Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 1, Episode 24 - 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're about to see is not a news broadcast
[Music] one rainy night in upstate new york 16 year old carrie lynn nixon ran an errand
to a nearby store only 200 yards from her front door she mysteriously vanished that same summer
carrie lynn was spotted in south carolina but by the time her parents arrived she was gone
in 1937 a man named doc nas explored secret underground caverns in a new mexico mountain called victoria peak he
claimed to have found 79 skeletons and a vast treasure of gold rare coins and jewels
many believe that the treasure still exists and today may be worth nearly two billion dollars in the winter of 1985
dexter stefanik embarked on a long trip from his son's farm in oregon to his home in wisconsin at a desolate montana
rest stop police discovered dexter's car torched by an arsonist dexter had vanished
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] buried treasure
the very words of a mythic ring and such cases are usually a fascinating mixture of truth and fiction fantasy and
reality tonight the legend of a vast treasure buried in underground cameras beneath a
new mexico mountain today that treasure may be worth nearly two billion dollars people say it was discovered more than
50 years ago by a man named doc nas and his wife babe who stood by him even though some
thought he was a con man babe died in 1979 but part of our story tonight is a previously untelevised
interview with her graciously made available by her family is it treasure that babe and dachnas
discovered an elaborate scam or is it real you be the judge white sands new mexico 100 000 acres in
the desolate embryo basin it is an inhospitable environment home only to rattlesnakes and sagebrush
vultures and mule deer in november of 1937 a man named doc nas was deer hunting there he hiked to the
top of a hill known as victoria peak the women stayed at camp and the men went out for deer
and so in that first day hunt doc was up on a mountain to see where if he could find any springs or anything
and he discovered an entrance to something [Music] he lifted up a rock that was a covering
this and there was a big puff of air hit him right in the face that he found something somebody's uh
old mine or something there but he didn't know what it was inside the opening was a crude ladder
when darkness inched his way down step by step into the mountain he uncovered a vast unexplored labyrinth
he went deeper and deeper narrow winding tunnels led into a vaulted cabin in one chamber of the cavern doc found
an old chest on the lid were the words sealed silver written an old english script
this chest was only the tip of an iceberg the entire treasure is today estimated to be worth 1.7 billion
dollars even now more than 50 years later it may still be hidden beneath the craggy
slopes of victoria peak had been a traveling medicine show man in 1933 he married over beckwith whom he
nicknamed babe they settled down and opened a foot clinic in hot springs new mexico
doc was my grandfather and i've heard incredible stories about him all of my life
he loved adventure and was fascinated with history babe was very strong-willed ardent might be a word to describe her
she was loving very generous and absolutely um enamored with doc there it is yeah from the moment doc discovered the
treasure at victoria peak he and babe spent every free moment exploring the tunnels that led deep inside the
mountain here you be careful down in there yeah i'm going down in and and you keep
a close eye out here doc found that the passageways in the mountain led to several caverns and in
one of them he found 79 human skeletons stacked in a small enclosure in another cave doc found amazing riches
jewels coins and priceless artifacts he described three huge oval top chests that he opened he
brought a couple of swords and knives out he brought out a crown and i cleaned it up in my sink in in
town it was 243 diamonds and one pigeon blood ruby in this crown [Music] in a deeper cavern doc found what
appeared to be a stack of worthless iron bars this must have been in the spring of 39
i asked him to bring out a bar that pig iron that he was telling me about and he said that he's too heavy he hit it
too hard to get out there but he found a small one and he brought it out and he said this the last one of them
babies i'm gonna bring out [Music] there it is baby watch it it's heavy heavy pig
well doc that is heavy when i rolled it over i seen it was shiny where it hit the gravel i said
well doc this is yellow look at it and he looked at that and the sun was right at the right arrow to shine right
down on it rubbed his head and he said well babe if that's gold and all that other is
gold like it we can call john d rockefeller a [ __ ] doc told babe that inside the cavern
