Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 15 - 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 tonight a special edition of
unsolved mysteries on the Alamo in San Antonio Texas in 1836 189 brave men made a gallop last stand at the Alamo holding
off 6,000 Mexican soldiers for nearly two weeks in the end the defenders would all die but according to legend they
left behind an unclaimed legacy possibly a fortune and gold and silver buried at
the bottom of an old well incredibly some believed it was more than just a legend for almost a month a team of
archeologists and researchers of an excavating here in an attempt to uncover the secrets of the Alamo what if
anything will they find a legendary hidden treasure or perhaps priceless artifacts from history lost for nearly
160 years in the next stop we'll bring you this fascinating story as well as these intriguing mysteries in Sulphur
Louisiana intruders broke into a comfortable suburban home and murdered a prominent young couple Pam and Eric
calendar four years later Pam's father Huey Littleton is still searching for the truth behind the brutal deaths the
investigation has taken Hylian to the depths of a bizarre ritualistic subculture and led him to believe that
his daughter and son-in-law were killed by members of a satanic cult when Denise
Williams was 17 she fell in love with an older man named Randall Utterback she says she also fell victim to a
terrifying spiral of abuse which allegedly culminated in a vicious attack now the authorities need your help to
bring Randall Utterback to justice join me for the special edition the secrets of the Alamo and more on unsolved
mysteries [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] remember the Alamo the famous battle cry
that echoes across the fields at time blasting tribute to freedom liberty and independence but some believe a full
story of the Alamo has yet to be told legend has it that in the shadow of the old mission an intriguing secret remains
buried a secret which dates back to 1836 the year of the epic battle that January
a group of rugged frontiersman made their way across the vast Prairie of southern Texas by some accounts they
were loaded down with a fortune in silver and gold legendary San Saba treasure said to be worth millions of dollars the
men were bound for the Alamo the treasure was intended to finance the Texas Revolution for independence from
Mexico the leader of the expedition was a man named Jim Bowie a colonel in the Texas cavalry and renowned throughout
the West for the hunting knife which would later bear his name two months later Bowie and 188 other men
including Davy Crockett would make a courageous stand against 6,000 well-trained Mexican soldiers at the
Alamo but one of the defenders would live to tell the tale the legend of the treasure would endure
[Music] today all that remains of the Alamo is the old hallowed Chapel here on the
grounds of the plaza history comes alive you can almost hear the cannon shot and
the charge of cavalry you can also feel the excitement of discovery just a few feet from where I'm standing
Legend and Science and cross paths with an unsolved mystery for the past three weeks a team of archeologists and
researchers has been excavating the street just in front of the animal what will they find
perhaps nothing perhaps the legendary San Saba treasure or perhaps priceless artifacts from the battle untouched for
nearly 160 years the dig is a culmination of a dream for Frank Bush Bakker a professional fortune hunter and
historical researcher Frank's quest began in 1986 on a trip to Colima Mexico he was introduced to Maria Gomez
respected museum curator who also had a reputation as a seer and prophetess or at the ravenel a loom did you know that
there is a treasure buried at the Alamo I've never heard of any treasure surrounding the Battle of the Alamo it
is just a valiant battle that was lost then she went on to describe it as gold coins artifacts silver artifacts
some religious artifacts is what she described the mass Donna took part of the treasure that was very frank was
told as some of the treasure had been removed by Mexican soldiers but the bulk of the fortune still remained hidden at
the element to draw you a map [Music] this is the crude map sketched out by Maria Gomez she predicted that the
treasure would be found here at the bottom of an old well even though Maria said she had never been to the Alamo
she had approximated the spot where a well was dug just prior to the siege at the time the Alamo grounds covered
nearly three acres the chapel was located in the rear of the fortification the well was in the plaza which was
enclosed by stone walls up to 12 feet high it was within those walls that the Texans held out for a full 13 days
the defenders repulsed one advance and for another but in the end 189 men could not stave off six thousand Mexican
soldier Frank Bush Parker believes that in a final act of desperation Jim Bowie ordered that the treasure be hidden at
the bottom of the well thus saving that financed the war effort and the only way they preserve it is to
all stick together and fight the battle out to whatever outcome at hand this really is the first Bank of Texas the
