Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 4, Episode 5 | Forensic Files

[Music] next on unsolved mysteries an SUV is found abandoned on a remote Wyoming
Highway what happened the dark in my son was murdered I followed this this upscale restaurant south of San
Francisco was once a haunt for bootleggers now it's haunted by the ghost of a bootleggers life a 23 year
old college student takes off on a cross-country journey following in the footsteps legendary writer Jack Kerouac
then she disappears in there an hour after doctors pronounced him dead a newborn baby miraculously
some hoc cases some cold cases and some cases with surprising revelations I'm Dennis Farina and this is unsolved
mysteries [Music] in the middle of the desolate Wyoming Prairie an SUV is found abandoned its
doors are open the engine is running and clothes are scattered all over the highway the owner of the car 35 year old
band camp is nowhere in sight four years after he disappeared Don's body is found just a few miles from
where his blazer was abandoned the sheriff believes that Don froze to death in a blizzard three days after he was
lost however the band's family is not convinced my son was murdered I definitely believe this absolutely he
was murdered Mary Kemp began her own investigation she has turned up alarming evidence that her son's death was not an
accident most disturbing is a series of telephone calls that Don made five months after he supposedly died Don Kemp
was a promising young advertising executive in New York City until he was severely disabled in a traffic accident
after he recovered he chose not to return to Madison Avenue he had become disillusioned with
materialism and I think he wanted a simpler a simpler time in a quieter time and I think that's what drew him to that
area Don sold almost everything he owned and began a long drive west his destination
was Jackson Hole Wyoming where he planned to write a book about Abraham Lincoln's assassination
the day before he disappeared don was seen at a museum in cheyenne he wanted through the small galleries for two
hours speaking to no one when he left Don apparently forgot his at the chez case and it were his traveler's checks
diaries and his driving glasses the next day at 10 a.m. highway patrolman Randy teeters came
upon an eerie sight John's abandoned car was 40 miles from any town on an off-ramp running stuff strung out of it
the doors open neither of us to see anything like this when he found the car Randy noticed a single set of footprints
leading from the roadside into that lonely empty Prairie the local sheriff's department concluded that Don wandered
off alone but Don's mother believes he was abducted I was certain he was in a horrible Jam I
I just felt it because this was so unlike my son I knew that he hadn't walked out there I feel that he didn't
and yet the sheriff kept saying that he was out there well I think he was mentally disturbed he was having mental
problems and was possibly some health problems deputy rod Johnson flew over the area
for two hours he can see for miles over the open terrain but there was no trace of done
I felt the guy was disorientated and I felt that he didn't want to be found if he would have wanted to be found he
would have heard the aircraft code it came up waved his arms got attention gone up to a ridge anywhere and and be
been sighted later that day Johnson and two other deputies found a duffel bag lying near the single set of footprints
in it were laundry soap clothes a teapot all belonging to Don I believe they were
put there to look like my son had walked out there and I don't believe my son did
tracks in the snow led searchers to a barn six miles from the highway inside was a pile of sticks arranged to start a
fire and three have done sucks three socks that were found in the barn where Donnie's socks I have no idea how they
got there I think they were put there by someone other than my son three days after he disappeared
a blizzard made it impossible to continue the search three years later a group of hunters discovered Don's
remains just a few miles from where his SUV was a bad fire an autopsy showed no signs of foul play
we never did suspect foul play he was out there and was avoiding us stayed away from us and I believe on the second
or third day he was gonna try to get back to his vehicle he seen he was in trouble
and he didn't make it this is where the case of Don Kent should have ended but Mary Kent has been haunted by two clues
that just don't fit a sighting of Don and a number of mysterious phone calls five months after Don supposedly died in
the blizzard he was seen 150 miles away in Casper Wyoming not once but twice he was
reported to be at a traveling exhibit of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia and at a local tavern Mary can't talk to a
bartender who distinctly remembers serving down around that time one of Don's closest friends returned home from
vacation on her answering machine she found six different telephone messages from Don I'm absolutely certain
that it was his voice and it was a very brief message I'd like to speak to you again call me and a phone number the
next day I called asked to speak to Don a man answered the phone he said that Don was out I'm convinced he holds the
clue to what really happened to Don telephone records prove that the calls were made from a trailer in Casper
Wyoming the young man who was renting a trailer at the time said the phone company must
have made a mistake he told us that he had no knowledge of the phone calls and that he had not made the phone calls I
had an occasion to show him a picture of Donald Kemp and he said that he did not
know Donald Kemp had never seen Donald Kemp and knew nothing of his whereabouts Mary wasn't satisfied with the man's
