Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 10 | Forensic Files

[Music] next on Unsolved Mysteries FBI agents go undercover to nail a Colombian drug
cartel one can I help you a rockstar makes a desperate call to 911 and then disappears what happened to Taylor
Kramer a prominent surgeon is found dead in his garage it looks like suicide but
his mother looks closer and finds evidence of murder in Mexico City every year thousands prayed to the image of Our
Lady of Guadalupe was this painting created by a miracle our team continues to track
crimes wanted fugitives and tales of the Paranormal perhaps you can help I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
Mysteries [Music] [Music] he in the South American country of Colombia a life and death struggle has
been raging for decades it's a battle over drugs and drugs mean money and power here drug cartels have made
terrorism and political assassination a way of life their violent influence is felt around the world especially in the
US the cartels the leaders of the cartels the members of the cartels in South America and their representatives in the
United States are particularly vicious there is no premium on human life these people make the mafia look
like Boy Scouts they are totally violent they will kill almost for the sake of killing nearly 80% of the world's
cocaine comes from Colombia and and the drug lords and to keep it that way to fight the cartels the FBI initiated one
of the riskiest sting operations in history the impact of that investigation continues to this
day during the late 1980s drug Runners sought out the latest communication devices especially ones that could not
be traced FBI agents set up a small shop called ra Communications that specialized in electronics
their first customers were quick to arrive have some information on youren PHS okay well we sell and service
cellular phones we also service beepers and sell beepers the receptionist Sandy and the manager Jay were both highly
trained FBI agents okay these gentlemen would like to know about our well do me a favor take messages
okay the drug Runners came asking for the latest in car phones shift toore radios beepers remote phones and
airplane telecommunication devices we did everything we could to provide them if I so doing of course we knew how
they were operating we knew what frequencies they were operating on and it gave us the leg
up word on the street was that ra Communications had the best in untraceable phones the drug Runners
began to trust the people who work there this is the topof the line state of the
art unit we held ourselves out as being a service component of the drug business
uh we made it attractive for them to remain talk Converse and that became a place to congregate it took on an AA of
a clubhouse type of effect our clientele probably 6 months into the operation was
entirely drug traffickers soon major players in the drug World began to drop into the ra
Clubhouse one of them was a Colombian national named Jesus penol a man who handled regular shipments of cocaine
worth as much as $50 million Jesus came to trust the undercover agents and Cooperative
parties working in ra Communications he brayed that he had been involved in some violent incidents
in Columbia South America talked about his desire to flood the United States with cocaine he freely discussed with us
the movement from Columbia South America through the Bahamas and into the United
States inside the clubhouse penel felt safe enough to make drug deals using the company phone
[Music] P's drug buddies began to join him it was not uncommon to see three different
drug dealers doing business at the same time one of those traffickers was cartel
operative Julio Marco Cruz Julio Julio Marco Cruz was a customer a purchaser someone who was going to
receive in excess of 100 kilos of cocaine The Plan called for a large shipment of cocaine to be delivered to
the United States on a boat called the tremolo the FBI had just enough time to alert the coast
guardes when the tremolo entered us Waters they moved in kill your engine once you and your crew to step to the
far side of the boat we'll come on board under the tremolo floorboards agents discovered over 800 lb of cocaine the
street value nearly $40 million the next day crew showed up at ra Communications with his
bodyguards amazingly he seemed to know nothing about the tremolo capture J made a quick decision to keep his cover
intact he told crw about the drug bust on the tremolo I read it in the paper bro Cruz was Furious but he never
suspected that the men who had told him about the bust were in fact responsible for it he continued to use the same
telephones that he had used before and the FBI continued to gather information it appeared as if the RAS
thing might go on indefinitely hi true but things got tense when Jesus began forcing himself on Sandy the FBI feared
that Sandy and the other agents might be at risk the agents who are involved in undercover activity are exposed to
potential danger at any given time if if the circumstances were different okay and really we very closely reviewed and
evaluated with the FBI headquarters and the other agencies who participated that
uh we had accomplished a great deal in was the appropriate time uh to bring forward the matters to uh a prosecutive
phase 18 months after they began their operation the FBI brought charges against nearly 100 drug traffickers ra
Communications was shut down we had a significant amount of arrest to undertake we had a very detailed plan of
the 93 people indicted throughout the United States we were able to apprehend 68 some people
Julio Marco Cruz The Mastermind behind the tremolo drug run was sentenced to 17 years for drug trafficking he has since
