Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 2 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] 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 11 a.m. May 11th 1987 the police were called to a deserted service station near Pontiac Michigan they
forced the office door open and discovered an empty safe two people were missing Elmer de Bourgh
the service station courier who was carrying $10,000 and Missy Mundy the assistant manager who was just 16 years
old [Music] the car the following day the police found the body of 38 year old elemér de Bourgh
he had been handcuffed and shot twice in the back of the head the police called it a cold-blooded execution and wondered
what connection this pretty teenaged girl could have had with a brutal slaying what happened to Missy Mundy is
a bizarre story of love and violence in rural America no one has heard from Missy since last May the day of the
killing the police and her parents need to talk to her perhaps someone in our audience tonight has seen the scene
perhaps Missy herself is watching the next star will tell you her story and three other unsolved mysteries all
needing one last piece of information before they can be solved joining you may be able to help to solve a mystery
[Music] Almodovar was killed on May 11th 1987 his body left in the woods outside
Pontiac Michigan the mystery of who killed Elmer and why the story of the fatal attraction between an innocent
fifteen-year-old schoolgirl and a criminal would serve time for assault and rape according to the police
their ill-fated love affair eventually ended in robbery kidnapping murder the mystery of Melissa Mundy begins in 1985
in the small Maryland town of Hancock Melissa was known as Missy to her friends and attended the local high
school she was an honor student and a member of the future homemakers of America
Missy's academic records show that she was in probably the top 10% of her class she enjoyed what she was doing she got
along well and if I could have gauged it I was gaged it everything was satisfactory because that's the way she
seemed to be heard scolding Missy was very shy person she I go to her basketball games require practice or
maybe COBOL games but we always heard where she was that when she got done she calls we go pick her up and bring her
back home in 1985 a stranger arrived in the area his name was Jerry Strickland and he said he was looking for a
property to convert into an orphanage he called on Missy's family asking about the ownership of a nearby house
all right how are you today when I first met Jerry I thought well you know he's just smooth talker Memphis these actions
the way he talked he was so demanding I didn't care for his attitude Missy was intrigued by Jerry this first glimpse
was the beginning of a relationship that was to change her life forever she really liked him a lot every time I came
out he brought her a gift and he gave her a lot of attention that she didn't get at home she went out with him in the
evening after her mom go home and she said that she got home late but her mom didn't know who she's with and she lied
to her she was with a friend Missy sneaked out of her house regularly to see Jerry he told her he had a tragic
past and said his first wife and child had died in a terrible car accident Missy was swept off her feet by Jerry
she had boy crushes at school you know like childhood sweetheart stuff like that but as far as going I was Bush
never thinking about it she never paid that much of an interest in them that's why I don't understand about this and
Jerry I got something oh it's beautiful like she bought a ring she said for a souvenir I come find out
later Jerry had gave her the ring and I took write a word because Missy never didn't lie to me that's why I never
dreamt what's gonna happen next on the morning of April 17 1986 Missy left home to catch the school bus as
usual I'll never forget that day it's not a Thursday she said I'm going to school now I'll see the city nice
alright that was it as les where she spoke in fact she got in Jerry's car and left
the state I didn't believe it Missy when that kind of a person cuz i know'd miss I raised her it was just a
big change and that one day when she just left even as Missy was driving away from her
home in her family she still didn't know the truth about Jerry Strickland his first wife and child had not been killed
in a car wreck they are still alive he had been passing bad checks around Hancock and he had a prison record he
had been convicted of malicious assault he had raped his sister-in-law cut her throat and left her for dead this
unlikely couple settled in Springfield Michigan just outside Detroit even though Missy gave birth to a son
Jamie she never told her family where she was living she told me that she was very unhappy at home and that she didn't
care about anybody at home but her older brother and her grandfather and that that's why she was with Jerry was cuz he
