Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 2, Episode 8 - Full Episodes | Forensic Files

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the 1962 sonny liston defeated floyd patterson to become a heavyweight boxing champion of the world nine years later
he was dead what police claimed was an overdose of drugs Sunny's family and friends believe he was murdered in Texas
21 year old elizabeth campbell stalked off into the night after an argument with her boyfriend she banished and some
believe she's being held hostage by a mysterious abductor Sharon Stevens childhood was a succession of unhappy
foster homes then she met a couple who literally changed her life teaching her the true meaning of the word love
today Sharon was to find this couple and say thank you also tonight the story of
how unsolved mysteries helped to bring a family together last month we profile six Oklahoma children were tragically
separated back in 1960 thanks to our broadcast they all met for the first time in more than 29 years
join me tonight for their touching and heartwarming reunion [Music] [Applause] [Music]
Paterson is a proud champion listen you all know it has a good left hand September 25th 1962 the title bound for
the heavyweight boxing championship of the world the current titleholder Floyd Patterson
battles a 30 year old former convict named Charles Sonny Liston [Applause] in two minutes and six seconds Patterson
is locked out Sonny Liston is no world champion [Applause] [Music] nine years later Las Vegas Nevada
January the fifth 1971 Liston's wife Jerry arrived back at their home from a trip out of town she was worried that
she had not been able to talk to her husband for several days all right as she walked toward their bedroom she
saw sunny lying on the bed Sonny Liston was dead from what officials claimed was
an accidental drug overdose but his family and friends believe the official verdict may be wrong no he never used
drugs he used drank every night anybody Sonny never used no drugs if he did I didn't know anything about the girls and
I'm sure I know a dope head when I see one and Sonny never used drugs I am sure in mr. Liston's life he had enemies and
I somehow believe one of them killed him or several of them killed him and I don't think one man could have done it
I'm sure it took several the rise and fall of Sonny Liston reflects the brutal and occasionally corrupt boxing world
that he dominated in the early 1960s and the circumstances of his death had never
been satisfactorily explained in fact as compelling evidence Sonny Liston was murdered a victor who became a victim
his story began with a lonely bus ride in 1944 [Music] one of 25 children of a sharecropper in
Arkansas Sonny Liston endured frequent beatings as a child at the age of 12 after selling a bag of pecans for bus
fare Sonny left for st. Louis and a better future but once he arrived Liston's life
would take a violent turn a path that would eventually lead to prison most of his prison records were strong-arming
'we would turn to the streets and strong-arm people to get money to make a living after all he come from a big
family so somebody had to support him so he done what he had to do to make a living in 1950 Liston received two
concurrent five-year terms for the armed robbery of a gas station while in prison
Liston channeled his considerable strength into boxing after 29 months he was paroled in 1953 Sonny went
professional winning 32 of his first thirty three bouts 22 by knockouts Sonny was the type of fighter when he got in
the ring he was mean he come to fight and he had only one thing in mind when he went out and that was to win by 1962
Sonny was ready to make his successful bid for Floyd Patterson's heavyweight title he was one of the toughest most
durable fighters of all time you couldn't knock him off his feet he was awesome after his victory over Paterson sunny
was champion for 17 months until he met a young man named Cassius Clay one day become a medallion
[Applause] Alley superior agility simply overwhelmed the champion after six rounds Liston gave up
Mohammed Ali on the time [Applause] during Ali's reign as champion Liston stayed in Las Vegas rumors circulated
that Liston was drinking heavily during this time he befriended a boxing referee
named Davey pearl Sonny was a very hard man to get to know he was quiet and he was a loner
he was very rarely with anybody because he didn't trust very many people and I didn't blame him
Sonny was really on the downside with his career and people beat him out of millions of dollars you know phony
managers and they had this gone invest your money with this and that had mr. fighter is a strike it rich
[Music] and he was such a nice guy and it was a shame that most people didn't realize
how nice a guy he really was in 1967 Ali was stripped of his title after he refused to be drafted Liston decided to
resume training for his boxing career once back in the ring Sonny won 14 consecutive bucks baby
pearl became his unofficial manager and signed listened to fight an up-and-coming young heavyweight from New
Jersey Chuck Wepner the two men both had eyes on Ali's vacant heavyweight title day after day Liston prepared to meet
and beat Wepner I wanted Sonny to win that fight and Sonny wanted to win the fight because had he won the fight he
would have gotten a big money fight there were rumors as some gamblers were betting heavily on Liston to lose Johnny
toko believes that two days before the fight Liston had a meeting and two of these
gamblers he glanced over and seen these two black gentlemen and he said go over and sit on
