Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 10 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries the terrorist bomb killed on and injured more than 100 at the Atlanta Summer
Olympics a series of deadly bombings and a seemingly unrelated target soon family
authorities now believe a single man was behind each of these brutal attacks and
they need your help don't bring him to justice a young couples long-anticipated dream
of owning their own home tragically unravels when their new next-door neighbor allegedly turns out to be a
violent racist in the cases of Jessica constant and Albert one looks can truly be deceiving they may appear to be
typical young people but they are anything but typical Jessica and Albert you see are geniuses and their
astonishing gifts make for a mesmerizing mystery of the mind but her daughter Molly disappeared from the local pond
Maggie bish was paralyzed by grief but now she will stop at nothing to find out what happened to Molly in fact she may
even hold the key to solving the crime the day before Molly disappeared Maggie believes she saw the man who
abducted her daughter Jonas are these stories and more on unsolved mysteries [Applause]
[Music] [Music] Centennial Park Atlanta during a 1996 Summer Olympics six months later that
daybreak a clinic in suburban Atlanta the other side lounge a Midtown Atlantic gay and lesbian nightclub
one month later three seemingly unrelated bombings that authorities believe have a common link could the
same man be behind each terrorist attack millions of people around the world were
shaken by the Olympic Park bombing security guard Richard Jewell who was an early suspect was cleared of any
wrongdoing and the person responsible for planning with the FBI called one of the largest pipe bombs in US history has
yet to be caught for those in Centennial Park that fateful night their lives were
changed forever [Music] fountain stubs at our mother Alice Hawthorne were visiting from Albany
Georgia the last-minute trip was a 14th birthday gift for Fallon we were enjoying the moment and join the people
it was a spiritual or and you know from to be in that kind of surroundings it just kind of it was a
beautiful thing just before 1:20 a.m. Fallon and her mother paused to take a photograph a
memento of a wonderful night the massive explosion knocked Fallon and her mother
to the ground after the explosion it was it was chaos you never forget that moment afterwards
and I ran towards everybody who could help I probably got about 15 feet away from my mother and it was like lay down
lay down and I was like my mother my mother somebody's got to help my mother 44 year old Alice Hawthorne had died
instantly from injuries sustained in the attack although hundreds were injured she was the only person killed by the
bomb planted at Centennial Park a task force of federal and state investigators was quickly assembled to apprehend the
terrorist behind the vicious attack over the next seven months Atlanta was subjected to two more bombings but an
even more disturbing trend had developed the bomber was not planning a secondary
device apparently designed to harm police and rescue personnel who responded to victims of the first bomb
adding to the frustrations of police investigations that not indicate a specific suspect we're building a good
prosecutable court case based upon the forensic evidence we had well we get tired of moms together but we still
didn't know the identity department we didn't know who he was FBI and ATF technicians meticulously reconstructed
the devices and found forensic links between all three bombings in the wake of the third incident authorities
received letters from the so called army of God claiming responsibility for the last two bombings attacks on a family
planning an abortion clinic and on a gay and lesbian nightclub in the letters he
got into the components of the bomb which had not been made public at that time so we knew the letters were written
by the bomber those who participate in any way in the murder of children may be targeted for attack we will target
sodomites their organizations and all those who push their agenda we will target all facilities and personnel of
the federal government you got three fairly distinct different groups of people that were targets and so you know
we begin to wonder exactly who his targets were an FBI profiler analyzed the letters and the details of all three
bombings his conclusion the Bombers true target was law enforcement Birmingham Alabama 11 months after the
third Atlanta bombing head nurse Emily Lyons arrived early for work at a woman's health an abortion clinic
off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson was working there as a security guard we
met on the sidewalk in front of the clinic and we talked for a moment just then they spotted something that looks
strangely out of place there was an overturned flowerpot kind of buried a little bit and that was not anything we
would have ever had so at that point sandy knew something was wrong apparently sensing danger Sanderson
