To the Chinese, energy is a force vital to all life.

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They believe it flows through our bodies

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like blood through our veins.

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The Chinese also believe there are rare few

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who can control that energy.

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Healers who have mastered an ancient and mysterious art

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known as Qigong, literally the exercise of energy.

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Canton Province, southern China,

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20 years ago.

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Hong Lu, a young doctor from Shanghai,

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climbed to a cave hidden high in the mountains.

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Lu had grown up in a family of physicians

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schooled in traditional western medicine,

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but he suspected there was more to healing than science.

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The isolated cave was the home of a Qigong master named Kuan,

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a man who reputedly could diagnose illness with a single glance.

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And performed cures without even touching the patient.

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For eight long years, Hong Lu worked with master Kuan,

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learning how to tap the energy of the universe

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to find enlightenment and heal the sick.

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Today, Dr. Hong Lu is one of 12 Qigong high masters in the world.

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He lives in Southern California

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and is the only one of those masters

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practicing in the United States.

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Qigong is not a miracle cure.

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Qigong can improve health.

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Qigong can cure some illnesses,

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but it cannot cure every illness.

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I really wanted and hoped that there was somebody out there

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that had a magic wand.

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There was going to wave it over me and say,

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oh, you're cured. You have your full use of your left side back.

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That's where I was coming from at the time.

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That time was December 1994.

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Salem Babak, a company by his mother,

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made his first visit to Master Lu.

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Salem was in the final stages of AIDS.

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He was partially paralyzed, losing his vision,

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and had recently been diagnosed with PML,

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a brain virus that is swift and deadly.

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I remember asking my physician,

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maybe a month or so after I was diagnosed,

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do you have any other PML patients?

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He says yes, and I said, how are they?

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They said they're all dead.

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Master Lu claims he can simply look at his patients

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and see where the Chi energy flow is blocked.

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Then he uses his own Chi to help clear the path.

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The session had barely begun

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when Master Lu's apprentice removed Salem's leg brace.

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Next, Master Lu told Salem to rise.

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Stand up.

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Okay, don't worry.

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Don't worry. Don't worry.

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Okay, close eyes.

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I was amazed.

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I couldn't believe that I was standing without the aid of anything.

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Okay.

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It felt like something was coming into my body from afar,

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from behind me when Master Lu was working on me.

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It felt like something was penetrating my skin,

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and as a result, making me stand upright.

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Every time I felt myself leaning this way or leaning that way or falling,

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he would just push his energy into my body,

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and that would make me stand upright again.

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It was like shadow boxing in a way.

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My son would start going to one side.

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He would bring the energy from his body toward my son

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without touching my son, and he would straighten out.

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He would start going to the other side.

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He would go from the other side.

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It was a most incredible thing to watch.

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From that day on, weekly sessions with Master Lu were a regular part of Salem's therapy.

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The good part is that he is also using Western medicine.

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So that's why I think if I use Qigong with Western medicine

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and they work together, what will happen?

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The effect has been positive.

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To Salem, the result was nothing short of miraculous.

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Within six months, he had regained 80% of the mobility on his left side

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and could walk without a brace or crutch.

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Salem's dramatic improvement amazed everyone,

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especially his Western doctors.

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I was quite surprised to see how much he was able to do.

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I was quite surprised to see Salem recover in the way that he did.

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In my experience, patients with AIDS and PML do not improve.

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They deteriorate.

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It's clear that for the moment at least, Salem has beaten the worst odds.

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His doctors credit a new approach to drug therapy

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that uses a combination of AIDS drugs rather than one at a time.

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Salem, however, is convinced that Qigong was a crucial component.

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I cannot say Master Lu cured me,

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but he definitely brought me to the road of recovery.

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If you can imagine coming from the point of being diagnosed

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as somebody who's just as good as dead to where I am now,

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I mean, it's just I'm elated. I'm totally elated.

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Salem Babic is now one of thousands worldwide

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who practice Qigong sometimes in group sessions like this one.

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Debbie Patela has a bone marrow disease,

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a condition that is often a precursor to leukemia.

