Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 10 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family members and police officials have
participated in recreating the events what you were about to see is not a news broadcast he fights crime by performing
autopsies and his legendary skills have led some to call him a modern-day Sherlock Holmes he is forensic
pathologist dr. Cyril Wecht and tonight will accompany dr. Wecht as he investigates a mysterious and
controversial death of a young college student you will also meet three very unusual investigators genealogists who
claim that while researching their family trees they were guided by an unexplained psychic force it may seem
unbelievable but all three are convinced that the spirits of their ancestors reached out to them from beyond the
grave join me perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] [Applause]
[Music] [Music] this poor little girl died as a result of being overcome by the flames and
carbon monoxide and that's what killed her there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that she had been cutting on
her throat he has been called a real-life Quincy you know modern-day Sherlock Holmes but by any name dr.
Cyril Wecht is undeniably one of the country's top forensic pathologists in court it is wex testimony that often
tips the ballast to solve a murder and have that case defined there to prove that something was not a murder when
somebody is thought to have committed a murder the intellectual challenge is is fantastic the gratification comes from
helping people in a very real sense in 1993 Seth Floyd was found hanging by the neck
in his jail cell the authorities called it suicide dr. Wecht proved it was murdered Louis de Nicola spent five
years in prison for a triple murder dr. Wecht proved the deaths were accidental and in akola went home of
free man eight-year-old Tanya Palmer accidentally drowned in her own bathtub at least
that's what her mother's boyfriend told police dr. wecht helped prove that in fact the boyfriend had murdered Tanya
Palmer in law enforcement circles Cyril Wecht has become something of a legend but one case continues to haunt him the
mysterious death of a 20 year old college student here Pittsburgh Pennsylvania perhaps tonight you can
provide the clue that helps dr. Wecht finally solve this controversial mystery it was on a Wednesday evening the 21st
of October 1987 that authorities found the body of Jack Davis jr. Davis was sprawled at the bottom of a torre step
stairwell on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania Jack had last been seen the previous
Friday night he attended a party with some of his fraternity brothers then made the rounds at a few local bars
Jack's body was autopsy by a local pathologist a toxicology report a routine check for unnatural substances
in the body was completed at a lab out-of-state the autopsy and test results were forwarded to County Coroner
Thomas streams he ruled at Jack's death was accidental my body was not in disarray from a fight there was no signs
of defensive wounds as a struggle there were no drag marks there was just nothing on a marquee but why the
scenario was that mr. Davis wandered down into the stairwell in an intoxicated State perhaps to urinate
collapsed in an unconscious state vomited inhaled the vomitus into his lungs which therefore then subsequently
caused his death [Music] the official report concluded that Jack Davis died at about 2:00 a.m. Saturday
morning several hours after he disappeared his bunny apparently lay in the stairwell for nearly five days but I
couldn't believe or comprehend that he could have died that way and I was told that was a common occurrence I found it
hard to believe Jack's mother father and stepmother took him home to Penn Hills Pennsylvania and laid him to rest even
as Jack's family greed their doubts about the official findings began to grow but for more than two years they
pushed aside their concerns then a local reporter began to publicly question the
corners finally Jack's family turns a dr. Wecht thanks for coming down I'm sorry to meet
you under these circumstances before I go into the medical aspects of the case I was just puzzled as a matter of common
sense how could a body have been lying outside on a college campus in the early fall for five or more days unseen
unnoticed by anybody the other thing that puzzled me was I thought chief why would a young man in the early hours
of the morning walk 15 steps and a landing and another five steps to urinate you know I remember when I went
to college and I remember what the young men will do if they have to urinate especially if they are inebriated and
it's the wee hours of the morning and nobody is around not too many people have that kind of discretion and
personal sensitivity so you see that did not fit either we've managed to get a copy of the toxicology report and we
need you to look at this and you have that with you yes almost immediately dr. Wecht found glaring discrepancies in
the report although by all accounts Jack Davis had been drinking heavily on the night he supposedly died absolutely no
alcohol was found in his blood there was no doubt that he had been drinking nobody challenged that in order for him
to have wound up with no alcohol in his blood at the time of his death he would have had to have been alive for about 30
hours the fact then that there was no alcohol in his blood and indicates to me that he did not do i at that time you
know when they theorized he had fallen down the steps dr. Wecht found other evidence that
argued against a Saturday morning death Jack Davis was clean-shaven Friday night
when he was last seen but when Jack's body was found there was heavy beard stubble on his face there was one final
discrepancy the autopsy slides of Jack's lungs they provided stunning evidence that the presumed cause of death choking
on regurgitated food was nothing short of impossible if you're going to listen act as a cries to death you've got to
find food particles deep down inside the small terminal air passageways and that
wasn't present the other thing about the autopsy that really stood out for me and
made me quiver with excitement was the fact that the head had not been examined the pathologist who did the autopsy had
not opened up the cranial vault the pathologist who performed the first autopsy went as far as he felt he had to
go to find a conclusive cause of death and when he opened Jack Davis's chest and examined the internal organs he he
noticed apparently though this aspiration of stomach contents in the inner lungs
and therefore he felt that was an independent and conclusive cause of death and did not open the skull at that
time we all agreed as a family and with dr. Wecht that the body needed to be exhumed it was the only way we would
find out the true cause of death look Jo look at that when I opened up the skull I found three
fractures three areas of skull fracture with significant bleeding overlying the brain it's a blood clot it says the
pooling of blood and that was the cause of death which had never been appreciated because the head hadn't been
examined in the first autopsy and now we knew the cause of death it was then and
is today of course unequivocal slides and lab work can only tell part of the story with a university official dr.
