Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 21 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news broadcast tonight on unsolved mysteries
eighteen-year-old Lisa Marie Kimball was brutally stabbed in Casper Wyoming yet four weeks after police believe she was
murdered hundreds of people across the western United States claimed they saw Lisa or her car for over a hundred years
fortune hunters had tried to find Arizona's Lost Dutchman mine many men have died trying today the gold to be
worth over two hundred million dollars also a story of love and murder remote Louisiana by melissa chromis led to one
man's death and the young woman's mysterious disappearance from a murder discovered in the swamps of Louisiana to
a treasure lost in an Arizona mountain range our stories have one thing in common as yet there is no solution
perhaps you can help join me you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] on a little-used suspension bridge
outside Casper Wyoming residents reported seeing unexplained lights in the early morning hours of March the
26th 1988 police theorized that none known assailant operating under cover of darkness brought his victim a young girl
of 18 to the bridge after stabbing her repeatedly he threw her into the chill waters of a North
Platte River [Music] the victim was later identified as Lisa Marie Kimmell from Billings Montana she
had been sexually assaulted prior to being killed in a manner that suggested some kind of bizarre torture
the savage nature of Lisa's murder is not the only perplexing aspect of this case Lisa was last seen alive on the
night of March 25th police believe that she was killed a few hours later in the early morning of March the 26th what
complicates the investigations at nearly 1,000 people claim they saw Lisa Marie Kimball or her car during a week when
police believe she was already dead Lisa was 18 years old had worked as a manager
at a fast food restaurant in Denver Colorado on March the 25th she left town and headed for Cody Wyoming to visit her
boyfriend Lisa's car the black 1988 Honda CRX si carry the spunky license plate a little Miss the plan was that
she was supposed to leave Denver and sometime after work and get to Cody to see me sometime late that evening I am
talked to her about 4:30 and she was gonna be leaving in about a half hour I thought she'd be in about midnight or
something like that from Denver Lisa had planned to travel to Casper Wyoming on interstate 25 from
Casper she would take a two-lane road to Ed Gerak's house and Cody after spending
the night there she planned to go on to Billings Montana to visit her parents weather conditions were good so Lisa
should have made the trip to Cody in 8 or 9 hours arriving at Ed's house late Friday night
however at 7 o'clock Saturday morning she still had not arrived edie Jarek frantically telephoned the
Highway Patrol's in three states two days later the Wyoming Highland Patrol reported they had stopped Lisa for
speeding about 60 miles south of Casper on March 25th the night she disappeared it was nearly 9 p.m. Friday night four
hours after Lisa had left Denver she was right on schedule I was patrolling southbound on March 25th I noted a small
car northbound at 88 miles an hour according my radar I turned around and pursued the car I stopped her near or
injunction good evening miss she was well kept driving a nice car kind of first and
you'd like to have for a daughter okay mr. Kimmel hedge it on my radar back there at 88 miles an hour is there
any particular reason for your speed I'm trying to hurry Billings I've got a friend who's going in for surgery this
was the last confirmed sighting of Lisa her signature on the citation and a routine voice recording the policeman
made verify that it was definitely Lisa Marie Kimmell who was stopped that night
[Music] as the week went on we realized the gravity of the situation we knew that
the outlook was looking a little grim but even if that even if the outcome wasn't as we hoped we still needed to
find her [Music] on April 2nd one week after she disappeared Greg Bradford a mechanic who was
spending his Saturday fishing brought the search for Lisa Marie to a sad end and I came up to just about this spot
right here and I got a real bad feeling something was wrong I felt that somebody died or if somebody
was hurt real bad it just kept coming over me I couldn't shake it so I just stepped up and when I stepped up off the
side of the bank I looked over my shoulder and I saw the lady in the water now I knew it was a lady in the water
but your mind tells you it's not true you know it's not real and then I remember when we're driving
up from Cheyenne they said this young girl was missing from Montana so I looked again and I said oh my god it
must be her when we went out there the physical description matched Lisa but at that point because of the condition of
the body we'll work sure until we'd gotten her out of the water we're not sure at this point whether the body was
placed in the river sometime on the 25th of the 26th the body just didn't show any signs of decomposition because of a
so cold there was some stab wounds in the chest area she was sexually assaulted she was found nearly nude but not quite
they made stab wounds some in such a manner that we feel are unique and I can't tell you how they were done to the
body but it would lead the appearance that somebody took their time and doing this it's hard to understand why
somebody would do something like that to another human being police scouted the area where Lisa's
body was discovered on an old highway bridge 1/4 of a mile away they found blood which was the same type as Lisa
