Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 12, Episode 2 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries they're all familiar with the incredible bond that exists between a dog and his master
but the world of Medicine is beginning to recognize that that mysterious connection can sometimes define ordinary
explanations as man's best friend have the ability to detect life-threatening illnesses but a vivacious college
freshman without an enemy in the world as brutally slain her mother personally takes on the case to find her daughter's
killer for the mothers undercover work of the local police department of mater 18 year-old daughter a target for murder
17 human bones are found spoon in a kentucky stream whose are they and how did they get there for forensic
anthropologist dr. Emily Craig solving mysteries like this has made her one of the most renowned experts in her field
when deputy Clark Jackson decided to investigate a steamer trunk he found by the roadside he was taken by surprise he
had no idea that the contents would leave detectives on a 5-year search for a killer
join me for these intriguing stories and more you may be able to help solve a mystery
[Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] before dawn want crisp September morning 18 year old Bonnie Craig began her trek
to school two days a week the University of Alaska freshman walked 45 minutes through the early morning darkness to
catch the bus to campus bonnie was a diligent student who prided herself on arriving promptly for her 7 a.m. class
but on this day bonnie would never make it to school later than afternoon another Anchorage college student was
out shooting photographs from hiking trail in a public park when she made a grisly discovery the lifeless body of a
young woman floating in McCue creek her remains were located at the bottom of a 33 foot cliff in fairly shallow water it
wasn't a place that you would normally hike along the stream to get to where she was so she could have been hiking
and taken a misstep somewhere and slipped and fallen off of the cliff the following day the victim was identified
as Bonnie Craig the medical examiner determined she had drowned but Bonnie had also suffered severe head injuries
possibly resulting from a fall off a cliff at the time of Bonnie's death her mother Karen Campbell was on vacation in
Florida she rushed home when she learned the tragic news they told me Bonnie had died in a hiking
accident and I wouldn't believe it I still expected Bonnie to be coming up to me and apologizing and saying I'm
sorry mom it wasn't me viewing her daughter's body was devastating for Karen however as she
took a closer look Karen was stunned this is no hiking accident her knuckles were bruised and broken there was
defensive wounds on her body and I knew that she had been attacked it was murder
[Music] troubling questions had already begun to surface before Karen Campbell had viewed
her daughter's body what was Bonnie doing anywhere near mchugh Creek Park on a school day and since she didn't drive
how did Bonnie get there a distance of 10 miles from where she was last seen even then authorities were slow to
conclude that Bonnie had been murdered and what few Reed's investigators developed they kept to themselves but a
frustrated Karen found on a lie and television reporter Maria Donny can tell me anything about cause of death
anything like that not at this time it was really tough for the community to take because bonnie was a well-liked
well-known young lady we talked with Karen several days after Bonnie's body was found at that time troopers still
were not releasing much information one piece of information troopers didn't release was a result of
a sexual assault examination which Karen learned of six months later I had originally asked if she had been raped
and they told me no after fighting to get information from them they revealed to me that yes Bonnie was brutally raped
and murdered the results of the autopsy showed that there was evidence of sexual
activity we can't confirm whether it was a sexual assault or whether it was consensual sex such disputes were
typical of Karen Campbell's relationship with police her frustrations with investigators soon motivated her to
begin her own search for information about Bonnie's death everybody here in town put up signs flyers bumper stickers
we wanted to make sure that until the crime was solved nobody was going to forget about it
Karen Campbell was no stranger to investigations or criminals on several occasions she had performed risky
undercover work as a reserve officer with the Anchorage Police Department wearing a hood and mask to conceal her
identity Ken would not sign up me to point out those who had sold her drugs I was involved in what I thought was minor
drug buys I had gone out five or six times and bought crack for the Anchorage Police Department okay you got a sec a
few months into her investigation into Bonnie's death Karen learned that undercover work might have jeopardized
the lives of those closest to her she was approached by an acquaintance who claimed to have information about
Bonnie's murder at his request Karen promised to protect his identity this guy according to Karen the man told her that
her family had apparently been targeted on the orders of a local drug lord after
a sting she was involved in resulted in the arrest of several members of his organization anything but who told me
that her murder was ordered by this drug lord because it was a message to the Anchorage Police Department to Lakoff
