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ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): In
Virginia, a woman is found

dead on a lonely country road.

Her husband claims it
was a tragic accident,

but the police
believe it was murder.

In Chicago and New
York, over 5,000 people

have been tricked into
paying hundreds of thousands

of dollars for worthless
coins in a clever scam.

Perhaps you can help
catch these con artists.

Mabel Woods loves dogs and has
dedicated her life to providing

shelter for homeless pets.

For the last 18
months, someone has

been waging a campaign
of terror against Mabel

and her helpless animals.

We'll also tell
you the story of five

Hawaiian fishermen who
vanished without a trace

during a tropical storm.

Almost 10 years
later, a tiny boat

was discovered over 3,000 miles
from where they were last seen.

Beside the boat,
one of the sailors

had been carefully buried.

What happened to the other
members of the lost crew?

[theme music]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On
the night of September 30, 1987,

a pickup truck was
discovered on the side

of a Virginia back road.

The engine was running.

The keys were still
in the ignition.

The transmission was in park.

Beside the truck lay its owner,
a 45-year-old woman named

Kay Hall, crushed to death.

Whoever operated the vehicle
appeared to have backed

over the center of her torso
and probably on the bump

from rolling over her with the
left rear tire of the truck,

then applied the brakes
suddenly, causing the vehicle

to skid going backwards.

The front tire, or
the left front tire,

then caught her torso and
pulled her backwards slightly

and twisted her body
on the roadway, which

is how she was found,
with the vehicle in park

and the engine still running.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
After their preliminary

investigation, authorities
began to suspect that Kay's

husband, Bob, had murdered her.

They believe he had a possible
motive for wanting Kay dead,

as he stood to collect
part of $50,000

that she had inherited
the same day she died.

Bob Hall also had no alibi
for the period of time

when Kay was killed.

All I perceive is that the
investigation has focused only

on me and that I don't see any
effort on anyone's part to look

into the other possibilities.

The death of Kay
Hall is surrounded

by events that seem
to simultaneously

indict and exonerate
the prime suspect.

For this reason, Bob
Hall remains a free man.

The case against him rests
on time, an approximately

20-minute window of opportunity
when Bob Hall could have

stalked and run down his wife.

Bob Hall freely consented
to appear in this story,

hoping that through its
telling his innocence

will finally be established.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Kay
and Bob Hall lived and worked

on the shores of Virginia's
Corrotoman River,

a tributary that empties
near the western shore

of the Chesapeake Bay.

Kay was a successful
insurance executive

who left her career
when she and Bob started

an oyster-farming business.

They had been married
since July of 1985,

though Kay had known
Bob for 12 years.

The two became closer while Bob
was serving two years in jail

for selling drugs.

She corresponded with him
while he was in prison.

And when he was released
in January of 1982,

Kay was waiting.

BOB HALL: It was
quite an experience

that Saturday morning.

It was raining.

It was about 7:30.

And Kay pulled up in
her little Fiesta,

and I could see the car
way off in the distance

and her waving at me.

And between us was a very
large electrical fence.

And she very laughingly
said to me, hey, you.

Robert, I finally
got you at last.

And that was a-- that
was a good feeling.

It was nice to feel
wanted by somebody.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Six months

after the couple
started their business,

it began to run into
financial difficulty.

By many accounts,
this contributed

to tensions in the marriage.

Both began to drink heavily.

ESTHER BRODERIUS:
As time went on,

I'd ask her, how's
the business going?

And I can tell it
wasn't going so well.

And then I'd say,
well, and how's Bob?

And I could tell that
wasn't so good, either.

Honey, it's time to party.

Are you down there?

BOB: Well, it's
about time, dear.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
According to friends,

Kay and Bob's quarrels often
began over trivial incidents.

We're not taking the Jeep.

We're taking the truck.

Why?

Why can't we take the Jeep?

Because you got
the DWI in the Jeep.

BARBARA HAISLET
(VOICEOVER): Kay called me

in the summer of 1986,
and she started crying.

And she said, Bob is
abusing me physically.

He's abusing me.

He beats me up.
- Stop it!

You're hurting me!

Gee!

BARBARA HAISLET: And that's when
she started to talk about going

into therapy, trying to get into
marriage counseling with Bob,

and if that didn't
work that she would

definitely consider divorce.

The conversation about divorce
probably came up as frequently

as it would in any
couple's relationship

where they were problems.

And the problems were
essentially money.

The oyster business had not
treated us with great kindness.