been released but his boss is still at large Jesus's Peno ver shown here in his 30s is now in his 50s he is 6t tall and
weighs 165 lb he uses the Alias surnames of Gomez paramina and GTO he is considered armed and very
dangerous if you have any information please log on to our website at uno.com coming up a doctor is found dead in his
car it looked like suicide until the victim's mother proves it was murder Los Angeles California just relax
officer you have to help me my husband he's got a gun police are called to the home of Dr Ted losf by his frightened
wife WIA she tells officers that Ted is armed WIA is there with the Lo's housekeeper and Edward J a family friend
all right all right get the CL Ted Ted doesn't answer and there is no sign of him anywhere in the
house it was in the garage that officers finally found the body of Dr Ted losf the car was running the victim was
behind the wheel and this hose was in the tail pipe two authorities at the scene the evidence of suicide was
overwhelming and there was no further investigation no fingerprints were taken no autopsy was performed and no
questions were asked they found him in his car in the garage it had to be suicide it wasn't until a little later
when things began to become so suspicious that I wondered about it of all people in the world Ted was not one
to take his life zel says the discrepancies finally became clear to her in a dream I saw a garage filled with lots
and lots of boat equipment cartons of boxes and I realized I was at Ted's Garage and I knew that to put his car
there he had to move the things that were in that garage Ted had back surgery it was
impossible for him physically and then I saw the gates these great big double old iron
gates in Her Dream zel remembered that the driveway gates were damaged and difficult to open TED had always parked
in front of the house to zel the implications of the dream were clear and disturbing the suicide had been staged
her son had been [Music] murdered but zel's suspicions alone were not enough to get the case reopened she
decided to track down her son's former housekeeper who will call Mary hello yes I'm zel and I've been looking for the
housekeeper who worked for my son Ted oh Mrs mph the following reenactments are based on Mary's sworn testimony at a
Coroner's inquest oh that's okay I hope your wife isn't angry that I wasn't here
earlier Mary says that on the day that Ted died she arrived around 10:00 a.m. Ted announced that he was divorcing his
wife wilda and that Wilder would not be staying at the house but around 2:00 she came in she she parked her car
directly in front of the door and then she went right upstairs and then a few minutes later I
heard all this screaming and yelling what in the world is going on Dr let her go you got your money back he's got a
gun I'm scared do you have a gun Dr La just crazy and I said if you want me to continue to work with you you'll have to
talk to my husband so he paid me for my work and I got in my car and I drove down the
street and this there was Mrs Lon Mrs Lon what are you doing oh my God Mary what am I going to do I can't go
back there and then she asked me if she could go with me and I said well yes so I drove
home she kept insisting that Dr lph had a gun so I called the police no officer no I'm not the wife well she said that
he had a gun he had a gun I saw gun she insists that he has a gun why don't you come talk to him they told me that they
couldn't go over there if I hadn't seen a gun and I hadn't seen it thank you [Music]
officer I'm going to call Dr lph Mary says that she tried to call Ted at least 20 times between 3: and 8:00 p.m. every
time the line was visy at last Mary got through it's ringing finally no one's answering I'm going to call the police
again within the hour police had found Ted's body they suspected that Ted had killed himself the discovery of a note
in the upstairs bedroom bolstered their Theory however to Mary it was the first of several alarming
discrepancies I always thought that that note on the Shir cardboard was kind of strange because I had been ironing Dr
lus of shirts for a long time and I always used a hanger I never used a shirt cardboard what are you saying as she
stared at Ted's body Mary realized that something else was very wrong when I last saw him he was wearing
brown pants and a kind of a mustard shirt and now he had on gray pants and a dress shirt
and do you know that whole time that I worked there after Dr losf died I never once saw those brown pants and that
mustard colored shirt that he was wearing the last time I saw him the discrepancies became impossible
to ignore in the kitchen Mary found several empti beer cans and four dirty glasses Ted rarely
drank Mrs lawon can you come here a minute please a week later Mary found odd stains on a bed spread in the guest
room looks like vomit oh uh yes this is this is the dog's vomit they were sick last night
however Mary remembers the dogs being in a kennel at that time later when she washed the bed spreads the areas where
the supposed dog vomit was had completely disintegrated [Music] after hearing the housekeeper many
stories I knew there was fou play and something terrible happened to Ted and that I had to find
out there was evidence of food fiber in the Brony of the lungs 4 years after her
son's death zel finally won a legal battle to have Ted's body exhumed for an autopsy the pathologist found clear
evidence that Ted had suffered a violent vomiting spell moments before his death
there should have been vomitous on his clothing his face and perhaps on the inside of the car gas why wasn't it
there this certainly strongly suggests to me that this vomiting occurred someplace other than in the car and
