Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 2, Episode 9 - Full Episodes | Forensic Files

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Ralph singer was a double agent for the United States who for ten years for the Soviet KGB misleading information and
exposed Russian spies in April of 1976 he was found dead the Maryland motel room his family says he was murdered
against his family's wishes robert Argenti asked maria arms to come live with him in Mesa Arizona
despite her history of mental illness five months later Robert RJD was dead Andrea Armstrong had vanished we'll also
tell you the inspirational story of a 14 year old boy who survived the horrors of
the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau thanks to an American GI who gave him food in the will to live Steve Ross is
now an American citizen a happy family counselor two disadvantaged children he would like to say thank you the unknown
kind-hearted GI who so dramatically turned his life around 45 years ago [Music] the Navajo Nation 25,000 square miles of
their stark beautiful land lies nestled in the north central section of Arizona the landscape is dotted with tiny
government housing settlements on November 9th 1988 one of the settlements bitter springs and a mysterious visitor
a dark-haired girl who none of the townspeople had ever seen before wandered through the streets of bitter
springs she called herself simply sandy and mystified everyone with her behavior
she carried on an animated conversation with herself and walked into several homes uninvited
he was secretive and seemed to be hiding from something or someone she asked can
you dye my hair I said what for you cut my hair blond so I can change my identity
as evening approached the girl asked one family if she could leave a pickup truck
behind their house my niece told me that the sandy wanted to part her vehicle there for about a
week immediately I said well why don't she park it out front but she said that she
wanted to really park her vehicle for it was hit me from the road I didn't get this really suspicious until I asked my
niece if she knew sandy and she said no I just had a funny feeling that things were not all right after two days
dark-haired ruler roughly left the settlement none of the residents ever saw her again within a week the people
of bitter springs would learn the truth about their mysterious visitor her real name is Maria Armstrong and her
brief sojourn in the Navajo settlement was a climax to a tragic love story on that began nearly 10 years ago Maria
Armstrong grew up in a small suburban city in southern New Jersey she was a sweet tempered attractive girl who had
always had her choice of boyfriends one of the young men who courted Maria was Robert our jetty nicknamed Ron he had
graduated high school at 17 with honors and immediately joined the National Guard he was outgoing and athletic yet
he had always been fascinated by the introverted Maria Maria was she was um she was like innocent oh and she was
beautiful she had long almost black hair um really gorgeous and I think that's what my brother was attracted to her
because she was so unusual looking she was sweet she was kind to people she she was your friend
in 1984 Ron RJD joined his family in Arizona Ron settled in the city of Mesa and got
a job as a mechanic at McDonnell Douglas building helicopters back in New Jersey Maria had begun to
behave strangely frequently slipping into a world of delusion and paranoia her parents feared she was using drugs
and put her in both state and private mental hospitals finally in 1984 Maria was diagnosed as
suffering from paranoid schizophrenia a physical disease of the brain which most
commonly strikes its victims and their teens and twenties it is an illness over which the patient has no control
schizophrenics often cannot tell the difference between the real world and the delusions of play there is no known
cure for schizophrenia but the symptoms can sometimes be controlled with medication
Rosetti never forgot the beautiful Maria here's her to move to Arizona so she could start over with a clean slate he
seemed to think that she was fine and that all she wanted to do was get her away from New Jersey and get her away
from the drugs and get her away from the bad influences back there and help her help her to re-establish her life out
here in June of 1988 Maria finally came to Arizona despite his family's objections Maria moved in with Ron we
were concerned because we did hear that she was in a mental institution and we knew she was on drugs back back east so
we were kind of concerned about it but you know they were holding hands kissing they were like a couple for the first
few weeks Maria's seemed happy in Mesa she blossomed into Ron's loving attention senior to Maria arrived Ron
began working the graveyard shift so Maria was often alone at night before long she began pacing having imaginary
conversations and sadly once again exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia somebody in the apartment complex where
they lived Maria had made friends with and Ron found out that this person was supplying drugs to Maria Maria's
behavior became increasingly erratic her paranoia ran rampant time and time again
she accused Ron of plotting against her all right Ron told his sisters at Maria often attacked him physically Ron said
Maria once hit him so hard she ruptured his eardrum she wasn't going to the psychiatrist she had cancelled her
appointment she wasn't taking her medication she said that it kept her up at night well she was already up all the
