Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 6 - Updated Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] 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 [Music] in new hampshire freak accidents take the lives of a mother and her son 25
years apart some believe that rena and danny paquette were in reality murdered because he had seen the face of the same
killer in aurora illinois lavelda richmond was injured in a car crash on a lonely
country road simultaneously her identical twin sister lavona claims that she saw the accident
from her living room 20 miles away could this be a case of esp between identical twins
and fbi director william sessions will announce the latest addition to the fbi's 10 most wanted list perhaps you
can help track down a serial child molester also we have a heartwarming update from
our story of a tennessee adoption home which abducted children and sold them to wealthy clients
after our broadcast one of those orphans was reunited with her two brothers after
a 30-year separation you can share in their joyous reunion tonight on unsolved mysteries
[Music] [Applause] [Music] thirty years ago hooksett new hampshire was home to 2500 people and many of them
farmers the surrounding woods concealed an abundant population of deer that attracted hutters from all over new
england but by the winter of 1964 a hunter of a different kind had arrived in the area
two teenage girls had been found murdered after having first been tortured the second victim was a 15 year old high
school sophomore named pamela mason it was thought that her killer lived in the area a neighbor regarded neighbor
with suspicion one area resident had good reason to be frightened forty-seven-year-old rina paquette told
her friends and family that she believed she knew who had killed the two teenage
girls at the time nobody took her seriously february 3rd 1964 rena's son 13 year old
danny paquette had the day off from school mom danny and reina were alone at the family
farm but when the boy came down for breakfast his mother was gone uncle charlie this is danny speaking yeah i
can't find my mom well she said she was gonna take me to the dentist today when danny got up that morning i
couldn't find my mother all right bye dan couldn't understand where she was because her purse and her winter coat
were there and it was extremely bitterly cold and it was highly unlikely that she went anywhere without her coat
or her purse she's not in there until charlie let's try the big barn danny's uncle immediately came over to
help look for rena though the two searched for over an hour arena was nowhere to be found
[Music] smoke [Music] rina mom was dead her charred body was found in the paquette barn one mile from the family
home police concluded that she had somehow set herself on fire and then crawled into the barn to die
however no flammable substances or containers were found near the area though where death was ruled as suicide
her other son victor believes that she was murdered i don't really believe my mother
committed suicide because of the tremendous amount of fear and panic in the community because of the two earlier
brutal murders that uh i think it was just kind of like kept on a very low profile not to create more
public hysteria i feel at the time of my mother's death the person that was found
to be the person responsible for killing the young pamela mason girl was the same
person that was responsible for my mother's stuff in february of 1964 a local delivery man
was arrested convicted and sentenced a life in prison for the murder of pamela mason
at long last the nightmare seemed over but 20 years later reena's son danny was also found dead gunned down in front of
his house there are those who believe that danny and his mother both died for the same
reason they knew too much lorena paquette left behind five children her son danny seemed the most
affected by her death his brother victor became his closest friend mom being killed was very traumatic for
danny i think everybody's mom is a little security blanket and from there you lose that
emotionally it leads to a lot of problems danny grew from a troubled adolescent into a troubled adult he married became
a father but then divorced in 1981. in a bitter legal battle danny lost custody of his children
[Music] i believe that danny loved his children more than anything i'm sure that danny was extremely upset
angered at the thought of losing his children it would of course mean to to him another loss
in the summer of 1983 frustrated by not being allowed to see his children danny went to his former wife's home steve
dude open the door what are you doing here dee i want to see the kids i haven't seen him in a month now open the
door to see the kids you're not even supposed to be around here dee i'm telling you if i have to come through
this plate glass door i want to see my kid after this frightening outburst danny's
former wife called police they took him into custody i'm gonna take you back to february the 3rd
1964. danny was ordered to undergo psychiatric examination at concord state mental hospital it was during this time
that the tragedy from his past began to catch up with his present under hypnosis danny began to recall
details of the morning that his mother was killed i remember i i woke up because i heard down
[Music] i [Music] a man's voice [Music] and i remember i went back to my room i was i was scared
danny became convinced that he had seen his mother's murder he told friends that he was certain that
the killer was a same delivery man imprisoned for the murder of pamela mason however there has never been any
