Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina - Season 8, Episode 19 | Forensic Files

[music playing] DENNIS FARINA: Next on "Unsolved Mysteries"-- three friends set off in a boat, only one comes back alive.
And he's accused of killing the others. A tragic motorcycle accident leaves a young woman brain damaged.
Now she's missing and police need your help to find her. The Gulf War, the Oklahoma City bombing, a deadly earthquake
in Japan, does the Bible contain a secret code that predicted these events? And meet two women who swear by a controversial treatment
for MS-- honeybee stings. Five stories-- they're all strange, but guess what? They're all true.
I'm Dennis Farina and this is "Unsolved Mysteries." [theme music] In Clearwater, Florida three friends
set out by boat for a night of partying on Honeymoon Island a mile off the coast.
Two of them don't return. No! No! Easy, easy! Right there, Freddie DENNIS FARINA: Freddie Douberley and Mary Lou Holmes
are found murdered. The third man on the boat, Glenn Consagra, is charged with the double homicide.
Before his trial, Glenn pleads guilty to second degree murder. But once in prison, he claims that he's innocent.
DOUG CROW: I don't think there's any question that Consagra is guilty of the offense.
The evidence is overwhelming. And I'm not surprised by his continued attempts to escape the punishment
for the crimes he committed. GLENN CONSAGRA: I didn't kill Mary Lou or Fred. They were my best friends.
We were celebrating a very wonderful occasion. We were just best friends out doing their thing together.
It was a special time for us and it turned to tragedy. No, I didn't kill them. DENNIS FARINA: A convict who claims
he's innocent is nothing new. But what makes this case unique is that Glenn's story is backed
up by a private investigator and a special task force of the Public Defender's Office.
They found information and a witness who support Glenn's claim that someone else gunned down
Freddie Douberley and Mary Lou Holmes. Glenn, Freddie, and Mary Lou planned to spend the evening
on Honeymoon Island celebrating the birth of Glenn's grandchild. Glenn says that on the way to the island
their boat broke down. But they managed to land at 10:00 PM on a spoil bank, a tiny man-made island about halfway
to their destination. They decided to stay, build a campfire, and continue to party.
GLENN CONSAGRA: Freddie and Lou drank all day, every day. So it was pretty much their natural state
of mind to be intoxicated. And, um, they were arguing about something. I don't recall what it was right now.
It's probably minor. But I was uncomfortable. And I was tired anyway and kind of discouraged.
And I thought, well, I'll go ahead lay down and rest and in the morning things will be better.
FREDDIE: (SHOUTING) You've had enough beer! MARY LOU: (SHOUTING) I haven't had enough beer!
DENNIS FARINA: Glenn fell asleep 30 feet away behind a bait tank. [gunfire] [gun cocking]
[gunfire] GLENN CONSAGRA: When I heard the gunshots, I-- I panicked, because we didn't take any weapons with us.
I-- I didn't understand why there was gunshots out there, but I knew something was going wrong.
And so I laid there for a long time, until later I heard the sound of a boat motor
crank up and fade out into the distance. I don't recall just how long a period of time
elapsed between the time I heard the gunshots and the time I heard the boat motor crank up, but I--
I just had a sudden, panicky urge to get away from there. My friends are disappeared, someone had attempted
to sink the boat, the motor was missing, the campsite was in disarray. I knew that something had gone wrong.
And whatever it was, I didn't want to be a part of that. I didn't want to be a party to it.
DENNIS FARINA: Glenn used a Styrofoam cooler lid as a float and swam back to land.
At dawn he arrived at the scene dock the group had left from the night before. It was then that he decided to invent a story about what
happened at the spoil bank. He said that Freddie and Mary Lou had taken the boat to buy
more beer and never returned. He did not mention anything about the gunshots. GLENN CONSAGRA: My concern was that if the murderers
knew that I was a potential witness, that they might come after me. DENNIS FARINA: Three days later, the Coast Guard
found Freddie and Mary Lou's bodies floating naked just off this spoil bank. They were tied to a boat engine and anchor.
