1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,600 Brooke Baker was a reporter for her campus newspaper, 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,800 a small town girl with big time ambitions. 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:17,480 What was it about her life that led to this brutal attack? 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,480 It is one of the stranger stories we've encountered. 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,780 People who call themselves walk-ins and claim 7 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:26,280 that they're not just a group of people, 8 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,160 people who call themselves walk-ins and claim 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,320 their bodies have been inhabited, in fact, 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,320 taken over by invading spirits. 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,240 Could it be that walk-ins are walking among us? 12 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:43,520 It had all the signs of a tragic accident 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,960 until police found evidence of an elaborate setup, 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,680 cold-blooded murder. 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,880 Now this man stands accused of killing his own wife, 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,520 but he insists that he is innocent. 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,560 When a terrifying accident left Wilma 18 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,200 drew unconscious and trapped in her car, 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,400 death seemed inevitable. 20 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:04,400 Then salvation arrived in the form 21 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,760 of an unknown good Samaritan. 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,480 Now Wilma needs your help to thank the man who saved her life. 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,600 20 years ago, a young Korean woman 24 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,200 said goodbye to her GI husband and her daughter, 25 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,240 then boarded a train. 26 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,560 And for some unknown reason, never came back. 27 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,560 Since then, her daughter has grown up, married, 28 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,560 and hopes that someone watching tonight 29 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,760 can reunite her with her long-lost mother. 30 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,160 Join me. 31 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,120 Perhaps you may be able to help solve them a mystery, 32 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,040 or perhaps you may encounter one that simply cannot be explained. 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,920 Every autumn, thousands of parents and their sons and daughters 34 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:28,440 off to college assuming they'll be safe and on their way 35 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,480 to a bright future. 36 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,480 The parents of a young woman named Brooke Baker 37 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,320 thought exactly that. 38 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,840 They were wrong. 39 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,160 Her campus experience proved fatal. 40 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,240 Brooke Baker, a college sophomore, 41 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,720 stabbed to death in her own bed just after she died. 42 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,680 She was stabbed to death in her own bed, 43 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,680 just half a block off campus. 44 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,160 That's what he killed, 256, 612. 45 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,360 Police in Vincennes, Indiana, started their investigation, 46 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,680 certain the case would be solved easily. 47 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,800 But more than a year later, Brooke's killer remains unidentified. 48 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:08,760 OK. 49 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,760 How about the right shoulder? 50 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,560 I'm obsessed with it. 51 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,200 I can't live without justice for Brooke. 52 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,240 I can't go on with my own life. 53 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,880 I want justice. 54 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,440 Who killed Brooke Baker? 55 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,920 Of the many theories police are pursuing, 56 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,880 several point to a direct link between Brooke's life 57 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,960 and her brutal murder. 58 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,880 Was it angry fraternity brothers out for revenge? 59 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,600 A psychopath posing as a potential roommate? 60 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,840 Or perhaps Brooke's landlord? 61 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,920 He allegedly watched her closely. 62 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,400 Then there's a puzzle of Brooke's cousin. 63 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,320 Does she know something she hasn't told police? 64 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,720 To me, the real key in solving this case 65 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,920 is going to be when we answer the question, who was Brooke Baker 66 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,640 and what was there about her life in the last few years 67 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,720 of her life that led up to this extraordinary conclusion. 68 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,520 Brooke Baker was a small town girl with big city ambitions. 69 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,040 She planned to be somebody, a top flight journalist. 70 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,040 I need the photographs. 71 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,840 At Vincent's University, Brooke became very active 72 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:31,560 on the school paper, and she made sure everyone knew it. 73 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:32,720 Can you call me back, please? 74 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,400 Because I'm waiting, and I need them. 75 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,120 I think one of the things Brooke really enjoyed 76 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,080 was the power that came from being reported on the paper. 77 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,960 It gave her certainly recognition and visibility on campus, 78 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,840 and I think she enjoyed the attention. 79 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:50,680 Few 19-year-olds make deadly enemies. 80 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,760 Brooke may have been an exception. 81 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,080 In the spring of 1997, she heard rumors of a date 82 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,920 rape at a fraternity party and went after the story 83 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:01,640 aggressively. 84 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,280 Are you in a sorority? 85 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:04,400 Right. 86 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,040 So would you describe some of the incidences 87 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,440 of it happened to you? 88 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,120 It would have been very easy to work on the story 89 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,840 and have nobody know about it, but members of the staff. 90 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,200 But the word was out everywhere, and I 91 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,480 think the word was generated from Brooke. 92 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,840 I think she wanted people to know what she was doing. 93 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,360 At the fraternity where the alleged rape had taken place, 94 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,960 Brooke's investigation was not welcome. 95 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,360 You're not right in thinking about us. 96 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,240 Look, I can write whatever I want about you. 97 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:32,840 I'm serious. 98 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:34,280 And you better watch your back. 99 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,200 You better watch your back. 100 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,760 She didn't worry about who she offended 101 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,800 or whose toes she stepped on if it was the truth. 102 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,800 It was the truth. 103 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,960 Fraternity members allegedly started sending Brooke email, 104 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,040 threatening her if she ran the rape story. 105 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,800 Brooke was unfazed, but her mother was very concerned. 