Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 9, Episode 4 - Full Episode | Forensic Files

tonight on unsolved mysteries Christy Martin of Houston Texas was talented attractive and intelligent she was just
19 poised to take her place in the world then a quiet evening out with friends was shattered by a deadly confrontation
tonight Christy Martin's Paris and the authorities in Houston need your help to bring her killers to justice join me for
this intriguing new case as well as these fascinating mysteries a college athlete bounced from his bed
and sprints through the frigid winter night a young woman dreams of being chased and crashes through her patio
doors both are trapped in a world science has yet to understand the mysterious world of sleepwalking on the
day Lois capozella was reunited with her birth father's family she was stunned to
learn that her search was not over perhaps someone watching could help find the twin sister Lois never knew she had
it took years of constant fighting before Jim and Susan Harrison finally called it quits eight months later Susan
vanished now her children believed Jim Harrison knows exactly what happened to their mother in 1988 Larson fire killed
six firefighters in Kansas City Missouri thanks in part to our broadcast five suspects are now in custody
join for another intriguing edition unsolved mysteries [Music] [Music] what happens when we sleep the ancient
Egyptians believed that dreams are a window to the future but what her dreams comfort as a mind
worked differently when the body is resting what happens when a person is suspended between wakefulness and sleep
this man was filmed at a university laboratory he is sound asleep and though he is hooked up to some of the most
sophisticated monitoring devices known to science no one can save why is crawling around as though he were wide
awake it's a world beyond dreams a mysterious world of sleepwalking though often portrayed as harmless or amusing
sleepwalking can in reality be dangerous even deadly tonight two young athletes pushed to the edge by life-threatening
sleep disorders first the strange and tragic case of Jared Allgood a talented football player during his waking hours
Jared Allgood was an habitual sleepwalker at night from the time he was a young boy Jared was known to
wander around the house slamming doors and occasionally bumping into walls but never awakening he was a major
sleepwalker and all of my boys are and that scared me and I talked about it and I'd ask the doctors about it and they
would just pretty much poopoo it like it's really nothing cuz I had asked quite a few times in their lives all of
my children in their lives you know this is normal or they supposed to be doing this you know when Jared went to college
in Iowa the episodes continued none more serious until the early morning hours of
February 9th 1993 jared was a his eyes wide open but he was not awake Jared ran more than a mile
barefoot on the icy pavement witnesses later reported that he sprinted with the urgency of a runner at the finish line
people who have these episodes spontaneously like Jared gets stuck in this state between wakefulness and sleep
and awake enough to perform complex behaviors not awake enough to be aware of what we're doing or responsible for
what we're doing somehow it is sleep Jared had managed to exit his apartment weave around parked cars and turned
corners as he ran then in mid-stride tragedy Jarrid all good died instantly initially
authorities speculated that he had committed suicide Jerez mother didn't buy it when Becky Olga talked to her
son's Ruby he told her that jared had been having a recurrent dream that involved a man from the nearby town of
Bertram Jared said it's a crazy dream I'm running a race with man from bertram only the man is in a car and I'm on foot
running a race as hard as I can run was Jared playing out his jumble dream the night he died
some might dismiss it as mere coincidence Jared was killed as he raced down state highway 30 highway that leads
to Bertram Becky Allgood became absolutely convinced that her son had not taken his own life
the experts agreed there was not one shred of evidence that he had depression or any other reason to commit suicide
there was no evidence of drugs or alcohol involved there was absolutely no reason the world for him that had been
out there and the whole circumstance was so inappropriate that the only reasonable explanations is that this was
yet just another one of his sleepwalking episodes in the end authorities bowed to
the evidence Jared had apparently been sound asleep from the moment he got out of bed to the moment he was killed on
the highway Jared Allgood became the first person in Iowa history whose death was ascribed to
sleepwalking when I hear stories about Jared algid I think I possibly could have been me and that that scares me to
think that like Jared Heidi Ruiz is a dedicated athlete her sleepwalking began in 1991
she was attending college on a track and field scholarship and felt a crushing pressure to perform
[Applause] [Music] Heidi's sleepwalking invariably seemed rooted in a nameless faceless terror I
