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[music playing]

NARRATOR: This program is
about unsolved mysteries.

Whenever possible, the
actual family members

and police officials
have participated

in recreating the events.

What you are about to see
is not a news broadcast.

[music playing]

Is it mother's instinct
or just coincidence?

Tonight, a fascinating look at
the mysterious telepathic link

between mothers and children.

Carolyn Hebert was
cleaning up after dinner

when she suddenly sensed that
her 8-month-old daughter was

in grave danger.

Carolyn rushed to
the living room

and saved the baby from choking.

Elaine Emmi was overcome by a
strong, inexplicable feeling

of dread during an
out-of-town trip.

Later, she would learn
that, at that very moment,

her son had been seriously
injured in a fall.

Both women attribute
their experiences

to a special sixth sense
possessed only by mothers.

Also tonight, in
1990, Anita Green

was gunned down by an
unidentified man in the parking

lot of her husband's office.

Two years later, a friend
of Anita's, Michele Samit,

was writing a book on the case
and found herself targeted

by a vicious
unknown stalker, who

she believes is the same
man who murdered her friend.

This tragic accident left one
person dead and three injured,

but in reality, it
was no accident.

It was a result of a deadly
con game gone wrong--

a con game springing up
all over the country--

and you could be a target.

Finally, the intriguing mystery
of this century-old edition

of the Bible.

It was found accidentally
in a second-hand store,

its pages crumbling and its
gold gilt long since faded.

But as it turns out, there was
a lot of life in this old book.

The enigmatic secrets
of a family whose

heirs may be watching tonight.

Join me.

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There seems little
doubt that an almost

magical bond exists between
some mothers and their children.

It is perhaps the most
wonderful and heartwarming

of all mysteries.

January of 1974 was a
blur of diapers and dishes

for Carolyn Hebert,
a mother of two.

But Carolyn will remember
one day in particular

for the rest of her life.

CAROLYN HEBERT: It
was in the evening.

I was in the kitchen
doing the dishes.

My husband was down the
hallway, reading the newspaper.

My daughter Monica was in
there, doing her homework,

and Sarah, our little baby,
was playing with her toys.

And you know, you're not-- your
mind is not really usually very

far away from your children.

You think about them.

And this night, I was
thinking about Sarah,

and suddenly, I had a feeling
that there was something wrong.

It was a very focused feeling.

And in my mind, I saw that
she was choking on something.

I didn't know what.
- Sarah?

DAD: Sarah?

Look what she
had in her mouth.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Carolyn

says that she had inexplicably
sensed her 8-month-old daughter

silently choking on a balloon.

Sarah, you've
got to be careful.

CAROLYN HEBERT: You would
think about the what-ifs.

What if I hadn't listened
and just thought,

well, I'll go in a few minutes?

But this was not that
sort of a feeling.

This was, get there,
you're needed.

Call it mother's instinct.

Call it ESP.

Call it simply
the power of love.

Accounts of the extraordinary
intuition of mothers

have been handed
down for generations.

Such a bond seems to defy
the limits of time and space.

And while it may never
be scientifically proven,

it is far too
compelling to be denied.

It's not like watching your
child walk down the street

and say, oh, I
know they're going

to trip over the sidewalk.

It's not like that.

It's so powerful and
so strong, and it's

very different feeling.

Hi.

How many?

Two, please.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In 1983, business

had taken Elaine Emmi and
a neighbor, Sharon Krakker,

to Palm Springs, 110 miles from
their homes in Los Angeles.

Here you go.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
They were just sitting down

to eat when Elaine was seized by
an overwhelming sense of dread

about her 4-year-old son.

Am I hungry!

ELAINE EMMI: It was like
being hit by a wave.

It was a very powerful
feeling, both emotionally

and physically.

Sharon, something's wrong.

What do you mean,
something's wrong?

Something's happened to Matt.

Oh, Elaine, stop worrying.

I'm sure he's just--

ELAINE EMMI: It's like
someone flipping a switch.

