Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 13 | Forensic Files

[Music] next on Unsolved Mysteries an unsigned confession and a bizarre psychic Vision both suggest that
a mysterious death may have been murder days after the death of White House adviser Vince Foster a suicide
note was found in his briefcase but some experts believe it's a clever forgery they call themselves walk-ins could
their bodies really have been invaded by another person's soul and in Phoenix Arizona a
businessman vanishes and his car is found burning 400 miles away what went [Applause]
wrong join us for five cases with twists and turns that you can hardly believe I'm Dennis finina and you're watching
unside Mysteries [Music] [Music] it's Sunday morning in dun Eden Florida an hour and a half before Robert
durel and his wife Jenny plan to head off to church I heard a sound a loud sound but
I assumed it was the slamming of the back door a few minutes later Jenny goes to the bedroom to dress
she finds her husband Dead Shot Through the chest I called the police and it seemed
like they arrived immediately what time did you get here 8:15 investigators find no evidence of a
break and no sign of a struggle a shotgun lies on the bed nearby so here the left shoe was
off I think what he did is he sat on the edge of the bed put the shotgun up to his chest pulled the F was big Tae Jenny
tells the police that her husband was applying medicine to a foot ailment before putting on his Sunday shoes but
within 15 minutes the police conclude that Robert's death was a suicide and with that the case is
closed 16 years later Robert D's son received a mysterious letter it was short just 33 words but the disturbing
message put the theory of suicide side in question when guy durel got the letter
he noticed that it was postmarked March 13th exactly 16 years to the day after his father's death and I read it once
and I read it the second time and I was just totally flooded with emotion I was it it it was as if I'd been kicked
right in the chest the letter was brief and direct it said I have AIDS I am dying I must make peace
with the Lord I killed your daddy 16 years ago he found me in his bedroom I had no choice please pray for
me the unsigned letter prompted the durel family to obtain a copy of the original police report on Robert's death
the durels had never seen it before and they went over it word by word it was just so full of
untruths guesswork interviews of people that hadn't seen my father in more than 2 years close friends weren't spoken
to in the report investigators had concluded that Robert committed suicide because of an unsuccessful surgery years
earlier the one interview that they probably weigh most heavily is from a nurse who hadn't seen him in 2 years who
gives a report about his health that is so far from the truth it's it's ridiculous she portrays him as a
bedridden vegetable where he was a happy fairly healthy man had social life he still traveled and and still was a
productive salesman it was strictly investigated as a suicide I don't think there were any
fingerprints taken of the gun or any place in the house and that was the biggest mistake they made not
investigating in law enforcement we have to deal with what the evidence tells us
there seemed to be no sign of struggle no forcible entry no disarray of any description in the bedroom where this
encounter allegedly occurred which again was one of the gives us uh more belief that this was a
suicide for Robert's wife Jenny and their children the case was far from over while traveling by train from
Florida to California Jenny's sister Fran met a psychic who was able to describe Robert's death in Eerie detail
Fran well yes was your husband a doctor the young woman was a total stranger but she
seemed familiar with Fran and the durels well then your husband's name was Earl he yes that's
right well they're here with Bob your sister's husband and he was murdered I think it's best that I write
this down so that you can keep it with you and give it to your sister Jimmy my first reaction to psychic
was I mean I didn't believe in psychics I'm sorry and yet the more I heard I had to
say I believe in this I see a narrow door opening with a gun case showing and your sister's
husband is going to another cabinet to look for foot treatment for athletes foot he looks up and he sees a stranger
in the adjoining room the robber fights with Bob the things that were written by the
young lady on the Amtrak train were startling in that some of this information wasn't anywhere to be found
it was just too real it was as if this person was in the room she's made no effort to gain from
it there's been no no approach to us which you would expect if there was a hoax and I honestly believe it was a a
situation that uh that took place that I can't explain in the reality of this world
uh it's kind of spooky Bob durel died at 54 well before his time to this day his family would
like to know why in my own mind my father is a victim of murder and I would like to be able to
tell my children without a question that this is what happened there may be somebody out there who was talked to by
the killer revealed something in prison to an attorney to a parent to a friend that's one of my hopes is that somebody
