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this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you're about to see is not a news broadcast
seventeen-year-old tracy kirkpatrick was an honors student with a passion for poetry
in 1989 tracy was stabbed in death from the clothing store where she worked three months later a man claiming to be
the killer made this bizarre telephone call i know this is gonna sound surprising
but three months ago perhaps you can help catch him folsom prison california for years he
was thought to be virtually escape-proof but in 1984 a convicted killer steve wilson
pulled off an ingenious jailbreak and became the first man to escape from folsom in
15 years in 1943 22 year old frankie bloomer was reported missing in action when the destroyer uss
rowan was sunk in battle a few days later frankie's picture taken on a hospital ship appeared in the
newspaper for almost 50 years his family has been asking what happened to frankie bloomer
in 1965 22 year old judith hiams vanished without a trace from coral gables florida
25 years later in a bizarre turn of events a series of anonymous phone calls claim that judith is still alive
also we'll bring you an intriguing update on our story of amelia earhart the legendary aviator who disappeared
while flying around the world in 1937 recently an expedition found a piece of equipment which may have been on her
plane join me for this fascinating edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause]
[Music] tracy kirkpatrick was an introspective pretty teenager from a small town near
frederick maryland the third of four children tracy was an honor student who loved reading and
writing poetry in early 1989 tracy read her family a haunting poem written by christina
rossetti tracy seemed to be asking them not to grieve for her when she was gone remember me when i am gone away gone
far away into the silent land when you can no more hold me by the hand [Music] her and her boyfriend had just recently
broke up and i guess she expressed her feelings through her her writing she wrote a lot of uh
lonely poems she's very intelligent she's a hard worker and she loved people and she loved to be around people and
she loved to have a lot of friends and everything now this is our new spring line we have
it in blue during tracy's senior year in high school she held down two part-time
jobs one of them a sales clerk in a woman's clothing store on the night of march 15 1989 tracy was
assigned to close the store and tally up the day's receipts 15 minutes before closing time
tracy was alone it was 8 45 pm two hours later a shopping mall security guard noticed that the lights
inside the women's clothing store were still on the front door was unlocked the guard
called out but received no response he walked toward the back of the store in a storage room he found tracy
kirkpatrick's lifeless body the guard immediately notified the police you better send someone down right away
all right at almost the same moment billy and diane kirkpatrick tracy's parents were
on route to the shopping mall it was nearly 11 p.m more than an hour after tracy usually returned home
i'm worried for nothing okay i know everything's gonna be fine what the hell is this what is look
there's police cars bill yeah okay [Music] as soon as i seen it was at the store i
jumped out of the car and uh i went up to the door and they wasn't they didn't want to let us in at
first because they really didn't know who we were tracy works here all right hold on chief
your parents she's okay thank you tracy i said is she all right can i see her and when he shook his head no i just
blocked out everything i didn't want to hear the rest of what was going to be said to me
no all right bill oh okay diane sit down what did someone have it against her that they would do something
like that to her she never did anything to hurt anybody police could find no apparent motive for
tracy kirkpatrick's brutal murder there was no sign of sexual assault the day's cash receipts have been left
untouched on the counter since there were no indications of a struggle police believe the murder must
have been someone tracy knew a thorough analysis of the crime scene turned up late in fingerprints but no
other physical evidence the case was stalled then three months later police got their first real lead
when a mysterious telephone call was recorded by a nationwide confession hotline in las vegas
hello my name is this is a tape recording of the actual phone call i know this is going to sound surprising
but three months ago and you might think that in making mistakes the hotline immediately notified the
frederick police the sincerity that i heard in that voice and the knowledge that the person was
displaying talking about what he had done at that point convinced me that i probably was listening to the killer
detective horner thought the caller's knowledge of the case was convincing he took the tape to his chief yes sir
let's listen to it then our conversation turned into an argument and so i took out a knife that i have
with me at all times and i killed her and a few days later i realized that i had
created a lot of sadness and i thought about turning myself into the police or whatever they do to me that won't
bring tracy back so i've decided that i better keep free because we have the death penalty in maryland uh
thanks for listening i'm sorry about what i did but nothing can change it's fine
just sounds like we have our killer doesn't it sounds very authentic they traced the call back to a supermarket in
walkersville maryland which is uh seven or eight miles just north of frederick city
