Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 15 | Forensic Files

[Music] Next on Unsolved Mysteries, troubling evidence in the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy
raises the question, was Sir Han Sirhan the only gunman? It is known as the Girden Light.
For more than 80 years, the same eerie apparition has been seen by hundreds of eyewitnesses. But what is it?
A tragic accident leaves three young children motherless. Within days, Tina Sheets is separated from her two
brothers. She will spend the rest of her life trying to find them. Rapper Young Lei is headed for stardom when his
girlfriend is murdered, her house is set on fire, and his son is kidnapped. What
happened? Join us for five cases with twists and turns that you can hardly believe. I'm Dennis Fina and you're
watching Unsolved Mysteries. [Music] [Music] Somewhere between New York and Washington
DC, June 1968, a funeral train carrying the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy slowly
makes its way to the nation's capital. Along the route, thousands mourned the loss of a favorite
son. Three days earlier, Robert Kennedy had been assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. For
those who were there, the agonizing moments that followed the shooting will never be forgotten. Move back, please.
By that time, the pandemonium had broken loose. I mean, everybody was screaming.
Uh, there were people yelling, "Kenned was shot. Kennedy was shot. Get an ambulance. Get a doctor."
Many people jumped on Sir Han and hitting him, yelling and screaming. Somebody was trying to get the gun. They
couldn't get the gun out of his hand. It was like frozen in his hand. I was afraid somebody was going to snap
his back. And I thought they'd just snap him like a matchstick. And Greer finally
got possession of the gun and gave it to Rafer Johnson. And it was agreed, you know, Johnson was to hold on to that
gun, not give it to anyone until uh the police arrived. Sirhan B. Sirhan was convicted of the
first-degree murder of Robert Kennedy. Sirhan never denied killing Kennedy, but has claimed on several occasions that he
cannot remember the period of time of the shooting. The final report of the Los Angeles Police Department
definitively states that Sirhon acted alone and fired the fatal shot. It seems that every political
assassination triggers conspiracy theories. The murder of Robert Kennedy is no exception. In this case, some
researchers and eyewitnesses believe that a second gun was fired in the Ambassador Hotel and that it may not
have been Siran. Sir Han who fired that fatal shot. The evening of June 4th began as a
celebration. I thank all of you who made this possible this evening with a victory in the California primary.
Senator Kennedy became the favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
My thanks to all of you. And now it's on to Chicago and let's win there. After concluding his speech, Senator
Kennedy was scheduled for a press conference in the Colonial Room about 40 yards away. He exited the rear of the
stage, turned right, traveled down the hallway, and entered the hotel's kitchen pantry. Kennedy was escorted by Hotel
Mitra, and paused to shake hands with the kitchen staff. [Music] Sirhan Sirhan fired a 22 caliber
revolver with a cylinder capable of holding eight rounds. He was immediately restrained but managed to keep firing
the gun until it was empty. Robert Kennedy died 26 hours later. Five bystanders were also seriously
injured but survived the attack. Sirhan Sirhan was taken into custody by the Los Angeles Police
Department. They organized a 40 member task force known as Special Unit Senator or SUS. The former chief of detectives
with overall responsibility for the investigation was Robert H. Hotton. The SUS organization was created not
only to investigate the assassination, but any ramification of that uh assassination that could uh possibly be
a conspiracy. We didn't know that it wasn't the time it occurred. We had no idea what the exact facts were.
By the end of their investigation, the LAPD concluded, quote, "The right person was arrested and prosecuted."
There's no question in my mind that Sirhan had killed Kennedy and he acted alone.
The morning after the shooting, police discovered Sir Han's notebook in his apartment. 3 weeks earlier, he had
written, "Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated." The case seemed open and shut. The weapon taken from Sir Hunt was
a 22 caliber Ivor Johnson revolver, which held eight rounds. The LAPD determined that eight bullets were fired
in the pantry and that all eight came from Sir Han's gun. The official report concluded the bullets that struck
Kennedy were the first ones fired from a distance of 1 to 6 in. However, the exact sequence in which the shots were
fired is unclear. But could a second gun also have been fired that night? This computerenerated simulation of the
shooting is based on the official diagram. Sirhan is depicted by the red figure and Robert Kennedy by the white.