We had lost an awful
lot of money on it.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On September 30, 1987,

Kay's fortunes turned.

Hi.
TELLER: Hi, Kay.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): She
had recently received a $50,000

inheritance, and in
the local post office,

she mailed papers that
officially transferred half

of the money into her account.

That morning was to
be Kay Hall's last.

Here's your receipt.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
That evening,

Kay and Bob went to a party
at the local country club.

Many of Kay's friends were
there, and by all accounts,

she was the life of the party.

BOB HALL (VOICEOVER):
We got to the party

probably around 20 after
6:00, and Kay was--

I know was thoroughly
enjoying herself.

You could just see
the magic, you know.

Kay walked in, and all of these
faces just seemed to turn.

There's Kay!

And all of a sudden, things
seemed to be complete.

Thank you, Melanie.

Can I have one for the
road please, Melanie?

Sure.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As the evening progressed,

Kay and Bob continued to drink.

You ready to go home?

Just a couple minutes.

There you go.

- Having a good time?
- Mm-hmm.

Well, not as good as you.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Then Kay became upset,

some say by the amount that
Bob tipped the bartender.

Kay left the country
club without her husband

and drove away in their pickup.

A few minutes later, as
he was left without a car,

Bob was driven the 14 miles
to his home by friends.

At approximately
9:55 PM, two carloads

of people leaving a
different dinner party

happened upon a shocking scene.

WOMAN (VOICEOVER): There was
a truck sitting there off

to the side of the road
with the lights on,

and there was a body
underneath the front wheel.

- It's Kay Hall.
- Who is it?

Kay Hall.

It looks like she's
hurt real bad.

WOMAN: We felt her pulse to
see whether she had a pulse.

We couldn't find
one, but that was

when we discovered that
she was just as warm

as you and I are right now.

So she-- what had
happened had just

happened very, very recently.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): By
the time the paramedics arrived,

it was too late.

A little over two hours after
leaving the country club,

Kay Hall was pronounced dead.

SPEC.
AGT.

DAVID RILEY: The reconstruction
from witnesses at the scene

was that she had been
found under the left front

tire of her own vehicle.

Apparently, the vehicle had
backed over her while she

was lying on the road.

There were some
signs which we later

found in the truck that
indicated there was a scuffle

inside the cab of the truck.

But Kay's purse
was still intact.

It had all her money and credit
cards and so forth in it.

Also, it did not
appear that there

was any sign of a sexual
assault. She was fully clothed.

The autopsy results
showed that she

was intoxicated at the time of
her death, a rather high level.

She very well could
have been disoriented,

which would have caused her
to have taken the wrong turn

and might have put her in
the area where she was found.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Bob
and Kay's domestic problems,

coupled with the $50,000
that she had just inherited,

led to Bob Hall being
considered a prime suspect.

Bob Hall has no alibi for
the approximate one-hour period

between the time friends dropped
him off at home at about 8:45

and the time that
he placed a phone

call from his house at 9:47.

During this hour,
Kay was killed.

If Bob had murdered her,
it only could have occurred

within a narrow period of time.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Shortly after 8:00 PM, Kay

left the country
club, located here.

Bob was dropped off at his home
here, 15 miles from the club,

at 8:45 PM.

Just over an hour later,
at approximately 9:55 PM,

Kay was found dead at this spot,
just two miles from the club.

Bob Hall would have
had only one hour

to drive to the murder
site, somehow find his wife

in the darkness,
kill her, and then

race back home in time to
place his 9:47 PM phone call.

Spec.

Agt.

Riley retraced the drive from
the Hall home to the death site

several times.

SPEC.
AGT.

DAVID RILEY
(VOICEOVER): I measured

the distance between
the Hall residence

and the spot where
Kay was found.

The distance is between
14 and 15 miles.

I could drive it in as
little as 17 minutes

if I drove it in
pursuit fashion.

And if I drove at
a leisurely pace,

it took as much as 24 minutes.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): If
Bob had left home immediately

at 8:45 and driven directly
to where Kay's body was found,

he would have arrived
at about 9:05.

In order to make
his 9:46 phone call,

Hall would have had
to have left the scene

no later than 9:30 PM.

This would have given him no
more than 25 minutes to track

down and murder his wife.

It's terrible to have somebody
taken from you in this way,

and particularly
when nobody has been

able to do anything about it.

So I really-- I
don't know that--

that I can rest until we--

till we see justice
served and the murderer

is apprehended and convicted.

BOB HALL: They apparently
do not have any--

any-- anyone else
to-- to focus in on.

