Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 10, Episode 2 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries Brook Baker was a reporter for her campus newspaper a small-town girl with
big-time ambitions what was it about her life that led to this brutal attack it is one of the strangest stories we've
encountered people who call themselves walkins and claim their bodies have been inhabited in fact taken over by abating
spirits could it be that walk-ins are walking among us it had all the signs of a tragic accident until police found
evidence of an elaborate setup cold-blooded murder now this man stands accused of killing his own wife but he
insists that he is innocent but a terrifying accident left Wilma Dru unconscious and trapped in her car death
seemed inevitable then salvation arrived in the form of an unknown Good Samaritan
now Wilma needs your help to thank the man who saved her life 20 years ago a young Korean woman said
goodbye to a GI husband and her daughter then boarded a train and for some unknown reason never came back since
then her daughter has grown up married and hopes of someone watching tonight can reunite her with her long-lost
daughter join me perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery or perhaps you may
encounter one us simply cannot be explained [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause]
[Music] every autumn thousands of parents send their sons and daughters off to college assuming
they'll be safe and on their way to a bright future the parents of a young woman named Brook Baker thought exactly
that they were wrong her campus experience proved fatal Brook Baker the college sophomore
stabbed to death in her own bed just half a block off campus police in Vincennes Indiana started their
investigation certain the case would be solved easily but more than a year later
Brookes killer remains unidentified okay how about the right shoulder obsessed with it I can't live without justice for
Burke I can't go on with my own life that's all like a drink more justice who killed Brooke Baker of the many theories
police are pursuing several point to a direct link between Brookes life and her brutal murder was that angry fraternity
brothers out for revenge a psychopath posing as a potential roommate or perhaps Brookes landlord he allegedly
watched her closely then there's a puzzle of Brookes cousin does she know something she hasn't told police to me
the real key in solving this case is gonna be when we answer the question who was Brooke Baker and what was there
about her life in the last few years of her life that led up to this extraordinary conclusion
Brook Baker was a small-town girl with big-city ambitions she planned to be somebody a top-flight journalist I had
been sends University Brooke became very active on the school paper and she made
sure everyone knew it call me back please cuz I'm waiting and I need them I think one of the things Brooke really
enjoyed was the power that came from being reported on the paper gave her certainly recognition visibility on
campus and I think she enjoyed the attention whew 19 year olds make deadly enemies Brooke may have been an
exception in the spring of 1997 she heard rumors of a date rape at a fraternity party and what after the
story aggressively are you so would you describe some of the incidents as if it happened to you it would have been very
easy to work on the story and have nobody know about it but members of the staff but the word was out everywhere
and I think the word was generated from Brooke I think she wanted people to know
what she was doing at the fraternity where the alleged rape had taken place Brookes investigation
was not welcomed look I can write whatever I want about you I'm serious and you better watch your back
you better watch your back she didn't worry about who she offended her whose toe she stepped on if it was a turret
that was the truth fraternity members allegedly started sending Brooke email threatening her if she ran the rape
story Brooke was unfazed but her mother was very concerned I feared for Brookes safety all the time and I'd questioned
her on it and she she'd say if it could save one girl from being raped or abused
she was willing to write the story investigate the fraternity the harassment allegedly climax one night
when a truckload of fraternity brothers confronted Brooke at a friend's house [Music]
they reportedly called her names and shouted more threats [Music] yet a conflict between Brooke Baker and
the fraternity ultimately lead to murder [Applause] a few months later Brooke moved into a
new house where she thought she'd be safer the landlord was a campus police officer within weeks however Brooke
allegedly started having trouble with a landlord what are you doing in my house Luke told her parents she discovered him
prowling around her house at all hours you can't come into my house according to her parents
the landlord once shined a light through the windows on another occasion Brooke said he came in while she was in the
shower she felt uncomfortable enough that she she told a number of people that she just was just generally
uncomfortable the whole situation what happened the night Brooke died did her landlord let himself in did an angry
confrontation escalate to murder benson's police also identified a third theory of murder only days before her