time at night she never slept anyway I would talk to Ron on the phone and I would tell him Ronnie you have to
do something you have to get rid of her send her home I don't want to do that I want to help her he would say I says but
you can't help her it's obvious you can't help her she needs more than you to help her she needs psychiatric care
and then he would get really mad by Tuesday November 8th Ron had finally reached the end of his patience Roxanne
Roxanne I called him and he said the neighbors are complaining the management wants to
kick me out and I want to get her out of here she is she's gonna bassoon she's coming back soon and she's there in the
room listening to all this the next morning Wednesday Maria Armstrong slowly drove into the
Navajo settlement of bitter springs 260 miles north of Mason she was calling herself sand trying to sell the pickup
she was driving first thing she said to you interested in buying a truck and I said no I'm not you know where I could
get a painting and she wanted no floors nears town so you can get her truck repainted it I just told her I have no
idea her spacing you get truck repainted about 30 miles up north highway here and
make a right-hand turn and I just thought maybe she's hiding from her boyfriend or something like that cuz she
said she left her boyfriend someplace yeah I thought she doesn't leave right away but she never did
the following morning around 10:00 a.m. the Arizona Highway Patrol responded to a complaint in bitter springs Maria had
left her pickup truck parked behind a house there and the owner feared that the truck was stolen the officer ran a
computer check on the trucks license plate he found it was registered to Robert our jetty and arranged to have it
towed to a nearby town after searching several locations the officer got a lead or the mysterious girl was hiding in a
nearby house come on Alice see you behind the bed come on out or I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna drag you out
are you taking me I'm not gonna take you anywhere I just want to find out what's
going on let's go out here and talk okay I've been getting word from around here
that you're going around introducing yourself as sandy what's that all about I just never liked my name sandy sounds
a lot friendlier do you have authorization to have the truck yeah gave it to you Oh Ron Robert I'm gonna
give it to you well he realized he was too sick to go to work and he let me have the truck to come up here listen I
need to get some cigarettes can I go now okay well I don't have anything on you right now but something is going on just
watch yourself I did feel suspicious even after I let her go but I couldn't get a finger on it
I just had the feeling that she had either done something was doing something or was going to do something
four days later on Monday a maintenance man at Ron our Jenny's apartment complex
asked the manager to come with him two runs apartment on Monday November 14th I noticed a stack of old newspapers in
front of Ron's apartment when I've got the manager there we entered the apartment first at the door the door
just flung wide open I walked in and I saw a pile of clothes on the couch didn't see anybody in there and
everything was quiet so I walked through you know looking yelling anybody here yeah and been getting answer walk
straight through the bedroom and I might have skipped out oh my god what according to the medical examiner report
on the autopsy the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head region and mr. Argenti had been dead for
several days his body had been covered by bedding pillows clothing because if someone was trying to hide the discovery
of the body okay come over here we found just left of the body a small hand sledgehammer we also found that he
had been stabbed in the right rib area with a wooden handled knife but the knife wound came after the trauma to the
head based on the evidence and later discussions with family and friends it was our theory that mr. Argenti had been
sleeping in a sitting position on the couch because he was afraid of maria armstrong and that sometime during when
he was asleep ms Armstrong came up and inflicted the blows to his head with a sledgehammer
and then subsequently stabbed him then we believe that she covered the body in an attempt to hide the crime she went
into the bedroom changed her clothing and then took the keys to mr. gingy's truck and then left Mesa and drove up
north to bitter springs [Music] the last sighting that we had on Maria was on November 11th of 1988 where she
was seen hitchhiking on the highway next to bitter springs back towards the Flagstaff area I know that if Maria
wandered off the track and didn't find shelter I don't think she could live through the elements up
there because it's very cold in northern Arizona at that time of year if she was
able to hitch a ride and get tied up with somebody then yes I would say she's probably very much alive and very
dangerous there's no predicting what she's going to do [Music] Update Korea Armstrong has been captured
shortly after this story aired the FBI received a call from one of our viewers with information regarding Armstrong's
whereabouts we received a telephone call from an unidentified caller that Marie Armstrong
had been living in the Memphis Tennessee area and that she was going to be at the
airport on August 3rd of this year the FBI subsequently went to the airport and were able to identify her and a did
place her under arrest Armstrong had changed her appearance by dyeing her hair blonde
two weeks later she was returned to Arizona thanks a charge of first-degree murder
