Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 11 - Updated Full Episode | Forensic Files

next on unsolved mysteries when a woman is murdered in a deserted parking lot her family is convinced that she was
killed by her business partner butch cassidy and the sundance kid legend says they were gunned down in
bolivia but some believe that butch escaped two restaurant owners compete for the
same customers one of them winds up dead and a young boy is tortured and tormented
by demonic spirits can an exorcism see five compelling cases some just waiting to be solved
and maybe you hold the key i'm dennis farina and this is unsolved mysteries [Music]
[Music] webster texas this much is known joan jeffries died alone and scared in a suburban parking lot
the killer shot her twice in the head at close range then he fired two more times
both bullets pierced her heart no one has ever been charged with the murder of joan jeffries
but her family is sure they know exactly who killed her a former business partner named sam
patel i did not kill joan i had no reason to kill joan i had no reason whatsoever hi sam
hey joan joan was a clerk at an aerospace firm in houston sam patel also worked there as a
software engineer but he had much bigger plans i'm talking about a new business i'm
getting involved in the company would be called best aviation a commuter airline
for gamblers i've got a few investors but i think i'll need you for public relations
when sam initially offered this position to my mother she was of course flattered
and excited because the money was very good this file i have set up for all patel
hired joan to help start the company she was also on its board of directors come to it anytime you can find whatever
though patel was married he and joan often met at the home of his girlfriend sam had arranged marriage um
he had told me that he could not get a divorce and so we lived as boyfriend and girlfriend
thank you you guys mean anything patel told joan that overseas investors would be funding
best aviation within a few months meanwhile he wanted to get life insurance for the company's key
employees joan herself was insured for a quarter of a million dollars the initial idea
was presented from the investor group because they wanted assurances that if something happened to one of the
key people in the organization that the company could function and that they would recover their investment
basically she's a secretary and i can't see that as a key point person it just didn't
nothing sounded right about that vettel agreed to pay joan a monthly salary but in the next seven months she
received only one check and that one bounced sam i want out why john because there's no money sam
kelly claims that her mother wanted to quit but patel convinced her to stay just be honest with you joan never
approached me and said that she wanted to leave the business there was a time when she said hey look
this isn't working out and i don't like it she did come up and say that and the compromise we'd come up with was
fine you can continue to be part-time until you feel comfortable and we'll go out and get
somebody else to work part-time also okay all right please all right but by then jones back
wages totaled close to four thousand dollars two weeks later patel showed up at her apartment late at
night you'll never believe what he just did he brought the check you have it well no i don't have it he
had to take it out and get it copied but she said that he had to go get this certified check xeroxed
which was odd to her and me sam hi look joe and i i drive but i just couldn't find a xerox machine and i
don't have a car so i need to use your phone please patel told joan that if he couldn't get
a ride that she should take him home so i can get a ride home uh kelly i've got to go
when she told me that he mentioned getting into her car that i think was the firmest i have ever
been with my mother saying over and over absolutely not do not ever let him in your car hold on kelly according to
kelly patel showed up a third time oh kelly it's sam look sam it's getting late go away
i'll see you at work patel says kelly is wrong i never met joan like that in the manner
that kelly had described to the police never ever i truly believe it was a trial run and i
think because i was on the phone and my mother continued to say kelly it's sam i stopped it that night
two weeks later after a business dinner with sam patel joan jeffries was murdered
joan told kelly that she planned to meet patel and his wife penny for dinner joan expected to get a check for her
back wages she also planned to hand over the company's files and sever her ties with best aviation
so how are you doing fine where's penny i thought penny was supposed to be here sorry she didn't show up because she had
to work late but i'm here patel insists that joan was not planning to quit how about you um a diet
coke i asked joan to meet with me i can give you the check you can give me files
we can arrange for our meeting with the investor group for you to be there and uh that was the purpose of the
meeting and guess what i have for you i've got you your chat is it good it will be in a few days
let's see the money's being transferred patel and joan left the restaurant together
at about 10 p.m but joan never made it home hey charlie now best i can tell a couple