wasn't running from a particular person or a thing I was just running because I felt like it was the end of the world
the scariest part was not knowing what I was doing and the feeling that I had inside when I woke up out of the night
terror I just I can't even explain it it was like a monster inside me trying to get out I heard a blood-curdling scream
scream at the tidies mother witness two of the most violent episodes sudden bang
two big hits where I could hear her coming through doors I have to tell you the force of her
running through that hall I will never forget because of the tear that looking of tear on her face was so incredible
and for a mom to not know what to do in order for her not to be able to hurt herself again who has a real scary thing
real scary I had the biggest episode was in my mom's house back in August of 95 must have gotten out of bed and took one
step and bolted straight into the wall the impact tore open Heidi's forehead she gashed her wrist as she fell to the
floor I decided I couldn't handle any more I was terrified and I said I need to get go seek help Heidi was tested at
the world-renowned Stanford University sleep clinic in Northern California I had electrodes all over my head I had
a pulse on my finger I mean I was hooked up like I feel like I was from Mars was very very uncomfortable but it was
an extensive test and they had to see what was going on so we wanted to see if we might be able to capture a
sleepwalking episode but that can be rare because it might not occur every night but secondly we also wanted to raw
the possibility that it wasn't something else such as seizure activity a sleep related breathing disorder or even late
movements that were causing the person to awaken and triggering off an attack in Heidi's case we really didn't see any
of those triggers while dr. GU Tschida could find no physiological causes for Heidi's sleepwalking he was able to
pinpoint circumstances likely to kick off an episode there's a lot of different triggers one of them is sleep
deprivation that's known to definitely increase a chance of sleepwalking if a person is sleep deprived secondly stress
can also increase a chance that the person might have sleepwalking both Heidi Ruiz and Jared all good fit that
pattern their sleepwalking fed up under heavy emotional pressure and lack of sleep
Heidi has now brought her sleepwalking under control medication and careful stress management unfortunately a lot of
sleep is still mystery a big mystery in terms of a lot of the causes of these sleep disorders but you know it's
something that we're all trying to really work hard on the phantasmagoric world of sleep and
dreams once the domain of poets has become the target of mainstream research but after decades of testing scientists
can still only pump the mysteries of the night it is important to note that while
researchers cannot fully explain sleepwalking they are able to control it in most cases if you or someone you know
is suffering from a serious sleep disorder it should not be ignored please consult a trained physician
[Music] everyone knows that you're gonna die sometime in your life but you expect to
die when your own not when you're 19 years old I think if Christie would have died from sickness or in a car wreck it
would just be a lot easier to accept than the fact that she was actually murdered because it was just senseless
and there was no reason falling on [Music] Christy Martin an honor roll student and
former high school cheerleader was gunned down two days before Christmas in 1995 that Friday evening she and a
friend named Wendy right double dated with two brothers Joe and Sally Barrera the four had known each other in high
school Christmas break from college was a perfect time to reconnect just 15 miles yet world's distant from the
restaurant members of an East Houston Street gang were cranking up their Friday night on the night of the
homicide Jose Luis Rios he's a gang name is Flaco and Jorge Mendes were out that
night crying around drinking looking for some kind of problems to get into looking to
do something wild I've dealt with Flaco before he's told people in the past that
was the ultimate rush the ultimate high to shoot somebody across town the two couples finished
their meal they headed to River Terrace Park a popular hangout for generations Christy's dad had gone there as a child
when we were kids we fished there crab there we picnicked there he never had to worry about anybody Bhavana for any
reason it was just a nice place to take your family that might be why one of the
reasons the kids went there they felt safe there unbeknownst to Christy and her friends
the park was no longer neutral territory Flacco's gang like to think it was theirs and theirs alone no let's go
check it out hurry we were just sitting there talking when the truck drove up I couldn't see it
because my backwards towards him so Barrera who still lives in Houston asked that we
obscure his features for this interview I thought it was just somebody I was going to park next to us you know so
they could you know do whatever they wanted to do [Music] we probably need to go okay
