Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 1 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news broadcast a night an unsolved mysteries
the story of newlywed Shannan Davis who died in a riding accident Shannon's husband had purchased secret insurance
policies totaling three hundred and thirty thousand dollars in Oklahoma Eileen Conway died in a
mysterious car crash the Highway Patrol ruled it an accident her husband believes she was murdered
[Applause] in 1928 Glen and Bessie Hyde vanished on a Grand Canyon River trip fifty years
later a secret skeleton was found in Concord California housewife Dottie catered terrified of unfamiliar places
summoned the courage to take a train ride she has never returned [Music] our for mysteries tonight are connected
by common threads unexplained circumstance deceit the suggestion of foul play that
the heart of each is a husband and a wife these mysteries would be difficult to solve the stakes are high when
people's lives are involved perhaps you can help we've recreated the events of each story and precise detail in the
hope that someone somewhere knows the truth join me you may be able to help solve a mystery
[Music] on July 23rd 1980 in a small Michigan farming community newlyweds Dave and
Shannon Davis prepared to go for a sunset horseback ride within an hour Shannon was dead
[Music] according to Dave Shannon was not an experienced writer when they reached the
edge of the woods she lost control and fell off the horse striking her head violently on the ground
[Music] Dave's simple and plausible story was immediately accepted by the couple's
family and friends I felt that Shannon's marriage was made in heaven I really felt this I had began to love
David I described him probably to a lot of people as a man's man he was an outdoor person hunting fishing
he just was very manly and very likeable and she'd say isn't he neat mom and I thought it was neat I thought he would
protect her from anything I had no idea what he was really like after Shannon's death Bob and Lucille Moore began to
discover that Dave Davis was not the man he seemed to be they began to find clues
and days behavior which led them to believe that their daughter's death was not an accident Dave Davis has now
disappeared there's a warrant out for his arrest but the Mohr's are afraid that their son-in-law may have gotten
away with a perfect crime at the hospital Shannon was pronounced dead of the injuries caused by her fall minutes
later Shannon's parents were surprised and upset on Dave insisted that their daughter's body be cremated I said can
we take Shannon back to Toledo for bury list please let's take her back to Toledo let's take her home it's not what
she wanted I suppose our voices were getting a little bit loud because I don't believe in cremation I knew
Shannon didn't want that I felt so strongly that if he was going to insist on it I was gonna go try and find a
judge and get a temporary restraining order to stop him from doing it that night Lucille couldn't sleep she
remembered that her husband Bob had caught Dave in a lie about life insurance Bob says David do you have insurance on
Shannon he said no and it just shot right through me I remembered Shannon coming home from her honeymoon the very
next day saying David took out a large life-insurance on me that was the first line picked up three days later Shannon
was buried Bob and Lucille Moore noticed that Dave seemed unmoved I blessed the body of Shannon holy water
after the funeral Shannon's parents found out that David lived a life of deceit he bragged that he'd been wounded
get Nam his own parents said he was never in the service all this was crowding in on me and I just all I could
think inside is David did you kill my daughter and it just was there I knew that he had murdered my daughter I
didn't know what to do with it I felt ashamed I just felt like I was going crazy inside
two days after the burial six separate insurance companies contacted the funeral home requesting copies of
Shannon's death certificate her death left Dave Davis the beneficiary of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars Bob
Moore then discovered the Dave may have been involved in other insurance scams he burnt the farm down across the road
and he had other fires and the fake injury from when he worked for the automotive company so I think he was
just out to live on insurance money and he just kept getting bigger and bigger all the time
he started out with a simple fire and now he was up to the point where he was gonna collect big insurance at Bob and
Lucille Moore's insistence Shannon's body was exhumed the medical examiner found the injuries on the body
consistent with a fall from a horse indications of an unknown drug however were found in Shannon's body but the
medical report still ruled Shannon's death an accident three months later an article in the Detroit Free Press
exposed Dave's alleged insurance swindles the case was reopened and Dave moved to Florida detective Don Brooks
was assigned to the investigation the information was contained in that newspaper article was phenomenal I
thought if this is even 50 percent accurate we're on to something here Brooks contacted the toxicologist who