of shots of the head another couple to the chest by 9 a.m detectives were at the crime scene
trying to piece together what happened but then i saw this can you see that over there necklace jones purse and keys
were missing but she was still wearing her gold and diamond necklace robbery did not seem to be the motive
because of the multiple gunshot wounds to the body it would indicate that the offender is known to the victim or
had a grudge or something of that nature could you account for your whereabouts right after leaving the restaurant what
happened what were your actions yeah we walked out in the parking lot i spoke to her for 15-20 minutes in the
parking lot i walked to a car she went home and i went to my girlfriend's house now at any time were
you in her car no sir i was never in a car are you sure about that yes sir i'm positive i've
never been in a car and i was not in the car last night the first interview that we had with sam
patel he told us that he had not been in joan jeffrey's car later in a second interview he changed his
story and said that he had in fact been in jones car and that we would find evidence of such in in her
car can you account for your movements after leaving the restaurant yes i when i went to my girlfriend's
house and rode the bicycle for a few minutes you rode the bicycle uh yeah ron called
the sack for a few minutes i guess your girlfriend will back you up on that she sure can what's her name to
open the door and sam was there with a shirt wrapped around his neck and i said you know what are
you doing without your shirt on you're you know it's cold out there you're going to catch a cold
and he said i've been riding my bicycle i was hot you know i hadn't i hadn't ridden a bike i've done any exercise in
months and months and you know i was going into the house i took my shirt off and i had it over me
and i was walking into the house and that shirt has never been found i think it's a very crucial piece
of evidence because he would have had to reach across joan to take the keys out and that shirt would have had a smear of
blood all up the arm there's no blood stains on it i have it in my closet and if whoever wants it if the webster
police department would send me a real nice note saying please could we have the shirt
i would be glad to hand over the shirt to them investigators say that patel has never
been willing to give them that shirt for jones family patel's refusal is just one more sign that he pulled
the trigger i think sam is responsible for the murder of my mother because he had a
life insurance policy out on her life for 250 000 she was ending her business relationship
with him that night so he needed to do it that night while she was still an employee
patel insists that this accusation is completely groundless the very next day after her death so the
board of directors all got together and we decided that we would take the entire proceeds from the insurance
and a either give it to the family be donated to some local charity that would leave a lasting memorial for june or a
combination of both the case of the killing of joan jeffries is still open if you have any information
about her murder please log on to our website at unsolved.com next butch cassidy and the sundance kid
did they really die in a shootout in south america robert leroy parker and harry alonso
longbow in the late 1800s these two men became the legendary outlaws known as butch cassidy and the sundance kid
paul newman and robert redford starred in the celebrated film about their final days
the movie like history tells us that butch and sundance died in the shootout in south america
but some believe that hollywood and history may be wrong there is some evidence that
butch cassidy returned to the united states and died of natural causes let's do this run we're gonna run over
to the feed two years after butch and sundance were supposedly killed a man named william thaddeus phillips
arrived in spokane he opened a successful machine shop and became a very prominent businessman
gentlemen looking good looking good but oddly phillips was a man without a past the first definitive record of william
phillips was his marriage certificate dated may 14 1988 there is no other previous record
of william phillips in the 1920s about 1922 the first reports began circulating in
the west that butch cassidy had returned people began to say that butch cassidy was william phillips
some see a resemblance between william thaddeus phillips and george butch cassidy but if phillips
was cassidy then how did the outlaw escape from bolivia [Music] according to some historians the account
of how butch and sundance died can be credited to one man percy seiber [Music] siebert had worked with the outlaws at a
tin mine in bolivia and became very friendly with them percy was the one who identified the two men
killed in the shootout as butch and sundance but siebert may have deliberately lied
[Music] i believe that percy told the story of butch cassidy and the sundance kid's
death in bolivia to pay back what he felt was a debt of loyalty and friendship to allow these outlaws to begin a life
under amnesty without a past larry poynter is convinced that butch cassidy took on the
identity of william phillips as phillips he returned to the wyoming mountains where
butch and his outlaw gang had once roamed we know of a man who went with phillips to wyoming in 1933.
