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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries

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Meet three incredible animals whose courage

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meant the difference between life and death.

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What fantastic psychic power has transformed

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these ordinary house pets into extraordinary heroes.

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And from the realm of the unexplained,

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a young boy describes in vividly accurate detail

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the death of a Civil War soldier.

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A mother is stunned by her two-year-old daughter's

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chilling account of a freak accident and a watery grave.

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Are these remarkable stories proof that reincarnation is real?

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From the current case file, a beautiful young businesswoman,

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an intimate blondie, a shocking plunge from a hotel balcony,

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the police must decide was it an accident or murder?

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Glen Dean Butterfield and her niece Kellyanne Ayers

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were as close as any mother and daughter.

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But some 20 years ago, circumstances forced them apart.

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Our viewers could help bring them back together again.

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It is a twisted and deadly scheme.

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Booby-trapped packages cleverly disguised as promotional gifts

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delivered through the mail, courtesy of a madman.

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Join me for these intriguing cases.

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Perhaps you may be able to solve one of tonight's unsolved mysteries.

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Children. We think of them as innocence, raw clay to be molded,

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blank slates eager for life's lessons, lessons taught by family,

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friends, and teachers.

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But some people believe children can also be strongly influenced

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by more otherworldly forces, experiences gleaned not just

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from other people, but from other lifetimes.

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Reincarnation is a theme that runs through all the cultures of the world.

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There is no proof unless you believe the accounts of those who have no reason to lie.

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Those who possess specific knowledge and insights they are far too young to have.

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Consider first the case of five-year-old Chase Bowman.

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It was the fourth of July, 1988.

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Chase's mother says he became inexplicably terrified by the fireworks.

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Not only terrified, he was hysterical. He was crying and screaming.

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And I had to take him home.

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And I thought that that was very unusual because he had never responded to fireworks that way before.

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Over the next few months, Chase's fear of explosive noises intensified, becoming a phobia.

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All right, Chase, I want to try something. Close your eyes and relax.

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For hell, Carol Bowman turned to a friend who was a hypnotherapist.

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Breathe out slowly.

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I want you to think of a sound that frightens you.

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The hypnotherapist had barely begun when Chase suddenly seemed transported to another place and time.

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A battlefield during the American Civil War.

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There's lots of smoke. There's a war going on.

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I'm a black soldier.

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I behind a rock with a big gun and a sword at the end.

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Well, I was shocked.

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He started curling up in my lap as if he were afraid.

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And I could feel him trembling as he described what it was like with gunfire all around him.

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And what it was like to be crouching behind a rock.

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I could feel him crouching in my lap.

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In his mind's eye, Chase has passed life unreal.

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A kaleidoscopic rush of images.

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In the heat of battle, he was struck by a bullet, his wrist shattered.

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The comrades dragged into a crude field hospital.

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The wound was bandaged.

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Then he was sent back to the front to man a cannon.

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Chase said he saw himself walking back into battle.

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And he was killed behind the cannon.

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He died very suddenly.

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I was amazed because it sounded so true and so real and so plausible.

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But I could feel that it was true. I just knew it.

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At that point in Chase's life when he was five, I knew what he watched on television because we carefully regulated it.

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He watched Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, period.

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And I never had read books to him about the Civil War.

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As far as I could tell, there was no way he could have known that.

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Chase later drew these rough sketches of the field hospital and the cannon.

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Civil war buffs have found the details amazingly accurate.

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In my opinion, it's rather remarkable that the child having not had any sort of background or experience and viewing scenes from the Civil War,

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his placement of the horse and the wagon and the artillery piece is pretty consistent with the mode of transportation of cannon during the Civil War.

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It was a wow experience. I knew that something extraordinary had happened.

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And what made it even more extraordinary was that immediately after this regression, within a few days,

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a severe eczema, a chronic eczema that he had on his right wrist where he said he had been hit by a bullet,

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completely cleared up.

