Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 16 - 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 tonight an unsolved mysteries
an intriguing new story in 1988 undercover San Francisco vice cop Lester Garnier he was found shot to death
inside his late-model Corvette eyewitnesses saw two unidentified women with Gagne within moments of his death
police are still investigating what connection these women had to Gagne and his murder in Phoenix Arizona a 58 year
old businessman named Angelo desiderio vanished from his home 400 miles away his car was found a blaze no trace of
Angelo desert area has ever been found in 1934 bill puritan was forcibly separated from his five brothers and
sisters by well-meaning social workers 50 years later bill is still searching for his lost sister Jackie in Las Vegas
16 year-old Cathy Hobbs disappeared three months later police received an anonymous call from a man who may have
seen her abduction they need to find this missing witness the nice cases feature ordinary people thrust into a
vortex of mystery heartbreak and intrigue each one is searching for that vital clue to end a story that so far
has no ending perhaps you can help join me you may be able to help solve a mystery
[Music] July 11th 1988 it was a quiet morning in Walnut Creek California an affluent
suburb of San Francisco a groundskeeper noticed a Corvette sitting in a shopping-center parking lot his
attention was drawn by the car's driver apparently napping behind the wheel the man was not asleep he was dead the cause
of death was determined to be two bullet wounds this was an extremely cold-blooded deliberate killing the sort
of person that would do something like this is extremely dangerous the victim was identified as Lester Gagne an
undercover vice cop with a San Francisco police department who lived a nearby Concord after the revelation that Lester
was an undercover cop the investigation took on a new dimension for this reason a search for Lester's killer was
undertaken by both the Walnut Creek and San Francisco police departments there was very little evidence left at
the crime scene that would give us much help in identifying the criminal we do have a few fingerprints that have not
been identified but we've been unable to find any motive at all for the killing of Les Kanye
[Music] Lester Garnier's death touched off a firestorm of controversy when the case
became a mesh tin a local political skeptic but through all of this Westar Garnier's killer remains at large to
those who knew him best Lester Garnier was a walking contradiction to his parents he was a
devoted son who lived with him in the home that he provided to his friends Lester was a man who lived and loved in
the fast lane but to his partners on the police force Lester Gagne was first and foremost a
dedicated cop went the distance for his job somewhere between the lines of these
contradictions may lie the reason why Lester Gagne was murdered if you wanted to find Lester Gagne off duty the
chances are he would be behind the wheel of his prized 1984 Corvette Lester enjoy
the good life but he was not blind of the responsibilities of being a good son Lester was a wonderful son he always was
there for us he gave us security knowing that if anything happens he's always there for us
but there was another side to Lester Gagne off duty he enjoyed a reputation as a ladies man according to friends
this reputation was well-deserved lester used his charm on the job as well his beat was the Mission District once a
quiet residential neighborhood today a low-income area frequented by prostitutes Lester had worked vice for
four and a half years and was at home on the mean streets of the mission where he
would often do prostitutes by posing as a customer we found that he had made numerous arrests for prostitution
we certainly examined that aspect of his life and we weren't able to find any connection with our case we interviewed
several of the prostitutes that Lester had arrested and found that many of them spoke highly of him even though he had
arrested them he wanted to do a good job and the type of job that he had he had to make sure he made all the right moves
[Music] he enjoyed his job to a certain degree it was a challenge for him every day
different people different situations all the time those were the streets that we grew up
in and he felt that he wanted to make the city a better place and by being a police officer he was doing that one of
Lester's final assignments would throw the murder investigation in a turmoil in the fall of 1988
Roger boys local mayoral candidate pled guilty to charges of having sex with underage prostitutes Lester had been on
stakeout duty at one of the houses in this prostitution ring just prior to his death the local media attempted to tie
the two events together in addition there were rumors that some san francisco police may have been involved
in Westers death but so far these rumors are uncorroborated we did address those
issues and did a very thorough investigation but we found no connection at all between Lester Garnier's death
and the roger boas case or any other matter for that matter July 10th 1988 approximately 12 hours
before his body would be discovered Lester left his Concord home to meet friends in San Francisco less than 20
minutes later Lester called from his car phone and cancelled the evening he gave
no explanation during this conversation he cancelled the meeting with his friends saying it was getting late after
