Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 5 - 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 1992 one D camp of Oklahoma City her young daughter and her sister vanished after being dropped off in a
department store parking lot their mysterious disappearance was a culmination of a bitter feud between two
families which has now escalated demarcations of kidnappings and murders meet Joseph Prussia house key a devout
Hasidic Jew a dedicated father of 12 and one of the most brilliant con man ever encountered authorities believe his
international banking scams have netted illegal profits in excess of 200 million
dollars soo-jung Kim and his wife Sooyoung came to the United States to build a better life then on a fateful
day in 1991 tsuya left home to go shopping she never returned some Akins American Dream was completely shattered
also tonight the poignant search for a remarkable teacher whose patience and understanding
forever changed the life of one of her students jointly perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery
[Music] [Applause] [Music] you're about to meet a master con artist named Joseph Purusha now ski during an
astonishing 18 year crime spree crucian on skis allegedly defrauded financial institutions around the world estimates
of his total thefts range as high as 200 million dollars but this savvy swindler
is a study in paradox Prussia now ski belongs to a deeply religious movement of Judaism known as the Hussey Dean when
he is not orchestrating one of his grand frauds crucian Oskie will as likely is not be in temple praying the Hussey Dean
prays several times a day and out of respect to God always cover their heads all forms of labor even driving are
forbidden on the side acidic men do not shave or cut their head and keeping with
a tradition handed down through the centuries in contrast to the austere appearance huh seedy leave in the joyous
celebration of God's work ascetics are basically Jewish fundamentalists they all live very very simple lives they
believe in actually having a community that is apart from the surrounding world they in fact rely very little on the
surrounding world and so therefore our people who by their own choice tend to be apart from everybody else
I had hearing disparate religious values a Hussey deem have acquired a reputation
for honesty and rock-solid integrity it is a perfect common finds but Joseph portion of ski
by all accounts Joseph pronounced key abides by the religious dictates of the Hasidic Jews except when it comes to the
eighth commandment thou shalt not steal Joseph Pasha now ski settled in Canada in the late 1960 and his family which
grew to include 12 children lived in a Hasidic community near Montreal crucian offski supposedly ran an export import
business from the basement of his modest home the reality was quite different [Music]
a 1985 swim is typical of crucian off skis ambitious schemes his first step was to open his own bank a clerical
assistant named Ellen fine go unwittingly helped with the arrangements Ellen you have maybe permit the
recommendations of the locations for the bank yes I have everything you've been asking for I recommend that we go with
Anguilla yeah it's Caribbean island of Anguilla is notorious for some of the most lenient banking standards in the
world crucian our ski supplied tool aims to be the owners or principals of his bank
alan feingold didn't know she was a true chanel ski had made up the names we need
now are the signatures of our principles that's all that's required these are steps
yeah but they give me the authorization to use these signatures it really be a very busy man you know is it proper to
use stamps on forms of this kind the application form required a witness so are you business the signatures I mean
which I found out after it wasn't exactly a legally accepted procedure that your own one according to the law
can only witness a person signing and not a signature stamp cut the jerks here yes these are the Chinese Circle look
you live here chartering an actual Bank was a measure of proof Sinofsky sophistication could now issue official
looking back cashier's checks infinitely more convincing than mere personal agendas I have the least deal of checks
I've learnt you should tear out the ones with the numbers are the most important
ones all right I'll get back to this together we're gonna the second step of closure now excuse Whitney was to write
our checks and amounts of up to $1,000,000 supposedly guaranteed by the bank in Anguilla
them deposit the checks and business accounts he had set up around the world mr. Prussia now staff personnel scheme
would then contact the bank in person or by phone please come in with his phenomenal talent for persuasion Prussia
now ski convinced the bankers to advance in large amounts of cash even though the
checks Hal I need to cash advance a $750,000 mr. Percy an auskey is the policy of our
bank to wait 14 days effort deposit before you can draw on your account so all I'm asking for $750,000 he's a very
very very persuasive man a man who trades on his being a very religious person when he deals with banks I'd have
to wait just a few more very good at persuading them to cashes checks written on funny banks in faraway places with
strange-sounding names all right mr. pressure now sceeto we're gonna make an exception this time but please in the
future give us 14 days before eventually the project's all bounced or most of them lands at the time the balloting
