Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 9 - 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 Arizona a successful real
estate entrepreneur named Chuck Morgan was found shot to death some believe this is a contract killing ordered by
organized crime the only significant clues a cryptic twist Morgan scribbled on the back of a $2 bill 1965 the South
was embroiled in the painful Civil Rights story in rural Louisiana young black deputy sheriff was brutally
murdered by unknown gunmen today new evidence has surfaced and the case reopened by the FBI in Tacoma an unusual
and heartwarming story concerning a young epilepsy victim and the dog who saved her life as a mysterious sixth
sense enables some enemies to actually predict epileptic seizures this is the only photograph that bold bank robber
who has cruelly committed a series of successful holdups without ever being identified perhaps it will help you put
him behind bars he'll also tell you how you help shed light on the bizarre case of a demented
arsonist to set fire to a house and Kalla see videotape the blaze thanks to our viewers two suspects both teenagers
are now in custody join me once again you may be able to help solve the mystery [Music]
[Applause] [Music] Tucson Arizona March 22nd 1977 Chuck Morgan left as usual to drive two of his
four daughters to school riding the crest of two sounds real estate boom Morgan had become president of his own
escrow agency and the outside his life looked ideal a hard-working businessman devoted husband and father but in 1977
Chuck Morgan had become a potential witness in a state land fraud case involving a known organized crime boss
and suddenly on March 22nd Morgan disappeared three days later Chuck Morgan returned
home at 2:00 in the morning I was in bed and the dog started barking and I got up
and there was a thump against the back door I went to the door and open it and there was Chuck and he was missing
his shoe he had one plastic handcuff around one ankle and his hands still had gone back to your rooms go back to your
rooms he kept motioning to his throat because he had instead of work any torque can
you're right and he should have his videos so I went you got it tablet and Hannah
[Music] I'm gonna check he wrote that his throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic
drug and that the drug could drive him irrevocably insane or destroy his nervous system and kill
him and he wanted the car moved he wanted it moved immediately because he said that he didn't want them to know he
was home he wouldn't tell me who they were I'm gonna call the police and I wanted to call a doctor and I wanted to
call the police and he was adamant and then he will doubt that that would be signing a death warrant for the
entire family a one-week ruth morgan nursed her husband feeding him water with an eyedropper before his voice
returned he began to allude to a secret identity agent for the federal government
he wrote they took my Treasury identification and that's the first I heard of it your treasury ID is missing
what treasury ID he wouldn't talk to me about it he wrote he had been working for them for about two or three years
and that wasn't it who is responsible for this bizarre kidnapping episode and chuck Morgan's
life it is possible that Morgan Rielly was a secret agent dealing with organized crime so he could pass
information along to the government but Morgan may also like so many others in Arizona during the 70s have become
caught up himself on the web of organized crime Lord by the mild climate in a confused
and corrupt criminal justice system the mafia reportedly established Arizona as a narcotics pipeline and a haven for
swindlers and money-laundering led by former New York Don Joseph Bonanno more than 500 established racketeers set up
shop here during the 70s their influence began a slew of gangland style killings
culminating in the slaying of investigative reporter Don Bolles what made Arizona particularly
attractive to crime syndicates was a unique state law which allowed them to buy up land through numbered blind trust
accounts that way they themselves could remain anonymous providing a nearly foolproof way to launder money Chuck
Morgan did real-estate escrow work for at least one Mafia family and they may also have begun using him to do extra
work for purchases of gold bullion and platinum a more convenient way to launder money it is very easy to get in
over your head and I suspect that over the years mr. Morgan was in that kind of a situation he was a straight
businessman who probably got a little too close to the flame well the sales agreement looks all in order the legal
description of the parcel the amount he was around the edges of a couple of fairly large organized crime groups in
Arizona at that time sells a deal [Applause] the records begin early 73 and it would
indicate he was doing perhaps upwards of a billion with a beef bargain escrow work and bullion and
platinum transactions that only existed on paper there was never any gold at that level at least and money changed
hands and moved through escrow accounts in Los Angeles and Atlanta banks and that's how the monies were legitimized
Chuck mentioned to me once that there was money laundering going on in the in this town but nothing that he himself
was involved in he told me the less the girls and I knew the better off we would
be after his kidnapping Chuck Morgan began exhibiting a justifiable paranoia he wore a bulletproof vest and insisted
