Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 11 - 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 are about to see is not a news broadcast legend has it there off the
coast of Northern California divers have glimpsed the remains of a sunken World War two submarine but is there more to
the story than mere legend several Navy veterans remember seeking a sub near San
Francisco in 1945 now they fear it might have been one of our own in Oklahoma abject poverty forced a couple along
with her six children to set up housekeeping in an old school bus when that meager shelter was taken away Lila
and Roy Lee Stallings were arrested the children were separated perhaps someone watching can help reunite the school bus
family and the strange saga of John and Linda Sohus in 1985 the young couple left their home in a well-to-do Los
Angeles suburb for a two-week trip to New York they never returned then this past spring workmen installing a pool at
their former residence were stunned by the discovery of a dismembered human skeleton almost overnight an inactive
missing-persons case became an intriguing murder mystery join me for these intriguing news
stories and more another edition unsolved mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]
May 1994 San Marino California just north of Los Angeles excavation for a backyard swimming pool came to an abrupt
halt when workmen made a grim discovery three plastic bags and a fiberglass box containing dismembered sections of a
human skeleton we didn't really know who this person was and we were later told by uniformed officers from San Marino
that in 1985 the people that lived in that house had reported two people missing the two missing persons were
John so Hass and his wife Linda both in their late twenties their sudden disappearance had mystified everyone who
knew them the grisly discovery was a macabre twist in a nearly 10 year old mystery it suddenly appeared that either
John or Linda Sohus may have been the victim of foul play detectives probing the dissapears
encountered a cast of characters that might have been dreamed up by a mystery writer though married for two years John
and Linda still lived with John's mother didi Sohus by all accounts an alcoholic however the
most intriguing character would prove to be a mysterious young man who went by the name Christopher Chichester for
about two years Chichester was a tenant in a guest house in the sophist property located behind
the main house occupied by didi John and Linda according to friends John and Linda felt trapped living with didi
Sohus looked forward to escaping to a place of their own John held several part-time computer programming jobs and
Linda was beginning to find success as an artist [Music] Melinda was happy with her life and John
approved of everything she had to do and say about life and what she wanted to do
and be in life and I thought that was great for her because she'd never had a supportive man in her life
early in 1985 it appeared the young couple had finally gotten the break they'd been hoping for
Linda analysis she and John had been asked to interview for important new jobs Linda called me and informed me
that John had a job with the government and she couldn't release any information
to me all she could tell me was that he's got a job with the government and they want us both and we have to go to
New York Linda told sue that the trip was scheduled to last about two weeks however the return day came and went no
Linda and John [Music] the mystery would deepen in the coming months prior to the trip Linda had
boarded her six cats at a local kennel and paid in advance for a two-week stay but at the end of eight weeks she still
did not claimed her pets the kennel owner tracked down Linda's sister Kathy I immediately thought that something was
wrong if they were not going to return they would have taken their pets with them I
feel that inside very strongly that Linda would not have left her animals behind Kathy telephoned John's mother
didi Sohus hoping she had an explanation from her trip yet I'm not supposed to tell you
anything the mission mission what what mission what are you talking about it was very frustrating in all my
conversations with mrs. solace to get the same stories slightly altered but still the same story about Linda and
John being on a secret mission and unable to contact any family members Wow it did appear to me as though she had
been drinking sometimes it depended on what time of the day you called as to how wild the
story became April 1985 responding to a missing persons report filed by Linda's family San Marino police tried their
hand at getting information from didi Sohus they're not missing everybody keeps asking me and I keep telling them
they're on a secret mission okay can you tell us how we can reach them I have a source everyone keeps calling her and I
keep telling didi refused to identify the person she called her source with no evidence of foul play the authorities
were powerless to investigate further finally a full three months after the Seoul hussars had supposedly left
Linda's friend sue received this picture postcard but it had not been mailed from
New York far from it I have no clue as to how going to New York had ever wind up being France and I read the back of
it I was like I can't wait she's finally gonna tell me where she is what's going
on and all it said was dear sue kind of Miss New York oops but this can be lived
