Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 1 - 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 during the late 1960s thousands of curiosity seekers lined up to catch a glimpse of the legendary
Iceman a mysterious creature reportedly half man and half ape entombed in a block of solid ice but when the police
began to investigate just who or what was in the frozen tomb the ice man vanished at the age of 10
Tom Bowen landed at a children's home the innocent victim of his Paris bitter divorce
tom was absolutely miserable until he met a boy named Brandon whose sense of humor and irrepressible spirit helped
Tom survive his darkest hours tonight tom would like to thank the friend he hasn't seen since 1957 in 1953 at the
height of the Cold War a government scientist named Frank Olson plunged to his death from a hotel window an
apparent suicide 22 years later it was revealed that just days before he died Frank Colson had been unwittingly dosed
with a loose energetic drug LSD as part of a secret CIA experiment join me as we
begin a fascinating news season perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music]
[Applause] [Music] [Music] well as you can see gentlemen these are not ideal circumstances in which to view
the exhibit on a chilly December evening in 1968 a promoter named Frank Hanson but two renowned scientists into an
isolated barn in southeastern Minnesota is the exhibit ever shown outside the trailer now it is always shown only in
the trailer Ivan Sanderson and dr. bernard heuvelmans were experts in the esoteric field of cryptozoology the
study of hidden species they had come to examine a peculiar artifact that had fallen into Henson's possession
gentlemen here is the exhibit [Music] the two scientists were astonished in tuned in a block of solid ice was a
mysterious creature that appeared to be half-man half-ape these are actual photographs of the Iceman Sanderson and
Whoville Mons departed convinced that this bizarre sideshow attraction at genuine scientific value but within just
a few short weeks the enigmatic creature had vanished and with it any future opportunity for study
who or rather what was the iceman most people assumed it was just what it was purported to be an entertaining illusion
created by a master showman Sanderson and who valmont's disagreed they theorized that the Iceman was in reality
a prehistoric ancestor of man that is somehow survived into the 20th century this machine predates the Model T it is
one of the oldest practice in the world revolutionized farming in 1967 Frank Hansen was traveling the state fairs
circuit exhibiting an antique mechanical contraption that he billed as a first gas-powered tractor at one stop Frank
was allegedly approached by a mysterious soft-spoken stranger following recreations are based upon published
accounts may I have a word with you please I certainly I find what you're doing here sir is fascinating I have an
exhibit that I think would benefit from your expertise please give me a call it might be worth your while thank you
thank you Hanson later met the stranger at a refrigerated warehouse and some unknown
location what you are going to see belongs to me how I came by it is is my business and we need not
discuss that at the moment is there some reason it needs to be kept in such cold
I think that will be obvious to you in just a few moments [Music] is it real where did you get this from
Frank handsome new a golden opportunity when he saw us he agreed to take the creature on the road and build it as an
educational exhibit over the next two years the Iceman became a star attraction at carnivals and state fairs
throughout the Midwest thousands of people were fascinated but no one seemed to know what it was fake zookeeper Bob
Sharples Keys saw the Iceman when he was 18 years old what I was looking at was not made out of latex was not made out
of rubber it did not appear to be a man-made thing it appeared to be something but I you know as friends my
opinion I don't know what I was looking at but I'm sure I was looking at something dead environmentalist David
Rivard viewed the exhibit in 1968 the first thing that went through the average person's mind was that this was
not a wax animal that he had there this was not a something that was a machine it was some kind of a live formerly live
animal that was in the block of ice dr. Terry Cullen is a zoological and veterinary researcher and I had long
been an aficionado of sideshows and going to see them for mostly curiosity reasons it was always enjoyable you
always had a great time trying to find out what they were doing how they had it what they did the fool of the public and
about 99% of in the past Terry Cullen has been reluctant to deal with a media actor he agreed to this
interview to try to clear up past inaccuracies about the Iceman for various and sundry reasons
oh my god Cullen first saw the Iceman when he was 17 he says a creature appeared to be a six-foot-tall
adolescent male it was covered with medium length hair and had highly visible follicles Cullen also noticed a
traumatic injury to the left side of the Iceman's face there was a noticeable odor coming out of this casket the one
thing that there is no doubt in my mind about is that the thing that I observed the carcass that I observed was in fact
made out of some sort of flesh Terry Cullen was hooked he returned to the exhibit time and time again
on one occasion Collins snuck in a magnifying glass Frank Hanson has seemed increasingly
agitated with each visit so Terry made sure he was discreet there was something of a death grimace on the face the upper
lip was pulled back a bit I was able to observe all four incisors which were very large very squarish very much like
