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  Speaker 1: Today's video is going to start out sounding like a
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  Speaker 1: pretty straightforward story about police trying to solve a murder.
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  Speaker 1: But when you get to the end of this video
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  Speaker 1: and you hear the big plot twist, you'll see that
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the story is what it seems. But before
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  Speaker 1: morning of August thirtieth, two thousand and one, a middle
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  Speaker 1: aged police art named Alan McGregor drove with his partner,
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  Speaker 1: Officer Mark David, towards the Huron National Forest, which is
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  Speaker 1: a massive nature preserve in northern Michigan. The two of
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  Speaker 1: them were on the way to this forest to meet
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  Speaker 1: with a very unlikely detective whom McGregor believed might actually
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  Speaker 1: be the key to solving a case that had haunted
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  Speaker 1: him for the last twenty one years, and that case
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  Speaker 1: was the disappearance of Charita Thomas. Back in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Charita Thomas had been walking down the road located about
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  Speaker 1: one mile away from the police station where Sergeant McGregor worked,
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  Speaker 1: when she had gotten into the car with this older
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  Speaker 1: man who had come by to pick her up, and
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  Speaker 1: after getting in this car, she was never seen again.
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  Speaker 1: Based on various tips and clues, police were nearly certain
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  Speaker 1: that that older man who had picked Tcharita up was
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Jimmy Nelson, and their theory was he
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  Speaker 1: had murdered Charita shortly after picking her up and then
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  Speaker 1: afterwards disposed of her body in a particular section of
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  Speaker 1: the Huron National Forest. But the problem was the police
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  Speaker 1: did not have any actual evidence that supported this theory.
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  Speaker 1: Their case against Jimmy was entirely circumstantial. In fact, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know if Cherita had really been murdered because
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  Speaker 1: for the last twenty plus years they had searched that
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  Speaker 1: particular section of the Huron National Forest, they'd gotten the
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  Speaker 1: FBI involved, they had chased down every lead, yet still
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  Speaker 1: they had not found Charita's body, so they really didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what happened, But as Sargent McGregor neared the forest,
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  Speaker 1: he hoped that today would be the day that that
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  Speaker 1: all changed. He pulled up by the entrance of the
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  Speaker 1: Huron National Forest and he and his partner got their
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  Speaker 1: first look at their unlikely detective they were here to meet,
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  Speaker 1: and this detective was a Doberman Pincher mix with big,
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  Speaker 1: floppy ears who was lying on the ground and panting
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  Speaker 1: and wagging his tail. His name was Eagle, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't look like a stereotypical police dog because he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a police dog. However, Eagle was the best crime scene
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  Speaker 1: sniffing dog in the entire world. His trainer, a forty
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  Speaker 1: year old woman named Sandra Anderson, was standing right beside him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Sandra and Eagle were very famous in law enforcement circle,
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  Speaker 1: and so Sergeant McGregor and his partner were already well
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  Speaker 1: aware of their backstory. Sandra had actually adopted Eagle from
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  Speaker 1: a pound shortly before he likely would have been euthanized,
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  Speaker 1: and then after she adopted him, Sandra, who had made
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  Speaker 1: a career in teaching dogs how to sniff for cadavers,
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  Speaker 1: just sort of naturally on her off time, began training
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  Speaker 1: Eagle how to do it too, and amazingly, Eagle really
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  Speaker 1: took to it better than police dogs did. Now, any
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  Speaker 1: good police cadaver dog could sniff out hidden objects and
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  Speaker 1: track a cent for miles, and Eagle could definitely do that.