And being put in that
spotlight has been tough.

I love Kay.

I'm looking forward to
this-- this whole incident

being resolved.

I'd like to see, you know, Kay
to literally be put at rest

and to have some
peace in my life and--

and her family's life.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In a moment,

we'll update the story of
an injured Vietnam vet who,

for 21 years, has been searching
for the nurse who helped him

learn to walk and talk again.

Three weeks ago, we
presented the poignant story

of an Army helicopter
pilot, Jim Meade,

who was severely
injured when he was

shot down in Vietnam in 1967.

Tonight, the heartwarming
ending to Jim's story.

Jim's war wounds
left him in a coma

from which doctors feared
he would never recover.

Hi, Jim.
How you feeling today?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Jim
eventually came out of his coma

but had no memory of
his first 19 years.

He had even forgotten
how to walk and talk.

Then he met an Army physical
therapist named Lt. Stephens.

I know you're hurting,
but you can't give up.

Now, straighten it out.

Come on, work hard!

Come on.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
For the next nine months,

with the help and
encouragement of Lt. Stephens,

Jim struggled to regain his
speech and motor skills.

There you go.

Ah.

JAMES P. MEADE: I don't
know if I would have learned

to do these things without her.

I always wanted to
get better and learn

things so that I could show
her how much I'd improved.

It was always important to me.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Nearly one year

after Jim arrived
at the hospital,

Lt. Stephens left the Army.

She never saw Jim again or
had any idea that she set

him on the path to recovery.

If I saw her now, I
don't know what I'd do.

I just know that it's
always been important for me

that she knows that I'm OK.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): The morning

after our broadcast, Jim Meade's
15-year search came to an end

when he received a phone
call from one of our viewers.

KAREN STEPHENS NELSON:
I was watching TV,

and I saw Jim at the
beginning of the program.

And I said to my family,
I treated that fella

when I was in the service.

And the next remark
was that they

were looking for Lt. Stephens.

And I thought, well,
that was my maiden name.

And at that point, I realized
that this was going to be more

than just a program to watch.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On September 25,

nearly 21 years after
they said goodbye,

Jim and Karen reunited.

Hi.

Oh, my god.

It's good to see you.

How you doing?

Oh, you look wonderful.

When Karen came to
the door, I went numb.

If somebody else
saw her, they might

say that Karen's changed 200%.

In my heart, Karen
hasn't changed a bit.

And I'm glad to
tell her thank you.

KAREN STEPHENS NELSON:
The reunion today has been

everything I expected it to be.

It will stand out as one of the
most exciting days of my life.

It's thrilling to see someone
that has come back so far

and made a success
of their life.

But a lot of people had a lot
to do with Jim Meade's recovery.

I was just a small part.

JAMES P. MEADE: It
would be very difficult

for me to put into words what
this day has meant to me.

It just makes the future that
much brighter, because I do

know now that
dreams do come true.

[music - "new york, new york"]

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
New Yorkers have a reputation

for being streetwise and savvy.

They can take care
of themselves.

No one is going to pull
a fast one on them.

Yet each year, New
Yorkers lose four

times more money to scams and
con men than to bank robberies.

Over the past 15 years,
at least 5,000 people

have fallen prey to a very
clever, highly organized scam.

Jerry Diner is a typical
unsuspecting victim.

I was at a telephone
in Midtown outside.

And as I finished up my
call, a guy comes up to me.

He sounded kind of drunk.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Yeah?

Uh, I just found this
bank envelope on the street,

and this was inside of it.
- Uh-huh.

I was wondering if
you'd do me a favor.

Could you call this guy up
and tell him I found this?

Because I want to
give it back to him.

JERRY DINER
(VOICEOVER): And he's

holding a bank deposit
envelope, and it's got

"Dr. Stone" and the address.

And in his other hand,
he's got these coins.

He couldn't make the
telephone call himself.

OK.
Calm down, man.

JERRY DINER
(VOICEOVER): I finally

get the doctor on the
phone, and I said,

I don't know how to
explain this to you--

Uh, I got a guy here, and,
um, he found an envelope

that has your coins in it.

DR. STONE (ON PHONE):
You found my coins?

Uh-huh.
Well, here, Joe.

Why don't you talk to him?
- No, no, no.

I don't talk on the phone.

And I said, Doctor, I
don't know what to do here.

And the doctor says, look,
if you could give him $100,

then, you know, I'll
add that $100 onto--

there's $1,000 reward.

I don't have $100.