evidence to support this belief how's things going here anyway during this troubled time dany's brother
would visit every day and when danny was released after five months he found that
victor had paid all of his bills mailed out after danny went home he tried to pick
up the pieces of his life he and victor would spend many afternoons together motorcycling through the countryside
we spent time together and we started to uh enjoy life it was a real turning point for him
[Music] saturday morning november 9 1985 danny was repairing a bulldozer while two of his friends worked on a car in
the garage [Music] at 11 am danny's friends heard a loud pop [Applause] i ran up
towards where danny was working it appeared to me that he'd been electrocuted we noticed the air escaping from a hole
in the middle of his chest and i thought that it was a welding probe that he fell on when he hit the
ground i the time i didn't know it was a bullet wound i'm just looking around something wrong danny paquetted and shot
through the heart with a single bullet he died instantly after police arrived they discovered
footprints behind danny's house where the bullet may have come from the distance between the individual
footprints raised the possibility that someone had been running from the scene search of the area revealed about
50 to 80 yards away uh footprints heading toward the woods whether it was coincidental or in fact
someone's footprint that was fleeing the scene is speculative at this time telephone service had been interrupted
at about the time danny was shot their linemen had discovered a projectile in the telephone cable
we did recover a bullet from it that was in line with danny's position investigators determined that the bullet
in the telephone line was the same one that had killed danny the day of dany's death was also the
beginning of hunting season and police began to theorize that he had been shot accidentally
in order to test this theory they tried to pinpoint the location of the gunman we were able to ascertain that there
were hunters in a gravel pit approximately a mile away that was sighting their weapons and at the time
[Music] if danny was shot accidentally the fatal bullet may have come from this gravel
pit for this to happen the bullet had to travel nearly a mile climb one thousand feet pass through
dany and lodge in the telephone wire in the summer of 1990 ballistics expert r.j breglia was brought in from new york
city in order to determine if such a shot could have occurred after examining the locations breglio
concluded that such a shot would have been impossible i would rule out the possibility that
there was an accident that the gun was fired from a mile or more away rather it was a shot
fired in the vicinity deliberately you would have to traverse through woods would have to travel around vehicles
get through a 24-inch opening on a bulldozer and hit somebody directly through the heart
before being projected upwards into the telephone cable i think that's very hard to believe that that could
happen i'm not any expert but i just don't buy that if anybody thinks that i'm going to lay
down or go away on this one oh they're wrong we as a family are i think pretty well determined that the
system is going to have to work the system is going to have to get out there and do its job
[Music] was danny paquette the victim of a freak hunting accident or was he deliberately murdered
he knew anything about me did someone want him silenced about what he claimed to have witnessed the morning of his
mother's death you've been telling everybody in town that i did something that i did not do
i got danny upstairs i don't care about danny let's go outside or did someone just want danny dead
no one knows [Music] in 1949 the tennessee children's home society in memphis was considered a
model orphanage director georgia tan was credited with placing five thousand orphans with new
families and one national praise for her efforts the georgia tans orphanage had a darker
side when i was growing up i was told that i was adopted from memphis tennessee after my adopted mother passed away
i found correspondence from the tennessee children's home and that's when i started my search
two and a half years later i found my name two hours later i found my mother [Applause]
cindy lapresto discovered that her mother had never placed her for adoption i was playing on the playground
and georgia tan drove up in her proverbial black limousine okay george let's go home now
georgia tan had simply abducted cindy good morning children a few days later judge camille kelly
ordered the custody of cindy be given to the tennessee children's home society miss tan
thank you judge kelly i'm confident that camille kelly was involved with georgia tan in this
operation georgia tan could not have carried it on without her and camille kelly could not have lived
in the style she lived unless she had outside income in 1950 robert taylor investigated
georgia tan in the tennessee children's home society he discovered that tan was using the
orphanage as a cover for a black market baby ring and that she was making a fortune in the process
on september 12 1950 robert taylor presented his report to the governor of tennessee
three days later georgia tan died of cancer two months later judge camille kelly resigned
the tennessee children's home society was shut down i get very angry when i think of georgia
tan and camille kelly because what they've done to me and thousands of other people
it makes me very angry because my mother missed my growing up and those years can never be replaced
