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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries

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It is one of nature's most powerful and awe-inspiring forces.

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No one knows where or when it will strike.

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But if it does, the Olsen Clan of Illinois is sure to take notice.

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For nearly a century, family members have had close encounters

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with one lightning bolt after another.

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When a young film student from California is killed in Mexico,

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the investigation becomes shrouded in sorrow and foreign intrigue.

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What was Patrick Kelly doing in Tijuana?

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Who was pursuing him?

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And who was driving his car in the days after he died?

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Is our destiny written in the stars?

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Can astrology predict whether we will be good or evil?

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In a fascinating special report,

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a leading astrologer reveals that serial murders like Jeffrey Donner,

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the night stalker and son of Sam, might have been born to kill.

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And from the current case file,

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a special report on modern-day vampires.

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The summit is just innocent diversion.

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To others, it's a dangerous descent into an altered reality

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that in one case may have led to murder.

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Join me.

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

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The force of nature so mysterious, so powerful,

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has been called a finger of God.

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Where or who it may strike cannot be predicted.

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For one family in Illinois,

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every thunderstorm holds a potential for disaster, even death.

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I think the lightning likes us,

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but once in a while, if we get a bolt and strikes real, real close,

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we'll start thinking about it.

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Since I've told, you know, coworkers and friends this,

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they tend to kid me a lot and, you know,

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nobody wants to get me right home when it's raining out.

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Call me lightning boy and things like that.

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I think it'll strike me again,

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and that someday it's going to get me and kill me.

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Meet the Olsen family.

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Their ancestors, John and Jensina Olsen,

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came to America from Denmark in 1893.

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From them, subsequent generations have inherited a deadly legacy,

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a bizarre kinship with lightning.

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Was there anybody else early on?

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Over the last four generations,

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at least 10 members of the Olsen family

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have had close encounters with lightning,

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terrifyingly close.

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Two of them have died.

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The first person that was killed by lightning was Chris Olsen,

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and he died in 1899.

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It was a stormy day in May.

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Dr. Chris is here.

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Come in, Chris.

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Chris Olsen, the third child of John and Jensina,

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was 23 years old.

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That afternoon, he went to the hospital

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to visit his future bride and her father.

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I hear you having trouble on the farm.

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Yeah, yeah, the north fence shifted.

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Hi.

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Hello.

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Chris!

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Father, what's wrong?

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Chris Olsen died instantly.

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The lightning never touched the others.

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Chris's family mourned him,

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unaware that his death was only the beginning.

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22 years later, Chris' older brother, Oli,

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braved a late summer storm to feed his livestock.

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At the barn door, lightning struck him dead.

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It was then the Olsen family began to wonder

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if death by lightning was a destiny they all might share.

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Christine Olsen, Chris' and Oli's sister,

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lived her life with that conviction.

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By the spring of 1941, she was an old woman.

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But as her grandson Bill vividly recalls,

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she was still terrified of lightning.

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and had a day that was very cloudy outside,

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and I was laying there probably a half hour,

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and then I could hear thunder in the background.

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Bolts of it coming down.

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Billy! Billy, get up! Billy, get up!

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Come, Billy, quickly. We've got to go outside.

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Well, because we've got to get away from the lightning.

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We'll go out to the old car.

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The old one got out the bedroom door,

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and the bolt of lightning hit the blue hole in the wall.

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And one across the metal ceiling.

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And the ceiling lit up like a neon sign.

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Bill and his grandmother passed the rest of the night

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huddles safely in the car.

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But the specter of lightning would continue

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to haunt the descendants of John and Jensina Olsen.

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Twenty years later, when Bill Thompson was grown

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and had a family, he had his second brush with death.

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Ball lightning shot in through the window,

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hit the toaster, blew the toaster off the table,

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went over and missed the little girl in the high chair.

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and knocked the phone off the wall

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and went out through the phone area.

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and the telephone was gone, and everybody was very frightened.

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During a summer storm five years later,

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lightning again reached out to the Olsen's.

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This time it was Bill's first cousin Connie.

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That day, her sister Karen had come to pick her up after work.

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Connie's encounter would be with a kind of lightning

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that seemed to emanate from the ground.

