Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 11, Episode 9 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries in 1975 a notorious bandit radical is known as the
SLA allegedly gunned down an innocent woman during a bank heist finally some 27 years later but being
brought to trial on murder China all except this man incredibly Jim Kilgore is still on the loose
Mike two lusty and Laura law were together 11 years then according to Laura Mike abruptly packed his bags and
left but after police questioned her about Mike's whereabouts Laura also vanished but investigators found on the
property would shock everyone the beautiful restored southern mansion is now a bed-and-breakfast but many guests
report experiences that can only be described as supernatural at least eight ghosts are said to haunt the property
spirits of adults and children who died of foul play AM current his son was viciously
murdered by a street gang despite her tragic loss Pam refuses to be overwhelmed by grief
she is pursuing the killers and fighting to rid her neighborhood of gangs once and for all
perhaps someone watching holds a key that will unlock the secrets of a mystery perhaps as you
join me run solve mysteries [Applause] [Music] April 21st 1975 on the cool spring
morning three volunteers from a local church in Carmichael California a suburb of Sacramento entered the crocker
National Bank the women had come to deposit the collection from weekend services when suddenly they were
surrounded authorities contend the four armed robbers were members of the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army or
SLA a ragtag group of power-hungry radicals who advocated the violent overthrow of the US government
the shotgun Tooting bank robber was especially menacing her manner as chilling as her words just 10 feet away
42 year old Myrna Opsahl froze then the unimaginable happened she was gunned down in cold blood
my mother evidently didn't move fast enough the bank employees pleaded with the robbers to come to her assistance
and they shouted more obscenities and threatened more injury and wouldn't let anyone come to her assistance the bank
robbers appeared to be following a script every word and movement precise it was very well coordinated
everybody had a role and at all times they were very conscious of the time ticking at some point some of the the
tellers were grabbed one woman was kicked so all of them actually had weapons and it was very very violent and
all the timer knob saw was not dead yet she laid on the ground and she literally
bled to death on the ground all the bank robbers ran out of the bank to a car that was waiting for them the driver of
the getaway car was 20-year old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst she had been kidnapped by the Symbionese
Liberation Army some 14 months earlier however within weeks of her abduction Hearst assumed the name Tanya and
declared herself a revolutionary the SLA had a marquee name but the search for Patty Hearst also unleashed the biggest
FBI manhunt sis John Dillinger a massive effort paid off in September 1975 the SLA 22 month reign of terror came to an
end with several arrests including Patty Hearst however the story was far from over
eyewitnesses to the crocker bank heist and the murder of Myrna opsahl could not positively identify the assailants 24
long years have passed before a stunning twist in the case led to murder indictments all of the suspects involved
in the crime have been arrested and are awaiting trial except one the FBI needs your help to
bring him in his name Jim Kilgore Jim Kilgore's Odyssey began nearly a year before the shooting at Crocker National
Bank in the spring of 1974 to San Francisco drive-in theater Kilgore's girlfriend Cathy Solia introduced him to
SLA kingpins bill and Emily Harris that's my boyfriend Jim Kilgore and he's a great guy Kilgore
agreed to join the group smart in tough he was a prize catch he was born in Portland Oregon he was vice president of
the senior class he participated in varsity golf he was on the high school basketball team he was very athletic he
attended the University of California Santa Barbara graduating in 1969 during that time period he became acquainted
with Kathy so Lina [Music] so Lia and Jim Kilgore were welcomed into the group small inner circle
Herr Kilgore reportedly proved especially adept at creating false IDs with the SLA on everyone's most-wanted
list he was kept plenty busy we know that members of this group would steal credit cards and driver's licenses
for example at local gymnasiums and other health clubs we know that they engaged in in special missions to steal
existing identification in the fall of 1974 the SLA convened at a safe house on a quiet neighborhood of Sacramento and
we come up with a new structure for this group with a small but faithful army gathered around him Bill Harris
allegedly laid out his plan to escalate the SLA violent revolution against the US government I need money but anarchy