wecht visited the stairwells where Jack's body was found was some students saw him first then and reportedly yes as
a campus I realized that body could not have accidentally fallen or been thrown from high up because he would have had
egg shell depressed type fractures similarly it did not appear that he had stumbled down the steps because there
was no pattern of abrasions and bruises contusions and so that did not fit we could possibly get into the building and
see from that second floor or even the third fourth floors whether one can look out and then if one did whether you
would be able to look down here you can see very clearly and you know if you should look down you certainly can see
directly there and average height approximately 200 students were in rooms overlooking the stairwell during the
days jack supposedly lay below however not one person reported seeing the body there was one final problem with the
official scenario the weather during the two days before Jack's body was found heavy rain fell on the campus Jack's
clothes were not wet we had a real problem in explaining how Jack could have been lying there for all those days
in rain water with dry clothes well how can that be I would say it was more likely that Jack Davis died elsewhere or
was injured elsewhere or was dying elsewhere and then was placed at the bottom of those steps i base this upon
the known facts dr. wicks critical findings convinced authorities to reopen the case in October of 1990 really
nothing new came of it and at that point the investigation was closed in personally I still go along with the
fact that he fell from up above dr. Whitcomb it's about the egg shelling effect I'm not too sure that he couldn't
have hit the side of the wall to begin with and broken the fall somewhat and I've seen very strange things with
drunks anyway so nothing would be unbelievable to me some critics of the official findings
believe Jack's death was no accident reporter Marlene Brennan theorizes at Jack may have been caught up in a feud
between two rival fraternities some students report that there were up to five fights that night and it could be
possible that he was involved in one of them and he was injured and someone didn't know what to do with him so they
kept him somewhere thinking that he might get better or whatever and he didn't and then they moved him to into
the stairwell I believe somebody out there does know something and I'm hoping that perhaps with continuing inquiries
by the family and friends perhaps through the presentation of this show and so on who knows that somebody may
step forward at ELab Jack Davis would have graduated with 27 hundred other students in the class of 1989 Indiana
University of Pennsylvania Cyril Wecht is convinced that among them was at least one person who knows what really
happened at Jack Davis jr. perhaps the time has finally come to set the record straight
next a remarkable tale of psychic communication from beyond the grave [Music] they're about to make three very unusual
investigators genealogists who spent years digging through dusty old books and papers trying to piece together
their family histories it may sound dry but these three claim that in the course of their research
they were guided by mysterious forces perhaps the spirits of their ancestors long dead and long-forgotten
[Music] on a rainy afternoon in 1948 curiosity got the best of an eight-year-old boy
named Hank Jones his basement held a most tempting mystery an old steamer trunk filled with unknown relics I open
the lid and inside was just a treasure trove of material on our family old photographs old letters documents old
wills and deeds I never knew any of my grandparents except my mother's mother and in a sense by seeing their pictures
by reading their Diaries by looking at their letters they came alive to me they they became the grandparents I never
knew and I don't know what it was but a little spark inside me at the age of 8 and ever since that time I've been
climbing the family tree trying to find out as much as I could about my ancestry
on that chilly day when he first peered into the old trunk Hank had no idea he had just set the course for the rest of
his life today some 46 years later Hank Jones is the author of a book psychic roots and one of the country's leading
genealogists devoted to piecing together long lost family trees tracing his own family has proved one of the most
difficult challenges Hank is descended from a hearty band of German immigrants known as palatine x' the palatine for
one of the biggest immigrations we ever had to the new world and this one little
branch of mine started out for the New World but they ended up in Ireland at 79 rather than coming on to New York with
all the rest of it although his own ancestors had gone to Ireland Hank found himself intrigued by
a man named Johann Dietrich Schneider will belong to a group of 847 other Palatine families who had journeyed to
New York I don't know why but I felt this almost obsession to find out more about them so I hired a lady named Karla
middle stet kubacheck to go village to village for me looking for all these families in Germany but we
had to start somewhere and I didn't know where to really to tell her to start and
so just off the top of my head I said Karla I don't care we I have no vested interests in any of them but but I've