with John and Linda nothing about a call you later can't talk now nothing it just
didn't sound like her another card was sent from France to Linda's family my mother received a postcards from Linda I
believe it to be from Linda it did not say when she would return or how she had come to be in Paris if they were
planning a trip to Europe she would have been very excited about going and would
certainly have expressed that to my mother and perhaps myself as well when I first talked to the police I thought I
knew what was going on three months after refusing to help the police didi Sohus had an inexplicable change of
heart she too found a missing-persons report on John and Linda have you had any contact at all since they left well
I've been sending their mail through my source the man has been in contact with them
he's been the one telling me what's been happening well needed time for this individual you can't that's why I'm
worried he's gone too just disappeared according to didi the mysterious contact was none other than her guest house
tenant Christopher Chichester however he had recently moved leaving no forwarding
address didi also reported that her son's pickup truck was now missing though she could
not say when it had disappeared however there still was no proof that a crime had been committed and the investigation
stalled soon after fighting her missing person report didi Sohus would sell her house and moved to a trailer park
she died in February of 1988 the fate of her son still a mystery nine months later the case unexpectedly sprang to
life the so houses truck turned up 3,000 miles away in Greenwich Connecticut a man calling himself Christopher Crowe
had tried to sell the pickup to the son of a local minister this is it that's a great looking truck yeah I told you
you'd like it one thing though I don't have the title paper so you're gonna have to get them from the California DMV
the Reverend son decided not to purchase the vehicle based on the fact that there
was an outstanding lien on the truck the San Marino Police Department wanted me to also look for an individual by the
name of Christopher Chichester well they felt had information on the whereabouts
of John and Linda Sohus my continued investigation and attempting to locate mr. Chichester
ultimately ended in me discovering that mr. Chichester and mr. Crowe were the same individuals it was a stunning
discovery chrome Chichester by any name the enigmatic ex tenant seemed to be one
person who might be able to shed light on the soul houses disappearance but Christopher crow alias Christopher
Chichester had vanished again consequently the investigation stalled again until the dismembered skeleton was
uncovered in May of 1994 after extensive analysis a forensic anthropologist determined that the remains were
consistent with physical descriptions of John Sohus however a lack of dental records
prevented conclusive identification police could only speculate about how the body came to be buried in the
backyard of the one-time sophist residence nothing about the bones themselves that say there was murdered
there was no bullet holes anything like that but the fact that the bones were buried in three separate plastic bags
and the head in a separate place in a separate bag makes one think that there was murder involved detectives hope to
learn more in using a controversial chemical called luminol though it is highly toxic and dangerous to use
luminol will emit a distinctive glow when it comes into contact with blood even where the stains are wiped away
years before luminol was applied to the cement floors in the guest house and the
former's saw his property within moments will become apparent if there was evidence of murder
[Music] the tell-tale glow was unmistakable although luminol can detect chemicals in
other compounds this was not just a trace element situation the there was a copious amount of something put on that
floor and in our opinion that was not but whose blood was John so HUS murdered in the guest house and buried in the
backyard if so what happened to Linda officially both John and Linda Sohus are still missing perhaps having the time of
their lives gallivanting across Europe believe that it would have been possible for John and
Linda to relocate and have a new life and choose not to contact family members but I do believe that after so many
years have passed that at some point at least once Linda would have made contact
there is one curious footnote to this perplexing case according to the kennel operator in June of 1985 a woman showed
up and asked for Linda's cats faced with the alternative of destroying the animals a kennel owner complied she
never saw the woman again and there is no clue to her identity or whether she has any connection to the case
authorities would like to speak to the young man known as Christopher Chichester they now know that he is
Christian Gerhartsreiter a native of Germany [Music] [Music] next a mystery submarine sunk during
World War two could it have been one of our own attacked mistakenly the 840 mile
coastline of California is a treasure trove of natural beauty his long stretches of beach coupled with
fabulous rock formations have made it a haven for deep-sea divers over the years
a kind of beach town urban legend has sprung up along the coast rumor has it that divers between Santa Barbara and
San Francisco have sighted something very unusual we're about 15 miles off the point not a six-pack we're down