stop the bank was a million dollars short nice to see you over windows right over
there thank you very much have a nice day bye bye meanwhile Ellen triangle would found
himself fielding calls from angry bankers demanding their money yes no means mr. Prosser offski is not here
today ultimately a Japanese company would file a lawsuit against Prussia now ski and his assistant already firing we
have many accounts with you in being sued for $1,000,000 was something relatively shocking to me and I didn't
understand what was going on here being cited as a co-defendant Feingold's faith
was completely shattered in March of 1987 with agents of the royal canadian mounted police descended on an office
personnel ski kept in montreal I'll ask you about mr. Polaski why give that mr. Pro Sinofsky what I said when
was the next time you saw mr. Broflovski I saw mr. Prosser off ski here at the office yesterday afternoon are you
familiar with a bank from Bank mr. Feingold Allen Feingold was hired by professional ski when he was 21 years
old he was very naive very much about the business so he could not even contemplate the possibilities that
portion of ski had a criminal mind whenever he was asked to do things for his ski was cleared of any involvement
he actively assisted efforts to revolution of skis complex ripoffs this is it Canadian authorities also rated crucian
of skis home but came up empty-handed the basement office had been cleared out and crucian Oskie had fled taking his
wife and ten of his children with him his oldest son and daughter wouldn't join him later off did you know
something working father - no it's just his business [Music] premise Canadian operations crucian
offski left a trail of ripoffs totaling more than two million dollars it was just a hint of what was yet to come buys
after Joseph pronounced King left Montreal he disappears off the face of the earth no one seems ever to see him
hear from him again but what then happens is all of a sudden Joseph Weiss starts to appear and Joseph Weiss
operates fraud on exactly the same way that Joseph Cotten offski did it didn't take much to figure out that Joseph
White's and Joseph Pasha now ski were one and the same but now becoming almost absurdly large between 1990 and 1992
financial institutions in Sweden lost more than 19 million dollars in Denmark more than 39 million dollars the
Netherlands 32 million England 37 million 30 million in the United States and more than 35 million dollars in
Australia the astounding total worldwide it was more than 190 million dollars finally this master cut and came up with
one more brilliant strategy one that keeps him safely beyond the reach of the law in many cases crucian our ski
brazenly negotiated to give back a portion of the 50 cents in the dollar better than that I could never do he
knows that banks don't like to go to the police they don't like to prosecute people what they want is their money so
they will settle on what that of course does is by and large it removes the lender from being a complainant to
create a criminal prosecution problem for pushing offski in that particular country and he's used that tactic very
successfully all over the world however a few banks are unwilling to settle and today warns for crucian our
skis arrests are outstanding in Canada and United States the stunning fact that Joseph Bhushan on skis convinced one
bank after Ana hand over hundreds of millions of dollars naturally raises the question of what he does with all that
money what is unique about Joseph's pushing our scheme is there is no evidence that he is actually personally
benefited in any way at all from these frauds the evidence is such that you have to accept the person off skis
frauds have largely had to benefit I believe indirectly not directly his own community another similar Hasidic
community authorities believe Prashant asked uses a stolen funds a start up numerous
legitimate businesses in turn the profits from these companies are given to the Hasidic community which remains
unaware the criminal origin of the money personal ski I think likes to see himself as a Robin Hood figure it's a
way of giving a rationalization to what he does I feel that it is caused irreparable damage for the Jewish
community as I say around the globe because it helps to to portray and an image of Jewish religious Jewish people
or Jewish people in general as being crooks and robbers which of course is not the truth as to the basic doctrines
of our faith and how we practice this mug shot the only known picture of Joseph pronounced key was taken when he
was 42 years old at the time using a Connecticut prison on a fraud conviction pronounced key is now 54 he's 5 feet 9
inches tall weighs Iran 170 pounds and probably has a full beer [Music] next charges of child abuse kidnapping
and murder tear two families apart [Music] there is no such thing as a routine disappears
last year in Oklahoma two women and a young girl suddenly and mysteriously dropped from sight when authorities
began to investigate the unexpectedly found themselves in the midst of a bitter dispute between two families at
the center of the controversy is 24 year old Wendy Kamp she her daughter Cynthia
and her sister-in-law Renee were last seen in May of 1992 the truth remains tangled in an angry barrage of charges
and counter-charges child abuse kidnapping and murder it all began rather innocently during
