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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries.

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Two seemingly unrelated murder investigations

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lay dormant in the files of neighboring Virginia

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Police Departments.

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Until a routine review of DNA evidence

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proves that two cases have a common suspect

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and the hunt is now on for a serial killer.

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A factory in New Hampshire, an isolated security guard,

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and a mysterious fire.

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Elements of a baffling night to seize Curtis Pichon

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vanished without a trace.

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A Texas woman was robbed and murdered in her own driveway.

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Lees were few when the case soon grew cold.

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Now more than a decade later, Detective Robin

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Toulton is in hot pursuit of Opal Zacharias' ruthless killer.

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A 21-year-old Louisiana college student

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disappears after a night of partying in Shreveport.

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Who are the two men with whom she was reportedly last seen?

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Could her ex-boyfriend have been involved?

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Where is Wendy Elizabeth Long?

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Join me for these stories and more.

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Perhaps you may be the one to solve a mystery.

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The Story of the Wounded Man

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December 6, a worker surveying an out-of-the-way wooded property

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in Fairfax County, Virginia makes a gruesome discovery.

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The partially clothed body of a young woman

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lays sprawled in a clearing.

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She has been shot, and it appears she has been sexually

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assaulted.

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Her jeans, purse, and red shoes are piled neatly nearby.

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Once the police arrived on the scene,

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they began coordinating off the area.

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This area is just a small area.

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The police are looking for a new place to hide.

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The police are looking for a new place to hide.

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They began coordinating off the area.

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This area is just too far off the beaten path

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for most people to come.

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As they were stretching the crime scene tape

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and walking the area, they discovered a second body nearby.

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The young man has been shot once in the head, execution style.

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Like the woman, he carries no identification.

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The victim will soon be identified as 22-year-old College

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Sweethearts, Rachel Raver, and Warren Fulton.

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The baffling murders have remained unsolved

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for more than a decade.

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But recently, dramatic advances in forensic science

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and an incredible connection to a previous unsolved mystery

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story produced a major break in the case.

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Warren Fulton was a captain of the George Washington University

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baseball team and hoped to one day play in the major leagues.

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Rachel Raver was a vivacious, well-liked, recent graduate

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of George Washington who was planning to go to law school.

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She and Warren had met at a local hangout

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and had been dating for several months.

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Bye, guys.

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On December 3rd, Rachel and Warren met friends for drinks

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at a Washington DC bar.

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I can't like that.

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I love it.

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And he was nuts.

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At 12 30 AM, they called it a night

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and were last seen walking to their car.

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their car or on their way to the car.

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abducted at gunpoint and forced to drive from Washington

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into the Virginia suburbs west of the city.

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Just tell us where you want us to go.

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Can we just give him the car?

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I want to get out of the car.

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I just want to get out.

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I do too, sweetie.

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The terrifying ride would have covered a distance

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of about 20 miles.

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Once at the obscure wooded site, police

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OK, just can you leave us here and take the car?

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Don't hurt us, please.

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Rachel would have seen that.

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After mortally wounding Rachel, the killer

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then sexually assaulted her.

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Police believe the assailant fled in Rachel's car,

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but he unknowingly left clues to his identity.

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Seaman recovered from Rachel's body contains his DNA.

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A single hair retrieved at autopsy

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revealed the killer's race, African American.

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familiar with the surroundings.

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The area where the bodies was found

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was very close to the Dulles toll road,

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a major road that runs from interstate highway

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to Dulles airport.

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if you weren't familiar with this particular area.

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Two days after the bodies were found,

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the Fulton and Rayver families

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had their worst fears confirmed.

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In time, Rachel's mother Veronica

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would channel her grief into action.

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I didn't feel angry for several months,

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and then one day I got up and I got mad.

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And my attitude was, who the hell does he think he is?

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Along with Rachel's sister Dee Dee,

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Veronica became obsessed with seeing

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that Rachel and Warren's killer was caught.

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The Rayvers immersed themselves

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in every detail of the case.

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What's Marshall?

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Oh, there's an article here about a suspect

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who killed a young girl, no rape.

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Yeah, I know, I know. We'll get it, we'll do it.

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I'm gonna do it.

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Believing that Rachel's missing car

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was a key to solving the case.

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The Rayvers focused their search on finding it.