death Brooke placed an ad for a roommate and the campus newspaper someone who wants to come over to Brookes house a
knock on the door and say hey I'm here about your broom I want to be a roommate what's Brookes natural reaction gonna be
in that open the door and let them in Brookside may have become an invitation to murder police found no evidence of
forced entry most signs of a struggle their most vital clues are several samples of DNA to date they have
interviewed 400 people and tested 52 against those samples they say parents who bury a child never really stop
reading it goes too hard against the heart for Brookes parents however answers would at least be a great
comfort update two years after Brooke Baker's death police got their first break in the case tragically it came at
the cost of another life on July 5th 1999 investigators searched the apartment of missing Vincennes college
student Erica Elaine Norman there they found a crime scene eerily similar to Brooke Baker's including the identical
odd characteristic in the bathroom there was water running the bathtub and I knew
right then that it was the same person who had committed the murder of Brooke Baker
Erica had last been seen leaving a local restaurant with a man by the name of Brian Jones he was immediately brought
in for questioning when we interviewed Brian Jones it turned out that he was a roommate of an individual that was
seeing Brooke Baker and within the last couple weeks of her death Brian Jones consented to give a sample of his DNA it
linked him conclusively to the murder of Brooke Baker and Jones was arrested when
Erika Norman's body was found two weeks later Jones struck a plea bargain he admitted to killing Erika and in
exchange prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the Brooke Baker trial on December 14th Brian Jones was
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Brian presented himself to me as someone
that would have not stopped that case has stopped a serial killer in my opinion next meet some people who claim their
bodies have been taken over by someone else's soul Paris a brooding artist and teacher nearly dies in a hospital during
a near-death experience he has a nightmare vision of hell he survives and becomes a minister in
his church the experience forever changes his life during a thunderstorm a self-centered bully is struck by like
180 thousand volts nearly killed him when he recovered he began having psychic experiences and he's changed as
violent ways becoming a hospice volunteer these individuals say near-death experience has made the
behave like different people tonight we'll tell you about a group who say they really are different people
they call themselves walk-ins they say their bodies have been taken over by other spirits it sounds unbelievable but
that a recent convention in England 500 people claiming to be walk-ins showed up
is there any truth to their strange tales I began to feel that I had to change my name and this happens very
often to walkins and I didn't know why I felt like a stranger in a strange land I didn't fit here I didn't understand
this world I didn't understand how it worked the doctor patted me and he said young lady you gave us quite a scare and
I said oh I'm not who you think I am those who believe say it's not possession it's an even trade of one
soul for another and they say it could happen to any one of us for Karen parish the routine life of a housewife in the
South would lead to the extraordinary experience of being a walk-in Carol had five children with a sixth on the way
during childbirth in 1958 doctors gave Carol a shot on sodium pentathol to ease her pain Carol had an allergic reaction
to the drug and her lungs collapsed all right we've got an anaphylactic shock nurse let's get some oxygen going she
was on the edge of death let's do an IV bring in an IV stat suddenly I wasn't there it was just like I had been
totally engaged in that struggle and the next thing it's cool I'm floating and I look down and and you
hardly know that that's you Carol watched her baby be born then she says her soul entered a tunnel of light
where she felt she wasn't alone she described it as a near-death experience but then something even stranger
happened I stood there and in that light it began to tell me things it was like a
whole flow of information just came into my mind and and this love and this wisdom just permeated wave after wave of
understanding wisdom richness this float into me Carol wasn't expected to live but she says her body was given new life
we did with a different soul the old Carol was gone and a new identity had taken Olivia life I saw young Carol move
off into the care of some other beings I'm not who you think that I am it's okay as I look at each person their eyes
just the veil comes over their eyes and I turned my head toward the wall and big
tears started coming in my eyes and down my cheeks and I thought how will I ever
get anybody to believe me who's gonna listen from then on Carol says everything about
her life changed she began having out-of-body experiences one day I was nursing the baby and I
found myself standing in the door looking at myself and immediately thought oh that's happening to me again
when I thought that I popped back together and it passed and I tried to talk about that to my family her husband
