Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 6, Episode 7 - 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 just two months ago a kind-hearted truck driver in Virginia treated a young homeless man to a hot
meal incredibly this chance encounter has now become a key piece of evidence in the strange case of 28 year old John
cheeky cheek a Memphis businessman mysteriously dropped from sight in December of 1993
just days before finalizing a deal that would have made him a millionaire now his family needs your help to fight Earl
and Donna Chuck backs scrimped and saved for years to build a log cabin home of their own but when they handed over
their life savings to a smooth-talking contractor named Mark Mitchell the chat box never guessed that they'd become the
latest victims of a lucrative million dollar scam in 1917 three peasant children and Fatima Portugal claimed
they were visited several times by a vision of the Virgin Mary during the controversy that followed
they revealed that the Virgin would make one final appearance and perform on great miracle many of the 70,000
religious pilgrims who came for the occasion were not disappointed tonight we'll take you to Portugal to
investigate the fabled miracles of Fatima [Music] join to these intriguing new stories and
more another edition on songs [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in
Mexico City has visited each year by millions of Catholic Gogol's according to legend it was on this very spot that
the Virgin Mary Mother of Jesus Christ appeared to a Christian convert in 1531 Catholic authorities have judged the
vision to be a miracle worthy of belief millions also make the pilgrimage to the
Basilica at Lourdes France where Catholic tradition says the Virgin Mary appeared in 1858 and then there is
Fatima Portugal it was here in 1917 that many believe the Virgin Mary made her most dramatic appearance seen by three
peasant children 10 year-old Lucia Santos and her two younger cousins just seem to have that Francis Kumar - their
extraordinary account began in the quiet solitude of rural Portugal where the following scenes were filmed May 13th
1917 a sunsha the small farming community of family Lucia son - she and her cousins had taken their sheep to an
area known as a Cove area land owned by Lucia's family as a flock grazed the children began to play
he stopped orbiting Ghana for cinema period the are both the room Jenna didn't they were building a little wall
around a tree you know when there was a flash of light in thon lesibians and Lucia thought the flash was a sign of
rain now sue when she thought that he was lightning so she said let's go home so we don't get caught by the rain the
children glimpsed a second flash of lightning which heralded something far greater than a rainstorm no chessmen
according to Lucia the glowing figure said she had come from heaven and that she would not harm them your cake wasn't
sealed get him but a blue screen has a key says Mr secatur 2003 Ashton Rogers did I guess only okay
yet the move-up yourself first you just see them the lady told you see that she and her two cousins would be called a
heaven she then asked the children to be her messengers and warned them that in doing so they would endure great
hardships second acceptance the astonishing visitation was over but Lucia santosh and her cousins had become
the key figures in an episode that is now regarded as one of the great miracles of Catholicism six times Lucy
would claim the Virgin Mary appeared to them on the sixth occasion tens of thousands were on hand for a final
dazzling spectacle not everyone however was inspired by the rumors of a miracle Lucy's mother was in fact furious that
her daughter's involvement by ABC series just internal freaky I was to go meet her mother punished or every now and
again in quantum shoe Almar to Lucy as cousin was then a young boy it wasn't that her mother was bad but she wanted
to have her daughter to say that this was a lie but Lucia kept saying how can I say it was a lie if I actually saw her
Valusia Santosh the suffering predicted by the lady had begun but even in the face of her family's hostility
Lucia returned with her cousins to the Cova area On June 13 they were joined by some 50 villagers drawn by rumors of the
impending visitation once again the three children said the lady from heaven appeared to them as in the first
visitation only Lucia spoke to the vision Lucas although some claimed that an unusual
cloud of light was visible no one else saw the lady from heaven deep seeded to make losses hospital sale
[Music] the difference is whoever's in live mr. fish come as a hotel when news of the second episode reached
Lucy's mother she was still outraged to find her daughter involved in what she regarded as a hoax to [ __ ] she her
mother said you're going to go to the priest and you're going to confess to him in front of the altar in the church
that you lied in an act of startling disobedience for the timing slips ten-year-old Lucia Santos
refused to discuss the lady from heaven with Fatima's parish priest Father Emmanuel for her
[Music] [Music] no but ask session worthless on sim father fajita found himself on a
politically delicate position campaign s the government saw the Catholic Church is a bitter rival for the public's
loyalty fajita feared any endorsement of Lucia's claims will be taken as an attempt to boost the church's influence
