Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 14 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family
members and police officials have participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news
broadcast in the early 1930s to amateur prospectors in Wyoming chanced upon a baffling curiosity the mummified remains
of a tiny ancient human being x-rays revealed what appeared to be a fully developed skeleton just 17 inches talk
about the height of a coffee table because the artifact the evidence that a mythological race of supernatural beings
known as the little people actually existed in Mississippi the tragic death of 18 year old Andre Jones the son of
civil rights activists is surrounded by a storm of controversy in 1992 Jones was
arrested at a routine sobriety checkpoint but less than 36 hours later he was dead
authorities say he hung himself with a shoelace in the shower stall at his jail cell Andres parents say he was murdered
October 2nd 1961 when 11 year old Alan Benson told his parents as someone had left a baby in their car and thought he
was joking today that baby is a grown woman searching for her birth mother also tonight in a remarkable update a
landlord watching unsolved mysteries is shocked to discover that one of his former tenants as wanted for murder
joined perhaps you two may be able to help solve the mystery [Music] [Applause] [Music]
[Music] the American West a magical land with a rich and colorful past for many the frontier conjures up images
of outlaws cowboys and buried treasure but for Native Americans this is ancient ground steeped in a history which defies
conventional beliefs and logic [Music] for generations medicine men of the crows Shoshone
and Arapaho tribes have told stories of a mythic race of supernatural beings able to perform feats of amazing
physical strength incredibly according to legend these people stood less than two feet high for more than a century
the story of the little people was just the kind of tall tale that the Pioneers scoffed at but all of that would change
in 1932 when two men went prospecting in Wyoming she's from Maine and Frank Carver to amateur gold prospectors and
they were in the Pedro Mountains which is along the short path find the reservoir about the center of the state
[Music] at the back of the cave Cecil Maine and Frank are made an extraordinary discovery here perched on a rocky ledge
with a small figure just six inches high mummified in the sitting positions they'd never seen anything like that
before and would have no idea what it was except that they knew is probably worth taking out
several days later Cecil Maine returned to the cave alone paying no heed to the notion of the cave
was a sacred Indian burial site maine snatched the mysterious mummy it has been an object of great controversy and
mystery ever since over the years the mummy has come into the possession of a number of different people
unsubstantiated rumor has it that each of the owners died under unusual circumstances as far as anyone knows the
most recent owner disappeared without a trace nearly twenty years ago along with
a mummy those who believe in the legend of the Little People claim a curse is responsible others maintain us all just
a coincidence the discovery of the mummy in 1932 made headlines throughout Wyoming the prop is speculation that it
had been placed in the cave by one of the Native American tribes many Native American spiritual people have told me
that they have certain ways they bury and in turn they're dead and this this mummy is in a different position than
anything they've ever seen so they don't know exactly from their own viewpoints they don't know what it is however Cecil
Lane did not really care what the mummy was he was looking to sell it and eventually he found a willing buyer
in 1934 an insurance salesman named Homer Cheryl bought the mummy for $25 and took it on the road one of the first
people to hand over the price of admission was a curious ten year old boy named Eugene Vasher my dad didn't want
me to see it what I remember most about that was what a hard time I had talking him into giving me 25 cents so I could
see the mummy and when I went in he went in one door and then walked past the table where the money was sitting there
was a guard there and then out another door and they moved you right by you didn't get to look at it real well it
was about six and a half inches high seated and standing it would have been about 17 inches high
The Mummy had bronzed skin in a flattened skull with wisps of gray hair protruding from the back of the head
although the mummy was seen by hundreds of people over the next 10 years no serious scientific analysis was
undertaken until 1950 [Music] mr. Goodman eivin good-bye then the mummy had fallen
into the hands of a used-car dealer named Ivan Goodman what he had to show Goodman took the relic to dr. Paul
Martin at the Chicago Museum of Natural History for an analysis some serious efforts were made in the early 1950s to
get this little mummy documented and it was done rather well I think for the times there were photographs taken good
photographs that we can still look out there were x-rays taken really a surprising amount of very effective
