Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 5, Episode 18 | Forensic Files

DENNIS FARINA: Next, on "Unsolved Mysteries." A 21-year-old woman is killed by a single shotgun blast.
The authorities say it was suicide, but her parents have convincing evidence that someone
else fired the gun. In Canada, an elusive sea monster called Ogopogo is finally caught on tape
by three different people-- or so they say. How did human bones end up in this Kentucky
stream and whose are they? Forensic anthropologist Dr. Emily Craig is brought in
to solve the mystery. And the day before Molly Bish disappeared from her lifeguard station, her mother saw a suspicious man
lurking in [inaudible]. Could he have abducted Molly? Five fascinating mysteries-- some just waiting to be solved.
I'm Dennis Farina, and this is "Unsolved Mysteries." [theme music] Roanoke, Virginia.
At 7:53 PM, a single shotgun blast rips through a quiet neighborhood. 21 year old Rae Ann Mossor is pronounced dead at the scene.
She has a shotgun wound to the chest. M. DAVID HOOPER: When officers arrived at 7:57,
they found a shotgun lying on the trunk of the car pointed in the direction of where the young lady
would have been standing. She had dated a young man who lived in that house nearby.
--pretty heated argument. M. DAVID HOOPER: It was his car that she was lying beside.
As she stormed out, the last thing she said to me was, what do I have to do to prove my love to you-- kill myself?
And then she ran out the door. You didn't come to the door when you heard the shotgun blast?
No, sir. No, sir. I didn't go outside. I didn't even look outside. I-- if there was anybody outside with a shotgun,
I was going to stay inside. I feared for my life. DENNIS FARINA: After questioning Rae Ann's ex-boyfriend,
the police find no evidence of foul play, and her death is ruled a suicide. Rae Ann and her boyfriend had broken up,
and three witnesses said that she threatened to kill herself. But Rae Ann's parents believe that they found evidence
proving that she was murdered, and they want an investigation. ANN MOSSOR: When our daughter was murdered,
she was charged and convicted of a crime she did not do to herself. And the power within me and my husband
both is to find out why, who, and what happened. This is definitely was not a suicide,
and I really don't care what anybody thinks. DENNIS FARINA: When they examined police reports,
Rae Ann's parents began to discover evidence that cast doubt on suicide as the cause of death.
Rae Ann's car was parked directly across the street from where she died. They discovered her car door was wide open,
music was blaring from the radio, and her key was still in the ignition. She seemed to have left the car in a hurry.
The police found the 12-gauge shotgun lying on the trunk of the car. Her parents believe that if Rae Ann had shot herself,
the weapon would have fallen to the ground beside her body. How long was Rae Ann's arm?
- 29 inches. - OK. 29 inches. Right there-- DENNIS FARINA: Rae Ann's arm measured 29 inches.
But the distance from the trigger of the shot and to the muzzle was 36 inches. ANN MOSSOR: My arm length was right close
to my daughter's arm length. So I took a broomstick and measured it out to be able to push that trigger with my thumb
and to be able to get it in after we'd seen the body diagram. I couldn't reach it.
There's no way. She couldn't have pulled that trigger and shot herself. DENNIS FARINA: On the night of Rae Ann's death,
authorities told her parents there would be an autopsy. Two weeks later, Ron and Ann discovered
that it had never been performed or even requested. When I found out the autopsy was not performed,
I was shocked. The Mossors had Rae Ann's body exhumed. Finally, six months after her death,
an autopsy was performed by Dr. David Oxley, the original medical examiner. --in the anterior chest, corresponding
to the wound seen at the previous examination of-- DENNIS FARINA: According to Oxley's report,
Rae Ann was killed by a contact wound to the chest, meaning the muzzle of the gun was against her skin.
In addition, powder burns were found on Rae Ann's left wrist. After the autopsy, the medical examiner
declined to change the ruling of suicide. ANN MOSSOR: There was nothing matching.
Things weren't adding up right, so that's where we started back for another opinion.
DENNIS FARINA: The Mossors contacted Dr. John Butts, the chief medical examiner for the state
of North Carolina. His conclusions differed significantly from the findings of the autopsy.
JOHN BUTTS: It seems that suicide is extremely unlikely. I could see that the muzzle of the weapon
was several feet from her body at the time it was discharged. The appearance of the powder on her hand
indicate that that hand was close to the muzzle of the gun that discharged. Perhaps grabbing at the gun, perhaps holding the gun.