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And not only that, as the months went by, I saw that Chase's phobia of loud noises completely disappeared too.

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Carol Bullman is a professional writer. She was so intrigued by her son's experience,

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she started researching a book on children's past lives.

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As it turned out, material was abundant.

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At the time, Leah was a little over two. She was about two and a half years old, and we were driving near our home.

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It was wintertime. She was about two and a half. She was in the backseat in her car seat where she always was.

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And we were driving down a hill and the sun was shining, and all of a sudden I hear this little voice in the backseat pipes up.

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She goes, Mommy, this is just like where I died.

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What? I was a little shocked.

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You know, I'm thinking, what is she talking about? I was a little horrified that she's even thinking about death at that age.

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It shook me enough that I pulled off the road.

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Sweetie, what did you just say?

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I was driving in the car, it fell off the bridge, and I was in the water.

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Where was Mommy?

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You weren't with me that time.

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There was a feeling that came over me of this was really important, that this is big news, like the basement is on fire, you know, kind of something that you really want to pay attention to.

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And that it was a different moment from any conversation that we had had previously.

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Well, who drove the car?

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I was big, I could drive in the palace. I was driving.

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She said that basically she fell off the bridge and she fell into the water and she said, I fell out of the car.

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I could feel the rocks on my head and I could look up and see the bubbles going up and she said, I could see the light on the shiny bridge.

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And that's where I died.

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I don't think she could have possibly made it up. If it had been another child, I might have been much more skeptical.

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But I was home full time with her at that point and very controlling about what she saw and what she read.

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She didn't watch any television. She didn't really go to any movies. She wasn't exposed.

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She could not have possibly had a frame of reference for this experience.

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What stands out for me is the fact that small children who've not been contaminated with adult ideas or concepts are telling us that something of us does survive death.

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My son Blake taught me a very spiritual lesson that we have lived before and will probably live again.

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And I've got no doubt that this is what happened.

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Mommy!

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Blake, what's the matter? Are you okay?

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My ear hurts. It really hurts.

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Colleen Hawkins' son Blake was only three years old when he startled his mother with a horrifying story.

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Who hit you with the truck?

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A man.

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A man hit you with a truck? Someone outside? Were you outside?

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No, not now. Before.

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A man hit me with a big truck. He drove over me.

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And I died.

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Blake.

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I thought that I would trick him in a way to see if he had his facts right.

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And so I said, oh, this happened on TV, right? And he said, no, it happened in the street.

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He was getting irritated with me at this point because he knew his facts and he felt I should know what happened also.

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We don't give kids nearly as much credit for being on the show.

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Some experts believe there is a perfectly rational explanation for all of these episodes.

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There's some very creative kids out there. And all kids fantasize to a certain degree.

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And so the chances that they'll come up with something startling and unusual in that kind of a rich fantasy life is very high.

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I got hit by a truck.

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And when you look at it that way, these cases fall apart.

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That there are lots of prosaic explanations for how they could possibly know this information without it necessarily coming from a past life.

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However, the parents of the children involved are convinced those experiences are not only real, but also beneficial.

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I believe that remembering past lives can be very healing for the child.

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It can help them leave the past behind and move on into present reality.

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And I think it can be marvelously healing for the adults too.

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It can give them new insights into who their child is as a soul.

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And will give them a completely different perspective on life and death.

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A well-known physician once said,

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All the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

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Carol Bowman has now collected dozens of case histories of children's past lives.

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The example she believes are well beyond the scope of any child's imagination.

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So if you're not listening to the stories your kids tell you, perhaps you should be.

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Coming up, a romantic interlude takes a stunning twist when a young woman falls to her death from a hotel balcony.

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But first, dramatic rescues by extraordinary four-legged heroes.

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Some experts believe they were inspired by mysterious psychic forces.

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When we think of heroes, some names come readily to mind.