that we don't know what happened to him until his vehicle showed up in the parking lot
shortly before 11:30 p.m. that time period is very critical as a portion of our investigation naturally
we searched for witnesses and we discovered that there was a carpet layer working in one of the stores late that
evening as he went out to his truck he heard what sounded to him like firecrackers it was around the 4th of
July so he discounted those sounds as firecrackers shortly after he looked up and saw two women walking across the
parking lot the women entered two different vehicles and left the workman described one of
the women as being in her late twenties about five feet six inches tall said that she weighed about a hundred and ten
pounds the other was described as being in her mid-30s tall the slender build we
also located one witness who was actually driving through the lot as he drove past the Corvette he saw a woman
opened the passenger door and exit the vehicle he saw her walk around the vehicle and
appear to look in the driver's side of the Corvette it's possible that these were just two
separate sightings not associated with each other however it's also possible that they are somehow related under
hypnosis the second witness helped police to create a composite drawing of the woman her appearance was similar to
the other eyewitness description when we showed this to the carpet layer he felt
that this sketch closely resembled the shorter of the two women that he saw walking across the parking lot who was a
blonde woman seen with Lester that night but a casual pickup have turned into something deadly or was Lester killed as
a result of his undercover life [Music] next the story of schoolgirl Cathy Hobbs
who vanished on her way back to Las Vegas Supermarket anonymous tipster may have seen her abductors now he too has
disappeared someone out there is walking the streets killing kids and they killed
my daughter and before they could kill someone else's dog on a recent broadcast we examine the case of a Florida Widow
when we called mrs. K she claims that she was romanced and then swindled by a man named Arthur Frankfort after a four
week whirlwind romance Arthur Frankfort convinced mrs. K to let him move in with her never once was I
suspicious of any move that he made as far as to question his character who he was and he was that he was a liar and a
thief on July 29th 1988 or mrs. K was at work Arthur Frankfort disappeared after
allegedly stealing jewelry worth over four thousand dollars as well as many personal items belonging to mrs. Kay's
late husband Arthur Frankfort is wanted by Florida police for burglary grand theft auto and check forging authorities
believe that he may have victimized over 40 women by stealing their hearts and then taking their cash update within
minutes of our broadcast two viewers called our 800 number to report that they recognized arthur frankfort the
individual said I'd know where Arthur Frankfort is I'm his ex brother-in-law my name is Floyd meadows I asked him if
he had ever seen this Arthur Frankfort do magic he said yes he did and he does it very well this is one of the keys
that I never released to the press or any other medium that Arthur Frankford does magic we received another call
about 20 minutes later from a white female says Arthur Frankfort lives next door to me and Whitley Kentucky the
was the confirmation call that I was looking for at that time I knew we had our man
[Music] two hours later Frankfurt was arrested at his home in Kentucky by the McCreary
County Sheriff and Kentucky State Troopers he was living under the assumed name James Ferguson with his new wife of
two months during a search of Frankfurt's house police uncovered several identification and credit cards
with different aliases they also found a handgun that may have been stolen from mrs. Kay's home we got other calls from
women that say yes I've been married to this man I've divorced him he's left me holding
the bag and what I need is for the people that have been victimized by Arthur Frankfort to come forward it's
time for the public to stand up and say hey we've had enough of Arthur Frankfort
this man has preyed on the public long enough [Music] Las Vegas a glamorous capital and slot
machines blackjack high-stakes gambler an adult amusement park but just one mile off the strip is another side of
Las Vegas the real world that tourists never see an ordinary part of suburban America on the evening of July 23rd 1987
16 year-old Cathy Hobbs was reading a romance novel in her bedroom at 11:00 p.m. she decided to walk to the local
supermarket to buy another book just one and a half blocks away she came out to me and she said mom I'm going down to
the store and buy a book and she said give me a kiss before I go and I said why I'll be up when you get back and she
says well she says I probably will stop and talk to the kids so you might be a good when I get back so I gave her a
kiss and that was the last I saw of her Cathy had walked to the store late at night
many times usually her friends were gathered at the apartment complex swimming pool chatting and gossiping so
Cathy's mother wasn't concerned for her safety one of the kids would walk down to the
store with her there was no one at the Stormville that night so instead of coming home she decided to
go on to the store by herself assuming the Kathi would be with her friends Vivian went to sleep at 3 a.m.