Now, whatever was at the other end of that gun, I don't know. DENNIS FARINA: Based on Dr. Butts's finding,
the medical examiner officially changed the manner of death from "suicide" to "pending."
Still, there was no investigation. ANN MOSSOR: We knew when we read Dr. Butts's statement it had to go on until we
found out what happened. DENNIS FARINA: The Mossors set out to get a third opinion.
They contacted Dr. Vincent DiMaio, one of the country's leading forensic scientists.
VINCENT DIMAIO: When I received the material that they had-- well, I think the case was screwed up.
The police had a preset notion as to what had happened, and they just didn't follow through with an investigation.
The medical examiner should have performed an autopsy-- he should have been suspicious as soon as he
saw the pattern of injuries. It's not a contact wound. She couldn't have inflicted it.
DENNIS FARINA: With the help of an assistant, Dr. DiMaio showed that it was physically
impossible for Rae Ann to have shot herself in the chest. This is the closest that the muzzle was to the body.
So if we move it even further away, she'd have even greater trouble getting to the trigger.
But if we move it to the closest and then, if she tries to reach-- look what happens-- as she reaches,
the body rotates, and there is no way she can get to the trigger and yet have the gun pointed almost
directly at her right chest. What this means, is that somebody else pulled the trigger.
It's possible that the reason her left hand was adjacent to the muzzle at the time it was fired
was that she had grabbed it and was attempting to push the gun away at the time it was fired.
DENNIS FARINA: Again, the Mossors asked for the investigation to be reopened. And again, the request was denied.
RONALD MOSSOR: We was working with a Commonwealth attorney that just would not help us.
He was stonewalling us. He just would not do anything. He just was setting on his buns and he wasn't doing anything,
you know. DENNIS FARINA: The Mossors next contacted RJ Breglio, a ballistics investigator.
He tried to figure out if Rae Ann could have accidentally discharged the gun by dropping it on the ground
or hitting it against the car in anger. The butt test is a test to see if, by dropping or slamming
the butt against the floor when it is cocked, if it could fire. I performed this test many times with the shotgun
and I could not get it to discharge. In my opinion, I don't see how it would have landed neatly
on the trunk of that car. I think it would slide off to the ground in whichever way
it happened to fall. DENNIS FARINA: Again, the Mossors sent their new evidence to Donald Caldwell, the Commonwealth attorney,
and requested that the case be reopened. His only reply was, I am in receipt of your letter.
ANN MOSSOR: I made a promise to my daughter before that cask lid was closed. I told her-- I said, Rae Ann, if this is not
what it looks like-- if it takes me the rest my life, I'll find out what happened to you.
DENNIS FARINA: Three years after Rae Ann died, the state medical examiner changed the manner of death
to undetermined. There still has been no investigation and the medical examiner and Commonwealth attorney
declined to be interviewed for this program. If you have any new information that
might help solve this case, please log on to our website at unsolved.com. Next, the incredible tale of a monster
called Ogopogo that just might exist in a lake in British Columbia. Lake Okanagan in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
For centuries, it has been the reputed home of a mysterious water beast that resembles a sea serpent.
The lake is 79 miles long and in some places 800 feet deep-- a lot of room for a monster to make itself at home.
In the 1700s, local Indians called the beast the Naitaka, or lake demon. They often sacrificed small animals
to appease the creature. 300 years later, many locals still believe that the sea monster is real.
They've even given it a new name-- Ogopogo. I saw it back in 1937. We were facing the lake at the time
and there's this head of something or other swimming around out there and we were all convinced
that it was the Ogopogo. Very big. It was very scary. About two feet out of the water, the head part--
and the head itself was round. And then the kind of a neck part went down in the water
and it had a great big long tail. All you could see was just a little bit of a hump, sort of,
just coming out of the splashes and stuff. And it went on for a little bit, and we saw it
and then we didn't know what to do. And then it just went back in And then it went under, so we just
got out of there because we were, like, scared in a canoe. DENNIS FARINA: Hundreds of sightings of Ogopogo
have been reported, but no film footage was ever captured until 1968. That year, Art Folden and his wife
were driving next to the lake when they noticed something strange. We had seen something in the lake near the shore
and I said, hey, look, just jokingly, there's Ogopogo. I said, I want to stop and see if I can get a picture.
I stopped filming every time it dove under the water. And as it reappeared, I began to film again.
