Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 8, Episode 10 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries a bitterly cold night an icy road a young woman stranded in sub-zero
temperatures seven hours later she is found literally frozen stiff with death just a heartbeat away in desperation her
friends and family start a prayer chain believing that only a miracle can save her life in Florida two young hoodlums
embark on a night of terror a wild rampage at ends and murder today one of the men remains at large
have you seen Albert Leon Fletcher as a rap supervisor at Northwest Airlines Souter asked which was a rarity in a
world dominated by men for years she reportedly endured an angry onslaught of sexual harassment on the job
however sue refused to give in to the alleged bigotry right up until the day she was brutally murdered did you know
that Elvis Presley had a twin brother who died at birth some believe this little-known tragedy was both the
inspiration for Elvis Presley's greatness and the haunting secret behind his untimely death
join me for another intriguing edition on Sol mysteries [Music] do you believe in miracles if you don't
maybe it's because you haven't yet heard about Jeanne Hilliard and the night she
collapsed in the snow and froze almost as solid as a block of ice for more than six hours it was December 20th 1980 Jane
was 19 years old and driving to her home outside a small town in northern Minnesota
she chose a scenic route a country road she had driven routinely a hundred times
before but tonight would be different [Applause] I tried to get it back on the road but
it just kept sliding further and further in the ditch I did think of possibly staying there for just a few seconds but
I was afraid of maybe carbon monoxide poisoning somebody coming along finding me alone or that I
would just sit there all night before anybody came by I knew neighbors that lived on the road
and I didn't think they were very far away so I decided to walk it was a decision Jean would come to regret it
was 25 degrees below zero with a wind chill factor minus 70 even from Minnesota it was extremely cold and Jean
was hardly dressed for the outdoors she wore a thin sweater and parka jeans and dressy cowboy boots
she had no hat not even a hood on her parka I did feel the cold but I didn't feel it was too cold to be in and the
cold didn't enter my mind as being dangerous at all because I was used to being out in the cold all my life
Jean trudged along unaware that every second the cold was sapping precious heat from her body bringing her closer
to a perilous state of hypothermia the [Music] cold was so debilitating it took Jean
more than an hour to walk a mile and a half finally Jean caught sight of her friend's house
I had walked and walked for so long and I finally saw my friend's house and at that point I was just so relieved there
it is I'm almost there and that's the last thing I remember the Sun rose on a clear bitterly cold
day jeans friend opened the door to a horrible sight [Music] gene was literally frozen stiff her face
fixed in an icy white grimace at the small local hospital the nursing staff was stunned they'd seen hundreds of
frostbite cases but they'd never seen anything like this she was so cold it was like reaching into a freezer like am
i picking out a frozen stick of wood that was so cold non bendable her face was absolutely white
it was absolutely colorless just this ashen death look she was severely frostbitten none of her limbs would bend
or move and really things look very grim I did hook her up to the monitor and we
got this agonal rhythm and like one beat it was just like one and nothing so then
two we knew that we had something but you know that's a death rhythm when a person gets frostbite what we're
basically talking about is freezing of the limbs that actually means ice crystals forming in the cells and in so
doing they destroy many of the cells of the body it's a lot like a burn with tissue destruction after the hands and
feet maybe start the initial stages of frostbite and the core temperature of the body drops the heart the lungs the
internal organs of the abdomen the brain when those start to cool that's referred
to as hypothermia and as they start to cool it becomes more and more difficult for them to perform their functions
until finally they stop at that point the patient would more than likely die the hospital staff
pulled out all its resources but Rosie Eriksson a hospital office worker worried it wouldn't be enough Rosie knew
what gene needed a miracle I called the pastor of our church and I stated simply
that gene Hilliard from billing Bay Area was brought into the hospital and a frozen condition very critical and that
she needed prayer with the blessing of the family the word went out the prayer change started about 9:00 that morning
within 10 minutes more than 30 people were praying for gene but would it work could anything save Gene's life I
believe it probably was like 10 minutes to 10:00 when one of the nurses came by and yelled and Rosie we think gene is
going to make it and I looked up at the clock and the still sins chills up my arms and my spine to remember that I
looked and thought yes people are praying now and God is answering prayer it was more than anyone ever expected
