Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 11 | Forensic Files

[Music] next on Unsolved Mysteries a routine traffic stop escalates into a life or
death struggle for police chief Greg Adams the attacker is still on the run a Utah teenager disappears from her home
leaving behind a string of email accounts that may be the link to an online Predator we know that this boy is
a genius so is this girl however the reason for their striking Brilliance remains a fascinating
mystery and Alice auda's family celebrated her marriage to David Vieira 14 years later Alice is dead and her
family is looking for the killer her [Music] husband our team continues to track
crimes wanted fugitives and tales of the par normal perhaps you can help I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
Mysteries [Music] [Music] Saxonburg Pennsylvania 34 mil Northeast of Pittsburgh it's a small town full of
Treeline streets civic pride and people who feel safe so 16-year-old tiger freeling
didn't know what to think when he heard gunshots out outside of his bedroom window one
afternoon Mom hey Mom my son was up in his bedroom and he came down and he said Mom I heard
someone shooting outside and I said tiger don't say that because you know it's hunting season I said don't joke
around about it he said no somebody was fighting and shooting so I went out to the door and I
looked and I saw someone laying in the bushes who's over there who is it mij was horrified to discover her friend
saxonberg police chief Greg Adams covered in blood and he said I've been shot help me
and I said who did this to you and he said he didn't know so then I just happened to look up our driveway and I
saw a white car pull away I didn't see the man that was driving it I just saw a figure and I said you'll be okay you
know you you'll be fine and he said no I think you better pray for me he said I don't think I'm going to be and I think
that he knew he was dying Greg had been shot twice and beaten severely he did not
survive 31-year-old Greg Adams left behind a wife two young children and a grieving
Community a loss like that is not describable it's devastating that's it it's just
devastating the state police soon arrived at the murder scene the parking lot of the Agway Feed Store there they
found their first clue a driver's license had been left at the scene Stanley J pis it's our belief that
that came out of Greg's hand when he was shot Berg New Jersey the other piece of
physical evidence at the scene was the gun that was used to shoot Greg and it was empty and in void of any serial
numbers it was untraceable we still have yet to trace the gun to see where it came from but that operator's license
with the name Stanley John ptis on it and a date of birth and an address in New Jersey was a piece of physical
evidence that with without that we have no idea who shot Greg Adams Police immediately traced pse's
name to a Cemetery he had been dead for 32 years sty poris 1892 1948 I get a couple shots of over here
we did our background on Stanley John poris and found out that he had a wife and when we contacted that wife we found
out that she was married to a subject named Donald Eugene Whip and Donald Eugene web had totally taken on Stanley
John pse's identification that Eugene Webb was already well known to law enforcement he
was a member of the Fall River gang a group that robbed stars and homes up and down the Eastern Seaboard and now he was
on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for the murder of Greg Adams that day Greg Adams was working
his last shift before taking his yearly vacation he left the station just after lunch for a routine Patrol
Witnesses tell us uh the last they saw Greg was on Water Street heading towards the intersection of Butler Street when
they as well as Greg observed a white Mercury Cougar not stopped for a posted stop
sign this C Greg's attention immediately he pulled a u-turn on Water Street and proceeded after white
cougar Greg losing sight of the vehicle upon coming around the turn prob probably wondered where the white
vehicle went and at that point spied the white cougar attempting to turn around in the Agway parking lot he then
immediately blocked the white cougar in most police officers are trained to approach a traffic stop from the
rear Greg didn't have that kind of a an ability on this stop because of the positioning of the cars he had to
approach that vehicle from the front uh he was naturally in a bad position got have your license in registration please
sure hang on there you go I believe at that point in time web got the drop on [Music]
him he's hit twice the blood Trails on the ground indicate that there was one heck of a struggle there and Greg
actually shoots with his gun and that struggle took them a long way through the Agway parking lot back
to the m freeling residence where they were [Applause] found of course Greg is a tough little
competitor but he loses his gun to web and the gun's empty and web just beat him with the gun
the town of Saxonburg has built a monument to commemorate Greg Adams life here the Grateful citizens have