there were as many as 16 000 bars of gold how had this enormous treasure come to
be deep inside the caverns of victoria peak there are four theories it could have belonged to juan onyate
the man who founded new mexico as a spanish colony reportedly onyate had amassed an aztec treasure of gold silver
and jewels another theory is that a catholic missionary named father leroux operated
gold mines near victoria peak in 1797 and stored his gold in a cavern there doc's treasure could have belonged to
max million the emperor of mexico in the 1860s he attempted to get his wealth out
of mexico when he learned of an assassination plot and legend says he set a palace full of valuables to the
united states a final theory is that the treasure belonged to an apache tribe which had
raided stagecoaches carrying california mine gold in the spring of 1938 six months after
dachnas had made his discovery he and babe went to santa fe to establish legal ownership of his find
good afternoon could i help sir yeah we need some information on filing a claim just what type of claim
uh mining mining okay now just whereabouts do you need this claim located they filed a lease with the state of new
mexico for the entire section of land surrounding victoria peak subsequent to that they filed mining
claims on and around victoria peak we'll have that surveyed for you you can have it
surveyed and we'll determine the exact location of your claim we'll uh take care of that survey we'll
get somebody up there to survey that they then filed a treasure trove claim which has become the historic nos family
claim to the treasure in victoria peak [Music] over a period of two years doc mined the
peak witnesses say he took more than 200 gold bars out of the cavern he then proceeded to hide the bars from
everyone including his own family not only because he feared theft but also because back then it was illegal to
own gold that was not in the form of jewelry they were rehidden in a variety of locations all over the desert some right
by the county roads by a certain marked telephone pole some were dropped in horse tanks at the
nearby ranches some were just buried in the sand and doc would put a different colored
rock over the top of it than was natural to that surrounding there was a lot of fear and probably
some increasing paranoia in both doc and babe because as they solicited more help from
more friends and neighbors and supporters they started to become afraid that some of these people might try to
steal some of the bullion that they had re-hidden around the peak finally in the fall of 1939 doc decided
to try opening a larger passageway into victoria peak so he hired a mining engineer
by the name of montgomery to go with him and help him dynamite out of the way a particularly huge
boulder that was just sort of hanging in the lower portion of the shaft montgomery was
arguing very viciously about the charge to be put in there doc said that the mountain was rotten
and that it wouldn't take a charge like that and this montgomery kept yelling at
wood by the way you got eight bars for doing it [Applause] the blast caused a cave-in which
collapsed the fragile shaft doc had shut himself out of his own mind forever now instead of having
thousands of gold bars to draw from he only had those few dozen or 100 or so that he had brought
to the surface and he became very protective of those bars for nine years dachnas attempted
illegally to sell his gold bars on the black market in 1948 he met a man named charlie ryan
struck a deal to sell him 51 of the bars i could go for that could take me a couple days to get my cash together but
uh how about a week from today at the last minute doc feared that charlie ryan would double cross him
he asked an acquaintance tony jolly to help him rebury the gold in a new hiding place
we got in the pickup and we went out across the desert a long ways and we started digging in we
dug 20 bars of gold out of the ground right there i said doc what's going on and he said
well i there's a fellow coming tomorrow that's gonna fly in here and he said he was supposed to take this gold and sell
it and split with me and he said i got word that he's gonna sell it and keep right on going with the money
and we reburied those bars of gold it turned out to be 90 more i handled and i saw 110 bars of gold
the next day doc and charlie ryan got into an argument and ryan pulled a gun on him
ryan accosted him and said they better discuss this problem of what had happened to the gold
ryan was actually telling him if you don't tell me where the bars are you won't leave this room alive you're
just trying to jack up the price on me this is just a hoax there's no gold i told you we couldn't trust him charlie i
told you that's a comment shoot [Music] doc died instantly and was photographed by police where he lay
