Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 10 | Forensic Files

DENNIS FARINA: Next on "Unsolved Mysteries"-- A man plans a fake kidnapping to extort a ransom.
But there's a hitch; his accomplice kills him. A woman disappears. Her fiance says that he dropped her off at a casino,
but security tapes tell a different story. Two strangers, two separate car crashes-- both victims
say they became psychic after their brush with death. A sheriff turned AWOL reportedly buries $6 million
worth of gold in the Montana mountains. Many believe that it's still there. You might have that one vital clue
to help solve one of our cases. I'm Dennis Farina, and this is "Unsolved Mysteries."
Join us. [theme music] DENNIS FARINA: Littleton, Colorado-- it was an ordinary Wednesday morning in the neighborhood
of Roger and DJ Dean, except for this strange car parked on the street. Some remembered it was a '68 Pontiac,
others a '76 Oldsmobile. But everyone agreed the man inside was a stranger. At the time, they thought nothing of it.
But at the time, Roger Dean was still alive. Roger called his wife into the bedroom
around 7:00 that morning. DJ, come out here. What is it, Roger? Alright lady. Shut up and get on the bed.
Ow! Roger! Shut up! DENNIS FARINA: The masked intruder forced Roger to tie and blindfold his wife.
Then he took Roger into another room. As DJ lay helplessly on her bed, she could hear Roger and the gunman talking,
but she couldn't tell what they were saying. DJ heard the gunman rifling through drawers.
Let's go. All right, I'll give you the money! Go! DENNIS FARINA: Then, a loud noise.
At the front door he fired again at point blank range. Roger Dean died before help could arrive.
From the beginning, several aspects of the case puzzled investigators. Roger had twine marks on only one wrist,
so it appeared that he had never actually been tied up by the gunman. Also, Roger was wearing contact lenses when he was shot.
Look at his glasses here. DENNIS FARINA: Yet strangely, in an upstairs bedroom, his glasses were found covered with duct tape.
Police believe that both the twine and the glasses were red herrings planted to give the impression that Roger
had been blindfolded and bound. We believe that Roger hired an individual to come over
to basically kidnap him, take him to his bank, withdraw $30,000 from their account,
and then obviously drop Roger off someplace so Roger could report a robbery, and he would
have that $30,000 to himself. DENNIS FARINA: During the investigation, police also learned that Roger had taken nearly $30,000
from his business and put it in a secret account. On most weekdays, Roger left home before 6:15 AM.
On the day of his murder, he was seen drinking coffee in his garage at 7:00 AM. What we make of the timing is that he
was waiting for this individual to come and meet him at his house. We also believe that the individual was probably sitting
in his car when Roger lifted the garage door, which was the signal for his individual
to get out of his car and walk over to the Roger's home. In my heart, I cannot believe that Roger
had anything to do with this. This is the man that I was married to for 26 years,
and yes, there had been personal problems in the last few years, especially since the death of our son.
But I knew the man too well. DENNIS FARINA: After Roger's death, DJ and her daughter Tammy tried to move on with their lives.
But five years later they received a chilling, anonymous letter. Incredibly, its author claimed to be
the man who killed Roger Dean. The letter demanded $100,000, and if the money wasn't delivered, he threatened to kill again.
MURDERER: Do you know that I have met your daughter Tammy on a few occasions? Do not make me kill her.
Your son is dead. Your husband is dead. Do not risk your daughter. She's the last one left.
I was in total shock. I mean, this was like something that doesn't happen to you.
This only happens in the movies. It makes me angry that we had just started to get on with our lives and put the past in the past,
and it's all brought up to you again. And this person isn't letting us continue,
and we never did anything to deserve this. DENNIS FARINA: DJ and Tammy called the police and the FBI.
They were convinced that the letter was legitimate and that it was written by Roger's killer.
DJ and Tammy given around the clock protection. The killer told DJ that he would call again.