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  Speaker 1: But also Eagle could do things that the police cadaver
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  Speaker 1: dogs simply could not, Like he could smell blood that
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  Speaker 1: had been cleaned with bleach and also painted over. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's like a superpower. No dog could do that, but
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  Speaker 1: Eagle could. One forensic anthropologist who had come in contact
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  Speaker 1: with Eagle and seen what he could do firsthand, said that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if a great cadaver dog was rated a
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  Speaker 1: ten out of ten, well Eagle was like a twenty
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  Speaker 1: out of ten. He was far and away the best
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  Speaker 1: of the best, and so so Sergeant MacGregor believed that
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  Speaker 1: if Cherieda's body really was in that section of the
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  Speaker 1: Huron National Forest, well Eagle would be able to find it.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant MacGregor was excited to see Eagle in action, but
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  Speaker 1: after he and his partner parked, they walked over and
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  Speaker 1: spent a minute, you know, petting Eagle because Sondra said
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  Speaker 1: it was fine, and they gave him some pets, and
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  Speaker 1: Eagle really liked it and he sort of rubbed up
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  Speaker 1: against them. But then at some point Eagle just kind
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  Speaker 1: of stopped and looked towards the entrance of the National
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  Speaker 1: Forest like he was ready to go, at which point
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  Speaker 1: Sandra said, okay, he's ready to work. So Sergeant MacGregor
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  Speaker 1: and his partner followed behind Sondra and Eagle as they
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  Speaker 1: led the way into the forest towards the section where
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  Speaker 1: they had been told to search. And then once they
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  Speaker 1: reached that section, McGregor and his partner kind of stayed
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  Speaker 1: back on the fringes and just watched Eagle work and
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  Speaker 1: it was incredible. Now, McGregor and his partner had seen
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  Speaker 1: police dogs work before, so they were familiar with basically
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  Speaker 1: the pace at which these dogs would find something, which often,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it would take some time. But basically, as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they got to this clearing, their watch Eagle
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  Speaker 1: and he's sort of walking around sniffing, you know, looking
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  Speaker 1: for something. But then suddenly he stopped, turned and made
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  Speaker 1: a beeline towards this tree, and when he got there,
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  Speaker 1: he began pawing at the ground like he had found something. Sondra,
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  Speaker 1: his trainer, kneeled down next to him to see what
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  Speaker 1: Eagle had found, and she saw as he continued to
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  Speaker 1: dig that there was something in the ground, and so
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  Speaker 1: she called out to McGregor and his partner and they
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  Speaker 1: came rushing over, and sure enough, Eagle had found a
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  Speaker 1: human bone fragment. To be clear, this dog only finds
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  Speaker 1: human bones, and so it's not like it would be
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  Speaker 1: able to find a chicken bone and think it was
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  Speaker 1: a human bone. Basically, if it found a bone, it's
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  Speaker 1: a human bone. McGregor and his partner were totally shocked here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they had really high hopes for the search,
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  Speaker 1: but to already be finding human remains in this particular
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  Speaker 1: section of the forest was revelatory. I mean, not only
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  Speaker 1: was it a big deal to find human remains here,
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  Speaker 1: but these could be cheritahs. This could be the key
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  Speaker 1: to unlocking this two decades old case. But Sondra, Eagle's trainer,
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  Speaker 1: did not seem shocked at all. This was pretty much
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  Speaker 1: par for the course. She smiled at the two investigators
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  Speaker 1: and kind of shrugged, like, yep, this is what he does.
