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

next on unsolved mysteries a government scientist plunges to his death from a hotel window was it suicide
or a cia cover-up he's called the dinnertime bandit he's stolen over 30 million in fine jewelry and he always
strikes at suppertime a 14 year old boy disappears from a county fair some believe that he was killed by local
teenagers and in a story featuring matthew mcconaughey in one of his very first screen roles a man is gunned down in
texas and his murderer escapes five stories of crime deceit and intrigue i'm dennis farina and for the
next hour it's unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music] greenwich connecticut he looks just like another tourist
he rides tour buses to see the homes of the rich and famous his name is alan golder and he's a
high-end jewel thief during the daytime he cases fashionable neighborhoods at night he strikes upstairs while the
homeowners are downstairs enjoying their dinners allen is very good at what he does
he gets a thrill out of what he does he has no other goal in life other than to be the best jewel thief that he can
be they call him the dinnertime bandit and he's made millions stealing jewelry from
the rich he's already spent 15 years in prison but apparently that wasn't enough to
stop this one-man crime spree golder's life of crime began early at age six he grew up in long island new york poor
his father a career criminal abandoned family when alan was just three at 16 years of age golder dropped out of
high school but even at that young age he was still earning between a few hundred to several thousand dollars a
night by stealing by 21 alan golder had found his vocation burglarizing the homes of wealthy people
in greenwich connecticut he thinks he is today's answer to the pink panther he's
in it for the thrill that he gets out of it in some ways i'm amazed alan hasn't come forward just because he's missing
all these wonderful opportunities to be interviewed by different tv shows alan golder had some very good years
it's estimated that he stole at least 25 million dollars worth of jewels from the
richest people in america when you think about the crimes that he committed the ordinary person would have
said well with as much money as he's gotten why didn't he stop it was like an art for him
and in another way it was almost compulsive for him as if he's suffering from some sort of compulsive disorder
golder's reputation caught the attention of the mob it happened when he tried to fence some
stolen jewelry at a shop in new york city what it turns out is that this particular jewel store was a front for
the genovese family's uh international jewel fencing operation so being 19 years old or whatever he was at the time
he didn't really know what he was getting into at that point he was just trying to sell some jewels but what he
did was he was in in fact getting in bed with the mafia the mob liked golder's ambition so they
took him under their wing he would go meet them in new york and he would hang out with them and they would
take him out to restaurants it was sort of a pygmalion thing that went on i mean
they sort of groomed him for the business you have to look for the three c's in a
diamond the color the cut and the clarity don't pick me up diamonds from from a box on top of the dresser these
are never good but it was his relationship with the mafia that would lead to golder's
downfall golder was being pressured to bring in even more jewelry he and two other mafia jewel thieves
were instructed to hit a home in the hamptons it is believed that golder never carried
a weapon but one of his accomplices did [Music] alan claims he never saw the guy that
happened in another room another part of the house and they didn't know if they'd killed
him or not but they found out the next day that the man died alan golder's life spun out of control
he was doing drugs and going through money like it was water eventually he was caught
now facing a murder charge he looked for a way to reduce his sentence i need you
to tell me specific names and specific numbers right there on that piece of paper
in exchange for selling out the mop golder was given a sentence of 15 years to life
you can assume that there was a contract out on his life he became an official protected witness and when he was in the
entire time he was in prison he was you know basically in protective custody in prison he wasn't housed with the
regular inmates he was housed with guys who were special cases and they had to watch out for so that he wouldn't be
killed but according to authorities while in prison golder continued to sift through
magazines profiling the homes of the wealthy following his parole in 1996 he tried to
go straight or so he said he even had a job in mind working as a chimney sweep i explained to him there are certain
employment positions that you because of your conviction and your criminal history you cannot work and
entering into people's homes to clean chimneys is one of them then after that he had considered pursuing school we had
talked at length as to what sort of careers he could choose but he was sort of set on going to a gemology school he
wanted to study gems and not long after police had another rash of high burglaries on their hands
and in october 1997 in greenwich connecticut police believe golder pushed his luck a
bit too far oh my god he allegedly tied up a homeowner and fled in her car after that
the burglary stopped but golder had amassed three quarters of a million dollars since his prison release
and then he disappeared he's wanted on charges of kidnapping and 23 counts of burglary