ambani was murdered the day after the people that I identified as drug dealers were released from jail
despite the precautions taken to protect her identity during the bus it would not
have been difficult for the accused to learn who had fingered them criminals always are supposed to know who their
accusers are and so my name appears to be about ten times in each page of the indictment when Karen relayed what the
informant had told her to the lead investigator on Bonnie's murder she was not satisfied with his response he said
this was a retribution killing for the undercover work I did with the Anchorage Police Department wait
his source when I gave him all the details he just kept asking where are you getting this information I said it
was from somebody who did not want to be identified this is not their mo you know
we're investigating this are you gonna help me here who's your source and I've got to reveal my source to you these
leads and I told him I wouldn't reveal my source he told me well then you're hindering your daughter's investigation
and I'm not going to investigate this lead and to this day I don't know what they've done and probably will never
know what they've done as far as investigating that lead the fact that she feels that we may not have
investigated thoroughly enough or followed up on her confidential informants lead
I don't believe to be true we followed up all the leads and if she believes that we haven't it might just be that we
haven't filled her in on every single thing that we've done almost a full year to Bonnie's murder the case took an
unexpected turn when Karen was contacted by one of Bonnie's college instructors hello yes she really felt that there was
this one particular student that may have been involved in the murder according to Karen the instructor told
her that her suspicions stem from reading the students class journal and the references he made to the date of
Bonnie's murder September 28th Karen believes certain entries in the journal could be significant his journal was
incredibly violent filled with anger and there was two incidents where he specifically said that September 28th
was going to be a very tough day that he was going to be put to a test [Music] the instructor told Karen that on the
day bonnie was murdered the student in question was absent his class this morning I'm sorry I just overslept there
was supposed to be papers handed in that day and that student brought it to the teacher later on in the afternoon
you ever slept the whole this I'm sorry he was wet like he had just gotten out of a shower and she said it smelled like
he had just poured a whole bottle of Cologne on himself after the murder his journal became more
peaceful there wasn't the anger yet he knew that there was a student that had just died and there was no references to
Bonnie's murder detectives investigated the student but soon ruled him out as a suspect
DNA evidence recovered from Bonnie at the scene did not match DNA evidence collected from the student at the
college I immediately told them that didn't seem right to rule him out because of DNA because there could have
been more than one person if there was two people it didn't have to be his DNA Karen did some sleuthing of her own and
uncovered more disturbing information a particular student did have a assault charge against him and he had been
bailed out of jail by a young man who had been involved in another murder I found it very surprising when I when I
saw the bail slip who bailed this student this potential suspect out of jail the student and several other of
his friends were involved in a fatal shooting here several years ago it doesn't sound like the type of group
that a student who was up and up would have been involved with I do believe that he could have been the murderer and
I'll probably never rule him out despite their disagreements both Karen and investigators do agree on one thing
the key to this mystery might rest with Bonnie's routine a young lady who was a neighbor of hers who was a paper
delivery type person saw her around 5:20 walking down her street another gentleman who had seen Bonnie a couple
of days prior in the area of the bus stop saw her again that morning and that was about the last time that we have a
confirmation of anybody definitively seeing Bonnie alive was around 6:20 that morning could someone have been lying in
wait for Bonnie Craig one neighbor reported seeing an unknown car idling in front of Bonnie's home early that
morning and an anonymous caller to the police Crime Stoppers line claimed to have seen Bonnie that morning at the bus
stop talking to two men in a vehicle Karen Campbell intends to do everything she can to keep the investigation alive
until the crime is solved it just keeps going through your head that's somebody else's child will end up murdered and
raped also so until this crime is solved you can't give up [Music] [Music] I told you before you had no right to
take that money out of our town a bitter argument erupts on the streets of Covington Kentucky Diane washer and her
husband Jimmy are added again a night of drinking has inflamed their already turbulent relationship your name and my
name Diane wash when Jimmy washed her that evening were fighting over money and fighting over the fact that she had
just received a ten thousand dollar SSI settlement due to her bad back as he approached her and they got into
an argument she struck him with the phone on the pay phone called 9-1-1 and at by the time covington police got
