Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 2 - 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 in 1945 five Navy torpedo
bombers took off from a Florida airfield and headed east over the Atlantic only to disappear without a trace
thus the legend of the Bermuda Triangle was born a day and aviation researcher believes he has found one of the missing
planes and solved mystery of the lost patrol when she was a young woman Marge Ryder faced the excruciating decision to
give up a child for adoption not once not twice but three times perhaps someone watching tonight is one of the
daughters she is searching for near San Francisco a 60 year old woman made a brave stand against drug dealers
Peggy the neighborhood and was shot in her own home authorities need your help to find her
unknown attackers you'll also bring you the poignant story of six children torn apart by adoption four decades ago one
phone call may be the final step in bringing this family back together join you may be able to help solve a mystery
[Music] [Applause] [Music] December 5th 1945 Fort Lauderdale Florida five Navy Avenger torpedo
bombers took off on a routine training point over 14 middle [Music] the mission was known as flight 19 five
hours after they took off the entire squadron would vanish without a trace their disappearance became the linchpin
of a modern legend of the supernatural it has been called a triangle of death the who do see when a graveyard of the
Atlantic but to most of us the area where the five plane disappeared is known as the Bermuda Triangle
this 400,000 square mile area of eastern Atlantic extends from the south of Florida northeast to Bermuda and
southeast to Puerto Rico according to experts in the last 75 years over 100 ships and planes have
apparently disappeared in this region though at least 1,000 lives have been lost the triangles most famous victims
were the five Avengers of flight 19 the last 45 years the disappearance of flight 19 has been used by many as proof
that the Bermuda Triangle does exist the five planes were said to have vanished inside some supernatural vortex and then
whisked away to another world but recently an aviation investigator named John Mayer has come up with a more
down-to-earth explanation he is certain that he has found one of the missing aircraft just 30 miles off the Florida
coast if Meyer is correct and one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries of this
century may finally be explained for years John Mayer has scrutinized flight 19 s flight plan radio transmissions and
the weather on the day of the disappearance when I read this story and I read the transcripts of the radio
conversations it triggered a response in me and I said if this is true and this is true then then I think I can find one
of the airplanes last summer using the latest modern technology Meyer mounted his fourth underwater expedition looking
for one of the Lost planes in order to pinpoint his final resting place Meyer has carefully reconstructed
last flight of the Lost Avengers it all began at the Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale Florida it was the afternoon
of December 5th 1945 lieutenant Charles Taylor was assigned to command flight 19
known as a cool capable pilot Taylor had logged over 2,500 hours as a naval aviator you are scheduled for a
low-level navigation problem you will fly 123 miles southeast beginning your practice before takeoff the crewmen of
flight 19 were briefed on the routine training exercise by a senior operational miles and the winds are
Southwest at 18 knots and gusty again I remind you it can change momentarily so please be aware now I respect your
professionalism let's go over you should happen can I have a word with you in private sir
all right I'll be back in five minutes just before takeoff lieutenant Taylor made an unusual
request sir if it's all the same to you I'd just soon you replace me on the flight this afternoon I'm just not
feeling up to it why what's the matter I just don't feel right sir I'd rather not
be in the air today well the rest of the instructors are off the base you're the
last one on the roster I'm sorry Stein you gotta grow up some people speculated that he was a party
animal and he was out drinking I don't think that's fair to him the fact was that for some reason he
didn't feel a hundred percent could have been an ear infection could have been the flu could have been any number of
things and as a pilot it was his duty to say I didn't I don't want to fly for whatever reason at 2:10 p.m. the five
planes left the runway and headed east [Music] leaving Fort Lauderdale the planes were
to head 120 nautical miles southeast make a practice bomb run and then fly 73 miles northwest they then would head 120
miles southwest back to Fort Lauderdale my 19 consisted of four student pilots who were qualified naval aviators they
each had more hours in the air than the FAA requires now for a commercial license they had gone through all of
their training but this one flight ft28 to flight I'm making my clearing turn the flight was not following
Charles Taylor he was the instructor pilot who was trailing behind the rest of the flight
he was grading their performance he wasn't doing the navigating the other pilots in the flight were doing their
own navigation ft28 1736 areas clear target is mark ft28 to flight target is at 12 o'clock
one mile out let's see what you're made up empty three shakes Roger out commencing my run
[Music] radio traffic indicated that the men successfully completed the practice bomb
level at approximately 3:10 p.m. on the second leg of the mission Taylor's compass began to malfunction I don't