documentation was made the x-rays revealed that the object had a complete skeletal structure as well as a full set
of teeth initially it did appear to be the mummified remains of a fully developed human being which happened to
be 17 inches tall but after reviewing all of the material dr. Martin reached an altogether
different conclusion in his opinion the mummy was not a mature adult but an infant who had suffered from a medical
abnormality known as anencephaly this is a condition in which infants are born without a brain and lack a complete
skull as a result they may often take on the physical appearance of an adult however Eugene Bosch or claims that
other experts believe the malformed skull could have been the result of a severe blow to the head
some of the people I've interviewed were experts doctors radiologists said there
are pieces of skull in the scalp that's hanging down like it was beaten down and
it's a result of trauma injury Eugene Bosch or further states that the scientists he spoke with believed the
mummy had other adult characteristics it also has a full set of teeth quite prominent teeth and infants would show
two sets of undeveloped teeth still up from the jaws these are descended in there's no other teeth above them like a
maybe you're a young person would have dr. George Gill still disagrees yeah all the physicians and physical
anthropologists that I know I've ever looked at that I've been able to verify to actually talk to them have said that
it's some type of infant and it looks to them to be an anencephalic human infant
oh I certainly am going to do everything I can to prove that in October of nineteen fifty I even Goodman loan to
find a doctor Leonard water generator of a New York bluesy sound of that I'm gonna trust him with you doc you
take good care oh don't worry he's in good hands you take care sir I shall Goodman felt
there was a fortune to be made if water could prove that the mummy was a North American relative of the pygmies a race
of people in Africa and Asia who stand four to five feet in height unfortunately Ivan Goodland died of a
sudden stroke before the theory was proven and wanderer' kept the mummy [Music] what was the mysterious artifact
uncovered in the remote mountains of Wyoming more than 60 years ago was it proof of the existence of a mythological
race known as the little people or was it the tragedy of an anencephalic infants born in primitive times so much
more could be done today in the way of analysis on this small DNA analysis could be done we have methods now that
could allow dating to be done without being that destructive so it's really important that the scientific community
take another look at it the controversy exists that continues it could be settled if we had the mummy
at this point in time we don't know and that's the mystery dr. Leonard Wadler was last stoned to be
living in Florida however no one has seen the doctor or the mummy since 1975 not a scientific community would like to
find the mummy for analysis Native Americans hope the relic will be recovered for spiritual value in their
view a sacred burial site was disturbed and ultimately they would like to return
the artifact to an appropriate resting place next a series of mysterious hanging deaths and jails across
Mississippi sparks a federal investigation tonight there's a scandal brewing in Mississippi a scandal which
has prompted Attorney General Janet Reno to order an investigation by the Justice
Department over the past five years no fewer than 48 inmates of Mississippi jails half of them black half of them
white have died under mysterious circumstances every single death was a hanging every single death was ruled a
suicide this is a story of one Mississippi hanging in the summer of 1992 Andre Jones was 18
years old about to start his freshman year of college his mother Esther was president of the
Jackson Mississippi branch at the n-double-a-cp his stepfather Charles ex Quinn a Nation of Islam Minister 1:00
a.m. Saturday August 22nd Brandon Mississippi Andre Jones and his girlfriend Tanisha love we stopped at a
routine sobriety check Andre was driving a friend's pickup truck 1:30 a.m. Jackson Mississippi 20 miles from
Brandon Andres Parris were awakened when the phone rang hello I'm sorry to call you
but Andres has been arrested what yeah mom it's me 2:00 a.m. Andre called his parents from the
Brandon police station he said he did not know what he had been charged with 4 a.m. Andre telephoned again this time to
say he had been transferred to the Simpson County Jail 40 miles south of Jackson according to his parents he
still did not know what the charges against him were we were told that they could not tell us anything at that time
and Simpson County just refused to to even talk to us and they told us that we could not come to that jail have you
heard anything the Quinn say that they spoke with Andre at least 5 different times on Saturday
how can they keep me any an extra day and they haven't even charged me he was very much concerned about his charges
and we could not tell him anything he was very much concerned about getting out immediately and so that he could