Two .22 caliber bullets were found in Freddie's body. Mary Lou had been shot twice with a shotgun.
Glenn had been seen with a shotgun and a .22 the days before the murder. He admitted to being on the island.
He was the natural suspect. DOUG CROW: We basically found that there were bad feelings
between he and the victims, that he had made threats toward the victims, that he was in possession
of the two exact types of weapons that were used to kill both of them. We know that within days of the murder
Douberley had not paid for a car he had received from Consagra-- refused to make any payments.
The suggestion was made by another witness, well, why don't we go over there and we'll rough
Freddie up and make him pay? And Consagra said, don't go over there, I'll take care of it.
DENNIS FARINA: The Sheriff's Department uncovered additional information that implicated Glenn.
There were rumors that Freddie was a police informant who had fingered Glenn as being part of a stolen property ring.
A witness who claimed that Glenn had threatened Freddie also told authorities that Glenn had asked him to provide an alibi
for the night of the shootings. Glenn was charged with first degree murder. But before the start of his trial,
he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of second degree murder in Freddie's death, and no contest to second degree
murder in Mary Lou's death. By plea bargaining, Glenn hoped to be eligible for parole
in six months. Instead, he received two consecutive life sentences. GLENN CONSAGRA: My attorneys came
to me with different statements the different witnesses had made. And I said, well, how does it look?
And they said, well, Glenn, you have about a one in five chance of winning this case.
And if you lose, they're asking for the death penalty. I was having nightmares about being
placed in the electric chair. I ju-- I just couldn't-- I couldn't tolerate it anymore.
And whenever they gave me these options and encouraged me to make that plea, I made the plea.
I saved my life. What he's suggesting is that he intentionally perjured himself.
He lied to the Court because of some possibility that his lawyer told him about.
And that, I think, that's ridiculous. He's pleading guilty to two life terms. And that's not a decision that he or anyone else
would take lightly. DENNIS FARINA: Glenn's family contact that Steve Millwee, a private investigator based in Tampa.
He gave Glenn several lie detector tests which he says Glenn passed. The prosecution insists the tests were unreliable
and dismissed them as evidence. Steve went to areas of Tampa Bay where Glenn and his friends
lived hoping to find new evidence. STEVE MILLWEE: And I began to track down the witnesses who
are at least listed as witnesses back in the original investigation and speak to them.
And I began to find inconsistencies in what they had previously given sworn testimony toward.
DENNIS FARINA: In this videotaped confession, a woman whom we'll call Donna told
Steve a startling story which supported Glenn's claim of innocence. Donna said that she went out to the island that night
with two of Glenn's associates. One of them, whom we'll call Ted, was a key witness who had implicated Glenn in the crime.
According to Donna, Ted was angry at Freddie for being a police informant, and went
to the island, in his words, "to take care of business." TED: I'm gonna fix you real good.
You've been opening your mouth too much, Freddie. DENNIS FARINA: After a fight, the second man
held a shotgun to Mary Lou. And Ted dragged Donna to the campfire by her hair, and forced the .22 caliber pistol into her hand.
[gun cocking] STEVE MILLWEE: So you might as well just tell me everything. Tell it to me straight.
Don't lie to me. STEVE MILLWEE: On who? DENNIS FARINA: Donna claims that both she and Ted shot Freddie.
And that the second man murdered Mary Lou. She also said there was no sign of Glenn
Consagra on the island. DOUG CROW: This particular witness has been repeatedly diagnosed as suffering
from chronic schizophrenia. She repeatedly and continuously fabricated stories for no reason about things of importance
and things of no importance. People who are emotionally disturbed aren't automatically disqualified as witnesses.
