Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 12 - 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 were about to see is not a news broadcast
[Music] [Applause] on the evening before his death dr. Martin Luther King jr. delivered one of
the most stirring and prophetic speeches of his life [Music] less than 24 hours after he spoke those
words Martin Luther King was assassinated his accused killer James Earl Ray pled
guilty to the murder and the case is officially closed this Sunday marks a 25th anniversary of dr. King's death it
is a milestone that is focused renewed attention on the circumstances surrounding the investigation of James
Earl Ray just three days after his conviction ray recanted his guilty plea alleging that
he was but a pawn in a wide-ranging conspiracy to kill King Ray's claims of innocence however were dismissed the
case remained closed in 1976 eight years after King's death a select committee of the US House of
Representatives was impanel to reinvestigate the assassinations of King and President John F Kennedy
the committee concluded that James Earl Ray was the lone assassin of dr. King it
is a conclusion however that Walter Fauntroy the chairman of the King subcommittee now believes was wrong
when you look at a murder you look at three things who had the motive the means and the
opportunity I'm not now satisfied that James Earl Ray had a sufficient motive that he had the means and certainly the
opportunity to pull it off as it was done I could establish that I was at a service
station during the time that Martin Luther King was shot to this day James Earl Ray maintains that he did not shoot
Martin Luther King but the FBI stands by their original finding gray was the lone
gunman now some researchers claimed that new information corroborates Ray's allegations of conspiracy
based in part on that new information Walter Fauntroy is calling for a new investigation
and for the immediate public release of the committee's files currently sealed until a year 2029 tonight we'll examine
both sides of this complex and controversial case join me for this special presentation and more on
unsolved mysteries [Applause] [Music] social organizations grassroots organizations
should make it Martin Luther King arrived in Memphis on April 3rd 1968 the day before he was assassinated
King checked into the Lorraine Motel and began planning a march in support of striking city sanitation workers king's
presence at the motel had been well publicized by the press [Music] across the street from the motel was a
series of run-down buildings which included a rooming house run by a woman named Bessie Brewer
on April 4th shortly before 6 p.m. William Anschutz a tenant of the rooming house found the building's communal
bathroom locked what you are about to see is the official government account of the
assassination of Martin Luther King inside the bathroom James Earl Ray a career petty criminal loaded a
high-powered rifle and took aim at room 306 of the Lorraine Motel King stepped out of that room to go to
dinner a single deadly shot rang out the bullet struck King in the face throwing him violently backward onto the
balcony several friends rushed to his aid his wounds however were severe and irreparable
according to the government as King Lay Dying James Earl Ray raced into the room
he had read it earlier that day he wrapped the rifle along with an overnight bag containing personal items
in a bedspread in the hallway Ray was seen by Charles Quitman Stevens who lived in the room
adjacent to the bathroom there seconds from a clean getaway the government believes Ray saw a police
car and Pat dropping his bundle in the doorway of aconite amusement company like some eye drops
a moment later three witnesses inside the building saw a white car possibly a Mustang speed away
police recovered the rifle along with Ray's effects but by the time Lee identified ray he had fled the country
two months later ray was apprehended by British authorities at London's Heathrow
Airport as he attempted to board a flight to Brussels on March 10th 1969 in Memphis Tennessee James Earl Ray pled
guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King ray was sentenced to 99 years in the State Penitentiary
three days after his conviction however ray fired his attorney and claimed he had been pressured into pleading guilty
ray denied shooting King and incredibly alleged that he himself was a victim of an intricate conspiracy which used him
as a hapless scapegoat for the assassination over the years Ray's claim has found
many supporters who argue that the possibility of a conspiracy was never adequately investigated by either state
officials or the FBI James Earl Ray spent most of his adult life in and out of prison folks tensed
his criminal career was comprised almost exclusively of small-time holdups and robberies none of which involved
violence indeed too many ray seemed an unlikely candidate for such a notorious crime I
find it more difficult today then I found it at the time when we closed down the investigation
to believe that James Earl Ray acting alone pulled off the crime of the century I
was able to get out of Memphis out of the country into Canada to get three passports and to go all the way to
