Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 18 - 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 is it mother's instinct are just coincidence tonight a fascinating look
at the mysterious telepathic link between mothers and children Carolyn Iver was cleaning up after
dinner when she suddenly sensed that her 8 month old daughter was in grave danger
Carolyn rushed to the living and saved the baby from choking Delaney was overcome by a strong inexplicable
feeling of dread during an out-of-town trip later she would learn that at that very moment her son had been seriously
injured in the fall both women attribute their experiences to a special Sixth Sense possessed only by mothers also
tonight in 1990 Anita Greene was gunned down by an unidentified man in the parking lot of
her husband's office two years later a friend of Anita's Michelle sent is writing a book of taste and found
herself targeted by a vicious unknown stalker if she believes it's the same man who murdered her friend this tragic
accident left one person dead and three injured but in reality it was no accident it was a result of a deadly con
game gone wrong a con game springing up all over the country and you could be a target
finally the intriguing mystery of this century-old edition of the Bible it was found accidentally in a second-hand
stores pages crumbling in his gold gilt long since faded but as it turns out there was a lot of life in this old book
the enigmatic secrets of a family whose heirs may be watching tonight join me [Music]
[Applause] [Music] there seems little doubt that Norma's magical bond exists between some mothers
and their children it is perhaps the most wonderful and heartwarming of all mysteries January of 1974 was a blur of
diapers and dishes for Carolina bear a mother of two the Carolyn will remember one day in particular for the rest of
her life was in the evening I was in the kitchen doing the dishes my husband was down the
hallway reading the newspaper my daughter Monica was in there doing her homework and Sarah her little baby
was playing with her toys and you know you're not your mind is not really usually very far away from your children
you think about them and this night I was thinking about Sarah and suddenly I had a feeling that there was something
wrong it was a very focused feeling and in my mind I saw that she was choking on
something I didn't know what Carolyn says that she had inexplicably sensed her 8 month old daughter silently
choking on a balloon you would think about the what if what if I hadn't listened and just thought well I'll go
in a few minutes but this was not that sort of the feeling this was get there you're needed call it mother's instinct
call it ESP caught us simply the power of love accounts of the extraordinary intuition two mothers have been handed
down for generations such a bond seems to defy the limits of time and space and what it may never be scientifically
proven it is far too compelling to be denied it's not like watching your child walk down the street and say oh I know
they're gonna trip over the sidewalk it's not like that it's so powerful and so strong and it's very different
feeling in 1983 business had taken Elaine Emmy and a neighbor Sharon Crocker to Palm Springs 110 miles from
their homes in Los Angeles they were just sitting down to eat an elaine was seized by an overwhelming sense of dread
about her four-year-old son it was like being hit by a wave it was a very powerful feeling both emotionally and
physically Sharon something's wrong what do you mean something's wrong something's happened to Matt overlaying
stop worrying I'm sure he's just it's like someone flipping a switch all of a sudden you feel something and two
seconds before you didn't feel that you weren't thinking about that at all I knew something was wrong with Matt
immediately and it wasn't just a foreboding I mean sometimes people get a strange
sense that something's not right it wasn't like that it was a very definite feeling something that you couldn't just
shrug off sharing Matthew has been hurt I just know it I'm gonna go call home I'll be right back
Alain had instant panic she wasn't what I would consider out-of-control but just
her mannerisms gave me the impression that she was very concerned and knew that there was something very wrong
Alain immediately called home no answer convinced us something truly terrible it
happened she phoned shares husband tongue [Music] hello hi Tom its lane where are you
Tom had not heard from Elaine's husband her seen anything unusual at their house
just across the street so I said well then why don't we just have lunch she said no there's something wrong we
need to go home and that's what we did Elena used to worried I don't know I just can't get rid of this feeling
that's something Awful's happened back twice during the trip back to Los Angeles Elaine stopped a call home still
no one answered Sharon tried to reassure me that everything was probably alright
but the sense of urgency was still there and there was nothing I could do to get
rid of that feeling [Music] it was the longest three hours of Layne Emmys life when she and Sharon finally
arrived home Cher's husband had stunning news yet learned that Matt was in the hospital when Elaine arrived Matt was