inscribed their thank yous to a man who gave his life protecting their Community every day we drive by the Greg
Adams Memorial that crosses your mind Greg's in his final resting place and Donald Eugene Webb's still out there in
the Great Society functioning as a human being makes me sick this is what Donald Webb looked
like in 1980 today he would appear more like these artist renderings he is 5'9 weighs 165 lb and has brown eyes he may
also have a beard web has two distinctive tattoos the name Don on the web of his right hand and the name an on
his chest he is considered armed and extremely dangerous [Music] if you have any information about this
case please log on to our website at unsolved.com [Music] next a teenage girl spends hours
chatting on the internet and then suddenly disappears this man may know where she
is [Music] 80 Mi north of Salt Lake City in hyram Utah Joanne ay woke up at dawn her
daughter Trisha usually a late sleeper was not in her bedroom or anywhere else in the
house as Joann's concern turned to panic she frantically called her daughter's friends and sent Trisha's sisters to
search the neighborhood when none of us found her then I became really frightened all of a sudden there was
this deep fear deep knot of fear in my stomach because it wasn't like Trisha to do
this and I knew that there was something Gravely wrong Trisha's sudden disappearance had
everyone worried it seemed unlikely that she would run away but Trisha did have a
very active Fantasy Life and she spent a lot of time on the internet could something that she discovered there have
lured her away from her home like many teenagers looking for acceptance Trisha found adolescence a
painful experience she was a kid that was ostracized in school the children made fun of her she didn't have what she
really wanted and that was a really close friend someone that she could confide all of her adolescent dreams in
and be able to share those things with so she was a pretty sad child from that standpoint is that she just needed that
one special friend Trisha often escaped her unhappiness by writing elaborate stories
which included secretly aans with older men two weeks before her disappearance she told her family that she had started
a new story every night she typed furiously into the early morning hours on the night she vanished Trisha was as
usual at the computer I'm going to bed night see you tomorrow her sister Brienne was the last
family member to see her for Trisha to disappear was totally out of character for
her and what I was hoping was to find in the story that she was writing some clue
as to what she was thinking of what her frame of mind was and that's why I went immediately there to begin looking when
Joan turned on the computer there was no story only a few pages of scattered thoughts so what had Trisha been doing
on the computer for all of those hours computer expert John W Georgie examined the system and made several
disturbing discoveries Trisha had three separate email accounts and spent a a lot of time in chat rooms even more
alarming all records of Trisha's recent activity had been erased everything that
possibly could be found of who she talked to what she'd been doing on the computer in the the recent frame of time
was deleted I I figured Trish was taught how to delete these files because she did
not from what I was told by her mother have the experience to know where these files were stored and I took this as a
very bad sign that you know obviously somebody was trying to cover their tracks but who could this mystery person
have been Trisha gave no hints to her friends or family that she had met somebody
online neighbors however noticed suspicious activity near the AY home on several occasions about 2 weeks before
she disappeared one of our neighbors had seen her get out of a red car on the corner and what he thought was some
suspicious behaviors the way she was walking back to the house from the corner as if she didn't want to be seen
so that was our first report of a red car another neighbor noticed something early on the morning Trisha
disappeared the headlights from a car coming up the street kind of struck the bedroom window got my interest so I was
looking out the window and I saw kind of economy type red car young man got out of the car and oh he was
nervous first thing it popped in my mind oh oh somebody's sneaking out of the house and after a few minutes a lady was
coming down the street and they walked to the car together and went on their merry
way I believe that she could be seduced into thinking she found someone who needed her and could love
her I think that she was um bait good bait for a predator hello 2 hours after was seen
getting into the red car Glenda trip a local convenience store employee witnessed a strange
incident are you all right honey yeah I'm okay thanks she seemed really apprehensive and nervous and she
never acted like she was wanting to buy anything but she kept kind of stretching
her little head and looking out the window like she was looking for someone or watching for
someone I've seen her in and about the neighborhood so I nutrition I have no doubt in my mind that it was