less than two hours after the prayer chain began gene had suddenly gone into violent spasms though the danger was far
from over it was a good sign a sign of returning life even so Gene's family was told to expect the worst the doctors and
nurses worried that even if gene regained consciousness she might be seriously brain damaged
moreover the Frostbite was so severe that amputating Gene's legs seemed inevitable she just didn't look real it
was like this can't be and our number mom and I didn't even say a word to each other there was nothing we could say
that would describe it we just were I guess shocked gee Jeannie Jeannie I'm sorry I've got to
ask you a couple questions I woke up in the hospital about noon very good things were working
kind of hazy and people were asking me questions as to who I am and things like that and I couldn't figure out why they
were talking to me that way or why they were treating me that way and of course I knew these people of course I knew who
I was I mean what's the big deal when janey first came to and we knew that she was going to live it was an extreme
relief but what was more miraculous to me was her legs recovering every time we lifted the sheet we could see the white
just moving down the black was disappearing little by little and to me I just I still think that was just
unbelievable it's just the fact that she was alive was when everyone said that she wasn't going to make it and it
wasn't it wasn't so much that that they didn't have faith or they didn't believe
but it was just the severity of what had happened James spent 49 days in the hospital in defiance of everything her
doctors knew about frostbite she recovered completely it was enough that she survived it was that was a wonderful
enough thing but to have this added gain of not losing any fingers or toes and in
fact just having what I guess would be minor scares this is remarkable [Music] fifteen years later Jean still lives in
Minnesota and is a mother of three children she credits her miraculous escape from death not only to the
doctors and nurses who treated her but also to the chain of friends and neighbors who prayed for her
I just think without all those people that I might not have survived there are other people across the nation that same
night that were found in the same condition I was in and they died I really believed that it was the hand of
God that it was his way of responding to everybody that was responding to me no one is going to give up on me and I
guess maybe he responded to that too [Music] next a dead woman's diary reveals a
shocking campaign of sexual harassment and a possible key to her murder and later Elvis Presley was one so are
thousands of less notable people a fascinating look at the phenomenon of twin was twins
[Music] [Music] April 1989 Logan Airport Boston in the airline industry 24-year old suit
tereska wits was something of a trailblazer she had recently become only the second woman hired by Northwest
Airlines as a ground services employee on the ramp at Logan it was just the kind of challenge Souter asked of its
thrive dog sue loved being on the rim she liked doing the job sometimes she'd come home and say I lift a million bags
today and they were 200 pounds each she'd make a joke out of it but she never came complaining about the job she
loved him Northwest Sioux had worked her way up from cleaning the interiors of jets to landing the new job three years
later in 1992 she was promoted to rap supervisor the first woman ever to hold that position
all right hey God come around here to push this car out of the way I see that I know it's not oil I
call you guys on the morning of September 14th 1992 so tereska which his car was discovered at an auto body shop
not far from the airport in the trunk was Sue's body she had been bludgeoned and then stabbed multiple times even
those who had been neither robbed or sexually molested her family assumes she had been targeted at random but who who
could have wanted suitor Eska wits dead for more than a year Sue's family grieved and pondered that disturbing
question then at Christmastime 1993 Marlene Trask was finally ventured into her daughter's room for the first time
since the murder I tried many times to go as soon as well you know you just you've got to do this
it's a year you know you should let me get something that was special to her and we'll just put it out and I started
going into her closet and I saw her a briefcase there inside the briefcase was a diary and his contents were shocking
in wrenching detail sue had documented accounts of sexual harassment she had endured at Northwest ugly incidents sue
had never mentioned to her family the journal included coats of graffiti insulting demeaning and lurid that had
been etched in the men's rooms at the airport and even in the cargo holes of jets what I read the filth that somebody
would write about my Susan [Music] and I thought is this why she was murdered and we thought this is it we have solved
Susan's murder in numerous passages sue described would appear to be blatant acts of hostility typical was a
following entry April 12 1989 Bobby came into the break room hey that's my radio
I'll buy you a new one what'd you do that for the Bruins lost he left the room and one of my co-workers picked up
the radio and plugged it in to see if it still worked Bobby came back into the room Sue's boyfriend at the time who
