Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 14 | Forensic Files

DENNIS FARINA: Next, on "Unsolved Mysteries," a professional motorcycle racer falls
over dead in a gas station. What happened? A new church member gains the trust of the congregation,
and then scams more than a million dollars. He steals much of it using ATMs. A popular cheerleader is found dead in the woods.
Who killed her? And a rash of child kidnappings in California leads one mother to take action.
These are stories with intriguing secrets and surprising revelations. I'm Dennis Farina and this is "Unsolved Mysteries."
[music playing] DENNIS FARINA: Emeryville, California, just across the bay from San Francisco.
On a warm February evening, a motorcycle rider weaves erratically down the road and into a gas station.
Police and paramedics arrive quickly. They tried to revive the unconscious rider.
OK, continue compression. Let's get that back board over here and get him out of here.
DENNIS FARINA: His pulse is very weak, but he doesn't seem injured. Medics cannot find any external wounds.
There was no bleeding at all at the site. If it had been some kind of an accident,
you would expect to see some kind of blood. But there was absolutely none. DENNIS FARINA: The motorcyclist's was rushed
to a nearby hospital, where they discovered that he had been shot three times by a small caliber weapon.
1-2-3 DENNIS FARINA: One of the bullets shattered his knee. A second lodged in his stomach.
The third and fatal bullet punctured his aorta. The wounds were nearly invisible,
but had caused massive internal bleeding. The rider never regained consciousness
and was pronounced dead shortly after 9:00 PM. His name was Michael Hunter. At 30 years old, he was a dedicated motorcycle racer
who had survived hundreds of dangerous competitions only to be gunned down. But why?
What happened to Michael Hunter his all too common. An innocent person is murdered, the killer walks away,
and the police are left without a suspect or a motive. As investigators examined Michael's life,
they looked for anything that might have set the stage for his murder. Michael hunter competed in races throughout California.
He earned a reputation as one of the state's most skilled bikers. He said racing gave him probably
the highest high that he'd ever had in his whole life. He said there was nothing that beat this excitement
and the thrill of the racing. And I think the competition was maybe almost incidental to the thrill of the racing.
He was always sharing, always teaching. Mike took me in hand from the beginning and taught me how to ride, taught me how to ride safely.
He taught me how to ride clean. [engine revving] DENNIS FARINA: On the night that he was killed,
Michael fired up his customized red, white, and blue Honda Interceptor and took off from home.
A few minutes later, he stopped at an ATM a half a mile away. As he withdrew $20 from his checking account,
a security camera recorded the transaction. From the photographs that we have, it would appear to be an uneventful withdrawal.
So we don't have any reason to think that he was robbed or shot at the ATM machine.
DENNIS FARINA: Michael next showed up at a liquor store a half a block from the ATM.
There he bought a pint of whiskey that was later found in his jacket. What happened next is pure speculation.
The police believe that Michael headed to a frontage road three miles from the gas station.
This area was known for its breathtaking view of the Bay Bridge. It was here, while enjoying the fresh winter breeze,
that Michael Hunter may have encountered his killer or killers. Police theorize that someone robbed Michael at gunpoint
and then demanded his motorcycle. Probably Mikes love of his motorcycle would cause him to be reluctant to turn it over.
I think that he was probably pretty scared. And I like to think-- I'd really like to believe that he
didn't know what was going on. It would have taken him a long time to get to that station.
That's not a short stint to ride when you're hurt. DENNIS FARINA: An hour later, Michael Hunter
was dead leaving his family to wonder who killed him and why. BEVERLY HUNTER: I think all the time
he raced I knew that something could happen to him, because he was living beyond what
most people do as far as what he chose to do for his recreation. Had he died that way, it was a choice he would have made,
and a conscious choice he'd made. And I think that it would have been a lot easier to accept.
DENNIS FARINA: Michael's friends and family have raised a $10,000 reward for information
which may help solve this case. If you know anything about the murder of Michael Hunter,
please log onto our website at unsolved.com Coming up, five children are abducted in Northern California.