came with a price and robbing banks offered the quick cash needed to further the group's agenda
[Music] according to police and late February 1975 SLA members held up the guild
Savings and Loan in Sacramento allegedly the point man in the heist was Jim Kilgore he was a central member of the
group he was not peripheral he was actively involved in the violence he embraced it yeah that bank robbery was
was a violent act he was right there inside the bank two months later on April 21st 1975 Emily Harris Michael
Borton Kathy solía and Jim Kilgore reportedly executed the daring holed up at Crocker National Bank killing
customer Myrna opsahl a mother of four allegedly Emily Harris fired the fatal blast they all stormed the bank knowing
someone could get hurt what was their back-up plan at that point they all chose to let my mother lie on the floor
and bleed to death and didn't let people come to her assistance the robbers netted more than $15,000
according to police bill Harris was a mastermind behind the heist the SLA changed modes essentially after killing
were tops all and taking the money that they got from robbing the bank and killing her they now were looking to
place bombs in locations that were targeted to kill people they seemed to be more hungry to take other human lives
and that's what they set out to do by the summer of 1975 investigators say the operation has shifted to San Francisco
aracely members worked odd jobs painting houses in their spare time the allegedly planted pipe bombs then in
late August kathy Solia bill Harris and Jim Kilgore made the 375 mile trek south
to Los Angeles reportedly to create more carnage authorities believe they were hauling an arsenal of deadly explosives
in the back of the car most of them were pipe bombs using either 2 inch or three inch pipe which
is big the pipe bombs used in Los Angeles were three inch pipe and those are very substantial bonds they filled
those pipe bombs with concrete nails and with gunpowder fun in Los Angeles Jim Kilgore and the other SLA members
allegedly planted a pipe bomb beneath an LAPD patrol car but the triggering mechanism malfunctioned and the officer
narrowly escaped serious injury or death authorities say it was not an isolated incident a call then went out to all the
other police cars in the county check under your vehicles and sure enough an officer with Hollenbeck division went
out and checked underneath all the vehicles and found an identical device under one of the cars there
over the next few days Paris solely and Kilgore returned to San Francisco to rejoin their comrades but the heat was
on FBI agents acting on a tip finally got a break the owner of several apartment
buildings recognized some house painters he had recently hired as SLA members within hours Jim Kilgore and the others
are under surveillance the next morning September 18 1975 agents followed one of the suspects to a
safe house on procedure Avenue so they started to watch proceeded address and from watching the procedure address they
see Bill Harris and Emily Harris coming out of the house [Music] when the Harris has returned from
jogging they were confronted by FBI agents correa guns and handcuffs about an hour after that having identified a
second safe house in San Francisco agents and members of the San Francisco Police Department raided a second
location in San Francisco and during that raid they apprehended Patty Hearst 592 days after being abducted at
gunpoint Patty Hearst days on the lam ended the high-profile arrests of Hearst and Bill and Emily Harris instantly hit
radio and television broadcast nationwide meanwhile the dragnet closed in on Kathy Solia and Jim Kilgore who
authorities now believe were painting a home in nearby Pacifica they raided that
house later that afternoon and when they showed up the house all the remnants of the painting the buckets
of paint in the paintbrushes were just left drying in the room and radio was on with a all-new station
Kathy so Leigh and Jim Kilgore had simply vanished on agents search Kilgore's apartment that afternoon they
found boxes of bomb-making materials the evidence FBI lab technicians later determined positively linked Kilgore to
the SLA crime spree at that location they found a fully manufactured bomb similar to the bombs that were placed
under the police cars in Los Angeles and also up in San Francisco when they inspected that bomb
they found his fingerprint it was a very good break for law enforcement because it allowed us to charged James Kilgore
with with a serious offense still no charges had been filed in the murder of Myrna opsahl however some twenty four
years later in June 1999 Kathy solía was arrested in upscale Minnesota suburb where she had been living as a homemaker
and community activists under the alias Sarah Jane Olsen Olsen was brought to Los Angeles to stand trial for planting