about 120 feet now listen I got real good visibility maybe 30 or 40 feet yeah and sitting off the point there at the
bottom right on the reef is what I think a world war two submarine and u-boat a submarine yeah out here yes deck guns
the whole thing in place right there at the reef crystal clear today it seems preposterous an enemy sub that close to
the continental United States but in World War two America's coastline was vulnerable to enemy sub attack a German
u-boat was sighted off the coast of New England and may of 1945 later that year an oil rig near Santa
Barbara California was fired upon by a Japanese submarine despite the obvious threat that existed
fifty years ago the rumors of a sunken sub remain just that rumors but in fact there are a few
aging American sailors who remember submarine hit in 1945 just off the coast of Northern California at the time of
course he assumed it was the enemy but curiously no record of the incident exists now the old sailors are afraid
they might inadvertently have sunk one of our own during 1944 and 1945 the USS Willard Keith was one of a fleet of Navy
destroyers patrolling the Pacific coast for the most part life on board was all practice and drill with a Kay guns
better known as depth charges then came March 21st 1945 the Willard Keith was cruising south of San
Francisco when a General Quarters alarm sound an enemy's son was below Chet Gardner was a 19 year old seaman on
the Willard Keith his duty set the depth of the explosive charges well I can see
it just plain today as I could the day that it happened Starbuck I'm ready to fire sir
it's something I'll never forget because I was running pretty excited about it [Music]
boy the water flew everywhere I thought my gosh we made a mistake look to me like we were gonna blow the ship right
out of the water that was so shallow but as we watched then word came down from the bridge that they had got a hit it
was a tremendous explosion you know and Eugene Sheridan then 24 years old man 2 km on the Willard Keith we succeed all
greenie slippin orlick's looking stuff coming to the top of the water and it's not the seawater you're in there all
time you didn't tell the difference of color of it then and we made three or four passes around and back and forth
and criss crossed and everything else and we never did pick it up again after we had made our turn and came back yeah
they couldn't pick it up on the sonar anymore there was no more sound we assumed it was just laying on the bottom
there some place Bill Anderson a laundry man on the main deck was just 18 years old even then bill had his doubts and
began to wonder whether in fact the sunken submarine did belong to the enemy indeed bill felt strongly enough to
question a junior officers house are too close to shore Anderson but sir it was an American submarine it beyond the
surface not below it yes sir it was kind of a sobering thought you know I mean you had maybe 50 60 men dying below
you're at that time or we thought this was the case Bill Anderson has never been able to shake that haunting image
nor the nagging suspicion of the dying men or his own comrades yes petitioned the Navy and received the
deck log and war diary for the Willard Keith but there is no record of the submarine hit a war diary we got doesn't
mention any enemy contact doesn't mention this depth charge run whatsoever there didn't seem to be any information
in Washington on submarine being sunk off the coast California in 1992 Bill Anderson and a partner pull the
resources and bought a boat call the echo hunter using radar underwater sonar and divers they are determined to find
the sunken submarine we think the odds are good enough that we spent most of our money on this project to find it
it's became an obsession with us to find a yeah to find the sub I say it that we
either something right there or we crippled it bad and it crawled off someplace else maybe maybe got away or
maybe who knows you know but I definitely do know that the stuff that we dropped the depth charges on
the Navy denies that it happened but it did happen why they say that it didn't happen I don't know unless they're
covering it up you know unless it is one of our subs and they don't want to know
[Music] did the USS Willard Keith make a direct hit that day in 1945 if so regardless of whether the dead or
American Japanese are German the Willard ki satyrs hope to turn the sunken submarine into a monument to honor the
memory of those who fought and those who died at our request the US Navy checked
their archives they gave us the following statement we have no record of the USS Willard Keith sinking a
submarine in the spring of 1945 additionally we have no record of any sub sinkings in the eastern pacific
ocean during that same time frame Bill Anderson and his comrades remain undaunted they plan to continue their
quest next the mysterious death of a Cook County Illinois police captain was a suicide or was it a contract killer
[Music] according to those who knew him best captain Michael O'Meara of the Cook
County Illinois sheriff's police was a straightest of straight arrows he was a devoted husband and father the only
officer in the sheriff's Police trained at the FBI Academy in the 60s O'Mara became celebrated as a scourge of the
Illinois mafia by 1988 however Michael O'Mara had been relegated to a desk job in the records department it should have
been the gentle twilight of a brilliant career should have been but wasn't [Music]