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And even though she lived in suburban New York City,

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Veronica Rayver spent her free time

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driving the streets and highways around Washington

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looking for that car.

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Going down to D.C. I would stop, you know,

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at those wayside rest areas.

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And I'd go through every parking lot,

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all the way down to D.C., all the way back

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on the other side of the highway.

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I was obsessed.

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Just as hopes were dwindling,

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six weeks after the murders,

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there was a major break in the case

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from an unlikely source.

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I came home from work and I took the mail.

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It's from, you know, the motor vehicle for tickets.

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And when I opened it up, I thought, whoa.

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Oh, God.

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Norm, it's the car.

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Rachel Rayver's missing Toyota sedan

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had been ticketed for illegal parking

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the car was taken to Queens, New York.

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The date on the ticket was the day after the murders

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and two days before the bodies were discovered.

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The car was sitting unattended on a New York City street

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so you can imagine what happened to it.

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By the time it was recovered, there wasn't much left of it.

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The car was taken to a garage in New York City

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where it was processed extensively.

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so basically we came away with no clues from the car.

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Despite the latest setback,

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Veronica Rayver refused to give up.

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Almost a full year after the murders,

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an episode of Unsolved Mysteries caught her attention.

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On May 10th, 1988,

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the body of an unknown young woman

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was found in an Arlington, Virginia, schoolyard.

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She had been sexually assaulted

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and shot once at point blank range.

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She was sexually assaulted and then murdered.

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The victim was subsequently identified

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as 24-year-old Tina Jefferson,

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a newcomer to the Washington, D.C. area.

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One good suspect admitted that he had seen her

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the day that she was killed

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and he was able to describe her

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all the way down to her red shoes.

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Unsolved Mysteries came on about this young woman

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who had been shot and I don't know what attracted me.

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I think it was the date.

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The date was also Rachel's birthday that got my attention.

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I called up my daughter Dee Dee

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and asked her to check on this.

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You know, something about it bothered me.

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When I spoke to the detective about it,

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he told me that he had looked into the case too

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because it bothered him a lot.

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But the case was so different

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and her killers seemed to know her.

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And we assumed that in Rachel's case

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that it was a stranger.

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The discrepancies between the cases were significant.

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Rachel Raver was white

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while Tina Jefferson was African-American.

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Rachel was in the company of her boyfriend.

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And while investigators believed Tina knew her killer,

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it was suspected that the attack on Rachel and Warren

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had been random.

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Years would pass

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and both murder investigations would grow cold

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until one day in the spring of 2000.

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A technician at Biotech 2, Virginia's state DNA lab,

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was routinely running comparisons on samples

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created by law enforcement agencies.

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She was able to develop the most vital lead

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either of these cases that had to that date

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and also prove Veronica Raver's instincts were on the mark.

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I received a phone call from the serologist at our lab

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and she says, I've got good news and I've got bad news.

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The good news is we got a hit

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on your case in the Virginia data bank.

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The bad news is the hit is on another unsolved homicide.

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That other unsolved homicide was a murder of Tina Jefferson.

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It was now scientifically proven.

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Rachel, Raver and Warren Fulton were murdered

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by the same person who killed Tina.

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Investigators also now had confirmation

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that a serial killer was on the loose.

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My husband got a phone call from the detectives

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and they told him that they had a cold DNA hit.

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And it matched another case that was seven months after

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our daughter Tina and it was the Fulton and the Raver's case.

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And shortly afterwards, Deidre Raver got in touch with us.

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When I met the Jeffersons, it was as if I had known them for years.

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And we feel as though we've been grieving together

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for the last 12 years.

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On Rachel's birthday, their daughter was murdered

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and for the last 12 years,

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we've been grieving on the very same day.

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The Raver's and Jeffersons now had hopes

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that this new development would lead to

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a successful resolution of their cases.

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Once we make the DNA link between these murders

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we start to see some small similarities.

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The red shoes, I think, are fascinating.

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I think it's probably more than coincidental though

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that they were both wearing red shoes.

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In the Arlington County case,

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they have a composite drawing of a suspect.

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They have a face to go with the DNA and we never had that before.

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Witnesses described him as a clean-cut bodybuilder type,

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an African American approximately 6'3 inches tall

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and weighing 170 pounds.

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Tina Jefferson was last seen alive in his presence.