a while in the lobby he said I'll be over in a little bit all right so how you doing it I believe the Sun II
was approached to drop the fight he had to be approached because the talk that was around it seemed to me like they
wondered a Chuck no Chuck Wepner wind and the only way they can do that Sonny would have to be involved welcome to the
US June 29th 1970 City New Jersey Sonny Liston was ready to take his first step on the road back to the top only local
favorite Chuck Wepner walked his way hey Sonny everything's okay go to work on the guy
well fit the six rounds Sonny told me and it's the first time in my life that I ever thought I would hear this from
him he says I'm afraid to hit this guy anymore yeah it hit him so many times in the face by the ninth round Liston had
beaten Wepner so severely that the fight was finally stopped Wepner needed 54 stitches in his face
alone Sonny Liston had taken that first important step towards regaining his former title but that step may have
endangered his life January 5th 1971 just six months after the Wepner fight Liston's body was
discovered by his wife police were summoned to the scene in Liston's kitchen and Plainview investigators
found three small bags of heroin on top of the kitchen counter a small amount of
marijuana was also discovered in Sonny's pocket and a syringe was found near his
body take him on down to the morgue my opinion was two things was either natural or self induced the drug
overdose and the only reason I dwell on the drug is simply because there was this found in the kitchen
an autopsy discovered needle marks on Liston's right arm and the official report stated that Liston had died of a
cardiac arrest after injecting himself with heroin but surprisingly only small traces of heroin byproducts were found
in his body there is some trace of morphine and codeine found in the kidney tissue but the level of drugs in his own
tissues did not indicate that it was an overdose type of drug death just one month before listing had been briefly
hospitalized after a car accident he receive intravenous medicine in his right arm and baby pearl believes that
that is where the tell-tale needle mark came from what happened to you hey the needles were the passion a few times you
know he'd start to get him running nose or something like that a little cold and
I said come on Sonny I'll take it to the doctor he wouldn't go to the doctor mr.
Liston would not go for common shots for colds or flu because he hated the needle
to that extent that he would make a fuss when it was necessary to go I think mr. Liston was killed he was a
strong healthy man he was not depressed he was not prone to suicide certainly I think Sonny Liston was murdered I think
that somebody promised him some sort of a deal at that time Sonny had no income a lot of fellas you know proposition for
different business deals he's hanging around with the wrong crowd and I told Sahn I just keep away from these people
but if Liston was on someone's hit list how was this murder carried out with no signs of violence some believe that he
was slipped a drug drink and then taken home once there Liston was given the fatal shot but if this theory is true
why were such minut traces of chemicals found in his body even if he had committed suicide why would he have
injected himself with such a small amount of heroin to this day Liston's death remains shrouded in mystery
so what actually happened you know I often wonder but I I don't know he did come from nowhere to get where he was
and I like the world to know that he was a good hug he was a good man that's why
I like the world to remember [Music] the past 20 years Sonny Liston's accomplishments have been tarnished by
the circumstances of his death was his death caused by an accidental drug overdose or was Sonny Liston murdered
because he wouldn't lose when he was told to Sonny Liston's family and friends demand an answer to these
questions in October we presented the touching story of a family from Locust Grove Oklahoma that was torn apart by
poverty and an abusive father in the spring of 1960 an Oklahoma Court determined the top rogers and his wife
Edith were unfit parents that five sons and daughter were taken away and subsequently adopted into six different
homes where they grew up isolated from one another in February of 1984 two of the Rogers children senior Wangler and
John Regan were reunited after 26 years of separation [Music] within several weeks John and Celia
managed to find two more of their brothers Vernon and Robert when they told me I'd never see my brothers and
sister again I know better than that because I knew I loved him and they was my family and I was gonna find him and I
never left my mind for 26 years for the last five years Celia John and Robert have searched for
their two other missing brothers Joey and the happy ending to this story to me is when I get a phone call from my other
brothers that that be the truly happy ending found him thanks to our broadcast John Ritter's dream of a happy ending
became a reality the morning after the story aired John contacted his brothers Joey and Billy
for the first time in almost 30 years the Rogers children immediately made arrangements for a reunion
Joey was five and Billy just a year old when the family was separated [Music] the morning of October 27th 34 year-old
Joey who's adopted name is rusty Dunivant arrived at his sister's seniors home in Oklahoma City rusty lives only
36 miles from his brother job amazingly they have mutual friends and I've even met socially on a number of occasions