if it was the killer he wanted to be caught and he was seeking help through this
hotline and it was a decision made by my chief of police and and members of my division to compose a
letter to this individual and address it to dawn and asked dawn to please come forward if
he needed someone to talk to i was available the letter was published in a local newspaper on october 10
1989 police received no response but two weeks later another unlikely phone call provided them with a new lead
hello my name is john and i have rather an unusual request how can i help you sean
on october 24th martha woodworth a massachusetts woman with a reputation as a psychic
began to receive calls from a young man who identified himself as sean well i don't usually take cases sean
seemed obsessed with finding the person who had murdered tracy kirkpatrick martha told shawn she needed more
information before she could help eventually he agreed to send martha newspaper clippings
and when i received the envelope with his handwriting on the outside i thought this person has a much
stronger involvement than just being a friend who's interested i found the handwriting
extremely disturbed so i felt it was my responsibility to alert the police that i had a potential suspect for them
martha do you think you've talked to sean enough that you could recognize his voice from a tape
yes i i'm pretty sure okay let me play a little tape for you on telephone chief ashton played the confession tape
for martha woodworth she believed the voice was shawn's [Music] i knew it was sean in fact my heart
dropped it was very chilling to hear the voice of the person i'd been speaking to for months
actually confessing to the crime you know i certainly didn't encourage uh her to maintain
contact with him because i mean at that time we thought it was a viable lead and it's the best lead that we had and
she was the you know conduit between sean dawn and the police department what if the killer commits
suicide police checked out the return address on sean's envelope it was in walkersville maryland the same
town where the call in confession had been made however the young man living at the
address was not named sean or don he was obsessed with that good morning as requested by frederick
said another dead end the frederick police turned a local radio stations for help
the caller claims to have killed tracy lynn kirkpatrick who was brutally murdered in frederick
one year ago today authorities encourage you to listen carefully there's a chance someone may
recognize the caller's voice [Applause] after the tape aired three people claimed they thought they recognized the
voice again the man was not named sean or don but he was the young man who lived at
the return address on the psychics letter police searched his home the next day our hopes in serving the search and
seizure warrant on his person obtaining physical evidence from that suspect was to send
that material to our forensic lab and the state lab and confirm our suspicions that he was in
fact the person who committed this crime unfortunately the evidence was examined and
re-examined and we were unable to confirm that he was either at the crime scene that night
or had any any particular part in this criminal act okay i guess in the search police found
many newspaper clippings about tracy's murder but could find no evidence that the young man knew
tracy kirkpatrick personally he plead the fifth amendment and refused to answer any questions
there has to be someone that's seeing something someone coming from that store running from the
store or leaving that store or heard something i just can't imagine something happening like that no one
knowing nothing about it the frustrating part is you know we obviously know somebody
killed her and we've never been able to nail it down to the suspect that definitely did it but i
mean that's has been our pledge to the community to the family that you know we're not going to give up
until we do identify that person on march 20th 1989 tracy kirkpatrick was buried in oak grove cemetery near
pittsburgh pennsylvania the poem she had once recited for her family was inscribed on her tombstone
[Music] remember me when i am gone away gone far away into the silent land when you can no more hold me by the hand
yet if you should forget me for a while and afterward remember do not grieve for if the darkness and corruption leave
a vestige of the thoughts that once i had better by far that you should forget and
smile and that you should remember and be sad six decades ago famed aviator amelia
earhart captured the heart and spirit of an entire generation with their courageous
record-breaking flights but in 1937 erhart became the subject of one of the most enduring and fascinating
unsolved mysteries on may 20th 1937 emilia enter navigator fred noodle began their attempt to
circumnavigate the world in a twin-engine lockheed electra they never returned on july 2nd they disappeared on route to
the small south pacific island of holland [Music] a massive search turned up no trace of
amelia fred or their airplane years later rumors surfaced that earhart and noonan were taken prisoner by the
japanese and held on the island of saipan this woman was brought ashore by the japanese
neva blas has lived on saipan her entire life she claims that she witnessed amelia
earhart's execution [Music] amelia earhart and fred newman taken prisoner and executed on the island of
saipan or did their plane in fact go down in the vast and unforgiving waters of the
south pacific shortly after our broadcast we learned of an intriguing discovery that may
