Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 8, Episode 17 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries 21 year old Angela Mar was intelligent energetic in spirited a passionate young crusader
against drinking and driving but Angela climbed into her car on a summer night in 1994 no one could have imagined the
cruel twist of fate she was about to encounter beautiful sky Peru's Nazca plateau was a breathtaking marvel
hundreds of ramrod straight lines a converging geometric perfection giant figures armed by single continuous
strokes who created these massive artworks and boy if you're looking for a good night's sleep you might want to
steer clear of this ranch house in West Texas those who didn't have a hair-raising story to tell
whole polis lives in the shadow of ugly suspicion the day his wife shot at disappeared
Paul says he was out running errands with his children the shortest family claims Paul his life stay with us
perhaps you hold the key perhaps your call and help solve on a tonight's unsolved mysteries
[Music] shouldn't be long just a couple hours I love you honey love you more he looks so pretty tonight Angela thanks
21 year old Angela Mar grew up in a close-knit family as Scottsdale Arizona on July 29th 1994 angela was home from
college to celebrate her mother's birthday a 10:00 p.m. she left the house to pick up a friend who needed a ride
[Music] around the same time 31 year old glorious shools was leaving a local bar
moments later the pair's are these two strangers glorious shoes and Angela Mar would collide
[Music] [Applause] there was a knock at the door was the police officers and they said that there
had been an accident and my question was was my daughter okay and they said no [Music]
Angela had suffered massive blunt-force trauma to her head by the time paramedics are able to cut her out of
the car it was too late Doria Shula survived although she sustained a broken jaw she was lucid
enough to be questioned at the scene tests later revealed traces of marijuana and shows his system and a blood alcohol
content of point 1 5 well above the legal limit for driving in Arizona Angela Moore had apparently become one
of the more than 16,000 Americans killed in alcohol-related accidents in 1994 but
Angela Maher is more than just a statistic in a cruel tragic irony Angela Martin an active crusader against
drinking and driving when she was a high school junior a close friend was killed
while driving drunk rather than do nothing Angela took a stand and helped establish a chapter of Sadd Students
Against Drunk Driving being involved was sad means that you just care enough to be a really good friend if any of you
ever got into a situation where you needed a ride home you could just give me a call and I would come and get you
no questions asked you're probably wondering why you're holding these balloons well if everyone that has a black
balloon to go ahead and release it these balloons signify the number of people that were killed in drunk-driving
accidents in Arizona last year by releasing this white balloon it signifies hope there this one ever
happened to one of us what's really an awful ironies that the night that my sister was hit she was on her way to
pick up a friend who had called from a bar here in Phoenix for a ride home my sister felt strongly enough that you
know if she knew she was going out with friends and that they were going to drink she would not drink so she could
drive everybody home and make sure that that everybody got home safe and sound always she always wanted to be the
designated driver that's why she would always take our car and she'd always just answer us by saying mother I want
to make sure I get home your honor it is the state's position that a bond should
be set in this matter in September 6 1994 Gloria Shoals was arraigned on charges of manslaughter and reckless
endangerment Jose was represented by a prominent attorney experience and handling drunk
driving cases do the families wish to be heard yes your honor Rosemarie Meyer the victim's mother
wishes to make a statement Judge Ryan we all know in this country that a person is innocent until proven guilty in a
court of law but does that mean that the life of the accused continues on is if nothing had happened she wasn't a rain
until four and a half weeks after the accident actions she's never spent the day in jail she kept her driver's
license she went on every day like nothing happened at this point Mitchell's I'm going to release you under the
supervision of the pretrial services agency of this court and this will include drug monitoring to the Mars
dismay Gloria shows was released without being required to post bond the judge however did stipulate the shows submit
to drug testing three times a week that she report to the court by phone once a week do you understand the conditions of
your release yes your honor thank you your honor may we be excused yes it was a beginning of months of frustration for
the Mars Gloria Schultz's attorney which seek and receive six trial postponements the
prosecutor and judge originally on the case were reassigned Gloria shows will also be permitted to
leave the state on three separate occasions despite the Mars and the prosecutors
objections finally more than a year after Angela Mars death Gloria shows has offered a plea bargain
