Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 19 - Updated 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're about to see is not a news broadcast
for more than 30 years joe and matty harvey and their country store were an institution in the small town of
louis chapel mountain tennessee then in march of 1991 joe and maddie were brutally murdered
a grieving community was shattered by the news that one of the primary suspects was a member of the harvey's own family
[Music] in 1941 barney dewey and his sister angela were taken from their parents
separated and placed for adoption by a deceitful preacher posing as a friend a year later bonnie set out on a lonely
journey to find his sister perhaps you can help bring his long search to an end in henderson nevada two unknown bank
robbers took a woman hostage and led police on a dangerous high-speed chase incredibly as the escape unfolded an
alert newspaper reporter snapped a picture of the bandits from her passing car also thanks to our viewers nine brothers
and sisters who were separated by the tragic death of their mother have found each other join me perhaps
you may be able to help solve a mystery [Applause] [Applause] [Music] according to official fbi files on any
given day an estimated 40 banks in the united states are robbed at gunpoint on november 13 1991 a bank in henderson
nevada was added to the list it is a frightening traumatic experience for the bank employees
who fearing retribution of asset their identities be concealed it began an hour before opening the bank
manager was at his desk alone seemingly secure behind locked doors don't touch the alarm did you set off
the alarm no this is a robbery i want you to do everything i tell you to do now is there anything you have to do now
i have to sign on my computer and i have to check my daily note let's do it the first thing that that i
saw was the handguns that both of them had they were like a stub nose large caliber weapon
i believe the individual was a professional bank robber because he knew about banking procedures
all right do what you have to do he watched every move that i made up and down the tele line to make sure
that i didn't reach down and set off any alarms all right i'm in i just stand there
the robbers had apparently done their homework don't look at me they seemed well aware that
the bank's vault was equipped with a dual combination lock the manager knew the first half of the
six-digit sequence the other three numbers were known only to the vault teller at 8 am she arrived for work
when i was unlocking the door i kind of felt that there was something something wrong but i went ahead and
answered anyway don't touch the alarm do you know the other information open this vault
yes i do open it come on the bank robber was pretty calm i thought he was just really precise on what he
wanted us to do so my manager and i we opened the outer door and we all went inside the fall and we
went to go to the to the interval where the cache was now this is what i want you to do you'll
go across the lobby to my partner and stay there now go you go outside and stand by the vault door
and don't move hey you get over here two tellers were also taken hostage by the second gunman
when they arrived for work at some point during this phase of the heist a silent secret alarm was
activated [Music] police moved in cautiously and staked out the bank [Music] the robbery was very well planned out
but we were able to make it to the bank we believe without their knowledge had they have known we were on our way to
the bank i believe they would have left the bank prior to our getting there to avoid the confrontation
once officers were in position the police dispatcher placed a call to the bank trying to find out if a robbery was in
fact in progress i got to get the phone get it valley bank this is the henderson police
department we're receiving a silent hold up alarm from your business is everything okay there
my stomach was in my throat um i suppose i didn't know really what i was gonna say or how i was gonna say but i knew
that i had to alert this person that there was a problem within my branch and my normal procedures would be joyful
and tell her that everything was okay this time i just told her that yeah i suppose everything's okay that
alerted the dispatcher that there was definitely something wrong within my brain
everything's all right set off the alarm didn't you no i did not who are you talking to um there's
someone else here with me okay what i need you to do is i need you to go outside and speak with my officers
can you do that for me okay very well bye oh that's the store across the street they they think there's something up
here i they're gonna call the authorities i gotta go i have to i have to straighten
this out with them go outside and take care of it the hardest thing that i had to do
was to walk up my tele line and see my three employees tied up knowing that once i left that bank
that i couldn't get back in to do anything to help them it's just taking too much time