Marie Kimmel's because the bridge is so inaccessible in so seldom used police believe the murder may be someone local
based on the eyewitness accounts of unexplained lights on the bridge and an analysis of other evidence that police
believe the time of Lisa's murder is the early morning of Saturday March 26th approximately 5 hours after she was
stopped for speeding strangely in the next seven days hundreds of sightings of Lisa and her
car many of them involving an unknown male companion were reported throughout the northwestern United States in Canada
up until the state we've had over a thousand sightings of this vehicle a lot of them from law enforcement officers
there's no pattern to the murder that's enforcement apart there's no direction of travel they went south they went to
the north they went to the west they just were everywhere and we were down loose with them at the point that we
thought they had gone to Canada we had some sightings in Canada composites were made of at least 17 men but none of them
seemed to resemble one another closely enough to justify issuing a wanted poster three of these sightings believed
to be among the most reliable were reported on the 26th and 27th of March after police believe Lisa Marie had
already been murdered one of them was in Casper just 20 minutes drive away from the place her body was found the other
two sightings were in Buffalo Wyoming two hours drive outside Casper in none of the three sightings at Lisa appear to
be signaling for help the Casper sighting occurred on Sunday March 27th two days after Lisa had been stopped for
speeding dianna Houston was driving a van through the downtown area of Casper which he
noticed the personalized Little Miss license plates because a roommate owned a puppy with the same name it was in the
afternoon about quarter to two and I saw Montana license plate on a vehicle and being from Montana I hadn't got my ice
re-elect and their license plate said little yes I went by I saw somebody with blond hair driving and head on a yellow
sweater twenty two hours earlier Donna Kirkpatrick the county sheriff's wife and Buffalo reported that she had seen
Lisa wearing a pink sweater but was Saturday at noon and I noticed a little black sports car had pulled out right in
front of me and then I noticed a license plate it was a Montana license plate with Little Miss on it al ilm ISS and at
that point I decided that I needed to see who was driving the car I was most interested to see if the car went with
whoever was driving it I am absolutely positive there was a young gal driving it I know the license
plate I know Montana license plates I saw the plate on that car at that time on that day and there's not a doubt in
my mind curiously Lisa's parents are not sure that she ever owned either a yellow or a
pink sweater the highway patrolman who stopped it for speeding the last person to a verifiable
evidence that he saw Lisa alive remember that she was wearing a black and white sweater
could Lisa have changed her clothes but did the eyewitnesses see another young woman who resembled Lisa two hours after
Donna Kirkpatrick so Lisa another eyewitness also saw her in Buffalo this time a mysterious man is with Lisa I was
busy at the register but a car pulled up and I said Little Miss on the Montana license plates on in front of it there
were two people in the vehicle there was a very attractive young lady at the wheel the individual that was
with her was a small man I would say 135 to 140 pounds dark hair dark eyes rather
large eyes and he had very fine features it wasn't what nosed or anything like that they were excellent I think is the
word that the poets use and he was swarthy complected and he was small he fit into the car he didn't look out of
place or anything like that and a few minutes later when I turn to looked again the car had gone if the three
sightings of Lisa Marie Kimmell are reliable they raised some disturbing questions as Lisa killed as a police
think she was during the early morning hours of March the 26th if she was who was a woman seen driving Lisa's car in
Casper and Buffalo if Lisa was not killed in the 26th why was she in Buffalo more than two hours off the
course of her planned journey and if she was in jeopardy why did she not signal for help when she was sighted
[Music] next the story of the legendary Lost Dutchman mine the clues are scarce the
stakes are high millions of dollars in gold the Superstition Mountains in Arizona cover 160,000 acres of desolate
rugged terrain according to legend these mountains contain the richest deposits of gold in
America the Lost Dutchman's gold mine [Music] there are hundreds of stories hinting at
its location and they're all tied to one man a German prospector named Jacob waltz who is said to have discovered the
mine in 1876 his nickname was the Dutchman Jacob waltz was a student of mining and he knew what he was doing the
old-timers were very very astute at to the fact of geology they knew what they were looking for if you're gonna go out
in these mountains anywhere and look for gold you really want to go to places where gold has been found superstitions
would be an exception you wouldn't go in there waltz was one of the few who is prepared
to prospect a nun promising locations and apparently he was rewarded 15 years later in 1891 when Jacob Waltz's 80
years old he decided to hide his mind he is said to have dug a hole six feet deep
at the entrance to the mine he then laid in two solid layers of iron wood logs and filled a hole with dirt