arrangement if she waived her right to a trial and but guilty to the reckless endangerment and manslaughter charges
she would serve a reduced sentence a [Music] pre-trial hearing was scheduled for
September 15th 1995 a day Rosemarie marvel always remembered when I didn't see her sitting in the car room all I
could think of was where was she had she skipped [Music] I need to talk with y'all all real is
anybody looking back we've issued a warrant for her arrest we discovered that she had missed six drug testings
and then to find out her last time that she called in was the end of August or the 1st of September she could have
called in from anywhere the fact that Gloria Schultz ran definitely affected my mother and I the healing that goes
along with grieving and mourning somebody you love it just hasn't happened there's no closure she was
bubbly friendly full life and vitality and always smiling I had a young lady that was polished and educated
personable and loved life and this woman took that away not only from me but from
everybody else touched Angela's life at the time of her death Angela was a senior at Creighton University in Omaha
Nebraska on May 13th 1995 in an unprecedented display of respect angela was granted a diploma postures
[Music] Gloria Shoals has not been seen in more than seven months she's wanted on
manslaughter charges in the death of Angela Maher there is also a federal warrant for her arrest Scottsdale Police
have only two pictures of shoes for booking photo and one from her driver's license
Gloria shows us five feet five inches tall and weighs 115 pounds she is 33 years old and has red hair and
green eyes [Music] next a wondrous Nazca lines in Peru are they the calling card of an ancient lost
civilization or guideposts for visitors from beyond the stars and later a husband stands accused in the baffling
disappearance of his wife [Music] they are like enigmatic guests from a vanished time the Sphinx Rises
inscrutable above the sands of Egypt [Music] Stonehenge somber model is circled in
silent prayer in the statues of Easter Island the face is curiously turned away from
the sea in South America another ancient mystery has defied all who would uncover
its secrets here inexplicably monumental drawings have been etched into the desert plane were they created
to placate angry gods to map out the heavens or perhaps to welcome visitors from another galaxy
welcome to the Nazca plateau a hundred square miles of unanswered questions in western Peru
[Music] this spider prowls the eastern corner of the plateau it is formed by a single
winding line that starts and ends in the same place but for what purpose this gigantic monkey is contour as dim
by time could fill two football fields but how did this jungle dweller come to be marooned in an empty desert more than
800 ramrod straight lines shoot across the plateau laid end-to-end they total a thousand miles the Lions converge at 62
different points archaeological evidence suggests that the Egypt nazca's famous for their ceramic art inscribed the
giant drawings between 1500 and 2500 years ago all over the NOS coeurs left little that tells us the meaning of the
figures or reveals how they were made imagine standing on the Nazca plateau without modern surveying tools aerial
photographs or topographical maps how would you plot out the enormous monkey where would you put its tail its
head how would you make sure that the parcel fit perfectly together somehow the ancient Nazca artists were able to
do exactly that all told nearly a thousand lines geometric shapes and figures at tattooed across the Nazca
plateau when they are mapped in catalogue the images form an astounding body of work to this day no one has
fully explained the drawings though many have tried [Music] one of the first archaeologists to visit
Nazca theorize that the plateau was a giant celestial calendar he observed that on the summer solstice the Sun set
in perfect alignment with one of the markings for over 40 years a German mathematician
named Maria Reiche II spent virtually every waking hours studying the Nazca plateau she concluded the dozens of the
lines and animal figures pointed to major constellations if you go out there dawn where you can see the sky and you
can see the dawn glow reflecting off of those lines and they really become like lighted pointers to the heavens a
radically different theory was proposed by Swiss author Erich von däniken in the
late 1960s he claimed as some of the markings were nothing less than giant landing strips for alien spacecraft in
his book Chariots of the Gods von Daniken suggested that the ancient Nazca had regarded the aliens as gods that
constructed the runways under their direct orders von Daniken identified this 840 foot marking as a signpost
pointing the way to the landing strip and this a portrait of one of the intergalactic voyagers complete with
spacesuit scientists aren't against the idea of necessarily extraterrestrials per se but
we do expect some evidence before we then start doing a lot of research in that direction dr. Reinhardt and other
scientists believe that the plateau was an immense outdoor Cathedral prayers were once whispered here in the name of
a priceless resource water the plateau is one of the driest places on earth in five years five good years the plateau