an orange and so this was it was important enough to get the necessary scientific personnel in there to view it
to establish that either yes this is some form of unknown creature or no this is a fake somehow cleverly constructed
from the parts of other animals or whatever materials that were using missing link huh
yeah I can't wait for you to see this kid I've been to a lot of sideshows these things are always fake no this
one's amazing I think this one's real over the next few weeks Terry Cullen tried to entice several
scientific experts to view the creature eventually he convinced an anthropologist from the University of
Minnesota [Music] he was in there perhaps 10 to 15 minutes came back out again and he started
walking past where I was standing and he would his sort of a dreamy look on his face I came zipping up to him what you
think it's amazing yeah I mean we'll tell me it's really amazing what you see out of it I mean what did you thank you
yes I remember being practically close to tears from frustration that I had finally gotten someone who at least had
some credibility in the field of anthropology to look at this thing and I couldn't even get six words out of the
gentleman now the reasons for that I can't even speculate on at that point I decided I would have to pursue other
avenues in the end it was Terry Cullen who convinced Sanderson and Hoover lands to examine the Iceman Sanderson and
humans were both convinced that in fact this carcass was the genuine carcass of some unknown form of of animal or
hominid in May of 1969 Sanderson and Hoover Mons published their findings in a tabloid magazine for science buffs
national attention quickly descended upon Frank Hansen and before long the authorities took an interest in Henson
in the frozen carcass in the summer of 1969 the local sheriff stopped by Henson's farmers some people I think
that thing you got is the real McCoy of course they're supposed to look Frank if
it is I've got a couple of problems with taking a cadaver over state lines is illegal and if it's the real McCoy it's
harder to get dead listen you can come with me and we'll look at it together what what say I
bring a pathologist back tomorrow morning okay with you sure that's okay ten o'clock okay that's fine okay
see you then sure sure [Music] that very night Frank Hansel allegedly beat it out of town taking his
controversial exhibit with him a few months later Hansen was back on the circuit with a replica of the mysterious
creature the whereabouts of the real Iceman are still unknown this thing may one day be understood by us as a genuine
object as a true representative of something primitive and man like that is still living today if under other
circumstances this kind of thing is found and described and matches those extensive descriptions by Sanderson and
Havel man's then at that point in time someday in the future we would know that this was the real thing that they saw in
1968 what was the iceman a primitive human-like species that managed to survive until present day an elaborate
hoax pulled off by a professional huckster or perhaps some unfortunate soul who died an untimely death and
ended up as a sideshow attraction Frank Hansen may be the only person who can answer these questions and he isn't
talking despite repeated attempts to have him share his story Hansen declined to participate in this
broadcast for now it seems a legend of the Iceman must remain just that a legend when we returned perhaps someone
in our audience will be able to reunite two childhood friends [Music] at any moment any one of us can meet a
person who changes our lives forever in 1956 to ten-year-old boys named Tom and Brendan met in the Catholic children's
on the New York City by an odd coincidence they both had the same last name Vaughn not so
coincidentally they both needed a friend I believe that Brendan saved my life because he did have such a unique way of
helping me put things into their proper perspective I don't know what would have
happened during that first year had Brendan not been there to tickle my funny bone
how Tom Vaughan came to be in the children's home is a story in itself his mother Jean and his father had gone
through a bitter divorce by 1954 Jean was hiding Tom and his little brother dick from their father a boys bounce
from rooming houses to foster homes living in nine different places in less than two years time yes finally they
ended up in the Bronx and a basement apartment supervised by a kindly landlord Sonny Chris Kula nevertheless
Jean Vaughn's life grew increasingly chaotic the boys were usually left to fend for themselves
a mother called she said she was going to be late when she gonna be home a couple hours did you I have something to
eat yet Oh oh yeah Sonny kept an eye on the boys in fact he and his wife wanted to become their
legal guardians but Catholic Charities stepped in they were finally convinced that gene
was an unfit mother they pressured her to send the boys to a children's home Tom and Dick were taken
to the lieutenant Joseph P Kennedy jr. home for children in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx as we emerge from
the car there was an opportunity for me to take flight and to run down the street and run away and yet I knew that
there was nothing I could do and that I had to face what was about to transpire [Music]
you know I had to be in charge of dick and there was no way in front of all of these strangers that I could tell them
how I felt or what I was feeling so I was trapped and I think maybe it's time now to go
and get unpacked and settled when the moment came for the boys to tell their mother goodbye Tom was paralyzed with