always been interested in a man named Dietrich Schneider who came in this group to New York from Germany go look
for him first in a remarkable turn of events Hank later learned that he had picked the one person out of the entire
migration who was actually related to him I don't know how to explain that but it was it was just the beginning of a
bunch of strange coincidences strange occurrences that started happening to me as I was studying these Palatine Germans
I would start to dream about them for instance at first the dreams were more about
visions of the Palatine lifestyle you know that I used to dream about them coming to America and I could see the
ships I could see them landing things like that and then I started dreaming about particular home villages of
certain immigrants I was looking for but I hadn't found yet so I decided to write
down some of the places where the dream suggested I look and lo and behold we found about five to seven of those
families exactly where the dreams said they would be located overseas could the spirits of Hanks ancestors have somehow
reached through the mists of time to lead him to places he would never have fought to investigate
Hank became convinced that was precisely the case he sent out letters to other genealogists to see if anyone else had
had a similar experience I got 200 responses and practically every response started with I know what you mean or yes
yes you've struck a familiar chord and then they would relate these unbelievable experiences that had
happened to them when they were doing their genealogies over the years one of the most intriguing responses came from
dr. David Fox a forensic psychologist in Ontario Canada in studying his bloodlines David became fascinated by
his great-great-grandfather Charles Fox David learned that Charles had been a sergeant of the British Army in the
mid-1800s during the great colonial campaigns in India and Pakistan despite uncovering a wealth of written
information David had no idea of what his great-great-grandfather might have looked like until he began to have a
strange recurring vision first of all I pictured him I pictured him in his military uniform his red coat
the buttons and perhaps medals and then the picture over time started to include
his wife and his child who would be my great-grandfather and I thought well this is very strange because the
probability of such a picture existing is so remote so infinitesimal you might as well say zero probability in 1987
daven and a friend traveled to England in search of additional information about David's ancestors I want to go
look at those figurines towards the end of the trip they stopped at the norwich castle a popular Museum
and Art Gallery in Charles Fox's hometown I just wandered from room to room in the castle aimlessly I thought
and just as I was entering the doorway to one room I noticed ahead of me was a very very large portrait that just stood
out almost three-dimensional I was awestruck was like the little hairs on the nape of my neck were just standing
up I had pictured an item somewhat similar to this or very similar to this and there there it was right before my
eyes incredibly David says the painting was a same family portrait and his recurring
vision the painting was completed by one Frederick Sandy's in the year 1860 and my great-grandfather being born in 1857
would have been 3 in 1860 the woman in the picture was very much younger than the older soldier and I knew that that
sergeant Charles Fox his wife was 13 years his junior and the old gentleman was a sergeant
there were three stripes on his right arm and most curiously and interestingly he had three ribbons on his left breast
and I realized that my own ancestor probably did win a number of medals when he was overseas but at that point I
didn't know which ones when David returned home he immediately began searching for confirmation that
the man in the portrait was indeed his ancestor David learned that the medals in the painting had been awarded for the
suffrage campaign the Punjab campaign and for long service and Good Conduct those same three medals had been awarded
to Davis great-great-grandfather's Sergeant Charles Fox it's almost as if my head became fuzzy at that time
because I thought this is quite incredible I had an image the image in mind that was
translated into something there something three-dimensional and again to have the fantasy and reality merge in
this way I find most exceedingly curious the best thing about it is that you have
a feeling that your ancestors care about you that they really want to be found it's a sense of of reuniting Carroll
Mont Rose of New Albany Ohio would certainly agree while researching her family tree Carroll became particularly
intrigued with a woman named Katherine reddish Steg Maier who she believed might be her great-great aunt but
Carroll was unable to find the date of Katherine's death or her final resting place then in the fall of 1988 Carroll
and her son were searching through cemeteries in Northwestern Ohio when they came upon a hot air balloon in
flight here so all of a sudden there was a road on my right and I turned and we're sort
of following the balloon at this point and it came down so low but it actually clipped the top of the trees and all of
a sudden I saw this church with a cemetery across the street and the balloon appeared to be landing