we've brushed shoulders several times in several places we were thin speaking distance of each other and I've seen him
eye-to-eye and and there what an Oni is my brother later that day the youngest of the Rogers children Billy whose name
has now Chuck young arrived at the airport and was greeted by his brothers and sister
[Music] Chuck who lives in Tennessee watched our broadcast and was shocked and he
realized that he was one of the missing brothers at the end of the show they put
the family picture together well I seen me sitting there and I just got up by the chair and I said that's me that's me
you know they looking for me the rogers family this reunion marks the beginning of a
new chapter in their lives the part of our hearts that was torn out years ago and now you know I don't I don't hurt
anymore because that part of my heart's been replaced it's back again and it feels good god this is toast us and I
want y'all to know I love all they heard today [Music] it was Christmas morning in Torrance
California the year was 1957 Sharon Stevens her parents and brothers and sisters were
celebrating around the tree Sharon's real mother had died in an auto accident when Sharon was three months
old she had drawn closer to her father I shouldn't buckle well I like it I love it this is great
this is great good look nice and the buckle was silvered and it was not very pretty or gives me goose bumps when I
think about it yeah getting beat a lot with it you lie to me girl I still think about it now and then and I get very
upset when I think about it I remember it cutting me quite a few times because the way the size of the buffer was it
used to cut my skin I've been slashed in the face and the legs and the arms all over once he
started it seemed like he couldn't finish like you get outrageous was it just too fun I guess until he got
exhausted it wasn't a pretty buckle anyway the abuse at the hands of her father continued for a year until 1959
when she was taken to live with new foster parents in a childhood marked by beatings and loneliness there are a few
memories that Sharon cares to recall save one a couple named Bill and Cynthia szalinski took her into their home and
for a few months Sharon discovered what it was like to live with a loving family
they taught her how to trust how to communicate and how to love today Sharon wants to find this couple I showed them
how an emotionally devastated young girl has grown up into a caring responsible adult
this is Sharon's story what her foster home Sharon was angry and rebellious she fought regularly with her new parents
problems in trouble what is the matter to you you care so much once to have your kids leave me alone can't you
cooperate can't you try to go with the thoughts of these things get you to listen can't you they just couldn't
handle me I had a chip on my shoulder because of everything that happened in the past and
I just felt that you know the world wasn't there for me you know the world hated me and so I'm gonna be
hard you know I was very hard and very cold one afternoon Sharon came home from school to find her social worker waiting
she had been kicked out of her foster home it was time to move on again I was very upset because of the transition I
had to make again I was just a little girl and I knew no one I had to make new friends and go to new schools and I
didn't know how the new foster parents were going to be if they were gonna you know be abusive in any way that I was
already used to Sharon was sent to the Gardena California home of Bill and Cynthia szalinski at first she treated
her new parents as adversaries Sharon had grown cynical tough and felt that she was only a pawn in a system
that didn't care but as time passed she noticed that the solinsky's were different I know but it's nine o'clock
in it's bedtime I don't go to sleep I'm not tired you've had a big day and I know it's you can
just go to bed I can take care of it no no no well someone here just doesn't want to go to bed and we have rules here
and my other houses they didn't care what time I went to bed oh the other houses tell me about the other houses
they knew how to parent they really knew how to parent they were childless and I
don't understand how they got all the patients they had but they hung in there with patients with me and instead of
just giving up and throwing up their hands and saying forget it she's a lost cause they knew that I was probably
young enough to change and they knew that there was a good little girl under all that skin somewhere you know I had a
good heart somewhere and they're gonna bring the goodness out of me and they did life with a zelinsky's was like
something out of a dream they cared I honored believe me every day when Sharon came home from school for lunch
Cynthia szalinski was there she would tutor Sharon with flashcards in an attempt to improve her grades
I got 32 she forced me to do it and after a while I started liking it and I went from an F to an A student and then
I really liked it now the purpose of the dance forest for balance at the urging of the Solinsky sharon fulfilled a
childhood dream began to take ballet lessons they build you a dance bar then furnish the reference and they went all
out you know to make it happy especially when he put a bar you know my own bar she even did the ballet steps with me
and it showed me that they really loved and cared for me enough to you know introduce me to this type of thing
Sharon and one should meet somebody special they bought me this dancing doll and there's a lot of love and tears