and topped it with stones from the surrounding area a Dutchman brag that you could drive a packed train over the
entrance to the mine and never know it was there for over 100 years fortune hunters have searched for Jacob
Waltz's hidden treasure trove several months after Walt's hid the mine he contracted pneumonia and was taken to
the home of a friend Julia Thomas in Phoenix she tried to nurse Jacob back to health before Jacob walls died he told
them that there was gold from the mines stashed under his bed and he said that's
what I've been living on all these years he took out the box they opened it and their comment was my god that's rich
it's got to be just a pocket and he said no it isn't he said it's a vein he said
there's enough in sight to make millionaires out of 20 men as his end drew near the Dutchman gave Julia and
Reinhardt petrache a local miner clues to the location of the mile northwest corner of the Superstition Mountains
take two take the trio man I left a number of clues but several times he said I've almost got to show
you where it is or you'll never find it because you've got to know exactly where
it is Waltz died before he could give them a map that showed exactly where the mine lay even though there are hundreds
of maps in existence today none of them came from Jacob walls the only directions Julia in the
petrache brothers had when they ventured into the mountains where the verbal clues waltz had given on his deathbed he
said the Setting Sun shines into the entrance to bond line and glitters on the gold so it must have faced to the
west he said you take the first gorge on the south side from the west end of the
range he said that you can see weavers needle to the south from above my mind Julia and the Patricia's were so anxious
to get in the mountains they actually went in mid-summer when the mountains were hotter than hell in a bucket and it
must have been a real ordeal for all of them they went in there for almost five weeks they came out without any gold and
this was noted in the Arizona Republican in 1892 in fact they called it the clearquest in search of gold julia had
invested everything she owned into this expedition but she returned penniless Julia Thomas never attempted to return
to the Superstition Mountains again [Music] Reinhart petrache was accused by his
brother Herman of not paying attention at Jacobs bedside writing the clues down incorrectly they never spoke again
Reinhart continued to search sporadically over the next 50 years when as eyesight began to fail Reinhardt
realized he would never find the mind and took his own life for over a century treasure hunters have occasionally
claimed that they have clues to waltzes lost mind a few of them may even have found it but curiously they all died
before they could tell their tale when we return the story of walk gaster well five years ago claimed he'd found the
mine on his last trip to the mountains he lost his life before he could reveal a secret location the Lost Dutchman's
gold mine is one of the greatest living legends of the American Southwest some people say that it's just that a legend
on the other hand government studies indicate that there's a large quantity of gold located somewhere in the
superstitions it is said that this matchbox was made from the high-grade ore the Jacob waltz had miss possession
when he died the ore is so rich that if the mine were found today it could be worth over 200
million dollars almost 100 years later a modern-day treasure hunter claimed he had found the mind
his name was Walt gasps Larry head chef at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix using Clues handed down from Jacobs deathbed
description gaster had spent most of his free time looking for the famous or nice
to meet you have a seat thank you when his health began to fail he contacted two other prospectors one of them was
Bob Corbin the Attorney General of Arizona this is a map to the area where I have my camp he wanted to get together
with me so that we could perhaps go with him and continue looking for the mine and with
his directions after he had died and he gave me his notes as well as a map as to
where his camp was and where he believed the mine to be that's a good location there could be there
two months later gaster called Bob's partner Tom a local historian Gasper was excited and
claimed that he had finally located the Dutchman's mine Wang gas recalled me on Sunday evening
he said I'm going to the mine I know exactly where it is you and Corbin have to go
I just can't possibly break away in the morning I could if you just give me a little bit of notice I'd sure want to go
in with you he said no I can't wait any longer I'm going to it I'll see you when I get
back but I'm leaving in the morning Walt gasps Lee was convinced that the mine existed from the clues that he had
some of those clues he would not reveal and the next morning his wife took him out to the trailhead and dropped him off
see in three days Walt hiked alone into the superstitions never to be seen alive again three days
later he was found dead by Ranch Hand Don shade an autopsy proved he had died of a heart attack I don't have the
license to talk like a coroner I thought he was dead probably two to three days he looked to me like a nice little old
man that found a lovely place to give up the ghost Tom Horn yes I'm rolling one month after walls of death Tom Cullen
born had a surprising visitor this man came over to my house any say was rollin ghastly Walt gasps first son and we were
talking a few minutes he says well you know my dad found the Lost Dutchman in the superstitions and he got out of
