Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 4, Episode 22 - 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 the saga of Noah's Ark one of
the Bible's most enduring stories is now the focus of a tantalizing debate was there truly a great flood which Noah
following the instructions of God managed to survive in recent years two research expeditions
have combed the mountains of Ararat the turkey the incredibly poor be they may have found the remnants of Noah's Ark in
two separate locations in Austin Texas freemen noticed a strange car cruising their neighborhood moments later they
heard the desperate screams of a woman and they were caught up in the search for a brutal kidnapper
join me for another edition unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] Noah's Ark one of the most famous and
evocative of all Bible stories as recorded in Genesis the first book of the Bible God looked down upon the earth
he had created and saw to become evil and wicked he came to a righteous man named Noah and ordered him to build an
ark and God said to Noah make rooms in the Ark and covered inside and outside with pitch you shall make it with lower
2nd and 3rd decks and of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sword into the ark to keep them
alive with you and so it came to pass God brought forth a great flood forty days and forty nights rain
descended from the heavens all living things were destroyed save for the occupants of the Ark
when the waters receded God said to Noah bring out with you every living thing of
all flesh that is with you so that they may abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply so ends the story of Noah's
Ark but for centuries people have wondered was a story based on fact or was it a legend handed down from
generation to generation as a symbolic morality play in a hostile and corrupt world contrary to popular belief the
Bible was not the original telling of the story of Noah and the Great Flood in ancient Babylonia and Samaria the same
story was recorded thousands of years before the Bible was written even here in North America the early Spanish
explorer restarting to discover the Hopi Indians told a tale that was remarkably
similar to the story of Noah's Ark in fact no fewer than two hundred variations of the legend can be found in
cultures throughout the world leading many to believe it there was indeed a cataclysmic flood thousands of years ago
in recent time some researchers have seized upon this speculation had gone in search of definitive proof the remains
of Noah's Ark accoding the middle-eastern versions of the story the ark was built near the
ancient city of shuruppak and what is now Iraq in the book of Genesis chapter 8 the Bible says the ark came to rest on
the mountains of Ararat which are in present-day Turkey more than 500 miles from sure Epoque it is a desolate
sparsely populated region rising above the headwaters of the Tigris River in recent years several separate research
expeditions have explored the mountains of Ararat incredibly two separate teams both believe they may have found the ark
in two different locations 17 miles apart one of the site's lies on the northeast side of Mount Ararat under a
permanent 23 square mile glacier in 1969 a Turkish businessman named George Hagopian went public with a remarkable
story he claimed that as a young boy in 1906 he had actually seen Noah's Ark wedged
in a glacier from which the ice had temporarily receded ago bein describes a vessel to archaeological illustrator
alfred lee he said it looked like a long box is rectangular and the corners were
kind of rounded a little bit the the sides sloped in slightly the roof he said was basically flat with just a
slight pitch to it and there was a stair kind of a apparatus at one end his uncle
hoisted him up onto this ladder and he walked on up onto the roof and there all the way down the middle of the roof he
saw these holes and he stuck his head in and it was dark he shouted in his voice
echoed and re-echoed inside it was Hollow giorgia golpean went back a couple years
later saw the same thing but ice and snow were beginning to cover it up again 17 years later Alfred Lee was introduced
to a man named Eddie Davis who in 1843 was stationed in Iran with a US Army he too claimed he had seen the ark when
Eadie Davis started talking the hair on the back of my head just stood out because I could like hear an echo of
Georgia go peon from years before Davis's sighting occurred in roughly the same areas Georgia gobiins however when
Davis saw what he thought was the ark it had broken into we waited a while fog kind of lifted and it shone through kind
of a funnel and it showed the ark in the end you could see in the end of it and we saw both parts you stand there with
your mouth wide open ed Davis described three decks inside and large cages on the bottom deck smaller cages on the