106 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,280 I feared for Brooke's safety all the time, 107 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:01,280 and I'd question her on it. 108 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:05,080 And she'd say if it could save one girl from being raped 109 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,760 or abused, she was willing to write the story 110 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,120 and investigate the paternity. 111 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,600 The harassment allegedly climaxed one night 112 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,280 when a truckload of fraternity brothers confronted Brooke 113 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:21,400 at her friend's house. 114 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,400 They reportedly called her names and shouted more threats. 115 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,640 Did a conflict between Brooke Baker and the fraternity 116 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,080 ultimately lead to murder? 117 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,600 A few months later, Brooke moved into a new house 118 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,680 where she thought she'd be safer. 119 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,960 The landlord was a campus police officer. 120 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,520 Mom, do you need any help with the boxes? 121 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:49,040 Oh, no. 122 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:49,540 I got it. 123 00:06:49,540 --> 00:06:51,440 Thank you. 124 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:51,940 Thanks. 125 00:06:51,940 --> 00:06:52,720 Sure. 126 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,720 Within weeks, however, Brooke allegedly 127 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,760 started having trouble with the landlord. 128 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:00,920 What are you doing in my house? 129 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,600 I was just looking for all my books for a night. 130 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,000 Brooke told her parents she discovered him prowling 131 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,840 around her house at all hours. 132 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:07,280 You have to. 133 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:08,840 If you're going to, if you need to come in here, 134 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:10,240 you would have to call. 135 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,240 You can't come into my house. 136 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,440 According to her parents, the landlord once 137 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,240 shined a light through the windows. 138 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,320 On another occasion, Brooke said he came in while she 139 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,400 was in the shower. 140 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,120 She felt uncomfortable enough that she told a number of people 141 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,560 that she just was just generally uncomfortable 142 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,200 with the whole situation. 143 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,800 What happened the night Brooke died? 144 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,760 Did her landlord let himself in? 145 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,360 Did an angry confrontation escalate to murder? 146 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,160 Been since, police also identified 147 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,240 a third theory of murder. 148 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,200 Only days before her death, Brooke 149 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:55,360 placed an ad for a roommate in the campus newspaper. 150 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,920 Someone who wants to come over to Brooke's house 151 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,600 and knock on the door and say, hey, 152 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,800 I'm here about your room. 153 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,160 I want to be a roommate. 154 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,840 What's Brooke's natural reaction going to be in that? 155 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,560 Open the door and let them in. 156 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,400 Brooke's ad may have become an invitation to murder. 157 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,760 Police found no evidence of forced entry, 158 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,440 no signs of a struggle. 159 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,920 Their most vital clues are several samples of DNA. 160 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,280 To date, they have interviewed 400 people 161 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,520 and tested 52 against those samples. 162 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,800 They say parents who bury a child never really stop grieving. 163 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,600 It goes too hard against the heart. 164 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,360 For Brooke's parents, however, answers 165 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,080 would at least be a great comfort. 166 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,360 Update. 167 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,640 Two years after Brooke Baker's death, 168 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,080 police got their first break in the case. 169 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,720 Tragically, it came at the cost of another life. 170 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,320 On July 5, 1999, investigators searched 171 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,880 the apartment of missing Vincennes College student 172 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,640 Erica Elaine Norman. 173 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,640 There, they found a crime scene eerily similar to Brooke Baker's, 174 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:17,840 including the identical odd characteristic in the bathroom. 175 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:19,440 There was water running in the bathtub, 176 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,200 and I knew right then that it was the same person who 177 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,960 committed the murder of Brooke Baker. 178 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,880 Erica had last been seen leaving a local restaurant 179 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,960 with a man by the name of Brian Jones. 180 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,320 He was immediately brought in for questioning. 181 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,920 When we interviewed Brian Jones, it 182 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,200 turned out that he was a roommate of an individual that 183 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,360 was seeing Brooke Baker within the last couple 184 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,360 of weeks of her death. 185 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,640 Brian Jones consented to give a sample of his DNA. 186 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,720 It linked him conclusively to the murder of Brooke Baker, 187 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,480 and Jones was arrested. 188 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,080 When Erica Norman's body was found two weeks later, 189 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,040 Jones struck a plea bargain. 190 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,680 He admitted to killing Erica, and in exchange, 191 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,880 prosecutors did not seek the death penalty 192 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,040 in the Brooke Baker trial. 193 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,680 On December 14, Brian Jones was sentenced to life in prison 194 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:12,400 without the possibility of parole. 195 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,760 Brian presented himself to me as someone 196 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,120 that would have not stopped that case, 197 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,680 stopped a serial killer, in my opinion. 198 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,280 Next, meet some people who claim their bodies 199 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,880 have been taken over by someone else's soul. 200 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:39,120 Paris, a brooding artist and teacher 201 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,280 nearly dies in a hospital. 202 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:42,960 During a near-death experience, he 203 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,440 has a nightmare vision of hell. 204 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,600 He survives and becomes a minister in his church. 205 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,560 The experience forever changes his life. 206 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:58,920 During a thunderstorm, a self-centered bully 207 00:10:58,920 --> 00:10:59,800 is struck by lightning. 208 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,240 The 180,000 votes nearly killed him. 209 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,560 When he recovered, he began having psychic experiences, 210 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:15,600 and he's changed his violent ways, 211 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,040 becoming a hospice volunteer. 212 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,920 Can you see me again? 213 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,160 These individuals say near-death experience 214 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,840 has made the behave like different people. 