there were a number of discrepancies that have never been explained but that very strongly move away from the whole
thought of suicide this until proven otherwise as a homicide fueled by the autopsy results
zul pieced together a theory explaining her son's death a scenario of premeditated
murder zel believes that Ted was assaulted soon after wilda and Mary left the house I believe that the people that
killed my son were close to the wife because they knew that that back door would be
open the autopsy indicated that Ted had been involved in a struggle zel believes
that he was overpowered by at least two men who forced poison down his throat T was definitely fighting for his life
according to the doctors somebody took the phone off after they made sure he was dead then
they uh cleaned them up and they put his gray dress shirt on him then they went to the garage emptied
out the garage to make room for the car then they had to open the gates to put his car into this garage carry his
dead body into that that garage close the door and then go out and close the gate then they went back into the house
I think again put the receiver back on the hook finally all afternoon Mary had been getting busy
signals when she tried to call Ted and now the phone was suddenly ringing zel believes that hanging up the phone was a
pre-arranged signal from The Killers to wilda that their job was done 8 years after Ted's death the LA
County coroner reopened the case a witness told authorities that the so-called suicide note had indeed been
written by Ted but the witness also revealed that Ted wrote the message 2 years before his death after an argument
with wil you have responsibility to me as a wife the coroner's inquest rule that Ted's death was a homicide but
before police could investigate Ted's wife Wilder died of a drug and alcohol overdose investigators are stumped it
looks like someone may have gotten away with murder if you have any information regarding this case please log on to our
website at unsolved.com next former Rockstar Taylor Kramer makes a desperate phone call going to kill
myself and then disappears Los Angeles California one can I help you yes you can I'm going to kill
myself okay what is your name hello his name was Philip Taylor Kramer right after making that 9/11 call
he disappeared his wife and the police are still trying to understand why Philip known to his friends as
Taylor was a bass player for the rock band Iron Butterfly during the 1970s by the 1990s Taylor had settled
down with his wife Jennifer and their two children Taylor was also a math and computer whiz who founded his own
high-tech multimedia company for several weeks before his disappearance he had been working around the clock on a new
breakthrough project is it I know he said it's very simple it's been here the whole time it's so simple that no one
has discovered it you can't believe how close I am right now and he said imagine
Jennifer a computer and a camera being able to find a missing child in a sea of thousands of people by just showing the
computer a small piece of that child's face and finding that child in a fraction of a
second to his wife Jennifer Taylor's Behavior seemed to grow more and more bizar sweetheart the hand of God has
touched me Taylor calm down you're going to twist I can do no [Music] wrong he's sending me the truth babe the
day before he disappeared we went on a hike and we hiked up to the top of a hill and we look across and you can see
the whole valley where we live and there's a cross up on the hill and he pointed to the cross and he said look
honey our house is right in the path of this cross he started to see sacredness in
everything like I said they're coming in 11 the day after the hike Taylor left home around 900 a.m. he planned to pick
up friends who were flying into town Taylor went to the airport as scheduled but left before his friends
arrived from his car he made a series of phone calls including one to Ron bushy the drummer for Iron
Butterfly I love you more than life itself his voice sounded stressed um he sounded maybe like scared maybe he' even
been crying I don't know but apparently this cell phone call from his car was made to
me um and he also called Jennifer and a lot of other people hi Jenny listen uh tell
Greg tell Greg I'm not going to be able to meet him at the airport he'll understand okay and I said
Taylor where are you where are you going what are you doing sweetheart I want you to remember that
whatever happens I'll always be with you and I started to get scared and I thought something is wrong with Taylor
and I said where are you going you just tell him that uh I'll meet him at the hotel at 1: okay and and really calmly
and lovingly like he normally talks to me he said and when I see you honey I have a big surprise for
you but I knew in my gut that Taylor wasn't going to be at the hotel I I just knew that he wouldn't be
there 1 hour later Taylor Made his last contact the call to 911 some one can I help you yes you can I'm going to kill
myself okay what is your name hello hello it's really hard to commit suicide and take your life and and disappear I
somebody's going to find you somebody's going to find the car and the the car and himmer
gone no car nobody Taylor's family was left wondering what happened and why update 4 years after Taylor's
disappearance two hikers exploring Decker canyon near Malibu Beach discovered the Rusted shell of his van
Taylor's remains were inside the cause of death was blunt force trauma but authorities cannot determine whether his
death was a suicide accident or homicide if you have any information about what happened to Philip Taylor
Kramer please log on to our website at UNS south.com next some believe this portrait of Our
