Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 8, Episode 16 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries during the wildest days of the Wild West a stagecoach Massacre shocked the nation
and led to the unwarranted persecution of hundreds of Native Americans today some researchers believe the real
culprits were an army deserter and a beautiful madam we're looking to steal a fortune after six years in the minors
tony Ameri Bella's baseball career was going nowhere fast then tony was stricken by a mysterious seizure in an
acute case of amnesia which inexplicably made him a better ballplayer than ever Mesquite Nevada 1994 a casino payroll
delivery an inexperienced driver on his first bank run a perfect setup for a heist police believe it may have been an
inside job that no one is above suspicion but even the victims in Webster Texas 58 year old woman was
gunned down in a dark deserted parking lot now her daughter is locked in a heated dispute with a man she believes
as a prime suspect join me for these intriguing cases and more perhaps you may be able to help
solve a mystery [Music] this much is known John Jeffries died alone and scared in a suburban parking
lot the killer shot Joe twice in the head at close range [Music] her card coasted on his horse again the
killer fired points both slugs pierced Jones heart no one has been charged with a murder of 58 year old Joan Jeffries
however her family's convinced they know exactly who killed her a former business
partner named Sam Patel I think Sam Battelle had the motive I think he had the opportunity and I think the facts
speak for themselves I did not kill Joan I had no reason to kill Jon I had no reason whatsoever Sam hey Joan
just the person I want to see you how you doing oh good Joan Jeffries was a clerk at a Houston Texas aerospace firm
Sam Patel was employed there as a software engineer far bigger plans talked about a new business I'm getting
involved in it's a private airline shuttle between Houston and Vegas it would be called best aviation a
specialized commuter airline for gambler investors but I think I'll need you for
public relations probably what would I do well you can talk to clients you can talk to the airline's the casinos see
you are mature you're experienced and I trust you you know when see him initially offered this position to my
mother she was of course flattered and excited because the money was very good now this file I've set up for all course
in April of 1994 Patel hired Joan parts time to help launch best aviation he also named her to the company's board of
directors oh no Peter was married he and Joan often met at the home of Richie Jian but tells girlfriend at the time
Sam had arranged marriage he had told me that he could not get a divorce and so we lived as boyfriend and girlfriend
thank you you guys me anything thanks and Joan look what I got for you a brand new laptop for bookkeeping but
don't told Joan that overseas investors would fund best aviation in the coming months meanwhile a top priority was
obtaining life insurance on the company's keep people Joan herself was insured for a quarter of a million
dollars the initial idea was presented from the investor group because they wanted assurances that if something
happened to one of the key people in the organization that the company could function and that they would recover
their investment I know where she does for a living and basically she's a secretary and I can't see that as a key
point person it just didn't nothin sounded right about that so Sam Patel had agreed to pay Joan a
monthly salary but between April and November of 1994 she received only one check it bounced
Kelly Walker claims it by the beginning of November her mother had had enough on best
aviation and sam patel when confronted he became defensive and offended and that scared her and it also proved to
her that something is wrong just worn out now I understand like I said you're upset why don't you say Joe never
approached me and said that she wanted to leave the business there was a time when she said hey look this isn't
working out and I don't like it she did come up and say that and and the compromise we had come up with was fine
you can continue to be part-time until you feel comfortable and we'll go out and get somebody else to work part time
also okay by then Jones back wages totaled close to $4,000 Kelly says that two weeks
after the confrontation Patel showed up at her mother's apartment late at night and unannounced you'll never believe
what he just did he brought the check you have it take it out and get it copy but she said that he had to go get this
certified check xeroxed which was onto her and me Sam look Joan I I tried but I just going to
find a Xerox machine and I don't have a car so I need to use your phone please well I Kelly's account Patel's behavior
that night turned from merely awesome downright suspicious Kelly I've gotta go he was on foot that night call me right
back told my mother he was doing computer time at a company ride around the block and his wife was bringing him
a rent-a-car now a chunky Kelly says that Patel made no further mention of the check that we inexplicably presented
Joan with some unusual gifts a door alarm and a taser gun what do I need something like this for Joan does for
your prediction keep it no Sam I'm not comfortable outside waiting for penny and if she does not show up then I want
you to give me a ride home no I can't do that I promised Kelly that I would call
her right back will you call me I'll be outside when she told me that he mentioned getting into her car that I