had earlier found traces of the unknown drug in Shannon's body I explained to him that we had a very large number of
chemicals that we were looking at there's over 250 thousand chemicals in common use and we had searched for and
ruled out maybe a thousand and I said what I need is some help metagraph right this is it you see the
deepika right here and you see how nice and clean it is because it's so clean that means that I think it's a drug this
is important to the case it's gotta be if we can identify he asked me actually for information about Davis's background
one of the things I told him was that he was a Dirt Farmer and he had some large
animals on the farm doctor 49 then discussed the idea of contacting veterinarians in the area that may have
serviced Dave Davis I talked to you a little bit earlier I happened to ask three different vets in area if they
knew of any drugs that may affect the muscular system or the nervous system that they would use on large farm
animals and when I did so one of the veterinarians I talked to provided me the name of a drug dr. Forni tested that
drug an animal tranquilizer it matched perfectly the sample taken from Shannon's body now Brookes needed to
connect the drug the Dave Davis we're able to determine that several years ago Dave Davis took part in a deer hunting
camp at which members of the camp used this drug to hunt deer with with bow and arrows Sharon was exhumed a second time
to injection marks were found one on Shannon's shoulder and one on her wrist Dan Brooks called and he said bingo they
found Shannon is injected with something and we're going to move now we're going
to get him on October 13th 1981 a grand jury issued a first-degree murder warrant for Dave Davis
[Music] detective Brooks believes that Dave Davis pushed or coaxed Shannon off her
horse wrestled her to the ground and paralyzed her with a lethal tranquilizer Brooks believes that Dave then struck
her head on a rock so that the injuries would appear accidental I don't think there's any question that this is
premeditated murder I believe he married shannon davis to kill her and to profit i want to get him
and I want him see him locked up and I want him to feel at all times that were breathing right down his back because I
will not let go that can't bring her back but put him put him away before he does it to some other girl and he will
he will after our broadcast a viewer recognized Dave Davis as an acquaintance living in American Samoa a small island
in the South Pacific Davis was arrested nine days later by FBI agents at the time of his arrest Davis was living in
this house with a 20 year old Samoan wife he told her that his first wife had died in a tragic accident
three-and-a-half weeks later Davis was returned to Michigan to stand trial for murder
didn't do it police say your wife was poisoned after only two and a half hours of
deliberation a Michigan jury convicted Dave Davis of first-degree murder for Shannon's parents the verdict brought an
end to their nine years struggle for justice this is what we waited for your life that we got what we wanted he's
gonna be locked up the rest of his life that's what we wanted but we're on the rest of her life missing her that's why
I said he gave us the death penalty now we're giving it to him [Music] last September he presented the mystery
of George Marsh a Kansas City laborer who died alone in a nursing home in 1982 he had no known heirs or relatives but
he left behind a legacy of a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars we hope to
someone watching the broadcast might have known George Marsh or his heirs there were a few clues a birth
certificate showing that George Marsh had changed his name from Joseph Zelenka and some family photos including this
portrait of a young woman inscribed your loving niece Eleanor when I looked up and saw my
senior high school picture on TV I couldn't believe it so then when he read your loving niece Eleanor did that
that's how I signed I was just stunned I was just amazed and then the very next picture was Uncle Joe and I said to my
gosh that's Uncle Joe this woman Eleanor taller is George Marcia's long-lost niece in the high school photo
the Zelenka family lives in Rock Springs Wyoming Joseph's brother Jim has been looking for Joe since 1931 I'd never
know they're no idea why he kept away from the family because there's no hard feelings we were all United always in
everything the zelenka's are currently waiting for a final judgment from the public administrator's office in Kansas
City Jim and Eleanor planted divide the hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars among Joe's surviving relatives
but more importantly they want to preserve Joe's memory they intend to bring his body back to the family burial
site [Music] the money you don't mean as much as finding out where he's at I just feel good all over to know that I
located him and no worries that and I'd be able to bring his body back to rest with her rest of his family
[Music] in our next story we'll meet a man who returned home to find his house empty
the bathtub full of water a phone off the hook and his wife missing [Music] April 29th 1986 10:40 a.m.