and would bring the wrath of the politicians upon him the church for example could be taken over by the
government in the sense that the government would seize all of the church property in Portugal there was the
possibility of the government physically removing bishops imprisoning them or sending them out of the country that was
done with some bishops not all so there are many things that the government could do well obviously for a 10 year
old child be the word of a priest was an important thing to hear Lucia left the church with a very big problem at you
she had to admit that maybe the demon had got into her that Villa this was an illusion created by the devil the
Potomac met perhaps her mother was riding my that she hadn't really seen anything at all in her memoirs which she
began writing when she was 28 Lucia santosh described her tortured internal debate as I heard people say
that the always brings conflict and disorder I began to think that truly ever since I
had started seeing these things our home was no longer the same for joy and peace had fled what anguish I felt
[Music] July 13th 1917 the appointed day for the third appearance by now word of the
miraculous visions had spread pilgrims clogged the road leading to the Cova and many besieged Lucia to intervene with a
lady from heaven on their behalf at 12:00 noon the lady once again appeared at once again only to the three children
cream Tsubaki for photo Malaga 2002 kaydee Brussels to Paris the lady reminded Lucia to return at
noon on the 13th day of each month she also promised that on her sixth appearance she would perform a miracle
for all to see and believe the lady from heaven then invoked a terrifying vision
of Hell which Lucia would later describe in her memoirs plunged in this fire were
demons and souls in uniform and shrieks and groans of pain and despair which horrified us and made us tremble with
fear [Music] Lucia claims a specter of hell was the lady's warning that God was offended by
recent events in Europe world war one was then in his third relentless year the lady predicted that the war would
soon end only to be replaced by a more serious threat Russia Lucia knew nothing of that nation or its
revolution but she claimed the lady Dean Russia and offense to God many believe these words anticipated the
rise of an atheistic government the Communists according to Lucia the lady promised another destructive war if
Russia was not restored to faith Lucia said the lady from heaven made one other pronouncement but was adamant that
Lucia keep it a secret one month later Lucia's will would be severely tested August 13th the day of the fourth
appearance a local government administrator Arturo Santos offered to personally escort Lucia
and to the cove [Music] [Applause] the abductions a stunning turn of events Lucia and her cousins were whisked away
to an uncertain fate that a government prison some nine miles from Fatima the administrator was convinced the children
were perpetrating a hoax at the behest of the church and he was certain he could coax a lady's secret if there was
such a thing from young Lucia Nativity I'll tell you at the allows for an estate of Rivera was its approach where
you tell me [Music] [Music] and our in the produces the container - screams - March guess different
dissipation kills [Music] you're privy to you notice new technical data the torment lasted for three days
all the while the children's families and angry villagers clamored at the walls finally the administrator had no choice
but to admit his failure he allowed the children to return home according to Lucia Santosh the lady from heaven
appeared a fourth time and a fifth is scheduled as the date for the sixth appearance approached excitement built
to a fever pitch October 13th 1917 the day of the long-awaited miracle dawn wet and miserable thousands descended on
Fatima they will humored crowd milled impatiently outside of Lucia's home there were even mutterings of reprisals
against Lucia if no miracle took place these photographs show some of the estimated 70-thousand on lookers who
gathered that day many had come from hundreds of miles away soon after Lucia arrived at the Cove
area a torrential downpour had come to an end the huge crowd included both the carriers and the faithful shepherds and
servants mingled with the nobility also in attendance were sceptical reporters from the major newspapers the local
priest fearing a public fiasco that would embarrass the church was among the most vocal of the doubters George
yeah pastor to media let's get us out of a shadow what some sickly kid the unruly
crowd grew silent as Lucia began to speak although to the onlookers she appeared to be talking at a thin air but
English quizzes paribas eat [Music] the corridors the wins Yokoso losers the best producer scouts
and then put also [Music] according to many eyewitness accounts the Sun began to anjali ribbons of
multicolored lights shooting across the heavens then suddenly the Sun seemed to fall
[Music] later many eyewitnesses would say that they feared being scorched the crowd
watched dumbstruck as a son abruptly reversed course and returned to his rightful place in the sky the miracle of
the Sun and Fatima is certainly the most spectacular physical manifestation physical miracle that has been