Wait for the second ring, now. DENNIS FARINA: FBI agents moved into DJ's home, and set up a wire tap.
Hello? MURDERER (ON THE PHONE): Listen, your husband owed me money, and I want my money.
If my husband owed you money, I'll pay you what he owed you. DENNIS FARINA: The FBI traced the call to a phone booth
in Denver. But when they got there, the killer was gone. The killer called 12 more times and then
he told DJ to drive to a supermarket 20 miles north of her home and wait for further instructions.
DJ tried to trap the caller with the help of an FBI agent hidden in her car. Surveillance trucks and a SWAT team were nearby.
OK, she's out of the car, and she's headed across the parking lot now. She's headed towards the phone booth.
I waited, and I waited, and I waited. Could not believe I was really having to go through this terror.
Hello? DENNIS FARINA: The extortionist finally called, and told DJ to leave the $100,000 in an alley
behind an apartment complex in downtown Denver. Later that evening, the FBI watched as DJ made the drop.
They waited until dawn, but no one showed up. Whether or not he spotted something, whether or not
he just took for granted that the law enforcement was involved, or whether or not he got cold feet,
and although he didn't detect any type of law enforcement, he just was too scared to actually make the pick up,
I think all those are possibilities. When he didn't pick up, I was devastated, because I thought,
this is not over. there's There's nothing more that either one of us want than for this to be solved.
He's still terrorizing us. He is still making us live a nightmare that continues
on and on all the time. DENNIS FARINA: In his last call, the extortionist told Tammy he planned to kill her.
He said he would strike when she least expected it. Authorities believe that the suspect
is white, about six feet tall, and uses an extensive vocabulary. They also think that a man and woman working together
wrote the letters. If you have any information about this case, please log onto our website at unsolved.com.
Next, how could a woman disappear from a busy casino? 24-hour surveillance cameras may provide the answer.
Apple Valley, California-- Al Henderson and Jean Moore seem like the typical couple in love.
But they spent more than a typical amount of time getting to know each other. It took Al 20 years to finally propose to Jean.
She was very happy, and we were making plans for the wedding. She got more excited about it with each passing day.
DENNIS FARINA: However, Jean's children weren't nearly as happy about the engagement.
The longer I knew him, the less genuine he seemed. I know he said that he loved her many times,
but he also had a habit of putting her down in front of other people. And to me, that just didn't sound like love.
When your mother asks you to be nice to somebody who they like, you go along with it, even though you've tried to talk--
like I did-- I tried to talk my mom out of being around the guy. DENNIS FARINA: A few months after the proposal,
Jean and Al went on a vacation in Laughlin, Nevada, a scaled down version of Las Vegas.
It was there, a few days later, that Al reported Jane missing. No one has seen or heard from her since.
Many people, especially her children, are convinced that something bad happened to Jean
and that her fiance, Al, was somehow involved. What follows is Al's side of the story
and his account of the day that Jean disappeared. According to Al, they were just about to check out
of their hotel when Jean wanted to play her lucky slot machine just one more time.
He told us that he dropped her off at a side entrance of a nearby casino and went to find a parking place.
When I did not find one, then I returned to the valet parking. Can my wife pick up the car later?
Thank you. AL HENDERSON: Got the ticket, went inside the casino where Jean was waiting for me.
Here's the claim check for the car. AL HENDERSON: Our plan was that we would meet back at our hotel
room at a quarter of 12:00. DENNIS FARINA: Al claims that he left Jean in the casino
at around 9:30 in the morning. Once outside, he planned to take a taxi back to the hotel.
There was no cab there, so after waiting a couple of minutes and the cab didn't come, I thought, well,
it would be nice-- I could go play the slots with her a little bit. But DENNIS FARINA: Al found somebody else playing
Jean's favorite slot machine. AL HENDERSON: I felt, well, because someone was there
playing it, she may have decided to go shopping or some other thing. From a quarter of 10:00 to 10:15 I played the machine
that she liked, hoping that she would come back and I would be able to get up and just say,
here's your machine. Have fun. Can you take these bags to security? We're checking out.