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For Debbie, Qigong is a full partner in her therapy.

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It's not a cure, but a way to alleviate the side effects of drugs prescribed by her doctors.

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I don't have any of the symptoms anymore. I don't get the headaches. I don't get nauseous.

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I have tried everything. You name it.

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Nothing has ever given me the energy that Qigong has done for me.

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I wish I would have known about it a long time ago.

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I feel like I'm me again.

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How it works, I don't know. I don't know.

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But I honestly feel it worked for me, and it can work for others.

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In 1993, Randy Hebert says he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

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Three doctors told him he should have surgery.

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Instead, he tried Qigong.

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Skeptically, with one eye kind of open and the other one kind of closed, I started to go to him.

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Master Lou put Randy on a macrobiotic diet,

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taught him exercises to do at home, and gave him treatments three times a week.

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I know that other people he has worked on, they've gotten into trance-like states.

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I never did, but I did feel something going through me. Something.

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Almost like heat.

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After working with Randy for three months, Master Lou made an astounding pronouncement.

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He said to me, the cancer is gone.

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And I still get goosebumps to this day that I said, what did you say?

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And he says the cancer is gone.

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Randy scheduled another biopsy immediately.

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How you doing today?

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The results appeared to confirm Master Lou's diagnosis.

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Good news for you.

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You do.

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Yes. Your biopsy results are negative. There's no sign of cancer.

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That's great.

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Over the next year and a half, Randy had three more biopsies.

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All were negative.

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Nevertheless, it will take more than one case to convince the medical community

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that Qigong is an effective treatment.

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Despite 4,000 years of history, I think that Qigong and other forms of alternative therapies

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really need to be held up to the same light and burden of proof, burden of evidence

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that traditional medicine is held up to.

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Modern medicine solves many problems,

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but it has some areas that need improvement, more research and development.

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Qigong, generally speaking, is a good supplement.

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That's why I recommend western medicine combined with our method.

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This is more guaranteed for the patient.

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Officially, the American Medical Association has no opinion on Qigong as a legitimate healing technique.

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Next, join the search for Whitey Bulger, the reputed godfather of Boston's Irish mafia.

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And later, a rising rap star searches for his infant son and the people who kidnapped him.

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Next January, six men are scheduled to go on trial for extortion and racketeering here in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The star witnesses will be several of their alleged victims,

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but authorities have every reason to fear for the safety of those witnesses.

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If the trial were to start today, one of the defenders would be conspicuously absent.

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He is perhaps New England's most notorious fugitive, Whitey Bulger, the reputed godfather of the Irish mafia.

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James J. Whitey Bulger has been described as a throwback to the gangsters of the 1930s.

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Quick-witted, hot tempered, ruthless.

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A petty thief turned bank robber who spent nine years in federal prisons including Alcatraz.

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00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,000
After his release, Bulger allegedly established an empire in South Boston.

519
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According to the authorities, Whitey ruled his turf with an iron fist for more than 20 years,

520
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,000
and in the process earned an estimate of $25 million.

521
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000
In his heyday, Whitey Bulger operated out of the back of a liquor store on the edge of South Boston.

522
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
Hey, how are you, Sean?

523
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:29,000
Late one night in 1989, he allegedly arrived to take care of some unfinished business.

524
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Relax, Timmy.

525
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:36,000
Reportedly Whitey's associate, Stephen, the rifleman Flemmy, was waiting inside.

526
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Their guest of honor was a local tavern owner named Tim Connell, whom Whitey had allegedly targeted for extortion.

527
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Oh, fine, fine, thanks. Sit down, sit down. How's your family?

528
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Good, Jim, thanks.

529
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Timmy, I got a problem here.

530
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000
I get this guy, he owes me $40,000.

531
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000
And he decides the way he's going to pay me back is to take a mortgage out of his house.

532
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Sit that paperwork down.

533
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Yeah, yeah, and something's happening here, and my friends aren't helping this guy along.

534
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Whitey.

535
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Whitey!

536
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
I want some respect from you, Jeff.

