1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 The End 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:16,240 September 7th, 1996, gunfire erupts along the famous Las Vegas Strip, taking the life 4 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:19,400 of rap music star Tupac Shakur. 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,520 Today, disturbing questions haunt the investigation. 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,640 Why were Shakurs trusted bodyguards unarmed? 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,720 Why did the killer seem to target only Shakur? 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,240 Why was almost no one willing to talk? 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,160 They are snapshots of a different time and place. 10 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:40,000 Virginia Burns always thought she was the baby in the pictures. 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,080 Then Virginia learned about her father's secret life, 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,920 and now she needs your help to find her long lost sister. 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,240 It is a phenomenon so bizarre that it defies belief. 14 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,600 Ordinary people suddenly and inexplicably bursting into flame. 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,240 Mainstream science says it can't happen. 16 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,800 But independent researchers insist that the evidence doesn't lie. 17 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,520 Spontaneous human combustion is real. 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,200 In Ohio, a quiet calm of a small community 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,640 is shattered when Becky Wood and her grandchildren 20 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,080 are terrorized by a pair of vicious armed robbers. 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,960 Now the intruders have been unmasked, 22 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:21,320 and authorities need your help to track them down. 23 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:25,240 Join me for another intriguing edition of Unsolved Mysteries. 24 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:04,400 End of Part when Equal War is Over 25 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,020 Hopefully this will bring a slow and lasting end to the war. 26 00:02:07,020 --> 00:02:10,200 melon-st enables a 27 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:17,580 shift in opener history like watching a shark or swimming in water. 28 00:02:22,580 --> 00:02:24,740 The Des弟弟는 29 00:02:24,740 --> 00:02:28,420 terror, the choking fear of being bound, assaulted, 30 00:02:28,420 --> 00:02:31,480 and absolutely convinced that she and her four grandchildren 31 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,260 were going to die. 32 00:02:33,260 --> 00:02:37,500 It happened in February of 1996, when two men, disguised 33 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:39,140 in masks, invaded her home. 34 00:02:45,380 --> 00:02:47,100 It was 7 AM. 35 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:49,580 Becky's husband had just left for work. 36 00:02:49,580 --> 00:02:51,460 The intruders seemed to know exactly what 37 00:02:51,460 --> 00:02:52,380 they were looking for. 38 00:02:55,380 --> 00:02:56,380 BAM! 39 00:02:56,380 --> 00:02:57,380 BAM! 40 00:02:57,380 --> 00:02:59,220 Open the door! 41 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:00,340 Open the safe! 42 00:03:00,340 --> 00:03:03,900 When I first opened my eyes, I saw a man with blood 43 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:05,580 on the head and the eye. 44 00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:08,780 And I thought, oh my god, I'm having this bad dream. 45 00:03:08,780 --> 00:03:12,140 And then when he said it again, I knew it was for real. 46 00:03:12,140 --> 00:03:13,140 Let's go! 47 00:03:13,140 --> 00:03:14,620 Come on, Becky! 48 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:17,060 Becky's granddaughter was sleeping beside her, 49 00:03:17,060 --> 00:03:19,140 and Becky thought to hide her with a blanket. 50 00:03:19,140 --> 00:03:20,980 Move down the kitchen! 51 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:23,700 Three other children were asleep in different bedrooms. 52 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:25,220 Move, move into the kitchen. 53 00:03:25,220 --> 00:03:26,020 Into the kitchen. 54 00:03:26,020 --> 00:03:27,140 I never felt so helpless. 55 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:28,020 Get out, OK? 56 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:28,900 Take it off! 57 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:31,620 I was afraid for my grandchildren. 58 00:03:31,620 --> 00:03:34,780 I kept praying to God, you know, please, let the children 59 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:35,900 sleep through this. 60 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:38,820 Don't let them wake. 61 00:03:38,820 --> 00:03:41,100 The whole time he screamed, where's the combination? 62 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:42,660 Where's the combination? 63 00:03:42,660 --> 00:03:43,620 Now the kitchen! 64 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:45,340 Ah! 65 00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:47,860 Tell me the combination was safe. 66 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:48,740 Don't run away! 67 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:50,820 Give me the combination of safe! 68 00:03:50,820 --> 00:03:53,380 And I tried to explain to them that I didn't know what 69 00:03:53,380 --> 00:03:54,780 I didn't have it with me. 70 00:03:54,780 --> 00:03:56,380 Could I please call my daughter? 71 00:03:56,380 --> 00:03:57,860 I don't feel a thing! 72 00:03:57,860 --> 00:03:58,860 Oh, my God! 73 00:03:58,860 --> 00:03:59,860 Oh, my God! 74 00:03:59,860 --> 00:04:01,340 I got the combination of safe! 75 00:04:01,340 --> 00:04:02,340 Oh, my God! 76 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:03,340 Ah! 77 00:04:03,340 --> 00:04:04,340 Ah! 78 00:04:04,340 --> 00:04:05,340 Ah! 79 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:11,180 He kicked me in the head, and he kept telling me 80 00:04:11,180 --> 00:04:14,020 that they would take the children. 81 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:16,740 I'd never see them again. 82 00:04:16,740 --> 00:04:17,540 And I kept trying. 83 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:19,900 I swear I don't have the combination. 84 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:21,220 I swear I would open that. 85 00:04:21,220 --> 00:04:22,380 I'd give it to you. 86 00:04:22,380 --> 00:04:25,660 I don't have it. 87 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:28,100 Sounds of ransacking came from upstairs, 88 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:30,500 where the second intruder was looting Becky's dresser 89 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:32,980 of jewelry. 90 00:04:32,980 --> 00:04:34,420 That's when nine-year-old Matthew 91 00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:36,660 wandered out of his room. 92 00:04:36,660 --> 00:04:38,660 Here we go, one up! 93 00:04:38,660 --> 00:04:42,500 I don't really know how to explain what I felt. 94 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:47,220 Like, my heart just felt like it was just going to beep or something. 95 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:49,100 It was pounding real hard and all, 96 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,500 like, because I didn't know what it was. 97 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:57,540 He threw Matthew on the floor and put his hands behind him 98 00:04:57,540 --> 00:04:58,940 and tied him up. 99 00:04:58,940 --> 00:05:00,940 Bobby, let your keys out of here! 100 00:05:00,940 --> 00:05:01,940 My purse! 101 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:02,940 My purse! 102 00:05:02,940 --> 00:05:06,340 I saw the man's feet coming around in front of me. 103 00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:12,820 And he took a trash bag and put it over my grandson's hand. 104 00:05:12,820 --> 00:05:16,180 I thought they were going to take me out in this rug 105 00:05:16,180 --> 00:05:17,660 and kill me. 106 00:05:17,660 --> 00:05:19,260 And they were going to smother Matthew. 