Yeah, that's Ogopogo, I tell you. ART FOLDEN: The film shows a dark object diving,
reappearing in a sequence of moves that indicates that it's moving out from shallow water
into deeper water. DENNIS FARINA: The pine trees along the shore are about 25 feet tall.
The dark mass in Art's film is estimated to be 40 feet long. 12 years after the Folden film was made,
a group of vacationers thought they, too, had seen Ogopogo. One of them, Larry Thal, had a home movie camera.
I was taking pictures of the kids and the wife and, bingo, all of a sudden the Ogopogo, supposedly,
or whatever it may have been, appeared on Lake Okanagan and I was right there with my camera.
It was a strange sight in the water. DENNIS FARINA: Played in slow motion, the fall film shows intriguing details.
ARLENE GAAL: Larry's film shows how the animal swims. It shows the speed and the massive waves that it creates.
It actually shows that it has some form of appendage that seems to pop up every now and then.
But the interesting thing, again, is that the animal that Art Folden shot and the animal that Larry Thal shot-- they're
basically the same size. They're very large creatures. And in Larry's film, we're seeing a creature at least 40
to 60 feet from head to tail. No doubt. DENNIS FARINA: Nine years later, 78 year old Clem Chaplin
showed his son, Ken, an inlet where he thought he had seen Ogopogo. Ken took his video camera and staked out the area.
It paid off. What Ken taped was a creature that appeared to be hairless, greenish in color, spotted,
and about 15 feet long-- less than half the size measured in the Folden and Thal films.
KEN CHAPLIN: I saw its features very clearly as being snake- or lizard-like-- no fur or hair--
and you can see the body thrashing behind it. And then brought its tail section out of the water.
Dad and I were stunned into silence. And then Dad turned to me and he said, you know,
if that tail hit a man it'd probably kill him. And I agreed. That was our impression as to size.
It appeared, swimming, parallel to the shore and swam right past us at maybe 60 to 75 feet away.
DENNIS FARINA: Ken's video made headlines. Time magazine and many other newspapers
carried the story of what appeared to be a new Loch Ness type monster. Experts were called in to analyze the video.
It was not a hoax. There was nothing in there that gave us the impression this was fabricated in any way.
It was a live, living animal. The discussion revolved around the two species most likely,
and that is a river otter and a beaver. Ogopogo could exist elsewhere in Okanagan Lake but, in our view,
this particular video was of a beaver. KEN CHAPLIN: You know the largest recorded beaver in the interior is 4 and 1/2 feet long.
Now at 75 to 100 feet away, I just can't see Dad and I being very impressed. On this side, we have a still photograph
taken from the video recording by Mr. Chaplin. On this side, we have a color photograph
of a beaver with its tail held vertically in the air just prior to a tail slap. The two photographs seem, for the most part,
to be mirror images of one another. DENNIS FARINA: Ken disagrees. He says the creature he saw was 15 feet long,
not four feet like a beaver. I've asked myself thousands of times, is there a possibility I could be mistaken,
and I just can't see where I could be. For those who want to call it a beaver, I'll say no way.
An otter, I can't buy it. A miniature Ogopogo, in all probability. DENNIS FARINA: Experts may disagree about Ken's footage,
but there is still no explanation for the 40 foot long creature seen in Art Folden's film
or the similar one churning up a wake in the Larry Thal footage. And hundreds of other sightings attest
to the presence of something unusual in Lake Okanagan. ROBERT LINCOLN: I would be delighted to find that Ogopogo
really existed in Okanagan Lake and I would encourage everybody to keep not only their minds open,
but their eyes open when they're in the Okanagan. Who knows what really exciting wildlife
encounter that they may enjoy. DENNIS FARINA: Is Ogopogo real? Well, the Canadian government thinks so.
It even issued a postage stamp depicting an artist's conception of Ogopogo. Coming up, a renowned forensic scientist
helps identify a murder victim from just a few bone fragments. I told you before you had no right--
DENNIS FARINA: A bitter argument erupts on the streets of Covington, Kentucky. Because that's our money.
DENNIS FARINA: After a night of drinking, Diane Washer and her husband, Jimmy, are at it again.