being prepped for surgery to reattach severed tendons in his arm he had fallen and crashed through a plate-glass door
at the very moment the sense of dread had swept over Elaine I was feeling what Matt was going through no doubt about it
I don't think I ever questioned that I'm not sure why I was able to feel that but
I know without any doubt what I was feeling and what I was experiencing it made the hair stand up on the back of my
neck thinking oh my god she actually did know that something was happening when it happened Elaine and her son had been
separated by more than 100 miles and yet she had been as certain he was hurt as if she had seen the accident with her
own eyes I think that this connection starts in the room I think even in the womb some children and some mothers are
more connected than others and if they are really connected of course then it will continue for the rest of their
lives it is a connection of love whereby the mother anticipates the child's needs
whether it's a small baby toddler and adolescent but she anticipates it not only on a physical level which of course
is part of Maternity but on a level we might almost call telepathic spiritual so that the whole mother is in touch
with a whole child sometimes it just happens once in a lifetime and you may never be able to repeat it again but it
just happens you have tuned in that one person who is sending out those signals because it's important to you
[Music] if Elena me does have a psychic bond with her son it seems logical that it
originated in the womb however many adoptive mothers have also reported these astounding experiences simply the
fact of having adopted a child doesn't mean the woman's divested of all her instincts and I believe that women have
instincts a woman's intuition whatever you want to call it in March of 1987 Linda Babb and her husband Dirk already
the parents of four were looking to adopt for the second time Linda says it around that time she had a most
incredible dream unlike any she's had before or since I had a dream and in the dream I saw a young woman and she was in
labor a light headed woman that was fair complected and I didn't know who this person was but I did see that she was in
labor and at the point of giving birth and as she pushed I saw the baby's head crown and then be born
[Music] he had lots of dark hair on his head I remember that and he was dark complected
and at the moment that he was born and began to cry I woke up from the dream I [Music]
felt startled because it was a very vivid and realistic dream I had never had a dream so vivid and I looked at my
clock on my bedside table and it was 259 in the morning on March 8th next morning
at breakfast my wife said sweetie I've got the most incredible dream I witnessed the birth
of a child and I said what child she said I don't know six weeks later we had a call from our adoption agency we had
applied to adopt and they called and asked us if we would be interested in adopting a baby boy when they brought
the baby in he looked to me like the most beautiful baby I'd ever seen he had beautiful golden brown skin and a head
full of dark hair he looked very much like the infant in my dream [Music] yes a lot he was born March 8 Margie
what time 2:59 a.m. when she told me the baby had been born March 8 that 259 in the morning I was stunned for a moment I
was just speechless and I turned to Dirk and I said that's the same time and the
date of that dream I had I thought my wife really had seen the birth of this child with her mother that was the dream
and it was confirmation to me at that time that this was meant to be but this was a child for us Linda and Dirk
adopted the infant was very birth Linda feels certain she witnessed any remaining doubts vanished 18 months
later when Linda was shown a picture of her son's birth mother my first thought was how beautiful she was and how much
he looked like her then I realized that this was the light haired light complected woman of the dream the mother
that had the baby an adoptive mother can feel this communication almost as a radar of love
because whether she has formally applied to adopt a child or not she still has in her heart this
intention and it's almost as if the right child somehow contacts her psychically sometimes even before the
child is born those two vibrations somehow meet each other and it may happen once in a tent once in
10,000 cases and that's the one that we perhaps hear about but that very special
case just proves the fact that at least it can happen I'm as skeptical as the next person
always looking for another explanation it does seem a little far-fetched all I can say it was a gift I don't know why
it happened or why I would be given such a gift I just know that it happened and
that's the only explanation I have there is no rational explanation for these things but just because there's no
rational explanation for these things doesn't mean that it didn't happen I don't understand the connections but I
think the connections are there and a lot of it probably just has to do with survival we want to make sure that the
next generation grows up taking at face value these three stories and countless others like them point to