107 00:05:19,260 --> 00:05:20,900 Don't say anything! 108 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:23,780 You count to 2,000 before you move or else we'll 109 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:24,980 be back to kill you! 110 00:05:31,140 --> 00:05:35,220 Becky would heard the safe drag across the floor. 111 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:37,660 She heard her car starting, then silenced 112 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:39,700 as it was driven away. 113 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:43,580 One of the other children awoke and cut Becky and Matthew free. 114 00:05:43,580 --> 00:05:46,060 Becky then discovered that the intruders had sliced 115 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:49,620 all the alarm and phone lines, neighbors, some and police. 116 00:05:51,020 --> 00:05:53,100 In addition to stealing Becky's car, 117 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:56,620 the robbers had made off with $20,000 worth of jewelry 118 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:59,580 and the locks safe containing the woods life savings, 119 00:05:59,580 --> 00:06:04,180 another $18,000 in cash. 120 00:06:04,180 --> 00:06:09,180 Well, why they stole a lot of our possessions 121 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:12,260 that I'll never be able to replace. 122 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:13,420 I'm thankful we're alive. 123 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:19,020 That afternoon, police found Becky's 91 Lincoln 124 00:06:19,020 --> 00:06:21,060 at a nearby car wash. 125 00:06:21,060 --> 00:06:23,940 The safe turned up a week later, emptied of cash, 126 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:26,500 but yielding evidence it could help convict the robbers 127 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:29,380 once they were identified. 128 00:06:29,380 --> 00:06:31,420 As police began to review the case, 129 00:06:31,420 --> 00:06:33,860 the facts pointed to one conclusion. 130 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:35,420 The assailants had known exactly where 131 00:06:35,420 --> 00:06:38,340 to find the wires for the home alarm system. 132 00:06:38,340 --> 00:06:40,500 They knew just where the safe was kept. 133 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:43,460 They knew just where to look for Becky's jewelry. 134 00:06:43,460 --> 00:06:45,700 They had known too much to be total strangers. 135 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:46,600 She's full. 136 00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:52,660 I'd met back up again with Becky and her husband Woody. 137 00:06:52,660 --> 00:06:55,460 We asked them to do something that was kind of difficult for them. 138 00:06:55,460 --> 00:06:58,260 We asked them to sit down and start thinking about people 139 00:06:58,260 --> 00:07:01,980 they knew and people that they've dealt with 140 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:03,420 and people that have worked for them 141 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:06,700 and put a list together for us. 142 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:08,940 It would prove to be a solid hunch 143 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:11,460 when the jewelry showed up at pawn shops in Pittsburgh 144 00:07:11,460 --> 00:07:13,260 100 miles away. 145 00:07:13,260 --> 00:07:15,460 Police there believed it had been sold by a man 146 00:07:15,460 --> 00:07:17,740 named Larry Juster. 147 00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:20,340 State computers yielded this photograph. 148 00:07:20,340 --> 00:07:24,340 The information was relayed to Ohio. 149 00:07:24,340 --> 00:07:25,860 Becky and her husband had left town 150 00:07:25,860 --> 00:07:28,940 to recover some peace of mind after the robbery. 151 00:07:28,940 --> 00:07:31,180 Their daughter offered to review the pawn shop 152 00:07:31,180 --> 00:07:32,340 leads for local police. 153 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:34,340 Listen, there's a photograph I need to take a look at. 154 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:36,420 You wouldn't have been recognized, would you? 155 00:07:36,420 --> 00:07:38,060 Yeah, it's Gary Noble. 156 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:38,820 Gary Noble? 157 00:07:38,820 --> 00:07:39,540 Gary Noble. 158 00:07:39,540 --> 00:07:40,820 It's not Larry Juster? 159 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:43,340 That's what the name says, but that's Gary Noble. 160 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:47,260 His brother Ted Noble worked for my dad a couple months ago. 161 00:07:47,260 --> 00:07:49,620 Ted Noble had briefly worked for the Wood family 162 00:07:49,620 --> 00:07:51,860 eight months prior to the robbery. 163 00:07:51,860 --> 00:07:54,220 When Ted and his brother Gary found the detectives 164 00:07:54,220 --> 00:08:00,060 were closing in, they fled Ohio and are still on the run. 165 00:08:00,060 --> 00:08:01,900 We were given information that they 166 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:04,460 had made statements that they had no tension of being 167 00:08:04,460 --> 00:08:08,660 taken alive if confronted by law enforcement. 168 00:08:08,660 --> 00:08:11,140 The way we entered our warrants is with extreme caution 169 00:08:11,140 --> 00:08:11,980 on the two of them. 170 00:08:19,380 --> 00:08:22,820 The robbery has done something to us 171 00:08:22,820 --> 00:08:26,700 that you don't really understand unless you 172 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:28,700 go through it yourself. 173 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:30,180 I don't have a gun. 174 00:08:30,180 --> 00:08:30,680 Break out. 175 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:31,660 And open the safe. 176 00:08:31,660 --> 00:08:33,140 Break out. 177 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:36,580 I'm angry with what I did to my grandchildren. 178 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:38,020 And I'm angry. 179 00:08:38,020 --> 00:08:40,780 I am angry that the mountain that did this. 180 00:09:02,380 --> 00:09:05,300 Coming up, he was one of rap music's most popular 181 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:07,020 and controversial stars. 182 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:09,860 Then he was gunned down by an unknown assailant who 183 00:09:09,860 --> 00:09:12,500 killed Tupac Shakur. 184 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:14,940 But first, Virginia Burns always thought 185 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:16,700 she was an only child. 186 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:18,140 Then she learned that her father had 187 00:09:18,140 --> 00:09:21,180 gone to his grave with the secret of an ill-fated romance 188 00:09:21,180 --> 00:09:23,700 and a long-lost daughter. 189 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:25,980 And the heartwarming reunion of a young man 190 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:28,660 and the anonymous Good Samaritan who saved his life. 191 00:09:37,380 --> 00:09:41,180 Wow. 192 00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:42,180 Wow. 193 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:43,500 How big she is. 194 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:47,980 August 27, 1995 began as a joyous day for Stephen Sharon 195 00:09:47,980 --> 00:09:50,260 Newton at Immokley, Florida. 196 00:09:50,260 --> 00:09:54,780 That morning, their first child, Virginia, was born. 197 00:09:54,780 --> 00:09:58,020 Steve had come to the hospital straight from work. 198 00:09:58,020 --> 00:10:00,900 At around 2 PM, he headed home on his motorcycle 199 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,620 to pick up the family car. 200 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:04,060 He had no way of knowing. 201 00:10:04,060 --> 00:10:06,180 He was on a collision course with disaster. 202 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:21,580 I just remember coming straight down on my head. 203 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:25,180 As I hit, I saw poof, this big bright light. 