Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 15 - 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 were about to see is not a news broadcast in September of 1979 19-year
old Mickey West vanished without a trace exactly seven years later a note was found from someone who claimed to a
witness Mickey's murder but his identity remains unknown between 1890 and 1920 thousands of
homeless children rode orphan trains to new families in the Midwest today many want to find the brothers and sisters
they never knew in 1967 a five year old boy fell into a rain swollen creek Nutley New Jersey two months later his
body was found in the river three miles away in 1974 a New York banker bloated a
commuter train to take him home to New Jersey during the train ride vanished two months later his body was found on
the bank of a nearby river in 1976 a 14-year old school girl left her home on Staten Island to look for a summer job
that afternoon she disappeared two years later her body was found in an abandoned
shipyard [Music] but links these cases together Miss Dorothy Allison a housewife from
Nutley New Jersey she predicted where all three bodies would be found what happened to the victims and remarkably
in two cases predicted when they would be discovered Dorothy Allison and the authorities with whom she has worked
claimed she has psychic powers my lifetime this is the most amazing thing that ever happened to me to see the
ultimate results of everything that she had said it's as though I turned on a TV
station and got a picture and this is what I get when I get a vision of something or a place or a purse
or anything it's as though you're turning on tuning in on a TV set Dorothy Allison is called almost daily by police
detectives although she's never paid for her work she's been asked to help in hundreds of investigations in the next
hour we'll follow Dorothy Allison on a Kurt murder investigation and explore two other unsolved mysteries but also
tell you how our viewers help capture a murder suspect and his teenage girlfriend join me you may be able to
help solve the mystery [Music] on the morning of September 11th 1979 in a small town of st. Joseph Missouri a
young woman named Nikki Joe West left for work she was never seen again her friends and family suspect foul play but
her body has never been found I think I know what happened to Mickey I think I know who did it and I think I know why
they did it we have a suspect that we established the day after the disappearance we've talked to him
several times we know where he lives now we know where he can reach him we just simply have no evidence against him at
this point I believe that this person who's described as a number-one suspect I believe that he abducted her and
within two or three hours of that time I believe he killed her at the time of her
disappearance Mickey Joe West was 19 years old she was an outgoing friendly girl who worked as
a nurse's aide at the st. Joseph's State Hospital she was funny she can make a bad situation into a good one when I had
bad days I was at my worst end she'd come in and everything would be all right because she'd say something funny
Mickey became involved in the bitter marital dispute of a friend of hers perhaps too involved she began to
receive threats the last time I talked to Mickey on the phone she she was scared she was afraid for her life so
she told me she was gonna carry a hammer to work with her that next morning she got up and left her house and was on her
way to the bus stop and that was the last thing and whenever at this point the only case we have is a
missing person we have no crime we have a missing person we have no body to establish a
murder case without a body we cannot convict anyone of murder we have evidence that there were threats made to
Miki that she was followed by this person she had a motive to do this it could have done this
we just need the body [Music] for seven years no new evidence was found then in 1986 a delivery man at a
Kansas City shopping mall 75 miles from where she disappeared found a letter it was addressed to the st. Joseph police
he opened it in red I need your help I was with and here we cannot mention the person's name when he killed Mickey Joe
West and hid the body I can kill myself now please help this letter was unsigned
about a month later on October 2nd another note was found in the same moment a security guard who worked in
the mall found this note in the hallway there it was obviously the same envelope
paper obviously the same person had the same message on it and it too was delivered to the police in Overland Park
and eventually to her apartment both of the notes named the man who has been and
is now the prime suspect the author in these notes said that he was with the person who had killed her that he did
not kill her himself that he could not stand this knowledge that he had and that he needed help
they're both inside and so far we have not come up with any solid leads as to who the author is
seven weeks later if three more letters were found this time in st. Joseph the town where Mickey was last seen the
