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Top 3 UNSOLVABLE mysteries Unsolvable Mysteries Part 1 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three unsolved mysteries that
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  Speaker 1: each have lots of evidence, but no one can make
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  Speaker 1: sense of them. But before we get into those stories,
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety three, David Lewis was an accomplished lawyer
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  Speaker 1: living in Amarillo, Texas, with his wife, Karen, and his
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  Speaker 1: nine year old daughter. He was known to be a
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  Speaker 1: devoted husband and father who spent much of his off
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  Speaker 1: time supporting various charitable causes. On January twenty eighth of
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  Speaker 1: that year, Karen and their daughter decided to leave Amarillo
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  Speaker 1: and go to Dallas to spend the weekend shopping together.
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  Speaker 2: David, who would normally go with.
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  Speaker 1: Them, decided to stay home because he did not want
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  Speaker 1: to miss the Super Bowl, which was that Sunday, the
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  Speaker 1: thirty first, So Karen and their daughter left, and then
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days later, on the thirty first, they
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  Speaker 1: returned to Amarillo, and they actually got back to their
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  Speaker 1: house right after the super Bowl had ended, and so
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  Speaker 1: they anticipated going into the house and finding David either
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  Speaker 1: cleaning up after himself or maybe watching the post game.
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  Speaker 1: But when they walked in, the TV was still on
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  Speaker 1: and turned to the channel the super Bowl had been on,
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  Speaker 1: but David was nowhere to be found. Karen noticed that
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  Speaker 1: the VCR was actually still recording. David was known to
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  Speaker 1: record all major sports games and watch them again, and
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  Speaker 1: so clearly he had not turned off the recording. As
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  Speaker 1: Karen walked around the house yelling for her husband, she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that concerned.
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  Speaker 2: She figured he must have stepped out or something.
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  Speaker 1: But she went into the kitchen and she opened up
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  Speaker 1: the fridge and she found there was a plate with
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  Speaker 1: two freshly made turkey sandwiches on it, which was a
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  Speaker 1: sandwich David would often make, and she thought that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty weird that he would have made them and then
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  Speaker 1: let them sit inside the fridge, And so she closed
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  Speaker 1: the fridge and turned around, and on the counter in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen was.
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  Speaker 2: His wedding band and his watch.
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  Speaker 1: And so even though there were all these kind of
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  Speaker 1: strange things that Karen was finding in the house, she
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't that concerned. There was no sign of forced entry,
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  Speaker 1: there was no sign in the house had been burglarized,
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  Speaker 1: there was no sign of a struggle, and so she
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  Speaker 1: assumed her husband must have stepped out to watch the
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  Speaker 1: second half of the game at a friend's house and
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  Speaker 1: that he would be back later. And so Karen stayed
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  Speaker 1: up for a little while, but then ultimately she went
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  Speaker 1: to bed, thinking he.
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  Speaker 2: Would be there in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: But the next morning, when she got up, there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign of her husband, and so she.
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  Speaker 2: Went to the police.
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  Speaker 1: Within twenty four hours, the police located David's abandoned car
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  Speaker 1: downtown near the courthouse. Under one of the car's floor mats,
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  Speaker 1: they located his car keys, as well as his house keys,
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  Speaker 1: and then within the car they found his checkbook, his
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  Speaker 1: credit cards, and his.
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  Speaker 2: Driver's license, all in the places they should be.
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  Speaker 1: They looked into his bank activity, and they saw there
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  Speaker 1: was a recent deposit for five thousand dollars into his
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  Speaker 1: family's account. They also saw that he recently purchased two
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  Speaker 1: plane tickets. One was from Los Angeles to Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: the other was from Dallas to Amarillo, but it wasn't clear.
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  Speaker 2: If he had used either of these tickets.