second deck and on the roof a venting system with many holes on it and so that you could see how the light and
ventilation could go clear to the bottom deck in this illustration elfrid lee has reconciled the two
accounts the intact art depicts Georgia go beyond sighting in 1906 below are the
two pieces as described by Ed Davis however Hagopian and Davis were unable to pinpoint the exact locations of the
sightings but their stories helped spark the interest of Don shocky an amateur archaeologist I can't think of anything
more exciting that I could be doing in my lifetime and having a small part and seen this whatever it is verified and we
have good reason believe it's there's something there we got it we got it prove it
in 1989 Don shocky launched an expedition to Mount Ararat the mountain is on the easternmost edge
of Turkey ordered by Iran and the Georgia Democratic Republic formerly a part of the Soviet Union shocky chose
his destination based upon classified US satellite photographs which had been analyzed by an expert for three days
Don shocky and his guides made their way up the south side of the mountain our whole goal was to get to this part over
the top down the glaciers to this particular location in verify what the satellite information in told us however
the turkeys government restricts access to the north side of Mount Ararat foreigners are forbidden one of the
Turkish guides are met continued on with camera in hand Ahmet crested Mount Ararat and started down the North Slope
at this point at null evasion of nearly 16,000 feet he spotted something half buried in the snow from a distance of
300 yards he took this photograph which seems to show the end of a rectangular object with a peaked roof
he came back and I said is anything showing he said a coupe a coupe and I said why are you talking about I met a
Kubek ooh like a chicken coop oh it's kind of had two pointed top and he said you could see the outline of it
in the side he said in all of my years you've never seen anything like it he said there's some artifact there Don
shocky believed that Ahmet might have discovered the remains of Noah's Ark shocky returned to the United States
where he took the photograph to forensic anthropologist dr. Jim Ebert it certainly does not look natural
it looks very strikingly man-made to me of course there are no scale cues in here so we can't really tell how big it
is what I see when I look at this is something that stands out from the rest of the terrain and that is a what looks
like a solid structure you'll never know until you get up there and can see it and stand next to it but it's the the
rectilinear outlines suggest to me that this isn't a normal part of a glacier in 1990 shocky returned to Mount Ararat
and undertook an extensive aerial search unfortunately the site photographed by Ahmet had been completely covered with
snow shock he was forced to abandon his effort but remains convinced that he has
probably found the resting place of Noah's Ark others disagree we've been told for years that Noah's Ark is on top
of Mount Ararat because that's what the Bible says and that's not what the Bible
says the Bible says the ark came to rest on upon the mountains of Ararat that word is in the plural and if we David
Foster is a former Merchant Marine officer and merchant Salvage expert who believes that the ark is buried beneath
this unusual mound a full 17 miles south of Mount Ararat fassl's team has made several expeditions to the area they
have combed the site with a metal detector and discovered traces of iron beneath the mound which do not appear to
be natural deposits every 20 to 30 inches approximately we have the remains of an iron fitting or
an iron pin of sorts that are still there in the soil and discernible well this is one of 5,400 iron fittings that
we've located of course we haven't pulled them all out of the boat it's been it's been cut in half by a diamond
saw scanned by electron microscopes at Los Alamos National Laboratory and this particular iron fitting is 94 point 84
percent man-made wrought iron looking at the mound from above the iron deposits form a distinct pattern of intersecting
lines which fossil believes as a framework of the arc from end to end the lines measure 515 feet or 300 cubits the
length of the arc as recorded in the binding the width averages 85 feet or 50 cubits
which also corresponds to the biblical dimension given the shape of the thing and the size of the thing and where they
found it I mean if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck until somebody finds something else what else could it
possibly be but Noah's Ark are the metal fittings remnants of Noah's Ark some have suggested that david fassold has in
reality found the remains of an ancient mongol fort others say it is merely a geological formation however the Turkish
government has declared the mall as the official site where noah's ark came to rest the man who is in charge
