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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: let's get into today's stories. In 1993, David Lewis was
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Speaker 1: an accomplished lawyer living in Amarillo, Texas, with his wife
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Speaker 1: Karen and his nine-year-old daughter. He was known to be
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Speaker 1: a devoted husband and father who spent much of his
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Speaker 1: off time supporting various charitable causes. On January 28th 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. David,
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Speaker 1: who would normally go with them, decided to stay home
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Speaker 1: because he did not want to miss the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: which was that Sunday, the 31st. So Karen and their
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Speaker 1: daughter left, and then a couple of days later, on
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Speaker 1: the 31st, they returned to Amarillo, and they actually got
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Speaker 1: back to their house right after the Super Bowl had ended.
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Speaker 1: And so they anticipated going into the house and finding
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Speaker 1: David either 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. She figured he must have stepped out
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Speaker 1: or something. But she went into the kitchen and she
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Speaker 1: opened up the fridge and she found there was a
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Speaker 1: plate with two freshly made turkey sandwiches on it, which
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Speaker 1: was a sandwich David would often make. And she thought
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Speaker 1: that was pretty weird that he would have made them
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Speaker 1: and then let them sit inside the fridge. And so
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Speaker 1: she closed the fridge and turned around and on the
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Speaker 1: counter in the kitchen was 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 the house had been burglarized. There
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Speaker 1: was no sign of a struggle. And so she assumed
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Speaker 1: her husband must have stepped out to watch the second
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Speaker 1: half of the game at a friend's house and that
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Speaker 1: he would be back later. And so Karen stayed up
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Speaker 1: for a little while, but then ultimately she went to
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Speaker 1: bed thinking he would be there in the morning. But
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Speaker 1: the next morning when she got up, there was no
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Speaker 1: sign of her husband. And so she went to the police.
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Speaker 1: Within 24 hours, the police located David's abandoned car downtown
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Speaker 1: 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 driver's license, all in the places
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Speaker 1: they should be. They looked into his bank activity, and
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Speaker 1: they saw there was a recent deposit for $ 5, 000 into
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Speaker 1: his family's account. They also saw that he recently purchased
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Speaker 1: two plane tickets. One was from Los Angeles to Dallas
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Speaker 1: and the other was from Dallas to Amarillo, but it
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Speaker 1: wasn't clear if he had used either of these tickets.
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Speaker 1: When Karen was told about the found car and 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 actively trying to silence David. It was just
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Speaker 1: a conspiracy. And so for 11 months, they looked for
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Speaker 1: new leads and new information, but nothing came out and
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Speaker 1: David never popped up. He never called home. There was
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Speaker 1: no sign of him. And so after 11 months, the
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Speaker 1: police decided that David must have left of his own accord,
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Speaker 1: and that there was no foul play here, and so
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Speaker 1: 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 2004, a state trooper
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Speaker 1: in Washington State was on the internet just researching unsolved mysteries.
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Speaker 1: and he came across a picture of David Lewis. And
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Speaker 1: immediately he recognized that he looked exactly like an unidentified
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Speaker 1: victim of a hit and run case he covered back
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Speaker 1: in 1993. And so he pulled up the details of
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Speaker 1: this hit and run, and he found the victim had
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Speaker 1: been struck a day after David Lewis had gone missing.
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Speaker 1: When this John Doe got hit, he was dressed head
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Speaker 1: to toe in military clothing. He had no bags, he
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Speaker 1: had no ID, and he was walking aimlessly down Highway
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Speaker 1: 24 in Washington State, so 1600 miles away from Amarillo, Texas,
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Speaker 1: where David Lewis had gone missing. But despite the enormous
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Speaker 1: distance between these two events, this trooper was convinced David
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Speaker 1: Lewis was this John Doe. But as he's looking at
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Speaker 1: the picture of David Lewis, he realizes he has glasses
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Speaker 1: and he didn't think the John Doe was wearing glasses.
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Speaker 1: But just to be sure, he checked the belongings list
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Speaker 1: of the John Doe And it said he did have glasses.
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Speaker 1: And it was the exact same kind that David was
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Speaker 1: wearing in the picture. And eventually, DNA would confirm that
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Speaker 1: David Lewis was the John Doe. Now, this solved the
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Speaker 1: mystery of where David Lewis went, but it did not
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Speaker 1: solve the mystery of why he went there. Why did
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Speaker 1: David go to Washington, a place where he has no ties?
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Speaker 1: And if David was the one who hit record on
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Speaker 1: his VCR on the night of the Super Bowl, that
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Speaker 1: means he would have only had less than 24 hours
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Speaker 1: to move 1,600 miles to Washington State without his car.
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Speaker 1: And why was he wearing military clothing? Was that his clothing?
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Speaker 1: Did he buy it? Did someone make him wear it?