an apparent telepathic link between certain mothers and their children while such a connection may never be fully
explained if you someday get the prickly feeling that your child is in danger it might
not hurt just to wander over and take a look next a woman is gunned down in broad daylight the man who pulled the
trigger is still on the loose North Hollywood California October 25th 1990 woman sitting in the
driver's seat of her own car in the parking lot of her husband's accounting firm was shot once through the head
the woman's name was Anita Greene she never regained consciousness after two days in a coma she died and the man who
shot her is still at large now a woman named Michelle salmon believes the same man as targeted her Michelle was Anita
greens friend she has written a book called no sanctuary about Anita's murder the knowledge that this guy is out there
out on the streets terrifies me every day whether it's the person I think did it or not because any person who did it
knows that I know a lot about this case that they don't want me to know this is a chilling story of two innocent women
one of them murder the other apparently stalked it is a most bizarre and complex case
one of the highest profile cases in recent Los Angeles history the saga began in 1974 when Anita Greene met her
husband at the time Anita worked as a bookkeeper and know Greene's accounting firm both were
married to other people after nearly seven years they left their spouses to Wed one another
Anita's friends were shocked not only because Mel weighed more than 500 pounds but also because he convinced Anita to
sign an outrageous prenuptial agreement basically there was a provision in it but he wore the pants in the family and
he was the supreme boss the God the absolute ruler and if they ever had an argument or disagreement he would
automatically win just because of that well we'll review Cathy's report on Wednesday night Anita threw herself into
activities at her synagogue and he does according to Anita's friends Mel attended services less and less often as
Anita's involvement grew him most of the time Anita made excuses for her husband
but occasionally she let down her guard let's go I'm late all right she'd say she was afraid of her husband
but then she said oh you know Mel he's just a loudmouth who likes to hear himself talk he's a blowhard he's not
really gonna do anything to me she had all the classic symptoms of a woman thinking they were in control
thinking that they knew what they were doing but really frightened and scared [Music]
Anita took refuge from her marriage by becoming more and more involved in the synagogue eventually she was elected
president of the congregation as a result Anita and the rabbi's saw one another more and more often allegedly
the two became entangled in a love affair when Anita asked Mel for a divorce he was infuriated
I absolutely demand that my property is handed over to me I have an extensive stamp and coin curiously despite his
bitterness Mel was adamant that Anita continue to work with him at the accounting firms office she has to work
for me the business depends upon it Mel was inconsistent one minute I don't need
you you're not worth anything but the next minute he would absolutely be insistent she had to work for him
and I frankly I think both Anita and Mel were indirectly acknowledging that Anita
knew where the Barrett bodies were buried throughout the divorce proceedings Mel bombarded Anita and her
lawyer with threatening letters only after Anita was murdered where the letters turned over to the police
Marvin Greene did send some letters where he threatened to kill any degree in my mind it just gave more credence to
him being involved in her shooting detective Hernandez soon found three different witnesses who believe they saw
Anita Greene's killer one was a man who worked across the street from Mel Greene's accounting firm
yet observed Green emerged from the building Menace before Anita arrived in her red Corvette that's a door that is
not used very often so it was unusual to this witness across the street to see this after he observed Melvin green
looking he observed Anita green turned a corner closely followed by a motorcycle
a second witness observed even more he stated he was working on a roof directly across the street for a needed green it
parked her red Corvette and what brought his attention was he heard a motorcycle
arrive parked on the wrong side of the street he observed the individual approach needed green fire one shot
immediately ran to his motorcycle and a high rate of speed go northbound on the street
finally a third witness helped police artist come up with this composite the witness had seen the motorcyclist just
after Anita's murder without his helmet and visor on investigators began to suspect that Mel Greene had hired a
hitman to kill his wife Belle Greene's behavior at his wife's bedside did nothing to alleviate police
suspicions only moments after Anita died with her body still in the room Mel reportedly had a bizarre exchange
with Anita's friend Phyllis Bolton I look pretty good don't I the new liquid diet that I'm on he was talking about
how much weight he had lost and how good he had look it was absolutely nauseating