The LAPD has positioned Kennedy with his right shoulder turned towards Sirhan. One bullet entered the back of his head
just behind his right ear. This was the fatal shot. The second penetrated the senator's right shoulder and lodged near
his spine. A third bullet entered Kennedy's back, angling upward. It exited through his chest and was
believed lost somewhere in the ceiling. A fourth passed through the right shoulder pad of his suit jacket. This
bullet also angled upward and according to the LAPD, then struck a bystander, Paul Shrade, in the forehead.
I've talked to Paul Shade. Paul said that he had to be 9 ft tall or have his head on Kennedy's shoulder in order to
be hit with this bullet. But this is key for the LAPD that this is believed that
that that bullet hit Paul Shay because if not, then there's another bullet in that room, which means there's a second
gun. According to the LAPD version, four other bullets struck bystanders. One of
them ricocheted downward from the ceiling and hit campaign worker Elizabeth Evans in the head. But medical
records show that the bullet which struck Evans entered at an upward angle. If a bullet ricochets from the ceiling
and comes down through another tile, it's going in a downward direction. You can't have a bullet going in a downward
direction medically enter from any other direction than downward. Yet her bullet
enter going upward. The autopsy of Senator Kennedy concluded that the fatal shot as well as the other two bullets
that hit him were fired from point blank range. about 1 to one and a half inches
away. However, the eyewitnesses who testified at Sir Han's trial placed the gun muzzle a foot to three feet away
from Kennedy not 1 and 1/2 in. If that guy that that bullet which killed Kennedy that was an inch away from from
his head, this bullet didn't come from from did not come from Zahan because he never got that
close. In a moment, we'll hear several accounts that suggest the second gun was fired during the assassination of Robert
Kennedy. [Music] In 1969, Sirhan B. Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the
murder of Senator Robert Kennedy. But in the years following, some researchers believe they have found evidence that
Sirhan did not fire the only bullets. If that bullet which killed Kennedy was an inch away from his head, this bullet
didn't come from from Siran. Did not come from Zan cuz he never got that close. Carl Uker was the Mater D who was
leading Senator Kennedy through the pantry at the time of the shooting. Mr. Kennedy was shaking hands. I was holding
his hand, his arm. I was trying to pull him getting into the colonial by that time. Shahan came
behind me. He was trying to get through me, but I was pushing him back. And then
I saw the gun and he shot him twice, grabbed him, got him in the headlock and pushed the gun away. And I
was holding his shan over the steam table and he kept shooting. And I say it again and again
and again that gun never got that close to Mr. Kennedy's head. At the trial, Uker testified that
Sirhan fired only two shots before he was forced away from Kennedy. However, the official report stated that four
shots were fired before Sirhan was restrained. The gun was, I'd say, approximately anywhere from one to 2 ft
away from him. He was not an inch away from Kennedy's head because he was across the room on this ice thing. And
the room, I don't know the dimensions of the room, but he was not an inch away. None of the eyewitnesses who testified
at the trial believed that the gun could have been 1 and 1/2 in away from Kennedy. However, the LAPD determined
that all the eyewitnesses were mistaken about what they had seen due to the panic and chaos of the
moment. But that doesn't ring true with eyewitness Richard Lubik, who claims that he saw a security guard pull his
gun during the shooting and then leave the room. I notice that there is a gentleman in
some type of a uniform and he has a gun out. That gun is in his hand, but that gun was not aimed at Seirand who was had
just fired. It was in his hand, aimed down, not at Kennedy, but down toward the floor.