she awoke from a strange dream that at the time seemed innocent but would later come back to haunt her I woke up at her
sound sleep I felt like I had been hit on the head and all of a sudden I got a very peaceful feeling and it was well
it's over now and I fell back to sleep the next morning Vivian discovered that Cathy's bedroom was empty she still did
not come home within the first day we had tracked down friends relatives and done a very extensive media campaign on
the television with Catherine's picture all day long at the end of the second day we were pretty much convinced that
Kathryn was probably abducted Kathy's disappearance was a culmination of years of worry for her family her as a child
Kathy had eerie premonitions that she would die at nearly age she was an isolated introverted girl when Kathy was
aged she began telling her friends she would not live to the age of 16 she did not have a happy childhood her father
and I went through a divorce when she was 8 years old she and her father were extremely close
when she was in the seventh grade a very good friend of hers died of a heart disease that affected Kathy very much
and that's one of the main reasons we moved to Las Vegas was to give Kathy another chance to get away from that
atmosphere and the environment that she grew up in at first it seemed that the move to Las Vegas had been the right
decision even though Kathy remained withdrawn she did blossom and made some new friends
however as her 16th birthday drew closer Kathy's old fears of dying returned about 2 months before her 16th birthday
she got very teary-eyed one night and told me mom I don't want to get any older I want to be a little girl and I
told her I said Kathy we all have to grow up and you know it's it's not the easiest thing
the world to do what we all do it she's told me I'm not going to she didn't think she'd make her 16th birthday just
before her 16th birthday Kathy became despondent again she spent all her time in her room and would not
leave the house on the morning of her birthday though Kathy was surprised and relieved to find she was still alive and
she came out of her bedroom and she said mom I did it I did it I made it and I said what she said I made 16 I didn't
think I'd live to be 16 now Kathy had a new enthusiasm for life and began making
plans for her future she began to go out again wanted to continue her education and started to wear makeup she plan to
train as a hair stylist and open her own beauty shop called cats cuts she was ecstatic she came out guys I made it mom
I mean it I'm 16 is it it arrived after Kathy vanished the authorities assumed that she had been abducted and issued
photos to the entire police department the local media were encouraged to publicize Kathy's disappearance and
volunteer organizations were mobilized to search for the missing girl eventually one crucial clue surfaced a
clerk remembered seeing Kathy in the supermarket that night she vanished store receipts confirm that someone did
purchase a paperback novel at 11:17 that night apparently Kathy had made it to the store on Desert Inn Road and
Maryland Parkway but she never made it home it was late at night but Las Vegas as you all know is a 24-hour town and
people are coming and going to work constantly in this town this intersection is a large intersection
widely traveled and the store is a 24-hour major store and to have people coming and going from the store and
nobody's seeing anything was very very surprising nine days after Cathy vanished hiker
Rick pakad was searching for unusual rock crystals out in the desert near Lake Mead
about an hour from Las Vegas was walking back to the car and was probably 150 feet 200 feet from the road and was
stopped by a very strong odor decided to see where it was coming from or what it
was and that's when I found Catherine's body it was the most horrible thing I'd ever seen in my life I had to sit down
and gather my thoughts and make sure that what I was looking at was real when I realized that it was a human body went
back to the car back to Colville Bay ranger station and got the Rangers and brought them back out to the site
[Music] within probably 20 minutes of our arrival we knew it was Catherine there
was no doubt in our own minds that it was going to be Catherine and it does get very quiet and you you can't help
but look at it and see your own children and say for the grace of God there goes
one of mine your immediate feeling at the time is to want to run home grab your daughter by
the arm and bring her to the scene and say this is why I say no you can't go out late at night the investigators
found tire imprints at the scene showing where a vehicle had pulled in turned around and left
they also found two rocks spattered with blood near Kathy's body tests established that the stains matched
Kathy's blood type the coroner concluded that Cathy Hobbs had died from repeated
blows to the head she was 16 years three months and three days old when she was killed
so she made it 16 but after that but she was right you know she did have a premonition um that she wasn't going to
live to be an adult after Kathy's death letters were found in her room addressed
to each member of the family the letters were dated one month before Kathy 16th birthday dear mother an event of my
death you shall get this letter I hope you live happily and I don't want you or anybody else to dwell on my death I love
you all very dearly you were good to me and nobody else could have been a better
brother keep me alive in your heart and don't ever forget me love always Cathy [Applause]
but she was a very good friend as well it's paid by doctor for the most direct route to where she was found would be
straight down Desert Inn on October 24th exactly three months after Kathy vanished an answering machine at the Las