All of a sudden,
you feel something,

and two seconds before,
you didn't feel that.

You weren't thinking
about that at all.

SHARON KRAKKER: Elaine,
everything looks so good.

I knew something was
wrong with Matt immediately,

and it wasn't just a foreboding.

I mean, sometimes people
get a strange sense

that something's not right.
It wasn't like that.

It was a very definite
feeling, something that you

couldn't just shrug off.

Sharon, Matthew has been hurt.

I just know it.
- Elaine?

I'm going to go call home.

I'll be right back.

SHARON KRAKKER: Elaine
had instant panic.

She wasn't what I would
consider out of control,

but just her mannerisms
gave me the impression

that she was very concerned
and knew that there

was something very wrong.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Elaine immediately called home.

No answer.

Convinced that something
truly terrible had happened,

she phoned Sharon's husband Tom.

[phone ringing]

TOM (ON PHONE): Hello?
- Hi, Tom.

It's Elaine.

Elaine?

Where are you?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Tom had not

heard from Elaine's
husband or seen

anything unusual at their
house just across the street.

So I said, well, then, why
don't we just have lunch?

She said, no, there's
something wrong.

We need to go home.

And that's what we did.

Elaine, are you still worried?

I don't know.

I just can't get
rid of this feeling

that something awful
has happened to Matt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Twice during the trip

back to Los Angeles Elaine
stopped to call home.

- Do you want me to drive?
- No.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Still, no one answered.

ELAINE EMMI: Sharon tried to
reassure me that everything was

probably all right, but
the sense of urgency

was still there, and
there was nothing I could

do to get of that feeling.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
It was the longest three

hours of Elaine Emmi's life.

When she and Sharon
finally arrived home,

Sharon's husband
had stunning news.

He had learned that Matt
was in the hospital.

Matt.

Mom.

Oh, thank God you're here.

Oh, Matt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When Elaine arrived,

Matt was being prepped
for surgery to reattach

severed tendons in his arm.

He had fallen and crashed
through a plate glass door

at the very moment the sense
of dread had swept over Elaine.

But I think Matt's
going to do just fine.

Aren't you?

ELAINE EMMI: I was feeling
what Matt was going through,

no doubt about it.

I don't think I ever
questioned that.

I'm not sure why I
was able to feel that.

But I know, without any
doubt, what I was feeling

and what I was experiencing.

It made the hair stand
up on the back of my neck,

thinking, oh my
god, she actually

did know that something was
happening when it happened.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Elaine and her son

had been separated by
more than 100 miles,

and yet, she had been as certain
he was hurt as if she had seen

the accident with her own eyes.

Don't worry.

Don't worry.

It's going to be just fine, OK?

I think that this
connection starts in the womb.

I think even in the womb some
children and some mothers

are more connected than others.

And if they are really
connected, of course,

then it will continue for
the rest of their lives.

It is a connection of
love, whereby the mother

anticipates the child's needs--

whether it's a small baby,
A toddler, an adolescent--

but she anticipates it, not
only on a physical level, which,

of course, is part of
the maternal instinct,

but on a level we might
almost call telepathic,

spiritual, so that
the whole mother is

in touch with the whole child.

Sometimes it just
happens once in a lifetime,

and you may never be
able to repeat it again.

But it just happens.

You have tuned in
that one person

who is sending out those signals
because it's important to you.

DOCTOR: Mom and Dad, you
can come along with us.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
If Elaine Emmi does have

a psychic bond with her
son, it seems logical

that it originated in the womb.

However, many adoptive
mothers have also reported

these astounding experiences.

Simply the fact of having
adopted a child doesn't mean

the woman's divested
of all her instincts,

and I believe that
women have instincts--

a woman's intuition,
whatever you want to call it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In March of 1987, Linda Babb

and her husband Dirk,
already the parents of four,

were looking to adopt
for the second time.

Linda says at around
that time, she

had a most incredible
dream unlike any

she's had before or since.

DOCTOR: Now push.

Push real hard.

Go ahead and push.
Push.

