Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 2, Episode 19 | Forensic Files

[Music] next on Unsolved Mysteries when Charlie Sigman met his bride an he thought he had finally found
true love but he was wrong dead wrong in 1937 docn claimed he found gold coins and jewels in a New Mexico mountain some
say the2 billion treasure might still be there he was a well-respected judge until his clients found out he had
secretly robbed them of over $10 million Shandra Lei Joyce Chang both were government interns in Washington DC
both were murdered were they the victims of a serial killer you just might have that one
vital clue to help solve one of our cases I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries join
[Music] [Music] [Music] us [Music] carsville Missouri Charlie Sigman loved children
and when he fell in love with Anne he also fell in love with her two boys he wanted the best for his new family so he
sold a small house and moved Anne and her children to a 9 Acre Farm he called it C and A's for Charlie and
an they worked side by side those two children is what Drew he and an together and they were so crazy
about Charlie and he was those children and I can look back now I can see that she was Feathering her nest she
thought it's strange it's something I've never been able to put my finger on but
she just didn't seem Charlie's type ever it was early one summer when Charlie began to suspect that there was more to
an than met the eye she had disappeared one night uh had come back and then he woke up another
night and she was [Music] gone and she wasn't in the house you saw a light under the door of the their
refrigerator little [��__ ] they kept their vegetables and stuff in [Music] he went out opened the
door and she was sitting in the floor and a neglige half naked uh she had a semicircle candles
around her had a a poster of a Satan likee figure on the wall was chanting which he didn't
understand and they had a confrontation they went into the house um and he didn't go any further than that
I didn't ask 3 weeks earlier Charlie had found a doll in their bedroom and told him that
she used it in her witchcraft rituals he said look at that needle in through the heart that's drawn on
that and he said I when I woke up when I found that he said it was laying on my pillow Charlie was upset he told aun to
move out she went to live with Gary Goff a truck driver who had once been a policeman Charlie had known Gary since
childhood but most upsetting to him was that Anne took her two children with her Charlie was devastated he missed his
wife and the two boys he still talked to Anne occasionally but according to some
friends he had also received threatening phone calls from Anne's new boyfriend Gary gof okay let me clean up a little
bit one night Charlie was hanging out with an old friend at home when he got a call from
[Music] an she said that the two boys was crying after him she was threatening suicide
and he said that he had to go up there and see what was happening he said I could be getting set up here are you
sure you want to do this Charlie agreed to meet an at Gary's house he considered
taking his handgun but ch changed his mind [Music] no 3:20 a.m. Charlie's been shot shot Anne went to the police and
told them that her husband had been shot at Gary's house they began an investigation at the
crime scene the house was tore apart it was been a very bad struggle in there his blood all the door and the
walls and a couple bullet holes in the walls and one in the door I mentioned and uh there were seven bullet wounds in
the body two guns were found a 32 caliber revolver was lying on the floor and a 25
caliber pistol was on top of the TV both had been fired in a waste basket in the kitchen
the police found a bloody iron she was yelling for help I got in there Charlie was beat when questioned
Gary gof said he fought with Charlie hit him with the iron and fired all seven shots at him he Bai her and confirmed
the story and mentioned that she also handled the 25 caliber pistol did you give it to Gary or Gary take it from you
um I gave it to Gary and claimed that Charlie came through the house in a drunken rage and
demanded to be led in come on we got to talk he forced his way into the house and said that he began beating her
until golf came to the rescue although G had a broken arm at the time he fought with
Charlie then he shot him with the 32 caliber pistol five times he fired two more shots with the
25 caliber pistol Charlie finally collapsed unfortunately no blood was taken from
Charlie's body to find out if he had indeed been drinking but if Anne and gof had both
fired at Charlie there could be grounds for a charge of premeditated murder police conducted a powder residue
test to see if an had also fired a gun that test was inconclusive took it all to the
prosecutor's office he yes what I felt and at that time I told him I felt like it was probably self-defense that I
believe that they were telling the truth and the only thing I could tell him was
have to do more investigation and see Anne Sigman and Gary gof were released but the investigation
continued apparently Anne had told a friend that she had reasons for wanting Charlie dead the sheriff's department
