1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 The End 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Hope Grove, Kentucky had a dirty little secret. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 A house of ill repute which allegedly operated with a full 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 knowledge and protection of the police. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Then two prostitutes were murdered and the brewing scandal 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 boiled over. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 24 years old, blonde, pretty, an Olympic hopeful, 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 and missing for 18 months. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Could her husband have masterminded Amy Bechtel's 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 disappearance? 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Mississippi River, 1947. 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Mary Green piloted the riverboat Delta Queen for two years 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 before she passed away. 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Some crew members are convinced that she never left her post. 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 When she was only 14, Margie Hamilton was forced to marry 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 a man four times her age, then forced to give up their first 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 born for adoption. 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Perhaps you can help create a mother and son reunion. 20 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 For every mystery there is someone, somewhere who knows 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 the truth. 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Perhaps it's you. 23 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Join me for another edition of Unsolved Mysteries. 24 00:01:48,000 --> 00:02:06,000 A brutal double murder, allegations of police corruption, 25 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,000 a house of ill repute, and a madam who refuses to keep quiet. 26 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 It has all the elements. 27 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 It's a kind of case guaranteed to rip a small town apart. 28 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 September 20, 1994, 3 AM. 29 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 It was called a New Light Massage Parter, 30 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 but everyone in Oak Grove, Kentucky, 31 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 knew the girls were prostitutes. 32 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 This night, customers were scarce. 33 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Gloria, I'm going to go ahead and take Sarah home. 34 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 And then Mary and I are going to grab some drinks. 35 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 You want to go with us? 36 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 No, no thanks. 37 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 You sure? 38 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Yeah, I think I'll just. 39 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 22-year-old Candy Belt was a single mother working to support 40 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 two young children. 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 18-year-old Gloria Ross had been married less than a year 42 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 and had a six-week-old daughter. 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Two young women, perhaps a bit desperate, 44 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 just trying to pay the bills. 45 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Within the hour, both of them would be dead, 46 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000 shot execution style, their throats slashed. 47 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 I felt some responsibility for their deaths, at least. 48 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Tammy Papler ran the New Light Massage Parter. 49 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 You know, it's kind of like I'm, I'm like their mom 50 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 and I'm responsible. 51 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 And I'm supposed to see this through. 52 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Almost three years went by and the case remained unsolved. 53 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Then Tammy Papler went public with stunning accusations 54 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 about the police department, accusations that 55 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 have been widely disputed. 56 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 I don't think the murders were ever meant to be solved. 57 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 They thought if it got solved, it would be a really big 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 embarrassment to have two police officers arrested 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 for killing two prostitutes. 60 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Bring somebody the proof and the evidence needed 61 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 for indictments or convictions. 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I will assist any agency in their apprehension. 63 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Until then, I'm not going to point fingers at anybody. 64 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Hi. 65 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Tammy Papler opened the New Light Massage Parter in 1992. 66 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Like the tiny town of Oak Grove, its main business 67 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 was serving the soldiers at the Army's Fort Campbell 68 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 a half mile down the road. 69 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 According to Tammy Papler, the police didn't shut her down 70 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 because they stood to benefit in a big way. 71 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 She says New Light Massage Parter became City Hall's 72 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Golden Goose. 73 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 The police department would pick out specific things 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 for us to buy and they would order them. 75 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I know there were lights for just about every car, 76 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:47,000 shoes, uniforms, canine t-shirts, Christmas parties, 77 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Christmas bonuses. 78 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 They get basically what they want. 79 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Those little seven or eight police officers in the mayor 80 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 run the whole town. 81 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Hi Ed. 82 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Hi Tammy. 83 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Papler says one Oak Grove police officer took excessive 84 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 advantage, a patrolman named Ed Carter. 85 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Carter has denied the accusations you're about to hear. 86 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 So what can we do for you today Ed? 87 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Oh well, it's just in the neighborhood. 88 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Ed Carter would ask a lot more than the other officers would. 89 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 He wanted services and it was like, well I know what's going on. 90 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 You know, I'm a police officer. 91 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Who are they going to believe? 