took her away from her I've never seen him kiss never held hands I never seen him touch at all I thought that was a
little strange I remember asking her about it once and she said that he was a very affectionate
to help make ends meet Missy took a job as assistant manager at a gas station there she met Elmer de Bourgh a courier
for the oil company he picked up the cash receipts from the local gas stations Missy and Elmer became close
friends he understood that she was going through a really rough time you know being married to this guy and they
didn't have anything for the baby and stuff like that he was very understanding man very loving on the
morning of May 11th 1987 elemér de Bourgh came by as usual to pick up the cash from the station where Missy worked
he was near the end of his route one hour later customers found the station deserted when the police arrived they
found Elmer's car in the parking lot the office was locked we checked the interior of the station
and found that there was nobody inside but the safe had been opened and there was an excess of $10,000 of stolen
Melissa knew Elmer's routine because of her position his assistant manager to that particular station she knew when he
was going to pick up and where the police have developed a theory of what happened that morning they believe
that Jerry planned the crime and was waiting with Melissa for Elma when Elmer opened decision Jerry made his move now
the police think that Jerry handcuffed Missy and Elmer together to convince Elmer that Missy was also a holdup
victim and that her life was in danger we feel that Elmer was handcuffed to Missy
on the pretext that she was going to be hurt and Elmer went along with it reluctantly but to protect Melissa
you're just gonna wager alright then he unlocked the handcuffs to show Elmer that he wasn't really going to hurt
Melissa but he just wanted the money and then he shot him twice in the back of the head at first I couldn't believe
that it could have happened that way but then I find out the rest of the story and how had it happened and it was
unbelievable it was something that you'd never expected of Melissa well what do you think I figure home the morning
after the murder Jerry and Missy were seen in Pontiac buying a blue pickup truck with cash in small bills while
Jerry went to get insurance Missy set with a truck salesman and chatted for over two hours now you got
this two and a half hours that she was alone she could have told the salesman of lucky auto sales she could have
picked the phone up and called the police herself to say let me out of this I'm in trouble I need help she's guilty
she just as guilty as he is she had the opportunity and she didn't do it it's unbelievable I made that sweet
could do something like that it wasn't just me that thought she was sweet everybody did I just don't think from
what I saw of her that she could have been involved in that again I'm I guess we changed but to what I remember of
this girl I just don't think she could be bored of it she's as guilty as Jerry Strickland is even though she did not
pull the trigger she is guilty of first-degree murder they are obviously aren't the people
that they made everybody believe they're liars they're phonies there wasn't any reason for him to die
and they could do that to somebody like that who knows what they've done and what they could do now we're fearful
that somebody may get hurt again they're dangerous people and anybody that comes
in contacting them better understand the fact that they can be very very dangerous I never noticed a change in
her I didn't notice his split and her personality unless I didn't want to but as he's gone I don't know if I was
hearing it or not when she left we found his letter and in that letter is stated not let nobody put
her down she wasn't no [ __ ] she loved us all take care of us and son missing Missy is five feet six inches tall 135
pounds and is now 17 years old she's traveling with her one-year-old baby Jamie Jerry Strickland is 26 years old 5
feet 11 250 pounds and has a scar on his forehead I want them both real bad they
are dangerous people to any community that they're in they will do this again update Moses Lake Washington within
minutes of our broadcast 20 viewers in this small rural community call the police to say they recognized Jerry
Strickland and Missy Mundy seven hours later the police arrested the fugitive couple at a friend's house they
discovered that Jerry and Missy had themselves watched the broadcast and we're waiting for the police all he says
I'm the guy you're looking for and he was just real calm and collect no violence at all
actually the times about 7 hours and 15 minutes from the time me I'm solve mysteries aired on February
12th Jerry and Missy were extradited back to Michigan to stand trial for armed robbery kidnapping and murder
Jerry insists they are innocent they got circumstantial evidence all hearsay it's
