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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries.

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Jessica was 15, a cheerleader, and in some ways much too naive.

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She should never have accepted the ride that led to this,

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fleeing for her life in a lonely cemetery.

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Recently, a series of spectacular sightings

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have the entire state of Arizona buzzing about UFOs

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and visitors from beyond the world.

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The military said the strange lights were just flares,

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but eyewitnesses say it just isn't so.

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It was supposed to be a night to relax and have fun.

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Then a young marine found himself surrounded by gangbangers

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with no way out.

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Perhaps one of our viewers can help track down the men

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who shattered Joffrey Rymus' life and dreams.

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The bizarre case of reaching out to the police

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was a very strange experience.

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The bizarre case of Rachel Timmerman began when she accused

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a man known to some as a town bully of raping her.

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Then Rachel and her young daughter Shannon abruptly disappeared,

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as did three other people.

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The common link?

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This man, the same man who allegedly raped Rachel Timmerman.

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Also a poignant and heartwarming reunion

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is a result of a phone call from one of our viewers.

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Join me. Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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Madison County, Ohio, March 16, 1991.

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A teenager runs for her life.

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She has to outrun her assailants.

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She scrambles over a fence and lands in a cemetery.

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A few hours earlier, her clothes were torn off.

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She was raped in a car and held hostage.

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Somehow she escaped.

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Now she hides behind tombstones.

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She tries to get out of the graveyard,

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but in the pitch black smashes into a fence post.

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The men catch up.

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They strike her face with a blunt object,

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and they leave her to die.

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Her name was Jessica Lynn Keen.

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She was only 15 years old.

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Later investigators are able to pinpoint Jessica's final movements

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based on clues in and around the crime scene.

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Mud on the fence.

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A sock that belonged to her.

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An impression of her knee in the ground.

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But they didn't have a clue about why anyone would want to kill her.

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The gruesome murder of Jessica Lynn Keen

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has baffled local and state detectives for years.

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Jessica had been a popular cheerleader,

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an honor student, and a talented performer,

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and a young woman with goals and dreams.

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Jessica, idealistically, would have loved it

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had been a singer and actress.

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I guess realistically, Jessica was loved animals

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and going wanting to go to college to be a zoologist.

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She was always laughing, always smiling, always singing,

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always fun to be around.

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Hey, Susie. Hey, Jen.

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Hey, Jen. How you two doing?

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Not much. Sean's supposed to meet me here in a little bit.

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That year, Jessica's life began to have its ups and downs.

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It had to do with being a teenager.

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It had to do with rebellion.

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It had to do with meeting her first love,

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18-year-old Sean Thompson.

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Hey, Sean.

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It wasn't an issue for Jessica or her mother

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that Sean was a different race,

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but it did bother her mother that Sean had had minor brushes with the law

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and that he was a high school dropout.

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I would forbid her to see Sean

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and say you can't see him till your grades come up.

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But I was concerned. We discussed her, you know, as far as her going to college.

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She knew she'd have to keep a good grade average in order to get a scholarship

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and her grades started dropping.

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She had skipped school a couple of times to be with Sean.

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Jessica wanted to get away from her mom.

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She thought about running away, but she didn't actually know where to go

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and she didn't want to be a runaway.

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And of course she's threatening, you know,

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I don't want to live with you anymore, but I knew I had to do something.

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Arguments between Jessica and Rebecca escalated into fury.

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They desperately needed a cooling off period.

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Mother and daughter mutually decided that Jessica should spend two weeks

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at a local live-in counseling center for teenagers.

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I've got some questions I want to ask too.

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Hi, Sean. What are you up to?

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On Friday, March 15th, the day before she was to move back home

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and just hours before she died,

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Jessica and Sean ended up getting to an argument that day

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on the telephone at which point they broke up.

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Numerous people witnessed this telephone call

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and said that Jessica was very visibly upset.

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Later, Jessica told a friend that she was going to the mall.

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She was last seen at a bus stop near the center at 6 p.m.

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Authorities suspect that Jessica was abducted.

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Come on, hop in. We'll give you a ride.

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No, it's OK.

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There is a chance that maybe it was somebody who Jessica kind of knew,

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maybe wasn't really good friends with,

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but familiar enough with them to trust them enough to get into the car.

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Thanks, guys.

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Not knowing what would ultimately happen.