I'm so tired of fighting with you about this. Look, there are two names on that account--
your name and my name-- and that makes it our money. TODD KENNER: Diane Washer and Jimmy Washer, that evening,
were fighting over money and fighting over the fact that she had just received a $10,000 SSI
settlement due to her bed back. As he approached her and they got into an argument,
she struck him with the phone, on the payphone called 911, and, by the time the Covington police got there,
Jimmy Washer had already left. You called? Yeah. DENNIS FARINA: Diane disappeared and police immediately
questioned her husband, Jimmy. Jimmy Washer was my number one suspect, primarily because he
hadn't reported her missing. OFFICER: And eyes straight forward, feet on the floor
in front of you. CHARLES VALLANDINGHAM: And I had asked Mr. Washer if he would consent to taking a polygraph in reference
to his wife. Yes. OFFICER: Did you cause the death of Diane Washer? No. CHARLES VALLANDINGHAM: The test was ruled inconclusive
because some of what he was answering was truthful, some wasn't. There wasn't enough credibility to his answers to totally
erase Mr. Washer as a suspect. DENNIS FARINA: Three years passed. Outside of Covington, deputies searching
for an illegal marijuana field came across something else. Looks like a skull. DENNIS FARINA: A crushed human skull
and seven other bone fragments were found in a creek bed. Covington police brought in Emily Craig,
one of the country's leading experts in forensic anthropology. EMILY CRAIG: From here, it looks like blunt force trauma.
I was able to determine that the bones hadn't been there that long. The end of the long bone still had some remnants
of soft tissue, and the bones had kind of a greasy feel, which indicates the post-mortem interval really
hasn't been that many years. And my initial estimate of the time since death was between 12 and 36 months.
There's another one. There's another one. Oh, look, there's bones all over the place.
EMILY CRAIG: We did a line search of the area. We started where the bones had been found
and basically worked upstream. Once we got all the evidence back to the lab, then we were able to get a better biological profile
of the victim. She was female, she was white, just a little over 5 feet tall, and I also was able to determine from the bones of the skull
that she had sustained massive head trauma at the time of death. There was one particular bone that was intriguing,
and that was a bone from her lower back. This particular bone showed a lot more arthritis.
Some bony lipping and changes that were just not consistent with the rest of the skeleton.
So I was able to offer an opinion that this individual suffered from back pain. DENNIS FARINA: From their missing person's files,
police find a match for the profile-- Diane Washer. Shortly before she vanished, Diane injured her back
in a traffic collision. LISA BAYNUM: When they called me and said they found my mom,
I totally went into shock. I mean I kind of knew she was dead by that point, but like I said, I carried on hope.
Being able to bury her was great. It did help a lot. DENNIS FARINA: When the discovery of Diane's remains
was made public, an informant came forward. He said a local house painter, Larry Freeman,
was responsible for Diane's death. This is Diane Washer right here. DENNIS FARINA: When police brought in Freeman
for questioning, he confessed. He said he and Diane got drunk together and then went joyriding.
He lost control of the car and Diane was ejected from the passenger seat. When the vehicle finally came to a stop, he ran back to her,
saw that her hair was blood soaked, and realized he had probably killed her. It was at that point that he took her down to an area
where he was raised, where he fell comfortable in, threw her into the creek. DENNIS FARINA: Larry Freeman pleaded guilty to manslaughter
and received a 20 year sentence. This mystery is just one of hundreds that Dr. Craig has helped solve.
But some of her cases cannot be closed without additional information, and maybe you can help.
Barren County, Kentucky. What's this? DENNIS FARINA: It all began when two teenagers were returning
home from exploring caves. Some kind of bones. Oh, that's a human bone. DENNIS FARINA: In a roadside dump,
they discovered fragments of a human skeleton. The county coroner called Dr. Craig to the scene.
Basically, all we had when we first started was a pair of red jeans with the human leg bone still inside.
OK. Here's the fibula. I see another arm bone and shin bone. Dr. Craig, I think I found the skull.
EMILY CRAIG: The skull is the best indicator of race and sex. You look at the brow ridge, you look at the nose,
you look at the chin, the cheeks-- just the general shape. DENNIS FARINA: The victim was a white female in her early 40s.
Cut marks on one of the bones indicated she might have been stabbed to death. EMILY CRAIG: Let's start collecting this.
Left tennis shoe or a sneaker-- whatever you want to call it. DENNIS FARINA: Dr. Craig hoped that the victim's clothes might
match a description in one of the local police departments' missing persons files.
When I got these remains back to the lab, I was able to do a very detailed study
and within a very short time I found a file that almost exactly matched. Age, race, sex, height, time since death
were indicative but absolutely positive were the fact that this victim was wearing red jeans, white tennis shoes, and a button
down blouse. DENNIS FARINA: The victim was 42 year old Nancy Daddysman. Before she disappeared two years earlier,
she had lost custody of her five children in a bitter divorce. Heartbroken, she had come to Kentucky for a fresh start.
