Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 2, Episode 17 - Full Episodes | Forensic Files

this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news broadcast tonight on unsolved mysteries
a heartwarming story of a Vietnam veterans battle wounds nearly cost him his life and the Army nurse who healed
him both physically and emotionally you may be able to help reunite them after 20 years by all appearances Gertrude
Pruitt seemed to be the kindly grandmother you would find in a normal Rockwell painting but in reality this
sweet little old lady was a con artist who stole three million dollars from investors and in Missouri we would
investigate a baffling case of kidnapping bank robbery and murder did a bank president die as the victim in a
simple holdup or was his death a cruel and callous execution join me these fascinating stories perhaps someone
somewhere has that one vital clue that can help solve a mystery perhaps that someone is watching perhaps
it's you [Music] Jim Bukowski lives with his family in a small town of Grand Junction Colorado he
and his wife Dolores have two son in 1968 Jim was wounded by enemy action during the Vietnam War for over 20 years
he and his family have had to cope with his injuries both physical and emotional
during the war Jim was one of thousands of troops manning the constantly changing frontlines what he went through
turned his life inside out but one memory of the war Jim still holds dear that memory has a name and a face
Linda Sharpe captain Sharpe was the only good memory I had she had something about her that made you feel comfortable
warm want to live and go back home when you were dying the hushed feels of gravestones here at
the National Cemetery in Arlington Virginia are mute testimony to the tragic toll of the Vietnam War thousands
of surviving Vietnam veterans have tried to put the war behind them summer succeeded many have not for them the war
continues one of the few memories it can still inspire a smile among vets is a selfish devotion and kindness exhibited
by the nearly 10,000 nurses who in many cases literally breathed the life back into their patients
Jim Bukowski was one such survivor 20 years ago an Army nurse named Linda sharp gave Jim the strength he needed to
return home to his wife he feels that if he can reunite with captain sharp his private war will be much closer to
ending Jim was drafted in December of 1967 and after boot camp was sent for advanced training to Fort Polk Louisiana
but he learned he was to be shipped to Vietnam he placed a late-night five years Flores five
look I've been giving this a lot of thought I waited in line during the rain for over four hours and I told her that
I was going to Vietnam and I said will you marry me I was 19 she was eight oh that's great she said yes I turned him
down the first two times and then I decided after that it was time to say yes because I knew he was gonna leave so
we got married before he left I wasn't sure when he was coming back I knew the time was the year I just know
the year would have to hurry up and get by only a week after they were married Jim
was shipped off to Vietnam [Music] we land and we're all scared see unknown didn't know what I was getting in it had
no idea but I found out [Music] within three months Jim was wounded twice once in the jaw and once in his
leg on August 29 2016 8 is two days before he is to be reunited with his new bride in Hawaii Jim's platoon was
attacked by a group of North Vietnamese they blew us to smithereens we didn't even have a chance there were 60 of us
somewhere between 250 and 300 of them and it wiped out my whole company at the time I was operating the radio for
lieutenant because we were two people side by side he was dead and then the next thing I knew I was
reaching for a weapon I went flying through the air I landed 30 feet down the hill I picked up my leg
that was blown off and I crawled back up the hill I think you better in addition
to that telegram was sent to Delores his parents addressed to her it's stated James P Bukowski was wounded in Vietnam
as a result of hostile action he received traumatic amputation of the right leg when engaged by hostile force
in a firefight you will be kept informed of any significant changes in his condition I
just cried I couldn't believe it really happened did you hear things happened to
everyone else but not to your own family I guess I just kept looking at like it can go
away and it doesn't cause it just stays there and you have to learn to live with
it Jim had been rushed by helicopter the 67th evacuation hospital and quinion his
prognosis was grim his fever hovered at 105 degrees and his wound was badly infected
it also left six pints of blood behind in the jungle [Music] [Applause] my first conscious memory was looking up
and seeing this blonde lady in fatigues helping captain Lynn sharp [Music] I just woke up mo mais and she was
looking over me I heard people talking him he ain't gonna make it and all I saw was her looking down to me she gave me
the encouragement to live because of the extreme infection what was left of Jim's
leg was amputated at the hip this was followed by frigid bass to lower his high body temperature at this time Jim