DR. STONE (ON PHONE): You
see, I'm a coin collector,

and I've lost those coins.

They're very valuable.

JERRY DINER
(VOICEOVER): So I said,

I don't know what to do here.

You know, he won't come to you.

Can you come down here?

And the doctor says, he
can't come down there.

OK.

If I can do anything, I will.

Well, I certainly
would appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As it turned out,

the phone number Jerry dialed
was not a doctor's office,

but a pay phone, and the man
he spoke with was a con artist.

JERRY DINER: What
allowed me to be scanned

was that it was totally
non-threatening.

It was always up to me.

I could walk away, or I could
go that next step further.

When he was really
drunk at the telephone,

I could have just said, look,
I can't handle this, Dr. Stone.

Boom, I'm out of here.

- Joe?
- What?

Look, how much do you
want for those coins?

I just want a place to
stay, something to drink,

something to eat.

No, I understand
that, I understand that.

But exactly how much do
you want for the coins?

- $100.
- $100?

All right, look,
here's what I'll do.

I'll take you over to my bank
machine, and I'll get you $100,

and then I'll take the
coins over to the doctor.

You'd do that for me?

Yeah, sure.
Come on.

Oh, you're a saint.

Come on.

JERRY DINER: And
I give him $160.

I mean, it's worth it to
give him the extra money.

And I'd like to say,
you know, that I'm,

like, really a good
person and that there

was no greed involved.

But it was kind of
like an illegal thing

that was going on, because I
was going to take those coins.

I'm giving him 160,
but, you know, I'm

going to make five times that.

So yes, there was, you know,
that illicit kind of feeling

of, you know, I'm doing
something a little weird here

and, you know, and I'm
going to get away with it.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): In the scam,

the con man carefully
selects people

who appear to be
affluent or who might

be able to easily get cash
from a bank teller machine.

Once the fake transaction
has gone down,

he simply disappears
into the crowd.

I don't know
anything about coins,

so I thought I was doing
a favor for the doctor.

But in the cab, I
looked at the coins,

and it said "rare" on the coins.

But then it listed the amounts,
and one was 1,350, one was 600,

and one was, like, 300.

And I'm going,
why would he offer

$1,000 reward for coins that
are only worth, like, 2,000?

That seemed, like, a
little weird to me.

But I figured, well, they really
mean something to this guy.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Most of that

people taken in by this scam
are sent to the same apartment

building on the Upper East
Side, which they believe

to be Dr. Stone's office.

- Hi.
- Hi.

How are you?

I'm looking for Dr. Stone.

Well, I'm sorry.

There's no Dr. Stone here.

RAYMOND SULLIVAN: In
the last few years,

we've estimated that about 3,000
or 4,000 people have actually

come here with this coin scam.

A lot of the times when
these victims come here,

they believe that,
in some way, myself

or whoever else is working
here that's in the lobby

is an accomplice to this.

And, you know, I always
try to explain to them

that if I was running
this scam, would I

actually bring you back to me?

I never thought that I was
being scammed for one second,

not even for a millisecond.

I was just caught up in this.

I really want to
thank you for this.

JERRY DINER
(VOICEOVER): I really

felt like I was
doing a good deed

and making money
at the same time.

The simple but
plausible scam has

suckered people in New York,
Florida, Boston, and Baltimore.

In most cases, the coins
that are sold are like these,

an English 25 pence
worth about $0.35,

a fake California gold rush
coin which is totally worthless,

and an Indian penny
worth no more than $0.50.

The total value of these three
coins is no more than $1.

If you're approached by
one of these con artists,

for heaven's sake,
don't buy these coins.

Immediately contact your
local law enforcement agency.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Next, the story of a woman

who provides shelter
for homeless animals.

She is being terrorized
by an unknown assailant.

ROBERT STACK: The Humane
Society of the United States

estimates that last year
alone, over 12 million stray

and abandoned cats and dogs
were taken in by animal shelters

nationwide.

Sadly, over 7 and 1/2
million of these animals

were never placed in homes
and had to be destroyed.

In southern Missouri,
68-year-old Mabel Woods

has dedicated the past
15 years of her life

to running an animal
sanctuary that provides

a loving and caring
home for dogs that

might otherwise be impounded.

But in recent years,
Mabel and the dogs

she cares for have been the
target of a campaign of terror.

How long have you
been on the road?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Four and 1/2 years ago, Mabel

moved to the small
rural community

of Bonne Terre, located 60
miles south of St. Louis.

MABEL WOODS (VOICEOVER):
I was raised on a farm.