behind the perfect dance partner if you don't have anybody to dance with or somebody you need to talk to here she is
why don't you try her out perhaps the high part of her childhood was a birthday party at a neighbor of
his olinsky's in honor of the occasion Cynthia had bought her a party dress and I first was a little skeptical of going
and mrs. Zelinsky went with me you know and I thought okay and so she she gave me the present
you know she wrapped it all up and I took it to a birthday party and I think my present was one of the best ones
there and it made me feel proud that she went out of her way to you know make everything you know work it out and to
make me happy I felt very special for one of the first times in my whole life so I started to change in the right
respectful way they taught me respect they taught me how to you know respect other people and myself and that they
brought my self-esteem up and because I had a very low self esteem about myself they really changed I never wanted to
leave just one year after she arrived Sharon's dream came to an end her father had remarried on the court ordered that
Sharon be returned to his custody I remember hugged mr. Zaleski goodbye and I had no choice and it was very very
scary I felt so safe at the solinsky's and loved it to solinsky's and that's what I wanted that's what I needed and
that was no more so I went back with my dad and my new stepmother and six of her
kids and none of us got along I just didn't feel safe anymore I didn't feel loved anymore
I was very homesick all the time a lot of times I would pick up the dancing doll and remember the good times that I
was dancing into solinsky's with it and I cried dancing with the doll but it made me feel a little safe and I did
have at least one memory of them you know present with me not long after Sharon's return she came
home from a friend's to find her brother waiting dad's inside and he's got his belt off and he wants you to get inside
why did I do you're late not later Tony be home at this time all I know is that you wants
you to get inside hello mrs. Lewinsky this is Sharon Stephens the zelinsky's immediately sent a cab to
pick her up Jen was comforted by the zelinsky's and in their company she finally felt she was safe I said I
didn't feel loved there and I want to come home and she said okay you're home now and so we talked a couple of hours
and I asked her not to tell my dad and she said she wouldn't and I went to bed and I went back in the same bedroom I he
slept in and it felt good it did it felt so good it felt so safe again you know and I thought good I'm back home I'm not
ever leaving again a few hours later Sharon awoke to hear her father's voice my first thought was I was very upset
with the solinsky's for calling I thought you know I felt betrayed and I thought why would they do this to me and
I slept by a window and my second felt was to go out that window and run again the zelinsky's assured Sharon that her
father had promised not to hurt her reluctantly she left her sanctuary but when she arrived home she knew her worst
fear was about to come true my dad first just said go to bed get your pajamas on
and go to bed and I thought no it's not gonna end here I know my dad too well so
I went my dresser drawer I put on four or five pair of pedal pushers which they were called back then and a bunch of
blouses and that but my pajamas over patting myself knowing something was gonna happen and so I got into bed and I
put the covers way up on me and sure enough about NSA or my dad came in with his belt off and he just starts swinging
and I mean I was flying all over that bed when he left the room he said stay in bed and I was just shaking because it
hurt so bad through all those clothes he had cut me all of them and he walked back in and I was sitting on the side of
the bed and he screamed at me and said I told you not to get up and he had still
had the belt in his hand and he slashed me right across the face and I mean just
zip me to blood and with that belt buckle and I thought my god what did I do wrong
you know I didn't do anything wrong and then he left the room and a couple of days later school started and he was
arrested for child abuse after school authorities contacted the police Sharon was placed in three more foster homes
but not the zelinsky's Sharon still has no idea why when she was 16 she gave birth to her first child when she was 18
her second baby was killed by an abusive relative but in 1974 Sharra's life began
to change for the better when she met her husband Dean today she is living near her married daughter and has a
six-year-old son it's not easy to be a parent but it's easy when you have the right tools I know I would have turned
out different and a lot of it is because of the solinsky's I know if it had meant for
them I probably would have been a child abuser a drug addict a prostitute very active alcoholic I feel I would have
turned out very bad if it hadn't been for them you had the freedom in your other homes and Sharon searched for
those olinsky's will continue until she finds the company that literally saved her life but we think a lot of you I
would like to be reunited with the Swiss keys to tell them how much I appreciate
what they've done for me in the past [Music] it's a dream a hope a fantasy whatever
you want to call it but I've got to find these people and I've got to say thank you
[Music] a 13-year Sharon tried to find the solinsky's but was unable to locate them
and just minutes after her story aired Sharon's search came to an end bill and Cynthia szalinski were watching our