DENNIS FARINA: Al checked out of the hotel around noon and returned to the casino to look for Jean.
When I saw that the car was right where it had been left and spoke to the valet, nobody had
brought a ticket for the car, then I began to become alarmed. DENNIS FARINA: Al says he thoroughly searched the lobby,
the shops, and the gaming area, but he says he could not find Jean. Over the next few days, Al distributed
thousands of these flyers in the Laughlin area. Despite a $25,000 reward, no one called.
After a certain amount of time, I had to figure that something terrible has happened.
DENNIS FARINA: Jean's children thought the same thing, but they are convinced that Henderson
knows more than he's saying. The more we find out about what supposedly happened as
compared to what can be verified, that less I'm inclined to believe that he's telling the full truth.
In my opinion, Al has not said everything that had happened, and the reason I say that is because number one,
the story has changed a couple of times. DENNIS FARINA: Al originally told police
that he dropped Jean off in front of the casino and gave her the valet ticket there.
But Al told us that he left Jean at a side entrance and gave her the ticket inside the Casino.
Within a couple of days, or within a day, I knew that he was involved. In my heart I know he was involved.
DENNIS FARINA: Police knew the casino had surveillance cameras that monitored every square inch of the casino 24 hours a day.
It was time to verify Al Henderson's story. Al had said that a valet parked his Cadillac
and that he entered the Casino a little after of 9:00. Surveillance tapes confirmed this.
Beyond this point, Henderson's story and the surveillance footage do not match up.
This tape shows two views of the area where he says he gave Jean the valet ticket
and where they supposedly walked around. I have reviewed four of those tapes of the areas
that Mr. Henderson said that they were in. And the tapes that I have reviewed, the surveillance tape that I have reviewed,
we do not see Jeannie in any of those tapes. I can't really comment on that. I can only tell you what happened.
I accept no responsibility for what the tapes show or don't show, because I am not an expert in that field.
I can just tell you what happened. DENNIS FARINA: Al also said that he had waited for Jean
at her favorite slot machine. In examining the tapes for the time frame Al give us, 9:45 to approximate 10:15, the machines that he
told security was her favorite machine, we do not see Al playing those machines.
Well, the only response to that is that he was evidently looking at the tape of the wrong machine.
I have checked with the surveillance personnel for the hotel, and they have advised me
that this is the group of machines that Al Henderson told the security personnel it
was Jeannie's favorite machine. DENNIS FARINA: Investigators began to wonder if Jean
had been in Laughlin at all. Eventually, they found a waitress who had served Al and Jean on the day they arrived.
Other than the coffee shop, we have nobody seeing Jeannie in the Laughlin area. DENNIS FARINA: The question remained, where
was Jean between the Monday sighting and Thursday when she disappeared? A few weeks later, a witness came
forward with a possible answer. A friend of Jean's claimed that she saw the couple
150 miles away from Laughlin. They were at a gas station in their home town of Apple Valley, the day before Jean
was reported missing. The witness remembered the time because they were en route
to a school function that would have been only at that time, and pinpointed the time and date.
DENNIS FARINA: But Al says they were both in Laughlin, and there are phone records to prove it.
I've provided several people with copies of my telephone log from Call USA, showing that I made a call from Laughlin
to the Victorville area at a little bit after 3:00 on that day. I had another call, I think it was at 6:59 on that day.
So you've got less than four hours, and it's physically impossible, even if all you did
was drive from Laughlin and turn around and go back, you can't do it in less than six hours.
DENNIS FARINA: Phone records verify the calls were made from Laughlin on Wednesday.
Also, Al's bookkeeper told us both he and Jean called from Laughlin the same Wednesday evening.