fear barely able to move and totally unable to speak I distinctly remember yelling to myself mom don't leave us
don't allow this to happen don't allow them to take us from you I was so angry and was feeling so much pain and so much
of a sense of loss that I was just happy to turn from that scene and walk out of
the room for so long Tom and Dick had been one another's primary source of strength
now although they could still see their mother together on weekends but the home
itself they were forced to live apart [Music] Tom sank deeper and deeper into misery
and turned a sullen face to his new peers I'd like you to meet Tommy tell me these are gonna be your new dorm mates
this is Brendan Gerry and Michael Tom could never have guessed that this boy Brendan Vaughn would be his salvation
Brendan simply refused to let Tom retreat into his shell what's your name again Tommy no you [ __ ] come on you
painting he started talking to me but I really wasn't in the mood for any conversation whatsoever and sat there
kind of picking at my food what happened gotcha Todd well after we left the dinner table I went back up to my room
and this Brendan character had the bunk next to mine VA ughn I summon my little differently yeah big freckles and curly
brown hair and had the Irish accent it wasn't too long before he had me opening up and he had a mischievous manner about
him that and and devilish to say the least tell me when you found a bookie what tell me when you found us how can I
tell you when I'm asleep when I'm already asleep he would do silly little things to try and make me feel not so
sad or depressed can i Brendan [Music] why did God make you Brendan helped time and other ways as
well especially in catechism class where the children were required to deliver their answers by rote Brendon whispered
up the answer to me and once again he saved my life there because I'm certain that I would have been in serious
trouble I had not had that simple answer perfect note this is Rock no a piece of lyin Easter
what's a Blarney Stone it's a magic rock high up I'm a castle all night and if you kiss it you'd have good junk this
constant controlling by Brendon put a perspective on where we were and the fact that it wasn't so bad I mean the
treatment there was wonderful he began to draw me towards that perspective of what was actually going on there and
that it was kind of a fun place so he really from a therapeutic standpoint showed me the way to overcome my
depression a year and a half after Tom and Brendan met the inevitable happened Brendan was
very quiet because I think he was scared and afraid and didn't know where he was
going or what was happening I do remember Brendon walking down that long hall and wanting to run after him
but once again being paralyzed by my inability to do that I mean I just couldn't show that kind of emotion
eventually Tom and his brother Dick were sent to live with her father in Montana
her mother Jean whose problems that finally overwhelmed her died in 1985 Tom Vaughan is now a successful investment
banker in Colorado happily married and the father of an 11 year old daughter Tom credits his young friend Brendan
with changing his outlook and his life there hasn't been a week go by in the last 36 years that I haven't thought of
him I didn't have an opportunity to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for
mine and I think it's it's my turn to make him smile perhaps to kiss that Blarney Stone just one more time
within minutes of our broadcast Brendon Vaughan called our phone center from his
home in New York we connected him with Tom Vaughan and Denver and finally Tom out his chance to say thank you
the two men agreed to meet in Manhattan on March 6 1994 at 8:30 a.m. sharp Tom came outside early so he'd be there to
greet Brendan but Brendan same old Brendan surprised him yeah well for totally we're insane right
yeah it seems like we haven't been apart he still has the gregariousness and the
power in his voice and still seems to have the same approach to things so I don't think he's changed all that much
Brendon had brought along his sister Noreen in the hotel lobby they met Tom's wife and daughter for Brendan who is
divorced and has no children it was like finding a long-lost family it's really a
nice feeling I mean I was really shocked you know when you sit down and say well
you don't why you know what have I done in my life and what uh you know what have you accomplished and you can't say
well I touched anybody's life I haven't done anything and then all of a sudden this pops up it's it's really flattering
it's really amazing Brendan and Noreen was also at the children's home spent the morning reminiscing with time I was
so bad that they were trying everything to try to get me to be good as soon as we got into that conversation it was
like it had only taken place in our last conversation taking place the day before
so it was finally Tom's childhood wounds are beginning to heal the two boys best
friends before they were separated more than 35 years ago made an instant connection to their past and to one
another it's represented closure for a chapter in my life that had been very very
difficult and so coming here facing him finding him being here today is a way to
let go of that and and so I'm very pleased about that Tom Vaughn and Brendan bond now I hope
they will hear from other alumni of the lieutenant Joseph Peake Kennedy jr. Home
for Children the very children all now in their 40s and 50s with whom they once shared so much next to government
scientist falls to his death from a hotel window was a suicide [Music] in the early morning hours of November
28 1953 a crowd gathered outside of New York's hotel Statler a man had apparently jumped to his death from a