May 30th 1988 shortly after 9 p.m. at the Cook County Courthouse the sheriff's police patrolmen pulled into the private
service area to gas up his car an unmarked police car was parked at the pumps with a gas nozzle in the tank yet
no officer was in sight as the patrolman's flashlight played over the lawn around the service area he
caught a glimpse of a gruesome scene Michael Oh Maris body was slumped over a rock in the middle of the lawn he had
been shot once through the head his wallet and his briefcase had not been touched even though there was no sign of
a robbery Michael Oh Maris reputation as a crusader against organized crime late
murders seemed a distinct possibility you approach a death scene as possibly a homicide initially that you know who did
this there was a gun to the right side of the other body near the right hand and there was a very visible gunshot
wound to the forehead there was a flashlight found next to Iraq that that we can identify as his flashlight the
gun is his gun and there was one one bullet that was discharged from that cylinder of that weapon you've got
nothing in any way shape or form to say that there was anybody else there the victims pockets were intact is his money
was intact his car was intact if you were going to weigh this there there would be more there would be more more
weight towards a suicide or an accident than there would be towards towards a murder two weeks after Michael Mehra
died a Cook County Coroner handed down a ruling which confirmed investigators suspicions the official cause of death
was listed as suicide it all seems so funny a tragic end to an otherwise spotless career but it was not
the end Michael Maris friends and family felt there had been a rush to judgment despite the coroner's ruling they were
convinced that Mike had been murdered what they didn't know was who could have done it and why but they were sure that
Michael O'Mara had not killed himself [Music] the last person known to have seen Mike
alive was his wife Barbara she recalls he left the house at night in good spirits saying he had to fill his
department vehicle with gas right before he left he said he's gonna stop on the way back to get yogurt and he asked
everybody what what flavor they wanted and of course day before payday and he didn't have any money in his wallet so
he asked me for some money to go why would you know he'd take my last couple of dollars to get the yogurt if he was
planning on not coming back it doesn't make any sense in this case you can take any isolated fact and say it can be
consistent with suicide the problem is is the whole scenario when you look at that it's not that of a suicide
in 1989 Barbara O'Mara hired dr. DiMaio to review the case including the coroner's findings and the events
leading up to Michael Mehra's death when I reviewed the background information in
this case it was evident that there was no reason for the individual to have committed suicide there was no financial
problems no personal problems no fatal disease that does not completely rule out suicide but it kind of makes the
conclusion that a death is suicide a little more difficult the man is found dead in a field with a
flashlight next to him and his gun his car is parked nearby with the gasoline nozzle inserted into the tank this does
not sound like a suicide you know unless the man just drove up there and as he was filling his gas tank says hey gee I
don't have anything else to do might as well commit suicide it was kind of bizarre based on his investigation dr.
DiMaio has come up with a scenario for murdered the evidence at the scene suggests that mr. Mara began to fill the
tank of his car when he saw heard something in the field he then took a gun from his briefcase and went to
investigate when he got into the field he met somebody or a number of people and he was shot I think that if someone
was screaming that a crime was occurring and he was standing right at his vehicle
I don't know why he wouldn't ask for help first also it's my understanding from reading the file and talking to the
investigators that persons who heard a shot fired did not hear those other things they didn't hear somebody calling
for help when our investigators went to the scene and they looked in the field it didn't appear that there was any
struggle in the field if not by him and somebody else by that quote a possible offender and a third party there was no
evidence of a struggle who would have had a motive to kill Michael Mary could it have been a long-forgotten enemy not
vendetta for more than 25 years ever since O'Meara and his Raiders went after the Mafia in the 60s or could my camara
have had an enemy closer to home perhaps even in the sheriff's police if anyone knows he's not saying but dr. DiMaio
points to one additional fact which he believes argues against suicide when people shoot themselves they tend to put
the gun firmly against the head at the time of discharge in this case the muscle of the weapon was between two and
four inches away from the skin and you could see that by the powder tattooing on the skin around the entrance well he
may have chosen to have it out be a contact wound because he did he taught homicide investigation I mean he taught
courses and he he taught about suicide so he knows if he wanted to make it look like something other than it was he may
have deliberately done that well I don't think you can really get into someone's
head when they're when they're if they are about to go and do something as drastic as does he he left the house