Vegas police department recorded a startling call from a man who may have been a witness to Kathy's abduction the
theory that we have is that she was abducted between the store and her apartment by one or more suspects we
think she was driven to the lake that night I believe that she was abducted and killed that evening the caller
reported the license plate number of a car he saw a girl being forced into but he did not leave his name or phone
number the police checked the license number and discovered it did not exist the crucial tip came over a year ago and
despite repeated Appeals the witness still hasn't called back and we need to find out if he possesses any more
information and if he doesn't wish to give a name that's fine but we do need to talk to him someone out there is
walking the streets killing kids and they killed my daughter and before they can kill someone else's daughter I want
the car [Music] when he was 8 years old bill Pierson was separated from his five
brothers and sisters today Villa 62 has found all but one of his siblings now he
wants to find his lost sister Jackie [Music] last December we brought you a story
that began over 40 years ago war-torn Eastern Europe 1945 is Hitler's Third Reich crumbled refugees choked the
highways and rural roads Carl dente and his family fled their home in Budapest Hungary across the border into Austria
as winter found on the weather turned bitter cold the daddies were forced to live in a boxcar life was particularly
hard for Carl's five-year-old daughter Vegeta a few days before Christmas all had changed in an American soldier known
only as Philip past the daddies if he could take Brigitte to a Christmas party given for the refugee children by the
Americans yes yes yes the over forty years have passed since that night Vegeta remembers it as if it were
yesterday girl it made me feel very very special instead of making me feel safe and happy
he made me feel like a big girl but I felt like a princess it's like someone opened a magic door
I felt like I was in a dream I never wanted to dream to end [Music] over the next few months a deep and
caring friendship grew between Philip and the den tease then one day Philip came to the camp of
bad news his unit had been recalled back to the United States and we'd be leaving
immediately he gave Carl a photograph to remember him by though the daddy's never saw Philip
again they will never forget the warmth and kindness he brought their family on that Christmas Day so long ago he
brought the big change in our life little happiness you know give us me a cleric confidence of the human race
after 11 years of struggle and hardship the daddy's finally made it to America for 30 years Carl and Brigitte our
search for Philip their only clue was the photograph he left them 43 years ago [Music]
within an hour of our broadcast mrs. Pauline Dottie of Augusta Maine called our 800 number to say that the man named
Philip and our story is her cousin Philip Pelletier he's a retired postal worker lives in Hammond Indiana we
immediately called Carl and Brigitte identity helped to arrange a real on Wednesday December 28th 1988
Conn and Vegeta's 30 years search for Philip came to an emotional end really pretty hard to tell you just how I feel
after so many years and trying to recollect everything that we went through together you know it's very hard
it's very exciting it's almost unbelievable it's something like a Christmas miracle because when he left I
was thinking about it I ever see him again and here we go after 43 years be back
together again it's just like a dream came too hard to believe it sometimes I had a feeling I gonna wake up the minute
that I saw him I could see the warmth and happy look on his face smiling like we really never had lost touch in a way
caryl Brigitte and Philip spent the afternoon looking through photographs that brought back memories of that
special time they spent together we're gonna stay with touch we're gonna try to visit each other as much as possible
we're gonna bring you the friendship what we had before you know it's it's a friendship forever bill puritan a 62
year old retired New Hampshire businessman was separated from his family in 1934 when he was 8 years old
back then his last name was Harrington and his family was struggling to survive the depression bill was one of six
children who stayed at home while his parents were away working on August the 3rd 1934 the Harrington children were
preparing a birthday party for Bill and his little sister Jackie the children were unaware that four of them would
soon be torn from their family in the space of a few moments all of their lives would change forever
[Music] the Harrington family lived in the small upstate town of Hartford New York
the neighbors felt that the four youngest children were being neglected they reported the herring goes to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children the society took action on the
very day a Bill and Jackie's birthday celebration [Music] the social workers arrived when both
parents are out working despite the parents absence the Harrington children's modest birthday
celebration was already in progress as soon as a party was finished the social workers took the four youngest children
away [Music] bill any years of age was the oldest of the four I didn't know who they were and
they told me that I was going to take a trip and I was excited I was gonna go on
a train I was gonna go on my car I was gonna see things that I hadn't seen before and it was exciting until I
realized that I wasn't going home and I became angry [Music] I was upset and that's when I realized
that I was not gonna see my family again [Music] bill and his three younger siblings were