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Jessica's body was found 42 hours later,

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20 miles from the bus stop.

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It was noon on Sunday.

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Investigators surmise that after Jessica was abducted,

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she was held captive for at least six hours.

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Based on a seaman sample,

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they believe she was raped two to four hours

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before she escaped from the car.

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This is the first time she's been to a bus stop

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before she escaped from the car.

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This is the road here that Jessica ran down

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after she was able to get out of the vehicle.

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I don't think she had any idea at the time

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that she was actually climbing into a cemetery to hide,

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but that was at that point that was her only means

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for getting away from whoever was chasing her.

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This is the area where the crime scene investigators found

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one of Jessica's socks.

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She obviously lost it while she was running.

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The sock that was found matched the one

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that remained on Jessica's foot.

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We do know that she hid behind this headstone.

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That was based on the crime scene investigators

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found her knee print and the soft ground

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behind the headstone.

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Please help me.

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I do your duty.

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We are pretty certain that Jessica saw the light on

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from the farmhouse,

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and that's what she turned to run for

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when she collided with the fence posts

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in the back of the cemetery.

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when she got back here,

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because it's so dark out here at night,

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she was not able to see the fence back here

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and collided with this fence post.

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she knocked herself down,

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and at that point her assailants were able to

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catch up with her when this is the spot

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where she was ultimately killed.

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I've never been so passionate about anything

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that I've ever worked on in my life.

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The thought of this young girl, 15 years old,

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who had such a bright future,

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being murdered in such a horrible, horrible fashion,

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you cannot help but want to do everything

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humanly possible to find out who did this.

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Sheriffs and Madison County turned their attention

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to Jessica's boyfriend,

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but Shawn Thompson wasn't in Columbus.

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He had left for Florida with some friends.

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They were ultimately returned to Ohio.

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Shawn was questioned.

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The friends that had gone with him were also questioned,

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and through the questioning,

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examination of physical evidence,

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we have all been eliminated,

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the boyfriend and the friends.

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DNA evidence from the seaman sample

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did not match Shawn or the others.

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The group was cleared of any wrongdoing,

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but an entire week had been lost.

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A trail of the actual killer or killers had grown cold.

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Jessica's death never stops haunting her mother.

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What they did to her,

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the fear that Jessica felt.

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She would do anything to get away.

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I can feel her heartbeat running through the cemetery.

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I can feel the deep breathing she was probably doing

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when she knelt behind the tombstone.

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I can hear her praying.

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I realized that that was the worst thing

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that I believe anyone could go through.

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I prayed to God to this,

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that when she hit that fence, it knocked her out.

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I'm not revengeful.

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God has the only right to take someone's life.

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But if someone does something

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usually gets away with it,

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they'll do it again.

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I know that this is one of the last chances

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we'll really have to find out who did this.

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Next, when a peculiar V-formation of light

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appears over Phoenix,

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many claim the Air National Guard is the cause,

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but those who actually see it feel very differently.

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Roswell, New Mexico, 1947.

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A mysterious explosion.

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Unidentified debris found in a remote pasture

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sparks a UFO frenzy.

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Official explanation, a downed weather balloon.

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Bentwater's Air Force Base, England, 1980.

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Multiple sightings of strange lights and aircraft.

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Official explanation, a meteor shower.

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Hudson Valley, New York, 1983 to 1989.

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Mysterious V-shaped formations

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seen by hundreds of local residents.

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Official explanation, an elaborate hoax.

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For UFO buffs, it's always the same story.

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An unprecedented event,

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followed by an official brush-off.

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Now some say it has happened again in Phoenix, Arizona.

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All right, you tell me what it is.

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March 13, 1997, 10 p.m.

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Oh, what do we got?

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A man named Michael Christen shot this videotape.

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Take a look at this.

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And before I know it,

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a rare display of lights comes on.

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I got a little excited at that time,

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and I called my wife.

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It took her about a minute to get over there,

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and it was really quite unusual.

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Michael Christen wasn't alone.

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This videotape was shot around the same time,

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15 miles away.

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Look at this, three of them all together.

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I got the third one popping.

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There's one behind the chimney.

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In fact, the bizarre lights were seen

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in the original residence that night.

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An explainable series of strange bright lights

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seen over the skies of Arizona

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gets a lot of people wondering what the heck they saw.

