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ANNOUNCER: 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.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): When
a spectacular solar eclipse

plunged much of Mexico into
darkness, no one imagined

that the event would spawn
an astounding wave of UFO

sightings, sightings experienced
by thousands of eyewitnesses

all across Mexico and captured
on dozens of home videos.

On June 7th, 1992, 36-year-old
Sammy Wheeler was found shot

to death in his car,
and the small town

of Stratton, Virginia
was overrun with rumors.

Incredibly, Sammy's
twin brother,

Sammy's old girlfriend, and her
ex-husband were taking turns

accusing each other of
the murder, but still

the question remains--

who killed Sammy Wheeler?

And perhaps someone watching
can provide a happy ending

to the poignant story
of Gordon Page Jr. Only

after years of
misdiagnosis did Gordie's

parents learn that their son
was suffering from autism.

Then, in 1991, Gordie
vanished from the group home

in which he had been placed.

Join me.

Perhaps you may be able
to help solve a mystery.

[theme music]

Usually when we hear that a
person in some remote community

has had a UFO sighting,
we respond with a smile

and a shake of the head.

When three or four
credible people

report seeing a
mysterious craft,

we may pay just
slightly more attention.

But when thousands
of people claim

to have seen the same strange
object and hundreds provide

videotape evidence, we may
begin to think that maybe,

just maybe, there is more than
a grain of truth to the reports.

Which brings us to the fantastic
saga of the Mexico UFOs.

July 11th, 1991, the
last total eclipse

of the sun in this
century, perhaps

the most spectacular celestial
of the past 200 years.

For the residents
of Mexico City,

the eclipse prompted
a festive celebration.

Thousands took to the streets,
as one of the world's largest

cities was plunged into
total darkness in the middle

of broad daylight.

No one imagined the entire
country was about to be swept

up in a wave of UFO hysteria.

That afternoon, a
television executive

named Guillermo
Arreguin was videotaping

the eclipse when he noticed
an unusual object overhead.

It was presented on the news.

It was said that a very strange
object was over Mexico City,

but nobody said was it was.

When I saw it, I
said, oh my god.

This is a UFO, a real UFO.

I mean, you can look at it.

You can look at the video and
be absolutely convinced of what

you're looking at.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Jaime Maussan

is one of Mexico's most
respected television

journalists.

For the past nine years,
he has produced, directed,

and hosted Mexico's
edition of "60

Minutes," or "Sesenta Minutos."

Eight days after
the eclipse, Jaime

presented the Arreguin
footage as part

of a special UFO broadcast.

The network was inundated
with phone calls.

We asked the people in Mexico
to bring all their videos

to us, because we like
to see if in the clips

they had recorded
the same stuff.

The telephone lines blew up.

I mean, 40,000 calls
at the same time.

Then the system was
completely shut out.

We received more than 15
videos, and we now know for sure

that at least in
seven of them we

can see exactly the
same ship that was

recorded by Guillermo Arreguin.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
One of the many videos

was sent by Erick Aguilar,
a 19-year-old student

at National
University of Mexico.

He was setting up
to film the eclipse

from a rooftop when
his girlfriend spotted

something unusual in the sky.

INTERPRETER: We
all turned to look,

and my girlfriend commented
that it was a UFO.

We thought it was a joke.

So no one really believed her
when she said she saw a UFO.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
But within moments,

they all decided that the
object was not a joke at all.

INTERPRETER: At first, all we
saw was a white dot in the sky.

That's all we could
see in the beginning.

Later, we saw that this
dot was shining brightly.

It must have been
a very bright star.

And we didn't
realize it at first.

We didn't realize it until
we saw the videotape later.

We saw that this dot,
it wasn't a dot anymore.

It was a larger object, and
it was giving off light.

It was shining.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
At virtually the same time,

60 miles from Mexico City, a
businessman named Louis Lara

photographed a similar object.

INTERPRETER: As I
raised the camera,

you could see something
in the clouds.

And it was a metal object.

And it looked like it
who's made of two plates.

You can distinguish a dome,
and it turned on its own axis.