215 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,120 Tonight, we'll tell you about a group 216 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,320 who say they really are different people. 217 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,120 They call themselves walk-ins. 218 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,760 They say their bodies have been taken over by other spirits. 219 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,320 It sounds unbelievable, but at a recent convention in England, 220 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,960 500 people claiming to be walk-ins showed up. 221 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,720 Is there any truth to their strange tales? 222 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,520 I began to feel that I had to change my name, 223 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,760 and this happens very often to walk-ins. 224 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:55,840 And I didn't know why. 225 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,920 I felt like a stranger in a strange land. 226 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:00,040 I didn't fit here. 227 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,920 I didn't understand this world. 228 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,080 I didn't understand how it worked. 229 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,520 The doctor patted me, and he said, 230 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,680 young lady, you gave us quite a scare. 231 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:14,080 And I said, oh, I'm not who you think I am. 232 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,240 Those who believe say it's not possession. 233 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,680 It's an even trade of one soul for another. 234 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:22,960 And they say it could happen to any one of us. 235 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,120 For Carol Parrish, the routine life of a housewife 236 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,800 in the South would lead to the extraordinary experience 237 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,840 of being a walk-in. 238 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,280 Carol had five children with a sixth on the way. 239 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,760 During childbirth in 1958, doctors 240 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,960 gave Carol a shot of sodium pedothal to ease her pain. 241 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:49,960 All right, we're going to make you 242 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,080 give you something a little more comfortable, 243 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,080 a nurse, two CCs, a sodium peniphal. 244 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,400 But Carol had an allergic reaction to the drug, 245 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,800 and her lungs collapsed. 246 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,800 All right, we've got an anaphylactic shock, nurse. 247 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,520 Let's get some oxygen going. 248 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,080 She was on the edge of death. 249 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,160 Let's do an IV, bring in an IV stat. 250 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,560 Suddenly, I wasn't there. 251 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:12,880 It was just like I had been totally engaged 252 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:17,840 in that struggle, and the next thing, it's cool. 253 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:23,560 And I'm floating, and I look down, 254 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:28,200 and you hardly know that that's you. 255 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,200 Carol watched her baby being born. 256 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,760 Then she says her soul entered a tunnel of light 257 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,040 where she felt she wasn't alone. 258 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,960 She described it as a near-death experience, 259 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,960 but then something even stranger happened. 260 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,840 I stood there, and in that light, 261 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:51,920 it began to tell me things. 262 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:57,200 It was like a whole flow of information 263 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,840 just came into my mind. 264 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:06,920 And this love and this wisdom just permeated wave 265 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:13,680 after wave of understanding, wisdom, 266 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,880 richness just flowed into me. 267 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,960 Carol wasn't expected to live, 268 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,560 but she says her body was given new life 269 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,520 with a different soul. 270 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:33,000 The old Carol was gone, and a new identity had taken over. 271 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:41,560 I saw young Carol move off into the care of some other beings. 272 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,400 I'm not who you think that I am. 273 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,720 It's OK. 274 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,800 As I look at each person, their eyes, just the veil, 275 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,200 comes over their eyes. 276 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,160 And I turned my head toward the wall, 277 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:02,360 and big tears started coming in my eyes and down my cheeks, 278 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,560 and I thought, how will I ever get anybody to believe me? 279 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Who's going to listen? 280 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,480 From then on, Carol says everything about her life 281 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:12,600 changed. 282 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,440 She began having out of body experiences. 283 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,960 One day I was nursing the baby, and I found myself 284 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,440 standing in the door looking at myself, 285 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,840 and immediately thought, oh, that's happening to me again. 286 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,480 When I thought that, I popped back together, and it passed. 287 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,800 And I tried to talk about that to my family. 288 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,960 Her husband said she was insane. 289 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:38,920 Where's your medicine? 290 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,560 Her doctor tried to put her on Valium. 291 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,960 I'm not taking it anymore. 292 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,040 Why not? 293 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,280 It's not good for the baby. 294 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,760 Carol, the doctor said you've got to take that medicine. 295 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,960 The new Carol made radical changes in her life. 296 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,240 Bill, I am not taking the medicine anymore. 297 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,640 She started school to study bookkeeping. 298 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,520 She got a job, and eventually became 299 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,800 a manager at a local bank. 300 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:04,640 Carol believes her new identity was 301 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,360 a threat to her husband, a firefighter. 302 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,840 He left her in 1967. 303 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,480 The years after the experience and before, 304 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,560 I was really doing what I considered 305 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:23,560 to be my spiritual life and my life work were very lonely. 306 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,720 I was lonely for other people that 307 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,840 valued the things that were so meaningful to me. 308 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,520 In 1965, Carol began to study metaphysical religion. 309 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,080 It led to her becoming a minister at the light of Christ 310 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,600 Community Church. 311 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,120 She remarried. 312 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,760 The timid Southern girl had blossomed 313 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,800 into an outspoken leader. 314 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,640 There was no way she could be the same person. 315 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,760 Carol realized she was a walk-in. 316 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:54,840 I believe young Carol went as all souls do 317 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,320 into tender hands to care for her and help her reorient 318 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,240 herself to the world of spirit. 319 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,760 The idea that life is ongoing, and if you are, 320 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,120 you always will be. 321 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,360 That's the piece that I think is so important. 