out there can fit the last piece of the puzzle into place Robert D's wife passed away
without ever resolving the mystery of her husband's death but Robert's children hope the truth will someday be
revealed if you have any information about this case please log on to our website at
unsolved.com next handwriting experts make a stunning Claim about the suicide note found in
Vince Foster's briefcase the White House Washington DC DC I have just met with the White House
staff uh to basically talk with them a little bit about the death of my friend of 42 years Vince Foster early in the
Clinton presidency his Deputy counsel Vincent W Foster died unexpectedly Foster was
48 his body was found in a park across the pomac river from Washington far had been shot once in the
head the wound was apparently self-inflicted at the time of his death Foster had been implicated in the
Whitewater scandal the United States Park police and the FBI concluded that Foster had taken his own life but
journalists raised serious doubts about that theory Vince Foster was the highest
federal official to die under suspicious circumstances since the death of President Kennedy I don't push a
non-suicide theory I have never said Vince Foster was murdered I have said that police are trained to treat every
suicide no matter how apparently as a homicide as a murder first until the facts prove otherwise what is clear in
this case is that police procedure was never followed one of the key clues in this
case is a note allegedly written by Vince Foster the message was unsigned this is a copy of the
reconstructed note which when found had been ripped into 28 pieces it read in part I made mistakes from ignorance
inexperience and overwork I did not knowingly violate any law or standard of conduct no one in the white house to my
knowledge violated any law or standard of conduct I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in
Washington here ruining people is considered sport the shredded note was found in
Foster's briefcase 4 days after his death curiously White House Council Bernard nusom had searched the brief
case earlier but did not find the note this put the document's authenticity in question more than 2 years after Foster
died a team of well-known handwriting experts held a press conference in Washington
each of these experts examined a photocopy of the alleged suicide note and concluded that it was a
forgery was there any substance to the claim that the suicide note was forged we invited these same handwriting
experts to meet with us in Boston to explain their conclusions the experts compared the
suicide note to 12 other samples of Foster handwriting ronal writ a handwriting examiner who has worked for
the state of Massachusetts is convinced that the note was forged if we compare the formation of the cursive capital i
here on the question document to the formation of the capital I here on the known document authored by Mr Foster we
can plainly see it is not the same it's an entirely different letter of formation
rice went on to describe other discrepancies for example in the suicide note the letter O is open in the known
samples it's closed in addition rice claims that the letter b and the note was made with at least four strokes of
the pen he says that in the known sample the letter was written with one continuous stroke you plainly see the
weakness and the rice discovered new numerous other discrepancies and believes the suicide note was not
written by Foster my study and examination concluded that this was a document that um was very skeptical and
it was my opinion that it was a forgery handwriting experts say that Foster's writing was typified by
u-shaped Strokes known as swags action another end Reginal Al of Oxford University in England believed the
forger had a difficult time imitating Foster's graceful style Foster writes clintons the i n is an elegant double
swag when the forger writes clintons we find The Strokes are not easy and elegant and not really on form at
all there were an inordinate amount of hesitation dots found in the document hesitation dots are small Blobs of ink
left where the pen starts or stops Anthony aosa explains that when a document has many dots it's a tip off
that the penmanship was being copied take a look at the capital letter N you'll see four distinct hesitation dots
starting at the top where the pen comes in contact with the paper it stops he comes down and it stops at the bottom
he comes back up and retraces he comes back down again you see a third hesitation dot he stops he comes back up
and you'll see a heavy concentration of ink right here for the fourth hesitation
dot retired homicide investigator Vincent scalesi is a certified document examiner he points to the fact that the
words beginning with the letters th are much more crudely written in the suicide
note than in the known samples some suggest the differences can be explained by stress the stress of a
man about to kill himself but these experts disagree your handwriting would not change because you were under that type
of stress it might get a little sloppier it might get a little less clear but your your style of writing normally
would not change our four experts all concluded that the note was forged but at least