know where we are powers what is your compass rate and it were three three zero degrees
Meyer believes a coordinates given by the students were accurate for some reason tater remain convinced that they
were lost at the Fort Lauderdale Air Station the communication center monitoring the flight became concerned
about tailors defective compasses I am over land but it's broken I'm gonna swing down and take another
look Tanner had made a critical error he thought that flight 19 was in the Gulf of Mexico flying over the Florida Keys
Meyer believes that in actuality the flight was three hundred miles northeast of Taylor's estimated location flying
over the Abaco Islands in the West Atlantic from the air a to island chains look remarkably similar
Taylor ordered northeasterly then due east headings had they been over the keys this route would have taken them
safely home instead it took them further out to see the students I am sure because they had flown the area before
they're saying uh uh you know you're wrong we're not in the Gulf of Mexico we're we're in the Atlantic but if the
instructor pilot says do it you do it by 5:00 p.m. the short winter day had darkened the weather was deteriorating
flight 19 was heading east away from their base beginning to lose radio contact the base did monitor one of the
squatters last pilot to pilot communications dammit if we just head west but get home
fuel was low and time was running out according to Meyer Taylor finally listened to his student pilots and
headed west towards the Florida coast so he flew Abdul West for 49 minutes until
the first airplane crashed [Music] dammit I'm going down I got a date to read [Music]
in Meijer reconstruction the surviving four pilots then made a fatal error although they were only seven minutes
away from the Florida coast they still have not spotted land they began to believe that they must be flying over
the Gulf of Mexico for this reason they again reversed their course and headed east but instead of going towards
Florida that new course took them back out to sea by 8:00 p.m. the other four planes had disappeared beneath the waves
the legend of flight 19 had begun for the next five days the Navy mounted the largest air sea
search ever conducted up to that time no trace of the planes 14 missing men however Meyer believes as some of the
men of flight 19 were alive drifting at sea slowly running out of food and water
two ships cited flares within five hours of each other and everybody an investigation said now those flares that
were spotted were search aircraft well you go back to the investigation and you find out when the air search aircraft
took off and where they went and the search aircraft weren't where those players were sighted by those steamers
three days later as another ship spots some blinking lights distress lights on the water and discounsel is being from
another ship I don't think so I think those were people from flight 19 after carefully cross-checking only available
information on flight 19 Meyer calculated the impact point of the first plane is here just 30 miles off the
Florida coast near Cape Canaveral but finding a single Avenger in the ocean was an overwhelming task until
ironically a national tragedy made it possible January 1986 the space shuttle Challenger exploded
moments after liftoff from Cape Canaveral some of the debris fell in the precise location where Meyer believes a
first plane had ditched quite by accident the underwater search for the Challenger wreckage may have uncovered
what john mayer had been looking for just 30 miles from Cape Canaveral the salvage team located a plane wreck
submerged and 400 feet of water believing the wreckage was out of a twin-engine dc-3 they ignored it but -
John Meyer this discovery appeared to be the vindication of his theory last July
John Mayer was onboard a submersible as it prepared to die 400 feet to inspect the wreckage he knew that 45 years might
have obliterated many of the Avengers identifying characteristics we knew we had a rack but we didn't know
what type airplane it was and to say I was on the edge of my seat along with my colleagues would be an understatement as
they first approached the location of the wreck they could see nothing in the murky water then the wing of the plane
became visit but was it the right plane one distinctive feature of the Avenger is as
Bombay located under the fuselage the submerge plane is upside down here the Bombay cavity is clearly visible
another distinctive feature of the Avenger is it's over wheel will hear this well can be seen on the underside
of the wing perhaps the Avengers most unusual feature is the ball turret which protected the gunner behind the pilot
even though the plane that Meier found was upside down and partially buried in the sand the unique crosshatch of the
turrets window frame is clearly visible after all at this point eight years of research and all the frustrations that
we had to actually be in a submarine and be right over top of this wreckage was just incredible
it is obvious admire has found an Avenger but is it one of the Avengers of the lost flight 19 through the
manipulation of the submersibles mechanical arm Maya removed the engine cowling he was hoping that a serial
number could be found that would confirm that this Avenger had been part of flight 19 but after raising the cowling
to the surface Meyer was unable to find any serial numbers the only way to prove
whether this is indeed flight 19 aircraft it's gonna be raise that sucker out of the water
I and my partners believe that we're correct but it's it'll remain a mystery until we can raise the airplane if this
plane can be identified as belonging to flight 19 The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle will have to be rewritten it is