[Music] next the story of a 14 year old boy who survived five years of Nazi concentration camps then was given the
will to live by an unknown American GI now he desperately wants to say thank you to this kind soldier
[Music] our next story is about the triumph of one boys will as well to survive the
horrors of a Nazi concentration camp his name was then shmulik Rosenthal but today he lives and works in Boston and
goes by the name of Steve Ross a mystery here is that at a crucial point in his flight from Germany he was prevented by
an unknown American GI who gave him food and rekindled his broken spirit now 45 years later he wants to say thank you
perhaps you can help 1939 the German invasion of Poland Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg brought Poland to its knees
in three devastating weeks Hitler's vendetta against the Jewish people struck with special force against
the Jews of Poland at an isolated farm outside their home in a city of Lud Joseph and Bahji
Rosenthal a Jewish couple hid their youngest son Zurich with a Catholic family they knew these farm people and
they wanted me to go and live there hoping that when the war's over they can come back and pick me up again mother
said help us keep my son the Schulich is too small to go with us I try to be a big man I tried to be like my father
to emulate him but it was hard but I didn't cry they kissed me and they said be a good boy more like you have a nice
home here [Music] that mostly I have never seen them again in less than a year the Nazis had found
a nine-year-old child and put him in a concentration camp Auschwitz Sobibor Treblinka the very names conjure
unspeakable cruelty all of the camps were mass exterminations took place were located in Poland and of the nearly 6
million Jews murdered more than 50 percent were Polish one and a half million children were among the dead
[Music] shmulik Rosenthal was one of the few children who survived from the time he
was nine until he was 14 he was interred at 10 different camps the last one was Dachau in Germany
[Music] it was extremely difficult to survive because there was not enough food we got the leadership for lunch and a
leadership for supper and we got one slice of bread that was divided up from one pound of bread for 20 people the
best time we we fell apart by working 12 hours 12 to 14 hours a day and with lack
of food you couldn't survive much longer so people kept dying constantly cleanliness we never were able to wash
up now no hot water I didn't see any hot water for five years there wasn't such a
thing as hot water there was nothing in there to sleep on except the board she slept on the board
no blankets you covered yourself with what you had it was very difficult to understand for me what is really going
on I had dreams that I was with my family and he I end up in that in a Hell in a place where it's called Hell life
and death survival of the fittest as long as you survive today from one day to the next that's all you were worrying
about do I have another day to live we all pray to God all the time in December of 1944 allied forces turned back the
German army at the Battle of the Bulge and one month later made their first significant incursions on a German soil
nearly five years had passed since young truly close it was first imprisoned in April of 1945 Allied troops liberated
the concentration camps an American GI snapped this photograph of the cheering inmates at Dachau one of them was
fourteen-year-old shmulik Rosenthal shmulik soldier brother had also been captured by the Nazis and he too ended
up at Dachau the two boys would later discover that their mother father and six brothers and sisters had all
perished in the camps before the American troops came I was 99% Dead was 1% of of life that my heart was taking
in me I weighed about 60 pounds at that time I was infested with lies two days after we were liberated we were released
from the camp and we were asked to go Torche hospitalizations we walked by a unit that was tanks and there was a
soldier sitting on the tank as I came closer I could see he was eating with his bayonet
into his mouth putting in with his bayonet he jumped off the tank and he gave me the can that he was eating from
it's okay it's okay it's okay I closed it up and I gave it to my brother and I fell down to on my knees and I held
hugged who his legs and I kissed his boots for giving me the food hey everything's gonna be all right he put
this hand around on me and he wasn't scared he's gonna get my lies or my diseases or my sicknesses like throw me
some rations yeah he was a good man he looked to me as though he was rough rough and tough but yet he knew how to
put his arm around me at that time in my life well nobody ever done that before you keep keep it hold it with you okay
that soldier gave me a handkerchief I did not know till later on that this was a flag the flag of freedom
I felt as though it was a miracle from God that I was reborn it was starting a new life from here on schooling never
left the flag out of his sight he carried it with him when he came to the United States in 1948 under the auspices
of the committee for the care of European children [Music] shmulik Americanized his named a Steve
Ross married and had a son and a daughter his brother Harry also came to the States
and has stayed close to Steve and his family for the past thirty years Steve has been a licensed psychologist
counseling disadvantaged teenagers in Boston he chose his career with the American soldier in mind Steve wanted to
help other children the way the young GI had helped him and you me a week from this Saturday you're gonna take another