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It looked like it was going to be a thunderstorm,

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and there was a different kind of feeling about the atmosphere.

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It felt like it was full of electrical charges

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and it was like an eerie kind of feeling.

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Connie!

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Every single joint in my body violently jerked,

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and then I fell to the ground.

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Connie!

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I don't remember anything after that

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because I was knocked unconscious.

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Connie's boss came to her aid and helped her to Karen's car.

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my body had a tingling sensation.

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My arms and my chest area were numb.

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When my sister told me that I was struck by lightning,

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I was just really surprised.

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I had absolutely no idea that that's what happened.

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Lightning has always kind of been a little strange to me.

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This is something that has always kind of scared me,

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and I'm sure some of it is due to that and when that occurrence

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that had happened when I was young.

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Bradley Hample is fourth generation Olson.

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The year he turned 15,

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he visited his grandmother's farm in Burlington, Illinois.

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At the time, Bradley knew nothing about the Olson history.

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The light was so bright that I couldn't see for a second.

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lightning hit somewhere.

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on the door that was smoking.

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Since that time, I have been very scared of lightning.

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It wasn't nothing.

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I was scared of lightning.

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I was scared of lightning.

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I was very scared of lightning.

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It wasn't necessarily a life-changing experience.

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I didn't turn good or anything because of it.

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it was probably the first time in my life that a realizationist,

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wow, you could have just been killed.

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Do you have being struck by lightning next to your name?

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No, I don't.

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You probably shouldn't have been.

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We should put a little lightning bolt in.

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What is the link between this family and lightning?

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Could it possibly be something unique in their genetic makeup?

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I've never heard of another family where two family members

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had been killed by lightning.

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She was my grandmother.

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Whether the whole Olson family has a genetic predisposition

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to be struck by lightning,

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I think is a question that I would answer no

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because from a scientific point of view,

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the lightning starts in the cloud,

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has no idea what's going on in the ground.

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It just works its way down randomly

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and then hits what's under wherever it gets to.

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I believe that there's an organic reason

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why lightning strikes my family.

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what you fear most is what you attract.

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And many members of my family fear lightning

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and therefore they attract lightning to them.

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Everybody squeeze together so we can get a good family picture here.

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Given the family history,

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two fatalities and countless near misses,

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such fears are understandable.

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That family gatherings the Olsons can't help but wonder,

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who's next?

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One more. Let's say lightning this time for the occasion.

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Lightning!

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Next, when a young college student is killed in Mexico,

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his grieving mother and a determined private investigator

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embark on a desperate search for answers.

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And later, a revealing look at the bizarre world

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of modern day vampires and the games they play.

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This is the Avenida Internacional,

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a cold concrete stretch of highway

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that runs along the border that separates Tijuana,

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Mexico from the United States.

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Every year, dozens of people are killed here

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as they dash through heavy traffic

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attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.

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On May 5th, 1996, local rescue crews responded

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to the kind of accident scene that has become tragic.

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A pedestrian had been struck and critically injured.

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He carried no ID,

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and was classified as desconecido or unknown.

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After this photograph ran in a local newspaper,

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the man was incorrectly identified as Luis Rodriguez.

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He died six days after the accident,

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without regaining consciousness.

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Another family member,

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another 15 days would pass

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before it became known that the dead man

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was in reality Patrick Kelly,

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a film student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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During those 15 days, Patrick's mother, Terry,

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had launched a desperate search to find him.

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In the process, he had uncovered a series of disturbing clues

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which had convinced her that there was much more to Patrick's death

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than just a traffic accident.

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Terry Kelly of Alberta, Canada

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is a management consultant who adopted Patrick

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when he was 18 months old.

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Patrick had been born into the Blood Indian tribe

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and immediately placed in foster care.

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As a young child, he learned to love writing and storytelling.

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As a teenager, he began to dream about making movies.

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In 1993, Patrick took a major step towards that goal.

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He was accepted into the prestigious film school

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at the University of Southern California.

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He loved the education he was getting.

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He was very enthusiastic about his classes

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and about what they were learning.

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And from the very first day of school,

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they had to start writing, and that just...

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it's like the school was geared towards who he was.