not as romantic to say that the flight disappeared due to a tragic chain of simple mistakes but if John Mayer is
correct this is precisely what happened no matter what the explanation the 14 men of flight 19 deserve to be honored
not as victims of the supernatural but it's brave men he died in the service of their country next the heartwarming
reunion of a young woman and her mother marks the beginning of a new search for two long-lost sisters
[Music] jaci dragon grew up in a typical middle-class home near San Francisco California she knew she had been adopted
but had no idea who her birth parents were curiously Jackie always had an unusual fascination with films and
television shows about women in prison I'm not sure you know what it was that attracted me exactly but I do know that
there was some strange sense of security that I felt in watching the stories and
you know the women interacting in these in their lives and their relationships in prison like any young child Jackie
had a mischievous side at the age of 12 she made an unexpected discovery I was scavenging around sneaking around
in my father's closet and looking through a box of papers important documents of days and what I found were
legal papers and as I read through them I realized they were my adoption papers [Music]
it was a big thing it was a it was a turning point it was something that I knew from that point on that someday I
would find those people in that paper and that I had - that they were real I searched you know off and on for a
number of years you know probably starting around 1982 and I think it was 1986 when I got the information that I
wasn't born in some hospital somewhere but that I was born in prison and that my mother had been incarcerated at the
time of my birth when I remembered that I had had such a fascination with movies
with women in prison in them I thought boy that's bizarre jerk he learned that she was born with a Dwight Reformatory
for women in Chicago Illinois her mother Marge Reider was serving a one-year sentence for her part in an
armed robbery ten months later Marge made one of the most difficult decisions of her life she
put Jackie up for adoption I convinced myself that the best thing to do for Jackie was to give her a home
that I assumed had two upstanding parents that there was security in that home that she could be guaranteed an
education all the things that I knew at that time in my life there was no way I could possibly give her any of that and
I don't remember exactly when Jackie was taken but I do remember that the day she
left after she had left that Cayman told me that Jackie had gone to her new home
into some other state and it hurt save it as it cert now that's one memory I didn't lose I didn't
give her up in that sense I do nothing else to do and that's the last memory basically that I have objective
Jackie's adoptive parents provided a stable home but jackie was always curious about her birth mother I
wondered whether or not she had been able to kind of clean it up you know or whether she'd gotten in more trouble or
whether or not she was safe or well I don't think I ever considered not looking for her after more than nine
years of searching Jackie finally learned of Marge's whereabouts on July 26 1990 she spoke with her mother for
the first time in her life hi may I speak with Marge Ryder please speaking and what I realized when I found out
that I had her phone number or when I realized that I was very close to finding her was that in a way I was
setting myself up to feel rejected all over again does the date February 16 1964 mean anything to you not for a
second did she hesitate she was happy that I called and I felt so relieved and so lucky
well do you have time to talk right now I've got all the time in the world to talk now yes one of the first things she
said was I never thought any of you girls would be calling me and then she let me know that there were two other
sisters it was very exciting I couldn't believe it was like there's more you're kidding there's something more that I
didn't know Jackie and Marsh talked for more than two hours Marsh told Jackie about her own troubled childhood how she
dropped out of high school fell in with the wrong crowd got pregnant at 17 Marge Ryder would be the first person to
admit that she made a lot of mistakes in her early life but Marge has managed to
rise above her past today she is happily married and lives in Winchester Illinois
inspired by Jackie's open-hearted love and understanding Marge now wants to find the other
daughter she gave away more than 25 years ago [Music] Marge's first daughter Laura Mae was 18
months old when Marge went to prison she was left in the care of Marge's grandmother at the time Marge is already
eight months pregnant with Jackie she claims that when she was in prison her grandmother attempted to get legal
custody of Laura Mae I hadn't been there too terribly long and a lawyer came to see me now we're
gonna finish with my turn I want to take you army with me I want to raise her myself
oh I understand and if you sign these then it'll help us to all keep Lora Mae don't worry about business is just some
legal jargon I needed to get you to sign right here okay I think that he was probably on my grandmother's side trying
to help her adopt the child away from me and the courts just stepped in because she was too old a woman to raise a
infant child and I think I think they lost her as well as I did Lora Mae was ultimately taken by the
Cook County Welfare Department and became a ward of the state Marge never saw Laura Mae again after