attend school the very next day about midnight that night he I heard a knock on the door
it was a Jackson police officer ok have a message here from mrs. Esther Jones Quinn my husband I could take it
sir I really need to deliver this to her in person Charles what is it this officer has a
message for you Esther Jones Quinn yes he gave me the piece of paper which only had a phone
number for the Simpson County Jail there was not a note there was not a message it was only a number yes hello yes my
name is Esther Jones Quinn yes I was informed that Andre had committed suicide that I was casually informed that he had
committed suicide as if they could have been talking to someone that didn't even
know who he was [Music] according to Andres parents he had never shown suicidal tendencies he had never
even suffered from depression Andre had no previous arrest record so when Esther and Charles Quinn started
to look into his death they naturally began with the circumstances of his arrest Andre and Tanisha had stopped by
the Quinns house in Jackson around 11:45 Friday night they left and drove east toward Brandon where Tanisha lived there
the Brandon city limits they came upon the checkpoint according to the Quinns lawyer the
police say that Andre Jones stopped just short of the checkpoint they say Andre tossed an object out of the window of
the truck please identify the object as a 38 caliber handgun inside the truck they say there was an open can of beer
and finally the truck which Andre had borrowed and driven for more than a week turned out to be stored I'm not sure if
he knew or not if the truck was stolen it would appear to me that if he knew the truck was stolen he would be
skeptical in driving it so openly I didn't know nothing about the truck but I know there was a no beer in the truck
and he did not throw a gun out the truck because there was no gun in the truck Tanisha loves version of the events is
very different from the reported police version don't have you don't have a license with
you what's your name hundred Tanisha claims that as soon as the officers heard Andres name the R
attitude immediately changed after the estimates night and they all went to low I say like a little hoodie night
football huddle neighbors I don't know what they was talking about cuz I was talking low and after that that's when
they came to the truck and X and under again did he have his license he said no sorry I don't have my license and they
accent step out the truck that's when I handcuffed him it's two days check out his feet and they had him handcuffed at
the same time I understand what was going on State Public Safety Commissioner Jimmy these hundred Jones
was not shackled in fact Ingram disagrees with Tanisha's entire account there was no confrontation whatsoever
with young Andre Jones in fact the officers were very amazed how cooperative he was this is two for one
according to commissioner Ingram Andre was so cooperative at the Brandon Police Department that he admitted being in a
gang and even showed the police gang hand signals which they photographed and he posed for photographs with different
signs signals indicating how gangs make statements by signs it was a very cooperative attitude on both sides they
the officers have indicated that they really were impressed with this young man fine town was very independent in a
very intelligent young man was grown aspirations and he had no need or no desire to become involved within the
gang despite repeated requests copies of the alleged photos of Andre illustrating
gang signals have not been made available to one solve mysteries or to Andres family Andre was charged on four
counts driving a truck whose vehicle identification number had been altered carrying a concealed weapon possession
of stolen license plate tags and driving with an open container of alcohol commissioner Ingram remains adamant that
the arrest was non-confrontational Charles Quinn however says that an inmate in Brandon claims the police use
racial epithets to intimidate Andre one of the inmates who were transferred with
Andre said that the officer said do you know what happened to [ __ ] for stealing a white man's truck and of
course other statements were said to put fear in Andre at approximately 4 a.m. on Saturday
Andre was transferred from Brendan to the Simpson County Jail 35 miles away the Simpson County facility had a
reputation as a dangerous jail this is a rough diagram of the cell into which Andre Jones was transferred 12 other
inmates were being held in the narrow l-shaped space a dimly lit quarter next to the cell led to a toilet the shower
stall where Andre's body was found one of the inmates came forward and said hey this guy sure been in the shower for a
long time one of the men walked back and said they found a young man hanging by a
shoelace in the shower still running and that's when they called for the guards and immediately the unlocked assailed
and took him down authorities state that Andre Jones had hung himself with his own shoelace
they say Andre tie the shoelace to an iron grate above the showerhead when Charles Quinn was allowed to visit the