Europe without help on April 23rd 1967 almost a year before King was assassinated James Earl Ray
escaped from the State Penitentiary in Jefferson City Missouri where he was serving a 20-year sentence for robbing a
grocery store for some Grey's subsequent movements and activities are strong evidence of a conspiracy
ray initially fled to Chicago and then in mid-july to Montreal using the name Eric star ville Galt he discreetly
solicited the criminal underground for a phony passport or seaman's papers here you're looking for something according
to Ray he was eventually approached by a shadowy character but he used only the name wrong would it be to get Canadian
seaman's papers ray claims that almost nine months later it was Raoul who set him up as the fall
guy for the King assassination some cash but when they first met ray says Raoul was only looking for an accomplice in a
smuggling scheme he delivers ray claimed that in exchange for raising to perform certain
tasks evidently of a criminal nature one he was provided with money and two he was promised that at some point he
would be given identification a passport something he needed to get out of the country
ray alleges at his first job with Raoul involved smuggling unknown contraband across the u.s. Canadian border near
Detroit for which Ray was paid 750 dollars arrey claims he was then directed by Robin to go to Birmingham Alabama
Rey has detailed his travels to his current attorney william pepper ironically pepper had once been an
associate of dr. King's in 1978 pepper was persuaded by one of Kings closest friends Ralph Abernathy to meet with ray
pepper is now convinced that Ray's story is true and that Raul is the key to the
conspiracy well what Raul did from that point on was to keep James on a string have him in various points and places
pay him bits of money have him do various things and really pretty much keep him on a string so that he was
available as it turns out for use anytime that they wanted to use him and always with the promise of these travel
documents was the last time you changed a brake pad three months ago I got over 20,000 on the first set gray says it in
Birmingham Raul gave him $2,000 and told him to purchase a car 17 on August 30th 1967 seven months
before the assassination ray did in fact by a white 1966 Mustang you got to set one hell of car ray says
he then drove to Nuevo Laredo Mexico or he and Raul engaged in another smuggling
venture a month later ray traveled to Los Angeles to await further instructions in mid-march less than
three weeks before the assassination Raul told radar leave for Atlanta there on March 29th just five days before the
assassination outlined their next criminal enterprise I'm going to need you to buy a gun
before I have a new client he wants to purchase some rifles 200 I can't buy 200 weapons you only
need one right now he just wants to see a sample next bit of activity they were going to
be involved and had to do with selling guns and the scenario that he developed was one which involved the the purchase
of sort of sample weapons and the hero would show to these gun runners and once they then made a selection or made a
choice so the story went they would be bought in volume really just that later that day he and
Raoul drove to Birmingham following Raul's instructions ray went to a gun shop where he purchased a 243
caliber rifle which he had fitted with a telescopic sight sure but I'm going deer
hunting with my brother the evidence is is that from the people who witnessed his purchase of the rifle
in the in Birmingham is that he didn't know the first thing about rifles he was confused about what he wanted
didn't know what he wanted got the rob bought the wrong rifle so he didn't have the kind of familiarity with firearms
that you would expect of somebody who was going to murder someone why the calibers too smart he said I was
a good dear life it's not suitable for our purposes I was wondering if I could exchange it twice as
ray says Raoul told him to exchange the weapon the next day giving him specific instructions on what to buy
Remington Model 760 gamemaster pump-action Bray claims he gave the Remington gamemaster rifle to Raoul but
the new rebel Motel in Memphis on April 3rd the day before the assassination [Music]
I'm not sure according at James Earl Ray that was the last time he saw the rifle the official
investigation concluded that it was used to kill Martin Luther King the next day
at 3:30 p.m. on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination James Earl Ray claims he met his
mysterious contact Raoul at Jim's grill a local coffee shop going to need a room to meet with my
client where ray says Raoul told him to go to Bessie Brewers rooming house upstairs he wanted Raydor rent a room
then await instructions Bessie Brewers fronted Main Street next to the Kenai Peninsula
where the rifle would later be found the back windows of bessie's however or the
communal bathroom was located faced Mulberry Street and the Lorraine Motel at 4:00 p.m. Murray rented a room using
the alias John Willard Raoul had instructed ray to bring along an overnight bag for appearance's sake ray
says Raoul also told him to leave the Mustang parked nearby because Raoul wanted to use it that night yeah