the date was march the 5th 1949 [Music] for three years babe nas and her children struggled to clear the
passageway to the treasure in 1952 when they were less than 12 yards from the opening to the central
cavern disasters struck again the state of new mexico was forced to relinquish victoria peak and the land
surrounding it so the united states army could expand the white sands missile range
babe and her family were forced off their claim by the army what are you all doing on our climb
mr north this is a missile range it's unsafe for you to be up here she was eventually escorted off the site by
military police and federal marshals but i sure don't like it protesting all the time that she did not
want to abandon her claim she wanted to continue her excavation work she was assured that she would be able
to return to the site as soon as it was convenient and not an interference to national security
[Music] my grandmother continued to petition the department of the army at white sands
missile range level and pentagon level asking for permission to go back and conduct a proper excavation to reopen
the treasure cavern she was repeatedly continually and consistently denied access to the peak
interestingly some of the personnel from holloman air force base and white sands
missile range inadvertently stumbled into a cavern on victoria peak and reported finding a room
stacked full of gold bullion the area of the victoria peak is located in was 100 off limits
to everybody in those days using hunting as a excuse we wandered into the area quite
regularly after spending a lot of time a lot of weekends in this area we found the entrance
lower on the mountain that we suspected was there we started digging we spent august and
september in this hole and a large blockage was a very large boulder that we had to tunnel
under that led into the first room that we discovered in the middle of this room was two
stacks of material and they were bars of something and as we scratched it we knew right away that
it was actually gold [Music] we marked and identified one of the bricks inside with my
initials on it and we stood it on end on the large piles we then discovered another small room
that was off to the side of the room we were in it was a bit smaller in size in the middle of this room was a pile
in a pyramid shape the reason that we didn't bring anything out of the mountain on our first visit
to the cavern was simply because we were military we were in the middle of a top-secret missile range
that was forbidden to everybody to be in the last thing in the world we wanted to
do was to jeopardize our position in our find by removing something prematurely [Music]
eventually the airmen informed their superiors about the gold he had found at victoria peak
they were denied permission to explore further so they took steps to ensure that no one else could salvage the
treasure the following weekend we returned to the entrance and we dynamited it in four different
places and blasted the whole thing shut over a year later the secretary of the army created a top-secret classified
military operation at victoria peak in 1961 babe nas along with the state of new mexico found an injunction against
the army to stop them from excavating at victoria peak she was protesting vehemently that the
army would be excavating on her claim while they were denying her access to do the same thing
in 1963 the army sought exclusive rights to victoria peak including mineral rights
the state of new mexico denied the army's request even so aerial photographs showed a
proliferation of roads crisscrossing the peak word of doc's hidden goal leaked to
other treasure hunters an anonymous group hired boston attorney f lee bailey they were seeking
permission from attorney general john mitchell both who excavated victoria peak and to sell gold bars
the secret of the goal became public at the watergate hearings when john dean testified about f lee bailey's client's
requests mr mitchell raised the fact that f lee bailey had a problem that he would like to bring up he said
that mr bailey had a client who had an enormous amount of gold in his possession he would like to make an
arrangement with the government whereby the gold could be turned over to the government without the individual being
prosecuted for holding the gold mr mitchell raised the fact f lee bailey and his group
which consisted of a number of military and ex-military people had a vast treasure in gold bars located somewhere
out in the southwest in fact in an area very closely if not exactly where the late milton nos
had made allegedly his find because of the enormous publicity the army finally allowed a group of private
claimants including babe nas effly bailey's clients an airman burlet's partner as well as representatives of
the apache nation and the alleged heirs of jesse james to undertake a 10-day expedition in 1977.