put up for adoption they went to four different families in the state of New York they would not see
one another again for nearly 50 years in 1948 when bill was 22 and just out of the army he began the search for his
lost brothers and sisters he made no headway at all until 1976 when he wrote to the records clerk in hartwig New York
just as the clerk was replying to Bill's letter a chess visitor dropped by bill immediately wrote to the San Francisco
address and received a cautious reply from Wanda his older sister Wanda just said I'm Wanda Harrington and if you
want any information about the family just call me and she gave me a phone number and I called her and she answered
the phone and I said hiya Wanda and she said yes are you red or you bill and I said I'm bill and she started to
cry by 1976 bill to track down all of his brothers and sisters except to Jackie the sister would shared his
birthday an end his baby brother the feeling of knowing that you have a brother or a sister somewhere that you
can't locate is the driving force it just makes you want to keep on looking you don't give up in 1980 Bill's search
got another unexpected boost Ellen Steinman the New York Children's Aid Society found a phone number for Edie
on a Christmas Eve bill spoke to his brother Edie for the first time in 47 years when
I got the call from my brother and I just couldn't believe that it actually happened thank you and it's been just
been a great experience to have all of a sudden with one phone call I have 42 new relatives and being at
Christmas time I was a greatest Christmas gift like again finally two months ago the Harrington family
reunited for the first time all five have been together for more than 50 years [Music]
Ed's wife played photographer and the brothers and sisters posed for their first family pictures since 1933 the
Harrington children treasure the reborn family but their joy is tempered their sister Jackie remains missing when we
find Jackie and it'll be a completed circle everything will be in its place everybody will be where they belong I've
been looking for my sister for the last 40 years and I intend to find her and I'm not gonna stop until I do
[Music] one Sunday afternoon in Phoenix Arizona a businessman named Angelo desiderio
paired a solitary lunch before he could sit down to enjoy it he vanished 30 hours later and 400 miles away his
burned-out car was discovered no other trace of Angelo desert areas ever been found on the afternoon of June the 5th
1988 a prosperous businessman named Angelo desert dari banished from his Phoenix home nobody knows why or to
where he disappeared his friends and family believed he met with foul play some investigators think Angelo wanted
to disappear there is no conclusive evidence either way only questions fifty seven-year-old Angelo desiderio was a
devout Catholic who had once studied for the priesthood he lived a quiet routine
existence with his parents and a Phoenix suburb and there was a very ordered neat
individual very very meticulous and very very neat individual a perfectionist in
its true sense of the word of perfectionist angelo killed a small fortune out of hard work he had several
close friends but never married Angelo loved the finer things in life and he supported this affluent lifestyle
by owning a shopping center and an import store on the morning of Monday June 6th a neighboring shop owner
discovered that Angelo store was closed and no one was inside one of Angelo's friends drove out to his
home to see if anything was wrong after seeing certain things that disturbed me like the alarm that was not on and other
things of that nature he went next door and made the decision the phone 9-1-1 and get out of the house
[Music] [Music] inside Angela was nowhere to be found the house was undisturbed apparently he
had been interrupted while preparing lunch on the kitchen table Angelo had laid out piles of bills as if preparing
to pay them in the living room two new pairs of pants were found near a shopping bag a
receipt inside the bag showed Angelo had bought the pants at 12:47 the previous afternoon
[Music] when my brother disappeared on that Sunday afternoon he left the house with
absolutely nothing didn't take a toothbrush pair of slippers nothing absolutely nothing the only thing that
we discovered that was missing was his attache case some jewelry and money was missing from the home but as far as any
other personal items everything was left behind if we could find out why he left
in that hurry it might to give us a clue as to where Angelo is in the garage investigators discovered a telling clue
Angelo's car cover lay crumpled on the floor Angelo was compulsively neat and always folded the cover after removing
it a neighbor fueled police suspicion when he said he had seen Angelo's Cadillac speed off the Sunday he
disappeared it was very difficult to see of course I couldn't see any facial characteristics and it just appeared to
be a person taller than Angelo it wasn't like Angelo to pull out without acknowledging me he'd returned from out
of town just a few days before I'd given him his mail and we spoke briefly Friday
night which was prior to this was on a Sunday and it just all kinds of questions you wonder why there is a
missing link and I wish I knew what it was and I'm sure a lot of other people do too
[Music] at 6:30 - on Monday evening only 30 hours after Angela disappeared 400 miles for Phoenix a 1985 Cadillac
was found a place in a San Diego parking lot an accelerant had been used to set the fire investigators traced the old
it was registered to Angelo desi dairy when San Diego authorities examine the car there were no personal belongings
inside they found no signs of forcible entry the ignition was untampered with there were no signs or indications of
