Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 2, Episode 7 - 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 in Illinois a lonely Widow met
a fortune teller who seemed to create money out of thin air Joan was a maid then the next two years gave the fortune
teller $80,000 most of her June brand-new Cadillac then the fortune teller disappeared on a lonely country
road in North Carolina a teenage girl was murdered by a single bullet fired through the trunk of her car and
eyewitnesses now come forward and under hypnosis may have described Rhonda's unknown killer 77 year old Howard
Drummond was an eccentric who died as he lived alone Howard Drummond left behind
50 empty coffee Jones 80 pairs of white socks an unclaimed fortune of over 250,000 dollars someone watching maybe
his heir also tonight a different kind of mystery the world of Medicine and sons
doctors had given up nearly all hope for young Don Helen I accidentally shot himself while hunting Don lost more than
half of his blood had no blood pressure and virtually no brain activity yet Dawn's family never lost faith never
left his bedside incredibly Dom recovered modern medicine has no explanation but perhaps there is one a
mirror [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] during the holiday season office
Christmas parties were a traditional way of easing into the festive spirit night
of December 22nd 1981 marked the first company Christmas party for a 19 year old girl named Rhonda Hinson Rhonda had
recently graduated from high school in Valdez North Carolina and was celebrating her first job as a clerical
worker for a local steel company at midnight Rhonda left the party with two girlfriends at approximately 12:30 after
dropping off her companions Rhonda would begin the ten-mile drive to her home where she still lived with her parents
[Music] at exactly 1:00 a.m. Rhonda's mother awoke from a sound sleep with a strange
premonition feeling panicky scared because I feel like something that happened Rhonda I felt like Rhonda was
dead I feel like she had been in an automobile accident I got up and I had well I'll obviously be scanner that you
listen to you know you accidentally all that stuff on it and for some other reason I just turned it on you know
thought maybe you know if he'd been accident on here under scanner and the minute I turned it on it came over to
know it'd been a homicide Rhonda's car was discovered on mineral springs mountain road just a half a mile from
her home the driver's door was open just a few feet away and Rhonda was found dead she was lying on her back and her
arms appeared to have been deliberately placed at her side tests showed that Rhonda Hinson had been
killed by a single bullet fired by a high-powered rifle this bullet had passed through the trunk of her car
through her seat and penetrated her heart the hardest thing is living everyday wondering who did this Rhonda was the
most loving caring person that you've ever known Rhonda was the type daughter that
everybody would like to have [Music] the murder of Rhonda Hinson had first appeared to be a random act of violence
but as the investigation proceeded disturbing Clues began to surface suggesting that Rhonda may have been
murdered by someone who knew her closely eight years of Passons Rhonda's death and police are still at a loss for an
explanation or a suspect in high school Rhonda was a popular girl an expert tennis player who had many close friends
but several weeks after her graduation she began to behave strangely though normally happy to drive along Rhonda
began to ask her father to accompany her on trips into town and on one of these trips she made a disturbing statement
I've got something to tell you that I'm afraid to I said what is wrong I said no
matter what it's good I'm bad tell me what do you have and she said I'll think about it
and she never did explained never did tell him it washe what it was you know she's afraid to tell me you keep your
mind on your job okay her mother also recalled an uncharacteristic conversation shortly before Rhonda's
death I said Rhonda there's never a time that it's alright to go with a married man
the only thing that comes from that is people getting hurt I didn't ask her if she was asking for herself if she's
asking for somebody else I don't know what she Rhonda wanted to do the things that pleased us in the weeks prior to
Rhonda's murder her Paris began to notice that she suffered from insomnia Rhonda also began getting up in the
middle of the night to take showers according to authorities such obsessive behavior is common in women who have
been sexually abused the shower would wake me up she'd turn the shower off and answer me and say I
just can't sleep I feel dirty I'm really angry at myself I should have talked to
her I should have asked her what was wrong if I hadn't asked enough I would've gotten some answers