It was silver-plated,
a color like aluminum.

You could see clearly
it's not a star.

It's a UFO, because it
had a shadow underneath.

If it were a star or a planet,
you would see clearly that it

would be completely luminous.

But this one had a
little shadow underneath.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Yet another video

was shot by the Breton
family in Puebla, a city

80 miles east of Mexico City.

Magnifying the
Breton video revealed

an odd wave-like disturbance
behind the pulsating

disk, perhaps some
kind of energy trail.

Jaime Maussan enhanced
the Arreguin footage

and compared it to
the Breton tape.

The objects, though photographed
nearly 100 miles apart,

were remarkably similar
in every aspect.

The video from
Puebla was absolutely

identical to the one we had
seen with Arreguin in Mexico.

It was for the first
time in history.

Never before you
had a tape of two

UFOs in two different places
at exactly the same moment.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The videos caused

a sensation throughout Mexico.

But the UFO craze
was just beginning.

Two months later,
an engineer named

Vicente Sanchez took his video
camera to a military air show

in Mexico City.

INTERPRETER: I was
following one of the planes,

and I saw a shiny
dot in the camera.

I didn't know what it was,
but it seemed to be moving.

It was undulating.

So I let the planes go
off, and I focused more

on this shiny dot in the sky.

What I saw was a
bright, round object,

about 10 meters in diameter.

It was made of silver.

It was shining very brightly and
reflected the sunlight a lot.

It didn't fly like a plane.

It was undulating.

The object appeared, undulated,
and moved around very quickly.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
A year later,

a similar object was videotaped
at the same air show.

This time, the disk
descended rapidly

and mysteriously disappeared.

By the time the 1933
air show rolled around,

people anticipated
another sighting.

Sure enough, just as a squadron
of helicopters flew by,

the familiar
metallic disk appear.

INTERPRETER: It was
traveling against the wind.

So much so that had
it been a balloon,

considering the force of
the helicopter blades,

it would have crashed.

But no, it kept
on its path very,

very straight and steady
till it got lost in the sky.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Optical enhancement

of this video seems to reveal
that the object crossed

in close proximity
to the helicopters.

Curiously, the military
has consistently

declined to address the matter.

The military hasn't made
any comment on that sighting

or any sighting.

And there are many
more where we can

relate the military or
military planes to videos.

However, we haven't had any
kind of answer from them.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Since
the eclipse in July of 1991,

there have been thousands of
sightings throughout Mexico.

There is no clear pattern,
although the great majority

have occurred in and
around Mexico City.

The witnesses range
from pilots to doctors

to bus drivers and
even school children.

These drawings were
made by a class

a fifth graders who allegedly
saw UFOs in March of 1993.

The pictures are strikingly
similar in detail--

three shining lights with the
brightest light in the center.

INTERPRETER: The objects
were silver with red.

One of them was coming down.

And the other one that you
could see in the sky was silver.

INTERPRETER: When they
were a little lower

you could see the
shape of the objects.

They were like
saucers with a dome.

Everything silver.

And though it was
harder to see, there

seemed to be a kind of reddish
magnetic field all around it.

We haven't found a single
reason why these little kids

made this story up.

There were so many.

And when you talk to them,
you can feel their honesty,

that they trust me.
They're just little kids.

They don't care about
the UFO conspiracy.

They don't care about
if they are real or not.

They saw what they saw.

People really like UFOs.

People really believe
in UFOs, and we are now

convinced that we are living
an incredible experience,

as a country, as a society.

Because it's everywhere.

It's not just one people.

It's many people with
their eyes in the sky

and a camera in their hands.

Now is the video era.

And the video is going
to solve the UFO mystery.

Are the Mexico UFOs real?

It is difficult to deny the
startling images captured

on videotape, though
a determined skeptic

would no doubt find some basis
to discount the entire episode.

But for those who have
actually witnessed

the mysterious objects
in the skies over Mexico,

seeing is believing.

Next, a bizarre murder
mystery in which

three people, including
the victim's twin brother,

accuse each other of
pulling the trigger.