people talking but no witnesses I mean okay that's why you know I say they're gonna learn that we didn't do this we
have enough evidence circumstantial evidence and physical evidence that we feel he's guilty all they want is a
conviction and they don't care if they burn me or not thanks to our viewers Jerry strictly Missy Monday will have
their day in court they're being tried separately and if convicted could face life imprisonment without the
possibility of parole [Music] in a moment the story of a man who is serving a life sentence for robbing a
gas station five eyewitnesses claimed his innocence [Music] July 14th 1979 the Dallas suburb of
Garland Texas at 7:00 p.m. a man entered a gas station office and drew a gun on Doyle the attendant who was closing up
for the day when he first come in the door and he was shaking the gun at me telling me
he'd kill me I'd a me kill me then I realized it was all for real the incident took 10 minutes but Doyle's
key eyewitness testimony would eventually put a man in prison for life I don't think that you ever really get
over something like that that happens to you and if you had a 45 stuck in your face and somebody was telling you baby
was going to kill you it's something that stick with you the rest your life and you never forget the person that
does it Doyle identified his attacker as Michael Scott Martin a 26 year old welder five
other witnesses however swore that Michael Scott Martin could not have robbed the gas station they claimed he
spent the whole day at his home 70 miles away I mean this is ridiculous I'm at my
house in Fort Worth working on a motorcycle they're saying I'm robbing a gas station in Garland and I've never
robbed anything in my life and I never will Michael Martin Denis Waitley Michael Martin was arrested tried and
convicted of armed robbery because of a previous arrest he was sentenced to life
imprisonment with no possibility of parole until 1999 Martin has already served eight years
and still maintains he's innocent tonight he makes a final appeal I'm back to the point of giving up I am innocent
I've gone all the way to the Supreme Court fighting this and I just keep hoping and praying there's there's a way
and I'll find it and one day I'll prove that I didn't Rob their gas station the case against
Michael Martin was based entirely on eyewitness identification that placed him at the scene of the crime there was
never any physical evidence connecting Martin to the robbery no fingerprints were found the money was never recovered
and the gun still hasn't been located Martin insists that he has been wrongly imprisoned
Michael Martin had a clean record until he was 26 years old in 1979 seven months before the gas
station robbery he was arrested after an altercation in a supermarket Michael and
a friend had been drinking were seen eating Polish sausage and potato chips from a supermarket shelves and the
manager threatened to call the police Michael panicked the incident escalated into violence stay right here I'm gonna
contact police we're not staying anywhere I tell you what here's your lousy money all right
we paid for everything no I don't think so I won't you wait right here please you want some of this you want some come
on man I don't really know why I pulled a knife I guess it was just a desire to get out
of the door I got here got him drunk I'm feeling a little crazy I'd been hassling with this manager I
was part of it I fired well over their heads I wasn't meaning to hurt anybody it was just an adolescent stunt that I
never should you know I was 26 years old then I shouldn't have been out shooting
up to town like that it just didn't make any sense I wouldn't call placing knives or
shooting at people to prank it's pretty serious offense you don't expect somebody to get out
rage ously angry when they're asked to pay for something that they were eating inside a store I don't think that should
led to the kind of reaction on Michaels part that he obviously had there was testimony that he was intoxicated at the
time but still an intoxicated person who would go to that lengths to avoid paying
for a Polish sausage you have to wonder about Martin pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon he was fined and
given four years probation at 7:00 p.m. on July 14 1979 just two weeks after Martin's probation began the
gas station was robbed the gunmen stole over $400 and fled the scene of the crime in a car he'd stolen from Doyle
the attendant and 15 minutes later the 7:15 p.m. the policy had spotted the stolen car outside a nearby apartment
hello or Martin had lived until only a month before at approximately 7:25 p.m. detective
Wheatley who investigated the supermarket incident claimed he saw Michael Scott Martin as blue Camaro
three blocks from the gas station if he came through the intersection he looked at me and I looked at him and
knew him from the previous office and I said to myself that's Michael Scott Martin