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How many times have you seen this film?

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About eight or nine times.

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Eight or nine times, and you're still not sick of it.

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Friday night, May 3rd, 1996,

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found Patrick celebrating the end of the semester

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with a close friend, Michael Park.

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After months of painstaking effort,

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Patrick had just turned in his year-end project,

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a full-length motion picture script.

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He was really upbeat.

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He was just really anxious to get on with his senior year,

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and then, you know, hopefully get out in Hollywood.

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We watched the video for about 45 minutes, about 3.45.

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I remember the time because I had to get up pretty early

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the next morning, so I said,

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you know, I better leave and hit the sack.

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So it was about 3.45.

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I didn't really mention anything at all about the weekend.

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Just really tired. He said he was going to rest.

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I remember seeing him going to rest.

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You know, he said, I'll see you tomorrow,

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and that was the last I saw him.

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One of the things we agreed on when he first went away to school

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was that we would always call each other on Sunday evening.

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In three years, he'd never missed the call.

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He didn't call that Sunday night,

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and I called him and tried all evening to get hold of him.

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So I knew right away that we had a problem.

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The following Tuesday, Terry asked Michael Park

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to go to Patrick's room.

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To Michael, it looked as if Patrick had just stepped out

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for a moment.

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Though Patrick's passport was missing,

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his wallet was on the desk, his bags and clothes in the closet.

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Only the answering machine offered a clue.

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Hello, Patrick.

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This is Julia with Founders National Bank.

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Please give us a call.

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Thank you.

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Terry Kelly immediately phoned the bank.

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There had been several ATM transactions over that weekend

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in Mexico, and then it overdrew his account.

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he had been headed.

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That direction was due south.

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At 10.24 Saturday morning, Patrick made a $60 withdrawal

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at a 7-Eleven in San Clemente, California, 63 miles from Los Angeles.

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At 6.08 PM, another $135 withdrawn at a bank ATM

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in the Tijuana tourist area.

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The next day, three more withdrawals at a bank ATM

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in downtown Tijuana let Patrick's account dry.

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Private Detective Doug Roth was hired by Terry Kelly

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to track down Patrick.

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Roth began at the 7-Eleven in San Clemente.

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The surveillance tape from Saturday morning May 4th

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showed Patrick entering the store.

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Roth continued south.

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Before crossing into Mexico, he decided to check the parking lots

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along the border where many tourists leave their cars

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before entering Tijuana.

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Roth hit pay dirt right away.

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That's a Honda Civic, a Roon.

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This car is being here for 16 days, sir.

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You have this car?

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Yes, sir.

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You have this car here?

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It's in the back.

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Patrick's car was parked along the back fence.

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It was caked with mud.

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It was damaged with a front-right bumper,

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and the rear license plate was loose.

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Other clues suggested there's someone other than Patrick

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had last driven the car.

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The driver's seat was much closer to the steering wheel

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than would be consistent with someone who was 6'1'' tall.

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The radio was turned to a Spanish American radio station,

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which was, as we understand it, inconsistent

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with Patrick's listening habits.

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We also had found a partially smoked cigarette

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in the ashtray of the car.

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Patrick was not a smoker,

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and as we understand it, did not allow smoking in his car.

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You asked about pictures you could show around Tijuana.

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Doug Roth provided photos of Patrick to the parking attendant.

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The lot manager then passed them along

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to his girlfriend who lived in Tijuana.

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She had to call the Red Cross in Mexico.

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She had to call the local jails, and there was no result.

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Finally, she went down to the morgue house with the pictures,

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and then she found somebody there who looks just like the picture,

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and it was a good possibility it might have been him.

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After Doug Roth made a tentative identification,

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Patrick's mother, Terry, immediately traveled to the morgue

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in Tijuana to view the body,

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which was scheduled to be buried in an unmarked grave.

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It was a very tough thing.

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They don't let you in the same room with them.

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You have to view them through glass.

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And, you know, a considerable distance for those circumstances.

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But, you know, I knew it with him.

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My initial reaction upon viewing the body

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was that he had been beaten severely.

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This is based principally on my observation of wounds

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about the face and upper body, chest area.