any hot-wiring of any types the vehicle was very very meticulously cleaned no bugs no dirt anywhere on the front of
the vehicle as if it had just come from a long journey from another state washing a car and then burning it is
something that is a first for me in my career I cannot conceive that he would burn the car
it just seems incredible that this is possible of my brother he's just it just doesn't seem possible to me I just can't
I can't comprehend something like this we looked in the trunk and found absolutely nothing in that trunk that
would have been there other than the jack no carpet no padding no spare tire we processed that vehicle there were no
fibers there were no hairs there was nothing in that trunk or anything that we could discover that had been in that
trunk basically this tells us that there could have been something in the vehicle
that was transported in a vehicle and when it was taken out they took the carpet in the padding and wrapped it all
in one unit and took everything out of the vehicle including the spare tire [Music]
Phoenix Police retraced the drive to San Diego stopping at gas stations along the
way nobody matching Angelo's description had been seen and none of his credit cards had been used in San Diego car
washes were checked on the slim chance that someone would remember having seen Angela or no one had but authorities did
find two witnesses who had seen the car minutes before was torched one saw a man resembling Angelo in front
of the Cadillac at the same time a woman passing by also saw the man however neither witness could conclusively
identify him as Angela we can narrow that down to about five minutes prior to the fire the results of our case rest on
who that person was it could possibly close our case if it was Angelo standing by that car in the disappearance of
Angelo desi Derry there are still many perplexing questions why would Angelo leave his home in such
a hurry without a visible struggle who was it standing next to Angelo's car in San Diego and why was his set on fire
and perhaps most importantly what was the motive for his disappearance there is no way knowing this man like I did
that I can even remotely tie him into any illegal activity with any underworld or anything criminal and he being
involved anything of this nature they would cause him they have to possibly leave or disappear no way at all there's
another life or there's another dimension - Angelo that we've never been able to find we have a gentleman who
would go out of his way for people someone who was devoted to his family and yet we have this whole case and all
do all the pieces they just don't fit there's a piece missing somewhere and I think that if if I could ever find that
piece I'd find Angela for over eight months investigators and friends were baffled as to the moody for Angelo's
disappearance update on March 16th Phoenix police charged a local resident Joe Camel with
conspiracy to commit armed robbery and burglary on Angelo desiderio they learned that Keller was a friend and
business associate of Angela and had detailed information concerning his disappearance joe callow told us that
all the information he had was told to him by James majors James majors have worked with Calhoun construction he is
currently in a California jail facing several counts of murder during the interview of of Joe gallo
he stated that majors went to the house got into the house by ringing the doorbell and asking for a glass of water
then took Angelo at gunpoint and robbed the house he was taken out of the house at that time by majors and driven out
into the desert callow claims it's somewhere between Phoenix and San Diego majors murdered
Angela and then placed the body in the trunk of the Cadillac and continued on toward San Diego the following morning
majors goes to a hardware store we're not sure where we believe it's in some small town between here in California
where he purchased a pick and a shovel [Music] Cannell claims that after buying a tools
majors told him that he had driven down a desert back road to an area adjacent to a rundown house he then buried Angelo
near a large tree according to kal-el majors did a real unique thing and that is as he's leaving
the gravesite he stopped and gave the shoveling in the pit to the poor people that lived and then that Shack the exit
the highway and drove him to California [Music] Joe Cala also told investigators that
majors had a storage locker police searched the locker and recovered property belonging to Angelo these items
were traced back to the desiderio [Music] [Applause] [Music] join me next time perhaps you hold the
key perhaps you can help solve a mystery [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode covers unsolved cases of Lester Gagne, Angelo Desiderio, Cathy Hobbs, and Bill Pierson's search for his sister Jackie.

Key points

The Mysterious Murder of Lester Gagne. Undercover cop Lester Gagne is found dead in his Corvette, raising questions about his murder.
Arthur Frankfort's Deception. A widow reveals how she was swindled by a charming man named Arthur Frankfort.
Cathy's Premonition. Before her 16th birthday, Cathy expresses fears of not living to adulthood.
Cathy Hobbs Disappears. 16-year-old Cathy vanishes on her way to the store, leading to a frantic search.
The Search for Jackie. Bill Pierson seeks to reunite with his lost sister Jackie after decades apart.
A Magical Reunion. After 43 years, Carl and Brigitte reunite with Philip, feeling like a Christmas miracle.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This was an extremely cold-blooded deliberate killing.

Description of Lester Gagne's murder.

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Tension

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