They can see what they see. And if they can relate it in a rational, believable manner, why shouldn't they be believed
the same as any other person? STEVE MILLWEE: Describe how Freddie was standing. DENNIS FARINA: After confessing to the private investigator,
Donna was questioned repeatedly by the Sheriff's Department. She told six different conflicting versions
of her story. But she never backed off one important point-- that Ted, a key witness against Glenn,
was involved in the murders. And there were other unanswered questions suggesting that the murders were committed
by more than one person. Freddie and Mary Lou's bodies together weighed nearly 300 pounds.
Adding the weight of the anchor and the boat engine, how could one person have carried
that much down the beach and 30 feet into the water? And if Glenn had committed the murders, why would he
sink his own boat, leaving himself at the crime scene with no other way back to the shore other
than a dangerous swim? This particular person that, uh, Donna suggested was there and committed the murders,
is a well-known and very close associate of Glenn Consagra. If, in fact, that individual was on the spoil bank and did
have a loud argument with Freddie Douberley, then Glenn Consagra would have immediately recognized
his voice and been able to tell law enforcement from day one that this is the man who committed the murders.
He has never done so. GLENN CONSAGRA: When I first came here, people used to laugh at me when I would say I was innocent.
They would say, oh yeah, me too, you know? But um-- I think the reason I should be believed
is not because I say anything, but because the record now speaks for itself. DENNIS FARINA: The State conducted
three separate investigations. Each concluded that Glenn was guilty as charged. Glenn Consagra was never able to prove his innocence.
He spent 16 years in prison and was paroled. Two years later, he died of a heart attack.
Next, a young woman disappears after a near-fatal motorcycle accident. San Francisco, California, one November night
27-year-old Selena Edon was on her way home from a union meeting. [tires screeching]
LAURIE GALLAGHER: After the accident, she was in a coma for six weeks and she had some brain damage.
She had a long way to go. DENNIS FARINA: Selena was admitted to the hospital. Her mother and brother came in from San Diego.
CLARISSA EDON: Selena, baby, look who's here-- Dion. SELENA: Hi, Dion. DION: Hi, baby.
How you feel? LAURIE GALLAGHER: She had lost a lot of her memory, so it really kind of took away her personality.
SELENA: But don't leave me, OK? Don't leave me. LAURIE GALLAGHER: She appeared to be like a child
again, like she didn't know too much anymore. You know, she just-- you know, like-- like a child.
DENNIS FARINA: Selena's left eye had been permanently damaged. She suffered painful headaches.
Her left thigh was crushed. And a severe head injury caused fluid to build up around her brain.
Still, Selena began a demanding regimen of physical therapy. THERAPIST: Just a little bit of weight.
CLARISSA EDON: Selena was the type of patient they had to slow up. She wanted to do everything in a hurry.
It was just that she was like rushing everything. She challenged herself to the max.
And it was like a lot of things that she just couldn't do. And I guess she just wasn't ready to accept the fact
that she wasn't well yet. DENNIS FARINA: Two months after the accident, Selena moved to San Diego to live with her mother.
You're doing good. CLARISSA EDON: You know, when she was living with me, she started having more, like, confused episodes.
There was a lot of changes, and she was having a lot of headaches. Uh-huh, so we'll do that.
DENNIS FARINA: Physically, Selena was getting better. But mentally, she was worse.
Are you all right, baby? Mama, who was that I was talking to? I don't know who you were talking to.
Did you forget? Yes! CLARISSA EDON: Things like that would upset her. That's when I noticed her frustration more and more.
And she wanted to be on her own. But the more she pushed it, the more confused she was becoming.
DENNIS FARINA: Selena decided to return to San Francisco, hoping familiar surroundings would help her recovery.
Don't worry. LAURIE GALLAGHER: She was very happy to be in San Francisco and to be around her friends.
But you know, she didn't appear healthy enough to be on her own. - Are you OK? - I'm fine.
LAURIE GALLAGHER: She was very unaware of a lot of things. So I think she definitely needed somebody to be with her,
you know, to help her. [phone ringing] DENNIS FARINA: About a year after the accident,
Selena's mother received an unexpected phone call. Hello. SELENA (ON PHONE): Hello, Mama?
