Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 7, Episode 20 | Forensic Files

[Music] Next on Unsolved Mysteries, a college sophomore tries to expose an alleged rape at a fraternity
house. Did it lead to her murder? While on a secret mission, an American pilot is taken prisoner in
Laos. The military says he's dead, but his family is convinced that he survived. After placing an ad for a
roommate, a woman disappears. One week later, her mutilated body is found in a drainage
canal. And the calculated deceptions of a romantic con man leave a string of victims across the
country. These are stories you won't want to miss. I'm Dennis Fina and this is Unsolved Mysteries.
[Music] [Music] Vincens's Indiana. Brooke Baker, a college sophomore, is stabbed to death in her
own bed just a half a block from campus. There are signs of a struggle and massive amounts of blood.
The bathtub is full and the water is running. Police start their investigation certain that the case will
be solved easily. Okay, they're wrong. The right shoulder 1635. To me, the real key in solving this case
is going to be when we answer the question, who was Brooke Baker? And what was there about her life in the last few
years of her life that led up to this extraordinary conclusion? As they began their investigation,
police looked at several suspects. Was it angry fraternity brothers out for revenge? Or a killer posing as a
potential roommate? Some thought it might be Brook's landlord who she said was spying on her. Or maybe there was
someone else who wanted Brooke Baker dead. Brooke Baker had her sight set on a career as a topflight investigative
journalist. I need the photographs. So at Vincent University, she became very active on the school paper. I think one
of the things Brooke really enjoyed was the power that came from being reported on the paper. Uh gave her certainly
recognition and v visibility on campus and I think she enjoyed the attention. Few 19-year-olds make deadly enemies,
but Brooke may have been an exception. She had heard rumors about a date rape at a fraternity party, and she went
after the story aggressively. Are you in a sority? Right. So, would you describe
some of the incidences that happened to you? It would have been very easy to work on the story and have nobody know
about it but members of the staff. But the word was out everywhere, and I think the word was generated from Brooke. I
think she wanted people to know what she was doing. Come on, guys. Brook's investigation was not welcome at the
fraternity where the alleged rape had taken place. You better not write anything about us. You better watch your
back. She didn't worry about who she offended or whose toe she stepped on. If it was the truth, it was the truth.
Fraternity members allegedly started sending Brooke emails threatening her if she ran the rape story. She was
unconcerned, but her mother was worried. I feared for Brook's safety all the time, and I'd question her on it, and
she'd she'd say if it could save one girl from being raped or abused, she was willing to write the story, investigate
the fraternity. Then one night, a truckload of fraternity brothers allegedly confronted
Brooke at a friend's house. You guys Get out of here. Was it conflict between Brooke Baker and
the fraternity that led to her murder? [Applause] Brooke moved into a new house where she
thought she would be safe. The landlord was a campus police officer. Um, do you need any help with the boxes? Oh, no. I
got it. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. She told her parents that she had found him in her house at
all hours of the day and night. What are you doing in my house? No, I'm sorry. You can't just come into my
house. You think I'd have to You have If you're going to If you need to come in here, you would have to call. You can't
come into my house. [Applause] Brooke also said that one time the landlord shined a light through the
windows. Another day, Brook said he came in while she was in the shower. She felt uncomfortable enough that she
told a number of people that she just uh was just generally uncomfortable of the
whole situation. Could an unwanted invasion by Brook's landlord have led to an argument and
murder? Vincens's police also had a third theory. A few days before her death, Brooke had advertised for a
roommate in the campus newspaper. Someone who wants to come over to Brook's house and knock on the door and
say, "Hey, I'm here about your room. I want to be a roommate." What's Brook's natural
reaction going to be in that? Hi. Open the door and let them in. There was no evidence of forced entry.