we've been robbed tonight we are pleased to announce that because of our broadcast another orphan
from the tennessee children's home society has been reunited with her family lynn hines was five years old when she
was adopted by a wealthy california couple i was adopted into a very very fine family
but there wasn't a lot of love in the family and even though you know you try to make the adopted child part
of the family you're always still just a little bit different and so it meant a great deal to me to
find that i really had a true family lin was born martha jean goocon and was placed in georgia tannen's orphanage in
1949 she never saw or heard from her natural family again then just three weeks after our
broadcast lynn learned that her father and two brothers paul and randall were still living in tennessee
one of the things that i had been fearful is that the family did not want me to find them
when i did finally get hold of randall randall said if you don't come here we're coming there
like tomorrow you know it wasn't soon enough [Music] the next day lin flew from her home in
denver colorado and saw her brothers for the first time in more than 40 took me that years to find you guys
she walked all the plane i knew she was just like that well she spitting image of her mother
a very spitting image you haven't your void that had never been filled but it wasn't
that afternoon randall and paul took lynn to meet their 86 year old father rufus guccin yeah
i had pictures of myself when i was adopted that the adopted parents had taken and they had pictures
of randall and i and mother before i had been adopted so we naturally had to compare all our pictures and all that
type of thing and i guess we decided that we really were brothers and sisters it was very exciting very thrilling
as we grew older while we just always had a the thought there the love there but she wasn't
you want me to take it with me when i leave just like yesterday you know somebody to love be
loved by that you never had before [Music] i would have to say that this is like
christmas new year's everything rolled up into one when i found the family i felt like i
was queen for a day and all [Music] there are over 15 million sets of identical twins living in the world
today throughout history they have fascinated and delighted us all their mirror images are a perfect
example of nature's whimsy the physical similarities of identical twins can easily be explained by
genetics but in the three stories you're about to see these eerie likenesses go beyond the realm of science and defy
explanation [Music] mark newman and jerry levy are identical twin brothers who were separated at
birth for 32 years neither one knew the other existed when they met for the first time three
years ago they were amazed to discover that their uncanny resemblance was more than skin deep
too much that first time we met when we went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror
uh it was tomatoes a little spooky uh now i was seeing four of my faces instead of just a one when i normally
look in the mirror i graduated incredibly mark and jerry's separate lives and personal habits were nearly
identical both are volunteer firemen and have worked in the lawn care industry both
are confirmed bachelors they always drink the same brand of beer and they even carry their keys in the same
distinctive manner we were instantly comfortable each with each other uh the only way i could explain it was it
was almost like a brother who moved away for 32 years and then came back and you know what
we've been doing for for the last 32 years and as it turned out we were doing the
same exact things [Music] and still after you know 32 years of separation it was
like there wasn't any separation our lives were basically parallel [Music] that's too much coincidence
too much these identical twins wear it apart are remarkably alike on almost everything we look at
okay mark and jerry let's have you stand up against the wall over here mark and jerry are alike in a wide
array of ways they have a lot of gestures and postures they're the same they tend to hold their
beer can in the same way they tend to laugh in the same way there's kind of a cycle
and a pattern to their laughter and i've watched them sit in chairs and just watch the way
they cross their legs things of that sort there's a whole pattern to their behavior that's very much alike now that
raises the question how is it the two individuals reared apart in entirely different environments
come 40 years later when they're reunited to be so similar we really as scientists simply do not
know in some cases the unique bond between identical twins is even more mystifying
some identical twins claim to have paranormal experiences such as telepathic communication or esp
and even a bizarre phenomenon known as shared pain scientists can either dismiss or explain
these strange occurrences there's a saying among twins that's very very common it's us against the world so
when we go back to back we can see 360 degrees we're not blindsided we see things that other people don't and we
protect each other identical twins lewis and donald keith have lived in separate cities for most
of their lives but believe they are connected by a sixth sense they even claim to have experienced
shared pain the first incident occurred three years ago while lewis was working out at a
health club in chicago i took a swim i did a few bicycle exercises and i tried this
exercise which had been told to me was good for getting rid of those uh i guess they're colloquially called
love handles that everybody would like to get rid of anyway i tried the exercise it was going along very well