Push.

LINDA BABB: I had a dream.

And in the dream, I saw a young
woman, and she was in labor--

a light-headed woman
that was fair complected.

And I didn't know
who this person was,

But I did see that she was
in labor and at the point

of giving birth.

And as she pushed, I saw
the baby's head crown

and then be born.

[baby crying]

DOCTOR: It's a beautiful,
healthy baby boy.

LINDA BABB: He had lots
of dark hair on his head.

I remember that.

And he was dark complected.

And at the moment that he
was born and began to cry,

I woke up from the dream.

I felt startled because it was a
very vivid and realistic dream.

I had never had
a dream so vivid.

And I looked at my clock
on my bedside table,

and it was 2:59 in the
morning on March 8.

Next morning at breakfast,
my wife said, sweetie, I've

got the most incredible dream.

I witnessed the
birth of a child.

And I said, what child?

She said, I don't know.

Linda, Dirk!

I'm so glad you could make it.

How are you?

I'm fine, thank you.

LINDA BABB: Six weeks
later, we had a call

from our adoption agency.

We had applied to
adopt, and they

called and asked us if we
would be interested in adopting

a baby boy.

Oh, here he is, and
he is such a cutie pie.

LINDA BABB: When they
brought the baby in,

he looked to me like the most
beautiful baby I had ever seen.

He had beautiful,
golden brown skin

and a head full of dark hair.

He looked very much like
the infant in my dream.

How old did you say he was?

Six weeks.

Uh, let me check that.

Yes, he was born March 8.

March 8?

What time?

Let's see.

2:59 AM.

LINDA BABB: When
she told me the baby

had been born March 8 the 2:59
in the morning, I was stunned.

For a moment, I was
just speechless.

Then I turned to Dirk, and
I said, that's the same time

and the date of
that dream I had.

I thought my wife really had
seen the birth of this child

with her mother.

That was the dream.

And it was confirmation
to me at that time

that this was meant to be,
that this was the child for us.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Linda and Dirk

adopted the infant,
whose very birth Linda

feels certain she witnessed.

Any remaining doubts
vanished 18 months

later, when Linda
was shown a picture

of her son's birth mother.

LINDA BABB: My first thought
was how beautiful she was

and how much he looked like her.

Then I realized that this
was the light-haired,

light-complected
woman of the dream--

the mother that had the baby.

An adoptive mother can feel
this communication almost

as a radar of love because
whether she has formally

applied to adopt a
child or not, she still

has in her heart this
intention, and it's

almost as if the
right child somehow

contacts her
psychically, sometimes

even before the child is born.

Those two vibrations
somehow meet each other,

and it may happen
once in 10,000 cases,

and that's the one that
we, perhaps, hear about.

But that very special
case just proves the fact

that at least it can happen.

LINDA BABB: I'm as skeptical
as the next person,

always looking for
another explanation.

It does seem a
little far-fetched.

All I can say, it was a gift.

I don't know why
it happened or why

I would be given such a gift.

I just know that it
happened, and that's

the only explanation I have.

DR. THOMAS VERNY: There
is no rational explanation

for these things.

But just because there is
no rational explanation

for these things doesn't
mean that it didn't happen.

ELAINE EMMI: I don't
understand the connections,

but I think the
connections are there.

And a lot of it probably
just has to do with survival.

We want to make sure that
the next generation grows up.

Taken at face value,
these three stories

and countless others
like them point

to an apparent telepathic
link between certain mothers

and their children.

While such a connection may
never be fully explained,

if you someday get the prickly
feeling that your child is

in danger, it
might not hurt just

to wander over and take a look.

Next, a woman is gunned
down in broad daylight,

and the man who pulled the
trigger is still on the loose.

[music playing]

MAN: Anita!

Anita!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
North Hollywood

California, October 25, 1990.

Anita!
Oh my god!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): A
woman, sitting in the driver's

seat of her own
car in the parking

lot of her husband's
accounting firm,

was shot once through the head.

The woman's name
was Anita Green.