first of these was discovered in a shopping mall the same day another was found at a local truck stop van a
janitor found another letter in the same st. Joseph shopping mall after the three
notes were found in Saint Joseph we had a total of five notes all established to
be even the same author all saying the same message naming the same suspect but getting us no closer than make to making
the case or proving the case against this person than we were before we explored the possibility of notes are
a hoax but we believe they're genuine because of the details that need to given us about the crime because of the
way they are written because of the feelings that they express they just seem realistic when we examine these
letters it was obvious to us that the person who wrote them was intimidated by the person who killed Mickey Joe
these weren't letters written by a stranger they were written by someone who was personally acquainted with the
victim there are deep-seated feelings of guilt not guilt because the writer was personally responsible for having killed
Mickey but because he was present when it happened and wasn't able to stop it from January 13th 1988 nine years after
Mickey's disappearance another letter turned up at a Kansas City mall theater it was addressed to
the police and a local TV station eight months later a reporter for the TV station Thurman Mitchell received a
letter addressed to him personally in this letter the author said that if Thurman would come alone he would chill
him or Mickey Joe West is he said that he did not want the reward that he was not interested in the reward he said
that he was not himself involved in the crime but that he needed help again because this latest letter was mailed to
the station in response to this letter that mr. Mitchell received he did a new story asking this person to come forward
and contact him person about Mickey Joe's death we're asking that witness for called
phone number on the screen and talk to us and we'll pass that information an on-air appeal proved unsuccessful today
the letter writer remains anonymous the case of Mickey Joe West is still unsolved the author of these notes is
the most important witness that we could have in this case if he knows where she
is if he was there and he will testify he is absolutely crucial I would just like to ask him to come forward and tell
us what he knows or if he doesn't want to come forward write us a letter and tell us where she is in the letter or
give us a phone call come forward in some way we miss Mickey and it's been nine years and we just want to know what
happened to her [Music] last month we broadcast a story about Dave Davis from Pittsford Michigan a man
accused of murdering his wife on July the 23rd 1980 Davis and his wife Shannon were horseback riding on their farm 80
miles outside Detroit Davis claims that Shannon lost control of her horse fell and struck her head she was rushed to
the hospital but doctors pronounced her dead on arrival after a few days Shannon's parents found out that Davis
had taken out six large life-insurance policies on Shannon they had their daughter's body exhumed
the results showed traces of an animal tranquilizer as well as two injection marks one on her wrists and one on her
shoulder police found out that Davis had indeed had access to the animal tranquilizer through a deer hunting
group just as his arrest seemed imminent Davis fled he had not been seen since October the 13th 1981 FBI and different
ones had said don't discount the fact that he may already be dead but we felt like no he's out there someplace he's a
he was a rugged outdoors individual he was a survivor [Music] we broadcast Davis's story twice within
days of our second broadcast Dave Davis was captured a viewer identified him as a man named Davis Myer Bell is living on
the tiny island chain of American Samoa 2,000 miles south of Hawaii Davis alias Bethel was arrested three days later any
comment on the charges against you mr. Davis didn't do it police say your wife was poisoned I didn't do it
police learned that four years ago Davis had fled to American Samoa where he lived in this house before that he had
lived in Florida Haiti and Alaska among other places two years ago he married a 20 year old
Samoan woman he told her that his first wife had died in a tragic accident in American Samoa Davis obtained a job as a
pilot for a small commercial airline he was apprehended on his way to work at the airport
Davis was extradited to Honolulu Hawaii he admitted his identity and voluntarily
agreed to return to Michigan to stand trial in return federal authorities dropped charges of unlawful flight
[Music] around the turn of the century the streets of New York City were filled with starving immigrant children who had
no one to care for them the city orphanages overflowed school classes and afternoon naps often took place outside
even in the bitter cold to alleviate the crowded conditions the Children's Aid Society of New York came up with a
unique plan they began to put orphans on trains bound for the south in the Midwest hoping they would be adopted by
farm families along the route between 1890 and 1929 scores of trains carried at least 150,000 orphans into the