first catch of precious metals that would have bought them the arms and our uniforms they need it the reason why
it's remained there is because everybody died [Music] the Alamo is now preserved as an
historic landmark in the heart of downtown San Antonio Texas Frank believes that the treasure will be found
beneath the road that fronts the chapel to many native Texans however Bush Barker's theory is little more than
revisionist history but the people of Al no I don't think they were guarding a treasure when your life is on the line
like it was in the battle with general santiana I don't think you're thinking about
silver or gold bullion I think you're thinking about your life and I don't think you would be polluting your water
well because you don't know how long your siege is going to be despite the controversy Frank Bush
Bakker was determined to prove his point in 1992 he obtained permission to survey
the area with ground-penetrating radar the tests yielded intriguing results so we've got a nice little area there about
three to four meters down looks to be maybe a carpet over her sister that's all strictly conjecture but this is a
very good three separate disturbances or anomalies were found beneath the surface
the largest which Frank believes as a site of the well is in the precise location where Maria Gomez predicted the
treasure would be found further tests revealed an object 18 to 24 inches in diameter that a depth of approximately
13 feet the object is metallic but it is not a natural mineral deposit it was a chilly run down my back it kind of
brought all my research to fruition at that point because I knew that with the map her story and then plugging it into
Texas history that I was on a hot trail and all any dissension that I had within
my own mind about whether I should follow this any further was gone the anomalies could be caused by many things
I think it could be debris equipment left by the Texans either army I think it could be something several
years later it was to post it there you know as time marches on dust and dirt and silt and debris accumulate and cover
very gradually so that we do not know and I think that probably that could be part of what they're picking up out
there but to the ground radar detect is it possible that the legendary sense of a treasure does exist or could the
anomaly be some long-lost artifact from the battle whatever the case Frank Bush Bakker was
determined to find out Frank was spent three and a half years acquiring the necessary permits and
financial backing to excavate the site in 1994 the archaeology department at st. Mary's University in San Antonio
agreed to oversee the digging the project director is professor thomas guru zhang he believes that no matter
what lies at the bottom of the well it will have historical significance that you cannot put a price on there's a
whole series of possibilities what we may find whether it's treasure as in gold and silver and that sort of thing
or whether it is materials that were thrown into the well during the battle materials that were thrown into the well
during the cleanup after the battle doesn't make any difference to us while we're looking at a historical
perspective whatever it is it's a time capsule it's the only opportunity we have that we know of to find something
related to those few short months and the few short days of the battle itself on February 1st 1995 the moment had
finally arrived the dig was set to begin Frank Bush bunker and two of his colleagues Jim Rowe and Tim McClure
plotted last-minute changes to the schedule the plans call for excavating a 15 by 15 foot area directly above the
well a work crew must first remove three feet of flagstone and Road bed to reach
the 1836 ground level atop of the filled in well proceeding carefully with hand tools the workers will then remove
decades of dirt and debris from the nine foot deep shaft one thing for certain is
that there's something down there whether this gold or silver ore or old rifles down there that's not what's
really important what's really important is that we're going to find out about what happened I'm interested in what he
finds and if it's a treasure that'll be very exciting if it's a cannonball a part of a cannon you know metal like
that that would be interesting to know about it'd be another part of history what we do know about that ground is it
hasn't been disturbed since the battle and we have a time capsule down there no matter what it is and it is a treasure
no matter what it is [Music] the entire team and hundreds of onlookers it was a day of boundless joy
and nervous anticipation as layer after layer of history was peeled away the archaeologists traveled back through
time to the final days of the element [Music] when we return perhaps you could help
track down this man accused of kidnapping his former girlfriend January 1994 an isolated country road just
outside a small Missouri town the unlikely name of Mexico the young woman under attack is Denise
Williams she is 19 the man with a gun is a Rex boyfriend 31 year old Randall Utterback they had
met a year and a half earlier at a party after Denise's senior prom - the naive 17 year old schoolgirl Randall seemed