322 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:12,720 Partly it's important because we would live life more 323 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,920 courageously if we really believed that. 324 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,160 An exchange of souls? 325 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,440 Is it really possible? 326 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,480 A woman named Sherry claims it happened to her. 327 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,240 She was a high school principal. 328 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,040 While visiting a friend in Wyoming, 329 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,240 Sherry says her old soul was exchanged for another. 330 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,120 Sherry began to feel disoriented. 331 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:40,800 She asked her friend who was a metaphysical healer 332 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,400 to lay her hands on her. 333 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,400 Suddenly, the room began to change. 334 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:01,480 There was a glow of golden pulsating energy. 335 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,120 The core of the energy just punched right 336 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:07,760 into the base of my spine. 337 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:17,640 I raised up on my knees and sat immersed in this colorful light 338 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,200 and found myself wanting to just flow with it 339 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,760 and dance with it with my hands and my arms. 340 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:33,080 I don't know. 341 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,360 Later, Sherry's friends said she had changed. 342 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:37,080 I know their party party. 343 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,880 Her husband knew something was very different, 344 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:44,800 especially when she explained that she had a new name. 345 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,600 I'm Joelle. 346 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,120 I think some of my most difficult moments 347 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:55,000 were when I would have a certain something come up, 348 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,560 and I needed some help, for instance. 349 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,800 And usually in the past, I could give a little shout 350 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,240 or something, and somebody would come and help me. 351 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,240 And with Joelle, I'd say, OK, let's go. 352 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,080 And it was kind of like I'm waiting to hear and nothing. 353 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:12,400 It was a different response. 354 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,080 That was something to get used to. 355 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,680 I don't know. 356 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:16,680 What's wrong? 357 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,080 I'm afraid. 358 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,760 Oh, there's nothing to be afraid of. 359 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,400 It's over. 360 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,720 It's like things are changing. 361 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,680 Besides helping her husband come to terms 362 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,880 with her new identity, there were other problems as well. 363 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,160 mundane tasks became nearly impossible. 364 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:44,640 There was a hypersensitivity to energy fields around people, 365 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,040 energy fields around things. 366 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,800 So to go into a supermarket, see the energy fields, 367 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,520 hear all the thoughts. 368 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,880 It was so difficult to stay focused on what my task was. 369 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,000 I tried to narrow my task down to five to 10 items 370 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,080 so I could get through that express line as quick as possible. 371 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,280 Over time, Joelle says she managed 372 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,480 to accept her new identity, as did her husband and daughter. 373 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,120 It's as though there are two chapters in our lives 374 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:17,200 as a family. 375 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,800 There's the before and there's the after. 376 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,960 And in many ways, our life as a family 377 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,360 started after my mother experienced the walk-in. 378 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:30,800 A lot of the healing that wasn't able to take place before 379 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,480 did after we are so much stronger as a family unit. 380 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,200 Joelle now dedicates herself to educating others 381 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,400 about her walk-in experience. 382 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,480 I travel the country. 383 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,560 I travel the world speaking to different groups of people, 384 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,120 doing private counseling sessions with people. 385 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,400 I'm an author. 386 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,080 One of the beautiful memories that came from Sherry 387 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:02,600 was her ability to teach, was her ability to speak to people. 388 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:08,560 I've taken that aspect, and I've just taken it to the next phase. 389 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,160 Are the stories of walk-ins valid? 390 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,400 Can one soul truly enter the body and replace another 391 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,080 that is ready to move on? 392 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,360 The people we have met tonight and many others 393 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,120 do claim a new spirit. 394 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:25,000 A positive spirit resides inside them, 395 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,240 a spirit that has changed their lives for the better. 396 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:34,120 When it comes to walk-ins, perhaps that is all we need to know. 397 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:37,040 Next, judging by the family photos, 398 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,080 Steve and Kathy page at a storybook marriage. 399 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,920 But when Kathy turned up dead, a grieving husband 400 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,400 became the prime suspect. 401 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:56,440 It was early dawn on May 14, 1991, when police in Viter, Texas 402 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,640 discovered the wreck. 403 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:03,480 The woman behind the wheel was dead, her skin cool to the touch. 404 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,200 At first glance, a tragic accident. 405 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:11,320 But within seconds, anomalies began to emerge. 406 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,440 The dead woman had no obvious wounds, 407 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,440 and the car was barely damaged. 408 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,600 Soft drinks in the front seat hadn't even spilled. 409 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,640 The list grew longer. 410 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,040 The woman's feet were pushed back against the seat, 411 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,240 rather than stretched out toward the pedals. 412 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:33,360 She wasn't wearing a seat belt, yet she had not pitched forward. 413 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:35,520 Being no damage to the interior of the vehicle, 414 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,600 and very little, if not any damage to the exterior of the vehicle, 415 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,880 and the deepness of the ditch, plain to see this 416 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,280 was a staged incident instead of an accident. 417 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,000 So at that point, they thought they had 418 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,440 a probable questionable death. 419 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,440 The woman was identified as 34-year-old Kathy Page. 420 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,240 She was a wife and mother. 421 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,960 She lived at 450 Green Street, curiously just 422 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,840 100 yards from the crash site. 423 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,000 Kathy's husband, Steve, answered the door. 424 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:04,920 Who is it? 425 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,360 Viter, please. 