[Music] [Music] they took off I just see Christine you know on the floor just you know laying
there I just ran right over there towards her and I was talking to her Yellin please don't go don't leave this
Oh God chris Christie she's just down breathe and slowly and just staring at you you
knew she was already gonna die I mean she hadn't the glare nor I like she's trying to look at you but looking past
you you know Wendy right in the Barrera brothers escaped without serious injuries however Christie Martin had
taken a direct hit from a semi-automatic assault rifle she died at the scene when
Christie didn't come home my concern was maybe she had a car accident I never dreamed in a million years it would be
something such as a drive-by shooting because I guess I just assumed that only happened to other people that it didn't
happen to somebody that was a good person and that wasn't involved in gangs you know any way at all
six days after the shooting Jose Rios alias Flaco was formally charged with killing Christie Martin he and Jorge
Mendes who reportedly drove the getaway truck had previous run-ins with the law Mendez was also charged with murder
for weeks before the attack Mendez illegally purchased the assault rifle allegedly used by Flaco in the killing
it's hard to swallow that these kids are able to get out there and buy assault type of weapons and then to come back
and just the firearm it willit anybody they want well the type of gun that this man bought I don't even call him a man
if animal bought is sold to kill people brag to some of his gang members that he
was gonna kill somebody with it he bought this gun to kill somebody just so happened it was our daughter
[Music] Flaco has now been linked to a second killing in March of 1996 al uncle of
Jorge Mendes was gunned down at an intersection the alcohol had told Jorge along with Flaco that if they didn't
turn themselves in that he would call the police on him himself and within two days of that reported
medium between him he ends up being shot the information we're picking up off the
street is that Jose Luis Rios Flaco is also taking credit for that homicide while [ __ ] runs free Brian and Judy
Martin are already starting to dread the one-year anniversary of their daughter's
field Christmas Eve Christmas will be really hard for nellen it just will never be the same it's really a sad time
and I know Christmas should be a happy time but I can't imagine it being any sadder than Christmas Eve will be this
year without Christine losing your mother or a brother I mean that's rough I've lost them both my dad both my
parents have died and my brother has died all I have left is my family my immediate family and when you lose a
child it takes a big hunk out of your heart jose-luis reels also known as Flaco is a lien 5 7 130 he has numerous
tattoos to teardrops under his left eye a knife sticking into a skull on his right forearm and on his left middle
finger the outline of a cross [Music] next a joyous family reunion gives rise to an intriguing unsolved mystery does
this woman have an identical twin sister also an active arson leave six firefighters dead eight years later the
hunt for suspects comes to a close [Music] you may recall these dramatic scenes from a previous broadcast firefighters
in Kansas City Missouri volunteered to help us recreate an unsolved crime that left six of their comrades dead
on November 29th 1988 pumpers 30 and 41 were called to a construction site for a
trader had been torched by arsonists there were explosives at the scene but a survey of the area suggested they had
been secured in storage sheds known as bunkers just the fact that the bunker was there in fact there was two bunkers
there led that captain to believe that's what the explosives was in this trailer
was just a regular normal construction trailer with tools and equipment in it and therefore there was no danger
however when the department supervisor arrived he learned that there were in fact large quantities of explosives
inside the trailer [Music] number 41 or number 30 answer [Music] [Applause] [Music]
30 sunrise confirmed but Kansas City had been dreaded six of their firefighters were dead
[Music] I guess I feel like if I knew who did it we'd know why they did it and I don't
think they were trying to kill six firemen but somebody was trying to do something to somebody and six men are
gone the shocking crime triggered the biggest manhunt in the city's history but after nearly eight years those
responsible were still running free then Kansas City firemen pushed aside painful
memories to help us get this story on the air Healy che Smith has more Bob the efforts of the Kansas City Fire
Department paid off in a big way more than six hundred calls poured into our phone center and two hotlines set up by
local authorities the infusion of new leads led directly to the indictment of five suspects when the long-awaited news
was announced at a press conference last June the excitement was tempered by lingering emotions even though is very
difficult for many of us who participated in that recreation that event it came at a time with many of our
