Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 12 - Full Episode | 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 40 miles east of Tombstone
Arizona is a rugged and forbidding mountain pass skeleton Canyon essentially ago it was a site of murder
and betrayal outlaws fought over a fortune and stolen gold and jewels a dazzling treasure which continues to
tantalize fortune seekers to this day March 1990 Fayetteville North Carolina a brutal attack leaves a young woman
disfigured and near death miraculously she survived to tell the horrifying story police need your help to find her
attacker a virgin islands vacationers paradise in the last several years this tropical paradise has been plagued by
the strange deaths of five local residents police believe the killer is a devious con man uses phony voodoo
rituals to trap his prey also tonight a gothic tale of wealth and greed an eccentric recluse has left behind a four
million dollar estate and destroyed all traces of her past join me you may be able to help solve on the street
[Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] st. Croix the US Virgin Islands this popular vacation spot attracts more than
one-and-a-half million visitors in the continental United States each year but even America's paradise can have a dark
side [Music] control mrs. 5-0 echo report the traffic accident in Galesburg with November 18th
1988 just after 9:30 p.m. st. croix police are called as the scene of what was reported to be a minor traffic
accident they find a local woman Radha Maharaj in the car apparently suffering from internal injuries she will later
died enroute to the hospital less than one hour later another body has discovered 16 miles away the dead man is
Krishna death Maharajah Radha's husband the investigation revealed three unusual
clues the clothing worn by both victims was saturated with seawater $25,000 in cash belonging to the couple had
vanished and the agent of both deaths was cyanide incredibly the Maharajah's brought to find the number of cyanide
poisoning Zhaan st. croix since 1984 authorities began to suspect that all five deaths were linked to voodoo
[Music] this is documentary footage of a voodoo ceremony in Haiti contrary to popular
belief there is nothing inherently sinister about voodoo it is unique blend of Roman Catholicism
and African tradition practice predominantly in Haiti and Louisiana in this ceremony the participants honor
the spirits of their deceased ancestors some of whom they believe have become deities many of us mistakenly think of
voodoo as curses hexes effigy dolls and potions but these exist more often in the realm of obeah underground form of
sorcery unconnected to voodoo but common in many parts of the Caribbean like all
forms of sorcery all beer has malevolent potential police and st. croix have come
to believe that the five cyanide poisoning on their Island are the work of a master con man who practices obeah
but tries to cloak himself in voodoo healers his victims into a vicious web of deceit and murder the Virgin Islands
are an ethnic and religious polyglot nearly everyone comes from somewhere else radha and krishna das maharaj were both
born in the Caribbean but their parents are Democrat from India the Maharajah's owned a small grocery store
Radha's two daughters were her first marriage helped run the business we were to been very good I mean we probably
couldn't afford a new car or anything like that but we were paying our bills and we didn't have food to eat
and we were all well we were strong and healthy and we were all working hard especially my mother several months
before they died the Maharajah's took out a loan to enlarge the grocery they soon found themselves in a financial
bind there were very tense and especially when I spoke to my mother about what they were doing she she
didn't like for me to acts all those things I'm sorry I couldn't meet last week yes some emergency had come
according to their daughters the Maharajah's also began receiving daily phone calls from a mysterious man yes
usually I answered the phone and and this man would ask to speak to my stepfather yeah as soon as I gave it to
him he would ask me to go outside because he had something private to discuss yes
our $25,000 three weeks before the Maharajah's died they brought home $25,000 in cash borrowed from Radha's
relatives it's fighting you all right she told us that this is what they had to pay to the gentleman so I asked so
well why she said well don't ask me any questions by Monday you will know what it's all about
at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Friday November 18th two hours before Radha would be found near death in her car she
left home and drove east for her to actually go out alone is something very strange for me and for her to go out at
night that is even more strange because she didn't ever go anywhere at night never 30 minutes later
Krishna death drove off in the opposite direction presumably to meet the mysterious man I still don't see why my