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Not surprisingly, an official explanation soon emerged

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from Captain Drew Sullens of the Air National Guard.

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The 104th Fighter Squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard's

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175th Wing was conducting a night training exercise

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in the vicinity of the mysterious lights,

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and what they were doing was dropping night illumination flares

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over the North Tactical Range at Luke Air Force Base.

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And a lot of people seemed to think

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that those flares could in fact have been

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the quote-unquote mysterious lights.

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Flares.

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It seemed perfectly plausible and was widely accepted.

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However, there was one little problem with the military explanation.

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They said they'd only drop flares between 9 and 10 p.m.

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But the most impressive sightings occurred earlier

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between 8 and 9 p.m.

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Taken together, these highly credible eyewitness accounts

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seemed to indicate that there was something other than flares

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in the Arizona sky that night.

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Was it an extraordinary UFO event?

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Judge for yourself.

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8, 10 p.m.

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Nearly an hour before the military would begin dropping flares,

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Ross Nicol and his family were on Highway 89

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just outside Chino Valley, 90 miles north of Phoenix.

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Hey, Dad, do you see that light over there?

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Where?

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Over the horizon.

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I looked out the window and I saw some lights

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in a very small pattern.

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And what they really looked like at that point

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was just dim stars, several of them in a very tight pattern.

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Wow.

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Let me have a look at this first.

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They were white like stars when they were coming towards us.

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And at that point they changed colors and went from white to red.

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They were just overhead at that point

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and they were, in my estimation, not very high off the ground.

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I'm guessing 1,000 feet.

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And there was absolutely no sound.

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During the whole time from the start to the finish,

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there was absolutely no sound.

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What is it?

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I have no idea.

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There was definitely five of them.

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They were basically on a flight pattern of some kind

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that was fairly uniform.

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10 minutes later, 8.30 p.m., 90 miles south,

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a commercial airline pilot and his wife

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were driving home after dinner.

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For professional reasons, a pilot agreed to tell his story

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only if his identity was concealed.

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They don't look like fighters.

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That's a show formation.

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I've been flying for 29 years now

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and I'm not used to looking up in the sky

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and not being able to figure out what I'm seeing.

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I looked at it then and tried to make it into an airliner.

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I realized, again, it's going too slow.

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And oh, by the way, there's no noise at all.

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Definitely not fighters.

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And then the next thing that struck me is that,

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yeah, and why would his landing lights be pointed

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straight down?

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Because the lights appeared to be about five lights

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arrayed in this V formation with landing lights

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pointed straight down.

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Ross Nicol and his family had seen the lights here.

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The pilot and his wife saw them here.

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Whatever it was seemed to be on a definite southerly course.

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14 miles southeast of the pilot's sighting,

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Osma Linderman and her boyfriend

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had their own peculiar encounter.

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Keep in mind, the military would not begin

308
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000
dropping flares for another half hour.

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What is that?

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Looks like it's going to crash.

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Wait.

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It was very clear in my mind that it was one solid craft.

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The lights were traveling too perfectly,

314
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spaced apart, and there was a void clearly between the lights

315
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that blacked out the stars when it came down.

316
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Look at that one.

317
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Wow.

318
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Where's it going?

319
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I don't know.

320
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The whole thing just slowed, I don't know,

321
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maybe to a stop or it hovered for a second,

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and then would look like one solid red oval object.

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It just turned red and shot straight up and disappeared.

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Gone. Completely gone.

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I tried everything I could to explain them away,

326
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and I said, well, it looks to me like a flock of geese

327
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flying down from Iowa with flashlights in their mouth.

328
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8.45 p.m., still 15 minutes before the military

329
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would begin dropping flares,

330
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Trucker Gary Moore saw the lights approximately 10 minutes

331
00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,000
after an 80-mile south of Osma Linderman.

332
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Hey, Jimmy, you see those lights over in the east?

333
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They didn't look like flood lights.

334
00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000
They didn't really look like spot lights.

335
00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,000
There was something different about them

336
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that I had never seen before.

337
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Between 8.00 and 9.00 p.m.,

338
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the Phoenix lights had traveled over 300 miles

339
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and been seen by hundreds of witnesses.

340
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000
Gary Morris' encounter came near the end

341
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000
of the first wave of sightings.

342
00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000
An hour passed.