convinced the friend to wear a wire perhaps an would say something incriminating again now tomorrow okay I
just need that much time fine I will wait until tomorrow and then I'll call she had in talking with Miss Sigman had
told her she was fixing to go to the police Miss Sigman ultimately told her not to go to the police or asked her not
to go to the police and give her time to her and Mr golf time to leave town she incriminated herself on the
tape authorities prepared a warrant for Anne and G's arrest but within hours Anne had van finished leaving her two
boys behind Gary gof had already left town his truck was later found abandoned in
Phoenix Arizona in my mind I do not see a murder first degree here and I say that because of the scene
the disarray of the house the damage that was done to it the angle of the bullet wounds to the body the fight that
occurred and the damage to Garrett the bruises on his chest and face and the bruises on his back and and of course
the man had a broken arm in my opinion there's no probability of self fense and once we get into the trial we can bring
all the information out I don't think that anybody else will assume that either I would like to see him come back
and resolve this thing because I do not believe that Gary G is capable of murder
first degree both Davis and Hilburn believe that this case will not be resolved until Anne Sigman and Gary gof have
their day in Court update Gary G turned himself in and played guilty to second degree
murder Goff was sentenced to 20 years and was released after serving 13 years and 5
months from prison he begged Sigman to turn herself in but she refused there is still an outstanding
warrant for the arrest of an Sigman for first-degree murder she may be living in Oregon or Arizona
under the Alias Andy Hayes or Andy partlo if you have any information please log on to our website at
unsolved.com coming up interns working for two different congressmen are murdered the
similarities between the cases suggest there is a connection Washington DC The Disappearance of Capitol Hill
intern sha Revy caught the attention of the entire country 13 months after Shandra vanished
police were called to a remote section of Rock Creek Park 4 miles from her apartment a hiker's dog had uncovered a
human skull halfway down a wooded incline far away from the well-used paths in the dense brush police also
found additional bones a jogger's bra and a cassette player the search for Shandra leevy was
over her death was ruled a homicide but what exactly happened to Shandra remains
a mystery few people know that another Washington intern Joyce Chang disappeared 2 years before
Shandra although there was no National media coverage the similarities between the two cases are
disturbing the two women lived in the same neighborhood and had worked for the same government agency they were both
young brunette and petite could there be a connection between the murders of Joyce and
Shandra when Shandra Ley disappeared it certainly brought back a lot of memories
and we wondered if there was a connection that question remains open and the question of Joy's disappearance
remains open I strongly believe that these particular incidents involving these two women may have been committed
by the the same perpetrator simply because of there's just too many similarities in this in
this case to to ignore Joyce was the only daughter in a close-knit Taiwanese American family
while in college she was an intern for representative Howard Burman of California she had a wonderful
personality she was just very cheerful she'd light up a room that kind of a person I mean she was just
adorable after her internship Joyce took a job as a lawyer at the ins she lived with her brother Roger in the Dupont
Circle area of Washington Shandra would later move to the same neighborhood a favorite hangout for both was the
nearby Starbucks it was here that Joyce was last seen I know about you guys but I ate way
too much earlier that evening Joyce met up with some friends to see a movie and eat
dinner bye at about 8:15 my sister was with uh her friend Kathy Joyce asked to make one
quick stop at the Starbucks uh to grab a cup of tea I Joyce told her friend that she was
going to walk home she never made it back to her apartment when Joyce failed to return
home her brother called the police I like the report a missing person because Joyce was a federal employee the FBI
became involved it's spelled c h i at first the investigation turned up nothing then a couple came forward with
the first clue in the case Joyce disappeared on January 9th on January 10th a couple was walking
through Anacostia Park and had found a bill fold with Joyce's government credit card and had turned that into the Park
police but the credit card remained in lost and found for 4 days until the couple saw Joyce's picture in a news
broadcast they contacted the FBI a 50 seven memb search and rescue team comb the area where the cow was
found they discovered Joyce's Apartment keys her video and grocery store cards her gloves got a jacket over here and
the jacket she had been wearing there was a clean rip running down the back of it her coat torn down the back her cards