I always loved animals.

My dream was always to have
lots and lots of animals.

Come to Mama.

Oh, you're beautiful.

Where did you come from, hmm?

You wanna go home with me?

Let's take you home, give
you something to eat.

Hungry?

MABEL WOODS (VOICEOVER): Every
time I would go to the store,

I would see strays.

It would ruin the
whole evening if I saw

a dog that was obviously lost.

All right.

Get in there.

Finally, I fulfilled
my dream of having

a place I could keep them.

And I can't take all
the strays, of course.

But I take a great many.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Mabel bought a 110-acre farm

and built a $60,000 kennel
to house many of the 115 dogs

she was caring for.

The dogs were
offered for adoption,

but those that
didn't find new homes

lived out their lives
on the sanctuary.

Mabel felt the farm was an ideal
location, because her nearest

neighbors are over a
mile away and would

not be disturbed by the dogs.

Let's go in there
with Little Bird.

There's Little Bird.

You don't know what
to expect, do you?

You're all right,
you're all right.

Little Bird is a good child.

Hey, Little Bird.

See?

Look here, look here.

You are OK.

I love you.

You're beautiful.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 18 months

after she moved to
the farm, Mabel's

peaceful life was shattered.

[barking]

On the night of
December 11, 1986,

someone broke into
Mabel's kennel.

[barking and growling]

[gunshots]

The intruder fired at least four
rounds of a .22-caliber rifle,

killing two dogs and
seriously wounding two others.

The next morning when I
went up to open the kennel,

I found my dogs dead.

In the beginning, I thought,
oh, there's been a fight.

They've killed each other.

But as I looked, I realized
that they had been shot.

And I rushed two of them,
one a big collie, to the vet,

and he was saved.

Well, he was shot right in
the-- right in the nose.

It's a miracle that
he's even living,

because he was laying in a
pool of blood when I found him.

I was upset about it, and I
called the sheriff's office.

But I knew there was nothing,
really nothing, that could be

done at that point, probably.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Police officials

investigated the shooting.

But because the killing of
an animal is a misdemeanor,

the case was given low priority.

After the shooting, Mabel
hired Charlie Jacobs

to help around the kennel.

Charlie moved into
the guesthouse

and doubled as a hired
hand and night watchman.

Come here, girls.

Here you go.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
For two months,

nothing unusual happened.

Mabel and Charlie settled
into a comfortable routine.

Come on.

Hi, girls.

How you doing, huh?

Goodnight.

Hello.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): On
the night of February 10, 1987,

Charlie made his
final rounds as usual.

[barking]

CHARLIE JACOBS: I walked back
down and stopped at our barn,

turned the light off there, and
walked on down to the garage,

where I met Mabel.

We talked for a few
minutes and turned

the lights off there again.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Around 1:00 AM,

Charlie was in his kitchen
when he noticed a bright orange

glow through the window.

CHARLIE: What the hell?

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 50 yards

away, the kennel was in flames.

Mabel!

Mabel!

Mabel!

Call the fire department!
The kennel's on fire!

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): By the time

Charlie reached
the kennel, it was

completely engulfed in flames.

Inside were 60 dogs.

They had no way to escape.

CHARLIE JACOBS
(VOICEOVER): It was awful.

The flames were real high,
and you'd hear a few yipes

every once and a while.

The place was on fire.

I mean, it was like an inferno.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Charlie

managed to pull one
dog from the flames

but could do nothing
to save the other 59.

[sirens]

[sobbing]

MABEL WOODS
(VOICEOVER): There was

no reason for the
kennel to burn,

because the kennel was so new.

A great deal of it
was green lumber.

The doghouses were
burning from the inside.

Not outside, but from inside.

I knew it had to be arson,
because the dogs were blazing,

which they would not have been
without something put on them.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Fire officials

told Mabel that
the blaze had first

been reported by a neighbor.

The fire was so intense that it
set off smoke alarms in homes

over a mile away.

Have you had any problems
with anyone recently?

No, we haven't.

Have you noticed anybody
around the property

that shouldn't be the property?

No.

All I could think of is why
anyone would do such a thing.

Also, the fact that the
last thing I've always done

is tell the dogs I'm glad I
got them and that they're safe.

As I watched the
kennel come down

to the ground and realized
that my dogs were all dead,

I couldn't--

I just couldn't realize
why anyone would do that.

There just wasn't anything
left except a few scraps

of metal and the concrete.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Four days after the blaze,

the local volunteer
fire department

began an investigation headed by
investigator Charlie Giessing.