began to become more aware of captain sharps constant attention hi Jim how you doing go for a little swim
the lady was phenomenal you know every time I don't my eyes ladies blue eyes would be looking down at me looks like
you're feeling better hey I promise if you get your temperature down I could take you out
and go get a couple beers she told me when your temperature drops and you get into bed I'll pull you outside and I'll
bring you a cold beer the process what I'm gonna do if you weren't cold before [Applause]
[Music] over a period of six days captain Sharpe was always there and Jim slowly began to
heal he'll be going home soon goodnight guy with her help agenda gate this former spirit because will to live
to go Jim see what's your time late one night two days before Jim was scheduled to leave captain shark kept her word
I keep my promises stars were out beautiful night and she brought two cans of beer pop them both sat on the edge
your bed and smiled so you're gonna write your wife about your leg come on oh how now you started with one word at
a time I just don't know what to say to her you were not allowed to leave the mass unit until you wrote a letter to
your wife I didn't have the courage to write it she forced me to do it and then I didn't know she had sent a
letter and a picture to my wife with it telling my wife would expect dear mrs. Bukowski I'm the head nurse on
the ward where Jim is now it truly is not possible for me a poor letter writer to tell you how very much Jim loves you
when he talks about you his lovely blue eyes sparkle and he gets a wide grin on his face in spite of his missing leg he
is probably the most cheerful and optimistic patient I have ever had the pleasure of caring for his spirit
determination are marvelous and with your hard work and he'll not pity he'll make rapid progress however both of you
have a long difficult road ahead there will be days when Jim will be discouraged but don't you or any of your
families ever feel sorry for him he needs understanding love and help not pity a missing limb doesn't make Jim
less a person and it certainly doesn't lessen his love for you Jim leaves tomorrow for Japan and then
home we shall all miss him god bless you both sincerely captain Linda sharp the letter helped me because nobody in
my family has ever had anybody lose a leg or hurt in a war they didn't understand her letter just let you know
what to expect I've always wondered why she wrote I guess that's kind of a question I'll
always be there finally is September 5th 1968 Jim began his long journey home when I left she pushed me out on my bed
to the chopper she gave me a big hug I've thought about her since today I left Vietnam
I just think about her [Music] the camaraderie when you make a friend in Vietnam is there until the person
dies I lived I don't think that I would have came back to my wife without captain sharp
she just gave me all the encouragement and the strength and the motivation to live in 1969 Jim was awarded to crippled
hearts for wounds sustained in combat and a Silver Star for his bravery under fire but Jim's War raged on silently Jim
blocked out Vietnam for years and years he didn't want people to know he was a Vietnam veteran he would just assume
people thought his leg was lost in a car accident or something he really did not
want people to know that he'd been to Vietnam a 20-year the gym has suffered from what
has become known as post-traumatic stress disorder only recently has it begun to come to
grips with his war experiences linda sharp helped him to transcend his physical wounds he wants to find her
today so he can say thank you he's ready to look for now because now he's well enough mentally to look for and I think
if he could meet her it might help him to heal Jim and Delores have recently celebrated their 21st wedding
anniversary life together they feel might have been impossible without Linda sharp I would very much like to get in
touch with captain Linda sharp if it's at all possible and thank her for what she did for me and all the other guys
[Music] before this segment even aired Linda sharp saw a promotional announcement for Jim story on unsolved
mysteries she immediately called our telecentre two weeks later she and Jim were reunited the door I was elated all
I wanted to do is give her a great big hug and just hug her and thank her and kiss
her on the cheek and just oh just try to show my appreciation I feel very blessed
to be here to actually see him and talk with him and and hear his versions of what went on because sometimes what what
nurses don't even don't realized that we have an impact on patients lives and I certainly didn't realize the impact I
had on his life at all over the years I've thought about about Jim and Dolores and wondered how they were doing and if
they were still together and seeing this show on TV and seeing them in this segment was just the best news that just
made it all worthwhile it really pulled things together for me and it it reinforced that that what I did over
there was important when dismiss on Cory moments after arriving Linda received an
unexpected gift a portrait of a Vietnam nurse Jim had a frame for I think I had just made up for you when