advance the next hour is pure speculation ray himself has changed his story several times but he has always
maintained that he left the boardinghouse at around 5 p.m. and never returned ray says that just before 6:00 he drove
the Mustang to a local service station at 6:01 p.m. Martin Luther King was shot break lanes that at the very moment King
was shot he himself was totally unaware of the event and was driving from the gas station back to the rooming house
[Music] and as he got to the corner of Calhoun and South Main he saw already that there
were police barricades and policemen everywhere well the state makes a great deal of the fact that James fled the
scene you know and they but James was one must remember a fugitive he was on the run and he was certainly not going
to hang around wherever he saw police so he turned left went headed in the opposite direction and began to make his
way out of Memphis was it James Earl Ray who targeted room 306 at the Lorraine Motel from the
window of Bessie Brewers rooming house for many skeptics Ray's apparent lack of expertise with firearms seems to argue
against the official account in the army he was trained with an m1 and he was at
the lowest level of ability the idea of loading by hand a single shot into that thirty-aught-six and
gambling everything on that one shot makes no sense whatsoever you have to bear in mind that from the Wender of the
rooming house to the balcony where dr. King was killed was less than a hundred yards
with the telescopic sight at such a short distance almost anyone in the world could have
killed dr. King it really required no great marksmanship whatsoever many people have come to believe that
the shot which killed Martin Luther King came not from the boarding house window
but instead from the bushy abutment between the boarding house and the motel it's now clear to me that the shot is
likely to have come from the ground below where at least two persons personally known to me reported that at
least to me that they thought the shot came from someone in the bushes below two eyewitnesses one of them dr. King's
driver do say they saw someone dressed in white running from the bushes just after the shooting
we never were sure that there was a man in the bushes and if there was a man in the bushes we think he had absolutely
nothing to do with the murder we we were we were then and I still am totally convinced that the fatal shot
came from the wonder of the rooming house the official version states that Ray ran
from Bessie Brewer was observed by another tenant Charles Stevens however there are serious doubts about Stephens
credibility from all accounts Stephens was so dead drunk that there's no way of relying upon his testimony about the
shot in fact we did not rely on him for an eyewitness identification what we did
rely on him for was having sufficient senses to be aware of a loud noise down the hall and in the bathroom and to
open the door and see somebody run by what you have to realize about that Charlie Stevens is that he was looking
for a reward he was trying to get the hundred thousand dollar reward that had been put up for
anyone who could identify the Slayer of dr. King so that became very much a business for him and it became very much
his concern to try to be credible in his fight from the rooming house rape reportedly ran by the canipe amusement
company roughing his weapon in a panic but a former defense investigator believes it highly improbable that any
killer no matter how panicked would drop a bundle of evidence so thoroughly incriminating
he didn't have to take all that junk with him he didn't even have to take the rifle with him even if he chooses the
rifle oh he had to do is get out it strikes many people myself included that that looks like a setup that somebody
else gathered that evidence up and planted it there a dusting of the rooming house turned up a
number of fingerprints which were never identified but the investigation failed to turn up even a single print belonging
to James Earl Ray that's not really strange I've worked any number of cases way way
you don't find fingerprints when you think you should you may find a lot of smudges and smears
but you won't find a fingerprint that's then in itself is is complete enough to make a positive identification
the abandoned gun was void of fingerprints except for two of James Earl Ray's as part of the investigation
the FBI swab tested the rifle Ray had returned to determine whether or not it had been fired however they never
conducted a swab test on the gun they believed to be the murder weapon my recollection is that it had a spent
shell that was in the chamber so common sense would tell you that someone had fired that rifle
the FBI could not match the bullet which killed King with the rifle they could say only that the bullet was consistent
with that type of rifle the fact that the bullet markings are said to have been consistent with having been from the
rifle means absolutely nothing it was also consistent with several million other rifles of the same kind
Ray bought the rifle the rifle was used to shoot King he fled the scene his fingerprints are on it his explanations