[Music] this unusual behavior suggested to police that Rhonda was under some kind
of personal pressure could this pressure have resulted in her murder the police investigation began to uncover evidence
of someone they had been stalking run to the night of her death between 12:15 and
12:30 in the morning that Rhonda Henson was murdered a witness drove under the interstate 40
bridge on Mineral Springs Mountain Road she observed a blue General Motors Chevrolet facing in a northerly
direction with two white males in vehicle the car was parked next to the same off-ramp that Rhonda would use to
exit it was spotted 30 minutes before the fatal bullet was fired and just 200 yards from where her body was found
later that evening another witness travelling down the same Road passed a similar blue vehicle with a single man
at the wheel speeding away from the murder side as he continued down the road the witness saw Rhonda's vehicle
parked at the same spot where her body would be found a woman was slumped over the steering wheel and a man was
standing at her car door the witness was unable to get a close look at this man and assuming the couple
were drunk and drove on there were some latent prints on the driver's door but these latent prints have not been
identified as of this date with so few clues to go on police put their witness under
hypnosis and asked him to recall more details about the murder scene this is the actual audio tape from the
hypnotized subject Chevelle this blue seven-day mile away in fact the front end has been wasted
the same Palmer promised gray she's not very good median bail so dark brand yeah
surprisingly the witness also recalls seeing a second car parked down the road from Rhonda's vehicle this car was a
black or dark blue Trans Am some believe that car may have been driven by the murderer there's so many unanswered
questions we have a a very attractive young girl whose life was taken and as far as we know her her character is
unblemished it's just it's hard for me to understand why a young person like this would life would be taken away and
not have an answer for it who killed Rhonda Hinson and why authorities a certain that she would never have
stopped for a stranger but she pulled over by someone who knew her someone who then fired the fatal shot
who was a man seen at Rhonda's car the murderer or a passerby who left the area when he discovered that Rhonda was dead
police still have no idea we have some different stories but to really be able to substantiate these stories we don't
have that not information that's what we're looking for those little pieces of information that we can substantiate
what happened eight years of passed since that Christmas party ended in tragedy Rhonda's mother still keeps her
daughter's room exactly the way it was when Rhonda was alive I can almost imagine Rhonda still in there
we have a baby doll that she had years and years ago we've kept that out we've kept some of her trophies out
the grave marker I think says it all on the grave marker there the words always a ray of sunshine that's the best
description that we have around it it's a perfect description in a moment we'll see how viewers help
capture a Ledge Connor would infiltrate at a nudist camp we'll also tell you how
you may be able to help the phonies track down two con women posing as fortune teller
[Music] last September and we examine the case of a Florida nudist resort whose members
were allegedly victimized by a smooth talking con man calling himself rusty in February of 1988 rusty arrived at the
sunny sands nudist resort and quickly ingratiate himself with many of the club's members
he opened a video rental store at a nearby town and convinced some of Sonny Sands residents to invest thousands of
dollars in his business but just seven months after he arrived at sunny sands Rusty's upstanding reputation in the
community began to crumble when a neighbor's 11 year old daughter accused him of molesting her rusty was arrested
for sexual battery against a child under 12 in order to be held without bail however many of sunny sands residents
believe that rusty was unjustly accused and convinced the judge to release him on $25,000 bail two days later
rusty disappeared allegedly taking within more than fifty thousand dollars of investors money no matter what
happens we know we'll never get our money back but right at this point the money is immaterial right now the big
thing I want rusty caught what he did to that town police later learned that Rusty's true identity was William Eugene
Hilliard and that he was wanted in both Florida and Texas for fraud within minutes of our broadcast several viewers
from South Carolina called our telecentre to report that they recognized William Eugene Hilliard
[Music] the morning after our broadcast Hilliard was arrested by Georgetown County
sheriff's deputies at a convenience store in Murrells Inlet South Carolina a small town just south of Myrtle Beach he