Selena. SELENA (ON PHONE): Mama, I'm going away for a while. I've met someone who will promise to be kind to me.
Who? CLARISSA EDON: She was evasive with me, and that wasn't like her. She would tell me everything, you know.
You need to come home. CLARISSA EDON: I said, Selena, what you need to do, you need to come back home.
And she said, well, don't worry if you don't hear from me in a month or two. And then she said, I'll be calling you soon, and hung up.
And this the last I've heard from Selena. TRACY CAVARETTA: The last time I heard anything of Selena,
she was leaving for somewhere in the Midwest with some woman who she had just met.
And I had no idea who it was. And, uh, I couldn't get a last name from her. And it was just kind of a haphazard plan.
There was no plan. It was just like, I'm going. Excuse me. DENNIS FARINA: Selena's family hired a private investigator
to search for her. Even after she told her mother that she was leaving town, she was sighted in San Francisco's
Tenderloin District. When was she here? DENNIS FARINA: The investigator followed up on all the leads,
but never found her. And if you do see her-- MAN: Um-hm. --would you give me a call?
Yeah, sure. Thanks. DION: You know, I just hope she's out there, probably, you know, just living her life.
And for what reason she didn't call us, maybe, it's just because she forgot us. Maybe she just don't remember, your know?
Hopefully it's one of those stories. Hopefully, you know, we can find her. I want to see my daughter again.
That's my baby. I love her like I love all my children, and I want her back with us.
I want her to try to call, or someone call for her if she's unable to call, and let us know where she is
and how she is. On New Year's Eve, one year after she disappeared, Selena left a garbled message on a friend's answering machine.
It was the last time anyone heard her voice. Selena's family and friends continue
to believe that she's alive somewhere in the United States and most likely lost and confused.
Selena Marie Edon was born in 1962. She stands 5 feet 7 inches tall. At the time of her disappearance she weighed about 110 pounds,
and she walks with a limp. If you have any information, please log on to our website
at unsolved.com. Next, are there codes in the Bible that can predict major world events?
This man believes that he has found them. For many, the Bible is the word of God,
a moral instruction manual on how to live a proper life. But for journalist Michael Drosnin,
there are hidden messages in the words of the Bible-- a secret code that he claims has predicted the most important
events of the 20th century. MICHAEL DROSNIN: The Oklahoma City bombing was encoded with the words "terrible frightening death,"
and "there will be terror." The great Kobe earthquake in Japan that killed more than 5,000 was encoded with the words
"earthquake, fire, Kobe, Japan," and the year that it took place, 1995. The Gulf War is encoded with the words "Hussein, enemy, scuds."
Ever since there was a Bible, people have been searching for secret hidden messages in the Bible.
I can tell you that there is no doubt that the Bible Code does exist. And that it does detail events that
took place thousands of years after the Bible was written. DENNIS FARINA: In September of 1994,
Drosnin had a letter hand delivered to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. MICHAEL DROSNIN (VOICEOVER): Mr. Prime Minister,
an Israeli mathematician has discovered a hidden code in the Bible. The only time your full name Yitzhak Rabin
is encoded in the Bible the words "assassin that will assassinate" cross your name.
That should not be ignored. I think you are in real danger, but that the danger can be averted.
DENNIS FARINA: 14 Months later, Rabin spoke at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. [speaking hebrew]
DENNIS FARINA: As he left the podium, he was gunned down by an assassin. Is it possible that this event was foretold
nearly 3,000 years ago? The Torah is said to be the word of God brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses.
It makes up the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Most scholars say the Torah predates the birth of Jesus.
Prague, 1938-- Rabbi HMD Weissmandel discovered the first known example of Bible
coding in modern times. The word Torah was spelled out when he skipped every 50 letters in the book of Genesis.