exotic and dashing just dangerous enough to be exciting I met Randall a week before graduation I just thought he was
the cutest thing and he had been known around town for his motorcycles and he owned a mountain lion at the time and
everyone had talked to highly of him he was really outgoing really spontaneous for the moment let's go do this he would
take me out to nice places and concerts and then after two weeks of Randall and I being together it all changed it was
gradual he started out saying don't wear makeup don't wear hairspray don't worry
fume and then it grew - don't hang out with this person don't be friends with her because she's a bad influence we
have to choose them or me Denise Williams had gotten in way over her head according to Denise Randall Utterback
older or more worldly quickly established an abusive pattern denigrating her rejecting her and then
putting on a great show of forgiveness the Randall is seen that love equal possession was he had Denise he was not
about to let go when Denise went away to college three months after meeting rambling she hoped the distance would
improve the relationship but Randall only became more obsessive yeah I called you this morning where were you had to
go to class I know what you said you'd wait for my phone call Randall was very controlling and manipulative I'd have to
call Randall if I was going down to the cafeteria just in case Randall called and I wasn't there to
accept his phone call he'd think I'd be out with some other people or having friends doing something that I wasn't
supposed to do Denise's family was shocked when Randall talked her into leaving school she enrolled at a
Community College closer to home and closer to round he had me convinced he was the only one
there for me because he had got me so isolated from my family and my friends [Music]
to where he would tell me I am the only one here for you you know you need me in your life and I
got to the point where I where I started to believe that no I didn't it looks fun
to me sometimes trying to help you right you want my help or not several months past the abusive pattern
continued finally Denise reached her breaking point are you calling me a liar Denise I'm not
calling you I'm just telling you this you're an idiot you know that you're stupid
yeah well I don't really care I would be called names I'd be tore down I wasn't allowed to
have an opinion with Randall it's good Denise that's it I've had it we're finished
[Music] I was relieved I wanted to get away from them I had just had enough I told them I
told Randall we were through Randall was stunned when Denis did not come crawling
back he couldn't abide her newfound and okay Randall Utterback would not go peaceably
Denise says he began to follow her the stalker waiting until she was alone and vulnerable doing
[Music] Durandal hit the back of my car when it ran me off the road he come over to my
car and then he dragged me over to his dad's truck to go with him and he told me that if I didn't take him back
something bad would happen to someone I love he wanted me to marry him got told Randall I went marry him
Randall Utterback was arrested for felonious restraint and aggravated stalking sheriff said I could call my
Lord Lindo I'm here he was in jail for a week before posting bond a restraining order was issued barring him from seeing
or talking to Denise for a month Randall obeys the order Denise finally began to remember what a normal life was
like but she had let down her guard too soon I was driving home from school and I saw
this black car behind me I didn't think it was him I thought it was just some school kids driving home from school
next thing I know that car pulls up beside me it was Randall again he is motioning me to pull over and I would
and I sped up in his I sped up he sped after went behind me again [Music] [Music]
Denise Denise get out of the car Denise tried to spray Randall with mace in the struggle Randall allegedly bit her hand
and dropped his gun [Music] just needed to tell you Denise did it I love you and I want you back in my life
okay that's all I'm asking for I just wanted to start over I just want another chance and you just just not giving me
another chance dad I need to start over I need another chance now give it to me and then he said that if I wouldn't take
him back there was no need for it and living and he asked me to kill him he asked me to stab him through the heart
of course Denise refused she pleaded with Randall to stop the car he's just just telling me shut up Denise god I
hate it when you do that all right look you just understand this if you don't say exactly what I told you to say I'm
gonna take you out of this state you'll never see your family again you understand that
I love you Denise's father and a sheriff's deputy along with several other people had
already gathered around Denise's car even before he let her speak to her father the deputy began to question Denise he
immediately drove Denise to the emergency room to have her checked out [Music] he'll be over there could be at the
hospital when you get back [Music] [Music] Randel Utterback was charged with stalking felonious restraint and with
three counts of armed criminal action he was imprisoned without bond for six months then six months later he was