204 00:10:25,180 --> 00:10:26,260 And that was it. 205 00:10:26,260 --> 00:10:27,540 Then I was just completely out. 206 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:35,380 First Steve Newton, death was just a heartbeat away. 207 00:10:35,380 --> 00:10:40,020 Then a gift from heaven. 208 00:10:40,020 --> 00:10:41,020 Are you OK? 209 00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:42,020 Can you hear me? 210 00:10:45,460 --> 00:10:48,100 A passing motorist had turned Steve over in the water 211 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:49,300 and saved him from drowning. 212 00:10:52,260 --> 00:10:53,900 She remained at the scene until Steve 213 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:56,020 was transported to a hospital. 214 00:10:56,020 --> 00:10:59,060 Then she disappeared, and Steve never learned her name. 215 00:11:01,980 --> 00:11:03,500 If she could just see my daughter, 216 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:05,140 she'll know that she did me. 217 00:11:05,140 --> 00:11:08,260 The greatest favor or gift that anybody can give, 218 00:11:08,260 --> 00:11:10,060 and that's to give me back my life. 219 00:11:10,060 --> 00:11:13,660 And I'd like to say thank you for that. 220 00:11:13,660 --> 00:11:15,820 With the help of our viewers, Steve Newton 221 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:18,580 recently had a chance to do just that. 222 00:11:18,580 --> 00:11:22,740 Here's Keely Shea Smith with the details. 223 00:11:22,740 --> 00:11:25,260 Bob, a woman in Florida recognized the story 224 00:11:25,260 --> 00:11:28,820 as one she had heard from a co-worker named Tammy Dotson. 225 00:11:28,820 --> 00:11:30,700 After the broadcast, Tammy's boyfriend 226 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:33,740 discussed the case with one of his co-workers, who happened 227 00:11:33,740 --> 00:11:36,180 to be Steve Newton's father-in-law. 228 00:11:36,180 --> 00:11:39,340 It soon became perfectly clear that Steve's mysterious good 229 00:11:39,340 --> 00:11:44,220 Samaritan was in fact Tammy Dotson. 230 00:11:44,220 --> 00:11:47,620 On January 31, 1997, Steve and Tammy 231 00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:49,700 met face to face for the first time 232 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:51,380 since the near fatal accident. 233 00:11:52,380 --> 00:11:55,660 As a special treat, Steve brought along Virginia, now 234 00:11:55,660 --> 00:11:58,260 one and a half years old. 235 00:11:58,260 --> 00:12:01,940 Nobody's ever gone that far to come to thank me. 236 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:04,220 And he kept saying that I was his angel. 237 00:12:04,220 --> 00:12:07,820 I've never been called an angel before, far from it. 238 00:12:07,820 --> 00:12:14,740 But it just, I mean, it made me feel good inside to know that I've 239 00:12:14,740 --> 00:12:18,060 done something that's helped somebody so much. 240 00:12:21,860 --> 00:12:25,300 Steve and his wife Sharon, now expecting their second child, 241 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:28,540 were finally able to express their gratitude to the woman who 242 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:31,420 had saved Steve's life. 243 00:12:31,420 --> 00:12:33,100 I owe her everything. 244 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:37,300 And there's nothing that I have I can give to her, 245 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:40,180 to say thank you. 246 00:12:40,180 --> 00:12:40,900 Wait through here. 247 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:41,860 It started. 248 00:12:41,860 --> 00:12:43,100 For the day was out. 249 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:46,060 Tammy and Steve returned to the scene of the accident, 250 00:12:46,060 --> 00:12:49,060 all too aware that Tammy's simple act of kindness 251 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:51,780 had changed both of them forever. 252 00:12:51,780 --> 00:12:53,700 It makes me want to do more for other people. 253 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:58,380 Now, if someone's in trouble, I would go that extra mile, 254 00:12:58,380 --> 00:13:02,900 that extra just to help that person. 255 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:04,100 I just wanted to hug him. 256 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:06,380 I was so glad to see that he was OK. 257 00:13:06,380 --> 00:13:11,460 And the baby and everything, I was just thrilled that he was fine. 258 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:34,780 The images are from another place and another time. 259 00:13:34,780 --> 00:13:39,140 The proud young father cradles his newborn daughter. 260 00:13:39,140 --> 00:13:43,940 Her gentle smile captured in dozens of photographs. 261 00:13:43,940 --> 00:13:46,020 Virginia Burns of Aurora, Colorado 262 00:13:46,020 --> 00:13:48,300 always thought there were pictures of her. 263 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:52,460 She learned the truth when she was in her early 30s. 264 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:56,460 My father said, oh, no, those aren't you. 265 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:58,980 And I asked my mother, well, who are they? 266 00:13:58,980 --> 00:14:01,140 And she says, oh, that's just a friend's baby. 267 00:14:05,980 --> 00:14:08,020 Years would pass before Virginia finally 268 00:14:08,020 --> 00:14:10,740 learned the entire truth. 269 00:14:10,740 --> 00:14:14,580 In 1991, a year after Virginia's father died, 270 00:14:14,580 --> 00:14:18,020 her mother confided that he had been previously married. 271 00:14:18,020 --> 00:14:21,540 Then she made an even more startling revelation. 272 00:14:21,540 --> 00:14:24,660 There's something I have to tell you. 273 00:14:24,660 --> 00:14:28,100 You have a sister. 274 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:30,700 What do you mean I have a sister? 275 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,540 You know the baby pictures that you always thought were you? 276 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:37,740 And we told you they were the daughter of a friend of ours? 277 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:38,820 But she's your sister. 278 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:47,340 My mother admitted that she didn't tell me to protect me. 279 00:14:47,340 --> 00:14:51,940 She had no way of knowing where my sister was, 280 00:14:51,940 --> 00:14:58,060 and why tell me if there was no way I could meet her. 281 00:14:58,060 --> 00:15:01,860 Three months later, Virginia's mother also passed away. 282 00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:04,060 With both of her parents gone, Virginia 283 00:15:04,060 --> 00:15:08,580 launched a search for the sister she had never known. 284 00:15:08,580 --> 00:15:10,220 I was looking through the pictures, 285 00:15:10,220 --> 00:15:12,620 and I found written on the back of one. 286 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:17,100 In my father's handwriting, it said Susan and I and Hugo. 287 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:19,940 And I had no idea where Hugo was, so I asked my husband, 288 00:15:19,940 --> 00:15:21,460 and he said, well, that's a little town out 289 00:15:21,460 --> 00:15:23,100 on the eastern plains of Colorado. 290 00:15:26,860 --> 00:15:29,320 Hugo Conorado was where Virginia's father, Joe 291 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,340 Corum, lived in 1942. 292 00:15:32,340 --> 00:15:35,980 He was a dishwasher and busboy in a small cafe. 293 00:15:35,980 --> 00:15:40,500 That's where Joe met a young woman named Diana. 294 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:44,500 Hey, I just wanted to know if maybe Friday night 295 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,740 did money that the picture showed with me. 296 00:15:47,740 --> 00:15:50,940 I'd love to, but I don't think my mother will let me go. 297 00:15:50,940 --> 00:15:52,300 OK. 298 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:54,100 Well, how about a walk? 299 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:55,580 Just for an hour. 300 00:15:55,580 --> 00:15:58,140 Diana's mother, Clara, ran the cafe. 301 00:15:58,140 --> 00:15:59,780 Diana, come here. 302 00:16:03,580 --> 00:16:05,220 I don't like to talk to that boy. 303 00:16:05,220 --> 00:16:07,460 Mother, he's a perfectly nice person. 304 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:10,420 He could be a nice person, but honey, he's a drifter. 