Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 7, Episode 3 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] this program is about unsolved mysteries whenever possible the actual family
members and police officials have participated in recreating the events what you are about to see is not a news
broadcast tonight an intriguing look at a little-known phenomenon the mysterious
link between adoptees and their birth families many believe that even after years of separation they are connected
by remarkable psychic time and cannot be explained by coincidence or science in Rhode Island a wild car chase ended in
the stabbing deaths of 20 year old Jason bass his attacker I remember he was convicted of murder and then released on
bail pending sentencing hours later a Murray's car was found abandoned on a Newport Bridge leading
many to believe that Emery and his wife had jumped to their deaths but reliable sources believe that Adam Emery may
still be alive when 38 year-old Latricia white was murdered the police and her family began to suspect her boyfriend
dog walker hunt would mysteriously dropped from sight more than a year later he is still missing
but his dub a cold-blooded killer or was he a victim of violence himself joined these intriguing new cases and much more
perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]
a joyous reunion between a mother and her long-lost daughter brothers and sisters who grew up apart meet for the
first time as adults remarkable moments like these have been captured by our cameras dozens of times imagine meeting
a child or a sibling in reality a complete stranger after years of wondering what he or she is like we have
learned that in many cases reunited family members of a surprising amount in common more than can be explained by
genetics or simple coincidence we decided to take a closer look at this mysterious connection this bond that
seemed to defy scientific explanation Don Larkin grew up knowing he had been adopted but he was 44 years old before
he finally located his birth mother Betty Landers even before Don met Betty he knew they would have much in common
as he approached her house for the first time Don noticed an unusual display of knickknacks hanging in the window a
carved hummingbird and next to it a crystal prism Don had only seen these items together in one other place his
own front window it really is startled me to see somebody else having something like that in the
window their halls and I just thought well she must be pretty neat lady because you pick the same stuff I did
coincidences that are very rare such as Betty and Don's both having hummingbirds
and crystals in their front windows of their houses are almost impossible to explain by the traditional cause-effect
genetic relationship that's a very good example of one that is probably due to some unknown spiritual psychic
connection many believe at the same eerie bond exists between separated siblings
Lorelai Smith who everyone call lorry was the only daughter of her adoptive parents yet even as a four year oh she
sensed that somewhere she had a sister I was so firm about it one of the teachers
felt necessary to contact my parents I was told at the time not to continue with this illusion or fantasy but I
apparently still kept insisting I had a sister at that time in 1959 Lorelai did indeed have a sister Laurie then one and
a half years old and we were living in Alaska Lorelai was in New Mexico as childrend
Laurie Smith and her sister Laurie Stifler had much more in common than just their first names both owned horses
and both played the same musical instruments the flute and the guitar surprisingly they had each learned sign
language though neither one knew a single deaf person I believe that the most common explanation for these
coincidences is probably genetic but there are coincidences that the genetic attachment the genetic cause simply
can't explain and then I think we have to look to a spiritual a telepathic a psychokinetic type of explanation
difficult as that may be to do Elizabeth bursa Nettie's story is a case in point she grew up with her adoptive
family in Southern California for as long as she can remember Elizabeth was drawn to anything and everything French
I've always had a fascination with languages and the first one I wanted to speak was French I was just obsessed
with the language it was so foreign to me and I just I wanted to be different I wanted to be those people that I saw in
the films the Parisians walking along the the students studying at the Sorbonne I wanted that identity I wanted
to be French in 1985 Elizabeth formally requested a reunion with her birth mother
through the agency that had handled her adoption however both Elizabeth's birth mother and adoptive mother were required
to give their consent afraid to hurt her adoptive mother's feelings Elizabeth postponed the search five
years past in January of 1990 Elizabeth married a young man she met while traveling in Italy Elizabeth says at one
month later she began to have a series of recurring dreams a shadowy woman always appeared and Elizabeth soon came
to believe the woman was her birth mother my mother was being told that she didn't have very long to live that she