CHARLIE GIESSING
(VOICEOVER): We went

to interview the local
people, and a lot of people

were surprised that she even
existed back on this farm.

Nobody knew Mabel
Woods was back here.

Butch, charge your lines so
we can get this cleaned off.

CHARLIE GIESSING
(VOICEOVER): We wanted

to clean off the
debris of the barn

to get a look at the floor.

We started to see a pattern
that's called spalling develop.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Spalling

occurs when a
flammable substance

is ignited on concrete.

The extreme heat causes the
concrete to crack or erode.

This pattern is
not normal in a fire,

and it led us to the
assumption that the fire was

set with a flammable liquid.

We believe that night that the
suspect entered the building

to the door they
used normally to get

between the two rows of pens.

[barking]

He entered the building,
poured a flammable liquid

down the walls as he went in.

The hallway led to a bigger
open area at the far end.

He continued
pouring up the wall.

At that point, that was
probably when he lit it,

and then he took off.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): Once
it was determined that arson

was the cause of the
fire, police officials

joined the investigation.

100 yards from where
the kennel once stood,

they found a tire
track in the mud.

Somebody left out in a hurry.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): They made

a plaster mold of this track.

It and the spalling patterns
burned into the kennel floor

are the only evidence
police have in this case.

Get somebody out here to
get this thing photographed.

All right.

Let's radio in--

SHERIFF JACK CADE: We
don't have any leads.

Don't have any suspects that
haven't been eliminated.

Most of the people that you
find in this part of the country

are dog lovers.
We have dogs.

We have hunting dogs.

We care a lot about our dogs.

There's people in
this county who

would shoot you a whole
lot quicker over their dog

than they would their wife.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within 10 months of the fire,

Mabel had built a new kennel.

She is still haunted by the
memory of that tragic night

and fears that whoever
was responsible

may strike again at any time.

When I rebuilt my kennel, I
built it right onto my house,

So?

It's hard to tell
where my territory ends

and the dogs' begins.

And then to make
them even safer,

I built an eight-foot masonry
wall all the way around.

I know someone could scale it.

But also, at night
or if I'm gone,

I have a couple of big
dogs that I let out,

and the dogs do not like people.

Our concern for Mabel's
safety is an ongoing thing.

We keep an eye on that lady.

We keep an eye on her property.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Mabel's unknown enemies have

continued to terrorize her.

In the two and 1/2 years since
the fire, 40 pounds of nails

have been spread
across her driveway.

She has received numerous
death threats on the phone.

On two separate occasions,
her house has been shot at.

And just recently, graffiti
with a sinister warning,

"Quiet or Die," was painted
across the entrance sign

to her kennel.

Here we go.

Here we go.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Mabel's friends

and family fear for her safety.

They have urged her to move.

But Mabel is determined to stay.

MABEL WOODS (VOICEOVER):
I thought about it,

and I decided this
was a perfect farm.

It's very pretty.

I've got the creek,
which I love.

I decided I am not
going to leave.

It is my farm.

I bought it, paid for
it, and I'm staying.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
In a moment, the story

of five Hawaiian fisherman who
vanished in a severe storm.

Almost 10 years later,
clues to their fate

were found on a remote Pacific
island 3,000 miles away.

Did some of the crew survive?

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The Hawaiian island of
Maui, one of the nation's

most beautiful tourist centers.

But Maui is also dotted
with tiny villages

dependant on the unpredictable
Pacific for their livelihood.

One of these traditional
fishing villages

is Hana, a town of approximately
1,200 people located

on Maui's southeast shore.

February 11, 1979.

On the spur of the moment, five
local men took the day off,

planning on a few
hours' pleasure fishing

in a 17-foot Boston
Whaler, the "Sarah Joe."

When they left at about
10:00 in the morning,

the water was very calm, and
it was a nice, clear day.

And they gathered
their equipment

together and prepared the boat.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): The
five friends who went fishing

that morning were
Benjamin Kalama, Ralph

Malaiakini, Scott
Moorman, Patrick

Woesner, and Peter Hanchett.

Between them, the
men had over 50 years

of seagoing experience, and
Malaiakini earned his living

as a professional fisherman.

As the "Sarah Joe" left the
harbor, the weather was fair.

But at 1:00 PM, a freak wind
swept them from the mountains,

the first warning that a
storm was about to strike,

a storm as dangerous
as it was unexpected.

JOHN HANCHETT: The
wind's switching around.