305 00:16:10,420 --> 00:16:11,340 He just came in here. 306 00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:16,460 Clara didn't approve of my father because he was poor, 307 00:16:16,460 --> 00:16:18,860 and he had no future. 308 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:26,740 She didn't see where he could really go anywhere. 309 00:16:29,620 --> 00:16:32,980 Despite Clara's objections, a romance blossomed. 310 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:35,620 Joe and Diana decided to get married. 311 00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:37,380 A year later, Susan was born. 312 00:16:41,460 --> 00:16:43,620 But the tensions between Joe and his mother-in-law 313 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:46,820 apparently escalated and eventually drove Joe and Diana 314 00:16:46,820 --> 00:16:48,540 apart. 315 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:52,380 In 1946, they divorced, and Joe left town for good. 316 00:16:52,380 --> 00:16:53,260 Come here, sweetie. 317 00:16:58,860 --> 00:17:00,660 Daddy's going to miss you. 318 00:17:00,660 --> 00:17:02,460 Diana, I need you inside. 319 00:17:02,460 --> 00:17:06,500 I think it was probably one of the most heart-breaking things 320 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:08,020 he ever went through. 321 00:17:08,020 --> 00:17:10,620 I'm sorry, Joe. 322 00:17:10,620 --> 00:17:15,820 To leave Susan and Diana, I really 323 00:17:15,820 --> 00:17:19,340 don't think he would have left unless there was just 324 00:17:19,340 --> 00:17:20,780 horrendous pressure on him. 325 00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:28,500 Joe Corm apparently never saw his wife or his daughter again. 326 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:31,380 After the separation, he moved to Greeley, Colorado, 327 00:17:31,380 --> 00:17:34,460 where he fell in love with Virginia's mother, Dolly. 328 00:17:34,460 --> 00:17:38,820 They eloped, and Virginia was born a year later. 329 00:17:38,820 --> 00:17:41,300 Joe was happy with his new family, 330 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:45,660 but he apparently never forgot the daughter he had left behind. 331 00:17:45,660 --> 00:17:48,380 Now looking back some 40 years, Virginia 332 00:17:48,380 --> 00:17:51,100 understands a poignance of one memorable incident 333 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:52,060 from her childhood. 334 00:17:54,820 --> 00:17:57,260 It was Virginia's sixth birthday. 335 00:17:57,260 --> 00:17:59,140 For months, she had coveted a doll 336 00:17:59,140 --> 00:18:02,500 in the window of a local store. 337 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:05,940 She was just like an unreachable dream. 338 00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:09,060 I opened that box, and there was that doll. 339 00:18:09,060 --> 00:18:11,460 And it was just like time stopped. 340 00:18:11,460 --> 00:18:15,420 I was so excited to get that doll. 341 00:18:15,420 --> 00:18:17,500 So what do you think you need, doll, sweetie? 342 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:18,140 I love her. 343 00:18:18,140 --> 00:18:20,060 She's beautiful. 344 00:18:20,060 --> 00:18:21,180 Well, what's her name? 345 00:18:21,180 --> 00:18:22,220 I don't know. 346 00:18:22,220 --> 00:18:25,380 What do you think I should call her? 347 00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:27,260 He says, why don't you call her sweet suit? 348 00:18:27,260 --> 00:18:28,740 How about sweet suit? 349 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:31,940 And I did, not realizing that that 350 00:18:31,940 --> 00:18:33,540 was the name of my sister. 351 00:18:33,540 --> 00:18:35,860 Jenny, why don't you go inside and play with your dolly? 352 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:38,300 OK. 353 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:41,140 What am I missing? 354 00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:42,580 Sweet suit? 355 00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:44,500 I know, I know. 356 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:46,060 It's OK. 357 00:18:46,060 --> 00:18:48,180 You must really miss her. 358 00:18:48,180 --> 00:18:49,500 Yeah. 359 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:50,580 Let's clean up. 360 00:18:50,580 --> 00:18:51,820 OK. 361 00:18:51,820 --> 00:18:54,220 I know he missed her. 362 00:18:54,220 --> 00:18:58,220 A lot of times when I was growing up, he would search faces. 363 00:18:58,220 --> 00:19:00,500 We would go out, and there would be a lot of little girls 364 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:01,380 around, you know? 365 00:19:01,380 --> 00:19:03,460 And he would search faces. 366 00:19:06,060 --> 00:19:07,660 Virginia learned that her father tried 367 00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:10,020 to find Diana and Susan several times, 368 00:19:10,020 --> 00:19:12,140 but it was never successful. 369 00:19:12,140 --> 00:19:17,540 He died in 1990 without ever learning their fate. 370 00:19:17,540 --> 00:19:20,740 Virginia now hopes to succeed when her father failed 371 00:19:20,740 --> 00:19:24,660 and find the sister whose memory lingers on in the sweet innocence 372 00:19:24,660 --> 00:19:25,900 of a young girl's doll. 373 00:19:28,620 --> 00:19:32,260 This is important to me for two reasons. 374 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:36,140 Number one, here is a little girl who 375 00:19:36,140 --> 00:19:39,140 has gone her whole life without knowing 376 00:19:39,140 --> 00:19:42,140 that she had a father who cared about her. 377 00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:47,180 My sister does not know that her father cared about her, 378 00:19:47,180 --> 00:19:51,060 that he looked for her, that he wanted to find her. 379 00:19:51,060 --> 00:19:53,700 She needs to know she has a father who loved her. 380 00:19:58,020 --> 00:20:02,220 And secondly, I have a sister out there. 381 00:20:02,220 --> 00:20:04,180 And I'm more than ready to be a sister. 382 00:20:19,660 --> 00:20:22,420 When we return, for mainstream science, 383 00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:24,140 it is too incredible to believe. 384 00:20:24,140 --> 00:20:25,740 But some researchers are convinced 385 00:20:25,740 --> 00:20:30,500 that spontaneous human combustion is very, very real. 386 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,740 And later, last September, dozens of eyewitnesses 387 00:20:33,740 --> 00:20:37,540 watched in horror as rap music star Tupac Shakur was gunned down 388 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:39,740 on the crowded Las Vegas Strip. 389 00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:42,460 Six months later, the killer remains at large. 390 00:20:56,460 --> 00:20:59,580 Good morning. 391 00:20:59,580 --> 00:21:01,700 Morning coffee at Kay and Mike Fletcher's, 392 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:04,100 hardly ranked as an unsolved mystery, 393 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:09,580 until the peculiar events of February 11, 1996. 394 00:21:09,580 --> 00:21:11,340 It happened just after 9 AM. 395 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,060 Mike? 396 00:21:17,060 --> 00:21:18,900 The Fletcher say that smoke suddenly 397 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:22,660 began to billow from Kay's body. 398 00:21:22,660 --> 00:21:24,980 It's not my sweater. 399 00:21:24,980 --> 00:21:25,860 Take it off. 400 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:28,860 Oh. 401 00:21:28,860 --> 00:21:30,380 I had Michael take a look at my back. 402 00:21:30,380 --> 00:21:32,260 I said, take a look at my back, because I'm thinking, 403 00:21:32,260 --> 00:21:34,260 do I have blisters or what? 404 00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:38,060 And he says, no, it's just red. 405 00:21:38,060 --> 00:21:42,740 We really were frantically looking through the clothing, 406 00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:46,700 like arm and back, and just looking it over very carefully. 407 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:49,700 And we found absolutely no discoloration. 408 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:54,220 We found no sight of any kind of fire damage. 409 00:21:54,220 --> 00:21:57,380 I mean, it was actually coming off of her skin, 410 00:21:57,380 --> 00:21:59,340 but there was no flame. 