update 000 miles away in antwerp belgium alan golder has been arrested after nine
years on the run local police captured the 53 year old during what might be his last home
burglary golder was returned to connecticut where he was convicted on charges of kidnapping burglary and
larceny he served his time and has been released [Music] next a respected attorney is trapped in
an elevator and then murdered and later there's something strange going on at the general wayne inn
earlier we told the story of an unfamiliar pickup truck that rolled into a quiet neighborhood in pasadena texas
the driver was edward harold bell and he was naked from the waist down get me the pasadena please real quick
please while dorothy was on the phone to the police her son larry went outside to
prevent bell from leaving oh my god he's got a gun oh god he's got to go not getting your keys he just shot it in
the air you're not he's shooting larry i see blood shooting larry no time to give me the keys i believe i
call the police and i said please don't shoot him and the man just shot him anyway
and then he turned and started running out of our garage and larry even with all those bullets in
him was still trying to stop this man larry had been shot four times in the chest and once in the head with a 22
caliber pistol moments later his sister donna arrived i remember i just went over and i knelt
down beside my brother and held his hand to my face and i watched him die [Applause]
only blocks away the police were already pursuing the suspect the getaway ended abruptly after the
gunman turned on the street with no accident edward harold bell a successful businessman was charged with the murder
of 27 year old larry dickens but bell was released on bail less than two months after the killing and soon
vanished without a trace update 15 years after he disappeared we ran the story on unsolved mysteries
a viewer recognized bell as a 10-year resident of panama and sent these pictures and a letter
bell was prospecting for gold on land that he owned near panama city bell was arrested by panama police and
flown back to houston escorted by fbi agents waiting for him at the houston airport
were dorothy lang and her daughter donna over a decade after her son had been gunned down
the accused killer shuffled pastor shackled in leg and handcuffs he got off the airplane he
seemed so arrogant and it just infuriated me here they're bringing this murderer back
and they could never bring back my son at least justice will be done and i think we'll all be able to go on
with our lives edward harold bell will go on with his life behind bars he was convicted of murder and sentenced
to 70 years in prison our next story is about an execution-style murder a bullet to the
back of the head of a squeaky clean real estate lawyer it seemed that he had no enemies no
skeletons in his closet and no sordid past so what was the motive dallas texas at 7 am attorney clint blackman arrived
at his office building he bypassed the notoriously slow elevator and took the stairs to the
third floor at 7 30 a.m juanita lackey arrived without her keys secretary roxanne letterman let her in
oh my god [Music] i heard a lot of screaming and hollering juanita said that she thought that there
was a man in the elevator but all they'd really seen was legs and and weren't really sure what was there
oh my god it's david merrifield oh no it couldn't be david murryfield was one of clint
blackman's colleagues and a partner in his law firm he left behind two children and a new
bride of only three months ladies what time did you get to work his wallet was taken so at first police
thought it might be robbery mr maryfield's wallet was recovered a few miles from the crime location
and in the wall it was still a small amount of money and all of his credit cards so
i believe had robbery been a motive that stuff would not have been recovered but as police dug deeper they learned
that the day before he was murdered david received four phone calls from a mysterious stranger named sam jones
he's on the other line right now can i take a message he asked if he could hold on
he told me his name was sam jones but he wouldn't tell me who he was with or what it was concerning hi david i have a
mr sam jones on the other line he's very insistent he wants to talk to you right
now all right put him through david spoke to him for i guess a little under 10 minutes
i went up and kind of joked with dave and i said well is he trying to sell you and david says well he's not trying to
sell me anything yet he says he says he wants to do something for me david merrifield we discovered during
the investigation had a notepad on his desk which had a calendar on it and on february the 9th he had a marking
there for a name and an appointment that he had at 6 30 a.m with sam jones due to the common nature of the name
it's my guess it's possibly a fictitious name had known david and worked with him for
years and know david's habit and that was he never liked to get to work early in fact to see him at work before nine
was just unusual he was he was not an early riser he used like to work later police theorize that the killer insisted
on an early meeting in order to get david alone let's come out to the office we think that mr mayorfield entered the
elevator with another person whoever sam jones is it's obvious from our investigation lured him to this
location to do exactly what he did to take his life on the elevator that morning
no one ever heard from this man again the sam jones we all kind of felt like if the man had really come to try to