one robert he was really really nervous and he was mumbling to himself much time i was nervous of course but
i wasn't freaked out i guess as some people would say i kept my cool i didn't say anything i
didn't make them nervous or jury you know that i was you know going to cause them problems
no one knows if the gunman were aware that the police were outside let's go grab one of those women let's
get out of here you come on stop for reasons known only to himself one of the holdup men removed his mask as he
left the bank what had begun as a robbery had suddenly escalated into a dangerous hostage
situation [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] the escape route had obviously been
planned well in advance the robbers managed to confuse their pursuers as they entered the labyrinth
of a large apartment complex there are only three entries and exits from that apartment complex
and there are probably six to eight dead ends in that apartment complex they seem to have known exactly which
route to take through there when i was in the car i wasn't sure what was going to happen to me i kept my eyes
closed for the most part so they wouldn't want to kill me since i could identify them so i
automatically laid down on the back seat [Music] police sealed off all possible exits in
an attempt to trap the robbers incredibly the bandits made good their escape a short time later they switched getaway
cars and released their hostage unharmed authorities believe that the two men who
robbed the henderson bank may be responsible for as many as 10 holdups during the past five years
in every case their disguises successfully concealed their identities leaving investigators with absolutely
nothing to go on but the henderson hold hold-up would be different that morning newspaper reporter
katherine scott heard of the robbery on her police scanner i ran out of the office to my car with
the camera and my scanner as i was going i heard my scanners say that there were
three people tied up in the bank there was a hostage in the car the robbers had a semi-automatic handgun a
semi-automatic pistol and they were heading my way on sunset road with the police behind them
i saw the car and decided that that had to be the car and that's when i thought i can take a
picture but i was afraid to take the picture because if i lifted up my camera and
took the shot then i knew that they had plenty of time to react by lifting their
weapons and shooting me that's when my heart started to pound and i don't know how much time passed it
couldn't have been very long but i kept thinking i can take this picture but he'll shoot me i can take this
picture i can take this i want to take this picture i have to take this picture but he'll shoot me
and just as we passed that was it the moment of truth and so i took it this is the photograph that catherine
scott took that morning authorities have enhanced it to make the unmasked driver more recognizable
from this image and eyewitness descriptions the fbi created a composite drawing of the suspect
he is caucasian or hispanic between 40 and 50 years old six feet two inches tall and weighs
approximately 220 pounds no photographs exist of the other robber without a mask
he is believed to be in his late 30s is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs around 175 pounds
[Music] next a man's poignant search for the sister he hasn't seen in 50 years [Music]
more than 50 years ago the united states began a brutal downward economic spiral
that lasted just over a decade officially the great depression ended in 1942 but for many the cost and personal
tragedy would continue for a lifetime such was a case for a young girl and her older brother who lived in haskell texas
in 1941 barney dewey was just 12 years old but he had already been forced into manhood and the charge was 63 cents now
how much change do i have 37 cents that's right well here you go sir no no you keep that that's yours
well thank you very much mr wilson you're welcome and i'll see you barney worked part-time at a gas station
and looked after his little sister angeline their stepfather was hospitalized and their mother toiled long hours as a
garment worker times were rough in those days and uh we were concerned with uh living and trying to
keep uh keep body and soul together and so and my mother was trying real hard you know she she was not a well-educated
person but she she could read and write and what have you but that was the only job that was
available you want to play a game with me okay it was a bleak existence but barney and
his family managed to scrape by and stay together until the day in the spring of 1941 when
barney and angeline had a visitor a kindly old man named reverend nicholas i'll get up sir hello you're bonnie do i
ain't well i'm i'm very [ __ ] most people call me daddy nichols oh daddy nukes yeah i i'm
a good friend of your your mother so he told us that uh my mother wanted us to go with him she
said it would be all right if i came over and took you and the way he put it uh and
the way he expressed himself well there's nothing wrong you know just go with him and and