this man died recently but we have interviewed him he was there all summer with phillips
and he met all the old-timers that phillips met and in almost every case these old-timers uh
accepted phillips's cassidy but old-timer stories are always the most interesting
and the least reliable author dan buck has researched the life and death of butch cassidy
and is convinced that william phillips was an imposter the william phillips story
is chock full of old-timer tales people had claimed they were good friends with cassidy and new phillips was cassidy
and usually it's when asked by someone when prompted by someone well you were a good friend of butch
cassidy's weren't you and of course the answer is yes who wants to say no in wyoming
phillips met a woman named mary boyd rhodes in 1934 mary and her sixteen-year-old
granddaughter ione wrote out to phillips campsite the man that my grandmother met that day
was going by the name of william phillips and she knew him by the name of leroy george parker who is
known as butch cassidy he recognized curry immediately and she recognized him george parker i sensed that they had a
relationship that i had never known much about so my grandmother had finally told me that he was her
childhood sweetheart three years later phillips mailed this ring to mary it was engraved
george c to mary b william phillips died soon afterwards i believe william phillips pretended to
be butch cassidy because he was having fun he traveled out to the west he met some
people he probably got some free beers uh he certainly got a lot of adventures out of
it but several other clues do suggest that butch and phillips were one and the same phillips wrote a
manuscript called the bandit invincible the story of butch cassidy it specific details about
butch's adventures there's material in that manuscript that no one else knew that
had never been published that either the man who wrote it had to have intimate knowledge of cassidy or uh he
was cassidy phillips owned this six-shot coat revolver carved into the pistol grip is a unique
brand that brand was the reverse e box e that was butch cassidy's brand in the 1890s
the passing of a century has turned these two outlaws into legends if not heroes
and we don't like our heroes to die there seems to be at least some evidence that butch cassidy may have survived the
shootout but it was almost certainly the end of the road for the sundance kid [Music]
next a feud between two restaurant owners ends in murder tk hardy's saloon was a popular bar and
restaurant that attracted the university crowd in athens georgia the saloon's owner was tk hardy he
rented space in a large complex of restaurants and shops t.k hardy was an obnoxious yankee when you first met
him he came on really strong and when he came to town it took me a little while to get used to him
so that i would even want to have him as a tenant how are you doing pretty good when you got to know tk he
was just a real teddy bear just a really nice guy he was enthusiastic about the complex and doing it right
hardy's rival was a man named john mooney who also leased space in the same complex
his restaurant was called somebody's pizza mooney and tk hardy never really got along
because both men were trying to attract the same customers john mooney came to town
he was the preppy out of college cool guy and that uh lasted until he got the lease sign and got the place
then john kind of got greedy hey come see us next door nickel beer somebody's pizza come to somebody's
pizza right next door good deal on beer john started wanting to infringe on everybody else's business
his idea was to go up to tk's pass out flyers on the deck for nickel beer and draw tk's crowd down his place
what do you think you're doing here hey what does it look like that just went all over tk i mean he couldn't
stand that that was the last straw i'll tell you what this is this is private property
i want you out of here right now right john mooney and t.k hardy despised each other they really had
gotten to the point that there was no reconciliation between the two people after three years of feuding t.k hardy
finally got the upper hand he was able to lease the entire complex and evict john mooney from his
restaurant after that their feud escalated into a full-scale war this is your eviction notice eviction
notice this is your eviction notice you're out of here ten days later tk arrived home in the
early morning hours after closing up his saloon for the night [Music] someone was hiding in the shadows of his
kitchen watching him when t.k went into a study the man followed [Music] then he shot tk once in the head tk
died instantly four hours after tk's body was found police picked up mooney for questioning john dude you know why
you're here tonight well i i guess it's about the shooting of t.k hardy yeah how did you know about the shooting
i told him that we had not released that information and that nobody knew that except the
police department and the people that were investigating this murder that he had been killed
or how he had been killed at that time he did become nervous he said i think i need to talk to my
lawyer alrighty thanks bye hold on just a second sit down when he hung up the phone he said my
lawyer said for me to get up and walk out if i wasn't under arrest i'm going to allow you to leave i want
to tell you something before you go though at the time police did not have enough evidence to arrest mooney