will be blessed with just one half inch of rain the main concern for people living in that kind of a desert
environment is precisely that they're very dependent on the rainfall and the mountains to the east and they're also
dependent on the water level like goes underground and which is also coming from the mountains but how are the
drawings created in 1982 an attempt was made to replicate the process using only
the simplest of tools we pirated a couple of broomsticks from the local hotel some pieces of string laid out a
line and we proceeded to clean and sweep away the surface of the line it took us
a group of twelve one morning we even got back to the hotel for lunch to make a line about 20 yards long two yards
wide clear it completely and here was a brand-spanking-new nazca line dr. ravine ease line certainly looked
like the genuine article but clearing a 60-foot curlicue was a relatively simple
task how did the Nazca artists accurately model gargantuan figures like the sprawling monkey by looking at them
only from ground level it took a tremendous leap of imagination to make these large models on the ground which
they themselves presumably did not see not being able to fly but perhaps they were able to fly argued Jim Woodman a
British author and Explorer to prove his point Woodman hired Peruvian craftsmen to stitch together a hot-air balloon
from materials that would have been available centuries ago a raging campfire provided the requisite hot air
perhaps for the first time in centuries Mosca's figures are being viewed as intended from a hot air balloon hundreds
of feet above the desert however many scientists still believe that the markings are meant to be experienced at
ground level the straight lines look like roadways I mean they start from someplace they lead to someplace so the
the idea that the lines are meant to be walked on seems to me to be a much more feasible one than the notion that
somebody had to look at them from above the animals are made out of a single sinuous continuous line that begins and
ends at the same point I can imagine that a worshipper of the of a deity would walk around one of these animal
figures to pray to the god or gods that had to do with that animal that probably
some invocation to the gods would have happened here maybe it's because in our culture we
give a very high priority to visual experience that we want to think that ultimately we have to be able to explain
how these people saw the lines in order for there to be a rational explanation for for them and I think here that that
maybe we reflect more of our own interest and the limitations of our own point of view than any kind of
limitation that might have existed for the Nazca people in the end there are no answers those who created the wondrous
artworks of Nazca and been dead now for centuries buried in tombs that ringed the plateau over the years their bones
have been carelessly scattered by grave robbers however the ancient mysteries of Nazca
will in all likelihood remain undisturbed forever [Music] coming up a most unusual haunting in
Texas proves as some ghosts would rather be heard than seen and what a young wife
and mother vanishes two families become locked in a bitter dispute [Music] hey guys what's up this fall this
wondering if Shore was over there I haven't seen her all day I took the kid down these are the opening words of an
actual phone missing it is left by a man named Paul polis on March 12th 1994 the
day his wife shot it vanished from their home in Girard Ohio and I just wanted to
say be shoes with you guys or if she called you or something man you know let me know I'm sort of getting a little
freaked out here to the casual listener a husband's message of concern but Charlotte's family is convinced that
Paul polis knows exactly what happened to his wife I think Paul got in a fit of rage over
something and I think he got angry and he struck her and he couldn't stop himself
I think Paul killed my daughter they can point the finger of me all they want I didn't do anything wrong I know I didn't
do anything wrong and I can't change what other people think there are only two possibilities
Paul polis is totally innocent the bereaved husband wrongly accused or perhaps Paul POTUS has gotten away with
murder the police can't say there's not even enough evidence to prove a crime was committed until solid Lee's
developed Paul polis will very likely remain locked in an ugly dispute with his wife's family over just what
happened back in March of 1994 about the only thing everyone agrees on is that Charlotte was sick on Friday
March 11th the day before she vanished hey we're back that night poles Paris looked after the couple's two children
while Paul took Charlotte to the hospital she had an acute ear infection marked by pain and dizziness hi mom
yeah we just got back from the hospital after Paul's parents left shot at phoned
her mother it would be the final moment the Charlotte Paulus was indisputably alive she said I'll talk to you in the
morning and at 1:25 a.m. I had hung up the phone from her that's the last I ever spoke to
her at 10:00 to 9:00 on Saturday morning I called the house to check on my daughter because we talked generally we
talk on the phone anywhere from 10 to 12 14 times a day and Paul answered the phone she's still up in bed she's still