had cancer and that it was going to progress at a very rapid rate there was a lot of sadness I felt from
the dream she was obviously very gravely ill and to me that said that she was dying
[Music] when Elizabeth woke up she was really upset about it and you know of course I
said you know it's impossible just over worried about it you have to worry it and it's not gonna be anything but then
she had the same dream again the following days and she actually wants woke up crying about it in late
August I woke up with the almost the fact that my mother was dead I was never gonna
meet her it was over I was never gonna see her I was too late it was on me that whole the whole day and all the days
after that that I had missed her soon after that disturbing dream Elizabeth returned to the adoption
agency this time she had her adoptive mother's signed consent in hand I guess all the waivers are in all the waivers
are in you mean you have my birth mothers as well oh yes since May of 85 Elizabeth was
stunned by the timing her birth mother had asked for a reunion just days after Elizabeth own initial
request Nicole Roland and she's french-canadian Oh Bonjour I'm looking for Nick overlong
please oh yes um I'm an old friend of hers from Los Angeles the call has passed away
when last August it was devastating and I said did she die on August 28th and she said yes and
she just broke into tears and said how would you know that all I could think of was that my dreams were true that I I
had had this strange connection to her I had known when she was sick and I had known when she died incredibly Nicole
Rowland had lived the life Elisabeth once dreamed of for herself Nicole had been a professor of French spending two
years among the Parisians studying at the Sorbonne it seems that me and my birth mother had a lot in common and
would have had a lot in common had we'd been able to know each other it appears that we were living at times of parallel
life doing the same things being in the same places and interested in the same subjects although Elizabeth was never
able to meet Nicole she did discover a whole new family Elizabeth flew to Canada to meet her
half-sister Sophie and a house full of Nicole's friends and relatives during the visit Elizabeth continued to
find unexplainable links to her birth mother I went to all the crayons and I selected a turquoise gran which was sort
of odd I thought but I just it was an unconscious thing and I started drawing this house and I'd never done a house
like this in my life it was the door was on the wrong side the garage was was on
the wrong side of the door and it had little weird dormers and turquoise trim and I just remark Tevan while I was
dragging all this is a strange house and well it's a house here it is John look at this the room got very quiet
everybody seemed to be staring at me and I felt very uncomfortable Elizabeth why did you draw this house
really you don't know no the day after I did the drawing my sister took me to the
house that she lived in with my mother and it was the house that I had drawn the previous night
the same little odd house with the peaked roof and the turquoise trim and the garage on the wrong side Elizabeth
says it just before leaving Canada one final extraordinary incident reaffirmed the almost magical connection with her
birth mother a friend of Nicole's gave Elizabeth one of Nicole's most treasured books a collection of poems by a German
writer as it happened the author was also one of Elizabeth's favorites in fact she had brought the same book with
her to Canada I would like to believe that she was consciously communicating with me but I
don't really have any way of knowing I can whatever it is I think that it's powerful and that it's it's it's
certainly alternately wonderful and frightening sometimes when we begin to look at the connections that seem to
occur across both time and space we run into the inability of our current knowledge system to explain things like
this but they happen so frequently that there must be some reality behind them maybe I am looking for a connection to
her that's deeper and more rooted than it might have been but I tend to think that what I feel is very true she
couldn't give me the legacy of knowing her or of having shared things with me so she shared things with me
in another way [Music] next the bazaar saga of Adam Embry did the convicted murderer commits suicide
by jumping from Rhode Island's loop port bridge that he cleverly staged his own death
[Music] the Newport Bridge arcs some two miles across the Narragansett Bay and Rhode
Island at its highest point the roadbed stands 219 feet above the water on the evening of November 10th 1993 the bridge
was a scene of a sobering discovery the latest twist in one of the state's most sensational murder cases shortly before
7 p.m. a bridge supervisor at a state trooper investigated an empty car that was blocking one of the westbound lanes
the engine was running and the headlights were on to check the size on the backseat were
several articles of clothing neatly folded upfront cash caught up credit cards and a driver's license when I
first got up there I thought it was an abandoned car he checked the car and he said oh no and that's when we knew he