scattered every place we're just terrified we know she's dead you know you don't want to confronted but you
know something horrible has happened to her the police searched the river but found nothing then 3 months later and 8
mil Downstream a canoe spotted a body that had washed the shore after 3 months underwater DNA
tests were needed to identify the body it was Joyce Chen that's when all hope just dashed
that um that Joy was alive and I quickly called my mother one of the most difficult phone calls I've ever had to
make to tell my mother that her daughter was dead and that's a moment that I'll never
forget the condition of her body made it impossible to determine how Joyce died the cause of death was listed as
undetermined without evidence of Foul Play investigators felt there was nothing more to be done the case was
[Music] closed then 2 years later sha rivi was murdered the similarities between the
two women were chilling however police dismissed them for the first time they suggested that
Joyce may have committed suicide this is a woman without a history of depression this is a woman
who worked very hard in life and had everything to live for and the and it's just not a theory that makes sense if
Joyce did commit suicide why was her jacket ripped why were her belongings left on the bank of the river and how
did she get to the riverbank almost 5 miles from where she was last seen she didn't have a
car and no public transportation goes there and on a extremely freezing cold day in
January commit suicide by waiting into the anacosta river and putting her head under the water that is patently absurd
on its face there is another clue that adds to the mystery surrounding Joyce Chang just
3 days after she was last seen at the coffee shop a bizarre message appeared on a nearby wall it read good day JC may
I never miss the thrill of being near you just the initials JC which are the same initials as my sister's name and
the content of the message may I never miss the thrill of being near you it was all just a little too weird a little
peculiar if a serial killer is responsible for these murders there are those who believe that he has taken not
two but three lives 5 months before Joyce disappeared 28-year-old Christine Mion was raped and
murdered while she was walking home from a barbecue she had been an intern and she fit the same description all three
women lived in the DuPont area all three women had dark hair all three women were
about the same height and uh they were all here uh as interns at one point in their careers there were no similarities
in those three cases period that case is currently in a closed status somebody knows something and then maybe they'll
see this and realize that there are still people who care and still want to know what happened to her and maybe they
will come forward and and tell us we haven't completely gone on with our lives and forgotten about
Choice update there are new developments in this case here's one of our staff with
details the investigations into the Mur of Shandra leevy and Joyce Chang have been closed and it turns out they were
unrelated assisted by a tip from a jailhouse informant police charged a 27-year-old illegal immigrant ingmar
guandi with shandra's murder based substantially on his cellmates testimony Guan was convicted and sentenced to 60
years however in an unexpected twist Federal prosecutors reversed course saying they can no longer prove a case
against ingar Guan because of quote recent unforeseen developments end quote it has been alleged that
recordings of the jail house informant demonstrate that he had lied leaving prosecutors unable to prove Guan DK
guilty Beyond A Reasonable Doubt guandi will be released to US immigration where
he faces deportation proceedings in the case of Joyce Chang the case was closed because police have
identified her Killers as two DC area males who abducted Joyce and took her to the Anacostia River where they intended
to rob her police believe that Joyce attempted to run from her captors but slipped on
the ice fell into the river and drowned one of the two men is currently in federal prison serving a life
sentence the other is believed to be in Guana which has no extradition treaty with the United
[Music] States next some believe that there is a treasure buried in New Mexico's
victorial Peak worth nearly $2 billion but Uncle Sam won't allow anyone to look for
[Music] it White Sands New Mexico one 100,000 acres of desert home only to rattlesnakes and Sagebrush vulture and
mule deer in 1937 a man named doc Nas was deer hunting here he hiked to the top of a hill known
as Victorio [Music] Peak as thirst and fatigue set in he looked for water from one of the
mountains many Springs instead he discovered a mysterious hole in the ground the hidden
entrance to a tunnel there was a ladder in the opening and Doc climbed [Music] inside a maze of tunnels led to a large
Cavern he found an old chest on it an Old English inscription that read sealed silver the chest was only a small part
of the treasure that claim that he found very deep deep in that Cavern was gold silver jewels and
gold bars that today would be worth 1.7 billion do it's a lot of money docn first made a living as a