explosives under a police car 1975 her testimony and new advances in forensic science led Sacramento District Attorney
Jan Scully to re-examine the opsahl murder case the state of the evidence today has convinced me now is the time
to seek justice from her absol still miss my mother intensely and she's missing out on the best years of her
life and her grandkids and all but this isn't about revenge or paybacks it's just a matter of justice that they chose
to do this and they need to be held accountable SLA members bill Harris Emily Harris Michael Burton Cathy so Lia
and Jim Kilgore have all been indicted in the case under the felony murder rule they're all potentially responsible for
the death of Myrna Opsahl Patty Hearst who'd been granted immunity in exchange for her testimony about the shooting is
expected to be the prosecution's star witness no date has been set for the trial now the only missing suspect is
Jim Kilgore he's still on the loose the heat has definitely been turned up more and more throughout the course of the
last two and a half years for mr. Kilgore so I'm sure he's probably looking over his shoulder a little bit
more every day this is a picture of Jim Kilgore in 1975 at age 27 Kilgore is now in his mid-50s
authorities believe he has used as many as 13 different aliases and he may have altered his appearance
[Music] Laurel and her boyfriend of 11 years Mike tell us t enjoyed entertaining in
their art Dale Wisconsin home the nice P Coney and her husband were often guests
nice was Mike's cousin and Laura's best friend Laura was just a wonderful person
she had wonderful family dinners and she was good to Mike I saw Mike very happy I
never saw them argue or fight and there were a lot of fun to be with however one
night in March 2001 Mike + T was ready to argue that when he trapped Laura down at a nearby casino where she'd gone to
gamble with Denise and her mother I gotta go what's wrong Mike showed up he's in the
truck he's so upset he wants me to go Lauren goodnight she was just trembling she was shaking
and I said well what's wrong and she said I don't know he's depressed something's wrong with him we gotta go
you guys stay and have a good time you call me yeah tomorrow I'll call you tomorrow and I said you know my
something's just not right here because he doesn't get me and he doesn't have a temper he boy he has a temper but he
usually says what he needs to say and it's over after that night Mike tell us T would never be seen again according to
friends and family Mike's behavior in the casino may indeed have been out of character but for him to completely
avoid contact with them was incomprehensible strangely however one person who claimed a know where Mike
went his longtime girlfriend Laura lobbed ultimately she too would disappear when they returned from the
casino Laura said Mike pack some clothes and 73 thousand dollars in cash which she said came from the graphics business
they owned he then set out on foot from their rural hole in the middle the night I said that's so strange he
left on foot and she said yeah nice and Lauren why would he leave off his vehicles he said this doesn't make any
sense and she said well I think he had a trucker pick him up he's my cousin he's
like the sweetest guy in the world why would he just disappear that's what I want to know I thought she was lying but
I thought she was trying to cover her embarrassment maybe he said I'm leaving you for another woman well we had that
big fight the first night like that I need to give her the benefit of the doubt because we truly loved her as a family
member also I didn't wanted to actually take sides with either one of them and then two weeks after Mike disappeared
she called me and she was well he just called and he's out west and I said well when's he coming home and she goes why I
asked him are you ready to come home yet and he said no four months passed and there was still no sign of Mike to Asti
but because Mike and Laura ran their own business few knew Mike was gone by mid-summer though Denise insisted Laura
talked to Mike's family they had still not been told about his strange disappearance I'm gonna tell him that
he's on an extended fishing trip and Winnipeg what they said this is going on too long if this was my son I'd be
furious if somebody didn't tell me that he's been missing I don't want to worry that I don't care you've got to tell
them all right oh all right okay I've found the truth to Denise's shock Laura lied to Mike's mother anyway and told
her that Mike had gone to Canada it was so bizarre that scared me it scared me that she would be so
underhanded to platt and say this is what we're gonna say whether suspicions now aroused
Denise recalled other instances of Laura's increasingly bizarre behavior hello hi this is nice oh hi Denise I'm
gonna come today and get my snowmobiles okay well sure but I don't have the keys
Denise's snowmobiles were stored in a shed in Mike and Laura's backyard and Laura seemed determined to prevent