[music playing]

On June 7th, 1992, the George
Washington National Forest in

Virginia was visited by murder.

That morning, the body of
36-year-old Sammy Wheeler

was found in the back
seat of his sport vehicle.

Sammy had been shot six times
in the head and upper torso.

Both the local sheriff's
department and the FBI

investigated.

They quickly determined
that the killer

had gone to great lengths
to clean the crime scene.

All shell casings and
fingerprints had been removed,

and an amateurish
attempt had been

made to destroy the evidence.

There was an apparent effort
to try and ignite the vehicle.

There was some paper and
tissue stuffed in the gas cap.

The gas cap had been opened
and apparently a cigarette

laid there lit, in an
effort to try-- there was

some burning around
there, but it didn't

ignite and didn't take effect.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
When investigators discovered

that Sammy's wallet
was missing, the case

took on all the earmarks of
a random act of violence.

But before long, it
would be revealed

that at least three people
in Sammy Wheeler's life

might have wanted him dead--

Sammy's twin brother,
Danny, Sammy's girlfriend,

Pat Snead, and Pat's
estranged husband, Bob Bean.

What had begun as a
routine investigation

quickly became a classic drama
of love, lies, and murder.

In the months following
Sammy Wheeler's death,

Danny Wheeler, Pat
Snead, and Bob Bean

took turns accusing
each other of the crime.

In this bizarre and
convoluted case,

the principals agree
on only one thing--

it all started when Sammy
Wheeler began dating Pat Snead.

In the fall of 1991, Pat
moved into a rental unit owned

by Sammy's twin brother, Danny.

The property had been divided
into separate apartments.

Pat and her two sons lived
in one apartment with Sammy.

Danny lived in
one of the others.

The arrangement suited
everyone, except Pat's

estranged husband, Bob Bean.

The situation was not
really what was in the best

interests of my children.

I had approached Pat and asked
her to please stop this living

arrangement here, OK.

We won't get into
responses, but anyway, I

felt that I was forced
into going to court

to at least provide
some kind-- or try

to provide some kind of moral
environment for my children.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In February, a court order

was issued that prohibited
Sammy from being with Pat

in the presence of the boys.

To comply, Sammy moved into
his twin brother's apartment.

Bob Bean remained suspicious.

He hired a private investigator
to ensure that the court

order was being obeyed.

Bob's private
investigator came in

and testified that Sammy had
violated the court's order.

Sammy never found out whether
or not the judge believed that.

I know for sure Sam did not
violate that court order.

But just to be safe, he stayed
away from the house then.

He was living in a
truck, without even

a bathroom or a shower,
just to appease Bob Bean.

So where are you
gonna stay tonight?

Probably stay in the car.

I hate it when you
sleep in the car.

Honey, I can't give
them any more ammunition

than they've already got.

I never harbored any ill
will at all towards him.

People around here have
a hard time understanding

how a man can
accept that his wife

is leaving him for another man.

Well, to be honest with
you, I knew what I had,

and I was thankful
to pass it on, OK.

But after getting to know Sam,
I kind of felt sorry for him,

and I wanted to sit
down and prepare

him for what he was getting.

Bob hated Sam.

Sam knew it.

And I knew it.

Bob says otherwise
because I believe

Bob is a pathological liar.

Sam expressed
to me that he felt

that my ex-husband
Bob was capable

of pretty much anything.

He did not trust him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On
June 3rd, four days before he

was murdered, Sammy left
Danny's apartment at 5:30 AM

and chanced upon an unexpected
visitor, Bob Bean's teenage son

from a previous marriage.

Come here.

What are you doing?

Just taking a few pictures.

Yeah, I see that.

You tell your dad I'm
staying in the apartment, OK?

With Danny.

I'm not in the house.
I'm not with Pat.

I'm not with the kids.

I'm with my brother
in the apartment,

just like I'm supposed to be.
- OK.

I'm just taking some pictures.

OK, well, cut it out, huh?

No more pictures, got it?

No more pictures.

All right.