spirits were down needs including both who needed them it and we got a lift all five suspects are now facing a federal
arson charge George Frank Shepherd his brother Earl their nephew Brian Shepard Frank Shepards girlfriend Darlene
Edwards and Richard W Brown citing the pending trial authorities declined to speculate on motive if convicted the
suspects could spend the rest of their lives in prison [Music] [Music] tonight is November 8 1996 and somewhere
a young woman is likely celebrating her 33rd birthday she has no idea that she has an entire clan of loving relatives
eager to meet her with your help she may find out tonight July 21st 1995 Altadena
California it was a day of homecoming a day Margaery Kim and long lost granddaughter Louis Kappas oh no you'll
never forget we all felt just a click the minute we met it's hard to explain how total strangers
who know nothing about each other can just click and bond in a matter of moments within one hug it was like an
answer to a prayer that I had prayed for 32 years knowing that she was out there
42 years Louis and Margaery had waited to meet each other but it was hardly the end of the search in fact it was just
the beginning of a new quest the quest neither had imagined possible Louis capozella was born in November of
1963 adopted almost immediately her birth father was Marjorie Kim's son John a policeman who died in 1979 years
before when John was only 17 he learned that his high school sweetheart Judy was
pregnant the news through both households into turmoil by the time Louis was born the families were barely
on speaking terms Marjorie had wanted to adopt the baby but Judy's parents would not permit it
Judy's sister came by on the slide to give Marjorie word of the birth oh hi penny
hi honey no I can't I've got to get back home look I just wanted to tell you that Judy
gave birth today oh gosh a boy or a girl twins girls wonderful but one of them died poor Judy how's she doing she's
doing all right what can I come see her no I don't think that would be a good idea
look I've got to get going I'll give her my best and thanks for coming it was not a happy time and that date
always stuck in my mind over the years she'll be - she'll be three should be four she'll be five on
through the years those painful thoughts continued until the day of the reunion the introductions are barely over when
Marjorie and Lois realized that the past still held a perplexing mystery it's good to see you too grandma you should
have come back what do you mean honey you should have come back I never been to her house before so to have someone
tell me why didn't I come back I was very confused and I said I don't understand what you're asking me and she
was we you've been here before yes you were honey about 15 years ago hon Derrick Lois's cousin Derrick stayin
remembered vividly and I was in the front and I was riding my bike and a car pulled out
[Music] hi can I help you I'm looking for a Judy Kim does she live here well this is the Kim residence but I'm
sorry there's no duty here there is it no well do you know any Judy Kim I'm sorry
is this something I could help you no no it's okay I'm sorry to bother you Thanks
[Music] there's that girl look so familiar I know her from somewhere it was Derek
who made the connection she sure looks like uncle John and then it hit me and to myself I said
there God I let her leave it was Johnny's daughter and not let her leave she said she looked just like your
father she looked like you you know I don't understand if you haven't been here who was it my twin but she dived
what if she didn't it's like a little thing in your stomach just kind of clenches up and you're just thinking oh
my god you know she didn't die she's alive and she's you know walking around there somewhere searching just as I did
[Music] adoption agencies often tried to keep twins together Louis and the Kim's now
suspect someone who claimed that one twin died in order to make it easier to place the babies Louis looked for a
death certificate for her twin but despite a thorough search she found nothing I think the lack of any of that
information proves to me that she is live and that that girl who came the door was my twin sister I'm looking for
a Judy Kim does she live here well this is the cameras incredibly when Louis contacted her birth mother's family they
told an almost identical story a mysterious young girl had shown up at their home at around the same time is
this somewhere I could help you I am sure in my heart that the girl that came to my house 15 16 years ago was my son
John's daughter the twin I would love with all my heart to see her to be able to see her like God answered my prayer
was with Louis sit on the chili / Louis finding her father's family has been a wonderfully rich and rewarding
experience an experience she hopes to soon share with her twin sister she has a family who loves her who'd like to get
to know her you may have missed first 30 years or so of our life but we have many
more to get to know each other and I'd like to meet her and have her be a part of my life
[Music] Louis his twin sister was born a saint as maternity hospital in Los Angeles the