Jackie was born March cared for in the prisons nursery but ten months later Marge gave in to outside pressures and
put Jackie up for adoption [Music] a few weeks later Mars completed her sentence and was released she never
again got in trouble with the law however she did give birth to a third daughter dawn-marie whom she also gave
up for adoption I had often gone over in my mind what if they come looking for me
how do I explain to them that I gave them away and I pretty much convinced myself and I do believe it I felt I was
giving each child the very best that I could give them so how was your flight on September 20th 1990
Marge Ryder flew to California had met her daughter Jackie for the first time in more than 25 years definitely got
ready surely there well I wonder where I got that I had many many many questions
for her about her about her hair about everything you know it's like who had red hair that was something that I grew
up with red curly hair nobody ever had it but me and it was a curse when I was a child and she was great I could ask
anything I wanted and she would she would tell me everything this is Lora Mae and this is you of
course Wow you can definitely tell it's family she really looks the same look at all those
knees hi Jess or Jackie reunion with Marge marked the end of one search and the beginning of another you know I like to
think that somewhere wherever they are that they know that they're adopted and that they wonder where they came from
they were mine I did love them I do love them and it wouldn't be nice to make the
family complete again thanks to our viewers Jackie dragon and Marge Ryder's dream of
reuniting their family finally came true and they were contacted by Lora Mae and
Dawn Marie Dawn Marie was adopted name is Susan owns her own business in Santa Barbara California Lora Mae Marge's
oldest daughter is now married and lives in Mississippi three months after our broadcast Laura
may arrive at her sister Jackie's home in Glendale California Marge and her youngest daughter Tracy had flown in
from Illinois for this very special reunion meeting it was really nerve-racking cuz it's like I wasn't
quite sure what to expect and what they would expect of me and then after I got here it's just all seemed to flow it was
very natural the last time I remember seeing Laura she was in a high chair and now here she is all grown up and I'm
still looking for this little girl you know and that's it's kind of hard a sort time later the circle was finally
completed with the arrival of Marge's other daughter Susan um I grew up knowing that I was adopted but I didn't
know anything about who my real parents were and it's nice to know you know who your family is and know what your
background is you know I'm learning more about him I think when I first started feeling really comfortable is when we
went out and took some Polaroids and it was a really neat feeling to have a picture right in front of me and see all
of us standing together it's a very once-in-a-lifetime kind of a thing to find my sister that you've never met
everybody smile each one is totally individual they're all strong I've thought about and they've done good with
their lives I'm proud of all four of them [Music] when any family is torn apart the scars
can last a lifetime the saga of the six heck children of Iowa is reminiscent of a Dickens novel
with an equally large cast of characters delbert jr. Florence Jim Cheryl Louise Doris Jean and little
Tommy these brothers and sisters were separated by adoption as children but through force of will fiber the managed
to reunite an adulthood today they want to make sure that their life story has a
happy ending they need your help in order to make that dream come true Council Bluffs Iowa the summer of 1944
[Music] ten-year-old Delbert heck junior was a man of the house his father was often
away from home and did little to support the family it was very rough times we didn't have any money for food or
groceries I mean it wasn't hard times for us because that was all we knew you don't never wish the water if you had to
well so we just we thought we was doing fine we had each other and we had mother
and we just made best we could of it what did you have for supper last night Florence puffed rice puffed rice in
August 1944 the family was visited by a social worker set by the local welfare department I'd like to see the kitchen
now the heck's had to stand by silently as she scrutinized their home she opened the cabinets to see what was
there which there was nothing there maybe a bag could drive left wheat or something we didn't have dressers we'd
have clothes hanging in the closet you know she's seen the mattress on the living
room floor worth all six best kids laugh and not she needs to explain to mother that she wasn't able to care for us
properly and they were gonna take us where they could be three months later the state of Iowa
took the heck children away she told she was taking a movie course you know we had never been to a movie so that was
that was really something so we went with her willingly and mother stood on the porch and cried and I thought there
was you know that there was something that just wasn't right when she crossed Broadway going north I
knew we weren't going to a movie [Music] the six children were scattered across the countryside like windblown seeds
three were immediately adopted three languished in orphanages seven-year-old Florence was one of them I cried for
mother a lot but I cried a lot for the littler ones because you know I I spent a lot of time this was my life with it
and we had a dorm mother that lived in the end of our building and they come get me take me to the end of the dorm