So we discussed various things, and then he says, well, just a minute, Jeannie wants to say hi
too. So Jeannie got on the phone and she was just happier than happy could be, because she had run into a stroke of luck
on one of the poker machines. DENNIS FARINA: Less than 24 hours later, Jean Moore
was reported missing. Unequivocally, I had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jean Moore.
I had offered this $25,000 reward. I think that my net worth has gone down from around $2.5
million to $1 million. If I could get her back I'd give the whole $1 million. I would do anything to get her back.
DENNIS FARINA: Jean Moore's disappearance has no explanation. How could a woman simply vanish from a crowded casino
in broad daylight. The family says they won't stop searching until they find the answer.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Jean Moore, please log on to our website at unsolved.com.
Next, can a traumatic car crash trigger psychic powers? Two accident victims say yes.
Can an intense trauma trigger psychic powers that allow us to see things that others can't?
John Holland and Elizabeth Joyce were nearly killed in separate car accidents, which they say left them with strange psychic gifts.
Los Angeles, California-- John Holland's life is about to change forever. John was dazed but not seriously injured.
And then the following day, he began to feel strange. I started noticing kind of like electricity
building up in my body, like, I don't want to say a power, but it was more like a surge of energy was building.
I just felt that my body had too much energy in it. That's the only way I could describe it.
DENNIS FARINA: As a child, John was interested in psychic phenomena, but it wasn't until his accident that he knew he had a gift.
At his work he was able to predict a stranger's birthday. It would just come out of my mouth, straight out.
And I had to learn how to stop that. DENNIS FARINA: John says his predictions became so accurate that co-workers
became frightened of him. Holland's boss eventually asked that he stop making predictions.
I'm not out to prove anything, OK? This is what happened to me. This is what comes out of me.
And this is-- people come back and confirm. Car accidents and other sudden events
that shake up a person's body, and of course the inner body, called the aura, have, on occasion, caused
that person to become psychic. There are a number of cases on record, there's also a case of a man who fell off a ladder,
and as a result became a well-known psychic. DENNIS FARINA: A few years after his accident,
John began seeing clients professionally. He claims his powers intensified and that he now could
communicate with the dead. A client, named Adriane, who came to see me, and her dad passed away, sadly.
Basically she wanted to know, where is he? What is he doing right now? So what happened-- her dad came and told me to tell her to look
in a book on the bookshelf. He described the bookcase, he described the location
of a book, he said, and there's going to be something, a message from your father in this book it.
It was unclear if he meant the book. He said, no, there's a message in it. A piece of paper, a message from your father that will let you
know that he's OK. DENNIS FARINA: It took two weeks. Finally, Adriane got the courage to open the book.
John was right. Inside was a poem written by her father 28 years ago. John believes that if not for the accident,
he would never have known that the note was there. Saddle River, New Jersey-- Elizabeth
Joyce and her son, Jeff, were badly injured in a car accident. Elizabeth shielded Jeff from the impact,
but she suffered massive injuries. On the way to the hospital, Elizabeth's heart
stopped beating three times. And during those blackouts, she says that she was reunited with dead relatives.
ELIZABETH JOYCE: On the left with my stepson. On the right with my husband. They talked to me with their mind.
You have to go back, you have to go back. DENNIS FARINA: Elizabeth survived the accident
without any permanent physical disabilities, but she was worried about neurological damage.
I started having a tingling sensation across my shoulders and up my neck, and I started having blackouts.
DENNIS FARINA: Soon after the accident, Elizabeth began having the same frightening dream
over and over again. ELIZABETH JOYCE: It was an explosion. I saw a house, I saw a body, I saw it go out the roof.
I was aware of oil wells, I was aware of a trailer park and a fence. It was so real to me, and in my head I would hear,
your aunt died. She's in Houston, Texas. DENNIS FARINA: But Elizabeth didn't have
an aunt who lived in Houston. After having the dream every night for three weeks,
she told her social worker, Brenda Hayes, about it. Brenda was amazed, because the home Elizabeth was describing
was actually Brenda's aunt's home in Houston. And there had been an explosion there a week earlier.