date on the birth certificate would be either November 8 through November 13th 1963 Lois's twin would have been 16 or
17 when she visited the Kim's in the late seventies today she is 33 years old would no doubt look very much like Louis
capozella in a moment two brothers search for answers in the baffling disappearance of their mother
[Music] you're about to meet two young men on a desperate quest to find out what
happened to their mother she disappeared more than two years ago the police are convinced that she is dead the victim of
foul play and her sons are convinced that their stepfathers and one person who may know what happened
August 5th 1994 in the late afternoon nineteen-year-old Nicholls Lee arrived at his mother's house and Ruxton
Maryland they had planned to spend the evening together the door was ajar she was nowhere to be found her car was gone
and a set of keys lay on the kitchen table Nick waited until 2:00 a.m. then went
home for the night when I woke up that morning I was really concerned called her house and and she didn't answer and
at that moment I realized that something was really really wrong and I felt like
at that point she was probably dead because it was so unlike her and so out of character and basically I haven't
felt anything different since that moment we had a memorial service but we never had a funeral and that kills me
the fact that she's out there somewhere this wonderful amazing woman who did so much for so many people and we can't
give her that final tribute and do what's right Susan Hurley Harrison grew up in a
wealthy close-knit Massachusetts family in 1967 she married one of her brothers roommates at Harvard their sons John and
Nick were born five years apart but in 1984 Susan left her husband and became involved with a man named Jim
Harrison four years later they were married from the start the relationship was reportedly marked by heavy drinking
frequent fights and mutual abuse problems was Jim Harrison attributes to Susan's alleged manic depression but
Susan when she was not manic-depressive was just a wonderful woman and a wonderful wife and when the
manic-depressive aspect came on periodically that was bad she would start screaming and yelling and she
would start destroying things in or around the house and she would run around the house and use bad language it
was it was really sad and really tough it's a it's another excuse that he tries to use tries to take the blame from
himself for what even now even still even when she's not around to say okay maybe it was my fault well I think the
first time that I recognized that there was abuse in the relationship was when I
actually saw abuse myself when I was about 12 years old Susan and her ex-husband shared custody
of Nick and John on the night Nick claims he witnessed abuse John was off visiting prospective colleges Nick was
staying with his mother and Jim Harrison I remember waking up around 2:00 in the
morning 1 or 2 in the morning and I'm hearing voices and some screaming what's going on out there
she said Jim has been hurting me he won't leave me alone [Music] leave me alone are you okay and I said
well I gotta get out of here and so I called my brother's girlfriend at the time and talked with her and she said
you should get out of there I'll come pick you up go outside stay in the driveway and and then I'll come get you
nick says it while he waited a battle moved outside I see my mother as a victim of domestic violence and a victim
of abuse and I think that she was caught up in a vicious cycle that a lot of women who are in the same situations are
caught up in and that it's just very difficult for them to leave the only thing I've ever done is defended myself
when she attacked me and to some degree that involved my simply leaving the house for a day or so and other times
putting myself into the bedroom and closing the drawer and just trying not to let her abuse me but I've never
abused her never our uniformed police officers had been called their home on a number of occasions for cause of
domestic violence and when they responded to the home they found on occasion Susan had some injuries that
were questionable there had been some drinking on both parties and it was usually a very confused situation for
the officer to determine exactly what had happened finally in January of 1994 Susan left Jim Harrison rented a house
and launched her own business selling handcrafted lampshades she felt very good about it she called
me a couple of times and said you know so this is what you've been talking about all these years and she just said
what a wonderful feeling it was to know that she could go out there and do something on her own she said at the end
of the day she felt so good having worked all day at this and so there was a lot we thought that she was finally
getting herself together however that wasn't the case Susan was still seeing Jim Harrison on occasion by all accounts
the fighting continued unabated I found out she told me that she had seen him a couple of times and obviously
that made me angry made me feel sick to my stomach all of a sudden I saw the slippery slope and I saw it her sliding