411 00:21:59,340 --> 00:22:03,340 The smoke was so thick that we did have to turn on the fan 412 00:22:03,340 --> 00:22:06,820 and open the window, just to get the smoke out of there. 413 00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:10,940 Now, earlier in my life, I had worked at a crematorium. 414 00:22:10,940 --> 00:22:14,420 And the smell was that of burnt flesh. 415 00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:17,100 There was no mistake of that, because it's 416 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:19,580 an unmistakable smell. 417 00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:21,020 Mike? 418 00:22:21,020 --> 00:22:21,900 Mike? 419 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:24,940 For Kay and Mike Fletcher, it was frighteningly real, 420 00:22:24,940 --> 00:22:28,380 yet at the same time almost impossible to believe. 421 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,820 Only later did they learn that such mysterious episodes have 422 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:34,580 been reported for well over 500 years. 423 00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:40,660 Students of the paranormal call a spontaneous human 424 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:44,740 combustion, or SHC, on a perfectly normal person 425 00:22:44,740 --> 00:22:47,100 bursts into flame without warning 426 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:49,620 and without apparent cause. 427 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:52,620 Mainstream scientists dismiss such accounts. 428 00:22:52,620 --> 00:22:55,580 Still, the reports of persistence in the 15th century 429 00:22:55,580 --> 00:22:59,700 show no signs of letting up now at the dawn of the 21st. 430 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:02,420 If there is indeed such a thing as SHC, 431 00:23:02,420 --> 00:23:05,500 Kay Fletcher is one of the few who lived to tell about it. 432 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,460 Most of the others weren't so lucky. 433 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:15,220 March 26, 1986, Kendall Mott was worried. 434 00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:17,380 His father, George, a retired fireman, 435 00:23:17,380 --> 00:23:19,660 had serious lung problems. 436 00:23:19,660 --> 00:23:22,780 An air pump and face mask helped keep him breathing. 437 00:23:22,780 --> 00:23:26,620 But on that day, George hadn't answered repeated phone calls. 438 00:23:26,620 --> 00:23:28,500 A quick look around convinced Kendall 439 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:31,380 that something was wrong. 440 00:23:31,380 --> 00:23:33,060 The windows were all brown. 441 00:23:33,060 --> 00:23:39,900 When I noticed that the door handle was warm when I grabbed it, 442 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,340 it was real dark inside the house. 443 00:23:42,340 --> 00:23:44,900 And the smell like a bumper. 444 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:45,400 Dad? 445 00:23:48,780 --> 00:23:49,980 Dad? 446 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:52,820 Kendall was confronted by a ghastly sight. 447 00:23:52,820 --> 00:23:56,140 Fire had reduced his father to a scattering of ashes, 448 00:23:56,140 --> 00:23:58,660 a few splinters of bone and a fragment of skull. 449 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:06,220 It's scary to find somebody like that, to walk in and find 450 00:24:06,220 --> 00:24:09,340 somebody that you love, you know, all burnt like that. 451 00:24:09,340 --> 00:24:12,740 It would no explanation as to why or what happened. 452 00:24:12,740 --> 00:24:15,980 The case of George Mott in the spring of 1986 453 00:24:15,980 --> 00:24:20,460 has all the hallmarks of classic spontaneous human combustion. 454 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:25,740 There is incredible localized damage done to the body. 455 00:24:25,740 --> 00:24:27,780 George Mott was incinerated to an extent 456 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:31,500 that we have been told by forensic experts 457 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,860 could only be replicated inside a crematorium operating 458 00:24:34,860 --> 00:24:41,380 at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit or more for 12 long hours. 459 00:24:41,420 --> 00:24:44,780 The searing heat had melted a television in the room. 460 00:24:44,780 --> 00:24:48,780 Yet curiously, it had left much of the bedding unscathed. 461 00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:51,340 In addition, scarcely two feet away, 462 00:24:51,340 --> 00:24:54,140 a box of wooden matches had failed to ignite. 463 00:24:54,140 --> 00:24:57,980 And air was still pumping through George's face mask. 464 00:24:57,980 --> 00:25:01,100 Skeptics, however, insist that behind the bizarre scene 465 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:03,900 lies a rational explanation. 466 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:05,900 Now, do I know exactly what happened? 467 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:06,460 I don't. 468 00:25:06,460 --> 00:25:08,700 But let me reconstruct a little bit. 469 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:12,620 We're told that Mr. Mott was a farmer drinker 470 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:15,500 and a farmer smoker, but that he had reformed. 471 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:17,660 He was supposed to be depressed. 472 00:25:17,660 --> 00:25:19,860 Just suppose that he said, what the heck? 473 00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:22,020 I think I'll have a cigarette. 474 00:25:22,020 --> 00:25:24,980 This would explain him taking off the oxygen mask 475 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:26,860 while the unit would still be left running. 476 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:29,820 And it would explain why the matches were there. 477 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:33,300 Now, if that's the case, then this is just another case 478 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:37,020 of smoking in bed and is not mysterious 479 00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:38,580 and is a rather mundane case. 480 00:25:41,220 --> 00:25:43,660 But not even skeptics use the word mundane 481 00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:48,580 to describe what Don Gosnell found in December of 1966. 482 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:51,940 A gas company meterman in Cowdersport, Pennsylvania, 483 00:25:51,940 --> 00:25:55,140 Gosnell called on Irving Bentley, a 92-year-old retired 484 00:25:55,140 --> 00:25:57,060 physician. 485 00:25:57,060 --> 00:26:00,460 That day, Dr. Bentley was apparently away from home. 486 00:26:00,460 --> 00:26:02,500 Gosnell let himself into the basement. 487 00:26:08,020 --> 00:26:10,020 When I got to the bottom of the steps, 488 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:12,300 there was a pile of ashes on the floor. 489 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,780 And there was an odor, something I'd never encountered before. 490 00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:20,260 It was kind of a sickening sweet odor. 491 00:26:20,260 --> 00:26:22,340 And then I looked up, and here there 492 00:26:22,340 --> 00:26:24,420 was a hole burnt through the floor right above me. 493 00:26:28,020 --> 00:26:30,700 And I stood there and I looked at that hole, 494 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:34,100 and there was little red embers all around the hole yet. 495 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:40,860 And all I could think was they got Dr. Bentley out of here, 496 00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:43,180 but why didn't somebody call the fire company 497 00:26:43,180 --> 00:26:45,580 and get this taken care of? 498 00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:51,100 So I went running upstairs and went in to the bathroom. 