led by professional treasure hunter norman scott his purpose was to determine once and for all if treasuries
did exist at victoria peak it's sort of the department army policy that there's been a lot of searching up
here and we've found nothing yet or they've found nothing yet so i don't really expect
any particular gold treasure to be found but i might be quoted incorrectly too if
they find something there's no question that gold like bars came out of this mountain no question
about it and in behind there's paintings down there behind this shaft we came here based on legend research
we are verifying or refuting same by electronic and personal observation during the expedition a scientist from
the stanford research institute lambert dolphin conducted ground radar tests to determine if there was an underground
chamber deep inside the mountain but i noticed on the radar screen some echoes quite frequently at a very great
depth 300 400 feet deep and that led me to the conclusion that there was indeed a large cavern at the base of the
mountain about where doc knoss had said there would was a cavern then they came over here and went this
and this is the one that breaks through uh and we're gonna take you up to the chimney entrance now
the 1977 expedition was the last official attempt to find the treasure inside victoria peak
the crown dock found lies buried along with other parts of the treasure somewhere in the new mexico desert
after doc's death gizers never recovered any of the gold bars but tony jolly the man who helped him
hide the bars in the desert went back years later and retrieved ten of them after more than fifty years of legend
controversy and intrigue the heirs of doc and babe nas are still fighting for their rights
[Music] and we have decided that we will finish the work that dachna started that ovinas tried to
finish we will eventually get victoria peak open so that the mystery of what's inside the peak
can be solved my point of view as governor of new mexico is this is a solvable mystery
it's always been exciting for us to talk about it let's do it right now it would be
interesting to the state certainly would be interesting to our economy and we'd have an opportunity to tax these people
if they were fortuitous enough to find the gold if the mountain has not been penetrated
and materials removed from this mountain this will be the biggest thing that this
country's ever seen babe nas died in 1979 and every year herrera petitioned the white sands missile base to allow them
to dig at victoria peak every year the request has been refused recently terry delonas took his case to
washington the army finally agreed in principle to allow the excavation but claimed that
because of technicalities an act of congress would be necessary this year a bill will be introduced by
new mexico congressman which may finally give the green light if so an expedition could take place by
the end of the year and if it does unsolved mysteries will be there perhaps we'll find only an empty cavern
with evidence of riches long ago removed but perhaps just perhaps we will find the greatest treasure the
modern world has ever known in a moment the story of a 16 year old girl who vanished one evening just over
200 yards from her home what happened to carrie lynn nixon osable forks population 3000
located in the shadows of new york's adirondack mountains osable forks is a friendly family-oriented community
violent crimes are extremely rare indeed anything out of the ordinary is likely to attract attention
but in 1987 usable forks was stunned by the mysterious disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl named carrie lynn
nixon kerry was an above average student the pitcher on her high school softball
team hardly the type of girl who would willingly invite trouble [Music] on the evening of june 22 1987 at
approximately 9 30 p.m carrie left her home to run an errand for her father she headed for a neighborhood market a
few blocks away kerry left the market and headed towards her home the time was 9 55
as kerry took the familiar path along palmer street to her house she exchanged greetings with a neighbor oh [ __ ] here
how are you the time was now 10.05 at 10 10 a group of boys walked by but saw only an empty street
somehow in the five minutes between 1005 and 10 10 and just 700 feet from her home carrie lynn nixon had disappeared
she was innocently walking down the street in a neighborhood that she was born and
brought up with that i was born and brought up on and something happened and she was near bed at six in the
morning and my immediate reaction was terror and it's been a nightmare ever since
we began a large air and ground search of the about a 50 mile radius area of around ausable forks new york
we had many volunteers from the local fire departments in the air force base came over
the results of all these searches and all the leads and everything we've done in the last year and a half
nothing has been found not one thing she's walked off the face of the earth as far as we're concerned
kerry wrote some letters to a friend and in these letters she indicated she would
like to live in hawaii live move to florida possibly california and in fact leave the town of osable forks when she
turned 18. uh she expressed this fact two or three times my theory on this case is carolyn nixon
was abducted and she was dressed in sweats her father gave her 20 for groceries she went to