it's not difficult it's not painful it doesn't take any great intellectual talent but uh i hurt myself
it was probably the most intense pain that i ever felt in my life at that exact moment donald was over 500
miles away at his office just outside of washington dc [Music] i had some papers to xerox at the office
and as i was walking down the corridor there was this pain in my right groin area
this pain was unlike any i had ever experienced in my life and then it was gone and and i wondered what was the pain and
what caused it later that day i called louis and his secretary said that he had injured
himself and he was home and then my uh curiosity got the best of me and curiosity or sixth sense
i don't know i really don't know whether it was curiosity or sixth sense but i wanted to know where you hurt yourself
and then i found out that he had injured himself in the same place that i felt this pain
and then i asked him about the time and when the time clicked that i remember distinctly the hair on
the back of my neck standing up it was electric i could just feel every hair sticking straight out
[Music] the experience of sharing pain proved again that we were identical twins again
that we were very close again that psychologically and psychically we were able to communicate with us it didn't
surprise it it just confirmed what we already knew we feel pain for each other whenever anything happens
to one the other one can experience like if they're going through the same thing
herself for example i fell downstairs at school they came in to tell my sister they were taking me to the hospital and
she was unconscious [Music] lavona and lavelda richmond were born in 1933 and have lived together ever since
even after they married their identical twin husbands alwyn and arthur we are what they call identical mirror
image twins our medical history has been pretty much the same throughout our life
in fact when one gets ill anymore they check the other one to make sure she's going to be okay
we've had tonsils taken out together we've had breast biopsies the same time and we had major surgery together the
eye correction is the same except for opposite eyes my left eye is my weak eye and my right eye is my root guy and our
cavities have appeared on opposite sides lavona and lavalde have taken part in many scientific studies of twin behavior
in one study they were rated highest among the 300 sets of twins tested for extrasensory perception
we feel among every set of twins one is the sender and one is the receiver i happen to be the receiver and i am the
sender and whenever lavelda has been in an occasion where she has felt pain or has
been in trouble i have sensed it the most starting example of this unique psychic bond occurred in 1952
lavelda was riding in a car with a young man who had asked her to join him in town for a cup of coffee
where are you going coffee shops this way relax don't worry about it go somewhere nice and quiet where you and i
can talk when this gentleman turned the opposite direction of what he was supposed to turn i knew something was
wrong i got very very uneasy and i moved over as close to the passenger side of the door as i could
and the more he drove the more agitated he got and the more frightened i got and i thought i was in trouble
then when the car skidded the only thing i could think of was oh my god what are they going to tell my
sister and evidently that's when i got the strong message was when she started thinking to me how i was going to react
to if something had happened to her i was sitting in the living room studying and all of a sudden it's just like if i
went into a trance could see what was happening but i could not stop the vision from
happening [Music] i wonder what's wrong dad call the police police what for sis has been in an accident and i told
father to call the police and i could not convince him that sis was in trouble she's hurt that she's she's been in an
accident how do you know i can see it she's on a country road he told me i was jealous i couldn't be with him that this
was the first time we had been separated for any events and i better get used to
it because there'd be other times that would be separated from her also the car stopped just inches before
plummeting into a water-filled ravine are you okay lavelda hit her head on the dashboard
but was not seriously hurt i did not see her hit her head on the dash at the time
what i did see was a farmer coming with a tractor pulling them out of a ditch and i turn a desert it's all right
dad the danger has passed she's going to be okay see dad i told you you okay i was not surprised when
lavelda came in the house showing a little bit where for her adventure because i could sense what was happening
and i knew what was happening but i was surprised at dad's reaction listen i don't say a word
lavona you said you saw this thing happen right we're gonna get in the car right now and
you're gonna take us to where this thing happened and i said how am i gonna do it dad i've
never been there he said you saw it you can show me where it is just keep going this way all right
dad asked lavonna which way to go and she directed him i sat in the back seat and i kept very
quiet all the way and as we were driving i tell that you turn here dad he said you ever been here
before i said no how do you know i said feel it turn here and she directed dad to the actual road
and when she got there you could see the tire tracks where we went off and where
we were pulled back onto the road this place honey yes it happened right here after we reached the crash site he said