meet david then he would have probably found him would have called later to say we i
wasn't able to get in the building and mr merefield never showed up i mean this man just disappeared i think the thing
that's most disturbing to me is the loss of david merefill it's also very upsetting that there is
a criminal out there who knows he's out there and has not been brought to justice
this baffling case has stumped detectives for years if you have any information that can
help please let us know log on to unsolved.com next a man has jumped out of a hotel
window in washington dc what's the connection between him the cia and lsd new york city
in the early morning hours a crowd gathered outside of new york's hotel statler a man had apparently jumped to his death
from a 13-story window [Music] the victim was later identified as a government scientist named frank olson
it was 1953 and frank olson left behind a wife and three small children his sons are now grown up and are trying
to find out what really happened to their father this is a story of a government cover-up
of secret drug testing and in the middle was one lone scientist why was frank olson killed was he a man
who knew too little or a man who knew too much frank olson worked at fort detrick
maryland headquarters for the military's biological warfare program also known as germ warfare
my father was a research scientist who was involved with germ warfare associated with the so division which
stood for special operations that was the most top-secret kind of research that was done out at fort
detrick and some of that research was being done in coordination with the cia two weeks before his death frank went to
a three-day conference with some of his colleagues and came home a changed man the weekend after that meeting my father
was severely depressed he felt that he had done something terribly wrong and he told my mother that
he had done something wrong but he couldn't tell her what and she asked him whether or not
he had broken security and he indicated that he would never do such a thing but he felt that he had done something
terribly wrong vincent ruit frank's boss told the olsons that he believed that frank was
on the verge of a nervous breakdown just before thanksgiving he took frank to new york for treatment
while in new york frank shared a hotel room with dr robert lashbrook a cia scientist
nearly a week passed before frank's family finally heard from him i'm gonna see a couple of doctors there
do me a favor would you kiss the kids for me my father seemed a little uh a little
more peaceful than he had he made a call to my mother to say he was all right they went to sleep fairly early about 11
and the next thing we know from lashbrook is that he was awakened by the sound of crashing glass
right oh my god frank olson was dead at the age of 43. investigators determined that he had
either jumped or fallen to his death i remember as a nine-year-old and actually for years after that i was completely
stumped and dumbfounded by trying to resolve that alternative i mean it's a big difference between fall or jump and
i couldn't understand how either of them could have occurred the night manager of the hotel also
found frank's death suspicious i rushed outside to find frank olson's eyes wide open looking straight at me
trying to tell me something okay buddy he was definitely trying to speak but it was nothing coming out
but grumbles he was in terrible condition and i stepped back because now i have to find out where he
came from so i looked up the building and finally i saw a little movement of a window shade and when i concentrated on
that then i see that the window shade was stuck through a broken window armond took police to room 1018a
and here is lashbrook sitting on a john in his skivvies and the police start to question him
and i heard him say well all i heard was a crash i walked around the room to look around
nobody ever jumps through a window they open the window and they're going to go out not dash or a shade and a sheer
drape you know there's no sense to that but the olsons weren't told about the doorman's suspicions
they were told simply that frank had a nervous breakdown and jumped out of a window
they believed that story for the next 22 years years later a government commission was
formed to investigate past abuses committed by the cia the official report made mention of a
scientist who had plunged to his death from a hotel room 10 days after being dosed with lsd
that scientist turned out to be frankelson over the next year and a half the olsen
family received a formal apology from president ford and a check from the government for 750
000 the olsens also met with cia chief william colby as a result of meeting with william
colby at the cia we were given what was supposedly a complete set of documents relating to
the events of the last nine days of my father's life we learned that he had gone to a retreat in deep
creek lake in western maryland with a group of other scientists the principle of the
meeting was that they were going to be discussing ongoing research but in fact there were agents in the cia who were
meeting with them who decided that they were going to give them each a dose of lsd
without their knowledge or consent and then see what their reaction was anyone for a drink the olsens learned
that the lsd was slipped into an after-dinner liqueur by either sydney gottlieb head of the cia's technical
staff or by his deputy dr robert lashbrook the cia worried that the soviet union
might use lsd on captured agents cotley believed that his test would prepare american spies for that