thomas's store for her father paid three dollars for the groceries left thomas the store
with the bag of groceries if she was a runaway she would have done none of those things she would have been dressed
better she would have taken money with her that she had in her bedroom after we searched her bedroom
she is a victim of a kidnapping there was other evidence that the young girl had not run away
kerry was close to her family and they often bowled together everything pointed to a happy stable relationship with her
mother and father [Music] i'm 100 positive she didn't run away as far as i'm concerned somebody pulled
up alongside her whether it was somebody she knew or not necessarily somebody she knew but
one way or the other somebody picked her up [Music] was carrie abducted or did she run away
by the winter of 1987 the investigation had reached a dead end but in november new york state police
received this letter from an anonymous writer in flint michigan the letter reads
look for carrie lynn nixon in the utahville south carolina area despite the tenuous nature of this lead
kerry's family traveled to utahville they blanketed the small town with flyers the family was a surprises of police and
a local resident remembered having spoken with a sixteen-year-old who had shyly given her name
it was carrie lynn nixon shirley kanapple is a utaville resident who reported this encounter
she had seen carrie's picture on one of the flyers posted by the nixon family i recognized her immediately from
the way she looked because i'd just seen her just about three weeks before that and her hair her earrings and the name
it was the same girl that had been introduced to me carolyn nixon there's been numerous towns people
around the utah valley that said they've seen this young lady and like ms kanapple she's seen her she was even
introduced to her and i i just actually believe 100 that she is still alive all right what i want you to do shirley
is to relax your body as much as possible but concentrate on the sound of my voice
shirley was unable to remember many details of her sighting so at the request of the new york state police she
underwent hypnosis they hoped that her memory might be john should be feeling very warm secure and
relaxed shirley i want you to go back to the day that you saw the young girl we talked
about before [Music] it's a hot day a little red-headed girl comes up and asks me to meet a new friend of hers
carrie nixon carolyn nixon nixon where are you from new york you down here to stay yeah
[Music] can you describe her to me she's got long brown hair hey yup where are you staying at
across the lake we're at probably [Music] unwilling to offer much conversation beyond her name
um what was your first name again and i said well carolyn nixon that is a pretty name
and i walked away from the group i had worked for about four and a half years in a
program where some of our clients were runaways and you you pick up on things and
the way she evaded the questions i i thought then she was run away after the session authorities
investigated the circumstances of shirley sighting they found the girl who was allegedly
with carrie but were disappointed to discover that she suffered from a memory lapse and couldn't recall the incident
[Music] after failing to find any other confirmed sightings of kerry the investigation once again reached a dead
end over a year and a half has passed as carrie lynn nixon vanished police have investigated 70 sightings
conducted over 1500 interviews and examined over 200 unidentified bodies and they still have no idea where carrie
lynn might be today i love carrie very much we just want her back we just need to
know that she's all right if she has decided that something else is better for her
we she will have our total support i just need to know that she's not hurt i am a hundred percent convinced that i
have met you carrie and if i had any message at all to give to you would be just call home call your
mom and dad let them know you're alive you don't have to go home just call and let them know your life
today carolyn nixon would be almost 18 years old at the time of her disappearance two
years ago she was 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 105 pounds her eyes are blue and her hair is brown she was known to
wear two earrings on her left ear and four on her right [Music] as the years in the investigation
dragged on carrie's parents began to give up hope of ever finding their daughter
but all that changed in march of this year when they saw a videotape of a concert given by the popular singing
group new kids on the block on june 5th 1989 the group filmed their hanging tough live concert in los
angeles california [Music] among the crowd of teenage fans kathy and gary nixon saw a familiar face
[Music] we couldn't believe how much that he's gonna look like our daughter so we just kept rewinding it and going
over and over and over and we just couldn't believe it because we never really had any hope that she was
alive and then this there's this girl that looks so much like her i'm not 100 convinced but
it looks like our carry upon viewing the tape i picked the girl out immediately the first time it ran
through which is obvious to me that this girl did look like terry nixon and appeared to be her
this detail-enhanced photograph was made from the videotape and compared with a picture of carrie taken shortly before