There was a pipeline explosion on her property, and they haven't been able to find her body
or find any remains to identify what happened to her. I started to explain to her what the setup was,
and she said, no wait, I'll draw you a picture. DENNIS FARINA: Elizabeth drew the house perfectly.
She then pointed to a section of tall grass near an oil well where the body of Brenda's aunt would be found.
Jenny? It's Brenda. DENNIS FARINA: The Houston Police were called. Within an hour, they found a body.
It was Brenda's aunt. This wouldn't be the last time Elizabeth's newly discovered
powers would solve a mystery. When Exxon President, Sidney J Reso, was kidnapped from his home in New York,
Elizabeth Joyce had a vision. She called the police. I'm not a fan of psychics, and I've come
across many, many psychics. But in this particular case with Elizabeth Joyce, I did find her to be very, very accurate.
ELIZABETH JOYCE: In black and white I saw a blonde-haired woman in a jogging suit
running behind the car, falling and screaming for help. I saw the man get out of the car to go over and help this woman.
I saw a man come around from the bushes. I saw him grab this man that had gotten out of the Cadillac
and put a gun to his head and forced him into a white van. I knew that it was Reso.
DENNIS FARINA: For six weeks, Elizabeth talked to the FBI every day, giving them more information.
They said, they're putting him in a trunk, and they're taking him off a main road.
And they're going to dig a shallow grave. And he said, describe it to me. Oh, I said, it's between two pine trees.
And it's in a narrow space between two pine trees, and it's off a main road, either the Garden State Parkway ,
or the New Jersey Turnpike. DENNIS FARINA: The FBI won't comment on Elizabeth's information, however, Sidney's Reso's body was found
exactly where she predicted. Sidney's Reso's remains were in a three-foot deep sandy grave in the depths of the Pine Barrens.
DENNIS FARINA: Elizabeth says that her information also helped catch the killers.
I don't try to ever convince anyone that there is such a thing as psychic sensitivity.
I let them find it for themselves. I'm there to help others if they are open to being helped.
If I can reach one person that it helps them change their life for the better, and they know things about themselves more,
or if they know that we all go on, then I've done my job. DENNIS FARINA: John Holland and Elizabeth Joyce
continue to use their powers to help others. Do they really have psychic abilities?
Just ask the people they've helped. They certainly thing so. Coming up, innocent neighbors are
caught in the crossfire when a murderous husband attacks his wife. Talladega, Alabama--
All right, well thanks for the ride, girl. DENNIS FARINA: Early one evening, Geraldine George, a 36-year-old mother of two,
returned home from work. She had been separated from her abusive husband, Larry George,
for six months. Even though there was a restraining order against him, he continued to harass her.
That evening his obsession turned deadly. Geraldine went inside her apartment and dropped her belongings off.
DET TOM BOWERMAN: She walked next door to Janice Maurice's apartment and Ralph Swing's apartment.
It's Geraldine. DENNIS FARINA: Geraldine was friendly with her next door neighbor.
Janice had agreed to watch Geraldine's kids while she worked. All right, say goodbye to everyone.
Say goodbye. DET TOM BOWERMAN: She went in, sent her kids home, talked briefly with Janice.
It was rather brief because Janice was on the telephone with her mother. Geraldine, after talking briefly with Janice,
walked back next door. And as she entered her apartment, Larry George was already inside the apartment
talking to her kids. You know you're not supposed to be here. We've been through this before.
You want me to call the police again? I want you out of my house. I don't want those people taking care of my kids.
You don't tell me what to do anymore. You gonna listen to me. Put the gun away. Honey, I want to go upstairs.
You call your granddaddy and tell him that Larry is here. Go on. Larry, no! Let go!