think was the the firmest I have ever been with my mother saying over and over absolutely not
do not ever let him in your car so at the door according to Kelly Patel came to the door yet a third time
Oh Kelly its Sam look Sam it's getting late go away I'll see you in San Bhutto's as
Kelly Walker is flat-out wrong and I'll never met Joan like that I had been to her apartment on a couple occasions
before but I never went took two weeks in the manner that Kelly had described to the police
never ever in retrospect when I think about that night I truly believe it was a trial run
and I think because I was on the phone and my mother continued to say Kelly it's same way I think it was I stopped
it that night two weeks later after a business dinner with Sam Patel Joan Jeffries was murdered Kelly says that
her mother was supposed to meet with both Patel and his wife penny Joan expected a check for back wages she
intended to hand over the company files and sever her ties with best aviation [Music]
she didn't sure because she had to work late I'm here I advised her not to go you can do this at work and she thought
well it'll be okay it'll be in a public place Sam Patil insists that Joan had no plans to quit
I asked Joan to meet with me and I told her we'll meet I can give you the check you can give me files we can arrange for
our meeting with the investor group for you to be there and that was a purpose of the meeting it's all there great just
what I need for the meeting guess what I have for you I've got you your chat is it good it will be in a few
days see the maze beat the chuck was post dated to December 19 the day Patel said he expected the investors money to
be in hand Sam Patel and Joan Jeffries left the restaurant around 10:00 p.m. Joan would never make it home
[Music] well best I can tell a couple of shots to the head another couple to the chest
by 9:00 a.m. detectives were beginning to piece together a scenario necklace Jones person keys were missing yet her
golden diamond necklace was plainly in views Robert seemed an unlikely motive because of the multiple gunshot wounds
to the body it would make you normally think that the person was angered or there was an overkill type situation
which again would indicate that the offender is known to the victim or had a grudge or something of that
nature I talked to the detective and I said well you know I know Joan and I was with her last night and he asked if I
wouldn't mind coming in and I was you know I decided just go ahead and go in there was no reason for me not to talk
to him could you account for your whereabouts right after leaving the restaurant what happened what we're
actions yeah we walked out in the parking lot I spoke to her for 15-20 minutes in the parking lot I walked to a
car she went home and I went to my girlfriend's house now at any time were you in her car no sir I was never in the
car are you sure about that yes I am positive that nobody card I was not in the car last night and
the first interview that we had with Samba till he told us that he had not been in John Jeffries car later in a
second interview he changed his story and said that he had in fact been in Jones car and that we would find
evidence of such in in her car now can you account for your movements after leaving the restaurant yes when I went
to my friend's house rode the bicycle for a few minutes you were the bicycle yeah Bron called
the sack for a few minutes I guess your girlfriend I'll back you up on it she show again what's her name open your
door and Sam was there with a shirt wrapped around his neck and I said you know what'd he do without your shirt on
your you know it's cold out there you're gonna catch a cold and he said I've been
riding my bicycle I was hot you know I hadn't hadn't ridden a bike undone any exercise in months and months and I know
I thought was going into the house I took my shirt off and I had it over me and I was walking into the house and
that shirt has never been found I think it's a very crucial piece of evidence because he would have had to reach
across Joan to take the keys out and that shirt would have had a smear of blood all up the arm
there's no bloodstains on it I have it in my closet and if whoever wants it if the Webster Police Department would send
me a real nice note saying please could we have the shirt I would be glad to hand over the shirt to them
investigators say their attempts to obtain the shirt have been unsuccessful however early on they did believe that
other evidence could link but tell to the crime scene we got some followed here needs to be claimed for evidence
subsequent analysis revealed the contents precisely what Sam Patel had consumed during his dinner with Joe it
was lowly evidence but it promised to break the case wide open if DNA could be extracted from the specimen if the DNA
matched Sam Patel's but in the end the lab failed to retrieve any DNA though the evidence is
inconclusive Jones family has no doubts I think Sam is responsible for the murder of my mother because he had a key
man life insurance policy out on her life for 250,000 dollars she was ending her business relationship with him that
night so he needed to do it that night while she was still an employee Sam Patil continues to maintain his
innocence he insists that his actions after Jones death prove Kelly's accusations are groundless the very next
day after her death the board of directors all got together and we decided that we would take the entire
proceeds from the insurance and a either give it to the family be donated to some