cell he estimated the grate was approximately eight feet above the floor he would need someone to have held him
up to do that and he would have needed some type of stool to stand on it's incorrect the point of attachment of the
doctor Stephen hey the state-approved paths are ours to perform the autopsy said investigators had demonstrated that
it was possible for Andre to have hung himself unaided that position was easily reached by a member of the Sheriff's
Office who was acting as the decedent Andres parents also feel it is impossible that
their son's body it could have been supported simply by Elise for his running shoes but dr. Haines says the
laces were tested by the manufacturer and their tensile strength was found sufficient less than a week after Andres
death his parents hired an independent pathologist dr. James Bryant to examine the remains and review the case
I think it's so highly probable that he was strangled someone did this to him in
the usual case of a suicide by by hanging the the ligature mark is along the side of the neck and doesn't go all
the way around it's in this fashion whereas in the case of Andre Jones the the ligature marking went along the side
of the neck and all the way into the back and Criss crossed in this fashion this suggests to me that that that there
was that someone had to come from behind and and wrapped the ligature around his
neck and then furthermore there's there's no not mark the knot imprint area would be in the hairline and the
hairline would act as a buffer no longer allowing for that imprint to be a present on the upper back surface of the
neck no Andre Jones's hair was cut short and the the crisscross marking was not in the hairline and the were no knot
marks anywhere else dr. Haynes autopsy report listed no evidence of bruising on Andres neck or
anywhere else on his body dr. Bryce observations were different he had some bruising under one of his eyes and also
had some bruising on the shoulder of the same side the bruising could have been right at the time that he died or it
could have been sometime during the day but but but apparently he was he suffered some kind of blunt trauma
sometime during that during the time he was in the jail we were informed by one of the inmates that Andre was taken off
that cellblock and out of that jail and when he was brought back in he was brought back in in a wheelchair and that
he was laid on the shower floor and the hanging scene was staged my findings based upon the evidence both at the
scene as well as from the post-mortem examination has been reviewed by many other authorities including the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology the Department of Justice the US Attorney's Office as well as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and by the Attorney General's Office of the state of Mississippi and they're in concurrence
with the findings that I made in March of 1993 a coalition of civil rights groups conducted hearings in Jackson
Mississippi those testifying included the families of both black and white jail inmates who had died under
questionable circumstances after two days of testimony the u.s. Commission on civil rights recommended at the Justice
Department open an investigation five months later dr. Emily Ward a specialist in forensic pathology was
named Mississippi state medical examiner dr. Ward went over the autopsy report of
Andre Jones as well as the autopsies of several other men who have died by hanging in Mississippi jails I think
that it's extremely unlikely that any of these deaths are anything other than suicide all of the deaths have been
investigated but not just one agency but one or two or sometimes three and I think that although sometimes there may
be questions that need to be answered related to the death I don't think that in any way affects whether or not the
death is suicide or homicide I would never believe that under a committed suicide I know my son was murdered
and the fact that his life was taken so cool and so abruptly makes me even more determined to see that he is vindicated
[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when we return a man wanted for the murder of his girlfriend is captured
thanks to an alert viewer [Music] in July of 1986 22 year-old Paula Passaic and her boyfriend Jerry curva
Sony arrived in Kissimmee Florida from New Jersey to visit Paula's mother they stayed there about one week
paula was as happy as a lark the two of them were I mean they were very together
they were they were just happy-go-lucky Poehler and Jerry had arrived on a Wednesday on Sunday night they said
their goodbyes they told Barbara they would be leaving early the next day to visit another part
of Florida got up the next morning and I thought I heard them up and I didn't know whether they were not so I didn't
bother to say goodbye maybe if I had you know things would have been different in the days that
followed an odd smell would intermittently wife through Barbara's home she searched everywhere looking for
his source finally checking her own bedroom hidden under the bed wrapped in a bamboo
curtain was her daughter's body Paula paisie AK had been strangled to death and left under the bed for nearly