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Speaker 1: Where was his luggage? What was he doing walking down
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Speaker 1: the highway? David's assertions to his wife that his life
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Speaker 1: was in danger, his demeanor as a loving family man,
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Speaker 1: and the nature of his job as an attorney has
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Speaker 1: many people, his family included, believing that he was the
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Speaker 1: victim of foul play. But officially, the police have said
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Speaker 1: David left the house of his own accord and his
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Speaker 1: death was ruled an accident. In 2000, Mary Lou Morris
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Speaker 1: was a 48-year-old loan officer at a Chase Bank in Houston, Texas.
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Speaker 1: On the morning of October 12th, 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 5 p.m., when he still hadn't heard from her,
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Speaker 1: Jay called 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. Jay
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Speaker 1: 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 1: the driver's seat that's obviously deceased. Earlier that day at
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Speaker 1: about 10 a.m., the fire department had gotten a call
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Speaker 1: about smoke in that area but they assumed it was
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Speaker 1: a controlled burn, so they didn't investigate. 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 was 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 self-inflicted.
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Speaker 1: Gasoline had been poured all over Mary Lou and all
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Speaker 1: over the vehicle. However, because of how badly damaged the
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Speaker 1: car and she was, They couldn't determine a cause of death,
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Speaker 1: so they weren't sure if she was deceased when she
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Speaker 1: was placed in the car and it was lit on fire,
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Speaker 1: or if she was in the car and the fire
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Speaker 1: was the cause of death. A number of Mary Lou's
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Speaker 1: valuables were still inside of the car, but her wedding
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Speaker 1: ring was not on her finger. Mary Lou's family and
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Speaker 1: the community at large were shocked. They just could not
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Speaker 1: understand why anybody would want to target such a nice
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Speaker 1: person that had no enemies. The day after Mary Lou's death,
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Speaker 1: a local Houston newspaper received an anonymous call from a
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Speaker 1: guy who just said Mary Lou's death was an accident
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Speaker 1: and the newspaper tried to get more information but the
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Speaker 1: person hung up and they couldn't trace the call. At
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Speaker 1: the same time this drama was unfolding for Mary Lou Morris,
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Speaker 1: another drama was unfolding for another Houston woman with the
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Speaker 1: same name. 39-year-old Mary McGinnis Morris was a successful nurse
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Speaker 1: practitioner who by and large got along with all of
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Speaker 1: her co-workers with one exception. A new employee at the clinic,
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Speaker 1: a male nurse named Dwayne Young, was making her feel
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Speaker 1: really uncomfortable. One day when Mary McGinnis got back to
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Speaker 1: her desk, she found all of her pictures of her
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Speaker 1: family had been flipped onto their faces, and in the
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Speaker 1: middle of her desk was a piece of paper that
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Speaker 1: just said, And she knew right away this had to
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Speaker 1: be Dwayne, 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. Can you teach me
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Speaker 1: how to shoot a gun? And so he did. He
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Speaker 1: taught her how to shoot a gun and then he
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Speaker 1: went out and got a pistol and she tucked it
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Speaker 1: under her driver's seat in her car just in case.
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Speaker 1: On October 16th, 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: drugstore 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, Lori, 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 1: And Lori 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 just going to pay for my
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Speaker 1: stuff and get out of here. I got to stop
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Speaker 1: by the office, but I'll be home in just a
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Speaker 1: few minutes. I'll be totally fine. And so Mary hangs up.
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Speaker 1: She buys what she needs. She leaves the store. And
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Speaker 1: then 12 minutes later, she places a frantic 911 call
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Speaker 1: saying someone's trying to kill her. And this 911 call
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Speaker 1: was not made public because apparently on the tape, you
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Speaker 1: can actually hear her being attacked. Mary McGinnis was found
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Speaker 1: later that night in her car. She was deceased. She
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Speaker 1: had a single gunshot wound to the head. It was
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Speaker 1: clear from her 911 call that she had been attacked.
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Speaker 1: And so this was almost certainly a homicide. However, her
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Speaker 1: attacker tried to stage it so it looked like it
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Speaker 1: was self-inflicted. The murder weapon, which was actually her pistol
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Speaker 1: that was tucked underneath her seat, had been placed next
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Speaker 1: to her hand on the seat next to her. None
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Speaker 1: of Mary McGinnis' valuables were stolen. However, her wedding ring
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Speaker 1: 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 was
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Speaker 1: missing their wedding ring, which apparently is a common way
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Speaker 1: for professional hitmen to let their clients know that the
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Speaker 1: job was done. The people that subscribed to this theory
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Speaker 1: believed Mary McGinnis Morris was the intended target, and Mary
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Speaker 1: Lou Morris was just an accident. And in fact, after
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Speaker 1: 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 say, literally,
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Speaker 1: that was a mistake. And then a couple of days later,
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Speaker 1: the hit was successfully carried out on Mary McGinnis Morris.