92 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 You or me? 93 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 He had the gun. 94 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 I didn't. 95 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Someone asked me for money and they have a gun. 96 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I'm going to give it, especially one that I know can put me in jail. 97 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 And that's exactly how everything got started. 98 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 According to Tammy Papler, once Carter got started he didn't stop. 99 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 He insisted that she contract with him for janitorial services, 100 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 services that he reportedly intended his own wife to perform. 101 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Papler claims Carter soon became a fixture at New Life. 102 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 When she went on vacation, Papler says Ed Carter virtually took control 103 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 of the massage parlor. 104 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Ed, what are you doing? 105 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Hold up, just making sure I'm- 106 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,000 You're telling my money Ed. 107 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 No, I'm down. 108 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 What's going on? 109 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Hey, I'm just taking care of business. 110 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 How long has he been here for? 111 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Ever since you've been gone. 112 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 It was like he was the madam. 113 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I wasn't the madam anymore. 114 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 It was actually like he was. 115 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 He was the one who was in charge of the parlor. 116 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 He was running it. 117 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Ed, put down my money. 118 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Look, I've helped you from day one. 119 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Ed, how much money have mine been taken? 120 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 I was furious with him. 121 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 I didn't want him around my business anymore. 122 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I didn't want him around the girls. 123 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I informed the girls you keep the door locked. 124 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 If he comes in you just shake your head no. 125 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Don't allow him to come inside this business. 126 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Get out of here! 127 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 I told him don't ever come around here again. 128 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 You stay away. 129 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 And I made sure we had had a meeting 130 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 and I informed each and every one of them this. 131 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 You do not allow him around here anymore. 132 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 It's the end of it. 133 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 A few weeks later, the murders. 134 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Oak Grove police were on the scene 135 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 minutes after the bodies were discovered. 136 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Please, I only want to see uniformed officers in this building. 137 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 By the time Major Billy Glouyde of the Christian County 138 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Sheriff's Department was called in to assist, 139 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 the crime scene had been severely compromised. 140 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 I want to see only uniformed officers in here, sir. 141 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Outside now. 142 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 The Oak Grove officer in charge was Detective Leslie Duncan. 143 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 According to Tammy Papler, he was well known to her. 144 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Duncan was also Ed Carter's former roommate. 145 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 I feel like Ed Carter killed them. 146 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 I honestly do. 147 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,000 I feel like he is the one who actually pulled the trigger. 148 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Mr. Carter's never run. 149 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 He's never fled the area. 150 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 He's never left the area. 151 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Whenever he was questioned, he always cooperated. 152 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 And I find it troubling that after three years, 153 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 that there are no closer to making an arrest 154 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 of anybody, much less Mr. Carter. 155 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Three years is a long time. 156 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Memories fade. 157 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Evidence disappears. 158 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 And the only thing that's the same here is these bare, 159 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,000 unsupported allegations that are being made by the Pat Paplers. 160 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 And I just question the motive. 161 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 I question their interest in this thing. 162 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Good evening, ladies. 163 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Slow night, huh? 164 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 According to the Sheriff's Department, 165 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Ed Carter freely admitted he stopped by the massage parter 166 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,000 that night, but claimed he went home to his wife at 3 AM 167 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 before the murders occurred. 168 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Carter and his wife have since gone through a divorce. 169 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,000 She disputes her ex-husband's alleged account. 170 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,000 He came in a few minutes after four. 171 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I made it a habit of looking up at the clock when he came in. 172 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 The two women were shot with a small caliber gun. 173 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 The police say Ed Carter told them he owned no such weapon. 174 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Again, his ex-wife disagrees. 175 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Ed did own a small caliber gun. 176 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 He kept it under the mattress for my protection. 177 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 It was not there that night. 178 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 I had not seen it from the Christmas 179 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 before the shootings. 180 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Ed Carter voluntarily took a polygraph exam 181 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 a few weeks after the murders. 182 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 I can't tell you whether or not he passed or failed his polygraph. 