is living under the assumed name Ronald Edward Kent on October 20th till you two
his return to Florida to face charges of fraud and sexual battery against a child
under 12 if convicted of the sexual battery charge Hilliard could receive the death penalty
[Music] fortunes told tarot cards and tea leaves sounds intriguing and many of us have wondered
what goes on inside a fortune tellers parlor after the doors closed but let the buyer beware the sad fact is as some
of them are more interested in fortune taking and fortune telling across the United States each year tens of
thousands of victims have built out of millions of dollars by fraudulent fortune tellers tonight we present the
story of two of these victims who embarrassed by their own naivete have requested anonymity
[Music] Peoria Illinois August 1987 a respected educator we will call Karen had been
devastated mentally and physically by an automobile accident friends urge her to
see ancora celli a fortune teller who was reputed to have psychic powers last thought of my mind was to go see a
psychic but I thought well if it doesn't work it doesn't work it's 10 bucks for half an hour or
whatever I got to lose I see that you've had family problems lately and you've been very depressed lately yes I have
have you considered suicide before she told me yes that I had had suicidal thoughts and I had never told anyone so
I was convinced that she was thinking anymore and she had the answer to my problem this is a curse that someone's
put on you and I looked at her like you have got to be kidding but she said it so believably I have to be and she held
my hand and she leaned forward and said we can do something about this and we can overcome this together I'll help you
at the point she told me there was a curse on me I think I would have been ready to believe anything it was an
answer to a problem [Music] and told Karen that she must follow a strict regimen in order to lift the
curse I was taking ritual baths and scented oils I was blessing the doors the windows the cars people with holy water
but I couldn't let anyone know what was going on each time and I saw her she gave me more things to do which was
great I loved it I felt like I was beginning to get control back of my life [Music]
and tool Karen to come with her to a nearby bridge and bring $4,000 wrapped in a white handkerchief I brought the
money this money has taken all the evil from your body she told me that it really had to destroy the money because
Satan was of the earth and what better way to control him but with his own dirty money so we took the bundle of
money and threw it off the bridge is it gone it's gone the money don't you Karen now believes she was duped by
ancora celli the daughter in a sophisticated mother-daughter fortune-telling team
Leena Marie Wilson 53 years old his Ann's mother though she sometimes pretends to be her grandmother together
they pray mainly on vulnerable women another victim of the fortune-telling scam in Peoria there was a 69 year old
woman we will call Joan but her second husband died she was left with a considerable amount of money despite the
financial security Joan felt lost I think at the time I was very vulnerable because I have lost my husband two years
before I was lonely I was searching maybe for answers in different places and so it was only $10 to go and see her
and I thought why not find out and see what she says about my future my life and things in general
[Music] when Joan visited the fortune tellers they were operating under the name of
Kalman the first person she met was ancora celli thank you it was a regular house there was a small room off the
living room and there was an altar and many holy pictures all over the wall many many candles and many pictures of
Jesus [Music] [Music] I can tell that you had a recent spiritual crisis in your life I can also
tell that you have a recent death in the family well yes my husband two years ago
okay I can also see that there's something evil in your charts something that I am gonna have to ask my
grandmother to help us with and I'm gonna go ahead and get her now is it right [Music]
[Music] hi my granddaughter told me you need help yes and help you please um she told
me they were save as no scar it's bad I'm doubtful of that let's see I have the power to rebuild your problem take
this red and tie three knots three not yes she told me that my life had had a curse on it for over forty years that
was put on by a girlfriend of my first husband and she actually named the person that my husband went with before
he married me she said will you come back and bring with you if a $1 $5 $10 and a $20 bill did you bring the money
with you yes this is you ask me Lena Murray had also instructed Joan to bring a sheet which she had tied around both
of their necks to multiply and restore this money ripped is mine and I will prove that do have the power she told me