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Paul Revere, Lawrence Nightingale, Martin Luther King.

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People whose courage served to inspire us all.

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But few of us are familiar with such extraordinary figures as Boo, Oscar and Ringo.

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Each is a household pet.

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Each is responsible for saving a life.

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Guess how they did it and why.

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It's truly an unsolved mystery.

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We begin along the Yuba River, 80 miles north of Sacramento, California.

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It was a perfect setting for Lillian McDermott to exercise her Newfoundland Boo.

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Though already 110 pounds, Boo was just 14 months old, still a puppy.

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It was the summer and the Yuba was very inviting.

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And so I thought it was a great opportunity for a Newfoundland to play in the water

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and be in Newfoundland heaven chasing sticks and having fun.

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Unbeknownst to Lillian, a dangerous situation was developing a half mile upstream.

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An amateur prospector named Link Hill had just finished dredging the river for gold

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and gone back out to fetch a gas can.

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Minutes later, when Link came into view, Boo suddenly lost interest in the game.

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I leaned down to see what it was he was looking at and I saw what I thought was a log

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rolling in the white water.

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It's all right, Boo, it's all right.

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It was not all right. He wouldn't stop.

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I looked again and here an arm came up out of the white water holding a small gas can.

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Lillian was at a loss, but Boo seemed to know exactly what needed to be done.

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And he looked at me, steady, courageous, strong, all of those pretty words that said to me,

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you need to let me go.

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So I did.

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Go, Boo.

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The minute I said the words, he shot into the water.

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Boo swam straight into a strong current, driven by unknown forces to reach the helpless stranger

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more than 75 feet away.

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Boo grabbed on her Link's arm, then mustering all of his strength, he hauled the man back to shore.

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Come on.

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Bring him.

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Good job.

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As it turned out, Link Hill was a fortunate man indeed.

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Hill is a deaf man unable to speak or hear.

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If not for Boo's heroic actions, he would surely have drowned.

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How can we explain Boo's selfless act of courage, instinct, devotion, or a true desire to save another life?

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Incredibly, some experts believe Boo's response may have been triggered by psychic abilities.

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What that animal felt was that man's fear, and he realized that was not a log, you know,

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because he could feel the emotion coming from that man and the emotion of that man calling out in his mind for help.

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That's all that dog needed.

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He's a Newfoundland.

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Since their development for a number of tasks, one of which is to perform water rescues.

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We don't have to make assumptions that he knew that the person was in danger.

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It's something that's innate, or some people use the term instinctive, that animals do because of their genetic heritage.

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But can genetics explain the case of Oscar, a three-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever?

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Ever since he was seven weeks old, Oscar's been a constant companion, truly a best friend to his owner, Chris Eschenberg.

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I was very conscious about socializing him properly, and he was exposed to a huge breadth of people from very young children to very old people.

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He learned early on that people were good and he just loves to be around people.

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And in fact, that's one of the things that's most surprising about what actually happened.

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It happened on a hot July evening in 1995 as Chris returned home.

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The house was quiet, odd because Oscar usually kicked up a noisy welcome.

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Something was wrong, very wrong.

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What do you want? Go, just take it easy, please.

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At that point, I then started to think about Oscar.

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I was worried that I was going to open the door.

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Oscar was going to try to greet this guy like he greets all of my friends that walk into the house,

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and this guy was just going to react by shooting him.

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But Oscar was nowhere to be seen. He had plans of his own.

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Come on, come back!

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Finally, this guy was able to get his arm free, and in that action of freeing the arm, he hit me, or here.

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And I was a little disoriented for a moment, and by the time I regained my composure, he was gone.

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I secure him getting out of the gate.

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Oscar was drenched in blood.

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Fortunately, it was not the blood of the courageous Caneis, but that of the would-be robber.

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You're fine, pal.

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This is merely reaffirmed in me the fact that I have a very dynamic, live, interesting, intelligent creature

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that I'm sharing my life with, and who in this respect probably saved my life, or may very well have done that.