I thought that was very,
very strange for somebody

to be taking my twin
brother's photograph at 5:30

in the morning.

I didn't like it at all.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): That
Saturday, at around 9:15 PM,

Sammy set off for Elkhorn
Lake, approximately 40 miles

from his house.

He planned to spend
the night in his truck

and begin fishing
early the next day.

12 hours later, Sammy
Wheeler was dead.

I believe Bob Bean had a
motive to kill my brother.

Pat's divorce from Bob was
going to be final on Tuesday.

They were going to be
married on Thursday.

Sammy was killed on Sunday.

Just by coincidence,
just by coincidence.

Sure, it was.

Sure, it was a coincidence.

Sure, it was.

And I'm Michael Jordan too.

I used to play for
the Chicago Bulls.

Go talk to the
people who know me, OK?

And ask them if I was really
upset if Pat was leaving.

OK.

The answer to that is, no.

So there's no motive.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On the face of it,

Bob Bean was a perfect suspect.

But he also had what appeared
to be the perfect alibi.

When Sammy was murdered, Bean
was on maneuvers with his Army

National Guard unit.

The night that he
was killed, I was

on duty until 11:00 that night.

Now, the death certificate
indicates the time of death

at 1:00.

The camp that I was at
is about 150 miles away.

There was no way that I could
physically get from the camp

to the murder scene in that
amount of time to kill Sam.

It's just physically impossible.

One of our men from our
department at the time

was in the same unit and
remembers seeing Bob there.

So things checked out
pretty good for him.

I feel like that Bob Bean knew
just as soon as Sam Wheeler was

found dead he knew
they were going to come

knocking on his door,
so he knew that he

better have his story right.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Danny Wheeler

believes that Bob
Bean later gave

the photographs
that his teenage son

took to a professional hit man.

You'd have to pay
for the hit man,

and the FBI investigated
my finances,

and I don't have quite what it
takes to pay a professional.

There was nothing at
all to support the theory

of Bob hiring someone.

That just didn't go anywhere
with the investigation.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In the end,

Bob Bean was cleared
as a suspect,

but the question remained--

who murdered Sammy Wheeler?

As far as alibis
go, the only one

who really doesn't have
an alibi, according

to what she's told me, is Pat.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Bob
Bean first began to suspect Pat

a week after the murder, when
their sons, ages 3 and 4,

began talking about the crime
scene in surprising detail.

Daddy, some bad guy shot Sam.

Yes, I know that.

Some very bad guy shot Sam.

He was in the Trooper.

That's right.

He was found in his car.

We went to the mountain.

You did?

When did you go
to the mountains?

When Sam got shot.

At first, I didn't
think much of it.

But later on, they
started getting

a little bit more
specific and offering

a little bit more details.

And all of a sudden, when
they would come visit,

I noticed that they
were exhibiting

some definite behavior
which was suggestive

that they were scared.

They were frightened.

Now let me just make sure that
the camera's working all right.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Bob Bean

was so convinced that he
even videotaped his sons

and then presented the
tape to the police.

Who was there when Sam died?

Mommy.

Mommy was there?

Yeah.

I believe Bob is a
very, very sick man.

The fact that he would put
his kids in the position

that he has, gets little two
and three-year-old children

at that time, through what he
put them through proves that he

has no scruples, no morals.

He cares about no
one, not at all,

not even his own flesh and
blood, little infant children.

He is a sick, sick man.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In the end,

the police dismissed the
boys' testimony as unreliable.

Investigators also believed
that Pat had an airtight alibi.

I'll see you later.

I'm gonna be in the living
room if you need anything.

So give me a call.

The night that Sam was
killed, I was at home

alone with my two children.

I had absolutely no motive
to kill Sam Wheeler.

Sam was-- Sam and my
children were my life.

And I planned for them
to be for a long time.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Pat Snead

was eliminated as a suspect.

Perhaps not surprisingly,
Bob Bean soon

raised yet another possibility.

There's only two
things that can

come between brothers, twin
brothers, that I'm aware of.

It's money and a woman.

That's all I gotta say.

You know, I don't
offer anything.