a farmer in rural Oklahoma notices an ominous plume of smoke rising from a nearby road we call the authorities
20 minutes later the Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrived at the scene they found a burning car embedded and
deserted bridge the heat was so intense that the cart actually melted into the metal guardrail and to which it had
crashed when Highway Patrol arrived a body was inside the car at the time but it was futile exercise whatsoever to try
to get two documents in the car due to the car had already burned so bad by the time the flames subsided the body behind
the wheel was burned beyond recognition skid marks indicated that the car speed at impact was 50 to 60 miles per hour to
the Highway Patrol is seemed like just another senseless accident a computer check revealed the car belonged to Pat
Conway who lived with his family in Lawton Oklahoma 15 miles from the crash site the next day the victim was
identified as Pat's wife of 33 years Aileen the Oklahoma Highway Patrol ruled Aileen Conway's death is a one vehicle
fatality accident within hours of the crash however a number of mysterious discrepancies emerged which led Pat
Conway to believe that his wife had in fact been a victim of foul play there's no doubt in my mind it was murder and if
I live to be a hundred years old I'll still be pushing to try to find the individual or possibly two individuals
whoever was involved [Music] Patt first became suspicious when he returned home a few hours after the
accident the patio door was wide open Hayley's purse which she always carried with her was sitting by an armchair her
driver's license and glasses were still in it an ironing board is setup and the iron had been left on water from a
garden hose was running into the backyard swimming pool and most significantly in the master bathroom at
the back of the house the tub was still full of water and the phone was off the hook
the thing that really got my attention was the phone being off the hooker so she had attempted to make a phone call
possibly the police department we have no way of knowing who between me and the kids one would say one thing and one
another and we start putting it together and and right away we find out when there was no accident at all another
disturbing detail magnate Pat what was Aileen doing out on that lonely country road neither of them had ever been in
the area and there was certainly no reason for Aileen to be there by herself nothing about his wife's death made
sense Pat contacted ray Anderson at the district attorney's office the first impression that I had of this case when
I met with mr. Conway was that of a spouse that was left alone and behind not expecting the tragedy that happened
and looking for an excuse or looking for some reason why this happened other than
than just being an accident however when you start looking at the extenuating and surrounding
circumstances the way that she left her house then it leads you to believe that there is possibility that there can be
foul play that you and I take that side of the road and I'll take this dad just kind of look for anything a few days
later Pat and Ray Anderson went to the crash site looking for clues any clue hey could you come over here a minute
200 feet from the bridge they found a church bulletin in the grass yeah this is the church built and out of our car
from the previous Sunday can it was on the dash of the car all right are you sure that side of your car you think I'm
positive no doubt that's where it was a lien always drove with the windows rolled up and the air conditioning
turned on the bulletin could not have flown out of a moving car the car would had to have been stopped someone else
may have been with her opened the door set the accelerator and slammed it into drive hoping to run mrs. Conway off into
the creek and to make it appear as though it was an accident as a result of Anderson's investigation
the Lawton District Attorney changed the official cause of death from accidental
to unexplained the DA then asked the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the State Fire Marshal to evaluate
the likelihood of arson what made me suspicious at first was looking photographs and seeing how much burn
that was in the vehicle this thing was completely burnt destroyed the burn was similar that were gasoline or something
that like that was used in it and another thing that brought my curiosity up was in fact that the gas cap was
missing and most arson cases and this is documented of a vehicle the gas cap is removed and that was the case here
in formal burn tests on dashboard and upholstery samples from a car similar to a liens suggest the inside of her car
may have been doused with gasoline we took the material and we applied a blowtorch to it set the material on
florrum then remove the wrote orange and the buyer went out which is consistent with a flame retardant type material and
then we took some gasoline and sokka material and then of course the thing was completely destroyed and being
without some type of an accelerant like gasoline the fire would not burn that back if a lien Conway was murdered on
the bridge that day one question still remains why we don't really have an answer for what put her out there a lot
of theories floating around perhaps she interrupted a burglary we backtracked a little bit into the neighborhood and
apparently there had been reports of burglaries in the weeks and months preceding this situation so the
possibility of an interrupted burglary is there it had to be robbery whoever came in didn't know she was here and
once they found out she was here they didn't want to leave her to identify them so then this makes murderers out of
them if this case is so Billy because that there will be somebody that talks there will be somebody that admits their
involvement in this and of course I'm a firm believer that that's what normally captures they're criminals is their