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First off, it's almost sure that Oscar was aware of the intruder before Chris got home.

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He heard him, he smelled him, and whether it was territorial behavior or protective behavior or combination of both,

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it's impossible to say. But he definitely took the initiative, took the offense, because of all these cues that we're telling him,

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this is not normal, something isn't right.

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Boo and Oscar personify the notion of man's best friend.

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However, dogs aren't the only animals capable of protecting their owners from impending danger.

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Ray and Carol Steiner of Bowling Green, Ohio owe their lives to their three-year-old red-tabby cat, Ringo.

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During the summer of 1995, the Steiner's were homebound. Ray was recovering from surgery,

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and Carol was incapacitated by a foot ailment.

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But inexplicably, both had been suffering from memory loss, high blood pressure, and chronic fatigue.

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What I was noticing the most was terrible headaches, dizziness. I was sleeping all the time.

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One morning in August, Carol noticed that Ringo was acting strangely.

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Ringo had come in already from his early morning prowling, and we were all settled down,

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and all of a sudden, he wanted out again.

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I opened the door, he won't go out. So I said, OK, kitty, and close the door.

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No sooner did Carol get settled down than Ringo was added again, so Carol opened the door again.

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And he turns up at me and gives a really high meow, and it was obvious I was to come out,

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so I walked out with him.

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Ringo led Carol around to the side of the house.

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All of a sudden, he started digging in our landscaping.

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And then he opened up his mouth and curled his lips up, as if something had a terrible smell.

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That smell was lethal methane gas. Carol immediately called the gas company.

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Within minutes, a service technician arrived.

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He put a tool in the ground and a siren went off.

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Well, this is way above normal, because it's very, very unusual.

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He told us we're at explosive levels. I've got to turn your gas off right now, or you're going to blow.

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Incredibly, the Steiner's had a large split in their gas pipe at the very spot where Ringo had been digging.

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As a result, potentially deadly amounts of gas had been seeping into the house for months.

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Not only might a random spark have set off an explosion, but the Steiner's were in danger of being asphyxiated.

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We looked at each other, then we looked at the cat, and I said, my gosh, Ray, Ringo saved our lives.

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No one thought about the cat until everything settled, and my gosh, here's the hero just lying there being a cat.

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What mysterious forces compelled these animals to take action when there was no one else to step forward?

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Was it instinct, or perhaps some unexplained psychic ability? We may never know, but to their owners, it hardly matters.

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They are just thankful to be living under the same roof with a courageous, albeit four-legged, hero.

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When we return, a vicious booby trap disguised as a mail-order cookbook claims a life of a teacher in Brooklyn, New York.

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And later, police in Los Angeles search for clues in the mysterious death of a young businesswoman.

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It was May 7, 1982, the Friday before Mother's Day.

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Joan Kipp, a high school guidance counselor in Brooklyn, New York, had just gotten off work.

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Joan and her husband had plans to leave the city and spend the weekend with their family.

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The package seemed innocent in every way. It contained a cookbook from a major mail-order house.

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Joan assumed it was a Mother's Day gift.

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Oh, it is a cookbook. Oh, too many.

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Joan and her husband were in the kitchen, and Joan was in the kitchen, and Joan was in the kitchen.

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Joan and her husband were in the kitchen, and Joan was in the kitchen, and Joan was in the kitchen, and Joan was in the kitchen.

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Joan Kipp had been struck in the chest by 222 caliber bullets. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, but died that evening.

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No one knows who killed Joan Kipp or why. Her murder was unbelievably bizarre, shot to death by a booby trap cookbook.

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Unfortunately, more than a decade would pass before police realized it was not an isolated incident.

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In October of 1993, a retired New York City sanitation worker and his wife, two people with absolutely no connection to Joan Kipp, were on vacation in Pennsylvania.