he came posting up to me after that photo reached over the top of my motorcycle and slapped him though I wish
all you stack of photographs here but lucky to do is look to see if you see anything that you reckon is okay
Wheatley asked to be assigned to the robbery case the following day he showed the victim Doyle a series of mug shots
he's the type of witness that you wish you had or ever a case that you worked his intensity his quick reaction to
picking Michael Scott Martin made him is a good witness I think that's the man are you sure there's me sure Michael
Martin was arrested charged with aggravated armed robbery and held without bail it's a depressing
experience but I felt like I would prove my innocence I mean I didn't rob this gas station I knew I didn't rob this gas
station I thought I had sufficient proof and just having people that knew where I
was that Martin Clint II was at Lake Worth 70 miles away from Garland at the time of the robbery five separate
witnesses three of whom hardly knew Martin substantiate his claim their testimony was the crux of Martin's
defense the day that they say the robbery happened I worked on my car and he worked on his motorcycle and other
than about two hours that afternoon between I don't know I think was around 2:00 o'clock 2:00 to 4:00 o'clock when
he were in four parts he was here at all times from timing got up in the morning
at the time he went to bed at night he was here he was there with me and with George at the time he's accused of
robbing this gas station he just couldn't have done it he didn't do it when I left my house it was after 6:00
before 6:30 and I saw my accountant his house I don't remember what he's doing it seems like he's working on his
motorcycle I don't know but he was here and after finding out what the circumstances were and what day it was I
was surprised to see that Mike was arrested because I knew I had seen him so close to the time that the crime was
supposed to be committed it takes well over an hour to drive from here to Garland I saw him around 6 o'clock and
there's no way he would have had time to leave and and commit this crime by 7 o'clock it's 7 o'clock Saturday night I
remembered real well because there was a television show that I wanted to catch his Battlestar Gallactica so I made sure
that at 7 o'clock I was there in front of the television and Mike came in and watched the show with me how could he
have been at my house at 7 p.m. if he was in Garland at 7 p.m. 75 80 miles away Michel Martin's trial
hinged on the issue who the jury would believe the to prosecution eyewitnesses are the five defense eyewitnesses
the trial was held in the same courtroom or two months previously Michael Martin
had received his probation the turning point came when his supermarket conviction was admitted into the court
record possibly prejudicing the jury against Martin I don't know if we could have gotten a
guilty conviction in the second offense if the jury had not known about the first offense I think that works great
psychological influence on the jury I know that my witnesses were positive I also know that the defense witnesses
were positive and it was one of those cases back then when I simply had to put on the case and let the jury make their
decision that's what our system is all about it took the jury only 15 minutes to find
Michael Martin guilty of armed robbery they gave him the maximum set was possible under the law I have to do 20
flat years which means I can't come up for parole until 1999 because I supposedly took $400 from this gas
station I don't think I got a fair trial if a person is on probation for a felony
offense and went out and committed this type of aggravated robbery no I don't have any problem with him serving a life
sentence for that if he's guilty if he's guilty those words have troubled Brad Lawler for nine years could the
jury have put a man behind bars who was innocent it always bothered me that we were not able to come up with the
clincher there were no fingerprints found at the scene or on the getaway car no recovery of the stolen items there
was nothing that conclusively tied Michael Martin to the commission of the offense
besides the eyewitness testimony and it's for that reason that I think I always had a little doubt left in my
mind about this case I'm still sure and I put the right man in jail no doubt in my mind and there is no doubt in my mind
now why would five people four of whom or three of whom barely knew him why would they lie in the court of law to
protect him back at the time I leaned toward thinking that Michael Martin was guilty
and today in retrospect I simply don't know I thought my 18 year old witness was positive but also the witnesses who
testified from art Martin were positive that they were with him at the time of the offense 70 miles away so it's one of
those that I guess we'll never know the true answer to Michael still has 11 more years to serve