343
00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000
Then at 10.00 p.m., Michael Christen shot the video

344
00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000
taped that would set off local hysteria

345
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and provide the basis for the official explanation.

346
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000
Approval. What have we got here?

347
00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000
A few lived in Phoenix.

348
00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000
These flares, some of them were dropped

349
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at 14,000 and 15,000 feet.

350
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They burned very bright.

351
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They burned for five to six minutes.

352
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They are suspended by a parachute,

353
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and it's a large flare.

354
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You would be able to see those flares,

355
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I would imagine, for 150, maybe even 200 miles.

356
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000
The military says that flares like these,

357
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dropped at night,

358
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000
would look like this.

359
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000
Again, judge for yourself.

360
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000
I'm certain that the lights that I saw

361
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000
were not aerial flares,

362
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000
as used by the military.

363
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000
I've seen them from the ground.

364
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000
I've seen them from the air,

365
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000
and these weren't flares.

366
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000
And probably the major reason

367
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000
that these were almost certainly not

368
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000
flares dropped by the military

369
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,000
was they're dangerous.

370
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000
So they would never, ever be dropped

371
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000
over a population center.

372
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000
We saw them travel over a distance

373
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000
of probably 70 to 80 miles,

374
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000
over about 12 to 13 minutes.

375
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And no flares that I know can do that.

376
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000
The Ross-Nickel sighting

377
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000
is very interesting because it involves...

378
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000
Veteran UFO investigator Richard Motser

379
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000
has been on the Phoenix case since the beginning.

380
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000
Surprisingly, Motser sides with the military

381
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000
up to a point.

382
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000
He agrees that the 10 o'clock event was indeed flares.

383
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000
However, he has no explanation

384
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000
for the earlier wave of sightings.

385
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000
The descriptions of the witnesses

386
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000
simply leave you shaking your head

387
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000
because they will tell you that this is

388
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000
no military vehicle that they have ever seen.

389
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000
And so right now, we can't make a determination

390
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000
on what actually happened at 8.30

391
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000
on that night of March the 13th.

392
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000
Will the mystery of the Phoenix lights ever be solved?

393
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000
For the military, the case is closed.

394
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000
But for hundreds of eyewitnesses, the question remains,

395
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000
did the Phoenix lights come from somewhere

396
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000
beyond the stars?

397
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000
We've got to learn to accept certain things in life.

398
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000
We've been sending radio signals out in space

399
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,000
for over 50 years now, trying to locate intelligent life.

400
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000
So why would it be hard for us to think

401
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000
that at some point in time, somebody finally answered the call?

402
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When we return, it was just a party,

403
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000
a chastisement off a little steam.

404
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000
But from Marine Corporal Joffrey Ramos,

405
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000
it became a terrifying descent into hell.

406
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,000
A gangbanger.

407
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000
A flurry of gunshots.

408
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000
A man left for dead.

409
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000
Not a rival gang member.

410
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000
An innocent victim.

411
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000
He is 20-year-old Joffrey Ramos.

412
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Handsome, good-natured, a dedicated Marine

413
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,000
who had recently made the rank of Lance Corporal.

414
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,000
September 21, 1996,

415
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000
Kanoga Park, California.

416
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000
It was supposed to be innocent fun.

417
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,000
Joffrey and some fellow Marines had been invited to a party.

418
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000
One more of that, come on.

419
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000
Hey guys, you made it.

420
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000
Hi, what did you bring?

421
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000
I just saw everybody's mind.

422
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000
This is Joffrey.

423
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000
The clean-cut Marines mingled easily

424
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000
with a diverse mix of partygoers,

425
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000
which according to one of Joffrey's friends

426
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000
included some gangbangers.

427
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000
I want Rosebud.

428
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000
They didn't say nothing to us, you know.

429
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000
They didn't pay no mind to us, you know.

430
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000
They didn't start no trouble with us.

431
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000
We just, we did our thing and they did theirs, you know.

432
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000
Then, without warning...

433
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000
What do you think you were doing with Pablo?

434
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000
Hey, he came up to me.

435
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000
You wish.

436
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000
He's not that desperate.

437
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000
He is if he's with you, Trampita.

438
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000
Then that's when the whole fight broke out.

439
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000
Just everybody was fighting.

440
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000
Joffrey and his fellow Marines, it was time to go.