there jimmy washer had already left yeah they'd offer diane washer a ride she refused walked on down the street and in
essence they they were the last ones to see her alive Diane inexplicably disappears the police
immediately turn a suspicious eye on her husband Jimmy Jimmy washer was my number
one suspect primarily because he hadn't reported her missing and I had asked mr. washer if he
would consent to taking a polygraph in reference to his wife yes did you cause the death of Diane washer no the test
was ruled inconclusive some of what he was answering was truthful some wasn't and there wasn't enough credibility to
his answers to totally erased mr. washer as a suspect the investigation into Diane's disappears reaches a dead end
her case is relegated among the many unsolved missing person cases on file in Kentucky's police departments
three years pass outside of Covington sheriff's deputies searching for an illegal marijuana field make a grisly
discovery a partially crushed human skull the seven other bone fragments are strewn throughout the creek bed whose
bones are they and how did they get there for the answers the Covington police looked to dr. Emily Craig she is
one of the foremost experts in forensic anthropology the science of identifying even the most badly decomposed human
remains when the dead hold the key to a perplexing crime dr. Craig is often called upon to unravel the evidence I
was able to determine that the bones hadn't been there that long the end of the long bone still had some remnants of
soft tissue and the bones had kind of a greasy feel which indicates the post-mortem interval really hasn't been
that many years and my initial estimate of the time since death was between 12 and 36 months
[Music] once I got a good grasp of the crime scene and could see what a complex problem we had we decided to set up an
additional search and recruit anthropology students from the area we did a line search of the area we started
on the where the bones had been found and basically worked upstream complicating dr. Craig's effort was that
the search area was where the county dumped its roadkill the stream was littered with the bones of dozens of
animals still the search team was able to distinguish a total of 17 human bones among them once we got all the evidence
back to the lab then we were able to get a better biological profile of the victim the sex she was female the race
she was white I was able to get a good estimate of her height just a little over 5 feet tall and I also was able to
determine from the bones of the skull that she had sustained massive head trauma at the time of death
[Music] there was one particular bone that was intriguing and that was a bone from her
lower back this particular bone showed a lot more arthritis some bony lipping and
changes that were just not consistent with the rest of the skeleton so I was able to offer an opinion that this
individual suffered from back pain from their missing-persons files police found
a match for the profile dr. Craig had assembled it was Diane washer a Covington woman who disappeared three
years earlier her medical records indicated that shortly before she vanished she injured her back in a
traffic collision when they called me and said they found the remains of my mom I totally went into shock I I mean I
kind of knew she was dead by that point but like I said I carried on hope it did
give me some sort of relief to know that my mother was dead and being able to barrier was great
it did help a lot dr. Craig's findings sparked new public awareness of Diane's case as police hoped an informant step
forward but to their surprise he did not finger their prime suspect Diane's husband Jimmy instead he said a local
house painter Larry Freeman was responsible for Diane's death when police brought in
Larry Freeman for questioning he confessed he said he and Diane had gotten drunk together then went
joyriding while driving he lost control of his car and Diane was ejected from the passengers door when the vehicle
finally came to a stop he went back to her solid her hair was blood-soaked and realized he had probably killed her it
was at that point that he took her down to an area where he was raised where he felt comfortable and threw her into the
creek Larry Freeman was convicted of manslaughter and is now serving a 20-year sentence the mystery is one of
hundreds dr. Craig has helped solve the despite her expertise other cases remain
too difficult to crack perhaps you can help dr. Craig pieced together one of the most perplexing of her career it
began when two teenagers were returning from exploring caves in Barron County Kentucky in the debris of a roadside
dump they discovered fragments of a human skeleton the County Coroner called dr. Craig to the scene at this scene
basically all we had when we first started was a pair of red jeans with the human leg bones still inside okay
see another arm bone and shin bone dr. Krieg I think I found the skull ultimately we were able to recover
almost the entire skeleton the skull is the best indicator of race and sex you look at the brow Ridge you look at the
nose you look at the chin the cheeks just the general shape dr. Craig's analysis of the skull would later
determine that the victim was a white female in her early 40s and cut marks on one of the bones indicated she may have
been stabbed to death that red stuff you know it looks like a denim red jeans dr. Craig hoped that the victims clothes
would yield additional clues she hoped they might match the clothes indicated in one of the local police's