exam is that national if I could ever find this soldier I would say to him that he is part of my
life he would be proud of my family I would have want him to know that what he has done for me that I emulated and that
I love people because of him I have experienced something in a critical period of my life that I could never
forget and it always is with me that this man was such a compassionate man a soldier who was taught to kill could do
that why couldn't we all be more sensitive to each other's needs Steve thinks that the
American soldier belong to the hundred and ninety-first army tank battalion which was part of the 20th armored
division he was traveling from Dachau towards me late around the 1st of May in 1945
[Music] next ralph Sigler was a career army officer with a wife loving daughter and
secret life in April of 1976 he was found dead in the Maryland motel room his family says he was murdered I think
this key will open it but he yes the latch will have to break the door down I'm sure he's in there rap 11:00 p.m. on
the evening of April 13th 1976 in a motel room near Fort Meade in Maryland an army electronics expert named Ralph
Sigler was found dead the army said that Ralph had electrocuted himself by wrapping wire around both forearms
their official verdict was suicide mom can you take everybody as I want to be running yet two weeks
later Ralph's Ziggler was laid to rest but during the official viewing of the body his family discovered telling
evidence to the official verdict may have been wrong when I looked at him the first time I didn't believe it was him
his body was so so bruised so mutilated so it didn't look like my father at all [Music]
I noticed that his nose was broken I noticed that there was a dent in the top of the head and it was blood I looked
inside his mouth he was missing his partial plate the two front teeth but all the teeth were cracked and and
jagged as if someone hit him I took off one of his gloves I saw cuts on the palm I rolled up the
sleeves Paula did the arms I found a lot of bruises from looking at the body and
the condition that the body was in I don't think he committed suicide I believe that he was beaten to death I
believe he was murdered Ralph Sigler's life was as unusual as his death for Ralph Sigler was no
ordinary army officer from 1966 to his death Ziegler was a double agent working for the United States the idea that
Ralph Sigler committed suicide in the way that the army and the Maryland State Police described is patently and totally
absurd journalist john susan try to have co-written the book call widows in this
book they shed new light on the strange life and death at Ralph's Ziggler Ziggler was a central thing an Aspie
annachi operation run by the FBI and army intelligence whose purpose was to deceive the soviet KGB and exposed
soviet spies for 10 years throughout Ziegler walked a razor's edge in the service of his country his family
believes that this is the reason why his life was brutally cut short they want to
know who was responsible Ruff's Ziggler secret mission began in Mexico City in December of 1966 he had
been recruited by army intelligence after an exhaustive search one of the Centers for Soviet espionage on the
western hemisphere of the dear Mexican Embassy one afternoon Sigler calmly walked
through the front door it's like to speak to the KGB risk Siegert old KGB official that he was
prepared to deliver stolen documents outlining the latest us developments of missile defense what do you want I want
to come to work for your government Soviets took the bait and Ralph Sigler's double life began but ten years
Ralph Sigler contacted his Soviet employers through various clandestine methods disseminating misleading
information given him by his army superiors one of these army officers was Lois Martel Ralph was considered a yeah
a very good double agent by the community he was a shining star and in my state community I mean Mos Eisley FBI
and to a degree the CIA as a very valuable asset in a man who was doing a very good job the documents Ralph gave
of the Soviets were crafted to deliberately trick them into trying to duplicate inoperative technology the
ruse succeeded time after time Ralph gave them plans for a missile launcher there was a multi tube missile
launcher and the missile launcher was supposed to launch maybe 10 missiles at the same time well when we built it the
thing fell over backwards that would never work when we invested millions in it we got the Russians to invest
millions and also and that never did work so a lot of this is to get the Russians to invest money in operations
and time that failed Ziegler also exposed Soviet agents to the FBI one of the most important of these was
Rudolph Hermann the Soviet master spy who lived and worked in the United States according to the Trenton's the
FBI was concerned about the Army's internal security and asks Ziggler to keep this part of his mission secret he
agreed [Music] 1976 San Francisco ralph was ordered by army intelligence to take a routine
polygraph examination is your last name Ziegler yes it is please answer with a simple yes or no
the results surprised Seger suppose have you ever passed any unauthorized intelligence to the Soviet Union
no the question or question that showed something was bothering no were questions involved with what he had
given to the Soviets that he was not authorised no to give that question in many forms was asked time and time again
on every poly and every poly had shown indications of deception Jo Trento believes Ziggler's failure to pass the