The security guard has acknowledged that he unholstered his weapon that night, but denies that it was fired. He
cooperated with police and was cleared by the LAPD of any involvement in the attack. We could not make any connection
between Stean and this guard prior to that evening. None at all. That meant that it would be a a phenomenal leap of
logic to think they would both be in the kitchen at the same time unless there was a connection. So, we did not and do
not I do not in any way believe there's a second gun involved. can't get a match. A lawsuit filed by
one of the surviving victims resulted in a re-examination of the firearms evidence. A panel of experts compared
the three intact bullets recovered from the victims with bullets fired from Sir Han's revolver. Their findings did not
rule out the possibility of a second gunman. The three victim bullets were identified
as having come from the same gun. The siran gun has never been identified as firing those victim bullets. And that
that in and of itself is not conclusive that the sand gun didn't do the firing. So we're left with a dilemma that we
have three victims struck by bullets from the same gun, but we don't know whose gun it was.
The LAPD says that there were six victims who were hit by eight bullets. They say that Seir Han made good on all
eight shots. They've accounted for all the bullets. You prove one more bullet, there's a second gun in that room.
Photographs taken of the pantry entrance add to the possibility that more than eight shots were fired. This FBI
photograph identifies two bullet holes in the center divider between the two doors which are not accounted for in the
official report. This is the FBI's photograph from the scene and their accompanying caption from the June
8th, 1968 FBI report. E2, a close-up view of the two bullet holes of area described above. Here's E2. And these
are the two bullet holes as the FBI describes them. Not alleged bullet holes, bullet holes. I saw two bullet
holes in a center divider. I saw two bullets in the holes. I know what I saw. And the issue
obviously is that others say that they weren't there. It's a supposition on my part that it the door jambs, whatever
was in there that was looked like bullets were extracted and found not to be bullets. I presume that was done, but
I don't have personal knowledge of that. I have serious reservations whether or not any of Bobby's wounds were inflicted
by Sir Han's gun. I at this point feel that there probably was a second gun there and that it was fired.
Portions of the wooden door frames were removed by police from the pantry and booked into evidence. However, if they
could have shed any light on this issue, the question is now moot. According to the LAPD, they were destroyed 2 months
after Sirhan's conviction. I think that the LAPD thought they had an open and shut case. And when extra bullets showed
up and when other crime scene evidence didn't jive with the official version, I think the question became one of
nothing's going to bring him back. So why confuse all of this with the facts? And I think that the case just rested
there. Final services for Robert Francis Kennedy were held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and were
televised live to the nation. My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond
what he was in life. To be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried
to write it, saw suffering and tried to heal it. Saw war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and who take
him to his rest today. Pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday
come to pass for all the world. More than four decades after Robert Kennedy's death, debate about the
second gunman continues. A recent study of an audio tape recorded in the pantry that night suggests a total of 13 shots
being fired. The conflicting evidence is likely to be debated for years to come. Next, a mysterious light haunts
the railroad tracks of Guren, Arkansas. Is it a natural phenomenon or the prowling ghost of a murdered railroad
worker? [Music] Girden, Arkansas. One of the many nearly identical towns along the railroad
between St. Louis and Dallas. But Girden is a little bit different. As Darkness falls, the locals
anticipate the arrival of their very own unsolved mystery. For decades on the tracks just outside
of town, eerie lights have magically appeared. I'd say that I've seen it where I
couldn't write it off as being anything else probably 20 25 times at least. And I'm a very skeptical person.
Over the years, I have personally seen it hundreds of times with my father and my family.
I've seen a lot at least 60 or 70 times. Uh, and of course usually when you see it one time in that evening, you can see
it several times in succession. What is the Girden Light? A natural phenomenon, a longunning prank, or
perhaps something otherworldly? A legend that goes back to the 1930s may explain it.
Around midnight on a chilly winter night, section foreman Will Mlan confronted one of his workers, Lewis
McBride. Got something I need to tell you and I want it's concerning you boys. Now go on, clock out. The day before a
freight train had derailed just outside of Gertton. This is your last night, McBride. Get your pay. Get on out of
here. Mlan believed that McBride had sabotaged a section of the track. I don't want to hear anymore about it.