traveling medicine showman then he married OA Beck with nickname babe and open a Foot Clinic in Hot Springs New
Mexico doc was my grandfather and I've heard incredible stories about him all of my
life he loved adventure and um was fascinated with history there it is yeah after doc discovered the
treasure at Victorio Peak he and babe spent every free moment exploring the tunnels that led deep deep inside the
mountain you be careful Dan in DC found that the passageways in the mountain led
to several caverns in one he found 79 human skeletons in another Jewels coins and
Priceless artifacts he described uh three huge uh oval top chests that he [Music]
opened he brought a couple of swords and knives out he brought out a crown and I
cleaned it up in my sink in in town there was 243 diamonds and one Pigeon Blood Ruby in this
Crown in a deeper Cavern doc stumbled across what looked like a stack of worthless iron
bars here it is babe I said well doc this is yellow look at it and he looked at that and he said well babe if that's
gold and all that other is gold like it we can call John D Rock roella a tra doc told babe There were as many as
16,000 bars of gold in the cavern but how did the treasure get there there are four
theories it could have belonged to juand De onate the man who founded New Mexico
as a Spanish colony some believe it was a secret hiding place for a Catholic missionary
who operated nearby gold mines it could have belonged to maxamillion the Emperor of Mexico who tried to
remove wealth out of Mexico when he learned of an assassination plot finally it may have belonged to an
Apache tribe that raided stage coaches filled with gold mined in California doc didn't really care where
it came from 6 months after his Discovery he and babe went to Santa Fe to establish legal ownership of their
claim did I help you sir yeah we need some information on filing a claim they filed a lease with the state
of New Mexico for the entire section of land surrounding victorial Peak they then filed a treasure Trove claim which
has become the historic NOS Family claim to the treasure in victorial Peak for two years doc mined the peak
Witnesses say he took out more than 200 gold bars and then hid them from everyone even his family back then it
was illegal to own gold that wasn't in the form of jewelry they were rehidden in a variety of locations all over the
desert some right by the county roads by a certain marked telephone pole some were dropped in horse tanks at the
nearby ranches some were just buried in the sand um and Doc would put a different colored rock over the top of
it than was natural to that surrounding finally doc decided to try opening a larger passageway into
Victorio Peak so he hired a mining engineer by the name of Montgomery to go with him and help him
Dynamite out of the way a particularly huge Boulder that was just sort of hanging in the lower portion of the
shaft take that dnam Mite place that B Doc and Mont gry was arguing very viciously about the charge to be put in
there doc said that the mountain was rotten and that it wouldn't take a charge like that and this Montgomery
kept yelling it would by the way you got eight bars for doing it the blast caused a massive cave-in
that collapsed the shaft doc had shut himself out of out of his own mind forever now instead of having thousands
of gold bars to draw from he only had those few dozen or hundred or so that he had brought to the surface and he became
very protective of those bars for nine years doc tried to sell his gold bars on the black market and
then he met a man named Charlie Ryan and struck a deal to sell him 51 of the bars
take me a couple days to get my cash together but uh how about a week from today later doc worried that Charlie
Ryan would double cross him at the last minute doc asked his friend Tony Jolly to help him move the gold to a new
hiding place we went out cross the desert quite a long ways we started digging and we dug 20 bars of gold out
of the ground right there it turned out to be 90 more and we reburied those bars of gold I handled
and I saw 110 bars of gold the next day Doc and Ryan got into an argument Ryan pulled a gun on dock
Ryan accosted him and said if you don't tell me where the bars are you won't leave this room alive you're just trying
to jack up the price on me just a comment Char he's going for God is in his truck shoot
him old doc died instantly this photograph of the scene was taken by police The Saga of the treasure at
victorial Peak did not die with Doc NS as the legend grew other treasure Hunters tried to cash in on Doc and
bab's claim next meet a man who says that he's actually seen the gold that was hidden
inside Victorio [Music] Peak Victoria Peak New Mexico when doc Nas was killed in
1949 he supposedly left behind a treasure of 15,000 gold bars buried inside the caverns of Victorio Peak for
three years Doc's wife babe tried to clear a passageway to the treasure she was less than 12 yard from the opening
to the central Cavern when disappointment struck again when the White Sands Missile Range
was expanded the state of New Mexico was forced to give Victoria Peak and the land surrounding it to the United States
Army what are we all get on our clim the Army then forced babe Nos and her family off