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The Ravers and the Jeffersons have been revitalized by the DNA link

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and are now more hopeful than ever

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that the killer of their loved ones will be caught.

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I won't rest until he's found.

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I really won't have any peace until he's found.

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He's an evil predator, an evil perverted predator.

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He's dangerous.

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I like for him to go through the pain and the hurt

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that I have gone through for 13 years.

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I would like to see him face to face.

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Seebrook, New Hampshire, 142 a.m.

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The unexpected disrupts a normally tedious

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graveyard shift of security guard Curtis Pichon.

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2911, report a car fire.

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His car is inexplicably burst into flames.

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Curtis, a former police officer,

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informs the fire department that he has no idea

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how his car caught on fire.

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The firefighters notice it under the circumstances.

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He seems curiously subdued.

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He's been in the car for a long time.

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He's been in the car for a long time.

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He's been in the car for a long time.

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He's been in the car for a long time.

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He seems curiously subdued.

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Two hours after the firefighters leave the scene,

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the mystery deepens.

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Curtis abruptly disappears without a trace.

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The whole disappearance is confusing.

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The car fire is confusing

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because even without the car fire,

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there's no clues here.

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This is a worse nightmare for any investigator

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because there's not that tangible lead to go on

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and an entire family that wants the answers

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and deserves the answers and hasn't been able to get them.

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What happened to Curtis Pichon?

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Every possibility considered by investigators

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led to a dead end.

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They thought Curtis might have purposely destroyed his car

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before engineering his own disappearance,

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but they found no other way for him to leave the remote factory

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where he worked.

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They considered suicide, but where was his body?

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They also believed Curtis could have been abducted,

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but there was no evidence supporting that conclusion.

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For ten years, Curtis Pichon cherished his career

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as a police officer.

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Then he was stricken with multiple sclerosis,

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a painful muscular disorder that severely limited his mobility.

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The disease progressed to the point

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where he could no longer accurately fire his gun.

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He had no choice but to turn in his badge.

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I've never seen Curtis so devastated in my life.

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His personality changed.

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He became sort of a quieter,

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and I don't think even up to the time of his disappearance,

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he really knew what he was going to do the rest of his life.

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Hey, Curtis. How you doing?

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How are you?

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According to his family, Curtis became depressed and withdrawn.

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After taking on a frustrating series of odd jobs,

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he found a new sense of satisfaction as a factory security guard.

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The job's physical requirements were less stringent

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than those of a police officer,

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and he was not required to carry a gun.

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The night he vanished began like every other.

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At midnight, two and a half hours into his shift, all was normal.

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How's it going, Curtis?

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It's going good. How about you?

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Busy?

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No, sir.

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Quiet as a mouse.

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At 1.42 a.m., C. Brook firefighters responded to Curtis' call for help.

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He pretty much said that he saw a bunch of smoke and some flame,

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and then he went to find a fire extinguisher

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and then went to put the fire out.

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One fire extinguisher is not going to have much effect,

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but we did notice that he did try to put out the fire.

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There have been cases where security guards,

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building superintendents and things like that

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intentionally set fires and put them out just to get recognition.

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But I don't have any idea or gut feeling how the fire started

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or why the case ended up the way it did.

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When the firefighters arrived on scene, they had conversation with him,

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and they found him to be totally accepting almost.

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It was...he was not in the least upset or did not appear to be upset.

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Curtis' stoic behavior was all the more curious

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because his car, as always, had been cluttered with many of his possessions.

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His family said he had the odd habit of using it to store what he treasured most.

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Curtis' reaction to the fire, I find surprising.

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I would think that if he had seen his car on fire with his belongings in it,

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that he would have been very upset.

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I would think he would have been almost in tears and in shame,

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and I can't believe he was quiet, timid.

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Two and a half hours after the fire was extinguished,

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the factory's security supervisor checked on Curtis.

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Are you all right?

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Yeah, you OK? Yeah.

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He left Curtis at 3.25 a.m.

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Twenty minutes later, 3.45,

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a factory worker was the first to notice that Curtis was missing.

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An exhaustive search of the factory and the surrounding area turned up nothing.

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Our very first thoughts about what happened to Curtis

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was that he could have taken his own life,

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he could have wandered off, or he could have been abducted.

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One thing that we thought of in terms of trying to flush out

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that the suicide scenario was the fact that he had purchased this pistol

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just, I guess, a few days prior to his disappearance.