Trisha Trisha hung around for nearly half an hour then the employee looked up and Trisha was
gone for me as a mother the greatest thing is this is a tiny person that I I loved and nurtured and worried about and
I can no longer protect her I don't know where she is when I drive through town and I see
things that that we would have been sharing together or activities come up that we commonly did together as a
family and she's not there and there's no I mean it's sometimes it just the the grief just washes over you and it takes
your breath away update 6 months after Trisha's disappearance local authorities became
suspicious of a man named Cody Lynn neelen he did maintenance work for a wildlife research group 8 miles from
Trisha's home near the time of Trisha's disappearance neelen had been seen using
a backhoe to dig deep trenches and then refill them for no apparent reason we contacted a cadaver dog team
out of duain County here in Utah and we brought the dogs up to this site and they they were real interested and they
they hit what they call hit on uh this one area right here that we knew that our suspect had been
digging Sheriff's Department investigators began to dig with their own back ho when we got to about 10 ft
we found a human jawbone uh which later was determined to be Trish otes it was just nothing short of a
miracle that we found that piece of evidence in that big of a hole in other trenches Sheriff's
deputies found more fragments of Trisha's remains some that had been burned for Trisha's mother the news of
the discovery brought great pain but also some sense of relief primarily because of our faith we
know where she is now where before we wondered we would lie awake together at night and worry about whether she was in
the cold or whether someone was hurting her it's probably been and very agonizing but also very validating
because we knew that she did not run away Cody lindson was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for
the murder of Trisha [Laughter] Ary next how did this 12-year-old become such an accomplished piano player it's
the mystery of child [Music] prodigies who hasn't spent time struggling to learn a musical instrument
learn how to paint or solve a complex bth problem get ready to meet child prodigies from an early age they
demonstrate mindboggling talents in art science or music but no one knows why Queens New
York at just 14 Jessica constant looked like a typical teenager but she was already a college
student Jessica had attended New York City Technical College since she was 12 years old oh I used to hate the first
days because I would have to walk into class and everybody' be staring at me I was so scared but now I'm used to it
I think he is I want to become a doctor but I'm going to become a nurse before micobiology and child psychology
are the only two courses I have left before I enter the nursing's program then after I do two years of
that I get my associates degree then I'm going to go on to medical school but Jessica was interested in
more than academics she was also a talented chist at the prestigious juliard School of
Music Jessica and her brothers Daniel and Pierre performed together as the constant Trio they have appeared at
venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC their talent is undeniable yet they didn't inherit it from their
parents sometimes when I look at the kid playing I wish I could have be the one playing instead of having to
listen I never never thought I would have it in my own house when I see the kids doing trios together it's it's
fantastic it's uh it's kind of like a dream come true for [Music] me Carolton Texas is home to another
American child prodigy Albert Wong Albert was so smart that he taught himself a wide variety of subjects from
college textbooks he is a skilled violinist and a world famous concert pianist and
Elbert is a genius in science as well as [Music] music it's very rare when you find a
musical prodigy it's very rare when you find a child who is so talented at academic
work that they need to move at such a rapid Pace the combination of those two things in one child is extremely
rare each appears separately infrequently the combination appears almost never Albert Wong first displayed his
extraordinary Talent when he was just 3 years old by the time he was five he had
already won the grand prize in a Dallas piano competition for children up to age
[Music] 18 wanting to nurture their only child's natural gift Albert's parents took him
shopping for a concert grand piano to test the pianos I believe I was playing a piece it was about the third piano I was
playing on and then this gentleman just walked over so he came over introduced himself and said actually very uh
directly say that Albert is very talented and I know just the right teacher for him Albert began taking lessons and
eventually studied with Earl wild a former child prodigy himself wild performed at Carnegie Hall
to celebrate his 85th birthday after the concert he invited Albert on stage Mr wild stunned everyone
especially Albert by announcing that Albert would perform that night are you ready to play over hey I