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When their children came to visit, they brought the couple's mail.

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Thank you. Thank you, Lisa.

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Looks like some sort of charitable organization. Well, I thought we were going to send checks to charity organizations.

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I have my favorites, and I always send checks.

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Come on.

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The package contained what appeared to be a gift, a commemorative medallion.

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In this instance, three people were shot, but no one was killed.

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Get me out of here. Get me out of here.

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Bring him into the house.

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Since then, there have been three more attacks, bringing the total to five.

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The victims shared only two things in common. Each lived in the New York City area, and each had apparently been targeted by the same assassin.

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He is a creature of deadly habit. His deliveries of disguise look legitimate.

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Each package contains a lethal homemade weapon that fires three bullets in different directions.

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The New York City press is seized upon the details, and given the criminal a somewhat misleading nickname, the Zip Gunman.

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The Zip Gunman is a man who has been shot in the face, and he is a man who has been shot in the face.

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The gunman is a man who has been shot upon the details, and given the criminal a somewhat misleading nickname, the Zip Gun Bомber.

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Zip Guns was a weapon of choice for the gangs in New York, in the late fifties, early sixties, the nut bombs...

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They don't consist of any dynamite or anything of that nature.

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What they basically are, are crumbling made guns.

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The devices are constructed in a way

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to be attractive.

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This type of criminal certainly goes to a lot of effort.

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He definitely is putting it together in a way

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that guarantees that the receiver is going

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to open that package.

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Yeah, because I'm just going to get him ready in a few minutes.

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June 27, 1995.

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Stephanie Gaffney of Queens, New York

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was eight months pregnant, eagerly looking forward

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to the birth of her daughter.

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I was talking on the phone, and I was sorting through the mail.

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I came across the package, and I looked at the package.

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You know, it's from a health insurance plan.

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It looked legitimate.

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I opened up the box, and inside of it was a book.

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And the book also looked legitimate.

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I mean, it looked like there were real pages and everything.

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Oh, baby.

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I thought it was real.

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Stephanie had been struck by shrapnel from three bullets.

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Her unborn child had not been hit,

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but was in severe distress.

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Within hours, doctors induced labor,

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and Stephanie gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

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Stephanie is convinced that the only reason she and her child

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survived was because Stephanie was holding the book

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at a slight angle when she opened it.

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There's no doubt about it that I'm very lucky.

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I know for a fact that if it happened any other way,

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I would not be sitting here.

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My daughter would not be here.

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So I thank God every day for that.

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The attack on Stephanie Gaffney was as mystifying

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as those which preceded it.

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The authorities have no concrete theories.

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And at this point, they don't even

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know if the victims were selected at random

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or targeted for some specific unknown reason.

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I believe that it is random.

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I believe that it was just one of those things that just happened.

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It could have been someone else.

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It just happened to be me.

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In June of 1996, it just happened

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to be a retired real estate agent in Brooklyn, New York.

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He narrowly escaped injury when he opened a parcel

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from a local charity.

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The public should never open up a package when they don't know

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who sent the package to them.

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People should remember that one of the easiest things to do

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is to call the return address on a package, number one,

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to see if it's a legitimate return address,

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and number two, to ask if someone does answer the phone,

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what did you send me?

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Next, a young woman falls to her death from a hotel balcony

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that a passionate rendezvous though tragically wrong.

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November 21, 1996.

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Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies

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use a dummy fashioned out of fire holes

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to perform a macabre experiment.

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Nine days earlier, a woman had fallen

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from this hotel balcony, plummeting to her death

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10 stories below.

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Was it an accident?

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Did she commit suicide?

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Or was she murdered?

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The victim was Sandra Oriana.

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She turned 27 years old on November 12,

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the same day she arrived in California

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on a business trip with this man, her boss,

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33-year-old Robert Salazar.

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The two worked for Skillmaster, a national employment agency based

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in Houston, Texas.