[Music] that's where I slept for a good long while when I first went to the arrangements Jim and Delbert were placed
in a different orphanage in Davenport Iowa Delbert was found out briefly to foster parents I really think what they
wanted was a farmhand I don't think they wanted a child I didn't have no contact
with Jim and he was only one that I knew at that time and when I didn't have him
no more I didn't have nothing to hold on to so it didn't last for just a few weeks and I I just I was ready to go
back to that board Delbert and Jimmy would remain in the orphanage until 1952 when the state set
the two boys and her sister Florence back to their natural mother Maud heck would never see her other three children
again unbeknownst to the heck family one-year-old Sharon Louise had been placed in the home of Gwendolen Hellena
Jones she had been renamed or Risa [Music] five year old Doris Jean was sent to the
home of Glenn and Gertrude West her new name was Sally [Music] it is assumed that three-year-old Tommy
heck was also adopted his new name if he has one is still unknown in 1970 Teresa and Sally were reunited
both had been adopted through the same orphanage which put them in contact with each other the two then set out to find
their missing family I had a lot of information on our on our biological family from all of the records that that
my parents had given me when I was 16 Sally didn't have a whole lot of information but I had said if if I knew
where we lived perhaps I could start there and she said that she had that information because
they had sent her her original birth certificate and she was born at home so she had her home address which happened
to be Council Bluffs Iowa and I got on the phone and I called information in Council Bluffs Iowa instead of making
phone calls it was like 1:30 in the afternoon March 29th when I talked to her and at 11:30 that night she called
back and she said since I talked you I've talked to an aunt in Council Bluffs two brothers and a sister 45 years after
the heck family had been torn apart their day of reunion finally came Sally and I decided to drive to the reunion
together kind of like a team we by that time of course had known that the three oldest children have been raised
together and we kind of felt like outsiders and we wanted to be together we didn't really know what to do it was
like do you walk up and hug them and tell them how glad you are to see them after 45 years or do you just stand back
and shake hands or what do we do but the minute we walked in it was the the bond
was instant and within five minutes we were like we've grown up together a minute we saw each other
you know you ran the right place you were home there was no doubt of what these were
brothers and sisters [Music] the reunion was a celebration there was still one person missing
[Music] it's important for me to try and calming now or for all of us really tell me
there's our missing they're still part of my life that's missing finding Tommy is like if you've got a car and part of
the pieces are not there it's not gonna run right well you got a family part of the pieces are not there these are the
last known pictures of Tommy heck taken when he was four and a half years old by
his adoptive parents who sent them to the orphanage today Tommy would be 47 Tommy was adopted through Christian
homes orphanage in Council Bluffs Iowa most likely by a Midwestern family his most distinguishing physical
characteristic is a double earlobe on his right ear we need to find Tommy to make the rest of our family complete so
that we can just close that family and say here we are you know here we are world this is the heck family you know
look at us Iowa you know you separated us but we're back together now [Music] next the story of a brave woman who
nearly lost her life than the fight to keep her neighborhood safe from drugs [Music]
[Applause] [Music] just past midnight on the first day of 1990 paramedics and police's Palo Alto
California responded to an emergency call a 60 year old woman lay inside her home shot in the stomach unknown gunman
had fired 35 rounds of ammunition into her house and car before they fled the victim was mrs. CW rowdy a retired
service representative for the phone company who had lived in the area with her son Darnell for 23 years the New
Year's Eve attack was a culmination of a three-year nightmare in which CW rowdy had been physically and verbally
threatened by a group of young men in her neighborhood now she lay in her own home bleeding from a bullet wound
fortunately mrs. rowdy survives and the East Palo Alto authorities continue to search for her assailants
Palo Alto California home a prestigious Stanford University is one of several primarily white upper-middle class
communities surrounding the City of East Palo Alto which stands in stark contrast
formerly a respectable working-class community it has in the last few years fallen victim to drug traffickers whose
customers often come from the affluent suburbs nearby the drug dealing on our street was very much like a drive bank
window they drive up dope dealers were rushed to the car in a total frenzy of competition with one another trying to
get the sale and it continued like that day and night when CW rowdy finally understood what was happening in her
neighborhood she began to take action the first confrontation came on teenage drug dealers parked their cars in front
of the house she shared with her son I'd really like you to move your car I will
be taking your license number and giving it to the police CW reported the young traffickers offer
them but the understaffed local police simply were unable to cope of the enormous problem I've always felt that