she disappeared there's obviously many similarities the hair length the hair color the shape of
the face the chin the mouth and it displayed a multiple of earrings in the right ear in
which carrie nixon has four earrings in her right ear and two on her left so the photo enhanced finished product
further convinced the nixons that this could be their daughter members of the new kids on the block did
not recognize the girl in the crowd but after hearing kerry's story wanted to make a personal appeal
well i just like to say to carrie that if you're out there the best thing to do would just be to
call somebody and you know even if you go to your local police and just just tell them your
situation that maybe they can help you out or if any of you viewers out there who have seen her
at a new kids show or just seen her on the street if you could contact someone you know to to let them know where she
is if she's all right or anything that would be a big help we need to find this girl find out who
she is whether it's carrie or not just so that if it's not we can go on to something else to try and find her
i love you gary [Music] and i need to talk to you [Music] [Music] many of us have driven along a lonely
stretch of highway it's an unsettling feeling when you go for miles without seeing other people when you know that a
cry for help would not be heard we're about to see the story of a man whose worst fears came true
it all began innocently when he said goodbye to his son and set out to drive alone across five sparsely populated
states in the winter of 1985 68 year old dexter stefanik prepared to drive from his
son's oregon farm to his home in wisconsin six years earlier dexter had retired from a wisconsin paper mill
he had been married for 44 years but in 1984 his wife vivian died [Music] a few months later dexter went to visit
his grandchildren and his son in corbett oregon but as the first anniversary of vivian's death approached dexter wanted
to go back home he came out and we thought that he'd probably spend the winter with us
and then uh it got to be a difficult time of year for him and i tried to convince him to not leave
then now with your mother gone you know i'm gonna be out here to see as often as
possible i had a good time but i i've got to go back winter was already set in there was
really nothing he needed to go back to wisconsin for the kids we discussed that even if he got part
way home and decided to come back out that was fine turn around and come back out again
he was anxious to get home and he drove away that's the last i saw him [Music] dexter stefanik left his son's home in
oregon on the morning of november the 18th 1985. dexter had made the 2000 mile trip from
oregon to wisconsin many times before because he wanted to finish the drive as quickly as possible he told his son he
would not stop at motels but would pull into rest areas instead november the 19th
1985 on a bleak stretch of montana highway at the bad route rest area a burning car was found
when i arrived at the rest area and pulled in behind the vehicle the inside was completely engulfed in
flames i went over and talked to the state highway department they formed me they didn't see any
person inside the vehicle a computer check of the license plates revealed that the car belonged to dexter
stefanik of rhinelander wisconsin it was only 26 hours after dexter had left his son's home in oregon
[Music] the sheriff's department immediately searched the area worried the dexter
might have begun walking for help and been overcome by the bitter cold they found nothing
yeah we're getting some uh good indications sheriff jim george had an arson expert
examine the car he found that the fire had been set deliberately using gasoline sheriff george also noticed that the
driver's seat was pushed all the way back dexter stefan being a short man would have had to have the seat all the
way up to the front to drive it so it had to be a larger man driving that vehicle six feet or larger
law enforcement officials were stiped who was the six foot tall man who had driven dexter stefanik's car
could this person have set fire to the car finally where was dexter had he been killed or he simply
disappeared into the harsh montana winter sheriff george attempted to establish the chronology of events from the
morning the dexter's car had been burned his car had been discovered just after 10 a.m
nearly three hours earlier fred sigley custodian of the bad route rest area had arrived for work as usual
i got to the rest area between 8 and 8 30. there was a pickup part there and there was nobody around
i really didn't pay no attention to it about 15 minutes later at 8 45 a.m clyde mitchell a montana highway maintenance
supervisor made a stop at the rest area fred's pickup was there and a white chevy pickup facing
southeast went into the utility room and talked to fred and asked for it if he had seen anybody or how long the pickup
had been there and he didn't know how long had been there so then i took a closer look of it
i saw arizona plates in the back walked around the complete outfit and noticed it was a four-wheel drive chevy
with blue trim and a cow catcher on the front at the time i didn't think there was
anything suspicious about it [Music] at approximately 9 15 a.m clyde left to complete his regular rounds
15 minutes later at 9 30 a.m as fred sigley was leaving the rest area dexter stefanik's brown plymouth horizon pulled