said she was insane her doctor tried to put her on valium I'm not taking it anymore
why not it's not good for the baby Carol the doctor said you've got to take that medicine the new Carol made radical
changes in her life Phil I am NOT taking the medicine anymore she started school
to study bookkeeping she got a job and eventually became a manager at a local bank Carol believes her new identity was
a threat to her husband a firefighter he left her in 1967 the years after the experience and before I was really doing
what I consider to be my spiritual life at my lifework were very lonely I was lonely for other people that valued the
things that were so meaningful to me in 1965 Carol began to study metaphysical religion it led to her
becoming a minister at the light of Christ Community Church she remarried the timid southern girl had blossomed
into an outspoken leader there was no way she could be the same person Carol realized she was a walk-in I
believe young Carol went as all do into tender hands to care for her and help her reorient herself to the world
of spirit the idea that life is ongoing and if you are you always will be that's the piece that I think is so
important partly it's important because we would live life more courageously if we really believe that an exchange of
souls is it really possible a woman named sherry claims it happened to her she was a high school principal while
visiting a friend in Wyoming sherry says her old soul was exchanged for another sherry began to feel
disoriented she asked her friend who was a metaphysical healer to lay her hands on her suddenly the room began to change
there was a glow of golden pulsating energy the core of the energy just punched right into the base of my spine
[Music] raised up on my knees and sat immersed in this colorful light and found myself
wanting to just flow with it and and dance with it with my hands and my arms later Sherry's friend said she had
changed her husband knew something was very different especially when she explained that she had a new name I'm
Joe I think some of my most difficult moments were were when I would have a certain something come up and I needed
some help for instance and usually in the past I could you know give a little shout or something and somebody to come
and help me and with Joelle I'd say okay let's go and it's kind of like I'm waiting to
hear and nothing there's a different response that was something to get used to it so things are changing ideas
besides helping her husband come to terms with her new identity there were other problems as well mundane tasks
became nearly impossible [Music] SOLAS a hypersensitivity to energy fields around people energy fields
around things so to go into a supermarket see the energy fields here all the thoughts that were so difficult
to stay focused on what my task was I tried to narrow my task down to five to ten items so I could get through that
express line as quick as possible overtime Juelz says she managed to accept her new identity as did her
husband and daughter it's as though there are two chapters in our lives as a family there's the before and there's
the after and in many ways our life as a family started after my mother experienced the walk-in
a lot of the healing that wasn't able to take place before did after we're so much stronger as a family unit Joelle
now dedicates herself to educating others about her walk-in experience I travel the country I traveled the world
speaking to different groups of people doing private counseling sessions with people I'm an author one of the
beautiful memories that came from sherry was her ability to teach was her ability
to speak to people I've taken that aspect and I've just taken it to the next phase are the stories of walk-ins
valid can one so truly enter the body and replace another that is ready to move on
the people we have met tonight and many others do claim a new spirit a positive spirit resides inside them a spirit that
has changed their lives for the better when it comes to walkins perhaps that is all we need to know next judging by the
family photos Steven Cathy page at a storybook marriage but when Cathy turned up dead a
grieving husband became the prime suspect [Music] it was early dawn on May 14th 1991 when
police and Vidor Texas discovered the wreck the woman behind the wheel was dead her skin cool to the touch the
first glance a tragic accident but within seconds anomalies began to emerge the dead woman had no obvious wounds and
the car was barely damaged soft drinks in the front seat hadn't even spilled the list grew longer the woman's feet
were pushed back against the seat rather than stretched out toward the pedals she
wasn't wearing a seat belt yet she had not pitched fully being no damage into the interior of the vehicle and very
little if not any damage to the exterior the vehicle in the deepest of the ditch
plane to see this was a stage two instant instead of an accident so at that point they thought they had a
probably of a questionable death the woman was identified as 34 year old Cathy Paige she was a wife and mother
she lived at 450 Greene Street curiously just a hundred yards from the crash site Cathy's husband Steve
answered the door I'm Sergeant Mosely the Vidor Police Department are you mr. Paige yes mr.