says it was the Emery's car most anyone in Rhode Island would have recognized the name Emery that very day
Adam Amory had been convicted of murder though he was free on bail Emery faced twenty years to life in the State
Penitentiary now it appeared that Adam and his wife Elena had found a way out of their impending separation by jumping
to their deaths of the Newport Bridge the apparent double suicide of Adam and Elena Emery was stunning news but it
would not be the last chapter in this extraordinary case far from it soon authorities had begin to suspect that
the Emery's were in fact alive the abandoned car just the final flourish and a well-planned dash for freedom even
as we filmed our story dramatic new evidence continued to surface this most unusual of cases was set in motion by a
single chance event great thanks you two on August 31st 1990 at a memory his wife
Elena and another couple stopped for dinner at a seafood stand in their hometown Warwick Rhode Island just
before 9 p.m. the car sped away and disappeared around a corner Anna memory turned on his car
and he headed out and he looked off into the distance and he saw a car way off in
the distance and his wife yelled out that's the car let's chase them [Music] the car fixed san emery's headlice was
driven by a 20 year old named Jason bass his cousin and a friend were with him [Music]
you're gonna pay for that [Applause] wondering who this person is you know he got off his car yelling screaming don't
kick your ball I wouldn't kill you um major fighting words unbelievably this guy was so mad I mean I've never seen
anybody madder than this [Music] while clinging to the car Adam began a slash at Jason with a knife
[Music] [Music] neighbors rushed out to help they would soon be joined by an off-duty detective
who lived just down the street when I arrived the the whole air about the scene was very spooky it had a haze and
there was a warm summer night and it just had a spooky eerie feeling about what I was going into and I pulled up
thinking that it was just a motor vehicle accident it was far more than an accident
Jason bass stabbed once through the heart died at the scene I don't understand why my son got murdered when
he was so good of a child we'd help anybody he just went we picked up a friend from
work to take him home and he ended up dead the tragedy of Jason's death was compounded by the facts it soon emerged
he had never so much as touched Adam Emrys car the Ford LTD that was being driven by Jason bass was not the vehicle
that hit Adam memories car at the claim stand they took paint chips off of Adams car
and they tested those paint chips with the with the paint of Jason Vasquez car and proved conclusively that it was a
different vehicle that struck out of memories Collin that evening those who knew had a memory were stunned
by the turn of events he had never been in trouble with the law indeed Emery had
once been a military policeman in the Rhode Island National Guard now Adam Emery stood accused of murder in the
second degree his trial began on November 5th 1993 I had to defend myself this person was trying to take control
of a situation and I had to take some action I had to do something adda memories testimony was very rigid
it seemed rehearsed and I think the jurors picked up on that he never expressed any remorse for killing
someone he said that he stabbed Jason bass in self-defense he had no choice the trial ended on November 10th
Adam memories 31st birthday guilty of murder in the second degree right after he was convicted Alena Emery kind of
muttered to herself it's my fault and then she got very tense and sort of clenched her jaw and said I'm going to
kill someone I'm going to kill someone the courtroom exploded into a time bomb of emotion you had the best family there
who the person who murdered their son was convicted you had a very close family on the Adam side and on Elena's
side who now their son is going to jail for 20 to life and there was crying and emotion and anger and there was a great
mix of emotion in that courtroom on that day just moments after the verdict a news crew caught this scene inside the
courtroom Elaine was pretty emotional for I guess because of the verdict Adam Adam didn't have any emotions at all you
know it was like he didn't care one way or the other you know in my mind I think
that Adam knew he wasn't going to serve any time at all by nightfall Adam and Elena would be
dead or so it's sane until police began to reconstruct the events leading up to the apparent double suicide
[Music] Adam Emery was allowed to remain free on bail pending formal sentencing one month
later he and Elena left the courthouse at about 3 p.m. 3:35 the Emrys showed up in a local
sporting goods store Elena was far from nervous she'd smiled she was talkative it didn't
seem like there was anything on her mind or she had anything planned the Emrys bought sweat suits
athletic socks and 80 pounds of strap-on exercise weights but curiously the salesman reported that Adam was
disturbed by the total bill to police saving money seemed an unlikely concern for someone about to take his own life
at 4:45 p.m. Adam and Elena pulled up at the Newport Bridge the previous hour they had been observed calmly dining at