in prison the groundswell of doubt about his guilt has had no effect I've never stopped trying to prove my innocence
because I don't know what else I have right now it's prove my innocence or just sit here
for 11 more years I can really appreciate what freedom is before I came here it was a big abstract
you know it was always there and it's taken away you really appreciate it I want what I lost what I hate what I
feel I had taken from me [Music] next the san francisco teen who strayed into a world of witchcraft magic and
mysticism his father please he was murdered on saturday september 8 1984 a teenage boy drove from his home in
Concord California across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco it planned to spend the night and return home Sunday evening
Monday September 10th three days later on some rugged cliffs in a remote area of San Francisco Bay
two men were bird-watching on the isolated beach below they discovered the brood half-naked body of 17 year old
Kurt McFaul his father suspects foul play Kurt told this friend of his that he was involved in some kind of satanic
cult and that he wanted out but thought that they might try to kill him he really feared for his life it was a
murder it needs to be investigated there's no doubt in my mind that Kurt could have handled himself on in that
Cliff area because he was an experienced mountain climber and he was a diver so he would not have drowned in the water
or fallen down the hill Kurt McFaul dead at 17 - outward appearances Kurt was a handsome and
popular high school student a confident young man who made friends easily Tomic fathers learned there was another
side of his teenage son the day after Kurt disappeared Tom received an anonymous telephone call telling him
that his son had wanted to escape from a cult that he feared for his life Tom now
believes that Kurt strayed from a suburban middle-class background into a variant of witchcraft mysticism possibly
murder [Music] alarmed by the strange phone call tom searched his son's bedroom [Music]
after I had received a telephone call they thought of a lot about this individual as to what he knew about
Kurt's disappearance I wanted to gain all the information I could as to what happened in Kurt's room Tom discovered a
knife made from a deer's hoof a necklace of stone and feathers drawings of witchcraft and violent fantasies they
seemed to be further proof that Kurt was leading a double life attended become interested in the medieval fantasy game
Dungeons & Dragons it was the beginning of a voyage into a subculture that would
dominate Kurt a year before he died Kurt joined the Society for Creative anachronism or FCA its members enjoy
reliving medieval customs and the actual costumes of the period once a week they
practice jousting and sword fighting in the parking lot of an Oakland subway station Kurt was here about twice a week
through February and into March of 84 learned how to fight he was good quick talented really going to be very good at
the game we were real pleased with him and his death certainly had nothing to do with any part of his participation in
the SCA that I knew anything about as Kurt became increasingly interested in medieval rituals he joined a separate
group who initiated him into pagan religion one of Kurt's old high school friends feared this new and contacted
Tom McFaul you become concerned for Kurt and now fears for his own safety gradually over a period of perhaps six
months his attitude towards other people changed drastically he kind of moved from just studying with an interest in
medieval religion to actually adopting that religion as his he lost a lot of his friends
through that process Kurt studied pagan religion with Gabriel Carrillo who uses the ancient Welsh name
Quranic this is a religion which is also an art a craft which has techniques which are at their essence magical I met
Kurt because he had evinced an interest in magic Kurt was real bright and real curious about just about everything his
involvement with this group can be compared to a drug addiction where you begin thinking that you've got it in
control and you can take it when you want but gradually losing that sense of knowing when to stop until you're a
junkie we regard evil I do not make any attempt to control people's lives people
are free to come and go at their own discretion just as Kurt did if anything the emphasis that we have is on
individuals taking control of their own lives Saturday September 10th Kurt had planned to spend the night at karateka
partment they had dinner went to a movie and around midnight Kurt went swimming at Ocean Beach a few blocks from Kotik
soul [Music] later crit was restless and couldn't sleep according to quranic kurt knocked
on his door about 3:00 in the morning kurt was never seen again my best guess is simply that he took one too many
chances he might have gone swimming in the ocean and been pulled out by the undertow he might have gone climbing on