Just pick up your pay and get off the yard. I need this job. Don't you? When Mlan didn't return home, a
search party was quickly assembled. They came upon a trail of blood and followed
it along the tracks to the edge of town. At the end of the trail, they found the lifeless body of Will
Mlan. By dawn, McBride had confessed to the murder. In February of 1932, he was executed at the state
penitentiary. Soon after that, people began seeing the Girden Light on a regular basis. Local legends said that
it was the ghost of Will Mlan, doomed to spend eternity walking the tracks with his
lantern. One of the first sightings was reported by a conductor named John. When
he stepped out of the back of the caboose one night, he was startled by what he saw.
They say that John went out on the back platform to investigate and the light was real far off and kind of faint, but
it seemed to be traveling the same speed they were. All of a sudden, it just shot
up and he's just like paralyzed, hanging on to the grab bar and just transfixed,
staring right into the light. According to John, the light followed the train for more than a mile. Finally, it veered
off in the direction of the cemetery. Ever since, looking for the garden light has become something of a
local pastime. If you go down there uh with some regularity, uh you're definitely going to see it after a
while. Walking down the tracks in the total darkness always left you with a little eerie feeling.
I've seen it come on in a quick flash and seen it fade in and then fade back out.
The descriptions of the light are quite consistent. It hovers 1 to 3 ft above the tracks and is rarely visible for
more than 10 seconds at a time. The whole town has seen it at some point in time. It's not a figment of anybody's
imagination. It does exist. It is there. What is it? That's the question. Is the Gen Light, as some believe, the
ghost of Will Mlan, or is there a rational scientific explanation? For years, Dr. Charles
Lenning, a physics professor at Henderson State University, took his classes to Girden in search of the
answer. When I first went out to see the garden light and studied the area maps,
I was pretty confident that the light always originated from car headlights on an interstate bridge a few miles away.
The light is usually seen in this area just outside Girden. The highway lies to the southwest, 4 miles away.
The problem with the headlight theory is that we could find reliable accounts of
people that reported the garden light well before the interstate bridge that we thought was the origin of the uh
headlights was opened. Yet another theory is based on the fact that dense swamp vegetation releases gas
as it decomposes. Spontaneous combustion of these gases will produce a display of
light. The theory of it being swamp gas doesn't hold up to me uh just because I've seen
it on a windy night. So that would eliminate any sort of swamp gas out there. The closest theory that I've come
to for explaining the gird light is the pazo electric effect. And paso electricity is a simple phenomena where
if you squeeze um crystals such as quartz or rochell salt, you get an electric current out of them.
Girden sits on top of huge deposits of quartz crystals along with the active fault line known as the New Madrid
fault. Michael Klingan believes that when the plates shift, electric charges are released from the crystals and are
seen above ground as the Girden light. People tend to say that the light appeared after the murder of Will Mlan.
That also coincides with a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault line. So that tends to support my pazo
electric theory. Klingan admits that there is one large hole in his theory. He cannot explain
how the charge migrates to the surface or why it is concentrated in a balllike shape. Do we really want to know what it
is? because that would take all the mystery out of it and all the fun and and I would like to see my children's
children take their children down there just like our parents took us down there. It's a perfect setting for a
ghost story. So, what is the secret of the Girden Light? Well, until a solid theory comes
along, we're left with the legend of Will Mlan's ghost wandering the railroad tracks with his lantern.
Forever. Next, three children are separated when their mother dies in a terrible accident. 30 years later, Tina
Sheets is still looking for her two lost brothers. [Music] Toledo, Ohio. A highway under construction. A
young single mother hurrying home to her three small children. And then disaster.