mother and stepfather got involved with this man the only thing I could think about perhaps is he probably promised
that if they gave him a certain amount of money he would probably give them back three or four times the amount
[Music] perhaps no one will ever know exactly what transpired that night less than two
hours after leaving home Rada Maharaja's car was coasting gently out of control near a local Beach
inexplicably her dress was soaked through seawater she was unconscious and near death but there were no outward
signs of struggle or foul play sixteen miles away krishna das maharaj was found lying by the side of a beachfront road
oddly he was played only in a pair of shorts which were also saturated with seawater once again there were no signs
of struggle or foul play the police told me that they believe that you know mom tried to commit suicide probably because
she and my stepfather had quarrelled about something so very big that there was no way they could you know patch it
up that is nonsense autopsies of radha and krishna das maharaja revealed they had both died from cyanide poisoning
incredibly two years earlier another st. croix couple head still striking and carmen torres had died under eerily
similar circumstances in 1986 heads most frightened and comment or has owned a small neighborhood bar
[Music] like the Maharajah's they took out a loan to expand their establishment they
converted the loan into cash $54,000 you gotta go a dusk on September 13th 1986 ed still and Carmen left home and
instils pickup truck their daughter would lead to recall that her father had slipped a small bottle into his pocket
before he left it was the last time she saw her Paras alive three hours later Carmen Torres was
found near death less than half a mile from the spot where Radha Maharaja was found like Radha Carmen was drenched in
cedar had died within minutes of being taken to the hospital she too was killed by cyanide
[Music] heads full stride was found dead in his truck on a nearby beach his shorts were
soaked with seawater he had also died of cyanide poisoning and the fifty four thousand dollars in
cash was missing yes comic con diem grants police flashed back two years in 1984 and another cyanide death 38 year
old Hague Caesar would immigrated to st. Croix ten years earlier from Dominica police believe that the death of Hague
Caesar was linked either to obeah or to a twisted form of Voodoo on the morning of May 24th 1984 a young girl on her way
to school came upon a car that had apparently run off the road behind the wheel was Haig seasoned dead he appeared
to be dead for several hours there was no indication of foul play and his struggle I think this guy heart attack
the autopsy was performed the next day result of that examination showed that he had died from cyanide poisoning we
didn't know whether he had induced the poisoned himself or whether it was given by someone else we started talking to
people and we later found out that he had made contact with an individual that might be involving moodle what he said
is that the man had told them that there were three large jars of coins buried on
the property that we want and that the coins are being guarded by spirits ancient spirits and in order to get
those coins they would have to get rid of the spirits and there was a ritual and ceremony that
went through them in order to do that they would need to raise some money before his death pig Caesar apparently
paid $100,000 in cash to an OB who claimed he could manipulate voodoo rituals to remove the evil spirits
I can't feel something Jumbo's presence really here I can't feel it there's a lot of gold on this land when you come
up with the balance and the money I have a portion it'll loosen up the Jumby and
then you can't get it when they have the rest of the money all right don't worry
about that when I found out about all the money he was boring and all the cash that he had taken out of our accounts
and everything without even letting me know I really was very angry about it shocked over all just shocked that he
would have taken it so far police now believe that on the night he died egg Caesar went to the spot where
the OB live had set a treasure of priceless coins was buried the old demons lethal scam called for Caesar to
drink a potion and thus drive away the spirits guarding the coins the potion turned out to be cyanide there is no way
of knowing whether Hague Caesar was alone when he drank the silently by the time his body was discovered the next
day less than a mile from his property both the obeah moon of $100,000 had vanished I knew that he was aware of you
know Oh beer and voodoo I mean most people who live in the islands are I thought he was smart enough intelligent
enough aware enough to know that you know it wasn't real when you come up with raising the money
I'm a Porsche or all fire deaths at work of a nobleman whenever if Seoul was a man who promised
buried treasure to heungseon the same one who telephoned the Maharaja was he also the man at school strike and