one other expert says it's authentic there's nothing in the question document that would support any finding of
forgery and the things that are brought forth the apparent fragmentation and those things are explained by the fact
that we have a deteriorated copy and the fact that the man was under some emotional stress at the
time Marcel matley is convinced that the other expert are wrong and he demonstrates why on the
left side is writing from the suicide note on the right side are other writing samples of Fosters they are labeled K1
through K1 you have three th from the suicide note three from the first known sample
you cannot tell the difference in these words the only thing that uh that might be a difference is here where it's
deteriorated this is from the be photocopy that's been copied too often the loop is gone and the stem is gone
the second word two we have four of them in the question document one of which is
where the tear is so we can ignore it but you notice these three twos have differences among them we go to K9 and
K10 we get three more words too we have the same difference from comparing these
words the conclusion is the same person wrote both writings did Vince Foster write the
suicide note or as Clinton critics contend is the note part of an elaborate cover up there have been three official
investigations into Foster's death the most comprehensive took three years and was conducted by Kenneth star all three
concluded that his death was a suicide yet the doubt still Pro and if the note is in fact the forgery
who wrote it and why these lingering questions may never be laid to rest next meet two people who claim that
their bodies have been taken over by someone else's Soul they call themselves walk-ins
is it possible that a person's body can be invaded by someone else's Soul well it sounds improbable but there are
thousands of people who say it has happened to them they call themselves walk-ins I began to feel that I had to
change my name and this happens very often to Watkins um and I didn't know why I felt like a Stranger in a Strange
Land I didn't fit here I didn't understand this world I didn't understand how it worked Let's do an I
an I the doctor patted me and he said young lady you gave us quite a scare and I said oh I'm not who you
think I am Believers say it's not possession it's an even Trade One Soul for another
and they say that it could Happ happen to any one of us a hospital in Clearwater Florida is
where Carol Parish first experienced being a walk all right okay okay here we go while giving birth to her sixth child
doctors gave Carol a shot of sodium penthol to ease her pain two cc's of sodium penthol but Carol had an allergic
reaction to the drug and her lungs collapsed all right we've got an anaphylactic shock nurse let's get some
oxygen going Carol was on the edge of death suddenly I wasn't there it was just like I had been totally engaged in
that struggle and the next thing it's cool and I'm floating and I look down and and you hardly
know that that's you all right Carol watched while her baby was being born then she says her soul entered a tunnel
of light where she felt that she was not alone she described it as a near-death experience and I stood there and in that
light was like a whole flow of information just came into my mind and this love and this wisdom just permeated
wave after wave of understanding wisdom richness this floating to me defying all expectations Carol
survived but she says that when she woke up her body had been taken over by a different soul you're lucky to be alive
I saw young Carol move off into the care of some other beings I'm not who you think that I am
it's okay as I look at each person their eyes just the veil comes over their eyes
and I turned my head toward the wall and big tears started coming my eyes and down my cheeks and I
thought how will I ever get anybody to believe me who's going to listen from then on everything about
Carol's life changed she began having outof body experiences one day I was nursing the
baby and I found myself standing in the door looking at myself and immediately thought oh that's happening to me again
when I thought that I popped back together and it passed and I tried to talk about that to
my family her husband thought she had gone crazy where's your medicine and her doctor tried to put her on valium I'm
not taking it anymore why not it's not good for the baby Carol the doctor said You' got to take that
medicine the new Carol made big changes in her life bill I am not taking the medicine anymore she went back to school
to study bookkeeping and became a manager at a local bank her new identity seemed to threaten her husband who
eventually left her the years after the experience were very lonely I was lonely
for other people that valued the things that were so meaningful to me 7 years years later Carol began to study
religion and became a minister her faith gave her a new perspective on being a walking I believe young Carol went as
All Souls do into tender hands to care for her and help her reorient herself to the world of spirit the idea that life
is ongoing and if you are you always will be that's the piece that I think is so important partly it's important