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Sandra was a workers' compensation claim specialist

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engaged to be married.

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Robert Salazar was the general manager of operations.

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He has a wife and two children.

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Sandra had worked at Skillmaster for about a year and a half.

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She'd been promoted very rapidly to the manager

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of the safety and health division.

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Attorney Michael Cedo represents Sandra Oriana's family.

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Her work was highly enough regarded

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that Salazar ostensibly took her to Los Angeles

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to interview for a high level position with a company

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that Skillmaster had just acquired in California.

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On the morning of November 12, Sandra and Salazar

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checked into adjacent rooms on the eighth floor of the Sheraton

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Hotel in the city of industry just outside Los Angeles.

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At 6.30 the next morning, another hotel guest

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spotted Sandra's body sprawled on the ground below.

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Police immediately questioned Robert Salazar.

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He reportedly told them that he had escorted Sandra

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to her room around midnight.

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He stayed for only a moment.

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When he left, Sandra was alive and well.

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When Mr. Salazar first told that story,

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it was a believable story.

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It was only after we, the homicide detectives,

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began looking inside the room and determined

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that his underwear was in the room that we did not believe him.

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The police questioned Salazar again.

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They say he proceeded to tell a very different story.

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He said that he had, in fact, gone into the room with Sandra

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and that they had engaged in sex and that at one point

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they were on the balcony.

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Sandra had positioned herself on the railing of the balcony

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in such a way that she threw one of her legs over the top

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of the balcony and lost her balance and had fallen.

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Sandra's family is outraged by Salazar's allegations.

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Family believes that Sandra would never

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have engaged in any consensual relationship

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with Robert Salazar.

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First, she was very devoted to her fiance.

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Secondly, she didn't believe in romantic relationships

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at work.

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We talked to the folks that worked with Sandra and Mr. Salazar,

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and they were very, very shocked that Sandra and Salazar

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would have anything to do with each other

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in a sexual or romantic way.

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Salazar contends he and Sandra had not

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been romantically involved until that evening.

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Several witnesses confirmed what the couple was

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seen in the hotel bar, drinking, holding hands, and kissing.

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After that, Salazar told police they went up

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to Sandra's eighth floor room.

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A short time later, Sandra fell off the balcony.

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Salazar told no one about the alleged accident,

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simply went back to his room.

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The next morning, he waited in the hotel lobby

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as though expecting Sandra.

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He even left a message on her room's voicemail,

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asking where she was.

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Lieutenant P.V. used the dummy to test Salazar's account

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of how and where Sandra Orellana went over the railing.

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The dummy landed a number of feet

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from where Sandra actually landed,

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close to 15 feet at one dropping.

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And another time, I believe it was 12 feet.

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So it was never even close to where she actually landed.

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And we tried it several times, and we actually

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ended up trying to make it land where she landed.

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And we had to basically throw the dummy in that direction

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to make it land there.

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Another perplexing point, the balcony railing

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is 44 inches tall.

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Sandra Orellana was 5 feet 2, only 18 inches taller

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than the railing.

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I don't believe that it's possible

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that she could have fallen off the balcony.

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I think that something else caused her to fall off

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the balcony that Mr. Salazar has not yet revealed.

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We want to get to the truth so that we can explain away

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all the questions, whether we ever will or not,

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remains to be seen.

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When we return, a poignant tale of lost love,

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perhaps you can help reunite Glendine Butterfield and her

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niece.

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Raising a child means a never ending series of hard choices.

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It's difficult enough for a parent.

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It can sometimes be even tougher.

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You've been entrusted with a child that is not your own.

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Glendine Butterfield knows that all too well.

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For more than two decades, she's been

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haunted by a decision she made about her brother's daughter.

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Bob!

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It was the fall of 1969.

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Glendine's first glimpse of her niece, Kellyanne,

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was a result of a hard fought battle.

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She's so beautiful.