Paige knew where you wife said he said well his wife was not home and directly looked straight down the street towards
where the car was it's about my wife yes it is sort advisory sir we found her deceased in
her vehicle this morning can we step inside the resident discuss this matter still you seem to be quite upset he
began to cry at times and it times through his self on the couch crying but yet he would he would jump right back up
and we were talking there would be no signs of tears in his eyes this seems strange to me we've seen a car accident
so we don't know all the details I met Madan police concentrated their attention on Steve page six years later
he is still the prime suspect for page those years have been an ordeal barely a day passes that he doesn't fend off
accusations that he killed his wife the mother of his children of course I did not kill my wife the evidence clearly
shows that the perpetrator was someone other than Steve page is this the face of a killer
many people in the small town of iter Texas are convinced it is they are certain only Steve pays out both the
opportunity and motive to murder his wife Kathy her family claims he would be in prison today his personal
relationships with police officials had not dirtied the investigation Steve patience says he is innocent
tonight we'll examine both sides of this controversial case Kathy and Steve page
had been married for almost 13 years they had two daughters 12 year-old Erin and seven-year-old Monica they seemed
like a perfect family but according to Steve he and Kathy had drifted apart and she was no longer happy with her role as
Steve's wife mainly she was uncomfortable with who she was for at least that was what she explained to me
that she didn't know who she was she wanted to try to find out who Kathy was because of that we talked about
separating for a short period of time and allowing her to hopefully find herself
Kathy sister Sherri disagrees she says the marriage was beyond repair Kathy was definitely moving on in her
life at that point because the decision was made for the divorce and that in itself having a decision like that
finally be resolved and itself was a Brooke relief off her back and she was making plans for that Steve
moved out of the house but he says his relationship with Kathy remained friendly the next day Kathy asked him to
babysit their daughters while she went out with a friend Kathy was getting ready when Steve arrived she said she
was gonna meet one of her girlfriends after work and so I went over there she left at approximately 11:15 to 11:30 to
head to Beaumont to meet her friend Charlotte was the friend's name by 4:15 a.m. Kathy page was dead but her
body was found she wasn't wearing makeup or jewelry the autopsy showed she had been strangled her nose broken her eye
blackened there were bloodstains on Kathy's underwear and skin a stranger not on her outer clothing Kathy page was
not killed in her vehicle she was killed at another location cleaned up redressed
and placed back in her vehicle in after the vehicle had been rolled into the ditch and there was more
sometimes shortly before Kathy page died she had engaged in sexual activity was that mysterious someone Kathy's killer
police soon learned that Kathy had not gone to meet her friend Charlotte and had instead spent the evening with a
boyfriend in a motel in Beaumont Texas about 10 minutes from fighters the boyfriend acknowledged that he and Kathy
made love that night he came to the police station gave us a statement and also voluntarily gave us a polygraph
examination which he passed with flying colors however the autopsy report included one more critical detail
Kathy sex partner had had a vasectomy the boyfriend had not that met Kathy must have had sex that night with
someone else could that man have been Steve page he had had a vasectomy several months
earlier when police questioned him he admitted having sex with Kathy but claimed it was before she went out that
night she was getting ready she just got out of the shower I approached her about sex
and we had sex before she left before she got dressed even I personally don't believe that that happened she wouldn't
have been with Steve before being with another man she hadn't been with Steve in a long time he's already sleeping on
the couch help coming over to take care of the kids was more of a kind of gesture for him to be around his kids
not for him to be around Kathy but Kathy's family there is only one possible scenario a deadly scenario
sparked when Steve discovered two phone numbers one belonged to Kathy's friend Charlotte the other to the motel in
Beaumont I was talking to a sister-in-law of Steve's and she said that she made for a fact that Steve made
two phone calls Steve called this Charlotte of this one number and the girl answered and he hung up and then
the second phone number was called and they said the name of the hotel and he hung up and so he already knew where she
might be or what I feel like she came in that night come in the back no we're actually gonna park the car and he was
asleep sitting in the chair in the front room and when she went on in the bathroom and changed clothes there's a
makeup oh look a jury and all off and he heard it probably in the bathroom and he got up and the man who sex with
her or whatever I got in a fight Kathy's family believes a fight escalated Steve
page raped Kathy in the process he strengthened then Steve realizing what had happened he wants to redress her if
you look at the violent crime profile it fits him to a tee you know the remorse she wants to