And instead of coming from
the normal direction, which

is from the east
northeast, it switched

and came from the mountains,
blowing out to sea.

And this concerned me a great
deal, so I told Dave and said,

we've got to get down the coast,
see if we can spot those boys

and wave them in.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Within hours, the storm

arrived in all of its fury.

John Hanchett went out
into the teeth of the gale

to search for the "Sarah
Joe" and his son Peter.

JOHN HANCHETT: By this time,
it was really blowing a gale,

and the rain was beginning to
come down, and it was storming.

And we went out of Hana Harbor
about a half a mile and then

down the coast and still didn't
see any sign of the boys.

But it was a very rough trip,
and the oceans were fierce.

I'd never seen them
get that rough.

I'm John Hanchett.

John Naughton.

Nice to meet you, John.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Hanchett continued his search

the next day with the help of
marine biologist John Naughton.

JOHN NAUGHTON: It made quite
an impression on me to see--

to think that this man
was out all day yesterday

and in 30- to
40-knot winds and 20

to 25-foot seas in this
channel looking for his son.

You're hoping
coming in that someone

had seen something
during the day

and would have some
encouraging news.

But they had the same
news that we brought in.

There was no sign of the
boys, no sign of the boat,

no sign of anything.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The next day,

the Coast Guard continued the
search for the "Sarah Joe."

CAPT. JIM CUSHMAN:
The initial place

we started searching was
very ill-defined, because we

weren't really sure
exactly where the "Sarah

Joe" had gone fishing.

So it encompassed a relatively
large area initially

that first day,
and then the area

gets bigger and
bigger and bigger.

And when the conditions
are rough out,

it's very difficult,
whether you're in the air

or on the water.

And combine that with the
fact that the "Sarah Joe" was

a turquoise blue color with
white trim in an ocean that's

turquoise blue with
white whitecaps,

it would have been
very, very difficult.

When the search was finally
suspended five days later,

we had searched
73,000 square miles.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
During the following weeks,

the residents of Hana
combed the nearby beaches,

looking for the wreckage
of the "Sarah Joe."

Finally, they gave
up the search,

but they never gave up hope.

These people are
not going to become

obsessed with impossibilities.

But on the other hand,
they don't forget.

Heavenly Father, we ask thee
to be amongst us at this time

as we unify our love and--

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
To commemorate

the 10th anniversary of the
"Sarah Joe's" disappearance,

the family and
friends of the missing

sailors gathered on the pier
where the five men departed.

OFFICIANT: Help us to understand
what we have all been through.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
As time passed,

it seemed that memories were all
that were left of the missing

men and the "Sarah Joe."

And for all that we
share today among us.

Amen.

ALL: Amen.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On September the 9th,

the story of the "Sarah
Joe" took a bizarre turn.

Captain, come
take a look at this!

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): 10 years

after the tiny boat disappeared
and 2,000 miles west of Maui

in the Marshall
Islands, a wrecked boat

was spotted on the tiny
island atoll of Taongi.

Incredibly, the
man who first saw

it was John Naughton, the
marine biologist who had

searched for the "Sarah
Joe" back in 1979.

At first, we thought it
was a boat moored off shore,

so we approached closer.

And then we saw that
it was what looked

to be a battered small
boat on the island itself.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Naughton and his crew

landed to examine the wreckage.

JOHN NAUGHTON: As
we rounded a bend

in the island on the
windward side there,

we could see the white
hull of the boat.

And on the starboard
bow, there were

still a few letters and numbers
from the registration number.

And I immediately saw it started
with an HA, which indicates

that the boat was registered
in the Hawaiian Islands, which,

of course, is over
2,000 miles away.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Approximately 60 yards

away from the wreckage,
Naughton's companions

discovered a makeshift grave.

JOHN NAUGHTON: We
walked over there,

and they were standing
over a pile of coral rocks

with a crude wooden
cross sticking out of it.

And when we got up there,
we could see immediately

that there was a human
jawbone protruding

out of the pile of rocks.

At that time, we had
no way of knowing

that the grave
site was associated

with the wrecked whaler.

Although we had a fairly good--

we had a feeling that
it may be, because it

was in such close proximity.

Somebody obviously
had to bury that guy,

and they may still be
on the island here.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
The men found no evidence

that the island was inhabited.

Naughton recorded
the registration

numbers of the whaler and
left the site undisturbed.

The Coast Guard ran a
check of these numbers

and made a positive
identification.

The whaler was the "Sarah Joe."

It was so amazing
that Naughtono

would end up finding
the boat and the grave

and things like that.