taken to the hospital and in transit managed to escape today he remains at large as of today I'm still living in
fear I don't know when he'll come back but I have a feeling he will I don't live with my parents anymore because I
have a feeling that would be the first place Randall checked for me I don't go anywhere by myself I'm just scared he's
gonna come back and I won't be able to convince him a third time to let me go [Applause]
Randall Utterback spares have issued statements asserting that their son did not commit the acts of which he is
accused they say that Denise and the local authorities are out to assassinate Randall's character however the
Sheriff's Department in two different Missouri counties stand firm in their position that Utterback is a dangerous
criminal [Music] [Music] next a father's desperate quest to find his daughter's killer
[Music] in junior high and high school Pam Littleton of Sulphur Louisiana was voted most popular friendliest and the
prettiest girl she was a cheerleader she was the homecoming queen after college Pam married Eric Ellender
a bright up-and-coming businessman the newlyweds bought a house near Pam's parents and Eric went to work for Pam's
father a year later Pam gave birth to a beautiful baby girl the family's circle was now complete
nearly every day Pam walked over to her parents house for a visit she didn't want her mother and father to miss a
moment but their granddaughters childhood Pamela I guess would be she was a type of daughter that they have a
father would dream of having you know she had dreamed of being a housewife and a mother that was her ambition in life
and she was totally happy at 8:45 p.m. on February 11th 1991 Pam's husband Eric called her to say he was home from work
[Music] Pam left her Paris house 30 minutes later by the next afternoon no one in
the family had heard from Pam or Eric which was highly unusual then Huy Littleton got a phone call from
his mother-in-law she says Huy I just left Pam and Eric's and something's wrong down there they're in
their bed I have the baby and I'm back at your house call the sheriff I told her I said I will call the sheriff and I
will call an ambulance what appears to be the problem she said call the sheriff [Music]
the sheriff's unit met us at the gate corners of the yard and asked that we not go near the house and we learned
that Pam and Eric were dead that both of them had been brutally shot with a shotgun and had a the fatal wounds were
to their head there was only one blessing amidst the horror although traumatized Pam and Eric's
daughter was physically unharmed still the little teens were left numb with grief
[Music] absolutely total complete shock unbelief I could not believe it I mean how can
you possible Eve your daughter's dead totally immobilize me I couldn't cry all I could do was say why and who the day
after the murders 18 year old Kris prudent a resident of sulfur was arrested in Baton Rouge along with three
friends they were in possession of Airi calendars toyota 4runner Chris where was
the shotgun in a case Chris Pruden became the focus of the investigation which gun did you use not a Mac shotgun
and did you load it no it was loaded so what did you do after you got the gun and saw that it was loaded I went and
shot him who did you shoot first I shot the guy he confessed under oath that he had killed Pam and Eric that he had no
remorse for doing so in fact was glad they did so 17 days after the murders Prudhomme was
discovered hanging by the neck in the jail shower room he never regained consciousness and died in the hospital
this suicide note was found in his cell in the note put'em took some credit for the murders
saying quote I enjoyed very much in the taking of those two individuals lives as
far as the Sheriff's Department was concerned the case was closed they had made an arrest the suspect had confessed
and hung himself but a Huey Littleton's experience tie loose ends were everywhere he is a licensed private
detective and owns his own company once he began to investigate he came to believe that Chris put'em had belonged
to a satanic cult called the skaters and I Crenn him for Satan's kids against the
establishment as long as we all understand he's not gonna talk he knows better the girlfriend of one of the
skaters told Huey of a meeting that took place the morning after Pam and Eric were killed so we gotta come up with
something then we know he wasn't alone but what about the cops came gotta get it all straight now okay so he's by
himself he's on foot right right he's all high even though he's dying yeah and then what was walking through this
neighborhood and he sees this house okay the witness said it appeared that the skeeters were trying to concoct an alibi
for a person or persons who had been with Chris put'em when the murders occurred by himself
right she motto to say that Pru demand one accomplice had broken into the elders
house only to burglarize it but they were high on LSD and ended up murdering Pam and Eric using one of Eric's
shotguns I was at a bar at night and I was drinking Huy Lyttleton felt that many of
the crucial facts were still unknown he continued to interview witnesses well over a hundred in all and they mentioned