redress you don't want them to be found naked or bloody so there was a de tempt to clean her up and redress her but
things were forgotten for instance her jewelry and her socks the reason it comes down on me is
because I'm the husband I'm the estranged husband to make it even worse and because of her actions I
am being blamed for her actions she was out seeing another guy so therefore it could only have been me I must have
found out somehow according to the police and became enraged and committed murder
Steve Paige has his own theory on the identity of Kathy's killer yeah I received threats on the phone that the
same thing that happened to my wife could happen to me there was a name of a certain person here in Beaumont that was
bandied about as the person who may have been involved it's a very prominent family an Italian family even to let you
know that they're considered part of the Beaumont mafia [Music] next a frightening accident a woman on
the brink of death but timely rescue by an unknown Good Samaritan September 7th 1995 dusk on a four-lane highway near
Ocala Flordia 48 year old Wilma Drew was just a mile from home she had driven up
this hill hundreds of times but this night disaster was lurking a few miles away a car had entered the highway going
the wrong way now it was headed straight for Wilma at 55 miles an hour david vitter tow was driving right behind
Wilma as we were approaching the crest saw headlights approaching us and the minute the lights came into view I
immediately tried to get over in the right-hand lane to avoid a collision [Applause]
I automatically just in my gut knew that somebody was gonna be there [Music] David raced to help the victims the
driver and passenger the wrong-way car seemed to be moving Wilma was not she was pinned in her car the steering
column wedged up against her chest the driver's window was open but the other windows and all the doors were jammed I
decided to run back the truck to grab a tire tool try to pry the door open or whatever I could do to try to get into a
sister possibly better another Good Samaritan Matthew honey also stopped to help the two men didn't know it but
Wilma's neck had been broken cutting off her air passage Wilma was suffocating all the doors are jammed from from the
impact her driver's side window is busted out on the driver side door so that's all we could do is reach through
there and we couldn't break the windows off so we were trying to get someone who
has something that could break the window David tried flagging down helped a tanker truck stopped remarkably the
driver seemed to know exactly what to do and how to do it stand back after I busted the window he climbed in
into the back seat and reached over and lifted and held when Wilma's head up Wilma took a breath Matthew and David
struggled to lift the steering column off Wilma's chest the trucker meanwhile kept her neck motionless it seemed like
hours but the ambulance arrived 10 minutes later [Music] he's ready to let go and come out of the
car okay I'm not letting go until you put a brace around her neck and the paramedic was just insistent that he let
go of her head and got out of the car and the the man would not like overhead until I held it while he got out and the
paramedic got in Willmar was stabilized in the midst of the commotion no one saw
the truck driver leave no one had a chance to get more than a glimpse of what he looked like
Wilma's husband came upon the crash scene a short time later when I saw the vehicle in my mind nobody
could have lived through it I remember a lady asked me if that was my car and I said yes and my wife's dead and she says
no she isn't they just you know left here where they're in the helicopter it would take 11 operations on nearly a
year to begin to repair the damaged Wilma's right leg had nearly been torn in half her left ankle was shattered her
brainstem was so damaged that it caused permanent double vision and the c2 vertebra and Wilma's neck was completely
severed the neurosurgeon told us that the break that she sustained is called the hangman's break and it's typically
what would happen in the old days in the West when somebody would drop from a gallows the way the body would pull and
jerk at the end and what he told us was he's never seen anybody survive that injury that she's the only one he's ever
seen surviving and he can't understand why she's still alive and that was kind of eerie
I consider myself extremely fortunate and I've never really questioned why me I mean I don't know why it happened to
me but I know that there is a purpose for it and it's even peculiar that I've never experienced any anger I'm just
very thankful to be alive the neurosurgeon said it was a miracle that he didn't actually kill her in the
process of lifting her head she pretty good but that he just he did it exactly right and had he done it any different
it wouldn't work he gave the doctor something to work with and he just saved her life and gave her back to us
she is not the same person physically that she was there she has limitations there's very little that she can do she
tires easy and she has different sensations in her hands like she can't tell heat and cold and but no I consider
myself the most worst person in the world to have her back thank you just really seems so insignificant as far as
the way we feel about the gratitude we have that someone would take the time to get involved and to do all he did for me
and then just disappear [Music] next a young woman would like your help to find her mother who disappeared 20