inability to keep their mouth shut no one knows exactly what happened to a lien Conway on a remote country bridge
in Oklahoma that day a year later at Conway is still searching for answers even though you're discouraged you you
keep pushing it every day you constantly think about it when you go to bed of an
eider get up in the morning it's on your mind on time but somehow it needs to be
solved I'll never quit as far as trying to solve the case next the story of Glen and Bessie Hyde
who disappeared on a perilous rafting trip on the Colorado River both were soon lost until a woman
claiming to be Bessie Hyde said she murdered her husband [Music] the Colorado River cuts through the
grande cap perilous stretch of water that was once considered the most dangerous in the world
in 1928 two newly weds set out to navigate these pressures whitewater rapids were never seen again every cold
a Grand Canyon photographer was one of the last people to see them alive 50 years later when the cold died
authorities were surprised by a gruesome discovery in his boathouse on the rim of
the canyon hidden in a canoe was a single human skeleton that appeared to have suffered a violent death
whose bones were these how did the victim die one good option would be that the individual met death by homicide a
second option would be suicide it would be nice to know who this individual was I mean somebody is missing somebody was
out there and there may be friends or relatives who would very much like to know who it is
the disappearance of the honeymoon couple and the discovery of the human remains in the boathouse happened almost
50 years apart yet they were connected by an article in an Idaho newspaper and by the Arizona law authorities they
suggested that the bones might be those of the adventurous young river after Glen Hyde tonight we'll examine these
mysteries of the Grand Canyon what happened at Glen Hyde and his bride Bessie is their disappearance connected
to the secrets of the bones in the boathouse Glen and Bessie Hyde were married in Twin Falls Idaho on April
10th 1928 Glen was 27 Bessie just 18 years old that fall they built a boat for a
special honeymoon adventure a trip down the Colorado River to California through
the dangerous Grand Canyon Glen was a thrill seeker this journey would mean instant notoriety Glen wanted to make a
record run through the Grand Canyon you want to do it in a homemade boat you want to do it with a new bride who had
never been on rivers before and he wanted to do without life jackets in the fall of the year about six months after
they were married they were in Green River Utah an experienced River man at the Green River looked at the boat and
he thought it looked to him like a coffin it was unlike anything that had run down the Colorado before
the hides took 26 days to get from Utah to the Bright Angel Trail to the heart of the Grand Canyon a new record where
the most dangerous stretch still ahead they stopped to see Emery Kolb who had already twice navigated the Colorado
River Rapids Kolbert arrived at the canyon in 1902 and said about documenting its grandeur his stunning
photographs and immense knowledge of the river soon made Emery Kolb a legend he was a very enthusiastic about his River
trips and so proud of everybody that I know those interested in the river at all all the years I was there first came
and talked to em Rico well the Hyde's visited cold Bessie had grown tired of the river trip Henry tried to warn them
of the certain dangers ahead he asked them to stay with him through the winter and postpone their trip until the
weather improved he even offered the couple his own life jackets but Glenn refused all coab's offers there's really
no reason to fear both Bessie and I are good strong swimmers come on Bessie the light will be fading mr. cope told me
that he tried his best everywhere in the world are talking about it going he said
you have no idea of what you're getting into he's not been there and I know what
it's like Thank You me exactly there isn't and even inner tubes in the went flat for
you he said that I'm gonna do it without or else [Music] two days later Glen and Bessie
disappeared Army aviators flew into the canyon and spotted the empty boat below Diamond
Creek [Music] Emery Kolb was asked to lead the search party to find the last couple
surprisingly when he discovered the boat it was undamaged boats seemed to be intact it closed food
Glen's rifle was on board camera with exposed film there's a very sketchy diary but a diary that Bessie Hyde had
been keeping was on board they found everything there except for the people there's no sign of them
the bodies of Glen and Bessie Hyde were never recovered 50 years later the discovery of the bones in Kolb's
boathouse fueled speculation could these be the remains of Glen Hyde and how are
they connected to Emery Kolb get him examined the authorities turned the skeleton over to dr. Walter Burke be
an expert in the science of identifying human remains he discovered that the bones are of a male Caucasian 20 to 23
years of age 6 feet tall with light brown hair dr. Brooke B also discovered a bullet embedded in the skull what we
found out from the from the bullet that was removed from the skull was that not only was this a 32 caliber projectile
that came from revolver that began manufacturing about 1902 two point one centimeters the production date of the
gun and clothing fragments found with a skeleton suggest the death occurred in the 1920s during that time only two
people Glen and Bessie Hyde are known to have disappeared in the Grand Canyon stature still somewhere along the line I
heard a rumor to the effect that Emery Kolb could have murdered Glen Hyde in order that he could have I guess
beautiful Bessie it's so preposterous and that I just can't believe it that he would off somebody and and then keep the