common tourists went to meet on the night they died only one thing is certain the similarities in all three
cases go far beyond coincidence the connection between the Maharajah's commenters Elvis Trident and Hayek's
Issa came from what we theorized is someone on in the community that was the conduit between this individual and the
potential victims this person probably know these people in the community knows the lifestyle and knows the capability
or the financial the financial status it's very hard to understand why people would want to cheat and kill and if
somebody doesn't find him that I don't believe that there is any justice in this world if somebody doesn't find that
man the man who has murdered five people in st. Croix is believed to travel throughout the Caribbean and evil into
the continental United States there are rumors that he has been seen in Florida he speaks with a heavy French West
Indian accent [Music] when we return a legend of an outlaw ambushed in the Wild West and a buried
treasure allegedly worth millions [Music] who among us has not imagined what it would be like to discover a buried
treasure the very thought brings a promise of romance and adventure some people spend
their entire lives searching for legendary hidden fortunes one such elusive fortune lies in the
forbidding Arizona desert its legend Springs mo notorious tale of desperados deception and greed
[Music] stretching 20 miles across Arizona's eastern borders a jagged mountain ravine
whose very name reflects his dark and treacherous past skeleton Canyon essentially a go thieves and robbers
from Mexico frequented this rugged landscape smuggling stolen riches into the United States legend holds it
somewhere near this mysterious Canton plays a buried cache of gold and jewels according to son it is a Wild West
largest unclaimed treasure I spent a night in sculpting Canyon about two years ago full moonlight and I must
admit the hair never went down on my back once that entire night I just have a second sense that there was just too
much to go on that went on here not to be a treasure involved with this somehow no I don't believe that there is a
skeleton Canyon treasure waiting out there to be found it's a known fact that it's a real treasure this is one of the
treasures it's absolutely real real legend of skeleton Canyon begins in a small Mexican village in 1881 a con
artist named Jim huge learned that a gang of Mexican banditos had looted the town of Monterrey they were planning to
smuggle their booty into the United States [Music] Hughes himself was a member of the
infamous curly bill Brocius gang which operated out of Arizona Culiacan was able to infiltrate him because he spoke
fluent Spanish and he found out that the gang was coming back to skeleton Canyon
the reports that I read the myriad of books and the treasure magazines as far back as 1964 reported the treasure to be
worth anywhere from 2.5 million dollars all away and I've seen the reports of it
being worth up to eight million dollars Hughes wrote back to Arizona and told his cronies of the treasure they made
plans to ambush the smugglers the Estrada gang had come out of Mexico through Sonora and we're going to what
was later to become known as skeleton Canyon and they were about a mile to two miles in there's on the other side right
outside of an area called Devil's kitchen [Music] the Mexicans offer amounts in the contraband being scattered all
over the canyon and in order to stop the mules from scattering and taking the loot with them their gang the curly bill
Brocius gang or shooting the Mules the outlaws now had their treasure but without mules he had no way of moving it
out of the canyon part of the loot was divided up on the spot the rest was buried to be retrieved
later but two members of the gang had different ideas swing hunt and Billy grounds were fairly good friends and
they decided that while the rest of the gang was out in the local bars in Gale evil or Shakespeare or Tucson or
wherever they went spending their money ill-gotten fortune that they would double-cross the gang
and come back into the canyon according to legend they were able to find a Mexican teamster talked him into
bringing his team and horses into skeleton Canyon and removing the treasure and of course he was later
killed because they wanted to keep them the new hiding place as a secret I feel very sure in my own mind that it's very
likely that the treasure is still buried within the vicinity of skeleton Canyon probably no more than 30 miles away
fearing retribution from their ex partners swing hunt and Billy growls went into hiding
he found a desert cave where they remained for nearly four months during this period Billy Grounds penned a
number of letters to his sister Maggie in San Antonio Billy wanted her to know where the treasure was hidden should
anything happen to him Billy said we're venturing out once a week to give the letters to a passing stagecoach