possibility thank you sydney yeah just what i needed the latest drinks were served to eight
of the ten scientists present some of them including frank olson were not warned about the test
within an hour the lsd took effect are we all feeling a bit strange when gottlieb told the group that their
drinks had been spiked with lsd frank olson got very angry wait a minute we're having an experiment
here you put a drug in our drinks yes yes we're in the middle of the next experiment we understood that my father
uh was quite agitated and was having a serious confusion with separating reality from
from fantasy then frank made his fatal trip to new york supposedly suffering from a nervous
breakdown well frank how are we feeling today i feel lousy doctor frank was taken to see dr harold
abramson an lsd expert who worked extensively with the cia it's been continuing for about a week look at me
please you were saying that you weren't resting very well is that improving no i'm not resting i haven't been able to
sleep for over a week accompanying frank were robert lashbrook and frank's boss vincent ruit frank sit down i don't want
to sit down i can't sit down frank remained in new york and he made repeated visits to the doctor's office
someone has been following me it's impossible to deduce what was accomplished in those meetings and you
certainly don't see any any indication that a treatment process was occurring you can suspect that some kind of
assessment process was going on the purpose of which was more to protect the cia's interest than it was
to help my father one of the nights that my father was up in new york he was having delusions that he was
hearing voices and in the middle of the night he woke up and went and threw all of his identification out
and his money all right get rid of all my money my identification apparently the pattern continued in the
immediate aftermath of frank's death for some unexplained reason robert lashbrook never phoned for help however
he allegedly did make a disturbing call which was overheard by the hotel operator
in those days you know all the calls were manual you call the operator and you tell her
what number you want and she would dial it for you and then she'd listen to see that you got connected
when the man in the room called this number he said well he's gone and the man on the other end said well
that's too bad and they both hung up i mean what's more suspicious than that you don't have to be a genius
to figure out that there's something i miss because who said hamlet said there's
something rotten in denmark i mean i knew there was something rotten at the pennsylvania hotel that night
in 1993 frank's widow alice passed away erica nils had their father's body moved
to rest beside her but before frank was reinterred they asked a forensic scientist to perform an
autopsy quite frankly we had no idea what the condition of the remains would be after 41 years
we were delighted that the remains were in perfect condition for our analysis as part of his investigation professor
stars and his colleagues went to the old hotel statler the first thing the professor looked for
was evidence that frank had indeed smashed through a window the medical examiner in new york who did
an external examination back in 1953 said there were multiple lacerations on the face and neck there were none
soon after that finding was made public lashbrook changes his story which he's held to for 40 years and suddenly now
starts saying that he can't remember whether the window in fact was open or closed
at some point he had to hit some glass i cannot believe that he wouldn't have gotten cuts in the
lower extremities of his body on the front of the legs we don't find any cuts after years of research and
investigation the olsen family has become convinced that frank olson was murdered by agents of the u.s government
the olsen family believes frank was silenced because he had become extremely critical of illegal top-secret programs
and policies of the cia and u.s government with which his own research group was deeply involved frank olson's
family hopes that someday the entire story will be exposed if you have any information please log
on to our website at unsolved.com [Music] next playful poltergeist at the general
wayne inn do ghosts really exist and if they do is it possible that some might even have a sense of humor
well guess who have stayed at the general wayne inn certainly think so just east of philadelphia in marion
pennsylvania is the general wayne inn it opened in 1704 and since then a lot of american history has passed through
these halls ben franklin visited here george washington slept in what later became this dining room
and in 1836 edgar allan poe wrote part of his famous poem the raven right here but the guests who caused the biggest
stir are the ones who have been haunting these halls for the past 100 years we have had reports of sightings of
entities ghosts we have had a funny incident with a new cadillac in the parking lot outside
that incident began when a valet walked by a cadillac parked in front of the end
the owner had gone inside and took his keys with him [Music] doors were locked windows were all
closed the kid was scared to death and i said look calm down these things happen
around here and just relax i enjoy these ghosts i mean they don't bother me at all i think they come up
with some real clever little things for god's sake what are you doing what the hell are you doing like on a
busy night that's when this entity will start and he'll go down the entire side of the bar blowing on