I [ __ ] you like that [Music] when he gave me the the plaque it was just such a special moment it's made
this day very very special something that is like the culmination of a nursing career to be to be thanked in
such a special way is very memorable something I'll never forget this meeting with Linda represents in my healing the
final step knowing tonight in my own mind mentally physically and the way I feel right now
all right I finally beat the battle we lost a few battles but I have won the war let me rephrase that I have won the
war [Music] when we return we will meet a sweet and charming little only win realities of
cunning and elusive crook most of us consider ourselves decent judges of character we think we know a crook if we
saw one but cannot has come in all sorts of packages even a grandmother baking goodies could be out to take your money
and run meet Gertrude Pruett for 1979 to 1981 his grandmother a 70 year old con woman
ran what appeared to be a flourishing investment business in Beverly Hills this crafty granny hit her simi business
activities behind a facade of southern hospitality and homemade fruitcake while making off with three million dollars of
her investors money you couldn't help but like her and when you looked at the woman she was so smooth and trusting and
very soft sell that she you thought of his almost family she was a homey business woman even though you knew she
had the business skills she also never lost her touch in the kitchen I mean I'm not a big fruitcake lover but they were
delicious to be honest with you as you see this carpeting is so beautiful isn't it in all these lovely colors gertrude
claimed that her investment opportunities came from special connections with carpet factories and
textile mills in the south and we have pre-sold a large order to hotel chain what impressed me the most was that
although the returns seemed almost too good to be true Gertrude seemed like such a loving
sincere person that it was a legitimate investment and that she could do no harm
to her investors well of course you should give it some thought I think it'll be nice if you would talk to
seasonal about a little more even when Gertrude didn't feed people her own home cooking she insisted that they be fed
take Mike out for lunch it's a Brown Derby it's just around the corner it got awfully good food awfully nice meeting
and you'll be hearing from me soon nothing was too good for Gertrude Pruitt's clients she often hired
limousines to pick up potential investors and bring them to her posh office building one of those investors
is a woman who had soon discovered that she had a weakness for charm and fruitcake she has requested that her
identity be kept secret we will call her Myrna thank you Gertrude selected a really magnificent outlay for just
selling carpets I mean this was two storeys high mrs. Pattison well my first impression
of Gertrude was that she was standing there sizing me up and then because she was so cordial she was southern and so
forth warm that I forgot all about the fact that I was being sized up and just entered into her world of house bright
she was and how able she was I originally invested about twenty thousand but as I watched the operation
from the sheets of the balance sheets that were coming out monthly and and watched the fact that people were
getting their interest I invested more this is my secretary Jennifer well Gertrude really was the office she was
out working every day early in the morning until very late at night handling the customers handling the
money and Harold was in his office but what he was doing I never knew virtues 40 year old son Harold was her partner
in the bed but he had very little contact with the clients he was a glowering unfriendly man in sharp
contrast to his sweet southern mother even though I was Gertrude and Harold's banker for two and a half years I never
really met Harold for almost the first year and a half he was the kind of a person who you would not have trusted
our bought a car from you might say Myrna invested $100,000 before she had her first inkling that something was
wrong Gertrude Gertrude you know that check you gave me it bounced I just came from
the bank they said insufficient funds believe me well I do I just came from the bank I know what happened
oh hell just deposit a large check sick as I was inside I was still playing it like a friend which I thought she was it
was impossible from runner to believe that this charming adorable woman could be conning her so instead of pressing
the issue she took home a fruitcake and accepted a lunch date Mona's bad check was not the only one
the prude switchboard was jammed with angry calls both Gertrude and Harold made themselves scarce thank you very
much for holding no finally employee Cecil true shell secretly contacted the Pruitts accountant and received a rude
shock the financial statements Gertrude had been showing investors were completely different from the
accountants records most even can only mean that statements are fraudulent it was at that particular period of time no
I knew that there were serious problems and I just didn't know where they had been stashing money so at night