I'll let somebody else
make the accusations.

Immediately after
Sam was killed,

the only person that I
had in mind who I thought

did it was my ex-husband.

I have since then had
time, lots of time,

as you know, to think about
things that have happened,

and to wonder if somebody
else could have had

a reason for wanting Sam dead.

Sam's brother, Danny, may have
wanted him out of the way.

The reason for that,
I have been told,

is that Danny was
in love with me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Pat
says that shortly after Sammy's

death, Danny made a
surprising confession

to one of her girlfriends.

She just said dad
Danny Wheeler told her

that he was in love with
me, that he had been in love

with me for a long
time, that he thought

about me every night, that he
wanted to hold me in his arms

every night.

There's not an ounce of
truth in those allegations.

If she married my brother,
she was gonna be like a sister

to me, and my family
doesn't go in for incest.

She never once physically
attracted me, even before Sam

got involved with her.

I didn't think she was
a good-looking woman.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On the
morning when Sammy's body was

discovered, his father
and Sergeant Hyte

broke the news to Danny and Pat.

He's dead, son.

Oh no!

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Pat believes

Danny's hysterical reaction was
a clever ploy to hide the fact

that he was the killer.

Why don't you go get Bob Bean?

He's down the road.
Why don't you go get him?

You know it's him!
- We're not sure.

Why don't you go get him?

Dad, I told you long
ago it was Bob Bean!

He doesn't know.

He doesn't know.

We don't know
anything right now.

I'm going to Bob bean.
Get out of my way!

- Danny!
- What?

This is not gonna help--

I think most of his behavior
when he first found out that

Sam was dead was a show, was to
make everybody else basically,

more than likely the law
enforcement people more than

anybody else, think
that he was feeling

some way that he wasn't.

I think he was putting
on a show for them.

Why is she lying,
it makes me wonder?

What is she hiding,
it makes me wonder?

God knows what that did to
me when my brother died.

And why she would
say things like that

makes me wonder about her.

Maybe Bob Bean didn't
kill my brother.

Maybe it was Pat that
killed my brother.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As for Danny,

the police confirmed that
he also has an alibi.

On the night of Sammy's murder,
Danny was seen bar hopping

until the early morning hours.

Pat Snead, Bob Bean,
and Danny Wheeler

would not be considered any
more suspects in this case

than anyone else at
the present time.

They provided alibis.

We've corroborated them.

They've taken a polygraph.

They've shown no deception.

They are no more of
a suspect in our eyes

than anyone else at
the present time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Who killed Sammy Wheeler?

Despite all of the
accusations and denials,

the FBI has concluded
that Sammy was

a victim of random violence.

The local authorities, however,
believe that Sammy Wheeler

may have known his killer.

When we return, a
mother, and father

hope you can help solve the
mysterious disappearance

of their son, Gordon Page Jr.

[theme music]

This is Gordon Page Jr.
at 18 months of age.

He was born autistic, and
the results were tragic.

Not because of the
autism, but because Gordie

was never correctly diagnosed.

His father, Gordon
Page Sr, remembers.

I guess maybe when
he was really young,

we thought something was
wrong, but we didn't know what.

He didn't walk like other
kids and run like other kids.

And as he got older, he'd
just sit there and look around

and didn't even move.

They always told us
that he was a big boy.

He'd just be clumsy maybe,
but then he'd outgrow it.

He didn't really
seem unusual to us,

because it was our first
child, and we just--

we just raised him like a
normal child, and he was slow.

That's what we felt.
He was just slow.

Now, Gordon, I'm putting five
pieces of fruit on the table.

You see that?

One, two, three, four, five.

How many pieces of fruit
are on the table, Gordon?

Five.

That's very good.

Now I'm going to take
the two apples away.

Now, look down here.

How many pieces of fruit are
left on the table, Gordon?

22.

Now, Gordon, come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): To his
parents, Gordie was a paradox.

At times, he seemed unable
to grasp simple addition

and subtraction.

Yet Gordie had a phenomenal
memory, especially

when it came to baseball.