183 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 The only thing I can tell you is that he did resign 184 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,000 from the police department and that he did secure 185 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 an attorney after the polygraph. 186 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Soon after, Ed Carter moved to another part of Kentucky. 187 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 A year later, Leslie Duncan also voluntarily resigned. 188 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Despite Tammy Papler's efforts, the murder investigation languished. 189 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Finally claiming she was fed up, 190 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Tammy decided to make a public stink. 191 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 State your name, please. 192 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Tammy Papler. 193 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,000 She chose a city council meeting on July 15, 1997. 194 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 There were two girls killed in the massage parlor. 195 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I feel like they don't think these lives were important. 196 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 That these girls were as important as if, 197 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I don't know, maybe if there was a deputies daughter 198 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 or a mayor's daughter. 199 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 But I just feel like they felt they didn't have to investigate it 200 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 because no one's going to ask any questions. 201 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 They were just two dead prostitutes 202 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 and no one's going to care about it. 203 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 I have returned. 204 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 But at least one person at City Hall did care. 205 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,000 The one person who said she could verify some aspects of Papler's story 206 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 and her city councilwoman, Patty Ballou, 207 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 once known as Harley, one of Tammy's girls. 208 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I announced to everybody that her allegations of police corruption 209 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 and things of that nature were true. 210 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I'd known about them, about them coming in the parlor. 211 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,000 And the reason I know about that's because I used to work there. 212 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Patty Ballou had worked at the New Life Massage Parlor for two years. 213 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,000 She claimed she knew Ed Carter and some of his friends. 214 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 I always felt that the police officers were involved. 215 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 They were there all the time. 216 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 They knew the routine. 217 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 They knew everything. 218 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 They knew the ins and the outs about the place. 219 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:24,000 There's so many things that just kept pointing towards them. 220 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Ed Carter did not commit these murders. 221 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Yes, Ed Carter did work at this facility as a janitor. 222 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 But Ed Carter did not commit these murders. 223 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 He wants to have this matter as far as he's concerned. 224 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Brought to closure. 225 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 He wants to see the final chapter written where it can be stated. 226 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Without a doubt that Ed Carter had absolutely nothing to do with the murders 227 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 that occurred in the city of Oak Grove. 228 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Two young women dead. 229 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Two families destroyed. 230 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 And a killer walking free. 231 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 The controversy makes it all too easy to forget. 232 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,000 I hope that justice will be served. 233 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I hope that they charge the police officers. 234 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I hope they clean up the corruption. 235 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 And I hope they start the town all on you. 236 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Because that's the only way that it can honestly be cleaned up and brought. 237 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:26,000 But most of all, I want Gloria and Candy to know that we fought for them. 238 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,000 And that we're going to see justice as served one. 239 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Coming up. 240 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 In Wyoming, a marathon runner mysteriously disappears. 241 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Could her husband have been involved? 242 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Late afternoon. 243 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Late summer. 244 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 A runner moves easily along the mountain switchbacks 245 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 high above the small town of Lander, Wyoming. 246 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Her stride is strong, smooth. 247 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 That of a dedicated athlete. 248 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 An Olympic hopeful. 249 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Her name is Amy Roe Bechtel. 250 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 She is 24 years old. 251 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,000 On this day she runs into the tall trees of the Shoshone National Forest. 252 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 And disappears. 253 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Hi, Annie. 254 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Sam and I are going to do boys. 255 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Earlier that same day, it was a typical day for Amy and her husband, Steve. 256 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I'm going to have the phone turn on in the new place today. 257 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Okay. 258 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Bye. 259 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Bye. 260 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Steve was going rock climbing with a friend. 261 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 And Amy was going to teach a fitness class. 262 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Amy and Steve Bechtel have been married for a little more than a year. 263 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Both were competitive athletes. 264 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Running for Amy, climbing for Steve. 265 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,000 They moved to Lander because this rugged terrain made it a perfect training ground. 266 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Amy is always really fond of saying, you know, let's retire now and then we'll work when we're old. 267 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Yeah, we have some debts and we have to work some odd jobs and things like that. 268 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 But basically every day we live the way we want to. 269 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Amy and Steve had recently bought a home of their own. 270 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 They plan to move in over the next few days. 271 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:32,000 The night before Amy disappeared, I went over with Steve and Amy to see their new house and to help them move a load of stuff over there. 