treasure hunter fern Hamel claims to have seen and copy portions of nine of the levites he refused to show us his
copies would agree to divulge their contents and in the letter state it told about the cave and how long they were on
the road they moved all night with the treasure from from dark until sunup before they stopped the bury it and then
they went to the cave one the letters he's writing to his sister he said there's a cave at the mouth of the
canyon I found that cave and he goes back 80 feet and we even dug in the cave and
found no ropes that was varied in there and one of the things in the letter it said he firmer look out you can see the
turf growing back over where we buried the treasure down in develop [Music] I have found all the clues that there is
in the letters every one of them when I once found the right place to look where
everything fit and everything is there so I know the treasure is I'm there where it's at
it's there Billy Grounds who is supposed to have written the letters was a 19 year old Texas cowboy Rustler type who
had migrated from Texas to Arizona it's unlikely to me that he would have been writing home detailed letters about hey
we robbed these Mexicans and we've buried this huge treasure here's how to find it Maggie was Billy groans sister
and she her and a man had spent two years living in a cave out there looking for this treasure and we found this vase
in a cave it says Maggie on it 1885 World's Fair so I know that was Billy groans sister that was there
looking for this treasure for two years she spent there washed 19th 1882 the chef's posse cornered Billy grounds and
swing haunted a remote desert outpost [Music] in the ensuing shootout Billy was killed
swing was seriously injured in Tombstone swing Hut revealed a secret location of
the treasure to his uncle he drew up a detailed map they can space swing later managed to escape only to be killed in
an Indian attack it seems to me that it's another typical treasure hunting yarn it's always somewhat removed from
the original documents we never get to see the map we never get to examine it for its genuineness or see if it's in
matches up with any handwriting samples we might have Burnham who claims to have
seen a map made by his wing hunts uncle the map shows the canyon and it shows the where the cave is
everything matches but I think the treasure now on account of the earthquake in in 1886
I think the treasure is around 20 feet deep part of the mountain caved off on it and so we got billions of tons of
rock to mine we don't know right hard to dig it today even though there are a great many
skeptics the legend of buried treasure and skeleton Canyon continues to attract fortune hunters from around the world
I think the skeleton Kenyan treasure this is a very plausible story from the standpoint that every time it would rain
somebody's skull would show up our bones of a mule would be exposed or another coin would become evident and compared
to a lot of other stories it's got a lot more plausibility than I would say the Lost Dutchman mine for instance it is
possible that there's a skeleton Canyon treasure out there to be found somewhere
but the initial reports given by the Mexican government given in the local press indicate that there was a very
small amount of money taken which would have been spent very very quickly with us I don't think there was a treasure
given historical sources to to hide and thus for 20th century Americans to find when I find the treasure I'll stop
looking for it that's it we'll be even when I'll stop because I know it's real this treasure is real and I know I found
the right place where it said everything is for his real is there a treasure buried beneath the
foreboding walls in skeleton Canyon or is it merely another fable leftover from the days of the Wild West in over 100
years of scouring the region treasure hunters have unearthed the multitude of bleached bones and a handful of Mexican
coins they are convinced they are the remnants of the ambush and skeleton Canyon although people have searched for
the elusive treasure for years at this time it is illegal to dig in the area when we return a terrifying story of a
woman attacked and run along a highway in North Carolina [Music] March 22nd 1990 business route 95 just
outside Fayetteville North Carolina State Troopers Chris do and one night stop to compare notes during a routine
patrol about two minutes in the conversation lady walked down the woods about 75 yards away and started towards
us staggering the other trooper had a set of binoculars and he looked our through the binoculars and saw that she
appeared to be injured she had blood on her shoulders and she was coming in our direction
well I've run get your blanket I laid her on the ground and the other trooper went to his car and called for an
ambulance and shortly thereafter a hamlets arrived and transported the lady to the hospital
[Music] the young woman had been shot once in the face with a 12-gauge double-barrel