441
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000
This was a party, not a war zone.

442
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000
As they reached the jeep,

443
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000
Joffrey remembered he had left his wallet in the backyard.

444
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000
His friends inadvertently drove off without him.

445
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000
They could not have guessed that Joffrey

446
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000
was heading straight into battle.

447
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000
On the street, destroying a Marine

448
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000
was considered a badge of courage.

449
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000
Yo, Marine!

450
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000
What's up, man?

451
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000
Nothing.

452
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000
Just take this fool out of him.

453
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000
The alleged ringleader of the group

454
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000
was a reputed gang member named Louis Quezada.

455
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000
What's up? You know how to kill, Marine?

456
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,000
Yeah.

457
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000
Huh?

458
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000
We could show you.

459
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000
Take about five minutes' homes.

460
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000
Mess him up real bad, man.

461
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000
Put his ass in check.

462
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000
You want some? Huh?

463
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000
Mr. Big Time Macho Marine?

464
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000
Nah.

465
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000
What's up with that punk-ass hair, fool?

466
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000
You're going down, man.

467
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000
Joffrey sized up the odds.

468
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000
There was only one way out.

469
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000
Hey! Get him!

470
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000
Get him, get him, get him, get him!

471
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000
Hurry up! Get him!

472
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000
Get him!

473
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000
Get him!

474
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,000
No!

475
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000
Joffrey Ramos never had a chance.

476
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,000
He was kicked repeatedly, pummeled over and over.

477
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000
The vicious attack lasted less than five minutes.

478
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000
The Marine ain't so tough, huh?

479
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,000
It was long enough for Joffrey's friends to return.

480
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000
They went inside to look for him.

481
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000
You're coming back.

482
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000
Rui Que Sada, meanwhile, apparently assumed an approaching car

483
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000
was filled with Marines and took aim.

484
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000
By the grace of God, there was nobody hit.

485
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000
And we very much could have had five additional people

486
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000
laying out there dead.

487
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000
I believe a neighbor or somebody was yelling,

488
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000
this is a dead kid in the street.

489
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000
So then, um, we ran over there.

490
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000
Grab something ready?

491
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000
One more. Ready?

492
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000
One, three, go!

493
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000
You can say it was like a nightmare.

494
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000
Ramos.

495
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000
I don't know, the way he looked, it was bloody.

496
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000
His face was swollen.

497
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000
And he was just...

498
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000
He looked like, you know, he was breathing,

499
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000
but he looked like he was just dead, you know?

500
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000
This guy needs help, man!

501
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000
He's bleeding!

502
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000
In the midst of the commotion,

503
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000
the police mistakenly arrested the Marines.

504
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000
We're Marines, man! We did...

505
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000
Our initial belief, because of the injuries

506
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000
of the Joffrey and Curd in the beating,

507
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000
was that he was going to die.

508
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000
And even though he hadn't died yet,

509
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000
we were handling it as if he had died,

510
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000
because it was that serious.

511
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000
It was awful just to see him laying there like that.

512
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000
I remember looking through these glass walls

513
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000
that they had in the room, and I could see him laying there.

514
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000
And he looked like a monster.

515
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000
His head was bandaged,

516
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000
and he had tubes coming out of his head.

517
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000
His eye was...

518
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000
It was swollen.

519
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000
It was, um...

520
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000
His face, his whole face was swollen.

521
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000
His nose, his lip.

522
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000
And, uh, I thought I was going to die.

523
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
The right side of Joffrey's brain

524
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,000
had been smashed to the left side of his skull.

525
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000
He underwent emergency brain surgery

526
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000
and spent three weeks in a coma.

527
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000
Doctors doubted he would make it.

528
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000
I was unconscious...

529
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000
for a long time.

530
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000
And, um, when I came up, I...

531
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000
I didn't know anything.

532
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000
There's some...

533
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000
Now some things are coming, but some are still gone.

534
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000
Though Joffrey suffered some permanent brain damage,

535
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000
it is remarkable that he is even alive,

536
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000
much less functioning.

537
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000
He spent eight months learning like an infant,

538
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000
all that it takes to walk and talk.

539
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000
I think it's that it's very unfair

540
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,000
that Joffrey has to go to life

541
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,000
facing all of these challenges that he has now

542
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000
while Louis Casada is out there

543
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,000
having a good time and doesn't even have

544
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000
any idea of what he's done

545
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,000
to Joffrey or any of, you know, or any of us.