sometimes between the wee bitty hours of 1:00 and 3:00 I made midnight raids I found every canceled check every
statement that had been paid everything that I could remove out of that office and by the end of the time I had about
four cardboard boxes full of stuff because his friends and family had invested heavily with the Pruitts Cecil
confronted Harald with his evidence Harold I've got enough evidence to prove that
this whole company's a phony and you've got two days to come up with the money or I'm gonna go to the authorities are
you threatening me I'm not threatening you Harold I'm telling you the truth he told me all of the people had done
nothing but made investments and there was a risk to be made and I looked at him and I said to him I said Harold
they made an investment on a pack of lies that you have presented to them and that's called fraud Cecil reported both
Harold and Gertrude Pruitt to the authorities but the two of them had disappeared taking their investors money
with them three years later the FBI tracked down Harold Pruitt and in 1986 brought him to trial
none of the investors money was recovered sweet motherly Gertrude Pruitt was nowhere to be found it was really
amazing that Gertrude would leave Harold behind to take the rap everybody thought
that Harold was a little bit of a hard character but Kurt Rude still was the sweet loving mama and when she failed to
show up and became a fugitive everybody was surprised I've read every one of the
letters based on the trial testimony of ten victims Harold was convicted on 20 counts of mail fraud he is currently
serving an eight-year sentence at a California state prison his mother was never apprehended
update Gertrude Pruett has been captured just minutes after this story originally
aired the Sacramento California FBI lab has received several calls from viewers who recognize Pruitt five days later she
was arrested at a Bakersfield California residence where she was working as a live-in housekeeper under the assumed
name Martha gray on May 29th 1990 good truth proof pleaded guilty to seven counts of
mail fraud she was sentenced to eight years in prison and is currently serving her term at a federal penitentiary
Pruitt was also ordered to pay restitution to her former investors [Music] next a baffling story of the murder of a
popular bank president was robbery the motive or was it a brutal execution at 8:30 a.m. the morning of October 6 1989
an employee of an ol Missouri State Bank arrived as usual to open the door strangely one of them was unlocked
anybody here what she saw inside shakhter the vault was wide open during the night the bank had been robbed
the FBI along with three different police forces investigated they discovered two 45 caliber bullet casings
$70,000 is missing from the vault some of it and coin tried and short again repeated attempts were made to contact
the bank president ban short but he was nowhere to be found he sits three people began to walk
around Dan short had robbed his own Bank Dan short was 51 years old and separated
from his wife of 23 years he had been president of the State Bank of Laurel since 1983 and was popular with people
in town on October 11th 1989 five days after the run then shorts body was finally found floating in Grand Lake 20
miles to the bank a Cabra troops at Dan short had been alive he was thrown into the water
he was tied to a chair which had a concrete block taped to it with duct tape with no apparent wounds to the
extent to cause death it appeared at that point that he had indeed been drowned being thrown from the bridge it
was appalling to think that any human being would do this to another particularly with the obvious motive
being just to conceal a robbery the identities of the perpetrators if Dan shorts murder was simply part of a bank
robbery why would the robbers choose such a deliberately cruel way of killing their hostage people no longer wondered
if Dan short had robbed his own bank but they did begin to wonder if he might have had enemies bent on revenge padana
shorts bizarre death had been an execution when the bank robbery used merely as a cover
no Missouri population 1200 is located just a few miles from the Oklahoma and Arkansas borders its economy centers
around chicken farming when Dan short took over the State Bank presidency in 1983 the local economy was in bad shape
dan had the tricky job of balancing the needs of local people over the banks need to turn a profit in the process you
naturally alienated some people he had some difficulties that he had to straighten out in order for the bank to
function properly there was repossessions restructuring denial of credit but even though he had
a difficult position he was able to win the people over he became a friend of Stevie he wasn't particularly outgoing
he wasn't a backslapper but people accepted him for what he was and that was just a genuinely nice person
dan short lived eight miles outside of NOLA and an extremely isolated location on the night of the robbery he had a
guest who left just before 11 p.m. the FBI is attempted to reconstruct what happened once Dan short was alone in his
home they believe his abductor showed up sometime between the hours of 11:00 p.m.