for an alibi his flight all don't hold water even for those who believe Ray's story
there remains a nagging question if indeed James Earl Ray is innocent why did he plead guilty
I'm not going to discuss great claims that he was coerced by his attorney who ordered exclusive publishing rights to
Ray's story if Ray had testified in court his allegations of conspiracy would have become public domain
this will define the crucial element of Ray's story was the elusive Raoul the man ray said had moved him like a puppet
all over the United States in our investigation to identify ray and to find out what he did and
where and when we turned up nothing to indicate that there was either a Raoul or any other conspirator involved in
this crime in 1975 former defense investigator Harold Weisberg filed a lawsuit against
the FBI he receives 60,000 pages of documents on the King assassination three years later Weisberg found
evidence in the files that Ray had been involved with a man named JC harden Weisberg believes that evidence is proof
of a conspiracy when I was going through the files of the Los Angeles FBI office I found that
where a man who used the name of JC harden had called Jimmy from Atlanta yeah he's here around 3:13 but he's out
I saw him go out about an hour ago James C hardened [Music] har when Jimmy didn't return the call so far
as we know harden then went out to California and he met with Jimmy this is Candace confirm story in the FBI's
records three Thursday is it possible the Jacey harden the man visited James Earl Ray three weeks before the
assassination was in fact Raoul at the very least the timing of the visit appears to be more than simple
coincidence it is a live lead the one thing you have to question given the history of this whole thing Hardin
goes to California Jimmy goes east Jimmy goes east or the trip in which dr. King
gets killed it's not like pushing buttons but it's the next thing to it and that should
have been investigated in 1968 the FBI pursued the lead long enough to create this sketch of JC
Hardin based on a description given by the manager of the st. Francis hotel however as soon as James Earl Ray was
arrested a hardened investigation was dropped we knew nothing about Harden I'd like to
find mr. Hardin and I'd like further to interrogate mr. Rey because I don't think he is telling us
everything that he knows that may may lead us to a different conclusion than that which we've reached that which
we reached back in 1978 James Earl Ray has refused to say whether JC Hardin and Raoul are one in
the same in addition he has been unwilling to make a positive identification of Raoul I don't have any
reason to believe that Hardin could be Raoul because I don't really have any reason to believe that Raoul is Raoul
I'm not convinced that there is anybody named Raoul involved in this case there is no way that James Earl Ray is a lone
assassin James Earl Ray is the classic Patsy Martin King was was killed as a result of a a conspiracy
we do not know the whole truth about this we need to know it in the decade of the 90s
when we've got a new generation of leadership on the scene that we don't want to be the same fate
that Martin Malcolm Bobby and John met will we ever know the answer is no we won't know because the FBI in 1968
didn't conduct an adequate conspiracy investigation they conducted a shooter investigation and then stopped
[Music] that's one of the tragedies and dr. King's death he did not yet in his death
investigation commencement with the dignity of his life had he got many of the unanswered questions about his death
would have the answers to life [Music] [Music] in 1943 the outcome of world war ii hung
in the balance as US and Allied forces launched an all-out assault on the German and
Italian strongholds in North Africa after months of fierce combat and thousands of Allied casualties enemy
resistance finally collapsed but during the summer and fall sporadic fighting continued to claim American lives
one of those killed in action was Army Private Harry a young from Philadelphia Pennsylvania
he left behind a wife and two sons 37 years later Harry young would become the focal point of an unsolved mystery
when his son and granddaughter came across his obituary of researching their family history the information in the
death notice seemed all wrong as if it had been written for a completely different land he was survived by a
three-month-old daughter Kathleen when I found and noticed and I realized it it wasn't written right mother's first name
was right and everything but the address and the fact that there was a baby girl
mentioned than me or my brother was not mentioned well first I thought that the paper made a mistake which wasn't common
you know papers do make mistakes and I thought maybe that they had got the information wrong and
I had a copy made so I could go into it rather imagine reading your father's obituary
and stumbling upon a dark family secret which had been kept hushed for more than
37 years Albert young was suddenly confronted with two puzzling questions why had he
and his brother Jimmy not been listed as survivors was a three-month-old girl named and the notice a sister they never
knew existed Albert young search for answers took him back to the early days of the second
