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this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news broadcast tonight in a fascinating new
mystery for years Jim boom garden had the oddest encounters with people he had never seen
before who are positive that he was someone else then his friends and family began to have odd run-ins with a
mysterious stranger who appeared to be Jim's exact double was someone impersonating Jim Boone garden if so who
and why after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln history records at John Wilkes Booth was tracked to a farm in Virginia
and killed by Union troops but history may be wrong a few eyewitness accounts suggest that
the man in the bar was not booth and some historians now believe that Lincoln's assassin was never brought to
justice but Alex Cooper a devoted father and grandfather disappeared his family made an unsettling discovery there was
no such person as Alex Cooper he had created a fictitious past and become a man everyone join me for another edition
unsolved mystery [Music] [Applause] [Music] April 1865 the civil war was over President Abraham Lincoln was dead
for nearly two weeks 2000 Union soldiers scoured the countryside searching for his assassin on April 26th at 4:00 a.m.
a cavalry detachment surrounded a tobacco barn on Garrett farm in Virginia they had been told that inside was one
of the most notorious criminals of the century or of any age 26 year old John Wilkes Booth was an actor of national
Fame considered by some the handsomest men in America he was also deeply committed to the
Confederate cause on April 14th booth had mortally wounded President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington the man
who had freed the slaves and given hope to the disenfranchised was gone Abraham Lincoln would preserve the Union
through sheer force of will now belong to the ages on April 26th 12 days after the assassination an informant directed
Union troops to the Garrett farm [Applause] the man who surrendered was not John
Wilkes Booth a 21 year old David Herold known to be one of Busse co-conspirators
lieutenant Edward Gowdy grew impatient he gave the command to smoke out his quarry
the soldiers are under strict orders to take booth alive but an overzealous sergeant named Boston Corbett took
matters into his own hands two soldiers dragged the body from the raging inferno the nation was avenged or
was it there is tremendous physical evidence which proves beyond a doubt John Wilkes
Booth in reality was not killed by the federal government officers as they claimed in fact lived until January 13th
1903 when he died in Enid Oklahoma Territory according to official history John Wilkes Booth died on April 26th 1865
incredibly this fact has given rise to an unlikely controversy in historical circles
the matter of boost life and death has always seen an indisputable chapter in American history but even the
Encyclopedia Britannica states that the identification of the man shot in the barn was equivocal at the time those who
questioned the official account believed it in the confusion following the Civil
War critical evidence may been mistakenly recorded or perhaps covered up others dismissed these series is
revisionist nonsense we'll examine both sides of this fascinating controversy which has been brewing for 125 years
in 1866 Senator Charles Sumner argued that the government reward from boost capture should not be paid out he
claimed that there was simply not enough evidence to verify booths identity that
same year senator Garrett Davis of Kentucky complained that he had never seen any satisfactory evidence that both
had been killed and in the early 1900s John Schumacher general counsel to the Department of the army wrote the
evidence put forth by the government to support the conclusion that the body was
that of John Wilkes Booth was so insubstantial that it would not stand up in a court of
law Nate Orlick and dr. Arthur Chitty have spent years studying the Lincoln assassination independently they have
arrived at the same conclusion the most persuasive evidence to me at Garrett's barn that that the man in the barn was
not booth is the fact that his friend David E Harold came out of the barn and the first thing he said was the man in
there is not booth and there was a boy who was a wanted fugitive at this time for killing a captain Watkins in
Maryland of course Harold was not permitted to testify in his trial as all was the case
with all the defendants none of them were permitted to testify his statement of course was was kept secret as all the
others were so we don't really know because Harold was not permitted to say anything and of course he was hanged so
we don't know exactly who the man was I have heard the account that Harold was pulled out of Garrett's barn and said
that's not booth in there I have no source for that I don't know where the story came from but a historian James