at 1:30 a.m. my car broke down at the road may I use your telephone probably the perpetrators went to his
front door armed when mr. short answers the door they immediately restrained him and later
took him to the bank according to the FBI Dan short and his abductors arrived at
the bank around 2:00 a.m. indications are that the perpetrators forced him to turn the alarm off to unlock the front
doors and after gaining entry into the bank dealt with the surveillance camera to some extent and spray-painting the
lens and turning the camera around backwards hey where's the money opening it come on the perpetrators took
only what cash they saw in the vault which was approximately seventy thousand dollars including coins leaving behind
approximately a hundred thousand dollars that mr. short was aware of led us to believe he was not willingly involved
and probably did not volunteer that the extra currency was there at the time of the robbery as the robbers left the bank
one of them fired at the surveillance camera disconnecting it people who live nearby heard the shots the time was
shortly before 3:00 a.m. a few minutes later on the outskirts of town a caravan of three vehicles was
sighted by a local trucker the first vehicle looked like dan short's pickup as I was driving south through town I've
seen no red pickup but two vehicle spotted crossing bridge I didn't pay that much attention to the ones behind
me I went on South and the little blue pickup passed me about a half a mile south cut me short and as he cut me
short I looked he looked back out of the back glass I seen his face he is heavyset guy was a long hair and a
beard brown hair only the killers know exactly what happened during the next three hours at some point they ditched
dan short's pickup and put it in the van there they chained him to a kitchen chair with weights attached it's very
possible that mr. short was even unconscious as they put him into the chair due to the fact that chair was not
a strong piece of furniture with a weight already on it you mean kind of struggle would have likely
broken the chair up prior to even [Music] arriving at the bridge we know that mr.
Shore was alive when he was thrown into the lake what we don't know is if he was
conscious or unconscious but the fact that he was not gagged leads us to the belief that he was unconscious for
astronomy duty [Music] at 6:00 a.m. witnesses cited a dark van stopped on the bridge and sped away
before they could get a license number why had dan short's abductors killed him in such a cruel manner it was a question
no one could answer but there were theories it seemed to lead back to the banking business I'm sorry I have to
turn you down I'm certain that there are some people out there that has some real
animosity some hatred towards the state bank of Nolan Dan short he had deny people deny credit to people and the
denial of credit probably broke others Dan had worked in I think three other banks maybe something followed him here
from someplace else maybe he stumbled across something in this area he shouldn't have maybe a drug deal maybe a
lot of money laundering there's any number of things that could have happened that none of us are aware of
and that's where the confusion comes from there just was no reason police have few clues to go on
but they believe the medium blue Chevy love may be vital to solving the case one week before the robbery love and his
driver was cited at a local gas station the same trucker who saw them on the night Dan short was murdered why is an
older model blue Chevrolet know when it had a white toolbox in the back they had
the Oklahoma tags and I looked at the tag gonna look back up at the guy you know he turned around
I just heavyset guy big through the chest big neck big face and lots of hair and
lots of beard [Music] the love was seen again four days before the robbery near dan short's house dan
had told his brother that he felt he was being staked out but on one occasion his
home had actually been broken into because of this authorities believe that Dan's killers had planned everything in
advance the bank robbery may have been only a cover-up for his execution robbers amateur behavior supports this
theory they left behind numerous fingerprints they stole heavy bags of coins and they fired unnecessary shots
[Music] I want them to find the people that did this and to explain to me why they had
to kill my brother over 50 or $60,000 now I want to know why that happened [Music]
when we return the incredible tale of a Loch Ness type monster that just might exist in British Columbia filmed footage
shown for the first time on television appears to reveal his creature that has eluded searchers for decades
[Music] for the last century renowned scientists and amateur investigators have grappled
with a mystery of the Loch Ness monster that elusive Lake creature in Scotland sighted more than three thousand times