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  Speaker 1: And Karen was told about the found car in the
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  Speaker 1: strange bank activity, she told police that her husband had
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  Speaker 1: recently told her that he actually thought he might be
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  Speaker 1: in danger because he was scheduled to give a deposition
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas later that month in a conflict of interest
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  Speaker 1: case between his old law firm and a wealthy client,
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  Speaker 1: and David was being pressured to cover up some of
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  Speaker 1: the wrongdoings of his previous law firm and he just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't willing to do that. He told his family that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to tell the truth no matter who
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  Speaker 1: it hurt. David understood that put a huge target on
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  Speaker 1: his back. While police were certainly intrigued at this new information,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have any evidence to support the idea that
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  Speaker 1: someone was.
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  Speaker 2: Actively trying to silence David.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a conspiracy, and so for eleven months
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  Speaker 1: they looked for new leads and new information, but nothing
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  Speaker 1: came out, and David never popped up, He never called home,
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  Speaker 1: there was no sign of him. And so after eleven months,
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  Speaker 1: the police decided that David must have left of his
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  Speaker 1: own accord and that there was no foul play here,
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  Speaker 1: and so they closed the case. And after that, David's family, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: just had to accept the fact that he was gone
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  Speaker 1: and that more than likely no one was ever going
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  Speaker 1: to find him again. But in two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: a state trooper in Washington State was on the Internet
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  Speaker 1: just researching unsolved mysteries, and he came across a picture
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  Speaker 1: of David Lewis, and immediately he recognized that he looked
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  Speaker 1: exactly like an unidentified victim of a hit and run
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  Speaker 1: case he covered back in nineteen ninety three, and so
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  Speaker 1: he pulled up the details of this hit and run
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  Speaker 1: and he found the victim had been struck a day
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  Speaker 1: after David Lewis had gone missing.
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  Speaker 2: When this John Doe got hit, he was dressed.
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  Speaker 1: Head to toe in military clothing, he had no bags,
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  Speaker 1: he had no ID, and he was walking aimlessly down
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  Speaker 1: Highway twenty four in Washington State.
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  Speaker 2: So sixteen hundred miles.
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  Speaker 1: Away from Amarillo, Texas, where David Lewis had gone missing.
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  Speaker 1: But despite the enormous distance between these two events, this
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  Speaker 1: trooper was convinced David Lewis was this John Doe. But
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  Speaker 1: as he's looking at the picture of David Lewis, he
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  Speaker 1: realizes he has glasses, and he didn't think that John
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  Speaker 1: Doe was wearing glasses. But just to be sure, he
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  Speaker 1: checked the belongings list of the John Doe and it
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  Speaker 1: said he did have glasses and it was the exact
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  Speaker 1: same kind that David was wearing the picture. And eventually
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  Speaker 1: DNA would confirm that David Lewis was the John Doe. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this solved the mystery of where David Lewis went, but
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  Speaker 1: it did not solve the.
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  Speaker 2: Mystery of why he went there.
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  Speaker 1: Why did David go to Washington a place where he
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  Speaker 1: has no ties? And if David was the one who
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  Speaker 1: hit record on his VCR on the night of the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, that means he would have only had less
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  Speaker 1: than twenty four hours to move sixteen hundred miles to
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  Speaker 1: Washington State without his car.
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  Speaker 2: And why was he wearing military clothing? Was that his clothing?
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  Speaker 2: Did he buy it?
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  Speaker 1: Did someone make him wear it? Where was his luggage?
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  Speaker 1: What was he doing walking down the highway. David's assertions
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  Speaker 1: to his wife that his life was in danger, his
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  Speaker 1: demeanor as a loving family man, and the nature of
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  Speaker 1: his job as an attorney, has many people his family
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  Speaker 1: included believing that he was the victim of foul play,
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  Speaker 1: but officially the police have said David left the house
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  Speaker 1: of his own accord.
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  Speaker 2: And his death was ruled an accident.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand, Mary Lou Morris was a forty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old loan officer at.
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  Speaker 2: A Chase Bank in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of October twelfth, Mary Lou said goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to her husband, Jay, and she headed off to work.
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  Speaker 1: That afternoon, Jay gave his wife a phone call, but
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  Speaker 1: she didn't pick up. He left her a message and
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  Speaker 1: she never got back to him. This was very unlike
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  Speaker 1: Mary Lou, and so Jay was a little bit concerned.