sleeping well is she okay well doctor said the best thing now is just to get some rest
would you have Charlotte call me when she gets gets up would you all right sure-sure
I feeling Paul says the last time he saw Charlotte was shortly after that phone calls I want to go out and take the kids
with me for a little bit I'm gonna do things about 11 o'clock I took the kids out to do errands for the afternoon and
I told her just stay in bed and relax I'll bring the medication that you need back just stay in bed take it easy
according to Paul he buckled the kids into their car seats and headed off for a day of errands
there were stops at the pharmacy the laundromat in a scrap yard then burgers at a fast-food restaurant and finally a
couple of hours spent looking at houses for sale when he gets something to eat how does that sound good I know you guys
are hungry however polls account of that day is disputed by several people at the
playground for example Charlotte's mother claims that she called the house several times
when Paul by his own account should still have been there and I called it 10 I called it 10 after 10 I called it 20
after 10 I just kept calling calling I thought something's not right and no answering machine nobody
answering the phone nothing and I thought well where is she you know why is there nobody answering
one of Paws neighbors contradicted his claim that he simply put the children in the car and left it was 10 after 11 when
I pulled out of the driveway and as I backed out I looked over at Paul's house and he had Paul had his car backed up to
the porch [Music] but the trunk was open all four doors were open his car was completely packed
with boxes and bags there was no sign of the children and there was no way they could be in the car there was no
possible way that car seats could fit in the car as packed as it was and as I drove by he looked at me with a really
strange eerie look he indicated that he had the children with him all this time we've talked to people that he made
contact with no one saw the children with him my children were with me all afternoon
I don't abandon my children not for a second I don't leave the house and leave them unattended I don't leave them in a
car unattended I'm not that type of a parent never will be Paul says that when he returned home at around 4 p.m.
Charlotte wasn't there at that time he had no concerns for her safety sure he didn't think anything was wrong
I figured that she was feeling better and had gone out put the kids up to finish their nap in bed and just watch
TV and finish cleaning the house about 7:30 I noticed her purse up on me of the cabinets and
my wife doesn't go anywhere without her purse I can't believe that she would have left without it so I started
calling around to see if she'd going out with anybody hey guys what's up this is Paul I'm just
calling to see if you guys had seen char at all one shortest family learned that she was
missing they rushed to the house after talking to Paul shot a sister Aria decided to
take a look outside she noticed two sets of footprints in the snow they stretched
from a side door towards a small shed and then back around the house the doors were bulging into pretty much
out of the shed they just had like a regular padlock on it and it kind of bothered me the way the shed was cuz the
doors weren't flush against it so he'd gone into the house and I had asked Paul for the keys he got very angry the shed
has nothing to do with Charlotte and I'm not giving you the keys and she'd asked
him repeatedly for these keys to the [ __ ] they got angrier and angrier it's a [ __ ] all the normal garden tools lawn
mower it's as matter of fact I think at the time there was key lock and it was a
key on Charlotte spring if they wanted it open I would've given him a key I don't remember anything about that
Paul's parents when I was staying at the house and the air was thick with suspicion there was an extremely a lot
of cleaning they were cleaning everything from the attic to the basement they are washing walls he had
washed he had did laundry he had washed like scrubbed up the kitchen real good and stuff which isn't it's not
characteristic of Paul to do that what was his mother cleaning and his father what was all this cleaning that went on
while they were there the only floor I scrubbed was the kitchen floor so I wouldn't stick to it where the baby had
dropped his food I'll clean I live there I'd like to live in a clean house that the State Bureau of Criminal
Investigation came in to check the house to spray it with luminol or to find out
if any crime of violence had been committed the house was spotless it was cleaned
from top to bottom and it's very unusual that a house is cleaned this way investigators did find a stain of human
blood in the trunk of Paul and Charlotte's car the sample was too small to allow positive identification but
quite enough to fuel speculation that Charlotte's body had been in the trunk Paul weighs a hundred and fifty pounds
Charlotte weighed approximately 300 pounds Paul would be required to transport the body that was twice his
weight and take it out into the open and put the body in the trunk of the car it's to me it just does not seem
possible at all the Shorter's family however the pair of footprints in the snow hit it at an explanation