with the intent to get yes he told his wife dad and I'm going to bring some frozen yogurt home so he he played that
scenario out yeah he just didn't come home based on the information that I have in front of
me in reading the entire case it tends to be suicide I don't have any evidence in front of me that would
conclude that this was a homicide and we need them when we're more looking for the offenders
what happened to captain Michael O'Mara on the night of May 30th 1988 is it possible he chose to end his own life a
life which would have been the envy of any police officer irizarry killer still at large still unidentified still a
danger Michael Maris friends and family believe the answer is obvious Michael Maron is not a man to commit suicide one
of the reasons that I don't believe this would have been a suicide it just wouldn't have been his nature to do
something like this either to his family or to his religious beliefs it wasn't an accident he was
purposely shot and why it's being covered up for whether they know or anybody knows I don't know I can't
believe it's a suicide at all knowing Mike it was totally foreign to his nature he was never one to give up on
something you know it just doesn't fit him you know what happened out there I'll never know but suicide I'll never
believe [Music] on the evening of October 2nd 1961 mr. mrs. Earl Boettcher and their son Alan
were leaving Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville Florida when Alan ran ahead to the family car he made a startling
discovery a baby girl had been carefully placed in the back seat the child became
a local celebrity newspapers dubbed her baby girl X within a year she was adopted by Mary Lou and William Christie
of Tallahassee and named Terry Terry grew up happily doted on by her parents and an older brother and sister by the
time she was a teenager however she began to ask questions I kind of rebelled and wanted to know this when we
went to the library looked it up and then I got excited I was proud you know together Terry and her adoptive mother
Mary Lou searched for clues to the identity of Terry's birth mother I believe she had a heart she put me
somewhere safe where I was gonna be well taken care of and I appreciate that I just want to meet her and see how she is
I would like to find a beginning thanks to our broadcast Terry Christie Derby now knows the
answers to all our questions sadly Terry's birth mother Edith Campbell died on August 17th 1993 just a
few months before our segment aired but out of this sadness a happy ending did emerge Terry was delighted to learn that
she had a sister and three brothers they were delighted as well none of them had
ever known that Terry existed on July 8th 1994 Terry went to a hotel in Miami Florida to meet three of her siblings
Phillip Paul and Cecilia face-to-face for the first time it was the neatest experience of my life I walked in and
there was everybody I wanted to see next to me giving birth to my own kids this is the best thing that's ever happened
to me best thing my experience is that there's more of them but no just a biological
thing in a family there's also a karmic a sense of underlying destiny that lies underneath the whole thing and this
eunomia meet somebody that I mean Terry it's like she is my sister I knew it right away you know there's no doubt at
the Reunion Terry and her adoptive mother finally saw a picture of Terry's biological mother
Edith Campbell according to a family member Edith a given Terry up only because of extreme financial desperation
knowing what a what a loving person she was she cared about nothing but her children her whole life and
I can only imagine the anguish that that she went through when she decided to do
this they make me feel wanted they make me feel like I'm not an outcast like kind of felt like I wasn't even passed
but I can feel their own vibes love whatever you know the next day Terry met her other brother Chris who had been
called out of town on business on the day of the reunion at last the family circle is complete when we return
perhaps you can help reunite a family torn apart by poverty and misunderstanding
in the year 1948 a family tragedy began to unfold just north of Tipton Oklahoma Riley and
Lila Stallings along with their six children existed on the edge of abject poverty
the Stallings actually lived in an old school bus Roy Lee worked sporadically as a sharecropper and was rarely at home
he gambled away what little money he brought in in his own way he was fatherly by trying to make a living for
us but as far as being home he wasn't home that much the mother was the one that was the disciplinarian to cook in
his food and supply and the meals and everything it was Mother's Jo in spite of almost insurmountable odds
Lila stalling struggled to maintain a home life that was as normal as possible Mary thank you we always had something
to do and we had toys to play with and each other to play with so we don't we didn't think of ourselves as being
different do you want to hear the story of Noah's Ark again yeah okay one day the Lord told Noah to build an ark
mother couldn't read her write but her Bible meant a lot to her and she'd see pictures and she'd tell us vital stories
from the pictures and we grew up with a very direct sense of what was right and wrong to the children the old school bus
was home a haven and a safe place but others notably Melvin Purdy a family friend had different ideas and Melvin