Wes Gibson, batting
average 193, home runs 1.

The baseball cards,
I would say he probably

had 25,000 or 30,000
baseball cards.

And he knew the names
of every player, all

the statistics of the cards.

And he would just sit
there and memorize them.

Don Money, batting average
223, home runs seven.

I don't think that Gordie
realized that he was slow.

In grade school, he
had a lot of friends.

And then as he got
older in junior high,

his peers started advancing,
getting ahead of him.

And when he needed
tutorial help and he

had to go into a special
ed room, it bothered him.

And he had a hard time
in 11th and 12th grade,

because all his peers were
dating, driving cars, going out

and doing things, and he
was much just a loner,

actually, because he couldn't
keep up with everybody

who was passing him by.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Gordie worked hard to keep up.

In June of 1981, he
graduated from high school.

His parents hoped he would
be able to hold down a job,

and eventually helped
him apply for one

at a local grocery store.

Then they held their
breath and waited.

He said, "dad, I got the job."

He said, "you know, it's
minimum wage." $3.25 or $0.15,

whatever it was.

But he said, "I start Monday.

Isn't that great?"

And it made me feel so happy.

And I dropped him off
at work in the morning,

and I would hide where
he couldn't see me.

And it made me feel proud as
a father to see him working

and to see him happy.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Soon,
however, the store manager

reported that Gordie, although
a conscientious worker,

had trouble communicating
with customers.

His dad tried to coach Gordie
at home using a video camera.

You're carrying the
groceries to my car now,

and I say "thank you."

What do you say?

"Good."

No, you say "you're welcome."

OK, let's do it again.

Thank you.

What do you say?

If nobody says anything,
then just smile at them.

Let's see that nice
Gordon Page smile.

Come on, it's worth
a million dollars.

Let's see it.
Come on, let's see it.

Oh yeah.

If you smile at people like
that, they'll just love it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Gordie's

winning smile was not enough.

Things didn't work out
at the grocery store,

and he was let go.

Eventually, both Linda and
Gordon Page, worried sick

about their son's future,
met with social workers

and asked for their
evaluation of Gordie's case.

Well, we're going to
recommend that Gordon

move to a group home.

I've taken care of
Gordie his whole life.

This is his home.

I don't think so.

You folks won't
be around forever.

At this point, when you die,
Gordon will be a lost soul.

Finally, we agreed
to try it, and we

went to visit a group home.

And the lady said, well, he
can't stay here until he goes

to see if he needs
to be stabilized

on medication in the hospital.

So we did this.

We finally agreed.

And the doctor there put
him on Ritalin and Valium,

and Gordon wasn't
Gordon after that.

No, stop it!

Go away!

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The combination

of Ritalin, a
stimulant, and Valium,

a tranquilizer, plunged
Gordie into another world

of physical and
psychological torment.

[moaning]

Gordon, what is it?

Son, what?

I feel like cats are
scratching inside my brain!

You feel helpless.

There isn't anything you can do.

And all I do is call the doctor
and tell him what was going on.

And he said, don't
worry about it.

That's just typical
for his illness,

and it takes time for
the medication to work.

And I said, what is his illness?

And he said, well, whatever
it is, there are signs of this

and signs of that.

But nobody would
specifically come out and say

this is what's wrong with him.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
For nearly five months,

Gordie and his parents
struggled with the medication.

Where are we going?

Just for a ride.

Wanna sit in the back?

In the van?

You love the van.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Finally, the Pages

has consulted another
doctor, who told them

that the combination
of Ritalin and Valium

was making Gordon
virtually catatonic.

In September of 1989, Gordie's
family moved to Florida.

Gordie stayed in Michigan.

The preceding
spring, he had been

accepted at a highly regarded
group home in Grand Rapids.

For several months,
all went well.

Then a near tragedy.

On November 29th, 1989,
a workman left his truck

running in the driveway.

Gordie, heavily medicated,
couldn't resist the temptation.

Whoa!

Oh my god.

What are you doing?

Look at my car!

We interviewed the lady who
was the victim in the accident.