in the back behind the church you know look I think it's gonna land over by that church but instead of landing the
balloon took flight again Carol now believes at the spirit of a great great aunt had guided her to follow the
balloon to this remote church 150 miles from her home I'll be right back I thought that it wouldn't hurt to check
the cemetery even though I had never really considered any of the family having been buried there all most of the
front row was a frederick stag meyer a child of Kate and I was estatic I mean I knew that I was in at least in the right
area [Music] Carol ventured farther into the cemetery there on the back row was the grave she
had been looking for was so amazing so strange I can't say for sure Kate was trying to help me but I sure feel like
she was I believe it's very possible that the spirits of our ancestors in some way are
directing us in our searches they they want to be found they want to be found and they may give us little subtle clues
along the way of how to do it they may somehow open some doors for us as we do our genealogy I'm very open to that
that mysterious psychic forces somehow lead Hank David and Carol to their ancestors or is it all just a
coincidence whatever the case if you happen to be studying your family tree and you get
that odd feeling to visit one more library or open one last book or even follow a hot-air balloon take heed
perhaps you are being guided by the spirit of one of your ancestors when we return a young woman has disappeared and
may be hitchhiking around the country lost and alone okay take it out August 10th 1993 just
east to Mendocino California in a remote corner of redwood forest and incongruous
sight a shiny red car has been found stuck in the mud the car radio has been ripped out there are my new traces of
blood on the dashboard in the front seat along with shredded identification papers a few torn up photographs are
scattered nearby the scene appears to bear all the earmarks of foul play but in this case nothing is as it appears
the shredded IDs were traced to 22-year old Christy Krebs an aspiring chef who worked at two different restaurants in
Fort Bragg California seven miles from the spot or her car was found Christy lived with her parents and two younger
brothers in Fort Bragg and for Christy's parents the entire scenario had an eerily familiar ring
Christie Krebs graduated from high school in 1989 and went to work full-time and local restaurant
she was cheerful and upbeat and worked tirelessly but she also developed an unrealistic obsession about a married
man she worked with on April 30th 1990 became unnaturally euphoric fantasizing an imaginary
wedding she drove aimlessly for hours and lost her way on a country road a car she was driving became hopelessly stuck
in the mud [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when Christie's car was found it looked
like this the interior had been totally destroyed by flames the fire was an almost unheard-of freak occurrence which
apparently triggered in Christie a traumatic mental breakdown [Music] the morning after the incident railroad
workers were alarmed by the sight of a dazed and disoriented young woman wandering along the tracks one of the
workmen recognized Christie and telephoned her mother and father who immediately picked her up initially we
thought things were okay but as we were driving back into town the behavior we were getting from her was very bizarre
chanting and patting or doing very weird things and I just looked at my wife and
said we're not going home we're going to the hospital I remember the examining room she was
still acting very very strange and for the first week to ten days at least she was really incoherent we wondered if
she was ever going to be the same again at first they thought that she might have been on drugs but they were able to
test her and see that there were no drugs in her system over the next few months Christie was in and out of the
hospital four different times eventually she was diagnosed as having experienced
a psychotic trauma-related break Kirstie's Paras feared the worst but after therapy and drug treatment
Christie made rapid progress she was released from the hospital for good some six months after the car fire an
occupational therapist had recommended the Christie work but only part-time I think it was suggested she worked 20
hours a week to start with and she did incredibly well and she was very proud of herself and she got herself a second
job at a local fast-food restaurant both jobs were calling her in more and more and they were often days when she would
work five or six hours at each job and that would get her anywhere from a 10 to a 12-hour day
plus in between the two jobs she was often going to the health club and exercising and trying to keep her weight
down three years went by Christie's Paris became very concerned about her manic pace yet Christie insisted she was
okay right up to the night she disappeared the manager of the pizza parlor indicated that she was extremely
hyper was extremely happy much much happier than she had been in a long time and at one point the manager of the
pizza parlor had asked her why she was so happy which was somewhat unusual and Christie apparently responded that it's
not what you think and went on about her work that night August 9th 1993 Christie left work still
in high spirits she said she was going straight home but she was next seen in the parking lot of a nearby public beach