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Glendine's brother, Bob Ayers, was in the army

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and was being shipped to Germany.

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He and Kellyanne's mother had separated

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and neither could care for Kellyanne.

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The army planned to put the baby in an orphanage,

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but Aunt Glendine wouldn't hear of it.

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She went up the chain of command,

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straight to the office of the president.

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About two days later, the base commander at Fort Campbell,

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Kentucky, called me and said that anybody

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would go at that length to keep a kid off an orphanage,

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that the army would give my brother

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a grant and leave to bring her to me.

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Once Bob Ayers gave Kellyanne a Glendine,

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he abandoned all interest in the child.

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Glendine was on her own.

466
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,960
I didn't hear from him for a long time.

467
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,440
I mean, a real long time.

468
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,000
I think it was probably maybe three years,

469
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,160
we'll say three years.

470
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,560
And he just kind of like disappeared, you know?

471
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,880
Kellyanne spent those years happily growing up

472
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,560
with Glendine and her two daughters in Central California.

473
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,120
We just thought of her as a little sister,

474
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,680
because we got her, she was a baby, she was real tiny.

475
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:34,440
So she was no different than my sister Vicki,

476
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,400
except for more fun.

477
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,840
She liked her horse, she liked riding horses, she liked,

478
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:42,920
she just did everything.

479
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,400
Anybody's normal kid, no different than them,

480
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,360
except they were a little older.

481
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:53,360
You know, I mean, she just happy, go lucky.

482
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:58,000
In 1974, Bob Ayers suddenly showed up out of the blue.

483
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,040
He moved into Glendine's apartment,

484
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,600
bestilled his played little interest in being a father.

485
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,480
That apparently changed when a woman nicknamed Kitty

486
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,440
set up housekeeping in the same building.

487
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,640
Less than a week later, Bob made two astonishing decisions.

488
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,680
First, he moved in with Kitty.

489
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,440
Second, without saying a word to Glendine,

490
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,160
he took Kellyanne with him.

491
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,560
You like this new toy, his daddy, gotcha?

492
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,560
Yeah.

493
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,360
You like staying in the apartment, don't you?

494
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,600
Huh?

495
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:34,760
Well, we love having you here.

496
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,640
They moved her out after Bob went

497
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,440
knowing this woman for a day or two.

498
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,480
And I just went into hysterics over it.

499
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,280
I mean, you know, this is my kid.

500
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,280
Kelly!

501
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,880
Kelly, fall!

502
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,120
With the help of the police, Glendine got Kellyanne back.

503
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,320
But the battle over the child was just beginning.

504
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,600
Within a few months, Glendine says Kellyanne changed.

505
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,440
She had become an unhappy, bewildered little girl.

506
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,600
Much too sad for Christmas.

507
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,560
I just don't understand.

508
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,640
Kitty wants me to call her mommy,

509
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:13,160
and Uncle Bob wants me to call him daddy.

510
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,240
The situation became worse when Bob

511
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,520
sued Glendine for custody.

512
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,160
I've heard arguments from both sides.

513
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,160
And I've just had a nice long chat with Kellyanne

514
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:25,920
in my chamber.

515
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,320
She's a very bright, intelligent child.

516
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,920
She really wants to stay with Glendine.

517
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,280
She's very happy where she is.

518
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,840
So I find for the respondent.

519
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,080
I don't think I've ever been so happy.

520
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,560
The judge said that Kitty and Bob

521
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,560
could have visitation rights.

522
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,240
Six months we will review the situation.

523
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,440
They would see her when they weren't supposed to.

524
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:57,240
They would talk to her, tell her things.

525
00:39:57,240 --> 00:39:59,720
It just kept her in a world of little confusion.

526
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:00,480
You know what I mean?

527
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,120
You think of a little girl five years old or four and a half

528
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,760
five years old, and it's state of confusion.

529
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,840
To minimize the conflict, Glendine

530
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,800
moved to a small town in Nevada.