537
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,000
I'll show you some respect.

538
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000
This is respect. This is respect.

539
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Timmy, I'm going to let you buy your life for $50,000.

540
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,000
Timmy, that's a lot of money.

541
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000
$50,000 by the end of the week.

542
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000
I can't get it all, Jimmy.

543
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Oh, yeah, well, it's good you're coming out a good day, huh?

544
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Because I'm going to let you keep me 25 in two days.

545
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Two days later, Tim Connelly claims he did the only thing he felt he could do.

546
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000
He returned to the liquor store with $25,000 cash.

547
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Hi, it's him.

548
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Good, Jimmy, yourself.

549
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Good, good.

550
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Going out of Florida?

551
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,000
Yeah.

552
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Yeah, I'm leaving in the morning, Jimmy.

553
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Good.

554
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000
I realized that he got half of the money back,

555
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
and Connelly had promised the other half,

556
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
and that everything was forgiven.

557
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Connelly claims that Bolger then came out, put his armor on him, said,

558
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000
now you're our friend again.

559
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,000
Thanks.

560
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
But Tim Connelly apparently did not feel as enthusiastic about the friendship.

561
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
He went to the FBI.

562
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:15,000
They, in turn, began building a case against the so-called Don of South Boston.

563
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000
James J. Whitey Bolger came from a prominent local family.

564
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000
His older brother, Billy, is a former state senator,

565
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000
the current president of the University of Massachusetts.

566
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:30,000
But by all accounts, Whitey was a wise guy from day one.

567
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,000
In South Boston, you very often had in real life angels with dirty faces,

568
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000
where Jimmy Cagney is the bad kid and Pat O'Brien becomes the priest.

569
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000
That happens over there.

570
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,000
I know many families that have a priest and a gangster in the same family,

571
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000
or a gangster and a police officer in the same family.

572
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000
It's very common in that culture.

573
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,000
South Boston is an insulated Irish-Catholic community,

574
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000
a place where Whitey Bolger, known to his friends as Jimmy, felt right at home.

575
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,000
Talk to Frankie?

576
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000
Yes, some of his guys don't know where North ends and South begins.

577
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Listen, we gotta talk to Frankie. We gotta get that straightened out.

578
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000
South Boston really believes that we look out after our own,

579
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000
and that's what Whitey Bolger was all about.

580
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:21,000
In South Boston, Whitey Bolger was widely viewed in the working class as our gangster.

581
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
Yeah, he's a wise guy. Yeah, he'll hurt you if you deserve it or if you cross him.

582
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000
But he's a gangster with scruples.

583
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:33,000
He's a guy that will keep an order, a certain order to the underworld.

584
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000
People maybe love the fact that they felt that he took care of the community,

585
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000
that he would be the guy that would carry the groceries of the elderly woman

586
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000
that was, you know, getting out of a taxi and trying to get up to her apartment,

587
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,000
or would help a little boy that maybe had a dog.

588
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,000
His dog died. He would go out and buy a dog for a little boy.

589
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000
But he also was viewed as somebody that you didn't cross.

590
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Oh, wait, look who we got here.

591
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Hey, hey, Bobby, come over here.

592
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Bolger reportedly had no clumps about flexing his muscle in full view of the neighborhood.

593
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000
Hi, Jimmy. Hi, Steve. Nice seeing you both.

594
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
It's not nice seeing you, Bobby.

595
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
Steve, they're gonna close me down.

596
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Last month I had to come up with a double one's rent for these people.

597
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Steve, I swear, if only...

598
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Bobby, Friday, two o'clock.

599
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Friday, two o'clock.

600
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Jimmy.

601
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000
Why he Bolger absolutely controlled what went on in South Boston.

602
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,000
In fact, nothing happened in South Boston without his approval.

603
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Every bit of illegal gaming, loan-shocking, drug dealing, he had a piece of it.

604
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000
If it happened, he had to sanction it and he had to have a piece of it.

605
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
From time to time, the feds brought Whitey in for questioning,

606
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
but they never had enough evidence to nail him.