[Music] 26-year-old Patricia Lamaran was killed instantly. A few miles away, her
children waited patiently at the home of their great aunt. That evening, the television brought the tragedy front and
center. Look, there's mom's car and TV. Suddenly, they were motherless. Patricia's one-year-old son, Craig,
nicknamed Chipper, two-year-old Christopher, Chrissy for short, and her daughter Tina, then four years old. The
day before was my brother Chrissy's second birthday. And I remember the birthday cake and the people at the
party. And my next memory goes immediately to my aunt on the phone crying. Tina had only the Vegas concept that
something terrible had happened. She had no idea that she and her brothers were about to be separated
forever. Chrissy and Chipper were eventually handed over to foster care. Tina was uprooted as well, leaving the
home of her great aunt to live with her grandparents. I was very upset and could not
understand why my mother and my brothers were gone. I felt as though I was bad, that I had done something terribly
awful, for all this to happen to me and for everybody to have been taken from me. As I grew up, I missed not having
Chrissy and Chipper there. I knew that they were somewhere and that I wanted to be with them, but it was out of my
control as to where any of us went. And the older I got, the more I knew I had the ability to find them.
Tina started looking when she was 16. What is it? It's the address of the foster home where Chrissy and Chipper
were taken. Her great aunt gave her the first clues. Live. No, that's the place where they were taken. I don't know what
happened to them after that. Tina learned that Chrissy and Chipper's foster parents had moved away. She then
went door to door, hoping the neighbors could help. Hello. Hi. I'm trying to locate a family
that used to take in foster kids. Tina's efforts eventually paid off. Yeah. I'm trying to find my two brothers. Their
names were Chipper and Chrissy, and I believe they lived with her for a while. Um, I remember those two. Yes, they're
cute little boys. Yeah, they remember them. Tina was thrilled. She got the name of the foster mother, Doris
Synindel, and then spent the next 8 years trying to locate her. Finally, they connected.
When I first told her who I was, I asked her if she ever lived in Toledo, and she
said yes. And I asked her if she was ever a foster parent, and she said yes. And I told her I believed that she had
fostered my brothers. And she said, "My babies Chrissy and Chipper." And I nearly fell off of my
chair. Chrissy and Chipper had stayed with Doris for almost 2 years until they were adopted by a couple from Michigan.
Tina, I've been waiting for you. Huh? Tina visited Doris as soon as she could. She wanted to hear every detail. This
was taken at Deer Park. This is Doris had saved everything. The home movies, the photographs, even the boys tiny bow
ties. These are the actual ties. When I handed her the bow ties, I had no intentions of letting her keep those bow
ties. But I didn't have the heart to take them back because she looked with them with such loving care and she
couldn't speak. She cried. It just felt as if they had actually worn these. I was that much
closer to them. I just wanted to be able to to be with them. Based on these childhood photographs, a
police sketch artist drew age progressed sketches of Chrissy and Chipper. Tina hoped that these images might reunite
her with her long lost brothers. I have a longing to be with them. I don't feel like my life is complete
without them. There's a lot of missing pieces and um I need to be with them and I need them to
know their family. [Music] Update. On the night of our broadcast, Tina was at our phone center when her
youngest brother called in. Chipper, this is Tina. I'm your sister. I don't know if you know you have a
sister. Tina learned that both Chip and her other brother Chris lived in West Virginia. After 32 years, Tina could
hardly find the words to express what she was feeling. Been a long time. It was hard for me to
to know if you or Chris even would remember me. I'm elated. I don't know how to explain it. Um it's u a solved
mystery. A few weeks after the broadcast, Tina joined her brothers for their first
Christmas together in more than 30 years. Tina would still like to locate her biological father, John Edward
Lamaran. He was born in Detroit and lived with the family in Los Angeles. If you have any information about John
Edward Lamaran, please log on to our website at unsolved.com. [Music] Next, a house is set a fire, a young
woman is murdered, and the 4-week old son of a rap musician is kidnapped. [Music]
[Music] His name is Lean Williams. To his fans, he's Young Lei, a rising star in the rap
music world. But without warning, he would become the center of a bizarre double
mystery. It was a tragedy that tore him from the two most important people in his life, a case that has stumped the
Vallejo police for years. I got the hit. In the spring of 1996, Lean Williams was on the fast
track to rap stardom. He had just signed a recording deal. His new video was about to be released and his girlfriend
had just given birth to their first child, a boy named Lison. What I feel about Lison was it's a first
son. Uh the summer to come, you know what I'm saying? I'm going to uh be with him, you know what I'm saying? Take care
of him. It was it was experience to me. You know what I'm saying? I was happy. Lean's girlfriend, 17-year-old Daphne
Bdon, lived with her grandmother in Vallejo. Daphne was working hard to finish high school while caring for
Lison. One day, Daphne's grandmother, Reva Lee Bdon, was getting ready to go out when the doorbell rang.