thirteenth storey window the victim was later identified as a government scientist named Frank Olsen
Frank Olson left behind a wife and three small children his sons are now grown men and are still trying to find out
what really happened to their father now in a final desperate appeal they hope someone in our audience can help solve
this baffling mystery fry Colson died at the height of the Cold War tensions at the time our leaders here in Washington
DC faced the very real possibility that we might be attacked by the Soviet Union
just an hour's drive from where I'm standing the country's technological brain trust was working in a feverish
pace to develop a new generation of weapons Frank Holston was heading one of these projects when he died 40 years
later the questions surrounding his death demand answers Frank Olson worked at Fort Detrick
Maryland headquarters for the military's biological warfare research and development program frank was an expert
in aero biology the delivery of deadly viruses and infectious microorganisms via sprays and aerosol cans my father
was a research scientist who was involved with germ warfare associated with the Esso division which stood for
special operations and that was the most top-secret kind of research that was done out at Fort Detrick
and some of that research was being done in coordination with the CIA at Fort Detrick Frank Olson earned the respect
and admiration of his coworkers then in November of 1953 Frank went to a three-day conference with some of his
colleagues and came home a changed man a weekend after that meeting my father was
severely depressed he felt that he had done something terribly wrong and he told my mother that he had done
something wrong but he couldn't tell her what and she asked him whether or not he
had broken security and he indicated that he would never do such a thing but he felt that he had done something
terribly wrong Frank's boss Vincent Rowett told the Olsens he believed Frank was on the
verge of a nervous breakdown just before Thanksgiving bruit took Frank to New York for treatment
in New York Frank shared a hotel room with dr. Robert lashka a CIA scientist nearly a week passed before Frank's
family heard from him do me a favor would you kiss the kids for me my father seemed a little uh a little
more peaceful than he had he made a call to my mother to say he was alright Bob it's getting late I'm gonna turn the TV
off they went to sleep fairly early about 11:00 and the next thing we know from lashbrooke is that he was awakened by
the sound of crashing glass right [Music] oh my god Frank Olson was dead at the age of 43
the investigators later determined that he had either jumped or fallen to his death I remember as a nine year old and
actually four years after that I was completely stumped and dumbfounded by trying to resolve that alternative I
mean it's a big difference between fall or jump and I couldn't understand how either of them could have occurred the
olson's weren't alone the night manager of the hotel found Frank's death suspicious as well I rushed outside to
find Frank Olson eyes wide open looking straight at me trying to tell me something
[Music] okay they were definitely trying to speak where there was nothing coming out
but grumbles he was in terrible condition and by this time then the ambulance came and I stepped back
because now I had to find out where he came from I looked up the building and finally I
saw it a little movement of a window shade then when I concentrated on that then I see that the window shade was
stuck through a broken window armand Pastora immediately took the police to room 1018 a and here is lashbrooke
sitting on a John in his skivvies then the police thought the questioner can i heard him say well I heard that there's
a crash I walked around the room to look around look at this in here nobody ever
jumps through a window they opened the window and they gonna go out not Joshua shade and a sheer drape you know there's
no sense of a thing 22 years would pass before Frank Olsen's family heard Armond pastors account all
they were told in 1953 was at Frank had suffered a nervous breakdown and committed suicide
then in 1975 a government Commission was formed to investigate past abuses committed by the CIA among other
incidents the official report made mention of a scientist would plunge to his death from a hotel room ten days
after being dosed with LSD that scientist turned out to be Frank Olson [Music] over the next year and a half the Olson
family received a formal apology from President Gerald Ford and a check from the government for seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars the Olsons also met with then CIA chief William Colby as a result of meeting with William Colby
at the CIA we were given what was supposedly a complete set of documents relating to the events of the last nine
days of my father's life I should have the results back on the toxicology tests we learned that he had gone to a retreat
in Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland with a group of other scientists the principal of the meeting was that they
were going to be discussing ongoing research but in fact there were agents in the CIA who were meeting with them
who decided that they were going to give them each a dose of LSD without their knowledge or consent and then see what
their reaction was anyone for a drink the Olsens learned that the LSD was slipped into an
after-dinner liqueur by either sidney gottlieb head of the CIA's Technical Services staff or his deputy dr. Robert
lashbrooke the CIA reportedly feared that the Soviet Union might employ LSD to produce anxiety or terror and