missing-persons files when I got these remains back to the lab I was able to do a very detailed study and within a very
short time I found a file that almost exactly matched age race sex height time since death were indicative but
absolutely positive were the fact that this victim was wearing red jeans white tennis shoes and a button-down blouse
the file was at a 42 year old Nancy daddy's minute before she disappeared she had lost custody of her five
children in a bitter divorce heartbroken she had come to Kentucky seeking a fresh
start Nancy had vanished on a September night two years earlier after her car had
broken down in Bowling Green Kentucky she was planning on traveling high 65 North to meet a male friend of hers in
the in Annapolis Indiana area we did a lot of background check on this individual we was able to verify
that it was not possible that he would be a suspect as far as this case is concerned the hillside were Nancy's
remains were found was 30 miles from where she was last seen the Barron County authorities have no suspects but
believe only someone familiar with this area of Kentucky would choose to place her body there identifying the victim is
the first step in solving the crime we've done this first step now we have to find out who did it
[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years and man continues to
rely on our canine companion sense of smell whether finding someone who's lost tracking a fugitive or sniffing out
explosives to strengthen accuracy of a dog's nose is legendary if you were to take a gigantic football stadium that
NFL teams play in and fill the entire stadium with yellow tennis balls and had one white tennis ball they can smell the
one white tennis ball in an entire stadium using this powerful sense of smell is it possible a dog that actually
diagnosed life-threatening illnesses for these family pets possess hidden medical
talents you're about to meet two incredible dogs whose owners offer persuasive evidence that man's best
friend may be able to save lives in mysterious ways hey got your lots of working right now Nancy best seemed to
have it all in addition to being the mother of three children Nancy ran a thriving coffee business and
Garberville California in fact business was going so well she had recently opened a new shop
despite Nancy's hectic lifestyle her beloved dog Mia was never far from her side she'd acquired the yellow lab as a
puppy the friend of mine saw the dogs and called me and me it was the first dog that ran up to me at the time I
didn't know if I wanted a boy or a girl until she came up to me and I fell in love with her instantly yes and you were
such a good dog Nancy's mornings were spent running the coffeehouse but about one o'clock each
afternoon that's he set aside an hour just for herself and Mia I would drive home and lay on the couch and take a nap
before I have to pick up my daughter from school so I can recharge my batteries for the rest of the day then
one afternoon out of the blue Mia began acting strangely she came up and started
sniffing and licking at my breast and because she was eight months pregnant I thought maybe she was kind of wigging
out or maybe smelled food from the Java joint so I didn't pay any attention to it I just went and told her to lay down
[Music] but Mia was persistent the following evening as Nancy was struggling to fall
asleep Mia began tugging at the bed covers she started biting my shirt away like a dog
bites fleas little tiny nibbles and was trying to pull my shirt away from my from my body I was starting to get upset
with her desperate for her much-needed sleep Nancy banished Mia to the backyard the
following day during Nancy's afternoon break Mia repeated the same behavior but this
time Nancy finally received me as a parent message Mia jumped up on my lap while I was
sitting up and over their nose into my chest and the force of the pressure of her nose made me rub it because it hurt
and when I rubbed it is when I felt the lump Nancy was stunned to discover a lump in one of her breasts I had had a
negative breast exam by a physician just four months prior there was no cancer in my family I was
39 not old enough for a routine mammogram so I was thinking this couldn't be cancer but the lump felt
very odd it was quite large medical tests showed Nancy had what appeared to be a cancerous tumor in her
breast the subsequent lumpectomy confirmed her worst fears Nancy had been stricken with a stage 2
invasive ductal carcinoma an aggressive form of breast cancer in the midst of her health concerns Nancy couldn't help
thinking about me as unusual recent behavior I remembered the days prior where she
was sniffing and licking at the spot it was like she was anxious to come in and say you know would you listen to me when
I first heard about Nancy best case I talked to an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic about that and one of the things
that we surmised there was that there was a certain smell that was being secreted the type of tumor that she had
in her breast may have had a certain kind of an odor you have to remember this kind of breed a dog is actually
used for hunting you know they have a very sensitive nose Nancy underwent a partial mastectomy months of
chemotherapy and radiation therapy followed she has been cancer-free since 2000 the doctor believes that had this
cancer not been detected at this time within six months it could have entered my lymph nodes and I would have died
needless to say the experiences forged an even stronger bond between Nancy and her remarkable dog Nia I'm not the kind