the spring of 1987 wendy was divorced and her daughter Cynthia was less than six months old wendy was working at nice
green pradhan Edmond Oklahoma when she fell in love with a co-worker named Chad no
they hit it off fairly quickly and started a relationship and then she got pregnant with her second child and he
convinced her to marry him and they got married about three or four weeks before
Jonathan was born just one month after Jonathan's birth Wendi developed a crippling case of multiple sclerosis
both her health and her marriage disintegrated wendy was hospitalized for nearly a year
chad filed for divorce and was awarded primary custody of jonathan of course along with the MS i didn't think she
would be able to help me raise my child and instead of having two people to or two children to deal with i just decided
that it was best if we got a divorce and i helped her raise the child on my own and put this ring on wendy was too ill
to contest the court's decision for about two years she struggled through physical therapy just to regain simple
skills such as eating and walking during this time friends introduced Wendy to Leone camp they were married a 1990 and
set up housekeeping in Oklahoma City Wendy's daughter Cynthia liberal and by all accounts Leon proved to be
the loving father she needed as Wendy's condition improved she began to ask her ex-husband Chad for visits with Jonathan
now three years over everyone agrees that at first the visitations went smoothly
Jonathas spent a few weekends with Wendy and Leon in 1990 then according to Wendy's mother
Chad's family began to sabotage the visits she would call and make an appointment with them set up a time and
everything for her to see him and she would go there and they would not be at home and then they kept moving and
getting unlisted phone numbers this type of thing so it was almost impossible to
keep track of them or hurting you no Chad no remembers it differently she was allowed to visit him whenever she wanted
and there was never really any hard feelings up until the time that my grandma or my mother informed me that he
was being sexually molested and then that's whenever the visitations were cut off there was no molestation not once so
ever and the idea of him thinking it just tore me up inside I was mad the visitation squabble had escalated
sharply with Chad and his family now accusing Leon of criminal sexual abuse however the charges could neither be
proven nor disproven the court cited Chad for contempt and ordered him to allow Wendy and Leon's visits to resume
for more than six months chad refused then on May 29th 1992 he had a sudden change of heart
oh yeah that would be great that would be just great chad is gonna let me see Jonathan today alright Chad even said
his mother Beverly norm would pick Wendy up since a multiple sclerosis had left her unable to drive me see Jonathan
today Beverly's gonna pick me up started one windy going by herself because I didn't trust these people and me and
Chad didn't get along and I was just something inside of me I just felt like she better not go by herself
by the time Beverly arrived Liana convinced his sister Renee Krieger to accompany Wendy and Cynthia on the trick
Oh a couple hours probably around suppertime will you be careful you make sure you call me you hear all right I
will all right I love you love you too babe I guess when did goodbye first and they
got in the car took off and I waved at him that was the last time I seen him the 115 mile drive at Chad's almond
shamrock Oklahoma took just over two hours when the group arrived in town at about 1:45 p.m.
Wendy telephoned Leah [Music] we're fine we're fine we're just at the cafe we're waiting for Chad to get here
the first time she called me that day was about one something to let me know that she'd made it alright we set there
and visited and she didn't even really play with Jonathan her and Jonathan and Cynthia played for a while but she
mostly set there and drank coffee with me out on the porch and tar around 4:15 it was time for Wendy to say goodbye to
Jonathan then she Cynthia and Renee climbed into Beverly's car for the ride back to
Oklahoma City they were joined by Chas grandmother Ida Pruett before leaving Shamrock Wendy called
Leon again will be home in just a few hours Beverly's ready to leave now okay about 4:30 4:45 she called me let
me know had a visit when she said barely was in a hurry so she had golf the phone
and that's last I talked to her phone company records verify that Wendy Corleone at 4:42 p.m. but virtually
everything else about that afternoon has become tainted by suspicion the last people known to have seen Wendy and her
companions alive were Beverly Nolan Ida Pruitt Chad's mother and grandmother Beverly declined to participate in this
broadcast what follows his Ida Pruitt's account of the trip the visit took place here in shamrock
after taking Wendy Cynthia and Renee to Oklahoma City Beverly was to drive back to Cushing where she planned to meet
Chad in a restaurant between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. [Music] Wendy was unpleasant company from the
time all the way to town she described another bitchin and that's all she could do so after they got back in the car and
everything I told Barry me I said just take me back home I said you got to put up this but I
don't so I she brought me back home and then she went on Ida Pro says she was dropped off at around 5:15 p.m.