because we would live life more courageously if we really believed that an exchange of souls is this really
possible a woman named Sherry claims that it happened to her too she was a high school principal and while visiting
a friend in Wyoming Sherry began to feel disoriented she asked her friend a metaphysical healer to lay hands on
suddenly the room began to change there was a globe of golden pulsating energy the core of the energy just
punched right into the base of my spine I raised up on my knees and sat immersed in this colorful light and
found myself wanting to just flow with it and and and dance with it with my hands and my
[Music] arms after the experience sher's life changed dramatically she claimed her old soul
was exchanged for a new one she even gave herself a new name I'm Joelle but her new identity came with
some problems everyday tasks became nearly impossible there was a hyp sensitivity
to energy fields around people energy fields around things so to go into a supermarket see
the energy Fields hear all the thoughts it was so difficult to stay focused on what my task was I tried to narrow my
task down to five 10 items so I could get through that Express line as quick as possible over time Joelle managed to
accept her new identity and so did her husband and daughter it's as though there are two chapters in our lives as a
family there's the before and there there's the after and in many ways our life as a family started after my mother
experienced the walkin a lot of the healing that wasn't able to take place before did after we were so so much
stronger as a family unit Joelle is now dedicated to educating others about the walk-in experience I travel the country
I travel the world speaking to different groups of people doing private counseling sessions with people however
Joelle says that she still retained some traits from before the change when she was still Sherry one of the beautiful
memories that came from Sherry was her ability to teach was her ability to speak to people I've taken that aspect
and I've just taken it to the next phase people who claim a New Soul resides inside them say that the new
spirit has changed them for the better when it comes to Walkins perhaps that's all that
[Music] matters com up The Secret Life of an Arizona businessman erupts in violence
and [Music] murder Phoenix Arizona 57-year-old Angelo desideri was a devout Catholic who had once studied
for the priesthood Angel was a very ordered neat individual very very meticulous and need
individual a perfectionist in it in its true sense of the word a perfectionist Angelo had several close
friends but never married with hard work he built a small business Empire that included a shopping center and an import
store on Monday morning a neighboring shop owner noticed that Angelo's store was not open one of Angelo's friends
drove to his house to see if anything was was wrong after seeing certain things that
Disturbed me like a alarm that was not on and other things of that nature I went next door and made a decision to
phone 911 and bring out a police officers for get out of the house inside Angelo was nowhere to be
found it looked like he had been interrupted while preparing lunch piles of bills were laid out on the kitchen
table ready to be paid in the living room were two new pairs of pants with a receipt that showed that Angelo had
bought them the day before when my brother disappeared on that Sunday afternoon he left the house with
absolutely nothing he didn't take a toothbrush pair of slippers nothing the only thing that we discovered that was
missing was his attache case some jewelry and money was missing from the home in the garage investigators found
Angelo's car cover crumpled on on the floor that was unusual and not a good sign Angelo was compulsively neat and
always folded the cover after removing it a neighbor told police that he had seen Angela's Cadillac speed away and
the Sunday he disappeared it was very difficult to see of course I couldn't see any facial characteristics and it
wasn't like Angelo to pull out without acknowledging me he'd returned from out of town just a few days before had given
him his mail and we spoke briefly Friday night which was prior to this was on a Sunday and it just all kinds of
questions you wonder why only 30 hours after Angelo vanished a 1985 Cadillac was found on fire in the
San Diego Parking Lot 400 mil from Phoenix an accelerant had been used to set the blad the car belonged to Angelo
desert da inside there were no personal belongings and no signs of forced entry the ignition was untampered with
there were no signs or indications of any hot wiring of any type we looked in the trunk and found absolutely nothing
in that trunk that would have been there other than the Jack no carpet No padding
no spare tire basically this tells us that there could have been something in the vehicle
that was transported in the vehicle and when it was taken out they took the carpet and the padding and wrapped it
all in one unit and took everything out of the vehicle including the spare tire Phoenix police retraced the route
to San Diego stopping at gas stations and car washes along the way nobody matching Angelo's description had been