finally solve the mystery of amelia earhart's disappearance in october of 1989 a 17-member expedition spent three weeks
on a tiny uninhabited island called nikumaroro nikumaroro is 420 miles from amelia's
destination howland island the operation was headed by aviation archaeologist rick gillespie no one ever really
searched on that island for amelia earhart although the u.s navy flew over it one
week after she disappeared the pilot in charge of the flight saw what he later described in his official
report as clear signs of recent human habitation what he could not have known at that
time is there should have been no one on that island no sign of any human activity on that
island the expedition found this aluminum aircraft part which may have been installed in the
lockheed elector by navigator fred noonan the number on the box positively identifies it
as a navigator's bookcase we know there was a structure of this box's size and shape
installed aboard the earhart aircraft tests performed by the fbi laboratory in washington d.c
conclude that the bookcase came from a civilian aircraft and was manufactured in the years just prior to earhart's
disappearance what the fbi has told us doesn't constitute proof what it does is constitute sufficient
evidence to merit a return to mararo to find and photograph the ultimate proof the airplane itself
rick gillespie and the archaeological team plan to return the nikumaroro using sonar and computer tracking
devices they will try to locate amelia hearts plane in the waters just off the island
perhaps just perhaps the mystery of the legendary amelia earhart will finally be
solved [Music] in 1976 a 30 year old jack of all trades named steve wilson showed up in atlanta california
he was a licensed pilot and a certified electrician he said he had come from san diego but
never revealed much else about his past with his rugged good looks and smooth-talking charm wilson soon made
friends with the local residents people liked steve wilson he could tell you anything you wanted to hear
and make you believe it he was very much involved with the college he liked to lift weights
he liked to weld and when he was around a group of people that he enjoyed he was very friendly and very
uh fun to be around wilson did occasional odd jobs on the cabin bar ranch a 900 000 acre spread 100 miles west of
death valley the ranch was owned by bill thornberg a prominent horseman 22 year old cali thornberg lived at home
and worked right alongside her father when steve wilson met cali he took an immediate interest in her
they courted for nine months and bill thornburg's blessings ran off to reno to get married
dad wanted me to get married because he felt that i needed to have something other than him in the ranch
as we were driving to reno or even the day before we left i was wishing there was some
way that i could get out of it or not get married but i felt as though i had made that
commitment and there was no way to get out of that the marriage was an immediate disaster
wilson was abusive and threatened callie just two months after the wedding callie
left her husband and moved back in with her father wilson was no longer welcome on the
cabin bar ranch hi john a few days later cali told her father that wilson had been making threatening phone calls
i didn't realize that guy was so crazy i'm really afraid i don't know what to do
the threats sparked a feud between bill thornburg and steve wilson well i don't like to say this at all
callie but i really fear for your life the guy's a nut i know wilson would call on the phone and
harass us and he would say things like i will hurt you worse than you've ever been
hurt before i will take everything you love away from you you will pay you will learn to love me you will learn
that loving me is easier than being away from me about three weeks after the breakup
steve wilson showed up at the ranch to get callie back kelly kelly come out here
telling want to talk to you right now come out here what do you want wilson i want to talk to kelly she'd want to
talk to you kelly i love you but she don't love you it's over with that's between me and kelly get off my
ranch why are you doing this to me just go away i love you callie i'm telling you you hear what i'm saying
i grabbed my dad and grabbed the gun and said no don't shoot him it's not worth it you
know i didn't want my father and wilson to get into any kind of a confrontation with each other because i was afraid
that wilson would hurt my dad may 29 1979 at 6 a.m bill thornburg left the ranch house to
do his morning chores and never returned when i got there he wasn't there and so
i waited for about oh 15 to 20 minutes and he never showed i thought something was wrong because he
was always on time dad and so i walked out to the water lines and i found his truck
with his every morning cup of coffee sitting on the dashboard and it was still hot
dad bill thornberg was never seen again steve wilson had also disappeared seven months passed then on christmas
eve 1979 a teenager riding his dirt bike through the desert 45 miles south of the ranch
house made a grisly discovery a teenage boy on a dirt bike had been over in the sand canyon area
and had come across the skeletal remains of a body the boy knew his parents wouldn't
believe him if he told him so he actually took the head and rode back to his house
and at that time his parents called the sheriff's office and they went out and investigated
with the evidence at the scene the clothing and different articles it was immediately known that it was bill