Nancy vanished after her car broke down in Bowling Green. BARNEY JONES: She was planning to travel on I-65 North
to meet a male friend of hers in the Indianapolis, Indiana area. We was able to verify that it was not
possible that he would be a suspect as far as this case is concerned. DENNIS FARINA: The hillside, where
Nancy's remains were found, was 30 miles from where she was last seen. Police believe that only someone familiar with this part
of Kentucky would choose this place for her body. EMILY CRAIG: Identifying the victim is the first step
in solving the crime. We've done this first step. Now, we have to find out who did it.
DENNIS FARINA: Update. There are new developments in this case. Here's one of our staff with details.
STAFF MEMBER: The 10 year mystery of Nancy Daddysman's death received a major break recently
when an inmate already serving time in Indiana for another murder confessed he had
killed Nancy Daddysman as well. David M. bell told authorities he was high on methamphetamine
when he picked Nancy up in his car, struck her with a pipe, stabbed her, and dumped her body.
Bell is currently serving a 65 year sentence for his previous murder conviction.
Molly! DENNIS FARINA: Coming up, a young lifeguard disappears in broad daylight, and her mother believes she was
face to face with her abductor. Warren, Massachusetts. Population-- 4,800. For the Bish family, it was the perfect getaway
from the urban violence of their old Detroit neighborhood. MAGI BISH: My husband and I thought,
let's move to the country and find our peace and raise our children. DENNIS FARINA: Molly Bish was only a year old
when her family moved here. 15 years later, she landed her first real job as a lifeguard
at a nearby pond. MAGI BISH: Molly was very proud to be a lifeguard. She worked hard for that, and she did get this position
at the Warren Pond. It's a beautiful location but it's surrounded by woods and it is somewhat isolated.
DENNIS FARINA: It was Molly's seventh day on the job, and her mother Magi drove her to work.
[phone rings] Three hours later, she received an alarming phone call. No, she's not.
She's at work. MAGI BISH: I got a phone call from the local police who said that there had been no lifeguard all day,
and that Molly's belongings were on the beach, but there had been no Molly. DENNIS FARINA: Magi rushed to the pond.
She found her daughter's sandals, chair, and lunch sitting on the beach, but there was no sign of Molly.
Molly! JOHN BISH: It's hard for me to describe that sinking, hollow feeling you have as divers are looking
for your daughter, as dogs are combing the woods, and police officers are searching
and interviewing people. And I almost immediately began to think that something really horrible happened.
RONALD SYRIAC: There were no clues left behind. Molly's chair, her lunch bag, her first aid kit,
and the two-way police radio was just right there, intact, undisturbed. So we had no clues, whatsoever.
DENNIS FARINA: Magi was convinced her daughter had been abducted. And suddenly, she realized that she may
have seen the man responsible. It was at the pond the day before Molly disappeared.
MAGI BISH: We pull up at the pond and there's a vehicle parked in the parking lot
right next to our car. There's a man sitting in there smoking. I look at this man-- he doesn't nod or greet me.
I just felt uneasy. I did not want to leave Molly with this man. Molly DENNIS FARINA: Magi escorted Molly all the way down
to the beach and expected the stranger in a late model white car to be gone when she got back.
MAGI BISH: Lo and behold, I think I've been gone a reasonable time. But this man who is in this vehicle is still there.
I'm very upset that he's still there, so I lock eyes with him. I am giving him a stare, trying, I guess,
to maybe scare him away. He returns the stare and just boldly stares at me, just cocky as all.
He just squinted his eyes and he stared at me and just kept smoking and he didn't seem to
DENNIS FARINA: Care. Fearing for her daughter's safety, Magi waited for the man to leave.
The following day, Magi, once again, went with her daughter to the swimming hole.
This time, the man was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was a truck unloading sand for the beach.
MAGI BISH: When I seen the truck, I realized that they are businessmen in town and I felt that I could leave Molly and it would be OK.
DENNIS FARINA: But Magi never saw Molly again. The police investigation focused on the man in the white car.
The sand truck driver had seen a similar car in the parking lot just moments before Molly and Magi arrived.
On the other side of the pond is a cemetery. A worker there also saw a white car later that same morning.