she claims Beverly later told her that the bickering continued for the next half hour I like that that was totally
uncalled for Wendy she loves that little point I love him too that's why I want to spend more time well you've had
enough time to spend with him but he knows me he needs his grandma she said there was time she got to Chandler she
had had just about all she could stand and she pulled in Walmart and told him to get out
Beverly is told police and she pulled into a shopping center parking lot in Chandler 45 miles from Wendy's home she
then ordered Wendy Cynthia and Rene out of the car they never returned hook they
never called they never asked anyone for help it was as though they had dropped off the face of the earth
[Music] about eight o'clock at night I started thinking well they should have been home
by now and then midnight that night I said this has gone too far I've got to call police and I did and that came out
and took a brief description of everything we did an aerial search which involved four and five airplanes
searching five County area it also involved several search teams and nothing was discovered at that time the
bizarre disappearance was a talk of Oklahoma City four days with no other leads in the case
Beverly knows version of the afternoon's events became the focus of intense official scrutiny at the time that
Beverly now left shamrock Oklahoma which would have been between 4:30 and 5:00 in
the evening she agreed to meet her son Chad in Cushing at a restaurant at 7:00 that evening it could not have been done
in that small amount of time [Music] according to authorities Beverly had told Chad she would meet him just two
hours after she left shamrock even though the trip from Shamrock to Oklahoma City and back to Cushing would
take three hours to drive in addition Beverly took the old two-lane highway instead of the faster
superhighway Wendy's family is also disturbed about Wendy's failures a telephone from the
shopping center Wendi was very very dependent upon Leon and she had already called twice
she would have been mediately going in and called her husband Leon or and she wasn't able to go and she would have
called me I failed it my daughter and my granddaughter and the sister-in-law were
murdered that Friday night I feel that Ida Beverly in Chad all three are involved I feel that they pretty well
had their plans laid out on what they were going to do when they made the phone call to ask Wendy if she wanted to
see Jonathan and I figured whoever got in that car they were going to do what they had planned to do Beverly and I did
not have nothing to do with their disappearances and I know this I don't care whether they know it or not or
believe it but I know it there is no way that I or my grandma or my mother could
have killed him or shipped him off somewhere or are still holding them in spite of Chas denials to residents of
shamrock have told authorities that they overheard him boasting that he had killed Wendy Cynthia and Rene but that
no one would ever find their bodies maybe in one of my drunken stupors I am I popped up oh yeah yeah I get it better
there ain't no way then no way ever I could have did something like that I'm not a violent person
despite all the bitter recriminations between the two families no physical evidence has ever been found to indicate
what happened to Wendy camp Cynthia brittle and Renee Krieger three months after they disappeared a woman
who knows the family claimed to have seen Cynthia alive police believe the account is credible however there have
been no further sightings for more than a year [Music] [Music] [Music] when we return a woman needs your help
to find the teacher who turned her life around 45 year old Dolores Brooks has spent much of her life in the same
section of Brooklyn New York she knew as a young girl her thoughts frequently turned to her childhood and a special
friend Dolores hasn't seen since she herself was a teenager more than 25 years ago in the early 1960s
Dolores moved to Brooklyn from a small town in North Carolina she was a shy country girl
overwhelmed by the Crown's of the concrete jungle that was New York City it was really a big culture shock in
reference to the buildings being so tall and everything because in North Carolina
people used to come from miles around just to see a three-story building uh-huh it was really a big deal
dolorous suffered the awkwardness common to many teenagers that was complicated by strained relations at home and the
anxiety of entering a big-city school [Music] the kids they seem to be so knowing that
New York kids and being a southern girl you know I just didn't feel that I fit in at that time as Dolores began her
first semester at Decatur junior high she was shocked by her classmates rowdy behavior she never dreamed that in the
midst of the chaos she was about to meet the person who would change her life the
new music teacher Madeleine strums was an outsider just like Dolores so she really looked like a uptown girl
she didn't look like the type that would be teaching at this school you know she
really looked stylish a new day had dawned a music class Dolores would soon discover that life
offered much more than problems and conflict her eyes were open to the beauty in the world thanks to Madelyn
sprouts she really loved music and she demanded that we loved it too if we didn't love
it we have to be quiet about it and respect it but eventually music it comes through to everyone and we all did love
it hi Dolores come on in thanks for coming I really appreciate it by the following school year Madeline