thornberg's body and all the evidence led to steve wilson i believe he vented a lot of his rage at
bill up unto the point where he took him out and murdered him another year and a half passed and steve
wilson was still on the run then in 1981 he was spotted by a game warden in kodiak alaska
and was subsequently arrested in las vegas he pled guilty to first degree murder and received a sentence of 25
years to life at folsom prison in california folsom prison is a maximum security
facility housing many violent killers when steve wilson arrived there had not been an escape in 15 years
wilson immediately went to work ingratiating himself to the officers and administrators mr martin good
morning to you sir i go steve listen a little favor i'd like to ask if you could help me out
he joined the in-house work program and used his charm on those who could help him
steve was a model prisoner i have 30 years in his career of mine and i would have
to say that this guy is the greatest clerk i've ever had before long wilson became the clerk in
charge of shipping it is one of the most coveted inmate jobs in the prison with a lease
supervision and the most freedom of movement hey larry hey steve how you doing good
hey look at invoice 1403 you only see when he became a clerk in in the warehouse up uh
adjacent to the metal factory in the license plate factory but his job would entail him being in
all different areas of the uh of the warehouse picking up inventories picking up invoices
work orders so for him to be in a certain area at any time would not be unusual would not be significant
and if he wasn't there would not be significant either two years passed prison officials had no
idea that during that entire time wilson was plotting a way out at 8 30 a.m on august 3
1984 while wilson was working near the loading dock he put his escape plan into effect
[Music] what is your problem he ran into me listen i told you about this safety last
week [Music] when the truck was fully loaded the officers sealed the door shut unaware that wilson had enlisted other
inmates to create a diversion and help him make his escape [Music] wilson's meticulous planning had worked
nobody noticed that he left the loading dock it's my opinion that steve wilson was looking for the
weakest link in our security to get out i think he was planning this at least well over a year ahead of time
he was an intelligent individual and when you have vehicles going in and out of a secure area
that's your weakest link escape plan was modeled almost exactly after the last successful escape from
folsom in 1969 15 years period authorities believe that as soon as a truck left the prison grounds
wilson cut a hole in the roof using tin snipes he had stolen from the prison metal shop
just minutes later the truck pulled into the local building when the truck's driver went inside for
a cup of coffee wilson squeezed through the hole he'd cut and disappeared having wilson on the
loose is very hard for me because i can never really relax i don't like being alone and i'm always
looking around all the corners i i'm constantly in fear before steve wilson was sent to folsom
prison he was interviewed on videotape by a psychiatrist i was thinking anything i can't say that i was planning
to kill him that i wasn't planning to kill him or anything i just turned in and drove straight to the grave who was
driving [Music] [Music] next the poignant mystery of an american sailor whose ship was sunk by the nazis
he was later photographed on a hospital ship and never seen again most of us are familiar with the
heartbreaking stories of american soldiers still missing in action in vietnam and the anguish and uncertainty
their families face it's astonishing to think that their other families have been carrying that
same terrible burden ever since world war ii yet along with that burden of despair
comes a miracle of hope this is a story of one american sailor's family and their steadfast
dream of reunion frank joseph bloomer was born on october 12 1921 in ziegler illinois the younger of two
sons he loved the outdoors especially swimming and fishing when world war ii broke out frankie
enlisted in the navy against his parents wishes frankie bloomer served as a radio technician
aboard the uss rowan a destroyer operating in the mediterranean sea on september 11 1943 just off the coast
of italy a german u-boat targeted the roan his torpedo hit home going sank in less than a minute
202 american sailors were killed reported missing in action was 22 year old radio man third
class frankie bloomer his parents heard that the roland was sunk on their car radio in a short time they
were notified that it was missing in action incredibly less than a week later mrs
jane bloomer saw a newspaper article with this photograph of three survivors of the uss rowan
she recognized the man in the middle as her son frankie i know this is him look at this she immediately contacted her
other son's wife dorothy the two women compared the newspaper photograph with pictures of frankie yes
see i noticed that too how it is when i first saw the newspaper picture of the three survivors
i was positive the one was frankie it had characteristics that he had features and um i knew it was frankie
jane bloomer took the photographs to a local mortician who was an expert at photo identification
see how he's holding his arm there did he ever break his arm maybe as a child yes he
did i would say that these two men are absolutely the same are you sure from my observation of this evidence
i definitely would conclude they're one and the same thank you when the mortician told my
mother-in-law that he felt this picture was a frankie it gave her a lot more hope