546
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000
Joffrey had high hopes of making the military a career,

547
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000
but instead had to accept an honorable discharge from the Marines.

548
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000
Now every labored step Joffrey takes is proof positive

549
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000
that he's undoing the damage inflicted upon him that terrible night.

550
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,000
I'll think about this till I turn...

551
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000
until I get old and anything,

552
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
and I... I forget.

553
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000
I never remember why.

554
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000
I never answer why, why would they do that?

555
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Why? Why would they just...

556
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,000
the number one question is why?

557
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000
Why would they do that?

558
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000
No.

559
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,000
August 7th, 1996, Cedar Springs, Michigan.

560
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000
18-year-old Rachel Timmerman left a party

561
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000
with 43-year-old Marvin Gaybrion and two other men.

562
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000
I want you out of the car.

563
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000
Though some considered Gaybrion the town bully,

564
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000
he was friendly with Rachel's family.

565
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
He was well aware that life had dealt Rachel a rough hand.

566
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000
She came from a broken home

567
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,000
and had given birth to a daughter when she was just 17.

568
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000
Still, nothing could have prepared Rachel

569
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000
for what she said happened that night.

570
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Get out of the car.

571
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Get out of the car!

572
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000
Do it! Do it! Get!

573
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000
No, not you!

574
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000
What? No!

575
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000
Guys!

576
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000
Marvin!

577
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Rachel later told police at Gaybrion Beater

578
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,000
then he raped him, not once, but three times.

579
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000
After a six-month investigation,

580
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Marvin Gaybrion was arrested,

581
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,000
then released on bail two weeks later.

582
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,000
That rape was so brutal,

583
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000
and it took a long time at the hospital,

584
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000
and the scarring, I don't think, would have ever went away.

585
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,000
It got to where she didn't really hardly trust anybody

586
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000
unless she already knew them,

587
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000
because she didn't know who could hurt her again.

588
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000
The accusations of rape

589
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000
divided the tiny community of Cedar Springs,

590
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000
but in the months it followed,

591
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
Rachel began to turn her life around.

592
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,000
She had a daughter to raise, 18-month-old Shannon.

593
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Rachel got herself a job at a restaurant.

594
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000
She had fun working with some of the other young kids there.

595
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,000
I got the sense that Rachel wanted to do something with her life.

596
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000
She saw opportunities out there that she wanted to pursue.

597
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000
The baby is really what changed it all.

598
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Her focus was on the baby almost 99%.

599
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000
It was just all for the good.

600
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000
She knew she was a beautiful lady,

601
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000
and she started wearing makeup every day after that rape

602
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000
to try to make herself feel pretty,

603
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
because there were mean things said that really hurt her.

604
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000
So everything was really, it was like a miracle.

605
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,000
But as a date for Gabriel's preliminary hearing came closer,

606
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Rachel's family says she began to worry about having to testify.

607
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000
She had told me that he threatened her numerous times.

608
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000
She was a little scared to go to trial,

609
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
but I had talked to her about it,

610
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
and I told her, it's okay, honey, I'll go with you,

611
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000
I'll help you, and we'll do it.

612
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000
It was actually horrible.

613
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
She wouldn't have reoccurring nightmares.

614
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,000
She was totally convinced that this man would kill her.

615
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
Then two days before the rape hearing...

616
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Where are you going?

617
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Just out with some guy, you don't know him.

618
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Okay, you're taking Shannon with you?

619
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000
Yeah, actually, he asked me to bring her with me.

620
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
She came out to see me and told me that she had a dinner date

621
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000
with some boy, she was going to take Shannon with her

622
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000
and have dinner, she'd be home in a few hours.

623
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000
A few hours passed.

624
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Rachel and Shannon did not come home.

625
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
The next morning, still no word.

626
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Later that day, less than 24 hours after Rachel disappeared,

627
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000
her father received a letter.

628
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000
This letter was from Rachel,

629
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000
and basically said that she was going on vacation.

630
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
We didn't know what to make of it.

631
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000
We were worried that it was kind of a goofy thing to do,

632
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000
that it just didn't make sense.

633
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
Here, you just got a job at the restaurant,

634
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
you're earning money,

635
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
why would you need to go on a vacation now?