heartland of America sadly many of them were separated from their brothers and sisters whom we will never see again
[Music] in 1910 two brothers named algae and Johnny rode on an orphan train along
with a group of other orphans they headed for Arkansas hoping to be adopted [Music]
when we left New York none of us knew or was going but the guys that took it knew
where he's headed for Fayetteville was the destination but algae and Johnny's train arrived in Fayetteville Arkansas
prospective parents were waiting to look the children over the brothers hoped they would be able to stay together when
they stopped by waved if you'd accepted side to track did one thing I remember I
just wondered what they was gonna do it me and Johnny I had hoped that we'd both
feeding some home together people commits coming and look at the can make farmers out of the flames out in some
people take them cause they lived them how do you like this howdy you're gonna go with me when it came time to make the
decision the couple who took algae only wanted one child he took me didn't one take Johnny well
they just forwarded hard not to crying I couldn't I just know they separate distance one Pilar Chuck Johnny in one
touch babe [Music] finally oh it took me a long time I got over that but still it come to my mind
once in a while where is he and then the old man and all happily algae and Johnny
the brothers who were separated when they rode the Orphan Train have been reunited tonight we will meet two other
orphan train riders Francis Murphy and Sylvia Webb Hoff who have been unable to find their lost siblings in 1921
Sylvia wham Hoth was last name then was Volk was taken out of a New York City orphanage to write an orphan train to
Nebraska her parents were dead and she left behind an older sibling about whom she knew nothing Sylvie was three years
old and the children on her train had been selected sight unseen by members of churches in Columbus Nebraska Sylvia was
a very small child when she rode the Orphan Train she was taken in a bit of a different manner because she was spoken
for ahead of time on your papers there's a name and a number the number will correspond with the
number here numbers would be sewn onto the children's garments with their name and the birth date the corresponding
matching parent that had been found and located by the foundling Hospital would have a number corresponding to the
number and when they got to the train station they would match the number and take the child and this was the way
silver wim HOF was chosen Silvia's last name was changed to mick when she was adopted by the John McPhee
[Music] they had a small farm in Lindsay Nebraska and Sylvia along with another orphan a boy was happily welcomed into
the family when I was about 17 18 years old then I began to question my mother Mick whether I had any brothers or
sisters and if so I wonder if we could ever get together after years of searching Sylvia located her birth
certificate it showed that she was born Stephanie Volk spelled WOL k and that her mother Pauline vltava CH from
Austria already had a child when Sylvia was born Sylvie was adopted when she was
three years old and today is 70 she is desperately trying to locate her missing sibling even though there is no way to
tell whether she is looking for a brother or a sister the day after our broadcast Sylvia search came to an end
she learned that her brother 72 year old Joseph Polk was living in New York City
Bouck stepdaughter had seen our broadcast and recognized the names on Sylvia's birth certificate on September
25th Sylvia flew to New York and met her brother Joseph for the first time your sister selfies here
i I might yell we hugged each other and we were just really thrilled and happy that we
finally finally got together I've heard I had a sister I was luckily pleased when I saw thankful thankful to God most
brothers and sisters grow up sharing their lives together the Priscilla and Joseph love and
memories are just beginning the next man we will meet as Francis Murphy in 1928 when he was 11 he too rode the Orphan
Train his baby sister Margaret and his mother who was too poor to take care of him
were both left behind when I got on the train I didn't really feel that I was being wrenched away from something I
didn't know that much about my mother so that it wasn't a matter of tearing me away from her because I was away from
her all the time anyway it was a big adventure more than anything else as a kid in New York you have to remember
that we didn't know the west's and what we knew was from the picture shows we saw of cowboys and Indians and maybe
engineers and go in that direction well that was the biggest thrill that a kid in my time could really expect
[Music] Frances is excitement soon turned to sadness stop after stop potential adoptive parents would be waiting to
pick their child from the crowd but not all the children found new parents Frances who had boarded the train in New
York for such high hopes began to realize that none of the families alone the trains route wanted him 14 or 15
children that were leaving and she got off the train with her belongings and they told Frances you should stay on the