years ago a beautiful bride a handsome groom a fairytale wedding except for one sad detail the mother of the bride is
missing she vanished from her daughter's life 23 years ago and never returned she's still my mother and I still love
her as a mother just this year just to know that she's okay but the father of the bride
Robert Wortman has always been there for his daughter Stella Wortman hunt he has
raised her since she was three and he believes that his former wife would have cherished her daughter's special day and
more she's missed so much of Stella's life you know slumber parties chicken pops graduations and stuff like that
there is no need for her to miss any more Stella is now in her late twenties her mother disappeared in 1975 Stella
often lies awake at night and wonders why did her mother walk out of her family's life in 1972 Stella's father
robert Wortman was a 22 year old serving in the Air Force in Seoul South Korea he
fell in love with a 20 year old Korean woman named Oakshott Robert nicknamed her sunny I realize now we're both from
two different cultures and both of us were very young at the time despite the odds against them the couple married
they welcomed their new baby a year later she was named Stella after Roberts mother
the new family relocated to Tokyo Japan Robert was to be stationed there for the
next four years I remember my mom she worked at ice-cream parlor and this was when I was about three that's basically
that all I remember sunny worked on the base to help support them life was good at least for the
moment her mother took on a second job working nights as a waitress sunny seemed to live a double life she
was rarely home my dad said that she hung around people who were kind of into the wrong things weren't really
family-oriented and he believes that you know she just wanted to be around those
people all the time that that basically came first for her tensions between husband and wife continued to drive them
apart finally they agreed Estella should spend time with Roberts relatives in New
Jersey like most people we had some family problems and stuff and tried to work them out I thought it'd be best to
get her into a more stable family some which I brought her back to the United States to my mother's grandma Robert
returned to Japan hoping to patch up his marriage and bring Sonny back with him to America Robert and sunny worked out
their differences or so it seemed they were ready to transfer to New Jersey to be with Stella
but there was one hitch so you'll be back in the 19th yes I just need a couple weeks Sonny said she wanted to
see her family in South Korea one last time but Robert had no idea that his wife had
other plans in mind she was about to walk out of his life and Stella's [Music] what would motivate a mother to leave
her child without even saying goodbye why would she keep this terrible secret from her husband
those very questions haunts tell it to this day I want to be able to ask her why she didn't show up for the day when
she was supposed to come with my father to New Jersey why Sonny disappeared remains a mystery
Robert eventually remarried and had another daughter Stella adored her stepmother but often struggled with her
own identity I know being oriental you know that I had a mom who was oriental I knew back
in the back of my mind that I had a real mother somewhere just didn't know who she was or where she was I thought about
her and I did miss her like on Mother's Day I would think about her on my birthday I would think about her and it
would cost my mind like did she ever think about me but in 1985 Stella received a surprise in the mail
out of the blue Sonny had sent her daughter four dresses and a stuffed animal oh that's nice yeah it made me feel
really really good it felt good to know that she's still thought about me that I
crossed her mind remember I cried every time I held the stuff animal I would just cry and hold it and go to sleep
with it and just snuggle it and just take it everywhere I went now there's an extra incentive for Sonny
to reunite with Starr she could meet her grandson six-year-old Darius it's time to forgive and forget she probably has a
new life I do too but uh Stella's part of our life so you know life's too short let's enjoy the time we
have left join us next time perhaps you may help solve a mystery [Music] [Music]
[Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Brooke Baker's murder, walk-ins, Cathy Paige's suspicious death, and a daughter's search for her missing mother are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Mysterious Case of Brooke Baker. Brooke Baker, a college sophomore, was brutally murdered in her own bed. The investigation remains unsolved, leaving her family desperate for answers.
The Walk-In Phenomenon. Individuals claiming to be 'walk-ins' share their extraordinary experiences of soul exchange. Is there truth to their claims?
Cathy Paige's Unexplained Death. Cathy Paige's death was initially deemed an accident, but evidence suggested foul play. Her husband became the prime suspect.
The Mysterious Circumstances of Kathy's Death. Kathy was found dead under suspicious circumstances, leading to a complex investigation.
Wilma's Miraculous Survival. Wilma survives a horrific car accident against all odds, thanks to a Good Samaritan.
A Mother's Disappearance. Stella seeks answers about her mother who vanished from her life 23 years ago.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I can't go on with my own life.

A person struggling with the aftermath of Brooke's murder.

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