you were right i never actually believed it could happen before he said i know you told me it has
happened in the past but he says it's the first time i've actually sought i would never doubt you again if you tell
me one of you is in danger he said i'll believe you [Music] three intriguing stories three sets of
identical twins are they born with a paranormal ability to silently communicate if you were an identical twin perhaps
you already know the rest of us can only wonder [Music] when we return the poignant story of a
tennessee family's search for their missing sister [Music] our next story is about a family in the
best sense of the word a family that has survived hard times and endured to see better times
but for the hinkle family of tennessee there is a sadness that the passing of 65 years has not managed to erode
it began when two infant girls were torn from their home tonight with your help those painful
memories may finally be put to rest and you may be able to help reunite a family
greenville tennessee a small rural community 60 miles northeast of knoxville it was the summer of 1924 and
though the great depression was five years away it arrived earlier for the tobacco farmers who carved out a
marginal living in the countryside times were tough that summer and tenant farmer rufus hinkle was forced to make
an agonizing decision shortly after giving birth to twin girls rufus wife of 22 years had died
with nine other miles to feed rufus felt incapable of making ends meet where are you going with the twins where
they're a little bit sick sons i'm gonna take them to the hospital for a couple of weeks here hold your sister while i
get in the truck now be careful be careful with her now now well i'm gone son lord is in charge
so you pay attention to what lord says you hear me you'll be a good boy he was a man that loved his family
and he hated to part with any of us especially the twins but uh sometime you gotta sacrifice and uh
just do the best you can do bye mary bye martha bye on that hot july afternoon in 1924 rufus
henkel took his two baby girls on a one-way trip to the orphanage he hoped to reclaim mary and martha once his
fortunes improved i'm sure that after he left the twins at the orphanage that he worried about him
and thought about him a lot and one of his sons lloyd remembers going to the orphanage with
rufus to see about the twins and see if they could take them back [Music] sadly it was too late the twins had
already been given away we did try to place them together but that was just not possible they'll be
well taken care of you say you don't have to worry about that they're with fine families
well must be the lord's will i'm very sorry mr hinkle thank you man [Music] come on son
we're going home rufus hinkle never saw his two daughters again he passed away in 1950
later on i heard that they would not tell us where they were at until my father died
so shortly after he died we started looking for the twins and we found mary in 1955 rufus's son shorty contacted the
orphanage the one able to locate martha they were able to trace mary in september of that year shoddy and his
wife drove into bluefield west virginia to meet the sister he never knew as we drove by my wife said to me he
said right there she said said i know that's her she looks just like your brother and
sure it was mary we know the first look that it was and it was a very happy time
very much it's great to see you it was like finding a part of you that had always
been missing and just like putting something together and when you put two and two together
you got to hold you know and it was just great oh it feels great to know that we can we
all be together at times and be a family that they are part of me and part of my i'm part of their blood they're part
of mine why don't you come on over here and have a seat let me take your picture okay sit
down okay smile oh great you know shorty it's amazing how much she looks like dalton i can't believe it
she that afternoon mary learned that she had a twin sister mary i've got some news for you
you have a twin sister named martha really really i just don't can't explain how i did feel not knowing that i had a
twin sister a part of me where is she well we don't know that exactly shorty told mary that the orphanage had
lost track of martha she had never been officially adopted but had instead been sent to a temporary home
we can't seem to find her oh i've often wondered if it's been good or if martha's life has been bad
uh you wonder about them things 30 years later rufus's granddaughter jackie took on the family quest
well i started my search for martha at holston home for children in greenville where she was placed along with mary in
1924 and they showed me what records you know that they could that were available
mary's okay yeah in 1986 jackie uncovered the original orphanage records greenville tennessee
she learned that in november of 1924 martha had been given temporarily to a charles and lida meek in johnson city a
small town 30 miles away from greenville [Music] so then i centered my search in johnson
city and i went through old record books and uh census records and city directories
and things of that sort went down sydney street where she was supposed to live and
i've never found any trace of the mix whatsoever so i really don't know what happened to him
from there [Music] not much is known about the meeks other than the fact that charles was a 34 year
old farmer and a member of the holiness church in april of 1990 three generations of
hinkles got together for a family reunion there was only one person missing today the family refuses to give up the