Is Daphne home? Yeah. Come on in. She's in the back. Dany? Yeah. You have company? Right now, Daphne was getting a
lot of visitors. She was the mother of a local rap star's baby. Everybody wanted
to see Lean's son. Came by to see the baby. So cute. You can sit down. Dany, I'm going to play bingo. I'll be gone.
Reva Lee did not recognize these two girls, but Daphne obviously knew them. Everything seemed fine.
Within the hour she was rushing home, neighbors had told her that her house was on fire. I tried to break her loose.
He said, "No, no, don't go in. I got to can't get in there. Can't go in there. My grand
So he said, um, your granddaughter did." The news got worse. The fire did not start accidentally. Daphne had been
murdered and the house torched to cover up the crime and baby Lison was missing,
apparently kidnapped. For Lean, the news was devastating. I was saying please to
myself, please Dafany, come walking around this corner. You know what I'm saying? With this baby.
[Applause] Daphne's death outraged the community. Hundreds turned out for a march
memorializing Daphne and urging Lison's safe return. The question on everybody's
mind was why I did hear that some girls were threatening her and I didn't understand
that, you know, but they said it was behind my son. I don't know for sure or not what the situation is, but it seems
to me as somebody wanted a baby and they wanted to do away with her. And why, I don't know.
10 months earlier, Lean himself had been the victim of a holdup. Break yourself.
What's up, homie? You know what time it is? I thought we was cold. Give up the damn little one. I'm busting. Come on.
Come on. Anybody moves, everybody dies. One bullet hit Lean, piercing his brain.
When he recovered, he testified against the shooter. It's only natural to assume
that there could be some possible connection there, that it may be some type of retaliation. We don't want to
overinflate that possibility. Uh, but again, it's unsolved, so we're trying not to close any doors on it. However,
Lean is convinced that the two attacks are not connected. Had nothing to do with it. You know what I'm saying? cuz
they would have uh tried to get at me. You know what I'm saying? My life would have been in danger. Not uh you know
what I'm saying, my uh baby mama's life and my kid. Whatever the motive, police had no doubt
that whoever killed Daphne also kidnapped Lison. We still feel that there's hope to to recover the baby.
Obviously, we feel it's still alive and we hope with this information on a nationwide level, it can lead to some uh
further leads that uh eventually lead to an arrest. Update. 6 years after baby Lison
Williams was kidnapped, both he and his abductors were found. Police received the tip that the boy was living with a
woman named Latasha Brown. She and her cousin Osanetta Williams were arrested and charged with the kidnapping of Lison
and the murder of his mother Daphne Bdon. Apparently, Brown, who had once been involved with Lean Williams, was
jealous of his relationship with Daphne. Osanetta Williams agreed to testify against Brown and received a sentence of
13 years and 8 months in prison. She served her time and has been released. Brown was sentenced to 37 years for
murder and kidnapping. One day, a cure for cancer will become a reality. But until then, early diagnosis
is our best hope. And to help in that quest, you may be surprised to learn that some researchers are looking to one
of the world's oldest detection devices, a dog's nose. It has been estimated that a dog's sense of smell is
more than 200 million times stronger than that of humans. It can sniff out people, animals, drugs, bombs, and
cadaavvers. And now it seems it may be able to detect cancer as much as 2 years before doctors can diagnose
it. Dwayne Pickle has been training dogs professionally for more than three decades. When a local dermatologist
wondered if cancer had a signature scent and if dogs could smell it, Dwayne decided to find out.