426 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:10,120 I'm Sergeant Mosley, the Viter Police Department. 427 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,080 Are you Mr. Page? 428 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,000 Yes. 429 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Mr. Page? 430 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,200 You know where your wife's at? 431 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,200 My wife's at. 432 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,600 He said, well, his wife was not home, 433 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,400 and directly looked straight down the street 434 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,200 towards where the car was. 435 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,400 Is this about my wife? 436 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,400 Yes, it is, sir. 437 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,120 Sergeant Advisor, sir, we found her deceased in her vehicle 438 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:27,120 this morning. 439 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:30,000 Can we step inside the residence and discuss this matter? 440 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,280 Steve seemed to be quite upset. 441 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,400 He began to cry at times, and at times 442 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,320 threw himself on the couch crying. 443 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,760 But yet, he would jump right back up, and we were talking. 444 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,920 There would be no signs of tears in his eyes. 445 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,520 This seemed strange to me. 446 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:46,880 We've seen a car accident. 447 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,320 Sir, we don't know all the details. 448 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,080 From that moment on, police concentrated their attention 449 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:52,880 on Steve Page. 450 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,520 Six years later, he is still the prime suspect. 451 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,520 For Page, those years have been an ordeal. 452 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,560 Barely a day passes that he doesn't fend off accusations 453 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,280 that he killed his wife, the mother of his children. 454 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,880 Of course, I don't know if he's ever been 455 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,320 Of course, I did not kill my wife. 456 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,080 The evidence clearly shows that the perpetrator was someone 457 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,360 other than Steve Page. 458 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,560 Is this the face of a killer? 459 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,760 Many people in the small town of Ida, Texas, 460 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,800 are convinced it is. 461 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,400 There are certainly Steve Page at both the opportunity 462 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,320 and motive to murder his wife, Kathy. 463 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,800 Her family claims he would be in prison today. 464 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,080 His personal relationships with police officials 465 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,760 had not dirty the investigation. 466 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,280 Steve Page insists he is innocent. 467 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,680 Tonight, we'll examine both sides of this controversial case. 468 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,200 Kathy and Steve Page have been married for almost 13 years. 469 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,520 They had two daughters, 12-year-old Aaron 470 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,640 and seven-year-old Monica. 471 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,800 They seemed like a perfect family. 472 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,240 But according to Steve, he and Kathy had drifted apart, 473 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:06,560 and she was no longer happy with her role as Steve's wife. 474 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:12,120 Mainly, she was uncomfortable with who she was. 475 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,040 Or at least that was what she explained to me, 476 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,360 that she didn't know who she was. 477 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,560 She wanted to try to find out who Kathy was. 478 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,120 Because of that, we talked about separating 479 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:23,600 for a short period of time and allowing 480 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,080 her to hopefully find herself. 481 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,600 Kathy's sister, Sherry, disagrees. 482 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,520 She says the marriage was beyond repair. 483 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,760 Kathy was definitely moving on in her life at that point 484 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,800 because the decision was made for the divorce. 485 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,840 And that, in itself, having a decision like that 486 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,520 finally be resolved in itself was a real relief off her back. 487 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,680 And she was making plans for that. 488 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,600 Steve moved out of the house, but he says his relationship 489 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,200 with Kathy remained friendly. 490 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,280 The next day, Kathy asked him to babysit their daughters 491 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,000 while she went out with a friend. 492 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,480 Kathy was getting ready when Steve arrived. 493 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,240 She said she was going to meet one of her girlfriends 494 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,200 after work. 495 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,920 And so I went over there. 496 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,480 She left at approximately 11.15 to 11.30 to head to Beaumont 497 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,920 to meet her friend. 498 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,960 Charlotte was the friend's name. 499 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,600 By 4.15 AM, Kathy Page was dead. 500 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,400 On her body was found she wasn't wearing makeup or jewelry. 501 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,760 The autopsy showed she had been strangled. 502 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,640 Her nose broken, her eye blackened. 503 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,480 There were bloodstains on Kathy's underwear and skin, 504 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,160 but strangely not on her outer clothing. 505 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,520 Kathy Page was not killed in her vehicle. 506 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,720 She was killed at another location, cleaned up, redressed, 507 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,480 and placed back in her vehicle. 508 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,240 And after the vehicle had been rolled into the ditch. 509 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,000 And there was more. 510 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,480 Sometimes shortly before Kathy Page died, 511 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,400 she had engaged in sexual activity. 512 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,800 Was that mysterious someone Kathy's killer? 513 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,160 Police soon learned that Kathy had not 514 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,840 going to meet her friend Charlotte, 515 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,080 but had instead spent the evening with a boyfriend 516 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,920 in a motel in Beaumont, Texas, about 10 minutes from Vidar. 517 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,080 The boyfriend acknowledged that he and Kathy 518 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,400 made love that night. 519 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,000 If he came to the police station, 520 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,360 he gave us a statement, and also voluntarily gave us 521 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:34,240 a polygraph examination, which he passed with flying colors. 522 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,120 However, the autopsy report included 523 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,280 one more critical detail. 524 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,240 Kathy's sex partner had had a vasectomy. 525 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,360 The boyfriend had not. 526 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:48,000 That meant Kathy must have had sex that night with someone else. 527 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,120 Could that man have been Steve Page? 528 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:55,080 He had had a vasectomy several months earlier. 529 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,120 When police questioned him, he admitted 530 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,080 having sex with Kathy, but claimed it was before she 531 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,000 went out that night. 