story so she went to Wyoming to conduct her own investigation god knows what happened to my sons in that trailer it's
it's too horrible to contemplate I don't know I tried in every way I knew how to
contact this young man I finally spoke with him only one time on the phone and I asked him about my son and he said he
knew nothing about Don Kemp he do nothing about Don Kemp he just paved those phone bills he didn't look at them
and I told this young man he was lying you know what has happened to my son and he just hung up on me three weeks after
he was questioned the young man moved out of the trailer and left Casper I have no reason to feel that the
individual here in Casper had any knowledge of this man's even being in Wyoming other than these phone calls and
I I I don't have an explanation for it neither nor did he who made the phone calls that's the big question who it was
had have been my son [Applause] so what really did happen to Don kemp in that vast wyoming prairie sheriff Ogburn
thinks he died in the blizzard but he can't explain the phone console mary believes that don was abducted taken to
Casper and murdered but then why was his body found just three miles from the abandoned blazer somebody can tell me
exactly what happened to my son as I know there are people who know what happened to my son
I know this if you have any information about the disappearance of Don Kemp please log on to our website at unsolved
comm next the ghostly legend of a beautiful lady in blue mas Beach is a lonely windswept Cove 20
miles south of San Francisco a restaurant called the Moss Beach distillery overlooks the water and
during Prohibition it was a notorious speakeasy in recent years strange things have been reported here
waitresses say cold winds blow through the dining room when no windows or doors are open a former owner claims she's
seen objects fly through the air the doors lock mysteriously for decades employees of the mas Beach distillery
have reported seeing ghosts according to local legend one spirit dates back to the roaring 20s the beautiful lady in
blue the speakeasy at Moss Beach was a hangout for bootleggers it was also the setting for legendary Love Train the
lady was beautiful she always wore blue the piano player had eyes only for her but their romance was conducted in
secret because the lady in blue belonged to someone else her husband was a bootlegger and one
night she made a serious mistake unaware that he would soon arrive she signaled the piano player to meet around the
beach the bootlegger saw his wife with the piano player and went crazy jealousy [Music]
the lady threw herself between the two men and the struggle was over the beautiful lady in blue was dead a victim
of her lover's dagger some swear that her ghost haunts Moss beach to this very day believers claim that she breathes a
cold wind down the necks of women she used as rivals other employees say she calls out their names when they're alone
and to dine here she's mischievous a lot of pranks will happen a lot of things will go on but I don't think that any of
it is malicious I don't think that anything is supposed to be hair-raising zand you're running out of a building or
anything else like that she's good she's it just seems to be a kind soul thank spirit when pat and dave andrews owned
the mas beach distillery they say the lady in blue seem to enjoy he's locking them out of their rooms the
lady in blue also played other tricks when Pat was all alone in the office my checkbook lifted right off the shelf
above my head and sailed around this small room just put it back but I just told her to put it back and it went
right back onto the shelf I just didn't believe it and then as as time went on the things that happened you know
totally brought me around to the point of view that there it is here there's no if ands or buts about it it happened
the mysterious lady in blue may not be the only ghost haunting the Moss Beach distillery a psychic named Sylvia Browne
says that when she visited the tavern she sensed the presence of another spirit I walked in and said oh my god
there is a ghost here and I'm getting the name Mary Ellen Morley Sylvia went on to say that Mary Ellen Morley had
been killed by crushing blows to the chest and the head we took that information went over to the San Mateo
County vital statistics and research documentation between 1910 and 1930 and in fact came up with a name that Sylvia
Browne had had mentioned during dinner Mary Ellen Morley Jennifer towner and Jan mukil Stone continued to dig through
the archives they were intrigued by the newspaper accounts of Mary Ellen Morley's death
when she was killed it made front-page news it was really chilling when I came upon that cuz all
of a sudden she became very real Mary Ellen Morley lived in Redwood City California and near the San Francisco
Bay on the day of her death Mary Ellen and her husband Frederick had driven north to visit her mother's grave the
cemetery was 15 miles from Moss Beach distillery returning home that same night Frederick lost control of his car it
overturned and Mary Ellen was trapped inside with her last breath she begged Frederic
to take care of their three-year-old son Jack jab movie frederik frantically ran for help but in
the end he could do nothing to save his wife she died from crushing blows to the
chest and the head the exact injuries described a Sylvia Bree the owner called Sylvia back to the moss Beach distillery
for a saying because you've been walking so long so Sylvia claimed that Mary Ellen Morley's spirit was weary from
searching for her son Jack Sylvia also said Mary Ellen warned that there would soon be a fire at the restaurant four or
five days later we had a fire here in the restaurant we had to close the restaurant temporarily and that was