Can a mysterious stranger help solve these puzzling cases? Pinole, California. On a Friday afternoon, Kim Schwartz
was preparing dinner when her 7-year-old daughter, Amber, asked if she could play outside.
Oh, but our friends are going to be here in five minutes. Please? KIM SCHWARTZ: Amber asked if she could
use the jump rope in the hall closet and jump rope outside. So I walked with her over to the closet and open up the door
and she grabbed the jump rope. Thank you, mommy. I love you. On her way out the door she just stopped and turned
and said, I love you, mommy. And out the door she went. DENNIS FARINA: Amber planned to jump
rope until the guest arrived. [door bell rings] Hello. How are you two? Come in.
KIM SCHWARTZ: They walk in the door, and Merissa instantly asks where Amber was.
And I said she was outside jumping rope, and so both of them at that point said we didn't see her out there.
So I said, well, maybe she was over in the vacant lot. No, she's out there. Go get her.
So Merissa quickly ran right back outside looking for Amber and-- I'm glad it's Friday.
Oh, me too. KIM SCHWARTZ: She came running back inside saying she didn't see her.
And so at that point, I went outside. (CALLING FRANTICALLY) Amber! Amber! Amber, where are you?
Amber! KIM SCHWARTZ: I couldn't find Amber. I was afraid. I didn't want anything to be wrong.
I wanted her to be home. DENNIS FARINA: Kim Schwartz would never see Amber again.
Following hours of searching, investigators concluded that Amber had been abducted.
The morning after she disappeared, a pair of pink socks was discovered in a park near Amber's home.
The socks had not been there when the park was searched the night before. To come back the next morning and find these socks in a place
that had already been searched certainly sent up a lot of red flags. They were just like the socks that Amber had on her feet,
I can say that, because I had helped Amber put her new shoes on that we had just bought.
DENNIS FARINA: In the days following Amber's disappearance, many strangers offered to help but one of them Kim we will never forget.
His name was Tim Binder. Hello, Kim. My name is Timothy. I'm with the search for Amber, for your dear Amber.
KIM SCHWARTZ: He looked like he'd been up all night. Basically, he was saying how he wanted
to be the one to save her. He wanted to be the one to bring her home to me. I've been searching in a lot of places that--
DENNIS FARINA: Binder's van also caught Kim's attention. KIM SCHWARTZ: It almost looked like a van
that he painted himself. He's got these plates that say, love you. He's got posters on the outside of the van.
So I want you to know, I want to be the one to find her. DENNIS FARINA: Kim says Binder became extremely emotional
as he talked about Amber. I want to be the one to save her and bring her back you.
Did you see Amber Schwartz on June 3rd? No. DENNIS FARINA: Binder was questioned
extensively by the FBI following Amber's disappearance. The results of his polygraph were inconclusive.
Tim Binder is a very bright man. He's a very intelligent man. He's a Berkeley grad.
DENNIS FARINA: John Philpin is a trained forensic psychologist. He spent more than 1,000 hours interviewing Tim Binder
for his book "Stalemate", which was about Amber's disappearance. There are law enforcement agencies
which consider him a suspect. There's also the perception shared by a number of people
that Tim has done absolutely nothing wrong and that he is a misunderstood good Samaritan.
One fact is he is trying to be helpful. He does that voluntarily. It is a sense that he has that he
has an obligation and a duty to go out and try to find missing children. DENNIS FARINA: But what has authorities
curious about Binder is his apparent fascination with the grave of another murdered girl, Angela Bugay.
Five-year-old Angela disappeared 4 and 1/2 years before Amber. She was later found sexually assaulted and strangled.
The FBI placed Tim Binder under surveillance. His alleged habit of visiting Angela
Bugay's grave site up to 90 times a year had caught their attention. KIM SCHWARTZ: To have been to this little girl's grave,
this little girl that he never knew, I just can't imagine anybody going to somebody's grave
that many times in that period of time, unless there's something else going on in that person's mind.