Skipping the same number of letters in the books of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
had the same result. Coincidence? The odds were against it. In 1985, Israeli scientist Doran Witztum and Eliyahu Rips
used the computer program called a skip code to find words and patterns in the Hebrew text of the Torah.
A skip code tells the computer to start with any letter of the text and then skip through the letters
at chosen intervals. In his book "The Bible Code" Michael Drosnin uses this example to show how it works.
If you skip every three letters of this sentence, it would look like this. You're left with a new sentence.
In this case, the encoded message is, read the code. The Israeli mathematicians ran a skip code searching
for the names of 34 prominent Jewish rabbis from the past 1,100 years. Amazingly, all the names were found
encoded in the book of Genesis along with their Hebrew dates of birth or death. According to Drosnin, the odds of finding
the dates with the names were ten million to one. The published report caught the attention
of Harold Gans, a former codebreaker with the National Security Agency. When I first heard about it, I dismissed
it as simply ridiculous. DENNIS FARINA: When Gans wrote his own computer program
to verify the results for himself, he also found the encoded names of cities. He later learned that these were the cities where the rabbis
had either been born or died. The odds here were more than a million to one. HAROLD GANS: And I set out to prove that it was nonsense.
Instead, I ended up proving that, in fact, it was true. I must admit, I felt a chill go up my spine
when I saw it corroborated. DENNIS FARINA: Using the skip code programs, Drosnin searched the Bible for the names
of historical figures. According to Drosnin, Adolf Hitler is encoded with the words Nazi, enemy, evil man, and slaughter.
Pearl Harbor is encoded with the words, "destruction of the fortress," World War, and December 7.
According to Drosnin, Watergate is encoded with Nixon and "who was he?" "President, but he was kicked out."
In the case of the Oklahoma City bombing, Drosnin says the code includes the name of the structure that
was blown up, the Murrah Building, the date and time of the attack, and even the name of the man convicted
of the crime, Timothy McVeigh. But not everything in the code is gloom and doom.
Drosnin says that Shakespeare is encoded with "Macbeth" and "Hamlet." The Wright brothers are encoded with airplane.
And the phrase "man on the moon" appears with spaceship and Apollo 11. But there are some who aren't buying it.
Humans are pattern seeking animals. We look for cause and effect relationships in our environment, meaningful ones.
The Bible Code is nothing more than a form of seek and ye shall find. Whether you're using the Bible or the dictionary,
the yellow pages, some other novels, all you need is a long string of letters and then
you can run your computer skip code sequence program and come up with all kinds of things.
DENNIS FARINA: Drosnin says he ran the skip code program on several books, including Tolstoy's "War and Peace,"
but found nothing of significance. He is convinced the secret code is exclusive to the Bible.
MICHAEL DROSNIN: Every major figure in world history I have looked for, every major event in world history
I have looked for has been encoded accurately, in remarkable detail, in the Bible.
DENNIS FARINA: Can the Bible Code also predict our future? In 1997, Michael Drosnin offered this prophecy.
MICHAEL DROSNIN: The most terrible warning that's encoded in the Bible is of a possible nuclear World
War within the next 10 years. The words World War and atomic holocaust are both encoded in the Bible with the same two years--
the years 2000 and 2006. I'm not calling that a prediction, but a warning. DENNIS FARINA: Thankfully, these events did not come to pass.
Well, now wait a minute. You can't prophesize the end will come, the end might not come, the end might be delayed,
or the end might not come at all. You've now made it all possible predictions, which is no prediction at all.
That's not prophecy. The Bible Code, as far as I'm concerned, does not predict anything.
It warns us of possible dangers. It doesn't give us one predetermined future, but
all of our possible futures. DENNIS FARINA: Drosnin also claimed that in 1993 he
found the word twin, the word tower, and the phrase "they will collapse-- fall" at exactly the same place in the Bible.
At the time, he believed that it was in reference to the terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers
that had occurred in February of that year. After 9/11, Drosnin and the Bible Code scholars
say they looked for and found the name Bin Laden and the word airplane in the same location.