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Curtis bought the 9mm gun from his father, Nicholas.

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Suicide was a possibility with somebody in Curtis' condition.

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With him as he had lost the job that he wanted all his life,

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but his mood on the weekend that he did pick up the gun and everything

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seemed to be more happy, more pleased with himself.

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I'm doing good, Dad.

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Suicide seemed a likely solution.

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However, Curtis' gun could not be found.

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Police could find no trace of it in his car or in his apartment.

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Then, as Curtis' family cleaned out his cluttered residence,

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they made a surprising discovery.

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I think I found what we were looking for.

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Once I discovered the weapon,

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I think that we eliminated the likelihood that Curtis had taken his own life.

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Now we had narrowed it down to, I believe, one of two things.

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One that Curtis broke down mentally and had wandered off.

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And then the other one was, of course, a much darker scenario

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where Curtis was abducted and probably murdered.

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The first possibility, the Curtis had suffered a mental collapse,

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prompted investigators to focus once again on the mysterious fire.

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They believed Curtis might have accidentally started it,

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then became so despondent over losing his prized possessions that he simply walked away.

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There is absolutely no way that Curtis would have, or even could have,

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wandered off by himself under these circumstances.

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Curtis was a smoker. Smokers don't leave cigarettes.

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You don't go anywhere without your cigarettes. It doesn't happen.

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So he didn't just walk off.

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And he had deteriorated enough that he probably physically couldn't probably walk two miles,

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let alone want to do it.

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There are histories of individuals who we do not anticipate

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can travel any extended distance, who in fact are located several miles away

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from their original starting point.

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I would tend to doubt it, but it is possible.

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The possibility remained that Curtis called for a taxi

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or hitched a ride on a truck leaving the factory.

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But investigators discovered that no cabs or company trucks left the plant during Curtis's shift.

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One disturbing possibility remained.

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The Curtis was abducted and murdered.

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I think Curtis went to work like he always did that night.

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And I think that he probably, in carrying out his duties,

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saw something that he shouldn't have.

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And he probably carried out his true duty of either getting ready to report it or call it in.

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And he was attacked.

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And he couldn't defend himself.

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Investigators exploring the possibility of foul play

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found that a door and two vending machines had been damaged during Curtis's shift.

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But who caused the damage remains unknown.

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With regard to criminal activity that Curtis may have encountered, anything is possible.

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One individual that we spoke with took note about 3.30 of two vehicles departing the premises.

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My best guess is that somebody abducted him and did him in.

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And they suppose that a body is such a way that it hasn't shown up yet.

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I don't have much hope that Curtis is alive.

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I think if he was alive he would have reached out already

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and he never would have put us through this.

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It would be very difficult if he had been killed in a plane crash.

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But I have no idea what happened to him.

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It would be even more difficult.

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I miss my brother. I miss Curtis.

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I was his best friend.

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And I miss him. I miss him very much.

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Curtis Pichon is 5'9 and weighs 165 pounds.

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He has brown eyes and graying brown hair.

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8 a.m. Houston, Texas.

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64-year-old Opal Zacharias left her home for work.

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She had no idea that two men were lying in wait in her garage.

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Who are you?

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Get easy, lady.

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What do you want?

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Here, cool.

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Yes.

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Give us a punch!

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00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,280
Give us a punch!

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The plan may have been to simply rob her, but there was a struggle.

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00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,280
Sadly, Opal Zacharias lost her life after being victimized by two cold-blooded assailants.

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Stories like this happen in the United States far more often than we'd like to believe.

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But what makes this case unique is that it currently rests in the expert hands

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of one of the most successful cold case investigators in the country.

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00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:55,280
Her name is Robin Tallton, and she's one of this nation's toughest female cops.

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00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,280
Over the years, the veteran detective has proven herself time and again

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in an arena dominated by men.

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June 2000, a machine shop in Houston, Texas.

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Plain clothes Harris County Sheriff Detective Tallton and her partner

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responded to a tip that a wanted felon was on the premises.

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We were told he had escaped three different times, so he was a known rabbit,

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and we figured that he would run from us.

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The manager there was very cooperative.

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He actually agreed to point the guy out.

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Detective Tallton, Harris County, you're under arrest!

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Let him go! I got him!