Howe refutes this incident by citing a 40 page statement made by David Herold to government investigators in 36 hours
after his arrest Herold referred to booth 10 times by name when he was discussing what went on
in the bar while it was being surrounded by the soldiers to me that's conclusive III
can't see where they get the idea that he'd come running out and say it's not booth by the time David E Harold changed
his testimony he was under such enormous pressure he was in fear of his life he had been incarcerated with a canvas bag
over his head and just a little hole to be fed through he was under terrible emotional strain and was trying to save
his neck and and so therefore when when he thought that he would survive by changing his story he changed his story
according to Nate Orlick other eyewitnesses also refuted the government's identification of the man
killed at Garrett's farm [Music] this man is not booth what's that lieutenant this man is not booth
this man has red hair lieutenant lieutenant Williams C Allen worked for the United States Secret Service in 1865
and in August of 1937 his widow mrs. Hannah Allen told a journalist that her husband had told her that he saw the man
at Garrett's farm who had been killed and that the man had red hair and that the government knew that that man was
not booth but they were determined to foist this man on the nation as booth by every historical account whose hair was
jet-black Stephens testimony about the red-haired man was corroborated by two other Union soldiers private Joseph
system and quartermaster Wilson D Kenzi 16 they surrounded Garrett's bar and they burned the barn down they shot John
Wilkes Booth only it's not booth how do you know it doesn't look like him no one
will believe Kensi and his buddy Joseph Ziskin were friends of booth in 1862 and
63 in New Orleans Kensi was a quartermaster and was free to go wherever he wanted
basically you know within the military lines and so he went with position to Garrett's farm because he had an
interest in what was going to happen to booth in 1922 when he was 77 years old Kenzi
detailed what he sought Garrett's farm and a sworn affidavit as I rode up Josas game called here c'mere sergeant
this ain't John Wilkes Booth tall the face was exposed enough so I could see the color of his hair on the side of his
face and from the fact that this man had sandy hair and Booth had very dark hair
I knew at once it wasn't he his body was exposed the lower part of it and he had no injured leg that I
could see you men move away from that body due to or under direct orders to speak to no one of what you've seen here
today do you understand me and he said that the officers there told him everyone has to keep this
secret you'll be dire consequences for anyone who tells the truth the military really meant business and they were not
going to risk their lives just to tell the truth the government autopsy was performed by
a physician who was acquainted with booth dr. John F May was a Washington surgeon who removed a tumor from the
back of booths neck a few months before the assassination in 1865 his statement he is now in the National Archives like
all the other government records on the case it was held secret for 70 years [Music]
corpse bears no resemblance to the actor John Wilkes Booth john frederick may wanted to tell the
truth and he recognized that this was not booth but it was made pretty clear to him very early on that this better be
booth strek 'old I do not remember booth is being freckle and so we have the curious affidavit
which starts off saying I'm sure this is booth and then goes on to say but it doesn't look like booth and it goes on
to say I recall booth is having black hair and this man has sandy hair I recall that booth had rather clear
complexion in this man is freckled but this is certainly booth signed John Frederick made
in 1906 dr. may clarified his findings in an article titled the mark of the scalpel he said he believed the
discrepancies he found were due to the physical deterioration of booth while he was on the run dr. may also said there
was a scar on the neck which corresponded to the scar left by his surgery in 1864 now had the government
really believed that that body was booths they would have taken pictures of it they would have had many many
hundreds of people to identify it but the War Department didn't do that the government knew that that man was not
booth eventually booths body was secretly buried in the basement of the old Naval prison in Washington it seems
incredible that Union authorities would have misidentified the assassin of President Lincoln but if John Wilkes
Booth was not killed at Garrett's barn in 1865 when what became of him when we returned will present evidence of booths
escape his later years and startling facts about the assassination conspiracy in 1865 the government moved quickly to