I talked to several nurses at the hospital and they said, "Yes, I can smell cancer myself." And said, "Vance,
when you get off the elevator floor at the hospital, there's something unique about that floor as far as smell is
concerned. Not necessarily offensive, but something very unique." Dwayne decided to focus on the fastest
growing type of cancer in America, skin cancer, especially the deadly kind known
as melanoma. Melanoma begins on the surface of the skin and at that point is 100% curable.
However, if you ignore it, it will grow deeper into the skin and eventually it will reach the blood vessels. Once it
reaches the blood vessels, it can spread around the body and reach the vital organs. Once it's done that, there is no
treatment. Dwayne hid real melanoma cells inside plastic tubes, hoping the scent was
strong enough for a dog to detect. He started the experiment with George, a standard schnowzer already trained to
sniff out bombs. Once George was given the scent, Dwayne hid the canister. I wasn't sure whether it was going to have
a strong smell or whether it was going to be like a salt and have a very weak smell. And uh but we found out that it
has a very strong smell. [Music] Dwayne did a number of experiments using other body tissues and other dogs to
make sure that they were really detecting cancer. Apparently, they were. Whether it was cells in test tubes or
concealed under bandages placed on human subjects, out of 451 searches, George and other cancer trained dogs had a
99.8% success rate. Doing that, we're going to have the dog check here. We're going to start at the head. Finally,
Tallahassee police officer Eddie Messer volunteered as a subject. A biopsy on a suspicious spot on Eddie's right
shoulder had already tested negative for skin cancer. George slowly went over Eddie's body, checking each bandage
thoroughly. When George reached the suspicious spot, he reacted to the smell of cancer, though there was none on the
bandage. Show me. When George first put his nose to that spot, you know, it felt
a little funny there, but working with dogs at the airport and what have you. Yeah, it makes you think there. So,
maybe he knows what he's talking about. For a second opinion, Dwayne's partner, Glenda Manacey, brought in her cancer
trained dog, Breeze. Breeze confirmed George's diagnosis. Eddie had a second biopsy. It was still negative, but
Dwayne was sure it was wrong. And they called me and said, "Well, the spot came back negative." I said, "I'm very sorry,
but my dog said it's melanoma. It's melanoma." So then they took off the whole lesion and they froze it and they
sent it to a lab in Cleveland and they shaved it just one little stroke at a time. It actually took 4 and 1/2 days
later before they found there was a spot in the middle of that lesion that was a
melanoma level three. If it hadn't been for the dog, if it hadn't have been for this pavologist
checking on this one spot for 4 and 1/2 days and finding yes, proving the dog was right in a couple years it could
have be on been beyond repair. But now we found it early enough so that it is repairable and that you're going to do
fine. This could lead to some exciting research in finding out what is it that the dog's smelling um and that that may
lead to blood tests or other tests to find these molecules um as a detection system for cancers.
Until those molecules are isolated, it will be up to dogs like George to sniff around and save
[Music] lives. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music]

Brief Summary

This episode discusses Robert Kennedy's assassination, the Girden Light, sibling separation after a tragedy, and the kidnapping of rapper Young Lei's son.

Key points

The Assassination of Robert Kennedy. Robert Kennedy was assassinated, leading to questions about the true nature of the attack.
The Girden Light Mystery. Locals in Girden, Arkansas, report sightings of an eerie light on the railroad tracks.
Tina's Search for Family. After losing her mother and brothers, Tina spends decades searching for them.
A Shocking Reunion. Tina receives a call from her youngest brother Chipper after 32 years apart.
The Tragic Murder of Daphne. Daphne Bdon is murdered, and her baby Lison is kidnapped, shocking the community.
The Dog That Detects Cancer. Researchers explore using dogs' noses to detect cancer earlier than doctors can.

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I was afraid somebody was going to snap his back.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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