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Although Detective Tallton knew she'd been injured,

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she was determined to conceal her condition until the arrest was made.

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The detective that was with me kept after the defendant, and he did get him,

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and I did not want this crook to know that I was hurt.

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We walked him down to where the unit was.

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You okay?

453
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Yeah, man, I'm hurt. I'm hurt bad.

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Can you make it back to the car?

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00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:34,280
Apparently a burst of adrenaline masked the severity of Robin Tallton's injury.

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She was stunned when doctors told her she chipped her left kneecap

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and fractured the lower leg in two places.

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This arrest would change her life.

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00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,280
You feeling okay? Yeah, all right.

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00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,280
While Detective Tallton recovered from her broken leg,

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she was assigned with a newly created cold warrant unit.

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What we'd like to do is get you to working on a computer

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00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,280
and see if we can find some new sources of information where we can find these guys.

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00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,280
Her new unit was set up to trace and apprehend Harris County's wanted felons.

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Many of these criminals had been on the lam for more than a decade.

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The dramatic sudden shift in career might have shattered anyone else in Robin's shoes,

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but the thought never crossed her mind.

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From the start, she was driven to turn tragedy into triumph.

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A desk job was not going to hamper her effectiveness.

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Hey, I'm in. I'm in.

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00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,280
Okay, can we start tomorrow?

472
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,280
You can do that. Okay, great.

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The veteran investigator with more than ten years as a street detective under her belt

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00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,280
would now need to get accustomed to a couple of new partners,

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a computer and the internet.

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00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,280
Detective Tallton now found herself armed with faded warrants

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00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,280
and often obsolete information.

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00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:57,280
However, she quickly proved to have a talent for tracking down long lost fugitives.

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It's kind of like a game of, you know, catch me if you can.

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00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,280
Sometimes I start with just a name, an age range and an old address.

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And I put together past acquaintances, family members,

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00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,280
trying to find somebody that could fit.

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00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:22,280
It's like putting the pieces together to see if it's going to make sense.

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00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:27,280
By the time I get the warrant, it's old enough that I feel like these guys have settled down

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and they think they're safe.

486
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,280
The cold warrant unit is a little bit deceptive.

487
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,280
It's not a band of detectives.

488
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,280
It's one detective, Robin Tallton.

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00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:46,280
And after she does her research, we have about an 80% rate of arrest

490
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once she handles those warrants.

491
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,280
Yeah, sure am.

492
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,280
To date, Detective Tallton's work with a cold warrant unit

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00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,280
has led to the arrests of more than 400 dangerous fugitives.

494
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:03,280
However, despite her successes, she's still challenged by the cases she has yet to crack,

495
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:07,280
like the 1987 ruthless murder of Opal Zacharias.

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00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:14,280
Even as Opal lay wounded on her driveway, the robbers were not finished with her.

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00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:20,280
From what I remember of the gunshot wound, apparently entered the fire

498
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,280
and came out the back of the hip.

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00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,280
So the shot itself was not a fatal shot.

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But they had her purse and car keys and ended up stealing the car and backing over

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00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,280
and that's actually what killed her.

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A witness reported seeing one of the men flee the scene by scaling a fence.

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00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:57,280
Later that day, Opal Zacharias's abandoned car would be found.

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00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:02,280
However, at the time, it yielded no clues it would lead to Opal's killers.

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00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:08,280
A year later, tips from an informant identified the murder suspects.

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00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,280
One of the men was apprehended living outside Houston.

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00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,280
Despite the fact that the man's fingerprints were on Opal Zacharias's car,

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00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,280
authorities could not physically connect him to the murder and he was released without charges.

509
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:27,280
The alleged trigger man was identified as Lance Bedgood who was still at large.

510
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,280
Robin Taughton tackled the case in 2001.

511
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:36,280
While trying to locate Lance Bedgood, I came across some post office boxes,

512
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,280
three in fact, that are still being looked at today.

513
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:46,280
What we're assuming is that he's using three different post offices, basically is a mail drop,

514
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,280
so he can keep in contact.

515
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:55,280
Detective Taughton discovered the mail boxes are registered to three of Lance Bedgood's relatives,

516
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,280
but paid for by a fourth.

517
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,280
Well, I'm glad that the investigation hasn't been forgotten.