to terror these bills in half and she said if this money will go back together and become hope then I can help you
otherwise I can't and then she wrapped them up in the white handkerchief and tied it all together our Father who art
in heaven Lena Murray held that torn money under the sheet and rubbed it over Joan's arms
and legs power to return the money yes hopefully greater power do you believe in Jesus yes I believe in Jesus do you
believe I have the power yes I do when Lina Marie unwrapped the money the bills appeared magically restored and
indeed even multiplied to Joan it seemed like a miracle down and thank God and so
I knelt down before they older and kept saying over the Our Father they always associate their special powers with God
or religion or the church and more importantly with this particular type of trick with making the money multiply is
to get in the victims mind that money means nothing the next step is to convince the victim that they are cursed
Lila Marie told Joan to fill a shoebox with dirt and leave it in her garage for three days she had a picture of water
and she said now we will pour this over the box and see whether or not the devil
is in there she took a stick and moved the dirt around and then I saw this water turned
to blood she had put this fear into me that all this would happen if we didn't get rid of the devil in my life and here
it was in front of me in this box she said we've got to get rid of this devil it is in your life and it is all around
you and she said she had to have money because this would give her more power and the more money I could give her the
more power she would have to help me over the next year and a half Joan gave leader Marie more than 81
thousand dollars in cash she also gave Lena Murray most of her jewelry and bought her a brand-new Cadillac to take
the evil out of your body money we had the type of personality that made you feel that she was helping you and I
believed in her she had me so convinced I believed everything she had me so controlled that anything she would ask
me to do I would do sister I'm so glad to see you crying I'm just kidding finally Lena Marie had Joan hand over
the last of her life savings $40,000 she said now we have to burn this money because money is evil she put it in a
garbage can and then I put lighter fluid on it and burned it she had me so convinced that all
material things all possessions all money was evil because the curse had been on me and everything that I owned
and possessed she had actually brainwashed me the money the individual thinks is going into the fire does not
actually go into the fire kneel down and pray mine is evil and in order to purify
there might be a one dollar bill or a hundred dollar bill wrapped around play money and this is
what actually goes into the fire is actually burnt real money never goes into the fire did your service the crime
that they're committing is they're taking valuables from people by the means of deception but majority of the
people would just assume cut their losses and not come forward they do now want to suffer the embarrassment of the
community of their peers of their family the embarrassment is a very hard thing to overcome I gave her close to a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in money possessions in jewelry I look at myself and I say how could I be so
stupid I'm a college educated person I'm a professional I've seen enough news reports I've lived
in the world long enough to know what real crime is and that people in any opportunity are very willing to steal
your money and I cannot believe that I was a victim of this crime I feel like the stupidest person on the face of the
earth the evil from your body has gone into this money the money that was in the bundle had been wrapped in a
handkerchief and she had be folded it several times before it was ever thrown into the river I never saw the actual
four thousand dollars I had my eyes closed in prayer is it gone it's gone it's gone you believe in the power I do
believe in every time she handled the money she could have switched it what confirmed that a switch probably
happened was that she took off based on the testimony of Karen Joan and 16 other victims warrants were issued in
Illinois for the arrest of ancora celli and Lena Marie Wilson but two women were
nowhere to be found four days later police in North Kansas City Missouri noticed some
suspicious-looking people in a motel parking lot or did you see him looking at us Cal all right check those play
they ran a license plate check and found that the car belong to Lena Marine Wilson's daughter and Quaritch Ellie was
not in a car but Tina Marie was can you Lena will direct nothing when police searched the car he found
over $250,000 worth of stolen jewelry the police never found ancora celli Lena Marie Wilson jumped bail
six days after she was apprehended Leena Marie Wilson is four feet ten inches tall and weighs 130 pounds she's