also worked at the airport spoke to Bobby and demanded that he replaced the radio sue confronted Bobby later that
day that was the radio that my mother got me for Christmas what are you gonna do send you in a punk boyfriend over
here again he's gonna beat me up look at him kill him sue filed numerous formal complaints with a management of
Northwest Airlines and her Union but little was done to curb the harassment in time the abuse escalated to Taurus of
anonymous graffiti all of the targeting soon t it wasn't apparently just one or two pieces of graffiti that made their
way up and then were washed away it was repeated cases of graffiti of varying kinds in some cases amounting to death
threats against other workers who were supporting sue asou also talks in her diary about
getting anonymous phone calls on all hours of the night she record some of the times the phone calls happen who's
there who is this she also had instances where her car was vandalized and her boyfriend's car was
vandalized friends who were supporting her had their cars vandalized curiously Sue's diary covered only her first eight
and a half months in her new job but apparently the discrimination continued thanks a lot
despite the abuse Sue's ambition didn't flag in February 1992 she was promoted to rap supervisor put in charge of the
employees she once worked with on a tarmac ok well I'll take care of the missing baggage but I need you to take
your crew initially sue had been passed over for the promotion when a man and her union had illegally bid for the job
sue filed a grievance and won becoming the first female to hold the position but the victory was not without his
detractors a lot of them felt that they didn't want any females being their boss
that that should be a man's job it didn't stop her from coming to work it didn't stop her from standing up to
things that she thought was wrong some men resent a woman I think in a position of authority while there's others that
that like it and the deal with it but at Northwest there was definitely the element that had a problem with it I
think she was very conscientious about her job she always tried to make it a better place to work she really believed
that she could make a difference there for minorities and women that work there I'm good on th Jing spend something out
of my yeah right like between this and my spaceship a few months after Sue's promotion the graffiti became more
sinister it may have been the beginning of the end so you're gonna have to call somebody
yeah sooo and I had a meeting at Northwest that did not go well during the meeting she started to cry
and she was crying so hard she really couldn't control herself she cried into the ladies room she was sobbing I was
concerned about the ongoing emotional toll that it was taking on her she told me that she was afraid she did not say
that she was afraid for her life but now that I look back I take that possibly she meant she was afraid for her life
[Music] September 12 1992 during a graveyard shift su volunteered to go to a restaurant to pick up sandwiches for her
crew su tereska wits never returned no one reported her missing for a day and a half when we first found out that she
was murdered the very first question we asked was did su ever do this before did
she ever leave work and not come back and we were told never why did nobody report her missing
is there a cover-up of some sort I'm not sure authorities now believe the sues death
may have been connected to a federal investigation of Northwest that took place in the summer of 1992 evidently
some baggage hammers at the Boston facility had been operating a stolen credit card ring when shipments of new
credit cars were transported on Northwest Jets a group of workers were stealing them using them and selling the
scam netted over seven million dollars ten Northwest employees were eventually indicted and given various sicknesses to
Marlene to rescue it's some of the names were very familiar they would mean some
people that were in Sue's diary that had sexually harassed her from day one I believe that Susan was set up by her
co-workers that for whatever reason they were afraid that Susan was gonna squeal
on something as far as the airport is concerned a lot of people they're newer a lot of people knew what was going on
around her we've talked to a lot of them they've given us information but I think
we all believe that somebody there has more Northwest Airlines declined our request to be interviewed for this story
the authorities are currently investigating more than one suspect but lack the evidence to file charges in the
meantime the tereska us family continues to seek justice and Sue's memory each year on the anniversary of her death
they hold a candlelight vigil at the site where her body was found I feel that whoever murdered Susan or
whoever knows about her murder how much longer can you go carrying this guilt you're gonna have to find peace with
yourself and I'm asking after three years bring peace to yourself bring peace to us take this murderer off the
street Sue's family recently settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Northwest Airlines though the terms are
undisclosed it is known to be one of the largest discrimination settlements ever
granted in Massachusetts next a young father is murdered in cold blood as he arrives at work