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But the Mexican authorities had attributed those injuries

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to the traffic accident.

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This is a current official account of how Patrick died.

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At approximately 1 a.m. on May 5th,

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a motorcyclist was heading east along the Avenida Internacionale,

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when two pedestrians suddenly darted out in front of it.

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It is still unclear exactly how Patrick was misidentified

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as Luis Rodriguez, but the confusion apparently began

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as soon as paramedics arrived on the scene.

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The rescue workers described the pedestrian

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as being 5'5", 27 years old, obese, wearing, I believe,

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it was a blue t-shirt and white tennis shoes.

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My son was 200 pounds, 6'1",

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wearing a tan t-shirt at least earlier that day

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and black van top-sider shoes.

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The clothes Patrick was wearing were destroyed at the hospital.

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The Mexican authorities believed

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that garbled description was an honest mistake.

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When you're working on a person that's dying on you,

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the people work fast and they do a report,

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maybe they did it too fast and they didn't see the exact height.

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He was lying down, so it could have been difficult,

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but that question could be answered by the paramedics

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that looked at the scene.

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The confusion extends beyond the question of Patrick's identity.

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Mexican authorities concluded that all of his injuries

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resulted from the accident.

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However, an autopsy commissioned by Terry Kelly

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and performed in the United States concluded, quote,

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findings do not support an interpretation that death

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was due to a motor vehicle accident.

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Despite the irregularities, the reports all now agree

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that Patrick Kelly lay critically injured in a hospital room

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at 2 a.m. on May 5th,

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but some 13 hours later, at around 5 p.m.,

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Patrick's ATM card was used to make three withdrawals.

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The evidence clearly indicates that transactions had occurred

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after he was comatose in Mexico with his ATM card,

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that that ATM card had been used with a pin number

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which he would not have reasonably given up

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or had any need to have written down anywhere.

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Maybe he came down with somebody of his confidence

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that he can confine in this person

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his pin numbers or his documents or whatever.

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Maybe his friend took money because they didn't know the city

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or because they needed money to move

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or get back to the states and report that he was missing.

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We really don't know.

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One more perplexing mystery involves Patrick's car.

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According to the parking lot records,

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somebody paid the $60 fee

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and drove the car off the lot on May 15th,

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four days after Patrick died.

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The next day, the car was returned

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to the exact same parking space.

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Doug Roth believes it all adds up to one inescapable conclusion.

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Patrick Kelly was running for his life

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when he was hit by the motorcycle.

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I believe Patrick went to Mexico with another individual,

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and I believe that by 5 o'clock in the afternoon,

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they had met with some unsavory characters

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and had probably been taken against their will.

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Hostage had been beaten,

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that their pin number had been gained,

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and likely while they were held nearby

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that place where the accident occurred,

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they made a break for it,

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and during the course of that,

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may have recklessly ran across the street

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into the oncoming traffic.

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One of them was not, one of them made it away.

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Finding the answers has proven almost impossible,

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because Patrick died in Tijuana,

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the United States and Canada

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have no jurisdiction to investigate,

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leaving Terry Kelly to sort out the contradictions

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and discrepancies on her own,

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all the while knowing that her only son is gone forever.

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That the hardest part of all of this, of course,

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has been going home without him.

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The most frustrating and unforgivable part

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is that nobody will help.

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No official agency assigned such jurisdiction will help us

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find out what happened and will help us

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get justice for what happened.

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Coming up, participants defend vampire games as innocent fun.

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Others fear the line between fantasy and reality

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is easily blurred.

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When we return,

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Dahmer, Berkowitz, Ramirez, notorious killers all,

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noted astronomer Carolyn Reynolds believes

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their thirst for murder was preordained at birth

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by a unique configuration of the planets and the stars.

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MUSIC

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Jeffrey Dahmer.

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He lured at least 11 young men to his apartment in Milwaukee.

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He drugged, strangled and dismembered

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each of them in a real-life chamber of horrors.

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Richard Ramirez, the night stalker,

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he invaded homes in the Los Angeles area.

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He murdered at least 16 people, most of them women.

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David Berkowitz, son of Sam.

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He turned New York City into his personal hunting ground,

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randomly shooting 13 people, leaving six of them dead.