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Speaker 1: The police looked into this theory, and they discovered that
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Speaker 1: Mary McGinnis' husband, Mike, had recently accused her of cheating
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Speaker 1: on him, and he was really, really upset about it.
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Speaker 1: He also refused to take a polygraph test and would
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Speaker 1: not allow his daughter to talk to the police. And
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Speaker 1: Mary McGinnis had a $ 700, 000 life insurance policy that Mike
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Speaker 1: was in line to receive. And so immediately, everybody's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: obviously Mike put a hit out on his wife, and
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Speaker 1: that's what started this whole thing. But when they dug
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Speaker 1: into it, they realized that no matter how upset Mike was,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't any evidence that tied him to the killing
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Speaker 1: of his wife or to Mary Lou Morris, and so
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Speaker 1: he was ruled out as a suspect. As for Mary
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Speaker 1: McGinnis' coworker, Dwayne Young, who wrote death to her on
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Speaker 1: her desk, it was clear that he did not like Mary,
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Speaker 1: but he was ruled out as a suspect as well.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, that's where both of these cases go cold.
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Speaker 1: To date, no one's ever been charged in either murder.
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Speaker 1: In 1996, Blair Adams was 31 years old and living
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Speaker 1: in Surrey, British Columbia. Although in the past he had
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Speaker 1: struggled with substance abuse and alcoholism, Over the previous two years,
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Speaker 1: he had really gotten his act together and got a
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Speaker 1: great job as a foreman at a local construction company.
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Speaker 1: He was known to be a cheerful and friendly guy
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Speaker 1: that did not have any known enemies. But that summer,
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Speaker 1: Blair started exhibiting uncharacteristic mood swings that his mother would
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Speaker 1: describe as being frequent and wild. In a matter of weeks,
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Speaker 1: Blair transformed from being very calm and relaxed and friendly
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Speaker 1: to being totally panicked all the time and always looking
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Speaker 1: over his shoulder, and he was so stressed out he
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Speaker 1: couldn't sleep at night. And he began telling his coworkers,
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Speaker 1: that 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 5th,
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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 $ 6, 000, and he
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Speaker 1: also emptied his safety deposit box, which contained thousands of
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Speaker 1: dollars worth of jewelry and gold. Two days later on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: he left his house and drove 30 minutes to the
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Speaker 1: Canada-USA border and he attempted to enter the United States.
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Speaker 1: But being a single guy carrying a bunch of cash
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Speaker 1: and jewelry and acting really nervous, he fit the profile
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Speaker 1: of a drug trafficker and so he was denied entry. Frustrated,
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Speaker 1: Blair left and went back to his house and the
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Speaker 1: next day, which was Monday, he went to his construction
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Speaker 1: site and he abruptly told his boss that he was quitting.
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Speaker 1: And he didn't even pick up his final paycheck, he
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Speaker 1: just left. After leaving the construction site, he went straight
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Speaker 1: to the airport where he promptly purchased a $ 1, 600 round
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Speaker 1: trip to Frankfurt, Germany. Although we don't know why he
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Speaker 1: wanted to go to Frankfurt, Germany, he did work there
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Speaker 1: briefly the year before. His flight was supposed to leave
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Speaker 1: the following day, which was Tuesday, but immediately after purchasing
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Speaker 1: this plane ticket, Blair suddenly decided that he needed to
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Speaker 1: try again to cross into the USA. So he rushed
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Speaker 1: to a friend's house, he knocked on her door, She
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Speaker 1: opens it up and he looks totally disheveled. And he's
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Speaker 1: telling her that someone's trying to kill me. I need
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Speaker 1: your help getting across the border. I just got rejected
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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. Can you please drive me across?
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Speaker 1: I've got kids. It'll look much more convincing. Can you
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Speaker 1: do that for me? And she was really spooked by
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Speaker 1: his behavior and felt like this is not something I
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Speaker 1: want to get involved with. And so she said, sorry,
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Speaker 1: I can't help you. So Blair headed home where he
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Speaker 1: hid out for the day. And then the next day, Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: he went to the airport. But instead of getting on
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Speaker 1: his flight to Frankfurt, Germany, he went to the front
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Speaker 1: desk and requested a refund and it was granted. He
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Speaker 1: told them that the person he was going to meet
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Speaker 1: in Germany had gotten sick and so now he couldn't go.
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Speaker 1: And so the only person he could have been talking
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Speaker 1: about was the girl he had briefly had a fling
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Speaker 1: with when he was there for work the year earlier.