Paul had help I looked at Paul's shoe prints and they were the same footprints that were in the snow and the other
footprints were fairly large with a shoe boot who I can suspect would have been his father's but they you know I can't
be definite on that either his parents were brought in after the fact to help him or they were there at the time it
happened oh I think that's positively ludicrous there to think that anyone would think that of us we have lived in
this area for 40 years we're not that type of people I can't imagine why they would think that it gives them an outlet
to vent their anger I can only explain me in my actions and I've been very straightforward
explaining where I was and what we did that day Paul even agreed to take a polygraph test
he made an appointment for Tuesday three days after his wife disappeared but Paul polis did not show up Paul
wasn't at home either yet left a note on the bureau which read in part I love my
wife and would never do anything to harm her intentionally Paul stayed out of sight for three months then he
resurfaced with an explanation I had a lot of mental anguish I was going through and I wanted some time alone
people were driving in front of the house non-stop they didn't come by to give me a hug or a pat on the back and
say we're with you they just came by to look for more than two years Paul Poehler's has proclaimed his
innocence but according to Shauna's family there is at least one eyewitness to the alleged crime Paul and Shauna's
daughter now four years old since her mother vanished the child is lidless shot as parents they claim the
little girl has volunteered several disturbing comments some of which they recorded I feel that my granddaughter
witnessed the violence and that it's locked into her memory we had to get rid of all dark trash bags in our home and
go with light colored trash bags she is paranoid of a dark trash bag she screams
and she cries because mommy was put in a in a dark trash bag I think the child is
being coached and the tapes are being made with this coached information that's being given to her and I in the
sad part about it is it's very detrimental to the child they're destroying this child I didn't kill my
wife and I don't know where she is I didn't have anything to do with it nor did my family have anything to do with
it as far as I know [Music] [Music] in a moment we'll take you to a remote ranch in Texas where three Cowboys claim
that a noisy ghost is making their lives miserable [Music] everybody loves a good ghost story
a spooky tall tale about things that go bump in the night the three Texas Cowboys are about to meet have a great
one but their ghost isn't satisfied with a little old bump quite frankly this noisy entities scares the daylights out
of everyone in earshot it started out as a simple business venture in June of 1995 three partners took over a 3,000
acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country they plan to sublease the game rich land to hunters while they got things rolling
the three cowboys moved into the main building it is a 4-bedroom wood frame house constructed in the 1950s could any
house be more ordinary well from the very first night the three men discovered the ad company heavy-footed
company sounded as if when it started it was like off in a distance and each time it
would make a stab you could hear the individual steps that they would make but in my mind you know I didn't want to
III didn't want to consider the fact it might be a ghost or something of that nature almost every night there was
something new crashing footsteps thunderous blows on the walls or ceilings men never saw ghosts but they
heard plenty one of the Cowboys Bobby had a most unnerving experience which his partner slept through
I immediately picked a pistol up and I jumped to my feet it was so loud it sounded just like wooden chairs been
kicked just plumb across the floor [Music] the wasn't a cheer moved all the chairs
were right in place there was nothing turned over anymore this thing whatever it is it was almost
as if it would not let you rest because almost as if they wanted to keep you awake all night just about the time he
would doze off he would hit the wall and I mean when I say hit it it would clobbered the unearthly record continued
every night in the dark hours before dawn pounding footsteps had threatened to break the floorboards or crash
through the ceiling sledgehammer blows that smashed at the wall sometimes every 100 other times the entity chose to
torment the Cowboys one by one this was the night then I was hurt upon myself they didn't say Johnny
it said Johnny and I looked around my room was like oh I mean that room was as cold as ice cold chills run into him and
I was just shivering under the sheets you don't looking around you don't think to myself another night Bobby woke up
sensing someone next to him I don't like it probably to 3 o'clock in the morning
side of my bed just smashed plumb down I mean really went down like someone had stepped on the side of it with her foot
or set on the side of it which really scared me because he had never done it before Mike Richards had a similar
experience equally terrifying approximately 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning my right knee he woke me up I