damn body around you got verticality on his marriage yes we're gonna have to rotate that more than the left dr. Burke
be hoped up with the rumors to rest you superimposed a photograph of Glenn over the skull to precisely compare bone
structure even more this was the only way to determine if the skeleton was indeed
knives these skull is of a different shape than the face of Glenn hide the eye orbits themselves are angled in a
different direction than Glenn heights the cheeks are wider even the shape of the chin is wrong when hides chin was
somewhat rounded as we can see on the photograph whereas the chin of the submitted skull tends to be fairly
squared off so those features alone do not match these remains these bones were submitted for analyses are not the
remains of Glenn hide period end of story but the story in fact does go on the mystery deepens
if the balls did not belong to Glen Hyde and what happened to Glen and Bessie [Music]
the answer may lie in the eyewitness reports claim Bessie Hyde is still alive and that she was seen back in the Grand
Canyon retracing the steps of her ill-fated honeymoon adventure 43 years after she disappeared in 1971 an unknown
woman took a 20-day rafting trip through the canyon geologist George Billingsley
was also in the party she was a very serious person she was always just watching the canyon and helping out a
little bit around camp all time wanted to do something and very happy but quiet and pretty much to herself towards the
end of the trip they made camp at Diamond Creek the same spot where Glen and Bessie Spode had been found four
decades earlier that evening a river guide told the legend of the missing couple and the woman matter-of-factly
revealed her true identity I'm Bessie hi she told us seriously enough to where we
wouldn't sure what else to say but we all figured she was just making up her own story now but later on you
know we got to thinking now maybe she really was Bessie because the age was she never smiled when she said what she
said as if she really knew he beat me up according to the woman Glenn was obsessed with completing the trip no
matter how dangerous when she tried to leave a fight erupted [Music] I've got the full name of the woman then
eventually contacted her back in Ohio the one I asked her about the hides and their disappearance she denied
everything she said she hadn't told the story she said she didn't know anybody named Hyde and she says she wasn't
Bessie Hyde my gut feeling though is that she was the mystery surrounding the story still remain unsolved if the bones
at Emory copse boathouse are not Glen hides whose are they and why did coke keep them hidden in that canoeing for so
many years the mysteries have survived the years and for now they remain part of the legend of the Grand Canyon
[Music] next the story of a woman trapped in her house by agoraphobia the irrational fear
of unknown people and places strangely she has vanished the Bay Area Rapid Transit System known
to commuters as the Bart trains link San Francisco with the East Bay cities On June 12th 1985 jewel Kaler drove his
wife Dottie to the BART station in Pleasant Hill California 18 miles from Oakland she entered the station and
purchased a ticket a simple task performed each day by millions but this was a test of courage for Dottie Caylor
Dottie suffers from agoraphobia an irrational overwhelming fear being in public places facing the unknown and the
possibility of panic shadows every step no one knows if Dottie overcame her fear
that day and actually boarded the train what is certain is that for two and a half years there's been no trace of
Dottie King [Music] Oh after the first few days I thought that she had left temporarily too well
simply make things inconvenient for me I think that Dottie could have disappeared
to get even with her husband who had disappeared on her for half of their married life she could have done that in
the beginning it's very hard to imagine her doing that for a great long period of time immediately after she
disappeared daddy's friends wondered why a woman so afraid of the unknown would leave behind everything she had and
everyone she knew at first they thought she may have left to escape an unhappy marriage start a new life in another
city but as a months and years elapsed there was no word from Dottie holidays birthdays and anniversaries went by now
daddy's friends and family are wondering could she really have vanished voluntarily or was her disappearance
more sinister in 1973 Dottie married jewel cater an entomologist with a national forest service they settled in
the Oakland suburb of Concord but over the years her home became a self-imposed prison
Dottie had what doctors have called agoraphobia she would stay inside most of the time she couldn't even apply for
a job much less hold one down it was a real problem [Music] dottie and Jules Mary's deteriorated da
D was often a home alone because jewel was working out of town over 50% of the time then in November of 1981 the
relationship erupted in violence she told me that they got in an argument it escalated to the point where he finally
hit her with a board or something and she received a wound in her head and and that she did grab some scissors and said
you keep away from me and protected herself and she was standing over top of me with those scissors Jewell says that
dotty started the fight swearing at me and saying I'll kill you you son I'll kill you and I grabbed her little typing
stand and hit her with it dotty needed to pull together the threads of her disintegrating life so in 1984 she
joined a support group called women in transition without ever telling jewel she attended meetings for over a year I
met her in the fall and of course the last time I saw her was in late spring and I thought she'd made a tremendous
amount of progress actually as time went on I would notice she's adding a little