after three weeks they were still at a dead end and then the police got a lucky break another
restaurant manager called with a bizarre story he said he was cleaning up behind the bar one night
when an atlanta electrician named elmo florence offered him his services as a hitman
you're a what i'm a head man you don't need to call new jersey if you want somebody good
give me a call elmo was bragging to me about the fact that he was a hitman and that his services were for hire
at first i thought he was kidding me that he had murdered tk hardy [Applause] and then we started to go on and you
know i said all right how'd you get in the house piece of cake busted out the glass
elmo fox began to describe the inside of the house where the murder took place he began to
tell the point of entry what type of weapon was used to kill ted hardy he told where the bullet
entered the head and where it exited basically in the statement that we received from the manager
of the restaurant there were 21 different points that we had not released to the public
we knew at that time that we had a very hot suspect here mr florence yeah telmo florence that's
right you're under arrest florence had told the restaurant manager that john mooney
hired florence to kill tk but when the police went to rest money they couldn't find him because he left
the country a few weeks later police were tipped off that mooney had returned to the states
and was staying at a friend's apartment they went there and approached two men who were drinking
in the parking lot when i saw the two individuals drinking beer this gave me a perfect out
i figured to approach them from this angle tell you all these cans here kind of upsets me always literally officer moss
recognized one of the men as john mooney i'll tell you what to put your hands on
the car mooney was arrested and charged with murder among his belongings police found several incriminating notes that
he chatted to himself see elmo offer to him if worst comes to worst to take the whole rap and say
robbery was the motive we have agreement for me to take care of his wife and family
elmo florence's trial lasted only one week he was sentenced to life at a maximum
security prison in georgia john mooney was also sentenced to life but he ended up in a minimum security
facility after six months prison officials gave mooney the job of kitchen clerk now he had access to areas
that most prisoners did not how's the count today pretty good 245 245. john moody was what you call an ideal
inmate he didn't complain about the rules and regulations he just worked hard and he gained the confidence
of the staff and myself now we see he was a gun artist and he was gun and assault after serving
only 19 months of his life sentence john mooney engineered his escape when the prisoners went back inside and the
guard locked the gate and walked away mooney made his break a getaway car was waiting as mooney ran
to it he threw off his uniform piece by piece two hours later prison officials realized that mooney was missing
but by then it was too late mooney had made his escape without the actions of mooney and
actually hiring somebody to take another person's life t.k hardy would be here today unless
john henry mooney is captured he got away with murder update within just minutes of our
broadcast two viewers reported that john mooney was living in this house in scottsdale arizona
under the name robert j kelly he was immediately arrested moni had been enrolled at
arizona state university and was working as an accountant he was married and had a one-year-old
son john mooney was returned to prison in georgia he served his time and has been released
next a young boy says that his house is haunted even after an exorcism the ghosts
manchester connecticut the jones family says the haunting started without any warning
i ran upstairs michael i thought maybe he had cut himself i really didn't know michael and there was michael just
curled up like it was a fetus i mean he was just frightened and shaking and crying hysterically something i've
never seen him do michael jones told his mother denise that he had seen a man in his room but it was not
an ordinary man he was standing in front of me and he reached out to me and he was
smiling and then he just disappeared he touched my shoulder he was white like the korean color white
he said he was a ghost i thought maybe something was wrong with michael i can't say i didn't believe in ghosts i
just never experienced something so i never thought it would happen to us soon after michael saw the ghost in his
room he was with his family visiting his grandmother i was in the kitchen talking with my parents when michael
started screaming again he says that's the man that's the man i said michael what is the man
he says that man up on the wall in the picture that's the man i see i saw the picture and i got scared
because that was the man that i saw the man in the picture michael was pointing to was my
grandfather who had passed away when i was 10 years old michael had never met him
it was the first time that michael had ever seen a picture of his great grandfather i felt safer that it wasn't
like a bad person that was going to hurt me my mom said not to be afraid of him because he was a good man and she said
not to be afraid of ghosts because they can't harm me denise had no idea what to do