Lady of Guadalupe is a miracle and this infared scan may prove them right [Music]
Mexico City Mexico these people are on a pilgrimage to worship before painting that has been
a source of inspiration and awe for more than 400 years the image is that of the
Virgin Mary known here as Our Lady of Guadalupe this image has sparked intense controversy to Skeptics it is a skillful
but ordinary painting the Catholic Church on the other hand has officially recognized the image as a creation of
God a miracle that occurred over 300 years ago in Mexico the debate continues to this
day according to church records one of the first Aztecs to be converted to Christian it was a man named Juan Diego
he lived in a village just north of Mexico City on a December morning in 1531 Juan was on his way to mass when he
heard a voice calling his [Music] name he became entranced by the Godlike Radiance Quan
[Music] certain that he had experienced a miracle Juan hurried to Mexico City to
bring the news to the powerful Bishop Juan de Z [Music] Mora the bishop was skeptical and told
one to bring him proof dejected Juan returned home where he found that his uncle was
dying the next day Juan went to find a priest to perform last rights his route took him back to teepe oill
[Music] [Music] to's amazement even though it was Winter the hilltop was covered in beautiful
roses he ga them in his cape made of cactus [Music] cloth according to church documents
where the flowers had rested in the cape there appeared a perfect image of the Virgin Mary the bishop now believed that
a miracle had occurred and agreed to build the shrine today the shrine stands on teepak hill
with the image of the Virgin on prominent display the painting was named Our Lady of Guadalupe after a village in
Spain over the centuries the church has allowed painted details to be added to the portrait including gold Rays all
around the figure every year 5 million Believers make a pilgrimage to view the image but
for as long as it has existed there has been debate over whether the portrait is
truly a miracle in 1789 a skeptical priest ordered 11 artists to make a copy of the
painting using the same kind of untreated Cactus cloth as the original after only 7 years all 11 were so peeled
and coated with fungus that they had to be removed from public display I think that the fact that the
images lasted for over four almost 500 years now the fact that the original picture the pigment on the original
picture is still just like it always was and hasn't cracked is another totally inexplicable
thing in modern times experts were given formal permission to examine the image up close naturally enough We examined
the face most uh intensely and uh studying this with the magnifying glass we could see no hairline cracks whatever
the medium used to color it was uh it's very strange because after all of these years with no evidence of retouching uh
there's no evidence of of uh age disfiguration in fact the gold Grays around the Virgin added in the 17th
century are badly chipped but the original image is not still that wasn't enough to convince the
Skeptics it's gone through so many changes over the years of CHS and so many different representations have been
made of it and for it it is really hard to tell what happened to the original or
if this is the original you can't tell there's really so little evidence available these infrared photographs
reveal another surprising aspect of the painting the film photographs the infrared photographs showed that there
is absolutely no drawing under it uh it's inconceivable that an artist in the 16th century would paint a portrait
without first doing a drawing of it in fact it's fairly inconceivable any artist would do it today although you
could do it with some Modern Art thing but not with a portrait the absence of the unders
sketch in itself does not categorically uh indicate a miracle but the paint uh as beautiful a face and and bust as we
see in Our Lady of Guadalupe on a rough Cactus cloth is all the more remarkable perhaps no amount of
scientific research will unlock the mystery of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the True Believers there is no controversy
to them the beautiful face of the Virgin Mary is purely and simply miraculous up next a father and a
daughter reunite after 20 years thanks to your calls recently we told you the story of sun
van win who immigrated to America from Vietnam with his family in 1993 soon had come both to start a new
life and to complete some unfinished business from his old one Sun's first visit to America was in
1968 at the height of the Vietnam War as a South Vietnamese officer soon was sent
to a US Air Force base in Louisiana for Jet Pilot training during his stay there soon fell
in love with a woman named gwendelyn gotier but with his training complete he was sent back to Vietnam to fight for
his country a few months after his return he received a letter from America gwendolin
was pregnant I'm going to be a b hey do that J do that [Music] coming back from a tense Mission and
hearing the good news I was so happy at that moment 5 years later soon was sent to
Louisiana once again he met his daughter Kimberly for the first time and I looked at her and knew right
away that this was my child cell this is soon soon soon was able to spend a whole
month with Kimberly before he had to return to Vietnam and the war after the war ended sun was captured and
imprisoned for nearly 10 years in what was known as a re-education camp another 10 years passed before he finally made
it to America but soon never stopped thinking of the little girl that he had left behind so long ago and on our