train and he would say the crowd can get smaller and smaller until finally he was
the only child left on the train [Music] Francis never was a doctor he went from
family to family as a foster child in [Music] spite of his early hardships Francis's
life turned out well he became a high school teacher married and had five children and six grandchildren Francis
Murphy drove the Orphan Train 60 years ago developed heart disease in 1987 sadly he died soon after we filmed his
interview in November Francis's wife and family have continued his search and they asked that we present his story
despite the fact that he is gone they hope to unite the family who still loves Francis the family he never knew I had
wanted so desperately to find it was extremely important to Francis to go ahead with this interview he'd been
looking forward to it for literally months and just the hope that he would find somebody particularly his sister
was important and know much about love growing up and he found out as he got older and had a family of his own I
think his finding Margaret would be an extension of it look it's still very important to us that we
finish what he tried to do Francis Murphy sister Martin would be about 62 years old today she was probably born in
either Yonkers or New York City and she may have been adopted Francis and Margaret's mother was Hilda
Harding Murphy their grandparents were John and Elizabeth Harding from Nova Scotia Francis's father was Martin
Murphy [Music] [Music] [Music] these are affidavits police departments around the country attesting to Dorothy
Allison of psychic powers the use of psychics and police work is almost always controversial frequently they're
inaccurate all too often they are charlatans but there are a few do indeed seem to have a special gift the
unexplainable ability to predict details still locked in the future an ability which in itself is an unsolved mystery
on the center third 1967 five-year-old michael Kerr six and his older brother run out to play at around 8:15 a.m. as
he were playing Michael lost his footing fell into a churning river was swept away and drowned
[Music] two hours before Michaels accident at 5:56 a.m. Dorothy Allison woke from a
horrific nightmare her lucid and frightening dream predicted Michaels death I saw this little boy in a pipe
his hands were like this in the dream they were clasped together and they were very black I didn't know why they were
so black because he was so white I saw this tremendous illumination of light almost as though he had been in a it
seemed to me like a vacuum for weeks the authorities searched the river but there
was no trace of Michaels body a month after Michael disappeared Dorothy went to the police and insisted that someone
listened to her story the one brief newspaper article about the case did not contain a picture of Michael the police
were startled when Dorothy accurately described the clothes he was wearing he had on this green snow suit underneath
the snow suit he had on a polo shirt that the stripes and underneath had another shirt with a metal pin to it and
also he had his shoes on the wrong feet there was a possibility that this could have been a hoax
there's always that possibility when she come up with this description I became overwhelmed because I knew this boy I
knew this family it just got me to a point where I had to know more about what she was dreaming maybe there was
something more that she couldn't remember now maybe just questioning her would bring more of it out but we were
going to work with her because she just she got me she just got me when I started to talk to dawn I kept telling
him that I saw the number 120 but whatever that meant I don't know I also saw the number 8 and didn't know what
that meant either and I kept insisting that his body would be found behind a school I insisted on that
as a search for Michael continued Dorothy's clues began to mount up number eight a school a parking lot
behind an ITT Factory lumber gold lettering on a window and the number 120 she had mentioned a number 120 the very
first day that we were together and we thought well maybe it's an address and in the area that we were in initially
there was no 120 then we thought well maybe would be January 20th the months and a day that came and went no
significance whatsoever but that 120 kept coming up and to me especially and I couldn't understand why by now they
were trying to lose their patience and Dharmakara says my god I'm trying but I don't know what you're saying
I said well lucky he won't be found on February 7th and then our troubles will be over you will know the story of
Michael Pharisees the day the boy was found it was 1:20 in the afternoon of February 7th that I was told that the
baby was now the spot where Michaels body was found coincided with several of Dorothy's
clues Dorothy's vision of a number eight was echoed by the fact that elementary school PS eight stands on the riverbank
nearby across the street is a lumber yard next door is an office building with gold
letters on the window directly across the river is a local ITT Factory at his parking lot and when Michael was found