there was not one moment of remorse not one tear shed he was as talkative as if she was wide awake and sitting there
watching us the day after Anita was shot detective Hernandez went to Melvin greens office to interview it did you
stop right there I can't talk to you my attorney says I can't speak with anyone why do you need
an attorney he's a criminal attorney why do you need an attorney I'm only here to
speak to you about your wife you talked to my attorney he says I can't speak to anyone now the scenario of Anita greens
murder began to gel we were able to piece together the fact that Marvin green specifically
controlled the date and time Anita green was supposed to be at his office that would allow Melvin green to
have somebody hired to follow her and shoot her and that's how a the Green was shot
[Music] ultimately Melvin green was arrested for conspiring to kill his wife even though
there was no direct evidence that he had hired someone to shoot her on March 4th 1992 a jury convicted
Greene of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole
but the case was far from over Mel green appealed claiming he was innocent and the hit man whoever he was remained at
large in May of 1992 Michele Samet visited Mel green at the Los Angeles County Jail where he was awaiting
transfer to a state prison against his lawyer's advice Green had agreed to be interviewed from Michelle's book hello
Mel how are you doing I wanted to go in there with an open mind and I started to
listen to and for the first few weeks of our visits it wasn't certain of anything
anymore most if I didn't shoot her there's no connection so there's more than one road to reasonable town but as
our visits continued Mel himself made me more certain of his guilt than ever before Michele continued her
investigation but one thing nagged at her how and when Atmel paid the hit man michele claims it in the course of her
research she finally uncovered evidence that Mel Green had sold off a thirty thousand dollar coin collection just
three weeks before Anita was murdered Michele told the police about her discovery but decided not to tell Mel
Greene my innocence will come the show claims that during one of their subsequent interview well made unusual
comments when another visitor showed up this is a man I call my brother because he'd do anything for me
in fact he's a homeowner because of me you can wait outside Mel had visitors come every day during
our visits my visits were all day long well had never asked me to leave during his visits before and in that alone I
thought was unusual and I went downstairs and I went into my car and sat I knew I'd have about a half hour
until this guy came out and my mind started to run away with me that this guy looked a lot like the police
composite of Anita's shooter according to Michelle when the visitor left he got on a motorcycle which fit
the description of a one driven by Anita's killer when I went back to the jail I made a very stupid mistake I said
to Mel I've got this theory that paid for the murder with the money from the coins you said I need a stole she didn't
steal them you're not gonna write that you can trace your claims of course she told Mel her suspicions he threatened me
if you end up dead after I make a call you'll know who did it I knew Mel likes to talk like that you
know this is just a blowhard just a man talking and I realized God how stupid can you be Michele that's exactly what
Anita said and she's dead the next day June 17th 1992 Melvin Greene was transferred as scheduled to calop at RIA
State Penitentiary east of San Diego he peppered Michele's salmon with angry letters he's threatened to harm my
children he's threatened to hurt me never before had I encountered this feeling of fear before because I'd never
been so involved in a story before where it took on a life of its own but I couldn't stop because I knew I had the
potential to find the answer Michell sammich says that over the next few months someone began a stalker the
front gate to her house is ripped from its hinges the house itself was vandalized and finally Michelle says it
in the driveway of her own house an unidentified man hit her in the face breaking her nose a lot of that has
stopped now that the book has come out but of course you always live your life fearing that what you've uncovered might
lead to some potential danger for your family for me I'm okay because I understand that's the risk by taking
this kind of story am i following through for my children I'm worried every day Michelle Samet believes the man she saw
visiting Melvin green in prison was the same man pictured on the police composite he would today be in his early
30s he has blond hair dark eyes and a muscular build and may own a red or maroon suzuki motorcycle
[Music] [Music] next authorities need your help to stop a deadly insurance fraud scheme
responsible for dozens of accidents and nation's highways it is an all-too-familiar seen on our nation's
highways emergency workers struggle to free the occupants of a car which has been rear-ended by a tractor-trailer
break in this case on Interstate five near downtown Los Angeles the driver of the car and two passengers were rescued