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  Speaker 1: At five pm, when he still hadn't heard from her,
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  Speaker 1: Jay called.
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  Speaker 2: Her back, but again she didn't pick up.
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  Speaker 1: So Jay called Mary Lou's supervisor, who informed Jay that
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  Speaker 1: Mary Lou had actually not come to work that day
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  Speaker 1: and they couldn't get in touch with her either.
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  Speaker 2: Jay immediately knew something was wrong and he called the police.
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  Speaker 1: The police had not even begun searching for her when
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  Speaker 1: a call came into the station from an ATV rider
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  Speaker 1: that happened to be on a road about three miles
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  Speaker 1: away from Mary Lou's house, and he said, he spotted
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  Speaker 1: a smoldering car and it looks like there's someone in.
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  Speaker 2: The driver's seat that's obviously deceased.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier that day, at about ten am, the fire department
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  Speaker 1: had gotten a call about smoke in that area, but
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  Speaker 1: they assumed it was a control burn, so they didn't investigate.
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  Speaker 2: When the police.
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  Speaker 1: Arrived on scene, it was impossible to tell who the
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  Speaker 1: person was that was sitting in the driver's seat, but
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  Speaker 1: they were able to find a tooth fragment, and they
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  Speaker 1: used that to confirm that it wasn't in fact Mary
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  Speaker 1: Lou Morris. It was quickly determined that this was most
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  Speaker 1: likely a homicide, and her attacker had probably set this
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  Speaker 1: up to make it appear like it could have been
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  Speaker 1: self inflicted. Gasoline had been poured all over Mary Lou
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  Speaker 1: and all over the vehicle. However, because of how badly
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  Speaker 1: damaged the car and she was, they couldn't determine a
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  Speaker 1: cause of death, so they weren't sure if she was
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  Speaker 1: deceased when she was placed in the car and it
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  Speaker 1: was lit on fire, or if she was in the
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  Speaker 1: car and the fire was the cause of death. A
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  Speaker 1: number of Mary Lou's valuables were still inside of the car,
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  Speaker 1: but her wedding ring was not on her finger. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Lou's family and the community at large were shocked. They
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  Speaker 1: just could not understand why anybody would want to target
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  Speaker 1: such a nice person that had no enemies. The day
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  Speaker 1: after Mary Lou's death, a local Houston newspaper received an
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  Speaker 1: anonymous call from a guy who just said Mary Lou's
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  Speaker 1: death was an accident, and the newspaper tried to get
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  Speaker 1: more information, but the person hung.
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  Speaker 2: Up and they couldn't trace the call.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time this drama was unfolding for Mary
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  Speaker 1: Lou Morris, another drama was unfolding for another Houston woman
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  Speaker 1: with the same name.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty nine year year old Mary McGinnis.
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  Speaker 1: Morris was a successful nurse practitioner who by and large
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  Speaker 1: got along with all of her coworkers, with one exception.
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  Speaker 1: A new employee at the clinic, a male nurse named
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Young, was making her feel really uncomfortable. One day,
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  Speaker 1: when Mary McGinnis got back to her desk, she found
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  Speaker 1: all of her pictures of her family had been flipped
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  Speaker 1: onto their faces, and in the middle of her desk
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  Speaker 1: was a piece of paper that just said death to her.
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  Speaker 2: And she knew right away this had to be Dwayne,
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  Speaker 2: but she had no way to prove it.
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  Speaker 1: And so that night when she went home, she told
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  Speaker 1: her husband Mike about this guy Dwayne, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel safe at work.
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  Speaker 2: Can you teach me how to shoot a gun? And
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  Speaker 2: so he did.
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  Speaker 1: He taught her how to shoot a gun, and then
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  Speaker 1: he went out and got a pistol and she tucked
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  Speaker 1: it under her driver's seat in her car, just in case.