more color to her outfits she is taking a little more care with her hair she cut
her hair in a new style which was very scary thing for her It was as if a new Dottie were emerging
she had secret lives a secret existence that I knew nothing about and she wanted
it that way she pursued that I only began to become aware of it Oh near the time that she disappeared I wasn't even
aware of it I was just suspicious Dottie secretly rented a post office box as she could receive mail without jewels
knowledge she opened a personal bank account and transferred five thousand dollars into a cashier's check then one
month before Dottie disappeared jewel told her he had to accept a job transfer to Salt Lake City
dottie had said in the event that i got transferred that she was not interested in going with me so I wasn't expecting
her to go with me and wouldn't even have wanted her to I guess according to Jewell on Wednesday June 12th dotty set
off on an overnight trip he drove her to the Pleasant Hill BART station I took her down to the BART station she had
with her a little overnight bag and I dropped her off then she walked around the corner of the station and
disappeared jewel is certain that dotty had her purse as well as her overnight bag as she walked into the station for
the last time but he can't be sure that Dottie ever boarded the train the next day around noon Jill returned
home early from work and got off the train at the Concord BART station in the parking lot he was surprised to find
daddy's Volkswagen next to his car so I walked over and looked inside and then I noticed her purse and that was
very very strange she told me how important it was to her to have her purse with her all the time she felt
secure if she felt she had a lot of her things with her and she felt safe out in
the world that's one of the things that made me feel so terribly upset when I realized that she had not taken her
purse with her jewel left a note on Daddy's car asking her to contact him over the next four days he left two more
notes talking about problems he was having with a house he also expressed his love and pleaded with her to come
home I spoke to jewel and jewel told me that he hadn't seen her for three or four days and he didn't know where she
was and that she that her car was was there her purse was there and he didn't know where she was I was extremely upset
I asked him if he called the police and he said that he had not and this made me
very just almost hysterical five days after Dottie vanished jewel filed a missing persons report with a Bay Area
Rapid Transit Police the following day the Concord Police Department was finally notified of Dottie's
disappearance not by jewel but by the BART police two weeks after Dottie vanished jewel
moved to Salt Lake City where he still lives and works back in Concord Dianne hired a private investigator
Francie Kohler the status of the case of this coin is we view it as I view it as 10%
missing-persons case and 90% potential foul play as their attempts to locate dotty turned up no new leads Diana and
Francie started to worry that dotty might be dead they began to consider jewel as suspect we don't know for sure
if dotty ever got to the BART station the only one that has reported that dotty went to the BART station is her
husband jewel we don't know if she ever got there if this was proves to be anything other than a straight
disappearance case jewel will be a suspect in her disappearance or in her death whatever it may be you know along
with anybody else that may have been close to her at the time or prior to her disappearance you would certainly
consider those around that person as being possible possible suspects no that doesn't bother me at all I suspect that
she either willfully disappeared and then was helped to permanently disappear or perhaps just got in with the the the
wrong person right at the start two and a half years have passed and still no one knows if dotty cater built
a secret life for herself to escape an unhappy marriage or if she was simply the victim of foul play
I think there's a chance that Dottie is dead which is very disturbing to think about I have many dreams about this and
the authorities I speak to and the friends I speak to come up with hundreds of ideas there's no peace there's no
rest there's no conclusion and we won't forget her it was hell living with Dottie it was hell having her disappear
the way that she did and yet since I've gotten here and gotten settled and into a new job and that whole problem is
behind me things are really pretty good [Music] tonight's mysteries are stories without
endings all missing that one vital clue perhaps someone watching tonight knows what happened and can reveal the truth
perhaps as you [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Four unsolved mysteries involving suspicious deaths and disappearances highlight the search for truth and justice.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Shannon Davis. Newlywed Shannon Davis dies in a riding accident, but her husband's behavior raises suspicions.
Aileen Conway's Fatal Crash. Pat Conway believes his wife's death was murder, not an accident, after discovering odd details.
The Disappearance of Glen and Bessie Hyde. A couple vanishes during a rafting trip, leading to a shocking discovery decades later.
Glen and Bessie's Grand Canyon Adventure. Glen Hyde's ambitious journey through the Grand Canyon with his new bride takes a dark turn.
The Mystery of the Missing Couple. Glen and Bessie Hyde disappear during their Grand Canyon trip, leaving behind unanswered questions.
Eyewitness Claims Bessie is Alive. A woman on a rafting trip claims to be Bessie Hyde, raising questions about her fate.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I believe he married Shannon Davis to kill her and to profit.

Detective Brooks on Dave Davis's motives.

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