however a third passenger was pronounced dead at the scene what made this tragedy all the more
chilly was that it may not have been an accident at all authorities believe it was part of a
carefully orchestrated insurance scam that backfired the police in Los Angeles cause the swoop and squat a scheme in
which people intentionally create rear-end collisions in order to collect on bogus insurance claims authorities
estimate that the super squat cost consumers millions of dollars every year even though the scam originated in
Southern California it is now popping up all over the country watch closely you may find yourself involved in one of
these situations here's how the swoop and squad works a typical operation involves two or three
cars they cruise the highway intent I'm searching for a victim incredible the vehicles they most often choose the
target are the most dangerous large tractor trailers trucks are a favorite target among us upin squat rings because
one they know that trucks will have a lot of insurance and two that there'll be a lot of damage which is compensable
by the insurance companies the scam unfolds quickly first the squat car normally filled with passengers
positions ourself directly in front of the targeted truck Greta's second car pulls alongside the
truck effectively boxing it in over the next several mine the driver of the splut car may try to
distract the truck right [Music] finally the suit car appears and makes a smooth forcing the other drivers to jam
on their brakes immediately afterwards the people who are in the squad car will then claim
injury injuries are almost always soft tissue injuries because they're so difficult to disprove though exchange
insurance information and then a couple of days later the attorney makes the claim we've had one situation where two
attorneys made over nine million dollars from a two-year period of time from simply buying stage accidents the
ringleaders of the swoop and squat are often well-to-do attorneys who work out of the safety of their offices far
removed from the accident scene each accident can mean up to $20,000 and false insurance claims a large part of
it pocketed by the attorney by contrast those who risk the most in the con game are paid the least usually a middleman
called a capper seeks out people who are willing to do almost anything for money
the people who are in the swooping squad accidents as passengers or drivers may be paid as little as two hundred and
fifty to three hundred dollars to risk their lives in that accident cappers may get approximately fifteen hundred
dollars all the money is made by the professionals who are are corrupt the attorneys who are financing these staged
accident activities the crash on Interstate five had all the earmarks of a classic swoop and squat but in this
case informants are willing to talk they led police to the man who had allegedly
organized the operation one philemon Santiago Santiago is a Mexican national who lived in West Hollywood California a
search of his apartment turned up documents linking him to a Beverly Hills attorney named Gary Miller
[Music] [Music] [Music] in a moment the intriguing mystery of an old family Bible perhaps you can help
locate the rightful owners in a place like this time stands still random moments of other people's lives are
frozen caught as if in amber and behind every captured moment every object is an untold story when you
collect antiques you never know when one of those stories might intersect with your life
and draw you into a small unsolved mystery of your own [Music] Jonathan Grady a Los Angeles collector
understands that all too well in 1980 Jonathan was out browsing when he spied a box of sundry items excuse me yes how
much for your Bunsen burners let me see I'll tell you what I'll give you the whole box for 75 how's that that's too
high I'll give you 50 Wow okay you could have the whole thing I'll write it up after buying the box I noticed there was
several other things in a box things that I could use that wasn't oil cans there and old scrub brushes and there
was his Bible it's a very large Bible I'm very old and the binding was was torn and but yet it was part of the
purchase price so I took it home the Bible was more than a century old so old it was literally falling apart its
emboss cover was cracked his pages crumbling I thought something like this would be
nice to display in my living room but I had to have it repaired and after checking with several bookstores in the
area I was told it would cost between two and three hundred dollars so I put it into the garage and I stored it away
the Bible they'd forgotten and Jonathan Grady's garage gathering dust and guarding his memories for more than a
decade in the meantime Jonathan embarked on a writing career one day he found himself in need of a quote from the book
of Job as he leaped through the old Bible Jonathan was caught short by a presentation page which he had not
noticed before everything stopped right there I was I was completely surprised I
never found a character of job instead I found Lazarus the Bible had apparently been given to a mr. Charles Lazarus and
his bride Fannie Berkman on their wedding day March 25th 1874 they were married in