A path leads from the graveyard to the swimming hole. JOHN BISH: And it's my fear that this person parked that path,
went to the pond, and had taken Molly through that path into his car and out of the cemetery
and down the road. DENNIS FARINA: A composite sketch based on Magi's description produced no solid leads.
Desperate for information, Magi and her husband took action. MAGI BISH: We came up with the idea-- an email chain would be
a wonderful, explosive way to make more than one person get this picture and keep sharing it with others.
DENNIS FARINA: 35,000 people were emailed pictures of Molly. A website devoted to finding her received thousands of hits.
But a year passed and there wasn't a single lead. Magi contacted sketch artist Jeanne
Boylan, who had worked on the Unabomber and Polly Klaas cases. Jeanne agreed to try to create a more accurate drawing
of the man in the white car. JEANNE BOYLAN: When Magi came in to work with me, what I tried to do and what she was willing to do,
was to talk about the positive aspects of her relationship with her daughter, which were plentiful.
When she finally could fit into my shoes-- JEANNE BOYLAN: It'll allow for that sense of relaxation,
and then with that comes new information. DENNIS FARINA: For nine hours, the two women chatted as Jeanne
carefully sketched a portrait. Finally, the drawing was complete. But Magi still felt that there was something missing.
And the way he held that cigarette the whole time. JEANNE BOYLAN: I stayed up fairly late that night
using my own hand as a model, creating the image of the hand holding the cigarette
and then added that to the drawing. And I think that was just the finishing touch that really
brought everything into focus. Well, what do you think? When I saw the completed picture with the cigarette,
I thought, instant fear. I mean, it was him. You know, the eyes-- it was his cockiness, it was his look.
JOHN BISH: We want this person to know that we will never stop searching for her, and that will
never stop searching for him. I'm very angry, and that anger is going to drive me on forever.
I will stop. DENNIS FARINA: Update. Three years after Molly Bish disappeared, her remains were found about five miles from Warren Pond.
This case is currently open and active. There are no suspects, but there are several persons of interest.
There is a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever took the life of Molly Bish.
San Antonio, Texas. On a previous program, we brought you the intriguing legend of the Alamo treasure.
In 1836, as Texas fought for her independence from Mexico, 189 men made a courageous stand against 6,000 well-trained
Mexican soldiers at the Alamo. Some believe that at the height of the battle, the defenders hid a cache of gold and silver
at the bottom of a well. FRANK BUSCHBACHER: The only way they preserve it is to all stick together and fight the battle out
to whatever outcome it had. The reason why it's remained there is because everybody died
DENNIS FARINA: Ground radar testing in the plaza of the Alamo confirmed the presence of something about 13 feet underground.
Frank Buschbacher believed he had located the long lost treasure. After obtaining permission from the city council,
Buschbacher and a team of archaeologists began digging in front of the monument.
A week later, four feet beneath the surface of the courtyard, they found fragments of Native American pottery,
the bones of butchered animals, and primitive cooking utensils. Each relic had to be carefully unearthed
and then properly catalogued. THOMAS GUDERJAN: While we haven't been able to move
as quickly as we ever originally intended to, the reason is a very good reason-- because we found
something no one expected to find here, and that's intact 18th century materials.
DENNIS FARINA: These items are a valuable treasure in themselves-- rare artifacts that help piece together
a history of the Alamo from the 1750s up to the final battle nearly a century later.
THOMAS GUDERJAN: Here, we have grapeshot. We think this is from the actual battle.
We also have this that looks like it is the headpiece to a Mexican soldier's hat.
This would signify his unit and that sort of thing, and this may well be part of a saber from the battle.
DENNIS FARINA: As the archaeologists inched closer and closer to the unidentified object on their radar screen,
their spirits were lifted by the discoveries they had already made. But optimism turned to disappointment.
They found no trace of any treasure. Yet some remain convinced that it still exists somewhere
deep between the Alamo. Next, the I-70 serial killer. He's quick and he's deadly, and he may be
responsible for nine murders. Someone is murdering young women in the Midwest along Interstate 70.
The authorities need your help to stop him. 26 year old Robin Fuldauer of Indianapolis, Indiana
wanted more than anything to marry and start a family. But that would never happen.
Robin was found shot to death at the store where she worked. 23 year old Patricia Smith and 32 year old Patricia Magers
worked side-by-side at a bridal shop in Wichita, Kansas. Just three days after Robin Fuldauer was murdered,
both women were shot to death in the back room of the shop. Three weeks later, 24 year old Nancy Kitzmiller
of St. Charles, Missouri was shot to death in the boot store where she worked as a manager.