had not touched the piano in six days and I mean I didn't even have a chance to wor on my
fingers Albert's performance captivated the audience that same year at age 10 Albert
recorded his first CD it received rave reviews The Prodigy has always represented the
Unexplained in the absence of an explanation that meets rational and scientific criteria we look for an explanation
wherever we can find one and reincarnation is attractive because it seems to account for some of the
unbelievable and and unexplainable parts of the Prodigy Albert himself does not dismiss
the possibility of his own existence in a past life I must have done something good in
order to have deserved this I'm hammering in your king from all sides so there's no Escape
Route Albert's parents quickly learned that he also had a gift for Math and Science
his mother was afraid that he'd get bored with a conventional education so she gave up her career to homeschool
him I used to get up 3 or 4 in the morning to prepare myself to teach Albert fast enough um now I don't have
to do it because Albert is old enough to be independent so my life is much easy enough when Albert developed a strong
interest in science his mother searched for a tutor she chose a physics Professor
that's X you have an inverted coordinate system in order to comply with the FN I
think the biggest thing in terms of working with Albert is that you never have to say something twice whatever
mistake he might make he's made it the last time he's going to make it of the three Sciences physics chemistry and
biology is my own belief that physics is the most Center of all the sciences that
every other science branches from physics biology is physics applied to living organisms and chemistry is physics
applied to chemical reactions atoms molecules and macro molecules well I love to study I love to
read books I love studying Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet every time I study it I
uncover new literary elements that are very tasty delicious where could Albert's t
have come from neither his mom or my family had any clue or or any relatives in the families who had ever been a
musician or even good in one instrument at all we know that there have been amazing
Prodigy cases through history so we know that from time to time such individuals
appear what we don't know is what the causes underlying the appearance of prodigies might be are they genetic are
they evolutionary are they cultural are they historical are they something that's a
combination of all of those things those are questions we don't know the answers
to although we hope to understand the Prodigy better in the 21st century it remains a mystery
next all her life she was a prisoner first of tradition then of her husband but finally she was ready to make
[Music] herisk Sal Miguel Island Portugal in the main Church on the island the wedding of twin sisters Alice and
Georgina Aruda seemed like a double blessing to their family but one marriage was destined for
tragedy 14 years later Alice would be dead and her husband David on the [Music] run the same family members who attended
Alice's wedding would be tending her grave Alis cuda's life was shaped by Portuguese tradition marriages were
arranged a daughter was brought up strictly to obey first her father and then later her husband it was a devoutly
Catholic world where only death could truly end a marriage Alice and David were born in
the islands west of Portugal known as the the azors when Alice was nine her family
immigrated to New Bedford Massachusetts even in America Alice's father was determined that his children would be
brought up with traditional Portuguese values my dad was very strict with the girls um we weren't allowed to wear
makeup we couldn't wear shorts and definitely we couldn't have boyfriends you know it was uh go to school come
home do housework and stay in the house we were not allowed to even sit out on the porch That's how strict he
was when Alice was 12 a letter arrived from Portugal it was from her 11-year-old cousin
David to Alice's surprise David was proposing that they be engaged cousins often married in
traditional Portuguese families like the arutas so the proposal was taken very seriously at first my mom says oh you
know you're kind kind of young and my father right away insisted that she should stop writing to him because that
was his family and uh knowing that uh you know that'd be nice being married into the family so he gave the okay on
Alice and she wrote back to David stating that they would be going out by writing the letters continued for 5
years David and Alice never once talked on the phone they didn't see each other until
Alice and her family returned to Portugal for the [Music] wedding David and Alice eventually
settled near her parents in New Bedford although David spoke little English he found work in a textile plant within a
year Alice was pregnant the marriage went off pretty good like maybe I'd say about the first
couple of months and then uh you know already he was already starting with her you know she couldn't wear makeup she