she wrote to the american red cross to see if they could help her and they said they got all of their
information from the war department and that they could not find any information that she did not already
have frankie's mother never stopped believing that her son was alive when mrs bloomer died in 1971
she passed her hope to a new generation her granddaughter janie as a very small girl the first
time i can remember hearing or finding out about my uncle frankie was at my grandma's house
i noticed the picture sitting on the mantel i went over and i asked my grandma i
said well who is this and she said this is your uncle frankie why haven't i ever met him well
he went into the navy a long time ago he just hasn't come back yet but i'm sure he will
i would say that my grandmother and grandfather lived with this haunting feeling of never knowing
if he was alive or dead until the day they died awesome i think my grandparents would
commemorate frankie's birthday in different ways from year to year it never went forgotten
i can recall a time when we were over at my grandmother's house to eat dinner and there happened to be a cake on the
table and and i asked why there was a cake there and she told me that it was because it was frankie's birthday
where is he he's away just now when is he gonna be back i don't know janie i don't know
i'm searching to find the answer whether he is alive or dead so that i don't end up the same way that
my grandparents did because they both died not knowing the real truth of whether he was alive or
dead twelve years ago janie's parents erected a memorial headstone for frankie i do go to the grave occasionally and
our family is all buried in the same proximity it's kind of strange though when when i
look at my uncle frankie's grave marker and know that he's not in there and think of the possibility that he
could be walking a street somewhere yet there's a marker here with his name on it
[Music] for a young woman to be pregnant and unmarried is nearly always a disturbing
and unsettling prospect in 1965 judith hines a 22 year old medical technician from coral gables florida found herself
in that difficult predicament with nowhere else to turn judith hyams apparently decided to have an illegal
abortion it was a decision that probably led to her disappearance and quite possibly
her death judith hines learned she was pregnant in august of 1965 the name she gave her pregnancy test was
b kenny evidence that she may have been trying to keep her condition a secret judy never said anything to me about the
fact that she might have been pregnant she never even told me that she went to have a test
a pregnancy test she called me i guess the day that she was going to have the abortion if that is what
happened to tell me that she was going shopping she was leaving work early and going shopping
the day she disappeared judith went to her bank and withdrew three hundred dollars
she told her friends that she was going to buy a watch police believe that instead judith used
the money for an illegal abortion we were able to determine that she contacted a close friend of hers
who uh helped arrange an abortion through the suspect dr george hodgin and uh through that a date and time and
a price were set for it judith made the arrangements to get the money and uh the last time she was seen we feel
that she was on her way to get this abortion get plenty of rest you'll be fine in no
time huh george haju was a hungarian immigrant who poses an accredited physician
according to police haju operated an illegal abortion clinic in coral gables judy
having an abortion i don't think she really had any other choice because nobody in those days would have a child
and keep it it just wasn't done not not in in the group that she was friendly with
julie judy judy right through here huh a lot of people have said that what happened to her was that she
died having an abortion judy was a medical a lab technician she had a lot of medical knowledge i
find it hard to believe that she could have died having an abortion i mean surely she would have known she
was intelligent enough to know to go for help someplace judith heims disappeared on september 14
1965. three weeks later a rattle car registered in her name was found 650 miles away in atlanta georgia
on the back seat were traces of blood unfortunately the car had sat there for two or three days before it was found
and then by the time we were able to conduct any crime scene on it the car had been handled by other people
of the police agencies and by the time it got back to dade county to be processed whatever crime
scene existed was totally ruined a local resident had spotted a man in his 30s parking the vehicle
he removed what appeared to be a duffel bag from the trunk and then left the area this man has
never been identified three months later george [ __ ] was arrested for impersonating a
he physician bail and has not been seen since perjury charges against him are still in
the books and police speculate he may know what happened at judith heims shortly after hajju's escape police
ended their investigation into judas disappearance the judith heim's case soon faded from
local memory but 25 years later the investigation will be reopened thanks to a bizarre series of events
that began with a police narcotics lecture in nebraska captain chuck scheer of the coral gables
police department was unfamiliar with ohium's case in 1990 shearer had a speaking
engagement at a police academy 200 miles west of omaha nebraska the lecture itself was uneventful and