my mother i thought well you know uh that perhaps my mother was sick so you're sure she's gonna be there later
god she's gonna be hello your answer united how would you like a piece of candy he
was uh a very personable person and uh he was very nice and uh he could quieten your fears real
easy with just a few words and uh with his candy which he always had in his pocket come along
there you go there you are [Music] reverend nicholas took barney and angeline to a fancy hotel
bought both of them new outfits and fed them a sumptuous dinner the next day all dressed up in their new
clothes the children were formally photographed there you go now go on over here we find the bus
waiting for him they said that uh that something had happened to my mother and that we
weren't able to see her and so they took us to uh the bus station and i questioned
him asking well where are we going he says well so we're going to take a little trip
and uh don't worry everything's going to be all right well my sister balked and she began to uh cry
it's all right don't worry don't worry i talked to your mom she said she'd meet us
every time we would raise some objection well he would uh smooth our our feelings down and say
well everything's gonna be all right you know just so we'll we'll go see your mother
i still had in my mind that we were going to see our mother that all of this was taking place to get us
transported to the place that she was and so uh this uh this is the way it happened and it worked out for
reverend nichols just real well we we kind of trusted him and when we got to the
foster home we just felt like that that was a place that we was to stay until we
met my mother a few days later barney realized that his trust had been misplaced
reverend nicholas and his adopted son nick crane came to the orphanage to pick up bonnie
but not angela it's uh time for lunch we're going to our house and we'll just can't take him now oh we're just taking
him for some food and of course angeline began to cry and sob and and held on to me and uh and followed me
out you know and she had to be restrained barney [Music] only later did barney understand that
the fancy new clothes and the photograph had been nothing more than an advertisement
to be shown to prospective foster parents barney was sent to live on a ranch outside abilene texas
his foster parents reverend nicholas secretary and her husband who conveniently needed a ranch hand
i had the responsibility of driving the tractor and plowing and and doing the chores on the ranch to
keep the animals uh up and everything keep them fed and what have you and i was pretty pretty satisfied right
at first there you know because i had my own horse and i could uh do whatever i wanted to do you know and
on the ranch and i was kind of in charge really felt good about it [Music] barney's memories of his foster parents
are fond ones even though he lived a solitary existence eight miles from the main ranch house
and saw them rarely as time passed barney yearned for his own family more and more
i began to get lonely and i began to miss my mother and my sister well i just got so upset that
i begin to think about you know maybe i ought to get away from here and go look for my mother
[Music] well i felt obligated to my foster mother and father and so i took my clothes off took my
good clothes off that they had bought me and everything and i just laid them aside and put my old clothes
on that i came to them with and i made sure i had my money with me i had 37 cents in my pocket
i decided i was going to go to haskell and left for my mother it was 97 miles from the ranch to
haskell when barney got there he discovered that his mother and stepfather had moved away
thus began a personal odyssey for barney dewey one that would crisscross texas and
cover nearly a thousand miles barney found his birth father in cleburne together they traveled to
kilgore texas then on to humble just outside houston there barney's father put him on a bus
to odessa where he would be reunited with his mother and stepfather [Music] when i got off the bus in odessa texas
and i looked over and i saw my mother and i recognized her of course but she didn't know me
to me i'd changed in the year that that it passed and uh i had glasses on and uh
and of course my daddy bought me some new clothes you are so brave to go all this way we had a
wonderful time there and then she said where's angie have you heard from angeline no no
but she's doing okay though we began to talk about the events that had taken place and uh i asked her i said mama i
said did you sign any kind of papers or anything to release us to these people and she says no
honey says i'd never do that barney lived happily with his mother and stepfather until he was 18 years
old in 1947 barney married four years later he and his wife traveled to abilene trying to locate
reverend nicholas barney asked around and discovered that nick crane the reverend's adopted son
owned a pharmacy in town hi i'm nick crane can i help you yes i'm i'm barney dewey this is my wife
stella hi bernie i don't know if you'll remember me or not nick crane told bonnie that reverend