really eerie that was kind of scary I've moved from a 1 on a scale of 10 of belief to
somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/8 I would say in a Tim with regard to my blue lady I'm convinced she's here
whether it's the lady in blue or Mary Ellen Morley anyone at the los beach distillery is convinced that it's not
only a place for us to consume spirits it's also haunted by then next Jack Kerr wax landmark book on the road inspires a
woman to follow the same path but that path leads to her unexplained disappearance
Mount Baker Washington two joggers notice a piece of clothing dangling from a tree branch there's a shirt or
something up there it's weird see anyone around someone crash down there the SUV has plunged over a steep
embankment there were no signs of anyone or any indication that someone had been
injured the passport money and some clothing were found inside the car police traced the Jeep to a missing 23
year old college student Leo Roberts nine days earlier Leah had left her home in Raleigh North Carolina
without telling anyone where she was going there are very few clues in this disturbing case for instance no one
knows for sure if Lea Roberts was even in her car when it crashed only one thing is certain that Lea Roberts left
home on a journey of self-discovery and she never returned Lea is just a very awesome person everybody that meets her
likes are very personable great smile but um you know she was kind of private also when Lea was in her early 20s
her mother died unexpectedly then Lea was involved in a near-fatal car accident and finally after a long
illness her father died I think that all of those things together had the cumulative effect of making Lea even
more introspective and probably more aware that although she didn't know what she wanted to do I think she was unhappy
that she wasn't achieving it Lea found comfort in the writings of Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation author who wrote
about the free-spirited road trips he took across America Lea's favorite was called the Dharma bums it's a story that
encourages the reader to leave behind the materialism of modern life part of that book takes place at a
forest fire lookout tower on desolation peak near Mount Baker in Washington State from the last conversation that we
had we were talking about Dharma bombs when Kerouac talks about and about how Caroline was up on desolation peak just
taking in all the beauty around him I'd love to go to desolation take it appears
that Lia Roberts secretly decided to turn your dreams into a reality just three months before she was to graduate
from college she packed but most of her cherished belongings and her cat be and took off for desolation Peak 3,000 miles
across the country it had been a period of like four days where we hadn't seen her and we began to
worry Lea's family and friends filed a missing-persons report and checked the bank records for any
activity on her account she had made several cash withdrawals tracing a route towards the west coast it took her only
three days to get to Oregon the day after we thought the missing-persons report I went over to Leah's house just
to kind of check through things see if I could find any clue you know just something to give me an answer on Leah's
dresser Kara discovered a cryptic note this is to cover bills while I'm gone have faith in me yourself everyone
Kerouac Leah's night said I'm not suicidal I'm the opposite remember Jack Kerouac that might be part of her trip
five days later Lea's SUV was discovered in Mount Baker National Forest near desolation peak but Lea was nowhere to
be found authorities estimated that the car was traveling about 40 miles an hour when it
plunged over the embankment well with the speed that the vehicle was traveling and the amount of damage to the vehicle
you would anticipate some type of injury to the person inside at least some type
of evidence to indicate contact damage that the person had been inside the vehicle there was no blood inside the
SUV or in the surrounding area investigators wondered if Lea had even been in the car when it went over the
edge there's nothing to indicate the wheel was tied and that was pushed off the road but couldn't find any marks on
the back they indicate anybody had pushed it to make things even more confusing blankets had been placed in
the car's shattered windows it appeared that someone used it as a shelter after the accident
we brought in dogs we brought in search-and-rescue and did a complete grid search up and down the road when
they weren't able to find any indication that aimed I had left that vehicle the SUV was carefully examined at a police
garage it was full of Lea's personal belongings a large amount of cash an empty cat carrier solid diamond ray
and Lea's mother's diamond engagement ring as long as I've known Lea she has worn her mother's engagement ring and it
was her most prized possession and when we discovered that the ring had been found in the car it was definitely a bad
sign there are several theories about the disappearance of Lea Roberts she could have caught a ride with the
wrong person after the accident she could be living somewhere with no memory of who she is or where she came from or
perhaps Leo Roberts was inspired by her favorite author Jack Kerouac and left her former life behind in one final
dramatic gesture I can understand Lee as needing to get away and find some peace within herself
but considering the loss that our families experienced it's difficult for me to think that that she would leave us
open for another loss like this you don't ever know what someone's thinking in their head no matter what they tell
you you still don't know one week after Leah's car was found a man called police to report that his
wife had just seen Leah at a gas station 30 miles from Seattle he didn't give his