53 years old and has a dark complexion brown hair and brown eyes she uses the aliases of Lena Calvin Murray Marx and
Lena Marx and Quaritch Ellie is five feet tall and weighs between 140 and 170 pounds she's 26 years old has a medium
complexion brown hair and brown eyes she uses the alias as Lori Wilson Lori Calvin and hand marks the police are
also searching for Joe marks a convicted male accomplice he is 5 feet 7 inches tall weighs 120 pounds he's 39 years old
has a dark complexion brown hair and brown eyes Joe marks has been captured within
minutes of our broadcast a Springfield Missouri Police Department received a call from a viewer who recognized Joel
Marx on November 20th the Greene County Missouri sheriff's deputies arrested marks at his parents home his mother was
operating a palm reading business four days later Mark's was extradited back to Illinois where he is currently serving a
six-year prison term a theft and conspiracy [Music] in a moment the fascinating story of an
eccentric recluse lived in a tiny room at a YMCA his friends were astounded and he left behind an unclaimed fortune of
$250,000 [Music] my next story is about one of the most frugal and unusual people we have ever
encountered he was reclusive eccentric man who spent his time dreaming up the most peculiar
ways to conserve money when he died he left the fortune valued at more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars this
mysterious man devoted all his time and energy to saving money yet ironically the fortune he amassed now sits
unclaimed perhaps song and our audience tonight is his heir Howard Drummond moved to the lansing michigan ymca in
1985 when he was 74 years old he rented a room for just $49 a week but chose not
to pay an extra $5 a day for his own private bathroom he always ordered the same breakfast fried eggs bacon and rye
toast for only a dollar ninety-nine he also bought two extra breakfasts packed them in his ever-present gym bag and
took them back to his room at the YMCA for lunch and dinner powers daily expenditure on food was only six dollars
Howard was a packrat he saved money and everything else in his room at the why he kept 50 coffee Jews all empty he
collected hundreds of magazines and countless rubber bands Howard on 80 pairs of white socks and eight identical
suits and hats so he could wear the exact same outfit every day [Music] Howard lived his life according to a
rigid set of rules that only he fully understood he seemed to have no friends and only a few acquaintances I merely
Howard had a very regimented lifestyle he would pay his rent at a certain time every month the same amount every month
his receipt he would want stapled to a certain piece of paper a certain way every time it was done however there was
another side to Howard that I found that people rarely saw he was very gentle person he was very appreciative of all
the small things that you did for him and he was very willing to say thank you for everything that that you did every
day Harley went to the downtown Lansing post office he subscribed to The Wall Street Journal Forbes magazine
Psychology Today Foreign Affairs and Soviet life [Music] he regularly receive envelopes from
banks and sent out registered letters to banks Howard never failed to stop for a
visit with postal worker Francis done he often presented her with unusual shopping hoops written on the backs of
old envelopes how it always gave Francis money to cover the items he asked and she was usually able to find what he
needed and I need some coffee I brought you some coffee and I brought you some [Music]
I also brought you some washcloths oh I can use those today oh I'm feeling fine yeah I all wanted to see you tomorrow
okay I thought he didn't have anything why would anyone go around in the same clothes all time he just looked really
poor to me I always asked him why he wore that same hat all the time and he said well it's not worn out yet after
completing his daily routine in Lansing Howard returned to his room at the YMCA he never allowed anyone inside he died
on January 28th 1989 [Music] two days later Paul Rosenbaum a County aparted attorney visited the YMCA since
Howard had left no will it was Rosenbaum's job is subtly estate and find Howard's heirs looking for clues
Rosenbaum spread the contents of Howard's room at the why over the conference table at his law office that
took probably two and a half weeks to sort out everything he had every single piece of paper from probably 25 years he
had a diary that was the one of the most unbelievable things I have ever witnessed in my life in which he kept an
hour-by-hour account of the headlines and news stations across the whole United States he had three watches that
wouldn't work there was thousands of views shoelaces unlimited amount of newspaper clippings with a lot of it had
to do with the royal family and Princess died he was infatuated with her it was unique to say the least to the best of