Janice! DENNIS FARINA: Geraldine ran next door for help. Janice was still talking to her mother.
Call the police! Larry's next door and he has a gun! I heard a woman's voice yelling, Janice, Janice,
call the police. So I asked Jan, who was that? And she said, that girl that just left here.
What's the matter? She said, I don't know. Let me call you back, OK? Bye-bye. And that's the last time I heard her voice.
DENNIS FARINA: Larry George shot Janice in the chest before she could call the police.
Larry, please stop! Then Then, in front of Janice's two children, he shot Geraldine as she cowered on the floor.
Janice's boyfriend, Ralph Swain, heard the commotion and ran downstairs. He was shot in the back of the head.
Then Larry George calmly walked out of the apartment and disappeared. Janice Morris was pronounced dead at the scene,
and Ralph Swain died a short time later. This murder was stupid. I mean, Ralph or Janice, neither one knew Larry.
They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. DENNIS FARINA: Geraldine George survived the shooting,
but was paralyzed from the waist down. The next day, sheriff's deputies discovered
a car hidden in the bushes at a campsite six miles out of town. It was registered to Larry George.
DET TOM BOWERMAN: He had been living in the car. There was a lot of clothing in the car.
We found a notebook where it appeared that Mr. George had been keeping a diary as to who came
and went at his wife's apartment, and camouflage clothing. I want Larry George to pay for what he did.
DENNIS FARINA: Update: After we aired this story, an "Unsolved Mysteries" viewer claimed
to have seen Larry George fishing on the banks of a river in Delaware. Two detectives were sent to investigate.
This is the one we first encountered Larry George at, right here. We began a conversation with him about fishing.
And it was at this time, myself and Detective Pinkett made eye contact, and I identified myself
as a police officer to Larry. At this time, a brief struggle ensued right about here.
We all three fell to the ground here. We got back to our feet still struggling, and at that point
we just turned threw Larry into the water. DENNIS FARINA: George tried to run, but back up units quickly corned him.
Finally, he surrendered. At George's campsite, police found a generator, a stove, a spear gun, and a sawed off shotgun.
He knew he was wanted for murder. He wasn't going to be taken alive. If he would have put himself in his hide out,
and if we had discovered it, that probably would have gunfire and officers would have been hurt.
DENNIS FARINA: Seven months after his arrest, Larry George was tried and found guilty of capital murder.
He was sentenced to die in the electric chair. In a moment, the story of a fortune in stolen gold
hidden in the rugged hills of Montana. We recently told you the story of an escaped prisoner named
Robert Gerald Watson, who had been arrested for kidnapping and rape. In Tennessee's Hamblin County Jail,
Watson and two other inmates were cleaning the common room known as the slammer.
When they were done, they signaled to a nearby deputy. During the struggle, the jail's automatic outside doors opened.
One of the inmates was overpowered by the deputy. A second was captured later that night.
But Watson made a clean getaway. Update-- Monroe County, Tennessee-- a viewer tip
led police to a remote area of Monroe County, where they found Robert Gerald Watson.
He was charged with rape, kidnapping, and assault. Given Mr. Watson had already been on the run
for over two years, and we'd had no leads on him, Gerald Watson's arrest was a direct result of the "Unsolved
Mysteries" program. When I went to Knoxville to pick Mr. Watson up to bring him back, he had made the statement to me in the car,
he said, yeah, I seen you on TV. He said, I knew you guys coming in to get me. DENNIS FARINA: Three months later, Watson
was convicted on all charges. He was given a sentence of 10 to 25 years in prison.
It was a legendary treasure buried in the Montana hills, or so the story goes. In 1863, a crooked sheriff and his gang went to the gallows,
refusing to reveal where they had hidden their stolen gold. It's a tale of murder, money and betrayal.
Bannock, Montana-- when gold was discovered in Alder Gulch, Montana, hundreds of prospectors
descended on the town. Riches were being made, and people wanted to get in on them.