636
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000
June 5th, we had a pretrial hearing

637
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
scheduled for Marvin Gaye-Brian

638
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
on the rape charge against Rachel Timmerman.

639
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000
And on that date, Rachel failed to show up

640
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
for that pretrial hearing.

641
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Authorities say rape cases without witnesses

642
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000
are extremely difficult to prosecute.

643
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000
The charges against Marvin Gaye-Brian were dropped.

644
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Eleven days passed.

645
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Prosecutor Crystal Roach became more and more anxious.

646
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000
There was still no sign of Rachel or baby Shannon.

647
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Then Roach received a letter, signed by Rachel,

648
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000
and sent from Little Rock, Arkansas,

649
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000
more than 1,500 miles away.

650
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Dear Crystal Roach,

651
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
Marvin Gaye-Brian did not rape me.

652
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
When he wouldn't have intercourse with me,

653
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000
he decided to teach him a lesson.

654
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
A short time later, we made up,

655
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
and I can't bear the thought of trying to lock up

656
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
an innocent man.

657
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Thank you, Rachel Timmerman.

658
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,000
I didn't believe it.

659
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000
It didn't make sense to me.

660
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000
And I got angry.

661
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Because she was very serious about pressing these charges.

662
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000
I was concerned that something had happened to her.

663
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000
That same day,

664
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000
yet another letter arrived at the home of Rachel's father.

665
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
It, too, was postmarked Little Rock, Arkansas.

666
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Dear Dad, Shannon is doing great.

667
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000
She misses you guys,

668
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,000
but she's adjusting to life out here really well.

669
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
I don't know for sure yet.

670
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000
The letter that I'd received was reassuring.

671
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000
It said she was okay.

672
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Her and Shannon were fine.

673
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
They had method of earning money.

674
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000
They were getting by okay.

675
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000
And that they would be in touch with me later.

676
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000
More than two weeks went by

677
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,000
without another word from Rachel and Baby Shannon.

678
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Then on the morning of July 5th,

679
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,000
the still waters of Oxford Lake outside Cedar Springs

680
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000
were disturbed by a gruesome discovery.

681
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000
The decomposed body of a young woman.

682
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000
It was Rachel Timmerman.

683
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000
She had been wrapped in chains

684
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
and was cemented, cinder blocks,

685
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
padlocked to the chains,

686
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000
and duct tape around the eyes and mouth,

687
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000
and then placed into the lake.

688
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,000
The autopsy revealed that Rachel Timmerman did die

689
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
as a result of drowning

690
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
that she had been placed in the lake alive.

691
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Police believe Rachel probably died

692
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
shortly after she disappeared.

693
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,000
But what happened to Shannon?

694
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Fearing that the little girl had met

695
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000
the same fate as her mother,

696
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000
authorities called in an underwater diving team

697
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
to search Oxford Lake.

698
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000
But the search came up empty.

699
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
18-month-old Shannon could not be found.

700
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000
I am...

701
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Authorities developed a theory.

702
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Whoever killed Rachel forced her to write the letters

703
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
almost immediately after she was kidnapped,

704
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
then mailed them after throwing her into the lake.

705
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000
One suspect immediately came to mind.

706
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000
The man who stood accused of raping Rachel.

707
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000
The man Rachel was to testify against just two days

708
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
before she disappeared.

709
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
The man named Marvin Gaybrion.

710
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000
We decided to go over to Mr. Gaybrion's residence.

711
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Mr. Gaybrion was not there,

712
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,000
but cinder blocks were noticed that appeared to be

713
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000
the same as what was found when he was found.

714
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000
With Rachel Timmerman,

715
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000
when her body was recovered from Oxford Lake.

716
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Authorities now had evidence

717
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
that was potentially crucial to their case,

718
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
but they did not have Marvin Gaybrion.

719
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
He had fled Cedar Springs.

720
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Strangely, Gaybrion wasn't the only one who couldn't be found.

721
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
It seems to be anybody that knows Marvin

722
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000
has any information that could be damaging to Marvin

723
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,000
comes up as a missing person.

724
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Missing person number one, Wayne Davis.

725
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Davis had been in the car the night Rachel was allegedly raped.

726
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000
He had agreed to testify against Gaybrion.

727
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Davis was last seen just days after Gaybrion

728
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000
was released from jail.