he was wearing exactly the same clothes that Dorothy had dreamt and although his
galoshes are on the correct feet his under shoes were indeed on the wrong feet we backtracked and everything that
she was saying now fit into place just like a puzzle you pick up a piece and you toss it around until you link it and
show the picture it means nothing but now everything seemed to fit in place and we started I started to kick myself
for not knowing what she was talking about there have been many many times that I struck out completely and I
really wanted to find a child and got no answers till today I don't know why but
there are several cases where I never come up with anything not not even one little clue that I know of Dorothy
Allison has lived in New Jersey all her life she has four children and her husband Bob is an engineer for a
construction company in Manhattan when Dorothy was 14 she had the first indication of her psychic abilities when
she correctly predicted the death of her father since a Michael korsak's investigation most of Dorothy's cases
have been homicides many of the victims have been children I've often thought to
myself why does this happen to me why not somebody else because it has been very hard on me emotionally physically
it has not been a happy thing for me at all times on December 20th 1974 a New York banker
John DeMars left his Manhattan office to ride the train home to New Jersey he was
happily married with two young children habitually called his wife if he was going to be even five minutes late but
on this day his train stopped at nothing John de maras was not on board he had simply vanished our first thoughts were
maybe he embezzled money we didn't find anything wrong with the bank maybe he ran away with another girl we found out
that that wasn't true we just couldn't find this fellow so I went to see you darling
I said Dorothy I'm looking for a male adult that's been missing for more than 24 hours her first words were to me was
he's drowned well I said he fell off the train he said company fourth to train in
the water I says now if I said you received misinformation he fell off the train he's in water such as whoa can you
give me any other clues as to as to where I would find him I said I see a row of tires a little Park there
chilling you down a hill on Miss woods I see a fire engine the children play on and I see this man in this water here
then she told me that she sees a bow and arrow now where do you find a boring hour I thought she was crazy two months
after the disappearance a father and his teenage son were target shooting with a
bow and arrow on a bluff overlooking the Passaic River one of the arrows missed the target landed a few feet on the body
of John DeMars the body was found on February 22nd Dorothy had mentioned the number two to
two nearby was a park where rows of tires had been arranged to make a sled run the question remained how did John
de Mars a train passenger drown in the Passaic River the authorities theorized that DeMars dozed off on the way home
the Train made an unscheduled stop on the Passaic River Bridge the conductor opened the doors to let
another passenger off the back of the Train John DeMars still half-asleep thought he had reached his station he
stepped out into space and fell into the river below chills go up and down your spine
believe me you look around you look at your notebook all these notes that you rolled down three months ago and
everything that she had said was exactly there everything that she had said how Dorothy can do these things I don't
understand psychics I don't know how Dorothy's mind works all I know if Dorothy told me Ellen go outside and
cross the street I would go out first the street because I don't know what she's seen for me Ellen Jacobson and her
husband bill became involved with Dorothy after their daughter disappeared from home in 1976
[Music] on May 15th 14 year-old Susan Jacobson left to Staten Island home to interview for a
job at a local ice cream parlor when Susan didn't return for dinner their parents contacted the police we
were basically told that our daughter was 14 she had a boyfriend and she ran away
point-blank that was it and there's nothing they can do because if she ran away they don't have manpower to go and look
for fourteen-year-old girls who run away so we had nothing two weeks later the Jacobson's asked Dorothy to help she
immediately went to Staten Island with her husband Bob Dorothy knew nothing about the case and had never met the
Jacobson's when Dorothy came she was so down to earth it was impossible to believe I had visions of Oh a gypsy
woman I had some visions of somebody laying out a deck of cards and reading cards to me or reading my hand and
Dorothy's first reaction when I finished with before he put the coffee pot on to
you she immediately asked me what the number - five six - would mean and I said well I could turn it into February
5th 1962 I said that's my daughter's birthday it's me how about the number 408 what does that mean I'm a total
shock I don't know what she's looking for I said for a waitress maybe it's 405 I said my daughter Susan was born that