had become a friend to Dolores as well as a teacher Dolores was frequently invited to visit the apartment where
Madeline lived with her father the first time I went to her apartment it was really overwhelming such a
beautiful place and so much space I couldn't get over that I didn't know it was luxury it looked just like a big
museum she lived at least 30 floors up I don't remember how many but it was at least 30
and I would look out and I could see Central Park this was really a new experience for me
you know it was like walking out of one world into another and I became like a changed person when I walked through
those doors that's the time when I won [Music] over the next two years Madeline took
Dolores to chamber concerts and other musical events even lending her clothing and jewelry for these occasions it is a
light Delores had only dreamed up it's slowly nurtured a new self-image once somebody care about you automatically
your self-esteem pick up you know it wasn't anything that I can't really explain that happened but I just felt
better about myself I walked with my head up for once in my life and I just felt more relaxed and at ease because
someone cared about me and I knew it [Music] graduation day June of 1964 a day of
mixed emotions for Dolores Brooks leaving junior high meant that Madelyn sprouts but no longer to be a daily
presence in her life without that positive influence family problems would overwhelm Dolores she ran away from home
dropped out of school and eventually became a ward of the court in 1966 Dolores was stricken with what she
believes was Reye's syndrome a potentially fatal condition that affects the brain she spent nearly a month in
the hospital most of that time in a coma Dolores recovered that was left with partial amnesia in the summer of 1967
Dolores was stopped on the street by a woman who seemed to know her oh goodness look at you you look so
great I missed you how are you do I know you it's a Laura start you remember me it's
me Madeline your music teacher well I hope I was a good student I have to go I didn't know who she was you know when I
saw her maybe three to four times after that over the next year or so and I still didn't remember her and she would
hug me in the street and exhale glad to see me and I didn't know who she was Dolores what on a complete her education
and trained as a practical nurse she eventually moved to Chicago for a 1982 her memories of Marilyn Strauss reawaken
excuse me where are you from I'm from Brooklyn that's what I thought you said what
section best died me too no kidding what school you go to Decatur junior you know
that's where I went I remember you we were in the same music class i sat right across from you really
remember the teachers not talking about our teachers in Madeline came Mary and from there the minis
coming back once the memory came back I decided I would like to find her because
I really realize how much we had in the past and then when I met her on the street so many time and didn't know her
that I felt that I needed to see her again to let her know that it wasn't all loss
the time that she put into me I would like to just say thank you next a family's dream of a better life
in America and his own tragedy New York City has traditionally served as a beacon for those who look to America for
a new and better life nearly every country in the world has an immigrant community enriching the city and to the
newly arrived New York symbolizes the American dream Sooyoung Kim and suyai you lived that
dream born in South Korea they've worked hard and saved every penny in 1981 they
married in Seoul then moved to the United States Sooyoung and su ER worked in flea markets until they were able to
open two stores one in Long Island and the other and bushmen a section of Brooklyn known for his ethnic diversity
to God my wife and I were very nervous about our energy we couldn't understand everything together there was no single
item in the store not hard to buy we work very hard from early in the morning in late at night seven days ago
and we were blessed with water and as a business grew so did the Kim family soo Yong soo Jung had two sons and often the
whole family could be found at the Brooklyn store the Kim's eventually moved to a spacious apartment in Queens
there early afternoon of June 29th 1991 is five days after Sooyoung and soo yah had celebrated their 10th wedding
anniversary soo yar left the boys with her grandmother while she went out shopping
okay not too much time with their father when suya walked out of the apartment that day no one imagined that the Kim's
American dream was about to come crashing down [Music] when Sooyoung Kim came home from the
store at 8 p.m. he was worried to find that suya had not returned from her shopping trip he called all her friends
but no one knew where she was took a yogi doc eventually soo Yung's brother joined the
vigil soo Yung's concerned mountains after he found sujes car still parked in the
garage his engine stone-cold she knows he knows my wife er has never been our debtor
late for the 10 years of our marriage I was getting more and more worries that I
could not stop thinking that something bad must have happened to her I stayed up all night waiting for her
but she didn't hardly come home Kanchana katha as the coroner gave us a call the
next day su Yong Kim was similar to the medical examiner's office to identify a body
I want to believe what was going on as soon as I recognized my wife's body I felt that everything was over the whole
world seemed to crush upon me I could not think of anything else except my children