a fast-food restaurant which also seemed out of character for a couple bent on suicide
4:50 p.m. the Emery's were seen outside their car on the walkway of the bridge by 5:15 Adam and Elena had driven away
[Music] apparently the Emery's returned to the bridge the car was reported as abandoned
653 p.m. the search for the bodies of Adam and Elena Emery was one of the most extensive in the history of Rhode Island
sonar equipped boats probe the bottom of the bay teams of divers searched the bridge footings and trained dogs scoured
miles of shoreline in the end not a single scrap of evidence was recovered from the bay the investigation stalled
until detective Hopkins remember the courtroom footage and had an inspirations I obtained that tape and I
took it to a person who was hearing-impaired one of her means of communication is to read people's lips
and asked her if she could interpret the conversation that was being held between
Adam and Elena Murray said you promised me hours of reviewing and replaying the tape finally yielded Elena's furtive
words we originally said you promised me your pop you're positive we're gonna do
what you originally said you promised me in the end the cryptic exchange left investigators about where they started
clearly the Emery's had made a plan but was it a desperate suicide pact or a bold scheme to run from the law
should have done this before nine months after the Emery's disappeared a fisherman working the Narragansett Bay
found two human leg bones snagged in his net clinging to one was a fragment of sock identical to those purchased by
Adam and Elena I took the blue gold and blue bands to a marine biologist in an attempt to get a timeframe as to how
long the bones were in the water there was the determination of the marine biologist that there was no micro
organisms grown within the webbing of the material which told me as the investigator that the bones with this
material wrapped around them were not under the water for the period of nine months and that because of that they
could not be Adam and Elena Emory in addition a forensic anthropologist judged with 85% certainty that the bone
most likely was from a white male no more than five feet seven inches tall had a memory was 6 1 but unsub is
arrived in Rhode Island to film this story in August of 1994 there was considerable evidence suggesting Adam
and Elena Emery had fled however their families firmly believe the young couple had jumped to their deaths by the time
we finished filming the case at once again taken a totally surprising turn on August 30th detective Hopkins
responded to an urgent call from the harbor there against at bay had yielded up another grim piece of evidence I'm here
to announce today that the skull that was recovered August 30th 1994 from the East passage of
Narragansett Bay has been positively identified as that of Elena Jericho Emily Elena Emory had at last
been found but to date there has been no trace of Adam perhaps his bones are deep
in Narragansett Bay or perhaps the day will come when Adam Emery turns up alive if so you would almost certainly face
one final question how did it come to pass that Elena alone jumped to her death officially the case remains open
reliable sources say there is reason to believe Adam Emery never committed suicide Emery is 6 feet 1 inch tall and
weighs 195 pounds he has black hair and blue eyes [Music] next a search for a Texas man accused of
murdering his girlfriend [Music] Lockhart Texas Monday December 27th 1993 Jack point arrived at his daughter's
house filled with apprehension Patricia white a 38 year old nurse had not been seen or heard from in nearly 24
hours everyone was concerned about electrician because she just hadn't gone to work Monday and she never never fails
to go to work our glacé call yeah [Music] fresh it's kind of dark in a ramen and I
just call her and then then I went over and fell good I knew that she was dead Latricia white had been shot six times
in the head with a 22 caliber weapon her death stunned her friends and neighbors
and lockhart when the trisha was known as a dedicated and caring nurse in addition to the grieving community
patricia left behind two children and a host of unanswered questions from the outset investigators were puzzled
despite the violent nature of the crime there were no signs of a struggle and nothing in the house had been disturbed
[Music] just as puzzling as a mysterious disappears of Latricia Sliven boyfriend
a local trucker Lee Walker Hagen jr. nicknamed Doug also missing was dubs nine-year-old son chance who had been
visiting for the Christmas holidays the fact that her boyfriend uh Walker Hagen could not be found led us to to several
different areas to investigate number one is he a suspect could he have committed this crime the
other one is or is he a victim has he also been injured three days later an unexpected discovery
dubs pickup truck was found abandoned in Austin Texas approximately 30 miles from
the crime scene for it to be there and be locked up it isn't well known in a law enforcement community in the Austin
area that this is a high crime area and for that vehicle to be found there really surprised me in the cab
investigators found dubs hunting rifle which had not been fired his checkbook and his wallet