on driving his daughters to and from school he informed a school that no one else has authorized to pick the girl's
up all his precautions were to no avail two months after his first disappearance
Chuck Morgan vanished again [Music] the last morning that anybody saw him he went up to his parents house
and he was talking to his father and told him that if anything happened to him there was a letter explaining why
how and who the letters never surfaced nine days after her husband had disappeared
Ruth Morgan received a mysterious phone call the caller was a woman who gave Ruth a reference from the Bible this
woman said Ruthie I said yes she said Chuck is all right ecclesiastics 12 1 through 8 and then she hung up the
passage reason part men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road remember him before the silver cord is
broken and the Golden Bowl is crushed then the dust will return to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to
God who gave it two days after Roose cryptic phone message her husband's body was
discovered his bulletproof vest ironically in place he had died from a single bullet fired a close-range into
the back of his head the bullet came from his own 357 magnum which was lying beside him the investigators also found
a piece of paper with directions to the murder site jotted down and Chuck's handwriting and a pair of sunglasses
which definitely did not belong to him they made one additional discovery apparently Chuck Morgan had clipped the
$2 bill inside his underwear written on the bill were seven Spanish names beginning with the letters A through G
above them was a notation ecclesiastes toil with the verses one through eight marked by arrows drawn on the bill
serial number this was the same reference the mysterious female caller had given to Ruth Morgan on the back of
the bill the signers of the Declaration of Independence were numbered 1 through 7 and a crude map was drawn the map is
of some roads that do exist between Tucson and Mexican border going out to a place called Robles Junction and then
going south to little town called Sasabe a ranch is identified down there where there are landing strips it's an area
that very likely would be involved in smuggling and there are some indications that if mr. Morgan was involved in some
movements of real gold that some of it in fact may have been coming across from Mexico in that fashion
despite the puzzling evidence many in the Sheriff's Department believe chuck Morgan's death was a suicide
they claimed he had shot himself in the back of the head there is no way Chuck would have committed suicide and if he
had even contemplated suicide he would have left a letter for his girls and for me it is not a very normal place to
shoot oneself as a suicide and bear in mind he is wearing a bulletproof vest at the time I've never seen in all my years
as a journalist a fella taking himself out in the desert wearing a bulletproof vest and shoot himself in the back
yet I was familiar with the intelligence officers of working intelligence for the
Sheriff's Department at the time I had some conversation with them about this case they thought it was a homicide and
gang-related they left the Sheriff's Department I don't know if they left because of what
they detected in this case or another case or a combination of cases but they indicated they were in fear of their
lives and actually left law enforcement two of them left continental US two days after Chuck Morgan's death an
anonymous woman spoke to a member of the Pima County Sheriff's Department on the
telephone she said Chuck had come to meet her at a local motel just before he died the woman called us up green eyes
and said she was the same one who had called Chuck's wife quoting the passage of Ecclesiastes
green eyes also said that in the motel Chuck showed her a briefcase containing thousands of dollars in cash
he claimed the money would buy him out of a gang contract that had been put on his life how much do you have in there
hopefully $60,000 where do you need so much if the information that green eyes provided is accurate it is in a very
perverse sense remotely possible that mr. Morgan paid for his own murder [Music]
the theory goes that organized crime put the word out that they wanted Chuck Morgan dead a hit man then told Chuck
who came up with the money to buy the hit man off but when the two of the met in the desert the hit man killed Chuck
anyway then took his money there is a great likelihood that mr. Morgan was in fact doing something with the government
and I think somebody blew his cover and I think he got killed I think this was a
guy who was extremely naive about a lot of things the sort of associations he suddenly found himself in and maybe was
even asked to put himself in by people in the US government [Music] three weeks after her husband's death
Ruth Morgan had two visitors claiming to be government officials Jack Richards were special agents for the FBI
they opened and closed their identification very fast they said they wanted to come in and
look through the house I never thought at the time to ask them for a search warrant they never said what they were
looking for to this day I don't even know what they were looking for the two men tore loose Morgan's house apart
searching for something which they seemed unable to find because she was so rattled Ruth did not take down their