something about a party a party that was just right up up the road he was stunned
when a girl named Nikki Alderson told inlet in the early morning hours just after the murders the skaters had hosted
a party at the crime scene they were doing a whole bunch of stops when we got out of this house I saw some people come
in a distance and we walked up to him and realized I knew Sinanan Nikki said one of the first people she saw at the
party was Chris Prudhoe I don't know I don't know right now they were all just standing around drinking and talking and
making different remarks about God and things like that and we went in there's people standing around there's people
sitting down you can kind of feel from the vibes of people you know something it was kind of weird cuz everybody was
in there you know like I said in their own little world a lot somewhere doing some drugs on the
table and had enough drugs on there where I could see from a distance of what they were snorting Nicki claims she
had no idea at the time but two dead bodies were in the house only the next day while watching television which she
absorbed the full impact of the party [Music] I was watching the news and I saw this
house in psycho my god it was at that house and so I was kind of kept quiet you know and just watch and then when I
saw the gentleman that we're on TV there were the suspects then I knew you know that was the guys that was there
that was the people I'd seen and and she's come to realization that I was there we were asked by mr. Littleton to
relook at the case and we did and everything that he let us know about we checked into and found out it was not
reliable information or it didn't have factual information enough to bring to the district attorney's office also
everything that we reviewed the district attorney reviews and so has the attorney
general state of Louisiana reviewed and its facts speak for itself the Sheriff's
Department says they saw no evidence that a party had been held in the house however Huey Littleton found one other
person who confirmed Niki Alderson --zz account this witness added sickening details
claiming that the dead bodies of Pam and Eric were molested sexually by more than
one person those claims are verified by this man chip Rashard chip told Huey that although he was not at the Ellender
house he had seen video tapes which were made that night I've seen one and I've talked to a couple other people to sing
them to me every one of them that I did you know the people I've talked to you to see them it's all the same they show
on the video what I saw in the video was the people killing the elders having sexual contact with them you know just
basically everything that really goes on you know this is about as low as humanity can crawl or dig or furrow
where is their soul word is their spirit he was now convinced that the truth behind the murder of his daughter and
son-in-law was far more sinister than he ever imagined with Chris put'em dead 18
year-old Robert Atkins emerged as a key figure in the case Atkins as one of the three young men arrested with Prudhomme
and Baton Rouge Bobby took me in the backyard he told me that he wanted to tell me what had happened because he
needed to get off of his chest while out on bail Adkins allegedly told Sean moody that he
was present when Chris put'em killed the Islanders he told me they were looking around for valuables him and Chris and
they had found a gun shotgun and when they entered the master bedroom the wife woke up Chris shot the wife first and
then the husband had woken and Chris shot him but according a chip research Oetken said that Chris put'em had not
murdered anyone instead he had volunteered to take the fall for his fellow skaters yeah yeah he had told me
that uh you know Chris was taking the rap form because Chris was becoming the leader in the cult and I just basically
everybody that was witty worshipped him and you know would do anything for me and you know in return he had to do for
them to saying that they would do for him Kim came to me about one or two days after the murders and she told me that
she was there finally Huey Littleton found a key witness pearl FRU J yeah she went into a lot of detail about about
everything about Pam and about Eric and about the baby pearl claimed that her cousin Kim Manuel was in the house when
the murders took place she she was definitely there do you think we can get her to talk about it on tape he's sure
of it Kim's my friend she's my cousin I mean I don't want to do anything to her behind her back
Chris one other girl and another guy were in the house the next day pearl did record a conversation with Kim's
permission Kim described the murders in detail but never admitted on the tape to being in
the house herself Chris bumped something and Eric woke up I guess he went to grab
for the gun and Chris shot him then if ham woke up and the other guy shot her Chris was gonna kill the baby too but
the girl told him no she took the baby and brought it in to Pam and Eric's room and laid it down with them and then she
went outside I've been getting threats about this girl what am I supposed to do pearl thought the best thing she could