[Music] they had it on a loving marriage a beautiful daughter dreams of a full rich
life dreams that would vanish in an instant when Matt Flores age 26 was gunned down in cold blood
one minute life was great we had everything in the next minute I was shattered a part of me died that day
that I'll never get back and I'll never be the same person again I don't look at
things the same way and I I lost everything that day when Matt and Denise married in 1990 their friends called it
the wedding of the century Matt was a second lieutenant in the Army who later served with distinction in Operation
Desert Storm once Matt came home to Fort Stewart in Georgia he and Denise started
a family in July of 1993 Danielle was born eight months later Matt began a promising career as an engineer had
applied materials incorporated a computer company based in California's Silicon Valley it was our new start in
life as a family us making decisions instead of the military this was his dream come true he'd finished with the
military he'd done everything right and now he had landed the part the job of his dreams
March 24th 1994 Matt's 9th day at his new job that morning he was driving a white Chevy Corsica which a company had
rented for him at Arad 8:12 a.m. Matt arrived at work he parked in an unassigned space in the middle of the
lot nearby another employee satlink to a talk show on her car radio [Music] okay
oh my god the female witness realized that he'd been shot and then ran to another person for help and then also
ran to a shuttle bus to try and get somebody to call 911 more help approximately four or five uniformed
officers responded immediately including a field supervisor paramedics and fire also responded immediately but they were
not able to revive him and he was pronounced dead at the scene but Flores had been shot once in the
back of the head at point-blank range that probably never saw his killer and incredibly no one else did either
even though there were more than 20 people in the parking lot at the time well they said that he was assassinated
basically I couldn't believe what I was hearing I kept thinking this is not happening
this is not happening he was never involved in anything in terms of drugs gambling fooling around
any of the things that you would think would lead to being murdered nothing we couldn't find anybody that didn't like
Matt and not only did they not not like him everybody we met he was somebody you'd be proud to have as a son or
brother he had no dark or secret side to him this does not make sense the investigation was hampered by a
terrible piece of bad luck despite the presence of several security cameras trained on the parking lot that killing
itself took place in a blind spot just out of view however one of the cameras did give the police their most
significant lead they have asked us not to broadcast the tape what you are about
to see is a precise recreation of what the tape reveals about 20 minutes before the shooting
there was a two-door sport model Ford Explorer that came into the parking lot and parked in one of the parking stalls
facing directly into the video camera lens a few seconds later a two-door white Ford Probe came in the same Lane
that Matt would take later the Explorer backed up followed the white probe the Ford Probe could look something like
Matt's rental which was a white Chevy Corsica about four minutes before the shooting we see that same Explorer
exiting the parking lot and then about three minutes before the shooting we see the vehicle come back into the parking
lot and go in the direction of where the shooting occurred at 8:12 a.m. two minutes before the shooting two cars
enter the lot one is driven by the female eyewitness the other by Matt flurries at 8:14 the murder takes place
just out of camera range approximately 20 seconds later the Ford Explorer is seen leaving the parking lot for the
last time by all accounts the Explorer is a suspicious vehicle I think if somebody were to watch the
videotape and see the activities of the vehicle that morning and to see it leave
right after Matt was shot they certainly could say that the vehicle was stalking
Matt that morning the cozy Explorer initially followed a car that looked like Metz
sergeant teal believes the murder may have been a case of mistaken identity perhaps somebody went to that parking
lot that morning to do harm to somebody else and they got the wrong person [Music]
whoever did this to him I want them to know what they've taken not only from Matt but what they've
taken from myself and Danielle and his family I don't think she remembers anymore
she was too little I plan on showing her all the videos that we have so she knows
what kind of a daddy that she had been at the same time she won't know what it feels like for daddy to hug her a
[Music] $100,000 reward is being offered by Applied Materials Incorporated for information leading to the arrest and
prosecution of Matt Flurry's killer to date the authorities most substantial clue is the Ford Explorer which was
videotaped in the parking lot the vehicle is a 2-door sport model manufactured between 1991 and 1994 it
has a distinctive black trim on its lower panels [Music] when we return in Florida an accused
killer is on the run and authorities need your help to track him down [Music] January 11 1895 a Pasco County