DENNIS FARINA: According to John Burris, the fact that Binder visits grave sites
should not cast suspicion on his client. For him, it has a special kind of significance
that is personal to him but certainly not an indication that he's putting anybody in that graveyard.
DENNIS FARINA: 11 days after Amber vanished, a bloodhound from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department
allegedly tracked her scent to Angela's grave site. Police say the dog also picked up
Amber's scent in Binder's van. However, California courts are often leery about the reliability of bloodhound evidence.
Five months after Amber's disappearance, another young girl in the area was abducted, nine-year-old Michaela Garrett,
but she wasn't the last. Two months later in nearby Dublin, 13-year-old Ilene Misheloff disappeared.
Despite the fact that some suspicion had been directed at him, Tim Binder helped search for Aileen.
Several years passed and little progress was made. And then, a woman in the town of Fairfield
informed police that her daughter had begun receiving mail from a man she didn't know.
His name, Tim Binder. KIM SCHWARTZ: One young girl is getting letters from Tim. Oddly enough, these letters were written backwards
and had to be held up to a mirror to read, which I'm sure would set any parent on the edge
to have your kid all of a sudden get this really weird letter. I'm going to play with my friend down the street.
DENNIS FARINA: Just a few blocks from where the letter was received, another young girl disappeared.
Four-year-old Nikki Campbell was playing in her driveway. Nikki lived on Salisbury Drive in Fairfield,
and she had been out playing with her brother in the afternoon. Mom came home from work and asked where's Nikki?
Well, she's out playing. They couldn't find her. DENNIS FARINA: Four days after Nikki's disappearance,
her scent, like Amber's before her, was allegedly tracked by bloodhounds to Angela Bugay's grave.
The same grave that Tim Binder reportedly visited. JOHN PHILPIN: You put all of these coincidences together,
you see them pile up, the dogs, the cemetery, the various scents in the various places,
and you really have to question which is what I believe law enforcement was doing
and I think their role to do it. Is this a coincidence or is there something to it?
If there was something more to it, then you would think after all this time there would have been some more evidence
that was more definitive. And there hasn't been any. DENNIS FARINA: Following Nikki Campbell's disappearance,
the Fairfield Police Department searched Tim Binder's home. They found nothing suspicious.
Believing that his reputation had been unfairly tarnished by the Fairfield Police Department,
Binder brought a defamation lawsuit against the city. Fairfield settled out of court for $90,000.
Citing the advice of his attorney, Binder turned down our request for an interview.
And it's important to note that Tim Binder has never been charged with any crime relating to the disappearance
of these girls. He has consistently claimed that he is innocent. Kim Schwarz has not given up her search for the person
who kidnapped Amber. This effort led her to create the Amber Foundation for Missing Children.
Kim hopes to prevent child abductions so that what happened to her never happens to anyone else.
Update, the body of Angela Bugay, the first of the five girls to disappear, was exhumed and tested
for the DNA of her killer. The results led to the arrest of a man named Larry Christopher Graham, who
had once dated Angela's mother. Graham was convicted of raping and killing the five-year-old
and sentenced to death. Tim Binder was not involved in any way. There are new developments in this case.
Here's one of our staff with the details. MALE VOICE: 21 Years after she disappeared
from her front yard, police and the FBI now believe they know who kidnapped and killed Amber Schwartz.
During a prison interview with the FBI, convicted child killer, Curtis Dean Anderson,
confessed to abducting Amber from her front yard, murdering her in a Tucson, Arizona motel room,
and disposing of her body in the Arizona desert. Anderson was serving a 300 year sentence in connection
with the killing and sexual molestation of other children. Just 30 days after confessing to Amber's murder,
Anderson died in prison. While they were never able to conduct a polygraph, FBI profilers who interviewed Anderson are
convinced he was telling the truth, and the case has been closed. DENNIS FARINA: Up next, a friendly con man
dips into the church offering basket and makes off with more than a million dollars.
In Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Holy Family Church serves a small, tight-knit Hispanic community.
The parishioners are honest and hardworking but by no means wealthy. When Carlos Garcia arrived, he was warmly
welcomed into the congregation. He was a gregarious businessman who quickly made friends with everyone.