world war following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Harry Young and millions of other
Americans rushed to enlist in the service I can't stay here while there's a war going on I need you to sign this
paper but Harry had already served six years in the Marine Corps and at age thirty the family to support he was
required to get his wife Flores permission to re-enlist two years I'll be back sign the paper no
Laura adamantly refused [Music] Harry young walked out that day never to return he had no idea that Laura was
pregnant with her second child [Music] four months later using forged documents Harry enlisted in the army and was sent
overseas to fight in the African campaign only then did he inform Laura of what he
had done [Music] mrs. York yes on October 24th 1943 Laura Jung received the news every soldier's wife fears her
husband Harry was dead [Music] a short time later the local office of the Veterans Administration uncovered a
serious problem according to their records Harry Young was survived by two wives mrs. young there seems to be a
problem we have another Laura Young who has already filed for Harry's death benefits but I'm Harry's wife well that
may be ma'am do you have a daughter no I have two sons do you live on Fayette Street in Conshohocken no I've always
lived in Philadelphia well this certainly does pose a problem from what I have found out there were
two women collecting benefits for one man and that's when it had to be proven that my
grandmother was indeed the first wife and was never divorced from my grandfather
this means a lot to me though apparently after leaving Laura Harry young began living with another woman
named Estella in a town just ten miles away after Harry's death Estella filed for benefits using Laura's name mature
of wife Frank as far as I'm concerned you are my wife well do you know who this woman is who claims to be Laura
young on Fayette Street in Conshohocken no I'm not but what I do know is that I am Laura young and I was married to
Harry mrs. young we're going to need a marriage certificate or some documentation to substantiate your claim
I have one right here after a lengthy and humiliating battle with the Veterans Administration
Laura Young was finally able to prove that she was Harry's lawful wife she retained all benefits for herself that
her two sons Albert and Jimmy well they certainly will help for nearly 40 years the details of Harry
and Astellas love affair were kept secret from his sons then in 1992 an intriguing letter
surfaced it had been written by Estella and sent to Harry's parents after she learned of Harry's death
dear mother and dad young this is a very hard letter for me to write I guess I'd
better explain myself to you I know that Harry would want it that way I knew he was married and that we couldn't
be so we lived together as man and wife he was happy with me and we really loved
each other very deeply we have a three-month-old baby girl she was born July 29th
we named her Kathleen Mary young I love to more than life itself and still believe that he will come back to me
someday when I read the letter I got the feeling that she was very much in love with my
grandfather that she was devoted to him and she would do anything in the world for
him after receiving no reply to her letter Estella paid a surprise visit to Harry's
parents [Music] hello mr. young I'm Estella this is Kathleen Mary pleased to meet
you we got your letter and well my wife and I agree that what you did was wrong mr. Jung Harry and I loved each other
very very much I just thought that you'd like to meet your granddaughter maybe she had had dreams that after he came
home from work they could work things out or you know who knows what was in the mind these things would you like me
to bring them over to you no just send them as far as anyone knows that was the last
time a Stella and her daughter Kathleen marry at any contact with Harry's family
I [Music] think it's something that's really important for my father and my uncle to
know their sister over the years I've seen what the secrets that the family kept from them
has done to their to them and they need to know who their sister is and share their life with her
my own feelings are that now this whole mess there's no real winners where there's a lot of time lost
there was a lot a lot of time lost between family really and I'd like to talk to
her you know and see how she's doing and if she got married if she has children you know and let her know that there's a
family out here you know that cares for her [Music] Cathleen Mary young grew up knowing next
to nothing about her two half-brothers Albert and Jim until the night of our broadcast
that evening Kathleen couldn't have been more surprised when she heard her name on television
by the next morning she had talked to both Albert and Jim Kathleen had heard that Harry's parents rejected her mother
and she knew about one of her brothers but she never imagined that anyone was looking for her it makes me feel I don't
know it makes me feel good it makes me feel like special in a way that they took the time
and all those years that now that I know they were looking for me for September 19th 1993 the long