local charity that would leave a lasting memorial for Joe or a combination of both next will a mysterious case of
amnesia to help a young ball player make it to the major [Music] my soon as I got home when everybody
start telling me this is your house and this is where you sleep this is your brother I can remember my brothers and
sisters my grandfather lives in us I can remember him and kind of disturb me so I
didn't feel real comfortable at my own house that's when I started getting scared last season 22 year old Tony
Mirabella played third base for the Harrisburg Senators a double A team in the Montreal Expos farm system he bats
left throws right and has good speed on the base pads he also has an extraordinary story to tell Tony
marabella's a walking talking medical mystery two years ago his career was on the skids his dream of playing in the
big leagues fading rapidly today all that has changed Tony may well become the first third baseman to make it to
the majors thanks to a case of acute amnesia Tony broke into professional baseball in
1989 when he was just 16 everyone said he was destined to be a star but by May of 1994 after an assortment of injuries
it looked like Tony was going nowhere ironically the turning point in Tony's career came when he showed up at the
ballpark with a headache I was taking batting practice one day and the harder my head would hurt the
heart I would try to hit the ball cuz I was getting man and it was getting worse
and worse and for me I thought I'm I just thought if I swing harder I was kind of get
loose or something I don't know and I took my last one and then I just couldn't take it anymore just walked off
to a batting cage it's starting to get dizzy the team knew Tony was in serious trouble he was a guy who had always
played through every injury hey Tony Tony Tony look here I kind of woke up and saw like a lot of people your eyes
and they started asking me questions where do you live Tony it's gonna partner in the City Dock what were you
doing when you fainted Tony do you remember what you were doing when you fainted for me it was everything was
like so fast with like asking the questions 100 miles an hour and I couldn't comprehend what was going on I
didn't because I didn't know my name so I was kind of getting scary and there was one guy answering all my shitty
practice he just kind of walked back to screen and just keeled over okay so wait
until everybody left not to be rude or even finish tears I don't want to be really go but how are you come on to him
the trainer man sure sure and then he told me it maybe was the trainer for the ball team baseball player no no one
Oh baseball player goes yeah look I liked under at night and my baseball uniform okay okay
but then either no phone as a second baseman third baseman [Music] a battery of tests failed to reveal any
neurological reason for Tony's collapse It was as if a tiny invisible bomb that exploded inside Tony's brain
obliterating only his memory memory of who we are is the most basic memory that we have when we separate you know as
infants from our mothers we have some basic concept of ourselves and other music syndromes that can produce loss of
memory usually don't involve loss of memory of ourselves so that was what was quite bizarre
Tony's doctors tried everything to jog his memory they hope pictures of his girlfriend
would spark a glint of recognition now I look at the pictures and there was a pretty girl in there so I go cool I
always with everything all right I got a good-looking girlfriend but I couldn't remember who she was I mean I don't know
I in the back it said Isabelle and I go okay I guess her name is Isabelle but I couldn't remember
my god I'm so worried about you what Isabelle came to visit Tony pretended to know her it was like a
brand new girlfriend's like a blind date good car yeah the one you got me plan oh
yeah okay I remember so see I did that a lot of daughters not that I lied to a lot of people what I said I remembered
stuff had to go off the blank did ask me questions I do you remember this one this happened I'd answer yet just not to
have any more questions about it so that's what I kind of did to her what no physiological basis was found for Tony's
blackout in subsequent amnesia he and his doctors began searching for another cause
perhaps Tony's problems stem from the stress and frustration of a failing baseball career he's in a very
competitive situation trying to make it as a pro player he apparently was not getting much sleep he was away from home
he's a young guy that was sort of isolated and it's possible that things that have came crashing down on him and
literally he collapsed after a three months layoff Tony returned to the ball field it was a best possible therapy
being around his old teammate suddenly began to trigger his memories right before I hit the homerun up a name and
when we signed that bra almost did completely it kind of juice I just jumped a guy's oh yeah I remember one
just happened and without knowing to what I just and then I realize it hey remember that and I remembered the whole
thing it was a beginning of what would become a complete recovery incredibly Tony soon found that his bout
with amnesia at one miraculous side-effect he was now playing the best ball of his
life baseball was so fun I mean I would run hard play dive everywhere just play like
a little kid when the game was over I'd go home won't even think about it because for me it was fun
and that's when my game got better and it just kept getting better and better customer my outlook on baseball and life
in general was just so much better than a lizard for while there was still no scientific explanation for Tony's and