associated with our lady she had to manifest her presence in a grand manner in a very convincing and spectacular
manner because it was important that people all over the world should believe what she had said the awesome celestial
displays supposedly lasted for 12 minutes accounts from within a 600 square mile area around Fatima
substantiate at many of the first-hand descriptions but incredibly some eyewitnesses at the Cova claim they saw
absolutely nothing out of the ordinary still history is favored the more spectacular accounts Avellino de almeida
the editor of a government control newspaper came to Fatima a confirmed skeptic and left a believer at the hour
foretold the rain ceased to fall the dense mass of clouds parted and the Sun began to whirl around in a while and
violent dance with such lovely glowing colors passing successively over the sun's surface
in years to come the events of October 13 would be the subject of considerable debate some dismissed the spectacle as a
textbook case of mass hysteria but many found the eyewitness accounts to be credible that word spread across Europe
and around the world today a basilica stands for lucia under cousins claimed to have seen the lady from heaven in
1930 the catholic church recognized the offense at Fatima as a miracle worthy of
belief Jacinta and Francisco Martin did not live to witnesses official confirmation both died during a
worldwide influenza epidemic within three years of the visions many believed it was a fulfillment of the Virgin's
promise that they would soon be called to heaven [Music] over the decades Fatima's call to the faithful has grown
ever more powerful the tide of pilgrims are swelled from the thousands who joined Lucia in 1917 to several million
in recent years even those who remain skeptical of miracles puzzled over the mystifying events at Fatima and the
ten-year-old girl who many believe was chosen to be God's messenger while there were some who admired me and considered
me a saint there were always others who called me a hypocrite and a sorceress they are all
mistaken I am NOT a saint and I am NOT a liar only God knows what I am many believeth the lady from heaven
predicted some of the most important events of the 20th century the end of World War one the onset of World War two
the rise and fall of communism in Europe even the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul the second which took
place on May 13 1981 sixty-four years to the day after the appearance of the first vision to the sceptical is all
simply coincidence to the faithful it is proof that a miracle did occur at Fatima
when we return a family's dream of building a home is snuffed out by a smooth talking con artist
well kids let's get up here and look at the view all right marks it is hard to imagine a more
beautiful setting for a hole than this meadow in Steamboat Springs Colorado 200 miles northwest of Denver it was here on
six acres of land that Earl and Donna chuck legs planned to build their dream home several years had scrimped and
saved until they finally had enough to begin construction modern-day log cabin similar to this one selves and their two
children but in 1991 the chat VAX hopes came crashing down shattered not by accident or act of God
but by the deeds of this man a sophisticated con on his to call himself Mark Mitchell
[Music] girl here's an ad about a log home company that needs funds in April of that year Earl and Donna
Astrid an innocent-looking newspaper ad and talked to the owner of Colorado log horns mark Mitchell well you know
they're a word kind of a young business but we do have a couple of clients up there in Breckenridge I could it seemed
like a great opportunity for us because the company supposedly was growing which
is one of the reasons that we really started going with this company instead of a more established company somewhere
else Mitchell's plan was simple the chat VAX would invest $25,000 in his growing
business in return Mitchell will give them a large discount on the construction of their log cabin twenty
five thousand plus the twenty five thousand dollar investment would be returned with interest on our
twenty-five thousand dollars off the price your home in early May an architect and a salesman
from Mitchell's office came up to inspect the chatbox property they looked at different views from our property and
kept using the word stunning they could build us a stunning home if you're ready
to go with this girl I have a contract with me right here well you know we've got the money down at the bank and after
the chat box attorney approved the country Earl and Doug would handle over a 25 thousand dollar deposit to
Mitchell's sesemann we had been saving money and living very frugally from the moment we got married so when we gave
them the $25,000 that was our whole dream all right now this is my copy that's your home that's mine okay come
on I'll buy you lunch okay it seemed like we'd been waiting for such a long time and and it was all coming true and
they said it was real and we believed them the log yard at Mitchells Denver headquarters gave every appearance of
legitimacy workers process hundreds of lawns and the shells of cabins were carefully preassembled supposedly each
shell would later be taken apart trucked to a building site and reassembled on a
concrete foundation laid by one initials group but after eight weeks it was absolutely