a week the prime suspect was jerry rivas oniy but he had dropped from sight he successfully eluded authorities for more
than seven years until the night of our broadcast update British Columbia Canada
on October 21st 1993 jerry rivas Oni was arrested in a small community of salt springs Island where he had been living
under the assumed name Gordon McIntyre when our program aired in Canada there by Sony's former landlord recognized him
and immediately called authorities I come home and sit down to dinner about nine thirty quarter to 10:00 and I'm
gonna flip on the TV and there was a black-and-white photo of Gordon McIntyre my tenon once in custody
the suspect violently insisted that he truly was Gordon McIntyre but fingerprints soon confirmed that he
was in fact Gerald curva Sony at the local airport irva Sony tried to avoid photographers as he was hustled
onto a leading airplane he was then flown to a deportation hearing in Victoria Canada your vaso
knee will be held there pending extradition to Florida where you'll face charges in the murder of Paula Paisley
act on the evening of October 2nd 1961 mr. and mrs. Earl Boettcher and the youngest
son Alan were leaving Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville Florida the Becher's have been visiting one of
their other sons and could never have imagined a surprise that awaited them [Music]
there's a baby in the back of our car I'm serious there's a baby in the car : [Music]
did you see anybody around no okay all right I'm pleased so I the Becher's had found
a healthy baby girl no more than 72 hours old weighing eight and a half pounds local papers dubbed the foundling
baby girl ex she lived in foster homes for five and a half months before she was adopted by Mary Lou and William
Christie of Tallahassee the Christy's named their new daughter Terris teri for short Terri grew up happily doted upon
by her parents and her older brother and sister teri always knew she was adopted
but not until she was a teenager did she begin to ask the difficult questions who
was her birth mother why has she given her up I kind of rebuilt and wanted to know yes when we went to the library
looked it up and then I got excited I was proud you know when she pressured me about her parents I had the big a big
problem about whether to tell her the truth as I knew it or whether to say I didn't know anything and I really
wrestled with it and then I came out with that I'd be safe to be truthful at the local library
Terry and Mary Lou tracked down all the newspaper articles about baby girl X Terri was surprised to learn that she
had been left in the backseat of a car nevertheless she trusted her birth mother had her best interests at heart
she might have been a 15 16 year old scared girl that had a baby and ran away from home the picture I believe she had
a heart she put me somewhere safe where I was gonna be well taken care of and I appreciate that
just probably watching them when the little boy came and found me in the car she's probably standing there watching
it it bothers me not knowing exactly what day I was born the time you know where I was born I don't even know if I
was born in a hospital midwife in the car you know I have no idea I just I would like to find that out today Terry
is 32 years old the mother of a young son and daughter she wants her children to have a heritage to know their roots I
would like to find a beginning I just want to meet her and see how she is I don't know getting older and I look at
my kids and see how they're growing and I look in the mirror every day and I wonder
thanks to our broadcast Terry Christie Derby now knows the answers to all of her questions
sadly Terry's birth mother Edith Campbell died on August 17th 1993 just a few months before our segment aired but
out of this sadness a happy ending did emerge terry was delighted to learn that she had a sister and three brothers they
were delighted as well none of them had ever known that Terry existed on July 8th 1994 Terry went to a hotel in Miami
Florida to meet three of her siblings Phillip Paul and Cecilia face to face for the first time it was the neatest
experience my life walked in and there was everybody I wanted to see next to me giving birth to my own kids this is the
best thing that's ever happened to me best thing my experience is that there's more of them just a biological thing in
a family there's also a karmic a sense of underlying destiny that lies underneath the whole thing and this you
know Mia meets somebody that I meet Terry it's like she is my sister I knew it right away
you know there's no doubt at the Reunion Terry and her adoptive mother finally saw a picture of Terry's biological
mother Edith Campbell according to a family member Edith a given Terry up only because of extreme financial desperation
knowing what a what a loving person she was she cared about nothing but her children her whole life and I can only
imagine the anguish that that she went through when she decided to do this [Music]
they make me feel wanted they make me feel like I'm not an outcast like kind of felt like I wasn't even passed but I
can feel their own vibes love whatever you know the next day Terry met her other brother Chris who