names no one knows for sure if the two men really were from the FBI Don Devereaux contacted the bureau to
get more information on the Morgan case when I made a formal Freedom Information
Act request to the FBI they never heard this before despite the fact that they obviously opened an investigation
despite the fact the FBI interviewed mr. Morgan's attorney they were all over this thing like a blanket for a while
but now they've never heard of the guy he never existed nope no card no file no nothing was Chuck Morgan doing
undercover work for the government or the clues he left behind on the $2 bill an attempt to pass coded messages to the
FBI 12 years later Ruth Morgan is still trying to unravel the strange clues left
by her husband the passage from Ecclesiastes answer while the Sun or the light or the moon or the Stars be not
darkened nor the clouds returned after the rain in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble I don't know
what it means there's a message there somewhere I know there is but I don't I don't know what it means I think the two
dollar bill provides the basis for some kind of cryptography I think there are some the basis of some kind of a code
there what seems to be missing however is the document that the $2 bill would unlock I think we need a companion piece
to really make ultimate sense out of the $2 bill [Music] is there a document that explains the
mysterious death of Chuck Morgan tying all the cryptic clues together where the two men calling themselves federal
agents searching for the document when they ransacked the Morgan home for Ruth Morgan only one thing is certain he was
murdered somebody held a gun to his head and killed him I don't know why I'm I may
never know why and I probably will never have know who but I know somebody did it
he was the husband of someone he was the father of four children was he a good guy was he a bad guy if he was quietly
providing assistance to the US government and monitoring the activities of one or more major organized crime
families he wouldn't have fillin he was a good guy and they need to know that when the segment aired we received
hundreds of calls relating to Morgan's death according to Deveraux who continued his investigation many turned
out to be productive leads three months later a draftsman at a Phoenix computer company Doug Johnston was found dead in
his car outside his office Johnston had been shot once behind the ear and police
have suggested it was impossible suicide curiously Johnson worked across the street from Don Devereaux's office and
drove a car that almost exactly matched Devereaux's in fact Devereaux is now convinced the bullet which killed Doug
Johnston was intended for him I got a phone call from a journalist friend of mine from Washington DC who had been
briefed by a high-level CIA official that in fact that was a botched hit that some people thought they were hitting me
when they shot the guy across the street and in fact there was a still a contract
outstanding and it was coming around again but whatever I had done was still a problem to someone to other sources in
the intelligence community of confirmed but Don Devereaux that he is a target for murder and that the next attempt
will be made to look like an accident we'll bring you a full report in this intriguing case in the near future
[Music] recently we profiled a story that generated more than 1,600 phone calls from our viewers a case involved a fire
that was apparently started by an arsonist then recorded on videotape by the suspect week's chase this footage is
from the actual distant a pond on August 15th 1989 by a Stockton California vendor I've never run across anything as
eerie as this tape it was it frightened me as a matter of fact I thought about it that night when I went to bed despite
a frame-by-frame analysis of the video investigators were unable to match the fire recorded on the tape with any
suspected arson fires reported in the state of California the burning structure appeared to be a
wood frame house perhaps in a rural area because fire engines do arrive investigators felt certain that
somewhere a report of the blaze was on fire I think the person who made this videotape and is responsible for the
fire will without a doubt in my mind continue to set fires and the person needs to be apprehended and stopped
before his fire has become more destructive Update Redwood City California 60 miles
west of Stockton within minutes of our broadcast several viewers Redwood City called our telecentre identified the
location of the house seen burning on the videotape as we were sitting here and would looked at the film on the TV
we realized with utter shock that it was the house behind us that was on TV and our family was scared to say the least
cuz we didn't realize that the film even existed and was those minutes taken my mind of all that that was the house that
was behind us by watching the videotape on TV we called in its unsolved mysteries and gave only information the
arson occurred on August 15th 1988 a house it was destroyed was under construction at the time the day it has
been rebuilt incredibly on the night of the blaze Woodside fire captain Don Dillon is also videotaped the fire while
I was setting up the command post directing companies and to extinguish the fire I had set up by a video camera
to film the fire for training investigation purposes by comparing captain Dylan gist tape with a video
shot by the arsonist investigators were able to confirm beyond a doubt fires location some of the calls received led