of their Clan my grandmother continued to petition the department of the army at White Sands Missile Range level and
Pentagon [Music] level she was repeatedly continually and consistently denied access to the peak
victorial Peak was now off limits to everyone by order of the military however that didn't stop a group of
off-duty soldiers from clearing the blocked entrance and exploring the caverns it wasn't long before they found
what babe NOS was after what is it two stacks of material and they were bars of something and as we scratched it we knew
right away that it was actually gold we marked and identified one of the bricks inside with my initials on it and
we stood it on end on the large piles when the soldiers left Victorio Peak they did not take any of the
treasure with them we were in the middle of a top secret Missile Range that was forbidden to everybody to be in the last
thing in the world we wanted to do was to jeopardize our position in our find by removing something
prematurely the following weekend we returned to the entrance and we dynamited it in four different places
and blasted the whole thing shut the Army began a top secret classified operation at Victorio Peak they
petitioned the state of New Mexico for mineral rights but the request was denied even so aerial surveillance
photos shows that extensive work had already taken Tak Place finally the Army succumbed to
pressure and allowed private claimants including babe Nos and former military personnel to undertake a highly
publicized 10day Expedition at Victorio Peak it's sort of the Department of army
policy that there's been a lot of searching up here and we found nothing yet they' found nothing yet so I don't
really expect any particular goal treasure to be found but I might be quoted incorrectly too if they find
something no question that gold like bars came out of this mountain no question about it the excavation was an
extensive large scale operation but after 10 days no treasure not a single silver coin had been found one scientist
who worked on the Dig thinks the treasure may have actually been there but just out of their reach I noticed on
the radar screens some um Echoes quite frequently at a very great depth 300 400 ft deep and that led me to the
conclusion that there was indeed a large Cavern at the base of the mountain about
where doc NS had said there would was a cavern deep in the heart of Victorio Peak there may still be Jewels artifacts
and piles of gold worth a billion dollars Tony Jolly the man who helped hide some of the gold went back years
later and retrieved 10 bars but doc airs have recovered nothing for them the fate of the
treasure is still literally a billion doll question and we have decided that we will finish the work that docos
started we will eventually get Victorio Peak opened so that the mystery of what's inside the peak can be solved if
the mountain has has not been penetrated and materials removed from this mountain
this will be the biggest thing that this country's ever [Music] seen next when citizens of Newport New
Hampshire needed Financial advice they turned to judge Fairbanks huge [Music] mistake Newport New
Hampshire a small town where everyone knows each other and where relationships are based on honesty and
trust Judge John Fairbanks was a lifelong resident on a quiet morning in may he asked his clerk to find a
replacement for him and then he left town John Fairbanks was both a respected judge and a successful attorney so when
he resigned from the bench and abandoned his life law practice people were shocked but a few days later their shock
turned to outrage when they discovered the judge had stolen more than $10 million from his friends and
neighbors you understand that you have a right to present evidence in your behalf
for 33 years judge Fairbanks presided over the District Court of Newport I'll get to that later he also had a
successful law practice specialized ing in wills and probate law John was a nice guy everybody in the
community liked him uh nobody had a bad word for him he just loved his family uh
I loved his children his grandchildren uh just a great guy Fairbanks was honest I mean that was
his reputation you might knock him for other things but the one thing everybody always said about John Fairbanks was he
was honest when a client died judge Fairbanks would visit his widow to help her out with her financial plannings
nice of you to see John Fairbanks was settling my uncle's estate and then of course I had the estate and I had income
tax to do and I knew him so I went back to him for income taxes and I went to him every year for doing my income
tax Patricia Sawyer gave her stock certificates to Fairbanks so that he could help inventory her Holdings he
called me on the phone and asked about my getting could I get the stocks that day judge Fairbanks and I had talked
about doing an estate plan and changing my will is this everything patri this is
everything you're sure yes October the 12th Black Monday on Wall Street the drop in the stock market
was felt worldwide including judge Fairbanks courtroom take a brief recess All Rise please the stock market
crash I remember very very well it was the judge's 65th birthday he made a couple comments about