seen and none of his credit cards had been used authorities did find two witnesses
who saw the car just minutes before it was torched both described a man who looked like Angelo in front of the
Cadillac how neither was positive that it was actually him the investigation hit a dead end we can
narrow that down to about 5 minutes prior to the fire the results of our case rest on who that person was it
could possibly uh close our case if it was Angelo standing by that car I cannot conceive that he would burn
the car it just seems incredible that this is possible of my brother I can't comprehend something like this
all the pieces they just don't fit we have a gentleman who would go out of his way for people someone who was devoted
to his family and yet we have this whole case there's another life or there's another dimension to Angela that we've
never been able to find and I think that if I could ever find that piece I'd find
Angela Update 9 months after Angelo disappeared Phoenix police charged a local man Joe
callow with conspiracy to commit armed robbery on Angelo it turned out that callow was a business associate of
Angelos and had detailed information about his disappearance Joe Kell told us that all the information he had was told
to him by James Major James Majors had worked with callow and instruction at the time of Call's arrest Majors was in
a California jail facing several counts of murder during the interview of Joe Kell
he stated that Majors went to the house got into the house by ringing the doorbell and asking for a glass of water
then took Angelo at gunpoint and robbed the house he was taken out of the house at that time by
majors and driven out into the desert K claims that between Phoenix and San Diego Majors murdered Angelo he then
placed the body in the trunk of the Cadillac and continued on towards San Diego the following morning Majors goes
to a hardware store where he purchased a pick and a shovel have an Majors told cow that he then drove
down a desert back road and buried Angelo near a large tree tree according to Kell Majors did a real
unique thing as he's leaving the grave site he stopped and gave the shovel in the pick
to the poor people that lived in that Shack and then he exited onto the highway and drove into
California callow also told investigators that Majors had a storage locker when the police searched it they
recovered property that belonged to Angelo 6 weeks later two campers discovered the body of Angelo desideri
buried beneath the tree in Kitchen Creek California the question is why was he murdered it turns out that there was
another side to Angelo desider he and C belonged to the same organized crime family when Angelo wanted out callow was
ordered to have him killed James Major was the Hitman callow was also implicated in
several other murders and in order to avoid the death penalty he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 11
consecutive life sentences James Majors was not tried for killing Angelo desider he had already been sentenced to
death for three other [Music] murders next after 20 years years a young man is reunited with his lost big
brother who was his inspiration in life and coming up is the power of aphrodesiac a myth or
reality Elkart Indiana it's 1971 Big Brother of America has just opened a new chapter here their first
little brother is 7-year-old Jeff fiser Jeff's big brother is John nney a local salesman and the father of a 2-year-old
daughter John gave me the companionship that I really needed at that time just the fact that this was you know an older
guy that I could hang around with and not you know not having tell me to go away and you know come back later and
stuff some you know a guy that wanted to spend some time with me you know maybe feel it really good get this tied up and
then we're just about after Jeff and John started seeing each other I noticed that Jeff had a lot more confidence in
himself and he was very proud of the fact that he had a big brother and and he would tell the other kids well well
John and I are going to go do this or my big brother and I are going to go do this he was very proud of the fact that
that he had a a man in his life ready to lie a year and a half later John and his
family moved the way Jeff never saw John again but he never forgot the friendship
and the adventures that changed his life he just introduced me to a world that I had never seen before and if I
finally see him again I just want to thank him he made a lasting impression it's
been 20 years and he's still a really Vivid part of my [Music] memory update on the night of our broadcast
several calls from our viewers connected Jeff and John 9 days later they were reunited in Tacoma Washington there they
are there they are hi guys can't yeah you look just like your picture man you doing great great it's
unbelievable I was absolutely stunned I had absolutely no idea that Jeff was looking for me and then as the show
aired people from Elkart and from Michigan started calling me on the phone telling me that I was on television and
and Jeff fiser was looking for me and we must have got 35 calls that night and at
least that many the next night you know I've been wanting to say thanks to this guy for 18 years and you know whatever