the cliffs at Lands End and slipped and fallen or any one of a number of other things the following evening Kurt's car
was found abandoned on a golf course overlooking the ocean there were a number of puzzling clues Kurt's driver's
license was on the floor his car keys were on the seat a $20 bill was in the glove compartment the price suit of
armor which Kurt had made for his SCA sword-fighting was missing from the trunk most curious of all the were beer
bottles scattered in and around the car the car has to be a phony scene to me that was set up because Kirk did not
drink beer that's also inconsistent with the autopsy report that shows that there
was no signs of alcohol or drugs on the body when it was recovered so that looks
very suspicious [Music] at 10:15 the following morning national park service lifeguards recovered the
body of kurt McFaul it was lying in a cove less than two miles from karateka partment just below the cliffs at the
golf course where Kurt's car was found we came upon the body you noticed it was in fairly good condition fairly pale
usually a sign of being in the water for an extended period of time no obvious external trauma he looked
pretty clean other than a few small abrasions on the body but nothing obvious Kurt's body had no shoes socks
or shirt his back and shoulders were scored with cuts and abrasions and strangely the belt he wore was missing
its buckle with the facts that we have in this case it's really anybody's guess as to where he actually entered the
water where he came from my guess would be and that's all it is is an educated guess that he simply fell off the cliff
and that's what it appears to me the coroner's report determined that Kurt died from multiple traumatic
injuries and severe blood loss but no one knows what caused those injuries Kurt may have drowned but that would not
explain his cuts and abrasions or the acute loss of blood it appears that Kurt fell from the
treacherous cliffs but it is not known if he fell accidentally or if he was beaten and pushed I went to the san
francisco corner and i said what do you think happened to Kurt and he said I think the most probable cause of Kurt's
death is homicide but he said he didn't have enough to testify to that in a court of law
and so he sent it up to homicide classified as unknown and I can't accept that the San Francisco police declined
to be interviewed they investigated Kurt's death but found no evidence to classify it as a homicide the case
remains open but there are no suspects although he has no proof Tom McFaul still believes his son was murdered
Kurt may have uncovered something in the organization and may have indicated to people that he was going to expose this
and I feel that all of these things probably contributed to them to wanted to do away with Kurt my personal theory
is that Kurt stumbled on to some information that he wasn't supposed to know about these types of organizations
don't make threats they make actions if I wanted to murder somebody the last person I would murder was so so be it
would be somebody who was staying at my house and his father knew that he was staying at my house I mean the whole
thing is stupid I understand that Kurt's father went through a great deal of pain
about his death and needed to find somebody to blame and I understand I was a very convenient person for him to
blame the I had absolutely no responsibility for Kurt's death [Music] I'm so frustrated to have information
that would indicate that your son has been murdered and to date they have virtually closed the case I am bound and
determined to get an investigation I think Kirk deserved this he did not deserve to be taken in that manner
[Music] currently Tomic fall is the only person investigating his son's death if Kurt
was murdered he hopes that even now three years later someone will come forward with new information new
evidence that could reopen the investigation and provide peace of mind for himself and justice for his son
[Music] next the story of a mysterious bag of unopened letters dating back 40 years
they are written by GI standing off the battle in World War two and I've yet to reach their lost loved ones letters from
home each day millions of them are sent to American servicemen fighting on distant battle fronts because of a war
postal system called v-mail they can be flown throughout the world reaching distant points safely and with amazing
speed during World War tina's thousands of soldiers said goodbye to their loved ones and almost every GI in a parting
promise write home as often as possible their letters carried by the military v-mail service
for the only link between them and their families some would return others would
not for the relatives of those GIS lost in battle the last letter home became a precious keepsake a memory of lost love
[Music] 41 years after the war ended on February 4th 1986 Mike Mingus a pest exterminator