program he asked if someone in our audience could help reunite them update the night this story aired we
received calls from Kimberly's friends and family Kimberly had been searching for her father and was thrilled at the
idea of seeing him again they met in Pineville Louisiana soon and his American sponsor traveled
there for the long awaited reunion with Kimberly it was their first moment together in more than 20
years oh K hi hey oh soon was overcome with emotion it was just you can't describe the feeling
it was just like nice it doesn't doesn't do the feeling justice but it was just incredible
fantastic wonderful great soon then celebrated with 20 members of Kimberly's family including
her mother gwendolin who had always wanted Kimberly to know her father and if it's too long to see them together is
just a dream come true I'm telling you a fairy tale that uh had had some bad detours but it came to a happy ending oh
no that's not fair oh this is a big day happy day he I think I cannot forget it swings
SL yeah in many of our cases we've seen the lives of Ordinary People Change forever
in an instant this next story which begins in dbport Florida is another of these dramatic
stories been out of here 50 did you pack the fruit yes I have the fruit I have everything packed John and Virginia
Constable were packing to visit their daughter Linda in Jacksonville a 3-hour drive
[Music] away they had called uh about 12:15 and Mom said well I guess we're going to be on our way
up and that was the last time I heard a voice over the phone did you call Linda I called her I talked to her just before
we lay up 10 minutes later the constables were still just a few miles from their home heading north on Country
Road 545 just ahead traveling southbound was a pickup truck driven by a house painter
named James White he had been drinking [Music] 8 minutes after the accident the highway
patrol and rescue teams were on the scene John died an impact Virginia was suffering from massive internal injuries
James White had some broken bones but nothing life-threatening I directed my attention
to Mr White who was the single occupant in the pickup truck and he was placed in
the ambulance and I got in the back of the ambulance with him at which time I could smell an odor of alcoholic
beverage I'm Trooper Brewer at Florida Highway Patrol okay I'm on request the test showed a blood alcohol level of 22
more than twice Florida's legal limit of100 white was taken to cim Memorial Hospital
12 miles away Virginia was medac to a Trauma Center in Orlando nearly every organ in her body had been ruptured she
died at the hospital Highway Patrol officers went to the home of John and Virginia's daughter
Linda to deliver the nerves hello Mr vulner yes I'm Sergeant oy with Highway Patrol thank you for
answering our call so soon all right unfortunately I'm here to advise you that Mr and Mrs conable were involved in
a serious accident earlier this afternoon are they all right no ma'am I'm he said that there had been an
automobile accident and there was a fatality are you sure yes sir I'm sure I just
remember asking which one I never dreamed it would have been both to them and after that I don't remember
anything J how you doing bud White had suffered a fractured jaw a broken ankle and three broken ribs he was admitted to
the Intensive Care Unit where his relatives stayed with him day and night 3 days after the accident White's
condition had improved considerably hey where youall going uh just out for a while walk okay visiting hours are over
if you could have him back in 30 minutes no problem okay thanks his family apparently was walking
him a little bit each day and Third Day apparently they kept right on walking James White was gone only later
did authorities discover that he had a long history of drunk driving arrests white and his relatives have not been
seen C update James White has been arrested anything to say Mr White following the
broadcast of Unsolved Mystery we received some 200 phone calls about James White and his whereabouts two days
after the Unsolved Mysteries broadcast we got the phone call we were waiting on James White was spotted by someone who
had seen the program up in Burlington Vermont he was seen in a bar and he was arrested and
taken into custody up there James White pleaded no contest to two counts of DUI manslaughter and was
sentenced to 11 years in prison his license was permanently revoked and he was required to pay
$122,000 to cover burial expenses for John and Virginia Constable white was released from prison after serving 4
years [Music] this mystery was solved with your help but others remain if you have any
information about any cases in this program please log on to our website at unsolved.com
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Brief Summary

FBI agents infiltrate a drug cartel, a surgeon's death is investigated, a rockstar disappears, and a miraculous painting is examined.

Key points

The FBI's Riskiest Sting Operation. The FBI initiated one of the riskiest sting operations in history against drug cartels.
A Mother's Fight for Justice. Zel believes her son Ted was murdered and fights to have his case reopened.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Taylor Kramer. Former rockstar Taylor Kramer makes a desperate call before vanishing without a trace.
The Miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe. A perfect image of the Virgin Mary appeared on cactus cloth, leading to a shrine's construction.
A Long-Awaited Reunion. After 20 years apart, Soon reunites with his daughter Kimberly, filled with emotion.

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They make the mafia look like Boy Scouts.

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