it took to uh come out and say that you know I was willing to do [Music] admit it unless you're some kind of a
rock star you've probably wished for a magic potion that can make you seem like a tantalizing love machine that cannot
be resisted well join the crowd folks for the last few thousand years men and women have searched the world over for
the perfect aphrodesiac but Arthur actually res piece for romance that do deliver the
goods persistent scientific study has produced a surprising answer one of the traditions in Europe
was that uh newly wed couples would drink a wine made of Honey every night and this would be a way for them to help
increase their energy during the first month of their marriage and that's where the word honeymoon came about and of
course we know honey is very very high in B vitamins and amino acids and is a very very highly nutritious product plus
it gives the body energy which is required also for healthy sex oysters have always had the
reputation as the food for lovers for some just a Peak at this succulent mollusk can provoke thoughts of sex lamp
tests indicate that the oyster's fame is honestly earned zinc is a mineral that's required
for the production of testosterone and testosterone is the most important hormone for sexual response in both men
and women and oysters have more zinc than almost any other food though Dr Watson has spent several
years studying aphrodesiac many patients who come to her don't realize that they're just
Lovick so Charlie are you having trouble sleeping yeah Charlie was there because
his 18-hour work days had grounded him down Beyond exhaustion I get up and walk around I can't get back back to sleep
she starts to steer her questions to what are my activities like am I energetic do I exercise you know how's
my love life uh that was kind of an odd switch because most doctors don't take you down that path and how are these
problems affecting you sexually well it's taken its toll on my relationship to the point where it's non-existent Dr
Watson prescribed a slower pace for Charlie plus some herbs and vitamins she also suggests that he bring his
girlfriend a box of chocolate for dessert but these were chocolates that Dr Watson had spiced with South American
herbs known for giving the libido a [Music] lift that was so delicious Charlie invited his girlfriend for dinner he put
on special music and remembered his plans for dessert and he hopes for the best we're not done yet I have a little
dessert for us oh chocolate Hearts not just ordinary chocolate Hearts though that's these are um
aphrodisiacs where did you get them about half an hour later I'm sitting there and she's playing with my hair and
I'm sitting going it's working so glad you didn't have to work late tonight she said oh I just feel normal well I can
tell you she wasn't normal she was better than normal cuddly Huggy you know paying attention to me and it progressed
into a really nice steamy evening which was after all we could all use one of those once in a while the mind is the
best aphrodesiac we have yet there are really physical components that happen I see it in my practice I see men and
women who really want to have great sex but something's wrong physically chemically something's just not
happening and definitely when they take the herbs which react in the body in that chemical process uh definitely
there's a change there's an improvement when people say you're taking an aphrodesiac you know you're taking an
aphrodesiac isn't it all in your mind isn't it a placebo and I look at them and I say
it's very possible that it is I mean there's tons of medical records that show people been given Placebo medicine
have cured themselves but hey who cares as long as it gets you there what triggers our passion well that's one of
life's great Mysteries as for aphrodisiacs perhaps the most potent of all are these three
Tim honored words I love [Music] you of course not all stories end happily if you have any information
about the cases we profiled tonight please log on to our website at unsolved.com
[Music] [Music]

This, Episode includes: Dying to Confess, Vince Foster, Walk-Ins, Missing Ex-Monk, Update: Thanks Big Brother and Aphrodisiacs.

Brief Summary

The episode investigates Robert Durel's suspicious death, Vince Foster's alleged suicide note forgery, and the phenomenon of walk-ins.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Robert Durel. Robert Durel's death was ruled a suicide, but a letter 16 years later raises questions.
The Forged Suicide Note of Vince Foster. Handwriting experts claim the suicide note found in Vince Foster's briefcase is a forgery.
The Walk-In Experience. People claim to have exchanged souls, leading to profound life changes.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Angelo. Angelo's sudden vanishing leads to a shocking investigation uncovering dark secrets.
Reunion After 20 Years. Jeff and John are reunited after two decades, rekindling a cherished friendship.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I was totally flooded with emotion.

Guy Durel reacts to a mysterious letter about his father's death.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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