captured CIA agents Godley believed that his test would help prepare American operatives for that eventualities thank
you just what I need the least drinks were served to eight of the ten scientists present some of it including
Frank Olson were not told about the test to fish the first day we were there within an hour the LSD began to take
effect do the most one gentlemen are we all feeling of it's strange one Goddard informed the drug
induced gentlemen that their drinks have been spiked with LSD Frank Olson became
incensed what we're having an experiment here what a drug in our dress yes yes we're in the middle of the Knicks
experiment we understood that my father was quite agitated in his hand serious confusion with separating
reality from from fantasy less than a week later Frank made his ill-fated trip to New York
supposedly suffering from nervous breakdown well Frank how are we feeling today I feel lousy dr. Frank was taken
to see dr. Harold Abramson an LSD ex worked extensively with the CIA a it's been continuing for about a week now me
please you were saying that you weren't resting very well as that improving no I'm not resting I haven't been able to
sleep for over a week accompanying Frank Robert lashbrooke and Frank's boss Vincent Rohit Frank sit down I don't
wanna sit down I can't sit down Frank remained in New York and over the next several days made repeated visits to the
doctor's office someone has been following me from the documents we have it's impossible to deduce what was
accomplished in those meetings and you certainly don't see any any indication that a treatment process was occurring
you can suspect that some kind of assessment process was going on the purpose of which was more to protect the
CIA's interest than it was to help my father apparently the pattern continued in the
immediate aftermath of Frank's death for some unexplained reason Robert lashbrooke never phoned for help
however he allegedly did make a disturbing call which was overheard by the hotel operator
[Music] in those days you know all the calls were manual you call the operator and
you tell her what number you want then she would dial it for you then she listened to see that you got connected
when the man in the room called this number he said well he's gone and the man on
the other end said well that's too bad and they both hung up I mean what's more suspicious than their you don't have to
be a genius to figure out that there's something amiss or who said Hamlet said there's something rotten in Denmark I
mean I knew there was something rotten at the Pennsylvania hotel that night I'd like to emphasize at the beginning that
there are many things that we still don't know about the events surrounding my father's death when the news first
broke about Frank suicide Herrmann passed our contact to the Olson family and told them about the mysterious phone
call the osos immediately began to suspect that Frank had not taken his own life I believe that what happened was
that my father was considered a security risk that the CIA either formally or informally decided that it was in the
countries or in the agency's best interest to have my father to either take his own life or that he needed to
be eliminated do everything that you tell me to do it ramen one of the nights that my father
was up in New York he was having delusions that he was hearing voices and in the middle of the night he woke up
and went and threw all his identification out and his money money my identification you have to see that
as an obvious sign of a suicidal tendency well to keep my father in a 10th floor window which in a tenth floor
room which actually was 13 stories off the ground to me is the epitome of irresponsibility in 1993 Frank's Widow
Alice passed away Erica Nils had their father's body moved to rest beside her but before Frank was reinterred they
asked forensic scientist Professor James Stars to perform an autopsy quite frankly we had no idea what the
condition of the remains would be after 41 years we were delighted that the remains were in perfect condition for
our analysis as part of his overall investigation professor stars and his colleagues went to the old hotel Statler
which is now known as a hotel Pennsylvania the first thing the professor stars looked for was evidence
at Frank had indeed smashed through a window the medical examiner in New York who did an external examination back in
1953 said there were multiple lacerations on the face and neck there were none I mean I mean zero soon after
that finding was made public last Brook changes his story which he's held to for
40 years and suddenly now source saying that he can't remember whether the window in fact was open or closed the
window was completely gone there was a little glass around on the fringes and the shade was stuck out through the
glass at some point he had to hit some glass I cannot believe that he wouldn't have
gotten cuts in the lower extremities of his body on the front of the legs we don't find any cuts
professor Starr's did find that Frank had sustained extensive injuries to his head chest and right leg when you have
fractures as massive and at different locations as these fractures clearly are they indicate a tremendous amount of
force that caused those well clearly he was falling from the building if he struck his footing and that caused the
massive injuries the question for us is well how did he get the massive injuries
on his chest if he hit his chest well how did he get the massive injuries on his foot if it was a glancing blow
against an abutment on the way down the likelihood of his having the massive injuries from a glassing blow is very
remote what happened Franko's professor Starr's analysis has not yet complete his preliminary findings paint a