professor sali by dr. tom who is also a geologist he says it's it's Noah's Ark 200 percent it is not a geological
Anatomy it's a man-made structure as one of mankind's Greek mysteries finally been solved and this remote mountain
range it seems obvious at Don shocky and david fassold are both investigating something very unique for only years of
further exploration and detailed analysis to reveal exactly what they have found
it is tantalizing to think that Noah's Ark may actually exist however unlikely it may seem such a discovery would not
be unprecedented in fact it was less than a hundred years ago an archaeologists uncovered the ruins of
the ancient city of Troy which had always been considered a myth finding Noah's Ark would no doubt prove more
elusive perhaps it is a story best left as a metaphor a cautionary tale for a will that has grown ever more complex
and chaotic next a young woman is found murdered in Louisiana perhaps you help identify her killer
[Music] everything all right out there tres [Music] the November of 1988 26 year-old Tracy
Wofford Bunn began working as a waitress in Baton Rouge Louisiana she arrived from Milwaukee Wisconsin three months
earlier looking for a new start in a new city Tracy was a beautiful person outgoing fun to be with
she would do things very spur a moment she could say well tomorrow I'm going to Minnesota tomorrow she'd go to Minnesota
with no care whatsoever wondering about what might happen what would happen no care she knew where she was going
Tracy and Salomon bunt had married in 1986 two and a half years later the marriage was on the skids the Tracy
turned to her younger sister Danielle who lived in Baton Rouge she had spoken many times about leaving Milwaukee to
sort of spread her wings and try something new and so she just came to visit me and we had a really good time
and I introduced her to quite a few different type people and so she stayed with me and I think a couple of weeks
and then she went back home and stayed about a week and a half and came back down with all of the rest of her stuff
Tracy settled in quickly she landed a job and even found a new boyfriend it seemed like life was starting all over
again then six months later on the morning of April 1st 1989 it all came crashing down outside of an apartment
complex a passerby noticed a young woman apparently asleep in the front seat of a
car it quickly became obvious that the young woman was not asleep Tracy Wofford Bunn had been murdered but
what time was it when you first saw the car um about eight o'clock when I first saw the car and when I came out about
8:30 to really see what was you know was late asleep or what in the car Tracy had
been raped and strangled to death oddly investigators found no sign of a struggle in fact there were a number of
things about the crime scene which did not seem quite right upon examining the body we could see that the clothes were
all jumbled up in a fashion and I have seen before and it's usually when a person has had their clothing put back
on them and and they had an unconscious state or their deceased we also follow Manta the Stig ship was
broken off in the car it's lying on the floor below I still believe the vehicle could have been driven but it would have
taken somebody with full expertise that doing it to drive it with the stick she had broken off like that
the motors the main thing that has me puzzled is because there was no robbery jury was still on the victim first was
de-identification this was just a total loss in life for no reason with no physical evidence to go on
detective wheeler turned to the people who knew Tracy best he started with a new boyfriend that we were together and
we just wrote around for the while you were in Tracy's vehicle yes yeah we wrote around well when I spoke with the
boyfriend he advised me that about 4:30 March 31st 1989 he dropped Tracy off at work
and he kept our vehicle he and his cousin were riding around in a car and he was supposed to be Tracy up that
night at 12 midnight fortunately he said the shift lever broke off in the vehicle
that Texas an East Polk they parked the vehicle and went to load the cousin's house which is about a half mile away
around midnight Tracy called her boyfriend and learned that he had damaged the car she left
work and walked to his cousin's house about a mile away what em to the car it's in broke it's broke
how'd it break I was just Eric and I were just riding right there in [ __ ] shifter snapped off a stick shift
doesn't just snap off well your ship just snap you know all the problems you had getting in the third gear the shift
this time to snap I don't have any problems you're the one causing the problem okay okay so give me the keys so
I can go get the car and take care of it is it what give you the keys [Music] [Music]
Tracy walked a half mile to her car police estimate that she arrived around 12:30 a.m.