no progress at Earl and Donna's property the critical job of measuring and pouring the foundation had yet to begin
the chaat facts made the four-hour drive to Mitchell's log yard in Denver to see
for themselves what was wrong [Music] temporarily however mark Mitchell was able to lay their anxieties to rest they
had started our shell and it seemed to have all the basic things that were in our plans and Earl measured it and the
kids you know we took pictures of ourselves inside of it and whoa just seemed real exciting you know
it seemed like it was really happening down so of course then we were we were backed up but weeks more passed without
any construction of the property it took a siege of phone calls for Earl and honor to convince Mitchell to dispatch a
work group they sent an excavator up and we pound it in the nails and measured where the
corners of the house were and stood in the spot where the living room was going to be and imagined our view this is the
foundation so where you'll be the first floor will be up here with the windows will be here we were starting to think
well it's not gonna be done by Christmas but it might be done by March we still really didn't believe that it wasn't
going to happen sorry I have to keep you waiting please come and have a seat on October 1st the
bitter reality finally hit Earl and Donna they had applied to their local bank for a construction and were stunned
to discover that the request had been denied well I'm afraid the news isn't good
now it has nothing to do with you - the problem is with the Builder it appears this man is in some serious trouble he
has been taking deposit money just as he did yours and then has not started construction on the homes at
matter-of-fact mark Mitchell is not even his real name it's Wade Mitchell Parker I'm awfully
sorry I wish there was something more that I could do at that point he could find it I felt nauseous I mean I
suddenly just was sick feeling as though we were going to lose all the money that
we had given to mark Mitchell on October 5th 1991 Don under once again drove to Colorado log homes where they
had a 10:00 a.m. appointment with a man they now knew as Wade Mitchell Parker he
showed up more than two hours late hey I've been waiting for it almost two and a half sorry
get to a bowl and I'm sorry my secretary you gonna call this boy we left home III
tried I'm sorry just got miles to get down here I know what I'm sorry let's go inside and we'll talk about what I got
yeah well you know nothing's been ever with our log show yeah we we got what's going on around welljust
Earl just a little hang up if we go and sit down and cool off a little make a couple phone calls we'll get your money
out here to you we'll get it all done no no I don't have our money no I didn't I know but let's wait Parker agreed to
refund Earl and Donna's deposit claiming to be short of cash he gave them a promissory note essentially a $25,000
IOU [Music] what this just please we are still trying to be nice about it but I think
deep down inside are you really probably we were never gonna see her - all wrapped up that'll be the end of it we
finished up the meeting and we left and that's that's the last time we ever saw him I spoke to him maybe three or four
types after that on the telephone but we never saw him again [Music] within the month Wade Mitchell Parker
declared bankruptcy and disappeared the chat box never received a dime and they soon discovered that they were not the
only people taken in by the con man in November of 1991 the chaat facts joined more than 30 at Parker's other
victims at a meeting organized by Colorado authorities as a group their total loss exceeded 1 million dollars
and I got my plans and I guess those probably were worth about $1,000 and I lost $9,000 I expected to have a log
home for mark I'd expected to have my $20,000 back and I expected all of this to happen within a very expedient amount
of time and it didn't happen so I lost almost $25,000 and I don't have a log home what did he tell you about the land
and Bennett when we finally came to terms with the fact that we lost the money we felt stupid we just felt like
we had done a stupid thing and when we realized that lots of big-time people not just the naive young couple with two
small children a lot of big-time people lost a lot of money too we didn't feel quite so stupid
a number of people have asked us whether we think that Wade Mitchel Parker was just a bad businessman or whether we
think he was a con person from the very beginning some of the transactions he made are just plain crooked there's no
other explanation for what he did also we haven't been able to find the money and we think has got to be out there
somewhere the fact that we haven't been able to find it and that Parker fled during the
bankruptcy proceedings is a real indication to us that this was a con from the beginning
[Music] some of Parker's wealthier victims have been able to absorb their losses write
them off as business expenses but for Earl and Donna chat facts and many others likely dream of owning a home has
been snuffed out perhaps forever I don't think that you ever want to give up on a
dream and I think that in a way we were realizing that we might have to give up on that dream we might never ever get
another opportunity to give someone money to build us a home update on August 11th 1994 Wayde