hid back a toolbox spare tire and Christmas gifts someone opened but all streaked with blood initially in the
investigation we felt that this blood could have come from our victim that was later ruled out the blood type was not
the same as our victim so we feel like that someone else was injured not seriously but someone else was injured
could that someone else had been dumped or chance the question could not be answered all of the blood tests were
inconclusive what happened dr. Hagan is nine-year-old son chance it is a mystery
that has torn two families in a small Texas town apart double nutritive white had grown up together yet today the
police'll are Trish's family believe that dub murdered Lou Trisha in a jealous rage on the other hand dubs
family and friends are convinced that dub and chance are also victims that they met with foul play themselves it's
and then going on 11 months now and we haven't heard anything from him at all and that tells me if we haven't heard
from him then he's got to be dead he's not dead I mean if someone could come in and killed three of them want to take a
270 pound body out and leave a much like one I mean this doesn't make any sense I
don't know who did it I just know that he that he couldn't have couldn't have done it and then just disappeared off
the face of the earth to the police however Doug was the obvious suspect especially after they began to take a
close look at his relationship with Latricia at the time of the murder dub in Latricia had been living together for
six months according to Lou Trish's family dub was extremely jealous and suspicious forty five minutes
I wish that in the future if you're gonna be late would you please give me a call let me know I try to be home on
time Trish and him always thought they could fight about a fly on the wall it didn't mean anything I don't know if
they just like to fight and then make up or whatever but a fight doesn't mean anything to me I mean as far as them
arguing because I know he's not violent as far as you know like hitting and stuff like that I lived with him dubs
ex-wife chances mother this agrees and I saw that he was a good man when I met him and when I left him I was
scared to death of him he had a temper he treated my oldest boy terribly and I was scared two days before Christmas
three days before the murder a friend witness one of Dublin matricies more heated arguments he's only nine years
old what do you expect dub son chance was apparently the focus of the conflict why you're making such a damn big deal
out of it anyway excuse me chance it's not your fault your father raised you to be a spoiled brat brat he's my son he's
not sure and you have no right you understand me well it's my house fine we're out of
here according to the friend dub packed his bags and threatened to leave however
just three nights later dubbed chance and matricies were seen enjoying themselves at a local restaurant the
incident was apparently forgotten but late the next day Patricia's father found her shot to
death in her bedroom dub and chance had disappeared three days later dub was formally
charged with first-degree murder however his family believes that the authorities
have made a terrible mistake they went in that kind of man make this one wedding in him he'd run up
on a wreck anything else you'd see bloody good pieces didn't stand bloody couldn't shoot nobody six times no way I
believe that someone else killed Trish and the reason they didn't killed up there on the scene was to make it look
like that dev had done it all this time they've been looking for dub and dub only the law has they've never looked
for anybody else so whoever did do it has gotten away with it so far under normal circumstances dub was an
easygoing very likable person but if he was pushed to the point and enraged and made mad enough and we feel that
probably chance was the trigger chance was the was the pivot point that this set him off and he did something in this
it committed this act that had he been given five minutes to stop and back off and think about it and he probably would
not have done it for months past but no sign of dub or chance then at the house of chances maternal grandfather hello
hello hello all he said was help me and then the phone was jerked out of his hand
and slammed down and I looked over at my wife and I said that was chance could the plea for help have come from chance
Walker Hagen dubs family is convinced the answer is known they believe the phone call was a hoax and the dub and
chance were murdered the Trisha's family dismisses that scenario they believe that dub is a killer and still very much
alive I feel someone in his family is helping him because I just don't think a person
can just disappear and not get help from somewhere to make help you survive and to get where you need to go without
being caught I haven't heard from him haven't given him any money haven't done nothing and there's no way that him Deb
and that boy chance can survive without money they just want to believe that we know where they are and that we're
helping them because that way they know that chance and dead were alive but they
can't be alive because we would have heard lead dub Parker Hagen is 40 years old 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 240