we know she got to the vehicle because it was locked up by her boyfriend well he left it there and when we found the
vehicle that next morning keys were in the view but that is the last place that though
she was alive she rather to call an hour and a half later Tracy's car was driven to the apartment complex where
she would be found murdered the next morning that was advised by the new apartment manager that there was
possibly a witness who saw the vehicle who came into the parking lot around 1:00
you saw somebody walk away from it didn't pay too much attention to [Music] I feel that Tracy born now was probably
keel between the hours of 12:30 and 1:30 in the morning authorities are particularly disturbed by several
unsettling details surrounding the murder not only had Tracy been raped and strangled but there were second-degree
burns on her thighs and on the back of her hands we haven't been able to determine what caused those burns and
we've thought about every type of hidden apparatus a device you could take of we
just can't find anything that would make that that particular burn we also don't
understand the method of leaving the body the way it was it was like they wanted this person to be found and they
wanted everybody to see I don't know whether these guys were involved in drugs or not but when you have a case
involving people in narcotics if you don't deal with them in the fashion that they want you to get make an example
I know someone personally that was very heavily involved in drugs and he was I guess he was trying to make some sort of
drug transaction and he was told that that person was the person who had murdered my sister authorities did
investigate a known drug dealer but found no evidence linking him to the crime it's my feeling that her boyfriend
knew something because he had her car that night while she was at work he didn't come and pick her up from work at
the agreed-upon time apparently when she went by his cousin's house to pick up the car he told her that it was broken
and that you know you go on ahead and it doesn't sound like a likely story for a
person who was supposed to be involved with my sister to just sort of throw her to the wolves at 12:00 or 1:00 o'clock
at night Tracy's boyfriend and his cousin are each given two polygraph examinations
they both passed the tests and are not considered suspects in the transmission given that third time the number of
homicides and this one I feel has just a few pieces of the puzzle that haven't felt in place yet and I know it's a
solvable case and it's frustrating for me as well as for Tracy's family to not know who these killers are because we
know they're walking around scot-free today and and trace is gone it's it's even now it's hard to believe even
though I've seen her body I've seen her I've buried her I've heard all this different information all that all the
details and everything and still it's really difficult to believe cuz I really don't know what happened and I think if
I knew what happened I'd be able to believe that it's happened and sort of leave it behind me
[Music] [Music] when we return the touching story of a man's search for his sister a search
which is spanned half a century 1941 Ottumwa Iowa a family is about to be torn apart three brothers and a sister
have been left in the care of their aunt who fearing for the children's well-being has contacted the Child
Welfare Department Walter Richard Dolores I need to take you to your new home now come out please
you kids get on out here we're gonna take you to a decent home come on out [Music]
Walter your big boy are you going down to that car at that time there was four of us and another one on the way and
this probably about five and a half years old I didn't know anything about adoption or stuff like that and I
thought we were just going to this home and later on we was you all go back to mama saying Donnell strats mother could
do little to prevent the state from taking her children she was pregnant with her fifth child and unable to work
a few months earlier Donald's father had suffered a nervous breakdown and had been institutionalized the children who
ranged in age from 2 to 9 years old were usually left to their own devices until
the authorities stepped in two of the brothers were sent to Iowa State youth facilities Donald and his sister Dolores
were taken to a Lutheran children's home where they were placed in the care of the head nurse you need to take a little
rest Dolores here's your bottle [Music] even though I wasn't told us boy I was the babysitter and I played with my
sister and I enjoyed that and push around tricycle and brush her hard to take care of her you know I always like
to help this is my sister Donald here's some bananas you feed it to your sister within days
Donald realize that he and his sister would not be going back to their mother Donald cooperated with a nurse but was
always alert for a chance to take his sister and escape this dearth basically she was busy in the kitchen she had her
back turned test and yes the brass say she is intent on her job and so I just took my sister out the door right fire
this was our chance to go home and speak to out the door down the steps after this little blob laid forward and I
opened it up to helped her in on for and helped her up on the seat that's hard now you sit right there cuz we're going
home see Baba I didn't know anything about hard really but I do if you push that button down on the floor that car's