couldn't do anything you know he is very jealous very possessed of my sister 7 years into their marriage Alice
and David had three children but it was not a happy household David oh come on dad David sh
this she stayed with him because she figured you know he's the father of the kids and um that's how she was brought
up you know you got to be with your husband and that's the way it is they used to always say uh if you ever
leave me I'm going to kill you there's no other woman in my you know for my life like you are you know you're a good
mother you're have a good cook and he always had threatened her that if she ever decided to leave him for anybody
that he would kill her but we never took it seriously sometimes she go up to my parents and tell my mom that uh my I
can't take him anymore he's always beating me up or for any little reason and he's always beating up the kids and
um my parents would always like tell her you got to stay with him he's your husband you know it's going to be a
shame to the family if you divorce him we don't believe in divorces so they kept shoving it back to
him finally after 14 years of abuse Alice Found the courage to defy her parents and her
husband she finally felt strong enough to say I can't take it anymore and she decided to get him out of the house she
finally sat down and says David I can't take it anymore I want you to leave David moved out and Alice began to
build a new life for herself she enrolled in nursing school and began seeing another man but David could not
let go he began to stalk Alice at work and at home night and day David her boyfriend went by the house to
see her that morning and uh David drove up and down and I think he spotted the boyfriend's car at the house and uh my
brother-in-law couldn't take that Alice's boyfriend witnessed the attack and ran a mile to the nearest police
station to get help Alice had been blundon with a tire jack and then stabbed 24 times with a butcher knife by
the time police arrived the young mother of three was dead and David Vieira was nowhere to be found we learned that he
in fact had taken a bus from Far River Massachusetts to Boston Massachusetts and then from Boston to
Canada someone matching his description did in fact get off a bus in Canada near
Hamilton Ontario and from that point on we were unable to find out where he went
update as a result of our original broadcast David Vieira was captured in Canada our particular segment on that
show aired our time uh here in New Bedford Massachusetts at approximately 8:50 p.m. by 9:03 p.m. I was receiving
telephone calls from Canada right here into my office with very good leads as to his
whereabouts for at least 2 years Vieira had lived in Montreal where he was well known in the Portuguese
Community he belonged to a neighborhood soccer team and worked at a local fish market
Vieira was returned to Massachusetts to stand trial for killing his wife he pleaded guilty to Second deegree murder
and was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison I've seen him apprehended and
with handcuffs and to me that was a sign of saying thank God I can rest and my sister can also be at peace now that
he's caught coming up when a reclusive woman dies authorities discover she has a
small fortune and now they're looking for her [Music] relatives in 1941 the United States was plunged into
World War II like many others 30-year-old Harry Young felt a call to duty there's a war going on I need you
to sign this paper Harry I think it's a terrible idea for you to leave right now
I need you Harry wanted to enlist but to comply with military regulations about soldiers with families Harry needed
Laura to agree I'll be back just sign the paper [Music] no Laura Harry walked out on his wife never
to return he had no idea that she was pregnant with their second son and he never found out Harry died in action
with in 2 years of enlisting years later Harry's oldest son Albert was researching the family tree
when he found a newspaper article about his father's death to his amazement the obituary mentioned a daughter but not
Albert or his brother Jim well at first I thought that the uh the paper made a mistake which wasn't
common you know papers do make mistakes and uh I thought maybe the they have got
the information wrong and uh I had a copy made so I could go into a fether Albert learned that after
Harry left home he became involved with another woman together they had a daughter Kathleen Mary Young born while
Harry was overseas sweetie look we can do nothing after Harry's death the woman took Kathleen to
Harry's parents but they wanted nothing to do with either of them I have some of
Harry's things would you like me to bring them over to you no just send them Kathleen Mary young grew up knowing
very little about her two half Brothers but Albert and Jim had been trying to find her for more than a
decade update on the night of our broadcast Kathleen was watching she recognized her
family story and called our phone center what makes me feel good it makes me feel
like special in a way that they took the time in all those years that now that I