back into all the things that she'd worked so hard to get out of and and that worried me Nick Ghazi shared his
brothers concerns Nick says it in early August of 1994 he confronted his mother and delivered an ultimatum mark I want
his dad now see the Jim Ross family members say that the next morning Susan decided to leave Jim for good but just
two days later Susan Harrison disappeared and police went to speak with Jim Harrison he told them Miss
Susan had visited him on three separate occasions a previous day the third time she arrived about 7:00 and she attacked
me verbally and it was very discouraging and she asked for glasses of wine and like I gave her what she asked for then
she went to sleep and woke up and she entirely changed and she was delightful and good and it was very loving and
wonderful you could decorate this room just the way you always wanted according to Jim Harrison he and Susan drank wine
and talked for about two hours it'll be around 9 p.m. Susan took another nap and
when she woke up it would gone bad again I was just wondering if maybe it was a dream that she had caused her to go bed
instead of staying good what did you change the locks now Susan we went through this an hour ago so tell me
again I didn't change the locks in the house I changed the locks in the family room it's my house did you change the
locks yes it is yours calm down what is that problems with the power Jim Harrison claims a susan's
movie turned uglier by the minute don't walk away from me don't walk away from me talk to me
Chozen you're being bad again I left the family room and upstairs town bedroom and she followed me to the bottom of the
steps and she stayed there and yelled at me at the steps for a short period and then left left the house and started a
car and drove out police found no flaws in Jim Harrison's account then three weeks later Susan's car 1992 green Saab
convertible was discovered at national airport in Washington DC some 50 miles from Volta me records show that the car
entered the parking lot around 6:00 a.m. on August 6 1994 the day Susan disappeared the keys were in the
ignition the gas tank was full raising the possibility that Susan had simply walked away from her life well in any
missing person investigation you know we approached it in a several prong manner could they be missing on
their own accord and that don't want to be found or is there foul play and we haven't
uncovered any information that would lead credence to her trying to disappear in any fashion whatsoever in November of
1994 Jim Harrison agreed to take a polygraph yes publicly admitted that he failed the
test the claims of tests was not administered properly today Jim Harrison maintains he had nothing to do with his
wife's disappearance I'd love Susan and I really do pray to God that she's alive and well and I pray
to God that you all can help find her and please do your best to help find her [Music]
there's no indications of what we may consider a stranger type of killer so we feel that what happened this susan was
committed by someone close to her that there had been some type of a dispute and someone lost control when
circumstances um took a tragic twist I have dreams of walking down the street with her or just running into her
somewhere and all this time she's she's been gone finally getting a chance to be
with her again and I know it's just a dream I know that there's not a chance that she's ever going to come back but
but I just I miss her so much and I at least get to see her you know in these dreams and you can get to be with her
but but there's no doubt in my mind that she'll never ever be able to be with me
[Music] [Music] [Music] on our next unsolved mysteries what happens when we die for a man named
Howard storm a medical emergency took him to the brink of death and on a personal journey into the very depths of
hell that place was more full of torment and despair than anything you could ever
imagine in this world it was a place where you wouldn't want to send your worst enemy
join me again next run solve mysteries [Music] you [Music]

Brief Summary

Christy Martin's murder, sleepwalking tragedies, and Lois Capozella's search for her twin sister are featured in this episode.

Key points

The Mystery of Sleepwalking. Exploring the dangerous and often misunderstood phenomenon of sleepwalking through tragic stories.
Jared Allgood's Sleepwalking Tragedy. Jared Allgood's sleepwalking led to a fatal incident, raising questions about mental health and sleep disorders.
The Tragic Death of Christy Martin. Christy Martin, a promising young woman, was murdered just days before Christmas in 1995.
The Search for a Twin Sister. Louis believes the girl who visited him is his long-lost twin sister.
A Mother's Disappearance. Two brothers embark on a desperate quest to find their missing mother.
Domestic Violence Uncovered. Nick confronts his mother about the abuse she suffers at the hands of Jim.

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It’s a world beyond dreams, a mysterious world of sleepwalking.

Narration about the complexities of sleepwalking.

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