499 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:53,700 And that's when I found the remains of Dr. Bentley 500 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:56,540 and what was left. 501 00:26:56,540 --> 00:27:02,180 All there was was part of one leg and was so discolored, 502 00:27:02,180 --> 00:27:04,860 I couldn't tell it was a human being or a mannequin 503 00:27:04,860 --> 00:27:08,220 until I got right down close and looked at it. 504 00:27:08,220 --> 00:27:10,460 And when I got the picture, I left right then. 505 00:27:13,580 --> 00:27:15,220 What is so amazing and so profoundly 506 00:27:15,220 --> 00:27:17,620 perplexing to mainstream science about the scene 507 00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:22,500 that Dr. Bentley left behind is the incredibly intense fire 508 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:25,740 that consumed his body quite literally to powder, 509 00:27:25,740 --> 00:27:28,940 leaving behind only his head, a knee bone, 510 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:31,020 and a lower left leg as a mute testimony 511 00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:33,060 that this had once been a human being. 512 00:27:33,060 --> 00:27:37,060 The rest of his body was ash in the basement below. 513 00:27:37,060 --> 00:27:39,580 We believe that Dr. Bentley answered a call of nature 514 00:27:39,580 --> 00:27:40,780 to be polite. 515 00:27:40,780 --> 00:27:42,060 Or standing in front of the toilet, 516 00:27:42,060 --> 00:27:46,500 suddenly spontaneously he became a human fireball. 517 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:50,260 The nature of the fire, and we kind of use fire in quotes here, 518 00:27:50,260 --> 00:27:52,100 failed to produce enough thermal energy 519 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,020 to melt the aluminum walker, failed 520 00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:56,740 to produce enough heat to blister paint on the bathtub 521 00:27:56,740 --> 00:28:00,620 inches away, and yet was quite capable of directing its energy 522 00:28:00,620 --> 00:28:03,860 downward through the oak beams, through the flooring, 523 00:28:03,860 --> 00:28:07,660 and into the subfloor beneath into the basement. 524 00:28:07,660 --> 00:28:09,620 The case of someone like Dr. Bentley 525 00:28:09,620 --> 00:28:14,700 is very understandable in the sense of him being infirm. 526 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:20,300 He had a history of setting his clothes on fire from his pipe. 527 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:23,540 His clothing was pockmarked with burns from his pipe. 528 00:28:26,780 --> 00:28:29,260 Dr. Bentley also had a habit of keeping matches 529 00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:31,300 in his bathrobe pockets. 530 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:33,980 Joe Nickel believes that burning ashes from Bentley's pipe 531 00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:36,180 dropped near them, and they ignited. 532 00:28:36,180 --> 00:28:38,300 And there was plenty of fuel to feed the flames. 533 00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:45,380 In many of the cases, the person's own body fat 534 00:28:45,380 --> 00:28:47,660 can contribute to the fire. 535 00:28:47,660 --> 00:28:50,940 If we imagine Dr. Bentley with his body on fire, 536 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:54,020 falls to the floor, there is linoleum on that floor. 537 00:28:54,020 --> 00:28:56,300 And linoleum, once it catches fire, 538 00:28:56,340 --> 00:28:59,260 is a very powerful of flammable material. 539 00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:01,580 The flooring burned, the subflooring burned, 540 00:29:01,580 --> 00:29:03,700 and there's beams underneath. 541 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,340 There's a tremendous amount of wood underneath his body 542 00:29:06,340 --> 00:29:08,620 to act as a funeral pyre. 543 00:29:08,620 --> 00:29:10,140 Mysterious? 544 00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:13,980 Not really, not scientifically mysterious, unusual, yes. 545 00:29:13,980 --> 00:29:15,900 The debunkers of spontaneous human combustion 546 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:17,460 could conduct a very simple experiment. 547 00:29:17,460 --> 00:29:19,700 Take a cadaver, put it on a tarbasin, linoleum, 548 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:21,540 flooring, put an aluminum walker over top of it, 549 00:29:21,540 --> 00:29:23,180 and drop a cigarette on it. 550 00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:25,380 If it burns to powder, we're going to be real impressed, 551 00:29:25,380 --> 00:29:27,740 and that person deserves a Nobel Prize in physics. 552 00:29:27,740 --> 00:29:30,100 But I'll wage your money, that experiment's going to fail. 553 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,380 Larry Arnold theorizes that some cases of spontaneous human 554 00:29:36,380 --> 00:29:38,860 combustion may be an explosive aberration 555 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:41,100 of the electrical current flows naturally 556 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:43,820 present in the body. 557 00:29:43,820 --> 00:29:46,380 We had the potential of hundreds of thousands 558 00:29:46,380 --> 00:29:48,380 of volts of electricity coursing through the body 559 00:29:48,380 --> 00:29:49,700 instantaneously. 560 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:51,900 If the amperage is sufficiently high, 561 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:54,900 then the body would literally become its own electrocution 562 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:55,420 mechanism. 563 00:29:58,740 --> 00:30:04,260 It would fry itself out from the inside, electrically. 564 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:07,660 This is a crack pottery of a very high order. 565 00:30:07,660 --> 00:30:11,940 There is not a single reasonable theory 566 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:13,980 for spontaneous human combustion. 567 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:18,340 There is no convincing scientific evidence of it. 568 00:30:18,340 --> 00:30:21,100 And so the mystery mongers ought to shut up and get a life. 569 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,380 Larry Arnold is unfazed by such criticism. 570 00:30:25,380 --> 00:30:27,940 He claims to have researched over 400 cases 571 00:30:27,940 --> 00:30:32,220 of spontaneous human combustion, some dating back to the 1400s, 572 00:30:32,220 --> 00:30:35,860 and many documented by photographs. 573 00:30:35,860 --> 00:30:40,460 The naysayers, the PhDs who are phenomena-hating debunkers, 574 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:43,180 choose not to face the facts. 575 00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:45,660 This is a mystery that's crying out for study, 576 00:30:45,660 --> 00:30:47,940 that's crying out for recognition. 577 00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:49,900 This is a mystery that's not just a mystery, 578 00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:52,860 this is a mystery that is, to this day, unsolved. 579 00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:03,020 Next, the poetic music of rap star Tupac Shakur, 580 00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:05,100 glorified gang culture, and seemed 581 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:07,820 to predict his own violent demise. 582 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,100 Now the investigation into Shakur's murder 583 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:12,580 has become a tangle of chilling speculation 584 00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:13,940 and conflicting theories. 585 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:36,340 Tupac Shakur, one of rap music's most popular and enigmatic 586 00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:39,260 artists, his autobiographical songs 587 00:31:39,260 --> 00:31:43,980 reflected a dark treacherous world he knew all too well. 588 00:31:43,980 --> 00:31:47,860 Alternately described as a street thug and a charismatic poet, 589 00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:50,700 Tupac won the adoration of millions. 590 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,700 By the age of 25, he had cut four platinum albums 591 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,940 and starred in five feature films. 592 00:31:56,940 --> 00:31:58,940 I thought he was a brilliant man, 593 00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:01,940 thought he had a lot of vision, a lot of foresight. 594 00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:06,140 He made, he was very creative, he was an artist, 595 00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:08,700 and at the same time, he was a revolutionist. 