lie-detector test was due to his secret relationship with Rudolf Herman the operation the army never knew about
Rudolf Herman was the number one Soviet spy in America and this was the great secret that the FBI kept for the army
they were never told that Ralph's secret was servicing Herman so when they asked
him questions did you ever have any unauthorized contacts with the Soviets we're off would say no and it would show
up his deception Ralph of course thought that the FBI would clear it for the army
they never did that Fort Meade Maryland the headquarters of Army Intelligence outside of what you already told us have
you passed any other unauthorized information to the Soviets Ralph's failure to successfully pass the San
Francisco examinations led to more tests we failed everyone any other money no the next day Ralph was scheduled for a
hostile interrogation session the session that would be conducted assuming that he was a traitor no
24 hours before this interrogation Ralph called his wife at the dress shop though she was working now listen to me
this is important where are you I want you to hire a respectable lawyer well sounded distraught as if he was
under tremendous pressure I want you to sue the US Army I'm dying I never lied then the phone went dead
the dohsa rushed home and called army intelligence several hours later Luis Martel found Ralph dead in his motel
room the Maryland State Police were called sergeant Roger Castle was a trooper in charge of the investigation
as far as the the room look there did not appear to be have been a struggle there was no indication that mr. Seiler
had suffered any other injuries other than the fact he had apparently fallen from a height of the chairs which he had
stacked next to a light switch there was a bleeding from the nose area and the blood had deposited on the rug
there was no other indication of any signs of injury other than the wires which had been attached to his arms the
locks on the door to the room had been double locked from the inside as a result of our investigation we found it
sometime during that evening of the 13th of April Ralph Ziegler placed two chairs
one larger chair on the bottom a smaller chair on the top near a light switch which is which
activated the electrical outlet at that time he had apparently a cord lamp cord cut it off spliced the wires and wrapped
both wires around his biceps he plugged the outlet in the socket got on top of the chairs used a cup of
water as a conductor and turned a light switch on causing him to be electrocuted
there was no evidence developed to indicate that the death of Ralph Ziegler was anything other than suicide the
suicide theory makes no sense because Ralph had no motive for a suicide the army told us throughout the entire week
of their polygraphs that they were giving him they're outside of Fort Meade that they they over and over and over
told him that no matter what he had done they didn't care they weren't gonna prosecute him
they weren't gonna punish him they weren't gonna hurt him in any way that the worst that could happen would be the
end of the operation that they would give him letters of immunity all they wanted to know was what he had done the
fact of the matter is the experts we talked to about electrocution electricty told us that the amount of damage caused
his Sigler Czar's by the presence of the electrical wire wrapped around them couldn't have been made by a hundred and
ten volt circuit that you'd find in a normal motel lighting situation as as you did at this motel and in fact it
would take a much greater amount of electricity to do this sort of damage I'm sorry folks were conducting a police
investigation please clear the hallways the trends believe that Ralph Sigler was
kidnapped by the KGB tortured and then murdered his double life had finally run out the phone call to rouse wife is very
interesting and very smart on the Soviets part they knew Ralph was going to be questioned standard tradecraft on
the part of the KGB were claimed that they would take Ralph and put him through their own Hospital interrogation
probably torturing the Soviets have a history of using electricity for torture and get the answers they needed was he
one of their agents or was he really a double agent for the army Eddie snookered him all these years and
Ralph may have been forced to give up those answers had he compromised Rudolph Herman to the army end of the FBI that's
why the Soviets had every reason in the world to kill Rahl Sigler at this point my feelings about the theory is that the
KGB did not kill Ralph Seaver in fact my opinion and strictly my opinion based on facts is that Ralph
Ziegler committed suicide but based on the evidence she found in the open casket rouse wife is convinced
that his death was no suicide the government told me all the time if anything happened we'll be here for you
we are taking care why they lied to me when he died he wasn't double-agent respected national security so details
with me for 11 years if even something happened they could it come and tell me the truth I want to know the thought and
I will not rest till I know didn't if Ralph Sigler committed suicide as the authorities believe why did he use such
an unusual and potentially ineffective method why is there such a discrepancy between the official verdict of suicide
and the Sigler family's own observations but if Ralph Sigler was tortured and murdered then who was responsible
[Music] as ralph Sigler a traitor or a hero if he committed suicide because he knew
he'd betrayed his country then he was a traitor if he was murdered by the KGB as