shotgun her left jaw was completely shattered and she was unable to speak she carried no identification it was not
until 10 hours later when her condition is stable that she was able to write down her mother's name and telephone
number police discovered that the young woman was from winston-salem North Carolina 120 miles away detective Ken
vision of the winston-salem Police Department worked on the case with Fayetteville detectives this is getting
too hard on him you just put stop to what unless you know they cannot talk she can only write I also want to warn
you that her injuries were massive I want to prepare you for what you're gonna say okay okay
good morning brought two fellas in to see ya effective he did take a stand when he introduced us to her we
conducted probably a 30 minute interview with her that was probably the most severe injury I've ever seen for a
person that survived do you know where the liquor store was where you stopped the victim seemed to remember everything
so she did not yet speak she wrote down detailed descriptions of the attack and her attacker working with her a police
artist created this drawing it's important letters man record because he is not rational he's very
dangerous and he may harm someone else this toy depicts a brutal senseless crime it may not be easy to watch
however police fear that if a man responsible is not apprehended he could strike again the young woman who was
victimized courageously agreed to be interviewed because she has requested we not use her real name we will call her
Debbie on the morning of March 22nd 1990 Debbie made a large cash withdrawal from
the First Union Bank in winston-salem she left the bank at 9:40 a.m. [Music] Debbie told police that the man forced
her to drive to a liquor store three miles away the keys the keys the man would inside
the bike whiskey holding Debbie's car keys and watching her like a hawk Debbie was petrified with fear the man
had threatened to kill everyone in the liquor store if she tried to make a run for it
[Music] start the Braille a man ordered Debbie to take Interstate 40 heading east and 421 south toward
Fayetteville for nearly four agonizing hours he threatened her life dry cap bragged that he had once killed a man in
New York Debbie journey was a living hell although at the time he just wouldn't talk to me at all and when he judged he
was very abusive very angry it got worse as time on because he was drinking auto
the liquor and he would just get more angry and more irrational and I got more afraid knowing I could not reason with
him about three miles north of Fayetteville a man forced Debbie to pull off the road get out
[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] at almost that same moment state trooper
Ron Knight noticed the gray station wagon I was gonna cross over and check the vehicle and just about this time I
met a speeding vehicle traveling south on i-95 business so I turned and pursued after this vehicle
[Music] [Music] Debbie was beaten and sexually assaulted then left for dead [Music]
the next day Debbie station ID will be found about 300 miles away in Hamilton County Florida just south of the Georgia
state line [Music] [Applause] authorities in Fayetteville investigated the crime scene Ron looks like we might
have some gloves here their search turned up a dark blue pea jacket and brown cloth gloves Debbie told
authorities he had been warned by the man who attacked her the navy blue p jacket and the brown
cotton work gloves that were recovered at the fayetteville crime scene had a strong odor of some type of petroleum
product about them we think we're looking at a person that works around that type of a product it could possibly
be a mechanic somebody works with greasy grimy motors that kind of thing possibly
even some air dries a fuel or heating oil type truck Debbie's assailant was about 5 feet 10
inches tall and weighed between 150 and 160 pounds he appeared to be in his mid 30s and wore his hair close-cropped
although he abandoned his car in northern Florida authorities believe he could be anywhere in the United States
I feel like until they find him I'm going to continually feel like he's there he's out there and he he I know
it's so unlikely going to he will find try to find me but it's that fear of him being there and then he also might hurt
someone else from the beginning after my sister was shot we knew that we we wanted her to be careful as far as just
you seeing herself we wanted her to be with her doctor and for him to be alongside when she you saw herself for
the first time after this a friend happened to send a mylar balloon that she tied to the foot of her bed and
in the back of this mylar balloon she saw herself actually by mistake one day and was alone when this happened I feel
like you have two choices you can just lie down and cry and die or you can live and go on who you are and I have so much
to live for I have three children I have a family and I have such good friends that there