272 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,000 And Amy showed me where she was going to have her sewing room and where Steve was going to have his gym. 273 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 And they were just really excited about the house. 274 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Amy had a long list of errands that day. 275 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Call the phone company. 276 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Get the gas turned on. 277 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Buy home insurance. 278 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Once those tasks were done, she turned to something fun. 279 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Planning a route for a 10K mountain run. 280 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Hey man, what you find? 281 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Hey Todd. 282 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Found a nice friction climb. 283 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,000 How tough. 284 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 When Steve returned from his all day climbing trip, Amy wasn't home yet. 285 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 He was just talking casually and he asked about Amy. 286 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 And I said, I don't know, she's up somewhere, she goes, okay, no problem. 287 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Hey guys. 288 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Hi Steve. 289 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Early evening, Steve stopped by the neighbors. 290 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Todd and his wife Amy were making dinner. 291 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Amy Bechtel still wasn't home. 292 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 I think he was getting more and more worried at this time. 293 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 She usually leaves a note. 294 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 I'm sure she'll be back soon. 295 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:44,000 He wasn't panicking by any means because it was still light and still, you know, she could have been out doing something. 296 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 It was not an, an, an, an, an ordinary day for Amy. 297 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,000 So we didn't think it was unusual that she was gone. 298 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,000 But when we got back from the movie, I was really worried. 299 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Amy's not back yet. 300 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 She's not back? 301 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 No. 302 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 I haven't heard anything from her. 303 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,000 I called the police, they're out looking for her. 304 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Todd and Amy searched Rose where Amy Bechtel most likely went running. 305 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Steve stayed behind, hoping his wife would call. 306 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Todd and I had been driving on the loop road for about an hour or so. 307 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:24,000 And right around one o'clock, we glimpsed Amy's car up, pulled off the side of the road. 308 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Look Todd, there it is. 309 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Okay. 310 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 That's her car. 311 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 We saw her car there and it was like, you know, we were relieved. 312 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 It's like, oh man, we thought we'd found her. 313 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,000 So I walked up, it's completely expecting for her to be in the car. 314 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 She's not in there. 315 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Like, and had run out of gas or not been able to start it or a dead battery or who knows what the heck. 316 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 I'll go call the sheriff. 317 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Amy! 318 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,000 At that point it was relief, you know, and concern because, you know, her car's still up there 319 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:02,000 and it's, you know, after midnight and, you know, she's probably cold and maybe has a twisted ankle. 320 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Amy! 321 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 But Amy was nowhere to be found. 322 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Not in a few minutes, not even a few hours. 323 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Amy! 324 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 By morning, the search for Amy had expanded dramatically. 325 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Soon dozens of volunteers were scouring the mountains. 326 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Eventually more than 500 people covered a 20 mile radius. 327 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Not a single clue was found. 328 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:35,000 We should have found Amy Bechtel if she were a runner up there and nothing else entered the picture. 329 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Could she still be there? 330 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Yes. 331 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Given the circumstances, the lack of clues. 332 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 I don't think she is. 333 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,000 After eight days, the massive search was called off. 334 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Where was Amy Bechtel? 335 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Her sunglasses, car keys and a dualist are on the seat of her car, apparently just as she had left them. 336 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Only her wallet was missing. 337 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 If she wasn't injured, it's something terrible happened to her. 338 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Had she been kidnapped, even murdered. 339 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Sheriff's investigators soon tested a theory, some found shocking. 340 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Steve, you know what this is? 341 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 No. 342 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,000 This is evidence that ties you directly to Amy's disappearance. 343 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 I can't believe this is happening. 344 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 I was pretty blown away, you know, and I turned to Dave. 345 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 I was like, you know, Dave, what's going on here? 346 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,000 And then this is not cool. 347 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 He was floored, basically. 348 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 He slumped down in the chair. 349 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 We have some serious questions about you and your wife's relationship. 350 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 The best thing you can do right now is cooperate. 351 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 The guy says, look, if you take a polygraph test, we'll get this cleared up right now. 352 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,000 And I was like, wait a minute, you know, if you guys are accusing me of something I didn't do, 353 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 I'm going to want to talk to the legal counsel here. 354 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 I wouldn't let any client take a lie detector test. 355 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 They're completely inaccurate. 