us to a 17 year old Woodside youth we interviewed that youth through that interview it led us to a 19 year old
Redwood City youth he was arrested and interviewed and subsequently admitted burning the house taking the video and
was the one who talked on the video our biggest hope was that maybe we would find an area or location on the fire we
never dream that we get the results that we did one of the two suspects is currently awaiting trial on charges of
arson investigators believe that between them the two suspects may also be responsible for as many as 25 arson
fires in the Redwood City area over the past three years [Music] in the early 1960 the American South was
at a crossroads Selma Birmingham in Greensboro were just a few of the battles with a desire for racial
equality became adamak segregation starting to crumble blacks and whites faced off intense often
violent confrontations [Music] in Washington Parish Louisiana the black community began to push for integration
of the Sheriff's Department in response to black deputies were appointed on June
1st 1964 46 year old David Creed Rogers and 34 year-old O'Neal Moore became the first black law enforcement officers in
Washington Parish just a great day knowing my husband was the first Negro deputy he got in his car and he turned
his um ready on and reported he and we were just typical ha ha ha at that time feelings were running very
high very high and people some people not all people was against the blacks taken apart in any part of law
enforcement or anything a year later a deputy sheriff O'Neal Moore was gunned down while on duty and a racially
motivated attack on June 6 1965 Moore was laid to rest an unheralded martyr of the civil rights struggle his killer was
ever identified mores partner Creed Rogers lost an eye on the attack but survived I would like
to know who did it for my sakes and everybody else to know who their neighbors are I know I would want to
live next door to anybody black or white whatever was dirty enough to do something like that
today southerners are justifiably proud of the enormous strides made by both blacks and whites and putting the past
behind them but 25 years ago times were different black deputies that use O'Neal
Moore and Creed Rogers are not allowed to confront whites much less arrest them but despite the fact that they were
working in a white world that barely tolerated their presence while Neyland Creed persevered they promised
themselves that they would not let the community down [Applause] it was a night of June 2nd 1965
[Music] after a year on duty O'Neal entreated come to expect harassment so they were
not surprised on a pickup truck began to tailgate Lisa better thank you see you get the
whole Duchy wake up and we got home Peter's here about two miles north of horn adore we so fun on the left of the
road so we made a u-turn yeah spectre-5 woody there is she [ __ ] it now what do you think tell it
ain't nothing but old trash but come on we checked the fine so it was just a trash fire wasn't no danger so we made a
u-turn in a seated on South and his truck had pulled over to the right and as we passed them truck pull out
begin the phone it appeared to be a darkroom black I noticed you've had a white grill and the
rebel pay on the front so as we headed south it's continued [Music] when the car hit the tree and they pay
still shooting and evidently the last shot cut him it's not over on me hearing the shots a local resident lander the
accident he found O'Neil more dead and Creed Rogers badly injured he stood God until police arrived
chief deputy sheriff Doyle holiday arrived a few minutes later he began an investigation that would consume the
next several months when I got up there I found anybody O'Neill more dead deputy Creed Rogers all shot up a black
truck Creed he described the tro recognizing right down to the last detail you're gonna be okay and I
immediately put out an APB on that truck in less than about 30 or 45 minutes they
called me from my office and told me that they had apprehended a truck of that description in Tylertown
Mississippi the truck fit the description to a tee of what Creed had told me with the exceptions of the side
radius there were no side rails on the truck at the time of apprehension the truck was stopped just 20 miles from the
scene of the shooting the driver was arrested but was soon released on a 25 thousand dollar bond the charges were
later dismissed needle lack of evidence suspicions naturally focused on the Ku Klux Klan but the local chapter
immediately denied any involvement racial tensions increased Washington Parish the sheriff refused to give in to
the pressure O'Neal Moore was replaced by another black deputy it really been accomplished anything because when they
was trying to get rid of creed and O'Neill it didn't frighten them that just give others more mo get up and go
about them it really it really give him more courage they wouldn't gonna get the
black deputies off of the sheriff's department because it was it wasn't any time after that until the sheriff called
me one day and told me to go and hire another one well we can't get on the floor first thing in the morning
during holiday continued to pursue his investigation two weeks after the shooting the violence came to his home
after I got to talking to the sheriff I went over and sit down on the couch that's when the shot right hollered get