is no reason for me to to just feel sorry for myself and do nothing debbie has had extensive plastic surgery
and doctors hope they'll soon be able to restore her shattered jaw this is the jacket he was wearing it is navy blue
wool size 42 with a belt in the back the jacket is not US Navy issue police have
physical evidence that will enable them to make a positive identification should
a suspect be located when we return the bizarre saga the mysterious recluse of the unclaimed
fortune she left behind [Music] Heavenly Father we commit the body of our dear sister Dorothea to be consumed
by fire ashes to ashes on a dreary January day in 1990 and the tiny English village of
Sutton under break your laugh a notorious mysterious woman was laid to rest it was rumored that Dorothea
wealthiest most famous resident of the county and thus danced with Fred Astaire the way at dinner with Gary Cooper but
when she died at 89 it will be five people came to mourner Amy in her prime Dorothea Allen was
considered a great beauty by all accounts she was devoted to her husband Robert he died in 1965 and the couple was
chalice when Dorothea died she left no will only an intricate mystery the saga of Dorothea l boasts a plot and
characters rivaling any Dickens novel a most intriguing character Dorothea herself she had a quirky mystique a
wealthy business executive beauty you hobnob with movie stars yet to some she was a shrew mistreating the people who
worked for her and hoarding money like a miser her four million dollar fortune remains unclaimed because Dorothea had
extensive ties in this country some thinker errors may be right here in the United States
after Dorothea's death the British government had assigned investigators to search her manor house in an effort to
locate the rightful heir but they found instead was evidence of a woman who had attempted to obliterate all traces of
her past I spent a lot of time going through drawers and cupboards trying to find anything that would give me clues
as to who this woman was and quite frankly I found very little we found her passport which had pages ripped from it
and of course these are the pages that that gave us all the information we might have needed when we we got
upstairs we found dressing rooms absolutely stashed with the most amazing clothes
and shoes I don't think I've ever seen as many pairs of women's shoes in one place we look through photograph albums
and all the images have been pulled out of the albums and someone had taken a pair of scissors and cut off the heads
and so we couldn't identify anyone it was disappointing and and frustrating because at that stage no one had a clue
who she was Dorothea Allen and her husband Robert had always been elusive people intensely
private he had kept their backgrounds shrouded in mystery even those who knew them best knew little about their past
the Allen's had made their fortune manufacturing plain surgical courses for women then adding frills lace ribbons
and bows to make the coarsest more feminine the decorated corsets sold like hotcakes Dorothea oversaw every detail
she had an eye for beauty and she certainly used it yeah she made that Factory a great success she was an
absolute perfectionist she would count the stitches to the edge on everything that was done there should be 12
stitches 211 Dorothea was a very nasty piece of work she ran her servants ragged from
what I can gather I also think she didn't pay very well to her employees and ran quite a strict regime she
demanded people walk out of her office backwards she was probably quite a ruthless
businesswoman she had a business plan she was gonna make herself rich and when she got herself rich she was going to go
out and spend it and enjoy it she spent very freely they went on the Queen Mary in great experiments all over
the world there are a few pictures but show them on the Queen Mary at a time when they weren't able to stop pictures
being taken the rest of the time photographs they just wouldn't Blair allowed them to be taken
[Music] at Christmas the Allens entertained only those employees would reached a specific
productivity corner a select few were actually allowed to speak to the Alice who felt free to indulge the revolutions
of gravity they used to be like royalty really serve a nor before in 1965 Robert
Allen died after a long illness Dorothea's whole life had been built around her business and her husband he
seemed unable to cope with his death I think she could always count on your support and when he went she felt had
proffered gone I suppose and she just went to pieces frankly oh she was very very upset they had absolutely thought
the world of one another and she was very much affected after the death of mr. Allen one of her habits was
to get his cigars and light them and leave them burning in the hall and in the library so that she got the
atmosphere of him still being there Dorothea began to neglect her business and the American parent company burger
brothers finally forced her out she spent more and more time alone after an accident in her Rolls Royce Nora Thea