356 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 They come in about one third of the time as a false positive. 357 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:09,000 And it would be a terrible injustice to Steve if he fell within that one third false positive 358 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 and it was used wrongly against him. 359 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000 So Steve Bechtel did not take a lie detector test. 360 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Deputies armed with a warrant searched his home. 361 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Among the items he confiscated were a series of journals Steve had been keeping since high school. 362 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Journals investigators found potentially incriminating. 363 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,000 We've obtained many pages of writings, journals if you will, of Steve Bechtel's. 364 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Those are somewhat disturbing. 365 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:48,000 There are song lyrics in there and there are writings about power and death, some about killing people. 366 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Sheriff's investigators asked Amy's family and friends to read excerpts. 367 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Did you see that? 368 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,000 I was floored. 369 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:05,000 At that point my wife and I, we both thought, you know, there are some things that we've seen in the past 370 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,000 that maybe somebody should be aware of. 371 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:15,000 There was one night, for instance, on Nell's row and his wife had Amy and Steve over for dinner. 372 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Did you get that bruise? 373 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 It's nothing, it's just a bruise. 374 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Just a bruise? 375 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Just a bruise. 376 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 You know, Steve can get a little rough sometimes. 377 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Amy just laughed it off, would not let me in the eye and I said, that is not a normal reaction, particularly for Amy. 378 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Deputies also found a camper who claimed that on the day Amy disappeared, 379 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:44,000 she had seen a blue pickup driving fast on the mountain roads near where Amy's car was found. 380 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000 A man was at the wheel, a blonde woman in the passenger seat. 381 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,000 The next day, the camper saw the same truck at the search site. 382 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Based on that information we showed her pictures of Steve Bechtel's truck and she concluded that that was the same truck she had seen. 383 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Evidence seemed to be mounting against Steve Bechtel, but was that evidence accurate? 384 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Statistically he did it. 385 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying he did. 386 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:23,000 The first person we have to eliminate in a case where there may be a foul play involved in one's disappearance is the person closest to that person. 387 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Sheriff's investigators believe there were vital gaps in Steve's activities that day, time when he could have harmed Amy. 388 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:43,000 He was with people all that afternoon and evening, so I don't have any question about that, he just didn't have the time. 389 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,000 But what about the camper who said she saw what might have been Steve's truck? 390 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:57,000 According to phone records, Steve made a call from his house at 4.43 that afternoon. 391 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Johnny, hey it's Steve. 392 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:09,000 That's about the same time the camper saw what she alleged was his truck on the mountain road, a 45 minute drive from the Bechtel's home. 393 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:16,000 I don't see how Steve ever had the time to get up to where Amy's car was and back. 394 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 And what about Motive? 395 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Investigators believe Steve's journals show a desire for power and control that may have led to murder. 396 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Steve and Amy's friend Todd Skinner strongly disagrees. He thinks Steve is innocent. 397 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:39,000 A psychologist can read anything into any writing that you can ever wish to put in there. 398 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:49,000 And to me I've never seen more innocuous writing taken out of context more heavily to a worse result. 399 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:57,000 This year, runners competed in the run for Amy in her hometown of Douglas, Wyoming. 400 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Amy's family and friends were there to honor her memory, but they still want answers. 401 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 They want Steve to take a polygraph test. 402 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:13,000 I don't feel like me going in and getting attacked is going to solve any problems. 403 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:19,000 I feel like, you know, I went and I tried to work with Dave and it didn't work out. 404 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:24,000 And, you know, things need to get solved a different way now. 405 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Did Steve Buchtel murder his wife? 406 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Steve and his family believe a stranger could have kidnapped her. 407 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Or a motorist could have accidentally struck Amy in a panic disposed of her body. 408 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Next, meet a young man and woman whose lives have been changed forever by a riverboat captain who some call the matchmaker ghost. 409 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:57,000 The Delta Queen, a national treasure, was built in the 1820s. 410 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 During World War II, she transported wounded soldiers to hospitals. 411 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Then the vessel was refurbished to carry vacationers. 412 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:10,000 She is one of the last living monuments of the Romantic era when steamboats plied the Mississippi. 413 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:17,000 But there is another side to the Delta Queen, a rather scary side. 414 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,000 It was a stormy December night in New Orleans. 415 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,000 The Delta Queen rested impatiently for repairs. 416 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Her first mate, a single man named Mike Williams, was the only person on board. 417 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:43,000 I was quite exhausted and was sleeping a very deep, solid sleep when I was awakened by a sound. 418 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,000 As if someone had said, psst, next to my ear. 419 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:56,000 I was quite startled because I couldn't understand how someone could have gotten in my room and out so quickly without me hearing the door open and close. 