532 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,920 She's expecting this, Steve. 533 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:03,720 Come on. 534 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:04,640 She was getting ready. 535 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,000 She just got out of the shower. 536 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,080 I approached her about sex, and we had sex before she left, 537 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,560 before she got dressed even. 538 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,360 I personally don't believe that that happened. 539 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,000 She wouldn't have been with Steve 540 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,800 before being with another man. 541 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,600 She hadn't been with Steve in a long time. 542 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,640 He's already sleeping on the couch. 543 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,160 Him coming over to take care of the kids 544 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,920 was more of a kindness gesture for him to be around his kids, 545 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,040 not for him to be around Kathy. 546 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,480 For Kathy's family, there is only one possible scenario, 547 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,160 a deadly scenario. 548 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,320 Sparked when Steve discovered two phone numbers, 549 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,840 one belonged to Kathy's friend Charlotte, 550 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,400 the other to the motel in Beaumont. 551 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,120 I was talking to a sister-in-law of Steve's, 552 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,400 and she said that she knew for a fact that Steve 553 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,880 made two phone calls. 554 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:00,440 Steve called this one number, and the girl answered, 555 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,960 and he hung up, and then the second phone number was called, 556 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,040 and they said the name of the hotel, and he hung up. 557 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,680 And so he already knew where she might be or was. 558 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,240 I feel like she came in that night, 559 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,400 come in the back door, ask you to park the car, 560 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,440 and he was sleeping sitting in the chair in the front room. 561 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,360 And when she went on in the bathroom, 562 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,560 and James Clove took a makeup off, 563 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,680 took a jury and all off, and he heard it, 564 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,240 probably in the bathroom. 565 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,840 And he got up and demanded sex with her or whatever, 566 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,160 got in a fight. 567 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,760 Kathy's family believes the fight escalated. 568 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,880 Steve Page raped Kathy. 569 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,680 In the process, he strangled her. 570 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,120 Then Steve realizing what had happened, 571 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,480 he wants to redress her. 572 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,480 If you look at the violent crime profile, 573 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,880 it fits into a tee, you know, the remorse. 574 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:49,960 You want to redress. 575 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,920 You don't want them to be found naked or bloody. 576 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,360 So there was a detempt to clean her up and redress her. 577 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,760 But things were forgotten, for instance, her jewelry 578 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,880 and her socks. 579 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:08,000 The reason it comes down on me is because I'm the husband. 580 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,760 I'm the estranged husband, to make it even worse. 581 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,440 And because of her actions, I am being blamed for her actions. 582 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,120 She was out seeing another guy. 583 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,560 So therefore, it could only have been me. 584 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,000 I must have found out somehow, how, according to the police, 585 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,840 and became enraged and committed murder. 586 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,640 Steve Page has his own theory on the identity of Kathy's killer. 587 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,120 I received threats on the phone that the same thing that 588 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,440 happened to my wife could happen to me. 589 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,000 There was a name of a certain person here in Beaumont 590 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,640 that was bandied about as a person who may have been involved. 591 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:56,120 It's a very prominent family, an Italian family, even, 592 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,880 to let you know that they're considered 593 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,080 part of the Beaumont mafia. 594 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,040 Next, a frightening accident. 595 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,960 A woman on the brink of death, a timely rescue 596 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,440 by an unknown Good Samaritan. 597 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,440 September 7, 1995, dusk on a four-lane highway near Ocala, 598 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,320 Florida. 599 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,680 48-year-old Wilma Drew was just a mile from home. 600 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,560 She had driven up this hill hundreds of times. 601 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,440 But this night, disaster was lurking. 602 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,840 A few miles away, a car had entered the highway 603 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,840 going the wrong way. 604 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,240 Now it was headed straight for Wilma at 55 miles an hour. 605 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,560 David Vittetto was driving right behind Wilma. 606 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,760 As we were approaching the crest, 607 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,000 saw headlights approaching us. 608 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,840 And the minute the lights came into view, 609 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,160 I immediately tried to get over in the right hand lane 610 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:17,960 to avoid the collision. 611 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,200 I automatically, just in my gut, knew 612 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,440 that somebody was going to be dead. 613 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,880 David raced to help the victims. 614 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,640 The driver and passenger in the wrong way 615 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,240 of the car seemed to be moving. 616 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,880 Wilma was not. 617 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,680 She was pinned in her car. 618 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,760 The steering column wedged up against her chest. 619 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,760 The driver's window was open, but the other windows 620 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,200 and all the doors were jammed. 621 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,320 You go out of my truck. 622 00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,720 I'll get a tool. 623 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,960 I decided to run back to the truck to grab a tire too. 624 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,560 I'll try to pry the door open or whatever 625 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,360 I could do to try to get into a sister possibly better. 626 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,840 Another good Samaritan, Matthew White, also stopped to help. 627 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,000 The two men didn't know it, but Wilma's neck had been broken, 628 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,120 cutting off her air passage. 629 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,600 Wilma was suffocating. 630 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,120 All the doors are jammed from the impact. 631 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,240 Her driver's side window was busted out on the driver's side 632 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,040 door. 633 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,920 So that's all we could do is reach through there. 634 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,280 And we couldn't break the windows out, 635 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,840 so we were trying to get someone who 636 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,720 has something that could break the window. 