Mitchell Parker was arrested in Cobb County Georgia's some 1,300 miles from Colorado there Parker was using two new
aliases Ronald Andersen and Larry wiener but information developed from our program
helped reveal his true identity on September 26 1994 Wade Mitchell Parker was arraigned in Colorado on fraud and
theft charges our cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom however Earl and Donna chat bags made
sure they were on hand to see justice done if he'd been an honest man we'd be living in our home right now in raising
our children I think that anybody who has been ripped off this way could take heart from this you know knowing that
with enough perseverance they may get their guy certainly gave me a lot of a lot of
heart when I was beginning to lose hope [Music] next a family is reunited thanks to you
our viewers [Music] bill O'Neil of Santa Monica California was always told he was just a baby when
his father died but throughout his childhood bill was plagued by the nagging suspicion that he was somehow
different from his older brothers and sisters that was the only one with hazel eyes and everybody else had these bright
blue eyes my skin was more like an olive skin where they were fair-skinned not that anything was ever said to me or
anything like that that was different than anybody else like my mom didn't treat me any different just a feeling
inside like something was lost years later Bill's suspicions were confirmed when he discovered that his father Hugh
Paul O'Neill had in fact died two years before bill was born when bill confronted his mother she told him
everything bill learned that in November of 1958 Paul O'Neill was a patient at Chicago's
VA hospital there Bill's mother met a friend of Paul's named Jim Burke a divorced father of four sadly within a
month Paul O'Neill would die nice very nice before long Jim Burke became a familiar
presence in the O'Neal household two years later bill was born his mother was pregnant again when the relationship
with Jim Burke ended bill was stuck when his mother also told him that his younger sister who he thought was dead
had actually been put up for adoption in 1990 Bill O'Neil was reunited with his sister Karen Althouse together they
set their sights on one final goal finding their natural father Jim Burke [Music]
on the night of our broadcast a woman named Eileen Esler of New Lenox Illinois called our phone center and identified
herself as one of Jim Burke's four children from his previous marriage Dillon karen was saddened to hear that
their father had passed away in 1988 but they were overjoyed that Eileen and another half-sister Sheila and Hoskins
were anxious to meet them a week later bill O'Neil carry an old house and their families gathered at
Karen's house to await the arrival of Eileen and Sheila and I felt a connection of a definite connection like
when I reached out to hug them I don't know I didn't I honestly to be honest I just I didn't feel like I was gonna be
as emotionally tied as I felt ditto prashila Ann and Eileen the bond was just as strong as soon as I saw bill as
soon as I saw his face there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that he was a brother no doubt I felt wonderful
I mean I was like Sheila I wanted to touch him I just wanted to touch him to have a baby brother and baby sister I
know they're not there's so much we are later that afternoon buildin Karen sat down with her new sisters to learn about
their father Jim Burke what I've wondered all my life who were my parents do I have more family did I have
brothers and sisters things like that and it's exciting to finally see them to touch them to to get to know them
the reunion was especially poignant for bill O'Neil his lifelong feelings of isolation were replaced with a new sense
of belonging I just I figured hey we'll get together with them and you know get some pictures get some more information
about our dad but it wasn't like that it wasn't like that at all it was more it's just a inside warm
feeling but everything was now completely for Bill Karen Eileen and Sheila and this was just the first of
many gatherings to come bill and Karen have since met one of their half-brothers and next March they hope
to meet another at a family wedding in Illinois also attendance will be a grandmother and aunt and 12 cousins
John cheeks seemed destined for success at 26 fresh out of business school he had been hired as a chief financial
officer of one of the larger real estate companies of Tennessee by the age of 28
John had purchased this home in a comfortable part of East Memphis at work he was engineering the deal of a
lifetime for months John had helped lay the groundwork to take his company public
he had logged countless 18-hour days and flown thousands of miles to talk with investors around the country and
overseas by December of 1993 the complex plan was on the verge of completion millions of dollars were at stake if the
deal was successful the company would be thrust into national prominence literally overnight
John was a very proud of his accomplishment of getting this job and he worked very hard non-stop almost to
see that his duties were fulfilled and that every eye was dotted and every T was crossed in their wildest dreams
John cheeks family and friends never imagined he would end up the focus of an anguish search his face peering out from