596 00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:10,940 He was a great person, he was extremely charismatic, 597 00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:15,340 he was very intelligent, very business-smart, very funny, 598 00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:18,420 very warm, intelligent, caring. 599 00:32:18,420 --> 00:32:21,860 That was the Tupac that I knew. 600 00:32:21,860 --> 00:32:24,380 Despite his success, Tupac could never 601 00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:26,780 resist the lure of the streets. 602 00:32:26,780 --> 00:32:32,220 Between 1991 and 1995, he was arrested eight times. 603 00:32:32,220 --> 00:32:35,820 In 1994, he was shot five times and left for dead 604 00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:39,380 in the lobby of a New York City recording studio. 605 00:32:39,380 --> 00:32:45,220 In 1995, he served eight months in prison for rape. 606 00:32:45,260 --> 00:32:48,380 Within a year of his release, Tupac's explosive past 607 00:32:48,380 --> 00:32:50,180 finally caught up with him. 608 00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:53,380 He was cut down in a hail of gunfire just off the Las Vegas 609 00:32:53,380 --> 00:32:54,940 Strip. 610 00:32:54,940 --> 00:32:58,460 His killer is still unidentified, still at large. 611 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:03,020 According to those who knew him best, 612 00:33:03,020 --> 00:33:06,980 Tupac Shakur never expected to reach his 25th birthday. 613 00:33:06,980 --> 00:33:10,620 He was wrong, but only by three months. 614 00:33:10,620 --> 00:33:13,460 Shakur's untimely death has raised a host of questions 615 00:33:13,540 --> 00:33:16,860 and given rise to three distinct theories about his murder, 616 00:33:16,860 --> 00:33:18,700 a murder that occurred as Tupac Shakur 617 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:22,380 relaxed with friends in America's playground, Las Vegas, 618 00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:22,880 Nevada. 619 00:33:26,180 --> 00:33:29,300 It was September 7, 1996. 620 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:32,180 Las Vegas was operating at full capacity. 621 00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:34,420 Thousands had gathered for the heavyweight boxing 622 00:33:34,420 --> 00:33:36,940 match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon, 623 00:33:36,940 --> 00:33:41,580 held at the world-famous MGM Grand Hotel. 624 00:33:41,580 --> 00:33:43,940 Tupac Shakur was one of the many celebrities 625 00:33:43,940 --> 00:33:46,220 who attended the fight. 626 00:33:46,220 --> 00:33:49,860 He was accompanied by Marion Shugnight, CEO of Death Row 627 00:33:49,860 --> 00:33:53,900 Records, Shakur's recording company. 628 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:55,820 This photograph of Tupac and Shug 629 00:33:55,820 --> 00:33:59,700 was taken after the fight at around 10.55 PM. 630 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:03,260 They were headed for Shug's dance club, followed 631 00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:08,260 by an entourage of musicians and bodyguards. 632 00:34:08,260 --> 00:34:14,660 Tupac, who normally was known to pack a weapon, as was Shug 633 00:34:14,660 --> 00:34:17,340 and many people in the entourage, 634 00:34:17,340 --> 00:34:18,940 they weren't armed that night. 635 00:34:18,940 --> 00:34:22,500 And everybody said they felt safe. 636 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:27,140 Reporter Kathy Scott is writing a book about the murder. 637 00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:28,620 So it was a very festive mood. 638 00:34:28,620 --> 00:34:31,860 They were obviously playing their music loud, 639 00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:33,020 so they were in a party. 640 00:34:33,020 --> 00:34:36,340 They were flirting with women. 641 00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:40,020 At 11.10, Tupac and Shug pulled up to an intersection 642 00:34:40,020 --> 00:34:41,980 and spoke with two unidentified women. 643 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:43,380 Party somewhere? 644 00:34:43,380 --> 00:34:45,980 Well, Dad, always party. 645 00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:48,380 The two were looking at the girls and talking to them. 646 00:34:48,380 --> 00:34:51,100 That's what the witnesses have told police. 647 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,780 And that's when a white Cadillac drove up 648 00:34:53,780 --> 00:34:59,140 on the passenger side next to Tupac and opened fire. 649 00:34:59,580 --> 00:35:08,100 Tupac tried to climb into the back seat and didn't make it. 650 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:13,020 As the attackers sped away, Shug Knight 651 00:35:13,020 --> 00:35:15,660 took off in the opposite direction. 652 00:35:15,660 --> 00:35:21,060 He finally stopped in front of a casino one mile away. 653 00:35:21,060 --> 00:35:23,700 Tupac Shakur was in critical condition, 654 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:27,300 shot in the chest, in the hip, and in the hand. 655 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:29,380 Shug Knight had escaped with a slight bullet 656 00:35:29,380 --> 00:35:32,700 graze in the temple. 657 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:35,700 Despite the presence of thousands of potential witnesses, 658 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:38,460 police say only one person offered a glimmer of hope. 659 00:35:43,660 --> 00:35:47,020 Ia Fu Fula, one of Tupac's backup singers, 660 00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:49,940 was riding in the car directly behind Shug and Tupac. 661 00:35:50,020 --> 00:35:57,420 He told police that night that he could do a photo lineup, 662 00:35:57,420 --> 00:36:01,020 pick out the gunman from a photo lineup. 663 00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:06,220 Police interviewed him briefly, apparently not extensively. 664 00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:10,220 Took his number, and he went on his way. 665 00:36:12,220 --> 00:36:14,940 For six long days, fans gathered outside the Las Vegas 666 00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:17,940 Hospital where Tupac clung to life. 667 00:36:18,940 --> 00:36:20,940 It was a losing battle. 668 00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:23,940 On the afternoon of September 13, 1996, 669 00:36:23,940 --> 00:36:26,940 Tupac Shakur took his last breath and died. 670 00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:32,940 Initially, conventional wisdom headed 671 00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:35,940 that Tupac fell victim to a spontaneous burst of gang 672 00:36:35,940 --> 00:36:36,940 violence. 673 00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:39,940 Supporting that scenario was this videotape, 674 00:36:39,940 --> 00:36:42,940 recorded by a security camera at the MGM Grand, 675 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:46,940 just three hours before the shooting. 676 00:36:46,940 --> 00:36:49,940 Members of Tupac's entourage can be seen in the lobby, 677 00:36:49,940 --> 00:36:51,940 engaged in a brutal scuffle. 678 00:36:51,940 --> 00:36:53,940 Both Shug Knight and Tupac were present. 679 00:36:56,940 --> 00:36:59,940 Moments later, Tupac, followed by Shug, 680 00:36:59,940 --> 00:37:01,940 can be seen hurrying through the casino. 681 00:37:05,940 --> 00:37:08,940 The target of the assault was 22-year-old Orlando Anderson, 682 00:37:08,940 --> 00:37:11,940 an alleged member of a Los Angeles street gang, 683 00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:13,940 the Southside Crips. 684 00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:15,940 It has long been rumored that Shug Knight is affiliated 685 00:37:15,940 --> 00:37:18,940 with a rival gang, the Compton Bloods. 686 00:37:18,940 --> 00:37:24,940 Was this confrontation the spark that led to Tupac's murder? 687 00:37:24,940 --> 00:37:28,940 Anytime someone as popular as Tupac Shakur 688 00:37:28,940 --> 00:37:31,940 can be killed in front of thousands of people 689 00:37:31,940 --> 00:37:34,940 after one of the biggest events in the world 690 00:37:34,940 --> 00:37:39,940 and one of the most popular cities of Las Vegas in the world, 691 00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:42,940 then it's something more to it than just some random shooting 692 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:44,940 by some idiot who decided to pick up a gun 693 00:37:44,940 --> 00:37:47,940 and point at Tupac Shakur. 