neither its effect upon his play as indisputable a career 250 hitter Tony began batting at a mere 400 clip upon
his return coming up a 19th century stagecoach attack has prompted a contemporary debate who was responsible
in the Wickenburg massacre but first authorities need your help to track down the key suspect in a brazen payroll
robbery [Music] I didn't think that he was gonna leave any witnesses I really didn't and he had the perfect
opportunity to kill us and leave us this man we will call jim says he was a victim of an armed robbery in 1994 the
FBI however has a different take they consider Jim a suspect for the past six years Jim has worked as
a security guard at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite Nevada on Thursday August 25th 1994 Jim and the assistant
cage manager picked up the payroll at the local bank then headed back to the casino how's the baby doing he's doing
good he's sleeping through the night I only had two bad nights so far don't make any sudden weight shot don't
say nothing about doing a minute you make any moves and I'm gonna kill this girl next to you oh come to shut up
don't turn around or I'll kill you I sick I looked looking back to the risen mirror to see you know what was going on
back there and I couldn't see a whole lot but he didn't know that I looked back there and he said if I did that
again he was gonna he was gonna blow her brains out right then with your left hand
take your gun out and throw it on the ground take your walkie-talkie and throw it on the ground - don't turn around the
robber ordered Jim off the main road and directed him to a deserted area outside
town but you know what's gonna happen he's got the motive he's got everything he's holding all the cards you're just
waiting to catch a bullet and you can feel it you're just waiting to but the gunman drove off leaving both
eyewitnesses unharmed he got away with two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in unmarked $100 bills from the start
the FBI and local police believe the robbery was most likely an inside job the gunman was either very lucky or
someone tipped him off every one of the casino became a suspect not surprisingly
Jim and the assistant cage manager at the top of the list investigators soon discovered that the day of the robbery
was marked by a series of eight typical circumstances first the cage manager and
the security chief ordinarily handled the bank runs were gone second the assistant cage manager
decided to make the bank run two hours early third Jim had never before been assigned payroll duty finally the casino
hospitality van driven to the bank was not commonly used for payroll runs so the question came up how was the robber
gonna be so sure that this was gonna be the day that that van was gonna make that run too much coincidence too many
times too many things fell into place too many things happen right in this thing somebody in my opinion gave him
some information we still had inconsistencies with both of the accounts of the teller and the security
officer things that just didn't make sense he even asked me at one time why didn't you slam on the brakes on the
vehicle it's it's a big ban you know they don't lock up like I do in the movies you don't click your radio on
like they do in the movies and everything goes smooth an everybody hears where you're at and what's going
on don't talk there was no way to reach over let's make that mic without him know about it every time he saw me
trying to get a description everyone he would tell me that he was gonna kill us why did that again
we'll take that chance an hour after the robbery police located the van abandoned
about a mile south of the spot where the gunman at dunk gym and the assistant cage manager Jim's gun and radio were
missing police took plaster casts of footprints and tire prints that indicated the robber had walked from the
van to another vehicle and driven away despite a thorough investigation the authorities could not let casino
insiders to the robbery the case stalled then the police got lucky about a month
and a half after the crime the mesquite police were following a simple domestic dispute call in Mesquite Nevada there
was a gun involved in the in the dispute and it turned out that that gun was in fact the security officers weapon that
was stolen during the robbery the man in the domestic dispute was ruled out as a
robbery suspect the FBI turned to the man who had sold him the gun Louisa Choa the owner of a local pizza parlor
it was nervous and defensive from the very beginning mr. Ochoa would it be okay if we go inside and have a talk
there actually it's okay we could talk out here he didn't want us to come in the pizza shop we found that a little
bit.i he immediately set our alerts off that he didn't want us to be there and he really didn't want to talk to us I
didn't sell anybody any gun I don't know nothing about any guns I wasn't nothing
about the robbery shoving the pizza business guys I'm not in the gun business that was probably a
great stroke of luck for us that he kept us outside because we were standing by the pickup truck we're here doing our
investigation during the month and a half after this robbery I sat and I looked at this plaster casting of a tire
print until my eyes were gonna fall out I knew what the tire print looked like I
looked down at the tires on his truck and they matched the FBI obtained search warrants in Ochoa's house they found
$5,000 and hundred-dollar bills tucked in the toe of a cowboy boot you know chores truck they found a bullet the