out I grabbed my gun and laying on the table and when I was door fire they immediately took off you might have
been stepping on somebody's toes I don't know but I don't know why they picked me
out singled me out because even had they backed me down which they didn't they still had the FBI and state police to
contend with the local population refused to cooperate with the FBI or local authorities despite a $25,000
award from the governor of Louisiana the case was deemed inactive in 1967 25 years ago
the Klan was so strong that the people would not open their mouths they would not give you a lead on anything for fear
of their house being burnt or some member of their family being hurt or something to that effect
back then they didn't move anything to do with the FBI the State Police or the local police in June of 1987 the FBI
field office in New Orleans was contacted by one informant and received letters from two other anonymous sources
they claimed to identify the people responsible for O'Neil Moore's murder as a result of this new information and the
case was reopened one of the two letters is very specific on identifying individuals that were within the pickup
truck and the getaway route of the pickup truck involved we have looked at the three individuals specifically
mentioned in this anonymous letter have interviewed their families or anyone that may be associated with these three
individuals let me write this down now what did you say the FBI does not currently have enough information to
make any arrests however they do believe that the killers belong to the Klan we feel that it was members of the Ku
Klux Klan that took part in this shooting but they did it on their own they didn't allow other individuals to
have knowledge of what they were going to do [Music] it has been 25 years and so Neil Moore
and his partner took their last bride together Creed Rogers refused to be frightened
away from this chosen career and in 1988 he retired as a full captain in the Washington Parish Sheriff's Department
that'll be with me forever who who could have done that you know if when people try to kick in
your head and did anything to them why that never leaves you mind sometime you wanted to still out there still won't
betray it's a it's a bad feeling I think that a lot of people that was involved back then are getting on up in years
like myself and they don't want to go face the Almighty with that on their conscious and I think before the final
day somebody's gonna get it off of their chairs the death of O'Neill Moore was a
crime against every American that his killers are still at large after 25 years as a further affront
their capture will not ease the pain felt by O'Neill's family and friend but it will certainly prove that while
justice may not always be blind it does have a long [Music] when we return a story of a remarkable
dog who helped save the life of an epilepsy victim by predicting her seizures our next story is a unique and
heartwarming mystery it deals with a bond between people and animals the amazing sixth sense some animals possess
when it comes to helping and protecting their owners Minneapolis Minnesota December 4th 1984 2:00 a.m. 15 minutes
earlier a drunk driver had run a red light collided with a car driven by 19 year-old Victoria doroshenko Victoria
was left unconscious suffering from multiple head injuries before the accident I had a perfect light for a
teenager after the accident I lost everything [Music] I lost my job I was in and out of the
hospital so many times that there was no way that I could even function with a normal life I felt really lost I felt
like somebody had taken away my life for what life I have it after the accident Victoria was plagued by headaches and
periodic blackouts a year and a half later she moved to Tacoma Washington hoping to put the accident and her
injuries behind her then in August of 1986 while she was already hospitalized Victoria suffered a violent seizure the
symptoms were cleared Victoria had epilepsy let's get her on her side in her automobile accident brain cells had
been damaged disrupting normal activity and causing seizures for Victoria what Knossos was grim well my seizures were
at their worst I was having up to 24 a day big ones and in between the big ones I was having about ten little ones the
doctors didn't think that I was gonna live very much longer [Music] the severity of Victoria's seizures left
her completely incapacitated she fell often re-injuring her head which only induced more seizures she was confined
to a wheelchair and required round-the-clock care because Victoria's lungs filled with fluid during and after
the seizures death was a constant threat her situation seemed hopeless take care of yourself I couldn't do
anything I couldn't leave the house when I did leave the house I had to have enough people around me that could pick
me up for carrying me if need be or whatever if I was having a seizure I had to be strapped in just somewhere
because the seizures were so violent that I would throw myself around and get in injure myself I wasn't awake most of
the time when I was awake I was really depressed I didn't want to I didn't really want to live Victoria would find
help in an unlikely place the Prodi Correctional Center for Women prison 25 miles outside Tacoma there the state of
Washington has set up a special program [Music] under the guidance of a professional the
inmates trained dogs rescued from the pond as companions and aides for the handicapped the dogs learn to open and