for a ranger spoke to her about 15 minutes before closing time yeah that's fine I just wanted to make sure you knew
this wasn't an overnight lon yeah is it okay if I stay here for a while the Ranger was the last person to see
Christie before she disappeared Thanks he said that she seemed fairly normal she then went from there back apparently
back through Fort Bragg traveling south and headed toward the town of Mendocino at some point Christie turned onto a
small country road and then veered onto a dirt road she ended up here just seven
miles from the spot where the car fire had occurred once again deep in the redwoods
once again stuck in the mud [Applause] and I think that she probably had flashbacks to 1990 it was like reliving
that nightmare and all of that I think just overloaded all the circuits [Music] Christie's father believes that his
daughter suffered another psychotic break perhaps even wandering into a creek as she tried desperately to deal
with a bizarre repetition of her earlier trauma in my mind the last thing she did
she went through her wallet and in total frustration whether she's looking at pictures of family and friends she
ripped them all up she whipped him up and scattered him around whether she was destroying her pass and trying to get
away from it you know I really don't know the next morning a full-scale search was launched but no trace of
Christie Krebs could be found over the next few months however several sightings were reported from Texas to
Salt Lake City Utah one sighting in California seemed extremely promising on June 30th 1994 an off-duty highway
worker in a Mike case stopped to pick up a hitchhiker near Visalia California 300
miles south of the spot where Christie's car was abandoned [Music] it seemed to me that she didn't have it
all there at first I thought possibly she was on some type of drugs but talking with her a little bit at the
beginning I knew that possibly she was in a world of her own arrests there I did happen no knows that on her wrists
there was to slash marks on her wrists and I asked her directly Oh what happened there and she said I had a
breakdown and a boyfriend wasn't very nice over the course of 90 minutes the girl talked
about several things which would later ring true to Kristi's parents a boyfriend who seemed fiction a desire to
visit San Jose where she once had relatives and especially her love of the ocean
in fact my case dropped her off at knitter section near Hanford California where she could easily hitchhike to the
beach [Music] a week later my case read an article in a truckers magazine about Christi Krebs
disappearance he contacted Kristi's parents and they immediately sent photographs I went through several of
the pictures and my personal feeling that was the girl I picked up on the freeway I am positive that is her I'm
positive and I can say that now and you say it's policy I believe that Christi is out
there somewhere and that she's alive because Christi is a survivor she has a lot of strength she's very friendly I
believe that she would not be a loner that she would hook up with someone and that she would make sure that she got
through this and I really believe that she has that ability we want her back home because we know that with our help
she can once again recover from whatever it is that she's going through and we really hope somebody out there knows
where she is and can help her get home [Music] when we return the discovery of a hidden
birth certificate prompts a man to search for his long-lost brother mom and dad's secret papers as children most of
us knew that our past kept a treasure trove of mysterious and forbidden items tucked away in a special box or just out
of reach in a bureau drawer for a man named water Thomas this was just such a box the object of decades of curiosity
just a few days after his father's death in 1993 Laura finally peeked inside and
stumbled on a surprising unsolved mystery it is a ritual that has been repeated by sons and daughters through
the ages yes Walter gathered the family together and opened his father's stash of private papers as a driver's license
1933 certificate of birth registration for who Chuck Philip John Thomas who X filtered John Thomas when we came across
his birth certificate that was the most it was unreal I couldn't I can't think of a word to put into it it was unreal I
can't believe daddy never kept anything from me it was an extraordinary revelation one that took water back to
his childhood in the 1940s growing up he had never heard so much as a whisper about a younger brother named Philip
clean enough elites the Thomas family made their home in Westerly Rhode Island dad worked in a textile mill mom looked
after Walter his younger sister and younger twin brothers grandma was a frequent visitor we didn't have much but
in those days you didn't SPECT much you just did what you had to do just to get by mom was a sweetest woman who ever did
me she had a heart of gold her laughter lit up the room she was like a queen to us you know she was perfect and every
which way she was perfect until her sickness came in the sickness had been a dark cloud over the Thomas family Walter
says his mother Adele suffers strange mental lapses without warning she would wander away from home trudging aimlessly
through the neighborhood and beyond on many occasions Walter and his father would spend hours looking for her I used