same kind used in Jim's gun as the searches were going on mr. Ochoa was in fact with an attorney and they were
making arrangements to come and meet with myself to discuss mr. Otto's involvement in the case and possibly his
accomplices things were starting to unravel very quickly for him and I think at that point Luis decided it was time
to get out of Dodge his attorney got word to us that mr. Toa had left his office on a break and had never returned
he was unaware of his whereabouts and from that point on we don't know where he is
[Music] [Music] on a quiet highway 60 miles from Phoenix Arizona stairs a small often overlooked
Monument memorializing the victims of a tragic incident from the long ago days of the Wild West
[Music] [Applause] [Music] in all six men lay dead one had been scalped another had been dispatched with
a lance through his chest the atrocity would come to be known as the Wickenburg massacre miraculously two people did
survive though injured William Krueger and Mollie Shepard lived to tell what would become the official account of the
massacre but a Krugerrand Shepard tell the true story Krueger blamed the attack on the Apaches the government retaliated
and as a result scores of innocent Native Americans died but there is evidence to suggest that Krueger and
Shepard were in fact notorious outlaws who orchestrated the attack hoping to pocket a fortune today many believed
Krueger and Shepard caused a great injustice to be committed and injustice demands to be righted November 5th 1871
dawned peacefully giving no indication in what was to come when William Kruger and Molly Sheppard
climbed aboard the stage in Wickenburg that morning they seemed an unlikely pair to change the course of history
molly was a well-known prostitute in matter would recently sold her bordello Kruger was a two-time army deserter but
somehow managed to hire own as a civilian clerk for the military William triggers a wonderful character
just kind of a floater and a gambler and to all he didn't have any holdings he didn't own anything and was apparently
traveling with Molly from what I know of the story is that it was done by Indians
fewer than 20 and they set up an ambush and just shot the heck out of things and
the two that got away he got away because the Indians were on foot they didn't have horses so they were unable
to chase him down well so this is how it happened we got into Wickenburg this morning
we switch teams of horses to get fresh horses the day after the attack on Molly lay nursing her who wants Kruger was
questioned by Captain Charles mynhardt who had been assigned to investigate the incident we started out and I think it
might have been about nine or ten o'clock but don't quote me exactly on that we started out and everything was
just fine I mean it was a nice trip and and everybody was happy and in fact everything up to here was fine it was a
very pleasant trip and then sir I believe it was about 11 a.m. or so that I heard the driver yell Apaches Apaches
and the next thing I know he's Indian firing on us and they got mr. lorring you know that the famous officer he was
up top they got him in the driver sir to be honest they didn't even have a chance
up there and then they wounded mr. Sammon spell just like the fish you know and he got out the back of the coach and
he went running the other way and these Indians they they swooped down on him sir they swooped down them and they
scalped him so they they scalped him there it was horrible sorry nice honor and I fired back out and I got a couple
but that just left me and mr. Hamill you know in the coach itself and and and we
did everything we could but there just wasn't nothing left that we could do and how was it that you and Miss Shepard
were able to escape sir that was only about the grace of God I mean Paul Molly she was wounded so badly she couldn't
even really run and mr. Hamill and I you know we were fighting and he was hit so
bad that you couldn't go anywhere and I knew our only chance all only champion let's make a run for
Molly now we got out the other side and we just took off running in the opposite
direction sir until we finally got away you say the attackers were Apache are you sure that absolutely sir if we
put only about 20 or 30 yards on them I mean they had on them blue cavalry pants
you like like you got on you know the time they give them on the reservation you know the kind of exactly how many
attackers were there well sir I counted at least 15 but you know there might have been more 15 yes sir maybe more
Thank You mr. Kruger for your cooperation thank you sir lieutenant tell the men will ride at sunup I want
to get a look at this site myself by the time mine hope reached the site the bodies of the victims have been
returned to Wickenburg for burial mine hold uncovered several signs it indicated the Native Americans had been
present a mine hole was a military person and looked at it today I guess like military wood and he really
carefully he studied the footprints the the moccasin prints which they were wearing moccasins and that most of the
moccasin that most of them were towed in which is typical of the way the Native Americans walk the tracks led toward the
camp date Creek reservation 25 miles away the reservation is home to 750 members of the Yavapai tribe but
curiously several miles before the tracks reach camp they Creek they veered off in a different direction this to me
would indicate possibly a non Native American group that is heading towards camp date Creek to make it look like the
perpetrators are heading back to the military reservation the Yavapai were often misidentified as Apaches were a