No sign of a struggle. Perhaps Brooks and led to her murder. The most promising clues were
several samples of DNA. Police interviewed 400 people and tested 52 against those samples, but no match was
found. Brook's parents are left knowing only that their daughter's killer remains
free. I'm obsessed with it. I can't live without justice. for Brooke. I can't go on with my own life.
That's all I can think. I want justice. Update. 2 years after Brook's murder, police got their first break in the
case. However, it came at the cost of another life. When investigators searched the apartment of a missing
Vincens's college student, Erica Norman, they found a crime scene disturbingly similar to Brooks. There was water
running the bathtub, and I knew right then that it was the same person who had committed the the murder of Brooke
Baker. Erica had last been seen leaving a restaurant with a man named Brian Jones.
He was immediately brought in for questioning. When we interviewed Brian Jones, it
turned out that he was a roommate of an individual that was uh seeing Brook Baker at within the last couple weeks of
her death. A DNA match tied Jones to the murder of Brooke Baker. When Erica Norman's body
was found 2 weeks later, Jones struck a plea bargain. He admitted to killing Erica and in exchange prosecutors agreed
not to seek the death penalty in the Brook Baker trial. Brian presented himself to me as
someone that would have not stopped that case stopped a serial killer in my opinion.
Brian Jones was convicted of both murders. He was sentenced to 60 years for killing Erica Norman.
Jones was given an additional 20 years for the rape of Brooke Baker and a life sentence for killing
[Music] her. Next, a woman battles for decades to prove that her husband isn't dead.
He's the last American still a prisoner of the Vietnam War. On a chilly October morning, the family
of Air Force pilot Charles E. Shelton was joined by friends and dignitaries at Arlington National Cemetery. They were
gathered to mourn the death of a true American hero. But it was not Colonel Shelton who was laid to rest that day.
It was his wife, Marianne. Maryannne Shelton had spent the last 25 years of her life fighting
what may be the final battle of the Vietnam War. The battle for the truth about her husband and more than 2,000
other American servicemen missing and unaccounted for since the war ended. Colonel Shelton was shot down
over Laos in the spring of 1965. [Music] For more than 20 years, he was the only
missing serviceman still officially listed as a prisoner of war. According to Charles Shelton's
family, very little effort was made by the US government to actually find Colonel Shelton and bring him home. They
say strong evidence proves that he was still being kept prisoner years after the war came to an end.
Charles Shelton and Maryanne Bulman were high school sweethearts. They were married in 1951 and their family quickly
grew to include five children. [Applause] Now look at the camera. My father and my
mother's relationship, they were very much in love with each other. They were each other's first loves.
Girl, even after 10 years of marriage, it was just real intense. and and he often said that he that she was his
first love and only love and last love. Charles Shelton joined the Air Force in 1954. 8 years later, he was sent to
Saigon to train South Vietnamese pilots. 3 years later, he began flying top secret missions over Laos. In 1965,
Dad was definitely at the peak of his career. He was just about finished with his tour of duty in the secret part of
the war in Indochina. He had been at that time the senior tactical reconnaissance United States Air Force
pilot involved in uh the war in Laos. Laos borders Vietnam on the west. Although Laos was officially neutral
during the war, the North Vietnamese used Laos Oceanian territory as a military staging area. The United States
secretly bombed targets there in numerous missions. In 1965, Charles was stationed in
Okinawa, Japan with his wife and five children, but he was off and gone for weeks at a time.
I'll wait right here till you get back. You better. On April 20th, he said goodbye to Marian
and returned to duty. She never saw him again. This is Grasshopper 32. Come in, Whiskey
Angel. 9 days later, Charles plane was shot down over northern Laos. American planes had made visual and radio
contact, but a change in the weather delayed the rescue. There was a low cloud coverage which
made it impossible for anybody to get in really close and maneuver without a tremendous amount of danger.
There was just no organized rescue in those days. That was 1965. He was shot down. If he was shot down in 1968, at
the place he was shot down at, uh, I think he'd been out of there in uh, an hour and a half.