name but said Leah appeared confused and disoriented before police could get more
information the caller hung up Leah Roberts is 5 feet 6 inches tall and last seen weighed 130 pounds and had sandy
blonde hair she has a beauty loop on the right upper lip and a surgical scar on her right hip
if you have any information about this case please log on to our website in the south
coming up a rapist attacks women throughout New York and a man wrongly convicted of two of those rapes is
finally set free [Music] Kansas City Missouri during a previous broadcast we told you about George Marsh
a Kansas City labourer who died alone in a nursing home in 1982 George left behind 175,000 dollars
but had no known heirs or relatives there were a few clues one is this birth certificate showing that his original
name was Yosef Zelenka there were also a few family photos including this portrait of a young woman inscribed your
loving niece help we were hoping that someone who saw this story might have known George Marsh or his heirs update
thanks to unsolved mysteries George Marcia's relatives have been found one of them was actually watching
our broadcast when I looked up and saw my senior high school picture on TV I couldn't believe it so then when he read
your loving niece Elinor did that that's how I signed I was just stunned I was just amazed Elinor Kohler is
George Marcia's long-lost niece the one who signed this high school for him her family lives in Rock Springs
Wyoming Joseph's brother Jim has been looking for Joe since 1931 I have no idea why he kept away from the family
because there's no hard feelings we were all United always in everything the Zilla Lincoln's plan to divide 175,000
dollars among Joe's surviving relatives but more importantly they want to bring his body back to the family burial site
I just feel good all over to know where he's at and I'd be able to bring his body back to rest with her rest of his
family for more than 20 years police in Buffalo New York tried to catch a serial killer and rapist and for
more than 20 years an innocent man remained behind bars for crimes that he did not commit and I was
walking this summer school I was running a little bit late for school so I decided to cut through the pass and then
I was almost at the end of the path and I heard something behind me are you doing and I didn't think
anything of it so I turned around and I kept walking you know I mean he didn't look like someone I could I had to fear
he looked like a normal everyday guy he started dragging me back into the woods and then he started strangling me
and then I thought dad said I was gonna die it was I really thought I'm never seeing my family and when he was
finished I asked him what's gonna happen and he told me he said nothing he's almost sounded sorry and then he left
a few months later the rapist was lying in wait as a 16 year old girl walked to school along an isolated railroad track
once again he double wrap the rope around victim's neck and take the rice shot almost a year later another young
girl was using this as a shortcut on her way to school the same individual pastor and
immediately afterwards double wrapped a rope around her neck gained control of her and took her to the bush area behind
me he forced her to place tape over eyes he bound her and sexually assaulted her
the four victims all described the rapist as a short stocky man in his mid-30s who had massage for months past
Blayne fifth victim Amherst New York a woman alone in a secluded place early one they placed a rope around her neck
he wrapped it twice she described him as a very powerful man he lifted her over this fence and took her into the wooded
area over here where he bound her hands behind her back and he placed surgical tape over eyes and at that point he
raped her the rapist would attack two more victims in inversed a 32 year old female was using this path early in the
morning for exercise as she got to this point right here a rope was placed around her neck and she was immediately
rendered unconscious she was then dragged into these woods up this way the woman was found one hour later still
unconscious double wrap marks on her neck told police who they were dealing with but this time it was different
this time he nearly killed its victim twenty-two-year-old Linda yeh l'm a student at the University in Buffalo was
next she was the seventh known victim and she would be the first to die Linda was left in the woods the mouth
and nose wrap tight with duct tape it was premeditated murder he planned on killing her when he went he grabbed her
that day once he put that tape over her nose in her mouth there was no chance for survival after Linda's murder the
attacks stopped authorities wondered if the suspect had moved gone to prison or even died and then four years later a
14-year old girl was raped in Buffalo a serial rapist was back this guy strikes so and frequently he's
very hard to to profile very very difficult he's either got tremendous self-control or else he's hitting in
other parts of the country that were not aware of update more than 20 years after
the so called bikepath rapist first struck police arrested and held hemiola sanchez
whose DNA matched samples found at the crime scenes he was convicted of two murders and sentenced to 75 years to
life during their investigation police learned that Sanchez had committed two other rapes in the same part where he
claimed his first victim they also discovered that an innocent man was serving a 35-year sentence for those two
rapes the wrongly convicted man Anthony Capozzi was finally set free after serving 21 years behind bars in a moment
an infant who is pronounced dead at birth makes a miraculous recovery Jefferson in the end when Todd and Tammy