420 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 There was a very loud slamming of a door back in the after cabin lounge area. 421 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:12,000 I had personally made sure that every one of those doors was locked before I had retired. 422 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 There was not supposed to be anyone on the vessel. 423 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:25,000 I proceeded down several doors until I arrived at cabin 109 and it swung open in my hand. 424 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,000 I was a little frightened and intimidated. I took a flashlight and looked in the room. 425 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 There was no one there. 426 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Mike had heard stories that the steamboat was haunted. He had always brushed them off. 427 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:52,000 But how could a door that was locked suddenly slam shut? That's what drew him to cabin 109. 428 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 That moment for the sceptical Mike Williams was clearly frightening. 429 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Indeed, it would be the first incident in a chain of events that would change him forever. 430 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Two women would soon come into his life. One was a co-worker on the Delta Queen. 431 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,000 The other was also a worker on the ship but had died 40 years earlier. 432 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Mary Green had been one of a handful of women to ever pilot a steamboat. 433 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:23,000 She was in charge of the Delta Queen from the time it was purchased in 1947. 434 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Mary was 79. 435 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,000 She oversaw a lot of the day-to-day operations, financial, even navigating the boat, 436 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,000 managing deckhands, painting the paddle wheel, supervising food preparations and everything. 437 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000 She really doted on this boat. She loved it. 438 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Sadly, after only two years of piloting the boat, Mary died. 439 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Where? Where else? 440 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Cabin 109, the same cabin that was mysteriously unlocked that night. 441 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Much of what Mary Green did when she was alive, Mike Williams does now. 442 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:11,000 But Mike had no idea that Mary's unearthly connection to him would transform his life in a very surprising way. 443 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Another night on the Delta Queen, this one in June 1985. 444 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Hello? 445 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000 An attractive young woman named Myra Fruget, a new Delta Queen employee, was working late. 446 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:41,000 I received a call from an elderly lady in a cabin and she stated that she was cold and she was very uncomfortable. 447 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000 And could I please send someone? 448 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:53,000 At this particular evening, Mike Williams was the mate and I called up there and he answered and I told him the situation. 449 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Hello? It's the mate. Does someone need help? 450 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Myra had sent him to cabin 109. 451 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:13,000 The beds were made, little mints on the pillows. The room was obviously unoccupied that cruise. 452 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:27,000 It was around this time that had this feeling that somebody was behind me or looking at me and certainly through the window I saw this little round, benevolent face. 453 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:33,000 But something was eerie about it. I thought, well, perhaps that's the lady who needs assistance. 454 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:39,000 So I walked out of the Persia's office to see if I could catch up with her and talk to her. 455 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 And she wasn't there. There was no one outside on the decks. 456 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,000 I was, you know, a little shook up and I went back into the Persia's office. 457 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 Yeah, come in. 458 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Miss Fruget, I just came from room 109. There's nobody there. You're sure it was 109? 459 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Absolutely. 460 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:08,000 No passenger was registered for cabin 109. Mike held his tongue about who had once occupied the room. 461 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:15,000 But Myra told him about her odd experience. She was so upset by it that Mike offered to walk her back to her cabin. 462 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Wait. That's the woman I saw. 463 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 The woman in the portrait was Mary Green. 464 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:33,000 It was very, very scary at first. Surprising too because I just saw her on the deck. 465 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:44,000 But for me, it was kind of exhilarating. I began to suspect that someone was trying to introduce me to this young lady. 466 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Myra and I became very close. We just clicked. Each one of us had something that the other needed. 467 00:29:53,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Captain Mary and life had become matchmaker Mary and death. Mike and Myra fell in love and got married. 468 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000 We stayed together, a newlywed couple in a tiny cabin on board the vessel. 469 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000 And that is where our beautiful daughter Heather was conceived. 470 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:20,000 I certainly believe in him. Very thankful for that nice spirit in our life, Mary Green, who brought us together. 471 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:33,000 I believe sincerely that so long as I care for this vessel in some way, that the Captain Mary Green's spirit will protect our family and guide us as she has. 472 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:44,000 Myra and Mike are living happily ever after. Mary, meanwhile, lives happily in the hereafter, watching over them and the Delta Queen. 473 00:30:51,000 --> 00:31:04,000 America's highways are becoming a war zone. Forget to signal when you switch lanes or dare to play the radio too loud, and you could find yourself under attack. 474 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000 It's a modern madness, road rage. 475 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:15,000 People have been upset on the highway as long as there have been highways. The problem today is we've got more crowdedness. 476 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:21,000 We've got more cars and less room, and we're a little impatient today than we were in the past. 477 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:31,000 The smallest thing can get us going. You're in my way. I'm trying to get to my destination. I feel frustrated, and frustration leads to aggression. 478 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:40,000 February 5, 1997. It started as a minor fender bender, hardly worth reporting. 479 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Geez, I don't freaking believe it. 480 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 I was in my own lane due in the speed limit. You apparently hit me. 481 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000 What are you telling me? 482 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Hey, just settle down. 483 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000 First you got me off the highway, and now you pull this self-righteous crap? You piece of garbage. 