607
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000
For all intents and purposes, Whitey Bolger was untouchable.

608
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000
Whitey Bolger is the master of eluding surveillance.

609
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000
He learned quickly how to avoid, you know, being caught.

610
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
He never said anything incriminating in any confined place,

611
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:03,000
and he had a real habit of conducting all of his business outside.

612
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,000
But the Boston Globes reported there was another reason Whitey was never busted,

613
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,000
that he was actually working with the FBI as an informant to bring down the Italian mafia.

614
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000
I think there was always a split within the FBI.

615
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,000
I think there were some agents who, for their own reasons, wanted to use him as a resource

616
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000
and probably liked him at one level.

617
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
And I think there were other agents who looked at him and said,

618
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000
he's just another gangster. Those are the people we're supposed to be taking off.

619
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000
What I can tell you is that when it comes to matters within the FBI

620
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involving informants and sources and witnesses,

621
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000
cooperating witnesses, we just do not talk about that.

622
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,000
That is not something we speak about in public.

623
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000
John Gamble has been on the Bolger case since 1990.

624
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000
By that time Whitey had set up his office on Castle Island at the tip of South Boston.

625
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Just across the harbor was Boston's busy Logan Airport.

626
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000
You have planes coming over, you have joggers running by, you have dogs barking.

627
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:14,000
It is a perfect location to avoid having people like me listen to you.

628
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000
What do you think?

629
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Bolger also used a technique, the FBI has labeled, disciplined randomness.

630
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000
When I was watching Whitey, he might be sitting and talking with somebody,

631
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
I have literally seen him having a conversation with somebody,

632
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,000
look at his watch and go three benches down and sit down and continue that conversation with these people

633
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,000
10 minutes later and then move again in 10 minutes.

634
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,000
I've been there when it was 20 degrees, I've been there when it's 94 degrees,

635
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000
and he's been out there.

636
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000
He had a select group of trusted associates and they would be the go-between.

637
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000
They were the ones that would go out and deal with bookmakers and loan sharks

638
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000
and pick up money to bring back to Whitey.

639
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Very rarely did Whitey make an appearance and actually have a face-to-face confrontation.

640
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
He left other people to do his dirty work.

641
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,000
But unfortunately for Whitey, he made an exception in Connolly's case.

642
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000
I'm gonna let you give me 25,000 in two days.

643
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Now get out!

644
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,000
And if I don't get the rest of it, this is you!

645
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Tim Connolly turned to the FBI because he was scared

646
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,000
and I think Connolly decided that it was time to start talking.

647
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Connolly provided authorities with the evidence needed to build a federal racketeering case against Bolger.

648
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:46,000
In January of 1995, Whitey was indicted, along with his associate Stephen the Rifleman Flemmey.

649
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000
Also indicted was Cadillac Frank Salemi, the boss of New England's Italian mafia.

650
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,000
But in true Whitey fashion, Bolger managed to slip through the authorities grasp.

651
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
I think that the law enforcement rushed the arrests a little bit

652
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,000
because they were worried that they were gonna lose their intended targets that they would all take off.

653
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:13,000
And so they grabbed Stevie Flemmey and when they did, they were unable to locate Frank Salemi or Whitey Bolger.

654
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,000
Six months later, they found Frank Salemi in Florida, but they have yet to find Whitey.

655
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:26,000
I think a lot of people who have had dealings with Whitey and who are going to be witnesses in the upcoming case

656
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:32,000
are probably nervous about the fact that he's not in custody.

657
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000
The case is a case of a police officer who was arrested in the hands of a police officer.

658
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000
The police officer was arrested in the hands of a police officer.

659
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,000
The police officer was arrested in the hands of a police officer.

660
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:03,000
The police officer was arrested in the hands of a police officer.

661
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,000
The police officer was arrested in the hands of a police officer.

662
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Next, a house set of fire.

663
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000
A young woman murdered. A four week old son of a rap musician abducted.

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1

665
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
2

666
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
3

667
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000
4

668
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,000
5

669
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
6

670
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000
His name is Lathan Williams, known to his fans as Young Lady.