the back of the girl's neck and the poor guys they really were doing nothing now i knew when the first one started
that it would continue all the way down to the end of the bar it always did did you do that do what no on the back
of my neck it happened so often that i enjoyed standing back on the other side of the bar and watching
hundreds of occurrences have happened some very minor some more dramatic but there have been hundreds of them
bart has witnessed ghostly events but has never actually seen a ghost others have
i was made her d at the time and i was we were closing the restaurant up for the night
and i was starting on my way out and i had looked up i only saw it for a split second
it's just a head sitting on this chest of drawers it didn't register with me right away
and when i got out into the bar area it was like like i had hit a brick wall and
it just stopped dead in my tracks and i started saying i i saw a head i saw something i saw a head
it was just like it happened yesterday i'll never forget the details although i just saw it for an instant
other employees have also seen apparitions one day alice garnley was walking through the dining room
and i heard someone call my name alice alice so i walked out of here to see if it was
the manager and i saw this apparition this person on the on these stairs and he was standing
on this step and he looked so startled and when i said can i help you he just disappeared
[Music] historian jay robert menti has studied the n's history in detail he says that
this specter was seen over a hundred years ago the first written record of a ghost in the general wayne inn that we
came across in writing was in a report of an election in 1848 that took place in here
a lady went down to the basement to get some more ballots when she came up she said to the lady in charge of the
elections i just saw a soldier down there in a green uniform in recent times there have been three
new sightings of this soldier three witnesses saw the same apparition at different times each of them saw the
ghost in this basement each one described the imperfect way the green uniform and the yellowish lapel of
the and the black mustache of a hessian soldier of the regiments that were occupying philadelphia at that time what
about the british barracks room upstairs we invited michaelene mayer a paranormal
investigator to the end michaelin begins her investigation with detailed floor plans
then she evaluates the responses of both skeptics and hand-picked psychics who have been brought to the scene of the
hauntings when we bring them into a an experimental situation into a haunting we ask them to tour
the place where something has been reported micheline asked psychic paula rogers to walk through the building
paula knew nothing about the inn's history she went through every room and in the basement she made a surprising
discovery i got an extremely strong impression i see a young soldier hiding i can still see
it and he's in a very old costume we're probably talking at least 200 years i could see if it was a memory him
crouched there petrifying he seemed to have been left behind [Music] at the general weighed in the ghosts
check in but they don't check out one night during a local newscast halloween story on the end a number of
regular patrons gathered in the bar to watch johnson has had a number of these the whole picture started to go very
very slowly clockwise all the way around and all 50 people in the bar were looking at this and wondering what
was going on and their all heads are all turning and the whole thing just kept going
around until our portion was over but never did that before and i never did it afterwards and no one else in the
whole neighborhood had it that way so are there ghosts at the end ask the innkeeper
i don't believe in ghosts but i know they're here they have no other place to go and they
might as well have a little fun and that's exactly what they're doing and i don't think they're going anywhere
either [Music] next a 14 year old boy is last seen at a carnival and his parents desperately
want to know why he never came home myrtle point oregon every august the cous county fair rose
into town for many it's a week-long party to jeremy bright and his close friend johnny it was one of the high points of
the year normally jeremy lived a hundred miles away in grants pass where his mother worked but
during the week of the fair he and his younger sisters stayed with their stepfather in myrtle point
on thursday jeremy and johnny hung out at the fair that afternoon jeremy phoned his mother
diane he told her that he was having a great time diane says that she made plans with
jeremy in two days she would come down to myrtle point and pick him up five hours later on thursday night
jeremy showed up at a local tavern owned by his grandmother there he met his stepfather and asked to
borrow some money it would be the last time jeremy was ever seen by his family you behave yourself
since that weekend a number of rumors have surfaced about jeremy's disappearance
his parents and the police have come to one conclusion someone in myrtle point knows exactly
what happened to jeremy and they're not talking diane arrived in myrtle point on
saturday as planned but when she went to pick up jeremy at his stepfather's house
he wasn't there i went in and on the tv set was his house keys from our grants pass
apartment and his wallet and his new watch that he had told me he'd bought i knew when i found those things that he
was around somewhere because he wouldn't leave without him a few hours later that same night diane
was worried enough to contact the police at first they believed her son had simply