instructed Emily to back away [Music] the explosion killed security guard Robert Sanderson instantly Emily Lyons
lost her left eye in the explosion dozens of masonry nails and screws tore through 90% of her body Robert Sanderson
left behind a wife and two sons he had been a birmingham police officer for eight years task force members
immediately believed the man they were hunting had achieved his objective the murder of a law enforcement officer but
this time the authorities caught a break forensics would later reveal that the bomber had detonated this device by
remote control which meant one thing the bomber was there that increased his chances of killing police officers but
it also direct increased his chances of being identified in call just after the explosion a witness saw a man walking
away from the scene when the man removed a wig and discarded it the witness became suspicious and began pursuing him
on foot the witness observed the suspicious man getting into a pickup truck and before losing him relayed the
license-plate number to police the gray Nissan truck was traced to a man named Eric Rudolph who resided in Western
North Carolina a warrant was issued for the arrest of the 31 year old Rudolph [Music]
investigators learned where Eric Rudolph lived an FBI SWAT team raided Rudolph's
trailer the traitors air conditioner was still running and food was still on the
table investigators believe they missed Eric Rudolph by minutes he told friends and associates when he was a teenager
that if he got in trouble with law enforcement he would disappear into the mountains and we feel that this is
something that he was planning for a long time 250 law enforcement officers converged on the Nantahala national
forest after Rudolph's truck was found abandoned nearby but Eric Rudolph had vanished he grew up in the woods he knew
the terrain much better than we did and there are places that we knew very well that we could have walked within 5 feet
of him and we would not have seen Eric Rudolph would prove a formidable adversary investigators learned he'd
been raised in a family that reportedly preached white separatism the experienced outdoorsman and survivalist
had also served in the US Army Deborah Rudolph was married to Eric's brother and had known Eric since he was a
teenager I never really heard him talk about positive things it was a lot of hateful things a lot of negativity and
you know about you know Authority and you know our gun laws and government and politics
the last known sighting of Eric Rudolph was made by a man who had known Rudolph for years
George Nordmann was a local health food store owner who lived in a remote mountain cabin what the hell are you
doing here I need your help man when he approached him about food stuff George made the decision not to help Eric and I
believe became somewhat frightened of him two nights later nordmann's home warehouse was raided of several hundred
pounds of food and his truck was stolen it was believed Rudolph had made of the turn visit Eric Rudolph has not been
seen since July 1998 Eric Rudolph was not a joiner we found no evidence that he ever was a member of a militia he was
someone who had a streak of paranoia about him he also liked being alone so we don't believe that any group is
helping him I think this is a game to him he wanted to be in Special Forces he wanted to be a mercenary he is a one-man
army and he is got the authorities running around looking for him spending millions of dollars the alleged victims
of Eric Rudolph bombs have moved on but will never forget the end for me will be
to find him and it'll be a beginning of a whole nother book but it'll be a into the that book and I was just fine and be
like it's a long time coming I'll talk him [Music] as they struck out for their new life in
Denver Colorado Deborah Loiselle and her fiance Jason Horsley were brimming with
optimism about what this move would bring having been raised in rural areas the college sweethearts were excited for
the prospects of living in a big city for the first time Deborah and Jason would eventually
purchase a house in one of Denver's tree-lined inner-city neighborhoods they quickly fell in love with her new
surroundings all was well until one afternoon a short time after they moved in Deborah had a strange encounter with
a neighbor all right we're gonna be neighbors so let's get along Deborah would later
learn her angry neighbor was Malaika Griffin a woman who rented a room in the house next door when you can't talk to
someone it's kind of scary it just made no sense that someone should start attacking us this way Jason Horsley and
Deborah Loiselle had realized every young couples dream of buying their own home but their optimism would soon dim
with the discovery that they're innocent purchase had caused him to cross paths with the rational neighbor Malaika
Griffin as police later discovered Griffin was a ticking time bomb that could go off at any moment Deborah and