637 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:40,320 There we go. 638 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,800 To the house. 639 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,200 Stop, stop. 640 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,400 David tried flagging down help. 641 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,400 A tanker truck stopped. 642 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,920 Remarkably, the driver seemed to know exactly what to do 643 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:51,760 and how to do it. 644 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:58,600 You get it open? 645 00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,920 Just a little out of your truck. 646 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:00,680 Where do you stand back? 647 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,800 After I busted the window, he climbed in into the back seat 648 00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:12,560 and reached over and lifted and held Wilma's head up. 649 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,360 Wilma took a breath. 650 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:20,680 Is she breathing? 651 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:21,480 Yeah. 652 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:22,480 Let's get this thing off her. 653 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,280 Give her some room. 654 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,320 You got it? 655 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,800 Matthew and David struggled to lift the steering column 656 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,440 off Wilma's chest. 657 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:30,720 Come on. 658 00:34:30,720 --> 00:34:33,800 The trucker meanwhile kept her neck motionless. 659 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,080 It seemed like ours, but the ambulance 660 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,200 arrived 10 minutes later. 661 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,480 Hey, sir, I need you to let go and come out of the car, OK? 662 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,080 I'm not letting go until you put a brace around her neck. 663 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,560 And the paramedic was just insistent that he let go of her 664 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,680 head and get out of the car. 665 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,160 And the man would not let go of her head 666 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:13,440 until I held it while he got out and the paramedic got in. 667 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,240 You got her? 668 00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:15,120 You got her gently. 669 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,120 Yeah, I got her. 670 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,720 Wilma was stabilized. 671 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,320 In the midst of the commotion, no one 672 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,160 saw the truck driver leave. 673 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,160 No one had a chance to get more than a glimpse 674 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,840 of what he looked like. 675 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,040 Wilma's husband came upon the crash scene a short time later. 676 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,280 When I saw the vehicle, in my mind, 677 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,480 nobody could have lived through it. 678 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,080 I remember a lady ask me if that was my car, 679 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,320 and I said, yes, and my wife's dead. 680 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,640 And she says, no, she isn't. 681 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,960 They just left here where they're in the helicopter. 682 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,400 It would take 11 operations nearly a year 683 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,880 to begin to repair the damage. 684 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,000 Wilma's right leg had nearly been torn in half. 685 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,480 Her left ankle was shattered. 686 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,520 Her brainstem was so damaged that it 687 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,880 caused permanent double vision. 688 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,080 And the C2 vertebra and Wilma's neck 689 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,640 was completely severed. 690 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,640 The neurosurgeon told us that the break that she sustained 691 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,760 was called the hangman's break. 692 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,000 And it's typically what would happen in the old days 693 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,200 in the West when somebody would drop from a gallows, 694 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,840 the way the body would pull and jerk at the end. 695 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,840 And what he told us was he's never seen anybody survive that. 696 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,600 She's the only one he's ever seen surviving. 697 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,720 And he can't understand why she's still alive. 698 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:36,600 And that was kind of eerie. 699 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,000 I consider myself extremely fortunate. 700 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,440 And I've never really questioned why me. 701 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,440 I mean, I don't know why it happened to me. 702 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,440 But I know that there is a purpose for it. 703 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,480 And it's even peculiar to me that I'm 704 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,640 It's even peculiar that I've never experienced any anger. 705 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,520 I'm just very thankful to be alive. 706 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,280 The neurosurgeon said it was a miracle 707 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,160 that he didn't actually kill her in the process of lifting 708 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:10,880 her head. 709 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,280 She breathed? 710 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,440 But that he just he did it exactly right. 711 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,440 Had he done it any different, it wouldn't have worked. 712 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,320 He gave the doctor something to work with. 713 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,280 And he just saved her life and gave her back to us. 714 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,840 She is not the same person physically as she was. 715 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,560 She has limitations. 716 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,080 There's very little that she can do. 717 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,520 She tires easy. 718 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,280 And she has different sensations in her hands 719 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,720 like she can't tell heat and cold. 720 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:48,640 But now I consider myself the most 721 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,400 worst person in the world to have her back. 722 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,120 Thank you just really seems so insignificant 723 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:02,360 as far as the way we feel about the gratitude we have 724 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,160 that someone would take the time to get involved 725 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:11,160 and to do all he did for me and then just disappear. 726 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:30,200 Next, a young woman would like your help 727 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,600 to find her mother who disappeared 20 years ago. 728 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,640 A beautiful bride, a handsome groom, a fairytale wedding, 729 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,120 except for one sad detail. 730 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,560 The mother of the bride is missing. 731 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,600 She vanished from her daughter's life 23 years ago 732 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,040 and never returned. 733 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,800 She's still my mother. 734 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,760 And I still love her as a mother. 735 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,480 Just to see her. 736 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:08,920 Just to know that she's OK. 737 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,160 But the father of the bride, Robert Wortman, 738 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,200 has always been there for his daughter Stella Wortman-Hutt. 739 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,520 He has raised her since she was three. 740 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,120 And he believes that his former wife would have cherished 741 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:29,040 her daughter's special day and more. 742 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,560 She's missed so much of Stella's life. 743 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,000 Slumber parties, chicken pops, graduation, 744 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,480 and stuff like that there. 