did not hesitate to make his feelings known to Lila Stallings I want you to leave and never never come back here
you're not gonna let me take them they know you can't have him I think you ain't gonna have any kids
very long the only child Melvin wanted to raise himself was four year old David Ray the
youngest boy but Melvin thought all the children were neglected from the baby two year old Norma roof to the Elms 12
year old Roy jr. Mary was then ten the oldest girl of second mother to the younger ones Joe is both Big Brother and
role model to six year old Ernest Lee [Music] the final straw came a few weeks later
when the old school bus was taken away apparently royally Stallings had lost it in a poker game
Melvin Purdy along with several others wasted no time contacting the authorities Slee and lilo Stallings
you've been charged with the crime of omitting to provide for the care of minor children how do you paid to these
charges not guilty based on evidence presented to this court there is due cause to have you bound over for trial
until further decision the children are placed in the care of the Child Welfare Department under your supervision
yes mr. mrs. Stallings at this time you are placed in the custody of the Tillman
County Sheriff's Department I remember seeing them both in handcuffs and that was the last time I saw mother as they
let her out the side door and that was something very strange to us [Music] over the next few days the starlings
children would all be taken to foster homes Mary vividly remembers the last time she saw her three youngest siblings
I put Ernest Lee in the car told Ernest to get in the car and I put David in the
car and they Normie was holding on to me and wouldn't let go and they pulled her
out of my arms and put her in the car [Music] early flea was pulling at the window
they had roll the windows up and that's the last time I saw within a week the charges against Lila and Roy
Lee Stallings were dropped but the damage had already been done Lila was told that all of her children
except the oldest Roy jr. had been put up for adoption two years later after Roy Lee and Lila divorced Mary was
allowed to go home and live with her mother Jo was reunited with him in 1959 Lila passed away in 1989 but Mary and
Joe still desperately want to be reunited with their brothers and sister [Music]
we've never given up hope that there are are still alive and that we will be able
to find them curious as to what they've grown up like their family life what what they've made it themselves and
definitely hoping that I'd if I do find that none of this won't ever hurt them I have tried every avenue that I have
came before me to try and locate these presents history and I'll never quit until the last day in my life
unsolved mysteries appeared to be the last hope and happily the day after our broadcast 35 years of frustration came
to an end for John Mary a man named Lee Shu lien of Owasso Oklahoma called her phone center he identified himself as
earnestly Stallings it was only five when the family was split apart Lee was thrilled to hear that his brother and
sister were looking for him and was anxious to meet them three weeks later Lee arrived at a hotel
in Tulsa Oklahoma to be reunited with Jo and the two brothers had not seen each other in nearly half a century
[Music] no no that's what I described it it's such a wonderful feeling walking in this
morning he walked in and we met hugged each other no bike and realize the feeling separated too many years yeah
about 40 40 I'd really didn't know how I was gonna react you know we've been separated 46 years I felt a lot better
than what I thought I might and I really you know felt real good too hugging we've already started making us
some plans to get together go fishing so we've got a future ahead of us to be together and enjoy each other
sadly Jo and Lee's sister Mary was unable to attend the reunion however she has spoken with Lee on the phone and
they plan to get together in the very near future yeah [Music] on our next unsolved mysteries a
remarkable story of faith and healing when Vera Marie Calandra was 2 years old her parents were told that she had just
weeks to live Vera Marie's mother immediately undertook an arduous journey to Italy to
ask for a special blessing from an aging priest named padre pio within weeks doctors were stunned to find that Vera
Marie was well on her way to recovery today Vera Marie Callender is a normal healthy adult for she saved by a miracle
join me next Friday for this uplifting story and much more on unsolved mysteries
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Brief Summary

John and Linda Sohus disappeared in 1985, a WWII submarine may have been sunk off California, and the Stallings family seeks reunion after separation.

Key points

The Sohus Disappearance. John and Linda Sohus vanished in 1985, leading to a chilling discovery years later.
Mysterious Contact. Didi Sohus claimed her son was on a secret mission, raising suspicions.
Luminol Discovery. Forensic analysis revealed blood evidence in the guest house, hinting at foul play.
The Sunken Submarine Mystery. Rumors of a sunken WWII submarine off California's coast spark intrigue.
Captain O'Mara's Death. The mysterious death of a police captain raises questions of murder versus suicide.
The Mystery of Michael O'Mara. Investigators explore the circumstances surrounding Michael O'Mara's death, questioning whether it was suicide or murder.

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