She never regained
consciousness.

After two days in
a coma, she died.

And the man who shot
her is still at large.

Now, a woman named
Michele Samit believes

the same man has targeted her.

Michele was Anita
Green's friend.

She has written a book
called "No Sanctuary"

about Anita's murder.

The knowledge that this guy's
out there, out on the streets,

terrifies me every day, whether
it's the person I think did it

or not because any
person who did it

knows that I know a
lot about this case

that they don't want me to know.

This is a chilling story of
two innocent women, one of them

murdered, the other
apparently stalked.

It is a most bizarre
and complex case,

one of the highest profile cases
in recent Los Angeles history.

The saga began in 1974 when
Anita Green met her husband.

At the time, Anita
worked as a bookkeeper

in Mel Green's accounting firm.

Both were married
to other people.

After nearly seven years,
they left their spouses

to wed one another.

Anita's friends were shocked,
not only because Mel weighed

more than 500 pounds,
but also because he

convinced Anita to sign
an outrageous prenuptial

agreement.

MICHELE SAMIT: Basically,
there was a provision in it

that he wore the
pants in the family,

and he was the supreme boss,
the god, the absolute ruler,

and if they ever had an
argument or disagreement,

he would automatically win
just because of that rule.

We'll review Cathy's
report on Wednesday night.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Anita
threw herself into activities

at her synagogue.

Anita.
Mel.

Hello.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to Anita's friends,

Mel attended services
less and less often

as Anita's involvement grew.

RABBI: 8:00 PM.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Most of the time,

Anita made excuses
for her husband,

but occasionally, she
let down her guard.

Let's go.

I'm late.

All right.

MICHELE SAMIT: She'd say she
was afraid of her husband,

but then she said,
oh, you know Mel.

He's just a loudmouth.

He likes to hear himself talk.

He's a blowhard.

He's not really going
to do anything to me.

She had all the classic
symptoms of an abused woman--

thinking they were
in control, thinking

that they knew what they
were doing, but really

frightened and scared.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Anita
took refuge from her marriage

by becoming more and more
involved in the synagogue.

Eventually, she was elected
president of the congregation.

As a result, Anita and
the rabbi saw one another

more and more often.

Allegedly, the two became
entangled in a love affair.

When Anita asked Mel for a
divorce, he was infuriated.

MEL GREEN: Anita is bad.

She's immoral.

She doesn't deserve to live.

I absolutely demand that my
property is handed over to me.

I have an extensive stamp
and coin collection--

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Curiously,

despite his bitterness,
Mel was adamant

that Anita continued
to work with him

at the accounting firm.

MEL GREEN: She has
to work for me.

The business depends upon it.

JANIS MCDONALD: Mel
was inconsistent.

One minute, I don't need you.

You're not worth anything.

But the next minute, he would
absolutely be insistent she

had to work for him.

And frankly, I think
both Anita and Mel

were indirectly
acknowledging that Anita knew

where the bodies were buried.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Throughout the divorce

proceedings, Mel bombarded
Anita and her lawyer

with threatening letters.

Only after Anita was
murdered were the letters

turned over to the police.

RAY HERNANDEZ: Melvin Green
did send some letters where he

threatened to kill Anita Green.

In my mind, it just gave
more credence to him

being involved in her shooting.

So let me see if I understand.

You were working at your--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Detective Hernandez soon found

three different
witnesses who believe

they saw Anita Green's killer.

One was a man who
worked across the street

from Mel Green's
accounting firm.

He had observed Green emerge
from the building minutes

before Anita arrived
in her red Corvette.

RAY HERNANDEZ: That's a door
that is not used very often,

so it was unusual to this
witness across the street

to see this.

After he observed
Melvin Green looking,

he observed Anita Green
turned a corner, closely

followed by a motorcycle.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
A second witness

observed even more.

RAY HERNANDEZ: He stated
he was working on a roof

directly across the
street where Anita Green

had parked her red Corvette.