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  Speaker 1: She gave him a treat and then Eagle got up
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  Speaker 1: and just continued searching the area. Thank you to my
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  Speaker 1: Eagle had taken off, McGregor and his partner bagged the
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  Speaker 1: bone fragment and then just kind of continued to let
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  Speaker 1: Eagle do his work, and over the course of that day,
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  Speaker 1: Eagle just kept on finding more human bones. It was
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  Speaker 1: truly incredible, and then the next day when they came
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  Speaker 1: back for a second search, Eagle found even more. It
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  Speaker 1: was like there were human bones all over the place. However,
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  Speaker 1: this was actually kind of typical for human remains that
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  Speaker 1: have been left out in the wild for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: like they believe Cheritas had been. The idea is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after the body is left there and decomposes, animals come
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  Speaker 1: along and break apart the bones and kind of carry
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  Speaker 1: them in different directions. There's weather, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of things that affect the body that sort of
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  Speaker 1: gradually takes it and spreads it all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: But as alarming as it was to find this many
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  Speaker 1: human bone fragments in such a small area in this forest,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that second search on the second day,
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  Speaker 1: McGregor all he could feel was elation. He felt like
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  Speaker 1: Eagle had done the exact thing he was hoping he
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  Speaker 1: would do. He had found the remains that very likely
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  Speaker 1: were Charita Thomas's. McGregor thanks Sondra and Eagle profusely for
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  Speaker 1: their help, and then after staying bye to them, he
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  Speaker 1: and his partner went back to the station and they
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  Speaker 1: sent off the bone fragments to the FBI to be analyzed,
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  Speaker 1: and after sending them off, they waited. The analysis would
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  Speaker 1: take several months, but in February of two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI finally called McGregor. Now, at this point McGregor
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  Speaker 1: was very hopeful and sort of expected that these bone
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  Speaker 1: fragments would belong to Charita, But what they actually said
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  Speaker 1: shocked him, because, according to the FBI, those bone fragments
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  Speaker 1: that Eagle had dug up did not belong to Charita.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the bone fragments didn't even belong to a
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  Speaker 1: single person. They belonged to three different people. Gregor heard
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  Speaker 1: this his blood ran cold, because he wasn't thinking, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: this totally blows up the case. Instead, he's thinking, I
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  Speaker 1: bet Charita is out in that forest. We just haven't
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  Speaker 1: found her yet, and if we keep using Eagle, we
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  Speaker 1: will find her. But now I have at least three
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  Speaker 1: more people that have been found out there, three dead people.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe Jimmy is way worse than I thought he was.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't just kill Charita, maybe he's a serial
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  Speaker 1: killer and he's dumping his bodies in that part of
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  Speaker 1: the forest. However, as explosive as this new information was,
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  Speaker 1: It only made things way more complicated for McGregor because
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  Speaker 1: he and his partner and all of his colleagues had
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  Speaker 1: no idea who these three new bodies were, and neither
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  Speaker 1: did the FBI. The FBI could only determine that these
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  Speaker 1: bone fragments came from three different people, but who they
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  Speaker 1: were they didn't know. And so to try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out who these three people were, Sergeant McGregor would need
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  Speaker 1: to find more clues, And to find more clues, he
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  Speaker 1: needed Eagle to go back to the forest and keep
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  Speaker 1: on looking, and so he immediately reached out to Sun,
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  Speaker 1: who said that she and Eagle would come back out
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  Speaker 1: there and search the forest again. The new search began
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  Speaker 1: on April seventeenth, two thousand and two. McGregor, his partner,
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  Speaker 1: Sondra Eagle, and a whole bunch of police officers and
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  Speaker 1: crime lab technicians descended once again on that same section
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  Speaker 1: of the Huron National Forest. But after a kind of
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  Speaker 1: lengthy search that day, the police officers, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: entire police force that showed up, they didn't find anything
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  Speaker 1: of note, but Eagle he did. At some point, Eagle
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  Speaker 1: had sniffed out a human knucklebone in a dried out
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  Speaker 1: stream bed. When this discovery was made, Officer McGregor was
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  Speaker 1: elated because it was like, once again, we are finding
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  Speaker 1: evidence that's going to help him break this case he
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  Speaker 1: has been trying to crack for twenty years, which now
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  Speaker 1: might actually be way bigger than he thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: It might not just be the murder of Charita. This
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  Speaker 1: might be the hunting grounds or the dumping grounds of
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer who killed Cherita Thomas. And he McGregor
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  Speaker 1: was going to be the one who solved it. He
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  Speaker 1: just knew it. But when McGregor turned back around to
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  Speaker 1: continue searching in the area that he was looking, he
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  Speaker 1: suddenly heard this commotion coming from behind him, sort of
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  Speaker 1: in the same direction where that human knucklebone had been found.
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  Speaker 1: And he turns around and he sees what looks to
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  Speaker 1: be some sort of physical altercation happening amongst two people.