After avoiding capture for 3 days, Charles luck ran out. Instead of cooperating, Charles let his
body go limp, forcing his captors to carry him. Charles Shelton's defiant resistance would become legendary. He
was tough and he was tenacious, and he just didn't let go. I think that if anyone could survive over there, it'd be
Charlie Shelton. No doubt in my mind. The Air Force officially told Marian Shelton that her husband was a prisoner
of war and returned his personal effects. Inside his foot locker, she found his dog tags and military ID,
which are normally carried by Air Force personnel at all times. Marian also found her husband's camera. The roll of
film inside included this picture shot just before Charles last flight. He was wearing what is known as a sanitized
uniform, devoid of any official insignas. Many years would pass before the Shelton family understood its tragic
implications. If you were captured in Laos, you were never going to come out. The war in Laos was that sensitive that
uh the government was not going to bother with politicizing our presence there by looking for the return of PS or
hostages. And to this date, I don't believe our our government has ever admitted to having troops present in
Laos uh officially. And we've never negotiated for the men in Laos officially. After Marian was told that
her husband had become a prisoner of war, she and the children returned home to Kentucky. While the war dragged on
for eight more years, secondhand news about Charles made its way back to Marian through the military grape vine.
From time to time, pilots would come through from Indochina, and they would come with some news by word of mouth
about dad's situation, tell mom that dad was sick or healthy, uh if he'd been wounded or if he'd escaped again or this
type of thing. Mama kept a lot of that information away from us cuz again, she was afraid that that would hurt us.
And when mama started telling me stories about what had happened to dad, I heard
about him being kept in a shallow grave with bars over it and they poked him trying to keep him awake.
And I couldn't stand to hear about stuff about torture. I have asked for this radio and
television at time tonight for the purpose of announcing that we today have concluded an agreement to end the war
and bring peace with honor in Vietnam. The war in Vietnam officially ended on January 23rd, 1973.
Within 60 days from this Saturday, all Americans held prisoners of war throughout Indochina will be released.
There will be the full all PS would be included on one of two lists. Those who were coming home and those who had died
in captivity. Late that evening, the phone finally rang. Perhaps Charles Shton would be on the list of PS returning to
their families. Hello. Yes, I am. Thank you. She began to cry and of course I knew
what that meant. Dad's name wasn't on the list. We naturally concluded that therefore we would be told soon just how
he died in captivity and his body returned and that was the end of the story. Instead, the story took a new
turn. The list of soldiers who had died didn't contain Charles name either. It seemed that the true status of Colonel
Charles Shelton had yet to be [Music] revealed. When we return, reports of a daring escape attempt. Could Charles Sh
still be alive. By April of 1973, 591 PS had returned home to their families, but Colonel Charles Shelton
was not among them. 4 months later, the Pentagon issued a statement saying that there was no indication that any
Americans were still held captive. But Maryanne Shel continued to receive secondhand information that her
husband and other Americans were still being held as prisoners. Mom realized, I think, more and more
that if dad would ever come home or if any of the prisoners would come home, that it really depended on the efforts
of the families. And she seemed convinced to that early on. You know, so much so that she ventured into Southeast
Asia. Desperate for answers, Marian went to Laos just a few months after the war
ended in search of proof that Charles was still alive. We met with villagers where he was
supposed to have been or was held alive in a cave. There were sightings of him in the cave and some of the villagers
had actually visited some of these caves and had seen prisoners. My husband, she'd hoped that she would get some
positive proof that her husband was still alive. She got no positive proof. Thank you. Congratulations.
Mary and Shelton returned home empty-handed and disheartened. But two years later, events in Southeast Asia
brought new information. 10 years to the day after Charles Shelton was shot down, Saigon
fell to communist forces and thousands of refugees fled Vietnam. Hundreds and then thousands told of
seeing American pilots, American prisoners still in chains, gaunt, starving, begging for food, in prison,
in captivity, uh on work gangs. Uh this is how we knew for sure that our men were left behind.