Courthouse in Dade City Florida a murder suspect Albert Leon Fletcher what are you
looking at in police lingo Albert Leon Fletcher was in the wind Fletcher is a felon with a violent
criminal history dating back to age 15 he is currently accused of armed robbery aggravated assault and battery and
murder amazingly all the charges stem from a single 24-hour period it began on April Fool's Day 1993 that night
Fletcher and his cousin Douglas Porter allegedly broke into a home in Dade City Florida
they stole several guns including a sawed-off shotgun the rampage was on April 2nd 10 p.m. Lakeland Florida two
couples pulled up in front of a grocery store Fletcher and Porter pulled up right behind them come on want to play
with you come on I love you hey hey what's your problem they start yelling at me you know hey you better get your
you-know-what back in the car at that time you know something come over me I was just enraged and I took
off after him [Music] they poke the barrel right in my eye the only thing I could think of is get the
gun out of my face I pushed it forward I thought they were out to really hurt somebody that night they were on a
mission to kill somebody mess with somebody all night long you know and they didn't have any remorse whatsoever
for what they were doing 11:00 p.m. sixteen year old Jason Hartman worked nights at a pizza parlor that night he
couldn't start his car hey what do you want over the door no open the door now no open the damn door
it's a man you gotta call the police go out there just try to steal my car Fletcher gave up on the car and took off
with Porter for the second time that night they left behind a victim who knew we had just gotten very lucky two hours
later a lonely stretch of highway outside town [Music] [Music] give me your money [ __ ] give me a wallet
give me your wallet [Music] police identified the murdered man as 32 year old Nelson Medina he left behind a
wife and two young children while police are at the scene of Medina's death another officers spotted Fletcher and
Porter across town [Music] driver step out of the vehicle please I need some identification you do
problem I knew at the scene of the murder based on the expended rifle casing in the
wound of Modena that I was looking at someone with a rifle and a shotgun Fletcher and Porter were charged with
first-degree murder and scheduled to be tried separately Douglas Porter was convicted and
sentenced to life in prison but Albert Leon fletcher escaped before he could be brought to trial he hasn't been seen
since I worked homicide for nine years during that time I've met two people that I consider to be sociopaths
a person without a conscience Lee Fletcher is one through our investigation we have been told that he
has made statements to relatives that he would not be taken alive and he is extremely dangerous and possibly armed
[Music] [Music] next many researchers believe twins are linked by a mysterious psychic bond but
what happens to that bond if one twin dies consider the intriguing case of Elvis Presley and his deceased twin
brother [Music] Elvis president the king of rock and roll everyone knows a life story of the
shy teenager turned superstar but what if Elvis had a twin imagine - Elvis is performing on stage at the same time
it's not that far-fetched few people know that Elvis Presley was haunted his entire life by the specter of his dead
twin brother Jesse Garon [Music] Elvis was born in the shotgun Shack and East Tupelo Mississippi records show
that his twin brothers birth preceded his own by more than half an hour tragically by the time Elvis was born
Jesse Garon Presley had already been declared dead Jesse was buried in an unmarked grave in this nearby cemetery
today many believe his death had profound emotional consequences for Elvis serving as a driving force behind
both his creative genius and his self-destructive tendencies when Elvis was a child five six years old he used
to tell me that he used to hear a voice inside of his head and they used to confuse him and he used to scare him a
little bit and he was afraid to mention it to anyone he thought perhaps it was his brother Jesse communicating to him
telling him what to do music was Elvis's way of communicating with Jesse the two
had been bonded before they were born intrauterine lis with the rhythm and the voice of the fundamentalist Assembly of
God Church a very important cornerstone for understanding Elvis dr. Peter witner
has devoted years to studying the psychology of twins specifically those who have been separated by death whether
in the womb or later as children and adults the surviving twin is often referred to as at winless twin many -
unless twins including Elvis tend to become shall we say superstitious Elvis would look to his twin for signs of
guidance for signs of strength Elvis also felt that Jesse was his compass was a sign of direction that
Elvis should in fact do great things that had the two of them been united they would have been able to do great
things that they were separated Elvis alone had to be the creator the perfectionist
when Elvis died there was almost nothing known about the psychology of twin 'lest
twins in fact there are at least half a million twin lists twins in the world today they are united by a common yet