Jason were committed to making the best of a bad situation happily pouring time and money into
transforming a former crack house into their new home they had actually put the incident with Malaika Griffin behind
them when without any provocation she became enraged again although she didn't own a car griffin didn't want anyone
parking in the public space in front of the house attempts at reasoning with her
proved futile you can't live in fear in your own house and it wasn't anything about the
neighborhood I mean it was this this one woman you know I never felt threatened in my neighborhood within days
Jason was confronted again what's the problem he had asked the landlady of the house
if he could put the ladder there and she said yes go ahead well Malaika didn't know or shouldn't
want to know that the lady had said yeah go ahead and right there he couldn't see
the evil he just he didn't understand evil his philosophy was you get to know me you won't hate me and I tried and
tried to explain to him some people don't want to know you even though the anger behind the confrontations was
escalating Jason still believed he could win over Malaika don't I want to get some of my tools out of my truck when we
got home I said don't go out there don't go and he said no I'm gonna clean my truck so I went out back to water the
flowers [Music] [Music] there was no doubt in Deborah's mine who was responsible the neighbor drove Jason
to the hospital the bullet had caused extensive internal injuries while emergency room doctors struggled to save
Jason's life Deborah was questioned by police we just got word from the hospital Jason didn't make it
investigators later learned that while Deborah was being questioned Malaika Griffin carjacked an acquaintance with
several blocks from the murder scene on Malika Griffin took the keys at gunpoint
she then fled Denver in the victims 1988 olds movie [Music] when Denver police searched the home of
Malaika Griffin detectives were stunned by what they found we found books and paperwork that she
had on how to make bombs and booby traps we also found dummy hand grenades the the fuse was intact but the cores had
been removed the Anarchist Cookbook and the poor man's james bond manuals often found in the collections of terrorists
or among the literature recovered at the scene notebooks filled with Griffin's ramblings advocating a coming race war
and the killing of white people were also discovered authorities now believe they had confirmation a racially
motivated killer was on the loose she eluded our dragnet the next time we found that car was approached me two and
a half days later in Iowa City where the car had broken down she befriended a man
in Iowa City he took her to a bus station and put her on a bus for Chicago after Chicago alayka Griffin's trail
grew cold since then there have been no verifiable sightings [Music] you lose a kid and you think about him
all the time every hour every day I had future plans with Jason you know he was an extremely positive person so I try to
live my life the way he would I'm not gonna feel sorry for myself and I keep going on never hurt anybody
and I don't believe I'll meet someone like him again [Music] [Music] on rare occasions the world has been
introduced to children who pisar seemingly mysterious powers to excel in the worlds of art and science
Mozart began composing at the age of five Bobby Fischer competed with chess grandmasters when he was only six the
incredible talents of such young geniuses have fascinated and puzzles scholars for centuries what can possibly
explain the phenomenon of child prodigies meet Jessica concert of Queens New York she may look like a typical
teenager but at 14 she's already a County student jessica attends New York City Technical College where she has
studied since she was 12 years old oh I used to hate the first days because I would have to walk into class and
everybody'd be staring at me I was so scared but now I'm used to it I want to become a doctor but I'm gonna
become a nurse before microbiology and child psychology the only two courses I have left before I enter the nursing
program then after I do two years of that I get my associates degree then I'm gonna go to home to medical school but
Jessica's interests are not solely confined to academics jessica is also an accomplished cellist who attends a
prestigious Julliard School of Music along with her two older brothers she makes up the constant trio Jessica
Daniel and Pierre have performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC remarkably neither paired as any musical
talent themselves and they are awed by the artistry of their children sometimes when I look at the kid playing
I wish I could be the one playing instead of having to listen I never thought I would have it in my own house
when I see the kids doing three years together it's it's fantastic it it's kind of like a dream come true for me
what mysterious set of circumstances contributes to a child having such extraordinary talents David Henry