For reasons that are still controversial, the US government kept the refugees accounts a secret.
The stories are overwhelming in their specificity, in their clarity, and in their numbers. But if you mark it secret
and you keep it locked up in the safes, behind locked doors, behind guarded doors, then we don't know it's there.
Eventually, through the Freedom of Information Act, Marian obtained hundreds of classified documents
pertaining to her husband. Credible sources, many of them working for the CIA, reported that Charles was still
alive as late as 1983, 18 years after he parachuted into Laos. There were so many documents that
said uh Colonel Shelton and other men were alive. It was apparent that there was just such a gigantic amount of
evidence. There are reports in his file that he was shot in the legs because they were so tired of him escaping and
more reports that he just kept trying to escape afterwards. A particular report that was picked up
off of the radio, it indicated that in 1968 the path at Lao turned over to the North Vietnamese and they decided to
interrogate him. When the North Vietnamese returned with more personnel to control Dad, he had
already killed the other guards that were present during the interrogation. The report finished with the
recommendation that this prisoner be moved north. Whether that meant to China or Vietnam, we can't be sure, but it it
commented that he was incorraable. The more that Marian dug through the official records, the more
she believed that her husband was still alive. In October of 1980, she set out to convince a military panel.
When I was in Vietnam in Laos in 1973, I met with a delegation of the North Vietnamese. When they set up and decided
to hold these status review hearings, I don't think they had any idea about burden of proof. Burden of proof is a
legal concept. What they were going to do was make the service members family come in and prove
he was still alive when the only information about whether he was really alive was in the hands of the
government. That seemed quite unfair. We argued that instead it should be the services duty to prove that he should be
changed to killed an action. In other words, what evidence do they have that he was dead? They do have evidence he
was alive. Now, what evidence do they have to change that? The board finds that by a prepoundonderance of the
evidence, Colonel Charles E. Shelton can reasonably be presumed dead. Despite Marian's police, the board maintained
that Charles had been killed in action. But none other than Vernon Orur, Secretary of the Air Force, refused to
accept the board's recommendation. In 1984, he upheld Charles Shelton status as a prisoner of
war, making him the only one of more than 2,000 missing servicemen not listed as presumed dead.
You think your husband's alive? I think he very well can be and probably is. During the 1980s, Marian became a fire
brand for the P MIA movement. They know there's prisoners over there and I think
they know that my husband's over there. Slowly her heart started to break. the United States government, what my dad
fought for, was not going to bring him home or was not trying hard enough. So, it it devastated her.
Overwhelmed with grief, Marian Shelton committed suicide in October of 1990. Marian Shelton was the P movement. She's
done more, did more while she was alive than just about any other person uh to try to bring those men home.
Charles was my childhood sweetheart, my best friend, my protector. I prepared myself, as did my
husband, for him to be wounded, captured, or killed. But we were never prepared for him to be
abandoned by his own country. In 1994, at the request of his children, the Air Force officially changed Charles
Shelton status from prisoner of war to killed in action. A memorial service in his honor was held at Arlington National
Cemetery on the same spot where Marian had been buried four years earlier. [Music]
Next, a woman meets a mysterious stranger named Alice and then [Music] disappears. On an otherwise ordinary
summer day, Florida resident Jane McGawan received a disturbing letter from her 34year-old sister, Beverly. The
handwritten note had been postmarked a day earlier. I've got to make some major changes in
my life. I quit my job, sold the condo and furniture, and I'm leaving for a while. The next day, Beverly's brother,
Steve, received a similar letter. Something bothered me because that's not the type of person that that Bev was.
She was not the kind of person after spending all her money to try to get that condo and try to, you know, land
the job at the bank, which she would seemed to be happy with. It was not her nature to just give give up on
everything and just walk away from it. That evening, Steve and Jane went to Beverly's condo.