Cincinnati Ohio when Jonathan turned the page the history of a family unfolded Charles and
Fanny Lazarus had recorded the birth of two sons Joshua and Samuel and three daughters Bluma Mae and Reina Joshua had
married Dora Fleischman of Americus Georgia Samuel ADA hazard opposed in Michigan
and bloomer a German immigrant named Michael Michaelson on the facing page Charles and Fannie
recorded the birth of one grandchild bloomers daughter Helen Mae Michaelson born in Denver Colorado on May 2nd 1895
I'd looked at this Bible for several days after that I would refer to this page back and forth I watched his kids
grow some unknown source pulled me into this man's life and I have not quit I have not quit trying to locate another
man's family mrs. Johnson gradient Los Angeles calling regarding and Lazarus family
Bible Jonathan became obsessed with returning the treasured family heirloom to its rightful owners thanks to his
efforts several newspaper articles were published and he actually got a lead this letter from 81 year-old Bernard
Fleischman of South Carolina mr. Fleishman had met Dora long since dead from the town of America's Georgia he
felt she might be the same Dora Fleischman who married Joshua Lazarus unfortunately mr. Fleishman had lost
touch with his aunt Doris family but the letter only strengthened Jonathan Grady's resolved to find an heir to the
Lazarus family Bible there are family members there were four siblings living siblings of this man all married there
has to be a granddaughter a great-granddaughter a great-great granddaughter there's a relative fair I know the
original owner of the Bible Charles Lazarus died on the 4th of July 1913 and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in
New York any direct descendant of Charles and his wife Fanny would have a legitimate claim to the family Bible
[Music] next a respected physician is now on the run charged with sexual assault we will
call the young woman you are about to meet Patricia she is the daughter of a military chaplain on January 7th 1992
when she was 19 Patricia went to a clinic in San Diego California complaining of flu symptoms
Thank You Patricia had no way of knowing that the doctor who would examine her that day had recently been forced to
resign from the staff of another clinic for different complaints of sexual misconduct has been filed against him
each by a young woman in her 20s the doctor's name was Arvind Sinha a California State Medical Board had
chosen not to revoke his license stating at all four complaints for cases of the
patient's word against the doctors he kept asking me questions about family about I'm having a boyfriend and I was
really sick I had a fever I wasn't feeling well this combined with all the questioning
it really just threw me off you know I just figured that he was just trying to meet more helpful and caring Patricia
says it was a nurse gone doctor sinha's examination became a criminal assault he
manipulated me into position where I couldn't even see what he was doing and I didn't even know what he was doing or
trying to do until I had realized that he had raped me well after he had left the room I just started
crying I knew what had happened I just could not believe that that had happened to me okay Patricia was afraid to let
anyone at the clinic know what had happened she telephoned her mother a short time later
Patricia's pears took her to another hospital she was examined and the authorities duly notified after a
week-long investigation dr. Arvind Sinha was arrested by detective Christine Gregg of the San
Diego Police Department he had no reaction he kept repeating after I told him what she was alleging he said oh how
interesting and throughout the interview he repeated how interesting no emotion no reaction just he said he
didn't do it that he might have been framed but I would have expected a little reaction out of an innocent
person the next day dr. Sinha posted his own $175,000 bail within a month he had
disappeared later his medical license was revoked by the state of California every woman he's around is in danger
he's not gonna stop he had four warnings and lost a job and then he came back and
raped Patricia he's not gonna stop the only two places I really felt safe was at church or at the doctor's office you
know and now you know I don't have that trust for any money anywhere [Music] join me next time for another intriguing
edition unsolved roads [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

Mothers share telepathic experiences, a murder case unfolds, and an insurance fraud scheme is revealed.

Key points

Mother's Instinct. Carolyn Iver sensed her baby was in danger and rushed to save her from choking.
Telepathic Links. Stories of mothers sensing danger for their children highlight a mysterious bond.
A Chilling Murder Case. Anita Greene was shot in broad daylight, and her killer remains at large.
The Bizarre Marriage of Mel and Anita. Anita Greene's tumultuous marriage ended in her murder, raising suspicions about her husband.
The Aftermath of a Murder. Mel Greene's bizarre behavior after his wife's murder raised police suspicions.
The Stalker. Michelle experiences a series of threats and violence after uncovering the truth.

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