punishment for his disclosure of their secrets then he was a hero his family will not rest until they know just who
Ralph Sigler really was when we return a story of one of the heroes who put the notorious Night Stalker behind bars he
has disappeared [Music] in the summer of 1985 los angeles california was paralyzed by fear for
more than six months a serial killer - terrorized the city and that was seemingly no method to his madness or
limit to his horrific crimes Los Angeles County shares departed a site of one hundred and twenty member task force -
the case detectives interviewed thousands of witnesses that checked out all possible leads but for months the
unknown killer remained at large he became known as the nightstalker and he killed at least 13 people before
his sadistic spree of kidnapping rape and murder came to an animal 18 citizens collected rewards for their assistance
in solving the Nightstalker case but one of the largest rewards remains unclaimed
authorities hope that someone watching tonight can help locate the man who's crucial information helped end the night
stalkers deadly rampage on August 26 1985 an unidentified man called the task force's hotline
kind of information yet I know he is detectives immediately sense that the Connors information was legitimate and
arranged a meeting what about this afternoon at 3 o'clock Alex thank you for calling we'll see you at 3:00 that
afternoon the Connor met with detectives guilt cutter you and Carlos Avila the man identifying himself as Alejandro
Espinosa the individual that he wish to identify he knew as Richard or by a moniker that he knew on the streets is
this Bernardo which translated into English means the uncombed one he tells me about all these burglaries he commits
how the Honda was telling us about burglaries were Richard had told him about that coincided with the murders
that we were investigating where there had been a murder burglary what's he generally do with the property
that he takes on the burgers he takes it to this fence and I can show you where that's at I know where the house is that
I don't know where the address is you know that information that he had that we had not heard coming from other
individuals that were calling in and it was information that we knew that perhaps only the suspect himself or
associates of the suspect might know Alejandro Espinoza told the detectives that on several
occasions he had accompany the man he knew is Richard to a house in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles
according to Espinoza Richard would enter the house alone and exchange stolen property for cash
alejandro became suspicious and as he said had put two and two together after realizing that a lot of the property
that richard had taken on days that he had talked about doing a recent burglary Alejandro had read in the paper that
coincidentally there had been another burglary or another homicide that the quote-unquote Night Stalker had been
attributed to he finally realized that his friend who he knew as Richard was anticipating the Night Stalker three
days after their meeting with Espinoza a sheriff's detectives made a positive match of a fingerprint taken from one of
the Night Stalker crime scenes with a possible suspect 25 year-old Richard Ramirez because Ramirez had a prior
arrest record there was a booking photo on file as soon as we got that booking photo we
then went to alejandro out on the streets showed him a copy of the booking photo
yeah that's richard positive i'm positive no doubt that's him when alejandro identified the mug shot
that my displayed for him and that richard was the man we are in fact looking for the following morning
Richard Ramirez photograph appeared on the front page of every major newspaper in Los Angeles
[Music] within our Ramirez was chased and captured by a group of angry citizens after he allegedly tried to steal a car
I know he was the police custody night stockers seven-month reign of terror and finally come to an end on September 20th
1989 nearly five years after the demonic rampage began Richard Ramirez was convicted on 43 felony charges including
13 counts of first degree murder six weeks later Ramirez was sentenced to die in a California gas chamber big deal
death always went with the territory Alejandra Espinoza is entitled to 6388 dollars for the vital information he
provided authorities but Espinoza has not come forward to claim his reward Alejandra Espinoza is 26 years old and
according to police he may have a wife and a young son join me next week for another edition of
unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Ralph Sigler's mysterious death, Maria Armstrong's crime, and Steve Ross's survival story are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Mysterious Visitor. A dark-haired girl named Sandy appears in Bitter Springs, leaving residents puzzled.
Maria Armstrong's Dark Secrets. Maria's troubled past and mental illness lead to a tragic love story.
The Survivor's Gratitude. Steve Ross, a Holocaust survivor, seeks to thank the American GI who saved him.
Ralph Sigler's Mysterious Death. Army officer Ralph Sigler is found dead, raising questions about the official verdict.
Ralph Sigler's Mysterious Death. Ralph Sigler's death raises questions of murder versus suicide, with his family seeking answers.
The Double Life of Ralph Sigler. Ralph Sigler was a double agent whose life and death remain shrouded in mystery.

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Episode quotes

I just had a funny feeling that things were not all right.

A resident's intuition about the mysterious girl, Sandy.

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