Her car was gone and her phone disconnected. Beverly had not been at work for 2 days. Yet, some things seemed
normal. There was her night gown laying next to the bed. The bed wasn't made. I mean, it just looked like, you know,
she'd gone out for the day and had every intention of coming back that night. However, Steve and Jane did discover
that their sister's address book, birth certificate, and passport were missing. The day Beverly McGawan left
town, she sent a telegram to her mortgage company. She instructed them to foreclose on her condo and dispose of
all of her belongings. Attention would soon shift to a new friend at Beverly's, a woman named
Alice. Beverly worked at a bank and had purchased a modest condo in Pmpo Beach. The week before her disappearance, she
began advertising for a roommate. Bev came in one morning and said that she had advertised for a roommate and
that this woman Alice was going to be moving in and approximately I think it was the following
Friday and she just thought this woman was incredibly nice. It was going to be great. Oh, thanks. They clicked. That's
the way she felt. Now, as I was explaining to you, your life path number is your birth date. Beverly said that
Alice was English. She drove a nice car and seemed to be a successful career woman. And they shared a common interest
in the new age movement, especially numerology. Number is four. That shows that you are at a crossroads in your
life. She had asked Bev for some numbers that pertain to her life so that she could do a chart for her. And Bev gave
her some numbers, not anything real personal. and she did an initial chart and then came back and said, "I need
more information." At which point Bev volunteered her passport numbers numbers on her birth certificate. Well, the
first adjustment I see is a long trip. I don't Alice told Beverly that she would
find a lasting relationship and become wealthy. She also warned that she would be
deceived by a couple who was very close to her. I just need to be aware of it. 2
days after Beverly was last seen, a woman's mutilated body was found in a drainage canal 100 miles from Pompo
Beach. The victim's head had been crudely decapitated. Only a portion of the lower
jaw and five teeth remained. Her hands had been severed, her throat slit, and a part of her abdomen cut away, apparently
to remove a tattoo. We assume that whoever committed the murder was trying to conceal her
identity. It was probably one of the most gruesome homicides that our agency has investigated in recent years. The
killer overlooked only one clue to the victim's identity. A small tattoo of a yellow rose on her right ankle. Beverly
had just that tattoo. 4 days later, dental records provided positive identification. The dead woman was
Beverly and McGawan. We found nothing in her background that would indicate that uh she was any type
in any type of trouble or was involved in anything illegal. Authorities and Beverly's family were
especially puzzled by her letters. They were all in her handwriting, and there was no indication that she had been
forced to send them. Investigators immediately searched Beverly's condo, looking for something that might tie
Beverly's decision to leave with her murder. They found a notepad with names and phone numbers of people who had
called about the roommate ad. The last notation read, "Alice, Tuesday, 6:30." No last name, no phone number.
Alice was supposed to be on loan to the United States from England working for IBM in in South
Florida. Upon checking with uh the IBM Corporation, we learned that they had nobody on loan to South Florida from
England and that the office that Alice said she worked for in Fort Lauderdale that they didn't even have an office in
Fort Lauderdale. Will it pass a charge? Going to be a charge. Investigators discovered that on
the day that Beverly's body was found, a woman fitting Alice's description used Beverly's Visa card at several shops in
the area. Someone had also used the card to withdraw $300 from a local ATM. On Friday, the day after the body
was discovered, the mysterious transactions continued. At a Miami travel agency, a person using Beverly's
name and credit card reserved a rental car at London's Heathro airport. The travel agent described this person as a
very masculine looking female that to them appeared to be a male wearing a cheap black Cleopatra wig.
Taxes in London these days are so expensive. Yes, sir. She also described her as having a British accent and a
person that appeared to be very familiar with the Heathro area in London, England. The customer claimed to be
leaving for London on British Airways flight 292. It was scheduled to depart 2 days later on Sunday evening at 6:30.