729
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Missing person number two, John Weeks.

730
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Weeks was an acquaintance of Gaybrion's,

731
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
who had asked Rachel out on a date

732
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000
a few weeks prior to her death.

733
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000
His name came up when we were attempting

734
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000
to identify the individual that might have picked Rachel up

735
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:34,000
on June 3rd from the Timmerman residence.

736
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
In our efforts to locate him,

737
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000
we've come up against a stone wall

738
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000
and found out that he also was a missing person.

739
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
No one has seen or heard from him

740
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,000
since about the second or third week of June 1997.

741
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000
Curiously, that was around the same time

742
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Rachel and Shannon disappeared.

743
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,000
The FBI was called in.

744
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000
They learned that Gaybrion had been using an alias,

745
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Robert Allen.

746
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Missing person number three, to no one's surprise,

747
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000
authorities discovered that the real Robert Allen

748
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,000
had disappeared in 1995.

749
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
October 1997, upstate New York,

750
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000
a major break in the case.

751
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000
FBI agents arrested Gaybrion.

752
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
He had been cashing social security checks

753
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
payable to Robert Allen.

754
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Days later, Gaybrion appeared

755
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000
at an identity hearing in New York.

756
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Initially, he denied he was Marvin Gaybrion.

757
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
He has yet to be charged for any crimes

758
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000
he might have committed in Michigan.

759
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,000
And he hasn't said a word concerning the fate of baby Shannon.

760
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
The hardest part is just not knowing

761
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000
where your granddaughter is.

762
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000
It's how whole in your heart that needs to be filled.

763
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000
We know she's out there somewhere.

764
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
We just want to know where she is.

765
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000
We want her back.

766
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Shannon Timmerman, Wayne Davis, John Weeks,

767
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
Robert Allen.

768
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:09,000
All missing, all with a common link, Marvin Gaybrion.

769
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Coincidence?

770
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Authorities believe it is highly unlikely.

771
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:41,000
I'm Take Thee as my wedded husband.

772
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,000
On a previous broadcast, we brought you

773
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000
the heartbreaking story of Margie Elizabeth Hamilton.

774
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000
In the spring of 1932,

775
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000
economic hardship forced 14-year-old Margie

776
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000
to marry a man nearly 50 years her senior.

777
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000
You may kiss the bride.

778
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000
The Loveless Union unexpectedly brought Margie a measure of joy

779
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000
when she gave birth to a baby boy, Benjamin Austin Baker.

780
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:14,000
But her husband James did not share Margie's happiness.

781
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000
How can that be? Please.

782
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Behind her back, James put the child up for adoption.

783
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Even though 63 years have passed,

784
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Margie has never forgotten the son who was taken from her.

785
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Her daughter Lois hopes that time will not run out

786
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000
before Margie's last wish can come true.

787
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000
It would be so wonderful to be able to, you know,

788
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000
say, Mama, here's Spinney, here's your son.

789
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000
Within minutes of our broadcast,

790
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000
two viewers contacted our phone center

791
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
to tell us that Benjamin Austin Baker

792
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,000
once lived as a foster child in their home.

793
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,000
The information he provided was enough for Lois Baker Lane

794
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
to locate her long-lost brother in Everton, Washington.

795
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Benjamin Baker entered the foster care system at 18 months old

796
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000
and grew up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

797
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:19,000
He later became a salesman, married, and started a family.

798
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Sadly, Benny has spent his entire life believing

799
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that his real mother had cruelly abandoned him.

800
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Recently, Benny boarded a plane for Colorado Springs

801
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to find out the truth.

802
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Hello there. Hello there.

803
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After six decades of separation,

804
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mother and son finally embrace their shared anguish

805
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evaporating in an outpouring of love.

806
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It's a long time.

807
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Yeah.

808
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I wanted this day to happen for my mama.

809
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And I can't even put it into words how I feel.

810
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I just, you know, I am just so happy that we finally found him.

811
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There's our...

812
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I had given up a long time ago that I'd ever see them.

813
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So it feels great. It's something I never imagined would ever happen.

814
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The last one I got was this one.

815
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Yeah.

816
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I tried so many years to find him,

817
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but I prayed a lot that it would happen.

818
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I'm just glad that I have got to see him,

819
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and he's well and happy,

820
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and that we can be together before my time comes.

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