search for martha they are certainly she is alive somewhere they wanted to become part of a family
that has never stopped caring about one another our family has been very close very
close but uh we're not a complete family without finding the other sister and when we found mary this was the the
part of it but there's still a part of us missing yet oh it would just be the happiest day of my life
to get to be reunited with my twin sister martha there are no known pictures of martha
but there is a chance that mary and martha are identical twins these photographs of mary may help
identify her lost sister the first was taken when she was eight years old [Music]
the second when she was 17. this is how mary appears today she and martha were born in the spring
of 1924 they were taken to the holston orphanage in greenville tennessee when they were
four months old shortly after our broadcast one of our viewers sandy detained of san bernardino
california contacted the hinkle family with surprising news during a search for her mother's
biological family sandy accidentally discovered the location of martha henkel's adoptive family
martha lived with john and lyda meeks for three years when the couple divorced martha was taken in by the dan jackson
family of johnson county georgia in 1940 she married james thomas and together they had four sons
[Music] sadly martha passed away just weeks before the hinkle family could contact
her i'm glad that i found her we won't have to do no more searching but it's so sad that i couldn't need her
that that i couldn't be with her just to talk to her just for just for an hour or two
and tell her that i loved her although she never realized her dream of meeting her twin sister mary's 35-year
search was not in vain on july 27 1991 martha's four sons met mary and a side of the family they had never known
that day in a bittersweet reunion two families came together as one we were part of the family before we
ever walked up and touched one of them it was written all over their faces when we saw
those smiles and tender hearts all the little fears big fears the apprehensions just left it was all over
with glad to be home with our family i'm proud that she left four sons left part of her here
for me to get together and know know her through her sons but part of them is gone
that i never that i never found and i never will find but she'll always be in my heart
[Music] next a cunning and disturbed child molester is added to the fbi's 10 most
wanted list forty years ago the federal bureau of investigation initiated his ten most
wanted list to alert the public of the most dangerous criminals in america now from washington d.c a special appeal
by fbi director william sessions since 1950 125 fugitives on the fbi's 10 most wanted list have been captured
thanks to your help tonight with this broadcast of unsolved mysteries we are announcing the most
recent addition to the most wanted list he is kenneth roberts stanton who is wanted on charges of child molestation
burglary unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and impersonating a police officer
please watch carefully in 1964 kenneth robert stanton was convicted of child molestation
he was committed to a state mental hospital in ionia michigan stanton was diagnosed as a criminal
sexual psychopath a few years later staten was declared fit to re-enter society and set free
in 1989 kenneth stanton was identified by a young girl in jackson mississippi the events she described matched the
modus operandi of numerous molestations attributed to stanton kenneth robert stanton quite frequently
scouts an upper middle class white neighborhood and carefully selects a house where a
victim is quite often home alone usually a young white female is between the ages of 7 and 12
and his job as a traveling salesman permits him time to do this he is careful to approach the houses not
to disturb anybody he usually wears a conservative suit he's nice looking he's well dressed
quite often stanton comes to the front door of the house presents himself as a person of authority and quite often
shows a badge as though he were a policeman dressed in plain clothes [Music] hi is your mother home
no well i'm officer tom coles i'm with the local police department we're helping out the county health service
there's been a report of contaminated milk in the area and i'd like to come in and check if i could i'm not supposed to
let strangers in the house well i'm not a stranger i'm a policeman i've been up and down the neighborhood all day
checking your neighbor's ice box for the milk and the expiration date he often has a clipboard and indicates to the
child in the house that he's taking a survey or that he's looking for contaminated
milk and that he is there to test the milk in the refrigerator do you know where your milk is coming
from no well that's even more reason i should come in and check it'll only take a
minute if a young person would resist entry stanton quite often displays a bag of
marijuana or marijuana cigarette stating that he found this on the front porch and he's is entitled to search the
house for evidence well how do i know that you're really a policeman well here's my badge
[Music] he has a high iq and he's very intelligent and he's able to gain their confidence to get inside the house i'll
be gone okay all right [Music] once he's inside and he's determined that the children or child
is alone he blindfolds them frequently quite often he uses eye drops and a thermometer
possibly for a distraction it's at that time then that he continues on and assaults the children
in the summer of 1989 at jackson mississippi stanton was in the house of a young white female