close the books on the Lincoln assassination John Wilkes Booth had been hunted down and killed the trial of
boost co-conspirators resulted in four hangings and three life sentences as a nation began to rebuild the details of
the conspiracy are classified as secret and hidden away some believe however that John Wilkes Booth escaped Union
soldiers that he fled south under assumed names and lived another 38 years in 1907 an obscure attorney from Texas
named finest base published this book the escape and suicide of John Wilkes Booth in these pages base claimed that
he learned the true story a booth from one of his clients a man named John st. Helen of Granbury
Texas in 1877 st. Helens felt grievously ill and thinking he was about to die made a startling confession to finest
Bates finest finest claim is not Johnson Helen really John Wilkes Booth assassin President
Lincoln if I die tell my brother Edwin I'm dead well Bates of course thought this guy
was crazy he had been told as everyone else had that booth had been killed in 1865 so he thought he was just
hallucinating to be you ro and Booth said to him no I really am John Wilkes Booth and now that I've told you my
secret I want to give you the whole story so he poured out for Bates a very long confession detailing in great
detail the kidnap conspiracy the murder conspiracy how he got out of Washington how he escaped altogether escaped
Washington DC using a password TEB wrote st. Helen explained that during the Civil War all bridges out of Washington
were closed after nightfall and heavily guarded making escape near impossible oh but I must cross I'm sorry the bridge
is closed I have a password password TB TB Road all right you may pass corroborating
booth alias st. Helen telling Bates of this password is the dramatic letter written by Frederick a diamond who was
one of the guards at the Navy Yard bridge the night of the assassination on May 31st 1916 Demond sent Bates a letter
in that letter Demond says at about 10 p.m. that night a captain rode up to the bridge and said if anyone comes up using
a certain password let him through and that password was TB TB Road Demond says that was very peculiar because
never before had anyone been allowed to cross the bridge using a password bridge
on Washington was close enough to talk I don't know what happened there that night these were just a bunch of old
soldiers later on remembering it but sergeant Silas Cobb who was in charge of the squad at the bridge made a statement
which is in the National Archives and he also testified that the conspiracy trial
and he didn't say anything about passwords all he said was that I thought these people were proper people to go
across the bridge and I let them cross I can't tell you why these dreamed up this is a password
st. Helens narrative continued he told Bates that he joined up with co-conspirator David Herold and together
they visited a doctor who said his broken leg booth alias st. Helen told Bates than
when he was going through the open country in Virginia he hid in the back of a wagon and at one point he heard
someone shout DARS dem soldiers now thought they were northern soldiers so hurry at layin he was yanked out of the
back of the wagon and hustled into the woods when that happened his papers and and
other personal effects fell out Saint Helen claimed that while on his way to the Garrett plantation he sent a man
back to retrieve his papers before the man returned and while David Harrell was out seeking supplies news came of
approaching Union troops mister First Union soldiers are riding in from Bowling Green you did you be getting out
of here how far behind you are they about two hours thank you thank you according to st. Helen he immediately
fled the man sent to retrieve his papers was in the Garrett barn the David Herren
when it was surrounded by Union troops on April 26th Harrell decided to surrender the other man was shot inside
the barn [Music] because a dead man carried boost papers he was identified as the assassin I
[Music] believe John wants you to rest several weeks later st. Helen recovered from his illness bass tried to dismiss
the confession as hallucinations brought on by the fever but Saint Helen later added even more details to his story the
following year John st. Helen left Texas but finest Bates was haunted by his confession can
you imagine a young lawyer talking to a bar owner down in Texas a gullible young
lawyer so he just fills him full of a great big long story and later on Bates that was the name of the this young
lawyer embroidered the story nicely and wrote a book about it but I think he just took a young lawyer and fed him a
line it's that easy certainly it wasn't booth is it possible that John st. Helen
was in reality John Wilkes Booth a comparison of photographs shows a striking resemblance
On January 13th 1903 while staying at a boarding house in Enid Oklahoma John st.