671
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000
A rising star in the rap music world.

672
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
And now a young man at the center of a bizarre double mystery.

673
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,880
mystery, a tragedy that has torn from him

674
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,440
the two most important people in his life,

675
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,240
a case that has stumped police in Vallejo, California

676
00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:57,920
for months.

677
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,800
In the spring of 1996, things were

678
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,040
going well for Lathan Williams.

679
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,760
He had recently signed a recording deal.

680
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,200
This new video was about to be released,

681
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,960
and his girlfriend had just given birth

682
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,520
to their first child, a boy named Layson.

683
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,920
What I felt about Layson was it's a first son,

684
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,520
you know what I'm saying?

685
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,080
The summer could finna come, you know what I'm saying?

686
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,120
I'm finna be with him, you know what I'm saying?

687
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:27,920
Take care of him.

688
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,800
It was an experience to me, you know what I'm saying?

689
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:30,400
And I was happy.

690
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,160
Lathan's girlfriend, 17-year-old Daphne Boyden,

691
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,280
lived with her grandmother in Vallejo.

692
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,880
Daphne was working hard to finish high school

693
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,240
on caring for baby Layson.

694
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,880
On May 17, 1996, Daphne's grandmother, Riva Lee Boyden,

695
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,840
was getting ready to go to her weekly bingo game,

696
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:52,880
when the doorbell rang.

697
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:56,480
Is Daphne home?

698
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,400
Yeah, come on in.

699
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:58,480
She's in the back.

700
00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:59,360
Daphne?

701
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,040
You have company?

702
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,480
Daphne was getting a lot of visitors.

703
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,520
She was a mother of a local rap star's baby.

704
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,080
Everybody wanted to see Lathan's son.

705
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,080
We just came by to see the baby.

706
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,880
We just came by to see the baby.

707
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,960
Aw, so cute.

708
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,880
Yuck, sit down.

709
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:19,840
Daphne, I'm going play bingo.

710
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:20,840
I'll be going a couple of times.

711
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,320
Riva Lee didn't recognize these two girls.

712
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,680
But Daphne obviously knew them.

713
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,200
Everything seemed fine.

714
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,120
Riva Lee couldn't have been more wrong.

715
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,680
An hour later, she was rushing home.

716
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,520
Neighbors had told her that her house was on fire.

717
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,960
She had no idea whether Daphne and Layson were still inside.

718
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,600
Damn, I got to get it in.

719
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:45,720
I tried to break a looseie.

720
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:47,040
He said, no, no, don't go in.

721
00:42:55,280 --> 00:43:04,840
So she said, your granddaughter's dead.

722
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:05,840
She said, dead.

723
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:12,000
Daphne was dead.

724
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,840
The news grew worse.

725
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,800
None of it had been an accident.

726
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,080
Daphne had been murdered.

727
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,600
The house torched to cover up the crime.

728
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,360
And there was more.

729
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,760
Baby Layson was missing, apparently kidnapped.

730
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,680
For Lathan Williams, the shock was devastating.

731
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,800
He couldn't believe they were both gone.

732
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,840
I was saying, please, to myself, please,

733
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,560
Daphne, come walking around this corner, you know what I'm

734
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,960
saying with this baby.

735
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:37,960
You know what I'm saying?

736
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,400
Daphne's death outraged the community.

737
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,680
Hundreds turned out for a march memorializing

738
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,040
Daphne, an urging Layson's safe return.

739
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,840
The question on everyone's mind was why.

740
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:04,680
I did hear that some girls were threatening her.

741
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,440
And I didn't understand that.

742
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,160
But they said it was behind my son.

743
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,800
I don't know for sure or not what the situation is.

744
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:19,360
But it seems to me, apparently, somebody wanted a baby.

745
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,360
And they wanted to do away with her.

746
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:21,860
And why?

747
00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:23,560
I don't know.

748
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,520
Daphne herself was a 17-year-old girl that attended school,

749
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,400
did well, seemed to be well liked.