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  Speaker 1: On October sixteenth, so four days after Mary Lou Morris
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  Speaker 1: was found dead, and three days after that anonymous phone
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  Speaker 1: call to the newspaper, Mary McGinnis Morris was at a
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  Speaker 1: drug store after work and as soon as she went inside,
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  Speaker 1: she noticed there was this strange man on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the store that was just watching her. She
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  Speaker 1: called her best friend Laurie to tell her that there
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  Speaker 1: was this strange guy and wanted to know what to do.
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  Speaker 2: And Laurie said, you know, wait for him to leave.
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  Speaker 1: But the guy didn't leave. He just stayed in the
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  Speaker 1: store and stared at Mary. And so eventually Mary said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to pay for my stuff
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  Speaker 1: and get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I got to stop by the office, but I'll be
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  Speaker 2: home in just a few minutes. I'll be totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: And so Mary hangs up, she buys what she needs,
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  Speaker 1: she leaves the store, and then twelve minutes later, she
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  Speaker 1: places a frantic nine one one call saying someone's trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill her.
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  Speaker 2: And this nine one one call was.
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  Speaker 1: Not made public because apparently on the tape you can
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  Speaker 1: actually hear her being attacked.
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  Speaker 2: Mary McGinnis was found later that night in her car.
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  Speaker 2: She was deceased.
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  Speaker 1: She had a single gunshot wound to the head. It
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  Speaker 1: was clear from her nine one one call that she
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  Speaker 1: had been attacked and so this was almost certainly a homicide. However,
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  Speaker 1: her attacker tried to stage it so it looked like
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  Speaker 1: it was self inflicted. The murder weapon, which was actually
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  Speaker 1: her pistol that was tucked underneath her seat, had been
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  Speaker 1: placed next to her hand on the seat next to her.
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  Speaker 1: None of Mary McGinnis's valuables were stolen. However, her wedding
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  Speaker 1: ring was missing from her finger. After Mary McGinnis Morris's death,
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  Speaker 1: people began to speculate that her death and Mary Lou
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  Speaker 1: Morris's death were connected. Specifically, this was a professional hit
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong. The reasoning for this theory is there was
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  Speaker 1: just too many coincidences. They shared the same name, they
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  Speaker 1: lived in the same city, they were killed within days
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  Speaker 1: of each other, and both of their deaths were staged
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  Speaker 1: to look like they were self inflicted, and each woman
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  Speaker 1: was missing their wedding ring, which apparently is a common
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  Speaker 1: way for professional hitmen to let their clients know that
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  Speaker 1: the job was done. The people that subscribed to this
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  Speaker 1: theory believed Mary McGinnis Morris was the intended target and
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  Speaker 1: Mary Lou Morris was just an accident, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: after killing Mary Lou Morris, the hitman must have realized, whoops,
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  Speaker 1: I made a mistake, and they called the newspaper to
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  Speaker 1: say literally, that was a mistake, and then a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days later the hit was successfully carried out on
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  Speaker 1: Mary McGinnis Morris. The police looked into this theory and
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  Speaker 1: they discovered that Mary McGinnis's husband, Mike, had recently accused
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  Speaker 1: her of cheating on him, and he was really really
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  Speaker 1: upset about it. He also refused to take a polygraph
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  Speaker 1: test and would not allow his daughter to talk to
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  Speaker 1: the police.
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  Speaker 2: And Mary McGinnis had a.
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  Speaker 1: Seven hundred thousand dollars life insurance policy that Mike was
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  Speaker 1: in line to receive, and so immediately everybody's like, okay, obvious,
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  Speaker 1: Mike put a hit out on his wife and that's
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  Speaker 1: what started this whole thing. But when they dug into it,
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  Speaker 1: they realized that no matter how upset Mike was, there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't any evidence that tied him to the killing of
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  Speaker 1: his wife or to Mary Lou Morris, and so he
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  Speaker 1: was ruled out.