broadcast and called our telecenter we immediately put Sharon in contact with Bill and Cynthia and they made
arrangements for a reunion on November 25th Sharon arrived at the Zielinski home in
Laguna Niguel California and met Bill and Cynthia for the first time in almost 30 years
[Music] bill and Cynthia who are now retired were shocked when they saw Sharon stokoe
when you see your own life he'll part of your life history unfolding on national
television your mind goes black you don't hear anything else that's going on but your mind goes back to 30 years ago
and all the memories that it brings back I was very optimistic that someone out there their friends relatives neighbors
someone if not their self would see it and I was very surprised that they themselves called him and he's got
goosebumps when I found out and I still get goose phones for Sharon the reunion with a zelinsky's was a long-awaited
chance to say thank you for the inspiration and courage they gave her as a young girl making a difference in
somebody's life is nice that's the only way to describe it you feel like there was a reason for what happened at the
time you don't know it but now you realize there was a reason for it's the only dream that I've ever had
just applying the Solinsky and it feels great and it's like a dream come true [Music]
next the story of a girl missing for almost two years eyewitnesses have seen her accompanied
by a strange man who experts believe may have forced her into prostitution 10:00
p.m. April 25th 1988 21 year old college student Elizabeth Campbell got into an argument with her boyfriend Ricky and
angrily walked out of his home Killeen Texas near Austin [Music] 45 minutes later Elizabeth called Ricky
from a payphone 11 miles away - join coppers code I got a ride I'm all scared just come pick me up call me from the
Commun store and wanted me to come pick her up we got in kind of a little disagreement there because I was asking
her why she left my house without telling me that kind of frustrated me a little bit
I didn't understand really why she would do something like this because it's not
like her like never mind I'll call my parents don't worry about it that night Elizabeth Campbell disappeared her
friends and family have not seen or heard from her since the daughter of a marine engineer and
his Korean wife Elizabeth lived at home but was looking forward to attending Texas A&M in the fall this was to be an
important step for Elizabeth for she had led a quiet sheltered life and always stayed very close to her family as soon
as we knew she was missing we knew something that happened to her because there's too much out of character for
her to not tell her mother where she was when she was at home in a case such as Elizabeth camels where we have a
responsible young lady that for no apparent reason has just disappeared one of the theories is and it's very
possible that Elizabeth is dead excuse me I've easily seen this girl real Elizabeth's parents refused to believe
that their daughter was gone they launched their own investigation distributing thousands of fliers
throughout Central Texas the determined efforts soon paid off only six days after she was reported
missing a girl matching Elizabeth's description was spotted by a convenience store clerk near Waco Texas
about 85 miles from where she disappeared but this car drove up to the fuel tank and a man got out the car and
took a young woman by the arm and brought her into the store with him holding on to Iran it wasn't as if it
was a boyfriend/girlfriend type hole is dug his hand was above her wrist counter
and pushed a $20 bill out one hand off of a row of money and I said there were anything else I could get you and he
just shook his head the girl looked up at me and I said yes could I help you at all he said something to her in the
language that I didn't understand and she dropped her head looked down as if she was being punished or something you
know for trying to say something she just hid put her face down and that was the end of that
[Applause] her mother came into the store a couple of weeks later asking could she put up
this poster in the window about a missing girl and it hit me just like that I've seen that girl and she showed
me another picture a photograph and I said that's the girl I saw what another man in this door a couple of weeks ago
you see that girl in compras Cove Texas two miles from her her daughter disappeared Elizabeth's mother
discovered someone else who claimed to have seen Elizabeth just two weeks after she vanished but mrs. Campbell came in
she come up to the counter with three pictures and asked me if I had seen her daughter and I had told her yes that I
had about two weeks prior to that and she was with an oriental man and that they came in and got ice cream and the
whole time he brought her in he was holding her by the wrist because the second sighting matched the first year
in every detail the Campbells were positive and in both cases a young woman was Elizabeth like
the first thing that caught my eye was it was his he had a real mean rough look to him he gave the attitude that he
didn't want her to talk just to stay silent and that's a weird situation because if someone wants to talk they
usually talk but she didn't when I handed the strawberry cone to him Elizabeth Campbell looked up at me look
very sad today when I said you look very sad today she immediately dropped her eyes back down and wouldn't look
and vanilla for you Elizabeth Campbell looked like she was being pulled around she wasn't with him by choice despite