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  Speaker 1: He can't really tell who it is, but they're screaming happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's total chaos, and so, having no idea what was
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  Speaker 1: going on, McGregor abandoned his search, turned and ran to
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  Speaker 1: go break it up. And after this fight was broken up,
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  Speaker 1: another major discovery was made, but it was not another bone.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out the person who was dumping bodies
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  Speaker 1: in this section of the Huron National Forest was not
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer, nor was it Jimmy Nelson. Instead, the
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  Speaker 1: real culprit was actually one of the investigators who was
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  Speaker 1: out here doing this search right now, Eagle was not
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  Speaker 1: the world's greatest cadaver sniffing dog. In fact, Eagle was
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  Speaker 1: not even a cadaver sniffing dog at all, and his trainer, Sondra,
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  Speaker 1: was well aware of that. Because this was all a
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  Speaker 1: big act. It would turn out when Sondra and her
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  Speaker 1: dog were called out to a sight to perform a search,
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  Speaker 1: Sondra would show up with a stash of human bones
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  Speaker 1: tucked into her clothing, right up against her skin, and
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  Speaker 1: then once the search began, she would discreetly pull little
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  Speaker 1: bone fragments out and drop them on the ground in
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  Speaker 1: front of Eagle, who would immediately notice them and alert
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  Speaker 1: people to them, making it seem like Sondra and her
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  Speaker 1: dog had once again saved the day. Sondra did this
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  Speaker 1: dozens of times, across dozens of searches all over the country,
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  Speaker 1: all because she loved the thrill of watching the police
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  Speaker 1: discover her crimes in real time, Sondra had been successfully
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  Speaker 1: searching for body parts that she herself had planted for
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  Speaker 1: years without anybody being remotely suspicious of her. However, during
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  Speaker 1: the search for Treta Thomas, Sondra got caught right before
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  Speaker 1: that fight broke out. On that last search, Sondra and
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  Speaker 1: her dog had stepped off to the side and believed
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  Speaker 1: nobody was watching them, and Sondra bent down and pulled
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  Speaker 1: a bone fragment out of her sock and was about
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  Speaker 1: to place it, but then realized a crime lab technician
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  Speaker 1: was clearly watching her. She had been caught, and so
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  Speaker 1: the crime lab technician went up to Sondra to call
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  Speaker 1: her out on it, and Sondra, who knew she was caught,
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  Speaker 1: began to panic and pretended that she was being attacked
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  Speaker 1: by the crime lab technician and made a whole scene
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  Speaker 1: about it. That's what McGregor heard when he turned around
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  Speaker 1: and wondered if there was a fight going on. There
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  Speaker 1: was no fight. It was just Sondra again being caught
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  Speaker 1: red handed. But as awful as Sondra's actions sound, she
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  Speaker 1: didn't actually kill anyone. Instead, during her year's long run
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  Speaker 1: of fraudulent searching, she had been stealing pieces of medical
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  Speaker 1: center cadavers and using those. Sondra ultimately pleaded guilty to
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  Speaker 1: multiple felonies, including falsifying evidence and obstruction of justice, and
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  Speaker 1: so she was sentenced to twenty one months in prison.
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  Speaker 1: After she was caught, the FBI had to go back
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  Speaker 1: and reevaluate fifty murder cases that Sondra and Eagle had
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  Speaker 1: been involved in. Luckily, though, during this examination, they discovered
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  Speaker 1: that in all of these cases they did not hinge
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  Speaker 1: on evidence that Sondra had found, and so there were
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  Speaker 1: no convictions that were overturned. As for Jimmy Nelson, he
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  Speaker 1: was eventually convicted of Charita's murder. However, his conviction was overturned,
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  Speaker 1: but it had nothing to do with Sondra and Eagle.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence used to overturn it was completely separate, and
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  Speaker 1: so to this day we still don't know what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Charita, and her body has still not been found.
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  Speaker 1: As for Eagle, nobody was mad at him, and he
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  Speaker 1: retired from working crime scenes and got as many treats
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  Speaker 1: as he wanted until he passed away peacefully in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three. Thank you so much for watching. Let
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