According to Drosnin, in the year 2012 Earth will be pounded by comets. But other encoded doomsday predictions never
materialized, including a 2005 smallpox epidemic in Israel, and a nuclear attack on New York City in 2006.
HAROLD GANS: Mr. Drosnin is a journalist. He is reporting on a very complex mathematical work of world renowned mathematicians.
He has not used scientific methodology. And his actual conclusions are logically unsound.
It is far better, in my mind, to sound a false warning, than to fail to warn of a real danger.
People sometimes say to me, where's the good news in the Bible Code? Why all these predictions of terrible catastrophes?
And I say, the good news is that some intelligence cared enough about us to encode the Bible and leave us
these warnings so that these dangers could, in fact, be prevented. DENNIS FARINA: Next, a police officer flees after being
arrested for child molestation. And later, can honeybee venom reverse the effects of MS?
Meet two women who say they are living proof. On a previous broadcast, we presented the case
of Charles Mule, a 10-year veteran of the Slidell, Louisiana Police Department. Mule was arrested at a local motel where he had just
molested a 12-year-old girl. At the time, he was the Sergeant in charge of sexual offenses for the Slidell Police Department.
And his victim was a young girl that he was assigned to counsel. Considering the serious gravity of these offenses--
DENNIS FARINA: Mule was indicted on over 25 counts relating to the molestation and rape of six young girls.
He was released on $150,000 bail. Eight months later, on the morning that his trial was set to begin, Mule was reported missing.
For more than three years, his whereabouts were a mystery. Update-- Charles Mule has been captured.
Within minutes of our broadcast, the FBI received several calls from viewers who reported that Mule was
living in Ocala, Florida under the assumed name Joseph John Tranchina. Mule had seen our broadcast and left the area for three weeks.
When he returned, he was placed under arrest. Mule was convicted on multiple counts, including
aggravated assault against nature, molesting a juvenile, and jumping bail. Mule has served his time and his probation
and he is now a free man. Understandably, most people try to avoid any contact with bees.
But to some, honeybees are miniature flying drugstores that could reverse the course
of multiple sclerosis. It is a controversial treatment known as bee venom therapy.
Kelly Ames was in high school when she noticed the first signs of multiple sclerosis, or MS. By the time
she was 22, her symptoms were impossible to ignore. One day I was in work and I was walking
down a flight of stairs-- there must have been like 12 stairs-- where I just lost the feeling in my feet, like, all of a sudden.
And I fell down a flight of stairs. And the women in my office were like, wow. You know, I explained to them that my feet
sometimes get numb. DENNIS FARINA: The disease first robbed Kelly of the ability to walk alone.
Then it attacked her eyes. This is so weird, Donald. I can't see anything out of this eye.
KELLY AMES: Within that week, I lost the vision in my left eye. And I had no control over my muscles.
It was just very devastating. I hated to depend on other people, but at times I needed other people to help me.
DENNIS FARINA: Kelly's doctors put her on steroids, which can temporarily relieve the symptoms of MS.
But no drug can stop it. KELLY AMES: Having the steroid dripped into my arm, I would sit there for an hour and half looking
at other people coming in in wheelchairs and wondering if that's going to be me someday,
you know, in that wheelchair. DENNIS FARINA: Then Kelly met a woman who had literally walked
away from her wheelchair after learning how to sting her self with honeybees. Kelly's father brought her to a local beekeeper who had been
helping MS patients for years. Kelly, these are the honeybees that are going to help you.
KELLY AMES: He told me that he didn't want to be bothered by me if I wasn't serious about it.
He says, you have to do this for six months straight every other day faithfully.
Increase it by two every other day until you get to 20. And he scared me when he said that.
Because I realized that I really had to take the responsibility of sticking to this.
And I did. DENNIS FARINA: Kelly and her boyfriend set up a morning routine. He placed the bees at specific spots on Kelly's body
where nerves running to the damaged areas were easy to locate. For Kelly's failing eyesight, that was behind the ear.