thousands of fliers plastered around their hometown of Memphis Tennessee but on December 2nd 1993 John cheek did not
show up for work at company headquarters surprised quickly turned to concern I thought possibly that maybe he was just
tired and he might be somewhere resting at least that's what we were all hoping that's what had happened but it was out
of character and then as the day went on and then that night when no one had heard from John we began to know that
something terribly was wrong early the next morning John's car was discovered it had been abandoned on Interstate 55
where the highway crosses over the Mississippi River twelve miles from John's hole there was
no signs of foul play on the car the car was checked everything appeared to be intact the cheek family examined a car
also and it appeared to be just the way John would have left it police theorized
that John cheek had taken his own life by leaping into the Swift waters of the Mississippi however extensive searches
of the river and his banks failed to locate his body to those who knew John suicide seemed out of the question from
the start we didn't believe that that he could be normal right up until 11:00 p.m. one night and then all of a sudden
to jump off the bridge next day so we were just left with the same position we are right now that it was just some big
mystery had happened to him and we didn't know what two months passed with no leads no word
from John no reason to believe he was even alive until February 14th 1994 on that day a trucker named Ron Jackson
rolled into West Memphis Arkansas over the years Jackson has seen hundreds of missing person fliers at truck stops all
across the country but now he was stunned to find himself staring into the face of someone he recognized a young
man he had befriended just the day before he never really expected to jump right already and say hey I know this
person hey I had breakfast with this person the other morning so that was added to my surprise of seeing this
poster and this identity was so strong and it just kind of grabbed hold me and shook me like this is the individual
period it was in Ruffin Virginia some 700 miles east that Ron found a young drifter is sleeping inside a truck stop
breakfast yet no problem let's go I'm buying you breakfast my first impression of this man when I saw him as if he was
not homeless people he was not street people in the conversation there was no Street lingo he was clean and the white
shirt was so white it looked like had just come out of the laundry okay the young man didn't volunteer his name he
spoke only of an Arkansas homeless shelter that had recently taken care of him I didn't press them he just was
rambling on in the cafeteria line sight we'd have to say that he was deathly not
a hundred percent in all mental capabilities we have a good breakfast we had in Richmond
Ron and The Drifter were headed love as it directions outside the cafeteria they
parted ways well there were several things about the encounter that made us feel optimistic that it was a positive
identification for John and the first was was the white shirt and tie because that would be typical for him to be
wearing that because that's what he wore every day he also mentioned the fact that he used very correct English and
sounded like he was well educated person which was obviously correct for John's parents the clincher was Jackson's
description of the man's shoes their son had had just such a pair of slip-on moccasins a pair that was now missing we
knew that John had a pair of shoes like this we had not mentioned that to anyone
up until this point in time he was a very emotional a bit of information in immediately my thought was we've got to
find him quick and get him home he's wandering around not knowing who he is no one can be sure why John cheek
disappeared but his father believes John suffered a sudden episode of stress induced amnesia known as the fugue state
get sort of a self-preservation mechanism if something in their past has become so stressful that they can't
stand it any longer then that's how they deal with it I just block it all out and
you're no longer John cheek and you're no longer a financial officer and you no longer putting together a big deal since
Ron Jackson's sighting in February of 1994 there has been no further word of John cheek
John has brown hair blue eyes and stands six feet tall before disappearing he weighed 150 pounds John cheek is 28
years old there's a hole in my heart and I'm hoping that all of this publicity will
find someone that can fill that void and a mother never gives up join me next time perhaps you may be
able to help solve a mystery [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Music]

Brief Summary

John Cheek's disappearance, Fatima's miracle, and a family's scam story.

Key points

The Miraculous Visions of Fatima. In 1917, three children claimed to see the Virgin Mary, leading to a series of miraculous events.
A Family's Dream Shattered. Earl and Donna Chuck's dream home becomes a nightmare due to a con artist.
The Con Man's Scheme. Wade Mitchell Parker's fraudulent activities left many victims with significant losses.
A Family Reunited. Bill O'Neil discovers his long-lost sister and learns about his father.
The Mystery of John Cheek. John Cheek disappears, leading to a desperate search by family and friends.

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