had been called out of town on business on the day of the reunion at last the family circle is complete in the fall of
1993 the entire country was touched when 12 year old Polly Klass was abducted from her home in Northern California and
savagely murdered thousands of copies of this composite sketch were distributed by police in the end it's stunning
accuracy helped confirm the identity of the prime suspect Richard Allen Davis Davis is now in jail charged with a
kidnap and murder of Polly Klass law enforcement secret weapon in the class case was this woman suspect graphic
artist Jeannie Boylan these days the FBI and numerous local jurisdictions compete
for her time Jeannie borne has come a long way from her first job in law enforcement in the
mid 1970s Jeannie worked at the Sheriff's Department in Multnomah County Oregon the job gave her a close up look
at how suspect sketches were made in many cases Jeannie didn't like what she saw I would hear the way that
investigators would question witnesses or victims and I could I could hear that they weren't allowing them to answer
they would cut the answers off it was kind of just the facts and I that would that seemed to me to be wrong
and then I would see the drawings that would be produced either through an identikit or through an artist and I
knew that they weren't right there was something in terms of something in terms of the heart really that was sort of
missing in those pictures what do you put any other shape around the eyes Jeannie was convinced that she could do
better and in 1980 she got her chance a supervisor gave Jeannie one of his most difficult cases an unsolved rape that
had languished for months with virtually no leads it's okay I was trying a lot of
different interview techniques and I found that if I used it as sort of a diversionary system of interviewing
where we would kind of circumvent the the events of the crime and scenario of the crime and talk about other topics
and I could relax them then periodically this information would surface you know
I just remembered something he had a scar and it started on his forehead and it lived back into his hair it's like
the tip of the tongue syndrome where you have somebody's name that's right there
and you're trying to remember it you can't bring it up and maybe two or three hours later you stop trying and it just
pops into your mind I just remembered something else too he had a white face I knew that the drawing that had been done
on that case prior to the one that I was doing was was wrong so what we came up with was so radically different that
that was sort of fresh hope for that case Jeannie was right as a direct result of her composite the suspect was
arrested and later convicted more cases followed and Jeannie's reputation group I've seen a lot of the work Jean Boylan
is done and very impressed it's the best artists conceptions I've ever seen and if there we ever have a chance of
catching the person we're looking for through an artist conception I think Jean Boylan is gonna give us that chance
most recently the FBI turned to Jeannie Boylan in the troubling case of 16 year old Jonathan Francia of Albuquerque New
Mexico on January 12th 1994 Jonathan was in his car behind this restaurant in Albuquerque when two strangers abducted
him five days later a body believed to be Jonathan's was found charred almost beyond recognition in the trunk of his
burned-out car one of the killer's known only as Jason is still at large investigators asked Jeannie to meet with
a key witness Scott Johnson he had innocently spent several hours with the killers at his home in a Winslow Arizona
trailer park Jeannie instinctively began to assess Scott's potential as an eyewitness scott is he's a very
interesting man um visual things are very important to him you can tell in the way that he dresses and he combs his
hair and you know he takes he takes some care in the way that he looks which was
the first cue to me that I would be able to work in a visual context with him so
one thing that I did was I got out some play-doh something to anchor him in the present and gave it to him for him to
actually work on or to play with and sort of feel to keep him in the moment a bit more and the longer as Scott told
his story Jeanne began to sketch the fugitive killer named Jason Scott had met Jason
on January 13 1994 that day a friend of Scott's named Trina Richardson was staying at the trailer along with her
three children they were awaiting the arrival of Trina's husband Paul with gone to Alabama he pulled in at around
6:00 a.m. accompanied by a stranger it's Jason my first impression of Jason was oh boy this guy dresses like a
cowboy you know the long slender kind of attracted the girls would be attracted to him he had the velvet had the long
hair and the jack and the you know the jeans and kind of like worn-out tinny's scott noticed something else about jason
something he would not truly understand until much later I looked down and I noticed his hand was
kind of like red kind of play type I thought I was just you know dirt but apparently it was blood soon after he
arrived Jason took a shower the only time Scott saw him without a hat a shrink tell me a little bit about how you would