commission go talk to me boy that stuff really looks good it looked very similar
to the gold that allegedly came out of the Lost Dutchman mine where'd this come from came right straight out of my dad's
backpack Bob Corbin told me that you had a map that belonged to my dad I wonder if you'd let me have it well I don't
have the map anymore but I do have your dad's manuscript apparently what really had found the lost mine and his son
Roland planned to use the map and notes to retrace his father's steps well I knew that you'd be interested
want to thank you for all right okay two months later as time was finishing a slight lecture he was approached by
another stranger who claimed he was rollin gas ler Walt's son mr. Colin born yes I'm rollin Dassler I've been wanting
meet you for a long time now well I'm sure I met several rollin yassir's lady Walt cows and I think my jaw dropped 10
foot to the ground cause it wasn't the same guy I said I ought to ask you for driver's license or somethin I said
here's the second roll in gas ler I run into in the last couple of months sure looks like you're rolling gasoline
yes sir after meeting to rolling gas lers I wondered who was really rolling gas lured who was the first man who claimed
to be rolling gas ler it appeared that he was an impostor who needed Walt's maps so he could search for himself rich
but how would he gotten hold of the gold or sample when won't die the share of support listed a backpack among Walt's
belongings but the real rowland gasser never received it Don Schade the man who found Walt's body also
remembered seeing the backpack and he said that there was a stranger in the area there was another man in the area
at the time one tom Colin born later gave us a description of the man that came to him and showed him some gold
that jived up with the man that we saw in here some believe that the fake Roland gasner
may have been in the mountains when Walt died and stolen the backpack with his precious or I like to believe walked out
that he spent so many years looking for it and the last thing he would have done
in his life before he died would have found the mind I'd like to believe that when Jacob waltz died he left the trunk
of or a list of clues and a legend of lost treasure which has captured the dreams of three generations I have good
reason to believe that the Dutchman's legend could be true I've seen the ore that was under his bed when he died I've
seen the assay report on it at a jewelry store in Phoenix which did exist at that
time and at today's gold prices that ore would be worth over 2.2 million dollars
a ton it's a richest gold ore I've ever seen in my life and I've seen a lot of gold ore it could have been gassers
[Music] the Department of the Interior reclassify the Superstition Mountains as a federally owned wilderness area and if
the mine were found all the gold would have to be surrendered to the government but this does not deter Tom Collin
Bourne and Bob Corbin for them the search for the Lost Dutchman mine is a fascinating mystery and a tradition that
keeps alive one of the most enduring legends of the American Southwest in a moment the story of two lovers who met
secretly deep in the swamps of Louisiana 30 years ago their illicit romance ended in murder
[Music] the Louisiana bayou country surrounded by humid swampland lies Lake Pontchartrain just west of New Orleans
November 24th 1956 at 9:00 a.m. on this chill Saturday morning a local hunter and his young son unintentionally
surprised a pair of lovebirds in an isolated area known as friend near Beach [Music]
the next morning the two passed by the same spot and made a grisly discovery the manly had surprised the day before
lay dead of a gunshot wound in the front seat of the car the woman was nowhere to be seen the
victim was identified as Thomas Howe tarde a 46 year old engineer from nearby Laplace authorities later determined
that the woman who had been with him the day before was 31 year old Audrey moat a
divorced mother of three she has not been seen for 32 years this was probably the largest case that
ever hit the area it was all over New Orleans it was all over Baton Rouge everybody was talking about and they all
wanted to know where's the woman where did she disappear why did she disappear did they kill it did they bury Hill
Party did they throw her in a lake three months before this happened my mother told my grandmother there anything
happens to me take the kids and get as far away from here as possible why would a 30 year old 31 year old woman in 1956
and a environmentally crime-free area say this three decades ago the case of Thomas ho tart not remote was one of the
most publicized and sensational stories of modern Louisiana history the case still provokes discussions among the
old-timers in the area most of those involved in the initial investigation have since passed away but the mystery
of the incident at frontier Beach has remained a baffle the next generation the newspaper obituaries in 1956
described Thomas Howe Todd is a quiet hard-working family man active in the church and with the Boy Scouts he worked
for a local chemical company it was here in 1952 that he met Audrey moat [Music]
[Applause] Audrey was a recently divorced mother 15 years younger than ho time in addition
to their work the two shared interests in Scouting were often seen together in town organizing their troops activities
[Music] my mother was a woman that was way ahead of her time she was a single parent in
56 and she was the kind of woman that was very loving very giving perhaps she was the best friend I ever had