her son kept saying that he was being visited by her grandfather's ghost and to make
matters worse michael now said that evil spirits were also invading their home and i asked him what these things wanted
from him and i told him to talk to grandpa grandpa will protect him grandpa said
that some of the bad people want me on their side when i talked to my grandpa he just said
that there's a there's a lot of ghosts in our house that are after me and there's a lot of bad ones and good
ones and they're all fighting with each other denise says that she took michael for
dozens of medical tests hoping to get some answers they all say it's not medical they realize it's
very bizarre that michael is a ghost boy he sees ghosts and there's nothing medically they can
do feeling desperate denise asked a paranormal specialist to examine both michael and her home
it's very important to be able to go in and determine that it is something supernatural that is occurring in the
home john saphis has been a paranormal investigator for 26 years and he has studied dozens of similar
cases he spent many many hours with michael researching michael's sightings first
hand we usually have to go through all types of different evaluations psychological
physical i really would like it documented and known that there isn't anything physically or
mentally wrong with these people that are going through this michael's psychological profile also
showed nothing unusual but his drawings of a ghost he calls the black shadow man
told another story every day i see him it's not really the same shadow man it's just like a bunch of different ones
i don't know why i see ghost alice is happening to me zaphos learned that when michael was
born his heart stopped 26 times my explanation is that he had near-death experiences
i believe since birth he's had that ability where that door has been open for the
spirit to be able to communicate back and forth with him and i think it is at the point where it is trying
very very hard to be able to totally take michael over denise was concerned that the bad
spirits might be winning one time me and my husband were downstairs when all of a sudden
we were listening to banging upstairs we heard him scream and we heard a thumping so we ran
upstairs and michael was on his bed like a little boy scared his bed was shaking
up and down bed started shaking a lot and it lifted up like three inches and i just yelled
my mom and then dropped and stopped shaking we all ran out of the house because we needed to get a break from
the house because it's very scary in there michael now said that the evil spirits
were physically tormenting him everything started getting worse and then started hitting me and
scratching me poking me and it hurt usually when there's a physical manifestation scratches
bite marks this is definitely a sign that something is either attached to that individual or
it has some way gained access and at that point is where it could be very very vulnerable where that person could go
completely under possession to protect her son from the intruders denise sold their home and moved a
family across town but the new house was no better i was on the phone with my mother
michael was sitting right next to me watching tv when all of a sudden he started
screaming ah what we just looked at my brother and he just felt like a scrape going all the way up his arm and
like it was drawing bl blood michael i felt a sharp pain like a knife but it hurt really bad after this
incident we needed someone who dealt with this and i was able to find the bishop who agreed
to give the exorcism denise felt that an exorcism was the only way to save michael they started performing
exorcism in latin okra i could tell there was something wrong with michael he kept looking to
one side of the church and i saw the shadow man in the front left corner of the room of the
church i could see his whole body and his feet and he was just standing and he was all
black and my stomach started burning and i told the priest and he gave me holy water i said drink
this i was praying to god that it was going to work and help and that michael b might be granted some
relief although we were told it might not be the end-all it might have to be repeated
there may need to be a house exorcism and they were right because about three weeks later it all began again
over the next few years michael underwent four exorcisms and his family moved eight times but the improvement was
always temporary we just live one day at a time it hurts when i see my son going through this i don't know what to
do i see a brighter future from michael and the family absolutely there's many of families that
go through this and it's very difficult and it's like the old saying goes it's always the
darkest before the dawn pretty much everything's been hard for me so everything that's happened has been
hard now i'm getting used to it next a hired farmhand turns out to be a killer it's the same height same build he's a
big guy he's a hot tempered guy this is the guy man i'm telling you this is the guy this call to our phone center
led to the arrest of an accused killer he'd been on the run for more than a year
hiding behind half a dozen aliases you may remember him as david freeman freeman was hired as a handyman by a
pennsylvania farmer named tim goode freeman considered himself something of a preacher and he used his