IRIS YOUNG: really struck me about him when he first came to us was how honest he seemed to be
and how concerned, he seemed to be for the people of our community, for the Hispanic people,
especially with the Mexicans. He was extremely close to the Mexican community. And he earned their trust immediately,
just like he earned mine. Let me just say how excited I am. We've had a great year.
DENNIS FARINA: Within three years, Garcia had been elected president and treasurer
of the local pastoral council which oversaw the church budget and expenditures. It was a powerful position, and slowly Garcia began
to use it to his own advantage. Now, on page one, all the items that have an asterisk,
you'll find the explanation on page two. SISTER BARBARA GERWE: There was, for many people, almost
an immediate trust that this is somebody who has come to this country, who has become successful,
and now is helping other people. OK, can we approve the minutes? Unfortunately, we found out the trust
that had been put in Carlos had been betrayed just in many ways. [speaking spanish]
DENNIS FARINA: Garcia used his position in the church to attract clients to his tax business.
One couple gave him more than $13,000 to turn over to the IRS. But Carlos kept every penny.
IRMA NARANJO: We didn't know how the system worked here for paying taxes and all that.
He helped us arrange our citizenship, our immigration cards, and he always helped us with everything.
[speaking spanish] So that's why we trusted him so much, and that's why we trusted him with our taxes.
He takes advantage of the fact that a great many of the individuals he comes in contact with
are unfamiliar with federal income tax laws. They trust him to guide them through what
really must appear a maze. Unfortunately, they don't realize that he has no intention of taking them anywhere but
to the cleaners, so to speak. DENNIS FARINA: Garcia's tax scam was just the beginning.
Using church records, he got confidential information about hundreds of community members.
Who used it to order credit cards in the names of fellow churchgoers and their dead relatives.
THOMAS SOCHOR: He would use the information that he obtained about other people to build resumes, obtain credit cards,
establish bank accounts. And with his credit cards, he even assumed the identities of females.
And he would charge things on these credit cards. And he would explain to them that sometimes a name which you
would assume would be female was not because it was a Hispanic name. And he got away with it.
DENNIS FARINA: Carlos was also something of a ladies man. One woman who we'll call Anna, dated him for six years
and never realized what he was up to. [speaking spanish] DENNIS FARINA: When Carlos learned
that Hannah's mother inherited a lot of money, he encouraged her to put it in a CD.
He had told her that the interest rate would be better at his credit union, and he had already
picked up the signature cards and everything and bought those with him. So she filled out the application and signature card,
and he took the money. He put it in the credit union. I think it's an excellent investment.
Well, thank you Carlos. DENNIS FARINA: What Anna and her mother didn't realize was that Garcia had co-signed this signature card.
Before long, he emptied the account of $25,000. Finally, after eight years one of Garcia's clients
became suspicious and contacted the IRS. CA BARG: The taxpayer alleged that she had given Carlos
cash money for three consecutive years for Carlos to [inaudible] to the Internal Revenue Service.
She subsequently learned that IRS did not have any record of her filing or any payments made
to the Internal Revenue Service. DENNIS FARINA: She made a phone call to Carlos to discuss her situation.
Hello. DENNIS FARINA: He had no idea that the IRS inspectors were listening in. Carlos, I'm calling because I've received some letters
from the IRS and they say that they haven't received payments from me. And you know, I paid you in cash and I
don't have any record of it. Obviously, there's been a terrible mistake. I will call them on Monday morning and straighten
this whole situation out. So you do have the record then? You can prove to them that I gave you the payment in cash?
Yes, I've got those records. I know you've paid me. I've got everything right here.
I will take care of it? Do you understand? OK, then I'll wait to hear from you. Thank you, Carlos.
Bye-bye. DENNIS FARINA: Garcia was arrested a few days later. He soon posted bail, and within a week
he had slipped out of Virginia Beach and vanished. When the IRS searched through Garcia's records,
they discovered his true identity, Fernando Zapico. Zapico is a native of Argentina.