Helen committed suicide by drinking a glass of wine laced with strychnine Bates had the body preserved he took
many pictures of the body and eventually he had the body mummified to preserve it
for posterity to prove once and for all that the government had fooled us all and he was going to not allow that
cover-up to stand [Music] in 1931 six Chicago physicians examine the mummified body of John st. Helen and
recorded their findings in this affidavit they specifically noted a scarred right eyebrow a crushed right
thumb and a broken left leg John Wilkes Booth is known to have had all three of these unusual characteristics - John
Wilkes Booth escaped Union troops at Garrett farm only to kill himself 38 years later in an Oklahoman
boardinghouse the history books say no John Wilkes Booth died in 1865 four years later his remains are returned to
Maryland and buried in an unmarked grave in the family plot perhaps their rest the definitive answer to this unsolved
mystery [Music] imagine that there's someone who looks exactly like you blocks the same way you do talks the
same way you do that has been the bizarre fact of life for Jim Boone Garden a buyer in Illinois for years Jim
has been haunted by the specter of a strange double a man who seems to be everywhere or at least everywhere Jim
isn't the place Rockford Illinois in 1980 for the occasion a company softball game it is a typical Saturday morning
except for an eerie event about to unfold third baseman Rick holder is coming up
to bat suddenly his brother-in-law Jim Dugan who should be 20 miles away at home enters the game to pitch for the
opposing team hey Jim Jim you know I would say hi to him and say hi Jim hello Jim and I wasn't getting no
response from the guy so I just thought you know after the game was over I go up
and I talked to the guy hey Jim how's Cindy and the kids after the game he said he went up shook his hand and
thinking he was talking to me he said guy just kind of looked at him weird him a funny look Turner I walked away from
him five years later and just a few miles away Jim bloom Gardens father Ernie was
leaving the doctor's office when he saw his son Jim my dad came after this guy was yelling at him
[Music] this guy Nord him got into a car which he said was very similar to mine drove
off and didn't even acknowledge him now we had two people who knew me very well and they were both fooled especially my
dad who reared me this guy fooled my dad he has to look almost identical to me Jim spent his childhood in the suburb of
Rockford Illinois he knew he had been given up at Birth by his mother but he had no idea who she was Jim loved his
adopted family and his life was happy and uneventful except for one strange incident when Jim was 11 and visiting
his grandparents in Rochelle Illinois he was approached by a group of neighborhood boys really
you're talking to me yeah it's you want to play basketball of us my name isn't Billy what are you talking
about it's not Billy my name is Jimmy it's Billy look if you don't call me by my right
name I won't play basketball with you I could understand if why they want me to play basketball so much and they
wouldn't call me my by my name and why they were making this name up I could not understand that
Jim filed the incident away at the back of his mind after high school he joined the Army and served a tour in Vietnam in
1978 Jim married Cindy holder they settled near Rockford Illinois and had two children often in Rockford people
Jim didn't recognize treated him in an unusually friendly way how's it going man I've seen a long time what's going
on how much I'll see you around okay and I've met a lot of people there's no way
that you can remember every face you see so I kind of brushed off as as nothing until some people would see me in places
that I I never was or I wasn't at that time finally on Christmas Day 1991 the strange encounters culminated at a
mini-mart just five blocks from Jim's house Shirley her lean was behind the cash register was working and this
gentleman came in I assumed it was Jim he looked like me he walked the same talk the same same mannerisms I assumed
it was Jim within minutes Jim and Cindy walk in do you forget something well you were just here a few
minutes ago and I looked over at Cindy I said he's kidding right and she said no this first time he'd
been out today and I said well oh my god there was somebody that came in looked just like
it if I had been just 15 minutes earlier just maybe we could have ran into each other as he was coming out and I was
going in and met face to face how awesome that would have been to see yourself a lady who was there said she
saw a man who looked exactly like Jim and they're not 15 minutes ago she said he could have been Jim's twin three
weeks later Jim's wife Cindy was visiting his grandmother's Sophie Sophie grew strangely quiet when Cindy told her
about the odd case of mistaken identity at the mini mart what's wrong are you okay
[Music] Burnie told me something a long time ago and I promise to keep it a secret