attempted assault when she screamed and scared him away when he ran out of the house a neighbor
boy saw him jump into a car and correctly wrote down his license tag number thereafter police were able to use that
license number and identify that car as being registered to kenneth robert stanton of mobile alabama christy what i
need you to do is i need you to look at each and every picture and think in your
mind what this man looks like and then look at each and every picture and pick out the picture that looks like
him okay the young girl who was a solid on that day thereafter picked out a photograph
of stanton from a spread presented to her by the jackson mississippi police department
that's the man that's the man that's him after the jackson mississippi assault stanton apparently traveled east through
alabama and georgia and committed several crimes before he was identified at houston county georgia
there were identifications of stanton at jackson mississippi and columbus mississippi as well as tuscaloosa
alabama leesburg georgia douglasville georgia and warren robbins georgia stanton is suspected of at least 11
child molestations from mississippi alabama and into georgia after reviewing a number of these cases
and looking at stanton's history from the early 1960s we were able to conclude that he apparently was a lifelong child
molester and probably could be described as a serial child monster kenneth robert stanton is 52 years old
approximately six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds he has blue eyes and brown thinning hair
he usually wears glasses and occasionally sports a mustache and beard stanton travels frequently and works as
a heavy equipment he is known to have relatives in indiana in december of 1989 his car was found
abandoned in terrysburg ohio [Music] update kenneth robert stanton has been captured
within minutes of our broadcast several viewers called our telecenter to report that stanton was living in a trailer
park in moraine ohio with his wife he had been married just a few weeks earlier local police and fbi agents arrived to
staten's trainer only to learn that he himself had seen our broadcast and fled stanton's wife and neighbors were
stunned i've talked to my son and i've had him in front of the house staying in the
yard just in case he come back you know i don't want someone like aunt running around the streets at all you
know anyone that does anything like that should be put away five days later stanton was identified
in rock hill south carolina after he allegedly attempted to molest a nine-year-old girl
based on seeing the segment on the program coupled with the police report we suspected there's a strong
possibility that stanton was in rock hill or somewhere in this area and we proceeded on an assumption that
he was possibly staying at a local motel two days later fbi agents spotted stanton's car in the parking lot of this
motel after identifying the vehicle we established the surveillance of the motel
with fbi agents in york county sheriff's department detectives incredibly a check with a motel office
revealed that staff met registered under his own name he had indicated to the clerk previously
that he wanted to stay an additional week but he also wanted to move to the main building
the clerk in our direction called his room told him the new room was ready and he could move
when stanton emerged from his room we arrested him we asked stanton his name he said you know who i am
and he indicated that he was not a threat to us he was only a threat to himself he did indicate that
the following day was his birthday [Music] next week unsolved mysteries falls on
halloween in keeping with that tradition four intriguing mysteries of eerie people and
events which cannot be explained scores of witnesses in south carolina say they have encountered legendary
ghosts called a grey man some even claim that he has saved their homes by warning them of approaching
hurricanes we'll also meet a woman named katie whose apparent psychic powers have left
eyewitnesses baffled and skeptics crying fraud on halloween just two years ago 29 year
old david stone set forth on a spiritual odyssey in the bleak desert in new mexico he never returned
authorities are still perplexed by a trail of mystical clues he left behind join us on halloween for a special
edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

This episode includes: Real Twin Peaks & UD, Update: Baby Broker, Twins, Mary and Martha & UD, Serial Child Molester & UD.

Brief Summary

The episode covers the Paquette murders, twin psychic connections, and a Tennessee adoption reunion.

Key points

Mysterious Deaths in New Hampshire. A mother and son die under suspicious circumstances 25 years apart, raising questions of murder.
Heartwarming Reunion After 30 Years. An orphan is reunited with her brothers after decades apart, bringing joy and closure.
The Dark Side of Adoption. Cindy Lapresto discovers her adoption was a result of a baby trafficking scheme.
Shared Pain Between Twins. Identical twins Lewis and Donald claim to experience shared pain, raising questions about their connection.
The Psychic Bond of Twins. Identical twins Lavona and Lavelda share a unique psychic connection, feeling each other's pain.
A Father's Heartbreaking Decision. Rufus Hinkle makes the painful choice to place his twin daughters in an orphanage.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I don't really believe my mother committed suicide.

Victor Paquette on his mother's death

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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