484 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Hey, you haven't got the right to talk to me like that. Let me see your license. 485 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,000 Yeah, you want to see my license? 486 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Yes, I... 487 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:07,000 47-year-old Richard Adderson had been shot once in the chest. What you're about to hear is a desperate plea for help. 488 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000 State police, second 911. 489 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 I did an ad for his under-shadow. 490 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000 What's your name, sir? 491 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,000 Richard Adderson. I'm his son. He pulled the gun and shot me. Please help me. 492 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 OK, we have an ambulance, anyway. 493 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,000 We had an accident, and Richard deserved it. He pulled out a gun, he shot me. 494 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 All police help me. He worked last year. 495 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 I couldn't believe that he had been shot. 496 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000 You live in an area that you think is safe. 497 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,000 We came from New York City. We moved north. 498 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 I couldn't believe that something like that could happen here. 499 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 When I heard the 911 tape, 500 00:32:52,000 --> 00:33:02,000 I had an overwhelming sense of Richard's pain and his fear. 501 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:10,000 I think his fear was for his family and his children. 502 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,000 Richard Adderson, beloved family man, respected educator, 503 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,000 died less than an hour after making his feudal call to 911. 504 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:29,000 The incident occurred during a rush hour accident on eastbound I-84 in Fishkill, New York, 505 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 about two miles past the Newburgh Beacon Toll Plaza. 506 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Evidence indicates Richard Adderson was side-swiped by the other driver, 507 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000 and both men pulled over to the shoulder. 508 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,000 I have never come across another crime that parallels this one. 509 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,000 We're speaking here about a minor property damage automobile accident 510 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,000 that escalates into an argument and results in the death of one of the individuals. 511 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,000 Though no one saw the accident or the shooting, there were witnesses to the argument. 512 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 A gunman was middle-aged, balding, and wore glasses. 513 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000 Richard Adderson added another detail. His assailant had a beard. 514 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 The gunman drove a green 1997 Jeep Cherokee with New Hampshire plates. 515 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Though the shooting occurred in Fishkill, New York, state troopers are naturally tracing 516 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 all such vehicles registered in New Hampshire. 517 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,000 In the meantime, Richard Adderson's family and friends mourn his passing. 518 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000 Still unable to understand why. 519 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,000 I don't think we are dealing with it. I don't think that you can deal with this. 520 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 My youngest son this morning told me when I came here, 521 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000 how long are you going to be? You have to be really careful in the car. 522 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000 Something could happen to you. Those are the fears that he has, 523 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000 because I'm his only parent that's left. 524 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 My two older daughters can't even speak about this. 525 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000 It's unfathomable to have to experience this. 526 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Next, two families search for their long lost children. 527 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 Perhaps your help can lead to a reunion like this. 528 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:18,000 In this next segment, we hope you'll be able to reunite two more families. 529 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Both lost loved ones many years ago. 530 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Their most cherished hope is to find them before it is too late. 531 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000 I take thee as my wedded husband. 532 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000 I take thee as my wedded husband. 533 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000 To have and to hold. 534 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000 To have and to hold. 535 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Imagine you were a young girl, barely fourteen. 536 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Your mother is dying. 537 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,000 In desperation, she begs you to marry a man she hopes will care for you. 538 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000 A man more than four times your age. 539 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000 That's exactly what happened to Margie Elizabeth Hamilton in May of 1932. 540 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,000 Over the years, she told the story to her daughter many times. 541 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000 The pain as vivid as if it had happened yesterday. 542 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,000 My mother didn't really want to marry because she was a child. 543 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 And she wasn't happy about it. 544 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000 And she told her mother that she didn't want to marry him. 545 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 But my grandmother was afraid that there wouldn't be anyone to take care of her. 546 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 And she would be left in them alone. 547 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:33,000 Margie's new husband was James Austin Baker, a lumberyard worker in Atlanta, Georgia. 548 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:41,000 Within a year or so of their marriage, Margie gave birth to a son, Benjamin Austin Baker, Benny for short. 549 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 To her, he was a doll. 550 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000 You know, it was her doll. 551 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,000 And she just was really, really happy with him because she's a very loving mother. 552 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Her husband, however, was not pleased. 553 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000 He already had three grown children from a previous marriage. 554 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 He didn't want more. 555 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 When Benny was 18 months old, he became ill. 556 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000 So ill that Margie had to leave him in the hospital for three days. 557 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000 When she returned, her baby was gone. 558 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,000 She was hysterical and trying to find out where to go to try to get him back. 559 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000 And no one would give her any information. 