694 00:37:47,940 --> 00:37:51,940 It has to be some organization 695 00:37:51,940 --> 00:37:54,940 or some movement behind that killing. 696 00:37:58,940 --> 00:38:00,940 Some say this music video by Tupac 697 00:38:00,940 --> 00:38:03,940 offers a clue to a second scenario. 698 00:38:03,940 --> 00:38:05,940 In the months preceding his death, 699 00:38:05,940 --> 00:38:08,940 Tupac was at the center of a heated dispute 700 00:38:08,940 --> 00:38:11,940 between East Coast and West Coast rap music factions. 701 00:38:13,940 --> 00:38:17,940 There was a rivalry that started between Tupac Shakur 702 00:38:17,940 --> 00:38:20,940 and artist Biggie Smalls and Puffy Combs, 703 00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:23,940 who is the CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment. 704 00:38:23,940 --> 00:38:25,940 That rivalry between them existed 705 00:38:25,940 --> 00:38:28,940 because when Tupac was shot at Quad Studios, 706 00:38:28,940 --> 00:38:31,940 he felt not that Biggie and Puffy set him up, 707 00:38:31,940 --> 00:38:34,940 but that they knew that it was coming and didn't warn him. 708 00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:37,940 Puck, you alive? I mean, you safe? 709 00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:40,940 In a dramatized portion of the video, 710 00:38:40,940 --> 00:38:43,940 Tupac publicly blamed Puffy Combs and Biggie Smalls 711 00:38:43,940 --> 00:38:46,940 for the attack that nearly killed him in 1994. 712 00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:48,940 Don't kill him. It was Buf's idea. 713 00:38:48,940 --> 00:38:50,940 Oh, man, it was... I'm just a rapper, man. 714 00:38:50,940 --> 00:38:52,940 No one has ever been arrested in that shooting. 715 00:38:52,940 --> 00:38:54,940 I ain't gonna kill you. 716 00:38:54,940 --> 00:38:56,940 We was homeboys once, P.A. 717 00:38:56,940 --> 00:38:59,940 Once we homeboys, we always homeboys. 718 00:38:59,940 --> 00:39:01,940 Just weeks before his death, 719 00:39:01,940 --> 00:39:06,940 Tupac appeared on radio station KMEL in San Francisco 720 00:39:06,940 --> 00:39:09,940 and candidly discussed his feelings toward the shooting 721 00:39:09,940 --> 00:39:12,940 and his feelings towards his East Coast rivals. 722 00:39:14,940 --> 00:39:17,940 While I'm in jail, strangers is telling me, 723 00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:20,940 yo, you don't know, Biggie homeboys shot you. 724 00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:22,940 Because they bragging. They telling them, 725 00:39:22,940 --> 00:39:24,940 yo, we just got popped. 726 00:39:24,940 --> 00:39:27,940 And that's why what I'm doing, I know what I'm doing. 727 00:39:27,940 --> 00:39:30,940 I'm destroying her. I'm destroying her. 728 00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:35,940 Just last weekend, Biggie Smalls, 729 00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:39,940 aka notorious B.I.G., was himself gunned down 730 00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:42,940 shortly after leaving a party in Los Angeles. 731 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:44,940 At this time, there is no known connection 732 00:39:44,940 --> 00:39:47,940 between his murder and Shakur's. 733 00:39:47,940 --> 00:39:49,940 In addition, there is no proof 734 00:39:49,940 --> 00:39:51,940 that the East Coast, West Coast rivalry 735 00:39:51,940 --> 00:39:54,940 had anything to do with Tupac's death, 736 00:39:54,940 --> 00:39:58,940 leading to intense speculation about a third possibility. 737 00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:01,940 Perhaps the murder was an inside job 738 00:40:01,940 --> 00:40:04,940 orchestrated by someone close to Tupac Shakur. 739 00:40:04,940 --> 00:40:08,940 This scenario is populated by unanswered questions. 740 00:40:10,940 --> 00:40:12,940 In the midst of the jam-packed Vegas strip, 741 00:40:12,940 --> 00:40:15,940 how did the gunmen know where Tupac would be? 742 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:18,940 Why did he seem to target only Tupac? 743 00:40:18,940 --> 00:40:22,940 Why weren't Tupac's bodyguards armed at the time of the shooting 744 00:40:22,940 --> 00:40:25,940 when they had been armed earlier in the evening? 745 00:40:25,940 --> 00:40:27,940 Yeah, the black beamer's in front. 746 00:40:27,940 --> 00:40:28,940 It's a shit drive. 747 00:40:28,940 --> 00:40:30,940 And why were the strips swarming with people, 748 00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:32,940 including the two unidentified women 749 00:40:32,940 --> 00:40:34,940 just a few feet from the shooting? 750 00:40:34,940 --> 00:40:39,940 Was no one apparently willing to cooperate with police? 751 00:40:39,940 --> 00:40:42,940 What I was told by one homicide detective 752 00:40:42,940 --> 00:40:46,940 was that everybody went deaf, dumb, and blind. 753 00:40:46,940 --> 00:40:48,940 They were surprised because they said, 754 00:40:48,940 --> 00:40:50,940 these are professional bodyguards. 755 00:40:50,940 --> 00:40:55,940 They're paid to guard, you know, Tupac. 756 00:40:55,940 --> 00:40:57,940 He hired them for this purpose, 757 00:40:57,940 --> 00:41:00,940 yet they didn't see anything. 758 00:41:01,940 --> 00:41:02,940 I don't know. 759 00:41:02,940 --> 00:41:05,940 The only person who reportedly did see something, 760 00:41:05,940 --> 00:41:07,940 Yafu Fula, never had the opportunity 761 00:41:07,940 --> 00:41:10,940 to view a photo lineup of possible suspects. 762 00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:12,940 Within a week of the shooting, 763 00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:16,940 he returned to his home in New Jersey. 764 00:41:16,940 --> 00:41:18,940 Two months later, Fula was gunned down 765 00:41:18,940 --> 00:41:21,940 in the stairwell of a housing project, 766 00:41:21,940 --> 00:41:24,940 a random act of violence, or a premeditated murder 767 00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:28,940 to keep Fula from talking to the authorities. 768 00:41:29,940 --> 00:41:31,940 He was their best bet. 769 00:41:31,940 --> 00:41:33,940 He was right behind the car when it happened, 770 00:41:33,940 --> 00:41:35,940 and he said he could identify, 771 00:41:35,940 --> 00:41:38,940 he believed he could identify the gunman, 772 00:41:38,940 --> 00:41:42,940 and now Fula's dead, and they don't have that anymore. 773 00:41:42,940 --> 00:41:45,940 Authorities have always maintained 774 00:41:45,940 --> 00:41:48,940 that Fula was the only eyewitness willing to talk. 775 00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:50,940 However, just two weeks ago, 776 00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:52,940 two other members of Tupac's entourage 777 00:41:52,940 --> 00:41:55,940 claimed they told police from the beginning 778 00:41:55,940 --> 00:41:58,940 that they had a clear view of the shooter. 779 00:41:58,940 --> 00:42:01,940 They say police never asked them to view a photo lineup. 780 00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:04,940 The police say the men initially denied seeing the shooter, 781 00:42:04,940 --> 00:42:06,940 but have now re-interviewed them. 782 00:42:11,940 --> 00:42:14,940 Ironically, in one of Tupac's final videos, 783 00:42:14,940 --> 00:42:18,940 he seemed to foretell his own violent demise, 784 00:42:18,940 --> 00:42:23,940 cut down in a hail of gunfire by a shadowy, unknown assassin. 785 00:42:26,940 --> 00:42:30,940 I don't know if we'll ever know who killed Tupac Shakur, 786 00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:32,940 but I do know that there's millions of people 787 00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:34,940 that are devastated by his loss. 788 00:42:35,940 --> 00:42:38,940 There was a lot of things people might consider bad about Tupac, 789 00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,940 but there was a lot of good things about Tupac, 790 00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:43,940 and we had yet to see all the good things 791 00:42:43,940 --> 00:42:46,940 that I believe could have came out of Tupac Shakur. 792 00:42:55,940 --> 00:42:57,940 I'll be back, but as soon as I text them, 793 00:42:57,940 --> 00:42:59,940 I took my girl out of here. 794 00:43:07,940 --> 00:43:11,940 Join me next time for more Unsolved Mysteries. 795 00:43:25,940 --> 00:43:30,940 © BF-WATCH TV 2021