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Speaker 1: But later on, investigators would talk to that German girl,
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Speaker 1: and she would say she was not in touch with Blair,
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Speaker 1: and she definitely was not expecting him. Blair left the
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Speaker 1: airport and rented a car, which was a Nissan Altima,
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Speaker 1: and he immediately went to the US-Canada border, except this
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Speaker 1: time he was able to get across. He made his
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Speaker 1: way to Seattle, Washington, where he went over to their airport,
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Speaker 1: and then abandoned his Nissan in the middle of a
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Speaker 1: parking lot, and then went down and bought a one-way
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Speaker 1: ticket to Washington, D.C. Now, he paid $ 770 for this
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Speaker 1: one-way ticket, but he could have just purchased a round
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Speaker 1: trip for half the price. But either way, he boarded
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Speaker 1: the plane that night, and by Wednesday morning, he was
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Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C. He got off the plane and rented
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Speaker 1: another car, which was a Toyota Camry, and then drove
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Speaker 1: 500 miles southwest to Knoxville, Tennessee. Blair was not seen
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Speaker 1: in Knoxville until about 5.30 p.m. that evening when he
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Speaker 1: showed up at a gas station complaining of car troubles.
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Speaker 1: And so the gas station attendant came out to try
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Speaker 1: to help Blair, And he immediately diagnosed what the problem was.
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Speaker 1: Blair was trying to start his Toyota Camry with the
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Speaker 1: key to his Nissan Altima that he had abandoned in Seattle, Washington.
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Speaker 1: And so the attendant pointed out that it was the
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Speaker 1: wrong key. And Blair held it up and said, no,
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Speaker 1: this is the one I was using. And the guy's like, no,
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Speaker 1: it clearly says Nissan on it. And so Blair and
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Speaker 1: this gas station attendant look around the car inside and out.
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Speaker 1: for this missing Toyota key. Blair's reaching in his pockets.
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Speaker 1: He can't find it. Blair ends up calling the rental company,
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Speaker 1: but they wind up being closed. And so the gas
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Speaker 1: station attendant says, you know, unfortunately we're going to have
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Speaker 1: to tow your car, but I'll give you a ride
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Speaker 1: to a nearby hotel. And so Blair accepted the ride.
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Speaker 1: And just after 6 PM that night, Blair walked through
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Speaker 1: the front door of the Fairfield Inn and then promptly
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Speaker 1: turned around and walked out and then walked in and
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Speaker 1: then walked out over and over again, five separate times
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Speaker 1: over the course of an hour, before he finally walked
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Speaker 1: up to the front desk and asked for a room.
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Speaker 1: The front desk attendant at the hotel said Blair was
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Speaker 1: totally paranoid, constantly looking over his shoulder and just totally
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Speaker 1: on edge the entire time. And then after she gave
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Speaker 1: him his room and he paid for it, he took
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Speaker 1: the key and instead of going up to his room,
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Speaker 1: he just walked out again and then never came back.
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Speaker 1: The following morning, two workers arrived at their construction site
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Speaker 1: right across the street from the Fairfield Inn and they
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Speaker 1: discovered a body, and it would turn out to be Blair's.
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Speaker 1: He was missing his socks, shoes, and pants, and he
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Speaker 1: had scratches on his hands as well as on his face,
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Speaker 1: but none of the abrasions were that significant. There was $ 4, 000
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Speaker 1: in German, US, and Canadian currencies lying on the ground
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Speaker 1: around him. Also spread out around Blair was his fanny
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Speaker 1: pack full of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and gold,
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Speaker 1: a black duffel bag that contained maps and receipts, and
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Speaker 1: then also that missing Toyota car key that they could
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Speaker 1: not find the night before. That was lying on the
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Speaker 1: ground as well. Blair's autopsy showed that he had died
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Speaker 1: from a single violent blow to his stomach, but they
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Speaker 1: had no idea what actually struck his stomach. Toxicology reports
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Speaker 1: showed that Blair had no drugs or alcohol in his system.
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Speaker 1: The only DNA evidence that was found at the crime
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Speaker 1: scene was a single long strand of hair that Blair
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Speaker 1: was clutching in his fist. But there's no more information
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Speaker 1: about this hair online. There were no witnesses, but there
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Speaker 1: was a security guard who claimed to have heard screaming,
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Speaker 1: a woman's scream, coming from the area where Blair was
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Speaker 1: discovered at about 3.30 in the morning. The only lead
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Speaker 1: police had was the sketch of this guy that apparently
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Speaker 1: people had seen Blair talking to outside of a Cracker
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Speaker 1: Barrel restaurant right after Blair had left the hotel. But
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Speaker 1: police were never able to identify this man. Investigators were baffled.
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Speaker 1: Was Blair telling the truth that someone had been trying
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Speaker 1: to kill him for weeks leading up to his death
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Speaker 1: and they finally caught up to him? And if so,
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Speaker 1: why didn't he tell authorities? Or was Blair delusional and
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Speaker 1: he just happened to run into another killer when he
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