put the placement of the hair I had no idea that anything was go wrong like any crime has been committed
I was just going along just like my everyday you know normal routine and they were too scott told jeannie that he
and Trina were out to run errands around 9:00 a.m. leaving Paul and Jason at the trailer we
came back pulled up and that's when they were washing the car so as we pulled out
this sauce and they shut the trunk and they bags like you they don't want us to see what was in it at the time Scott had
no idea that the body of Jonathan Francia was in the trunk so my next-door got the gas can came
back and that's when Trina Paul and Jason we're outside talking an hour later Trina and Paul said they were
leaving to escort Jason to the main highway that was the last time I saw Jason I thought that he went back to
where he was you know maybe to Dallas or maybe somewhere else where he is you know he told me I was from four days
later local police followed an eyewitness report to a remote corner of the desert some 30 miles muscat
straighter there they found the burned-out automobile and the charred remains believed to be Jonathan Francia
Paul Richardson was arrested just over two weeks later under questioning by the FBI
Paul admitted that he and Jason had abducted and then murdered jonathan Francia kid in a car behind a restaurant
we took two days after his confession Paul Richardson committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell finding
the remaining killer is now up to Jeannie Boylan would you create a division between the brows would you
have it connected authorities are counting on Jeannie's unique interviewing skills an artistic talent
to help them flush out the mysterious drifter Jason when I first Chanukah pause it um look pretty much like the
same person I've seen in the the trailer pretty pretty close I was amazed at how
well it you know turned out I know that I can remember that that's him okay okay is there anything
else you'd add to it I believe that miss Boylan has a magician's touch in dealing with
witnesses who and has a way of just extracting a photo from their mind if you will
these are genie sketches of Jason based on Scott Johnston's description when I first saw the composite drawing I felt a
lot of anger because all this time there's not really been a picture and now there's a face and there's a real
person out there who killed my son and who might kill somebody else's it would set our hearts little that give us a
little ease in our art but to the fact that can't bring our son back but it'll put him where he belongs and that's what
we need I think you know if there's some way that this contribution can help bring some peace to them then and I
would I would be delighted you know you just want to do whatever you can do and this is all I can do
in all Jeannie drew three portraits of the man known as Jason authorities believe he has relatives in Pine top or
Payson Arizona and Dallas Texas Jason is described as 510 mid-twenties medium build he smoked chews tobacco and
wears western style clothes including a horse hair belt the man calling himself Jason has also used other first names he
supposedly frequents Las Vegas and homeless shelters and Laughlin Nevada Jason should be regarded as extremely
dangerous uh none extensive mysteries in Chicago a mysterious young woman has charmed
eligible bachelors bewitched cab drivers and haunted taverns and dance halls for
decades but there is something very different about this pale alluring beauty can you guess what it is
also one of our most poignant updates years ago to strangers rescued a young mother from a fiery car crash your calls
led to the heartwarming reunion join me next time for another our fascinating and intriguing mysteries
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Brief Summary

The episode covers a mysterious mummy, Andre Jones' controversial death, and Baby Girl X's search for her birth mother.

Key points

The Mystery of the Little People. In 1932, prospectors discovered a mummified figure in Wyoming, sparking legends of a mythological race.
The Controversial Death of Andre Jones. Andre Jones's death in custody raises questions about police conduct and systemic issues in Mississippi jails.
A Family's Fight for Justice. Andre's parents challenge the official narrative of his death, believing he was murdered.
Dr. Emily Ward's Findings. Forensic pathologist Dr. Emily Ward reviews multiple hanging deaths in Mississippi jails, concluding they are likely suicides. "I would never believe that under a committed suicide, I know my son was murdered."
The Discovery of Baby Girl X. A couple finds a healthy baby girl abandoned in their car, leading to her adoption. "There’s a baby in the back of our car!"
Terry's Reunion with Her Siblings. Terry Christie meets her biological siblings for the first time, discovering a loving family. "This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me."

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Authorities say he hung himself with a shoelace in the shower stall.

Circumstances of Andre's death

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