closed doors pick up a telephone receiver hold wheelchairs fetch things like clothing and hair brushes in 1987
Victoria heard about the program and went to the prisoner it was a decision that would save her
life I was hoping for a dog that could help me in my daily living skills and I was real lonely I didn't have the life I
didn't have a social life so I thought maybe that a dog would help when Victoria arrived for her interview
inmate trainers are working in the room with two dogs both golden retrievers one
of the dogs have been chosen for Victoria that day when I was out of the program I ended up having a major
seizure and the dog that they're originally training for me just walked away from me in didn't care the second
dog in the room was named as Harley defied his trainers commands and did respond
when Vicki started seizuring and Harley went to her and laid down with her you know everybody in the room was astounded
you know the dog was doing what we had hoped he could learn to do before we ever hoped he could learn to do it he'd
somehow knew when I woke up from my seizure I woke up and and his head was laying I mean he was looking at me like
all sad and he knew something was wrong as soon as I pissed our patent time I think you realized that everything was
okay he started we're gonna stay and it was from there on I knew that that was my dog and I knew it was gonna work he
was he was my partner from then on no one could explain my Harley responded to Victoria during her seizure the prison
program had discovered another dog which showed a special sensitivity to epileptics again with no explanation why
do certain animals appear to establish this immediate sympathetic bond for the medical community this question is an
intriguing one for Victoria Dora Cinco it was a question of life and death [Music]
once Holly was with Victoria full-time or anxiety diminished the frequency of receivers decreased dramatically
Victoria's doctors allowed her to resume classes at a local Community College Holly was victorious constant companion
I was at Tacoma Community College and I was walking across campus and he all of a sudden started acting real funny he
didn't want to cooperate he didn't want to he didn't want to listen to me [Music]
Carly was a real laid-back dog he wasn't rambunctious like that or rambunctious so when when he started
acting that way I really didn't know what was happening excuse me can I sit down here yes
[Music] thank you I'm not feeling so uh do something for you no I just want to sit
here for a while Harley calm down once Victoria was safely inside a classroom five minutes
later she had a major seizure amazing it appeared to Victoria and two others present but Harley had somehow known
Victoria was going to have a seizure is barking and strange behavior had been a signal for her to go to a safe place
when I realized Harley come to take my seizures ahead of time it was so thrilled I knew that I was saved it
changed my life completely after his first prediction Harley never failed a warn Victoria when a seizure was coming
on illness exhibited the same aberrant behave giving Victoria 15 to 45 minutes notice before the seizure was about to
strike so after that the bond and the trust and the love and the dependency grew and grew and grew until there was
no comparing it we were each other we became like one a shadow Harley changed Victoria's life
dramatically she now felt comfortable enough to leave her house whenever she wanted she began to interact with other
people again if she had a seat Harley always stayed by her side he sense danger kept her away from traffic if a
seizure was coming on for the first time since her accident Victoria enjoyed the comfort and
security of a normal life modern technology and physicians doctors and none of us can predict when a
seizure will occur or how many seizures the person will have these drugs can they can detail beforehand when a
seizure will occur they can warn the person which is an incredible phenomenon so that the person can feel safe they
can be safe they can have the comfort of having a drug with them at all times because the anxiety of having a seizure
is with someone all the time I can never never repay him or show the devotion I have for him from what he's
done for me in June of 1990 Harley became ill veterinarians could do nothing and in July Harley died there's
no words to describe how I felt about Harley he gave me a life and that's a life is is more than you could ever give
anybody the epilepsy institute has received reports of 15 other dogs to seem to be
able to predict epileptic seizures six of these animals came from the Prudie Correctional Centre for women no one can
explain why certain dogs seem to have an innate sensitivity to epileptics for the
victims of epilepsy whose quality of life is so greatly improved by these dogs no explanation is necessary they
are happy to accept this particular unsolved mystery at face value next the story of a crook who pulled off
a series of daring bangle finally he has been captured on film on September 19th
1987 well-dressed man entered a Spokane Washington Bank may I help you stand up and move away from the desk quickly
both back away from the counter free plea don't touch any alarms do exactly as you're told you get over here with
the others no tricks no fast moves robbery is kind of in control seemingly prepared for any eventualities take them