Jim's father Ernie had died a few months earlier and Cindy had no ideas she was about to hear a long-held family secret
Ernie told me that when he contacted his lawyers about adopting Jimmy he learned
that Jimmy had a brother but twin Jim had a twin she said that Ernie didn't like keeping it a secret but yet he
figured that you know gentlemen never known his brother he would never miss him I was kind of hurt at Ernie because
he never told us his self you know while he was alive but I was very relieved that we had somebody that could confirm
that there was a twin I was excited you know all the speculations are now true I
am looking for a twin brother Jim obtained a family history from the adoption agency to his disappointment no
names were used but the report did give one clue his birth mother had a nephew who drowned at the age of 14 desperate
for details Jim spent hours in the library until he found his story in a 1945 newspaper finally Jim had come up
with a family name hieronymus [Music] through the phonebook gym located a woman by that name living just 20 miles
away may I help you good afternoon my name is Jim Bowman garden this is my wife Cindy and I apologize for
disturbing you but I was wondering you could help me it's your last name hieronymus sorry yes I think we might be
related you don't have to tell me we're related you look exactly like my brother
bud Jim had found his aunt Myrtle his birth mother's sister the mother of the boy
who had drowned in 1945 that would have been taken sometime in the mid 40s she'd
about 33 or 34 at that time that's about the time I was born I tell you for the first time Jim saw a photograph of his
mother hazel and learned that she had died three years earlier Myrtle told Jim that his mother had cut
herself off from the family and that they had known nothing of his birth or his twin brothers did you know my father
well there was a man hazel was seeing I think he might have been married good I didn't really know him
hazel never told you about me and my brother no she never said anything about having had twin boys of course I knew
about the little girl she had girl when well let's see it was October November 1945 I was in a hospital myself
Jim's aunt had dropped a bombshell she not only did Jim have a twin brother he had an older sister as well now the
mystery is even harder now I got to to fight instead of one but I'm bombing German I'm going to find him one way or
the other finally Jim was able to visit his birth mother's family plot her maiden name was
hazel georgette edible fur eventually she married a man named Connor also now deceased I found out everything except
my brother and my sister and finding my family it's the only part of the web that needs to be untangled now is
finding them and and then it will be complete and I will be satisfied and relaxed
Jim boom Garten and his brother his first name might be billy were born in the Salvation Army Hospital in Cook
County Illinois on March 29th 1947 his brother was adopted by a family in Rochelle Illinois their older sister was
also born in Rockford st. Anthony's Hospital in October or November of 1945 [Music]
next the baffling disappearance of a 65 year old salesman from Canada Alice Cooper of Cranbrook British Columbia
Canada was an accomplished musician a folksy down-to-earth family man who enjoyed nothing more than fishing and
camping with his wife Margaret his five grown children and his three grandchildren
[Music] Alex was a local businessman who worked in the cleaning industry from 1974 to
1983 then in 1986 he took a job as a salesman and began to spend some of his time on the road everyone who knew him
agreed Alex Cooper was the last person you'd expect to find at the center of a mystery
then came the morning of April 4th 1987 when Alex's daughter Lila and her husband Pete left Cranbrook for a
shopping trip we left Cranbrook quite early that morning about 7:00 7:30 we really drive to another city which was
about a three-hour drive and it was actually Pete that said that's your dad's car you know it was obviously his
car my dad and I were so close Pete would have known that if if we didn't stop and say hello I was just gonna sulk
all day anyway so we did we right away turn around and I just couldn't imagine driving by without stopping saying haha
it's just the way we were so we just walked right by the car didn't really paid any attention we walked by it
walked down the bank to the water yeah we just assumed that he was fishing at the water I was curious when I got
back to the car I started to get a little bit that feeling in your stomach like this is really unusual past curious
now [Music] concerned because their father had a heart condition Lila called her mother
Margaret Cooper had not seen her husband for more than 24 hours I found a great deal of fear a lot of said justice you
check out the hotel which was closed the hospitals and then if he didn't find that she would go to the place do you
know where he was headed to he was on a regular sales trip as far as we know on his way through the valley to sell some