nicholas had died two years earlier and that his orphanage had been shut down by the state
whatever records existed were stored haphazardly behind the pharmacy barney and his wife sifted to the dusty
papers but found nothing that could lead them to angeline for the last 50 years i have been
searching for my sister and i haven't been able to contact her and i have nobody that knows anything
about her and uh and and it has been this long 50 years half a century in my search
for my sister anjali the night of our broadcast barney dewey's prayers were answered when neal
smith of cedar hills texas recognized angeline as his adopted sister martha jean
martha gene is mentally handicapped and lives at a group home for the disabled in arizona
barney immediately made arrangements to reunite with his sister at his daughter's home in chandler
arizona on march 23 1992 the moment barney had waited more than 51 years for finally arrived
hello angie can you get out of there all right oh well it's good to see wow oh good after all this time yeah goodness
look at me i know i look at me oh no goodness it's good to see you hey i'm telling you it was a real thrill
you know i mean yeah it's hard to describe but you know there she was and my search is ended i
found who i was looking for all of these years and the only thing that i only regret i
have is that my mother was not there to greet her my little sister yeah this is where we
were standing when we took that picture you know back there in abilene just before we
were separated separated yeah that's right it's joy that i found born in all his family i'm happy
that i found that i've got two families now instead of one i got two and i am really happy
yeah this is your sister opal faye she really was thrilled when you were born i look like her
and there's barney dewey your brother that afternoon barney and martha jean began to fill in the details of the
years they had spent apart yeah and this is your mother my mom yeah that's your mom and she was 51 years old
there 51. yeah i got the information that she was treated right and had been raised properly and had
gotten an education and had been loved and so that that really was the ultimate as far as i was
concerned when when i got back to odessa i really feel good i mean really this is
an exciting high part in my life and i'm really glad that everything turned out like it did
and our dream has really come true [Music] the lord is my shepherd i shall not want
on may 31 1974 funeral services were held for 34 year old wanda vest in toledo ohio
wanda left behind nine children the oldest was 16 the youngest just 10 prepare the months father james vest did not
attend the funeral he was in jail charged with a murder of his wife three days earlier james vest brutally
gunned down wanda at a tavern where she worked he later pled guilty to first degree
murder and was sentenced to life in prison where he died in 1983. in one senseless and violent moment
james vested shattered his entire family within days of their mother's funeral the nine vest children were sent to live
in separate homes i think for some reason i felt we had enough family that some kind of way we
would all be kept together but i was wrong it was like nobody wanted us we were taboo you know
to to be around us would be to remember what happened to have to accept it and they didn't want that
so to me we were punished for what my father did because we weren't even allowed to have each
other in 1986 with a love and encouragement of her husband and two daughters shireen began searching for her missing
brothers and sisters whom she had not seen in 11 years incredibly it took shireen only two
months to find four of her brothers within the next two years she managed to locate two of her sisters and another
brother but one of the best children still remained unaccounted for shireen's brother heath who was six
years old when they were separated [Music] i actually had a dream one night that
there was all nine of us in a room and i just know that i'm going to get them all together
the night of our broadcast shireen's dream of finding her brother heath came true when he called our telecenter
heath who is now married and living in ohio was shocked to learn he'd been featured on national television
the next day he spoke with his sister for the first time in more than 17 years four weeks later heath accompanied by
his wife robin arrived in los angeles for a special reunion with five of his brothers and
sisters i was really excited i just wanted to get out of the car you know i was thinking you know who am i going to hug
first you know and i didn't want anybody to start bowling or anything you know i
just wanted to get out and hug everybody at once basically uh when i heard heath was found i was
actually kind of numb i thought it would take months i didn't know that people would just
call in and it would be that easy i'm glad it was because it's been a long wait meeting everybody it's changed my
attitude a lot it's picked up my attitude because uh you know i had a lot of feelings now i