And what brought
his attention was

he heard a motorcycle arrive,
parked on the wrong side

of the street.

He observed the
individual approach

Anita Green, fire one shot--

[gunshot]

--immediately ran
to his motorcycle,

and at a high rate of speed,
go northbound on the street.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Finally,

a third witness
helped police artists

come up with this composite.

The witness had seen
the motorcyclist

just after Anita's murder
without his helmet and visor

on.

Investigators began to suspect
that Mel Green had hired

a hit man to kill his wife.

Mel Green's behavior
at his wife's bedside

did nothing to alleviate
police suspicions.

Only moments after Anita
died, with her body

still in the room,
Mel reportedly

had a bizarre exchange with
Anita's friend Phyllis Baltin.

I look pretty good, don't I?

It's the new liquid
diet that I'm on.

PHYLLIS BALTIN: He was
talking about how much weight

he had lost and how
good he had looked.

It was absolutely nauseating.

There was not one moment of
remorse, not one tear shed.

He was as talkative as
if she was wide awake

and sitting there watching us.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The day after Anita was shot,

Detective Hernandez went
to Melvin Green's office

to interview him.

If you stop right there.

I can't talk to you.

My attorney says I
can't speak with anyone.

Why do you need an attorney?

He's a criminal attorney.

RAY HERNANDEZ: Why do
you need an attorney?

I'm only here to speak
to you about your wife.

Talk to my attorney.

He says I can't speak to anyone.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Now the scenario of Anita

Green's murder began to gel.

RAY HERNANDEZ: We were able
to piece together the fact

that Melvin Green
specifically controlled

the date and time
Anita Green was

supposed to be at his office.

That would allow Melvin
Green to have somebody hired

to follow her and shoot her.

And that's how Anita
Green was shot.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Ultimately, Melvin Green

was arrested for conspiring
to kill his wife,

even though there was no
direct evidence that he

had hired someone to shoot her.

On March 4, 1992, a
jury convicted Green

of first-degree murder and
sentenced him to life in prison

without the
possibility of parole.

But the case was far from over.

Mel Green appealed, claiming he
was innocent, and the hit man--

whoever he was--
remained at large.

In May of 1992, Michele
Samit visited Mel Green

at the Los Angeles County
jail, where he was awaiting

transfer to a state prison.

Against his lawyer's advice,
Green had agreed to be

interviewed for Michele's book.

MICHELE SAMIT: Hello, Mel.

Hello, Michele.

And how are you doing?

I wanted to go in there
with an open mind,

and I started to listen to him.

And for the first few
weeks of our visits,

I wasn't certain of
anything anymore.

If I didn't shoot her,
there's no connection.

So there's more than one
road to reasonable doubt.

But as our visits
continued, Mel himself

made me more certain of
his guilt than ever before.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Michele

continued her investigation.

But one thing nagged at her--

how and when had Mel
paid the hit man?

Michele claims that, in
the course of her research,

she finally uncovered evidence
that Mel Green had sold

off a $30,000 coin
collection just three weeks

before Anita was murdered.

Michelle told the police
about her discovery

but decided not
to tell Mel Green.

My innocence will come--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Michele claims

that during one of their
subsequent interviews,

Mel made unusual comments when
another visitor showed up.

GUARD: You have another visitor.

Oh, all right.

This is a man I call
my brother because he'd

do anything for me.

In fact, he's a
homeowner because of me.

You can wait outside.

MEL GREEN: Mel had visitors come
every day during our visits.

My visits were all day long.

Mel had never asked me to
leave during his visits before,

and that alone I
thought was unusual.

And I went downstairs, and
I went into my car and sat.

I knew I'd have about a half
hour until this guy came out.

And my mind started
to run away with me

that this guy looked
a lot like the police

composite of Anita's shooter.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to Michele, when

the visitor left, he
got on a motorcycle,

which fit the description of the
one driven by Anita's killer.

When I went back to the jail,
I made a very stupid mistake.

I said to Mel, I've
got this theory.

You paid for the murder with
the money from the coins

you said Anita stole.