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What forces compelled these notorious killers?

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Genetics? The environment?

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Or are these men linked by influences far more mysterious?

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Astrologers might say that they were born to kill,

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their destiny written in the stars.

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Astrology is like a road map

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where the planets were positioned at the exact moment you were born.

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Astrology is the science of celestial bodies

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in relationship to an infant,

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and then it progresses through their life.

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For most of us, astrology is little more than a playful diversion

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to be enjoyed but not taken seriously.

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But perhaps there is something more to this so-called science.

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Those who studied astrology are convinced that you can foretell

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the course of a person's life by reading his or her astrological chart.

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But can a chart also predict whether someone will be good or evil?

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We asked Carolyn Reynolds and two other astrologers

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to study the charts of roughly 20 subjects.

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Incredibly, the charts that made the most startling impression

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were those of four notorious serial killers,

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Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, Edmund Kemper, and Jeff Friedamer.

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To understand astrology, you must understand an astrological chart.

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The chart divides the sky into 12 houses,

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each representing a facet of life.

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For example, parents and home is the fourth house, death is the eighth.

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Each house contains a portion of 360 degrees that make up a circle.

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According to astrologers, where the stars and planets fall

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in these houses has specific meaning.

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When Carolyn Reynolds sat down to study the astrological charts,

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she was given virtually no identifying information

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beyond date, time, and place of birth.

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Amazingly, of the 19 charts analyzed,

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Carolyn zeroed in on Dahmer, Ramirez, Berkowitz, and Kemper

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as probable serial killers.

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If you look at charts, there's a certain beauty in harmony

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where they flow and theirs were jumbled and knotted

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and in all their planets were just bumping up against each other,

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causing friction and trouble.

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In each case, without knowing which chart belonged to which subject,

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Carolyn was able to talk about specific details relating to the killer's crimes.

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The tales have proved to be remarkably accurate.

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For instance, in 1988, Richard Ramirez pled guilty to murder

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and reportedly bragged to a fellow inmate, quote,

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I've killed 20 people, I love all that blood.

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This was the most obvious killer.

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He has in the third house the sun and the moon and the sign of Pisces.

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He had five out of seven of the worst degrees that you could have

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and one of them was the degree of the devil.

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During his trial, Richard Ramirez openly professed to worshiping Satan

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and proudly displayed a pentagram, a sign of the devil, on the palm of his left hand.

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Then there's David Berkowitz, son of Sam.

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When he was arrested, he claimed that he was instructed to kill by a neighbor's dog

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and had no control over his own actions.

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Without knowing that she was reading Berkowitz's chart,

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Carolyn Reynolds came to the same conclusion.

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I don't think he had much of a choice in this.

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He was born with the planets that gave you a potential in the lineup

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for multiple personality or split personality and it's in the house of death.

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When Carolyn Reynolds read the chart that turned out to be Jeffrey Dahmers,

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she found the subject to be, quote, destructive, heartless and cruel.

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Carolyn concluded that if he wasn't so evil, he would be a murder victim himself.

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And that's exactly what Jeffrey Dahmer became.

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In 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.

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This interview with mass murderer Edmund Kemper was conducted in 1984.

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Kemper's chart was perhaps the most revealing of all,

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notably in the fourth house, which represents parents and home.

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Again, Carolyn did not know whose chart she was analyzing.

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There's a lot of activity at home and it's all unusual and not good.

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Automatically, I'm thinking something's not right here about what he's doing at home.

518
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000
And there were some other problems with him.

519
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:52,000
The position of the moon is pretty much working against that house.

520
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000
In astrology, the moon is a symbol for mother.

521
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,000
In the early 1970s, Edmund Kemper murdered eight women,

522
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,000
six co-heads, his mother's best friend and his mother.

523
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Criminal psychologist Candace Scrapik is familiar with Kemper's case.

524
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:17,000
It's clear that there was a very tumultuous relationship between Ed and his mother.

525
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000
From a young child, he had fantasized killing her.

526
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,000
The six young women that he chose consciously,

527
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,000
he says, were women that represented women whom his mother had said

528
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000
he was not good enough for?

529
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,000
Dr. Scrapik has interviewed a dozen serial killers.