my knowledge he had a 11 separate bank accounts from coast to coast with a quarter of a million dollars in cash in
the bank accounts and that quarter-million dollars is not even the tip of the iceberg he has a whole lot
more money out there strangely the gym bag how it always carried with him was not
found in his room some say Howard kept his most important papers in that bag long Howard's possession Rosenbaum did
find a key marked number 29 the key seems to open a standard lock type he might find in a bus station could
Howard's missing gym bag be in the unknown locker could the papers inside lead the way to even more money
authorities in Michigan are still searching for Howard's missing heirs we have very little information about
Howard Thomas Drummond he was born in Houston Texas in 1911 the only child of impoverished parents he served in the
Army from 1942 to 1945 he was fired from a job at a California bank for stealing
scotch tape then became a postal employee in Pasadena he lived at YMCAs of Pasadena Denver and Dayton before
moving to Lansing Michigan he died at the age of 77 went to his grave holding a secret of his 250,000
dollar fortune [Music] in a moment a mystery with a happy ending mystery of a life saved when all hope
was gone [Music] June 10th 1989 Don Hamilton and Donna Johnson are married maple plain
Minnesota this happy day is in a way a miracle just 20 months earlier teams of specialists have been working around the
clock to save Don's life using a deep coma some of the doctors thought Don was already dead Don was not breathing did
not have an effective heartbeat he had serious damage to body organs when he arrived
statistically Don's likelihood of surviving was very very low maybe zero and that night I stood by his bedside
most of the night and just wiped the blood because they said this probably would be his last night he was cleaning
from his eyes nose and mouth again and it was just like was the last thing I could do for my son Don Hamiltons
recovery is a shining example of happy endings do occur his story is one of those unexplained events in the field of
science and medicine which proves that medical science and simple faith can turn out to be wondrous and mysterious
partners November 8 1987 just before dawn Don Hamilton and a group of friends set
out deer hunting 175 miles north of their hometown maple plain Minnesota we all got relieved and I took my ATV and
drove out through the field parked at the edge of the woods and then walked into the woods to the tree that I had
previously planned out that I would be in and with my climbing harness and and straps I got myself strapped into the
tree and then I pulled the gun up to me and loaded it and just sort of sat back relaxed on a branch and I just loosened
up on the gun I had a belt on my legs and apparently I shifted it enough so I got off the Alex and I loosen my grip it
slid off [Music] for 25 agonizing minutes Don Hamel his friends searched the dark
woods finally they found down in the tree a bullet from his own rifle had severed crucial veins in his leg
Don seeming completely lifeless 20 minutes later an ambulance rushed on to the nearest hospital technically he was
alive but he had no blood pressure at all when we started to work on Don he was not breathing
he was not moving he was comatose and his heart was not pumping blood there was no blood association let's go
continue CPR we've lost more than half of his total blood volume and maybe close to two-thirds or more
I was afraid through the whole process of working on Don I was afraid simply because I knew it
would take everything our team could do to pull him through the farther along we
went the more afraid I became in a different way I was afraid that we as a team doctors nurses anesthetist
respiratory therapists lab personnel would have saved a body but not a brain one more Kelly please hold these Jim we
ran out of options for Don in our Hospital very quickly we resuscitated him our surgeon operated to repair
massive damage to the veins in his left leg we gave Don all the blood and blood products we have and he needed more hold
and I'll cauterize will come off of them off the only thing we can do is transferred onto
donna's helicopter to the North Memorial Medical Center in Minneapolis 200 miles
away there a team of specialists waited for him they stabilized Dawn's physical condition but his brain showed no sign
of life first thing I'm gonna do is open your eye and shine a light in when I did
the initial evaluation on Don he failed all the tests in essence he basically did not have any breathing any response
to pain any basic deep-seated reflexes that are very well protected in the brain I'm sorry to tell you this but
your son is brain dead I can't accept that dr. Novak's said that it's the same as if someone has been under water for