She didn't steal them.

You're not going
to write that.

You can't write that.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Michele

claims that when she
told Mel her suspicions,

he threatened her.

Nobody's going to put
those lies about me!

If you end up dead after I make
a call, you'll know who did it.

MICHELE SAMIT: I knew Mel
likes to talk like that.

You know, this is just a
blowhard, just a man talking.

And I realized, god, how
stupid can you be, Michele?

That's exactly what Anita
said, and she's dead.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The next day, June 17, 1992,

Melvin Green was
transferred as scheduled

to Calipatria
State Penitentiary,

east of San Diego.

He peppered Michele
Samit with angry letters.

MICHELE SAMIT: He's threatened
to harm my children.

He's threatened to hurt me.

Never before had I encountered
this feeling of fear

before because I'd
never been so involved

in a story before where it
took on a life of its own.

But I couldn't stop because
I knew I had the potential

to find the answer.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Michele Samit

says that over the
next few months,

someone began to stalk her.

The front gate to her house
was ripped from its hinges.

The house itself was vandalized.

And finally, Michele
says that in the driveway

of her own house, an
unidentified man hit her

in the face, breaking her nose.

MICHELE SAMIT: A lot
of that has stopped

now that the book has come out.

But of course, you
always live your life

fearing that what
you've uncovered

might lead to some potential
danger for your family.

For me, I'm OK
because I understand

that's the risk by
taking this kind of story

and by following through.

For my children, I'm
worried every day.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Michele Samit

believes the man she saw
visiting Melvin Green in prison

was the same man pictured
on the police composite.

He would today be
in his early 30s.

He has blond hair, dark
eyes, and a muscular

build and may own a red or
maroon Suzuki motorcycle.

[music playing]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Next,
authorities need your help

to stop a deadly
insurance fraud scheme

responsible for
dozens of accidents

on the nation's highways.

[music playing]

It is an all too familiar
scene on our nation's highways.

Emergency workers
struggle to free

the occupants of a car,
which has been rear-ended

by a tractor-trailer rig.

In this case, on Interstate
5 near downtown Los Angeles,

the driver of the car and
two passengers were rescued.

However, a third passenger was
pronounced dead at the scene.

What made this tragedy
all the more chilling

was that it may not have
been an accident at all.

Authorities believe it was part
of a carefully orchestrated

insurance scam that backfired.

The police in Los Angeles
call it the Swoop and Squat,

a scheme in which
people intentionally

create rear-end collisions
in order to collect

on bogus insurance claims.

Authorities estimate that the
Swoop and Squat costs consumers

millions of dollars every year.

Even though the scam originated
in Southern California,

it is now popping up
all over the country.

Watch closely.

You may find yourself involved
in one of these situations.

Here's how the Swoop
and Squat works.

A typical operation
involves two or three cars.

They cruise the highway in
tandem, searching for a victim.

Incredibly, the vehicles they
most often choose to target

are the most dangerous--

large tractor-trailers.

Trucks are a favorite target
among Swoop and Squat rings

because, 1, they know
that trucks will have

a lot of insurance,
and, 2, that there'll

be a lot of damage, which is
compensable by the insurance

companies.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The scam unfolds quickly.

First, a squat car, normally
filled with passengers,

positions itself directly in
front of the targeted truck.

[truck honking]

Then, a second car pulls
alongside the truck,

effectively boxing it in.

Over the next several miles,
the driver of the squat car

may try to distract
the truck driver.

[truck honking]

Finally, the swoop car
appears and makes its move,

forcing the other drivers
to jam on their brakes.

BARRY THORPE:
Immediately afterwards,

the people who are in the squat
car will then claim injury.

Injuries are almost always soft
tissue injuries because they're

so difficult to disprove.

They'll exchange
insurance information,

and then, a couple
of days later,

the attorney makes the claim.

We've had one situation
where two attorneys made over

$9 million from a
two-year period of time

from simply buying
staged accidents.