anyone from entering the padlocked shed I don't know what's going on with you but the past three weeks
every time I call about the snowmobiles I say Laura if you don't hand the snowmobiles I that should I'm coming
with a locksmith and I'll replace the wax and pay for it and give you a new keys and new locks I said but I need my
snowmobiles I don't know what you're making such a big deal about this for because you put me through the wringer
trying to get these snowmobiles I'm telling you something if that [ __ ] isn't open I'm gonna break it open Denise
Laura had removed the snowmobiles by herself but she was still preventing anyone else from entering the shed the
thought now crossed Denise's mind could something to do with Mike's disappearance be hidden in the shed it
was the straw that broke the camel's back I called Mike's brother and I said mark
we have to talk I said something's wrong something's terrible wrong four months after Mike tell us he
disappeared mark tell us T filed a missing-persons report with the local authorities because of the way the
stories weren't jiving and things didn't add up and no one's heard from I didn't
hesitate at all and he left everything and that also made me very suspicious that something happened to him
the case was ultimately assigned to investigator Gary silca Laura seemed to be very cooperative the day that we were
there she also invited me to look around on the property if I desired what do you
normally keep in the shed Oh Laura threw a roadblock in front of me when I asked
to go into that building can we take a look well actually I cleared all of that stuff out a couple months ago so that I
could rent it do you have a key oh no the man I rented it to has the key you don't have a spare oh no but I
couldn't let you in there anyway what's his name George George Giuliani Laura agreed to make
arrangements for mr. Giuliani to drive up to the arc tale property and then meet law enforcement so we could
couldn't it'll continue the search inside the shed authorities now believe that within hours of being questioned by
investigators Laura law hastily fled her home her whereabouts are still not known
it would take several more months of investigation before Gary silca was granted a search warrant for the
property January 22nd 2002 investigators finally entered the mystery shed in the
minute that we stepped inside I could smell the strong punch and order of what I believed to be that of a decomposing
human body in the near empty shed under several pieces of wood and covered in a blanket and plastic wrapping police
found the decomposed body of Mike tell us team he had been dead between nine and ten months the autopsy showed cause
of death was attributed to a single gunshot wound to the back of the victim's head several years before the
incident Laura law had purchased a 9-millimeter handgun we believe that that is the
weapon that was used in the homicide of Michael two lusty despite the evidence those who knew them were stunned to
conclude Laura had murdered Mike I was with her for 11 years and I thought she was a wonderful person did I know her at
all it's Laura the one that we had so much fun with and did things with Aunt Laura or is this more of the one I did
shot him who is Laura it's unbelievable what happened it's bottom line what happened I'm almost sure that she had a
has a gambling problem and I think that's probably what triggered all this Michael may have told her that enough
was enough and that she needed to consider leaving and Laura you didn't want to leave that relationship and
didn't want to leave the life as she knew it [Music] [Music] [Music] a summer lightning storm thunders over
st. Francisville Louisiana illuminating the myrtles plantation the myrtles is an
infamous 200 year old antebellum mansion converted to a bed-and-breakfast decades
ago it claims to be one of America's most haunted houses shooting poisoning lynching are just a few of the deadly
means by which the ghosts of the myrtles met their mortal demise at least eight people died violent deaths here and
legend has it their spirits remain on the premises appearing regularly to guess and staff alike I've had enough
happen to let me know that other people live here that we can't always see perhaps the myrtles plantation was
destined to be haunted legend has it that a 1796 the original owner General David Bradford built the house directly
on top of an ancient Indian burial ground since that time literally hundreds of sightings of the unexplained have
occurred could spare us be haunting the plantation thousands believe they are this mysterious mansion is said to be a
window into the supernatural guests here are well aware of the possibility of having a ghostly encounter I guess I
have to say I really didn't believe that there were actually ghosts or spirits there that it was just folklore and
legend and it wasn't until I was already in that things began to happen that convinced me that yes they are here but