separation came to an end and Kathleen young accompanied by her family came to spread food New Jersey to meet her
half-brothers for the first time [Music] and when I hugged her it was for Leah it felt wonderful I know was
her since she stepped out of car and that's that's a young for the three children of Harry young
the reunion lit a new beginning after fifty years apart they were finally FN when we returned authorities need your
help the capture an accused killer on the run for 14 years [Music] Bryan Texas is a type of place that
people have in mind when they dream of escaping the big city but in September of 1984 the illusion of small-town
security was shattered for one local couple well we will call sue and bill sue had always considered herself strong
and self-reliant however the events of September 6th would test her character in ways she never imagined
well it started like any other morning my husband was leaving for my three-year-old was up front watching
Sesame Street my husband left now it back into the bathroom in the master bedroom to finish getting dressed I was
standing there looking in the mirror finishing up my hair and I picked up the makeup mirror
[Music] and I'll look to headed Lord honey not fearing for the safety of her child sue
instinctively attacked she forced the intruder from the bathroom and then drove him out of the house at gunpoint
[Music] [Music] he was getting in the truck at the time and I do remember him hitting metal but
I don't think I hit him it was very quick and I don't think he was expecting me to do that I think he
probably was expected me to plead with him not to do anything and I reversed the situation on him
[Music] well after that the police came out and took the report and all that and we went
downtown to see go through the mug book and all that and I never we went through
page after page I never saw anything that resembled him four months passed without further clues
to the man's identity sue hood assumed he was simply a first-time burglar she couldn't have been more wrong I
was going through the newspaper and I opened it up and his picture was in the newspaper listing what that's guy honey
this is the guy and I was just shocked to found out what he had does right there in January of 1985 the Texas
governor's office released a roster of the state's most wanted criminals heading the list was a knife wielding
intruder his name was Edward Harold Bell and he was wanted for murder édouard bells long criminal records
stretched back to 1969 and included aggravated rape numerous counts of indecent exposure to children bail is a
formidable fugitive a graduate of Texas A&M University and once a successful businessman he has eluded capture for
almost 16 years he has yet to stand trial for the shocking murder took place August 24th 1978
that summer 26 year-old Larry Dickens was visiting his mother and sister in Pasadena Texas a suburb of Houston
an ex-marine and youth counselor Larry was a father of a three-year-old girl my son Larry he was home for a few days
and he was cutting our lawn for us I was standing at the kitchen window and there
were a lot of children playing in the intersection right by our house we live on a corner and I saw this pickup truck
drive up he parked and he was looking all around he was fooling was something in the seat
I thought this must be one of Larry's friends looking for our address he got out of his truck and
he was nude from his waist down and he started walking toward the children get me the Pasadena Police real quick please
yes you've got a guy out here at the corner of Moore and Apple and he's exposing himself why honey honey look at
that man out there look what he is doing Larry what you are about to see as a mother's
worst nightmare every horrible detail is true my son is gone after he's taking the keys he's trying to detain him oh
the guys come back no he's he's putting his pants on now I don't know I hear him
arguing I don't know what they're saying [Music] oh my god she's got a gun oh god he's
gotta go I don't know it's a little gun I think it's a cap gun he just shot it in the air
he's shooting Larry it's not cap gun I see blood shooting Larry Larry [Music] I said please don't shoot him and the
man just shot him anyway and then he turned and started running out of our garage and
Larry even with all those bullets in him we're still trying to stop this hand Larry had been shot four times in the
chest and once in the head with a 22 pistol [Music] and I said Larry lay very still because
you don't know where those bullets are and I'll all bright in there and call an ambulance but I said whatever you do
don't move [Music] Larry's mother came back to the forum the emergency operator was still on the
line she told Larry's mother that police units and an ambulance were on the way at just that moment Larry
seventeen-year-old sister Donna was returning home from cheerleader practice I pulled up to the stop sign and I saw a
man cross the street to the edge of my driveway he saw me we made eye contact and I
looked and I got a good close look at the man and I tried to block his exit I pulled up beside his truck and I
realized he had just shot my brother I said mom is he dead is he dead and she said I don't know Donna I think so and I