The ringleaders of
the Swoop and Squat

are often well-to-do
attorneys who work out

of the safety of their
officers far removed

from the accident scene.

Each accident can
mean up $20,000

in false insurance
claims, a large part of it

pocketed by the attorney.

By contrast, those who risk
the most in the con game

are paid the least.

Usually, a middle
man called a capper

seeks out people who
are willing to do

almost anything for money.

[speaking spanish]

BARRY THORPE: The people who
are in the Swoop and Squat

accidents as passengers
or drivers may

be paid as little
as $250 to $300

to risk their lives
in that accident.

Cappers may get
approximately $1,500.

All the money is made by the
professionals who are corrupt--

the attorneys who
are financing these

staged accident activities.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The crash on Interstate 5

had all the earmarks of a
classic Swoop and Squat,

but in this case, informants
were willing to talk.

They led police to the
man who had allegedly

organized the operation--

one Filemon Santiago.

Santiago was a Mexican
national who lived

in West Hollywood, California.

A search of his
apartment turned up

documents linking him
to a Beverly Hills

attorney named Gary Miller.

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In a moment, the intriguing
mystery of an old family Bible.

Perhaps you can help
locate the rightful owners.

[music playing]

In a place like this,
time stands still.

Random moments of
other people's lives

are frozen, caught
as if in amber,

and behind every
captured moment,

every object is an untold story.

When you collect
antiques, you never

know when one of those stories
might intersect with your life

and draw you into a small
unsolved mystery of your own.

Jonathan Grady, a Los
Angeles collector,

understands that all too well.

In 1980, Jonathan
was out browsing when

he spied a box of sundry items.

JONATHAN GRADY: Excuse me?

Yes, how much for
your Bunsen burners?

Oh, let me see.

I'll tell you what.

I'll give you the
whole box for 75.

How's that?

That's too high.

I'll give you 50.

OK, you can have
the whole thing.

I'll write it up.

JONATHAN GRADY:
After buying the box,

I noticed there was several
other things in the box--

things that I could use.

There were some oil cans
there and old scrub brushes,

and there was this Bible.

It was a very large Bible, very
old, and the binding was torn,

but yet, it was part
of the purchase price.

So I took it home.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The Bible

was more than a century old--

so old it was literally
falling apart.

Its embossed cover was
cracked, its pages crumbling.

JONATHAN GRADY: I
thought something

like this would be nice to
display in my living room,

but I had to have it repaired.

And after checking with
several bookstores in the area,

I was told it would cost
between $200 and $300.

So I put it into the garage,
and I stored it away.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The Bible lay

forgotten in Jonathan
Grady's garage,

gathering dust and
guarding its memories

for more than a decade.

In the meantime, Jonathan
embarked on a writing career.

One day, he found himself
in need of a quote

from the Book of Job.

As he leafed through
the old Bible,

Jonathan was caught short by
a presentation page, which

he had not noticed before.

JONATHAN GRADY: Everything
stopped right there.

I was completely surprised.

I never found the
character of Job.

Instead, I found Lazarus.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The Bible

had apparently been
given to a Mr. Charles

Lazarus and his
bride Fannie Bergman

on their wedding
day, March 25, 1874.

They were married
in Cincinnati, Ohio.

When Jonathan turned the
page, the history of a family

unfolded.

Charles and Fanny
Lazarus had recorded

the birth of two sons--

Joshua and Samuel--
and three daughters--

Blooma, May, and Reina.

Joshua had married Dora
Fleischman of Americus,

Georgia; Samuel, Ada Hassett
of Posen, Michigan; and Blooma,

a German immigrant named
Michael Michaelson.

On the facing page,
Charles and Fannie recorded

the birth of one grandchild--

Blooma's daughter,
Helen May Michaelson,

born in Denver,
Colorado, on May 2, 1895.

JONATHAN GRADY: I'd looked at
this Bible for several days

after that.

I would refer to this
page back and forth.

I watched his kids grow.

Some unknown source pulled
me into this man's life,

and I have not quit.