go I had to look out the window halo the stairwell then I'd get down and push that back that cargo head a little bit
you know and I'd get up and take another look you I'm trying to get this car down
there on that main road I didn't know where I was going when I got there but I do that with that road I came in on it
and I need to leave by its you know what did you think you're doing let go of me
and see my mama you get out of that car right now don't you know you could card over just kind of just jerked Oakley
series didn't grab me up by the collar and went thrash you don't know and I couldn't tell you today whether she
whipped me with her hand or whether she had a board or whether she had a strap or anything but but I didn't do Sheila's
work for me but I didn't feel no pain and I fight her cuz I smoked to go Donald there's some cookies for you in
the kitchen if you like them thank you two weeks later unbeknownst to Donnelly Delores was
adopted come on baby we're gonna get you a new home these people couldn't took Dolores away
I didn't know what you know what the deal was but I thought well they're you know they're gonna bring her back here
because being her was family and that's all I had kept bastard this book worse my sister
and my sister and she tell me well you just don't need to do it does your business and stuff like that ofcourse I
got a ruling Audrey cuz I was won't my sister the separation was short-lived Dolores has adopted parents sent for
Donald as soon as they realized that she was more than they could handle like the nurses at the home they turned
to Donald for help Dolores went to adjust to these folks our bond with these folks at first and just cried and
wanted her brother and stuff because you know we'd been together and these people
were strangers terrorists she just cried and would indeed or whatever not to read they can be got me
so I could be a fighting factor you might say under Donald's influence Dolores began
to adjust Donald even stayed on for a few days who was expected to remain well in the background these people got the
large brush eat eat formed play with them they treated her quite well you know and I don't know a day or two
whatever this dirt coming back and she said Donny you want to go downtown with me I've ever looked up and this what
would was fadin little ancestor and I thought well everything's alright you know and yeah I got to go downtown you
know five and a half years old I love to ride automobiles you know we're sighted
realized this automobile would never go bring me back and we got in the car and we drove off and then I haven't seen my
sister said [Music] I think it Dolores you know almost every day she's still my flesh to do better
and what time is dead well it tries to catch up with 50 years the title somehow I'd like to hug her there could tell her
mister donal stratton his two brothers as well as another sister born after the family
was split apart were all reunited 1965 their father remained institutionalized for the rest of his life and their
mother was granted a divorce Velma strat remarried and had five more children so now there are nine siblings
all looking for their lost sister Dolores update just minutes after we first broadcast this story a woman named
Penelope su Lewis of Bolivar missouri called our telecenter and identified herself as Donald strats long-lost
sister Donald was overjoyed to discover that Penelope lived just 50 miles from his
home in Scotland Missouri three days later at a park near Penelope's home Donald Penelope and their extended
families gathered for a heartwarming and all overdue really so many years my lover always have loved you and you
know sometimes when I get along just take back that just said mm cries and I don't mind crying this time because I'm
already there ready there got another surprise for you soon after Donald arrived
Penelope shared a poignant moment with a natural mother Velma whom she had not seen in more than 50 years the reunion
was a culmination of an emotional roller coaster ride which had begun 72 hours earlier when Penelope sat down to watch
unsolved mysteries I try not to miss any because I like to watch it into the reunions and things and I thought you
know I've always thought well maybe someday it'll be my turn and all of a sudden it dawned on me
well that's me that's my family for Penelope the gathering was also the chance to meet all the family members
she never knew she had one full sister two half sisters three half-brothers and countless nephews nieces and cousins
[Music] we'll just probably try to get everybody acquainted with everybody and just go
from there and get together yeah knock out so helpless I felt like I didn't belong and and now I'm at peace next a
woman is brutally abducted from a car wash in Texas [Music] most of us never imagined that we will
become part of an unsolved mystery and we will suddenly hear a scream in the night find ourselves involved in a
criminal investigation yet that is exactly what happened to three young men in Austin Texas on December 29th 1991
all because they happened to cross paths with a kidnapper at 8:55 p.m. Steve marks was on his way
to meet his two brothers-in-law at a friend's house on Powell Street less than a block from the house he pulled
behind a tan colored car that evening in question I was driving down pal Street and unnoticed a car in
front of me driving very slowly I followed it down the street and I pulled in front of my friend's house