[Music] even though Thomas was married he and Auggie fell in love but their romance
was a deeply held secret Audrey told her family that she had to work every Saturday it was alive but two years
Thomas Howe Todd kept the same schedule telling his wife that he too was working
on Saturdays unbeknownst to both their families Howe Todd and Audrey spent these stolen days together I remember we
used to go together he was there on my birthday's I thought they were friends I didn't realize they were lovers um I
found out later whenever the newspaper accounts I just thought they were friends on Saturday November 25th Thomas
and Audrey met and applause around 7:30 a.m. then drove together to the secluded
Lovers Lane with the edge of Lake Pontchartrain speed and slow rock by me to and fro ironically that son of news
Audrey's birthday it is a special day that was to end in tragedy police later estimated that by mornings and Thomas
who thought had been shot to death an Audrey moat had vanished forever [Music] [Music]
when the hunter made his grim discovery the next morning he went straight to Percy a bear and the sheriff of st. John
the Baptist Parish a bear was a first to arrive at the scene Oh Todd had been killed by a single shot from a 16-gauge
shotgun fired a point-blank range through a side window at first Sheriff a bear thought that the missing woman had
probably killed Howe Todd in a lover's spat however once he began to investigate the
crime scene he made some unusual discoveries scattered on the ground with a partial contents of a woman's purse
inside the car he found the car keys still in the ignition and women's clothes crumpled on the floorboard from
the articles of clothing that were found in the car the only thing she could have
been wearing was a bronze lip her sweater her underwear her stockings her shoes skirt all that was in the car
the car had the bed made down in it in other words it was one of those old Nash's that had a bed that could be
folded down the evidence indicates that they were probably in the act of making love when the murder occurred it
appeared that the woman had tried to flee spilling the contents of her purse on the process 50 yards from her tards
car a bear found a pair of footprints made by small bear feet probably Audrey's just behind them was a print of
a man's heavy boot five feet away was an area where it appeared a scuffle had taken place and a set of car keys was
discovered there was no other physical evidence and no indication that the murder had an accomplice
significantly the woman's purse itself was never found it was not until 10 hours later that the authorities decided
the missing woman definitely was Audrey moat at 7:30 that same Saturday night Sheriff
a bear found Audrey's car parked next to the cafe where she had met Haute are the
keys found at the crime scene fit the ignition in a box on the back seat he found the verses of a song from a music
of the King Anand handwritten by Audrey on a small file card it read like an obituary for her secret lost love affair
[Music] we kiss in the shadows we hide from the moon our meetings are few and over too
soon we speak English afraid to be heard when people are near we speak not a word
this was quite a scandal it was quite a shock to this sleepy little town total cost Pike in 1956 everybody was buzzing
was talking about it they all had their own theory of what happened they all had
idea of who could have committed the murder they all had an idea of where Audrey moat was and they all wanted to
help the sheriff because they saw a woman answering that description going door-to-door and all kinds of confusion
believe me confusion reigned supreme apart that time on December 6th two weeks after the disappearance
Audrey's former mother-in-law received a strange phone call perhaps Audrey was still alive hello Audrey Audrey is that
you Audrey Audrey Audrey then a waitress in New Orleans reported that she had seen Audrey at her restaurant around the
same time that mrs. mote received the phone call now the waitress said she recognized
Audrey from seeing her picture in the paper Audrey appeared to be very tired and a
clothes were shabby Audrey then left the restaurant when she realized the waitress was watching her
this is a last reported sighting of Audrey moat I couldn't let myself believe she was gone
I kept think she'd walk through the door I couldn't relate to mr. Howe to her being dead at all that didn't register
but my mother not coming back I thought they were both lying to me I just couldn't accept it as the years
went by the sensational story slipped slowly from the headlines and eventually disappeared from the newspapers
the murder of Thomas hotel the disappearance of Audrey moat soon became an obscure footnote in Louisiana
folklore until the case was suddenly revived more than 20 years later in 1980 a sick and ailing old man told his
family that he knew what happened to odd remote you remember that Holt our fella
what got killed in the swamp and a big search for everybody looking around never did find out who killed him and
the moat woman what they never found nothing I don't know several months before he died Ernest Acosta made a
startling confession he claimed that his common-law wife at the time caroline Slusher had murdered both thomas ho Todd
and Audrey moat and that he had helped her dispose of the bodies Caroline died in 1979 and it was Caroline what shot
both those two [Music] a costume slasher lived on the edge of the swamp less than a mile from the
friend near beach murder site both had surly reputations an Acosta was known to sit in his front yard and take