by then it was too late financially I couldn't afford to be scared when Amy Campbell and her friend Michelle came to
stay at the B&B last October 30th they were well informed of its ghostly past we were very hesitant if we were gonna
stay all night because we had heard that the place was haunted we had heard that there were
ghosts that visit people at night that tuck you in fix your clothes we weren't sure we wanted to experience any of that
I obviously was sleeping for a little while and I woke up feeling bouncing on the end of my bed and I saw a little
girl jumping on the end of my bed and I thought surely I'm dreaming and I stuck my head back under the covers
it kept bouncing and bouncing and bouncing it felt like forever and all of a sudden it stopped and I looked back up
at the little girl that was jumping on the bed was gone [Music] the child ghosts is thought to be
Cornelia Woodruff one of four people who died in a tragic set of events 175 years
ago Cornelia was a daughter of judge Woodruff whose family lived at the myrtles in the early 1800s on the
Woodruff's house slave Chloe was caught eavesdropping on the judge he was compelled to punish her this is the
third time the judge at Khloe's ear cut off fearful of also being sent to the fields to do hard labor Chloe made a
plan she decided to grind poisonous oleander leaves into a birthday cake hoping to make the family ill then she
would endear herself by nursing them back to health she may have thought she was boiling
just enough only ender to make the family sick already knowing what was wrong she would take care of them be the
hero and be left in the household to take care of him but Chloe scheme backfired young Cornelia her mother and
sister all died from the poison a lot of guests want to know what happened to Chloe after the poisoning
it's believed that she was killed by a mixed mob black and whites were probably together of course the other slaves were
probably afraid of what was going to happen to them she was supposedly beaten hung and then thrown into the river it
is said that Cornelia along with her mother and sister have joined Chloe in eternally haunting the house I think
I've been frightened more in the day than at night Arland Dee's owned and restored myrtles
plantation over 30 years ago he remembers his first ethereal encounter very well it was 1970 and he was mowing
the North Lawn first of all I never thought that I would see any type of ghost it was in the afternoon
approximately four or five o'clock and as I was mowing I simply looked up and there was this vision and then with a
blink of an eye it was gone well needless to say there's a chill factor that comes over one when when
that occurs the vision Arlen's saw is said to be the ghost of the elderly caretaker who was robbed and killed on
the estate in 1927 three years ago mark and Holly Peretti spent a frightening night at the myrtles
back then Mark had been reluctant to visit but knew his wife would be intrigued by the hotel's history it's
known as one of the most haunted plantations in America and I wasn't looking forward to finding out why a
Hester the tour guy came out and she says you know welcome to the myrtles it was scary the thought of being in this
haunted house by ourselves no one else in here was was very scary more probably tomorrow than me but I was scared too
perhaps the Peretti's had reason to be nervous a former myrtles owner is said to haunt that very staircase mark and
Holly's room was just beyond that same flight of stairs my mind had gotten to me a little bit because I wouldn't let
her turn the lights off so we're laying in bed and she's sort of having a nervous tic Chad and what I heard was a
very deep sounding bang as soon as I heard that noise you know the adrenaline rush how you stay here oh come on oh if
I had to venture a guess it sounded like footsteps the reason for the murder of the prominent homeowner remains a
mystery why young wintered it was late one night in 1871 on a mysterious Horseman
appeared on the myrtles front lawn whoever was there shot him in the chest he made it back through the double doors
trying to reach his wife Sarah she was upstairs he only made it to the 17th step he died there in her arms I wish
someone would be able to explain it other than the story that I heard but I can't tell you for sure what it was all
I know was that it was enough for me you know it was enough for me to make me want to leave in a way I think we were
both hoping it might have been our imagination but it definitely wasn't [Music] for all who ventured a Myrtle's
plantation for a glimpse of the hereafter perhaps they should take advice from those who have actually
braved the halls of this haunted house there are certain times that I'm uncomfortable here certain times that
you could say I get the creeps I can't explain it it's no certain hour it's just times you can walk in and as I said