had that unwanted feeling you know i i never really knew why but now now since uh
they've found me i have that wanted feeling now it's a good it's a good feeling because
uh i never really knew you know finding heath and this reunion is the first day of a new beginning
i know when we all leave here that we're all going to leave her differently it's
going to be better for all of us the picturesque forests of the appalachian mountains are dotted with
small tranquil communities where everyone knows their neighbor and families take root for generations
[Music] joe harvey and his wife maddie called teat by friends exemplified the unique character of the
area for 35 years the harvey's ran a combination convenience store and automobile repair shop in louis chapel
mountain tennessee just northwest of chattanooga it was the only place to buy gas or
groceries for miles around and served as a gathering place for the community pete liked to talk a lot and joe was
quieter than pete was but t liked to talk a lot they that was kind of like the community
newspaper in other words right there they just knew everybody and anybody needed help
they would help it was pretty well common knowledge that they kept cash receipts from the store hey patty
i asked them time and time again not to keep that kind of money around but they needed a bank account and
joe i tried to get him to even get a gun and put in a garage and and stationed there where he's at and he
wouldn't even do that trusted people too much let's go get some supper before you fall
around the tv joe and maddie were such a fixture that everyone figured they would
be there forever then came march the 4th 1991 the local sheriff was called to the harvey's house
by a concerned neighbor for the first time in memory the store was not open at 9 00 a.m on a monday
morning i walked up a little steps like we go up to the back door and uh reached the handle of the door
and it was unlockable while i just pushed the door open joe take the inside of the house was completely
gutted joe and maddie were nowhere to be found and i just turned and come back out onto
the porch i discovered blood spots with some hair fragment and flesh so that give me a funny feeling that
something had really happened at that point agents from the tbi the tennessee bureau
of investigation arrived on the scene state arson investigators soon found a two gallon gasoline can on
the kitchen table the investigators found various blood spots throughout the house and on porch
and steps leading from the house the conclusion is obvious the arson was set for an attempt to cover up
the crimes that had been committed there and so with the idea that we had been informed that they did
keep large sums of money first first reaction is there had been a robbery i just thought maybe they might have
been kidnapped i thought maybe they'd went on the smokies or something like that
but when i got to the mountain and they told me they'd found blood and the house
been burned inside i didn't know what to think at that point all i could think about
was hoping that they were still alive a large-scale search of the area yielded absolutely nothing
the disappearance of joe and matty harvey left their family and friends stunned that sort of thing just did not happen
in lewis chapel mountain but soon the community would be rocked again another member of the harvey
family would mysteriously vanish joe and maddie had no children of their own but were extremely close to their
extended family especially their niece 27 year old cheryl holland and her young daughter
could not have loved cheryl anymore if she had been her own daughter that's where she felt about her and she
felt that way about the little girl of cheryl she loved that little girl today i mean she she thought that little girl
is all they were one week after joe and matty disappeared cheryl's pickup was found abandoned at a
truck stop two hours from home investigators found the truck uh unlocked they found keys in the truck
and they found a necklace that has later been identified as hers laying beside the truck also her
pocketbook was still in the truck the evidence they found on the scene would lead a reasonable person to assume
there had been an induction what time do you leave ross for lady it's about the middle of the morning on
wednesday tbi agents soon questioned cheryl's common-law husband eddie wooten about noon time he tells
about her taking him to newport news virginia he tells about stopping at a place where
they they slept what was the name but he can't remember where they stopped so we kept finding many many
inconsistencies such as that it was uh we have two missing people now we have three
all out of a very close immediate family even as i say living next door in many times in her life the favorite
niece is missing there's no money in the house the arse and the blood it all bills and then the
question is is she really missing is she an abductee or is she part and parcel of a crime
as far as thinking that sherry was involved in anything the tbi asked me i was telling him that we had about all