We checked the manifest for that particular flight and other airlines that were traveling to London on that
particular day. Nowhere on any of the manifest did we see the name of Beverly and McGowan.
On Monday, July 23rd, a person wearing a cheap looking wig and posing as Beverly
did pick up a car at Heathrow Airport. Back in the United States, Beverly's car was found at a motel near
Miami International Airport. It had been there for at least 5 days. Investigators
found only one significant clue. Hey, take a look at this. Four strands of black synthetic wig
hair. It was clear to police that Beverly was the victim of a scam. But the killer or killers got away with only
$1,000. The most puzzling part about it is the lack of motive. The savage nature in which the
body was decapitated and the pains that they went through trying to conceal her identity
isn't that of your normal uh everyday um domestic killing. I try to think about the people that Bev worked for. Uh her
friends, her relationships. What kind of person would would be involved with a with a murder like this?
Why somebody would come into my sister's life and for a measly $1,000 just take it? It doesn't make any sense to me.
Update. Several years after Beverly McGawan's murder, investigators identified the woman who called herself
Alice as Elaine Antuinette Parent. She had been born in the Bronx, but had perfected a fake English accent. She
also had a habit of stealing the identities of other women. They knew of at least 20 that she had used. Police
dubbed her the chameleon killer. Acting on a tip, police showed up at the apartment. Elaine Parent was renting in
Panama City, Florida. She agreed to go to the police station for questioning, but while changing clothes in her
bedroom, Parent shot and killed herself. Officials are convinced that Elaine Parent was responsible for
Beverly McGawan's death. But to this day, they do not understand her motive. Next, a charming con artist known as the
Sweetheart Swindler is finally behind bars. And a surprising update on our story of
reincarnation. Can two lovers who died years ago be reunited in this lifetime? On a previous broadcast, we profiled a
con man who seduces lonely middle-aged women with promises of wealth and romance and then skips town with their
money. Police call him the sweetheart swindler. A woman who asked that we call her Sarah met a man named Jerry Gable.
He told her that he was a successful traveling jewelry salesman and that she was just the type of woman he wanted to
share his life with. In less than two days, Jerry asked Sarah to marry him. It was really nice to think that I'm be
able to relax, to travel, to have all these nice things and I wouldn't have to work. To me, this was um very appealing.
Only a few days later, Gable asked Sarah to deposit a check from out of state and
to withdraw $3,000 in cash for him. That afternoon, Gable disappeared and Sarah never saw him or her $3,000 again. I was
angry. Truly, I was angry. It's a very devastating feeling. I'd like to see him pay for it.
Update. The sweetheart swindler has been captured. Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
arrested a man calling himself Robert Cook after he romanced another victim and then took her for
$10,000. Police recovered a dozen false identification cards, all with different
aliases from various states. They also found blank checks apparently stolen from previous victims.
The sweetheart's swindler tried to prevent police from identifying him by filing off his fingerprints. However,
authorities persisted, eventually learning that his real name was Alfred Barerette, a Canadian
national. In the end, Barerette was convicted in three states for crimes related to his romance swindles. He
served his time and has been released. [Music] The idea of reincarnation has intrigued
people and cultures all over the world for centuries. Previously, we presented the case of a woman who was convinced
that she is the reincarnation of a girl who lived more than a hundred years ago.
And now there's a surprising update to this unusual story. Since she was a child, Georgia Rudolph
has had reoccurring dreams and memories of the past, of horses and carriages, a river, and old-fashioned sternwheelers.
There is often a young man dressed in a brown suit and derby hat and the image of a dark-haired girl.