know that they were looking for me the long separation ended when Kathleen and her family came to meet her
half Brothers for the first time I know I saw the film how you doing when I hugged her it was UHC our
Euphoria it it felt wonderful I knew it was her as soon as she stepped out of the car that that's that's a young for
Harry Young's three children the reunion meant A New Beginning Jimmy you doing after 50 years apart they could
finally build some memories [Music] together we've all heard the stories it seems that just about every town in
America has a village Reus in Portland Oregon it was a woman named Catherine Bennett
Catherine was an eccentric nearly destitute packrat she dressed in men's clothing rarely left her home and
refused to discuss her past with anyone but when she died Katherine Bennett left
a small fortune and nobody to give it [Music] to little is known about Catherine
before 1941 that year she met a handsome young soldier named Gilbert Bennett 6 months later they were
married after World War II Gilbert became a commercial photographer and Catherine was his favorite
subject oh yeah this is the spot the two shared a love for The Great Outdoors and
spent many days on the rivers of the Pacific Northwest they loved the outdoor life
and uh they fished every chance that they get Katie was an excellent fisherman I think she was better than
Gilbert Gil I got one on they're very devoted to each other truly good girl they were inseparable
every place they went they went together and they fished together and they hunted
together and what have you I'm sure that they were very much in love with each other Gilbert and Katherine never had
children instead they built a loving private Universe for two after 38 years of marriage gilbertt
died and Catherine began to change when she lost Gilbert she just lost everything I
guess and uh I had talked to Katie concerned about her future and I asked her if she had any living relatives and
she said no she didn't have a family she was raised in an orphan home and she didn't know anything about a
family and she just uh withdrew some holidays we asked her to come to dinner and stuff like this and she
wouldn't do that and we just couldn't uh couldn't keep in contact with her too long as a result of this
after 10 years alone Catherine Bennett passed away she was 80 years old when no blood relatives could be
located representatives from the Oregon Division of State lands went to sort out
her estate oh boy look at this a mess her home was unkempt it was cluttered it was dirty it
was flea infested wonder how long it's been like this it had an odor it was uh as if a
hermit had lived there Mr Bennett's clothing was still draped over the the back of the chairs and the
bedroom our first job is to locate a will or locate airs and when we enter a home we quickly sift through the
personal papers looking for letters insurance policies anything that might lead to an
air the investigators never found a will but they did find piles of unopen Social
Security checks along with rare coins and two separate bank accounts after her house was sold the value of Katherine's
estate totaled more than $125,000 but without a will and with no known blood relatives the state of
Oregon was forced to hold Catherine's money until her heirs could be found Katherine was born in Kansas City
Kansas in 1910 she told her in-laws that she was raised in a Catholic orphanage after the
death of her parents before her marriage she went by the name Katherine yurovich
but in Gilbert's Family Bible her maiden name is listed as Bernard the state of Oregon is looking
for anyone who might be a blood relative of Catherine's and possibly entitled to
all or a portion of her estate update a distant relative of Catherine's was found and awarded half of the estate
since no other relatives came forward the remaining money eventually went to the Oregon State Treasury
this case is closed but if you have any information about any of the other stories in the program please log on to
our website at unsolved.com [Music] [Music] [Music]

Brief Summary

This episode features the murder of police chief Greg Adams, the disappearance and murder of Trisha Ay, and Alice Aruda's tragic story of domestic abuse.

Key points

The Tragic Murder of Greg Adams. Police chief Greg Adams is shot during a routine traffic stop, leading to a community's grief.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Trisha. Teenager Trisha vanishes without a trace, leaving her family in panic and fear.
Discovery of Trisha's Remains. Months after her disappearance, Trisha's remains are found, bringing both pain and closure.
Alice's Courage. After 14 years of abuse, Alice decides to leave her husband David.
Tragic Reunion. Kathleen discovers her long-lost family after years of searching.
Catherine's Hidden Fortune. Catherine Bennett's estate is discovered after her death, revealing her mysterious life.

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Episode quotes

A loss like that is not describable, it's just devastating.

A community mourns the loss of police chief Greg Adams.

3:30WatchMar 9, 2017

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