518
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:16,280
The sad part is that Lance's life was taken and she didn't get to see the family grow up and mature, and that's sad.

519
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,280
Lance Bedgood stands five foot nine inches tall.

520
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,280
He has tattoos on his arms and legs as well as a scar over his left eye.

521
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,280
He is wanted for the murder of Opal Zacharias.

522
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,280
Bedgood should be considered armed and dangerous.

523
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,280
On a Sunday spring afternoon in Cushar, Louisiana,

524
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:50,280
Carol and Duke Long received a telephone call from a friend of their 21-year-old daughter Wendy.

525
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,280
Good, listen, I don't want his car, I just wanted to know how to get it back to you guys.

526
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,280
Where's Wendy?

527
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,280
Hi, honey.

528
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,280
Two days earlier, on Friday the 13th of April,

529
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,280
Wendy had driven to Shreveport to shop and party with friends.

530
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,280
Her parents expected her home by Sunday afternoon.

531
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,280
Instead, they received news that as every parent's worst nightmare,

532
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,280
Wendy had disappeared.

533
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,280
I thought you was with you.

534
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,280
No, I haven't seen her since Friday night.

535
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,280
We called the police and told them that we thought something had happened to Wendy,

536
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,280
and that's where it all started.

537
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:32,280
Somebody knows where Wendy's at, and we just want to find her so bad.

538
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,280
Wendy Long's disappearance is a classic missing person case.

539
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,280
Because she is 21, Wendy is considered an adult.

540
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,280
Until any proof of foul play is found,

541
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,280
police cannot officially consider the case an abduction or a homicide.

542
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,280
What happened to Wendy Elizabeth Long?

543
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:57,280
Police and Wendy's parents seek your help to solve this agonizing mystery.

544
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:04,280
In the spring of 2001, Wendy Long decided to take a semester off from college

545
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,280
and was planning to continue her studies in the fall.

546
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,280
During this time, Wendy lived with her parents.

547
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,280
The Longs considered her strong willed, yet very open and friendly.

548
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,280
One of her flaws may have been that she's too trusting.

549
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,280
She thought everybody she met was her friend.

550
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,280
She was one of those people that made friends with everybody.

551
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,280
Shortly after noon on Friday, Wendy left her parents home,

552
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,280
driving her own car and headed to Shreveport, 50 miles from Kusata.

553
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,280
On the way, she picked up two friends from Nacodesh.

554
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:54,280
Following an afternoon of shopping, the three picked up another friend,

555
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,280
Tommy, who lived in the Shreveport area.

556
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,280
At approximately 11 p.m., they arrived at a Shreveport party.

557
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:10,280
There was drinking at the party, and I'm told that Wendy had quite a bit to drink that night.

558
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,280
So that when it came time for them to take Tommy back home,

559
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,280
she didn't want to drive. In fact, she didn't want to go with them at all.

560
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,280
She decided to stay where she was.

561
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,280
Her two friends that she came to Shreveport with drove Tommy back to where he was staying at the time.

562
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,280
After leaving Tommy, Wendy's friends had a run-in with the law.

563
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:41,280
Their statement is that they went to get some food, and they were stopped by a state trooper.

564
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:47,280
And one of the friends was arrested for DWI and taken to the Ben Jail.

565
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:56,280
When questioned by police, Tommy explained that he was concerned that Wendy might be stranded at the party.

566
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:02,280
He chose to drive his own vehicle to find Wendy and offer her a ride back home to Kusata.

567
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:08,280
Tommy says Wendy accepted the offer. On the way, he stopped for gas and a quart of oil.

568
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:20,280
When he came back out of the gas station, Wendy was talking to two young men in a black Chevy truck.

569
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,280
Hey Tommy, come here. This is Mike and Zant.

570
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:30,280
Tommy said that it appeared that she knew them, and Wendy told Tommy at that point not to worry about it,

571
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,280
that she was going to go with them and they were going to get her home.

572
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,280
Are you sure you know these guys?

573
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,280
Yes, I'm sure I know these guys. I will get home okay.

574
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,280
Just go home.

575
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:44,280
Alright.

576
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:49,280
According to Tommy, the last time he saw Wendy was when she left with the two men.

577
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:54,280
This alleged sighting made Tommy the last person to see Wendy before she disappeared.

578
00:36:55,280 --> 00:37:00,280
Tommy agreed to take a polygraph test, which according to police, he passed.