do was present the tape before a grand jury and now the actual tape this to us was a
pinnacle point in the investigation after hearing a lot of testimony I mean from many witnesses the grand jury
returned an indictment of two counts of second degree murder against kill Manuel
some believe the indictment was a legal maneuver to pressure Kim Manuel into identifying other possible suspects if
so the ploy failed Kim Manuel's court-appointed public defender John Laverne called a press
conference he claimed that pro Fouchet was lying that the tape had been scripted and
rehearsed she and him then concocted this story that they wanted to hear and then she produced the tape recorder
openly and showed it to Kim and they set there with a scripted conversation and recorded it and brought it back and gave
it to these people that being what they wanted to hear Perle few J's stands by her story we
never made up the tape I never lied what I told them was the truth and Kim knows
is the truth I can't change what she told me and I'm not gonna make up another story just to make her look good
one year later the charges against Kim Manuel were dropped without prejudice which means that she could be indicted
again later on Yui Littleton was bitterly disappointed and today he has apparently lost almost
all credibility with the authorities we felt sorry for him at first but it's got
to a point that he's gone way beyond the balance we got to deal with facts I mean
you go before a judge and a jury he won't be able to bring all these accusations he'll have to deal with
facts and I think any grand jury and he just attorney any attorney general would
agree with that I'm at peace with what I'm doing because we're doing the right thing there's a
lot of people out there that don't have the resources or the knowledge to do what I've done had they lost their child
so I represent those people I represent my daughter I represent my son-in-law and their
child we just want to see those that participated in the murders of Eric and Pam and the cover-up and the destruction
of evidence brought to justice justice under the law [Music] [Music] next a woman is reunited with her birth
mother after more than half a century apart recently we brought you the story of Meredith Atkinson who is looking for
her birth mother Rosemarie luckner in 1938 Rosemarie found herself pregnant and unmarried she sought refuge at the home
of redeeming loan a shelter for unwed mothers at Oklahoma City Oklahoma it was there that Meredith was born 53 years
later 1991 Meredith returned to her birthplace to search for clues about her past I found
out that my mother was Irish and German descent I found out that she had one sister and four brothers they were field
workers I would like to be able to look at her and tell her mother I understand I know
you had to do what was best for you and that I'd like to know you I'd like to get to know you as a direct result of
our broadcast a private investigator named Glenda Allen contacted Meredith and volunteered to take on the search
just one month later Meredith received the exciting news her mother 78 year-old rosemary luck mer had
been found though she's been in failing health for several years Rosemarie was anxious to see her long-lost daughter in
September of 1994 Meredith and her two children traveled from Arizona to collude Oklahoma for the much
anticipated reunion [Music] Landis uncle water rose Marie's brother answered the door Maryann I'm so tickled
I think that finding my mother and seeing her in and her family has brought closure to my life I needed
I needed this your even your even a great-grandma do you know that yeah I'm just tickled to death she's
here yeah this wish we was closer together we could visit them more often you know but I plan to go through there
and visit her in Arizona when I go to see my brothers you know that way we kind of know way up there
might be a little out of a bad way but it'd be worth it [Music] it's like gaining a new family and you
know it's just like gaining new friends too I absolutely am going to be overjoyed to write to them and talk to
them and get to know them [Music] [Music] thanks for watching join me next time for another fascinating edition
abundance solve mysteries [Music] you

Brief Summary

The episode investigates the Alamo treasure, unsolved murders, and an abusive relationship, culminating in a heartwarming reunion story.

Key points

The Secrets of the Alamo. A team of archeologists excavates the Alamo, searching for hidden treasures and artifacts.
Denise's Abusive Relationship. Denise Williams recounts her terrifying relationship with Randall Utterback, marked by manipulation and control.
Tragic Deaths of Pam and Eric. Pam and Eric's brutal murder leaves their family in shock and grief.
Shocking Confessions. Chris Prudhomme's confession reveals chilling details about the murders.
The Investigation Deepens. Private detective Huey Littleton uncovers connections to a satanic cult in the murder case.
A Disturbing Discovery. A witness claims the victims were sexually molested after their deaths.

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What if anything will they find?

Speculation about the treasure at the Alamo.

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