He's a career con man whose life of crime spans more than four decades. He has used at least 17 aliases to defraud
victims of nearly $2 million. Probably even greater than the loss of funds from our Hispanic community has been the loss of trust,
and the real betrayal that people have felt of someone whom they loved and respected and truly looked up
to as a leader of their community, and now they find that they've been betrayed by an
I still have times when it's hard for me to accept this. I still have times when I feel like crying,
when I feel depressed, because I trusted him. I believed in him. He took money from people that were simple people.
Again, people that trusted him. And these people will never be the same again. The whole community will never be the same again.
Update, after decades of bilking innocent victims, Fernando's Zapico has been captured.
He was working at a convenience store in Miami, Florida when one of our viewers recognized him
and notified authorities who moved in quickly to make the arrest. Fernando Zapico pleaded guilty to bank fraud, credit fraud,
and other felonies, and was sentenced to two years in federal prison. He has since been released.
Next, a high school cheerleader is murdered near campus. We need your help to catch the killer.
East Millinocket, Maine, a peaceful milk town where kids play in the parks unsupervised, and most people
don't even lock their doors. But that sense of safety ended when 16-year-old Joyce McLean was murdered.
Her body was found in the woods behind the high school soccer field. I saw Joyce, and she wasn't moving.
Her body looked like it had been beaten. Joyce! I knew that she wasn't alive. Joyce!
And after that, I turned and ran home and called the police. It turned out to be a big part in my life
that's really hurt me. I never expected what happened at all. It's just something in a little town like this
that you don't forget. It's there all the time. There's not a day that goes by that her name isn't mentioned,
mainly because she was such a bright, beautiful young girl, so talented. She made such a mark on this town
that people just didn't forget. Over 6,000 signatures were collected petitioning "Unsolved Mysteries" to tell Joyce's story.
The people of her hometown feel that it may be the last chance to find the person who killed their friend
and their neighbor, Joyce McLean. She was the kind of teenager that would make any home town proud.
Joyce was a gifted musician, who played in the school orchestra and composed her own music.
She was an honor student, cheerleader, and student body officer. Joyce's mind was filled with thoughts
of what kind of a future she was going to have. She was heading into a no stopping life.
She was getting her driver's license. She is going to turn 17-years-old. She had a big party planned at the beach with a big band,
and lots of friends and family was going to be there. I believe that it was a growing up time.
DENNIS FARINA: On a Friday evening, Joyce went for her usual jog around the school.
It was the last time that she was seen alive. DET. BARRY SHUMAN: Joyce got a route that
took her out around the town and behind Schenck High School. And the last time she was seen is turning the corner going
down to the softball field in the soccer field where she usually did a number of laps.
We have witnesses that say this happened roughly between quarter of eight and 8:00 o'clock
in the evening. DENNIS FARINA: The field was a popular hangout. One theory is that some locals were drinking there
and began harassing Joyce. They may have forced her into the woods intending to rape her.
Instead, it ended in murder. A second theory is that Joyce was attacked by one or more workers from the local paper mill.
300 laborers who were not local residents had just been hired. But after intense investigation, the case remains unsolved.
WENDY MCLAIN: Before she was murdered, all of us kids would all go out walking around.
6:00 o'clock we we're all out on the street. And after she was murdered, it all changed.
The parents were real, you know, where are you going? What time are you going to be home?
And people never even locked the doors around here. People started locking up their houses,
and I mean everybody was just in a panic. It was like it's something you least expect around here.
Can you imagine living in a town where people are aware that these killers have never been found.
They may very well be still walking our streets. The town has been like a pressure cooker
just ready to explode. I believe that Joyce's murder is solvable, and I believe out there someone has just
the tiniest bit of information. They may not even know it. They could come forward, and it could be solved.
DENNIS FARINA: Update. An arrest has been made in this case. Here's one of our staff with the details.