run away he did like the fair there was the thought that perhaps he was hiding out intending to leave with
the fair people and i've explored that possibility in every way that i can think of however in this
particular case i've talked to family members and and friends of his that knew him well
and he was just not from what i can learn the type of a kid who would have struck out on his own
on sunday the fair closed down myrtle point was buzzing about jeremy's disappearance
and gradually conflicting stories began to emerge according to one rumor jeremy went to
one of myrtle point's many parties and drank a beer laced with a powerful truck we're looking for a beer
hey don't open another one there's one already open right here i've identified at least two and perhaps
three parties where jeremy was present that the overdose theory could have occurred
at it was reported that jeremy had a heart murmur and therefore a stimulant of some
kind might have done some bodily damage to him just just by his sheer taking it police heard a different story from a
jailhouse informant he claimed that three teenagers showed up at a local swimming hole and harassed jeremy
and his friends is that a gun what this it's a toy it was at the jail where an inmate
related to me the information that he had heard wherein one individual from the myrtle point area was
target practicing or shooting indiscriminately in the water in the area where jeremy was uh was swimming
tell me what you're made of now that's better here's a deer yeah i bet you can't you think so yeah
all right all right i'm gonna try this look good in it [Music] [Applause] they subsequently took him to a a cabin
maybe within 10 miles of the myrtle point area and attempted to nurse him back to health to
no avail that he died as a result of that injury either from loss of blood or from
infection or what have you that same source through the jail indicated that his body would be found within 200 feet of
this cabin in a in a shallow grave police searched the area around the cabin but found nothing
all the rumors were hard to handle all of them are hard to think about every time i'd hear a new one i'd have
nightmares for a week or so the one that i hope is not what happened is one where he suffered for two weeks
before he died and they buried his body because the thought of him suffering for
two weeks just makes me sick there were two more strange events the night that jeremy disappeared
first a sister of jeremy's friend johnny had a disturbing encounter it was friday night of the fair and it
was between midnight and one when we were leaving my sister's apartment and we came down the stairs and we got
to the last stair and we almost ran into one of the neighborhood guys and he was completely covered in blood
and i mean it was just all over him and it kind of scared me what happened to you
well this he goes oh this this happened hours ago and he just laughed and then he went into one of the apartments
a half hour later johnny arrived at his sister's apartment according to her he was visibly upset but refused to explain
why whether it is just coincidence or whether they're directly related to jeremy's disappearance
is another one of the mysteries that you still have to sort through to try to determine what indeed did happen
the three or four people whose names keep reappearing in all the rumors and all of the reports
they're not exactly what anybody would call pillars of society but as long as these men are out on the
street they can hurt somebody else's child the same as they hurt mine and if they did to my son what people are
saying they did and what they've been heard themselves say that they did they've got no
business on the public streets i would just encourage anyone and especially those people who i feel
have information that would help this investigation greatly to just simply have the courage to say yeah i'm scared
to death but in a case like this my being scared doesn't warrant this family's pain
this age progressed photo shows what jeremy might look like today he has scars on his forehead and nose
and a mole on his chin the prime suspect in his disappearance recently died in prison and there are no
new leads however the case is still open if you have any information about the disappearance of jeremy bright please
log on to our website at unsound.com [Music] [Music] [Music] you

This episode includes: Dinnertime Bandit, Texas Most Wanted, Elevator Murder, CIA Coverup, General Wayne Inn and Missing Bird People.

Brief Summary

This episode features mysterious deaths, a jewel thief's crime spree, an attorney's murder, and a boy's unsolved disappearance.

Key points

The Dinnertime Bandit. Alan Golder, known as the dinnertime bandit, steals millions from the wealthy.
Murder in the Elevator. Attorney David Merrifield is found dead in an elevator, leading to a mysterious investigation.
Frank Olson's Mysterious Death. Government scientist Frank Olson jumps to his death, raising questions of a cover-up.
Frank Olson's Mysterious Death. The Olson family believes Frank was murdered by U.S. government agents.
Ghostly Encounters at General Wayne Inn. Guests report strange happenings and ghost sightings at the historic inn.
The Disappearance of Jeremy Bright. A 14-year-old boy vanishes during a carnival, leaving his family desperate for answers.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It was like an art for him.

Describing Golder's view on his crimes.

3:31WatchMar 16, 2022

Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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