before you can feel a sadness or you can walk in and you hear especially up stairs footsteps you know you hear them
someone is right behind you you can stop the footstep stop once you have the encounter and you feel the sensation you
will know that their intention is not to harm you they are truly here to protect
you they protect this home this is their station this is their life this is where
they live if a myrtles plantation truly haunted we can't say for sure but our production crew certainly had more than
their share of unexplained technical difficulties electrical equipment including cameras cellphones and
walkie-talkies constantly malfunction well these just mysterious mishaps were ghostly intervention
[Music] a tetanus shots those are what hurt for Pam karate it was just another day of
running errands in her quiet working-class neighborhood of Freeport New York as Pam was driving her teenage
son to the doctor she saw what appeared to be a terrible car accident I said to myself look over there and see
what's going on so he just looked over and said I don't see anything you can't see anything there's just ambulances all
over so I passed it I took him to the doctor's office we came back home it was then that Pam received an unusual phone
call about her eldest son 21 year old Damien currenty and I got a phone call from one of his friends asking me is
Damien there I said no he's not he was gonna go out to see his friends aren't you with him no okay nevermind and they
hung up hello and that was just the whole thing was odd after paging Damien to no avail and with the accident still
fresh in her mind Pam decided to check local hospitals I called himself Nassau hospital and said
to have a Jamie in current-day there yes who is this I said this is his mom she I
said is he there is he okay why didn't anybody call me why aren't you why aren't I been informed you die what's
going on just tell me what's going on and she said didn't the detective come to your house yet within minutes Pam was
at the hospital her son Damien had been involved in the incident she saw earlier
but it was no traffic accident my son was there on the bed and he was in a hospital cam and he looked like a
complete angel and I went to hug him and there was blood on my hand when they told me he was shot five times
in the head it was I couldn't comprehend it everything went crazy at that point there are a saw my wife crying on the
other side of the door with there wasn't a nurse then I said to her I was sorry he's dead just like that
[Music] something died in me that day too Pam karate and her husband Damiano soon
learned that their son had died in a gang shooting now the grieving parents had to deal
with insinuations that Damien was himself a gang member and it somehow played a role in his own murder
but the Pam karate that just didn't make any sense Damien was a pre-med student at Stony Brook University and he had an
ambition and that was to go to college and get his degree and become an anesthesiologist my son had absolutely
no gang affiliation that was proven over and over it was written in every newspaper he was absolutely not a part
of a gang and had no gang affiliation yeah that's like why don't you go ahead and fax well I'm taking off could you
hold on was it honey could you do something for me can you run this by the bank okay okay what time you do back
before dinner there's a six eight all right okay thanks honey I appreciate it okay in the weeks leading up to his
death Damien had returned home for winter break and had rekindled friendships he formed in high school one
of those friends was a man by the name of Harold Sam Brannan Harold was a 19 year old member of a local gang called
Mientus can you go by the school or biovolt romantic stuff I was just looking for
these punks these puns why what's up peril tones maybe in the two days earlier he was jumped by members of
ms-13 a violent El Salvadorian street gang originally from Los Angeles they jumped you man look at that they cracked
me over the head with a bottle no Harold asked Damien for help David had the biggest heart in the world that
was part of his projects anybody asked him for anything he would do it and he would be there even if he had his own
plans that's not right I know yo that's why you got my back son yeah yeah I got your back
Damien currently on the day that he died I'm sure had no idea as to what he was getting involved in Harold Zambrano
being a gang member probably never publicized that fact to Damien but a local strip mall Harold found what
he was looking for that's one of them that's one of them right there stop the car stop the car 19 year old Herman Daly
own Herman Daly own is a known ms-13 member and was wearing the colors so there was no question in their mind that
they had found somebody no please now son they approached her on de Lyonne so did you do this like they
confronted him with the injury to Harold's umbrella he was there at the Wonder Man with his girlfriend de Lyonne