was spraying the Attic and an elderly woman's house in Raleigh North Carolina in the corner he saw some letters
spilling out of a laundry bag Mike Mingus had in fact discovered a military duffel filled with hundreds of unopened
letters written by soldiers during World War two the longer I looked more incredulous I became really there was
just something that the insignia crossed I'd never seen v-mail before I heard the
term and knew that generally anything with V and it was World War two vintage and it was really apparent from the very
beginning that there was something here that was just really strange Mike learned that the elderly woman had a
nephew who'd been a crew member aboard the SS Kaleb strong when it was bound for North Africa in May 1944 the troops
on board had written 235 letters home and stuffed them into the duffel bag the woman's nephew had vowed to mail
them when he returned to the USA but he'd forgotten he died about 1980 and the woman had been too embarrassed to
say anything after promising never to reveal her name Mike convince this woman to release the
letters to him the letters were sent to Meg Harris of the Postal Service 92g is on board the Kaleb strong had written
letters to over 150 friends and family one by one the US Postal Service delivered the letters from 89 of the
soldiers only three could not be tracked down you have to be real careful when you start telling them about this man
you kind of lead into it slowly because you don't want anybody to go into shock and you feel a lot of the closeness of
family ties the whole experience has been one where you really how much people care for each other and
how much they continue carrying even after 40 years still at sea may 1944 my precious why darling
I sure miss you I wish I will back with you right now it seems so hard to write you is all I can think of is how I love
you and long to be with you the boat is rocking so I can't write too neatly Merrill darling I love you and hope that
we will soon be together for good from what information we can gather I believe the big invasion is own so I'll be stuck
overseas until the war is over I love you my darling your husband fine Beryl page rattling is a retired teacher who
was married to Frank rapidly a b-17 turret gunner his plane was shot down over Austria in 1944 Beryl Rapley never
remarried she's been a widow for 44 years receiving Frank's last letter was a surprising and poignant moment I was
shocked it told me all to pieces and it was just as though we were there together and this is though he was
talking with me and of course I guess I was more or less in the state of shock but it was the most wonderful that I
have received from Frank even though all of his letters were very dear to me but
after waiting that long and still being able after four to two years to get another letter from a man that I still
loved that was just something that only the Lord can understand the depth of the
meaning of it [Music] it's short two and a half years I had with him was just equal to a lifetime
for me that's why I never didn't remarry nobody else could ever replace him and I
have every letter he's ever written me but this above all was no special one [Music]
I use sweet just another line today as I'm always thinking about you and may not be able to write for a few days
haven't seen land yet but expect to soon there is about six hours difference in time here so I often tried to think of
where you are and what you might be doing guess that is natural your ever loving and faithful husband it's always
touching can't help think back all the time [Music] your ever loving and faithful husband
those were Staff Sergeant sumpter grubs last words to his wife Peggy written on may 19 1944 within months Sumter was
killed in combat but his words would not die [Music] tonight we've seen four mysteries for
true stories that people caught in the most extraordinary circumstances Irish mystery someone somewhere knows
the truth perhaps at you [Music] you you [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode covers Elmer de Bourgh's murder, Missy Mundy's disappearance, Michael Scott Martin's wrongful conviction, and Kurt McFaul's suspicious death.

Key points

The Disappearance of Missy Mundy. Missy Mundy vanished on the day of a brutal murder, leaving behind a chilling mystery.
Michael Martin's Innocence. Michael Martin maintains his innocence despite being convicted based solely on eyewitness testimony.
Kurt McFaul's Mysterious Death. Kurt McFaul, a 17-year-old, vanished after expressing fears for his life. His body was later found under suspicious circumstances.
Unopened Letters from WWII. A pest exterminator discovers a duffel bag filled with unopened letters from WWII soldiers, revealing deep emotional ties.

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What happened to Missy Mundy is a bizarre story of love and violence.

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