531
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,640
Bob's visits with Kellyanne were not

532
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,560
limited to twice a year.

533
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:22,240
But for Glendine, even that was too much.

534
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,160
The first time they took her and brought her back, she got.

535
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,080
She was so depressed and just withdrawn.

536
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,960
And it was horrible.

537
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,040
She doesn't even know what it's like to have a father.

538
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,480
No, but she knows what it's like to have a mother and dad,

539
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:35,640
sisters, and have a whole life.

540
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:36,920
You are not the mom.

541
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,320
And I am her real father.

542
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,480
You know that.

543
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,840
You are not taking her back.

544
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,160
It got to the point that I was so concerned

545
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,000
about her mental well-being, you know,

546
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,960
for when she got older and everything.

547
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,720
That I decided I needed to keep her away from my brother, Bob,

548
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:53,920
and Kitty.

549
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:54,800
You want to start a war?

550
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,120
You just started one.

551
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,320
Let's go, Kitty.

552
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,280
Much as she wanted to keep Kellyanne,

553
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,520
Glendine felt it was impossible.

554
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,760
She could think of only one alternative,

555
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,200
Kellyanne's birth mother, Marion.

556
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,920
Marion was in the Air Force.

557
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,400
She had remarried and had two sons.

558
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,360
Glendine believed she could provide the stable environment

559
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,600
Kellyanne needed.

560
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,080
So because of that, you want to give up

561
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,080
custody to this lady?

562
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,160
No, it's not that I want to.

563
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,440
But I do think it'd be best for Kellyanne.

564
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,280
The judge agreed to the plan.

565
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,520
Soon after, Glendine kissed Kellyanne goodbye

566
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,320
and left her with her new family.

567
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,040
We're going to miss you so much.

568
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:41,920
I love you.

569
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,080
I don't want you to go.

570
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,080
I don't want to go.

571
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,080
I don't want to be without you.

572
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,320
But listen, I'll be calling you really soon, OK?

573
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:53,220
OK.

574
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,520
I couldn't believe I lost my child.

575
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,920
I mean, this was my child.

576
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,000
And I couldn't believe that I lost her,

577
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,520
that I didn't have her anymore.

578
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,440
Well, your sister's nice.

579
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,920
You're miss you.

580
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,360
I miss them too.

581
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,720
The last time Glendine spoke to Kellyanne

582
00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,760
was at Christmas time in 1976.

583
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:16,440
OK.

584
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,000
OK.

585
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,480
She told me she missed me and she loved me.

586
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,960
And I told her I loved her.

587
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,840
And it was like kind of not a real long conversation,

588
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,000
but just I felt wonderful when I talked to her.

589
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Can you give Coco a kiss?

590
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,280
I'll sure do that.

591
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,320
The next time Glendine called, however,

592
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,640
the line was disconnected.

593
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,120
Since that moment, Oliver refers to track Kellyanne have

594
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:42,620
failed.

595
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,400
By 1983, Glendine and her brother Bob

596
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,360
had patched up their differences.

597
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,240
From then until Bob died in a farm accident in 1994,

598
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:58,840
their sole focus was finding Kellyanne.

599
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,000
It hasn't been one day he went by since I gave her up.

600
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,760
I haven't thought of her a dozen times.

601
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,440
I wondered, is she OK?

602
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:07,600
Does she need anything?

603
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,320
Is she happy?

604
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,080
Did I do the right thing?

605
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,240
Did I do the wrong thing?

606
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:15,720
I just wish I knew.

607
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,520
On our next Un-Solved Mysteries,

608
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,200
when a popular exotic dancer is found murdered,

609
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,960
police are left with only one solid clue,

610
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,760
a voice of an anonymous caller who reported the crime.

611
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,360
Join me next time for another edition of Un-Solved Mysteries.

612
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,760
Un-Solved Mysteries

613
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,760
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