I haven't-- I hadn't
seen him in the meantime.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): After
the Coast Guard identification

of the wreckage, the
grave was excavated,

and a partial human
skeleton was uncovered.

Dental records revealed
that the remains

were those of one of the five
missing men, Scott Moorman.

Another strange clue surfaced
when unusual pieces of paper

were discovered in the grave.

These papers had been
buried deliberately.

CAPT. JIM CUSHMAN: It
was a sheaf of paper

in I'd say a book,
except it was not

bound, probably three
inches by three inches

by maybe 3/4 of an inch thick.

But between each one of
these pieces of paper,

there was a very small square
piece of tinfoil material.

We have not been able to
determine who placed that there

or what purpose it serves.

ROBERT STACK
(VOICEOVER): Experts

agree that the "Sarah Joe"
could have drifted the 2,000

miles to the Marshall Islands,
a chain of tiny islands

in the Western Pacific.

This voyage should have
taken three months.

But according to the brother
of one of the missing men,

a US government survey
of Taongi in 1985

found no trace of
the "Sarah Joe."

If this is true, then
where was the "Sarah Joe"

during the six years between
its 1979 disappearance

and this 1985 survey?

In 1985, they said there
was no "Sarah Joe," no "Sarah

Joe" on the Taongi Island.

Where was the "Sarah Joe"?

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER): What
happened to the "Sarah Joe"

during these six lost years?

Where were the five missing men?

Who buried Scott
Moorman and why?

And perhaps most importantly,
could any of the men still

be alive?

TINY MALAIAKINI: Every
time I look at the ocean,

my thoughts go to him.

I see him way out in the islands
someplace alive and waiting.

We want to know what
happened to the other boys.

Were they on that island
with the boat and with Scott?

Well, maybe someone around
has some information

that can enlighten us on that.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Finally tonight,

another edition of FBI Alert.

The FBI hopes that
someone in our audience

can help solve a particularly
shocking crime committed

just last month, the
kidnapping of a baby boy

only three days old.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Avery James Norris

was born last September
18 at Sinai Hospital

in Baltimore, Maryland.

At 11:30 on the morning
of September 21,

a woman disguised as a nurse
entered the maternity ward

and encountered Avery with
his mother, Linda Norris,

in her hospital room.

Apparently familiar
with hospital routine,

she instructed Linda
to hand her the baby

and to return to bed for
a physical examination.

After putting the privacy
curtain around the bed,

the woman and Avery disappeared.

This has really been, I guess,
one of the hardest things I've

ever had to face in my life.

I can't imagine going
on from day to day

without having him back.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
Avery weighed

8 pounds, 12 ounces at
birth, is circumcised,

and has an oval
birthmark on the inside

at the top of his right leg.

His alleged kidnapper
has been described

as a light-skinned black female
and may be Pakistani or Indian.

She is 30 to 35 years old,
135 pounds, with a stocky

build and shoulder-length
black hair.

SPEC.
AGT.

JOSEPH CORLESS: We believe
that the individual

who abducted Avery
Norris is a person

who has an emotional need.

The individual may change
the appearance of the child,

but she's still going to
be proud of this child,

and she's going to
want to let individuals

know that she does have him.

Tonight, we're happy to report
that Avery James Norris is back

in the loving arms
of his parents,

and his alleged
abductor is behind bars.

ROBERT STACK (VOICEOVER):
On November 15,

the Maryland State
Division of Vital Records

received a call from
a woman who claimed

that she had given
birth to a baby boy

at her home two months earlier.

The caller, 33-year-old
Carleaane Victoria Wilkenson,

said she wished to obtain a
birth certificate of her son,

Tayvon Anthony Wilkenson.

Authorities immediately
became suspicious

and began an investigation.

A DNA test later confirmed that
Tayvon Anthony Wilkenson was

actually Avery James Norris.

On November 16, two-month-old
Avery James Norris

went home with his parents
for the first time.

We're very happy.

This is day one.

We start our life
right from today.

But I'd just like to thank
all the people who called

and all the people who
sent letters and cards

and who prayed for us, and
I thank you from my husband

and myself and for our baby.

Before we say goodnight,
a piece of good news.

Last week, we told you of a con
man who infiltrated a Florida

nudist camp and fled
after being charged

with fraud and child molesting.

Just 12 hours after
our broadcast,

he was arrested
thanks to information

called in by our viewers.

We will have a complete
story of his dramatic arrest

on one of our next editions
of "Unsolved Mysteries."

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