potshots at any passers-by the strayed too close to the house my father was a very mean person he had no respect for
nobody and if you would come up to him and ask him anything he wouldn't answer you he would grab the
gun show it to you and then tell you what the hell you want and then if he didn't like what you wanted or what you
said he would tell you hit the road jack Caroline was in the same manner she slept with a gun underneath her pillow
at all times and she was another person that the gun would come first she would ask questions
later because next week I don't want them kids here I don't want him around I don't want him underfoot next week no I
don't want they were the perfect pair they were two of a kind and they loved [Music]
Marvel Corona claims to know of at least two occasions when ho Todd and Audrey came to the house
both times he apparently argued with Caroline but no one knows why my father said that they knew something
about mrs. Caroline Slusher what you want here ho tog what they knew I do not know we got nothing to talk about boa
I'm Miss Caroline but I'm talking to him mrs. notes was related to mrs. lush some
kind of way right make sure this is the last time boy come on and you better watch your
manners and don't talk that trash talking my house the night before the body was found
Marvel says her father was away visiting his children apparently Caroline phoned him and he
rushed home [Music] Acosta told his daughter that both ho Todd and moat had actually been killed
by Caroline in the house he claimed that he in the neighbor carried her tarts body back to friend near Beach and
placed it in the car they then tied Audrey's body to an old Civil War cannon and dumped it in the
swamp I told him I said daddy how could you all have killed mrs. moats and mr. warthog
because mr. Hattori was killed in the car he said believe what you want to believe I'm telling you what happened
I brought Miss Corona to the sheriff's office and she was given a lie-detector test on everything that she said and she
passed it it said that she was telling the truth Wayne Norwood joined the Sheriff's
Department as st. John the Baptist Parish in 1983 he heard about the ho tarde moot case and became intrigued by
it for the past five years is conducted an unofficial investigation on his own time right on the other side of the
track right the edge of the swamp is where the old Acosta house used to be and according to miss more Vale about
where you see the big Cypress stump it's about where the cannon used to set and we hope to go back in there a little
later on when the water goes down and do some more diving hopefully we'll find something there Wayne Norwood is
convinced Audrey's body was indeed thrown into the swamp tied to a cannon and he has combed the area with a metal
detector but he believes Acosta may have warped the truth when he told his daughter the other crucial details of
that night mr. Koster said that his wife had actually done the killing and that he had helped hide the body but this is
one of the things that I disagree with I think that this was his way of telling what had happened but not laying the
kids know that he actually did the murder just relieving his conscience I think this was his way of doing it
I would imagine since he watched the the area back there real close and he run hunters off all the time that he had to
know what was going on because the people had seen this automobile and a man and woman parked back there every
Saturday just like clockwork [Music] my theory is that he had been watching them and this particular time that he
was watching them and probably got excited I think it was a sex crime [Music] I had to be sheer panic
it had to be intense fear to watch your lover get his head blown off and then fear for your own life I'm sure he only
lived about a mile from the murder scene there were no tire marks according to the investigation and he only had to
take her about a mile to the house so this would be why there was no tracks and a quick disappearance
[Music] the scene of the crime has changed considerably since that tragic Saturday
morning in 1956 the actual spot where Thomas wrote art died is not 100 yards offshore reclaimed by the waters of Lake
Pontchartrain an Audrey moat her fate remains a mystery hidden in the murky swamp surrounding the lake I think it's
always gonna be in the back of my mind in in my heart to want to know what happened I hope that whatever happened
that it was quick that she didn't suffer but she wasn't put through a lot but I need to know
[Music] for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
that someone was watching perhaps [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Three unsolved mysteries: Lisa Kimmell's murder, Lost Dutchman mine, and Audrey Moat's disappearance.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance of Lisa Marie Kimball. Eighteen-year-old Lisa Marie Kimball was brutally murdered, yet hundreds claimed to have seen her.
The Search for Lisa. A mechanic's fishing trip leads to the discovery of Lisa's body, ending the search.
The Legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine. The Lost Dutchman mine is said to contain the richest deposits of gold in America.
The Lost Dutchman Mine. The legend of the Lost Dutchman mine captivates generations, with tales of hidden treasure and mystery.
A Grisly Discovery. A local hunter finds a man shot dead in a car, while the woman he was with is missing.
The Disappearance of Audrey Moat. Audrey Moat vanishes after a secret meeting, leading to a sensational investigation.

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