Bees were also placed on Kelly's lower back to treat the weakness in her legs. They were left in place for as long as 15 minutes
to allow all the venom to penetrate the skin. I'm just getting dressed, then I'll come back, OK?
OK. DENNIS FARINA: Kelly's nervous system had been so impacted by MS that she was stung several hundred
times before she actually felt the pain of the sting. I could actually feel what a bee sting felt like.
And it hurt. It really hurt. I was screaming. I had my head in my pillow and I was screaming.
And I was screaming because I was happy because I could feel again. Within a week, my eyesight started to slowly come back,
I didn't depend on my cane as much. And right then and there I just knew, finally, this was kicking in and it was working for me.
OK, what I'm going to do is grab the bee-- DENNIS FARINA: Kelly ended up teaching bee
venom therapy to others suffering from MS. Some doctors dismiss it. But Kelly's remarkable recovery is not unique.
MAUREEN NAUGHTON: When I decided to do bee venom therapy, we kind it a little hush-hush, because I
didn't know what other people's reactions would be. I know what the reactions from my doctors were,
so I figured, you know, well, I'll keep it a little quiet. I was always afraid of bees and being stung.
But I just felt that this was my only answer. DENNIS FARINA: A local beekeeper taught Maureen
how to grab the bee's bristly neck and cause it to jab its stinger at precisely the right location.
Now, let's hold the stinger right on the top your foot right here, OK? DENNIS FARINA: By the time Maureen
began bee sting therapy, her feet were so numb that she could hardly sense they were there.
To the touch, they were icy cold. BEEKEEPER: OK, I think that's long enough. MAUREEN NAUGHTON: Within minutes, my foot was warm.
You could feel the venom going through. And the blood felt like, you know, there was life in my foot
again. It was just an incredible feeling. I knew right from that moment that something good
was happening. And I felt that this was going to help me. DENNIS FARINA: This photo of Maureen and her son
was taken six weeks after she began bee venom therapy. She had just crossed the finish line
in a seven mile MS walkathon. Success stories like this have some doctors saying that bee venom therapy is far
too promising to be ignored. DR. GLENN ROTHFELD: At first, it may be easy to dismiss
bee venom therapy. The fact is, it sounds a little kooky. However, in studying about bee venom,
there are certain substances which make sense in multiple sclerosis therapy. We know that the immune system is involved, and, of course,
the neurologic system is involved. Therefore, bee venom, which has components which affect both
the immune system and neurologic system, is a natural substance which seems to have some effects in MS.
DENNIS FARINA: One note of caution, many people are deathly allergic to honeybee stings.
So anyone considering this treatment must consult a doctor. Next, two brothers discover they have
a sister they have never met. During World War II, US and Allied forces succeeded in crushing German and Italian
strongholds in North Africa. But the victories came at a high price. Among those killed was Army private
Harry A. Young from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He left behind a wife and two sons.
37 years later in Stradford, New Jersey, Harry's son and granddaughter came across his obituary
while researching their family history. But the information seemed as if it had been
written for a different man. He was survived by a three-month-old daughter, Kathleen?
ALBERT YOUNG: The mother's first name was right and everything, but the address and the fact that there
was a baby girl mentioned, and me or my brother was not mentioned-- papers do make mistakes.
And uh, I thought maybe that they had got the information wrong. And I had a copy made so I could go into it further.
DENNIS FARINA: Albert's search for answers took him back to the early days of World War II.
After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Harry Young and millions of other Americans
rushed to enlist in the service. MAN: I can't stay here while there's a war going on.
I need you to sign this paper. DENNIS FARINA: But with a wife and son to support,
Harry needed his wife Laura's permission to go to war. Me? I've been gone six years.
You've done a great job. DENNIS FARINA: She refused. Yeah, I've been doing a great job.
DENNIS FARINA: Harry walked out and never returned. He didn't know that Laura was pregnant with their second son.