Feldman professor of child development at Tufts University has studied the phenomenon of child prodigies what
causes prodigies seems to be a combination of timing and talent and the right circumstances all occurring during
the same moment and sustaining itself for at least 10 years so a prodigy is a child with unusual talent who appears in
a society that has value for that talent Feldman notes at very few scientific studies have been performed relating to
child prodigies the knowledge base is extremely limited recently a change has been observed in
relation to the gender of the typical prodigy however that change may be a matter of media publicity there have
historically been more boys than girls who have been called prodigies in recent years that has tended to reverse itself
such that they're now pretty much an equal number of boy and girl prodigies in music if you want to say ask why such
a change occurred the answer is because society has taken an interest in finding
girl prodigies as amazing as Jessica constant is once in a great while a child prodigy will be born with even a
rarer type of genius one which expresses itself in many areas at once at age 12 Albert Wong of Carrollton Texas is so
smart he no longer attends school at all albert is already an accomplished violinist teaches himself a wide variety
of subjects from college textbooks and is famous in the world of music as a concert pianist
it's very rare when you find a musical prodigy it's very rare when you find a child who was so talented at academic
work that they need to move at such a rapid pace the combination of those two things in one child is extremely rare
each appears separately infrequently the combination appears almost never Albert Wong first displayed his
mysterious musical talents when he was just three years old yet by the time he was five he had already won the grand
prize on a Dallas piano competition for children up to 18 [Music] [Applause] wanting to nurture their only child
mystifying gift albert's Paris took him shopping for a concert grand piano of his own to test the pianos I believe I
was playing a piece about the third piano I was playing on and then this gentleman just walked over actually
himself is a professional musician so he came over and introduced himself and said actually very directly say that
Albert is very talented and I know just the right teacher for him Albert began taking lessons at once
eventually Albert came under the tutelage of renowned former prodigy Earl wild New York's world-famous
Carnegie Hall at the conclusion of a wise performance celebrating his 85th birthday 10 year-old Albert Wong was
invited on stage to present his esteemed instructor with the bouquet mr. Weil stunned everyone especially Albert by
announcing that Albert would be playing an impromptu piece and I mean I didn't even have a chance to warm my fingers
Albert's performance of Hummels Rondo on e-flat major brought down the house that
senior still at age 10 Albert recorded his first CD the work received rave reviews one critic wrote an impressive
debut for any musician for a ten-year-old it is astonishing professor Feldman has reviewed many
theories attempting to explain talents like Albertson ranging from the scientific to the supernatural the
prodigy has always represented the unexplained there are some who believe that the prodigy phenomenon should not
be studied scientifically in the absence of an explanation that meets rational and scientific criteria we look for an
explanation wherever we can find one and reincarnation is attractive because it seems to account for some of the
unbelievable and and unexplainable parts of the prodigy good Albert Wong's musical gifts possibly have begun in a
previous life the mere notion seems incredible but Albert himself does not dismiss a possibility of his own
existence in a past life I must have done something good in order to have deserved this
hammering in your team from all sides so there's no escape route as astounding as Albert's musical gifts were to his
parents they quickly learned he also possess an extraordinary aptitude for math and science his mother feared he
get bored of the conventional education so she gave up her career to home-school
Albert I used to gather was three or four in the morning to prepare myself to teach it over fast enough now I don't
have to do it because the other is old enough to be independent so my life is much easier now
when Albert developed a strong interest in science his mother's search for someone
qualified to guide him to higher levels of learning can you show me on your drawing the y-direction
she found that person in a professor of physics at a local college in order to comply with I think the biggest thing in
terms of working with Albert is that you never have to say something twice whatever a mistake he might make he's
made it the last time he's gonna make it off the three sciences physics chemistry
and biology is my all belief that vision is the most center of all the sciences that every other science branches from