an hour he said have you ever heard anybody under water for an hour and and this head lived and had a brain and I
still told him that I couldn't believe it I just couldn't accept that yet she had that feeling in her eye that said
okay I've heard your side of the story well let's just see I have my own side of the story we knew that our church was
behind for him and they were a support the whole time under their help we pray that you'll be the Great Physician from
seven o'clock in the morning till 11 o'clock at night you were never alone there was someone with us and they even
had a schedule made up so that we wouldn't be alone when he died tragically Dawn's body began to failure
first his kidney stopped functioning then his lungs once he even suffered a cardiac arrest it's really gonna be
nicer get you out there again nevertheless Don's family talked to him said he could hear every word they said
they prayed and searched in vain for a glimmer of response doctors offered him the option of turning off Don's life
support systems they refuted and despite the overwhelming odds never gave up they
kept up the hope of survival even when it seemed like it would never occur and lots of times when we would bring bleak
news they would they would accept it because they had to accept it but you could tell that they were going to rise
above that and somehow Donnie was gonna make it my feeling was very positive all
the time I just knew that he was going to be ok I just couldn't help but know that after five weeks his friend Karen's
Peter and I went in to see him Don Karen speaker is here to see you [Music] he nodded he do know Karen speeder don't
you die to me this was the breaking point and I said isn't that nice of Karen to come and see you and those
three same short nod so we knew because it was answers to questions and he was nodding yes three times so we knew that
he was hearing us by that time of course we've been dealing on a day-to-day basis
with the family and kept giving this news that was always couched with well I don't think things are still going to go
well long range and then all of a sudden to see just like a flower opening that he started to get markedly better over a
period of just a day or two was just a great feeling all the way around in four weeks
Don Hamilton made the miraculous journey from brain death to walking away from the hospital on crutches within six
months he threw the crutches away the doctors and Don's family reunited the awesome feeling that they had witnessed
a wonderful and mysterious event this was a very memorable case we love being wrong in situations like this it
sort of balances the ledger shall we say a little bit for all those other ones where things don't quite go as well if
you believe in God you'll called on Hamilton's survival a miracle I happen to believe in God the
doctors don't know why I lived and I think God had a reason why I'm supposed to be here and and he pulled me through
20 months after his accident Don married Donna Johnson everyday Donna Hamilton feels all he no longer takes life's joys
or life itself for granted [Music] next week on unsolved mysteries in 1962 Sonny Liston was a toughest man on earth
the heavyweight champion of the world nine years later he was dead police say he killed himself his friends and family
say Sonny Liston was murdered also the story of sharon stevens a woman whose life has been haunted by the abuse she
suffered as a child but sharon does have one happy memory a couple who briefly were her foster parents and taught her
the true meaning of the word love I know that it had meant for them I probably would have been a child abuser drug
addict a prostitute very active alcoholic I feel I would have turned out very bad if it hadn't
been for them Sharon was to reunite with his couple and thank them for literally
saving her life join me next week for another edition of unsolved mysteries [Music]
[Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Rhonda Hinson's murder, Howard Drummond's fortune, and Don Hamilton's miraculous recovery are featured in this episode of unsolved mysteries.

Key points

The Murder of Rhonda Hinson. Rhonda Hinson was found dead in her car, shot by a high-powered rifle. Eyewitnesses come forward, but the case remains unsolved.
Fortune Telling Scam. Two women fall victim to a mother-daughter fortune-telling scam, losing over $150,000. They share their harrowing experiences of manipulation and deceit.
The Mysterious Howard Drummond. Howard Drummond lived a frugal life, leaving behind an unclaimed fortune of $250,000.
Don Hamilton's Miraculous Recovery. After being declared brain dead, Don Hamilton defied the odds and walked out of the hospital.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I can almost imagine Rhonda still in there.

Rhonda's mother keeps her daughter's room unchanged.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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