unexplained phenomenon the unshakeable conviction of the spirit of the lost twin lives on there's these little
happenings where you're really reminded that your twin is not totally gone that there's little occurrences that happen
where you just sense his presence not in a physical way but nonetheless there I do feel the presence of someone else in
my life I've again it's only been recently that I've thought to put it in that framework of the twin I've thought
of it more as a guardian angel or or a spiritual presence dr. Raymond Brandt coined the term twin was twin and his
founder of the twin was twin support which has members nationwide twins are unique because there's one thing that a
twin a multiple has that single birth people do not and that's called utero bonding of course today with ultrasounds
and studying behaviors in utero we realize that they hug and what appears to be kissing and even perhaps slugging
or pushing at each other we understand and accept today that utero bonding begins at the moment of conception
[Music] consider the case of DN Seitz born as an identical twin Diann became twin --less when her sister
Shannon died just five hours after birth she may have died 22 years ago but I can
feel her presence all the time Shannon's my guardian angel she watches over me you know she kind of makes her
nothing really bad happens to me or my family in 1994 Diane had perhaps her most
dramatic psychic experience with her lost twin she believes her sister's saved her life I was on my way to work
it was about nine o'clock in the morning and I was going down the off-ramp and this feeling came over me I could feel
Shannon's presents are really strong next to me and then almost like her presence came over me and had me pull
over to the right and then stop and then not even five seconds later shannon was telling me to pull over
before I got hit it wasn't as if she said you know hello I'm here it was just the feeling and the security of her
being around because my twin died in the womb I lived and she died there's a sense that I've carried with me forever
that somehow I took too much for example I must have eaten all the food or you know I was the one who lived and I
carried a deep sense of guilt about being here that is the downside the guilt many people believe it is guilt
that dries twin 'less twins to great heights or to the depths of self-destruction some say the root cause
of elvis presley's personal torment was as grieving and feelings of responsibility for his twin brother's
death Larry Geller recalls a conversation which took place a year before Elvis passed away and I sat down with him he
said man I had a dream the other night I can't get it out of my head I gotta tell
you there I was with my twin brother Jesse he had the same hairstyle the sideburns the same eyes one spotlight on
him one spotlight on me Larry the strangest thing I started to feel guilty I felt like like I did something wrong
and I don't know why it's the weirdest feeling and I I said well maybe it's kind of simple you lived and he didn't
Elvis never was able to resolve his psychological on Stover the death of Jesse it was something that was out of
the core of all of his behavior from my perspective his substance abuse his self
abuse in general his working himself to death was the desire to reunite with Jesse
I remember one time we were talking and he was telling me about his mother he used to question her about his twin
brother Jessie Garon and she said to him Elvis God took your twin brother back home to heaven and
someday we'll all be together again and Elvis said to me Laurence I believe that we're all going
home someday I'm gonna be with my twin brother again for now medical science has no valid explanation for the
apparent psychic experiences of twin 'lest twins and though some might see twin 'lest twins was leading troubled
lives the twins themselves believe that they have been gifted next time on unsolved
mysteries he is one of the most notorious murderers in history he claimed 49 lives over a two-year period
but he was never brought to justice in a special report we'll bring you an exclusive interview with a man who
believes his own brother was the infamous Green River Killer join me again next Friday for another intriguing
edition unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music]

Brief Summary

Jeanne Hilliard survives being frozen, Sue Tereska's murder reveals harassment, and Elvis's twin brother influences his life.

Key points

Jean Hilliard's Miraculous Survival. After freezing in sub-zero temperatures, Jean Hilliard's life was saved by a prayer chain.
The Shocking Murder of Sue Tereska. Sue Tereska's diary reveals a disturbing pattern of harassment leading up to her murder.
The Stalking Vehicle. A suspicious Ford Explorer is seen leaving the scene shortly after the murder.
A Grieving Father's Wish. A father expresses his desire for justice for his son Matt.
Psychic Bonds of Twins. Exploring the mysterious bond between twins, even after one passes away.
Elvis and His Twin. Elvis was haunted by the memory of his deceased twin brother Jesse.

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I just think without all those people that I might not have survived.

Jean Hilliard reflecting on her miraculous survival after being frozen.

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