the grief we could take because we'd lost a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law you know
and uh he wanted to know was it connect did i think it was connected and i said no there ain't no way i mean you know
sherry was christian girl and she was living christian life and there's no way that sherry's
involved in this this is all together a different story eddie when was the last time you saw
cheryl it's like i said when she dropped me off at newport news okay where was uh
cheryl the la the week on march 10th eddie wooten was questioned again he told authorities that in late
february he took cheryl to a hospital in knoxville for a week-long treatment of stomach cancer
what was the name of the hospital i don't remember you don't remember the name of the hospital
we had been told by the family that she had borrowed money and gone to other institutions for
supposed treatment of a cancerous condition and we found that not to be true on the
day in question that he claimed that he left her in knoxville for treatments she in fact was working
in chattanooga tennessee how could she be in knoxville at the hospital and here in china working at
the truck stop at the same time eddie if i tell you what happened what's going to happen to me finally wooten broke
down and a tale of heartless betrayal began to unravel in all wooten would tell his story three
different times what follows is based on the court records of eddie wooten's confessions
that whole week cheryl worked at the truck stop and i stayed at home on saturday i guess
march 2nd cheryl came home from work and she started telling me that she needed more money
so that night we were going to go up to her mother's so cheryl could pick up a paycheck on
the day or in question and towards the evening hours they stopped by a service station and
purchased a gas can and fill it up with gasoline they then went up on the mountain where her
parents lived where she went in to talk to her mother and from there they drove to the residence of joe and maddie hart
we got to do it we need the money you don't need it that bad we need it they got more than they need
and i know where they got it eddie are you gonna help me do this or not according to wooten he and cheryl were
not alone that night when they went into joe and maddie's house they left their six-week-old son
and cheryl's five-year-old daughter in the cab of their truck you got the gun what do i need a gun for
cause we're gonna have to kill him kill him kill joe and t do you think they're just
gonna hand over the money look eddie we got no choice now come on and i said that i didn't want to kill
him but she said that i was gonna have to help her to do it and so i said i would hey joe
oh hi cheryl how you doing where's teeth oh she's in the back bedroom in the west
[Music] she came out of the back bedroom and i shot her in the head [Music] cheryl uh she told me to go out into the
driveway and tell the kids to get down onto the floorboard according to wooten he and cheryl stuff
the bodies into the trunk of joe and maddie's own car next wooten followed cheryl as she drove
the harvey's car across the alabama state line they stopped at the bridgeport ferry on the
tennessee river [Music] according to wooten cheryl later returned along to joe and maddie's house
she stole an estimated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash and then tried to cover up the crime
[Music] two days later shell brazenly returned to the crime scene again even as investigators were
searching for evidence she intended obviously for the house to burn completely and the house did not burn as a result
of that the gas can was left uh basically intact on the kitchen table you're not gonna believe what's on the
bottom of this can what's that bloody fingerprint hey mike come here shoot the print
[Music] and from that gas can we were able to obtain a latent print which definitely matched up to the known
thumbprint of cheryl holland i was mad i was hurt because i couldn't believe that she would do anything like that
not at all sure i'll just sure would not have had that in her i've done her so much on sure that it
didn't shock me anymore i mean it was uh i just felt like it it was it was sherry and eddie and at this time
i felt like she was much involved as eddie was searchers began dragging near the
bridgeport ferry on wednesday april 17th they found the harvey's car joe and maddie had both been shot in the
head just as eddie wooten described the hardest part is when i had to identify the bodies
i just identified them and walked off there for a few minutes i had to that was a bad thing to have to look at
them way i'd always seen them at the store and everything and see them in the trunk of this car
it was bad really bad eddie wooten was arraigned on charges of first degree murder
a warrant was immediately issued for sheryl holland's arrest on the same charges
investigators began to track her movements in the days just after the killings she seemed to be traveling alone having
left her children with her mother but authorities soon learned of a mysterious man who had apparently been