Four months later, using forged documents, Harry enlisted in the Army and was sent overseas to fight.
Only then did he inform Laura of what he had done. Mrs. Young? Yes. This is from the War Department.
DENNIS FARINA: One October day, Laura received word that Harry had been killed in action.
When Laura filed papers to claim Harry's death benefits, she received a big surprise.
Mrs. Young? There seems to be a problem. We have another Laura Young who has already filed
for Harry's death benefits. But I'm Harry's wife. Well, that may be, ma'am. Do you have a daughter?
No, I have two sons. Well, this certainly does pose a problem. LAURA ANDERSON: There were two women collecting
benefits for one man. And that's when it had to be proven that my grandmother was,
indeed, the first wife. And was never divorced from my grandfather. This means a lot to me, now.
DENNIS FARINA: Apparently, after leaving Laura, Harry began living with another woman named Estella.
After Harry's death, Estella filed for benefits using Laura's name. Eventually, Laura was able to prove that she was Harry's
wife, and she retained all benefits for herself and her two sons, Albert and Jimmy.
For nearly 40 years, the details of Harry and Estella's love affair were kept secret from his sons.
Then a letter written by Estella surfaced. She had sent it to Harry's parents the day
after she learned of his death. In the letter Estella revealed that she and Harry had a baby daughter together
named Kathleen Mary Young. LAURA ANDERSON: When I read the letter I got the feeling that she was very much in love
with my grandfather. That she was devoted to him. And she would do anything in the world for him.
Hello, Mr. Young. I'm Estella. DENNIS FARINA: After receiving no reply to her letter,
Estella paid a surprise visit to Harry's parents. But they wanted nothing to do with her or baby Kathleen.
As far as anyone knows, that was the last time Estella and her daughter had any contact with Harry's family.
JIM YOUNG: Now in his whole mess, there is no real winners. There was a lot-- a lot of time lost
between, uh, family, really. I think it's something that's really important for my father and my uncle, to know their sister.
They need to know who their sister is and share their life with her. DENNIS FARINA: Update-- when this story aired,
Kathleen happened to be watching "Unsolved Mysteries." The story surprised her, because she
had been told that no one on her father's side of the family cared to meet her. It makes me feel--
I don't know-- it makes me feel good. It makes me feel like, special, in a way, that they took the time.
And all those years, that now that I know they were looking for me. DENNIS FARINA: Kathleen and her family
traveled to Stratford, New Jersey to meet her half-brothers for the first time. - I'm Albert. - Oh, I kn--
I know. I saw the film. - How you doing? - Fine. OK. JIM YOUNG: When I hugged her it was-- it was euphoria.
It felt wonderful. I knew it was her as soon as she stepped out of the car that--
that's a-- that's a Young. DENNIS FARINA: After 50 years apart, they were finally a family.
How you doing, kid? Good. Welcome to our big family. [theme music]

This, Episode includes: Honeymoon Isle, Little Girl Lost, Bible Code, Update: Molestor Cop, Bee Sting Healing and Surprise Sister.

Brief Summary

This episode features a double homicide case, a missing woman, Bible Code predictions, and bee venom therapy for MS.

Key points

Three Friends, One Survivor. Three friends set off on a boat, but only one returns alive, leading to a murder charge.
Glenn Consagra's Confession. After pleading guilty, Glenn Consagra claims he is innocent, backed by new evidence.
Glenn's Plea Bargain. Glenn Consagra pleads guilty to lesser charges, hoping for parole but receives life sentences instead.
Selena Edon's Mysterious Disappearance. After a motorcycle accident, Selena Edon vanishes, leaving her family desperate for answers.
The Bible Code Revelation. Journalist Michael Drosnin claims the Bible contains hidden codes predicting major world events.
The Bible Code's Dark Prophecies. Michael Drosnin claims the Bible encodes warnings of future disasters, including nuclear war.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

They were my best friends.

Glenn Consagra claims innocence about the murders of his friends.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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