530
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000
She believes that they are products of both their environment and biology,

531
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
including their genetic makeup.

532
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000
While Dr. Scrapik does not adhere to astrology,

533
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
she does find Carol and Reynolds observations intriguing.

534
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
We brought the two of them together to compare notes.

535
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,000
It's interesting there are certain concepts that certainly I'm relating to in this particular case.

536
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:07,000
I'm most interested in trying to come to a better understanding of why it is serial murderers do what they do.

537
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Psychologically, of course, and as a psychologist, that's probably my bias.

538
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000
I hope you can understand where I'm coming from in the sense of...

539
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,000
The truth is I honestly don't know if there's any value to astrology.

540
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:27,000
I don't dismiss it, I don't discount it as a valid factor in human behavior.

541
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
I just really cannot say one way or the other.

542
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Are certain people destined to kill the moment they are born?

543
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Or is it possible to reverse what Carol and Reynolds believes is written in the stars?

544
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000
The stars incline, they do not impel.

545
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000
I think love, for example, transcends everything.

546
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,000
I think if a person had a role strong, nurturing, loving mother and father,

547
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:04,000
relationships around them, that it might help them not to act in the negative fashion.

548
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,000
It's a roadmap, and like any other roadmap, sometimes you take a different route.

549
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000
I think it's a lot like that.

550
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,000
The strategy has been labeled as pseudo-science because it relies so heavily on personal interpretation.

551
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Skeptics among us may dismiss it altogether.

552
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:31,000
But before you do, you should realize that many famous people have consulted the stars at critical moments in their lives.

553
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Among them, presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, psychologists Carl Jung.

554
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,000
And during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

555
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,000
reportedly consulted his astrologer before planning battle strategy.

556
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,000
When we return, a 14-year-old girl lured away from her home.

557
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Five teenagers arrested for a brutal double murder.

558
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:03,000
A common thread, vampire fantasy games that authorities say can turn frighteningly real.

559
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000
The Dark

560
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,000
They are dark, they are dangerous, they are sexy.

561
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:31,000
From Transylvania to Hollywood, vampires have been popular characters in movies, literature and legend for generations.

562
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Today, fans of the undead are giving ancient myths, fresh life all across the country.

563
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Wannabe's play out fantasies and bizarre vampire nightclubs.

564
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000
On the Internet, vampire chat rooms attract thousands of hits every day.

565
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,000
And players of various games such as Vampire the Masquerade

566
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000
gather regularly to act out their dark dramas.

567
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Hit a select detainee.

568
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
You are watching a game in progress.

569
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
In this scene, a man seated is a willing victim.

570
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:13,000
I think the game really affords people an opportunity to confront the dark side of human nature,

571
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:21,000
which is so much a part of all of us, and face it rather honestly and do it in an entertaining way,

572
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
do it in a safe environment.

573
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000
For the vast majority of players, many different vampire games are harmless fun.

574
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000
But for some participants, a craze may have a sinister side.

575
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Sometimes a game can go wrong, bad as he can beat into a brutal reality.

576
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Tonight we'll look at three such cases.

577
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Are they isolated events, or are they part of a disturbing new trend?

578
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,000
This 14-year-old girl disappeared one week before Christmas in 1996.

579
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Police suspect that Kira O'Connell of Rochester, New York may have been lured from her home

580
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000
by a man she met via the Internet on a website for vampires.

581
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
I believe she's being held against her will.

582
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000
I believe he's not letting her call.

583
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000
I don't know if she's even aware what's going on.

584
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Authorities believe Kira O'Connell is with this man, 22-year-old Brooker Malte,

585
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,000
a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, who has now been listed as a deserter.

586
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,000
Malte and several friends allegedly ran their own vampire chat room on the Internet,

587
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
a Black Grows Nightclub.

588
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Kira started playing the game and somehow met some people that were playing the game

589
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000
and started shooting off into a separate chat room, talking to this man one-on-one.

590
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000
And we know now from reading his emails to her that he figured out how to talk to her,

591
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
how to get inside her mind, how to basically control it.

592
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,000
Generally speaking, we're looking at kids who are usually intelligent children

593
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,000
and want to belong, want to be a part of something, want to participate.