the car in the meantime had pulled up into the parking garage ahead of my friend's house and my brother-in-law's
arrived about a minute later mic and bill Goins had encountered the same car two blocks from the house going
the wrong way on a one-way street and when they stopped and we stopped they looked at us like what do we do next and
we looked at them like okay you fools get out of the way and that gave us an opportunity to see them but
unfortunately there was no reason for us to try to memorize their faces or anything there was just two people
passing in the night at 9 p.m. Mike and Bill Goins rendezvous with Steve marks the house where they met was just 200
feet from a 24-hour do-it-yourself car wash I don't know we were thinking about going out to eat we go over to my house
for some spaghetti when we were on the porch all we could see was the side of the car wash and the
vacuum canisters where cars are vacuumed outside of the stalls so when we heard the scream and the car door or trunk
slam all we saw was the car pull out as we saw the car pull out the wrong way on
Fifth Street I realized that that was the same car that I had pulled behind on Powell Street and that had made the
u-turn in the parking garage and the car that later Mike and Bill had said had confronted him going the wrong
way on Powell Street pulling out on to 6th Street a few seconds later Steve marks Bill Goins arrived at the car wash
unlike most nights it was eerily deserted we walked up to the car we saw a purse see a fuse and then bill
suggested I go back to the house and call the police as we figured something was wrong
the owner of the abandoned car was identified as 28 year old Colleen Reid a certified public accountant who had
lived in Austin for four years police traced Colleen's movements in the day of the crime she arrived at the car wash
around 9:00 10:00 p.m. earlier that day she had gone to church with her boyfriend then she spent several hours
doing community volunteer work that evening Colleen went to the market and then withdrew cash from her bank machine
before ending up at the carwash police believed that Colleen was kidnapped by the two men in the tan colored vehicle
[Music] [Music] [Music] we have a situation where after they have abducted Colleen Reid they went the
wrong way on Fifth Street and almost collided head-on with two vehicles we have not heard from the drivers or the
people that have occupied those two vehicles so hopefully this show well maybe bring these two people
forward that may have some information that will help us I've almost convinced myself that we
will someday see her again that she's being held somewhere and I know that that's what we want to believe and the
reality is that's probably not true but there is a possibility I think about when when do I just say okay it's over
something happened something horrible I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that I've gone on with my life in a lot
of ways I'm I work and take care of my children and do the things I need to do but there's an empty place that I've had
a hard time filling update a suspect is in custody just last week a man named Alva Hank Warren he was
arrested in Belton Texas he admitted involvement in the kidnapping but denied knowing Colleen Reed's current
whereabouts however Worley insisted that she was still alive the last time he saw her police are now
looking for this man Kenneth Allen Macduff he is 46 years old 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 245 pounds
Macduff was last seen Waco Texas [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] diabolical mind the very phrase evokes a
chilling mystique on Sunday unsolved mystery will present a special report an exploration of the mysteries of this
psychopath what forces but transform this impoverished young boy into one ruthless dictator Saddam Hussein's
bloody and brutal rise to power was ignited by a single disturbing trait a cunning mind unchecked by remorse or
conscience gee Daniel Walker has been convicted of crimes ranging from fraud to armed robbery to murder in a
remarkable interview Walker provides a revealing glimpse into a diabolical mind violence because fearless with you 24
hours a day fear never goes away if you kill somebody it's over when her husband
and children fell victim to a series of mysterious illnesses Marie Hilley was a devoted and caring wife and mother in
time her son began to suspect the worst his mother was poisoning her own family the world as I knew it at that point
just fell apart everything that my mother had taught me right from wrong I had to go back and reexamine join me
Sunday night at 8:00 with his very special and very different edition unsolved mysteries key studies of the
diabolical mind [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

Brief Summary

This episode covers Noah's Ark discoveries, Tracy Wofford Bunn's murder, and a sibling reunion after decades apart.

Key points

The Search for Noah's Ark. Two research teams believe they may have found the remnants of Noah's Ark.
Tracy Wofford Bunn's Murder. A young woman's life is cut short under mysterious circumstances in Baton Rouge.
A Heartwarming Reunion. Donald and Penelope reunite after decades apart, bringing joy and closure.
A Shocking Abduction. Three young men witness a kidnapping, leading to a tense investigation.
The Search for Colleen Reid. Colleen Reid's mysterious disappearance sparks a desperate search and investigation.

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