these two sightings local police are not convinced that the young woman's scene where the Asian man was Elizabeth but
two months later of July 10th another person claimed they saw Elizabeth this time at a gas station in Garland Texas
150 miles from where she had vanished I just left my car going in to pay for the
gas and I bumped into Lizbeth coming out of the store he acted as if maybe she was frightened of someone or maybe she
was was being watched or that she was speaking to someone that she shouldn't be and I felt like she was really
wanting to say more than you know excuse me when I saw the photograph of Elizabeth I
automatically knew that that was the girl that I had bumped into in Garland because she had a tooth that overlapped
on the right hand side when she smiled at me I'm just positive but that was Elizabeth camera
based on these three sightings Elizabeth's past believed that their daughter is alive and is being held
against her will we believe that she's being controlled by someone that she's no longer able to think for herself
or try to come home or come immediately seen this girl realm the Campbells fear that Elizabeth may have been abducted
and is being forced to walk the streets as a prostitute usually when someone abducts another person for purposes of
prostitution they have a process of where they strip away their identity and supply them with the new oftentimes it
involves being repetitively raped they may be beaten with whips they may be tied up they may be chained they're
deprived of food they're deprived of light they're deprived water of whatever it takes in order to strip away their
identity and to force them to assume another one hi dr. Lewis Lee the sociologist and
founder of children of the night an organization that rescues young people from prostitution by providing
counseling and helping them find shelter over the past 10 years she has worked with thousands of young boys and girls
who have been forced into prostitution my guess in a situation as Elizabeth is that she's locked up against her will
and that the people are brought into sexual abuse her or to take nude pictures of her or to even film her in
acts of pornography it does not end the things I've learned about this case it does not seem to me that he would
actually put her on the streets and let her work alone but if the woman cited and gone under
was Elizabeth she was alone why didn't she try to escape or even ask for help the temp creates an invisible leash by
presenting himself as if he's omnipotent as if everybody works for him so no matter where you go no matter what
you're doing I guess someone who works for me her friend of mine watching you so I
don't think that she's going to really try and escape because she knows what the consequences are she does try to
escape and doesn't that's why she would never make eye contact with anyone she's not allowed to
make eye contact with anyone and if she does and she looks like she's asking for
help then she goes back to the closet until she's learned I've easily seen this girl room
she's our daughter and she's missing although a year and a half has passed since Elizabeth disappearance her
parents refused to give up hope well there's no way we can give up until we find out where she is what's happened
to her she's our daughter not what somebody's trying to make she'll always be on little girl
[Music] experts believe that with a love and support of her friends and family Elizabeth will be able to regain her
pride and her lost sense of identity there is currently a reward for any information that leads to Elizabeth
returning home today Elizabeth Campbell would be 22 years old she's 5 feet 2 inches tall weighs about 97 pounds and
has long brown hair her eyes are brown and she occasionally wears glasses based on the two eyewitness descriptions of
the man's seen with a young woman he appears to be about 5 feet 7 inches in height age 25 to 30 weight 160 pounds he
has acne scars on his face and seems to have plucked his eyebrows in both sightings he was wearing a silver
martial arts medallion with a gold chain [Music] next week on unsolved mysteries ralph
Sigler was a career army officer with a wife a loving daughter and secret life for over ten years
Ziegler was a double agent feeding the soviet KGB false information but in 1976 Ziegler was found dead in the Maryland
hotel room the US government called his death a suicide the rouse family believes that
was murder and they want to know who was responsible join me for another edition
of unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode covers Sonny Liston's death, Elizabeth Campbell's disappearance, and the Rogers family's emotional reunion after decades apart.

Key points

The Mystery of Sonny Liston. Was Sonny Liston's death an overdose or murder? His family believes foul play was involved.
A Family Reunited. After decades apart, the Rogers children reunite thanks to a broadcast.
Sharon's Transformation. Sharon Stevens finds love and support in a foster family, changing her life.
Sharon's Reunion with the Zielinskys. After 30 years, Sharon finally reunites with the family that saved her life.
Elizabeth Campbell's Mysterious Disappearance. Elizabeth vanishes after a fight with her boyfriend, leaving her family desperate for answers.
The Search for Elizabeth Continues. Despite multiple sightings, Elizabeth's family fears she may have been abducted and forced into prostitution.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I think Sonny Liston was murdered.

Discussion about the circumstances of Sonny Liston's death.

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