over the last 50 years but never so far adequately explained some zoologists now actually theorized
at the monsters home Loch Ness may be connected by underwater channels to the sea and that the Loch Ness monster is in
fact a sea serpent of some kind travelling back and forth between the lake and the ocean
the zoologists also theorized at hundreds of other lakes located in the same approximate latitude band as Loch
Ness could have similar connections to the sea and could today also be home to mysterious sea creatures
there have been reported sightings of creatures like the Loch Ness monster and approximately 60 other lakes around the
world for example here at lakes door jean suite they Club in here in the Soviet Union
and Lake qu char Japan all these lakes bull into the same latitude band as Loch Ness in Scotland so far there's been no
scientific verification for any of the sightings the recent photographic evidence Canadian Lake in the same
latitude band suggests the bizarre was somehow enchanting thought that here in North America we may have a loch ness
monster of our very own Lake Okanagan located in the Canadian province of British Columbia as for more than 300
years been the reputed home of a water Beast which seems to resemble a sea serpent the lake is 79 miles long and in
places 800 feet deep an ample home for a large creature in the 1700s local Indians called a
beast night taco or Lake demon they routinely sacrificed small animals in order to appease the demon today 300
years later the local population still fervently believes in the existence of the creature which they have dubbed
Ogopogo I saw it back in 1937 we were facing the lake at the time and there's this head of something-or-other swimming
around out there and we were all convinced that it was the Ogopogo very big very it was very scary Oh about two
feet out of the water the head part and the head itself was browned and then it the kind of a neck part went down the
water and it had a great big long tail like all you could see there was just the just a little bit of a hump sort of
just coming out of the out of the splashes and stuff and it went on for a little bit and like we we saw it and
then we didn't know what to do a minute when I heard you so we just got out of there just we were like scared in that
canoe [Music] hundreds of sightings of Ogopogo have been reported but no film footage was
ever captured until 1968 that year a saw mill worker named art Fulton was driving
beside the lake with his wife when he noticed something odd we were on our way back from holidays
and we seen something in the lake near the shore and I said hey look just jokingly there's Ogopogo and she saw it
looks like a bunch of ducks anyway I said I'm gonna stop and see if we can get a picture
I stopped filling every time it dove under the water and as it reappeared I began to film again
[Music] the film shows a dark object diving reappearing in a sequence of moves that
indicates that it's moving out from shallow water into deeper water for a large dive into deeper water it then did
not reappear because the pine trees on shore are approximately 25 feet tall the dark mass
in art fortin's film is estimated to be 40 feet long about the same size as a creature in the Loch Ness sightings in
1980 12 years after the Folden film was made a group of vacationers thought they
too had sighted olga Pogo one of them Larry Thal had a home movie camera I was taking pictures of the kids and their
wife and bingo all of a sudden Neoga Pogo supposedly whatever it may have been appeared on Lake Okanagan and I was
right there with my camera it was a strange sight in the water [Music] played in slow-motion Athol film reveals
intriguing details Larry's film shows how the animal swims it shows the speed and the the mass of
waves that it creates it actually shows that it has some form of appendage that seems to pump up every now and then but
the interesting thing again is that the animal let art fold and shot on the animal that Larry thought shot they're
basically the same size they're very large creatures and in Larry's film we're seeing a creature at least forty
to sixty feet from head to tail no doubt nine years later on July 18th 1989 78 year old Clem Chaplin showed his son
Kenan Inlet where he thought he had seen Ogopogo the creature was going to and from a boom of logs at the mouth of a
nearby creek ken took his video camera and staked out the area it paid off and this is the first time as videotape has
ever been seen on television but Ken Chapman tape was a creature that appeared to be hairless greenish in
color spotted and about 15 feet long less than half the size measured in the Folden and of all films I was probably
75 to 100 feet away I saw its features very clearly being sneaker lizard-like no fur hair