I have not quit trying to
locate another man's family.

This is Jonathan
Grady in Los Angeles.

I'm calling you regarding
the Lazarus family Bible.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Jonathan

became obsessed with returning
the treasured family heirloom

to its rightful owners.

Thanks to his efforts,
several newspaper articles

were published, and he
actually got a lead--

this letter from 81-year-old
Bernard Fleischman

of South Carolina.

Mr. Fleischman had met
Dora, long since dead,

from the town of
Americus, Georgia.

He felt she might be
the same Dora Fleischman

who married Joshua Lazarus.

Unfortunately, Mr. Fleischman
had lost touch with his aunt

Dora's family, but
the letter only

strengthened Jonathan Grady's
resolve to find an heir

to the Lazarus family Bible.

JONATHAN GRADY: There
are family members.

There were four siblings--
living siblings-- of this man,

all married.

There has to be a granddaughter,
a great-granddaughter,

a great-great-granddaughter.

There's a relative
there, I know.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
original owner of the Bible,

Charles Lazarus, died on
the 4th of July, 1913,

and was buried at Mount
Carmel Cemetery in New York.

Any direct descendant of
Charles and his wife Fannie

would have a legitimate
claim to the family Bible.

Next, a respected physician
is now on the run,

charged with sexual assault.

[music playing]

We will call the young woman
you are about to meet Patricia.

She is the daughter of
a military chaplain.

On January 7, 1992, when she was
19, Patricia went to a clinic

in San Diego, California,
complaining of flu symptoms.

Patricia had no way of knowing
that the doctor who would

examine her that
day had recently

been forced to resign from
the staff of another clinic.

Four different complaints
of sexual misconduct

had been filed against him, each
by a young woman in her 20s.

The doctor's name
was Arvind Sinha.

The California State Medical
Board had chosen not to revoke

his license, stating
that all four

complaints were cases
of the patient's word

against the doctor's.

Well, you definitely
are congested.

I know.

That's what I thought.
ARVIND SINHA: Hi.

NURSE: Here's Dr.
Sinha right now.

ARVIND SINHA: Dr. Sinha.

PATRICIA: He kept on asking
me questions about family,

about having a boyfriend,
and I was really sick.

I had a fever.

I wasn't feeling well.

This, combined with
all the questioning,

it really just threw
me off, you know?

I just figured that he was just
trying me to be more helpful

and caring.
ARVIND SINHA: You're 19.

Yeah, I am.

- You have a boyfriend?
- Well, kind of.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Patricia

says that with the nurse
gone, Dr. Sinha's examination

became a criminal assault.

PATRICIA: He manipulated
me into a position

where I couldn't even
see what he was doing.

And I didn't even
know what he was doing

or trying to do
until I had finally

realized that he had raped me.

After he had left the room,
I just started crying.

I knew what had happened,
but I just could not believe

that that had happened to me.

I'm okay.

Yeah.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Patricia

was afraid to let anyone at the
clinic know what had happened.

She telephoned her mother.

A short time later,
Patricia's parents

took her to another hospital.

She was examined and the
authorities duly notified.

After a week-long
investigation, Dr. Arvind Sinha

was arrested by Detective
Christine Gregg of the San

Diego Police Department.

He had no reaction.

He kept repeating, after I told
him what she was alleging--

he said, oh, how interesting.

And throughout the interview,
he repeated, how interesting.

No emotion, no reaction.

Just he said he didn't do it,
that he might have been framed,

but I would have expected
a little reaction out

of an innocent person.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The next day, Dr. Sinha

posted his own $175,000 bail.

Within a month, he
had disappeared.

Later, his medical
license was revoked

by the state of California.

CHRISTINE GREGG: Every woman
he's around is in danger.

He's not going to stop.

He had four warnings
and lost a job,

and then he came back
and raped Patricia.

He's not going to stop.

The only two places
I really felt safe

was at church or at
the doctor's office.

And now, I don't have that
trust for anybody anywhere.

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Join me next time for
another intriguing edition

of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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