physics biology is physics applied to living organisms and chemistry is physics applied to chemical reactions
atoms molecules and macromolecules Albert's insatiable hunger for learning is not limited to music and science well
I love to sully I'd love to read books I love studying Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet every time I'm studying I uncover
new literary elements there are very tasty delicious work at the stirring talents of an Albert Wong come from
neither his mom or my family had any clue or any relatives in the families who had ever been a musician or even
good in one instrument at all we know that there have been amazing prodigy cases through history so we know that
from time to time such individuals appear what we don't know is what the causes underlying the appearance of
prodigies might be are they genetic are the evolutionary are they cultural are they historical are they something
that's a combination of all of those things those are questions we don't know the answers to
although we hope to understand the prodigy better in the 21st century it remains a mystery there are few places
left in America where doors are always unlocked and parents have no fear of letting their children run about freely
Warren Massachusetts population 4,800 is just such a place the towns rural charm
and quaint innocence seemed the perfect tonic to the bish family urban violence had suddenly invaded their neighborhood
in Detroit a young lady was followed one day after work as the facts unfolded and
she was abducted and was missing and my husband and I thought let's move to the country and and find our peace raise our
children the Bish's flourished in Warren 15 years after the moon the two older children
went off to college and the baby of the family 16 year old Molly landed her first real job as a lifeguard at a
nearby pond molly was very proud to be a lifeguard she worked very hard for that
and she did get this position at the warren pond it's a beautiful location but it's surrounded by woods and it is
somewhat isolated on June 27th 2000 Maggie accompanied Molly to the pond said goodbye to her daughter and
returned home three hours later Maggie received an alarming phone call hello no she's not she's at work I got a phone
call from the local police who said that there then no lifes are all day no I dropped her off there myself and that
Molly's belongings were on the beach but there had been no Molly Maggie rushed to the pond she found her
daughter's flip flops chair and lunch sitting on the beach there was no sign of this one lady came up and she had a
whistle on and she said I think then no lifeguard I've been doing it all day nobody there's a lot of confusion it was
like a bad movie nobody knows what's going on [Music] it's hard for me to describe that to
sinking hollow feeling you have as divers looking for your daughter as dogs are combing the woods and police
officers are searching and interviewing people and I almost immediately began to
think that something really horrible happened there's no sign of any struggle at the scene there were no clues left
left behind Molly's chair her lunch bag her first aid kit and the two-way police radio was
just right right there in intact undisturbed so we had no clues whatsoever [Music]
Maggie Bush and her husband John had done everything possible to ensure their daughter Molly's safety but apparently
even that was not enough now the energy Maggie once poured into motherhood is being channeled into discovering Molly's
fate Maggie's convinced her daughter was abducted in fact she may have seen the man responsible it happened the day
before Molly disappeared On June 26 2009 a company's Molly to the pond for her seventh day of work we pull
up at the pond and there's a vehicle parked in the parking lot right next to our car there's a man sitting in there
smoking I somehow just feel uncomfortable I look at this man he doesn't not or greet me
I just felt uneasy I did not want to leave Molly with this man in the white car Maggie is corded Molly all the way
down to the beach and expected the stranger in the late-model white car to be gone when she got back lo and behold
I think I've been gone a reasonable time but this man who was in this vehicle is
still there I'm very upset that he's still there so I lock eyes with him I am giving him a stare trying I guest him
maybe scare him away but at the same time he turns to stare and just boldly stares at me just cocky is all just
squinted his eyes and he stared at me and he just kept smoking but he didn't seem to care
fearing for her daughter's safety Maggie waited for the man to leave the following day
Maggi once again went with her daughter to the swimming hole the suspicious man was nowhere to be seen
instead there was a truck unloading sand for the beach when I seen the sand truck
I realized that this was our local company we know that they are businessmen in town and I felt a relief
and that I could leave Marlene and it would be okay but Maggie never saw Molly again