560 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000 How could that be? 561 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Behind her back, her husband had given Benny up for adoption. 562 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Why did my husband do this to me? Is my son blamed? 563 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000 There was nothing she could do. Benny was gone. 564 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And I said to her, Mama, why did you stay with him after he did this? 565 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000 And she said he always promised me that he would sign the paper so that I could get Benny back. 566 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000 And that's the reason that I stayed with him. 567 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000 Three years later, Margie gave birth to a daughter, Naomi. 568 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,000 Three years after that, her second daughter, Lois. 569 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,000 He tried the same thing to get rid of us, too, my sister and myself. 570 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000 And we were in California at the time, and the laws were different, and that was in the 40s. 571 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:27,000 So he couldn't, and by that time my mother had learned to read and write, so they didn't take us away from her. 572 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000 In 1944, James Baker died. 573 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Finally, Margie was free to search for Benny. 574 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,000 But when she went back to the Orphanage in Atlanta, she was given only a photo taken when Benny was about seven years old. 575 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000 They told her the wreckers were sealed to forget she had ever had a son. 576 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,000 She gave up at that point, but she just figured that she would never see him again. 577 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:06,000 But her main thing was she always wanted him to know that she didn't give him away, that he was literally stolen from her. 578 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:22,000 Lois knows there may not be much time left for a reunion, but she clings to the hope that she can give her mother, now 80, one last precious gift. 579 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:28,000 It would be so wonderful to be able to say, mama, here's Benny, here's your son. 580 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000 Mama, here's your son. 581 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000 Hopefully Lois will get a chance to say those words. 582 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,000 Another family is also eager to have that opportunity, and their search is equally heart-wrenching. 583 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000 This time for two sons. 584 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:55,000 January 23, 1950, twin boys, Jerry and Terry, were born to the Robinson family in upstate New York. 585 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 They were the youngest of six children, welcomed and well-loved. 586 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,000 But Terry had health problems, and their father was out of work. 587 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Times were very hard. 588 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Gail Robinson, the oldest child, still remembers how they struggled to make ends meet. 589 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:18,000 I don't think there was enough to go around for all of us, that's for certain. 590 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000 And so I think that's when it became apparent they had to do something. 591 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000 The twins were just eight months old. Gail was six. 592 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,000 Honey, I know this is going to be hard for you to understand, 593 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000 but the babies are going to be a little bit more difficult for you to understand. 594 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000 But the babies are going to go away today. 595 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000 They're going to go live with another family. 596 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000 And Terry, he's going to see the doctor. 597 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000 The doctor's going to make him all better. 598 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000 And we'll get to see him again one day. 599 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000 I promise. 600 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,000 Okay? 601 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000 A local minister said he would find the twins a good home. 602 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,000 He also promised that the boys would be kept together, and would be given college education. 603 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000 And at the age of 18, they would be told about their birth parents. 604 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000 I promise. I'll see you again. 605 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,000 After that day, the Robinsons never heard another word about their twin boys. 606 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000 They never knew if the conditions had been kept, if they had ever been told that their birth family still mourned their loss. 607 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000 Nine years later, Gail's father became fatally ill. 608 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000 I promise. 609 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,000 I'll find the twins. 610 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000 My mother is now 76 years of age. 611 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:02,000 That it really would be something that would give her some peace of mind if she knew what would happen to them. 612 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,000 That's the twin mother's page. 613 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Over the years, the Robinsons tried their best. 614 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000 But all these turned out to be dead ends. 615 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:17,000 They have now built a website that features photos of the twins as babies and their siblings at various ages. 616 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000 Both boys may bear a strong resemblance to their brothers, Alan and Ron. 617 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:29,000 Part of the genetic history that runs in our family is that my father and his three sisters all died of colon cancer. 618 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000 And colon cancer is very high rated in males. 619 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,000 And my brother and I have to take care of ourselves and be checked up for that. 620 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000 And we feel very strongly that our brothers should know that as well. 621 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000 Jerry and Terry Robinson would now be 48 years old. 622 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000 They were adopted in upstate New York in 1950. 623 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Terry may have had operations on his ears and feet. 624 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,000 Update 625 00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:02,000 Within minutes of our broadcast, a viewer contacted our phone center to tell us that Benjamin Austin Baker once lived as a foster child in his home. 626 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:09,000 With this information, Lois Baker Lane was able to locate her long lost brother in Everton, Washington. 627 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,000 We will bring you the emotional reunion of Benny Baker with his long lost mother and sister on a future program. 628 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Join me next time. 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