of person that believes in flying saucers but I do believe that miracles happen and things happen for a reason
and there was a reason that I got Mia there was a reason she became part of my life and I believe that because of her
I'm alive today and I love her [Music] if it's possible for a dog to sniff out an early cancer diagnosis
are there other unexplainable and even more profound life-saving powers a pet can offer its master
Darlene were Meyer of Spokane Washington believes her dog shadow is the most vital prescription she's ever received
he was the best medicine that I could have ever taken if it was in a pill form he'd be a miracle drug in 1991 Darlene
was diagnosed with diabetes which triggered a series of medical setbacks while recovering from subsequent
open-heart surgery Darlene suffered a stroke for a time she lost her ability to speak
[Music] by 2001 she had recovered her speech that struggled with an awkward stuttered
while attending a family reunion the anxiety of being in a crowd made that stutter even worse I was so nervous I
couldn't talk again and this little schnauzer named Maggie came up to me and started licking my hand I started
petting her she got in my lap and I noticed as long as I sat and started petting her I could talk so much easier
it was phenomenal so phenomenal that as soon as she returned home Darlene scheduled an appointment with
her neurologist he's like yeah I know about dogs I know how they can help there's been lots of studies done so he
wrote a written prescription for a dog so on doctor's orders Darlene adopted a Schnauzer of her own and shadow became a
member of her family the bond between Darlene and shadow quickly grew and while petting shadow daddy's speech
significantly improved to the amazement of her doctor we don't fully understand why dogs have such an effect on people
but in Darlene's case she felt very calm dog perhaps you know paying attention to
the to the animal heading and the sensory effects of that could be actually just putting her more into a
meditative trance [Music] a short time after adopting shadow darlene learned what an extraordinary
animal he was as Christmas nears dotty spent hours baking holiday cookies when a wave of exhaustion hit her she knew
she needed to get off her feet Darlene quickly dozed off but shadow was alarmed by something and would not allow
Darlene to sleep he starts spying at me he wouldn't leave me alone i sat up in the room just spun uncertain why shadow
was upset Darlene checked the glucose level of her blood it was dangerously low if a
diabetics blood sugar level falls too low they can trigger unconsciousness or even a coma
Darlene's ever-present canine companion and somehow diagnosed her medical dilemma before Darlene was even aware of
it and he continues to provide her with medical alerts to this day Shadow has helped Darlene in in many
different ways not only in her safety as far as being able to detect the low blood sugar but also it just in her
general life Darlene now is able to walk without a cane she's able to function than do the
things that she wants to do on a daily basis the lives of Darlene were Mayra Nancy best were saved by the mysterious
powers of their dog the ability of these dogs to detect a seizure or detect cancer it's probably equal parts their
incredible sense of smell their incredible ability to read body language and then kind of what I call not just a
sixth sense but a sixth sense and that's that ability to know when something's just not quite quite right and then the
ability to draw near to help them we shouldn't be so amazed that pets are able to do this we should be amazed on
the amount that we don't know that they're able to do an off duty Park Ranger was heading out of Harpers Ferry
historic park in Virginia at about 11 p.m. when something caught her eye near the trash bin was a large steamer trunk
alone and without a radio she decided to postpone investigating until she returned to work the next morning it
would be hours later when deputy Clark Jackson was making his rounds through the National Park that the contents of
the trunk would be revealed I saw the black trunk just sitting right there right past the barricade and that's when
I got out wonder Neath the barricade bye nudge that with my foot and notice it was very heavy
I've lifted the top of the trunk off and there was a duffel bag in it so in zip the duffel bag and there was another
duffel bag in it and it was a fleeting moment in the back of my mind where I said what be strained if there was a
body in this bag [Music] and unzip the second duffel bag and there was a body in the second duffel
bag I couldn't believe I found a body it's deputy Jackson we said overlooked officer Jackson immediately called for
backup I turned my LE lights on and takedown lights on just to give me a little more
light I didn't know if someone was watching me in the woods it made me feel a bit more comfortable having some
security with those lights over the next several hours authorities conducted a complete search of the area crime scene
specialist photographed the site including a body of an elderly man inside the trunk detectives were called
in to investigate a quest to identify the body began the trunk with his human remains was wrapped and taken to the
coroner's office [Music] when he was taken to the morgue and removed the position he was in his knees
were up against his chest and he was folded into the duffel bag placed into this trunk which is only 31 inches long