time she is what's more I said excuse me she says what's more me I said what do you mean March is ma or I want to see
and they are I said please let's go to the police department because the vision that I got
right and the Mayor was that I do what happens trying to buy the boyfriend and that she
at this place with this big MA orbit and red letters so I went to the police department and tried to explain but to
no avail the authorities were unwilling to work with a psychic so bill Jacobson decided to investigate the many clues
that Dorothy had come up with on his own it was an abandoned car the letters ma are smell of oil two sets
of dual church steeples dual smokestacks swamps marshes we searched the vast amount of Staten Island and the
confusion of it is that you you don't know distance in time and you can't tell past present and future
eventually we got into a place that is called down back in this area is an abandoned shipyard that was apparently
active in World War one and we found a rock and on this rock were painted and red letters the letters M
[Music] [Music] all the clues that she had given me helped me by way of getting me to the
area of ground where Susan was eventually found when I saw the eMAR I was astounded and I felt it had to be
the area have to call the Aarthi have to get her over here have to show her what
I found when Dorothy saw the mir in Iraq she said this is it this is where your daughter is now we need the cops
we need the dogs we need the bloodhounds we need to drag through the swamps and marshes but we had none of that
we searched as much as we could by ourselves we felt that we had done a good search unfortunately we never found
my daughter 22 months later three boys rot muskrat hunting in the precise area were builded searched just 100 yards
from the ma our letters they discovered the remains of Susan Jacobsen concealed in two oil drums from the place where
Susan was found you could see almost all at the same time Dule church steeples smokestacks the
abandoned car the rock with the letters M AR Susan was found in an oil drum which is a smell of oil and Dorothy had
also said that susan was in water but she didn't drown the autopsy revealed that Susan had been strangled and her
body dumped at the bottom of the water filled hole dempsey Hawkins Susan's boyfriend was arrested tried and
convicted of her murder Dorothy knew my daughter was murdered she admitted to us maybe nine months after my daughter's
disappearance to the fact that who did the murder she named the person to listen and everything that she said she
said how she was murdered and where and what Dorothy said came true [Music] in the three cases we have seen
Dorothy's success has been astonishing keep in mind that over the years Dorothy has worked on hundreds of investigations
and in many she was unable to come up with information that helped the authorities in a moment we'll follow
Dorothy on a current murder investigation to see exactly what she does and how she does it last March we
looked for a case where we could examine Dorothy Allison psychic gifts we found a
homicide in Hagerstown Maryland with a police were at a dead end they agreed we could ask Dorothy to
assist on the case and film the investigation as it happened as you'll see Dorothy came up with the name of a
possible suspect but for legal reasons we have chosen to disguise this name we gave Dorothy absolutely no information
on the case she didn't know the name of the victim or the state what happened she didn't even know it was a murder
case Dorothy was contacted by sergeant Keith waton sheet of the Maryland State Police who was in charge of the ongoing
investigation yes fine thank you knowing absolutely nothing about the case Dorothy drew up a list of clues the
night before detective what initiates call and then dictated the list in several conversations the next day or
Jan turn school somebody that worked in school is a janitor I feel this was some
kind of kidnap abduction of some kind or something like that I also feel that I'm
dealing with the recital tendencies the numbers 1 & 7 were very important whether it's 71 or 17 I don't know just
yet the clues were random images it might relate to the victim the murderer friends or even the police wear his
glasses and sometimes a week to look different oh okay when I was talking to Dorothy on the telephone she mentioned
about a police officer possibly in disguise wearing a beard that he now doesn't have
and a wig or hairpiece of that nature that kind of keyed upon me because I'm a policeman I don't film in disguise but I
am in plain clothes I wear a hairpiece and I just took a beard off two days ago I was on vacation and she could have
been keying in on me which is possible Dorothy flew to Hagerstown with her husband Bob to meet with detective Watt
in the shade immediately after they landed Dorothy had a name for the authorities I'll have a name here for
you it's kind of trouble but there's a name for you okay it's either our charkas Inuk name and then it's he the
Bernstein goldstein the last name when it comes to psychics if you would looked at him in a general sense I would tell