pounds he has blue eyes and blond hair investigators believe that he could be practically anywhere because of his
connections in the trucking industry Chaz Walker Hagen is 10 years old and weighs approximately 64 pounds he has
blue eyes blonde hair and a fair complexion I want to find out what happened to him I want to know one way
or the other and I want everyone else to know because none of us none of the families can have any kind of peace
whatsoever you know the whites have lost their daughter and gays lost your son and
we've lost two people and I think that we all need to know what really happened to
[Music] [Music] [Music] next see how your tips led to the capture of a dangerous fugitive on
[Music] August 19 1992 20 year old Travis Wade Duncan staged a brazen daylight raid on
the Seminole County Jail in Oklahoma he fled the scene with two inmates John Fisher and Timothy Johnson Duncan
himself had been an inmate at the jail until just the day before with Duncan behind the wheel the three fugitives led
authorities on a reckless high-speed chase through Central Oklahoma a running gun battle lasted more than an hour
[Music] every time he didn't mean out and tried to draw a bead on my unit then I would
go to the left or the driver's side and pick it get as far over as I could get out of mine of fire this is something
that you expect to see on the movies but you don't really expect it to happen to
you by 7:30 p.m. the three fugitives that Graham paged along a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 40 speeds of up to
100 miles per hour but nothing slowed the pursuit not even a homemade bomb [Music]
that multiple failed to ignite because hit the road the wind the high-speed blew the wicked of doom over the chase
finally ended on the shores of Kerr Lake after a brief firefight Fisher Duncan and Johnson fled into the woods
unwittingly they had trapped themselves on a peninsula jutting into the lake within an hour Fisher and Johnson were
cornered and taken into custody but Travis Duncan and somehow managed to elude the dragnet for more than 20
months his whereabouts remained a mystery update on May 5th 1994 Travis Wade Duncan finally came home to Seminole
County Oklahoma five days after he was arrested in Boise Idaho thanks to a tip from an alert viewer Duncan's life on
the run is finally okay we believe that he went from Oklahoma to North or South Carolina has went into Washington and
Oregon went to Hawaii was in Arizona prior to being arrested in Boise Idaho so he had traveled around doing odd jobs
living from one state to another once in custody Duncan willingly revealed the details of
his escape from Curley Travis told me that after the crash he stayed in the woods traveled through the woods until
he came to the edge of the water on Kerr Lake he stayed hid in the bushes till about
an hour after dark and then he swam a Cove which would be approximately a half mile wide and then came up and stayed in
the tree line and walked a mountain lion out and he was able to catch a ride and
go east from that area I'm delighted that he's behind bars that kind of ends this story and I'm
completely satisfied with the results that nobody was injured he was apprehended and he's facing the years
and Penitentiary that he's looking at [Music] [Music] [Music] next week join me for a special
presentation mysteries of the afterlife on a stormy evening in 1975 dannion brinkley was struck by a powerful bolt
of lightning daniel says he embarked on a remarkable near-death experience which
apparently left him with psychic powers just days before her wedding 21 year old
Karen Walker passed away after a long painful battle with cancer Karen's mother claims of ever since Karen has
communicated with her imparting valuable lessons on living from beyond the grave
and the chilling tale of a young girl's encounter with a dead heidi why Eric's parents were stunned to learned that her
imaginary playmates might in fact be the restless spirits of real people who were
passed to the other side join me next Friday as we explore the mysteries of the afterlife
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Brief Summary

The episode examines adoptee connections, the Emery murder case, and Latricia White's unsolved murder.

Key points

The Mysterious Connection. Exploring the bond between adoptees and their birth families that defies explanation.
A Joyous Reunion. Witness the emotional reunions of long-lost family members meeting for the first time.
The Tragic Death of Jason Bass. A wild car chase leads to the tragic stabbing of 20-year-old Jason Bass.
The Emerys' Mysterious Disappearance. After a conviction, Adam and Elena Emery vanish, leading to a sensational investigation.
The Discovery of Elena's Skull. A grim piece of evidence is found, revealing the fate of Elena Emory.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Adam Emery. The case remains open as questions linger about Adam Emery's fate.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Coincidences that are very rare are almost impossible to explain.

Discussing the mysterious connections between separated family members.

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