Allen never left her estate again no one was allowed in there and she lived with a gardener and a housekeeper
in in once the room in the kitchen as her health began to fail Dorothea became obsessed with eliminating all traces
ever passed according to her lawyer she mutilated photographs of herself and her
husband she destroyed the page in her passport to contain her place and date of birth
[Music] On January 4th 1990 Dorothea Allen died in bed she had been a recluse for more
than 20 years steadfastly refusing to make a will well she told some people that she
thought people had seen much money anyway and therefore they didn't need to be left money in a will but then she
would have known that the state would come in and take the money and I wouldn't have thought anyone would want
to leave money to the government so she had to have something to hide and she wanted she mistakenly thought that by
not leaving a will she will be able to disguise her life after she died there appeared to be no record of when or
where Dorothy Allen was born or even what her maiden name had been then a smallpox vaccination certificate
surfaced all at Dorothea's birth date was listed as January 21st 1901 her last name for Kison finally there seemed to
be a clue to Dorothea Allen's true identity she told me her name was Ferguson and several times she told me
that and that she was born in Scotland well I'd like to know where the name Farkas in' comes from i think that this
is some red herring that's been put forward fairly early on there is no Dorothea Ferguson that fits in either
ten years either side of the alleged date of birth investigators could fight absolutely no record of a female British
citizen named Farkas n' born anywhere near Dorothea's date of birth my own personal theory is that Dorothea was a
woman of lowly birth that she was a seamstress or perhaps a barmaid if it is true that she did come from humble
background then I think it's probably something she would want to keep quiet another theory is that she and her
sister were born in Berlin at the time of the problems with Germany they got out at the right time Dorothea was
educated at an Ursuline convent in Belgium found her way to either this country or
America I think the true story is that she met in the 1920s Robert Lang Will Allen in the north of England he was
married and I think they fell in love he left his wife and child and set up home
with Dorothea Allen they then had to carry on the charade of being a married couple and as she got older she became
more convinced that the infidelity would come out and wanted more and more to protect it
we think she was married in America we think Connecticut but we don't know when and we assumed that she married Robert
Allen but we're not sure there are theories that Robert and Dorothea were brother and sister that is something you
want to keep very quiet because obviously incest is is punishable by law is it possible the Dorothea Robert Allen
a brother and sister rumors from their stab indicated that they always slept apart if the sibling theory is almost
impossible to prove Robert Alice backyard as nearly as obscure as Dorothea's who was this
mystery couple did they have some dark secret to cover up or will they simply obsessed with wealth and possessions cut
off from their fellow human being [Music] [Music] in 1966 Navy medic mark Dennis was
reported killed in action in Vietnam but when this photograph appeared four years
later his family believed he had survived and been taken prisoner today there is compelling evidence that
the body buried and mark Dennis's grave may not be his Dorothy Izod a Canadian housewife has photographs that have
confounded skeptics are the evidence of life beyond the stars for another ingenious deception also we'll bring you
an update on the capture of one of the FBI's 10 most wanted criminals thanks to our viewers a suspected serial child
molester is now in custody join me next week for another edition unsolved mysteries
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Brief Summary

Unsolved mysteries include cyanide deaths in the Virgin Islands, Skeleton Canyon treasure, and a brutal attack in North Carolina.

Key points

A Brutal Attack in Fayetteville. In March 1990, a young woman survives a brutal attack, leaving police searching for her assailant.
Mysterious Deaths in St. Croix. Five local residents die under strange circumstances, leading police to suspect a con man.
The Legend of Skeleton Canyon. A buried treasure worth millions lies hidden in Arizona's Skeleton Canyon, attracting treasure hunters.
The Elusive Treasure. Is there a treasure buried beneath the foreboding walls of Skeleton Canyon?
Debbie's Harrowing Experience. A woman attacked and left for dead shares her terrifying story of survival.
The Mystery of Dorothea Allen. The life and secrets of a reclusive woman who left behind a fortune and a mystery.

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