[Music] tsuya Kim had been stabbed nine times her body dumped in the section of Brooklyn known as Bedford Stuyvesant
seven miles from the Kim's apartment in Queens although she was new there was no
evidence of rape sujes murder appeared to be yet another senseless act of random violence but unlike many random
crimes this one had a witness Jo Jones is a private security guard hired to patrol an abandoned building in Bedford
Stuyvesant around 3:00 a.m. ten hours after suya had disappeared Jones noticed a man behind the building
[Music] hey yo man you can't dump that I can't dump here no you can't dump here he like hesitated
no like a couple of seconds then he said Oh what if I gave you $20 so I said okay
so at that time when I'm taking betrayal I see that he had blood on you know so I
said oh you'll make it blood blood on you like that I just got into a fight the man's demeanor made joe jones
suspicious he got a brief glimpse of the license plate before the car backed out
yes in a car drive away but he stops at the corner so when he stopped at the corner I'm still standing there no I
think he thought I was gonna go back to see what he put in the garlic and I really got suspicious when he drove
through the corner he was looking at me and I'm looking at [Music] so when I went back I looked on the
ground I saw spiced spots of blood bones water the garbage can Joe Jones recruited a friend who happened fine
together they cautiously probed the contents of the dumpster it's layers of debris they saw a woman's
hand it was the body of Soo Hyuk Kim in uncanny coincidence the first vehicle to passed by was an ambulance it was too
late tsuya had already been dead for hours thanks to JoJo's overnight police had a
description of the killer and his car we ran all the the Nissan's that fit that description with that
plate number and New York City we tried to match registered owners by using that
partial plate and we were able to come up with one match thank you the vehicle was registered to a Taiwanese exchange
student at CW post college in Long Island she said she had not driven it since about 10 o'clock the night before did
you go anywhere after that tsuya had been stabbed repeatedly yet there was no blood in or on the car when police
checked the engine they found that the car had in fact not been driven for hours that was extra set of keys to your
car so you're the only driver you didn't have anyone borrow the car last night well at this time we don't have any
other clues the plate number came up to a car that there was a blue Nissan that fit the description that mr. Jones told
us however it wasn't the car we don't believe it was the car at this time I don't understand it was it isn't misty
you know cuz I don't watch the once I gave him a nice place in the car they could pick him up but the only final car
they said this one the car so I don't know police now began to look at the star witness Joel Jones as a suspect
they requested that Jones take a lie-detector test he passed with flying colors police are
positive he had nothing to do with sujes murder [Music] for nearly two years soo-jung Kim's
stayed on in the United States but the memories of suya proved too painful to bear in April of 1993 he shut down his
business and returned with his two little boys to Korea I could not stand being in the store
anymore because everything they remind me of my wife now there are no good memories for him here in America since
it happened I lost all my hope and dream I have a suffered so much I'm still struggling hard care about my wife's
death for the sake of our children I still truly love her and miss her police have one particular theory which
may yet help identify sujes killer the dumpster in bedford-stuyvesant was not easily visible from the street some
police believe the killer may be a delivery man or a cab driver someone would detailed knowledge of the
neighborhood the suspect is in his mid-20s in approximately five feet six inches tall
he has blond hair and blue eyes and weighs between 130 and 140 pounds when last seen he was wearing a torn and
blood-stained fishnet tank top with blue and white jockey shorts which had yellow
sailboat insignias on the leg [Music] but our next unsolved mysteries with Halloween just around the corner a
ghostly tale seems an owner and at Lake Wales Florida will find a haunted house it apparently has it all and a burying
phantom a shadowy Specter and a demonic possession join me next time for this lively tour
of the spirit world and much more unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] you
[Music]

Brief Summary

Wendy Kamp and family disappear amid a bitter feud, while con artist Joseph Prushnowski steals millions and Soo-Yung Kim is tragically murdered.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance. A young girl vanishes after being dropped off at a department store parking lot.
Joseph Prussia: The Master Con Artist. Meet Joseph Prussia, a devout Hasidic Jew and a master of deception.
The Bitter Custody Battle. Wendy Kamp's struggle with her ex-husband leads to a tragic disappearance.
Dolores' Transformation. Dolores Brooks finds her self-esteem through the influence of her music teacher, Madeline.
Tragic Discovery. Sooyoung Kim identifies his wife's body, leading to overwhelming despair.
The Search for a Killer. Police suspect the murderer may be someone familiar with the neighborhood.

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Episode quotes

Joseph Prussia is one of the most brilliant con men ever encountered.

Introduction to Joseph Prussia's character.

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