750
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,920
The problem was that she did have this baby that

751
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,200
was fathered by a up-and-coming rapper in the area.

752
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:41,040
He was signed to a contract and was actually doing quite well.

753
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,560
And we initially felt that possibly there

754
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,000
were some jealousies that had been aroused in competing

755
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,560
females for Lathen's affections.

756
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:50,880
Is Daphne home?

757
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:51,680
Yeah, come on in.

758
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:52,880
She's in the back.

759
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,920
The obvious suspects were the two girls

760
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,120
who had visited Daphne the evening of her murder.

761
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,040
Daphne?

762
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,560
They were first seen just before they arrived at the house

763
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,720
by a neighbor who wishes to remain anonymous.

764
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:13,040
I saw two girls on the same side of the sidewalk.

765
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,760
One of the girls, she had like a black tote bag.

766
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,040
She unzipped the bag and pulled out

767
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,520
something which appeared to me to be a rope.

768
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:22,520
You got the light?

769
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,120
Yes, sure.

770
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,120
I got everything through.

771
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,560
When they were walking past by me,

772
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,600
you know how you watch scary movies and you get scared?

773
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,280
That's the kind of feeling I had inside me

774
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,720
when I looked at their eyes.

775
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,720
Another witness allegedly noticed the girls leaving

776
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:46,480
the Boyden house just before the fire broke out.

777
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,280
One girl may have been concealing something in her jacket.

778
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,280
A few blocks down the street, the two girls were spotted again.

779
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:57,800
Young lady, come here.

780
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,400
I want to talk to you for a minute.

781
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,880
These witnesses, too, believe one of the girls

782
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,120
may have been concealing something.

783
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,760
If the girls did indeed murder Daphne and kidnap Baby

784
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,800
LaZan, was it for love of Lathen?

785
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,440
Or could there have been another motive?

786
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,720
10 months early, Lathen himself had

787
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,840
been a target, a victim of an attempted holing.

788
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:22,760
Break yourself!

789
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:23,660
What's so holing?

790
00:46:23,660 --> 00:46:24,560
You know what time it is?

791
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:25,560
I thought we was cool.

792
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,080
Come on, bust you!

793
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,080
Come on, come on!

794
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:30,640
Anybody moves, everybody dies!

795
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:31,540
Oh!

796
00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:32,440
Ah!

797
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,080
One bullet hit Lathen, piercing his brain.

798
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:43,320
When he recovered, he testified against the shooter.

799
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,480
It's only natural to assume that there could be some possible

800
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,920
connection there, that it may be some type of retaliation.

801
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,480
We don't want to overinflate that possibility.

802
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:51,960
But again, it's unsolved, so we're

803
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,160
trying not to close any doors on it.

804
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:58,400
However, Lathen Williams is convinced the two attacks

805
00:46:58,400 --> 00:46:59,400
are not connected.

806
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:00,560
You know what I'm saying?

807
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,120
Had nothing to do with it, you know what I'm saying?

808
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,480
Because of the fact that they would try to get at me.

809
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:06,440
You know what I'm saying?

810
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,520
My life would have been in danger.

811
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:08,440
You know what I'm saying?

812
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:09,640
Not, you know what I'm saying?

813
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,600
Baby mama's life, you know what I'm saying?

814
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:14,360
And my kid.

815
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,200
Whatever the motive, police have no doubt

816
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:24,080
that whoever killed Daphne also kidnapped LaZan.

817
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,520
We still feel that there's hope to recover the baby.

818
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,760
Obviously, we feel it's still alive.

819
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,880
And we hope that this information on a nationwide level

820
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,040
that can lead to some further leads that eventually

821
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:34,680
will lead to an arrest.

822
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:23,760
On our next unsolved mysteries, a deranged ex-policeman

823
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,840
and his wife, a homemade bomb, an elementary school held hostile.

824
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,520
At the moment of detonation, it seemed only a miracle

825
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,080
could save the children.

826
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,960
And many believe that is exactly what happened.

827
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,880
Join me next time for another compelling hour

828
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,080
of unsolved mysteries.