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  Speaker 2: As a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: As for Mary McGinnis's coworker, Dwayne Young, who wrote death
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  Speaker 1: to her on her desk, it was clear that he
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  Speaker 1: did not like Mary, but he was ruled out as
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  Speaker 1: a suspect as well, And unfortunately that's where both of
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  Speaker 1: these cases go cold. To date, no one's ever been
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  Speaker 1: charged in either murder. In nineteen ninety six, Blair Adams
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  Speaker 1: was thirty one years old and living in Surrey, British Columbia.
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  Speaker 1: Although in the past he had struggled with substance abuse
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  Speaker 1: and alcoholism, over the previous two years, he had really
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  Speaker 1: gotten his act together and got a great job as
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  Speaker 1: a foreman at a local construction company. He was known
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  Speaker 1: to be a cheerful and friendly guy that did not
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  Speaker 1: have any known enemies. But that summer, Blair started exhibiting
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  Speaker 1: uncharacteristic mood swings that his mother would describe as being
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  Speaker 1: frequent and wild.
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  Speaker 2: In a matter of weeks, Blair.
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  Speaker 1: Transformed from being very calm and relaxed and friendly to
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  Speaker 1: being totally panicked all the time and always looking over
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder, and he was so stressed out he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: sleep at night, and he began telling his coworkers that
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  Speaker 1: he was fairly certain someone was trying to kill him,
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  Speaker 1: and they would say to him, Blair, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you're okay. You really need to see a doctor. When
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  Speaker 1: his mother confronted him about his erratic, paranoid behavior, he
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  Speaker 1: told her, Mom, I really shouldn't tell you about it,
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  Speaker 1: and she said, what's it? And he said, Mom, I
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  Speaker 1: can't say anything else, and that was it. She could
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  Speaker 1: never get any more information out of her son. Blair's
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  Speaker 1: strange behavior came to a head on Friday, July fifth,
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  Speaker 1: when he went to his bank and withdrew all of
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  Speaker 1: the cash out of his account, totaling six thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and he also emptied his safety deposit box, which contained
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  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and gold. Two days later,
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, he left his house and drove thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: to the Canada USA border, and he attempted to enter
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  Speaker 1: the United States, but being a single guy carrying a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of cash and jewelry and acting really nervous, he
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  Speaker 1: fit the profile of a drug.
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  Speaker 2: Trafficker, and so he was denied entry.
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  Speaker 1: Frustrated, Blair left and went back to his house, and
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  Speaker 1: the next day, which was Monday, he went to his
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  Speaker 1: construction site and he abruptly told his boss that he
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  Speaker 1: was quitting, and he didn't even pick up.
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  Speaker 2: His final paycheck, he just left.
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  Speaker 1: After leaving the construction site, he went straight to the airport,
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  Speaker 1: where he promptly purchased a sixteen hundred dollars round trip
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  Speaker 1: to Frankfurt, Germany. Although we don't know why he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to Frankfurt, Germany, he did work there briefly
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  Speaker 1: the year before. His flight was supposed to leave the
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  Speaker 1: following day, which was Tuesday, but immediately after purchasing this
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  Speaker 1: plane ticket, Blair suddenly decided that he needed to try
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  Speaker 1: again to cross into the USA, so he rushed to
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  Speaker 1: a friend's house. He knocked at her door. She opens
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  Speaker 1: it up and he looks totally disheveled, and he's telling
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  Speaker 1: her that someone's trying to kill me. I need your
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  Speaker 1: help getting across the border. I just got rejected a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days ago. Can you please drive me across
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  Speaker 1: and got kids, It'll look much more convincing.
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  Speaker 2: Can you do that for me?