supplies what kind of spice does he sell restaurant equipment there was no footprints or any other physical
evidence that may be around the vehicle the vehicle was locked he had a set of clothes that were left in the vehicle
along with some fishing tackle nothing that we found around the vehicle would suggest that foul play was involved in
this [Music] we're gonna have to take the car to because he's gonna be joining it away
they have to take the car that has to go back to our office we gotta check it to
see if there's any evidence at all I felt very lost seeing the car away I want to meet some fever
has to go I felt that of the car was there and get into it and leave it this one
ain't but they took the car away and he didn't come back the police launched an extensive air and
land search but Alex Cooper had absolutely vanished perplexed and heartburn and his family desperately
searched for answers they learned that all the day Alex disappeared he ate lunch at a restaurant less than a mile
from where his car was found what Alex had a very bad habit in that he carried his money in a roll in his front pocket
and if he was gonna pay for anything out came the roll he took off what he needed
popped it back in and and that worried me a great deal afterwards sure climate Margaret Cooper feared the
worst possible scenario someone may have robbed her husband killed him dumped his
body in the Canadian wilderness Lila Cooper imagined them all together different course of events I was
thinking about all the things that could have happened to him I focused on the water number one that was my main
thought was see him maybe going down to the creek to the water and being a fisherman seeing
what the possibility was if maybe trying to catch something or drop a line in fell in or he had a heart attack and
feeling [Music] police divers drag the creek and found nothing the media picked up the story
newspaper and television coverage provided yet another theory after the broadcast we had numerous sightings
people come to our office reporting that they hadn't seen a fellow matching a similar description as Alex Cooper for
height weight same type of clothing they'd seen hitchhiking in the area of the vehicle the investigators theory was
he just left the area on his own for what reasons we have no idea if Alex had indeed left by his own free
will why did he leave his heart medication on credit cards at home and why had he taken only the clothes he was
wearing it was suggested that maybe he had staged the disappearance and just ran away from us I wasn't able to accept
that at all Alec wasn't the kind of man who would be capable of creating that kind of pain for his family he was the
best father anybody could ever want and he loved us all and he was he was funny and he was sincere and he was honest and
you know if I'm proven wrong like I guess I'll have to eat my words but I believed everything he ever told
me the Cooper family suffered through an entire year with no word from Alex eventually they had to face the painful
reality that he was gone forever Margaret Cooper petitioned the Supreme Court of British Columbia to have her
husband declared legally dead her request was granted Margaret tried to obtain Alex's birth certificate and made
a chilling discovery no information at all did you check she was stunned to learn
that a birth certificate was never issued in Alex's name in fact prior to his marriage to Margaret in 1952 there
were no official records of Alex Cooper no high school transcripts no military papers no medical history as far as
anyone could tell Alice Cooper simply did not and had never existed finding no record of him made me feel
very mixed up unsure of myself and of him because some I guess like had to really admit for the first time that he
hadn't been completely honest with me and things made me really wonder about his identity it didn't make me wonder
about him as a person though because if he'd had been Joe Smith I'd still love him who was Alex Cooper why had he
assumed an alias and in essence lived a lie for more than 30 years and most important was he still alive
if so why had he chosen to disappear for four long years the Cooper family lived in a constant state of uncertainty
then on May 27th 1991 a mystery of Alice Cooper finally began to unravel halfway
across the country in Toronto another man was reported missing he was also a traveling salesman his name was David
Cooper and he born uncanny resemblance to Alex Cooper are you like saving money everybody likes saving money you
certainly sound like a sensible person the man known as David Cooper had lived in a boarding house in Toronto for
nearly a year every week he would venture out to a new community selling meat products to families via the
telephone we take the show off it though do we wanna Cooper's business trips a friend reported him as missing police
searched Cooper's room and found this photograph David Cooper and Alex Cooper were one and the same
sitting there holding this Polaroid of him I couldn't believe every prayer that I'd