and you can see the body thrashing behind it and then brought its tail section out of the water
dad and I were stunned in into silence and then dad turned to me and he said you know if that tail hit a man and
probably kill him and I agreed that was our impression as to size ken took his camera back to the inlet a few days
later along with his daughter Cory and his father once again Ken videotape the creature
it appeared swimming parallel to the shore and swam right past us at maybe sixty to seventy-five feet away and I
got that on video and dad and Cory and I saw it very clearly [Music] it has a long long snake-like body I
asked who mated about the size of a long car maybe 15 feet definitely like a snake its head poking straight out and
then its body swimming and starts to undulate through the water [Music] Kent Chaplin's video caused a media
sensation Time magazine as well as several newspapers in the United States carried the amazing story of what
appeared to be a new Loch Ness monster however opinion was widely divided and experts were called in to analyze the
video there was not a hoax there was nothing in there that he was the impression this was fabricated in any
way it was a live living animal the discussion revolved around the two species most likely and that is a river
otter and a beaver logo Pogo could exist elsewhere in Okanagan Lake but in our view this particular video was of a
beaver you know the largest recorded beaver in the interiors four and a half feet long now it's 75 to 100 feet away I
guess can't see dad and I'd be very very impressed a beaver one two slaps its tail the head is either leveled to the
water or else it's already starting to go down now in the sequence here the video that I did it's dark in its head
up while the tail comes down on this side we have a still photograph from taken from the video recording by mr.
Chaplin on this side we have a color photograph of a beaver with his tail held vertically in the air just prior to
a tail slap the two photographs seem for the most part to be mirror images of one
another closer comparison of the photographs however does appear to substantiate Ken Chaplin's point at the
creature he saw raises head prior to slapping its tail or as a beavers head is at water level also Ken says the
creature he and his family saw was 15 feet long not for like a beaver and had a long snake-like body he also said it
did not have fur and was green in color I've asked myself thousands of times is there a possibility I could be mistaken
and I just can't see where I could be for those who want to call it a beaver I'll say no way an otter
I can't buy it manager over polo and all probability is it possible that there are several
creatures living in the lake each of varying size but all belonging to the same unknown zoological family experts
may disagree on the Chaplin footage but there is still been no adequate explanation for the large creatures seen
surfacing an art foldings film or clearly churning up awake in the Larry Thawne footage
in addition hundreds of other sightings over the years attest to the presence of
something unusual in Lake Okanagan I would be delighted to find that Ogopogo really existed in Ocala and I would
encourage everybody to keep their not only their minds open but their eyes open when they're in the Okanagan who
knows what really exciting wildlife encounter that they may enjoy this Ogopogo real well the Canadian
government has declared Ogopogo an endangered species and hunting it is against the law most of the people who
live on the shores of Lake Okanagan need no further proof for them oh go Togo is
very real indeed [Music] for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
that someone was watching perhaps [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Vietnam veteran Jim Bukowski reunites with nurse Linda Sharpe, while con artist Gertrude Pruitt and bank president Dan Short's murder are also featured.

Key points

Jim Bukowski's Journey. A Vietnam veteran seeks to reunite with the nurse who saved his life.
Gertrude Pruitt's Deception. A sweet grandmother cons millions from investors while hiding her true identity.
The Mystery of Dan Short. A bank president goes missing after a robbery; was it a simple heist or murder?
Dan Short's Mysterious Death. Dan Short's body was found floating in Grand Lake, raising questions about his murder.
The Cruelty of the Crime. The method of Dan Short's murder suggests a deeper motive beyond robbery.
Theories Surrounding the Murder. Speculation arises about Dan Short's enemies and the motives behind his execution.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I just cried, I couldn’t believe it really happened.

Jim's reaction to receiving the telegram about his injury.

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Tension

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