remember I just started screaming and I just screamed and screamed and then when
I couldn't scream anymore I remember I just went over and I knelt down beside my brother and I held his hand to my
face and I watched him die the dispatcher radioed the suspects description as police units headed to
the scene at that very instant the officers recognized the suspects truck [Music]
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] édouard Bell might have claimed a second
victim that afternoon but his m1 rifles suddenly jammed [Applause] [Music] don't move drop the gun
drop it back away back away from it easy within 20 minutes of the murder Bell was
in the hands of the police and on his way to face Larry's mother and sister okay miss Wang I need for you to
identify the suspect they just brought him back they open the back door of the police
car so that I could see him I [Music] [Applause] just wanted to get my hands on it
it hurts me so bad that he killed my brother it's just broken up the whole family there's always gonna be an
emptiness apart that's never gonna be read you know I know part of me is missing
Edward bail was released on bail less than two months after the murder he quietly liquidated his assets and with
more than 140 thousand dollars in his pocket disappeared Bell has been seen only once since then
when he entered the hole in Bryan Texas in September of 1984 everywhere I go I see this man I go to
the grocery store and he's there of course it's not him but it looks just like him to me I
live in fear that this guy is gonna come back or fear that he's gonna hurt someone else
our family has missed Larry so much he was strong and he was so special to all of us
it just doesn't seem right that this man could be back on the streets exposing himself to children and doing
god knows what else when when larry has been dead all these years and he's still at large
he's not leaving a paper trail that tells me that probably he's changed his name
and he's living somewhere where someone doesn't know how dangerous he is for almost 15 years Edward Bell eluded
detection until December 2nd 1992 the night of our broadcast one of our viewers was stunned to realize that a
man had recently conducted business with in Panama City Panama was none other than the fugitive killer Edward Harold
Bell a second viewer who remains anonymous sent these pictures in a letter claiming that
Bell had been living in Panama for 10 years among other business activities Bell was prospecting for gold on land he
owned near Panama City the Panama police were able to locate mr. Bell at which time they placed him
under arrest and the FBI along with the Panama's City Police Department then brought mr. Bell back to the United
States finally a decade and a half after Dorothea Lange's son had been gunned down before her eyes the accused killers
shuffled pasture shackled in hand and leg cuffs [Music] when he got off the airplane he seemed
so arrogant and it just infuriated me here they're bringing this murderer back and they could never bring back my son
and just the grief welled up in me again the wounds will never heal the hurt will
always be there that I've lost my brother but at least justice will be done and I think we'll all be able to go on
with our lives at Bell's trial the prosecution's chief witnesses will be Larry's sister and
mother I feel that I can face this man in court and and say we finally got you in
custody and I hope they throw the book at you because you deserve it that's the way I'll feel about it
[Music] in 1947 Hollywood's post-war euphoria was shattered by the brutal murder of a
young woman known as the black dahlia nearly a half-century later there is evidence that the same killer was the
personal nemesis of legendary lawman Eliot Ness in Pennsylvania a brave teenage girl
cared for her five brothers and sisters through a harsh winter only to see them taken away one by one perhaps you can
help end her long search join me next time for another edition unsolved mysteries
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Brief Summary

The episode discusses Dr. King's assassination, James Earl Ray's conspiracy claims, and a family mystery about Harry Young's hidden daughter.

Key points

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.. Dr. King delivered a prophetic speech before his assassination, which occurred less than 24 hours later.
James Earl Ray's Guilty Plea. Ray pled guilty to King's murder but later recanted, claiming conspiracy.
Calls for a New Investigation. Walter Fauntroy calls for a new investigation into King's assassination based on new information.
Skepticism About the Official Account. Many believe the shot that killed King came from the bushes, not the boarding house.
The Mystery of Harry Young. A family discovers a dark secret about their father after finding his obituary.
A Mother's Nightmare. A mother fights to protect her children from a dangerous intruder.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I'm not now satisfied that James Earl Ray had a sufficient motive.

Walter Fauntroy questions Ray's motive in King's assassination.

2:11WatchMay 23, 2019

Tension

60/ 100Some tension

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