MALE VOICE: After a 35 year investigation, Phillip Scott Fournier 55, was arrested and charged with the murder
of Joyce McClain. Fournier was 19 at the time of Joyce's death, and he had been interviewed nearly two
dozen times since her murder. He allegedly told his mother and several other witnesses
that he had killed McClain. He is pleading not guilty to the crime DENNIS FARINA: Next, the amazing journey of a note in a bottle
and its 18 year odyssey around the world. Ovid, New York near Lake Cayuga. One summer day, nine-year-old Kevin Reeder and his mother
Merle were at the lake. They tried a little experiment. 1978. When you find this bottle--
I know, please drop me a line. Perfect. DENNIS FARINA: They signed the note with Kevin's name
and address, and then tucked it inside an old bottle. OK, all right you go ahead.
Give it a good throw. Go ahead. Good arm. Mom? What sweetie? How far do you think it could go?
I don't know. MERLE CUSHMAN: We thought somebody around Aurora might find it or it would go to the south end of the lake
to Ithaca. There were college, and they might be interested in seeing where it went and write to Kevin
and give him a new pen pal. After we tossed a bottle into the lake, it was probably,
or it was part of a daily thought process, waiting for the mail, checking the mail,
the anticipation until it progressively faded away until you forgot entirely about it.
DENNIS FARINA: Years past. Kevin Reeder grew up and moved away from New York. First to Florida, then to Texas.
Kevin had no idea that he had launched the battle on its own epic journey. 18 years later, Kevin returned to Ovid to find
a letter waiting for him. It had arrived only days before. Inside was the message that he had put in the bottle
almost two decades earlier. It came with a short note from the people who found it.
When I called my mother, the first thing that came out of my mouth was you're never going to believe this.
It says, hello Kevin. I found your message in a bottle, like that song, at the beach in San Diego, California.
I thought it would be funny to write back. Pretty cool! It was signed by Rosa and Bruce.
And it has a PS. Where the heck is Ovid. But there's no return address or phone number.
DENNIS FARINA: In 20 years, the bottles had apparently traveled more than 3,000 miles by land and some 25,000 miles
by sea. So how could a glass bottle get across the entire continent from a lake in New York to the Pacific Coast?
That is really amazing. I think it's a bit unlikely because of all the difficulties
to get there, but that is truly amazing but not impossible. DENNIS FARINA: Dr. Richardson is one of the world's top experts
on global water currents. Here's how Dr. Richardson says this well-traveled bottle
might have maneuvered through the waterways of the world. First, the bottle would have floated out of the lake
through the Erie Canal into the St. Lawrence Seaway, and then out into the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia.
That's the hardest part, because it's so easy for a bottle to go ashore and be found by someone.
Once it gets into the Atlantic, it's easy for a bottle to stay adrift for many years.
DENNIS FARINA: Dr. Richardson speculates that a combination of tides, winds, and ocean currents
could have taken the bottle around the world. From Nova Scotia south down the Eastern
Seaboard and then east towards Europe, down the west coast of Africa, and then across to South America.
The bottle was swept back across the Atlantic past the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean.
Then, east until it reached the south. Currents pushed it back across the Pacific
then north past the Philippine Islands and Japan. After that, the bottle would have
had to cross the Pacific yet again head down the west coast of North America, and reach its final destination
San Diego, California. It would have been a magnificent voyage, but Dr. Richardson himself has some doubts it really happened.
I'm a bit skeptical. I think it went to California in someone's pocket or someone's suitcase.
It's very difficult to get out through the canals and rivers without going aground or being found by someone.
DENNIS FARINA: Those someone's were Bruce and Rosa. Although they did not give their last names or a return address,
Kevin's mother feels that she knows at least a little something about them. They had to have some kind of sense of humor to value
to pick it up and open it and read it and then send our note back and say, where the heck is Ovid?
I like to picture it as a couple strolling the beach and just coming upon it and taking the time and energy
to allow somebody to revisit their childhood like they've allowed me to do, and also
just to thank them for it. The incredible journey of Kevin's message in a bottle
may be one of our quirkier mysteries, but we're hoping that Bruce and Rosa can provide the final chapter in this intriguing story.