[Music] the police investigation is centered on the man Maggie saw in a white car the
sand truck driver saw a similar car in the pond parking lot just moments before Molly and Maggie arrived on the other
side of the pond is a cemetery a worker there saw a similar white car later the same morning a path leads from the
graveyard to the swimming hole and it's my fear that this person parked at that path went to the pond and had taken
Molly took control of her and took her out of the beach through that path into his car and out of the cemetery and down
the road despite setting up roadblocks searching crime databases and interviewing
convicted sex offenders police are unable to identify the man in the white car a composite based on Maggie's
description produced no reliable leads this is the picture that I chose of Molly for the website desperate to
generate any information Maggie and her husband took action we wanted to get an avenue to get Molly's picture out to as
many people as we could the computer we came up with the idea an email chain would be a wonderful wonderful explosive
way to make more than one person you know get this picture and keep sharing it with others 35,000 people were
emailed pictures of Molly a website devoted to finding her received thousands of hits but one year passed
and the search for Molly had stalled Maggie decided there was more she could do she tracked down famous sketch artist
Jean Boylan who's worked on the Unabomber and Polly Klass cases Jean agreed to meet Maggie at a local
bed-and-breakfast with the hopes of producing a more accurate drawing of the man in the white car
so what was it about this man that drew your attention to him when Maggie came in to work with me what I tried to do
and what she was willing to do was to talk about the positive aspects of her relationship with her daughter which
were plentiful when she finally could fit into my shoes it'll allows for that sense of relaxation and then with that
comes new information typical 16 year old but nine hours of two women chatted as Jean slowly we've departed the mouth
and finally the drawing was complete it's just like him although impressed with his uncanny
accuracy Maggie still felt something was missing it's amazing the only thing that's missing is the
cigarette and the way he held that cigarette the whole time well you know what you've had a really long day I
don't want to put you through anything else to him why don't I work on that tonight and then I'll bring it down
tomorrow morning you can let me know what you think you want to do it that way thank you okay and I had stayed up
fairly late that night using my own hand as a model creating the image of the hand holding the cigarette and then
added that to the drawing and I think that was just sort of the you know the finishing touch that really brought
everything into focus [Music] the next morning Jean showed the updated drawing to Maggie well what do you think
when I saw the completed picture with the cigarette I thought instant fear I mean it was him
you know the eyes it was just cockiness it was this look the Bish's hope the new
composite drawing of the suspect will lead them to Molly we want this person to know that we will never stop
searching for you know that we will never stop searching for him I'm very angry I'm very angry and that
anger is gonna drive me on forever that will not stop mollies disappearance as transform Maggie and her husband and a
staunch child safety advocates there's somebody out there who knows their fight has now expanded beyond mommy to help
prevent any child from becoming a victim we're in educating people were giving them tools and the kids are gonna get
smarter and they're not going to get our children because you could lose your keys you can lose your glasses but how
do you lose your children in America something is wrong very wrong and if it could happen here it could happen
anywhere [Music] [Laughter] [Music] join me next time perhaps you hold the crucial clue that can help solve a
mystery [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode covers the Atlanta bombing, a couple's tragic neighbor conflict, and the search for a missing girl.

Key points

Atlanta Summer Olympics Bombing. A terrorist bomb killed and injured over 100 people at the Atlanta Summer Olympics.
Maggie Bish's Search for Molly. Maggie Bish, paralyzed by grief, is determined to find her missing daughter, Molly.
Malaika Griffin's Attack. Deborah and Jason's dream home turns into a nightmare when their neighbor attacks.
The Mystery of Child Prodigies. Exploring the phenomenon of child prodigies and what causes their extraordinary talents.
Albert Wong's Musical Talent. At just 10 years old, Albert Wong astounds audiences with his piano skills.
Molly's Disappearance. Molly goes missing from her lifeguard job, leaving her family frantic.

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Witnessing the chaos after the explosion.

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