in the driver got out carrying two large plastic containers are you having any problems no i just
run out of gas and i had to go get some yeah he was around six feet tall between 35 and 40 years old
the real light complected and his clean shaved no sign anything wrong with him no there was nothing unusual about him
he didn't seem to be excited or nothing the authorities had no idea who the man was or what had happened to dexter
less than a half hour after fred sigley saw the man at the rest area dexter's car was discovered there in flames
nearly four months later a local couple bill and cindy shaw went to a remote landfill 17 miles from the bad route
rest area my husband and i came out to dump some garbage and there was a wallet laying on
the ground and it still had the driver's license in it was current found a wallet so i handed it to bill
and and he looked at it and he wondered if it belonged to the man whose car burned up at the rest area a few months
before and later we just started looking around and there was a bunch of stuff in the dump
that didn't belong there that hadn't been there when we were there before and we each kind of went our own
direction trying to see if there's anything else that didn't quite belong in the dump quiet shaving kit
the suitcase the boot over here is practically new both cindy and her husband bill found several pieces of
men's clothing bill picked up a boot and when he stood up saw a man's foot partially hidden
beneath a mattress [Music] bill and cindy called the authorities the coroner positively identified the
body as dexter stefanik and said that he had been shot twice in the head there were marks on his hands there was
damage done to his neck and throat area and he had a bruise or damaged area on the frontal part of his skull that was
probably caused by a beating or some type of injury of that sort sheriff's investigators discovered that
there was money in dexter's suitcase so robbery seemed an unlikely motor also the clothing which had been
conspicuously placed around the landfill belonged to dexter and appeared to have
been placed there just days before it was found the things that we found that day were just not
things that had been here before and it really bothered me that the week before everything was normal and seven days
later all of this stuff appeared [Music] strangely dexter stefanik's body seemed
to have been in the landfill for several months the condition of the body would indicate
that it had had probably been in the dump site from the time that the car was found burning until the
time it was discovered i have no reason to believe that it wasn't let's look around and see if we can find
anything one week later the authorities found one final clue a small line of graffiti written in
pencil in the bad route rest area men's room hey tim look at this it began with the words hot jock
and other key words seem to refer to dexter stefanik's murder hot jock from wisconsin 1185 my own theory is that
someone wanted us to see it hot jock could be a cb handle it referred to shot it had the wisconsin written in the
graffiti and a date indicating november sheriff george believes the graffiti was
written by the killer i think he was telling law enforcement something i think he was taunting law enforcement
or bragging to law enforcement about committing a homicide the sheriff has attempted to reconstruct
dexter stefanik's last hours he believes that dexter arrived at the bad route rest area soon after 7 a.m on
november the 19th and that his murderer was already there dexter was hard of hearing
it is a sheriff's theory that the killer tried to get his attention and failed sir could you help me
i've run out of gas did you take me time to get some gas what's your problem get out of the car
get out of the car it is unclear at what point dexter stefanik was actually killed but the authorities are convinced
that the mysterious murderer abducted dexter and after killing him hid his body in the landfill
[Music] sheriff george believes that the murderer returned to the rest area doused next car with gasoline and set it
on fire both to destroy evidence and to distract officials so he would have time to
escape [Music] dexter stefanik's killer is still at large only two clues exist the description of the suspect's vehicle
and the sketchy description of the suspect himself for every mystery there is someone
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps that someone is watching perhaps it's you [Music]
[Applause] [Music] you

Brief Summary

Carrie Lynn Nixon vanished in 1987, treasure at Victoria Peak remains elusive, and Dexter Stefanik was murdered in 1985.

Key points

The Legend of Victoria Peak. The story of a vast treasure buried in underground caverns beneath a New Mexico mountain.
Doc Nas's Discovery. In 1937, Doc Nas discovered a treasure and skeletons in Victoria Peak's caverns.
The Army's Intervention. Babe Nas and her family were forced off their claim by the U.S. Army.
The 1977 Expedition. A group attempted to determine if treasures existed at Victoria Peak.
The Disappearance of Carrie Lynn Nixon. In 1987, 16-year-old Carrie Lynn Nixon vanished just yards from her home, shocking her small community.
A Mysterious Letter. An anonymous letter suggests Carrie may be in South Carolina, prompting her family to search.

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