She gave us a description
which fit Gordon.

Our officers then received
another call, a call from one

of our elementary schools, that
a person fitting Gordon Page's

description was at
this elementary school,

wanting to teach a class.

So we responded there,
and at that time

picked up Mr. Gordon Page.

Do you remember driving
that truck over there?

Yeah.

Oh, so you do realize you
were involved in a car accident.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Later,
Gordie would tell his parents

that all he had wanted to do was
visit his younger brother away

at college in Texas.

Gordon Page.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Gordie was subsequently

placed in a county hospital.

He was a evaluated by
psychiatric social worker Bill

Arnold.

DRIVER: 16785 what?

BILL ARNOLD: He was brought in
with a label of schizophrenia.

DRIVER: What are
you laughing about?

People that are schizophrenic
will, with medication,

over a couple of week
period, usually they'll

start to clear up
in their thinking,

and their behavior
will come in line,

and they start getting
back more to normal.

With Gordon, that didn't work.

The more medication he
got, the more, at times,

he became almost mute, and just
withdrew, didn't do anything.

Tell me about the voices
that you told the doctor about,

Gordon.

I'm going home for
Christmas, right?

Yeah, I'm sure that
we'll be able to get you

out of here by Christmas time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After several months

of intensive
therapy with Gordie,

Bill Arnold arrived at
a surprising conclusion.

He decided Gordie
was not schizophrenia

after all, but rather a
high functioning autistic.

Tell me about your baseball
card collection, Gordon.

Woody Fry, 1966, Pirate
Rookie of the Year.

Pirate.

Is he your favorite player?

Woody Fry.

OK, do you have other?

Dalton Jones.

Dalton Jones, 1961,
batting average 322.

Once we got him off
all those medications

and we started treating
him as possibly an autistic

and working on training and
just giving him some respect,

he was a totally
different individual,

just a totally different
individual than that withdrawn,

acting out individual
that we saw on medication.

And we need you to sign this.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The Pages

were counterfeited
that Gordie had at last

been correctly diagnosed.

Soon, they found a group
home in Grand Rapids

which specialized in autism.

But this says I
can't visit Gordon.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
There was only one drawback.

For two months, no visitors
were allowed while Gordie

adapted to his new environment.

Mr. Page, I understand
how you want the very best

for your son, and so do we.

We just want to give him
his best shot at integrating

with the program here.

He's waiting for you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On May 22nd, 1991,

Gordon Page Sr. was set
to return to Florida.

That afternoon, he shared
an emotional goodbye

with his oldest son.

Hello, Gordon.

How you doing, son?

We kind of stood
there and talked,

and we hugged, and
talked a little bit more.

And then we walked over
to the van, and I said,

everything's gonna work out.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Gordie seemed desperate

for his father to stay.

Against his better
judgment, Gordon Page

did not open the door.

It was a decision he
would come to regret.

It's very painful.

Now, in retrospect, I
wish I had allowed him

just to get in and crawl
back and just driven

right to Florida and come home.

But you don't think
of those things,

and we didn't know
what we were going

to be facing in the future.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
future came all too quickly.

Four days after his father
had left, Gordie disappeared.

An orderly made the discovery
during the regular midnight bed

check.

Around an hour later,
a local fireman

reported that he had
seen someone who matched

Gordie's description hitchhiking
in the direction of Interstate

96.

An intense police search of
the area turned up no leads.

MR. PAGE (VOICEOVER): I'm angry.

I feel bad for Gordon.

I feel bad as a parent that
I wasn't able to find help

earlier, that it had to be
when he was 27, 28 years of age

that we finally found
out what was wrong.

We just want our son back.

We wanna be reunited
as a family,

and we love Gordon very much.

MRS. PAGE (VOICEOVER): We'll
never stop looking for Gordie

because we love him, and we've
always been a close family.

He would know that
we want him back.

And no, we will never
stop looking for him.

MR. PAGE: We love you, Gordie.

What's your name?

Hi, my name's Gordon Page.

What's yours?

Hi, my name is Gordon Page.

What's your name?

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