sheer returned home it was then that he received a phone call from the past two days after the nebraska lecture
captain shear received a long-distance phone call at his office in coral gables hello hello yes it is
what can i do for you the caller identified himself as steve brown the host of a popular radio talk show in
omaha he said an anonymous caller had given him information on the disappearance of
judith heims i told the mr brown that i didn't wasn't familiar with the case and i'd have to
research and get back to him i asked him for for his phone number and if he knew how to get
back in touch with this person that had called the radio talk show he said yes he did know how to get back
to him and he gave me two phone numbers a day later captain shearer called steve
brown in nebraska steve brown he said well regarding your call to me i have dug up the information that
you needed and i have it for you and i said excuse me i because this is a call out of the blue i
didn't know who the man was or could not imagine what he was talking about he was totally surprised never heard of me
never knew anything about it and denied adamantly that he was the one that made the phone calls
no no that's right that's my home number it's my private unlisted number who gave you that when he gave me my own
unlisted home phone number i began to think through the people that come to mind who have that telephone
number thinking they could have called and no one has yet come to mind who would
make such a phone call without telling me about it claiming to be me well now i'm confused
i don't know what uh what to think why would uh why would a 25 year old case surface all of a sudden out of omaha
nebraska when in fact i've never been to omaha nebraska in my life prior to this time
uh and had no knowledge or anything about the case i never mentioned the case whatsoever the whole time we were out
there for the simple reason i really didn't even know about the case uh to to give anybody any information or
anything good evening corgavs police department captain shear one moment two days later captain shear received
another unusual phone call hello hello who is this my gut feeling is that something is
going on to bring this case back up 25 years later and it it very possibly is that judy is
in fact living in in the omaha area in the fall of 1989 an article on the heim's case appeared in a local
newspaper captain shearer then received yet another anonymous phone call hello the third phone call that i
received was from a man that identified himself as an informant for the fbi he refused to give me his name at that
time but he said that he had just spent several weeks with hajju over in budapest hungary and he
gave me the phone number i contacted uh interpol an interpol our interpol through their
budapest interpol determined that the phone number that he gave me indeed comes back
to the same name of the suspect at that time the doctor that supposedly performed the abortion
police have yet to locate george hajju in hungary but they feel it is highly unlikely that he was responsible for the
phone calls the only real evidence that judith is still alive has come from the mysterious
phone calls police have searched the omaha area but have found no trace of her whereabouts
who placed the anonymous phone calls if they are telling the truth where is judith hymes today
did she have an abortion and die as a result or did she just disappear the only possible scenario that i could
see is that if in fact she is she didn't want the family to know about the supposed abortion at the time and
she just disappeared and in fact has been missing for 25 years not wanting her family to know about it
i'd like to believe that she's someplace and that she could be found or that she
can back or that we know that she's all right i guess my personal theory is is it's
hard to believe that she that she would be dead um but i can't understand if she's alive
why she wouldn't contact somebody after all this time after all there's no more stigmas left
why wouldn't she come back [Music] [Music] [Music] in 1980 two women in texas had a strange
encounter with an unidentified object on a desolate highway outside of houston within hours he was stricken with
mysterious illnesses which continue to plague them today a genuine ufo a military operation
or something new and unexplained [Music] join me next time for another edition of
unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

This episode includes: Sean Don Con, Update: Amelia Earhart, Folsom Escape & UD, and Lost Sailor & UD.

Brief Summary

This episode investigates the unsolved cases of Tracy Kirkpatrick, Amelia Earhart, Steve Wilson, Frankie Bloomer, and Judith Hiems.

Key points

The Mysterious Murder of Tracy Kirkpatrick. Tracy, a bright honors student, was brutally murdered in 1989, leaving her family devastated.
The Disappearance of Bill Thornburg. Bill Thornburg vanished without a trace, leading to a chilling investigation.
Steve Wilson's Escape from Folsom Prison. Convicted killer Steve Wilson executed an ingenious jailbreak from Folsom Prison, shocking authorities.
Steve Wilson's Escape Plan. Wilson meticulously plotted his escape from prison, enlisting help from other inmates.
Frankie Bloomer's Disappearance. After the USS Rowan was sunk, his family clung to hope of his survival.
Judith Hines' Mysterious Disappearance. Judith's illegal abortion leads to her vanishing without a trace.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

She never did anything to hurt anybody.

Tracy's parents expressing disbelief about her murder

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