largely peaceful people many worked as laborers and Scouts for the settlers to those who knew them it seemed
inconceivable that the Yavapai would have attacked the stagecoach it was it was impossible it would have been the
most bizarre Indian Massacre Native American mascar than ever occurred there were only six occasions throughout the
entire western frontier when American Indians actually Native Americans attacked stagecoach if this was a Native
American attacked we would find that the livestock certainly would have been missing we would have found that the
ammunition and the weapons certainly would have been missing and we would also found that any blankets would have
been taken but in this particular case none of it was touched whatsoever but the most baffling discrepancy centered
on several bags of mail that had been loaded onto the stage at Wickenburg after the attack most of the letters in
the bags were found intact and undisturbed however a number of letters addressed to the army quartermaster had
been open and the contents carefully reinserted your the mail going through the mail this is something that an
Indian Indian or Native American would not do is go through the mail this certainly won't to me would indicate
that it was a non non Indian attack but if it wasn't the Yavapai who was it in those days gold bullion was often
transported by stage according to at least one account Mexican bandits disguises Apaches were responsible
others point to another more intriguing possibility Kruger and Shepard masterminded the entire thing it had to
be them if it was bandits Mexican bandits or typical highwayman why did they let Krueger and Sheppard get away
so these Indians they're slithering up on us like like vipers coming back to the nest
Kruger's account of his escape seemed hard to believe especially given the condition of his gun
Kruger's gun supposedly hadn't even been fired he probably had another gun or he
had switched guns with one of those was killed which is why he ended up with a gun that hadn't been fired Jeff Hammond
believes that Krueger and Sheppard hired the bandits to assist in the heist Krueger probably fired first to begin
with inside the coach the attackers shooting on the outside would have been easy to wipe out anybody inside the
stagecoach they would have expected somebody inside the coach to start shooting I think they either meant to wound
Shepard to make it look like an actual attack I mean Krueger himself has a very slight wound Mollie had a more serious
wound but she may have been willing to do it on purpose depending on how much money they were getting or somebody
simply got carried away when they were attacking a stage and accidentally hit her in his report captain mine hold
acknowledged rumors that quote the scheme was intended to rob the male of the bullion generally ship on or shortly
after the first of every month but mine Holt made no mention of a gold shipment on the ill-fated stagecoach there had to
be something worthwhile whatever it was it was something that was privately owned that was the reason it wasn't
officially reported the person that owned the money that was taken was dead was nobody left to be upset about it
Jeff Hammond believes that Kruger hid the loot somewhere near the massacre site where only he and Molly could find
it Kruger had expected to walk out there a few days later and dig it up he couldn't he had no idea that this was
caused national attention to it he knew there was nothing he can do if he anybody found him out there outside a
Wickenburg to get in the ground he would he ended up on the other side of a rope
I mean everybody suspected him anyway but they couldn't prove it if there was a treasure it seems unlikely that
William Kruger and Molly Shepard ever recovered molly dropped from sight soon after the incident and there were rumors
that she had died of her wounds Kruger was last heard from 13 years later when he sued the government for money he
claimed to have lost in the attack the Wickenburg massacre caused a national outrage within 18 months of the attack
the Yavapai were driven out of camp date Creek by a government bent on retaliation eventually hunters of
innocent men women and children would die from starvation and disease we may never know who was responsible for the
Wickenburg massacre but there was one undeniable fact the list of victims stretches far beyond the six men who
were gunned down on that tragic fall morning more than a century ago join me next time for another
fascinating edition unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music]

Brief Summary

Three mysteries: Wickenburg Massacre, Tony Mirabella's amnesia, and a casino payroll robbery.

Key points

The Wild West Stagecoach Massacre. A shocking event that led to the persecution of Native Americans.
Joan Jeffries' Murder Mystery. The suspicious death of Joan Jeffries raises questions about her former business partner.
Tony Mirabella's Mysterious Amnesia. Baseball player Tony Mirabella's career takes a turn after a seizure causes amnesia.
Jim's Armed Robbery Experience. Jim recounts a terrifying armed robbery that left him questioning his fate.
Inside Job Suspicions. The FBI suspects the casino robbery was an inside job, raising eyebrows among the staff.
The Abandoned Van. Police find the abandoned van used in the robbery, leading to crucial evidence.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I had no reason to kill Joan.

Sam Patel denying involvement in Joan's murder

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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