ever made and you know my dreams were answered because he was alive but I didn't have him he was there but he
wasn't there I had my 39th wedding anniversary not too long ago by myself please need
I'm in limbo on the 29th of May when mr. Cooper returned home he went up to his room and when he went in to his room or
his flat he noticed that there was evidence of police presence to dust that's used to take fingerprints was on
the wall and it was on a couple of other places [Music] my room mr. Cooper and at that time his
landlady advised him that had been reported missing by the police and the police we're trying to find out where he
was well who reported me missing I have no idea but I know I didn't I did all right it didn't I
it's not your fault mrs. chase by the time police returned to the boardinghouse Alex Cooper had disappeared once again
for reasons known only to himself we have a person who has something to hide to a point where he would walk away and
leave the family that has been where for the last 35 years so it has to be something that's very serious or at
least he believes it's very serious I'd love to get him back I want to give him a real big hug and then I kind of want
to give him a kick in the butt and then another big hug but I'd love to have him
back if he's running I don't know why he's running what a timing quit no no he's got this family that care about him
and if he's out there living among strangers he should rethink this thing we deserve it and so does he
[Music] shortly after this story aired a viewer in Hamilton Canada recognized Alex
Cooper and immediately called authorities during questioning the mystery surrounding his life began to
unravel Alex Cooper told police that his true name was Alban Arsenal in 1948 he was
accused of robbing an office of the Canadian Pacific Railroad where he was employed at the time I was young and I
panicked and I said to myself there is no way I'm going to be take the fall for this because I didn't do it I took off
at that time and I became Alexander Hooper at that point four years later Alex married Margaret he had no idea
that any criminal charges that might have been filed against him had probably been dropped for more than 35 years his
true identity remained a secret then as a 65th birthday neared Alex Cooper's past began to catch up
[Music] I was due for pension and you require to submit a birth certificate I knew I
couldn't produce one several months prior to this I knew this was coming up I couldn't bring myself about to tell my
family so I walked away it was a snap decision and it was wrong two days after he is questioned by Hamilton authorities
Alex Cooper returned to British Columbia and was reunited with his family after more than five years we were very close
family must have been very devastating for all of us and I'm really hoping that we can work through this and put it back
together if not the way it is maybe something better we can't pick up where we left off because things have changed
but we're gonna start fresh take it a day at a time the way I feel I don't deserve for anyway to accept my apology
look what I done abandonment of your family to me one hell of a crime and the biggest job for me at this point will be
to make amends and I would say it'll probably take me the rest of my life [Music]
but our next unsolved mysteries this is a legendary Shroud of Turin believers say it is the actual burial cloth of
Jesus Christ and that His image has been miraculously imprinted upon it skeptics
claim the images somehow itched on the cloth in the 14th century by a master painter what is the truth behind the
mysterious Shroud of Turin in 1989 Ethel Kidd began building her dream home in rural Virginia seeking the safety and
security of country living but in the fatal twist of fate Ethel soon fell prey to the same kind of senseless crime she
had been trying to escape Joe Maloney was a master of deception of the master of manipulation he fashioned a devious
plot against his estranged wife in which the murder weapon was a party drink laced with poison join me next time for
another edition of unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Brief Summary

Jim Boone Garden encounters his doppelganger, while John Wilkes Booth's fate and Alex Cooper's mysterious disappearance raise questions about identity and truth.

Key points

The Mystery of John Wilkes Booth. Was John Wilkes Booth really killed in 1865? Eyewitness accounts suggest otherwise.
Jim Boone Garden's Doppelgänger. Jim Boone Garden encounters a mysterious double who seems to be everywhere he isn't.
The Twin Encounter. Jim encounters a man who looks exactly like him, sparking thoughts of fate.
A Family Secret Revealed. Jim learns about his long-lost twin brother from his father's past.
The Disappearance of Alex Cooper. Alex Cooper vanishes without a trace, leaving his family in turmoil.
The Shocking Truth. Alex Cooper's identity is revealed after years of living a lie.

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