admitted that he was named as their team member in tall men he had nothing to do
with that particular incident ambriano when those guys indicated that they respected the fact that he was with his
girlfriend and it wouldn't cause him any trouble while he was with his girlfriend Damien
Harold and the others returned to their car and the incident would have ended right there if it weren't for a tragic
coincidence two more members of the ms-13 stumbled out of the scene the confrontation then exploded into
violence Harold Zambrano was shot in the neck and critically injured Damien corrente was
fatally shot five times in the head a police investigation quickly revealed the identity of the alleged shooters
herman de Lyonne mario Portillo and one heel ferro Fino but the suspects could not be found the whole family was
absolutely devastated and detectives started coming to my house and police started coming to my house and all my
children's friends started coming to my house and they would sit the kids down and say to them tell me about gangs and
the kids started telling about gangs and I was shocked I said why didn't you tell
me about gangs Oh then I began driving around to look for myself and I saw exactly what they
said I went up to the junior high school and the high school and I saw them and you can tell by their colors and you can
tell where they'd get bandanas I was totally unaware totally unaware and I saw kids hanging out and different it
never occurred to me I just thought it was just groups and groups these groups are extremely violent males between the
ages of 18 and 25 sometimes younger later that week pam attended a police forum on gangs held in reaction to her
son's murder when someone asked a question point-blank are there gangs here in Freeport the
answer was I would have to say at this moment not really and that's when I went berserk how dare you tell these people
there's no gang activity here my son did I stood up in front of everyone and I started screaming how do you even say
that when my son was murdered on your doorstep I think my gang saying you're gonna tell them there's no gangs in
Freeport there's graffiti all over the town all the repetitive patterns we've been seeing it was at that moment of Pam
corriente had an epiphany she would lead the charge to rid her neighborhood of gangs perhaps you would like to join me
for a closed meeting with the mayor tomorrow night on this very topic I would love to yes thank you I had no
choice all I had to fight it was either that or go to rage and the anger and the
hate so I can't do that but I can fight back by trying to educate our children and trying to find a way for them and to
educate the parents to educate the children Pam and the Freeport Police Department formed gasp the gang
awareness suppression program I have a gang problem this neighborhood we're opening their eyes to a very big problem
that maybe didn't exist when we were kids and it was such a good healthy outlet instead of the hate and the anger
and the rage and the frustration that I was feeling living only blocks from the mother and father of the kids who killed
my son thanks a lot I appreciate help thank you bye I hope I can make a difference I don't know that I am but I
hope I can says Pam founded gasp not one person has died from gang violence in the Freeport area but even though Pam
finds our new work rewarding it will never take away the pain of losing her son there is only one thing that would
help catching the alleged killers of Damien corrente although police trace her mendelian Maria Portillo and one
heal Farrow Fino to El Salvador they now believe the suspects may have returned to the United States
all three are young Hispanic males and may be hiding in Los Angeles or Miami [Music]
with every mystery one critical clue may lead to a solution join us again for unsolved mysteries
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Brief Summary

This episode covers the SLA bank heist, the disappearance of Mike and Laura, and ghost stories from Myrtles Plantation.

Key points

The Crocker National Bank Heist. In 1975, armed robbers from the SLA executed a violent bank heist, resulting in a tragic murder.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Mike Tellus. Mike Tellus vanished after a troubling night, leading to a complex investigation.
The Discovery of a Body. Years later, investigators found Mike Tellus's decomposed body in a shed, revealing a dark truth.
The Haunting of Myrtles Plantation. The Myrtles Plantation is known as one of America's most haunted houses, with a tragic history of deaths and ghost sightings.
Pam's Tragic Loss. Pam Karate's life changed forever when her son Damien was shot in a gang-related incident.
Gang Awareness Initiative. After her son's murder, Pam Karate leads a charge against gang violence in her community.

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