sermons to slowly gain control over tim good say tim i was wondering yeah man i'm gonna be leading a bible study up at
the house later this evening i thought you might like to come up and check it out
by what time tim became a believer when he sold his farm for a million dollar profit and moved to west virginia
freeman followed hey tim how about when you're done with that clearance some more that land over by the fence
within a few years the role reversal was complete why don't you get some of that wood over there for kindling
freeman gave the orders tim obeyed them let it clear as much as you can you know the lord says the man that
doesn't work doesn't eat please bless this food tim became a prisoner in his own home he lived in a basement cell
while freeman and his family lived comfortably upstairs he indicated what chores timothy good
was to perform that day he even indicated what timothy good was to eat that day if he was allowed to eat
that day every aspect of timothy good's life was controlled by dave friedman i'm studying man like you told me to do
is that what i told you to do is there anything else i told you jinxing police believe that freeman
eventually strangled him and left his body in the basement yesterday investigators discovered the badly
decomposed body months later [Music] by then tim's million dollar bank account had been reduced to two dollars
and freeman was long gone update i'll take you right to the guy the guy ripped me off in the first place he got
me for like over a thousand more than what he told me was going to get and then he got all upset because i got
upset because the viewer who called said that he knew freeman as george jokes an auto mechanic when i
realized that it was a valid tip i was pretty excited i've been chasing this subject for a year and a half and
once i finally knew that i he was within grasp it was almost too good to be true
within hours police staked out joke's apartment when he came out of the house we could
tell that this was a suspect he matched the description four children were in the apartment so
police waited for jelks to leave and then they made their move after he was arrested police discovered
that joke's real name was william david cooper he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced
to 10 years in prison we recently told you about a vicious armed robber who left his victim
severely disabled but thanks to a viewer's tip this robber is now in custody richmond virginia
shortly after midnight at a mcdonald's restaurant assistant manager mark clavoon and
truck driver perry duncan were unloading supplies mark had recently moved to the area with
his wife and three children all right you guys got uh two more after this four other employees were in the
basement store [Music] hey now we're going to go inside and open up the safe don't
shoot hey since more napkins down you're lighter hey parker you're right no no mark clavoon was shot once in the
forehead at point-blank range he didn't die but he will never be the same he suffered some severe brain damage and
paralysis on the left side he has regained use partial use of his left leg but he has no use of his left arm at all
and no matter what happens as far as apprehending these two individuals it cannot outweigh the suffering that
this family is going to go through for the rest of their lives police learned that the gunman had fled
on foot and that later they tried to steal a car from a woman in a nearby residential area
[Music] she had just arrived home and they attempted to accost her and take her keys away from her
they were identified by her as wearing the same type of clothing as the situation at the restaurant she
was able to get away from them and run into the house the next morning police made a surprising discovery
only a few yards from the woman's house the robbers had left behind their ski masks and gloves
as well as a 357 revolver the weapon was traced to a convicted murderer named michael
anthony starr who had been paroled from a virginia prison only the year before update thanks to a viewer tip
police arrested michael anthony starr he was convicted of attempted robbery and two weapons violations
he was sentenced to 45 years in prison he served his time and has been released [Music]
[Music] you

This episode includes: Daughter Seeks Justice, Butch Cassidy, Pizza Man, Ghost Boy, Update: Amish Hostage Murder and Big Mac Shootout.

Brief Summary

Joan Jeffries' murder, Butch Cassidy's fate, restaurant feud murder, and a haunted boy's struggles are featured in this episode.

Key points

Joan Jeffries' Murder. Joan was shot multiple times in a parking lot, and her family suspects her business partner.
The Mystery of Butch Cassidy. Did Butch Cassidy really die in Bolivia, or did he escape?
Restaurant Feud Turns Deadly. A rivalry between two restaurant owners escalates into murder.
John Mooney's Escape. John Mooney engineered his escape from prison after just 19 months of a life sentence.
Michael's Haunting Experience. Michael Jones experiences terrifying ghost sightings, leading to family turmoil and exorcisms.
The Farmhand Who Became a Killer. A hired farmhand, David Freeman, manipulates his employer and ultimately commits murder.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I did not kill Joan, I had no reason to.

Sam Patel's denial of involvement in Joan's murder.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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