That's why there was such a large gang of outlaws around every mining camp. Hey, fellas, we got company.
What can we do for you guys? DENNIS FARINA: In the spring of 1863, a group of those outlaws known as the Road Agent Gang nearly
wiped out the prospectors. It has been said they stole more than 1,000 pounds of gold.
Henry Plummer, the town sheriff, was also secretly the leader of the outlaws. Henry Plummer was an ex-convict.
Ironically, he had just been released four years earlier from a brand new California prison, San Quentin.
MAN: Henry Plummer was a very pleasant looking individual. He was the only man in Bannock, practically,
that always tipped his hat to a lady when he saw her on the street. Well, you could call him the consummate con man of his day.
So he was able to con people into thinking he was a competent man to be the sheriff.
And of course he knew that being a sheriff would give him a perfect cover. Boys, we got to stage leaving Bannock in two days.
It's full of gold, and I want that stage. DENNIS FARINA: Plummer and his gang targeted miners trying to transport their gold
to a major rail head. Put your hands up, boys! We want the gold! DENNIS FARINA: It's estimated that in four months,
Henry Plummer and the Road Agents killed more than 120 miners, and stole what today
would be $6 million in gold. Finally, in December of 1863, the gang went too far.
A local rancher found the body and brought it into town. MAN: And that was enough for them.
They formed a posse, and during the next six weeks of vigilante's work, picking people up giving them a trial,
and we know they hanged about 22 men, at least. DENNIS FARINA: When the outlaws were caught,
they started pointing fingers at each other. One Road Agent who was about to be hanged
identified Henry Plummer as the gang's leader. I want you all to know that Henry's
the one that planned all this. He's the one to run all the Road Agents. He's the man you want.
DENNIS FARINA: The vigilante posse raced to Plummer's house. What's going on, boys?
Get your hands up! DENNIS FARINA: Plummer was marched to a scaffold that, ironically, he built himself.
But before he was hanged, he made an unusual request. Give me two hours and a horse, and I'll
bring back my weight in gold. You made that mistake once. DENNIS FARINA: Henry Plummer died without telling anyone
where the treasure was buried. Immediately after his death, prospector's started searching
for Plummer's buried treasure. In the early 1900s, two mysterious gold hunters may have found that.
MAN: They went into a local store that had a vault, and asked if they could leave this box in there all night.
And one of the men stayed there, riding shotgun on the vault. The next morning, they disappeared.
Nobody knew who they were, where they went, or what they dug up. DENNIS FARINA: Even if one box of Plummer's gold was found,
there's probably a lot more out there. Two local men, Scott Jones and Bill Chappy,
have been hunting for the treasure for years. They're confident that Plummer's gold still lies
buried somewhere in the area. LOCAL MAN: Nobody would bury all their eggs in one basket.
So it's understandable that he has it someplace where he has access to it. I bet there's 1,000 pounds or better, in different places
maybe, from Virgina City to Bannock. DENNIS FARINA: Perhaps the location of Plummer's buried gold will never be found,
if it was ever there at all.

Brief Summary

A fake kidnapping, a woman's disappearance, psychic experiences, and a buried treasure in Montana are featured in this episode.

Key points

A Chilling Letter. DJ and Tammy receive an anonymous letter from Roger's killer, demanding $100,000.
The Disappearance of Jean Moore. Jean Moore vanishes from a casino, leaving her family desperate for answers.
Elizabeth Joyce's Predictions. Elizabeth Joyce accurately predicted the location of a murder victim's body.
Geraldine George's Tragic Encounter. Geraldine George faced her abusive husband, leading to a deadly confrontation.
Larry George's Capture. Larry George was finally apprehended after months on the run.
The Legend of Plummer's Gold. The buried treasure of Henry Plummer remains a mystery, with treasure hunters still searching.

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This only happens in the movies.

DJ reflects on the shocking letter she received.

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