If you know Bruce or Rosa, please contact us at unsolved.com Queens, New York. Jean and Don Warren we're the parents of three daughters
and had always wanted a son. Their dream seemed to come true the day that a two-year-old foster child named
Roger arrived at their home. For Jean, being a foster mother had special meaning.
JEAN WARREN: I was a foster child, and because of this I wanted a foster child to do what somebody did for me.
Hello, Roger. Welcome to our family. It's the tender loving care. To me this is what's important, giving a child
the love, the attention that he needed, and not just a bed to sleep in. Roger, this is Carol and Wendy and Donna.
Donna this is Roger. Hi, do you want to come and play with my toys. JEAN WARREN: He was kind of shy, but Donna, she was a year older
than Roger and she took to him. Within a year's time, I have to say Roger developed so wonderfully.
He started smiling a lot, laughing a lot. You know, he was no longer that shy little boy
that walked in that day. You're doing real good, Roger. I'm proud of you. I think adjusting in our family was the best thing for Roger.
Whatever we did, he was there with us. And each day I was loving this child more and more and more.
DENNIS FARINA: But after three years, Don and Jean had to move from New York to Ohio.
They were heartbroken to learn that they could not take Roger with them. DENNIS FARINA: I questioned the agency, because I
wanted to adopt Roger. And they told me that was impossible, because a foster child couldn't be taken out of state.
Come on, Roger. Time to go. DENNIS FARINA: Jean will never forget the day that Roger was taken away.
JEAN WARREN: When she took him to the car, he looked at us and he looked at me. And I remember him putting out his hand and crying,
I don't want to go. I don't want to go. You be a good boy, Roger. I could only say, Roger be good.
Take care of yourself, and I love you and I'll always remember you. DENNIS FARINA: Jean never forgot Roger and never
stopped hoping to find him. Update. Jean Warren's 30 year search is finally over.
Roger was watching "Unsolved Mysteries" the night this story aired and rushed to see
the woman he still calls Mom. Hello. Oh, you are handsome. How are you? I'm fine.
JEAN WARREN: I was ecstatic. My heart started pounding. I would like him and his wife to be a part of our family.
And it's so nice to hear him call me mom. That makes it all worthwhile. Hi, Wendy
ROGER: I feel so much love for that woman. She has changed my life. I got a family overnight.
Overnight I got a family, and I'm a happy man. These are the pictures of your life of the three years
that you spent with us. DENNIS FARINA: The reunion with Jean was a huge success,
but there was more to come. A viewer contacted our phone center saying he was Roger's brother.
They'd been separated as toddlers and out of contact for nearly three decades. Hey.
Hey, Roger, how you doing? Where you been? It's unbelievable. There's no feeling in the world you could imagine is not
to have a family, and then 30 years later in your life you see somebody that's like you is indescribable.
I'm overwhelmed. I really am. I found my foster mother. I found my brother. I couldn't see leaving this world without knowing
where I came from. Now I know. DENNIS FARINA: But believe it or not, there was still more to come.
In the weeks since their reunion, Roger and James found their father, Phillip Sr.
and met their brother, Phillip Jr. This case has come to a successful conclusion,
but several others we profiled still need your help. If you have any information, please log onto our website
at unsolved.com [music playing]

This, Episode includes: Motorcycle Murder, Amber Swartz, Carlos' Con, Maine Petition, Message in a Bottle and Foster Son.

Brief Summary

Michael Hunter's murder, Amber Schwartz's abduction, and Carlos Garcia's fraud are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Michael Hunter. A motorcycle racer is found dead with no visible wounds, leading to a shocking discovery.
Amber Schwartz's Disappearance. A mother’s worst nightmare unfolds as her daughter goes missing while playing outside.
The Con Man in the Church. Carlos Garcia, a trusted church member, betrays his community and steals over a million dollars.
Community Betrayed. A leader betrays the trust of a community, leaving lasting scars.
Joyce McLean's Murder. The tragic murder of a bright young girl shakes a peaceful town.
Reunion After 30 Years. A foster mother reunites with her son after decades apart.

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