Four murders in three different states, separated by more than 1,200 miles. At first glance, they seem to be random killings.
Yet, each took place at a shopping mall just off Interstate 70. Coincidence or something more sinister?
Raytown, Missouri-- another link in the deadly chain. The Woodson Village shopping center, near an access road
to Interstate 70. At 6:30 PM, a local auctioneer noticed a stranger walking into his auction house.
He looked around briefly and then walk out again. Tim Hickman, who owned a video store,
watched the man cross the parking lot and pass by his store. Minutes later, Tim heard a gunshot.
He reach his front door just as the man was disappearing around the corner. A grocery clerk also saw the stranger
as he climbed the embankment to an Interstate 70 access road and vanished. Meanwhile, Tim Hickman went next door to the gift shop.
I kind of looked in through the door, and I didn't see anything, and I was calling, ma'am, ma'am.
And I stepped forward a couple more steps and then I see legs sticking out of the other room.
DENNIS FARINA: Saray Blessing lay lifeless in a pool of blood. Police believe that the Raytown tragedy
was connected to the earlier shopping mall killings. A multi-state task force was set up.
Lab tests confirmed that all five women were killed by the same gun-- most likely a semi-automatic .22 caliber
pistol. That gun was also linked to the murder of 40 year old Michael McCown of Terre Haute, Indiana.
He had been killed in a shopping mall ceramic store near Interstate 70. There were now six victims.
The most promising lead came from the murders of Patricia Smith and Patricia Magers
at the bridal shop in Wichita. Hi, can I help you? Stay calm. What do you want? Stay calm.
Let's just walk to the back room. I've got money. Do you want money? Anything you want.
Don't move. Are you the only one here? - Yes Is there anybody else here? - No, nobody else here. - Where's your cash register?
It's over there. You can have whatever you want, just-- Just go in the back room.
Just going to tie you up, all right? You have the money. Just do what he says. [gunshots]
DENNIS FARINA: Police did get one good description of the killer. It was from a customer who walked in just minutes
after the two women had been murdered. Anybody here? Hey. Hey, man, I don't know what's going on here but I--
Wait a minute. I want you to come in the back room with me. Look, man, I can't go in the--
What are you doing? I told you to come in the back room. I can't come in the back room.
I just want to get out of here. I didn't see nothing. I don't know nothing that's going on here.
I just-- I just want to-- Shut up and get the hell out of here then, and don't call the cops.
DENNIS FARINA: Using the customer's description and other eyewitness accounts, a police
artist created this aged composite of what he may look like today. The suspect is between 5 feet 5 inches
and 5 feet 9 inches tall. He would now be in his late 40s or early 50s. The suspect is described as neatly dressed and clean cut.
He appeared to be almost in a trance, as if he were thinking about something else.
RICH PLUMMER: It's important for the audience to know that a serial killer never stops.
They may stop for a period of time, but they never stop completely and they will always start up again.
DENNIS FARINA: There were three other additional murders in Texas that police believe were
the work of the same killer, bringing the total number of victims to nine. If you have any information about the I-70 killer
or any of the other cases we've profiled, please log on to our website at unsolved.com.

This, Episode includes: Suicide Homicide, Ogo Pogo, Dr. Craig, Forensic Woman, Lifeguard Missing, Update: Alamo Treasure and I-70 Killer.

Brief Summary

The episode covers Rae Ann Mossor's suspicious death, Ogopogo sightings, Diane Washer's identification, and Molly Bish's disappearance.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Rae Ann Mossor. A young woman's death is ruled a suicide, but her parents believe otherwise.
The Legend of Ogopogo. Sightings of a sea monster in British Columbia spark intrigue and debate.
Diane Washer's Tragic End. A woman's remains are found, leading to the confession of a local painter.
The Mystery of Nancy Daddysman. Nancy Daddysman vanished after a car breakdown, leading to a tragic discovery two years later.
Molly Bish's Disappearance. A young lifeguard disappears on her seventh day of work, sparking a frantic search.
The I-70 Serial Killer. A series of murders along Interstate 70 raises alarms as authorities connect the dots.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

What do I have to do to prove my love to you-- kill myself?

Rae Ann's last words to her boyfriend before leaving.

2:25WatchMar 9, 2017

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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