594
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:06,000
And so this comes along and reaches out to them and says, there are no rules.

595
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
It's exciting, it's different.

596
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Mom and Dad won't like it very much.

597
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
That's another element that sometimes is a draw.

598
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:21,000
And once they get involved in it, sometimes it becomes more than just a game to these children.

599
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Children like that are perfect targets for men like 27-year-old John Christopher Bush.

600
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Police in Virginia Beach, Virginia say that Bush convinced local junior high and high school students

601
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
that he was a powerful vampire.

602
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,000
John Christopher Bush offered them a family, a family unit, a place to belong,

603
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:47,000
things to do. He gave them tasks, he gave them responsibility, all of course at a high price.

604
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000
That price was a loss of innocence.

605
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Bush used the hook of vampirism to seduce teenage girls.

606
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000
They didn't really know what they were consenting to until sometimes it was too late.

607
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000
And they got involved in this and then of course the embarrassment factor takes over in the fear.

608
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:11,000
And you know, Mr. Bush went to great lengths to cultivate that fear.

609
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
He talked to them about a blood hunt.

610
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:20,000
Blood hunt is an activity in the vampire game, except he would explain it to them, not as a game,

611
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000
but as, I will take you out into the woods, you'll be cut loose and we will hunt you.

612
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
We will hunt you down.

613
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:34,000
John Christopher Bush was found guilty on 30 counts, including rape, unlawful carnal knowledge, and crimes against nature.

614
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
He was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

615
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Two months after Bush's conviction, another so-called vampire family grabbed the headlines.

616
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Five teenagers from the small town of Murray, Kentucky were arrested for a shocking double murder.

617
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,000
One of them was Heather Wendorf, her parents were the victims.

618
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,000
The alleged vampire leader was 16-year-old Rod Farrell.

619
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:07,000
The city police detective said that he would cut his arm and let others suck his blood.

620
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:13,000
As sort of some kind of ritualistic, they call it being embraced, embraced into the family.

621
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:22,000
The whole blood-letting thing was appealing to him, and blood-letting is nothing more than letting somebody else feed off of you.

622
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:28,000
We never promoted it, and once I found out I was quite shocked that he was involved in that.

623
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Farrell and his clan reportedly liked to play vampire at various places around town.

624
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,000
One favorite hangout was an abandoned building they called the Vampire Hotel.

625
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Another was a local graveyard where these pictures of Rod Farrell were taken.

626
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:49,000
Some claim Farrell didn't see vampirism as a game, but as a birthright.

627
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000
He told the sheriff's department he thought he was immortal.

628
00:39:52,000 --> 00:40:01,000
He told the sheriff that he didn't think whatever happened to him wouldn't hurt him in the long run, more or less, in not so many words.

629
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000
He feels he's invincible. He honestly believes he's a vampire.

630
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Is vampire make believe inherently evil and dangerous? Probably not.

631
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Does it create an atmosphere or aberrant behavior as promoted?

632
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,000
There's no way to know.

633
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:26,000
But for the family of Kira O'Connell, the philosophical debate about vampire games is of little consequence.

634
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000
They just want Kira to come home.

635
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:54,000
On our next unsolved mysteries, this photograph of rap music star Tupac Shakur was taken on the Las Vegas Strip just minutes before the death of his son.

636
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000
He was a great musician.

637
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,000
He was a great musician.

638
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000
He was a great musician.

639
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,000
He was a great musician.

640
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,000
He was a great musician.

641
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,000
He was a great musician.

642
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,000
He was a great musician.

643
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:19,000
On our next unsolved mysteries, this photograph of rap music star Tupac Shakur was taken on the Las Vegas Strip just minutes before Shakur was cut down in a hail of gunfire.

644
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Even though dozens of people watched the tragic drama unfold, authorities have yet to establish a motive or identify the killer.

645
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Can a perfectly normal person suddenly burst into flame without apparent cause?

646
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Mainstream science says no, but some researchers claim the evidence suggests otherwise.

647
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Don't miss our special report on a most bizarre phenomenon, spontaneous human combustion.

648
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Join me next time for another intriguing edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

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