your home is your castle and what you do in your home is your business but when they bring their drugs out in front of
my house in the streets that makes it my business and I don't do that kind of business
in February of 1988 mrs. rowdy was physically threatened know what's up or beg you don't blow
your damn mouths up saying and I said to him are you gonna make sure that I'm in
it and I looked up and saw a police officer sitting directly across the street he threatened to blow up my house
do you wish to make a citizen's arrest yes I do you do with me I do wish to so we did and he took him golf but he was
back within a matter of minutes over the next 18 months a situation worsened during certain hours of the day the
neighborhood streets resembled a rush-hour traffic jam in their off hours the dealer's you see double his front
curve as their personal parking then in October of 1989 the confrontation suddenly erupted into violence
[Music] he picked up a piece of wood and I was infuriated and I said to myself this is
stupid so I started back across the street and this I said yeah go call the police
after getting to the police station the boy was on his way back home before I even finished with the police report
in December of 1989 CW became involved in another connotation Chris Thomas a new neighbor
was wounded when he came to her defense very badly in the face they had to take him to to the hospital and get stitches
and someone called the police police arrested the young man who had attacked Chris Thomas for the next 10 days things
were quiet and Tulu Year's Eve on New Year's Eve in East Palo Alto for some strange reason a lot of citizens like to
shoot guns they just shoot up there at midnight mrs. rowdy was sleeping when the gunfire awakened her I heard all the
shooting and I looked up at the clock and I said oh they're just celebrating New Year's Eve right what sign shut up
and then I went in the living room I noticed across the street four young men they were just standing around talking
and there weren't any cars coming up in on the street at that particular time I would say about 20 minutes after
midnight it had all quieted down all of a sudden I heard all these shots [Music]
I was about to get up and I heard my mother scream in pain CW rowdy had been shot in the stomach
her son Darnell immediately called for help I think the attack on my house was a
planned attack and they were planning to kill my mother's been shot the police arrived within minutes as they fanned
out to search the street they found the CW's new neighbor Chris Thomas and his wife had seen the attack we heard this
big loud rattle of gunfire outside her house I turned towards the window and I could see the the blue flames from the
gun through the blinds and I looked outside I saw two young black men it was really scary because I could see bullet
holes in the windows and the walls and the doors and through all over the garage the car had bullet holes in it
and and I thought that they'd killed her investigators located shell casings from
three weapons a 38 revolver a 380 semi-automatic pistol and possibly an Uzi assault weapon when the local police
completed their own investigation they called in the FBI we know that there were three to four individuals who were
responsible for firing these rounds into the home of mrs. Ronnie this is a neighborhood that has been somewhat
paralyzed because of the amount of violence that has been generated from those who took a stance to come forward
and say no more despite an extensive investigation no concrete evidence has been on earth and even though CW rotties
assailants have not been found the attack has galvanized our neighborhood a group of mothers have taken charge of
the local park and attempted to move the drug dealers out of their neighborhood they have had success in the park but
the women realize that this is only the first step I went by a couple of Saturdays ago and
just observed the children I their plan and it was such a beautiful sight it made me feel so good it brought tears to
my eyes so it's looking better it did not happen in one day and I don't expect it all the change in one day but I do
see the beginning of a change and and the future looks bright and I am hopeful out of the near tragedy of mrs. Radha's
brush with death the rebirth of her neighborhood has begun a new drug task force has been formed and for the time
being drug trafficking on her street has been curtailed still the neighborhood wants CW rotties attackers brought to
justice for every mystery there is someone somewhere who knows a truth join me next week for another edition of
unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Flight 19's disappearance, family reunions, and a woman's fight against drug violence are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Legend of Flight 19. The mysterious disappearance of five Navy bombers in the Bermuda Triangle.
Jackie's Search for Her Birth Mother. Jackie discovers her adoption and embarks on a journey to find her birth mother.
Marge's Difficult Decision. Marge Ryder recounts the painful choice to give up her child for adoption.
A Heartwarming Reunion. Jackie meets her birth mother Marge for the first time after 25 years.
The Heck Family Reunion. After years apart, the Heck siblings finally reunite, but one is still missing.
CW Rowdy's Fight Against Drugs. CW Rowdy stands up against drug dealers in her neighborhood, facing violence and danger.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I think I can find one of the airplanes.

John Mayer's determination to solve the mystery.

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Tension

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