My whole childhood I thought I was crazy because I don't think there was a month
that went by that I didn't have either memories or dreams. As a grown adult, Georgia tried therapy
in the form of regressive hypnosis. Some of the things that you've been dreaming
about and thinking about. When Georgia first contacted me, I felt it might be something like an early traumatic
childhood memory that she was trying to remember. Or possibly it could be an aspect of a multiple personality. Other
than that, the reincarnation was probably the last thing in my mind about what had happened to her. While under
hypnosis, Georgia said the girl's name was Sandra Jean Jenkins. The young man in the derby hat was her fianceé, Tommy
Hicks. According to George's visions, in 1914, Tommy drowned in the Ohio River. His body was never found. Sandra Jean
Jenkins was left unmarried and pregnant with Tommy's child. Distraught over the death of her
fianceé and unable to face the pregnancy alone, she took her own life. Georgia began searching for the
people and places that she saw in her dreams. She traveled to Marietta, Ohio, where she met with journalists Ted
Bower. A lifelong resident of Marietta, Ted had worked for the local newspaper for more than 30 years. When George
arrived in Marietta, I said, "I'll take you around and show you some of the places that you talked about over the
phone." And she says, "No, I'll show you where to go." I couldn't believe her knowledge of Marietta. I can't buy the
reincarnation bit, but she has some kind of power, some way of knowing what happened in the
past. In a nearby town, Georgia located a house that she says matches the house in her visions. Relatives of the former
owner gave Georgia what she feels is evidence that Sandra Jean Jenkins did exist. They brought out a picture taken
in 1908. And the girl that I call Sandra is standing in that picture. There was a statement made by a
member of the family. I don't know this girl's name, but I know she drowned out back of
the house. Update. After our broadcast, we were contacted by a college professor who had
never met Georgia. He claimed that two years before he saw our story, he had visions that he lived in Ohio at the
turn of the century. His name was Tommy Hicks. When I saw the original segment with Georgia Rudolph, I could just feel
the anxiety building in myself cuz there was almost instant recognition and my wife was watching me and thinking,
"What's wrong with him?" And I was gripping the arm of the couch tighter and tighter and tighter as it went
through. And then when Georgia finally said that his name was Tom Hicks, I almost fell off the couch. I think
Jennifer. Two years before our story aired, Jack underwent regressive hypnosis in Jacksonville, Florida.
The particular session that I went through, I was taken back to turn of the century Ohio and I told the interviewer
that my name was Tom Hicks. While under hypnosis, Jack said that a river seemed to play a large part in the
life of Tommy Hicks and that Tommy's younger brother had drowned. Jack also recalled that Tommy had a girlfriend
with long dark hair. I still remain somewhat skeptical. I need more proof, but we're getting closer and closer to
the point where we cannot excuse it on the basis of chance or probability. boat was stuck. I was skeptical before
the two regression sessions that I've had, but if they're not true, then there's an awful lot of very odd
coincidences going on. Something very definite is going on, but we have no rational explanation that
science can provide as to what's happening. I suggest we keep an open mind. [Music]
Heat. Heat. [Music]

This, Episode includes: Campus Murder Expose, Last P.O.W. (Pts. 1 & 2), Go Ask Alice, Update: Sweetheart Swindler and Update: Reincarnation.

Brief Summary

Brooke Baker's murder, Colonel Shelton's POW status, Beverly McGowan's disappearance, and the Sweetheart Swindler's capture are discussed in this episode.

Key points

Brooke Baker's Murder. A college sophomore's investigation into fraternity rape leads to her brutal murder.
Charles Shelton: The Last POW. The story of a wife fighting for the truth about her husband, a missing pilot.
Marianne Shelton's Struggle. Marianne Shelton's relentless fight for her husband, missing since the Vietnam War.
Beverly's Mysterious Disappearance. Beverly McGawan leaves behind her life, sending a telegram to foreclose on her condo.
Gruesome Discovery. A woman's mutilated body is found, leading to a shocking identification.
The Chameleon Killer. Investigators identify the woman known as Alice, leading to a chilling conclusion.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

You think your husband’s alive? I think he very well can be and probably is.

Marianne Shelton's belief in her husband's survival as a POW.

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