mean it was it was pain like I've never felt before he was actually like somebody was sitting on their name I
[Music] went to roll off the bed but my right leg she stayed in the same position it
was and I look now I couldn't see nobody sitting on her because you know he can't
roll off off the bed you know cuz somebody's got your pin down you know so all I could do was you know I I've
raised my other leg up and started waving her to cross my leg you know like you know get off whatever it is you know
it stopped and I could get off a bed you know and the minute I got up and walked
around it it felt fine [Music] don't anything you let me know okay okay finally Mike sisters paid a visit to the
ranch house to check out the noises for themselves I guess I don't know what I really expected I guess I expected to
just hear a little bumping and it there'd be some logical explanation for it but when I heard that night no man or
animal could have made before we went to bed Susy and I decided that if I heard something I was to nudge her and if she
heard something she was going to nudge me well we were nudging each other pretty quick
this went on for hours we heard whistling that was started off very faint grew to very very loud you could
hear the air you know like a person whistling and then bam bam bam out banging in the
walls like something caught up in the wall ceilings were gonna cave in it was so loud just laid there and whined and
spread it all night I don't know what you call it it was so unreal that giddy 9 or calling for my brother was not an
option it was almost like I was trapped there basically all I kept thinking is pretty soon the sun's gonna come up and
I'm gonna get out of here that night I didn't hear anything but there was no doubt by the expression on their face
saying they they had definitely been put through something you know that night and they just said it's time to go or do
you want me to cook breakfast no it's time to go let's go you know we was out here pretty quick you know we decided to
try to find out just what was happening at the ranch house we brought in noted para psychologist dr. William role he
and his assistants set up equipment inside and outside video cameras and monitoring devices are used to measure
sudden temperature changes evidence of radioactivity and fluctuation in the electromagnetic fields in the area first
of all we recorded a number of sonic effects from bangs to booms to a mild sounds and the most striking of these
was associated with a southern crease in the magnetic fields in the house dr. ROH
believes the noises can be attributed to a physical phenomenon called a Peltier effect according to dr. roll this can
occur when water seeps between underground slabs of limestone the resulting reaction not only produces
real noises but also creates an electromagnetic field that may affect human brains making people imagine all
kinds of experiences these magnetic fields affect the human brain because the human brain is a conductor and this
electric current produces striking psychological experiences that only happen in the minds
[Music] a trick of the mind up to those who've heard it but by a long shot I was the
most frightened I've ever been in my whole entire life I mean I've been robbed and had a gun sticking in my back
but that wasn't anything like what this was because you're in such shock I'm not
lean I've come up with a thousand different excuses that I would like to blame it on him and none of them work
you know all I can say is come on over and we'll fix you up you can just you can you know you're more than welcome if
that's what you want to do it won't take long it made a believer out of me quick
on our next turn saw mysteries they caught it chupacabras a strange reptile-like creatures roams the
countryside in puerto rico preying on livestock and small animals it may sound fantastic but eyewitnesses
have no doubts the Beast is real when she passed away in 1993 tobacco heiress Doris Duke was one of the wealthiest
women in America now a bitter dispute over control of a billion-dollar estate has boiled over with accusations of
treachery and foul play join me again next week perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery
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Brief Summary

Angela Mar's tragic death, the Nazca Lines mystery, and Charlotte Paulus's disappearance are explored in this episode.

Key points

Angela Mar's Tragic Story. Angela Mar, a passionate advocate against drunk driving, becomes a victim herself.
The Mystery of the Nazca Lines. The Nazca plateau holds ancient secrets and unanswered questions about its massive drawings.
The Accusation Against Paul Polis. Charlotte's family believes Paul knows more than he admits about her disappearance.
Paul's Alibi. Paul claims innocence but fails to show for a polygraph test.
Child's Disturbing Comments. The daughter of Paul and Shauna makes unsettling remarks about her mother's disappearance.
Mysterious Noises at the Ranch. Three cowboys experience terrifying noises at their ranch, leading to a paranormal investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Angela was an active crusader against drinking and driving.

Angela Mar's dedication to fighting drunk driving is highlighted.

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