you I think they're a bunch of baloney but I'm keeping an open mind towards Dorothy Ellison because I want to solve
this case very badly for four years a police have been unable to solve the case of laurie zimmerman a 15 year old
school girl who in april 1984 left her aunt's house and simply disappeared eight days later Laurie's partially
naked body was found in the forest 12 miles away she had been beaten and suffocated the coroner found a foreign
object lodged in her throat I feel that she was in front of a wide prairie when she met these are two brothers or
choucas friends of ours right from our own neighborhood she didn't meet somebody
there their name creepy within minutes of leaving the airport more thoughts and images flooded Dorothy's mind feel that
she had been raped and then her I know that if I had to see her I don't know why but I get a feeling just
something the matter with her head is Oh somebody something near her head I'm getting
something on the head for college Brenda two places but that of course wasn't the
cause of death I get more of a suffocation I know I can't breathe or something huh
whatever it is I feel a lot of things around this girl tremendous man no I think I'm gonna tell you what
actually there's a choking going on my throat - she's choking on something and this is during the attack you know she's
choking I think you know what I'm getting into like as a force on the throat but it's more of a choking type
exactly that type of situation I'm getting there's no way that Dorothy Ellison would have known about an object
being in the victims throat she related that it didn't seem to her to be a choking of the hands around the throat
but as a choking of some type of object down inside the victims throat and I was
very surprised that she keyed in on this because this is a a point in the investigation that we did not make
public she she definitely absolutely walked down the street and she goes as far as the library and she is picked up
in this yellow car that I described in the real old car well here's a library right here on the left
after 24 hours in Hagerstown Dorothy had come up with literally dozens of possible clues many seemed unrelated to
the case others would seem misdirected Keith Wotton shades hairpiece for instance and the janitor Dorothy
mentioned may have been Lori stepfather not a suspect the individual she named at the airport Chuck Goldstein R
Bernstein is also not a suspect though according to Dorothy he may have some information but some of Dorothy's clues
did seem connected to the crime for example Dorothy had seen the numbers 1 & 7 she learned that Lori had been
laid to rest at the cemetery in plot 17 Dorothy had mentioned the name Cleveland
the last Street sign before the crime scene was that a turn-off called Cleveland Town Road
Dorothy talked about an old church half a mile from where the body was found there was indeed an old church all these
clues might be coincidences but they might also be part of a mosaic that once assembled will create a
picture of what happened to Lori Zimmerman at the crime scene Dorothy experienced the strongest
sensation that she'd felt during the entire investigation but as far as that name I feel that I feel him strong about
anybody right now in this area I feel that he's the one who took the girl here and the reason he murdered her was
because she was reluctant to let him do whatever he wanted he said she screamed out loud and he panicked and I believe
that he hit her on the head you know the head area I believe that he killed her that way but I do believe
that this man that murdered this girl I think you should start looking for okay in fact that be positive that he's the
one detective Rotten she does run the name of Dorothy mentions with the police computers that there are no known
suspects by that name in total she came up with 50 different clues only when the
crime is song you know how many of Dorothy's visions are really connected to the murder of laurie zimmerman
[Music] for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
that someone is watching perhaps it's you [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode covers unsolved cases, psychic predictions, and orphan train reunions, focusing on Mickey Joe West and Susan Jacobson's stories.

Key points

Dorothy Allison's Predictions. Dorothy Allison, a housewife, predicted the locations of several bodies in unsolved cases.
The Disappearance of Mickey Joe West. In 1979, 19-year-old Mickey Joe West vanished without a trace, leading to a long investigation.
Reunion of Siblings Separated by Orphan Trains. Algae and Johnny, separated as children, are reunited after decades apart.
The Search for Michael. A psychic's clues lead to the discovery of a missing boy's body.
Dorothy's Psychic Insights. Dorothy's visions provide critical clues in multiple investigations.
The Mystery of John DeMars. A missing banker’s case takes a chilling turn with psychic involvement.

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I think I know what happened to Mickey.

A friend suspects foul play in Mickey's disappearance.

3:56WatchMay 16, 2019

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