Carroll arrived at the hospital for the birth of their third child a son named Logan
they had far greater fears than a typical expected parents their second child Megan had been still Tami everyone
I was worried is anything gonna be wrong with this baby is everything gonna be all right
and after the ultrasound and everything looked good on it and then we were in some other tests that looked fine that
eased my mind I really tried to look at it as a separate incident Tammy's sister
Ruth stood near the fetal heartbeat monitor the red numbers showed a normal rate 120 to 140 beats per minute at
least at first Logan Carol was born 12 minutes later then his heart stopped feel any pulse at
all and that's when we started CPR [Music] what is he crying call a code [Music]
the emergency team tried desperately to revive history an eventful pregnancy we lost the heart right immediately before
delivery after 15 minutes Logan still had no vital signs no heartbeat no breathing no heart rate
flatline continue this hesitation here continued doing CPR throughout that time and I began inserting the line into his
umbilical cord to try to administer some drugs to help revive him they had put EKG monitor on him and the tracing was
not showing any electrical activity so I knew it didn't look good at all well I was still hoping he was there so long I
don't know how five or six doctors they're working on him I just couldn't lose this baby I just
could not believe this could happen again Logan James Carroll was officially pronounced dead at 5:15 p.m. at some
point you know you always have to just say we've done what we can do this baby is not going to respond and we finally
called it and pronounced him dead at that time I don't think there's any lower feeling than holding the dead
child seeing they're holding him and looking in his face I just wanted him to be alive so bad
Tammi and Todd agreed to an autopsy they wanted to know why I don't mean to sound
crass or anything but we usually take pictures of the baby for the family you never know how people are going to take
that when you come in and say I'd like to take pictures of you and the baby but they were very receptive because they
said they didn't get enough pictures the last time that this had happened to them
these photos were taken that horrible afternoon sat portraits meant to commemorate the end of a young life
instead they were the beginning of a miracle what was that what was what he just made the noise that was just a
reflex action Tanner I'm sorry while I was holding Logan he made the gasping sound it was a very eerie
feeling but we had been told that that was normal it is called agonal gasping and it can happen because of the
medication it can go on for quite a while so I wanted to let them know because every time he would do that he
did it a couple of times for Tammy they would just their eyes would light up and
then they would be really let down when he wouldn't do it again [Music] forty minutes had passed since Logan was
pronounced dead the time for his autopsy was approaching [Music] Schuyler looks so good
ready he's getting warmer I'll get the nurse just look I'll be right back what's going on roofie I understand
about agonal breathing but is there such a thing as an agonal heart rate susan has a heart rate please come and take a
look at him I think I was afraid that she was reacting in a way that was going to upset the family even more because I
mean the baby was dead it was total unbelief I don't know how soon it was but it was real soon they came in took
my IV out and I had monitors on me and I had a blood pressure cuff I mean they were taking wires and just pulling them
off of me and willed me into the nursery and I reached in and I held his arm and
I was talking to him tell him that he had to hang in there and then I loved him and then I was proud of him for
being so strong [Music] earlier six physicians and eight registered nurses were all certain that
Logan Carroll had died hi-tec meters and monitors confirmed that judgment I figured God's hand and
I've been in it but that's not in the medical literature it's account for the miraculous as an explanation dr.
Valentine you get the baby it's amazing I mean we're all trained to do something
as doctors and here we did nothing and he came back word spread through the hospital very quickly it was it was
incredible the emergency room doctor came up and was totally amazed it was it was something into something
Logan's transformation from the lifeless infant in this photo to the squirm baby
boy videotaped just one day later was amazing Logan remained in the hospital for the next five weeks and his vital
signs never faltered again [Music] [Music]

Brief Summary

Unsolved Mysteries covers Don Kemp's disappearance, the Lady in Blue ghost story, and Leah Roberts' mysterious vanishing.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance of Don Kemp. Don Kemp's abandoned SUV leads to a chilling investigation into his death.
The Ghostly Legend of the Lady in Blue. A haunted restaurant in California is said to be home to the spirit of a tragic woman.
Lea Roberts' Journey of Self-Discovery. Lea Roberts disappears after a road trip inspired by Jack Kerouac's writings.
Linda's Tragic Fate. Linda Yeh becomes the seventh known victim of a serial rapist, leading to her tragic death.
The Bikepath Rapist Arrested. More than 20 years after the first attack, police arrest a suspect linked to multiple rapes.
The Return of Logan Carroll. After being pronounced dead, Logan Carroll makes a miraculous recovery against all odds.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

My son was murdered.

Mary Kemp expresses her belief about her son's death.

2:25WatchMar 9, 2017

Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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