out slowly even show the terrified Bank I have a reason a nice counter they mean
that he would know if they managed to a lisp oh no way I'll know about it Boop robbery ignore the easy money
sitting in the tellers drawers instead he ordered everyone into the vault hurried out in his first run he
stole more than $100,000 hariya it was over in less than five minutes the robber left no fingerprints behind and
managed to avoid being photographed the reason for that is the way he very quickly got control the situation
prevented any photographs from being obtained between this first bank robbery in September of 1987 and the present he
has robbed four more banks here in in Spokane using very similar method on August 30th 1988 the Bandit stole 14
thousand dollars from another Spokane bank and received an unexpected bonus [Music]
me a dye pack was given to the robber which went off very shortly after he left the bank within seconds of him
leaving the bank obviously that caused the commotion on the street and a witness did observe
that commotion as a result of that saw him get into a vehicle and make his escape after another robbery in November
of 1988 bank employees are able to help create composites of the bandit but these sketches were no substitute
for photographs amazingly he had still managed to avoid the omnipresent bank cameras but on June 6 1989 when he paid
a visit to Spokane horizon Federal Credit Union his luck changed this time frightened but resourceful bank tellers
stood up to threats we said hi and he said hi and he walked up to the counter and pulled out his gun and put on
sunglasses at the same time and then told us that he wanted to go into the vault get there he had one of the girls
hold the bank when I got the money I put the money in a bank and he told us to empty out the teller drawers he went to
one drawer at a time and when we were emptying that the amount that we you know pulled all the money out and
there's a bill trapped underneath you know some of the bills and he pulled we pulled the money out from underneath the
belt wrap which triggered the alarm not only was a silent alarm activated but the bank's surveillance camera was
also triggered for the first time robber was captured on film I was really scared
when I pulled the bill trap I thought if this guy knew that I pulled it I'm in trouble and I just knew that I had to do
it though it was nothing else I could do getting a photo in this robbery was a big step forward for us in our
investigation up till this point all we had were were witness descriptions of the bank robber now we have an actual
photograph and a very good photograph to work with to help us identify him it did
result in us linking him to three additional bank robberies as a suspect in Tucson Arizona so that was again a
major step forward in determining that the scope of what he's been doing as well as an aid to identification the
robber appears to be between 35 and 45 six feet to six feet two inches tall and weighs between 200 and 220 pounds he
seems tanned and healthy and the FBI believes he may live in the southwest commuting to banks in the Pacific
Northwest in order to protect their employees the horizon Federal Credit Union has transferred those involved in
the holdup to new locations and have redesigned their internal security meanwhile the robber has been busy since
1987 the elusive robber is allegedly held up at least nine banks six in the Pacific Northwest and three in the
southwest his last known heist was in April of 1990 unbeknownst to him this time he was
captured on videotape these are still frames taken from the videotape at 10:30 a.m.
a bandit strolled into a Tacoma Washington bank and walked out with a substantial amount of cash next week on
unsolved mysteries the tragic story of Norman Ladner a 17 year old Mississippi boy who died from a gunshot wound to the
head but police say suicide the parents say murder in Santa Fe New Mexico the legend
of a miraculous staircase built in a tiny Chapel by a mysterious and unknown carpenter for over a century visitors
have been dazzled by his handiwork and baffled by his identity in Oklahoma a brutal murder took the life of truck
driver Dwayne mccorkin Dale perhaps you can help identify his killers for every mystery there is someone somewhere who
knows the truth perhaps that someone is watching perhaps it's you [Music] [Applause]
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Brief Summary

Chuck Morgan's murder, O'Neal Moore's death, and a dog predicting seizures are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance of Chuck Morgan. Chuck Morgan, a successful real estate entrepreneur, vanished under suspicious circumstances.
The Cryptic $2 Bill. A $2 bill with mysterious notes and names was found after Morgan's death.
The FBI's Involvement. Ruth Morgan received visits from alleged FBI agents searching for clues.
The Aftermath of Chuck's Death. Ruth Morgan continues to seek answers about her husband's mysterious death.
A Botched Hit?. A journalist's life was threatened after a murder linked to Chuck Morgan's case.
O'Neill Moore's Tragic Death. O'Neill Moore's murder remains unsolved after 25 years, a crime against every American.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

He wrote that his throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic drug.

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Tension

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