and 15 and 15 and a half inches high this is a steamer trunk he appeared to be tremendously underweight turned out
he did weigh 111 pounds and was 5 foot 7 a very scrawny stubble beard somewhat unkempt and emaciated looking the corner
would soon discover large doses of a tranquilizer in the man's system and that he died from strangulation
who is the underly man found on the steamer trunk and who killed him these key questions and mystified detectives
for more than five years according to experts that is possible a man as one of thousands of elderly victims whose
murders go undetected and those killers go unpunished every year the reason the offenders are relatives care providers
or even their own children when people get to a certain age they are expected to die in those deaths do not raise any
eyebrows the senior population is a fastest growing sector in the nation as they become infirm they are often cared
for in nursing facilities or by relatives America's top authority and abuse of the agent believes over 3,000
elderly people are murdered every year perhaps this is the case with men in the trunk because he was generally unkempt
and appearing to be uncared-for relief of burden homicide may be applicable here that is someone simply got tired of
caring for the man and decided it was time for him to die the second category that might be
involved here is murder for profit where someone has gained control of him really
doesn't care about him because obviously it was not well cared for but it was simply keeping him around for a while to
make sure that they had gained absolute control of all of the assets financial assets that could be gotten control
detectives speculated as to the motive behind leaving the trunk in the open near the trashcan
that man was put out near a trash dump or where trash was thrown away so it might well be that the offender in this
particular case thought that he might the man in the trunk might simply be picked up by a trash truck and taken to
a landfill unlike the victim in the trunk most murders of the elderly are disguised as
a death by natural cause authorities aren't as likely to be aware of foul play unless an autopsy is conducted 1% or
less of elder deaths are subjected to a post-mortem examination absent bullet holes knife wounds karate obvious signs
of trauma those cases are immediately concluded to be natural deaths so there are very very few post-mortem
examinations conducted over the airplane in the case of John Doe detectives hoped
an autopsy would lead not only to clues about how the victim died but more importantly to who he may be the hardest
part of this investigation has been getting him identified and were stymied the whole rest of the investigation is
timing because we cannot get him identify identifying the victim could lead police to his killer so the body
became their key piece of evidence his dental records have been entered into the National Crime Information computer
his fingerprints were taken and we had them the manual search by the FBI yielded negative results at one point
detectives were hopeful they could name the man by tracking the serial number found on a micro valve implanted in his
heart during a previous surgery the micro valve flexible ring came with a little 3 by 5 card for the physicians to
fill out the serial number was on the card once they used it they were supposed to send
the cards back in this way of tracking unfortunately not all physicians returned the cards and no match could be
found because detectives efforts have been stalled they have asked us to show you the only photo available of the
victim one taken during his autopsy although difficult to view it is considered by authorities to be the best
hope for a positive identification this photo was taken of the deceased in the coroner's lab the FBI also commissioned
this computer enhanced picture of the victim officials hope they will spark someone's memory the most bothersome
part of the case is that someone has for the last five years got away with this so far and that they could do it again
the hardest thing about this is I suppose then is that it's really typical of what is occurring in too many areas
of the country and that is that even our elderly have become a throwaway item in
our society [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for every mystery there is something
somewhere who holds the key join me for the next edition of unsolved mysteries [Music]
[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode covers Bonnie Craig's murder, Diane Washer's disappearance, and dogs detecting illnesses, alongside a body found in a trunk.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Bonnie Craig. Bonnie Craig's tragic death raises questions about her final moments and the investigation that followed.
Diane Washer's Disappearance. Diane Washer's turbulent relationship leads to her mysterious disappearance, leaving investigators puzzled.
Dr. Emily Craig's Forensic Expertise. Dr. Craig's work helps identify remains and solve cold cases, showcasing her skills in forensic anthropology.
Nancy's Life-Saving Dog. Nancy's dog Mia detected a lump in her breast, leading to a cancer diagnosis.
Darlene's Miracle Dog. Darlene's dog Shadow helped her regain her speech after a stroke.
Body Found in a Trunk. Deputy Jackson discovers a body in a trunk, leading to a mysterious investigation.

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Episode quotes

This is no hiking accident; it was murder.

Karen Campbell realizes the truth about her daughter's death.

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