to ask that that question dad is mom ever gonna get better from this there's mom ever gonna stop this his answer was
sunny he sits in God hands I don't know [Music] sometimes she was happy to see us and
sometimes she didn't even know us I tell it's me you are right on several occasions Adele's condition deteriorated
so much the Walters scene had no choice but to admit his wife to a hospital the children were not allowed inside the mom
used to come to the window and she hollered down at us you know with Adele confined to the hospital and Walter
working long hours at the mill grandma looked after the children not everyone approved of the arrangement Walter
Walter would you ask your two brothers and sister to come out here with you please
hello mrs. Thomas this is the Thomas household we are from the Department of Social Services and we're here to take
Walter jr. Sara Richard and David to the agency with us inside Walter this home is unfit for these children to
continue living in my grandmother told him and she said this Thomas family is a Thomas family it's gonna stay at Thomas
family together property the Social Service agents were apparently convinced they'd never again
bothered the Thomas family [Music] in May of 1947 Adele recovered and spent several months at home with her husband
and children but another bout of mental illness sent her back to the hospital with an added complication Adele was
pregnant with the couple's fifth child [Music] Philip John Thomas was born in April of
1948 given the circumstances Walter felt he had no choice reluctantly he and Adele gave their
child up for adoption Lau decades later Walter resolved to find his brother but he quickly discovered that every
official record was sealed his story was picked up by a local newspaper then a television station sent a reporter to
interview Walter Walter Thomas Jr was 13 years old when his mother the broadcast
would lead to a completely unexpected discovery a woman named Phyllis Munro who lived just 35 miles from Walter
telephoned with a stunning news that she had known Philip as a child three days later
Walter and Phyllis met Phyllis hi you have to be Walter it's just like Phillip oh honey oh my gosh I can't describe
what it felt like to meet to her at the time because so many things in my mind that I wanted to ask her but once she
seen me you know she looked at me she started to cry she started crying oh my god I said she just just when I see you
she says I see Phillip she says he looked exactly like Phillip to me and that's all I needed
I didn't need no paperwork because that was proof enough to me that that was Philips brother
as a child Phyllis had grown up in a foster home under the care of a woman named Airy thankful Tefft one of
Phyllis's foster brothers was none other than Phillip John tongues she vividly recalls a few years they spent together
when Philip came to the house for the first time he was just darling just a cutest little boy he had brown eyes and
brown hair and it was to me was like a brother even the best of foster homes are temporary arrangements and it was
almost certain that Phillip and Phyllis would one day be separated partying came
suddenly in July of 1953 Phillip had been adopted [Music] Philip was part of my life when he was a
little boy there and I know that part of my life went when he went because I was
so attached to it Jonas was able to share with Walter a tangible link to his long-lost brother
this photograph of Philip at about three years of age the fight Philip will close
the Thomas family together it's it's something I have to do for my father my father left me that there he told me to
find him and not in the words but he left it there for me to go after him he knew I would I will in Tibet knowing my
father that he took that paper out many times and touched it and held it and prayed on it they hope that Philip would
been forgiven enough so that he could you know forgive that for what he did [Music]
join me next Friday or another intriguing edition unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause]
[Music]

Brief Summary

Dr. Cyril Wecht investigates the mysterious death of Jack Davis Jr. while genealogists share psychic experiences in their ancestry research.

Key points

Genealogists Guided by Psychic Forces. Three genealogists claim they were guided by mysterious forces while researching their family trees.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Modern-Day Sherlock Holmes. Forensic pathologist Dr. Wecht investigates the mysterious death of a college student.
The Mysterious Death of Jack Davis. The case of Jack Davis raises questions about the official ruling of accidental death.
David Fox's Vision of His Ancestor. David Fox experiences a recurring vision of his great-great-grandfather, leading to a remarkable discovery.
Carroll's Discovery in the Cemetery. Carroll finds the grave of her great-great aunt after being guided by a hot air balloon.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Christy Krebs. Christy Krebs, a cheerful aspiring chef, vanished under suspicious circumstances in 1993.

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How could a body have been lying outside for five days unseen?

Dr. Wecht questions the official findings of Jack Davis's death.

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