745 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,760 There's no need for her to miss any more. 746 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,480 Stella is now in her late 20s. 747 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,800 Her mother disappeared in 1975. 748 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,800 Stella often lies awake at night and wonders. 749 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,080 Why did her mother walk out of her family's life? 750 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,440 In 1972, Stella's father, Robert Wortman, 751 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,760 was a 22-year-old serving in the Air Force in Seoul, South 752 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,200 Korea. 753 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,600 He fell in love with a 20-year-old Korean woman 754 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,400 named Ook Cha. 755 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,920 Robert nicknamed her Sonny. 756 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,720 I realize now we're both from two different cultures. 757 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,400 And both of us were very young at the time. 758 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,480 Despite the odds against them, the couple married. 759 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,240 They welcomed their new baby a year later. 760 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,840 She was named Stella after Robert's mother. 761 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,280 The new family relocated to Tokyo, Japan. 762 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,280 Robert was to be stationed there for the next four years. 763 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:35,520 I remember my mom. 764 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,520 She worked at Ice Cream Paller. 765 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,360 And this was when I was about three. 766 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,480 That's basically that all I remember. 767 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,160 Sonny worked on the base to help support them. 768 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,400 Life was good, at least for the moment. 769 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,800 Hi, you want some ice cream? 770 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,600 Her mother took on a second job, working nights as a waitress. 771 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,920 Sonny seemed to live a double life. 772 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:01,960 She was rarely home. 773 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:07,760 My dad said that she hung around people who were kind of 774 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,640 into the wrong things, weren't really family oriented. 775 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,000 And he believes that she just wanted 776 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,880 to be around those people all the time. 777 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,080 That basically came first for her. 778 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,360 Tensions between husband and wife 779 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,760 continue to drive them apart. 780 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,160 Finally, they agree that Stella should spend time 781 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,560 with Robert's relatives. 782 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,800 Like most people, we had some family problems and stuff. 783 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,000 And I tried to work them out. 784 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,880 I thought it'd be best to get her into a more stable family, 785 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,960 which I brought her back to the United States 786 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,120 to my mother's program. 787 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,120 What are you doing? 788 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,200 Honey, oh, it's so good to see you. 789 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,200 Give me a kiss. 790 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:49,720 Give your grandma a kiss. 791 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,760 Oh, girl, you're looking so good. 792 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:52,920 Hi, Robert. 793 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:53,920 Come on in. 794 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:54,920 I'm going to get you a kiss. 795 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:55,920 I'm going to get you a kiss. 796 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:56,920 I'm going to get you a kiss. 797 00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:57,920 I'm going to get you a kiss. 798 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,440 Hi, Robert. 799 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,400 Come on inside. 800 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,680 Robert returned to Japan, hoping to patch up his marriage 801 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,160 and bring Sonny back with him to America. 802 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,640 Robert and Sonny worked out their differences, or so it seemed. 803 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,240 They were granted a transfer to New Jersey to be with Stella, 804 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:18,720 but there was one hitch. 805 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,120 So you'll be back on the 19th? 806 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,120 Yes, I just need a couple weeks. 807 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,280 Sonny said she wanted to see her family in South Korea 808 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,080 one last time. 809 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,280 Goodbye. 810 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,280 Goodbye. 811 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,600 But Robert had no idea that his wife had other plans in mind. 812 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,600 She was about to walk out of his life and Stella's. 813 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,080 What would motivate a mother to leave her child 814 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,560 without even saying goodbye? 815 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:52,160 Why would she keep this terrible secret from her husband? 816 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,360 Those very questions haunt Stella to this day. 817 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,360 I want to be able to ask her why she didn't show up for the day 818 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,200 when she was supposed to come with my father to New Jersey. 819 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,640 Why Sonny disappeared remains a mystery. 820 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,280 Robert eventually remarried and had another daughter. 821 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,560 Stella adored her stepmother, but often struggled 822 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,440 with her own identity. 823 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,200 I knew being Oriental, you know, that I had a mom who 824 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:21,920 was Oriental. 825 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,680 I knew back in the back of my mind 826 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,120 that I had a real mother somewhere just didn't know who she was 827 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,760 or where she was. 828 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,480 I thought about her, and I did miss her. 829 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,240 Like on Mother's Day, I would think about her. 830 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,840 On my birthday, I would think about her. 831 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,720 And it would cross my mind, like, did she ever think about me? 832 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,440 But in 1985, Stella received a surprise in the mail. 833 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:52,120 Out of the blue, Sonny had sent her daughter 834 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,880 four dresses and a stuffed animal. 835 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,280 Oh, look at that. 836 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,800 Oh, that's going to look nice on you. 837 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,840 It made me feel really, really good. 838 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,880 It felt good to know that she still thought about me, 839 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,040 that I crossed her mind. 840 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,120 Remember, I cried every time I held the stuffed animal. 841 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,400 I would just cry and hold it and go to sleep with it 842 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:24,040 and just snuggle it and just take it everywhere I went. 843 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,960 Now there's an extra incentive for Sonny to reunite with Stella. 844 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,720 She could meet her grandson, six-year-old Darius. 845 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,720 It's time to forgive and forget. 846 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:36,880 She probably has a new life. 847 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,240 I do too. 848 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:40,720 But Stella's part of our life. 849 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:42,080 So, you know, life's too short. 850 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,280 Let's enjoy the time. 851 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,440 Join us next time. 852 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,840 Perhaps you may help solve a mystery.