disturbing scenario getting worse clearly in this case there is foul play on the part of the CIA in giving him LSD
in the first place and making a guinea pig out of him the way they did but foul play of the homicide type that's what
we're in this business to try to find out as I say the evidence is beginning to mount I looked at this case for 14
months and I found no evidence that points directly to murder I don't rule it out but I found no evidence that
indicated me to put that that would happen and I have to tell you it seems unlikely to me that the CIA people in
the context the 1950s would have killed a colleague I can see them doing something like this against a Soviet or
an enemy but not a colleague I think the Olson case must be resolved that family deserves to know I think the
American people now deserve to know the truth of what happened has been a long time ago they don't have to hide behind
their classified documents behind all of their stealth in from a and there's sleazy little James Bond
stories tell us what happened to Frank Olsen congressman traffic Kent is now calling for an official investigation
into the death of Frank Olsen perhaps after more than 40 years of secrecy the true story behind this Cold War mystery
will finally be told [Music] but we return the dramatic capture a man suspected of murder
[Music] april 24th 1994 along the Christina River in Delaware authorities closed in
on a dangerous fugitive who has been wanted on murder charges for more than six years
the suspect is 38 year-old Larry Donald George a former Army enlisted man and self-styled survivalist you know you're
not supposed to be here where you been on February 12th 1988 George confronted his estranged wife Geraldine
at her home in Talladega Alabama listen to me listen to me Geraldine ran next door for help
Larry George followed Geraldine's neighbor Janice Morris was shot once in the chest
next Larry allegedly took aim at Geraldine Janice's boyfriend Ralph Swain heard the commotion and ran downstairs
Ralph Swain was shot in the back of the head Janice Morris was pronounced dead at the
scene Ralph Swain was rushed to a local hospital where he died a short time later
geraldine george survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down for more than six years she lived
with a bitter knowledge that her husband was still at large after the most recent
broadcast of this story the authorities were contacted by an unsolved mysteries viewer the viewer claimed to have seen
Larry George fishing on the banks of the Christina River in Wilmington Delaware three days later two police detectives
were dispatched to the area for our cameras the officers recounted their dramatic meeting with Larry George this
is where we first encountered Larry George act right here we began a conversation with him about fishing at
this time he wanted to take us over here to where his pool was in the water and show us exactly where he was fishing
that we got about here and we started talking again about fishing and it was at this time were myself and detective
Pinkett made eye contact and identify myself as a police officer lay at this time a brief struggle ensued right about
here we all three fell to the ground here we got back to our feet still struggling and at that point we just
turned and threw lye into the water while the officers regrouped George attempted to flee downriver back up unis
quickly cornered him and he surrendered without further struggle at George's campsite police found a makeshift bunker
complete with generator heater television and stolen the subsequent discovery of several weapons including a
spear gun and a sawed-off shotgun led investigators to believe that George had been prepared to resist arrest by
whatever means necessary he knew he was wanted for murder he wasn't going to be taken alive if he
would have put himself in his hideout and if we'd had discovered it he probably would have had gun fire and
officers would have been hurt on April 27th 1994 Larry Donald George was extradited to Alabama to face charges of
murder and attempted murder it was a long-awaited moment for Geraldine George and the families of Ralph Swain and
Janice Morris they're delighted that this was kind of bringing this to an en and I can understand their feelings
about the situation simply because it's been a long six years and really not knowing where he is and if he would show
back up I'm sure that it has brought a lot of discomfort while sleepless nice to them so I know that they're very
happy that they were this is short of being drawn to [Music] join me next Sunday for another
fascinating edition unsung the strains [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Brief Summary

The episode discusses the Iceman mystery, Tom and Brendan's childhood friendship, and Frank Olson's controversial death involving the CIA.

Key points

The Mysterious Iceman. A creature half man, half ape, vanishes after captivating thousands. What was it?
Friendship That Saved a Life. Tom Vaughan credits his friend Brendan for helping him through dark times.
The Death of Frank Olson. A government scientist's mysterious death raises questions about Cold War secrets.
Frank Olson's Family's Quest for Truth. The Olson family seeks answers about Frank's death decades later.
The Mysterious Death of Frank Olson. Frank Olson's death raises questions of foul play and CIA involvement.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This thing may one day be understood by us as a genuine object.

Speculation about the Iceman's true nature.

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Tension

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