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  Speaker 1: And she was really spooked by his behavior and felt
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: like this is not something I want to get involved with,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: and so she said, sorry, I can't help you. So
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Blair headed home, where he hit out for the day,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: and then the next day, Tuesday, he went to the airport,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: but instead of getting on his flight to Frankfurt, Germany,
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: he went to the front desk and requested a refund,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: and it was granted. He told them that the person
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: he was going to meet in Germany had gotten sick
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: and so now he couldn't go, and so the only
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: person he could have been talking about was the girl
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: he had briefly had a fling with when he was
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: there for work the year earlier.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: But later on.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Investigators would talk to that German girl and she would
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: say she was not in touch with Blair and she
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: definitely was not expecting him. Blair left the airport and
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: rented a car, which was a Nissan Ultima, and he
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: immediately went to the US Canada border, except this time
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: he was able to get across. He made his way
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: to Seattle, Washington, where he went over to their airport
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: and then abandoned his Nissan in the middle of a
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: parking lot, and then went down and bought a one
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: way ticket to Washington, d C. Now, he paid seven
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy dollars for this one way ticket, but
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: he could have just purchased a round trip for half
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: the price, but either way, He boarded the plane that
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: night and by Wednesday morning he was in Washington DC.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: He got off the plane and rented another car, which
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: was a Toyota Camry, and then drove five hundred miles
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: southwest to Knoxville, Tennessee. Blair was not seen in Knoxville
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: until about five thirty PM that evening when he showed
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: up at a gas station complaining of car troubles, and
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: so the gas station attendant came out to try to
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: help Blair, and he immediately diagnosed what the problem was.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Blair was trying to start his Toyota Camry with the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: key to his Nissan Ultima that he had abandoned in Seattle, Washington,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: and so the attendant pointed out that it was the
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: wrong key, and Blair held it up and said, no,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: this is the one I was using. And the guy's like, no,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: it clearly says Nissan on it. And so Blair and
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: this gas station attendant look around the car inside and
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: out for this missing Toyota key.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Blair's reaching in his pockets, he can't find it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Blair ends up calling the rental company, but they wind
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: up being closed, and so the gas station attendant says,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, we're going to have to tow your car,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: but I'll give you a ride to a nearby hotel,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and so Blair accepted the ride, and just after six
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: pm that night, Blair walked through the front door of
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the Fairfield in and then promptly turned around and walked out,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: and then walked in and then walked out over and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: over again, five separate times over the course of an hour,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: before he finally walked up to the front desk and
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: asked for a room. The front desk attendant at the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: hotel said Blair was totally paranoid, constantly looking over.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: His shoulder, and just totally on end the entire time.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: And then after she gave him his room and he
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: paid for it, he took the key and instead of
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: going up to his room, he just.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Walked out again and then never came back.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: The following morning, two workers arrived at their construction site
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: right across the street from the Fairfield Inn, and they
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: discovered a.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Body and it would turn out to be Blair's.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: He was missing his socks, shoes, and pants, and he
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: had scratches on his hands as well as on his face,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: but none of the abrasions were that significant. There was
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: four thousand dollars in German, Us and Canadian currencies lying
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: on the ground around him. Also spread out around Blair
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: was his fanny pack full of thousands of dollars worth
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: of jewelry and gold, a black duffel bag that contained
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: maps and receipts, and then also that missing Toyota kar
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: key that they could not find the night before that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: was lying on the ground as well. Blair's autopsy showed
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: that he had died from a single violent blow to
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: his stomach, but they had no idea what actually struck
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: his stomach. Toxicology report showed that Blair had no drugs
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: or alcohol in his system. The only DNA evidence that
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: was found at the crime scene was a single long
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: strand of hair that Blair was clutching his fist, but
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: there's no more information about this hair online. There were
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: no witnesses, but there was a security guard who claimed
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to have heard screaming a woman's scream coming from the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: area where Blair was discovered at about three point thirty.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: In the morning.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: The only lead police had was the sketch of this
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: guy that apparently people had seen Blair talking to outside
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: of a Cracker Barrel restaurant right after Blair had left
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the hotel, but police were never able to identify this man.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Investigators were baffled.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Was Blair telling the truth that someone had been trying
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to kill him for weeks leading up to his death
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and they finally caught up to him, and if so,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: why didn't he tell authorities or was Blair delusional and
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: he just happened to run into another killer when he
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: was in Tennessee. Unfortunately, we still have absolutely no idea.
• 17:40
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• 17:42
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• 17:44
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• 17:46
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