579
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,280
Tommy did extremely well on the polygraph.

580
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:12,280
The polygraph examiner himself was very impressed with him and the details that he could remember.

581
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:20,280
At that point, they decided that it would be beneficial to hypnotize Tommy to see what else he could remember.

582
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:28,280
Under hypnosis, Tommy was able to provide a more detailed description of the black Chevy pickup truck

583
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,280
and the appearance of the two men who took Wendy away.

584
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:37,280
His recollection enabled a police artist to produce these sketches of the men,

585
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,280
but no one has come forward to identify them.

586
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,280
In further investigating Wendy's disappearance, police discovered a puzzling incident.

587
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:55,280
On the day after Wendy vanished, her ex-boyfriend in Shreveport claims to have received a message from her on his answering machine.

588
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,280
Hey Mark, this is Wendy.

589
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,280
This is a milk-bleed connection.

590
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,280
Hear me? Hello?

591
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:07,280
He said that it sounded like she was on a cell phone and he didn't hear everything that she said.

592
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,280
He did clearly hear the words, this is Wendy.

593
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,280
He said the rest of it was very static and he erased the message.

594
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:20,280
At that time, he didn't even know that Wendy was missing.

595
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,280
Wendy longs missing persons' cases filled with many more questions than answers.

596
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,280
A key question involves another of Wendy's ex-boyfriends.

597
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:41,280
There are quite a few reports that indicate that there was some physical violence in between them.

598
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:55,280
The thing that concerns me about Wendy's ex-boyfriend is the fact that another girlfriend of his came up missing years prior to his death.

599
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,280
I knew this and that she was never found.

600
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,280
But Wendy's ex-boyfriend apparently has an alibi.

601
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:12,280
The boyfriend cannot be placed in Shreveport anytime that Friday or Saturday.

602
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:20,280
I consider him to be suspect only because of the prior things that happened.

603
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:27,280
For one Nelong's parents, the nightmare that began with a single phone call continues.

604
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:33,280
We've had people call and said that they've been praying for us and praying for Wendy.

605
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:39,280
I'm just trusting God to answer our prayers and to lead us to wherever Wendy might be.

606
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:47,280
And I do still believe in miracles and I believe it can still be a miracle that Wendy could be alive.

607
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,280
Update

608
00:39:53,280 --> 00:40:00,280
Eight months after Wendy's disappearance, Tommy, whose real name is Robert Stewart, was arrested for check fraud.

609
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:08,280
Police began to re-question him about inconsistencies in the story he told about the last time he saw Wendy long.

610
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:16,280
According to investigators, Stewart eventually broke down, confessed to the murder and pinpointed the location of Wendy's body.

611
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:27,280
The story is now a special bulletin.

612
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:32,280
We ask you to pay close attention to this story about a young woman who is missing.

613
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:38,280
Perhaps you may be able to help authorities determine what happened the day Rachel Cook disappeared.

614
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,280
On the morning of January 10, 2002,

615
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:47,280
19-year-old Rachel Cook went jogging in her Georgetown, Texas neighborhood.

616
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:56,280
She left her house at approximately 9.30 a.m., wearing a green sports bra, grey shorts, a grey shirt tied around her waist, white running shoes, and a bright yellow armband walkman.

617
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,280
Witnesses spotted her at various points along her route that morning.

618
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,280
The police found her in a small town in the middle of the street.

619
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:08,280
She was 5'2", tall and weighs about 120 pounds.

620
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,280
Her hair is blonde with dark, arbor streaks in it.

621
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,280
She has hazel eyes.

622
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,280
Rachel also has multiple piercings and bows in her head.

623
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,280
She is a very tall woman, but she is a very tall woman.

624
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,280
She is a very tall woman, but she is a very tall woman.

625
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:30,280
She is a very tall woman, but she is a very tall woman, but she is a very tall woman.

626
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,280
She has hazel eyes.

627
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:42,280
Rachel also has multiple piercings in both ears, two heart-shaped cherry tattoos on her left shoulder, and a black star tattoo on her left foot.

628
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,280
Hounders or cases like those you have seen have been solved with the help of our viewers.

629
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,280
Join me next time.

630
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,280
Perhaps you will solve a mystery.

631
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,280
Let's get started.

632
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:43,780
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