following her on march 7th at 9 30 p.m five days after the murder cheryl was seen by a service station
attendant in greenville tennessee how can i help you i was gonna get some gas but i got i got a gun
we have a witness that saw miss holland talking to a male with a with a beard and a black
leather jacket driving a red and white pickup truck miss holland didn't seem to have any desire to talk to the
bearded man she left the scene in the truck of the with the mail and it followed
behind her in the same direction about an hour later cheryl was spotted using a pay phone at a truck stop
12 miles from the service station she called her family and said she was two hours from home
[Music] later another witness spotted two people talking inside cheryl's pickup truck
a man meeting the same description of the bearded person seen in the greenville area
[Music] had come to sheryl holland's place of business on the day before the murders and she
was seen writing this man a check now whether or not that is the same man whether or not a bearded man has any
involvement in this at all of course would be idle speculation on our part and we have no factual basis to conclude
that he is cheryl was last seen at the truck stop around 11 30 p.m that same evening
whether or not she planned this disappearance prior to the homicide of whether or not
the disappearance was impulsive i don't know but we as prosecutors and investigators
do feel that she is alive and has assumed a new identity somewhere you're innocent until proven guilty and
i don't think they're giving her the benefit of the doubt as much as i would like for her to be
i think that eddie went berserk and cheryl was just there she didn't know what to do if she
did burn the house it was the only way that she could figure that she could get away from eddie until she could see that
it was safe for her and her babies she's just going to have to go and try to help him
as far as having to show off i think eddie or someone that he knows has done something to her
has killed her eddie's first place not got that much education uh second place eddie did not know
eddie and sure had been together about a year and uh eddie would have no way of knowing joe
and them had a lot of money in the house a year has passed since the murders of joe and maddie harvey yet a number of
questions remain did cheryl holland mastermind the murders if so what could drive a woman to kill
the aunt and uncle who loved her so much did cheryl stage her own disappearance to escape justice
or did she simply fall prey to an unknown assailant possibly the mysterious bearded man
no one will ever know exactly what transpired on the night of the murders until cheryl holland is found authorities
believe she is still alive in his fled tennessee her common-law husband eddie wooten
remains behind bars awaiting trial [Music] update austin texas less than an hour
after our broadcast cheryl holland was captured thanks to a viewer's tip holland was arrested at this convenience
store where she'd been working for six months under the assumed name amy forrester i asked her
if she was cheryl holland and she said yes and that that was about it we put her in
handcuffs at that point placed her under arrest employees of the store were shocked to
learn of their co-workers double life the first thing i got to my mind no that can't be her not
not amy daunting she said last night she said i'm sorry i got myself into a mess and i will
get myself out of it four days later cheryl holland was returned to tennessee to face charges of
first degree murder anytime that you apprehend someone that's a fugitive in a case like this case of double homicide
you're relieved and yes really we're relieved from that standpoint if convicted of the charges against her
sheryl holland could receive the death penalty [Music] join me next time for another
fascinating edition of unsolved [Music] mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

This episode includes: Getaway Photo & UD, Looking for Angeline & UD, UD: Nine Lives and Mom & Pop Murders.

Brief Summary

Joe and Maddie Harvey's murders shock their community, while a brother's search for his sister and a bank robbery unfold in parallel stories.

Key points

Brutal Murders Shock Community. Joe and Maddie Harvey were brutally murdered, leaving their small town in shock.
A Journey to Find Family. Barney Dewey searches for his sister after being separated for decades.
A Thrilling Reunion. After 51 years, Barney finally reunites with his sister, Martha Jean.
Tragic Family Separation. After their mother's murder, the Vest children were split up and sent to different homes.
A Dream Comes True. Shireen's dream of reuniting with her siblings becomes a reality when Heath calls.
Mysterious Disappearance. Cheryl Holland's pickup truck is found abandoned, leading to questions about her fate.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Perhaps you can help bring his long search to an end.

Call for viewer assistance in finding Barney's sister

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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