turning 65 is just wonderful stock market crashes on your 65th birthday he said if he panicked hello that he would
lose over $3 million in the crash but that he wasn't going to panic John when am I going to be getting some dividends
the effects of the crash soon trickled down to Patricia I asked him why I wasn't getting dividend checks and he
said that due to the stock market crash my stocks had gone down and he was turning the dividends back in to bring
the stocks up to where they were before the crash before the the drop in the stock market and I believe that I called
Fairbanks in the spring of 88 because I had not been receiving accountings and it was at that time that he told me that
uh he had been spending my brother's principal John Tweety had hired Fairbanks to be the legal guardian for
his brother Richard who had been institutionalized for more than 40 years John insisted that Fairbanks meet
him face to face to discuss concerns about his brother's Holdings John how are you how are you
John good to see like you wanted I brought the account I had certain question questions to ask him about the
estate I mean there was rhetoric in his response but he didn't answer the questions when of my brother's estate
going to the red well John I haven't got all those figures up here in my head but you come
back to my office later in the week and I'll lay it all out for you well I sure it was at that time I found out that uh
75% of my brother's money was gone why didn't you inform me when is the state went to the red well John I tried to but
you're a hard man to find John refused to accept the judge's excuses and began his own
investigation I found it he had sold stock and he had under reported what he hadd gotten for the stock uh he had
under reported what he had gotten for dividends so I came up with $20,000 that was missing turned out that was only a
part of what was missing and it was at that point I realized that uh well he was embezzling and uh I've been raised
to believe that when you see a crime committed you call the cops so I uh call the cops we drove over to look at Fair
Banks's house here in Newport and uh we saw the house and we felt GE that's got to be
$500,000 we were aware that he had a home in a gunit main which is a pretty expensive area to live right on the
ocean that was worth $6 or $700,000 and we looked at each other and said disguise a
thief Fairbanks resigned his judgeship and retreated to his summer home in Maine when John Tweety's charges were
made public other unhappy clients came forward with their suspicions he put these stocks into this
stock brokerage firm as my agent and I had never signed any papers given him any Authority I had never signed my name
on the certificates he had done that illegally Fairbanks had in my opinion had been doing this for so long that he
had sort of milk dry most of the accounts that he had been stealing from authorities suspect that over the
course of 20 years Fairbank stole more than $10 million judge Fairbanks was indicted on
four counts of theft the investigation revealed that Fairbanks wrote more than 100 checks to transfer money from his
client's accounts into his own account the next day Fairbanks pickup truck was found abandoned near his home in Maine
the judge had disappeared this has affected my life to the fact that I wonder what I'm going to
do and I'm going to have to sell land maybe sell the farm and the farm has been in my family since the original
settlers came from massetts with the rock steams he had a double life he had two totally separated lives and uh one
of them was fine you know one of them was a man of great integrity respected by the community and the other
uh the other one was well classical you know he was into all sorts of things which are very shaky very shady and
quite immoral and very few if anybody knew the two existed update 5 years after his disappearance
Judge John Fairbanks was found dead in a Las Vegas hotel room he committed suicide authorities do not expect to
locate any of the money that he stole they believe he spent it all before he [Music]
died [Music] [Music]

This, Episode includes: Witch Hunt, The Other Intern, Victorio's Gold (Pts. 1 & 2) and Phantom Judge.

Brief Summary

Charlie Sigman's murder, Shandra Levy and Joyce Chang's cases, and the treasure of Victorio Peak are discussed in this episode.

Key points

Charlie Sigman's Tragic Love Story. Charlie Sigman's life took a dark turn after he suspected his wife of witchcraft.
The Mysterious Death of Joyce Chang. Joyce Chang's disappearance and the chilling similarities to Shandra Levy's case.
Unsolved Mysteries: A Hidden Treasure. A treasure worth billions may be hidden in New Mexico's Victorio Peak.
Doc's Fatal Argument. A heated argument leads to a deadly confrontation over gold bars.
The Treasure Hunt Continues. Despite years of searching, the treasure remains elusive, raising questions about its existence.
Judge Fairbanks' Downfall. A respected judge steals millions from his community, leading to his shocking disappearance.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

She just didn’t seem Charlie’s type ever.

Charlie's reflection on Anne's character.

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